Ning Nan looked at her silently, paused for a long time, nodded solemnly, and said, "Letter." ”

She clenched his palm tightly, couldn't say a word for a long time, so overwhelmed and hesitant for a moment, her face showed an expression of both grievance and pity, and the tears that had been rolling in her eyes finally couldn't hold back and slided down.

"Wow." She suddenly cried, crying even more than him, which made Ning Nan panic all of a sudden.

"What's wrong?" He hurriedly took her into his arms and coaxed softly, "Why are you still crying?" ”

Jiang Chengjia cried a little louder, tightly twisted the placket of his chest, and sobbed: "Do you know that in the past two months... How hard I endured... I'm afraid you won't believe me, so I'd rather you blame me than do the opposite... If I had known to open my heart and make it clear to you... And you believed me... Why do we need to have all the misunderstandings that followed? ”

Ning Nan listened to her enthusiastic words, and her heart was very moved.

He patted her gently on the back and whispered, "yes... If you had confessed your identity to me earlier, and had said these things to me earlier, maybe... We don't have to be so cautious and wary of each other these two months. ”

"Arlo... I thought about it, and I would return to the mountains with you, and live a simple life of boiling tea and dancing swords. Ning Nan sighed worriedly, "It's just... As you said, I have too many demonic thoughts in my heart. At least.... At least let me rehabilitate the two Venerable Teachers... At least let me see that the Deng clan gets the retribution they deserve... I will return to my hometown with you. ”

"Good. I am willing to accompany you on this road, but you need to promise me that in the future, you will not harm innocent people with a sword, and do not target the unarmed civilians with a sword. I would like to work with you to bring to justice those behind the manipulation of the case. The heavens have eyes, and they will certainly not let go of those who do evil. Zhaoyuan, no matter what kind of person you used to be... I don't care, now, I only care about what kind of person you will be in the future. ”

Ning Nan listened to her words and felt very familiar.

General Yue Qi had said something similar to him before. The general once said: The sword I hold in my hand is aimed at the enemy who invades the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty and not the people, and the sword I dance is to deter the enemy army and not to frighten the civilians. Always remember that the sword and the sword are not to be directed at the weak and innocent.

Over the years, what made him gradually forget his original intention and make him lose himself. If it weren't for Jiang Chengjia's words that woke him up today, I am afraid that he would still be stuck in this spell and unable to wrestle and break free.

It's not so much that she woke up, but that she regained her original intention that he had forgotten in the corner.

"If you don't dislike it, I'm willing to change." He said softly.

"There's something I need to explain to you." Ning Nan turned to the side and said to her seriously, "I... Without any action against the Chiang clan and Gu An, they were sent to safety by me, and now they are recuperating their strength, waiting for the time to expel the Wuhu and the Chinese and Korean people from Jingzhou and force them to Guangzhou. At that time, if we can join hands with them to bring the assassin of Song Zong to justice, then Guangzhou will be in chaos, and then it will be an opportunity for us to remove the several trade routes established by the border officials of the Great Wei Dynasty who have secretly resold arms, salt, and iron in recent years. ”

Jiang Chengjia knew this, and listened carefully.

Ning Nan stared at her calm expression, and she had already guessed that she already knew all about this, so the light between her eyebrows couldn't help but fall again, "These... Didn't you already know? ”

"Don't think about it." His emotions were extremely perceptible, Jiang Chengjia immediately clasped his hands and said softly: "I didn't know about it a long time ago, but I only learned about it a few days ago, and my only thought after learning about this is regret and shame." I'm like I said it myself... Losing a pair of eyes that perceive the truth, blindly believing only what you hear and see, and not wanting to believe the facts you haven't done. It's just that, like you, I didn't know how to apologize to you at that time. ”

"But, Zhaoyuan... This time... You introduced the Wuhu Army into Linhe, have you ever thought about it.... How will the people of this city feel? Jiang Chengjia asked the doubts in her heart frankly, thinking that maybe there was something she didn't know about it, thinking that he was thoughtful, maybe he would take these into account. It's easy

She knew that what he had done in the past half a month was to convict Song Zong and get rid of Meng Disaster. Thinking of the Huang Man's rebellion from Wuhu half a month ago, and the news that Zhou Yuancheng was far away in Wuhu, she had already guessed his purpose.

She knew that maybe Ning Nan was trying to borrow the line of Meng Disaster, so that Song Zong's sin could not escape, and then consume his henchmen army through the matter of Linhe, and finally slowly told him about Huang Man's rebellion, Meng Disaster was anxious, and naturally sent troops back to Wuhu. You can get rid of this person and get the support of the Wuhu power.

Once Huang Man ascends the throne, he will definitely obey and trust Ning Nanwei, who helped him to ascend to the throne, so that he can do so. The momentum that Ning Zheng had ever dreamed of would be firmly grasped in his hands. Huang Man can be regarded as a righteous person, although he is not a loyal person, but he is less attentive and more affectionate than Meng Disaster.

And this rebellion is the overall situation set by Ning Nanwei, which can not only get rid of Meng Disaster, but also convict Song Zong and promote him to the position of assassin. If her guess was correct, once Song Zong's crimes over the years were presented to the capital by Gu An or Jiang Taigong in the form of official documents, Emperor Wei would definitely not hesitate to deal with Song Zong. Because this son of heaven needed evidence to deal with Song Zong, this person had been in Guangzhou for many years, and he had eaten countless pieces of silver in the border city. Emperor Wei's spies were also aware of it. Helplessly, Ning Zheng used powerful methods to bury everything Song Zong had done, and could not find a trace of evidence and mistakes. Emperor Wei naturally couldn't do anything with Song Zong.

But Ning Nan Wei is different, what he has been preparing for many years is these, even if Ning Zheng doesn't trust him and doesn't like him, he has to admit that Ning Nan Wei is his own son, two years ago, Yegong Pavilion was subordinate to King Huai, Ning Nan Wei contributed a lot, although she had guessed that Ning Jiu was Ning Nan Wei, but Ning Zheng didn't know, so she naturally looked at Ning Nan Wei a little differently. Yegong Pavilion has a special road for traders on the border of Guangzhou and in the state. If Ning Zheng wants to take a safer road of smuggling and trafficking, it is very likely that he will use the land and water routes of Yegong Pavilion's commercial transportation. In this way, Ning Nanwei could secretly collect more evidence and bring down Song Zong.

These are all her guesses, but, maybe Ning Nanwei prepared more than these, maybe Song Zong's crimes committed in private, there is more evidence in his hands, and Ning Nanwei will now set up such a chaotic situation to trap Song Zong and Meng Cao.

But for these reasons, he didn't like to use the people of Linhe, a county town, to sacrifice their safety and lives, which also made her strongly uneasy and afraid.

For fear that he would add another sin and be recorded in the Book of Heaven's Mandate, he would be given a more severe and terrifying punishment.

At this moment, Jiang Chengjia has changed from the sadness, resentment, and blame that rose in his heart when he first mentioned the innocent people in the Cao family's house to fear.

Ning Nan listened to what she said, and her face stiffened slightly: "I know... It is unfair to exchange the safety and lives of the people of this city for the eradication of the smuggling route in Guangzhou and the conviction of Song Zong. But... If this law is not enacted, perhaps more families on the border between Guangzhou and Jingzhou will suffer from the destruction of their families. In these years, Song Zong and Meng Disaster not only sold arms, salt, iron and tea privately, but also bought and sold smugglers of boys, girls and children as servants. How many peasant families have suffered from the separation of mother and son, father and son? ”

Jiang Chengjia was silent.

She is not ignorant of this.

However, the year before last, she and Jiang Chengyi had already prepared for this matter, collected a lot of evidence of Song Zong's human trafficking, and had exhausted the manpower and material resources of the Thousand Machines Division and Shang Wuxing to help Gu An recover the victims of many child trafficking cases and reunite them with their relatives. However, Song Zong's network of contacts and business routes for private human trafficking were much more complex and extensive, and there were more or less omissions in the case file, so they could not be traced back. Therefore, Jiang Chengyi compiled the evidence and account books that Qianji had obtained with great difficulty in Song Zong's place, and planned to wait for the last population case recorded in the volume to be thoroughly investigated, and then play Emperor Wei together with General Cheng. Give Song Zong a fatal blow.

The trafficking of women and children is a taboo in the Great Wei Dynasty, and it has been explicitly prohibited since the early establishment of the Great Wei Dynasty, especially the trafficking of good people, which is even more of a crime.

Great Wei, the founding emperor was the former Emperor Gaozu, Ning Yao. This person is a rare monarch through the ages. Although he was born in the aristocracy, he knew the suffering of commoners since he was a child. The tyranny of Sima Hui, the fallen emperor of the Dayan Dynasty, caused misery in the world and the people were struggling to make a living.

Ning raised the banner of the clan, rebelled, led the peasant cloth to break the Dayan Dynasty, and beheaded Sima Hui under his command.

When he changed his name to emperor and ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to prohibit the rule of torture and the system of martyrdom. And set up 32 precepts, clearly ordering future generations not to break this precept, follow the rules of the ancestors, and take the people as the sky.

Among them, it is worth mentioning that there are two admonitions, the first is the name of the surname of the children of the Great Wei royal family, and the common people do not need to avoid it, and there is no need to change the surname and change the name, and avoid the admonition of Rusi. The source of this admonition is because of a shocking bloody case in the history of the Great Yan of the previous dynasty that caused a sensation in Jiuzhou and shocked Jiuzhou, and the people involved in the bloody case were tens of thousands of innocent scholars and even civilians, and the cause of the bloody case was the emperor's surname to avoid it. The Sima clan killed so many scholars and civilians just because they maintained the face of the imperial family, the majesty of the Son of Heaven, and the inviolability of the saints of imperial power, which can be described as cruel to the point of madness.

The second is the above-mentioned prohibition of the nobles from privately trafficking women and children, especially if they have a good people's household registration but are forcibly changed to a lowly status, and the corpse of the five horses is punished by torture. In Ning Yu's heart, those who sell good people are the most heinous people, and if they are not punished with a ban, it will be difficult to vent their anger.