Seeing that there was no one around Hua Jin and Hua Rong, the new bandits rushed towards them.
Just when Hua Jin closed his eyes and waited for death, Hua Rong screamed in fear.
Xie Xun seemed to fall from the sky and killed all the bandits who came over.
"Third cousin!" Hua Jin and Hua Rong seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and both rushed towards him. Hua Jin threw herself into his arms without hesitation.
Xie Xun took two steps back, avoided her, and looked at Chen Anning, who had also killed a group of bandits. He took a few steps over with a rather unkind expression, looked her up and down several times, and said coldly: " You don’t want your life! The injury from last time hasn’t healed yet, so you come here to attack me again, don’t you think you’ll live longer?”
Hua Rong, who originally saw Xie Xun angry and was waiting to see a joke, heard his words and immediately said dissatisfied: "She is leaving me and my eldest sister alone, how can she be hurt!"
"Shut up!" Xie Xun shouted sharply, murderous intent flashing in his eyes, "If you want to die, just find a place where no one is around to die! Don't bother the whole person and spit shit here! If you didn't know she would come, Save you, you see, I don’t care whether you live or die! You two idiots with no brains! Get out of here as far as you want, I don’t want to see you again!”
"Third cousin!"
Xie Xun said coldly: "Come here! Take these two idiots back to Jincheng County! Without my instructions, they are not allowed to step into the capital again! By the way, tell Mrs. Hua and Mrs. Hua that they will pay back If you want Washington to be well, take care of them! Otherwise, I don’t mind letting Washington fall back just as it made its fortune!"
"Third cousin..."
"If you call me third cousin again, I will kill you right now!" Xie Xun held up his sword and pointed the tip of the sword directly at Hua Rong's face.
Hua Rong was so frightened that she sat down on the ground, looking at him with fear in her eyes.
"What are you doing here? Why don't you just let them disappear in front of my eyes!" Xie Xun shouted angrily.
The secret guards who followed immediately stepped forward, dragging them away without caring whether they were young ladies or not.
After they walked away, Xie Xun looked at Chen Anning coldly.
Chen Anning put away her sword and said disapprovingly: "Put away your eyes, you know better than anyone why I came to save them even though I was injured!"
"Yes!" Xie Xun stopped in front of her, "I am worried about my mother and that they are my uncle's children, but..."
"Isn't that enough?" Chen Anning interrupted him.
"You are really..." Xie Xun felt that he could not convince her, so he pulled her onto his horse and quickly returned to Wuxing County.
Princess Guangling breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the two people coming back together. She immediately looked at Chen Anning to make sure she was not injured, and then put her heart back to its original place.
"I have asked the secret guards to send them back." Xie Xun pushed Chen Anning into a chair, poured her a glass of water, and then said, "I also asked the secret guards to tell my grandmother and aunt that they are not allowed to do anything without my permission in the future. They take another step into the capital. If they dare to disobey my order, I don’t care about mother, I have to ask the emperor to withdraw their right to guard Jincheng Pass!"
Princess Guangling sat next to Chen Anning and responded softly.
Xie Xun hummed softly, took the tea cup from Chen Anning's hand, and forced her back to rest.
Wen Huan watched the two people walking away, then quietly looked back at Princess Guangling.
Princess Guangling sighed softly: "It should have been like this a long time ago. I was lucky enough to cause this mess. Fortunately, nothing happened to An Ning, otherwise..."
"She is so powerful, nothing will happen to her." Wen Huan carefully reassured, "Besides, she is back."
After Princess Guangling smiled softly, she indicated that she should just go and do her business if she had something to do, and there was no need to accompany her specially.
Wen Huan knew that she wanted to be alone and left wisely.
As a result, as soon as he went out, he met Xie Xun.
Wen Huan wanted to avoid him, but was stopped by Xie Xun, "After I left, they caused trouble for An Ning again."
Wen Huan shook her head, indicating that she knew nothing.
Xie Xun looked at her intently.
Wen Huan avoided his gaze and turned his head away.
Xie Xun half-smiled, "You don't want to spend time here with me all the time, do you?"
She didn't want to.
Looking at the children who were coming and going, Wen Huan vaguely told Chen Anning about selling him out after he repeatedly promised not to tell Chen Anning that she had revealed it.
After Xie Xun heard this, he chuckled sinisterly twice and got out of the way.
Wen Huan carefully turned sideways and ran away from him quickly.
Ah.
one million.
Concubine.
very good.
Xie Xun sneered and glanced at the children who were curious to inquire about him. After scaring the children away, he couldn't help but sneer twice, and then turned back to the courtyard where Chen Anning lived.
"Who offended you again?" Chen Anning, who had just put medicine on the wound, looked at his stinky face and asked teasingly.
Xie Xun didn't speak, just sat in the chair and looked at her quietly.
Chen Anning raised her eyebrows, "Can you listen to my quibble?"
Xie Xun snorted: "You tell me."
Chen Anning said: "Lack of money."
Xie Xun sneered twice.
Chen Anning: "I originally planned to ask your mother to borrow it, but they came to the door first. Someone gave me money, so don't give it for free, so..."
Xie Xunhehe.
Chen Anning: "You have to believe me. If I want to sell you, I must spread the word first, and then organize a bidding, and the highest bidder will get it. After all, you are also the third son of the Guangling Palace, how can you be worth only one million taels?" ?”
Xie Xun laughed angrily, "So, I still have to thank you?"
"That's not necessary." Chen Anning sat down next to him.
Xie Xun said: "My desire to strangle you to death at this moment has reached its peak."
Chen Anning: "What's stopping you from taking action?"
Xie Xun: "Are you provoking me?"
Chen Anning: "No. I just want to say... Could you please Mr. Xie to finish things here quickly and then marry me?"
"You really deserve to die!" Xie Xun hooked his arm around her neck, kissed her hard on the mouth, then stood up and said, "I'm leaving!"
Chen Anning licked the corner of her mouth and said, "It's a good idea to leave."
Xie Xun snorted lightly, waved to her without looking back, and left simply.
Not wanting another accident to happen, Xie Xun immediately interrogated the servants in Fan Wanyuan's mansion after arriving in Guangling County.
Soon, the steward of the accounting room couldn't bear the torture and confessed that he was from King Anbei, and that King Anbei had specially arranged to be an informant next to Fan Wanyuan to convey the news to them.
Since then, King Anbei's method of contacting his comrades has finally come to light.
There are three main channels for King Anbei to communicate with his colleagues:
1. Being able to survive a bandit disguised as a beggar. These bandits pretending to be beggars have fixed begging places, and the Anbei Palace regularly arranges people to go to various places to rescue beggars. In the name of giving food to these beggars, the message was delivered openly. Of course, this method is mainly aimed at comrades in the capital;
2. Through Chimelong Commercial Bank’s shop in Beijing. Chimelong Commercial Guild will arrange for people to regularly deliver rice and grain to Prince Anbei's Mansion. Through this method, they can also safely convey each other's news. This method mainly targets comrades outside the capital;
3. Exchange messages through low-class people who come to collect excrement or deliver food. This method has nothing to do with distance. It is mainly used when accidents occur or the situation is more urgent, such as Xie Xun and Chen Anning's actions in Jincheng County.
After finding out this important clue, Xie Xun immediately ordered the people to be secretly escorted back to the capital, and ordered all counties and counties to collectively escort the captured servants of Changlong Trading Company to the capital for unified examination.
While he was busy with this, Chen Anning also quickly reviewed the information of the rescued children.
After half a month of hard work, when the accumulated information was almost complete, Chen Anning suddenly discovered that after combining the information provided by these rescued children, some children were still missing!
Some children with extremely outstanding looks are missing!
Chen Anning quickly reviewed the last small pile of information, then took the statistics book. After checking and confirming that her findings were correct, she immediately got up and found Wen Huan. The child who provided clues about his outstanding appearance was found. After questioning again and confirming that the clues were reliable, the two immediately rushed to the Wuxing County Prefect's Mansion.
When Xu Zan rescued the child, he also escorted back the stewards of Hualou who had taken in the child and imprisoned them in the prison of the Prefecture of Wuxing County.
The prison in the Wuxing County Prefect's Mansion is not large and is quite overwhelmed.
Time was running out, so Chen Anning and Wen Huan decided to interrogate separately.
The interrogation had just begun.
He was interrupted by the nanny beside Princess Guangling.
Two women from Yiyang County came to report the crime.
"You go, I will continue the interrogation." Wen Huan said.
Chen Anning nodded, and as soon as she returned to her residence, the two women in simple clothes who had been waiting for a long time knelt down in front of her.
The two women wanted to sue Meng Shikai, the governor of Yiyang County.
Meng Shikai took the daughters of older women as concubines two years ago and one year ago, and also took the children of slightly younger women as his followers.
My concubine's daughter died less than half a year later.
The son who was the follower was only three months old and then died.
When my concubine's daughter died, she was sallow and thin, and her whole body was in disrepair.
The boy who followed him was as skinny as a boy, and he couldn't tell that he was only a fifteen-year-old boy.
The people do not fight with the officials.
Even if the two women knew that there was another reason for the death of their children, they could only endure it. It was not until they heard about their rescue of Hualou's children that they agreed to travel across mountains and rivers to report the crime.
Chen Anning was keenly aware that the deaths of these two boys and girls were most likely related to the deaths of those boys and girls with outstanding looks but whose whereabouts were unknown.
After a short discussion, Wen Huan continued to stay in Wuxing County to take charge of the work, while Chen Anning followed Princess Guangling, who was worried about her, and the two women to Yiyang County.
Meng Kaishi didn't know that the two women went to Wuxing County to report the crime, so he deliberately arrived more than an hour early to greet Princess Guangling and Chen Anning outside the city. He planned to be nice and please, but he saw that they were following Princess Guangling and Chen Anning. When Chen Anning saw the two women next to him, he was immediately confused and frightened.
Almost as soon as Chen Anning opened her mouth, Meng Kaishi confessed before even asking about the two boys and girls.
According to Meng Kaishi, when he went to Beijing for business three years ago, he was led by Ruan Qingbiao, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to taste a sacred object that absorbs yin and strengthens yang, which is Yin jujube. He also drank the essence and blood of a young man who had not leaked Yuanyang, saying it could strengthen his body. After being taken to eat and drink several times, he did feel a lot stronger. After returning to Yiyang County, he wanted to do the same.
"I didn't know the correct method at the beginning, and I did kill a few people." Meng Kaishi defended, "But later on, when I slowly figured out the method, I never killed anyone again."
In order to prove that what he said was true, Meng Kaishi immediately called out several boys and girls raised in the house.
Seeing that Chen Anning was angry, he immediately complained: "Xiaoguan also knows that this is against the law of heaven, but Xiaguan is already over fifty, and his physical strength is getting worse day by day. Just handling official duties every day is already straining him. What's more, the official also has a group of young and beautiful wives and concubines..."
Hearing such bastard words, Princess Guangling was so angry that she broke two cups and cursed him for being shameless. Chen Anning also felt disdainful, but seeing that Princess Guangling was very angry, she didn't get angry again. After whispering to comfort her, he arranged for someone to send letters to Xie Xun and Wen Huan telling them about the situation here, and then they set off for the capital with her.
On the road.
Ambushes followed one after another.
Chen Anning no longer had any scruples, and her long sword was like the god of death, harvesting the lives of batch after batch of dead soldiers.
The day before arriving in Beijing.
Facing the overwhelming and endless stream of dead soldiers, Chen Anning stood guard in front of Princess Guangling's carriage.
Her long hair was flying, her dress was dyed red with blood, and her long sword was like a glimmer of light, mercilessly killing the dead soldiers who kept coming.
After constant experience, Princess Guangling, who was already numb to robbery and murder, started to feel frightened again when she looked at her bleeding hair.
As if feeling her uneasiness, Chen Anning said calmly: "Don't be afraid, Xie Xun will definitely be worried when he knows we are going back to Beijing. Maybe he will soon..."
Immediately before the next words were spoken, Xie Xun appeared.
Looking at the pool of blood gathering at her feet, he stood beside her calmly, "It's too late. You go and rest. I will take care of the rest."
Chen Anning curled up her numb fingers, said "Hello" softly, and turned around to get on the carriage as Princess Guangling greeted her.
"Where is the injury?" Princess Guangling held back her tears and looked her up and down.
After Chen Anning stood the sword beside him, he took the handkerchief handed over by his grandma and said gently: "It's just some skin injuries, it's not a problem."
"You said it's okay!" Blood dripped like water, revealing the large and small wounds on her arms. Princess Guangling quickly took out the handkerchief from her sleeve and shed tears while cleaning her wound.
Chen Anning said: "It's really okay. I'll apply the medicine for a while and it will heal in two or three days at most."
Princess Guangling did not speak. She carefully cleaned her wounds and carefully applied medicine to her. Then she glanced outside at the battlefield where the soldiers brought by Xie Xun gradually took the initiative and said softly: "I feel sorry for you." Just rest in your bloody clothes for a while, and when it’s over, I’ll arrange for them to help you change your clothes.”
"Good boy, go to sleep and sleep for a while. Xun'er is watching outside."
Good luck to Chen Anning.
On the way back, she didn't take much rest because she had to keep her safety in mind. Now when I close my eyes and wake up again, the carriage has entered the capital.
Looking down at the clean clothes on his body, Chen Anning took the warm tea from Princess Guangling without asking any questions. After taking a few sips, Chen Anning looked at Xie Xun inquiringly.
Xie Xun rode beside the carriage and said, "Send mother back first."
Good luck to Chen Anning.
After sending Princess Guangling back to the Guangling Palace, Chen Anning followed Xie Xun and went straight to Dali Temple.
During the large-scale investigation, people found by the central government and various ministries and prefectures to have flame totems on their left arms were imprisoned in Dali Temple.
Ruan Qingbiao also had a flame totem on his left arm, so he was also imprisoned in Dali Temple.
Chen Anning originally thought that interrogating Ruan Qingbiao would take a lot of effort, but he turned out to be even worse than Meng Kaishi. Almost as soon as he saw Xie Xun, he explained everything.
Through his explanation, Chen Anning was keenly aware that the group of detained boys and girls he was referring to were the group of children whose whereabouts were unknown. It's a pity that he doesn't know the specific address where those children are being held.
"How do you usually contact King Anbei?" Xie Xun asked coldly, thinking of the words of the accountant in Fan Wanyuan's mansion.
The recent turmoil in the court had already broken through Ruan Qingbiao's defenses. After hearing Xie Xun's words, he no longer dared to hide anything. He honestly confessed that he had never contacted King Anbei, and that it was King Anbei who had contacted him through his elders. Liu Cong, the steward of Long Commercial Bank's Beijing branch, ordered him to do something.
Liu Cong was imprisoned in Dali Temple.
Xie Xun immediately asked someone to take him out.
After Liu Cong was escorted over, when he saw Ruan Qingbiao, he immediately knew that the situation was over, and without hesitation, he revealed the hiding place of the private and secret messages that King Anbei had passed to him through various methods.
Afraid that Xie Xun would not believe the authenticity of those private and secret letters, he also specifically said: "Although King Anbei was ambitious, he acted extremely cautiously. On the one hand, he was afraid that his subordinates would betray him, and on the other hand, he was worried that without special marks, his subordinates would forge A document conveying false orders. Therefore, any private or secret message he handed over not only had the flame totem, but also his royal seal. Although he had explained that private and secret messages should be burned immediately after reading them, but The person in charge before the villain was dragged out to take the blame because he followed the instructions. The villain knew that he would not be able to escape this fate, so he kept hiding those letters in secret. "
Come out from Dali Temple.
Chen Anning and Xie Xun were divided into two groups.
Chen Anning went to find those private messages and secret messages.
Xie Xun went to rescue those children based on the address confessed by Liu Pei.
After getting the private and secret messages and confirming Liu Cong's confession, Chen Anning immediately approached Xie Xun.
Xie Xun has rescued all the children.
Half of these children were used to raise Yin dates and make blood bags, and the other half were used by King Anbei to maintain his allies.
"I have already asked someone to inform mother." Xie Xun said, "When mother comes, we will immediately enter the palace to meet the saint."
Good luck to Chen Anning.
Princess Guangling is here, bringing the eldest princess and Princess Tongchang with her.
The matter was urgent. After Xie Xun gave a few brief explanations, he took Chen Anning into the palace.
After seeing all the evidence brought by the two men, Emperor Yuan Yuan did not hesitate and immediately wrote an imperial edict for arrest and allocated 500 Yulin troops to them.
With the imperial edict and the Yulin Army, the two men quickly surrounded Prince Anbei's palace.
King Anbei naturally refused, "I don't know what Mr. Xie and Miss Chen Er mean!"
Xie Xun revealed the imperial edict.
Chen Anning threw the pile of private letters, secret letters and everyone's confessions in front of him.
King Anbei had a livid face, and after scanning their faces with a gloomy gaze, he said in a cold voice: "I am a prince after all, so please let me change my clothes, and then follow them to the Jinluan Palace to confess my crime!"
Chen Anning didn't bother to talk nonsense to him, and threw the drug at him, knocking him and several followers out, "Take them away!"
King Anbei was arrested.
The power that the Anbei Palace had developed over the years also collapsed.
Emperor Qianyuan looked at the two of them and said happily: "Tell me, what reward do you want?"
"I don't want it anymore," Xie Xun said lazily, "If the emperor wants a reward, just reward her."
Before Emperor Qianyuan spoke, Xie Xun specifically reminded him, "She has no other hobbies but money."
Emperor Qianyuan laughed loudly and immediately drafted a decree to confer Chen Anning as the Princess of Qianyang. He also granted Chen Anning a mansion, 20 shops, a thousand acres of fertile land, and countless gold, silver, brocade and silk.
Chen Anning accepted it calmly.
Although the case has been closed, the resettlement of the rescued children in Wuxing County has not yet been completed.
After Chen Anning and Xie Xun discussed it, they decided to settle the children first and then come back to get engaged.
half year later.
The bandits have been wiped out.
Fan Dahai and Fan Wanyuan were also arrested one after another.
Most of the children have been claimed by their parents and relatives.
For the unclaimed children, under the arrangements of Chen Anning and Xie Xun, the fertile fields reclaimed by the bandits were distributed to them, and people were arranged to guide and take care of them. At the same time, after obtaining Emperor Qianyuan's consent, he also arranged for Confucian scholars from his respective counties to come and teach them how to read and practice calligraphy.
Everything is on track.
Chen Anning and Xie Xun returned to the capital and began to deal with the prisoners detained in Dali Temple.
Under the slogan of 'lenity for those who confess and severity for those who resist', King Anbuk's comrades who had kept silent earlier also opened their mouths one after another. According to their confessions and the investigation of Prince Anbei's Mansion, evidence that Prince Anbei colluded with the Jin generals to massacre Yaowang Valley was also exposed one after another.
Five years later.
With the assistance of Xie Qian and Wen Qinsang, the prince formed an alliance with the Qi State and jointly destroyed the Jin State. After carving up the Jin State's territory, they reached a friendship treaty of no war for a hundred years.
"it is finally over."
Guangling Palace.
King Guangling, Princess Guangling, Xie Chen, Xie Xun and Chen Anning looked at Xie Qian who had just returned from taking off his armor, and almost said in unison.
Although he had been baptized by the flames of war for eight years, Xie Qian, who was still gentle and elegant, looked at Xie Xun and said: "According to the original plan, it should be over in two to three years. I heard that my siblings have to wait until the war is over before they are willing to marry someone. I didn’t want someone to come to the border to urge me, so I had no choice but to speed up the process.”
Xie Xun raised his hands in thanks without feeling ashamed and said, "If you have anything to do in the future, just ask me!"
Xie Chen gritted his teeth.
Xie Qian smiled and said, "When do you plan to get married?"
Xie Xun looked at Chen Anning.
King Guangling and Princess Guangling also looked at Chen Anning.
Seeing this, Xie Qian and Xie Chen also looked towards her.
Chen Anning glanced at everyone and asked Princess Guangling with a smile, "Are the invitations ready?"
Princess Guangling nodded, "It has been prepared for a long time. We only need to fill in a few days before sending it out."
"It's still early before dark, then..." Chen Anning looked at Xie Xun, "We will distribute them today and get married tomorrow!"
Princess Guangling had been looking forward to their marriage for a long time. When the date was set, she immediately made arrangements, regardless of whether it was late or not: "Hurry up and arrange for people to fill in the days, and then arrange for people to distribute them!"
"Also, hurry up and decorate it!"
As the excitement of the army's triumphant return was about to cool down, the movement in the Guangling Palace immediately aroused everyone's excitement.
Shili Hongzhuang.
The gongs and drums are noisy.
Firecrackers are deafening.
Fireworks cover the sky.
Grand Princess Mansion.
Nanny Li happily lifted up the bead curtain and entered the house. She said to the eldest princess and Princess Tongchang who were accompanying Chen Anning: "The wedding sedan is here!"
The bright red hijab covers his sight, and the silk fan is held tightly in his hand.
Chen Anning held Princess Tongchang's hand and walked out of the door step by step amid Xipo's singing and drinking.
The sun is shining brightly.
Cloudless.
Xie Xun, who was waiting outside the door, looked at Chen Anning who came out, and stepped forward with burning eyes. Under Xipo's surprised gaze, he picked her up and walked step by step towards the wedding sedan leading to happiness.
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