The Fengyi Palace is like an iron bucket, and no news can be transmitted in or out.

In just over ten days, the queen seemed to have grown up ten years old, and her originally dark temples now have strands of white hair.

"Empress, please relax. With the Grand Tutor here, this matter will not affect Your Highness no matter what." Madam Fang persuaded the queen with great sincerity, and kept patting the queen's back, trying to calm her restless heart.

The queen clenched her hands anxiously. After these days of torture, she lost her former aura and was left with only worry for Chu Yunyi.

After a long silence, she trembled: "I'm still a little worried. There are people staring at me secretly in the Treasure Pavilion. Apart from Gu Ning, I can't think of anyone else who can enter the Treasure Pavilion!"

"The Treasure Pavilion has not been opened for a year, why did Gu Ning get stolen when he entered?" The queen said, thinking in her heart.

Seeing that the queen was still stubborn, Madam Fang sighed in her heart: "Empress, even if the county lord Changning has this intention, she doesn't have the ability! She went out at that time but Madam searched her body. How could she hide so many things from us to take them out?"

The queen grinded her teeth and pinched her hands tightly: "No matter whether it is Gu Ning or not, I will take this account to her!"

She was trapped in Fengyi Palace, and the things that were ignored in the past were remembered one by one. When she thought about it carefully, there was a key person in all her plans!

"I actually looked down on her!" The queen's eyes were cruel, and her tone was unprecedentedly cruel. "If it weren't for her, how could Yun Yi and I fall into such a field?"

Speaking of this, Madam Fang also sighed: "Who could have thought that what reputations the lord of Changning County were deliberately created? We were all set up by the Pei family."

"Yes." The queen gritted her teeth, "It's fine if the Pei family doesn't want to cooperate with us, but she actually came up with this trick to get rid of the firewood! A birthday party actually made Yun Yi lose his holy heart in the emperor!"

Once the queen thought of the birthday party that day, her heart felt as if she was tightly pinched by her big hands, and her heart was so painful that she almost suffocated.

"Go!" the queen said hatefully, "Go tell the queen mother! You must keep Gu Ning in Yuezhou!"

If she can’t move the Pei family, can’t she still move Gu Ning?

The road from Yuezhou to Beidu Protectorate is sparsely populated, with only the hustle and bustle of yellow sand in the sky.

The northwest, the less people were. Most of the carriages that had originally left the city together changed their routes halfway, either losing Shu or going to Yan State. Only this simple carriage still headed towards the North Protectorate.

For two days, the carriage only stayed in the rare and dilapidated ancient city several times, and then rushed to the Beidu Protectorate.

The Northern Protectorate is northwest of Chu and is the last line of defense with Yan.

Because of its very important geographical location, the Northern Protectorate has a total of 100,000 troops. The Northern Protectorate has two generals, one surnamed Cai and the other surnamed Fang.

"General Fang is the eldest son of the Fang family." Gu Ning opened his eyes in a daze, looked at the starry sky above his head, and whispered, "He must be from Chu Yunyi's faction. So, General Cai is your person?"

"When conquering the Huns, General Pei saved General Cai's life, but after that incident was misrepresented, it became a disagreement between the two. General Pei wanted to get rid of General Cai, so in the eyes of the world, General Cai resented the Pei family and hated it to the core."

Gu Ning's eyes gradually became more meaningful as he listened to this. It was not written in the book. General Cai was favored by the prince before, so he was devoted to Xie Yan.

"It turned out that my grandfather saved General Cai."

Her eyes made Xie Yan subconsciously alert.

But soon, Gu Ning looked elsewhere: "So, General Cai can help us take back the money we have in the market?"

"General Cai can only help him secretly." Xie Yan explained, "If the Pei family and General Cai have too close contact, it will only arouse the emperor's suspicion."

Gu Ning rolled his eyes and was very disgusted with the emperor.

An incompetent emperor, but he had to hold everything in his hands, for fear that his ministers would be taken away or his son would be imitated by his actions back then, so the state of Chu was powerful.

After falling sharply, Yuezhou was invaded by the Huns, and he turned a blind eye because most of the outstanding commanders died at his hands.

Most of the generals who left their lives back then were already in their twilight years and could not support another major war.

In the abandoned ancient city, there were only two people talking softly, and the flames were burning in this vast wilderness, just like a little spark.

Gu Ning lowered his eyes and thought for a moment: "In this way, we can only be cautious in our actions. It is better to follow my previous ideas."

She said, and winked at Xie Yan.

Xie Yan's body was stiff and he didn't reply for a long time. He thought of Gu Ning's previous proposal.

"You pretend to be a rich businessman, and I pretend to be the dancer you bought." Gu Ning was getting closer and closer to Xie Yan. "That batch of tea is coming soon, so we took advantage of the opportunity to sell tea and smuggle into the venue and find the smuggling people."

The fragrance of Gu Ning's body affected Xie Yan's thoughts all the time. As Gu Ning approached, Xie Yan subconsciously turned his body away and tried to avoid Gu Ning's closeness.

However, when Gu Ning raised his head and looked at him with grievance, he couldn't help but return to Gu Ning's side, and his hands couldn't help but hold Gu Ning's slender waist.

With a grip of the soft and slender waist, Xie Yan's Adam's apple slid, pressing down the throbbing in the eyes.

He frowned, his voice a little hoarse, "There are many ways to find the smuggler. Why should the county lord take risks?"

But Gu Ning refused to say: "I'm going! Since you brought me to the Beidu Protectorate, you can't leave me alone in the inn, right? Besides, I will definitely help you with me!"

Xie Yan's eyes were full of helplessness, but he could not refuse Gu Ning's request.

At this time, Gu Ning whispered again: "If you are a serious businessman, you will never be involved in smuggling business. Only when you see a stain on you will they believe you."

"I can't let you get close to other women, right?" Gu Ning looked at Xie Yan fiercely, "Do you want other women to sleep in the same bed as you?"

Xie Yan immediately denied it.

Then, he saw Gu Ning's cunning smile: "So, the only person who can play the dancer is me."

After a long time, Xie Yan sighed: "Okay."

Instead of rejecting Gu Ning and letting her act alone, it would be better to put Gu Ning under his nose. In this way, he could at least grasp Gu Ning's whereabouts and protect Gu Ning's safety at any time.

Yue Rong, not far away, sighed and looked at Chunyu resentfully: "Look! Whenever he meets the county lord, the master will lose all his principles!"

How can you bring the weak county lord with such a big event? You have to be one point slower when you run away.

But Chunyu frowned and interrupted him dissatisfiedly: "The county lord said that, right. A righteous person would never want to participate in the smuggling business. If only Lord Xie went there, it would only cause doubts."

"The intelligence of the county lord is not something you can see through."

Yue Rong said depressedly: "That's not what you said before!"

Chunyu was also full of complaints to Gu Ning. After only half a year of time, she looked like she was following Gu Ning's head. It was really infuriating!

Chunyu seemed not to see his angry face, and just warned: "Although the county lord is a little arrogant, the thing she wants to do has not failed once. You must obey the county lord's instructions."

Yue Rong rolled his eyes and was about to say something, Yu Guang saw Xie Yan staring at him coldly. He quickly closed his mouth and nodded.

The sky in the Northern Protectorate was brighter earlier than in other places. Jiang Qian yawned and looked at the day above his head, feeling very tired.

After three consecutive days of running around, he was a little overwhelmed by his past pampering life.

But after seeing the figure at the city gate, Jiang Qian suddenly felt like he was injected with chicken blood and became energetic.

"General Fang."

Jiang Qian's shout made the burly figure at the gate of the city react.

General Fang looked at Jiang Qian who appeared in front of him carefully and nodded in appreciation: "I am worthy of being the grandson of Grand Tutor Jiang's most beloved! When I saw you, it was like seeing Grand Tutor Jiang when he was young."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qian waved his hand immediately and said respectfully: "How can I compare to my grandfather? I was just being taught by my grandfather since I was a child and was infected with some of the literary spirit of my grandfather."

General Fang laughed a few times, patted Jiang Qian on the shoulder, and sighed: "If there is a person like you among our juniors in the Fang family, why should the Fang family worry about the way out?"

"Master Fang is in Yuezhou..."

"Don't mention him!" General Fang immediately restrained his expression and said angrily, "This person is only a little clever, and he can't compare to your intelligence."

As he said that, General Fang seemed to remember something, slapped his head and said anxiously: "Are those treasures really sent out by the Lord of Changning?"

"It's true." Jiang Qian's heart was filled with anger when he mentioned this, and his face quickly became gloomy. "You are the only one who can help His Highness now."

After hearing this, General Fang sighed.

"I'm afraid this time it's a little difficult."

His words made Jiang Qian stand still: "What do you mean?"

"Cai Zhuo, who is immortal, doesn't know where he is crazy, and he cares about the matter of the Detective Site. In the past few years, the money I sent for him to send was all the money I had to ship out after a lot of hardships. Now, Cai Zhuo sent someone to guard the Detective Site. Once someone finds suspicious signs, he has to take them down for interrogation. Many of our secret lines have been found by him, and the profits they earn are getting smaller and smaller."

Jiang Qian's eyes were dim and unclear: "Can you look at the reason behind this when General Cai does this?"

Seeing General Fang shook his head, Jiang Qian pondered for a moment before saying, "I'll go see General Cai first to see if there is any change in the matter. If not..."
Chapter completed!