Reborn Princess

Fu Zhen walked towards Yanci, who straightened his expression and turned around and said, "Let's go."

Fu Zhen followed him to the front yard.

She is extremely familiar with every brick and tile here.

In the front yard, Fu Zhen had just finished asking Yan Ci what he could find out now as all the things in the courtyard that could be confiscated had been moved to the government office, and then he saw him walking towards the old ancestral hall of the Qin Mansion.

Fu Zhen followed him in with eyes wide open. The tablets inside had been moved to Yanjing City when the palace was relocated, and now it was empty.

Yanci looked at an incense burner placed right in front of the hall. There was no incense in it anymore, only some broken incense sticks that had once burned to the bottom.

He walked forward and took out three incense sticks from under a candlestick. Fu Zhen was surprised that he knew where the incense in the Qin Mansion Ancestral Hall was placed.

Yanci took a fire stick and lit the incense, then bowed towards the front. There was only the mural on the wall in front of him, and Fu Zhen didn't know what he meant.

After worshiping, Yanci inserted the incense into the incense burner. He looked at Fu Zhen and said, "Let's go inside."

Fu Zhen was puzzled. What were they going to do inside?

The two came behind the murals in the ancestral hall. Through the hollow carved window lattices, Fu Zhen could clearly see the furnishings and arrangements inside the ancestral hall.

Yanci pulled her in a little, and Fu Zhen looked at him: "What are you doing here? Have you found out something and are you waiting for someone to be arrested?"

Yanci nodded, "Wait for someone."

In the cramped environment, Fu Zhen stared at Yanci and took two steps forward. When Yanci saw her approaching, he took a step back, but he could only take one step back and had nowhere to go.

"You knew someone was coming?"

Without saying anything, Fu Zhen asked again, "Why are you so familiar with the layout of the Qin family's old house?"

The warm breath sprayed on Yanci's neck and chin, and he lowered his eyes to look at the girl with bright white teeth in front of him.

"A few times," he replied.

As far as Fu Zhen could remember, he had never been to the Qin family's ancestral hall, so he must have climbed over the wall many times.

"So you knew someone would come today?" She got the answer but still kept moving closer to Yanci.

His voice was a little stiff: "In the past few days, someone has been watching the Qin Mansion every day."

Fu Zhen nodded, "Really shrewd and calculating."

When the word "wily and cunning" came out, Yanci was stunned for a moment, "What did you say?"

Fu Zhen blinked her watery eyes and took a step back, "Very resourceful."

Yanci chuckled, which aroused Fu Zhen's interest, "So you can laugh."

As soon as Fu Zhen finished speaking, his face turned cold and he returned to his usual serious look.

Fu Zhen couldn't help laughing when she saw how quickly his expression changed.

"You..." Before she could finish her words, a big hand grabbed her waist, and she staggered and hit her head on Yanci's chin.

"Hiss" She was about to make a sound when her mouth was covered.

"somebody is coming."

Fu Zhen swallowed her saliva and breathed quietly. Yanci held her in his arms and she didn't dare to make any big movements.

Yanci looked through the window at a man coming in from outside. He was wearing a bamboo hat that covered most of his face, leaving only his chin exposed.

He put the jar of wine in his hand on the table beside him, and suddenly saw a half-burned incense stick still emitting smoke. He paused, turned around and wanted to run out.

"Why are you running?" a loud female voice came, and he saw two more people coming to the gate of the ancestral hall.

The man turned around and saw Fu Zhen and Yan Ci standing behind him. He saw Fu Zhen at first sight.

The man opened his eyes wide and gasped, "You...you...Madam..."

As his words followed his gaze towards Fu Zhen, he frowned.

The man immediately ran towards Fu Zhen, and Yanci immediately protected Fu Zhen behind him when he saw this.

The man was already kneeling on the ground.

Fu Zhen didn't dare to breathe. She looked at the man kneeling on the ground, but couldn't see his face.

Yanci looked down at him and asked, "What did you just say?"

The man looked at the woman behind him, and when he looked carefully he realized he had made a mistake. How could the lady be so young? Moreover, the lady had a mole on the tip of her nose, but she didn't.

But she and the lady are so much alike.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Who are you?" Yanci looked at him and asked.

The man didn't say anything. He snorted coldly: "If you want a life, take it."

Yanci stared at the man, but his face could not be seen because of the hat.

"When did I say I wanted to kill you?"

The man looked up after being stunned for a moment, and the half of his face hidden in the darkness was revealed. Fu Zhen took a step back in shock.

A long scar extended from the cheek through the eye to the forehead, like a black centipede, extremely hideous.

The words were also stunned.

The man curled his lips and smiled, but there was a haze in his eyes. He was clearly smiling, but it could send chills down one's spine.

"Scared?"

"Who are you?" Yanci asked coldly.

"The one you have been hunting, how come the master didn't recognize me when he gave you the order?"

Yanci asked, "Have you been hunted by someone?"

The man's brows were furrowed, perhaps because he had experienced too much wind and rain. When he frowned, the wrinkles on his forehead and between his eyebrows were so deep that you could clearly see the Chinese character "川" (river).

"Aren't you Yang Zhen's people?"

Yanci and Fuzhen looked at each other and asked, "Why did Yang Zhen want to kill you?"

……

In a house outside Yangzhou city, Zhou Cechen stood at the study window listening to Tang Song's report.

"Your Majesty, Yanci has captured one of General Qin's followers."

"That follower was hunted all the way from Quanzhou to Yangzhou. He has been hiding in the Qin family's old house for a few days and happened to be spotted by our people."

"What did you find out?" Zhou Cechen looked at Shen Xilan who was sitting in the pavilion outside and writing.

"That man's name is Jiang Fuli, he's from Quanzhou. He returned home to visit his family when the Qin family was confiscated and exiled, and that's how he escaped. But he had always been with General Qin, and knew a lot of things. He had been hiding his identity for all these years, but was found by a group of assassins half a year ago, and fled all the way north to Yangzhou."

"He said that there were traitors and spies in General Qin's army who secretly mobilized troops. Also, someone in the army reported four letters of treason and communication with Xiqi to the emperor, which brought disaster to the Qin family."

Zhou Cechen put his hand on the windowsill, "Didn't you say who it was?"

"It was Yanagi Nao who died in prison some time ago."

Zhou Cechen bent his fingers and grabbed the wooden bars of the windowsill, and the blue veins on the back of his hand were vaguely visible.

"Give up martial arts and pursue literature?"

"No, he is a counselor."

Zhou Cechen always thought that Liu Linzhi was Zhou Chao's man, but he didn't expect that he was Yang Zhen's man.

A chess piece can be discarded when it is no longer needed. Yang Zhen holds countless chess pieces in his hands and can manipulate them at will.

"Next, it will be difficult to investigate now that the person is dead and the clues are gone." Tang Song said.

"There are still people."

Tang Song looked up at Zhou Cechen: "What?"

"He is just a counselor. There must be other generals involved in how to mobilize the troops."

Tang Song: "Then shall we continue investigating?"

"There are only a few lieutenant generals, colonels, and generals following General Qin. Go check them out."