From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 583

It was almost dawn.

Guan Caixi left.

She did not answer Zhou Yuan's question, nor did she tell Zhou Yuan where she was going. She just returned to her yard, sat alone, and quietly waited for dawn.

Zhou Yuan's words were both to comfort her and to soothe his emotions.

Along the way, the world has gone by, has the Tao heart wavered?

Are the twists and turns of fate enough to make people sigh? Or is the dawn at the end something to yearn for?

It is undeniable that Zhou Yuan's Tao heart has not changed, but his spirit is already very tired.

It is a good practice to relieve your own mental pressure by comforting others.

"Are you trying to persuade me too?"

At some point, Li Yu'an had already come to his side, her eyes dim, and she said, "Fate gave me a beautiful face and unparalleled martial arts talent, but it made my family broken up, and I wandered in a foreign land, and even my own country was usurped..."

At this point, she paused slightly and shook her head, saying, "But... this is too unfair. What it gave me is not what I care about most, but what it took away is more important than my life."

"Fate is too unfair..."

Zhou Yuan grabbed her hand and said in a deep voice, "So fate made you meet me!"

"I'm just... Just to comfort Caixi, and not to sigh about the depressed fate. The most difficult moment of the southward salt inspection has passed, and success is before our eyes. "

"As long as the firearms bureau and Fuzhou Baochuan factory are open, everything will be easy."

"At dawn, my information will arrive! That's when we really close the net."

Li Yu'an laughed, hugged his arm, and said with a smile: "I'm not depressed, I just saw that you were too tired, and wanted to comfort you."

Zhou Yuan waved his hand and said: "No need, I'm already very excited now."

"Want to be more excited?"

Li Yu'an blinked.

Is there another unexpected surprise?

Zhou Yuan's heart moved, and he couldn't help asking: "Why are you excited?"

Li Yu'an's eyes were as charming as silk, and she whispered: "Maybe you already knew yesterday, I'm very clean..."

She blinked and said: "Not a single one, right?"

Zhou Yuan swallowed his saliva immediately, and nodded quickly: "Yes... But after all, I just used my hands to explore the situation, and didn't see it with my own eyes... I want to see the tiger... Woo woo..."

Zhou Yuan's mouth was covered.

Li Yu'an said: "Your master is the same as me..."

Zhou Yuan suddenly widened his eyes, and felt that his heart was about to jump out. Just as he was about to speak, a roar came from outside.

"Jie Shuai! Jie Shuai! Haha, we caught Lei Qiang!"

Dong Yu ran in excitedly and shouted, "That kid wanted to leave the city, damn, he was blocked by a group of martial arts masters."

Seeing Zhou Yuan's face dark and silent, he couldn't help but glared and said, "Jie Shuai, what happened?"

Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, you, you did a great job, I've been itching to learn skills recently, just in time to find you to learn from each other."

He picked up a stick and rushed towards Dong Yu.

Watching the two chasing each other in the yard, Li Yu'an covered her mouth and laughed, and her face turned red.

She stared at Zhou Yuan blankly and murmured, "Silly, if you like it, I will definitely help you get it!"

...

After teaching Dong Yu a good lesson, Zhou Yuan felt relaxed all over, and had to sigh that the Virgin Mary was really good at comforting people.

He is full of energy now!

Even a little hot!

Damn it, I haven't eaten meat for so long, I have to deal with these bastards quickly, and then have a good meal of meat!

The Virgin Sister is right in front of me, but I can't eat her. It's really annoying!

He strode out, and Guan Lu and others also gathered around, following Zhou Yuan to the government office.

The people who got up early saw this scene, and then remembered the shouting and killing last night, and knew that something big had happened, and they all avoided it.

All the way to the prison, Zhou Yuan finally saw the people of the six major families.

"Duke! Duke, spare my life! We agreed! Royal Merchant!"

Xu Guangchao was shouting, but Zhou Yuan ignored him.

He walked to Wu Qinghe's side, looked at the old man with gray hair and beard, and said lightly: "Hurry up and tell the truth. It's no good for you to delay."

Wu Qinghe smiled bitterly and said: "At this point, what else do we have to tell? What's the benefit? The extermination of the nine clans is already doomed."

Zhou Yuan said: "Whether to exterminate the nine clans is not up to you, but to me."

"Whether you rebelled last night or the Wusheng Sect was in chaos, that's also up to me."

Wu Qinghe laughed and said: "Do you think the inner court is a vegetarian? The things here can't be hidden from His Majesty!"

Zhou Yuan said: "No need"If I say it was the Wusheng Sect that was causing the rebellion, then Your Majesty is willing to believe that it was the Wusheng Sect that was causing the rebellion."

"Wu Qinghe, exterminating the nine clans is different from exterminating the entire family. The latter only means that your entire family will die, while the former... even the one in the court will not survive."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuan narrowed his eyes and said, "Your brother was once my boss and helped me a little bit. I don't want to kill all of your Wu family."

The Wu family, the first family in Yangzhou, is not only engaged in business, but also has many scholars in the family.

Wu Qingrong, the Minister of War, is the most representative figure among them. He has reached the position of a second-rank official and a pillar of the court.

As long as he is not a rebellion, he will not die.

Wu Qinghe shook his head and said, "It's too late, everything is too late. You don't think that your brother has not spent the family's money for so many years, right? "

To be an official, you need to have personal connections, which, of course, costs money.

Wu Qingrong, the Minister of War, has always been greedy for money, and he is naturally involved in the smuggling of salt.

Zhou Yuan said: "Tell us everything you know, write it down on paper, the more detailed the better, and put your fingerprints on it."

"I will count your merit as merit, and I will advise His Majesty to leave a descendant for your Wu family."

"You can choose two males, and I will send them to Qiongzhou, as a legacy for your Wu family."

"This is your best way out at the moment. You can choose to refuse, or you can choose to wait, waiting for Guan Lindu to save you."

"But from the current situation, he would like you all to die."

When it comes to being betrayed by Guan Lindu, Wu Qinghe's face is distorted.

He looked up at Zhou Yuan and said in a trembling voice: "Duke, if we tell everything, can we sentence our whole family to exile? "

Zhou Yuan said: "It's too late. Without what happened last night, I could still do it. But now, no one can protect you, not even His Majesty."

Wu Qinghe took a deep breath, his face stiff, but tears were streaming down his face.

He said in a trembling voice: "There was hope, we had hope, Guan Lindu, this old thief, really deserves death!"

He looked at Zhou Yuan suddenly and said loudly: "Duke Wei promised to leave a descendant for the Wu family, is it true or false?"

Zhou Yuan said proudly: "I am a military general, I spit and I don't bother to go back on my word."

"Okay! I'll write! I want to write down all the sins in this city! The filth in this world! All of them!"

"Salt merchants are abandoned! But they can't live! "

Zhou Yuan asked someone to prepare a pen for him, and Guan Lu supervised and reminded him to let Wu Qinghe write.

After walking out of the prison, Zhao Cheng found Zhou Yuan and frowned, saying, "Zi Yi, if you don't remove the root of the problem, it will only increase the hidden dangers. You are an official, how can you be soft-hearted?"

Zhou Yuan said, "Since you have made a promise, you must practice it."

"But I didn't promise to leave a descendant for the Wu family. I just promised to advise your majesty, but with your majesty's means, what do you think she will do?"

The queen is ruthless and never leaves any roots of trouble.

Even if she promised Zhou Yuan, she would use other means to remove the root of the problem.

Dong Yu strode in and whispered, "General, the army has arrived."

"The garrisons of Taizhou, Fengyang, Jinling, Huai'an, Suzhou and other places have all come, and Yangzhou has been surrounded."

"If they attack the city, we can't defend it. "

"After all, we have too few people. Including the remaining garrison forces in Yangzhou, there are only 3,000 people."

"The other side has 12,000 people and carries siege equipment."

Zhou Yuan laughed and murmured: "The Jiangnan Salt Tour is finally coming to an end."