Chronicles of Celestial Origins

After resting at the Nansha County Branch for a few days, Elder Mo Qianshan personally brought a group of elite gang members here with the purpose of thoroughly investigating the attack on everyone.

Tangning suffered internal injuries, so Mo Qianshan arranged for him to return to the gang to recuperate, and sent two people to escort him along the way.

A few days later, Tangning returned to the gang and met Cui Yilin immediately.

"master."

"I know everything. How is your injury?"

"I've rested for a few days and it's no longer a serious problem."

"As long as it's okay, you will always encounter some unexpected things when traveling in the world. This is inevitable." Cui Yilin handed him a small bottle: "This is Wuyi Pill. Your injury will heal faster if you take it."

"Thank you, master."

"Go and have a good rest!"

When Tang Ning returned to the room, Liu Ruhan was busy knitting clothes. She couldn't help but be overjoyed to see him back. She put down her needlework and trotted up to him. She looked at him with watery eyes and pouted her mouth slightly, looking aggrieved.

Tangning took her little hand and walked to the bed and lay down on it. Zhengzheng looked at the white wall above his head, feeling lost in thought.

He has been holding back a lot of things in his heart these days, and has no one to talk to.

"Ruru, do you know that we were ambushed by a group of people a few days ago, and many people died."

Liu Ruhan raised her head and looked at him with worry.

"I'm fine." Tangning naturally wouldn't tell her that she had suffered internal injuries, otherwise she would definitely cry again.

Liu Ruhan was relieved when she heard Tang Ning say it was okay. She didn't care whether others lived or died! As long as he's okay.

"I killed people." Tangning continued, "I killed four people."

"I didn't think much about it at the time, and I wasn't afraid at all. But later when I returned to the helm, I was very scared when I thought about it. I dreamed about them twice."

"I have no idea who they are or why they want to ambush us." Tangning paused and took a long breath, as if she had made a decision: "Ruru, when we get married and save enough money, Let’s just leave here and open a restaurant, okay?”

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The bustling Jieyou Tower is filled with the sounds of singing and dancing.

Jieyou Tower is the largest brothel in Qinghe County. The boss behind it is the young master of the King of Qinghe. Therefore, many dignitaries come here, making Jieyou Tower even more famous.

……………

This is his favorite place to come. The woman in his arms is named Qiu Chan, who was his sweetheart in his early years. At that time, he was just an unknown boy who came here to have fun whenever he had spare money.

And now he is the helmsman of Qinghe County, and he can be considered a prominent figure in Qinghe County.

Thinking about bits and pieces of the past, Xie Anshi couldn't help but feel as if he was in another world, as if he was still the young boy he was twenty years ago.

"Thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle." Qiu Chan shouted three times before he came back to his senses.

"Why are you so distracted these days?" Xie Anshi held the woman in his arms, his eyes a little confused: "Qiu Chan, uncle, I have to leave soon."

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know, I won't be in Chu State anyway. Do you want to come with me?"

Qiu Chan was stunned.

"I mean get out of here and be my lady."

Qiu Chan looked at him blankly, his eye circles gradually turning red.

"Why are you crying?" Xie Anshi smiled and said, "I have already paid the ransom fee for you. Just pack up and move out later! There is a house over there in Nanyuan. You can live there first."

Qiu Chan couldn't bear it anymore and lay on his chest crying with joy.

"Tart tart." A knock on the door broke the warmth between the two.

"Who?"

"Master, it's me." A man outside the door replied

Xie Anshi patted the jade arm of the woman in his arms. Qiu Chan quickly got up and put on his clothes, wiped his tears, opened the door and walked out.

"What's the matter?" Xie Anshi asked. He knew that there must be something very important to come here to see him at this time.

"That old boy Chen Dong wrote a letter to the gang to report you."

Xie Anshi was shocked: "Has the letter been sent?"

"No, he sent Xiao Liu to deliver the letter, and Xiao Liu changed hands and gave it to me. Fortunately, we were on guard against him, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

"Where is the letter? Bring it to me."

Xie Anshi couldn't help but gasped after reading the letter, secretly thinking that it was a fluke that he sent Xiao Liu. If it had been anyone else, if this letter had been sent to the gang, his plan would have failed.

………

Chen Dong paced back and forth in the house. As the head of the Foreign Affairs Hall of the Qinghe County branch, he was in charge of logistics work. He was very aware of the branch's accounting issues over the years. He had always turned a blind eye.

But this time the problem was far more serious than he imagined. Almost all the belongings of the entire branch had been evacuated.

The inspection team was coming soon. If such a situation was discovered, he, the leader of the foreign affairs hall, would naturally be implicated. After careful consideration, he decided to write a letter to the gang to report the truth about Xie Anshi's empty helmsman's property and the fact that he had bullied his superiors for so many years. He concealed the evidence of embezzling a huge amount of money from the helm.

He asked Xiao Liu to handle this matter. Xiao Liu is the housekeeper of his family. He has been with him for many years and works diligently. He knows nothing about the things in the branch. It would be best to let him go. He would not worry if it were anyone else.

"Master, thank you, the helmsman, for asking you to come over immediately and say there is something urgent." Someone shouted from outside the door.

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

Something important? Could it be that he found out about the division of property? Chen Dong thought to himself, opened the door, a flash of sword light flashed, his vision went dark, and the person fell down.

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"Tang Ning, Tang Ning." Early in the morning, Tang Ning opened her eyes and heard someone calling her outside the house. The voice was somewhat familiar.

Liu Ruhan was also awakened by the sound, opened her eyes drowsily, and squeezed into his arms.

Tangning stood up and opened the door, only to see a smiling young man standing outside with his hands behind his back. It was Gu Chengqian.

"Cheng Qian, why are you here?" Tangning was also very happy to see it was him.

"I am now also an official disciple of the caravan!" Gu Chengqian looked proud.

"When did you come here?"

"I came here a few days ago! I came to see you and heard that you went outside. I found out you were back yesterday. By the way, guess who I became my teacher?"

"who is it?"

"Master Dong Hai, Tang Ning, I heard from master that you have made rapid progress. I have also made great progress in martial arts this year. Let's come back and learn about moves." Gu Chengqian said eagerly.

"We'll talk about it in a few days! You've only been here a few days, and you haven't been to many places! I'll take you everywhere to have fun."

"OK!"

"Ruru, let's go together." Tang Ning took Liu Ruhan's hand, and the three of them left the yard and walked around the town until midnight before returning.

In the next few days, Gu Chengqian consulted with Tang Ning every day.

Of course he was no match for Tang Ning at his current level, but he was not complacent. The more he lost, the more courageous he became. Every time he came up with a new move or found a way to break Tang Ning's moves, he would immediately come to him to challenge her.

Time passed quickly, and two months passed in a flash. On this day, a piece of news shocked everyone in the caravan.

Xie Anshi, the helmsman of the Qinghe County sub-rudder, ran away and the entire sub-rudder was evacuated. When they first heard the news, Mo Qianshan and others were still skeptical.

In the evening, several more news about Qinghe County's helmsmanship came, and they were convinced that it was true.

It's ridiculous. This kind of thing has never happened to the caravan since its establishment. Not only did people defect with their money, but more than a thousand horses they raised were also sold. The caravan knew nothing about this matter.

Selling all the more than a thousand horses will not happen overnight, and the gang has not received any news before.

After Cui Yilin and others discussed it in the meeting hall, they sent people to Qinghe County overnight to investigate the matter, and sent an elite team to hunt down and kill Xie Anshi.

The team that went to Qinghe County to investigate sent a letter back a month later, and found out that Xie Anshi had deceived his superiors and deceived his subordinates for many years and embezzled more than 30,000 taels of gold and silver. What was even more shocking was the ambush of Tang Ning and his gang two months ago. He was actually the mastermind behind the incident.

Xie Anshi's defection was something that had been planned for a long time. Over the years, he had misappropriated the property of the branch, which had led to increasing holes in the accounts, and it was almost impossible to stop the fire.

Xie Anshi had made a plan at the beginning of the year to transfer all the existing property in the helm one by one, and sell all the horses at low prices and exchange them for cash.

Because he was afraid of being discovered by the patrol team, he bribed killers in the Jianghu to intercept and kill them, and deliberately chose to do it in Nansha County to avoid suspicion of him.

Things went as he wished. After the patrol team was ambushed, they did not continue patrolling, and the investigation team behind them did not suspect him.

He planned the ambush of the patrol team in order to buy time to complete the follow-up plan of defection.

According to preliminary estimates, the property losses caused by Xie Anshi's defection were nearly 80,000 taels.

When the letter was sent to the gang, Cui Yilin was furious and ordered all the forces of the caravan to be used to find Xie Anshi. He also sent three more elite teams, plus the previous one, a total of four teams to hunt down Xie Anshi.

On the other hand, we continue to dispatch inspection teams to strictly inspect each branch, determined to rectify the atmosphere and prevent another defection.

Because of Xie Anshi's incident, the inspection work this time was extremely strict and implicated many people. This is something I won't talk about for a while.

Half a year later, a hunting team discovered traces of Xie Anshi in Wu State, and finally found him and brought back his head.

It is said that Xie Anshi has settled there, opened a medicinal shop, and married a wife.

On the day he was killed, his wife also committed suicide. Later, some people said that his wife was originally a brothel girl in Qinghe County.