On November 20, the eighth year of Chengguang's reign, the imperial edict of amnesty to the world that was originally scheduled to be promulgated was not issued as scheduled, and Mo Jingxiao, who had been in the palace for some time, did not come back from the palace.
Ning Yujin sat in the small pharmacy of Lizhangtang and spent the whole day in a daze. Although there was no snow falling outside, it was already covered with silvery frost, making it look cold and inhumane.
She lowered her head and took a sip of the tea. It wasn't until she swallowed it that she felt a hint of bitterness, and she realized that the tea had been cold for a long time.
"The tea is so cold, why hasn't he come back yet?"
She was concentrating on talking to herself when she suddenly heard footsteps outside the door. She felt happy and quickly looked up.
However, the person who came was not the person she was longing for, but Murong Xuan, who was dressed in white and elegant.
"Third Miss." Murong Xuan also saw Ning Yujin who was in a daze through the window, and bowed to her in the yard.
Ning Yujin moved her eyes from him to the door behind him, and asked quickly: "Is your father back? Or, is there any news about your father?"
Murong Xuan shook his head and said as he walked in: "There is no news about me in the palace yet. Zizhan came here because he has something else to tell me."
"Oh, Mr. Murong, please speak." Ning Yujin turned around and looked into the room, and saw Murong Xuan striding into the room from the door, with Xiangyue hurriedly looking at her seat next to her.
Murong Xuan was not polite. After lifting his robe and sitting down, he said: "Then Zhao San and Lin Jiaoniang have already remembered where they forgot to mention it. It turns out that when the other party gave them money, he took out a jade brave from his sleeve.
They left without paying attention. The two of them were interested in making money, so they immediately picked up the thing and went to the pawn shop, where they pawned it. Later, Zhao San went to the gambling shop and lost all the money he had pawned.
The money just passed through his hands, and he didn't even make an impression, so he turned around and forgot about it."
"Those two guys, we didn't talk about it, they almost killed themselves. I don't know what they were thinking." Ning Yujin heard that things had progressed, but she was not happy at all. On the contrary,
It was a long sigh.
Murong Xuan smiled and couldn't deny: "Even someone as open-minded and transparent as Third Miss has things that she can't figure out, let alone other people. Aren't people living in this world chasing fame and fortune all their lives?
?It’s human nature that they are like this.”
Talking about the past and the present, Ning Yujin thought that she was no match for Murong Xuan, and quickly waved her hand to stop: "Well, well, I don't want to discuss what kind of people they are. What we should do now is to send someone to the pawn shop immediately.
Take out the jade brave, maybe taking the object will be the key to revealing the other party's identity!"
Murong Xuan immediately curled his lips and said with a smile: "This is natural. If everything goes well, the shadow guard who went to pick up that thing should be on the way back now."
This was indeed true, but in just one cup of tea, I saw a shadow guard outside hurried over and stopped at the door of Qiannuan Pavilion.
"It's cold outside, come in and talk." Ning Yujin opened his mouth to let the shadow guard enter the house, and the dark man asked anxiously, "Did you get the things back?
The shadow guard reported back: "The pawn tickets and the jade Pixiu have been recovered. My subordinates have also asked the pawnshop keeper and clerk, and what they said is basically consistent with what Zhao San said."
"There are so many people coming and going in the pawnshop throughout the day, so how come the shopkeeper and the clerk of the pawnshop still remember so clearly what happened a few days ago?" Ning Yujin felt something was wrong, and asked with a frown.
The shadow guard explained: "This subordinate also asked the shopkeeper. He said that Zhao San often pawned things from him and was his regular customer. Moreover, Zhao San had many things of unknown origin, which he often bought.
His hand was out. So when Zhao San took the jade brave, the shopkeeper thought it was a sheep he had picked up from somewhere, and he paid careful attention to it."
"There is no business without treachery, as expected." Ning Yujin said loudly, forgetting for a moment that she was also a businessman, and seriously speaking, she was still a business giant in Shengjing City.
Next to him, Murong Xuan had already taken the pawn ticket and the jade brave and looked at it carefully. Ning Yujin saw that he was serious and focused, so she didn't dare to disturb him. She just watched quietly and waited for the result.
After a while, Murong Xuan carefully put away the pawn tickets and the jade brave, with a confident smile on his face: "I'm sure this time, the other party is from Jingyang Palace, and he's also a big fish.
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"Big fish?" Ning Yujin reached out and took the jade brave and looked at it carefully, but didn't see any clues.
And for her, when doing this kind of thing, shouldn't she send a confidant to do it? Could it be that some big shot should do it herself?
"Not only a big fish, but also a very big fish." The smile on Murong Xuan's lips deepened, but there was a hint of coldness in his eyebrows, "This person has always been cruel, not only to others, but also to himself.
People are also very capable of killing people. So for him, there are only useful and unusable subordinates, and there is no distinction between confidants and right-hand men. He will not trust an outsider to do something like this that will lose his head.
Because once anyone gets a hold of this, it will be very disadvantageous for him."
"Then after talking for a long time, who is this person?" Ning Yujin was confused by Murong Xuan's many theories, but still couldn't come up with any results.
Murong Xuan saw that Ning Yujin didn't seem to think of anyone yet, so he couldn't help but put it more bluntly: "That person is Changfeng's most important competitor this time."
"Yin Yuanwu!" After saying this, Ning Yujin blurted out immediately.
Speaking of Yin Yuanwu's origins, King Yin Tao of Jingyang had two sons, the eldest son Yin Yuanwen and the second son Yin Yuanwu, who were Yin Changrong's second uncle.
As the name suggests, Yin Yuanwen passed the examination and entered the imperial court and became a civil servant. Yin Yuanwu went to battle to kill enemies and made great achievements, and was soon promoted to general.
King Yin Tao of Jingyang has been on the battlefield all his life, and he can be regarded as a powerful figure. And this Yin Yuanwu is even better than his predecessors. He was promoted successively in a short period of time at a young age. At his peak, he even served as the commander-in-chief of the Xuanwu Battalion of the Gyeonggi Armed Forces.
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Ning Yujin knew that he was because Ning Zhongjian had once inadvertently sighed, saying that if Yin Yuanwu was in troubled times, he would definitely be a fierce general, opening up territories and sweeping the battlefield.
Later, because Emperor Chengguang made King Jingyang an idle prince, Yin Yuanwu also took a idle position and stayed in Shengjing. He did not achieve much in these years.
But this time the imperial court selected the commander of the Zhendong Army, and it was Yin Yuanwu who represented the Jingyang Palace, who could be regarded as Di Changfeng's number one rival.
And seriously speaking, his practical experience and theoretical knowledge are much better than Di Changfeng's, and he has eaten for several years more just to eat. Whether Di Changfeng can win is really a question.
Ning Yujin's eyes fell on the jade brave, and when she looked up at Murong Xuan's face with an inscrutable smile, she suddenly realized: "Mr. Murong, what are your plans..."
Murong Xuan smiled faintly: "Just follow the plan."