amaotonovel Chapter 1093 Someone's dead! There's a ghost!
Chapter 1093 Someone's dead! There's a ghost!
Jiang Fenghua gasped upon hearing this, "So many."
"The goods haven't been delivered yet, so we didn't receive that much money, but we did give a deposit of one hundred taels of silver, which shocked my grandfather."
"I never expected your Wan family to get into the escort business." They're clearly in the silk business.
“Our Wan family has only recently started doing business as a security escort agency. My brother told me that they had taken all the goods to the Feng family, but the Feng family refused to accept them, so my brother took them back and is going to personally deliver them to Shengjing.”
Jiang Fenghua glanced at Aoxue. Why didn't the messenger mention this?
Ao Xue didn't know either. She guessed that the person guarding her master was probably too excited and didn't think it was important what business the Feng Family Escort Agency took, which was why they didn't mention it.
Jiang Fenghua said, "A deposit of one hundred taels of silver is a considerable sum. What could be worth paying one hundred taels of gold in commission to have someone transport it? The worst thing is that someone might deliberately inflate the commission and the value of the goods. If something goes wrong with the goods en route, the escort agency will have to pay double the amount. That's the rule of this business."
“That’s right! My grandfather thought of all these things, but my brother actually accepted the offer, which made my grandfather very worried.”
Jiang Fenghua was surprised that Wan Qianshan was so bold. The Wan family was a newly established escort agency. The fact that the employer was willing to spend so much money to hire escorts meant that the goods being escorted were very valuable. Only a reputable escort agency would dare to take on such a case.
So she also found it very strange...
Wan Qianzi rested her chin on her hands, deep in thought, her mind elsewhere.
Jiang Fenghua noticed her frown and asked, "What's troubling you?"
"Sister Ruan, that gentleman was really handsome. I wonder if he is married." Her mind was filled with images of Gongsun Ling.
Jiang Fenghua joked, "You've fallen for him so quickly."
Wan Qianzi blushed and stammered, "I...I didn't, I was just asking."
Jiang Fenghua said, "I don't know if he has someone he likes, but he's definitely not married."
Wan Qianzi's eyes lit up, "They're not married yet! Such a wonderful person..."
Jiang Fenghua reminded him, "He's only coming to Yuzhou with me to take care of some business and he's leaving soon. He probably won't come back to Yuzhou. You've only met him once and you can already tell he's good? Which eye are you using to judge him?"
Wan Qian Zi Yu Sai: "I just think it's great!"
Jiang Fenghua didn't argue with her about the wheel, but was more interested in the valuable jade Buddha.
It was the birthday of the matriarch of the Zou family in Shengjing. When did a wealthy merchant named Zou appear in Shengjing? She and Lin Yu had been doing business together for so many years, and they knew exactly how many powerful families there were.
The fact that the other party went to the Feng family first indicates that they wanted to deliver the goods to the Feng family. If they were setting a trap, it would definitely be aimed at the Feng family's escort agency.
If she wasn't an enemy of the Feng family, then she must have been targeted.
What other enemies did she have that came to the Feng family?
Now that the enemy is in the shadows while they are in the open, she cannot afford to alert them and can only proceed cautiously, taking things one step at a time.
Jiang Fenghua planned to make an appearance at the Wan family's residence. Just as she and Wan Qianzi arrived outside the yamen, the Feng family's carriage arrived.
Feng Qingyu jumped down from the carriage, and soon Gongsun Lan also emerged. Just as she was about to jump down, Feng Qingyu grabbed her around the waist and pulled her off the carriage. "Things are different now. Mother told me to be careful."
Gongsun Lan wrapped her arms around his neck, "You've been carrying me up and down all day, I'm practically a cripple. I'm just pregnant, not disabled."
Feng Qingyu said, "As a first-time father, of course I want to protect you and the child."
The two smiled at each other. Jiang Fenghua and the others watched from afar. Wan Qianzi said, "Madam Feng and Master Feng are so happy."
Ao Xue never imagined that her usually carefree master would have such a womanly side. She thought her master was not interested in men and did not want to be tied down by marriage. She never expected that her master would get married and have a child with a man she had only known for a few months so quickly.
Ao Xue could hardly bear to look at her master's blushing face.
Hongxiu said, "I saw a similar situation when Miss and her husband got married. Back then, her husband was just as gentle to her."
As they were talking, Gongsun Lan took Feng Qingyu's hand and came to them. She said in a deep voice, "Fenghua, there's something strange about the Buddha statue that was sent to the Wan family. I kept thinking about what kind of sound was coming from inside, and there was also a familiar smell."
"Fenghua, Yinchuan, now I finally remember, there was a toad's sound in the jade Buddha, and that strange smell was the stench coming from it. The golden toad is poisonous, which is why I fainted."
After being reminded by her, Jiang Fenghua seemed to remember something. She looked at Gongsun Lan's face and wondered if Gongsun Lan had the memories of Mu Qilan.
Did she recall her memories of Yinchuan?
Jiang Fenghua stepped forward and took Gongsun Lan's hand, "Is it the golden toad from the Baili family's underground palace?"
Gongsun Lan nodded vigorously, "I saw it before I lost consciousness; it was hidden inside the jade Buddha."
Jiang Fenghua recalled the golden toad buried in the Baili family's underground palace in her dream. When the Baili family was taken away by the Queen's people, the underground palace also became a secret. Danji Aruan followed them to the capital and had no chance to enter the underground palace.
At this moment, she glanced around the yamen and discovered that there were spies hiding in the shadows.
She thought to herself: When did they start being followed without even the hidden guards noticing?
Just then, a terrifying voice rang out from high above: "Someone's dead."
Immediately afterwards, a group of people rushed towards the government office, and the surrounding people hurriedly took cover, their eyes filled with fear. Someone shouted, "A ghost!"
Jiang Fenghua knew it wasn't a ghost, and seeing this, she ordered in a deep voice, "Where are the hidden guards?"
Instantly, the hidden guards who had been lying in the shadows appeared one after another to protect Jiang Fenghua and the others. "Master, step back."
Jiang Fenghua also had a soft sword hidden at her waist, on guard. "Aunt, you are pregnant. Step back behind me."
Since Gongsun Lan was pregnant, she naturally wouldn't step forward to cause trouble. She instructed the hidden guards, "Be careful of the poison on their bodies. Find a way to subdue them and try not to come into contact with their bodies. Something is amiss."
Ao Xue and Feng Qingyu quickly stepped in front to protect Jiang Fenghua and Gongsun Lan.
Wan Qianzi was so frightened that she hid behind Jiang Fenghua.
At this moment, the hidden guards drew their swords from their sheaths and pointed them at the crazed civilians. The civilians were so frightened by the flashing blades that they didn't move, but they felt extremely uncomfortable.
Jiang Fenghua saw a rope about the thickness of a thumb lying next to the yamen. She went forward, tore it off, and threw it to the hidden guards, saying, "Stop them, and try not to kill them."
The group of people who rushed over were just ordinary civilians with no martial arts skills. It would have been easy for the hidden guards to subdue them, but they seemed to have been poisoned and their bodies, faces, and necks were scratched raw, bleeding black blood. They had completely lost their minds.
Soon, they were restrained by ropes and tied together.
The surrounding people, who had been keeping their distance, began to peek out as these "ghostly" figures were subdued and slowly approached. Some recognized the menacing ghostly figure, exclaiming, "Isn't that Wan Zhong, the steward of the Wan family?"