The plain paper was not sealed, Lin Shan reached out and picked up the envelope, and poured out the letter paper very lightly.

After unfolding the letter and glancing at its contents a few times, there was a look of surprise in his eyes, and then he seemed to smile because he had seen something funny. Finally, after reading the contents of the letter, he put the letter paper on the table and pressed it casually, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said as if talking to himself: "No wonder he is so young and not stupid, but he has been living a messy life, just because he is rooted in a foreign country." But a person who has been abandoned by his homeland, is it really so impossible to let go of his former famous identity? ”

Yanagi, who was standing at the desk, naturally knew what was written on the letter, because it was written by her, and it recorded the results of the investigation of what Lin Shan had entrusted to her, just like the kind of thing she had written many times before. It is not so much a letter as a written report.

Listening to Lin Shan's self-talk, Liu Sheng was even more puzzled by the purpose of the investigation that Lin Shan had sent her this time. She couldn't help but ask: "Brother Lin, although this original recipe is considered by you to be a useful person, but you have bothered so much to pull him over, he is indifferent, and now we have found out his ancestral origin. Although his family is now in decline, he is finally a famous family in a foreign country for more than 100 years, I am afraid that his heart is different, since he can't let go, why do you insist? ”

Lin Shan nodded and said: "I also understand your concerns, originally I wanted to take advantage of the Ye family's overturning of the case to take the opportunity to make him famous in Kyoto, but I didn't expect him to have such a background." The ancestors are different, and the righteousness is different, even if he has great talents, before he is sure that his heart belongs to us. I can't use him lightly anymore. ”

Hearing his words, Liu Sheng suddenly understood another question, and immediately turned his attention away from persuading Lin Shan to give up reusing the original recipe. There was a look of surprise on her face that she couldn't hide, and she said in a lost voice: "It turns out that you have delayed the Ye family's overturning of the case for so long, in fact, to wait for him?" ”

"Although the delay was not entirely for him, he now knows who he really is. I still think so. This move is a bit ridiculous! Lin Shan sighed softly, and then folded the letter and put it back in the paper bag, and said slowly: "The matter of the Ye family, it is inevitable to overturn the case. So who comes forward, the meaning and the result will not make much difference. Now that the person I had planned to be replaced, it is basically not my loss. What doesn't belong to you in the first place, there is no such thing as gain or loss. ”

"As for postponing the case, maybe it won't hurt Ye'er. Wait for her to return to Beijing. I'm leaving again, but she has nothing to rely on in Beijing. In short, the things that she will go home will not change, so it will always do more good than harm to go back later, when she is older and can take on more responsibilities. Speaking of this, Lin Shan put the letterhead that had been packed in good hands in Liu Sheng's hand, and suddenly turned around and said, "How did you do this kind of thing in such a short period of time?" ”

Liu Sheng thought that Lin Shan was doubting the authenticity of her investigation results, and quickly put away the other thoughts in his heart. replied seriously: "Brother Lin, speaking of which, I made my own decisions about this matter. As early as a few years ago, when you asked me to check the ancestral tree of the Xing family. I thought there were a lot of 'weirdos' living in this area, so I included them in my observation for a long time. Because you've mentioned it a few times in the group about the original side, it's around that time that the people in my group have been keeping an eye on his life, just waiting for your instructions. ”

Lin Shanmu said happily: "Your mind is becoming more and more detailed, but I have been negligent about this. When he said this, he stretched out his thumb and scratched his chin, and with a thoughtful look on his face, he said: "After you mentioned it, I also remembered that there are indeed many interesting people living in this place. ”

Liu Sheng smiled shyly and said, "I don't know if this is a bit too much, so I don't dare to keep an eye on them too closely." For example, if he knows that I have been spying on him, and then knows about the relationship between my group and Brother Lin in the future, then Brother Lin, your intention to solicit him will seem to have lost sincerity, then wouldn't I be doing you a disservice? Because of this, I never noticed that he was actually a foreigner. ”

Regarding Liu Sheng's modesty, Lin Shan just smiled with a hint of encouragement in his eyes and said: "In short, I still have to tell you about my hard work in this matter, if it weren't for your years of accumulation of secret investigations, maybe today I suddenly asked you to check this, and I wouldn't have been able to get the result of digging so far so quickly." ”

Lin Shan took a piece of paper from the wooden shelf next to the desk and spread it on the desk, and took a small piece from the pen holder on the desk, and then he just volleyed the pen holder between his index finger and middle finger, and did not immediately dip it in ink to write. At this time, he seemed to be thinking about something, and he didn't know whether he was thinking about the content of the letter or something else.

Yanagi stood quietly and didn't ask much.

After a long time, the pen in Lin Shan's hand was still empty, but he said slowly: "It has been hundreds of years since the founding of the Yan Kingdom, in fact, he is decades earlier than the founding time of the Zhou State. But looking at the situation now, a few years ago, before the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, the mind of the master of the territory in the north began to be clouded like that of a dying old man. ”

When he said this, he finally took the pen and threw it into the inkstone inkstone, and the pen shaft flickered, and he frowned and said: "What kind of foreign country, if you talk about the Zhou Dynasty before, he and my Zhao Kingdom are one and the same. If the royal government of the Yan Kingdom is about to collapse, it will become a wandering recklessness like the current Qingchuan, which may as well be included in the territory of my Zhao Kingdom, led by the new lord, and the life of the people will be better. ”

Liu Sheng, who was standing aside, had a look of surprise in his eyes when he heard this, and blurted out: "After Qingchuan, Brother Lin, your next target is not ...... Wild goose country? ”

Lin Shan's hand holding the pen barrel dipped in ink froze, he exhaled, lifted the pen that was evenly fed with ink and began to write a letter seriously on the paper on the desktop, and at the same time slowly answered Liu Sheng's question: "I don't know if I still have the strength to do it after the Qingchuan incident is completed, but the Yan Kingdom must be something that His Majesty wants to take." Many years ago, when His Majesty was still doing an errand in the north, he was sandwiched between Qingchuan Youmang and the border army of Yanguo. Now that he is the emperor, since he thinks of leveling Qingchuan Youmang, how can he forget the Yan Kingdom! ”

Lin Shan paused at this point, pinched his pen and mixed some ink, and then began to write the second paragraph of the letter, and at the same time continued: "However, even if the two places of Qingchuan and Yanguo are not the emperor's majesty who has the experience of his youth, anyone who is a king will not be very relieved about such a neighbor who often harasses the borders of the country. ”

Liu Sheng didn't want to disturb Lin Shan's letter, so he stood silently and listened. It wasn't until she saw Lin Shan put down her pen and seemed to have finished writing the letter that she couldn't help but ask: "According to my estimate, Qingchuan's matter has been prepared for so many years, and now when it is time to uncover the situation, it should be able to win it in one fell swoop." After this incident, Brother Lin, you are in your prime, if the emperor wants to continue to take the northern geese, you should continue to contribute to this matter, but I heard the retreat from your words just now. ”

"Retreat...... Actually, I wanted to quit a long time ago! When I went down the mountain, I couldn't bear to see him in the mire, but I didn't expect to fall into it after pulling him. If I hadn't made a promise to him from there, I wouldn't have spent ten years making that promise. ”

Lin Shan stretched out his fingers and rubbed the corners of his forehead when he said this, and then began to fold the letterhead whose handwriting was almost dry, and continued to say indifferently: "There may be a few people who say that I am good at scheming, but in fact, they just barely said the latter word correctly. I'm good at arithmetic, but I'm not really good at making people, and I don't like to play around with it. But if I don't try my best to win people's hearts and stabilize my pace first, how can I have the opportunity to help His Majesty calculate something else? ”

Lin Shan put the letterhead into a paper envelope, and after thinking about it, he still picked up the pen and wrote on the envelope.

"The thought of going back to that place unconsciously became a little depressed." Lin Shan's tone of voice was tinged with a hint of complaint. Hanging the pen back on the pen stand, he picked up the envelope and handed it to Yanagi, and then instructed: "I want to trouble you again, and hand this over to Dean Lizheng for me, this is not an urgent letter, just wait for the dawn to go." ”

Yanagi took the envelope and cautiously put it in his arms. When she wanted to pass on something for Lin Shan, she would never take the initiative to ask for the reason, and this time was no exception - although she was very curious in her heart, with the relationship between Lin Shan and Dean Lizheng, what could not be said in person, and she needed to go around in such a big circle.

After Lin Shan finished instructing the letter, he pondered for a while and then said, "I'm going to leave for Kyoto this morning, and I don't know if there will be any changes on the way, so it's not good to calculate the itinerary in advance." When you get back, you send a message to a group of people who will stay five miles behind me and stop when I reach Matsupa, ten miles outside of Kyoto, and wait for my news. ”

Liu Sheng nodded in response, "Got it." ”

After receiving the order, Liu Sheng turned around and was about to leave the study, but she turned around after a few steps closer to the door, and said after a moment of hesitation: "Brother Lin, you suddenly said a lot of things today, but the more Xiao Yanagi listened, the more scared she became.

At this time, Lin Shan was holding a thin wooden stick taken out of the drawer and sharpening it with a thin-bladed knife. When he heard this, he stopped and looked up at Liu Sheng and said, "What are you afraid of?" ”…… (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Biquge www.biquge.info to vote for recommendations and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation