The emissary woke up from his coma and saw Xiao Qin sitting beside the bed.
Relying on his deep internal strength, he collided with the reefs in the rapid river water and floated downstream.
After climbing ashore, he gritted his teeth and sneaked into a village. After killing a family, he bandaged his wounds, changed his clothes, and then moved forward in hiding again.
This place was very close to the coast. He went all the way south, searching for the secret signs left by the White Lotus Sect, and finally found the people of the White Lotus Sect in a small town.
They escorted him to the sub-altar, and the master of the sub-altar sent the unconscious emissary to Xiao Qin's residence.
The secret envoy struggled to sit up: "Holy envoy, this subordinate has disgraced his mission, please be punished by the holy envoy!"
Xiao Qin stretched out her hand to hold his shoulders, looking at him quietly with gentle and jade-like eyes, showing concern and joy.
"Don't worry, lie down for a while. Your injury is actually not serious. It's because the cold water in the river is so cold that it penetrates your organs.
I was angry and hadn't rested all the time, so I fainted. I'll just do some exercises and recuperate in a few days."
The emissary touched the wound on his chest that had been bandaged and used his internal strength. It was indeed as Xiao Qin said, there was no big hindrance.
"The holy envoy is wise, and his subordinates are really furious. I didn't expect Yu Dayou to be so good, but with my skills, I won't be defeated with these few moves.
Firstly, I wanted to protect the ninjas as much as possible and wanted a quick victory, so I really underestimated Yu Dayou; secondly, his internal strength was extremely strong and domineering, which was not the same as the Divine Art of Bliss, and was quite suppressive.
Holy Envoy, although you have accomplished great feats and are invincible in the world, Yu Dayou is indeed a formidable enemy. If the Holy Envoy encounters him, you must not underestimate your enemy."
Xiao Qin nodded: "That's what it should be. A lion fights a rabbit with all its strength, and the arrogant soldiers will be defeated even if the victory is not decided. These two sentences, it is said that the Ming army follows them as a standard, and it does make sense."
The secret envoy asked in surprise: "Is this a quote from a book by a great military strategist?"
Xiao Qin smiled: "This was reported by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou. It is said that it was said by my brother Feng. Now that I think about it, I still underestimated him at the beginning."
The secret envoy let out a sigh of relief: "Xiao Feng is indeed a big trouble. He can actually figure out that I brought ninjas to the coast in an empty boat. Otherwise, how could Yu Dayou find us so easily!"
Xiao Qin also sighed: "It is indeed a big trouble. This ninja team was originally useful to me, but now I can only give up.
You don’t know it yet, but during the two days when you were on the run and unconscious, notices were posted on the walls of every county town, stating that Paradise Pills has become a banned drug.”
The emissary suddenly jumped up: "What? How is this possible? Where is Yan Shifan? What does he do for food? Doesn't he move at all?"
Xiao Qin shook his head: "We are responsible for this. Firstly, we did not expect Xiao Feng to come back from the dead. Secondly, we were not vigilant when he secretly collected evidence. We have to admit defeat. This is nothing."
The secret envoy gritted his teeth: "But the Paradise Pill is one of the most important sources of funds for the Holy Religion. Not only the whole country, but also the capital city, how much gold and silver can it contribute every year?
The Holy Religion is about to revolt, and allies everywhere need large sums of money for management and support. If we lose this income, what should we do?"
Xiao Qin smiled slightly: "Of course we will be greatly affected by this ban, but the business of Bliss Pill was originally conducted in secret, and it will only be hidden deeper in the future.
Everything has its yin and yang sides, and blessings and misfortunes depend on each other. Those who have taken the Pill of Paradise will find it difficult to quit even at the risk of beheading.
If we have less business, our profits may not be less. The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish, do you understand?"
The secret envoy suddenly understood, nodded repeatedly, and cheered up again. Xiao Qin walked two steps in the room with his hands behind his back, looking at the drizzle outside the window.
"You can rest for a day and then go back to the capital. I think Yan Shifan has been forced to explode by Xiao Feng at this time. He has been hesitant for so many years, and he should make up his mind this time."
The secret envoy nodded and said: "I understand, but we asked Yan Shifan to look for Tan Xinren, but we haven't found him yet.
When Xiao Feng died, it didn't matter whether Tan Xinren was found or not. The Yan family had everything covered, and Tan Xinren would never dare to jump out and say anything nonsense.
What's more, although the construction captain left behind a blueprint, it was very vague and difficult to use as evidence, and it was even harder to implicate Yan Shifan and us.
But now that Xiao Feng has come back from the dead, with his past abilities, if he gets clues, this matter will not be so reliable.
If we can't find Tan Xinren, I'm afraid something will go wrong at the critical moment."
Xiao Qin nodded slowly: "I also ordered the church members to help search. This matter is indeed a bit strange. Tan Xinren is a living person with a family, but he can't be found for so long.
He was originally a lost dog, worthless, but he happened to discover the drawings left by the construction team leader, and he even thought that Zhao Wenhua was cutting corners and wanted to blackmail Zhao Wenhua.
Fortunately, otherwise, he would really have made a big mistake. This pig head probably came to his senses later and disappeared suddenly, but he still has some abilities."
Tan Xinren, who is somewhat capable, is currently in a dimly lit wooden shed, listening to the sound of the waves, feeling panicked, miserable and miserable.
In order to pay off the liquidated damages of 300,000 taels, he not only sold his own property at a low price, he also didn't let go of the property of the construction captain who was about to die.
Anyway, the construction captain is also a bachelor, and the house he lives in was bought by Tan Xinren. To be honest, if he didn't like visiting brothels too much, Tan Xinren might also consider marrying his daughter to him.
He has such exquisite craftsmanship. As the boss, Tan Xinren gave him a lot of salary and favors, but he always went to Chunyan Tower, so naturally he didn't save much money.
Tan Xinren turned it over and found more than a hundred taels of silver. However, there were some documents and drawings left by the construction team leader. These were valuable assets for the construction team, so Tan Xinren naturally put them away.
Because although Tan Xinren was bankrupt at that time, he must have imagined that one day he would be able to make a comeback, so he naturally wanted to keep these things for business.
He left the capital with his wife and children. Those concubines were not peaceful people to begin with, and he couldn't afford to support them, so he simply dismissed them.
He still has his ancestral home in his hometown, which at least can accommodate him. His business skills are still there, and he will gradually get better.
After returning to his hometown, he lived a stable life and started some small businesses.
Doing business requires capital, and he has asked people to borrow money, but no one was willing to lend it to him because he was indeed a bit too arrogant when he was famous and did not have a good reputation in his hometown.
He thought of Zhao Wenhua. How much money has he given to Zhao Wenhua over the years? Is it too much to borrow a little? I will pay you back when I make money in business.
Zhao Wenhua wrote back and told him: It is too much. Such an unreasonable request should not be raised in the future. Also, who is Tan Xinren? I don’t remember.
Tan Xinren was so angry that he had no choice but to continue to rely on small business to support his family. In order to motivate himself, he looked through past information from time to time to prepare himself for starting a big business again.
Then one day, he saw a rough sketch among the construction team's drawings.
The meaning of rough drawing is that according to the customer's requirements, a similar drawing is drawn, and then the user will provide comments on the rough drawing. After the final drawing is produced, the rough drawing is useless.
But this draft that should have been thrown away was left in the drawing by the construction team leader. Maybe he forgot to throw it away, or maybe he didn't bother to throw it away.
Although Tan Xinren is not an excellent construction expert, he has seen a lot of pigs run away, so he is still at a certain level. It can be seen at a glance that this is the most proud project he has ever taken on.
The renovation of the imperial palace in the Ming Dynasty was different from many public construction projects, which would use a large number of civilian laborers. Instead, it was often done by construction teams.
On the one hand, this is because repair is a delicate job, and civilian workers may not be able to do it well. Even if they do it reluctantly, they will not be as good as the quality of professional construction teams.
Second, when it comes to emperors building palaces, civil servants have always come out to oppose it. It is not easy to persuade emperors to be frugal and considerate of the common people.
In short, do not waste people and money. Whether it is true or false, this is a basic operation that a good civil servant must complete at this time.
Therefore, as long as the emperor was not very poor and the project was not very big, he would often take out his small treasury out of anger and rub it on the noses of the civil servants.
I spend my own money to find someone to repair it, instead of spending the country’s money. If it hurts my own wealth, I will hurt my own wealth, so just shut up!
When I look for people to work, I pay them, and it has nothing to do with the labor of the people. If you don’t believe it, just look at it. They are all rushing to work for me, and they are very happy!
For a bidding project like this that is very lucrative and requires very strong qualifications, Zhao Wenhua, as the head contractor, will definitely not tolerate the outflow of wastewater.
Therefore, Zhao Wenhua and Tan Xinren took over this project with ease, repairing the palace walls and repairing the ground easily, and both of them made a fortune.
Of course, as Zhang Tianci said, Tan Xinren definitely doesn't know how to do the work. All work is presided over by the production team leader. He is only responsible for kneeling, licking and patting, and establishing relationships with the upper management.
So even though Tan Xinren had seen this sketch before, he didn't pay much attention to it. At this time, he was bored, but he looked at it carefully and recalled the glory of the past.
As he watched, Tan Xinren sat up straight and opened his mouth. What did Zhao Wenhua want to do? Did he dare to cut corners on this project?
This sketch obviously has some text marked at the end, marking certain places on the wall and ground where white bricks should be used less, or even adobe bricks should be used instead of blue bricks?
Could it be that Zhao Wenhua still thinks that this project does not earn enough money, so he teamed up with my construction team leader to cut corners, and they are not afraid of being found out?
Well, Zhao Wenhua, how dare you do such a thing, how dare you not lend me money, let me see if you dare not remember me this time!
Then Tan Xinren wrote another letter, telling Zhao Wenhua tactfully: Sir, I have the sketch of the construction team leader.
If I tell you about cutting corners and materials, I will be a dead pig. My lord, are you afraid of being scalded by boiling water?
I want to borrow 10,000 taels of silver to make a comeback, is it possible?
Tan Xinren was not a fool. He sent his family away in advance and hid himself, waiting to see Zhao Wenhua's reaction.
In fact, cutting corners and cutting materials is inevitable for those who do engineering work. But if it is used in the palace project, it is indeed a bit excessive. If it is exposed, it will definitely be very detrimental to Zhao Wenhua, and it may be downgraded.
Of course, Zhao Wenhua can blame the dead construction captain. Anyway, let the dead man take the blame, which is common in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.
But Tan Xinren felt that with Zhao Wenhua's character, it would be better to do less than to do more, and try not to cause trouble as much as possible.
He asked for a loan of 10,000 taels, and Zhao Wenhua estimated that he would pay back the money. In fact, Tan Xinren did not have high expectations, and he was satisfied when he finally closed the deal for 1,000 taels.
As a result, what he was waiting for was not Zhao Wenhua's thousand taels, or even the imperial agents in his worst plan, but the ninjas who sneaked into the ancestral house in the dark. After finding no one in the ancestral house, they set the entire house on fire.
It became a white land...
Tan Xinren was on the top of a nearby ruined temple, watching this scene blankly. Even to death, he couldn't figure out why he had to kill people and silence them for this matter.
But he only knows one thing: he and his family will be on the run starting today.
Because this is not Zhao Wenhua's handwriting, it is Yan Shifan's. He had seen it when he kidnapped Zhang Yunqing...