Although the round-up of the "Feiyantang" outside Ezhou City failed to capture its head or backbone, it only captured more than a dozen spies at the level of minions. But what the brothers of the crossing team did not expect was that among the dozen or so remnants of the "Feiyantang" who were captured, an "old man" was accidentally found - Zhou De'an, who ran away from Damaoshan and disappeared with his sister a few months ago.

Speaking of which, this Zhou De'an can be regarded as the most spineless and easiest to capture among all the remnants of "Feiyantang" in the outskirts of Ezhou City. Although there were many monks practicing martial arts in the Huanglong Temple where he lived back then, there were also many masters. But because Zhou Dean was unwilling to follow in the footsteps of his father who was brave and unstrategic, only knew how to work hard, but did not know how to use wisdom, he had no interest in martial arts, but only devoted himself to reading and learning. Therefore, he has lived in Huanglong Temple for many years, although he has learned many Buddhist classics and Confucian teachings, but he has not learned any martial arts. So much so that when the other remnants of the "Feiyan Hall" were fighting with the "Dark Feather" agents and the soldiers of the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" who came to arrest them, all he could do was to bury his face, which had become pale from fear, under the sleeves of his robe, kneel on the ground and tremble, and finally became one of the few survivors of the remnants of the "Feiyan Hall" because of his cowardice and powerlessness.

It was also the mouth of Zhou De'an, who was captured, that Wang Kunjun and other traversers completely figured out the causes and consequences of the disappearance of the Zhou family sisters and brothers, and it was Zhou De'an's sister Zhou Yihan who assassinated Wang Kunjun, which was somewhat surprising and regrettable news - the departure of the Zhou family sisters and brothers was indeed as the crossing team expected, it was Zhou Yihan who was bewitched by Zhang Yan, who had evaded pursuit in Yuqingguan, and after receiving a large package of property from the other party in early July last year, the two sisters and brothers were at the insistence of their sister Zhou Yihan. Secretly escaped from Yuqingguan and Huanglong Temple, and according to the contact location and method given to them by Zhang Yan, they went all the way south to Jinling City to meet each other. And Zhou Yihan soon became the backbone of Zhang Yan's cronies, and was bent on avenging his father, so that he finally took his young life for this.

Although Zhou Yihan, who learned that the assassin was raised by his own side with a lot of effort, Wang Kunjun and other traversers felt a little lost, and Muttle, who failed to prevent him from committing suicide, felt a little guilty. But as the saying goes, "people can't be resurrected after death", since people are dead, it is useless to talk about it, and the most important thing now is how to deal with the living.

Considering that Zhou De'an's departure from Huanglong Temple was not completely voluntary, but more influenced and instructed by his sister, and that he went to Langzhou with the remnants of "Feiyan Tang" this time purely because Zhou Yihan was worried that he stayed in Jinling alone, and mixed with those spies who were not familiar with him who were responsible for guarding the foothold of "Feiyan Hall" in Jinling, so he went west to Jinghu with the brigade after getting the approval of the Zhang family brothers and sisters. During his time in Langzhou City, in addition to reading books and writing every day, he did not participate in the affairs of "Feiyantang" at all, and he didn't know much about the inside story. Therefore, after confirming the truth of what Zhou De'an said from other captives, Wang Kunjun and others finally decided to open the net, exempted him from punishment, and ordered him to be sent back to Beiping City and handed over to Chang Shengjun for discipline.

Of course, Wang Kunjun and others did not let go of the few places they knew about the footholds of the "Feiyantang" that Zhou De'an and the other prisoners confessed, and ordered the Ministry of Intelligence to take immediate action to eradicate all these footholds. First, it is to eradicate the grass and eradicate the "Feiyan Hall", and secondly, it is also hoped that it can cut off the convenient channel for Zhang Yan and Shi Ran to escape, and force them to appear in the market, so as to facilitate their pursuit.

The appearance of Zhou De'an is just a small episode in the process of exterminating the "Feiyan Hall", and it will not have any impact on the overall situation, and the focus of the work of the crossing team is still in the south of the Yangtze River and in the small court of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Seeing that the fifth brother Wang Kunjun and other actual rulers of the Great Zhou Dynasty turned their attention from Houshu to Jiangnan, the day when his uncle's revenge was avenged was not far away, Liu Pinglan's gloomy mood that had been a little gloomy since her uncle was killed in vain gradually became clearer. At the end of April, his cronies sent to Qianzhou, Hongzhou, brought her the news of her aunt and cousins, saying that although their family was living in some hardship, they were all in good health and had not been threatened by any personal safety. This also made Liu Pinglan's last bit of worry disappear, and her mood became more relaxed. In addition, she has just married her sweetheart, and it is the honeymoon period of the newlywed Yan'er and the glue-like paint, which makes Liu Pinglan's mood more and more comfortable and happy.

Liu Pinglan was in a comfortable mood and full of joy, and Qian Yuanshan, as the other party to the husband and wife, was naturally the first to feel it. While he was glad that his wife did not become depressed because of Zhou Yihan's assassination of the fifth brother, he was also encouraged by the fact that the brothers of the Fifth Brother, Seventh Brother, Starling and other committees did not distrust him because of the assassination incident, and still handed over the power of Jinghu Land to himself. So, with full of joy and excitement, Qian Yuanshan threw himself into the preparations for the conquest of Jiangnan with a fuller and more enthusiastic attitude than before the assassination, and with the full cooperation of Zeng Zhilin. Speed up the integration of local officials and the training of local soldiers, speed up the stockpiling of grain and grass, and step up the supervision of the construction of warships, in order to be able to complete the tasks assigned to them by the committee ahead of schedule.

Qian Yuanshan and Liu Pinglan, the husband and wife, were in a comfortable mood and high morale, but Li Yu, who was in the deep palace of Jinling City, couldn't be happy or relaxed. At this time, all he had in his heart was depression, resentment, grievance, irritability, panic, and other uncomfortable negative feelings. Lin Renzhao, who thought that he had killed Lin Renzhao, who was proud of his achievements, difficult to control, bent on confronting the Great Zhou, and bent on crossing the river to recover Huainan, repeatedly sent people to Kaifeng to call the ministers and pay tribute, expressing his submission to the Great Zhou, and went to the emperor to change the title to the lord of Jiangnan, so that he and his small court could be maintained, or at least they could survive for a relatively long time. However, "the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop", but those remnants of the "Feiyantang" who killed a thousand knives went to touch the tiger's butt at this time and sent assassins to assassinate Wang Kunjun. What made Li Yu even more angry and resentful was that those bastard "Feiyantang" remnants actually spread the news on the way to escape, saying that their assassination was instigated and supported by themselves, so that they suffered unjustified disasters for no reason, and attracted the hatred of Wang Kunjun, Wang Kunjun's brothers, and even the Great Zhou court to himself.

You must know that Wang Kunjun is the leader of the "Qingyuan" brothers, the first powerful minister of the Great Zhou court, and the actual controller of the Great Zhou court, and assassinating him is tantamount to assassinating the Great Zhou official family. Regardless of whether the assassination is successful or not, the Great Zhou must retaliate, otherwise, where is the face of the Great Zhou court and the majesty of the Great Zhou officials. As the saying goes, "the Son of Heaven is angry, ambushes millions of corpses, and bleeds and pestles", although Wang Kunjun is not an official family, he is better than an official family, and his anger is definitely much more violent and terrifying than the little emperor in the Kaifeng Imperial City, and it is definitely not something that his little Jiangnan lord can resist. Hate only hated that he was confused for a while, and he did not seriously implement the edict sent by the Great Zhou court asking him to assist in arresting the remnants of "Feiyantang" and destroying the stronghold of "Feiyantang". Otherwise, it would be impossible for these remnants of the "Feiyan Hall" to gain a firm foothold in Jiangnan, let alone have the thoughts and actions of confronting the Great Zhou court and assassinating the first powerful minister of the Great Zhou.

It's just resentment or remorse, and the current predicament has to be faced. Therefore, Li Yu ordered all the prefectures and counties under the control of the Southern Tang Dynasty to make every effort to search for the remnants of the "Feiyantang" that might still exist, and at the same time sent an envoy to Kaifeng with a heavy gift, explaining to the Great Zhou court that he had nothing to do with the Langzhou assassination case, and that all of them were framed and bitten by the remnants of the "Feiyantang", in order to extinguish the anger of the other party and enable his small court to continue to survive.