Updated: 2012-06-21

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"Why?"

Zhu Yishi sat down next to the window in the carriage. This was not the position he chose on his own initiative, but was forced to sit there by the beautiful and charming maid of Ye Jia. He asked why, but he didn't know why he was lying to him, why he wanted to threaten him, or why he had to force him? Jiaer didn't even think about what he was asking about, but just used the long sword in his hand to gently press Zhu Yishi's shoulder to signal him to sit honestly.

"Why?"

Seeing that the maid holding the sword was not going to answer him, Zhu Yishi's face gradually calmed down from his astonishment. He lowered his head and glanced at the sharp sword that was very close to his neck, and then slowly looked at Jiaer's eyes and asked again.

Jiaer still didn't answer, but just shook her head and signaled Zhu Yishi not to speak anymore.

Zhu Yishi didn't plan to shut up. Jiaer said to himself without answering, "I don't know what Ye Huaixue wants to do for dragon boats. It's because of which great hero on the Green Forest Road, or a great man in the court has a disobedient heart. It doesn't matter. What's important is that I will never hand over the dragon boat pictures to you. Ye Huaixue plans to buy them, but I will definitely not sell them. Now I have changed the sword and put them on my neck. And you can rest assured that even if you kill me and search through the entire Zhu family's house, you can't find where the dragon boat pictures are. I have already hidden it in a very safe place, and you will not succeed."

"Shut up! Idiot!"

Jiaer despised and glared at Zhu Yishi with his eyes squinted, and naturally spoke someone's oral words.

Idiot, she said.

"My lady didn't plan to ask for your dragon boat picture. Today I'm here to invite you to see a show."

"Watch the show?"

Zhu Yishi was surprised, but subconsciously ignored the two words "idiot".

"Didn't Ye Huaixue say goodbye to me?"

Although he pretended to be calm, his series of panic was fully revealed through his words. It was not that he was not afraid or worried. He just didn't want to lose face in front of a maid who seemed a few years younger than him. After all, he was the head of the Zhu family and he also had the title of a village marquis.

"It's indeed a farewell, but it's not you who said goodbye to my lady, but to Jiangdu City."

Jiaer said lightly.

"You want me to be threatened!"

Zhu Yishi finally reacted. He couldn't help but feel excited and wanted to stand up, but was pressed by the sword on his shoulder and sat down again. However, the anger in his eyes had already begun to boil. It could be seen from his clenched fists that perhaps he was having a fierce ideological struggle in his heart at this time. Should he be patient for a while or to fight with the seemingly delicate woman in front of him? At least he has practiced some martial arts since he was a child, and two or three big men are not his opponents. It was just that Jiaer's next sentence made him give up the idea of ​​fighting and sat quietly waiting for the next scene.

"You are half right. Holding you hostage is not to threaten you to leave Jiangdu, because even if no one holds you hostage you soon, you can't stay in Jiangdu anymore. Holding you hostage is just to take you to see what an idiotic decision is to hide the dragon boat picture in a safe place. Now you can open the curtains of the car window and look out. Of course, you must not expose your entire face. If that person sees you, the show will not be good."

Because of these words, Zhu Yishi decided to take a look before saying it.

He lifted the curtain of the car window and looked out of the carriage through the gap.

The carriage happened to pass by the alley where Zhu Bushi's house was, so Zhu Yishi saw Zhu Bushi carrying a heavy package onto the carriage, and saw him waving his hand to drive all the servants who followed him back. Liu Heita drove the carriage without stopping, but turned around from the intersection in front and stopped aside. Then Zhu Yishi saw Zhu Bushi get out of the carriage and entered a jade shop. After about ten minutes, he walked out. Then Liu Heita drove the carriage and continued to walk forward, turned a street and stopped again. This time, he waited for a long time before he saw Zhu Bushi coming out of the back door of a teahouse and quickly got on a carriage parked there.

"What the hell do you want me to see?"

Zhu Yishi frowned and asked Jiaer. Jiaer shook her head and said, "You just need to see it yourself. Sometimes, what you hear with your own ears is often lies, and what you see with your own eyes is the truth of the matter. So I won't tell you what will happen next, so you'd better open your eyes and see clearly."

Zhu Yishi stopped talking, but stared at Zhu Bushi getting on the carriage. He noticed that Zhu Bushi was always holding the heavy package in his hand.

After Zhu Bushi's carriage left, Liu Heita did not drive the carriage to follow him but walked another way. He turned a few streets and stopped, then tied the carriage to a big tree on the side of the road. The sword in Jiaer's hand had been put down, and she reached out to make a gesture of asking for help. Zhu Yishi glanced at Jiaer in confusion, and then got off the carriage.

Jiaer led the way in front, Zhu Yishi walked in the middle, and Liu Heita followed slowly with a smile on his face. The three of them entered a restaurant and went directly to the second floor and entered a private room next to the window. There were already a few exquisite side dishes on the table, as well as a pot of Linjiang wine, the most famous Linjiang wine in Jiangdu.

Zhu Yishi consciously sat down in the seat next to the window and looked out the window.

After gradually calming down from the initial shock, panic and confusion, he suddenly found that the scenery outside the window was familiar. After thinking carefully, he realized that the back window of the restaurant was facing the back house of Yu Shihong, the governor of Jiangdu County. He seemed to have a premonition and subconsciously looked back at Jiaer.

"Where are everyone, Ye?"

He asked.

Jiaer stood next to the window, looking outside and said lightly: "We'll save you, my lady will save your family."

"Save me? Save my family?"

Zhu Yishi's face suddenly changed, and he stood up and looked outside. Sure enough, a carriage stopped at the door of the backyard of the Jiangdu County Magistrate Yu Shihong, and then Zhu Bushi walked in with the package. From the back window of the restaurant, he could see that Zhu Bushi walked towards the front yard under the guidance of a servant. After that, he could not see anything.

"Do you want to know what is inside the package your trusted brother is holding?"

Liu Heita asked with a smile.

"What the hell do you want to do!"

Zhu Yishi glared at him and asked almost roaring.

Liu Heita shrugged and stopped talking.

"Let's go."

Jiaer said lightly: "If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave the Jiangdu City Gate. You can help the wine on the table with you, and you have already paid the bill."

"I see!"

Zhu Yishi suddenly screamed, "You didn't want the dragon boat picture since the beginning, you wanted me like this! All of this was your plan. You forced Xiaochang to find Yu Shihong, right? It must be like that. You couldn't force me, and went to force Xiaochang again. He had no choice but to ask Yu Shihong! Xiaochang was holding the dragon boat picture. He wanted to hand over the dragon boat picture to Yu Shihong, and then asked Yu Shihong to protect our Zhu family!"

"You guessed half again."

Jiaer sighed and said, "We did not plan to ask for your dragon boat picture. We did take away the person. The things Zhu Bushi should be the dragon boat picture, but he copied it for three days and two nights. The real picture is still hidden in his home. When he went to see Yu Shihong, he was asking for help, but we didn't force you, nor did Zhu Bushi. He would never ask Yu Shihong to protect you when he asked for help."

Liu Heita smiled and opened the package behind him, took out more than a dozen letters and handed it to Zhu Yishi and said, "Save the time to see, we must hurry to leave the city, otherwise the officers and soldiers will block the city gate in a while, and none of us will be able to get out."

Zhu Yishi took the letters with trembling hands, and after only seeing one of them, his face turned pale as paper.

"This is fake!"

He said angrily: "This is forged by you. Xiaochang will never hide it from me and Yang Xuangan!"

Jiaer looked at Zhu Yishi with a pitiful look: "You can tell whether these letters are forged or not. Whether Zhu Bushi and Yang Xuangan have contact is not difficult to check. You just need to ask where your Zhu family ship fleet has been to the Yellow River last month. You will naturally understand that although you have been deliberately cutting off your relationship with Yang Xuangan, it is undeniable that your Zhu family fleet has been transporting grain for the thieves."

"And this is the death penalty that has been implicated."

Liu Heita sneered: "You trust your brother, but you never thought that what he wanted to do most was to replace you as the head of the Zhu family, right? You are the eldest son, and it is natural to inherit the family industry. So you never thought about what your younger brother could get. He is also a member of the Zhu family, so why can only follow you and get nothing?"

"I...I have already distributed nearly 20% of the property to him!"

Zhu Yishi said pale and powerlessly.

"Just because I have already obtained 20%, I want to get everything."

Jiaer said, "It's my lady right. In a wealthy family, there has never been any good things about brotherhood, brothers being humble and respectful. Such brotherly relationships are often everywhere in poor families. Since you have endless money in your family, you can't stop others from coveting. This coveting comes from others and your family."

Liu Heita sighed: "Speaking of this, you are really not suitable to be the head of a family. Although your younger brother is a little sinister, he ignores his relatives in order to seek benefits. Speaking of which, he is better with the big figures in the court. If nothing unexpected happens, it will not take long for you to collude with the rebel Yang Xuangan to be the head of your family. Then, because of the merits of the report, your younger brother Zhu Bushi will replace you as the head of the family and become the official."

"Let's go"

Jiaer looked at Zhu Yishi and said, "Even if we don't force you or hold you hostage, you will have to leave."

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...

After leaving the capital, the ordinary carriage went west along the official road and arrived in a small town in the evening. Here, Zhu Yishi saw his wife and a pair of children. His wife, Sun, burst into tears when she saw him, and obviously she was very scared before.

Zhu Yishi comforted his wife a few words, then walked to Ye Huaixue, who was standing in front of a wild rose tree.

"Where are you going to take me?"

Zhu Yishi asked.

"I tried my best to take me away. What do you want to plan? Don't tell me that you didn't participate in the dirty things that Zhu Bushi did. If no one came up with an idea, he wouldn't become so vicious. I know him, and I have known him since I was a child!"

Ye Huaixue shook slightly, turned around and looked at Zhu Yishi and said, "Until now, you don't understand what happened."

She asked Zhu Yishi: "You are just too kind-hearted."

Zhu Yishi said angrily: "What's wrong with being kind-hearted!"

Ye Huaixue sighed: "It's good to be kind, but hypocrisy is not good."

She slowly turned her head and looked at Zhu Yishi's eyes and asked, "You always say that you know your brother, you always say that you are kind and righteous to him, but you are just deceiving yourself. That's right, you gave him 20% of his property, but you have to give you all the harvest nine points, and he only has one profit. I have tasted the sweetness, how could he not develop ambition?"

"That nine points are to be handed over to the clan."

Zhu Yishi explained.

"The court sent people to execute the 1,800 craftsmen who built dragon boats on the way to Shui'an. There was the name of your younger brother Zhu Bushi. Don't say you don't know, you have never done anything from beginning to end. He was not dead, it was not you who took care of him, but he used money to bribe Sun Jing'an, the attendant of the Sanqi cavalry, and asked someone to invite the general of the navy to come to protect the other person to speak to him to avoid death."

Ye Huaixue's words stabbed Zhu Yishi's heart like a knife.

"No!"

Zhu Yishi roared: "I was the one who found General Hu'er to speak!"

Ye Huaixue looked at him with compassion and said, "But Zhu Bushi doesn't think so, because he himself used the money."

Zhu Yishi immediately softened, sweat soaked his clothes. He sat down on the ground as if he had been drained from his whole body.

"It's all my fault!"

He said tremblingly: "I should talk to Xiaochang more. He must have thought that I didn't save him, so he thought so. I always feel that two brothers are the same as each other?"

Ye Huaixue sighed and said, "Since they are two people, why don't they distinguish each other?"
Chapter completed!