It doesn't matter what the lord is.

This letter only needs to further provoke Fang Lita's suspicion of Fang Shisan. Although Fang Lita had taken away his sister's power step by step in the past, he probably never thought that one day his sister would betray him. And this letter is also mainly to cater to Fang Lita. The more stubborn a person is, the less likely he is to listen to other people's advice, and the more he wants to prove that his judgment is correct. If others do what he himself has not done, he will think he can do better; if others do what he cannot do, he will think that others have used crooked means.

In a word, he is unwilling to admit that he is worse than others, nor is he willing to face this reality.

After Fang Lita left Fang Shisan's room, I went in to take a look and found that the letter on the ground was gone.

Judging from Fang Shisan's expression, everything seemed normal. Fang Lita didn't seem to get angry on the spot. I knew that this was just the calm before the storm.

Three days later, Fang Shisan asked me to go to his office.

She sat in a wheelchair, in front of the table, looking more solemn than ever. On the table was the unfolded letter. Fang Lita was not there, perhaps he had just left, or perhaps he had been away for a while. Fang Shisan heard my footsteps and asked:

"Garde?"

I responded.

Fang Shisan's hands were shaking. He hardened his heart and slammed the table heavily, asking:

"Jia De! Tell me, are you an undercover agent sent by Yuxi City?"

I answered frankly:

"No."

Fang Shisan gritted his teeth, clenched his five fingers into fists, and said while panting:

"But except for you——"

I said loudly:

"If I were an undercover agent in Yuxi City, I would have countless opportunities to assassinate you and the city lord. Do you think anyone around you two could stop me? Yes, the city lord has a few good guards, but what about you? If I wanted to kill you now, would you be able to get away? My wife and family died at Fang Yuan's hands, and I work so hard for you every day. Now you still suspect that I'm an undercover agent? When you asked me, I just thought you were drunk. What about now? Fang Shisan, if you really want to kill me, you don't need to come up with all these miscellaneous reasons. Just stab me to death. When have I ever hit you?"

Fang Shisan bit her lips tightly, looking like she was about to cry. Her voice was trembling as she kept saying:

"Who else? Do you want me to doubt Tira? Just tell me!"

I yelled at her:

"You called me here early in the morning and I don't know what happened. What should I say?!"

I gasped a few times, calmed my breathing, and said:

"I'm sorry. I..."

Fang Shisan shook his head, turned away, covered his mouth and sobbed softly. He fumbled for a few times, grabbed the letter on the table in his hand, and handed it to me.

I took it, pretended to look through it, and slammed it on the table.

"Isn't this obviously a counter-espionage plot? Was it sent by Fang Yuan?"

Fang Shisan said softly:

"It was Ata who found it in my room. And judging from the date on the letter, it had been in my room for some time. During this period, we happened to be in a peaceful standoff with Fang Yuan and his men, and everything matched what was said in the letter. But I have never seen this letter. Someone secretly put it in my room."

I frowned and asked:

"your room?"

Fang Shisan nodded. I was silent for a while and asked:

"you do not believe me?"

Fang Shisan said softly:

"I want to believe you, but..."

I interrupted her meaningless words and asked:

"Have you read this letter?"

Fang Shisan said softly:

"Atta read it to me."

I said calmly:

"This letter looks well-written, but if I'm an undercover agent, there's no need for my name to appear on it. If the city lord wants to target you, the best way is to win over me and Tira. I can pretend to surrender to the city lord and further provoke conflicts between you. But Fang Yuan also expressed his desire to recruit Tira and me in the letter. I guess the city lord has also listed us as suspects. If I'm not mistaken, Fang Lita is not here now. He should take advantage of you calling me over to search my house for any suspicious letters, right?"

Fang Shisan grabbed his bangs with his right hand, smiled bitterly, and replied weakly:

"You really don't believe in Tianxing City...?"

I answered without hesitation:

"I believe in you and Tianxing City, but I have never believed in the Lord City Lord. And now it's not a question of whether I believe in you or not, it's about whether you believe in me."

Fang Shisan gritted her teeth, but her fists loosened powerlessly. I guess I guessed it was right. She had no words to refute, so she could only say:

"Ata did this to clear your suspicion..."

I tapped the table with my fingers and said calmly:

"Let's not talk about this topic anymore. The most urgent thing is to find the traitor among us. Fang Shisan, besides me and Tira, has anyone else secretly come to your room in the past few days?"

Fang Shisan shook his head.

But as she shook, her movements suddenly slowed down and the expression on her face slowly froze.

I saw that she looked strange, so I asked quickly:

"Do you remember anything?"

It was as if Fang Shisan suddenly thought of some shocking secret, and he even forgot to breathe for an instant. When he came to his senses, his brain was almost suffocated, his lungs were squeezed, and his body began to cough violently and uncontrollably.

I smiled.

You should remember this, Fang Shisan.

I remember that day when a pervert was breathing heavily at the head of your bed, and how he ran away in a panic after you found him. The wooden door creaked, and it was very clear in the silent night. I remember everything, you will not forget it.

22. This is reality

Fang Shisan showed a puzzled look, but she quickly calmed down, at least much faster than I expected.

After all, she is not Fang Lita, and it is impossible to deceive her so easily. But as I said, my task is to fan the flames. Before a critical "opportunity" comes, it doesn't matter whether these things work or not. I know Fang Shisan can't figure it out immediately, so I won't talk about this topic anymore. If I continue to ask, it will make me look too eager and increase the possibility of being exposed.

Besides, I shouldn’t say the following words directly to Fang Shisan.

After I pretended to comfort Fang Shisan, I turned around and went back to my room. I had my cosmetics with me, so Fang Lita didn't find them. But when I got back to my room, I found that the whole room had been searched to pieces, even the quilt and mattress had been cut open with scissors. There were balls of cotton everywhere, and the whole room was in a complete mess.

Tira was standing at the door. When he saw me, he smiled helplessly and said:

"My house has become like this too. Let's go to the store and buy some more together when we get back. Sister Thirteen said she will help us pay for it."

I quietly threw the tattered sheets into the trash can, smiled and said:

"A normal person would do this? They wouldn't destroy a house so thoroughly during a raid."

Tira frowned and whispered:

"That's right. He came to me again and again, asking me about the letter and asking me to stop pretending, saying that I must have read the letter to Sister Thirteen. How would I know whether he believed it or not? I think he was just looking for an excuse to bully us."

I pretended to be ignorant and said:

"I don't think so. Didn't Fang Shisan give him most of the power? Why is he looking for trouble with us? Is he bored?"

Tira looked around and after making sure there was no one around, she walked over to me and said in a low voice:

"Many people are saying that the city lord intends to take back the military power from Thirteenth Sister. Didn't he want to take the initiative to attack some time ago? Thirteenth Sister didn't do what he asked, so the city lord is quite dissatisfied."

I was silent for a while, pulled Tira to sit on the bed, and whispered:

"Where did you get this information?"

Tira whispered:

"A lot of people out there say that, don't you know?"

I shook my head and said nervously:

"But this does remind me. Do you know what happened this time?"

Tira replied:

"I only know what the letter is...but the city lord didn't tell me the details, and Sister Thirteen didn't tell me either."

I explained the situation to her briefly, and Tierra jumped up and said angrily:

"Who? Who framed us? Why did they keep believing us? Who is so evil? Did we dig up his ancestral grave? How could they do such a wicked thing?"

I shrank my neck, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"Actually, I thought so just now. But now I doubt it... Never mind, I'd better not say it."

Tierra was already whetting her appetite, so she quickly asked:

"Who do you suspect? It can't be me. It really isn't me."

I looked into her eyes and said with a complicated expression:

"You have to promise not to tell Fang Shisan."

Tira asked:

"why?"

"Just promise me."

Tira raised three fingers helplessly and made a solemn promise. I then slowly said:

"Actually, when Fang Shisan came to talk to me just now, I also felt that it was a bit confusing. But the issue of military power you just mentioned made me think of another possibility... This letter can't be from Miss Shisan. Excluding you and me, the only one who can get close to Fang Shisan's bedroom is the city lord. If he deliberately forged such a letter to plot against Miss Shisan and took the opportunity to take back the military power... After all, think about it, as long as this matter comes out, Fang Shisan will not be able to clear his suspicion, and his prestige in the hearts of the people will also be reduced. It will become reasonable for Fang Lita to take back control of the army."

Tira trembled all over and asked in disbelief:

"No, that's impossible. I feel that although the city lord wants military power, he won't use this method... Will he take this opportunity to take back the military power? Is the rumor outside true? Is he really planning to take action against Thirteenth Sister? No, I have to tell Thirteenth Sister!"

As she said that, Tira wanted to run out, but I grabbed her hand and pulled her back, saying:

"Didn't you swear not to tell?"

Tiara was about to cry, and tried to shake my hand off several times, stamping her feet and saying:

"How can I care so much at this moment! Sister Thirteen might be in danger!"

I said:

"But it's possible that there isn't, isn't it? This is just our guess, and there is no actual evidence. The reason why I asked you to make a promise is because I'm afraid you would rashly go to Fang Shisan. After all, they are siblings, and it's not our turn to say these things, otherwise there is a possibility of alienation. At this stage, we just need to try to clear ourselves of suspicion."

Tira thought about it carefully and said bitterly:

"Is there no other way?"

I clasped my hands together and said slowly:

"Just be patient. Let's wait and see. If the city lord really takes away Miss Thirteen's power, it means that our guess is likely correct. When the situation is complicated, we just need to look at the final winner."

Tira sighed and said with infinite melancholy:

"That's all it can do..."

We were both wanderers in this world, and we sat together and reminisced for a long time.

So will Fang Lita take back Fang Shisan’s military power?

I still have a lot of confidence in him. His stubbornness, his self-righteousness, his preference for villains and his distancing from wise officials all left a deep impression on me. But what I believe more is that no one is willing to hand over their life to others, and no one is willing to live under the shadow of others all their lives.

So that night, I released a carrier pigeon towards Fangyuan.

My request is simple. When Fang Lita leads his army to attack, teach him a lesson. But let him go, and don't take him all the way. Just conquer the five cities in the north. Then stop and wait for the next instruction. In order to prevent the fat man Fang Yuan from turning against us, I specially added a sentence at the end. I will take charge of the next city with Fang Shisan. If he is greedy, I will assist the army of Tianxing City to kick his ass.

I don’t know if I was luckier or Fang Lita was more unlucky, or if both were at work. Two days later, Fang Lita took back Fang Shisan’s command of the army and went to the front line.

The situation that Fang Shisan had been struggling to maintain for a month was broken in less than a week.

I can't imagine how Fang Shisan dragged her disabled body and relied on the not-so-rich Tianxing City to nibble at the surrounding areas and gradually conquer these ten cities. How much hardship she endured is something that I, who have a smooth life, cannot understand.

But there is one thing I am very clear about, making money is like picking up soil with a needle, and spending money is like pushing sand with water. Fang Lita lost half of the empire that Fang Shisan had conquered in just one week.

No matter how capable Zhuge Liang is, he cannot save the helpless A Dou. This is the reality.

23. The dog licker ends up with nothing

Early in the morning, the heart-wrenching cry was heard from the Tianxing City Lord's Mansion.

I am quite sensitive to sounds, and my room is not too far from Fang Shisan's bedroom, so the sounds naturally reached my ears. I was dreaming that day. I dreamed that I fell into the enemy's trap and was accidentally poisoned. The enemy smiled obscenely and claimed that you can only have sex with others to reconcile yin and yang and remove the poison. I gritted my teeth on the surface, but I still had a little expectation in my heart. I thought I could finally get rid of the identity of a yellow flower young master in a reasonable and smooth way, but I didn't expect that when I looked closely, there was only He Yue around. In the dream, I kept struggling with whether my marriage with He Yue was a reconciliation of yin and yang or adding fuel to the fire, but in the end I was still fascinated by her beauty and couldn't help pushing her down on the bed. After the incident, He Yue covered her face and cried, and I sat by the bed thinking about life.