Qin Ke'er, what a lovely person!

During the period of returning to his residence, Xie An unconsciously recalled the beauty he had just seen, as well as her sad piano music.

Afterwards, Qin Keer told Xie An that the song was called "The Sad Autumn of the Qinglou", which came from the head of a famous prostitute more than ten years ago, and it was a song that many Qinglou women in Jiangnan had heard of, but it was not easy to play and sing in front of outsiders.

But I have to say that for Xie An, the influence of this track is even more than Qin Ke'er's beautiful appearance.

"Brother is still thinking about that vixen?" As if noticing Xie An's expression, the little girl pouted and asked dissatisfied.

Glancing at the little girl next to her with a [I'm angry] face, Xie An shook her head speechlessly, you must know that since she hit Qin Ke'er's private room, this little girl has always been hostile to Qin Ke'er, grinning and gritting her teeth, which made Xie An embarrassed.

"Girl, how can you use such a rude name?"

"Obviously!" The little girl puffed out her cheeks and looked at Xie An angrily, and snorted, "That woman is not a good person at first glance!" ”

Xie An was about to speak, and Gou Gong next to him also whispered, "Childe, although the eldest lady's remarks are a little indecent, but according to the humble position, that woman seems to be hiding something, and the humble position feels that the relationship between that woman and the Guangling assassin is by no means as simple as she said!" ”

"Look, look, Brother Gou says so!" Seeing Gou Gong's words to help, the little girl stomped her feet and said, her impression of Gou Gong has greatly improved.

"Okay, okay," rubbed the little girl's head with his left hand, and Xie An coaxed in a tone that was almost like a child, "Since you're back, go to the bedroom to see your mother." Save your mother from worrying about ......"

The little girl angrily knocked off Xie An's hand that caressed her hair, stomped her feet, and went to the house, obviously she hadn't seen her mother for some time, and she also had some memories.

Looking at the back of the little girl leaving, Xie An turned his head to look at Gou Gong, and asked suspiciously, "Gou Gong, do you have any credentials?" ”

"This ......" Gou Gong frowned when he heard this. Ponderingly, he shook his head, and said hesitantly, "Childe, I have met many women in my humble position, but now. There are only two of them who can't see through the lowly position, one of them is the second lady, and the other is ......."

Gou Gong didn't continue, but Xie An already understood what he meant, and said with a little smile, "Can't see through that Qin Ke'er?" ”

Seeing that Xie An had broken through the matter, Gou Gong no longer concealed his words. Nodding his head and saying, "This woman is really unpredictable, and when I first saw her, I learned that Gongzi had redeemed her, and this woman looked panicked. But later, he was able to talk and laugh with Childe, didn't Childe think it was strange? ”

"What's so strange about that? Most of the women in the Qinglou couldn't help ......themselves," Xie An said with a shrug.

"No, no," Gou Gong shook his head. He frowned and said, "I think it's humble." The woman's expression was different, there must be something strange in this...... I feel that this woman seems to know the true identity of the son! ”

"Huh?" When Gou Gong said this, Xie An was stunned and asked in surprise, "What is the evidence?" ”

"It's just a lowly speculation," after a pause, Gou Gong said in a tight voice, "In the eyes of outsiders, Gongzi has completely offended Deng Yuan this time, Deng Yuan is extremely powerful in Guangling, it stands to reason that Qin Ke'er should do everything possible to shirk Gongzi to redeem herself in order to protect herself, but she accepted ......"

"Then Deng Yuan Gongzi doesn't pay attention to it......"

"Having said that, that Qin Ke'er shouldn't know about this matter, but she didn't shirk it, which means that this woman is very likely to have already known the identity of the son, and concluded that Deng Yuandou is not the ...... of the son."

Xie An was stunned when he heard this, frowning and thinking.

Seeing this, Gou Gong took a step forward, lowered his voice and said, "That Qin Ke'er became famous in Guangling a few years ago, but she is still a virgin, which is worth scrutinizing, according to her, it is all thanks to her raising funds for the Guangling assassins, but don't forget, although this Guangling is the territory of the Guangling assassins, but after all, it is the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Guangling Mansion is not more influential than the Guangling assassins?" - That Deng Yuan is the brother-in-law of the prefect of Guangling Mansion, and he seems to admire Qin Ke'er very much, but he didn't forcibly kidnap her a few years ago, and he suspects that Qin Ke'er also has a lot of connections among the officials of Guangling Mansion...... In other words, Childe ransomed for her, she could have used the connections in Guangling Mansion to ask Childe to retreat, but she didn't do it, doesn't Childe think there's anything strange about this? ”

"Couldn't it be that she has taken a fancy to Childe?" Xie An said with a slight smile.

Gou Gong's face froze, nodded with a wry smile, and said, "Naturally, with the bearing of the son, even if he is favored by that Qin Ke'er, it is not difficult to understand, but there is another guess about the lowly position...... He thought that Qin Ke'er had already known the true identity of the son, and knew very well that even if he asked the connections of Guangling Mansion to come forward to solve the siege, he would not be able to hinder the son, so he dismissed this idea and obediently complied......"

"Gou Gong, you are a bit of a soldier!" Xie An said with a smile.

Gou Gong shook his head when he heard this, and said with a straight face, "In all fairness, has Gongzi ever seen through that woman?" ”

Hearing this, Xie An frowned unconsciously, and couldn't help but recall the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall of Qin Ke'er's private room.

Someone once said that a person's character can be seen from the words written by a person, which Xie An had noticed earlier in the eldest grandson Xiangyu, although the eldest grandson Xiangyu is good at copying all kinds of handwriting, but no matter what kind of handwriting, it can't hide her sharp majestic atmosphere, but the calligraphy seen in Qin Ke'er's private room, the pen power and momentum are different, if it weren't for Qin Ke'er's personal admission, Xie An really had some doubts about whether those calligraphy were completely from her handwriting.

For some reason, when he thought of that mirage Qin Ke'er, Xie An couldn't help but think of a word, the end of the world......

Sometimes, it seems to be right in front of you, but it feels like this woman is far away; Sometimes, it seems distant and unreachable, but when you come back to your senses, this woman is beside you......

The wonderful feeling of being in the environment......

Could it be that this is why she is called [Mirage]? Ethereal and hard to grasp?

Seeing that Xie An was silent, Gou Gong would be mistaken, and thought that his words had played a certain role. Strike while the iron is hot and say, "It's better to be cautious, Gongzi needs to understand a truth, this world is not that Gongzi doesn't provoke others, and others will definitely not come to harm Gongzi, a few days ago, the Guangling assassin assassinated me...... A lesson from the past, a teacher from the back! ”

"Huh?" Xie An glanced at Gou Gong as if he had just woken up from a dream, nodded after thinking about it, and said. "Well, you're right, Gou Gong, you send some more people to explore this woman's background, since Qin Ke'er has lived in Guangling for a long time. I guess I'll be able to find out something......"

"Obedience!" Gou Gong hugged his fists when he heard this, and was about to turn away, when he suddenly turned his head and asked, "Childe, this time we have offended that Deng Yuan, presumably this person will not give up, and it is very likely that he will use the power of Guangling Mansion to deal with us." Rather than this, it is better to preemptively go to the Guangling Mansion...... Didn't Childe say that he wanted to avenge the eldest lady's father, Lord Wang Wu? ”

"Not bad!" Listen to Gou Gong mention this. Xie An's face immediately sank, you must know that when Wang Xin heard that Guangling Mansion privately shielded a cadre of officials who framed the Su family back then, Xie An had already made up his mind to let those people pay for their blood debts back then, not only for the Su family. It's more for his former benefactor Wang Wu, but the problem is. If he exposed his identity at this time, if he was found out by the Taiping army, wouldn't it ruin Li Xian's plan?

After all, Li Xian had instructed him that when the Taiping Army had not yet taken action, Xie An must not reveal his identity, lest the Taiping Army notice that something was wrong and immediately raise troops.

Thinking of this, Xie An told Gou Gong about his worries, wanting to hear his opinion on this.

Gou Gong thought for a while when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "Childe, I think that the Taiping Army may have learned about Childe's secret visit to Jiangnan......

Rao is Xie An was also a little puzzled when he heard this, after all, they were very careful along the way and never revealed their identities, so how could they be known by the Taiping Army?

Seeing this, Gou Gong lowered his voice and said, "Don't forget, a few days ago, the Guangling assassins gathered more than 100 people to assassinate Gongzi, and Gongzi and the Guangling assassins have no grievances, why would those bastards target Gongzi?" ”

"What do you mean......"

"When I was in Jijing earlier, I heard that the Guangling assassins secretly colluded with the Taiping army, and it is very likely that the assassination was directed by the Taiping army behind the scenes, wanting to use the hands of the Guangling assassins to eradicate Gongzi...... I thought that since this was the case, it was better to show my identity, on the one hand, to control Guangling Mansion, and on the other hand, to transfer 80,000 soldiers and horses from Yangzhou to here, so that the Taiping army could throw a mouse trap ......"

"This is not in line with Li Xian's plan......" Xie An frowned and tapped the armrest of the wheelchair with his left hand, muttering, "The Taiping Army is not stupid, and they definitely wouldn't have thought that Gongzi's secret visit to Jiangnan was aimed at them......"

Just when Xie An hesitated, suddenly, Ding Qiu led a few men dressed as ordinary people to walk in from the gate of the courtyard, saw Xie An, hugged his fists and said, "Son, His Royal Highness King Xian has a secret envoy!" ”

Virtuous King? Li Xian?

Xie An raised his head in astonishment, and happened to see a man in a common person's costume standing up behind Ding Qiu, and called out in surprise, "Guan Zhong? ”

The person who came was actually the head of the Jingxia Assassin Pavilion under Li Xian, Guan Zhong!

Maybe others don't know, but Xie An is very clear that Li Xian also has a group of assassins under his hands, and that is the Weidi Jingxia assassins.

may be because he was easily assassinated by Jin Ling'er, Li Xian was afraid that he would repeat the same mistakes in the future, and he also brought the Weidi Jingxia assassins he had recruited when he went to Jiangnan, so when Xie An once went to the Xianwang Mansion for a banquet, he did not see Guan Zhong, the leader of the Weidi Jingxia Assassin Mansion.

"Lord Xie, don't come unharmed...... Under Xie An's surprised gaze, Guan Zhong walked over and hugged his fists, suddenly noticed Xie An's injury, and said in amazement, "Big ...... Master Xie, what's wrong? Why is the injury so bad? ”

Xie An touched his nose a little embarrassed, he was really embarrassed to say that he was caused by accidentally falling off the cliff, explained vaguely, and asked with a cough, "Let's not talk about this first, the leader of the pass came this time, I don't know what the important thing is?" ”

Seeing Xie An mention the matter, Guan Zhong's face turned straight, took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Xie An, and said in a low voice, "The matter of the three kings has changed, and this is an urgent order of His Royal Highness to be sent to the hands of adults!" ”

"Three kings?" Xie An frowned.

He naturally knew that the three kings were referring to [King of Qin] Li Shen, [King of Han] Li Xiao, and [King of Chu] Li Yan, and he also knew that at this moment, the 100,000 Jizhou soldiers led by Li Xian were stationed near Nanyang, and directly pushed the huge force to the door of Li Xiao's house [King of Han], the purpose was to force the three kings not to dare to act rashly.

Glancing at the wax seal on the letter, seeing that there was no mistake, Xie An tore open the cover. Pulling out Li Xian's letter from inside, he only glanced at it a few times, and his brows furrowed deeply.

It turned out that Li Xian wrote in the letter that he had sent the biological mother of the three kings to Li Xiao in Nanyang in accordance with the plan he had agreed with Xie An earlier, and then used this as an excuse to go to Hanzhong.

On the way, Li Xian found that the three kings were secretly gathering soldiers and horses. At that time, the three brothers of the Han King Li Xiao's speech were in a battle to welcome their biological mother, but according to Li Xian's observation, this was not the case, and what made Li Xian even more angry was that Li Shen, the king of Qin, actually had signs of colluding with the Taiping Army in private, according to the information verified by Li Xian. Li Shen, the king of Qin, secretly colluded with the Taiping army to give the Taiping army a large area of land south of the Yangtze River, Jingzhou to Jiangdong, and supported it to restore the Southern Tang Dynasty here.

It is not difficult to see from Li Xian's strong words in the letter. At that time, Li Xian was so angry when he wrote this letter, he couldn't imagine that Li Shen, who was a member of the Great Zhou royal family, would collude with the Taiping Army, the enemy of the Li clan of the Great Zhou.

Yuan, Li Xian and Xie An's plan. It was Li Xian who appeased and deterred the three kings first, while Xie An's side monitored the Taiping army's every move, but now that he learned that Li Shen, the king of Qin, secretly colluded with the Taiping army, Li Xian obviously couldn't sit still. Because he guessed that the Taiping army had not moved for a long time. It is very likely that he was waiting for the three kings, so Li Xian changed his plan, wrote a letter and sent someone to Xie An, changing Xie An's original plan to monitor the Taiping army to persecution, and asked Xie An to force the anti-Taiping army first, and give the Taiping army a heavy blow as much as possible. and the Taiping Army, where the main forces were near Jingzhou.

To put it simply, the gist of Li Xian's letter was to ask Xie An to station the 80,000 Liang troops stationed in Yangzhou into Jiangnan, control all important cities and counties in Jiangnan as much as possible, and force the Taiping army to rebel immediately.

Is this called planning not keeping up with the change?

With a bitter smile in his heart, Xie An handed the letter in his hand to Gou Gong, after all, the latter was his confidant.

He even wants to go to war directly with the Taiping Army himself?

Seeing his legs that had not yet healed, Xie An was really a little crying and laughing, how could he command the soldiers and horses like this?

However, Xie An also understands Li Xian's anxious mood, after all, the three kings colluded with the Taiping army, which is an extremely terrifying thing, which means that once the three kings and the Taiping army are prepared, the rebels in Hanzhong, Nanyang, Jingzhou, and Jiangling will come out, and it will be possible to make the Great Zhou lose one-third of its territory in an instant, and it is no wonder that Li Xian eagerly hoped that Xie An would give the Taiping army a heavy blow in the letter, hoping to delay the time for the three kings to rebel, and it is best to make the three kings dare not rebel, so that when he and Xie An solve the Taiping army, they can turn around and deal with the three kingsAfter all, Li Shen, the king of Qin, is an extremely cautious person, and he will never openly rebel without being completely sure, presumably Li Xian also calculated this, so he asked Xie An to take advantage of the fact that the Taiping army was not yet ready to start a war against it.

Thinking of this, Xie An took out half of the tiger talisman from his arms, handed it to Ding Qiu, and said in a deep voice, "Ding Qiu, you go to Yangzhou quickly, and ask Liang to send troops to Guangling ...... several generals."

When speaking, Xie An secretly called it a fluke, fortunately he carried this half of the tiger talisman with him, otherwise, if it also fell into the hands of the Guangling assassins like the waist cards of Gou Gong and others, then his situation would become extremely embarrassing, unless he went to Yangzhou in person, he really couldn't mobilize the troops and horses, and even, once this half of the tiger talisman fell into the hands of the Taiping army, the consequences would be even more unimaginable.

"Yes! ―― Humble will go to Yangzhou, ten days back and forth! ”

"It's too slow, go in three days, go back in three days," ignoring Ding Qiu's wry expression, Xie An said in a deep voice, "When the 80,000 army crosses the river, order the county prefects and county commanders on the north side of the Yangtze River to send garrisons to guard against the river and beware of the Taiping army crossing the river!" -- We must suppress the Taiping forces in Jiangnan! Go ahead! ”

"Yes!" Ding Qiu clenched his fists and took orders, called a few Jinling assassin brothers, and went out of the city to Yangzhou.

At the same time, in the private room on the second floor of the Yingchun Building, Qin Ke'er was staring intently at the paper spread on the table.

Those papers full of Juanxiu's handwriting were all information that had just arrived, some were just writing some trivial things, and some of them might be hiding extremely important information, seeing Qin Ke'er's white right hand gently stroking the paper that could be seen everywhere on the table, there was no doubt that she was sorting out the information collected by her hands.

Suddenly, Qin Ke'er sighed lightly, picked up a piece of paper in her right hand, and muttered with red lips, "Huh? Hanoi to Nanyang to transfer grain...... Nanyang is the fief of Li Xiao, the king of Han, and there is no reason for the imperial court to send grain to Li Xiao for no reason...... Oh, by the way, there are 100,000 Jizhou soldiers of Li Xian near Nanyang! - Wait, this amount...... Is Li Xian going to use troops against King Han? ”

With a glance, Qin Ke'er picked up another piece of paper in her left hand, a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she muttered to herself, "Due to the insufficient grain reserves in the granary of Xuzhou, I am in a hurry to transfer grain from Qinghai...... How is it possible, Xuzhou is a place where grain is produced, how can it be that the storage of grain and grass is insufficient? - Wait, I remember Qinghai ......."

Meimu glanced at the table, picked up another one from the countless papers, and suddenly, Qin Ke'er's eyes narrowed slightly, only to see a line of words written on the paper, [Due to the lack of grain in Qinghai, rush to Hedong to transfer grain].

Putting down the paper in his hand, Qin Ke'er stood up, came to the low table on the side and sat down, a pair of white hands caressing the piano carelessly, sorting out the seemingly complex and unrelated information in his heart.

The rice grain from Hedong was transported to Qinghai, the rice grain from Qinghai was transported to Xuzhou, and the rice grain from Xuzhou was transported to Yangzhou......

There is no doubt that this is the grain and grass prepared by the imperial court for the 80,000 Liang troops under Xie An's hands, but why didn't the imperial court order to directly call Hedong to transport grain to Yangzhou? Wouldn't that be more convenient? Why do you want to go on such a journey, isn't it troublesome?

The order to transfer grain did not come from Jijing, but it could order those large counties, and now only two people outside Jijing can do it, one is Xie An, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the other is Li Xian, the prime minister in Nanyang.

It won't be Xie An, all indications show that it won't be him, otherwise, this person would definitely not be in the mood to have tea with him, and why would he ask himself to go with him after bringing the ransom in a few days......

In this way, it was Li Xian, the [Eight Sages King] who was in Nanyang, who prepared enough food for Xie An while preparing grain and grass for his army......

With Li Xian's talent, he will definitely not make meaningless moves, since he ordered the final hoarding of grain and grass in Yangzhou one by one, there must be some reason......

Could it be that time is of the essence? He couldn't afford to spend too much time preparing grain and grass for Xie An, so he asked Yangzhou to ask for grain directly from Xuzhou, and Xuzhou to ask for grain from Qinghai, so that the amount of grain and grass reserves in each county remained unchanged, but Yangzhou was able to raise grain and grass in the shortest possible time.

Pressed for time?

Why is there a hurry? Isn't Xie An's secret visit to Jiangnan just to monitor the Taiping Army and command the counties and counties in Jiangnan to resist when the Taiping Army rebelled? It stands to reason that Li Xian has no reason to be in such a hurry to prepare enough grain and grass for Xie An, unless......

Suddenly, the sound of the piano stopped abruptly, Qin Ke'er raised her head, and a hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.

"Not good! -- Li Xian asked Xie An to strike first and take the lead in the Taiping army! ”