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Chapter 355 Robbery Letter (6K+)

"If I hadn't been poisoned, I would have taken her all the way to travel all over the Central Plains, see the scenery of Yumen outside the Great Wall, go to the Silk Road to eat meat and drink in big bowls, go to the south of the Yangtze River to see small bridges and flowing water, and watch her mother grow up. places, to travel far out to sea, to see the vicissitudes of the sea, to see those foreign countries that are lonely overseas..." His face was pale, but his eyes were full of regret and nostalgia, and there was a trace of something he had never seen before in his always free and easy brows and eyes. Melancholy, "Ah Ping, I... can't bear it."

This is not the world-renowned celebrity in the eyes of the world, but an unusual father who is reluctant to part with his daughter.

"I wanted to do a lot of things for her, but when I came to her, I found that I couldn't do anything." The famous celebrity sighed, with a sad tone, "The things about her mother made me think a lot. For so many years, she could be rescued and protected, but in the end it was of no avail. These days I have been thinking about how I should teach my Ayan, if I were a father, is he knowledgeable, gentle and courteous? These are important but not important, she has to live first."

Telling a baby that you've got to live first?Jiang Pingping felt a little weird, and he had never seen a father teaching his daughter like this.

"Father and brother will always get old, even the best husband will always be away from time to time, just like her mother, my Ayan, she should learn to solve the troubles she encounters by herself." He murmured.

Learn to troubleshoot yourself?The young Jiang Pingping had a slightly dazed expression on his face, thinking about the baby who was still in his infancy... Is this for him to help take care of the child and teach him?But others are in the army, even if A Yan is a boy, it is inconvenient to follow, let alone a girl.

Even if he thinks that the Jiang clan is unreliable, he has to say that for a child, staying in Chang'an is really better than running around with no one to protect him.

Jiang Pingze can think of this, and Duke Jiang can naturally think of it too.

"I left behind a collection of thousands of volumes, and a doctor friend named Zhang owed me a favor, I hope my Ayan will not disappoint my arrangement," he sighed, looked at Jiang Pingping with a solemn expression, "Ah Ping, what you can do is really stand out among the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Only when you stand tall can you protect my Ayan."

It turned out that the entrusted caregiver who went around was just such a thing.

Jiang Pingping gritted his teeth, and said firmly with the spirit of a teenager: "That's natural. If I can't even do this, how can I say my surname is Jiang?"

"There are quite a few people with the surname Jiang." He laughed out loud when he heard the words.

When he had had enough laughs and left, he stopped laughing and said calmly, "Ah Ping, help me take care of my Ayan, this is the most precious treasure in my life."

To a father, those calligraphy and paintings worth thousands of gold are more important than his own jewels?
As long as he stands high enough, he can protect Ayan!Jiang Pingze nodded firmly.

Then came the news of Jiang Gong's sudden death. At that time, he was far away in the military camp, shaking a glass of wine in the direction of Chang'an.

After that, he struggled in the barracks, and he got acquainted with the little general of the Zhao family. When the little general fell in love with Ai when he was young, the name "Ayan" appeared in his ears again.

After all, his Ayan is not as "less-faced" as he thought, it seems to be more.However, General Zhao is a consummate and kind person, with the ability and status of the Zhao family, it is indeed enough to protect Ayan.

The appearance of the two is even more matching, no matter how you look at it, they are an extremely good match.

Jiang Pingping felt that his entrustment to take care of Ayan had been completed for the most part. General Zhao liked her so much, so he would love her very much and protect her for the rest of his life.

But neither General Zhao nor she knew that he had seen her before.

Once he came out of the military camp alone to run an errand, and passed by the Zhuque Bridge in Chang'an. He took a detour, and he didn't know why, as if he had made a detour. I just want to see how the Jiang clan is living under his prestige.

Then, he saw a very funny scene.

It was winter, and the winter in Chang'an City was much colder than that in the south of the Yangtze River. Outside Jiang's mansion by the Zhuque Bridge, a few elderly people leaned against the corner of the wall with their hands in their hands, playing chess and basking in the sun.

Not far from these "commonly visible" elderly activities, there is a girl squatting. She is wearing a gray winter jacket with a dull and inconspicuous color. She is looking at the sky with her hands in her hands and is... basking in the sun.

Jiang Pingping: "..."

Looking at the girl's overly beautiful face, Jiang Pingping felt an indescribable feeling in his heart: Is this his daughter?It's so big in a blink of an eye.But what she did was completely different from that of a girl of this age in his impression.

She was wearing a dusty winter jacket that girls and even older women would not wear. Of course, the Jiang clan would not treat her badly in terms of external things. The winter jacket is not cheap, but the color is completely different. Such a big girl should wear the same.

Of course, because of that overly beautiful face, he completely understood what it meant to say "the jingchai sarong does not lose color".

Behind him, two maidservants in bright clothes followed not far away, as if they were used to it.

In winter, what's wrong with Ms. Jiang who likes to come out to bask in the sun?Those grandparents in their [-]s and [-]s like it, and Ms. Jiang liked it in advance... It seems that there is no problem.

There is also a white-haired cat at the girl's feet, listening to her lazily basking in the sun, looking "old-fashioned".

Jiang Pingping had never seen such an "over-mature" girl, so he couldn't help but stop and take a second look, and then saw the girl looking up at the sky, and what she lifted up with lazily was those pair of eyes. Eye.

Those were a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, but what caught his attention was the look in the eyes, which were so clear that they seemed to understand everything.

This look...Jiang Pingping's whole body trembled when he looked at it: it was as if he saw the celebrity with the crown through that lazy girl.

Bloodline is really a very strange thing: this look... Even though she should have never seen her father since she could remember, she still has a strange resemblance to him.

Sure enough, they were father and daughter, Jiang Pingping shook his head lightly, and when he returned to the barracks, he saw General Zhao who was lying on the table looking for delicious and interesting shops in Chang'an City.

Although I have asked many times, but this time Jiang Pingping couldn't help but stop and asked: "The little general likes Miss Jiang very much?"

General Zhao, who was lying on the table, raised his head with a solemn and excited expression: "Naturally, I will protect Miss Jiang, love her, and let her have no worries for the rest of her life!"

Zhao Jiaerlang never joked, Jiang Pingping was determined.

But the world is unpredictable. Later, he and General Zhao defended Baidi to the death. That winter girl wearing a dusty winter jacket basking in the sun and bright eyes was imprisoned at home, forced into a bridal sedan chair, and finally died in the entrance hall. on the way to the palace.

In the two places of Baidi Chang'an, he lost both ends in a mess.

What many people don't know is that he went to Chang'an once when the Great Zhou Dynasty was first established.Returning to their homeland, all the people from the past are gone.

Mr. Zhao Xiaolang, who was in the limelight in the city of Chang'an back then, was no one to mention. He was replaced by the emperor who was constantly praised. He walked around the city of Chang'an. Familiar, but all the old people have disappeared.

He went to the mansion where the members of the Jiang family used to live. Some people said that the members of the Jiang family died in the chaos of war. The original Jiang family mansion became a vacant land and a library was built. The students in it were all ordinary people in Chang'an. students, reciting the enlightenment "Three Character Classic".

"Human nature is good at the beginning, and the nature is similar and the habit is far away..."

He also went to the military camp of the Zhao family army, which has become a horse farm, where rich and powerful play polo and sing to their heart's content.

Before leaving, he went to the most inconspicuous Yongding Gate in the west of Chang'an City.

There are seventeen gates in Chang'an City. After all, it is the ancient capital of many dynasties. The size of Chang'an City has been changing, but what remains unchanged is the name "Chang'an", Chang'an Chang'an, Chang'an forever.

Although Yongding Gate is a city gate, it has not left the city, and it has long been deserted, so without anyone's obstruction, he climbed to the top of Yongding Gate, and then bent down to look down.

Under the city gate, there are mottled and overgrown weeds. The city gate is not very high, but it is enough for a girl to be reduced to bones. A girl can easily jump over the city gate with just a little effort.

Looking at the mottled weeds, he seemed to see the girl who was lying on the weeds that day wearing a phoenix coronet and a bright red wedding dress.Jiang Pingping's heart felt sour: he didn't protect this girl, after all, he broke his promise.

The area of ​​Yongding Gate in the west of Chang'an City was already deserted, and there were not many people nearby. He came down from the city gate and finally found an old man who lived nearby.

Few major events happened here in the deserted Yongding Gate. This is the prosperous and luxurious Chang'an City, but the prosperity and extravagance of Chang'an City seems to have nothing to do with the deserted, remote and poor Yongding Gate.

Therefore, the old man is very familiar with the major events that happened here in Yongdingmen, the biggest one is the ten-mile red makeup in the last year of Dajing.

"I've lived here in Yongdingmen for the first time, and it's the first time I've seen such excitement. I heard that there was a young lady who was a little weird, but she was taken by the emperor in the palace. The emperor liked her very much, and specially allowed her to use the folk The way to marry a daughter is to get married with her. Of course, the wedding team is more grand than others, and they have to tour the city, so they will pass through Yongding Gate, so I followed the neighbors and waited here." The old man said with emotion , "When it was almost noon, the team arrived at Yongding Gate, and the rickety team suddenly stopped."

"The person leading the welcome at the front was said to be the emperor at that time in the palace, and later the tyrant in the storyteller's mouth. The storyteller in the teahouse said that he had eight hands and ten legs, like a monster, but we Seeing that the man doesn't look like a monster, his appearance is okay, but his eyes look a bit fierce and his temper is not good." The old man said, "But when the bride in the sedan chair said to stop, he stopped immediately. We were just thinking that the bride in the sedan chair must be pretty, otherwise how could the emperor, who is not easy to mess with, be so obedient to her?"

"Then we saw the sedan chair door was opened, and the bride came out of the sedan chair wearing a phoenix crown and Xiapei." The old man stopped suddenly as he spoke, and after a while, he suddenly sighed, pity and regret, "She suddenly I opened the curtain in front of the phoenix crown with my hand, just that one moment, we were stupefied," the old man sighed, "It's the first time we've seen such a beautiful bride in so many years..."

Thinking of the girl who was so beautiful in the gray winter jacket, Jiang Pingping felt sad: Ayan in Fengguanxiapei must be very beautiful, if the elder brother is here, he must be very reluctant.

"The bride is not only beautiful, but also kind-hearted." The old man said, "The tyrant immediately became infatuated when he saw the bride's expression, but when he came back to his senses, he immediately slashed at us and said he would kill us." Our eyes are gouged out, we are not worthy to see the bride..."

Jiang Pingping's expression froze when he heard this: even if Ayan didn't jump and entered the palace, with that tyrant's behavior, most people in this palace who have seen Ayan might lose their eyes.

A madman is not scary, what is scary is that this madman still has a supreme identity, which is scary.

"It was the bride who stopped him, saying that she wanted to go up to the city gate to see the city of Chang'an." The old man said, "The tyrant agreed, and when he got to the city gate, the tyrant pointed to Chang'an city and boasted, saying Whatever garden he wants to build for the bride, he will give her whatever she likes, and kill and bury everything she doesn’t like to spend. The bride smiled very softly, nodded in response, and suddenly jumped suddenly at the next moment. Jumped off..." The old man couldn't help covering his eyes with his hands when he said this, "Such a beautiful girl fell to the ground in the blink of an eye, and her beauty turned into bones in an instant. We were all shocked, that tyrant Crazy too..."

Jiang Pingping closed his eyes, unable to listen anymore, the dull pain in his heart spread for no reason: really lost at both ends, the girl named Ayan just disappeared.I think Jiang Pingping claims to be an extraordinary person, but in the end, no one can keep him.

Yes, she has to live first.It wasn't until then that he vaguely understood what his elder brother said.

At that time, he had seen through the corruption of Dajing, and seen through the misfortune of a girl without anyone to protect her.

Jiang Pingping blinked, took a deep breath, pulled out his thoughts from the past, and said to the shopkeeper beside him: "Let's go!"

The shopkeeper looked at Jiang Pingping, who had been stunned for a while for no reason, and suddenly came back to his senses, and he was relieved. He was about to speak when he heard Jiang Pingping say: "How much is the medicine missing?"

The shopkeeper was startled when he heard this, and after a while he said: "Everything else is collected, but the snow lotus leaves are still a little short. He wants a lot, and it's not easy to break into the imperial treasury right now..."

"This... I'll figure out a way." Jiang Pingping interrupted him, and after a short pause, he said to the shopkeeper, "I'm going to Yancheng tomorrow, you can make arrangements for me."

The shopkeeper's expression suddenly changed, and he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he bowed his head and answered "Yes" when the words came to his lips.

But...Yancheng!

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The Fang family mansion in Yancheng was desolate.

A pair of women's moccasin boots that were easy to walk on trampled on the leaves blown up by the wind, and Miss Fang Fang Zhiyao stepped on the leaves and entered the door.

"Third sister, how long are you going to fight with me?" Fang Zhiyao, the eldest lady of the Fang family who walked in from the door, rubbed her brows with a headache, and walked to Fang Zhixiu, the third miss of the Fang family who was writing with her head bowed in front of the desk. He took out a stack of letters from his arms and threw them on the table in front of Fang Zhixiu, "What are you writing down the names of these people for?" A little angry, "Are you going to hand it over to the people in Yancheng Yamen, and let us all be buried with him?"

Fang Zhixiu subconsciously raised her eyelids when she heard this, but didn't make a sound.

Ever since she came back from the Yancheng yamen prison that day, the sisters who used to talk about everything have become like this.The most familiar sisters in the past are strangers.

"If you blame me, you should understand that this is our painstaking effort for so many years, and it is also what Zhou Fang wants to do." Fang Zhiyao looked at Fang Zhixiu with a headache. Once a smart person gets into the horns, he is far more stubborn than people imagined. Duo, "You are the smartest in your daily life. What are you going to do? Are you going to ruin Zhou Fang's hard work? Have you asked Zhou Fang if he is willing?"

Fang Zhixiu, who was sitting behind the desk with drooping eyes, raised her head until now, looked at Fang Zhiyao and said, with a hint of sarcasm in her indifferent expression: "I don't care if he wants to or not, even if he hates me, I only want him Live, just like you saved that dying person back then!"

When Fang Zhiyao heard the last sentence, "It's like you saved that dying person back then", Fang Zhiyao's face changed suddenly, and she instinctively opened her mouth to retort: ​​"I'm not..."

"What are you not? You have been hanging that man with medicine for so many years, and you have seen him in great pain. You just don't want him to die, but have you asked him if he wants to live?" Fang Zhixiu, who has always spoken softly, spoke sharply. When she got up, she looked at Fang Zhiyao with a sneer, and every word pierced into the heart of the most respected elder sister in the past, "If you didn't insist on saving him, our Fang family would be nothing more than an ordinary merchant." , how could he be stared at like this, even more..."

"Not to mention you and Zhou Fang's acquaintance." Fang Zhiyao raised her eyes, fixedly looked at Fang Zhixiu whose face suddenly changed, and smiled wryly in her heart.

Sure enough, they are sisters, and only sisters know each other's weaknesses best. Just like Zhou Fang is Fang Zhixiu's weakness, Fang Zhiyao, the seemingly stable and mature young lady of the Fang family, also has her own weaknesses.

Seeing the pale-faced Fang Zhixiu folded her arms in pain and buried her head in sobs, Fang Zhiyao was silent for a moment, sighed, turned and walked out of the room.

"Take care of her, don't let her go out at will!" Fang Zhiyao said before leaving.

The guards behind him were shocked when they heard the words: The eldest lady meant to put the third lady under house arrest, right?

But even though Third Miss Fang is also the master, the real master of the Fang family is still the eldest lady, so the guard quickly nodded "Yes".

"Not going back to Baoling City for the time being." Fang Zhiyao paused, and then said, "We will stay in Yancheng for now."

Originally, they wanted to use Zhou Fang to exchange for the third sister. After all, for them now, the value of the third sister is much higher than Zhou Fang.However, once something involves feelings, it cannot be measured by value alone.

Fang Zhixiu's reaction was beyond reason, but it was also expected.

Fang Zhiyao stood in the courtyard and took a deep breath. She came to Yancheng for the third sister, but she never thought that the biggest trouble at this time was not someone else, but the third sister who had finally been rescued!
It was only at this time that she realized that the two young officials from Chang'an were a bit tricky.It was not easy to use Zhou Fang to replace the third sister, but because of the third sister, the plan to return to Baoling had to be shelved.

The two people in the Yancheng yamen are not just wine bags and rice bags, one is the famous jade-faced judge in Chang'an City, who solves cases like a god, with amazing observation skills, and the other is the emperor's close minister who is in the heart of the emperor, and the city is extremely deep.Fang Zhiyao felt troublesome the first time they saw these two people: especially that Prince Ji, whose familiar face often made her dazzled, but it was a pity that he was completely different in his heart.

Fang Zhiyao frowned: They could have released the third sister directly, but they seemed to be "kind" and asked the third sister to go to the prison to see the tortured Zhou Fang. If it was not intentional, she would not believe it.

These two decided to focus on him, trying to get something from him.

That being the case, she won't go back to Baoling, she might as well stay in Yancheng and deal with the two of them, after all, if she doesn't bring the trouble back to Baoling, she can keep the people in Baoling city... A familiar thought flashed across her mind His face: that face was supposed to be bright and upright, but when it came to the Yancheng yamen, it was inexplicably difficult to distinguish between good and evil.

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"The caravan that the Fang family left originally stopped temporarily. I heard that Miss Fang ordered it." Lin Yan walked in from the door and couldn't help being stunned when he saw Ji Chongyan who was feeding the pigeons, "This is... ..."

"The carrier pigeon of the Yang family." Ji Chongyan stretched out his finger and flicked the head of the carrier pigeon that was being fed. The pigeon's head was flicked, but he didn't notice it, but instead he rubbed against Ji Chongyan intimately.

Lin Yan: "..." This carrier pigeon must be stupid, "surrender to the enemy" is too fast!
But all right, how did the pigeons from the Yang family come to Yancheng?

"It flew over our Yancheng yamen and saw me, and felt astonished, so it decided to change its master, instead of Yang Yan as its master, it wanted me." Ji Chongyan said with a cold expression, his serious appearance was not at all. Like a joke.

Lin Yan: "..." Is there such a boastful person?It was the first time for him to see such shamelessness... Uh, I can't say that, Chongyan's face is still worthy of the words "shocked as a heavenly man".

Of course he wouldn't believe Ji Chongyan's nonsense, Ji Chongyan probably caught this carrier pigeon, but now Ji Chongyan fed him two grains of rice and surrendered directly.

But of course Ji Chongyan will not be idle to catch pigeons, and it's not because he wants to eat. After all, Miss Jiang Si, who can cook, is not around, so Ji Chongyan is quite picky.Presumably he used some means to get it.

"Did the pigeons come from Yang Yan or to Yang Yan? What was written in the letter?" Lin Yan sat down, poured himself a cup of tea, and asked.

Ji Chongyan flicked the pigeon's head, let the pigeon fly aside, walked to Lin Yan and sat down, took a sip of the tea he had poured, and said: "It was sent to Yang Yan by Yang Yan's mother, yes His second wife who is hiding in the back house seems to have some opinions and wants to practice."

(End of this chapter)