Chapter 347 (1/2)
Luo Xuan took the wrapped account book out of Kou Zhong's arms, turned it over for inspection, and smiled at them: ”what a clever boy, you almost cheated me. I see you two have sneaky eyes. You know you're not the children of honest people. Tell me! Who asked you to steal this account book here?”
Shan Wanjing looked at Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling with her mouth open. Her face was unbelievable. When she came back, she said angrily, ”who sent you to approach me?”
Before Kou Zhong could answer, she drew her sword across his shoulder. Kou Zhong looked at Luo Xuan like asking for help, but Luo Xuan just smiled and turned her head. She seemed to be very focused on the river and made it clear that she didn't want to take care of it.
Kou Zhong has a bad eye. He is always quick witted. Knowing that the Dongming sect dare not provoke the aristocratic family rebel forces such as the four door lords, he made up a story: ”We are the spies sent by the song valve. Now there are only two of the four gate valves in the world, the song valve and the Li valve. As the saying goes, dead Taoist friends don't die poor! Now Yang Guang is rampant all over the world and powerful. As long as we can get the evidence on the account book that Li valve bought weapons from your Dongming faction, we can turn Yang Guang's attention to Li valve and avoid him going south to attack Lingnan.”
”Is it from the Song Dynasty?” Mrs. Dongming mused.
She suddenly sighed and said, ”we Dongming sent weapons to do too much business. Now, in troubled times, big trees attract wind. There are Li valve and Yang valve without song valve...” she said and turned to look at Luo Xuan. ”Or some people in the imperial court... Alas! We are all prisoners of the rank. Why blame others?”
”Wan'er, put down the sword!” Mrs. Dongming advised.
Kou Zhong felt a light shoulder. He was relieved. He looked at Luo Xuan in white and standing in the bow of the ship. He begged for mercy: ”sister fairy, we are young and ignorant. Now we have explained. What are you going to do with us?”
”Of course it's for Yang Guang! It's good to be an addition!” Luo Xuan raised her eyebrows and said, ”I think Yang Guang is also interested in knowing who wants this account book!”
After hearing this, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling turned pale with fear. They cried bitterly: ”bitter, give us to Yang Guang. Isn't it to the tiger's den and wolf's nest? The Heshi Bi we took away is much more important than a mere account book!”
But before they came up with a way, they heard Luo Xuan's command: ”lock up their two boys, and then change the course. Let's go to Jiangdu!”
The people of Dongming school had to answer, ”yes!”
When everything was ready, the distant sky had turned white and the stars were evacuated. It was about sunrise. Zhang Shaofeng tied the small boat behind the big ship and was about to climb up the side of the ship, but he saw a middle-aged scribe standing on the small boat next to the big ship.
He was the only one on the ship. The scribe stood in the bow with his hand in his back. A small boat flowed down smoothly in the turbulent river.
Seeing Zhang Shaofeng looking over, the scribe hugged his sleeve and asked, ”where are you going? Can you take a ride?”
Zhang Shaofeng looked at the past and saw that the scholar's hair was flying in the wind, but he was not half embarrassed. Although his clothes were messy, he had his own demeanor. He stood on the boat drifting with the waves. The boat swayed in the rolling river. His whole person stood like a pine, and his body was motionless.
Without waiting for him to speak, he heard a crisp female voice from the ship laughing and saying, ”well, tell your guest that our ship is going to Jiangdu. If you are on the same road, your guest might as well come up and take a ride.”
”Just the same way!” the scribe laughed.