After I became a passerby, I saved the villain's family

For the next few days, Jiang Ci'an sent snacks to Yi Lan in different ways every day.

Today’s dish is date paste pastry.

Tomorrow it’s crab cakes.

The day after tomorrow will be Begonia cake.

Osmanthus cake, plum jelly, water chestnut cake...

Yi Lan would always say "thank you" every time.

Apart from this, the two had no other communication.

Even so, Jiang Ci'an enjoyed it.

Seven or eight days passed like this.

Early in the morning of this day, Jiang Ci'an came to the stall leisurely, carrying walnut cakes in his hand.

As usual, Yi Lan had already sat down at the stall early, with the big knife still beside him.

Jiang Ci'an put the oil paper bag on the table and was about to sit down at the table next to him.

"Sit here." Yi Lan said lightly.

what?

Jiang Ci'an was stunned.

Sit here?

At the same table with her?

Did he hear it correctly?

Jiang Ci'an looked at Yi Lan.

Yi Lan had already picked up the bowl and started drinking.

Jiang Ci'an felt excited.

He carefully pulled out the chair opposite Yi Lan and sat down somewhat at a loss.

Jiang Ci'an felt that he had to say something.

I was thinking about what topic to come up with so that it wouldn't be awkward.

"The cakes you sent are delicious."

Just as I was racking my brains to think of a topic, Yi Lan suddenly spoke.

Yes, pastries!

Jiang Ci'an grinned.

"These cakes are made by my family's cook. They are no worse than those sold in shops outside. If you like them, I will give them to you every day in the future..."

"Tell me what you want from me."

Yi Lan spoke up, interrupting his chatter.

Jiang Ci settled down.

It seemed that he had made her misunderstand him, so he quickly explained:

"Miss Yilan, you misunderstood. I don't want to ask you to do anything for me. I just want to make friends with you."

friend?

Yi Lan snorted coldly.

She doesn't need friends.

Yi Lan looked at Jiang Ci'an.

Also.

The second young master of the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion, the most promising general in Dacheng’s future.

How could I ask her to do something?

However, she doesn't like to owe favors to others.

"I'll consider these pastries as something I owe you. When you decide what you want, come back and find me."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to Jiang Ci'an, picked up the walnut cake on the table, stood up and left.

Jiang Ci'an looked at her back as she left.

The sentence she just said was the longest sentence she had ever said to him since they met.

I couldn't help but feel secretly happy in my heart.

She said she owed him...

After not seeing Jiang Ci'an for several days, Mrs. Jiang finally realized that something was wrong.

"Fuping, where is your young master?"

How come he hasn't been seen in the morning for several days?

Fu Ping still spoke expressionlessly: "Madam, the second young master has been busy in the army recently, so he goes out early every day."

So busy? No time for breakfast?

As he was thinking about it, his chopsticks reached for the small plate of walnut cakes in front of him.

His hand paused slightly.

"Why are there so few walnut cookies today?"

Mrs. Jiang’s favorite walnut cake is sweet but not greasy. The kitchen always makes a large plate of it every time.

But today, Xiaodie only has a few pieces.

Aunt Xu explained awkwardly, "The Second Young Master said that he didn't have time to eat in the morning, so he took some cakes from the kitchen to fill his stomach every day."

I usually take a lot, but today I made the walnut cookies that Mrs. Jiang liked, so she discovered it.

It turns out that An'er took it.

Mrs. Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. She no longer had to worry about him being hungry in the morning.

Jiang Ci'an came to the military camp with a happy face.

As soon as I arrived at the meeting room, I saw Yuan Guang standing in the room with a serious face.

Jiang Ci'an suppressed the joy in his heart.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ci'an sat at the top seat.

Yuan Guang saw Jiang Ci'an coming and hurried forward to report.

"General, the owner of the note has been found."

Jiang Ci'an sat up straight.

"On the day of Master Xiao Jiang's wedding, you ordered your subordinates to record the buyers of this paper one by one and check those families that have connections with the Kyoto nobles."

"My subordinates checked one by one and locked the target on a family with the surname Lu."

"The Lu family consists of three people. Father Lu and Mother Lu are very old, and the old couple only have one son, Lu Fang."

"Lu Fang is over 30 years old, and has long passed the age of reading and writing. He is still unmarried and has no children at home who need to use writing brushes."

"I followed Lu Fang's lead and found that he is now the personal attendant of Uncle He in the He Mansion."

Jiang Ci'an frowned.

It turned out to be the He family.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince’s guess was correct, it was indeed the Third Prince who was responsible.

"General, what should we do next?" Yuan Guang asked.

Jiang Ci'an pondered for a while.

"Send someone to keep a close eye on the Lu family and Lu Fang. They lost several spies before and have not dared to act rashly recently. I guess they will take action soon." Jiang Ci'an arranged.

"Yes, I understand." Yuan Guang responded.

As Jiang Ci'an expected, he received the information from the spy that night.

Yuan Guang sent someone to follow Lu Fang and found that after he came out of He Mansion in the evening, he did not go home directly, but went to a courtyard in the west of the city.

"Let's go, take people to the west of the city."

Jiang Ci'an took his sword and strode out of the camp.

Jiang Ci'an brought twenty elite soldiers and quietly arrived outside the courtyard in the west of the city.

There was silence all around.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Ci'an asked.

"General, Lu Fang entered the yard at dark and has not come out since then." The subordinate replied.

"it is good."

Jiang Ci'an turned around and told Yuan Guang, "You take a group of people and go in through the back door. Make sure you guard the courtyard and don't let them escape. The rest of you follow me in through the front door."

Yuan Guang nodded and led a group of people to quietly move towards the back door.

Jiang Ci'an made a gesture.

Two elite soldiers crouched and quickly came to the main gate and took out the two guards outside.

Quietly opening the door, a group of people hurried into the yard and ran towards the lighted room.

Several people in the room were studying a map.

"Clang!"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang and the door was slammed open.

"The Beixin Kingdom's spy is here, capture him!"

Jiang Ci'an stood at the door with a cold look.

The spies reacted very quickly, pulling out the knives from under the table and starting to fight with the elite soldiers who broke in.

Seeing this, Lu Fang no longer cared about the things scattered on the table and took advantage of the chaos to escape through the door.

Jiang Ci'an swung the knife, and the blade stopped just in front of his face.

"Want to run?"

"Catch him!"

An elite soldier came up from behind and quickly tied up Lu Fang and stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth.

The spies gradually found it difficult to win, and seeing that they could not win the battle, two of them stayed behind to disperse the troops, while the other two escaped through the window.

"Chase!" Jiang Ci'an quickly chased after him.

One of the spies was intercepted by Yuan Guang, while the other one was agile and avoided the blockade of several elite soldiers and escaped from the roof.

"stop!"

Jiang Ci'an chased after him closely.

The two men ran farther and farther, and were about to be caught up. Jiang Ci'an raised the big knife in his hand and swung forward.

Suddenly, a long sword stabbed out from the side.

"Zheng——"

The weapons collided, making a harsh sound of metal collision.