Seeing that the former good sister on the other side was annoyed because she said the wrong thing, Liu Pinglan's originally embarrassed mood was inexplicably better: "Although my sister is just a weak woman who has no power to restrain chickens, after all, she grew up in the family of her uncle who is a general, and she has seen a lot of generals and captains who are excellent in martial arts and can fight in battle. Whether a person has martial arts or not, just look at his walking posture and usual movements, you can judge that he is not far from ten. The girl sent by my sister who doesn't know if it's really Zhou Yun or not, although she has been deliberately hiding the fact that she knows martial arts these days, but the habit that a person has developed after years of practicing martial arts is so easy to hide. From her daily gestures, her sister has seen that her martial arts are not weak. may not be first-class, but it is enough to deal with ten or eight ordinary people. From this Zhou Yun deliberately concealing his knowledge of martial arts, thinking of the true identity of your sister as a recommender, combined with the location where she is about to perform, and the grudge between your sister and the 'Qingyuan' brothers, it is not difficult for my sister to judge the reason why you arranged such a person to your sister's house. Although in terms of martial arts alone, this Zhou Yun will not be the opponent of several important ministers of the imperial court. However, with her mental calculation and unintentionality, and with her preparedness to attack, her assassination operation may not have no chance of success. Of course, these were originally just my sister's guesses, and it wasn't until I heard my sister's words just now that I knew that my sister was right. ”

"My sister is really a smart person. It's just that since my sister already knows the details of my sister, why don't you go to Qian Yuanshan and Wang Kunjun to report them in front of them, but risk being killed by me to confront me face to face? Now Zhang Yan is no longer going around in circles with the other party.

"First, you are my savior, and if I sacrifice you, I will be accused of being unkind and unjust. Second, you are my good sister, and if you and your accomplices are caught, it will damage my reputation, especially in the hearts of the brothers of 'Qingyuan'. Thirdly, although Zhou Yun was invited by me to perform at the wedding banquet, it was also approved by my husband, and if the relationship between her and your 'Feiyantang' was confirmed, it would be very unfavorable to my husband's reputation. Thinking about it, it seems that only by letting my sister escape from Langzhou, so that the court has no way to track down the real culprit behind the scenes, is the best choice for my sister and my husband. Therefore, my sister decided that as long as my sister agrees to a few of my conditions, I will let you and your accomplices live. Liu Pinglan also openly and honestly clarified her thoughts.

"On what terms?" Zhang Yan asked.

"First, my sister and my sister's accomplices must flee to Gangnam; Second, my sister's escape must be sent by my sister's henchmen, and he will not be separated from you until you enter the Jiangnan border; Third, in the future, my sister and my sister's accomplices are not allowed to set foot in the land of Jinghu for half a step; Fourth, after my sister and my sister's accomplices arrived in Jiangnan, they tried to spread the word that they had entered Jinghu to assassinate my fifth brother on the secret order of the so-called Jiangnan lord Li Yu. Fifth, until your sister and your accomplices escape into Jiangnan and fulfill the fourth requirement, your brother will stay in Langzhou as hostages. I wonder if my sister can do it? Liu Pinglan asked in a deep voice.

"I can promise you all the other conditions, but my brother must leave with me." Leaving her brother as a hostage was obviously something that Zhang Yan couldn't agree.

"Without Brother Zhang to stay as a hostage, sister, no matter how many conditions you promise, how dare I believe my sister? Maybe I let my sister leave with the front foot, and you and your brother will flee from Langzhou with the back foot. Or when I went to Jiangnan, I killed my henchman, and since then I have been incognito and disappeared. When the time comes, how will you let me, a weak woman, chase you and find you? This condition is non-negotiable. Liu Pinglan also refused to give an inch on keeping Zhang Fei as a hostage.

"If my sister must keep a hostage, let my brother leave and let my sister be a hostage." Seeing that Liu Pinglan could not compromise on this point, Zhang Yan had no choice but to exchange herself for her brother. In any case, as long as the elder brother can get out of danger, his family will not be extinct, and "Feiyantang" will also have a chance to make a comeback.

"Sister and Brother Zhang are really brother and sister. If my sister doesn't agree, I'm afraid she will be called ruthless and unrighteous. In this case, the younger sister left her sister in the house for a few more days, and then sent her away after the wedding celebration. I also asked my sister to write a letter to Brother Zhang, so that he could prepare immediately, and the henchman arranged by his sister would pick him up and his partner on the road in the afternoon. Seeing that the goal was achieved, Liu Pinglan no longer insisted that Zhang Fei had to be kept as a hostage, but pushed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on her desk forward and asked Zhang Yan to write a letter to Zhang Fei.

"Now that the court's sea fishing documents have arrived in Langzhou, how can my sister arrange for my sister's brother and companions to leave? Sister, I live in Liufu, how can I keep it safe? Zhang Yan did not immediately begin to write letters, but pursued questions of vital interest.

Liu Pinglan smiled lightly when she heard this, pointed to the two sea fishing documents and said, "Sister don't worry, these two official documents were borrowed by my sister in the name of curiosity after she accidentally saw them from her husband. Since my husband and I are about to get married, and the fifth brother will soon arrive in Langzhou to reward the three armies and local officials, the entire Langzhou and even Jinghu are preparing to welcome the fifth brother, and I really don't have much energy to search for your brothers and sisters and accomplices. Therefore, now this sea fishing document has been temporarily stranded in the pacification and system office, and has not yet been sent to the yamen of the prefectures and counties. Therefore, before my sister's wedding and the fifth brother's commendation and decoration of the meritorious officials who recovered Jinghu, there will be no sea fishing documents in the entire Jinghu land and counties to hunt down your brothers and sisters, and my uncle will naturally not know that his guests will actually be wanted by the imperial court. ”

"Sister, aren't you afraid that your uncle will blame you when he finds out about the identity of our brother and sister? Aren't you afraid that once Zhou Yun really assassinates Wang Kunjun, the court will punish your husband for his crimes? Besides, since we have promised to let my sister and my sister's companions live, why do we have to flee to Jiangnan and spread rumors about Li Yu, isn't this a bit redundant? Zhang Yan couldn't quite understand what her former good sister was thinking.

Liu Pinglan waved her hand disapprovingly and said, "When my uncle sees the sea fishing papers, my sister is already the founding uncle's wife, how can he blame me." As for my husband, even if Zhou Yun really got God's help to assassinate the fifth brother, the court was only afraid that it would be a mess immediately, and the ministers would fight to the death for power and profit, and how could they have the heart to hold my husband or other officials in Jinghu accountable for a while. When you finish fighting for me in the court, maybe even the emperor has changed, who will risk causing chaos in the land of Jinghu to use the affairs of the previous dynasty to punish my husband and other Jinghu officials with heavy troops? As for asking my sister and my sister's accomplices to flee to Jiangnan, and spreading rumors that Li Yu was plotting to assassinate the fifth brother, it was for the sake of my sister's old vendetta, but it had nothing to do with my sister and my sister's accomplices. ”

Liu Pinglan's answer made Zhang Yan speechless for a while, she really didn't expect that she, a seemingly simple former good sister, would have such scheming. She not only freed herself and her husband from the unfavorable situation of being involved in the "Feiyan Hall", but also took this opportunity to divert the disaster to the east and use the Liliang of the Chai Zhou court to avenge herself - although Liu Pinglan did not explicitly talk about her experience in Jiangnan, but after many inquiries, Zhang Yan still learned some information, knowing the relationship between her good sister and the Jiangnan general Lin Renzhao, and the grudge with Li Yu, the lord of Jiangnan.

It's just that now, no matter how much Zhang Yan regrets that she underestimated this once good sister, it is useless. In the current situation, she has no other choice than to do what the other party asks. So, despite her reluctance, Zhang Yan still picked up the pen and wrote a letter to her brother, explaining the cause and effect of the incident, telling him the place and time of meeting with Liu Pinglan's henchman, and instructing his brother not to delay the time to evacuate because he was worried about himself, and to leave the land of Jinghu as soon as possible.

On the afternoon of the eighth day of the third lunar month of the first year of Jianlong, accompanied by Liu Pinglan's confidant, Zhang Fei led a group of his subordinates to leave Langzhou City in the name of returning to their hometown for funeral, and hurriedly took a boat down the river to Ezhou through Dongting Lake.