"Blackmail?" Fang Zilan raised her eyebrows, with murderous intent in her eyes, "The grass on the graves of those who dare to threaten me will be several feet high. If they want to give it a try, that's fine."
Li Shengxuan looked serious, "Are you..."
"Yes." Fang Zilan stopped Li Shengxuan's words without hesitation, "If we can't bring them to justice in an honest and fair manner, I don't mind using other means."
Li Shengxuan frowned slightly, and Fang Zilan continued talking to herself, "If you want to deal with evil people, you must be more ruthless than them."
"If we can only fight violence with violence, how are we different from them?" Li Shengxuan frowned even more tightly, and Fang Zilan looked indifferent, "Is what we are doing now a good means? Since planning is essential , then who cares if it’s a conspiracy? If this doesn’t work out, I don’t know who will be invited into the jar in the future.”
After she said that, she walked to the table and sat down, "It is said that those who achieve great things do not stick to trivial matters. I don't need to tell you these words. You are no less cruel and ruthless than me to this day, so why are you hesitating at this juncture? "
"I'm not hesitant, but..." Li Shengxuan hesitated for a moment, but still didn't say anything.
Fang Zilan was right, he was not a good person, and he didn't care about conspiracy. Now the arrow is on the string and they have to shoot. If they can't get to the bottom of it at this point, they will feel that they are weak and can be bullied, and they will only become more and more rampant in the future...
He knew all this, but he still felt uneasy in his heart, just because he was afraid that Ah Shi would get caught up in it and become an obliterated chess piece.
Wheel King Chubin and Mo Han are no longer around, and there are fewer and fewer people around Fang Zilan. If Ah Shi loses her life for this, he doesn't know how she will bear it...
"Why are you looking at me like this?" Fang Zilan looked at Li Shengxuan who was standing there, staring at her intently, and couldn't help but ask: "I know you are not an indecisive person, what exactly do you want to say?"
"It's nothing." Li Shengxuan looked away. He had no perfect way to ensure that Ah Shi was safe and sound, so he couldn't express the uneasiness in his heart to avoid adding to Fang Zilan's troubles.
Fang Zilan was preoccupied and had no time to guess what Li Shengxuan was thinking at this time. She just waved her hand and said, "If you have nothing else to do, please don't show your face for the time being."
"Master, the things you want me to check are all here." Ming Xiang saluted, and then handed a brocade box to Fang Zilan's hand. She took it and opened it. Inside was a thick stack of documents.
"The life records of all the officials who participated in this Spring Meeting are here, and there are also notes from Miss Mi'er." Before Ming Xiang finished speaking, Fang Zilan's expression suddenly turned cold, "Is Sister Mi'er in Suzhou?" ?”
Although it was a question, she said it with certainty. Even Mingxiang was stunned, and then nodded imperceptibly, "Miss Mi'er..."
Before Ming Xiang finished speaking, she saw Fang Zilan press her index finger gently on her lips and make a silencing gesture. She immediately realized that someone was coming.
Sure enough, after a while, there was a rustling sound outside the door. The visitor neither knocked on the door nor made a sound, but just lingered in front of the door, as if hesitating for something.
So Fang Zilan winked at Ming Xiang and motioned for her to open the door and send the people away, while she sat by the window holding a box of documents and started reading.
After about half an hour, Ming Xiang reappeared in front of Fang Zilan, her expression a little more solemn.
"What delayed you for so long?" Fang Zilan asked quietly while flipping through the documents, "Who is it?"
"It's Cui Hai. Someone asked him to bring something and hand it over to you, the master." Mingxiang said, presenting the thing tightly held in her left hand to Fang Zilan.
This was a blood-stained piece of clothing. Fang Zilan only raised her eyes and recognized that it was torn from Ah Shi's clothing.
"The day Master Ah Shi was taken away by the soldiers from the Jiangnan Camp, he was wearing clothes made of this kind of fabric." Ming Xiang looked at Fang Zilan carefully. She had no expression on her face and hummed in a low voice, "What else is there? ?”
Ming Xiang was stunned, and Fang Zilan raised her eyebrows, "A piece of blood-stained skirt is not enough to delay you for so long. If there is anything else to say, I can bear it."
"And..." Ming Xiang slowly opened the palm of her right hand, and there was an ear pendant inside. The plum blossom pendant carved from red jade lay quietly there, like a small flame.
Fang Zilan is more familiar with this object. It was given to Awan on her birthday, which means...
"Miss Awan has also been detained." Mingxiang said what Fang Zilan was thinking. Seeing her face turn cold, he didn't know that she was slandering Li Shengxuan's secret guard, which was really useless.
After a long time, Fang Zilan said faintly: "As expected. Since it is a transaction, the more chips in hand, the better. They have A Wan and Ah Shi, and we also have Feiling Mountain."
Ming Xiang pursed her lips and looked worried, "Master, is it really too late? What if they attack Miss Awan and Master Ahshi..."
"The bargaining chip that has lost its value cannot be a deal." Fang Zilan said solemnly: "At least they can save their lives before the deal is over."
After she said that, without waiting for Ming Xiang to speak, she reached out and took away everything in her palm, and then handed the brocade box to her, "You return these documents to Sister Mi'er, and you don't have to come back to me again."
"Master..." A look of panic flashed in Ming Xiang's eyes, but Fang Zilan remained unmoved. "Since you call me master, you should obey my orders."
"But..." Mingxiang wanted to say something more, but Fang Zilan didn't give her a chance and said bluntly: "After you meet Sister Mi'er, as we agreed before, you will expose me, Zi Xiu, after the Fang Jiachun meeting is over. With his identity, Qianjinfang will be completely eliminated."
Ming Xiang was silent for a long time, and finally nodded in agreement, "If the master has made up his mind, then I will obey his orders."
Fang Zilan watched Ming Xiang solemnly salute her, and couldn't help but said: "Thank you for all the time."
Ming Xiang's expression froze, the ends of her eyes couldn't help but turn red, and she bit her lips tightly to prevent herself from choking.
After Fang Zilan watched Ming Xiang leave, she took out a document she kept privately from her sleeve, which recorded the changes in ownership of the land in Jiangnan in the past ten years, including many aristocratic families she was familiar with.
The Zhuge family, the Wei family, the Ouyang family, the Pei family... there are all nine great families. This means that almost all the nobles have taken bribes and embezzled land, and no one is innocent.
It's like walking into a dead end. No matter what, you hit a wall and it's too late to turn back. There is no way out.
