The Ninth Lady is a rebellious person.

Chapter 233 Shocking News: Such a Tragic Battle Never Before Heard in History

Lang Jiuchuan was flipping through a regional gazetteer when he suddenly heard Fu Qi's words and was taken aback. What the hell?
Where is it? How come she didn't find it?
She looked up and glanced around. Where was the ghost?

“The book that student is holding.” Fu Qi gestured for her to look over. A student was standing in front of her bookshelf, holding a book, and was standing on tiptoe to watch Teacher Xue ‘lecture’.

That book, with its familiar cover, wasn't it the Liu Feng collection of books she had just been flipping through?
There was indeed a faint aura emanating from the book, and a very faint ghost was faintly visible on it, a ghost whose soul was about to be scattered.

She stood up, walked over, gently patted the man's hand, and said, "Give me this book."

The student was listening attentively to Master Xue's lecture when he was suddenly interrupted. Just as he was about to get angry, he turned around and saw a thin young woman with eyes as black as ink. He immediately blushed and subconsciously handed her the book.

"Thank you." Lang Jiuchuan took it and left, returning to his previous spot. He opened the book, where a soul even more ethereal than Fu Qi's was curled up on the pages of the top scholar's scroll.

He was a scholar, and judging from his clothes, they didn't look like modern attire; they were rather old-fashioned, like styles from many years ago.

"Who are you?" Lang Jiuchuan asked softly.

The ghostly scholar seemed not to hear, his spirit was weak, and he looked extremely pained.

Lang Jiuchuan saw the problem.

"Has this soul been beaten?" Jiang Che floated out and saw that the ghost scholar's soul was in so much pain that it was about to be scattered. It had either been beaten or was being beaten.

"The soul is incomplete; there is only one soul and two spirits." Lang Jiuchuan had already seen through the other party's incompleteness.

Jiang immediately fell silent, afraid of touching someone's sore spot.

"General, he will keep you company for now. Please restrain your imposing manner and look after him." Lang Jiuchuan easily lured the weak and remnant soul into the Little Nine Tower to nurture it.

Fu Qi paused for a moment, looking at the weak scholar. They were both down on their luck, so it was only right to help each other, but...?

"I was only thirty when I died, not exactly old," Fu Qi said cryptically.

Lang Jiuchuan: "..."

She looked at the top scholar's examination paper again, seemingly lost in thought as she gazed at the lingering eerie aura on it.

"I clearly saw the little girl go in here just now, and... hey, I found you." Xue Shi's excited voice piqued Lang Jiuchuan's attention.

The other person saw her and waved.

Lang Jiuchuan stood up, picked up his belongings, and walked over.

"I vaguely saw you in the crowd just now, and I thought I was seeing things, but it really is you." Master Xue looked at her with a face full of joy.

Lang Jiuchuan bowed, and then bowed to the Grand Tutor beside him as a junior.

Master Xue said to the Grand Tutor, "Grand Tutor, this is a young friend I recently made, the Ninth Sister of the Lang family. Her father was the late General Lang Zhengfan of the Kaiping Marquisate."

Grand Tutor Fang saw that Lang Jiuchuan was thin and pale, but his eyes were very bright and intelligent, so he smiled and nodded: "He is a good child."

Seeing that the students were all peering over, Master Xue said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's go to the teahouse across the street and have some hot tea." Lang Jiuchuan readily agreed, thinking that these two were well-read and should know about the former Fenghuo Pass, saving her the trouble of looking up maps and local chronicles.

The group then went to a teahouse.

After the tea server served the tea and snacks, Master Xue looked Lang Jiuchuan over and said, "You've grown a bit in height over the past year, but not in flesh, and your complexion is just average. Should we invite a royal physician to take your pulse and prescribe a remedy?"

"I can treat myself, so you don't need to trouble yourself," Lang Jiuchuan said with a smile, politely declining.

Master Xue frowned: "Then why haven't you gained weight yet? Could it be that you don't have enough longevity tablets? I'll go to the temple and make one for you..."

Lang Jiuchuan coughed lightly, somewhat speechless. "Have you forgotten that there are outsiders here?"

Grand Tutor Fang, holding his teacup, looked at Master Xue with rare astonishment. What had he just heard? Was this kid talking about the Longevity Brand?

He used to always say things like "Confucius did not speak of strange phenomena, physical prowess, disorder, or spirits," so why has he changed?
They even accused Sheng Huai'an of being possessed by a ghost before!
Master Xue was a little embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly and said to him, "As people get older, they start to focus on health preservation. I believe in Taoism."

Grand Tutor Fang scoffed, lowered his head, blew on the tea, and took a sip. "This is just a load of nonsense. Who would believe it?"
Master Xue also picked up his teacup and looked at Lang Jiuchuan, urging him to say something.

Lang Jiuchuan understood and said, "I came to the bookstore to look for local chronicles and historical records because I wanted to understand something. I didn't expect to meet two great scholars. It's really my good luck. I wonder if you two can answer my questions."

"What is it?" Master Xue asked.

Lang Jiuchuan then said, "In the previous Liang Dynasty, there was a general named Fu Qi. In the thirteenth year of the reign of the last emperor, Emperor Lüzong, he led the Fu family army in a fierce battle against the barbarians of Kangju at Fenghuo Pass for a month. In the end, due to the lack of food and supplies and the failure of reinforcements to arrive, he and the remaining three thousand Fu family soldiers poured oil on themselves and perished in the flames. I would like to know, where is Fenghuo Pass now, and is it still called Fenghuo Pass?"

Inside the small nine-tower, Fu Qi also perked up his ears.

Master Xue and Grand Tutor Fang exchanged a glance, somewhat taken aback. After a long while, Master Xue said, "I am far less learned than Grand Tutor Fang. Although I have read the Records of the Grand Historian, I have never heard of such a heroic battle at Fenghuo Pass."

Lang Jiuchuan's expression changed, and he gripped the teacup tightly.

What do you mean? There's no record of this?

Grand Tutor Fang put down his teacup, frowned, and said, "Fu Qi did exist, but the historical records about him at the end are not as detailed as what Miss Lang said..."

"Grand Tutor, you can just call her Xiao Jiu Niang, Miss Lang, there's no need to be so formal."

Grand Tutor Fang glared at him irritably. People who value health should avoid being short-tempered. You just had to say something to change the subject.

Lang Jiuchuan asked urgently, "Grand Tutor, what do you mean? Does it mean the battle at Fenghuo Pass wasn't recorded, or is there something else?"

Grand Tutor Fang looked at the book she had placed on the table and said, "This book of historical records only records the history of my Great Dan after its founding. It does not mention the history of the Liang Kingdom. If you want to find the history of the Liang Kingdom, you have to look for the History of the Liang Kingdom. It also contains some records of the pre-founding history of Great Dan."

"Fu Qi came from a distinguished family in Liang State, whose generations had served in the military and died on the battlefield. However, in the battle of Yuan City against Kangju at Fenghuo Pass, Fu Qi did not lead the Fu family army to their deaths as you said. Rather, he was warlike and made a misjudgment, disobeying imperial orders, which led to the defeat and the fall of the city. He was eventually killed by a fierce general from Kangju, and Yuan City was burned down."

Grand Tutor Fang frowned and said, "After the fall of Fenghuo Pass, Fengyang fell in less than ten days. Some people blamed Fu Qi for being passive and lazy in battle, prolonging the war, delaying military intelligence, and refusing to listen to advice, being stubborn and self-willed, which led to the subsequent loss of five cities. The Emperor was furious and refused the Fu family's request to go and collect the bodies, even wanting to exterminate the entire Fu family. The old lady of the Fu family, along with the women of the family, carrying the ancestral tablets of the Fu family's sons, cried out for justice at the palace gate, and finally committed suicide in front of the palace gate..."

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