Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 719 I heard that she is Xu Fengnian’s concubine?

"It's the Qingzhou navy's tower ship." Huanggua was a little panicked.

Chunshen Lake, the name is very elegant and pleasant. A few miles of small ripples are fine, but a vast expanse of eight hundred miles is far less secure than stepping on the ground with your feet and listening to the wheels rolling over the road. Green Ant can swim, but she and Zhao Fengya are not good at swimming. If a fight really breaks out... it's useless to know how to swim. No matter how good a swimmer you are, can you swim eight hundred miles?
"Don't be afraid, it's Wang Linquan's boat."

When Zhao Fengya heard the conversation between the several people, she left the old man drying fish on the roof and ran over to them. Sure enough, she saw a middle-aged man in his fifties or sixties standing on the deck of a ship that was twice larger than her own civilian ship. He was dressed like a rich man, with a rosy face. His every move showed that he was very shrewd. He kowtowed to his master before he even arrived, with an excessive degree of respect, kowtowed three times and bowed nine times, as if he was making a pilgrimage.

Green Ant raised her eyebrows slightly, a little surprised: "Sir, I remember you said that Wang Linquan is Xu Xiao's man, and Xu Fengnian is not on this ship, why do you want to do such a big gift?"

Huanggua said, "Could he be a member of the Lin family? Otherwise, why would he save the women of the Lin family? A triple spy, so powerful."

Chu Pingsheng said: "I don't know if he is very powerful or not, but the way you try to show off your intelligence is very powerful."

Huanggua pouted her lips, looking unhappy. Seeing Zhao Fengya giggling beside her, she grabbed her face, which had not gained weight despite eating and drinking a lot, and rubbed it. Zhao Fengya stopped laughing, covering her cheeks and looking at the old maid who looked refreshed.

"Look, here he comes."

Both ships stopped, and the sailors on the tower ship lowered the gangplank. Wang Linquan, holding up the hem of his wide satin robe, carefully came to the deck of the civilian ship where Chu Pingsheng was, and continued with the attitude he had on the tower ship, humble and respectful, like a house slave.

On the other side of the horizon, misty water vapor obscured two larger ships. Prince Zhao Xun of Jing'an, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and Zhao Kai, dressed in white, stood on the observation deck of the ship and observed the movements of the ship where Wang Linquan was.

"Hey, could it be that my father asked Wang Linquan to win over Lin Qing?"

Zhao Xun looked puzzled. On the day when Zhao Kai offered his advice, at the end of the conversation, King Jing'an ordered his servants to drive the people out, and continued to eat vegetarian food and chant sutras for the next two days, practicing Buddhism with the beautiful Princess Jing'an Pei Nanwei. He was very anxious and advised his father to make a decision early, but Zhao Heng refused to speak. A few days ago, the navy commander reported that he found that the large ship that Lin Qing and Xu Fengnian were riding on was less than two miles away from each other. He suddenly had an idea and thought of a good way, so he ordered his generals to set sail and lead the navy northward, and saw Wang Linquan boarding the ship to pay homage to Lin Qing.

Zhao Kai said nothing, just shook his head.

Zhao Xun looked up again and found that Wang Linquan's ship turned eastward and headed towards Laoshan Island in the center of Chunshen Lake. The civilian ship carrying Lin Qing and others behind it also turned west and followed the ship in front to the east.

Zhao Xun was full of doubts. After thinking for a moment, he ordered the naval commanders to pay close attention to the situation on Laoshan Island and report immediately if there was any movement. He turned and went into the cabin and wrote a letter to Zhao Heng to ask about the situation on Wang Linquan's side and whether it was his father's arrangement.

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Laoshan Island is the most prosperous island in the middle of a lake that Chu has ever seen in his life. In the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Lu Chengfeng's Guiyun Manor is located on Sanshan Island in the center of Taihu Lake. Including the affiliated manors, there are more than a hundred fishing boats, more than a dozen mast ships and pleasure boats, and four retired ships purchased from the government. After being modified, they are quite powerful. Therefore, Guiyun Manor is not afraid of encirclement and suppression by the imperial navy.

Compared with Lushan Island, the area of ​​Sanshan Island is as different as that of the 400-li Taihu Lake and the 800-li Chunshen Lake. Outside the dock, the pier is crowded with fishing boats of all sizes waiting to enter the port. Baskets of lake seafood are lined up on the pier. Shirtless fishermen bargain loudly with vendors holding abacus. When the negotiation is almost over, women who are as strong as men pick up bamboo baskets and rush to the shore. They are loaded onto horse-drawn carriages and transported to the market in the center of the island. Some of the fish are diverted to cargo ships with large fish holds, waiting to be transported to Guimenguan in Hubei, or Kuaixue Villa and Qinghu City in Hunan.

Chu Pingsheng's ship encountered no obstruction and entered the port smoothly. He, Green Ant and Huanggua left the ship and landed on the island under the guidance of Wang Linquan. Zhao Fengya did not follow them and stayed in the cabin to accompany Lin Xiao. Wang Linquan said that she was not found on the night when the Lin family was destroyed, but was found at the ferry outside Qinghu City many days later. The patrol soldiers saw that the man who took her north was suspicious, so they interrogated him carefully and found that the man was a novice human trafficker who planned to sell the unconscious and pretty silly girl to Yongzhou.

The Lin family is a wealthy and prominent family in Qingzhou. Lin Qiao was once a chief officer. The officers and soldiers got the name Lin Xiao from her and reported it to Wang Linquan, the confidant of Prince Jing'an. He pretended to help Prince Jing'an to eradicate the problem and deal with it secretly. He actually sent his trusted subordinates to give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in order to gain the trust of Lin Tanhua, who went south with him. Unexpectedly, they were robbed by mountain bandits when passing through Yanzijiang. The leader saw that she was pretty and took her to please Prince Qingcheng.

After learning about the background of the incident, Chu Pingsheng was worried that Lin Xiao would be upset when seeing the women of the Lin family, so he did not take her off the ship to recognize her relatives. Of course, Xu Weixiong did not get off the ship either. "I heard that Laoshan Island is under your jurisdiction?"

Chu Pingsheng and Wang Linquan, who was half a step behind, walked in front, while Green Ant and Huanggua walked behind. The national player who offered himself to be his bedmate pricked up his ears and listened carefully, afraid of missing a word. The maid, who was not very smart but had a lot of ideas, walked and looked along the way, and always felt that she had come to the water town of Jiangnan, where there were exquisite pavilions under the willows, rich carriages and horses on the roadside, and women strolling on the streets were dressed in silk and satin, revealing their white hair. It was not like the barren and barren places like Beiliang, where a young woman dressed appropriately would walk on the street, making men stare with their eyes wide open and unable to move their legs.

“It’s not his jurisdiction. King Jing’an trusts me enough to let me take care of the internal and external affairs of Laoshan Island. The surrounding fishermen rely on the lake for their livelihood. Over time, business popularity has gathered and this Laoshan Town was established.” Wang Linquan said respectfully, hurried a few steps, turned sideways, and invited the three to walk up the long steps to his manor.

"Wang Linquan, the ship of Beiliang Prince Xu Fengnian is just behind us, aren't you going to greet him?"

Wang Linquan looked around, only the willows were bent and the lake breeze was charming, so he took two quick steps and caught up with Chu Pingsheng. He knelt on the platform in the middle of the green stone steps, dipped his sleeves in his eyes and said, "Sir, Wang Linquan feels ashamed of Lord Lin's support and care for many years. That day, Zhao Xun led people to attack the Lin Mansion. The incident happened suddenly. I did my best to rescue my wife, the second wife, my cousin and other female members of the Lin family, Lord Lin, the second master, the third master... Alas!"

"Okay, get up. You are not to blame for what happened to the Lin family."

"Blame me, blame me." Wang Linquan said, "Lord Lin pretended to compete with Laoshan Island and challenged Zhao Heng many times to help me gain Zhao Heng's trust. Now everyone in Xiangfan City knows that I am Zhao Heng's confidant. When Zhao Xun led his army to raid the Lin family in the early morning of that day, I was totally unaware. I really deserve to die and have failed the Lin family."

"So, you are really the spy that my father planted next to Prince Jing'an? Not Beiliang's running dog?"

Zhao Xun wondered what Wang Linquan said when he boarded Chu Pingsheng's boat. In fact, it was very simple. Just as Huanggua guessed, Wang Linquan told him that he was a triple spy, helping Prince Jing's Mansion with business affairs while providing Qingzhou intelligence to Beiliang. But his real identity was Lin Qiaolin Changshi's insider, planted next to Prince Jing'an Zhao Xun, so that he could play a role at the critical moment.

There is no logical problem with Wang Linquan's words. The Lin family is a famous local family in Qingzhou and represents the interests of local officials. Zhao Heng is a royal family and represents the interests of the court. The relationship between the two sides is very delicate. Zhao Heng has always wanted to eliminate local tyrants and dominate the power of Qingzhou. The Qing Party represented by the Lin family must arrange some countermeasures even for the purpose of self-protection. Through acting, sending Wang Linquan, a successful businessman who has nothing to do with Qingzhou, to the side of King Jing'an to take charge of the king's palace in Qingzhou is a brilliant move.

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Lin Qiao knew very well that he was from Beiliang and had worked as a groom in the palace of Prince Liang. Imagine a groom from Beiliang came to Qingzhou to do business. Without the permission and care of the local prominent families, how could he make his business flourish? What did the Qing Party want? What they wanted was to ensure the interests of the Qing Party in Qingzhou, whether the Zhao family was in power or Xu Xiao raised the banner of rebellion, rode into Tai'an City, and sat on the throne. Therefore, Lin Qiao not only knew about Xu Xiao's spying on the Qingzhou navy, but also strongly supported it. This was also the decisive condition for him, a Beiliang person, to gain his current position in the Qingzhou business community.

"Please trust me, sir."

Wang Linquan leaned down, his forehead flush with the ground, his posture couldn't be more humble, his attitude couldn't be more sincere. If Chu Pingsheng hadn't watched the TV series, he would have believed that this old man would rather sacrifice the lives of his entire family just to give Xu Fengnian a hereditary imperial edict. After all, these words were very consistent with the situation and the conflict of interests between the vassal kings, local tyrants, and kings of different surnames.

Chu Pingsheng slowly squatted down, put out his hand to hold Wang Linquan's chin which was a little prickly, and forced him to look up, looking at the old man who was trying to squeeze out a few tears.

"When we were climbing the stairs just now, several girls were walking together. In the middle was a girl named Yixing Zhangyue, wearing a light green high-waisted skirt and a transparent gauze dress. There was a touch of red on her chest and her gait was graceful. I saw you looked at her a few more times. I was quite curious, what is the relationship between Mr. Wang and her?"

"This……"

Chu Pingsheng added, "I heard that Mr. Wang has a daughter who has the wisdom to write about snow since she was young. She is very talented and can write poems at the age of six. Few people have known about this tea since ancient times, and I am satisfied with its spirit and spirit. When the eyebrows are picked at the age of fifteen, a touch of snow chest steams green jade. A song of Spring God Tea is famous on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. A book "The First Snow in the East Chamber" tells the lingering and heart-wrenching love affairs between men and women, and is praised by all kinds of literati and scholars. People who come to your Wang family to propose marriage are said to line up from the Guanyin statue on the top of Mount Laoshan to the Ghost Gate in Hubei, crossing the three realms of gods, humans and ghosts. Since everything in the Wang family is given to you by my father, and you feel guilty for not being able to save the male heir of the Lin family, why not marry your daughter to me and let her give birth to children for the Lin family to make up for your inconsolable guilt, what do you think?"

Wang Linquan stared into his eyes with a conflicted look on his face.

(End of this chapter)