Lin Ruo was satisfied with Leng Shiyi and the two newly bought guards, and returned to the Lin Mansion under the escort of Tao Fu and the people of the Rongwang Mansion, and Lin Qian had already prepared a reward for the people of the Rongwang Mansion, Tao Fu and his party accepted it with a smile and said a basket of words of thanks.

Lin Qian also handed over the gift he had prepared for King Rong's Mansion to Tao Fu and asked him to express his gratitude to King Rong on his behalf. And among them, there is a beautiful sandalwood box, which was handed over to Tao Fu by Lin Ruo himself, so that he must personally hand it over to Prince Rong and open it himself.

Of course, Tao Fu was full of promises - he still had to report to Murong Chong about what happened today!

In the Lin Mansion, Lin Ruo named the two guards Zidian and Qingshuang, so he handed them over with Leng Shiyi to the housekeeper Uncle Ping to settle down, and sent Mingrui to Jingping Hou Su Mansion to invite Su Shizi to come to the mansion for a while, of course, in the name of Lin Qi.

On the carriage back home, Tao Fu shook his head helplessly, and kept muttering in his heart: I don't know what the origin of this extra Leng Shiyi is, fierce and indifferent, and he is not a character to mess with at first glance.

But who let the princess-to-be pick him!

Just thinking about it like this, after Tao Fu returned to King Rong's mansion, he made a register of the gifts sent by the Lin Mansion and sent them to the treasury, except for the yellow sandalwood box that Lin Ruoqian told him to do, and he went all the way to King Rong's study.

Yellow sandalwood naturally cannot be compared with red sandalwood in terms of value, but the price is also among the best; There was also the instruction of the quasi-princess, and he also received a reward, Tao Fu naturally did not dare to slack off.

At this moment, Murong Chong was wearing a dark robe, looking at the military affairs reports in various places in the study, Tao Fu knocked on the door, poked his head and asked, "Master, can I come in?" ”

Tao Fu has followed King Rong Murong Chong since he was a child, and the old housekeeper Tao has followed the Murong family since King Yu, so in front of King Rong, Tao Fu is allowed not to call himself a "slave".

"Hmm."

The people in the study did not raise their eyes, but in their brief words and attentive gazes, in addition to the innate nobility, there was also the fortitude of a soldier.

Tao Fu grinned, crossed the threshold bummerly, entered the study, walked to Murong Chong's bookcase, and put down the sandalwood box in his hand.

Murong Chong's gaze caught a glimpse of the wooden box, and he frowned imperceptibly: "What is this?" ”

"Oh, it's Lord Minhui's thank you gift."

Murong Chong's gaze returned to the military newspaper in his hand: "Just put it in the treasury." ”

"That's not good, the princess-to-be has a special explanation, and she must hand it over to your own hands."

Princess-to-be?

Murong Chong raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Tao Fu, seeing him smiling flatteringly.

"Master, look ......"

Special explanation? Must be handed over to him by hand?

Murong Chong's deep eyes searched for the box looking at the yellow sandalwood, nodded, put down the military newspaper in his hand, and pushed the other military newspapers on the bookcase to the side, leaving a piece of the bookcase in front of him.

"Bring it."

Tao Fu immediately smiled and put the yellow sandalwood wooden box in front of Murong Chong, took out the bag containing the key from the cuff, smiled respectfully, and handed it to his prince: "This is the key, the county lord said that there is only one, and if you lose it, there will be no more." ”

Murong Chong raised his eyebrows, what kind of reputation is this Lin Ruo doing?

He took out the key, threw the bag aside, and pinched the key with his long, knuckled fingers and stuffed it into the lock.

With a click, the delicate little lock was opened, and it was set aside, and the lid of the wooden box was opened, and inside was a stack of manuscripts, the first of which read the seven words "Thirteen Articles of the Art of War".

Murong Chong's brows furrowed imperceptibly, and he took the manuscript out of the box, his gaze resting on the manuscript paper. There is a bit of heroism in the show.

"What else did she say?"

Tao Fu thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "It's gone." ”

Gone?

"It's gone!"

Tao Fu was very sure, but Murong Chong was a little puzzled. Sun Wu was the most outstanding military strategist in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and his thirteen articles on the art of war were respected by later generations as the holy book of soldiers, and he was known as the "saint of soldiers". It's just that Sun Tzu's Art of War has been handed down to this day, and it is still incomplete, and even the library in the palace only has seven volumes of ancient books, where did Lin Ruo copy these thirteen articles? It's really strange that she didn't mention any conditions for such a precious scroll!

His eyes wandered over the manuscript, and Murong Chong continued to ask, "Is the matter done?" ”

"Basic ...... It's done......"

"Basic?"

"Yes, the county lord has picked one more person."

Murong Chong opened the home page and saw that the second page said "Not enough for others", his eyelids did not move, as if he was in thought, and continued to ask casually: "Do you know the details?" ”

Tao Fu shook his head: "Lao Cao refuses to say it, he only knows that his name is 'Leng Eleven'." ”

Murong Chong's hand pinching the lower corner of the paper froze, his eyes changed suddenly, and he confirmed to Tao Fu again: "Leng Eleven?!" ”

Tao Fu was startled, and his voice trembled a little: "Yes...... yes, he, he's ...... So to speak...... Master, do you know who it is? ”

"Leng Eleven, the people of the rivers and lakes call the cold face impermanent, second only to the killer of the 'Nine Star' Pavilion Master."

"Kill...... Killer? ”

Tao Fu was shocked when he heard this, but Murong Chong's gaze looked at the fingertips in his hand, and his gaze became even deeper.

Murong Chong's narrow eyes narrowed, and his deep gaze turned to the seven words on the manuscript again, and then turned backwards, "The Beginning", "Battle", "Attack", "Virtuality and Reality", "March", "Terrain", "Use", these seven articles he had seen in the ancient books in the palace, and the content was exactly the same, and the remaining six articles of "Military March", "Soldiers", "Military Battle", "Nine Changes", "Nine Lands", and "Fire Attack", although he had never seen them, they were indeed from Sun Tzu's Art of War. Looking at the content carefully, it is undoubtedly made by a master soldier who is well versed in the way of using soldiers.

Therefore, this whole stack of manuscripts is indeed written in the thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu's Art of War?!

However, Lin Ruo, a merchant woman, where did Sun Tzu get the Art of War?

Murong Chong's gaze stayed on the second page again, "Not enough for others", and twisted his eyebrows to think, are these thirteen art of war just her overtures, just to keep him from mentioning Leng Shiyi's matter to others?

"Lord Minhui is by no means a simple person, the old slave vaguely saw the demeanor of Lord Shude in her."

Murong Chong remembered what Steward Tao had said to him after seeing Lin Ruo.

Not enough for others either.

Others?

Usually ask people to keep secrets, and generally use "not enough for outsiders" as a warning, Lin Ruo's note, specially changed "outsiders" to "others", who do you want to exclude?

Murong Chong quickly and carefully sifted through all the people involved, as if a bright light flashed, and the most likely person was quickly pulled out by him-

Prince.

The crown prince once asked the crown princess to euphemistically test Lin Ruo's meaning of marrying into the prince's mansion, which was the day when the palace held a ceremony for Lin Ruo. And then......

After the banquet, Lin Ruo went to the imperial study and talked with Emperor Mingzong alone for a long time.

And then there's ...... The Decree of Marriage!