"If you cut it now, it will be reversed. If you don't cut it, it will be reversed. If you cut it, the reaction will be urgent, and the harm will be small; if you don't cut it, the reaction will be delayed, and the harm will be great."
Xu Fan kept reciting these twenty words. He felt that the person who could write this thing must be a genius!
Xu Que was speechless. He just wanted the pot of porridge to be mushy. Unexpectedly, his eldest brother was stunned...
"Brother, you can write a letter to father later to say hello." Xu Que changed the subject.
"Well, it's time to tell father about the major events that happened in the capital." Xu Fan nodded in response.
Xu Que couldn't handle Xu Fan's words. He just wanted his eldest brother to report that he was safe, but it turned out that his first priority was to write a letter about the capital to his father. This...
Seeing Xu Fan looking at him with a pen, Xu Quemeng blinked.
"Little brother, since my literary spirit has not yet recovered, I ask you to write." Xu Fan said.
Only then did Xu Que remember that he had received the dove before.
Xu Que took the pen, dipped it in ink, and waited for his elder brother to explain the content.
"Wish you good health and honor to my father. I will pay my respects to my father in the capital for many days, and then I will meet my younger brother..."
As Xu Fan spoke the content in a formal manner, Xu Que found it interesting. Although he knew how to write letters to others, he had never written a formal letter home like this...
"If there is a disaster in the capital, you can look for it elsewhere, and I hope you can hide it in Yang County..."
"Wait!" Xu Que felt there was a problem and immediately said: "Brother, you are clearly asking us to hide it. If I tell you something important, do you think our family can survive?"
Xu Fan was stunned and looked at Xu Que in confusion. He originally wanted to persuade his father to hide his roots in Zheyang County and wait for a new opportunity, but his brother wanted to tell him something important!
"Brother, what do you know?" Xu Fan looked at Xu Que.
"In less than two days, Nanfeng Prefecture will welcome a 'distinguished guest'. Whose name is this person? On the surface, he is just an inspector, but secretly he is the vanguard sent by Qu Zhongyi."
Seeing Xu Fan's shocked look, Xu Que didn't feel anything bad. After all, he was quite shocked when he first heard it.
"There's more!" Xu Que continued unhurriedly: "Hu Jianjun, Hu Shichang, he was sent to three towns in northern Xinjiang by the emperor. Although I have not investigated this person's faction clearly, I think this person will definitely do it. Something comes out.”
"Brother, how did you know?" Xu Fan came to his senses and quickly asked Xu Que.
He didn't know much about He Yi, but he had heard about Hu Shichang from his father. The last time three towns in northern Xinjiang were lost, it was this man who was responsible for it!
"It's a brothel in the capital!" Xu Que replied lightly.
"Ah?" Xu Fan was a little shocked: "You...you went to a brothel?"
"Tch!" Xu Que looked at his elder brother with contempt: "I am different from you. I went here to find out all kinds of information. Who is like you..."
Xu Fan blushed a little when Xu Que said that. He is also a talented person... there is no way he is not romantic.
"Brother, that's the same..."
Just when Xu Fan wanted to explain, Xu Que said: "Okay, I understand the nature of my elder brother, I will write the following content."
"Well, you write it." Xu Fan was very embarrassed. He felt that Xu Que was the eldest brother now...
Xu Que ignored Xu Fan's embarrassment. He started writing seriously, writing important things in the form of a family crisis, and then reminded his father about the events in the north.
Seeing what Xu Que wrote, Xu Fan didn't understand it, because Xu Que didn't mention the names of He Yi and Hu Shichang.
"Brother, why did you write like this?" Xu Fan asked.
"Do you think this thing is safe?" Xu Que asked.
"It should be safe. After all, the scholar doesn't have time to intercept these things." Xu Fan replied.
"That means it's not safe. When you write this in the future, you'd better write according to a certain pattern, or wait for me to come up with a code book." Xu Que said and wrote the signature.
"Pattern? Codebook? What is it?"
Don't blame Xu Fan for not understanding, probably no one in the world understands except Xu Que.
"You will understand when you get it out." Xu Que put the letter into the envelope and watched it turn into a dove and fly away. He also sealed the pen and ink and handed it to Xu Fan.
"Brother, why don't you go back to Zheyang County first?" Xu Fan put away his pen and ink and asked.
"Don't worry, there's still a lot of time left for us." Xu Que took out a stack of rice paper from his sleeves: "You keep these things in your mind these days, and burn them after you finish reading them!"
Xu Fan curiously took the stack of rice paper and took a closer look. He was instantly stunned.
"Did you write this?" Xu Fan looked at Xu Que.
"Yes." Xu Chuanmao nodded: "This is the collection of saints that I annotated for you. It is much more detailed than yours. With it, you and I can raise people from high schools."
Xu Fan was confused at the moment, but when he turned the first page, he was shocked by the annotations above...
Seeing so many detailed annotations and explanations, Xu Fan felt that all these years of reading were in vain!
Xu Que smiled, patted Xu Fan on the shoulder, and walked out of the room.
Xu Que came to the first floor and asked the waiter to open a room in the sky room. Then he walked to room C in the ground room.
There was a knock on the door, and the person inside immediately stood up and drew a knife: "Who?"
"Send off the pilgrims!" Xu Que stood at the door and said.
"How much?" the person in the room asked.
"A small incense costs three coins, a medium incense costs eight coins, and a large incense costs one, two, or five coins."
After hearing the secret code, the person in the room continued to ask: "Which fragrance is the most expensive?"
"The building is full of secret fragrance!" Xu Que said.
The door was opened, and a knight immediately clasped his fists: "I've seen Mr. Xiao."
"Do you know me?" Xu Que entered the room and looked at the knight curiously.
"The Incense Master said that your code is special and different from ours." The knight smiled and scratched his head.
Xu Chao nodded, and then he understood...
"Now that the young gentleman is here, our mission has been completed." The knight clasped his fists at Xu Que.
"Okay, but I also want to thank you." Xu Que took out two banknotes and said, "Take these, I'm treating you all to a drink."
Seeing one hundred taels, the knight was startled for a moment, and then he understood.
"Thank you, young sir." The knight took the banknote and solemnly thanked him with his fists in his hands.
"I should be the one to say thank you. Without your help, I'm afraid something might have happened to my brother." Xu Que bowed and thanked him.
"Little Sir, we don't take your words seriously. We are also acting under orders and we will have to rely on Little Sir in the future." The knight said politely.
Xu Que smiled and patted the other party on the shoulder: "Okay, in that case, come to Zheyang County for a drink that day!"
"Okay, I will definitely bother the young gentleman then."
The knight was very generous. He didn't expect that Xu Que, a scholar, would invite their martial arts practitioners to drink. If he wanted to say this, he would definitely have face.
Xu Que left Room B and returned to his room.
Lying on the bed, Xu Que did not fall asleep directly. He was thinking about two questions, two questions that made him feel very strange.
It stands to reason that the emperor actually wanted to get rid of the Xu family the most, but the other party was indifferent to it. What was going on?
Also, why were the three towns in northern Xinjiang only conquered but not occupied?
Does the emperor look down on himself? Or does the emperor have something hidden?
Xu Que felt that there must be some information that he had missed, and perhaps he would know more if he went back and asked his father.
…
Early next morning
Xu Que got up very early. After seeing off the knight in secret, he walked towards his eldest brother's room.
When Xu Fan opened the door for him, Liu Rushi also moved back from Miss Yu's room.
Liu Rushi is awake now and her injury is recovering well. As long as she rests peacefully, the wound will heal in four or five days.
"Hello, sister-in-law!" Xu Que smiled and held his hands in greeting.
Liu Rushi was a little stunned, she didn't know how to speak.
Seeing Liu Rushi's pale face, Xu Que smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, please don't worry. You and my eldest brother are one and the same. As my brother-in-law, I should care about you."
Hearing Xu Que's words, tears gradually filled Liu Rushi's eyes. She felt that she was finally satisfied at this moment.
"If so, what's wrong with you?" Xu Fan came to the bed and asked in concern.
"It's okay, I think it's great that the family can go back safely." Liu Rushi smiled and wiped away her tears.
Xu Fan saw that Liu Rushi was crying out of joy, and he also smiled...
