The weak princess is super fierce

Chapter 803 Another Batch

Bai Zhuo was close at hand and could hear clearly: "Do you want me to check with Master Cui Qi?"

After all, Miss Meng got to know Ma Ji through Cui Yu.

In response to Bai Zhuo's request, Ji Kuan said, "After tonight, go check it out. Take it easy on the part involving Master Cui Qi."

Cui Yu is not easy to offend.

“I understand.” This was not the first time Bai Zhuo had dealt with Cui Yu. He knew that there was a private room in Quexian Tower that Cui Yu had reserved specifically for Li Shou. Based on the relationship between Mr. Cui and his own prince, he could not act excessively.

As soon as Mr. Ma sat down, he swallowed back the words he wanted to remind Meng Shisan because Dong Linglong was also there.

Dong Linglong was surprised that Mr. Ma seemed to be on good terms with Meng Shisan: "Yaoyao, have you known Mr. Ma for a long time?"

"Not too early. I've known him for a short time." Meng Shisan didn't tell Dong Linglong the truth about the extinction of all the guests in Li Heng's private residence. So when he introduced Ma Ji to Dong Linglong, he didn't go into detail. "To be honest, it was Master Cui Qi who introduced me to Ma Ji."

Horse disease?

Dong Linglong already knew that Mr. Ma's real name was Ma Ji just after the introduction. Now, when she heard that Meng Shisan did not call Ma Ji "Mr. Ma" as Chang'an did, but called him by his real name, she could not hide the surprise on her face again.

Meng Shisan didn't want to explain anything further and just winked at Dong Linglong playfully.

Dong Linglong blinked, feeling a little helpless.

While Dong Linglong was getting up to relieve herself, Ma Ji whispered to Meng Shisan, "There are many people hiding outside the Phoenix Shed. They are all experts among mortals. It looks like they are another group of assassins."

He only found out later that Miss Meng had been assassinated at night.

After learning how Meng Shisan relied on his excellent whip skills and demonic energy to kill or injure the ten assassins, he became more and more certain that the demonic energy he sensed from Meng Shisan when he first met him was definitely not ordinary demonic energy.

The evil aura is so strong that it might have come from a very old demon.

However, while he discovered that there was demonic energy in Meng Shisan's body, he also found out that Meng Shisan was indeed a mortal. How a mortal could have demonic energy in his body coexisted really puzzled him.

After dealing with Chang'an, he also asked Chang'an privately, but Chang'an didn't even look at him, and only said that her master should let him know what he should know, and he'd better keep his mouth shut about what he shouldn't know.

There was a warning in his words.

This warning made him feel familiar, and it reminded him from the depths of his memory of the task that his young lady had given him before she died. He had also asked deeper into the matter, and the young lady had told him the same thing.

He was told not to cross the line between what he should know and what he should not know.

Because of this, no matter how many years passed, he still stayed in the capital and never set foot in Jinling, which the young lady had mentioned before her death.

Meng Shisan was not surprised that a group of assassins had gathered outside the Phoenix Shed to kill her. Chang'an had already discovered this and informed her, "If a fight really breaks out, you don't have to do it. Just help me watch over Yaya and don't let her get hurt because of me."

Ma Ji understood: "I will protect Miss Dong."

He looked at Chang'an again, thinking that with Chang'an, the locust tree demon with higher cultivation than him, there was really no need for him to take action.

He could also think of another reason why Miss Meng didn't want him to take action. It was simply because the fire he used to kill the retainers in the Second Prince's private residence last time was the same fire as the fire-making technique he used to perform tonight. Miss Meng didn't want him to take the risk of anyone finding out that he had a hand in burning half of the retainers' bodies into charcoal.

I think that when Chang'an takes action tonight, he will definitely not use the trick of piercing the heart with a locust branch.

In fact, he has more than one move, but his demonic power is relatively low, so his other moves are unlikely to be as useful as the one Chang'an used.

Well, he just needs to listen to Miss Meng and protect Miss Dong.

As soon as Dong Linglong came back and sat down again, she mentioned the recent grand event in the capital: "I heard that before the end of the year, there will be a grand gathering of merchants in the capital, and the heads of merchants from various provinces, prefectures, and counties will participate. This event is led by Master Cui Qi."

Meng Shisan nodded. Cui Yu took the lead in organizing such a grand event because she was entrusted by him to cover up the itinerary of the patriarchs of the three major families in Lingnan going north to Beijing.

Seeing Meng Shisan who showed no surprise, Dong Linglong asked again: "You haven't been out all day recently, so you must have known about this, right?"

"I know." Meng Shisan smiled kindly, "Although I don't go out, my people go out a lot."

Among the maids in her Taichen Courtyard, except for Shangchun who had to stay in the courtyard to handle various trivial affairs and rarely went out to do work in person, the rest had all been sent out to do work.

Lian Gao Jin brought his eldest cousin's people to work for her.

Therefore, no matter what she wanted to know or what she wanted to do, she actually did not need to do it in person. In other words, she could get what she wanted done without stepping out of the house.

Dong Linglong understood immediately that Meng Shisan had many capable people around him: "The heads of the merchants from all over the country, no matter where they came from, are all very wealthy. They will gather in the capital at the end of the year. No matter what their original intention is, no matter why, it will definitely attract the attention of the government."

Then disciplined.

"Do you think that something unmanageable trouble will arise by then?" Meng Shisan read the hidden meaning in Dong Linglong's words.

“Among them, there are some who are as wealthy as a country.” Dong Linglong stopped there.

Meng Shisan said: "With Master Cui Qi in charge, there shouldn't be any trouble... Did you hear anything?"

After saying this, she thought of Dong Kuan. Dong Linglong's elder brother had always had close contacts with scholars, and he might have sensed some other conspiracy.

"My eldest brother said that there are a few scholars who want to make trouble." Dong Linglong really listened to what Dong Kuan said, "There are more than a few. My eldest brother said that there will definitely be more than a few by then."

"Are these scholars the leaders, and are they inciting more scholars to join in the trouble?" Meng Shisan asked.

Dong Linglong nodded: "That's what I mean, but... whether it can be accomplished is still a matter of debate. Some people want to make a fuss, and some don't. If those who want to make a fuss are suppressed by those who don't want to make a fuss, then the fuss won't be accomplished."

Meng Shisan said, "We'll talk about it then."

Why worry about uncertain things?

Just leave it alone. If things really get out of hand, Cui Yu will have a plan to deal with it.

If he couldn't even handle a group of scholars, then she would have doubts about how Cui Yu had been able to gain a foothold in the capital and settle down under the emperor's feet in the past twenty years.

Seeing that Meng Shisan was not worried at all, Dong Linglong also felt that it was none of her business, so she just ignored it and changed the subject.