Chapter 8: Planning to Loot Grain
Shen Yunyou didn't have a good night's rest because of this knock on the door, and after dawn the next day, Shen Yunyou saw Yun Qingshan and Xuan Mo, so he asked the two about last night.
"Master, Brother Xuan, did you knock on my door last night?" Shen Yunyou sat listlessly on the chair, holding his side face with one hand, looking at Yun Qingshan and the two and asked.
"Last night?"
Xuan Mo and Yun Qingshan looked at each other and shook their heads in unison. After asking Shen Yunyou about the specific time and matter, Yun Qingshan lowered his head and thought about it, then smiled and said, "Maybe I've drunk too much?" I don't remember either. β
"Master......" Shen Yunyou got this answer, which made her feel powerless from the bottom of her heart.
After the three of them had breakfast, Shen Yunyou went to the street with Yun Qingshan and Xuan Mo. It was noon before I returned to the inn.
Shen Yunyou looked at Ye Zixuan's empty room, pursed his lips, and muttered, "This eldest young master has been gone for a long time, why hasn't he come back after a day?" β
Shen Yunyou sat alone in the room in a daze, while Yun Qingshan stayed in the room to accompany her. Sitting quietly in the corner of the room, Yun Qingshan looked at Shen Yunyou intently, thinking about the question Shen Yunyou asked him in the morning.
Although Yun Qingshan did drink a lot of wine last night, he also came back very late. But he remembered very clearly that he didn't knock on Shen Yunyou's door.
Who knocked on Shen Yunyou's door so late? I didn't, I didn't, and Yezixuan hadn't come back yet. Did someone go to the wrong room and find the wrong person? Was it just an accident? No matter what he did, Yun Qingshan felt that this matter could not be careless.
It wasn't until late in the evening that Ye Zixuan finally appeared in the inn. Entering the room with a tired face, Ye Zixuan rested in his room for a while before getting up and coming to Shen Yunyou's room.
Shen Yunyou was sitting in the room reading a book, while Yun Qingshan was lying on the table, not knowing when he fell asleep.
"Where's the Swirl Desert?" Ye Zixuan asked in a low voice.
"Said to go out for a walk and come back later." Shen Yunyou put down the book in his hand, looked up at Ye Zixuan, and asked, "Everything has been dealt with?" β
"Almost." Ye Zixuan walked straight to Shen Yunyou's side and rubbed her hair. was about to say something, but Yun Qingshan suddenly woke up.
"You're back." Yun Qingshan yawned and sat up straight, then staggered to his feet and said, "Then I'll go back to my room and sleep." β
After speaking, Yun Qingshan knew the current affairs and left, leaving Shen Yunyou and Ye Zixuan alone in the room.
After Yun Qingshan left, Ye Zixuan's cold face also eased a lot. Sitting next to Shen Yunyou, Ye Zixuan leaned back in his chair and squinted at Shen Yunyou.
"Yuan Ruoning's matter, is it true?"
"It's still investigating, and I'll have to wait for about three days to get any news."
"If it's true, what are you going to do?" Shen Yunyou thought of the Hubu Shangshu named Li Mingyang, "Can't you kill it?" β
In this special period, if any court official dies again, it is equivalent to stabbing Situ Rui, who was already devastated, in the body.
"I haven't thought about this yet, and I might let Situ Rui deal with it." Ye Zixuan looked at Shen Yunyou's surprised gaze and said with a smile: "Situ Rui's already defeated heart is unwilling, and when he learns that he has such a person in an important position, what do you think he will do?" β
"Spread the fire on this man." Shen Yunyou replied with a sudden realization.
"That's right. Situ Rui will not give Li Mingyang any chance to refute, and must kill him without hesitation. β
"Then what are you going to do in the Dragon Ming Kingdom after sending me back to the Western Kingdom?" This is also a question that Shen Yunyou suddenly thought of yesterday. "Help the Dragon Ming Kingdom and attack the Kingdom of Prayer Heaven?"
"What do you want to say?" Ye Zixuan saw that Shen Yunyou suddenly mentioned this, and knew what she thought.
"If you want to win, you don't have to go back to Long Ming Kingdom. Wouldn't it be faster to deal with the people of Long Mingguo inside and outside. Shen Yunyou looked at Ye Zixuan with a serious face, and said in a low voice: "As long as the soldiers in front of the Heavenly Kingdom Array are cut off from food, this battle will be very easy to fight." The so-called 'those who don't use the township guide can't get the geographical advantage.' You have been living in this kingdom of prayer for so many years, and no one should be more familiar with everything here than you. At the border gate, only Song Lingfeng is holding the situation alone, and even if Situ Rui sends someone over to help, there is no one to choose. Unless he himself went into battle, or, he called Situ Nan to come. But no matter who it is, there is no way to solve the problem of food shortage. β
Shen Yunyou's words made Ye Zixuan fall into deep thought, before he only cared about how to retaliate against Liu Xinru and Situ Rui, but he didn't put his mind on the war between the two countries at all. Because Ye Zixuan was very confident in Long Mingguo, he knew that if this battle started, Long Mingguo would definitely win. This time I went back, except as Shen Yunyou said, because of the war. And the bigger reason is because Ye Zixuan wants to deal with the remaining forces in Longming Country.
He wanted to take care of everything and go back to the Western Kingdom. After all, that's where he really wants to be.
"I saw yesterday that the government here was collecting grain from door to door, and I thought it should be that there was a shortage of food at the border gates, which is why I was so nervous. If you rob this batch of grain, it will take several days for that batch of grain to be transported to the border again. In the past few days, it is enough to crush the soldiers at the border pass. β
Shen Yunyou's expression was calm and she talked to Ye Zixuan about her method, which made Ye Zixuan suddenly feel so happy that she wanted to laugh. Shen Yunyou watched the corners of Ye Zixuan's mouth go up, smiling at himself, then stopped and asked, "What are you laughing at?" β
"Laugh at you, there are a lot of things in your head."
"Thank you for the appreciation." Shen Yunyou happily accepted Ye Zixuan's compliment to himself.
"It's a good idea, but I don't want to do it." The smile on the corner of Ye Zixuan's mouth slowly faded. "If I do, I'm going to have to leave immediately. Are you willing to let me be separated from you now? β
When Ye Zixuan was talking about such a serious matter, he didn't forget to tease Shen Yunyou, which made Shen Yunyou soon lose control of his emotions.
Shen Yunyou gritted his teeth, nodded vigorously, and said, "You can leave at any time, I won't stop you." β
"I haven't seen you for a day, and you've become so ruthless?" Ye Zixuan smiled and raised his eyebrows, "You really don't want me to stay with you for a few more days?" β
The reason why Ye Zixuan didn't accept Shen Yunyou's proposal was indeed because of this. With a plan and time to rob food, he might as well accompany this girl for a few days. Anyway, even if he didn't do this, Long Mingguo's side would definitely do his best to win this battle.
Ye Zixuan didn't want to be separated from Shen Yunyou so quickly, and he didn't want to go back to Long Ming Country so quickly.
For so many years, Yezixuan spent a large part of his time in the Kingdom of Prayer Heaven and the Western Kingdom. The current Long Ming Kingdom has a lot of Shen Yunyang's forces. When Ye Zixuan goes back, he will definitely be entangled by Shen Yunyang. Moreover, Shen Yunyang also had a group of old stubborn supporters who gave Ye Zixuan a headache, and he felt that his head hurt when he thought about it.
The current emperor of Long Mingguo is Ye Zixuan's uncle, Ye Mingchen. Ye Mingchen is very fond of Ye Zixuan. After sending someone to pray for heaven that year and finding out that Ye Zixuan was not dead, Ye Mingchen came in person and met with Ye Zixuan.
In the days that followed, although Ye Zixuan did not often go back to Long Ming Kingdom, his correspondence with Ye Mingchen was never broken. Ye Mingchen was also very spoiled by Shen Yunyang, who was sent to Long Ming Kingdom by Ye Zixuan, because of Ye Zixuan's relationship. Not to mention accepting Shen Yunyang as a righteous daughter, she even gave Shen Yunyang to the general who had no daughter, and became the eldest lady of the general's mansion.
Shen Yunyou turned his head in annoyance and didn't look at Ye Zixuan. Ye Zixuan stared at Shen Yunyou's reddish ears with interest, and he also didn't make a sound.
Dinner was eaten by four people, and after eating a full meal, Shen Yunyou, accompanied by Ye Zixuan, went to the street for another walk. While passing by the bustling commercial street, Shen Yunyou found several shops with familiar plaques.
Ye Zixuan followed Shen Yunyou's line of sight and stopped. It was the Shen family's shop, but it was not as good as before.
Shen Zhiyuan died, and the Shen family was scattered. Although Shen Jinyu and the others are still alive now, they will only spend money, and they will not manage the Shen family's business at all.
Shen Yunyou stood at the door of the store and quietly watched the business situation of the store for a while. The Shen family's shops have branches all over the country, and the names are the same, called Lanzhifang. The things in Lanzhifang, the audience and consumer groups have never been ordinary people. This point had already been noticed by Shen Yunyou when he was in charge of accounts in the capital.
Self-added things, good quality, and expensive prices. Just a batch of cloth will cost at least two or three times more than an ordinary cloth store. But it is precisely because of this that those rich people who like to compare with each other like to buy things in Lanzhifang.
Now the Shen family has collapsed, and no one is in charge of business. If the funds are not in circulation, there will naturally be no money to purchase. Therefore, the remaining obsolete goods in the store had to be sold at a lower price. It also greatly reduces the source of customers and revenue.
"What do you think?" Ye Zixuan saw that Shen Yunyou had not made a sound for a long time, and asked curiously.
"I'm wondering when this Lan Zhifang will not be able to hold on." Shen Yunyou smiled lightly and looked at Ye Zixuan, "Shen Jinyu and my Sanniang are not people who can do business, and my Siniang can only eat fasting and chant Buddha, so I won't ask about business at all." This Lan Zhifang will not be able to hold on one day. β
"Reluctantly?" Ye Zixuan thought about it along Shen Yunyou's train of thought and asked.
"That's not it, it's not so much that I don't want it to become what it is now, but I hope it can't hold up sooner and becomes a plate of loose sand."
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