Rouge wrong

Shen Cuo lingered on the bed for more than half an hour, and finally got out of bed under Yan Zhi's unremitting efforts. After washing up, it was already high in the sun.

The magistrate of Yanzhou sent people to wait outside early, but Shen Cuo was not in a hurry at all. After eating breakfast slowly, he left for the government office.

After the Jiangnan corruption case, the original prefect of Yanzhou has been promoted.But Shen Cuo, the magistrate, also knew him. He was the magistrate from Maoshan County.

In just a few years, he was promoted from an eighth-rank county magistrate to a fourth-rank magistrate. This is inseparable from his performance in corruption cases, and it is also related to the "accidental" deaths of many Jiangnan officials in the past two years.

Shen Cuo now wears rouge wherever he goes, and this time is no exception.

"Princess, you are here!" The magistrate welcomed Shen Cuo into the mansion with a look of fear and sincerity, "Jin Yiwei has brought a secret edict and has been waiting for you."

Shen Cuo raised his eyebrows, and asked in doubt: "Didn't you say that Wen Shi is going to come to Jiangnan? Why is Jin Yiwei here?"

"This... the lower officials don't know. According to Huo Qianhu, this secret edict is for you."

"Huo Qianhu?"

Jin Yiwei has a total of fourteen thousand households. Although they are only fifth-rank officials, because they are officials in the capital and serve the emperor's close servants, they are obviously higher in status than local officials of the fourth rank like the magistrate.

Shen Cuo frowned slightly when she heard Huo Zi, but Rouge beside her was already overjoyed.

Huo Wutong was promoted to the position of Thousand Households in less than two years. In addition to her high martial arts skills, it was also because the situation in the past two years was quite turbulent, which gave her many opportunities to make meritorious deeds.

Rouge has been communicating with her elder sister and younger brother by letters, knowing that not long ago Huo Wutong was promoted to the position of a thousand households due to her meritorious service in protecting the eldest princess, so she knew who it was when she heard the prefect's words.

"Shopkeeper Shen..."

"Hmph, I know..." Shen Cuo held Yan Zhi's hand awkwardly, and muttered, "I didn't tell you not to see her."

Rouge shook Shen Cuo's hand back, with a smile on the corner of her lips: "I know shopkeeper Shen loves people the most."

Shen Cuo frowned slightly, with a natural look: "It's natural, I'm not your sister, I have to separate you."

Rouge smiled without saying a word, the two followed the magistrate to the front hall, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw Huo Wutong sitting in it wearing a royal guard uniform.

"Princess..." Huo Wutong got up immediately when he saw the two, first greeted Shen Cuo, and then looked at his sister, "Rouge..."

Yan Zhi couldn't conceal the joy on her face, but because of the presence of Zhi Fu and Shen Cuo, she didn't show excessive excitement.

"elder sister……"

Shen Cuo dragged Rouge straight to the upper seat, and said unhappily, "Why are you here? I heard that knowledge is coming."

"Master Wen is naturally coming, but the emperor has an urgent order, ordering me to go first."

"The urgent edict is for me?"

Huo Wutong glanced at the magistrate, who immediately understood, exited the hall and closed the door, then Huo Wutong took out a letter from his arms and presented it to Shen Cuo.

"Master Wen must have known the purpose of coming to Jiangnan. The eldest princess was assassinated earlier, and the emperor suspected that this matter was also related to the Jiangnan family, so..."

Shen Cuo opened the wax while listening to Huo Wutong.

"I heard you saved my mother?"

"It's just the duty."

Shen Cuo read the contents of the letter at a glance, and crumpled the letter paper with a cold snort: "The imperial court thought that without the Tianming Sect, the world would be peaceful. I didn't expect that there would be no tigers in the mountains, monkeys called kings, and all kinds of jumping clowns." right?"

"Master said that the person who assassinated the eldest princess had the same martial arts as Tianming, so His Majesty sent me to ask you."

"Oh, ask? Didn't you come to spy on me?"

"The eldest princess believes that this matter has nothing to do with you or Tianming Sect, but the other party's martial arts methods are indeed similar to Tianming Sect's mind method, so I want to confirm it with you."

Shen Cuo looked at Huo Wutong's face carefully, and suddenly said: "You have suffered some serious internal injuries, right? Reach out your hand..."

"what……"

When Yanzhi heard that her sister was injured, she couldn't help being anxious. Huo Wutong hesitated for a moment, but sat aside obediently, and stretched out her hand towards Shen Cuo: "It's much better after resting for a while."

"Hmph, why are you trying to be strong?" Shen Cuo took Huo Wutong's pulse for a while, and said coldly, "Since your master can judge the opponent's martial arts based on this, how can I not know what kind of injury you have suffered?"

She let go of Huo Wutong's hand, turned to Yanzhi and said: "Brush and ink..."

Seeing that she was willing to heal her sister, Yan Zhi quickly took out a pen and ink from her waist, and the expression on her face changed from worry to relief: "Thank you, Shopkeeper Shen."

Facing Rouge, Shen Cuo's expression softened a lot in an instant, and he hummed: "Who said she is your sister."

Rouge's hand was serving Shen Cuo's pen and ink, but her face was slightly flushed. When Huo Wutong saw his sister's expression, the original premonition reappeared in his mind.

After two years, the younger sister who met again has grown into a slim cardamom girl.

Although she hasn't completely shed the immaturity on her face, Rouge is no longer a child no matter how she looks at it.

When she first saw the two of them coming in hand in hand, she didn't even recognize her sister.

Shen Cuo frantically wrote several pieces of paper, and asked Yan Zhi to pass it to Huo Wutong: "Do as the above said, and you can't use your internal strength within a month, otherwise the success will be in vain."

Huo Wutong carefully looked at her crazy grass, finally recognized the whole content, and asked with an uncertain expression: "Apart from taking internal and external medicine, do you need other people to use internal force to guide it?"

The old god Shen Cuo nodded: "Naturally, and it must be face-to-face, in ice water or in an ice cellar. Otherwise, the heat will not be dissipated, and the martial arts of both sides will be useless at least, and both will die at worst."

Huo Wutong's complexion changed slightly, while Rouge slightly turned away, thinking of something.

"is it you?"

"what?"

Huo Wutong struggled for a long time, finally made up his mind and asked: "Is it you who healed me? I heard from Master that only you can heal this injury in this world."

Shen Cuo glanced at her coldly: "Hmph, finally revealed the truth, right? I knew that my uncle sent you here to deliver the secret edict. There must be some kind of conspiracy. It really is for me to help you heal."

Huo Wutong was exposed on the spot, and she couldn't help showing embarrassment, but now that she has something to ask for, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and bear Shen Cuo's ridicule.

"The princess is kind, and Wutong is here to thank you."

Shen Cuo snorted coldly: "Don't think that I don't know your little thoughts, but I'm just too lazy to care about you.

I have told you the method, but for the treatment...you should find someone else.We don't know each other that well, so we can't face each other naked. "

"Shopkeeper Shen..." Rouge looked anxious, looked at Shen Cuo and Huo Wutong, and said with a trace of struggle, "Please help my sister."

Originally, Shen Cuo just didn't like Huo Wutong, but when he heard Yan Zhi's words, his expression became completely unhappy: "Why, do you want me to be naked with your sister?"

"This... I didn't mean that, it was just..."

Yanzhi's hesitation and struggle are precisely because of this, but when she knows that only Shen Cuo can heal this injury, her worry about her sister finally prevails.

Shen Cuo raised his eyebrows upside down, and said angrily: "If it wasn't for the fact that she is your sister, I wouldn't bother to care about her, and you actually want me to undress in front of her."

After hearing these words, Huo Wutong felt uneasy.If it wasn't for this injury that only Shen Cuo could heal, how could she be willing to use this aspect of healing with her?

"Since the princess doesn't want to help, Wutong doesn't force it, just pretend that I don't have this life."

Shen Cuo heard her say sadly, and said inexplicably: "If I don't want to, can't you find someone else? I have taught you all the methods, and it doesn't have to be me."

"But my master said..."

"Your master, your master, what does your master know? The person who hurt you has not mastered the kung fu, as long as the person with internal strength can help you guide the residual qi in the body according to the method I wrote.

Of course, if I was the one who hurt you... Hmph, then besides me, even the gods of Da Luo would not be able to save you, so it is better to waste your internal energy as soon as possible. "

Shen Cuo has always been too lazy to explain too much when speaking, this time the two sisters misunderstood what she meant, and it was only at this time that they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"It turns out that I misunderstood the princess."

Huo Wutong has been in the officialdom for two years, and his handling of things is obviously much smoother, and he behaves very flexibly and flexibly.

Rouge breathed a sigh of relief, but when she looked at Shen Cuo's expression again, she immediately realized that something was wrong - her reaction just now probably made the shopkeeper Shen unhappy.

"It's okay, can I go back now?"

Shen Cuo seemed to have completed some task, and he didn't want to stay any longer.

Huo Wutong understood her temper to some extent, and tried to bear it: "What do you think about the secret edict?"

"What do you think? My uncle is just doing it to himself. He thinks that a mere upright person can deter the martial arts world, but he doesn't know how many ghosts and snakes are hiding in the dark because of the power of the Tianming Sect. Now that I'm suffering backlash, maybe I should gloat It is."

Even Huo Wutong could hear that Shen Cuo's words were angry words. She might not care about the court, but she couldn't ignore the safety of her knowledge.

"The princess is joking..."

Shen Cuo hasn't seen Huo Wutong for two years, but he didn't expect her to be so smooth and sophisticated now, and said very boringly: "Forget it, you are just a messenger, what do I care about with you? I don't care what the court wants to do to them, yes Whether I want to wait for the evidence to be conclusive and catch them all at once, or arrest them first for a trumped-up charge, I will not intervene.

But Wen Shi is a companion I grew up with, if someone wants to harm her, I will never show mercy. "

After hearing this, Huo Wutong finally felt at ease: "Thank you Princess, the safety of Wen Xunguan depends on the Princess."

At the beginning, the imperial court rectified Jiangnan with lightning speed, and it can be said that the effect was remarkable.

However, the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River are deeply intertwined, and not all of them can be eradicated with one action.

After that, they not only became more united, but also acted more low-key.

After the Northwest Earthquake, the folks gradually spread unfavorable remarks against the court, the emperor, and the eldest princess.

Liu Rongzhi personally sat in the township, and it took two years to rectify the three northwestern provinces and rebuild people's livelihood.

Jin Yiwei has been tracking down the mastermind behind the scenes, and finally found out that it is actually related to those aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River.

Only this time, the opponent is not only more cunning, but also has expert help.Not only did officials die for no reason from time to time in Jiangnan official circles, even Jinyiwei lost more than 100 school lieutenants in just two years, including many general banners, hundreds of households, and even two thousand households.

Seeing that the secret investigation was no longer feasible, the emperor simply appointed Wen Shi as the inspector censor. On the surface, it was to investigate the death of Jin Yiwei, but in fact it was launching a second war against the Jiangnan family.