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Li Xuan sat up straight slowly, lifted the wolf skin with both hands, stretched it lightly, and then gently draped it over Lan Jing's body. A bundle down the waist, it seems to be a wolfskin mandarin jacket, thick and warm.

Lan Jing froze her body in surprise at first, then stroked the not-so-soft wolf fur in flattery, and looked at Li Xuan with eyes full of emotion.

"Is it warm?" Li Xuan hugged his shoulders and leaned back slowly, his sword eyebrows raised lightly, with a hint of complacency, "You are weak, although this thing is a bit ugly, but it can keep out the cold."

"It's not ugly." Lan Jing shook her head vigorously, and obediently put it in his arms. This thing is more than just warming up the cold, it almost warms her heart.

Li Xuan put his arms around his back, gently hugged him by his side, and continued to speak seriously: "If the matter of accepting bribes is proved to be solid, will the regent protect him forcibly?"

"If the evidence is convincing, it shouldn't be." Lan Jing frowned, and replied with some certainty, "If he really disregards the law and discipline, and his subordinates will follow suit in the future, it will be difficult for him to act. What's more What's more, even if he is in full power now, he has not yet reached the point where he can speak his mind, so we still have to take some points into account after all."

"That's good." Li Xuan raised his lips and smiled, "Let's find a way to collect evidence, leak this money bag, and cut off his money, how about it?"

"That's right." Lan Jing nodded approvingly and smiled, "Even if he supports other cronies to take up the post, he won't be able to handle it in a short time."

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After eating something, they took a nap around the bonfire for a while, and when Li Xuan opened his eyes again, the sky was already dawning.

The cold wind that blew all night gradually subsided a lot, but the weather was still frighteningly cold. Lan Jing hugged her hands on her chest, even though she was wearing an extra layer of wolf fur, she still walked beside Li Xuan shiveringly.Li Xuan glanced at him sideways, without saying a word, silently covered his cold fingers into his palm.

Lan Jing was startled, raised her head and met his loving eyes.He raised his small face and smiled slightly, his phoenix eyes were bent into a beautiful arc, the warmth of the palm was quietly transmitted to his hands, but it seemed to warm his heart.

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Since it was going down the river, it was not safe to walk in the dense forest, so everyone simply walked south along the gravel path along the river bank.

Fortunately, after only two short days of eating and sleeping in the open air, everyone came to a bustling riverside town.Maybe it's because the wind has calmed down recently. The waves here are not as big as before. A few plainly dressed village women are squatting by the river washing coarse clothes, occasionally raising their heads to chat, with peaceful smiles on their faces.

"Excuse me, is there an inn near here?" Ling Feng walked in the front and stopped a middle-aged man and asked in a low voice.

The man looked at his stern face in astonishment. There were still a few traces of swords and swords faintly visible on some of the torn clothes. He immediately shook his lips in fear, pointed to a shop at the end of the market and stammered: "Yes... yes ...Just go to the one on the west side of the head..."

"Thank you." Ling Feng nodded slightly, glanced at the two people behind him, and continued walking along the bustling market.

When the four of them stood outside the inn door together, they suddenly realized a rather serious problem at the same time.All the luggage sank into the bottom of the river with the boat, and the money bag on Ling Feng's body was also touched by the water bandit leader.

In other words, none of them had any money on them...

Everyone looked at each other in embarrassment, only Lan Jing burst out laughing, took off the jade pendant from her waist, and stuffed it into Ling Feng's hand.

"what?"

At the next moment, Lanjing suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Li Xuan. She touched his chest with both hands up and down for a long time, and then asked a little uneasy, "Where is the pendant I gave you?"

I was tired of being in his arms last night, but looking back today, I still haven't seen any trace of that thing.

Li Xuan grabbed his wrist with a slight smile, slowly pulled out the small emerald green gourd from the strap on his forearm, held it in front of his eyes with one hand: "You can't lose what you gave me."

The intact jade pendant reflected a soft gleam in the sun, but the red silk lanyard was stained with blood and was cut into two by a sharp knife.

"No wonder you had the upper hand at that time, but you fell into the water inexplicably..." Before Lan Jing could speak, Ling Feng suddenly opened his mouth and looked at him in astonishment, "Is it to pick up this pendant?"

Li Xuan gave him a gouged look coldly, Ling Feng immediately covered his mouth and shrank his neck in embarrassment.

It seems like he... knows too much? !

"What he said...is it true?!" Lan Jing did not intend to let go of this matter, she desperately opened her eyes wide, and looked at him motionlessly with her amber pupils, "So your sword wound is also the same one. When did you receive it?"

"Uh...um." Li Xuan knew that he couldn't hide it, so he nodded lightly, and changed the subject silently, "Fortunately, I still have time to pick it up. If it sinks into the river, it will be..."

Before he finished speaking, Lan Jing grabbed the pendant with tears in her eyes, and made a gesture to throw it out.

Seeing this posture, Ling Feng hurriedly prepared to rush to the street to pick it up.

Unexpectedly, Li Xuan's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he immediately grabbed his hand, making him unable to break free at all.

"I gave you this to let it protect you, bless you, not to kill you with it!!" Lan Jing clutched the jade pendant tightly, her knuckles turned pale under the force, he Raising his head to look at Li Xuan's deep black eyes, tears fell down uncontrollably.

"You gave me, it's mine." Li Xuan slowly wiped away his tears with his thumb, hugged him tightly, kissed his hair lightly and said, "Aren't I fine now?! "

"Could it be..." Li Xuan paused intentionally, then whispered in his ear and joked, "You see, I treasure it so much, are you jealous?"

Lan Jing burst into laughter immediately, and stuffed the jade pendant back into his hand resentfully, squinting at him with teary eyes, and teasingly said: "Of course it's jealous, it can lie in your arms every day, sticking to it. How can I compare to your chest?"

Li Xuan stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around his head, lowered his eyes softly, licked and kissed his brows and eyes a few times, until Lanjing gasped slightly in a daze, then covered his ear with a hoarse voice and whispered He murmured softly: "You can cry every night and call me Husband, but it can't."

Lan Jing's face turned red up to her ears, she hurriedly turned her head to look at Qiu Yang and the others, wondering if they heard what Li Xuan just said.

However, Qiu Yang blushed slightly, looking down at the ground without saying a word, while Ling Feng held his forehead with one hand to cover up, and looked towards the middle of the market as if to cover up.

Lan Jing gave him a hard look, coughed dryly twice, and said seriously: "This town is not small, I wonder if there is a branch of Jinyu Bank."

"Yes, it seems that I passed by just now, and I didn't really know how hurried I was." Ling Feng hesitated for a moment, and suddenly realized, "Subordinate... this subordinate will go 'get' some money and come back..."

Ling Feng glanced at Li Xuan carefully, hesitated for a moment and finally chose such a word.Qiu Yang originally lowered his head, but suddenly raised his face to look at him, and seriously dissuaded him: "Brother Lingfeng, my father once said that a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way, even if we are poor and have no money to live in a hotel, Also... don't steal..."

He looked sideways at the river not far away, and whispered timidly: "I... I can go catch some fish and sell them in the market..."

Dare he treat himself as a thief? !

Ling Feng looked at his serious look, put his arms on his shoulders, tilted his head and teased, "How much does a fish cost?"

"Uh... about [-] Wen..." Qiu Yang seriously made the calculations in his heart, and whispered with a frown.

"How much is the most common room for one night?" Ling Feng raised his finger and pointed at the inn in front of him, and continued jokingly.

"Hmm... About one tael of silver..." He blushed slightly, but his head drooped deeper and deeper, rubbing the coarse cloth skirt on his body with some embarrassment.

"So, when you catch fifty fish and sell them, don't you want us to freeze them by the river for a few days?" Ling Feng laughed heartlessly, but he didn't notice that Qiu Yang was already so popular The little face at the base of the ear.

"Don't bully him." Lan Jing looked at Qiu Yang's pitiful look, shook her head and said, "You should go and treat this jade pendant."

Ling Feng clasped his fists in salute and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Xuan.He reached into the skirt of his clothes, and after struggling for a long time, he took out a bank note that had been soaked in water from the interlayer of his clothes.

"This is a bank note specially ordered by His Majesty Chu Commander before leaving, and it happens to be from the Jinyu Bank." Li Xuan gently unfolded the crumpled paper, the handwriting was still clearly visible, and handed it to Ling Feng In front of him, "Just exchange the silver directly, don't pawn the jade pendant."

"Brother Huang, why did you ask Chu Xiao to give it to you, but not to me?!" Lan Jing snorted softly, thinking of the intimacy between the two when Chu Xiao came to see him off that day, she still had a feeling of growing jealousy. He continued to refute with a dark face.

"If I gave it to you, I'm afraid it will be used up before I know it. There's no need for emergency." Li Xuan stroked his long black hair and said with a smile, "I'll take you for a walk by the river. Let Qiu Yang follow Ling Feng."

Lan Jing had no ability to resist his deep voice, just a little coaxing, he immediately surrendered.

"Ling Feng..." Lan Jing nodded lightly, turned around and looked at Ling Feng, calling out in a low voice while staring at him meaningfully.

"The subordinate knows." Ling Feng quietly looked away, bowed his head seriously and said, "Master, don't go too far, the subordinate will come back after going."

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500 taels of silver is really not a small amount, and there is a tray full of it on the mahogany square table, dazzling people's eyes.

Qiu Yang was waiting in the lobby of the bank, and Ling Feng sat alone in a beautifully decorated inner hall drinking tea, looking up at the white money, always wanting to stuff it into the money bag that Lan Jin had squeezed dry impulse.

There was a unique knock on the door, and Ling Feng put down his teacup, and replied in a low voice, "Come in."

A muscular man in military uniform slowly opened the door and walked up to him, respectfully kowtowing: "Master Ling!"

"How's it going?" Ling Feng asked in a succinct and deep voice with a cold face.

The man took out a confidential letter from his arms and handed it to Ling Feng, and said with lowered eyes: "There has been a lot of progress, and the subordinates are still investigating."

"Well, if there is anything urgent, find a way to contact me." Ling Feng pursed his lips, pointed at the silver on the table and said coldly, "Wrap it up for me."