Jinghong Tower

Chapter 388 Xi'an
In terms of helping girls learn skills and become self-reliant, Jinghonglou started decades ago.

Especially in Jinghong Tower in Jin, batch after batch of girls graduated. Some of them set up their own businesses, while others stayed in Jinghong Tower to work as masters and learn skills.

That year, all the girls that He Ran brought out from that small mountain village, except Zhang Jiahui and her brother, stayed in Jinghong Tower.

A few years have passed. Some of them have become mothers, while others are still working in Jinghong Building, but they have all started a new life for themselves with their skills.

Therefore, He Ran finally handed over the task of running the girls' school to Jinghonglou.

Li Jinxiu said: "Xiao Chang is not good in this regard, not to mention Zuo Xiaoai, she is a troublemaker, she can't do anything except crying!"

Zuo Xiaoai who was in Zhending: Thank you so much, have you forgotten that King Jin was made stupid by my crying?

Li Jinxiu added: "Of course, I can't do that either."

After thinking for a while, Li Jinxiu sighed: "Xiao Kui is the most suitable, but let's not bother her, she is also a crybaby, let's leave this matter to Taogu and Xinggu, they have been doing this for years."

He Ran frowned: "No, Aunt Tao and Aunt Xing have been sent out by me to carry out a mission. They will not be able to spare any time for at least a month."

Lu Chang suppressed his laughter and said to Li Jinxiu, "Grandma, did you hear that? People with abilities are busy, while those without abilities, like us, are the most idle."

Li Jinxiu waved her hand to hit her, but still said: "I thought of someone, Du Hui, she is also free, let her come to the capital, the three of us cobblers can always be better than half of Zhuge Liang."

Baoding Jinghong Tower has been rebuilt and Wen Qiu is still the head manager. Du Hui has retired long ago, and his two closed disciples He Qingkong and He Nuanyang have become military doctors. It is indeed as Li Jinxiu said, Du Hui is idle.

They did what they said. That night, Li Jinxiu's letter was sent to Baoding.

The capital is very close to Baoding, and three days later, Du Hui arrived in the capital.

Sure enough, when she learned about the mission that asked her to come to the capital, she blurted out: "Why not let Taogu and Xinggu come? They are experts."

At this time, Taogu and Xinggu were in Xi'an!
They received a secret order from He Ran, asking them to go to Xi'an secretly and act as they please if necessary.

The two men each led ten men, all dressed in disguise.

But as soon as they arrived in Xi'an, they received bad news.

Pinggu’s granddaughter Dong’er is missing!

Pinggu, Taogu and Xinggu are all orphans adopted by Xiaokui. They grew up in Xiaokui's selfless care, and she passed on this love.

Pinggu's three daughters were all adopted. Now one is in the army, one is married far away, and the one who stays with her is her third daughter Wanqing.

Wanqing was gentle and weak, so Pinggu kept her by her side.

Wanqing herself had chosen Zhang Liansheng. The young man was handsome, smart and capable. Pinggu was very satisfied with him and agreed to their marriage.

After getting married, Zhang Liansheng devoted all his efforts to helping Pinggu and her daughter manage Jinghong Tower, and his performance was remarkable. Taogu and Xinggu had both met Zhang Liansheng and had a very good impression of this young man.

Unexpectedly, they were still wrong.

It is said that Pinggu's health has not been able to recover, and Wanqing is also ill. Zhang Liansheng is worried that Dong'er's mischief will affect Pinggu and Wanqing's recovery, so he takes Dong'er with him and goes to Jinghong Tower with him every day.

But there were so many people in Jinghong Tower that Dong'er disappeared without a single glimpse of her.

They dug almost three feet deep into the city of Xi'an, but still couldn't find any trace of Dong'er.

These days, missing person notices are everywhere in Xi'an, and almost everyone knows that the granddaughter of the manager of Jinghonglou is missing.

Aunt Xing and Aunt Tao remained calm and ambushed outside Jinghong Tower.

That night, Zhang Liansheng left Jinghong Tower on horseback very late, but he did not go home. Instead, he went to the north of the city, where his mother, who was said to have died long ago, and his mistress lived.

Zhang Liansheng's mistress was his cousin and also his first wife.

At the beginning, he told Wanqing that he was a student who was lost in the war with his widowed mother and sister. Later, he heard from a fellow villager that his mother and sister were all killed by the swords of the Jin army.

He cried and hugged Wanqing: "Now I have nothing but you, please don't despise me."

But in fact, the sister he was talking about was actually his wife, and of course his cousin.

He was indeed separated from them, but found them later, but by then he had already met Wanqing.

Behind Wanqing is Jinghong Tower.

By marrying Wanqing, he would not only get Jinghong Tower, but he could even climb to higher places.

In his eyes, Wanqing was a ladder to the sky.

He arranged everything well. After four years of marriage, his daughter was three years old, and he had gained the trust of his mother-in-law and wife.

My mother and cousin have been living in Xianyang. Apart from giving them some money at the beginning, he has had no contact with them since then.

He even told my mother to find a marriage partner for his cousin.

His life is on track now and he doesn't want people from the past to affect him.

But he didn't expect that my mother and cousin were becoming more and more unwilling. Why did he live in a big house in Xi'an, but left us in Xianyang?

Why did he marry another beautiful wife and let me marry someone else?
After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, as well as the aunt and nephew, discussed it together, they secretly came to Xi'an without telling Zhang Liansheng.

The old mother asked to live with her son and daughter-in-law. She wanted to be a rich old lady and order servants around.

The cousin begged: "Cousin, as long as I can be with you, I would rather be your concubine."

Zhang Liansheng wanted to send them back to Xianyang, but the two of them tried to commit suicide. Zhang Liansheng was worried that Pinggu would find out if they stayed in Xi'an, so he thought about it and decided to let Pinggu rest for a while.

So Pinggu fell from her horse, and Zhang Liansheng's performance in all aspects made Pinggu feel at ease and let him take charge of the daily affairs of Jinghong Tower.

Zhang Liansheng initially just wanted to create time so that he could deal with the two big troubles, his mother and his first wife, but he underestimated his greed.

Not having to humble myself or depend on others, being able to give orders and be respected is a strange and wonderful feeling.

It was not until this time that Zhang Liansheng realized that Jinghonglou was doing more than just business.

He didn't want to open this position, so Pinggu's health deteriorated.

Wanqing often bossed him around, so he made Wanqing "sick".

Several of Pinggu's close associates also left Xi'an for various reasons.

Jinghong Tower in Xi'an became his one-man show.

No eyes were watching him anymore. Since his mother and cousin didn't want to go to Xianyang, he let them be. These days, Zhang Liansheng placed them in the outer house in the north of the city. On the surface, everything was calm. He even relived his love with his cousin several times. Of course, he would not stay there overnight. He was a good son-in-law, a good husband, and a good father.

The reason why Zhang Liansheng came tonight was because he received news that on the day Dong'er disappeared, his mother appeared near Jinghong Tower.

He had a bad idea in his mind.

Zhang Liansheng was very cautious. He did not bring any followers with him. He dismounted his horse one street away from his outer residence, tied his horse in front of a tavern, and walked there.

He knocked on the door, a maid came to open it, and Zhang Liansheng slipped in.

But the next moment, he heard the sound of the door being locked.

What happened? Zhang Liansheng learned martial arts after he met Wanqing. It was barely enough to strengthen the body, but not enough to defend against the enemy.

But he was alert.

He immediately rushed over and tried to open the door, but all he could hear was the sound of the lock hitting the door.

The door was locked from the outside.

Zhang Liansheng panicked.

Just at this moment, his cousin came out to greet him without seeing him enter the house.

"Cousin, you're here. You haven't come to see me for several days."

Before she finished her words, the cousin saw Zhang Liansheng's face.

Under the dim moonlight, my cousin saw a hideous face.

She subconsciously covered her belly with her hands. She was pregnant. Her mother-in-law said that this baby must be a son.

The vixen my cousin married is rich and powerful. Even though she is sick now, my cousin dare not take her into the house, not even as a concubine.

But she is pregnant, and she is pregnant with the Zhang family’s golden grandson!
She heard from her cousin that the woman was weak and would never be able to give birth again.

So after discussing with her mother-in-law, she hid it from her cousin, bribed a maid who worked as a cleaner in Jinghong Tower, and stole the money-losing item.

Without that money-losing item, the woman would not be able to give birth. Even if he could not marry into the family, he could ask his cousin to adopt his son under his name in the name of a relative.

So what if that woman has a wealthy family and a great fortune, doesn’t it all belong to her son?
But why did her cousin look at her with such a scary look? Did he dislike her again?
"Cousin, you."

She had a lot to say to her cousin, but just as she opened her mouth, she was hit hard in the face.

She was knocked back and fell to the ground.

Zhang Liansheng didn't even look at her and ran towards the back door.

Fortunately, when he bought this house, he opened a back door. The back door was very hidden and I hope it has not been discovered yet.

Zhang Liansheng could guess who was outside without even thinking.

It was someone sent by my mother-in-law!
Wasn't she already very sick and dying?
The doctor he found had already said that with three more doses of medicine, his mother-in-law would be dead. Now the two maids beside his mother-in-law are both his.

But why would someone follow us here and lock the door from outside?

Zhang Liansheng had no time to think deeply. He had only one thought in mind, which was to leave this troubled place immediately.

He rushed to the back door, but like the front door, it was locked from the outside.

Climb the wall, you can only climb the wall.

But it is already late.

I don't know when the wall was already full of people.
Xinggu dug out Dong'er's body in the woods behind the house. The child, who was less than three years old, was suffocated to death by his own grandmother.

Pinggu has been deeply poisoned and has not much time left. She can no longer recover.

Fortunately, the toxins in Wanqing's body are still mild, and she will be able to recover in time after the toxins are removed.

In front of Pinggu and Wanqing, Xinggu and Taogu killed Zhang Lao Niang and the cousin.

As for Zhang Liansheng, Xinggu and Taogu accidentally learned a piece of news during the interrogation.

It turned out that Zhang Liansheng had an assistant in what he did, or in other words, he was able to do all these things entirely with the guidance of that person. Even the doctor was found for him by that person.

Unfortunately, he didn't know who that person was, he only knew that she was a woman.

He met that person in the private room of Huanyunju three times in total, and each time they met through a screen. He could only tell from the voice that it was a young woman.

He also tried to go behind the screen, but when he saw the person behind the screen, a knife was placed on his neck.

When Zhang Liansheng was being interrogated, Wanqing had been sitting by his side, listening quietly. After Zhang Liansheng had finished his confession, Wanqing looked up and said to Aunt Xing and Aunt Tao, "Aunt, do you have anything else to ask him?"

The two shook their heads to indicate no.

Wanqing pulled out a dagger from her arms and stabbed Zhang Liansheng.

A total of forty-eight stabs turned Zhang Liansheng into a sieve.

Wanqing was covered in blood and turned into a bloody person.

She said to Aunt Xing and Aunt Tao, "Aunt, please take these three beasts and feed them to the wild dogs."

The weak Wan Qing didn't shed a single tear from beginning to end.

She got her revenge, and it was satisfying.

But she knew that her mother and daughter would never come back, and her love-brained mind had harmed her dearest ones.

Xinggu chased the doctor overnight, but when she found him, he was already dead.

A secret letter from Xi'an was delivered to He Ran. The Jinghong Tower incident was over, but the woman who manipulated it behind the scenes was still at large.

He Ran was stunned for a moment. She had not seen Pinggu since her rebirth.

She was sad and couldn't let it go for a long time.

He Shuting, good, very good!

She ordered that Xi'an Jinghong Building and Yulin Jinghong Building be temporarily closed, and all people move underground and announce that they have evacuated.
Three days later, He Dali led an army of 50,000 to break camp and arrived in Yuncheng ten days later.

At the same time, Fu Yansheng's army advanced towards Yulin.

At the same time, Wu Dongming received a handwritten letter from He Ran.

In the letter, He Ran told Wu Dongming that Wu Ji and his wife had broken the alliance and intended to control Jinghong Tower and kill the leader of Jinghong Tower. This hatred could not be concealed, and the only option was to fight!

Wu Dongming was shocked. What happened? Was He Ran going to break up with him?

He quickly called Wu Ju: "Do you know what your elder brother did?"

Wu Ji was far away in Xi'an, and Wu Ju had been in Yulin, so they naturally didn't know about this matter.

But he remembered something: "Oh, father, I passed by Jinghong Tower a few days ago and found that it was being transferred. I was surprised at the time. It was doing well, why didn't it close? Is it related to this incident?"

Wu Dongming was so angry that he covered his chest and pointed at Wu Ju and yelled, "You, you, you, why didn't you tell me such a big thing happened?"

Wu Ju looked aggrieved: "How can Mr. He have the leisure to take care of Jinghong Tower now? I thought..."

"What do you think? Yulin Jinghong Building is the first Jinghong Building. Do you think it can be transferred so easily? Go check what your eldest brother did in Xi'an."

Ever since Wu Ji left with an army of 100,000, he had cut off contact with Wu Dongming. Mrs. Wu sent people to Xi'an several times to persuade Wu Ji to come back, but she didn't even get to see Wu Ji.