Chapter 166: The Sun Family - Rebirth of the Noble Daughter
Chapter 166: The Sun Family
"Before leaving, Big Brother specifically came to find me and asked a lot about the situation in Jiangnan. I guessed he wanted to investigate the Ministry of Transportation, so I told him everything about Sister Banxia's matters, even meticulously checked the New Year gifts. We didn't find anything unusual. When I was in Jiangnan, I heard a lot about local officials from the common people. I thought it might be useful, so I told him everything."
Bai Xiang rubbed the black pieces back and forth in his hand, his face expressionless, but his mind didn't stop thinking.
Beside him, elder Xu leaned in, puzzled, and asked repeatedly, "Who is Sister Banxia?"
"The daughter of the Inspector of Huaiyin, Sun Banxia."
When Master Xu heard the title 'Inspector of Huaiyin,' his joking face suddenly collapsed. He said solemnly to Bai Xiang, "I just got the news this morning that this Inspector Sun has disappeared."
"What?"
Disappeared? Bai Xiang's brow furrowed even deeper. It seemed likely that the news of Sun Banxia delivering the New Year gifts had been leaked, so did the Wei family send someone to kill him? Or did he play a trick and disappear under a false name?
Anything was possible.
"Do you know where he disappeared?"
Elder Xu shook his head. "It was discovered by a minor official in the Ministry of Transportation early this morning. As you know, Huaiyin is at least a thousand miles away from the Eastern Capital, and now is not the time for the Ministry of Transportation to collect grain and taxes, so it's normal for him to be absent for a week or half a month."
"When did he find out that Inspector Sun was missing?"
"Three days ago. After realizing something was wrong, he specially went to the Sun's mansion to investigate. Sure enough, he was not at home or at the yamen. He could be said to have disappeared out of thin air."
At first, elder Xu didn't pay much attention to this news. It was just something he happened to hear at the Prince Ding's residence. He had no connection with the Ministry of Transportation, so he didn't care much.
If it hadn't been mentioned today, he would probably have thought it was an accident.
Now it seemed like a tightly woven net, aiming to cover up all the dirty deeds of the Ministry of Transportation!
Upon hearing this news, Feng Jinyao couldn't help but gasp.
Because of her rebirth, some things seemed different from her previous life.
For example, this Uncle Sun, in her previous life, he couldn't join them, and he turned against them, which led to her father's death with no place to bury him. Now that the Inspector of Huaiyin had died, he had disappeared. Who was behind this?
However, according to common sense, the Wei family was the prime suspect.
"Grandfather, if Uncle Sun has disappeared, isn't the whole Sun family in danger?"
With this Inspector Sun involved, there was a blood feud between them, but Banxia was different. She had never been involved in the Ministry of Transportation. When the Feng family was in trouble, she had also helped them. She remembered this favor and naturally worried about her safety.
"As long as the Sun family is involved, Inspector Sun has disappeared. Before Inspector Sun is found, the Sun family is temporarily safe, but there will be no shortage of people watching them. You said last time that he had the embezzlement ledger of the Ministry of Transportation in his hands. His disappearance is definitely related to this. In this way, instead of trying to find someone, it is better to watch the Wei family closely. They are more anxious to find this person than we are!"
Master Xu nodded, quite agreeing with Bai Xiang's words.
"I'll handle this."
Elder Xu spoke, but did not disclose the relationship with Prince Ding. Now only he and Bai Xiang knew the secrets of Prince Ding. Everyone else thought Prince Ding was weak and sickly and would die soon.
So it's better to keep quiet.
Bai Xiang nodded gently, and everything was tacit.
Here, there was still a state of exhaustion and thoughtfulness in the study, but in the mansion of Prince Ding, it was already a posture of vigilance.
"Dikong's Duoke Khan died of a sudden illness, and the new Prince Keda is a bellicose man. Now he is plundering everywhere on the grasslands and expanding his territory. Before I left the northwest, Dikong's army had almost unified the grasslands."
The man was a scout arranged by Prince Ding in the northwest, and he rushed back to report, but it was half a month since he left the northwest.
Now, it is probably the Dikong army that has already unified many tribes on the grassland, and the next step is to aim at the northwest of the Great Jin Dynasty.
"Hmph, Prince Keda is just a man of courage and no strategy. His military adviser behind him is the difficult one to deal with."
Xiao Tingyi had been ambushed by him in the Southern Yue War. Even the ambush incident was not without his calculations.
It can be said that this military adviser and the entire mansion of Prince Ding, even the army of Prince Ding, are enemies who do not die.
"He ran fast. After the prince defeated Southern Yue, he heard that the king of Southern Yue was furious and that the army of Jingwei suffered heavy losses, he insisted on taking him to sacrifice his flag, but unexpectedly he escaped. He disappeared from the public eye for ten years and now he has appeared in the Dikong army. It's really looking for death!"
Yang Zhao hated him so much. Ten years ago, his calculations almost caused the death of the prince in the southwest. If not for Doctor Zhang's timely treatment, I'm afraid the prince's bones would have been chewed up by the loess.
How can he not hate him!
Suzhou was also furious, "Although the northwest is not the granary of our Great Jin, the mineral resources are abundant, especially the three large iron mines under the Feng family. If they fall into the hands of the Dikong army, I don't know how many weapons will be made and how many territories and lives will be destroyed!"
Now, he is not the spoiled son Suzhou known to the world, but the deputy head of the security camp of Prince Ding's mansion, Suzhou, with a serious face, which is quite different from the style he usually sees.
In the mansion of the prince, there are also two generals who came to the southwest this year and returned.
They are Mochun, the general of the Wind Rider, and Hongtao, the general of the Thunderbolt Camp.
Mochun was about thirty years old, handsome like a jade-faced young man, very handsome, white and tender, like a bun just out of the oven, not at all like a man marching and fighting.
Hongtao looked much older, in his forties, with a scar on his left cheek from his brow to his left cheek, a mark left by the Southern Yue War.
Originally, Zhang Shenyi wanted to use medicine to remove it, but he was deeply proud and would not die. He had to give up.
Paired with his sideburns, he looks like a fierce warrior, but slightly fierce.
"Your Royal Highness, let me go and see that the Dikong army will definitely kill them!" Hong Tao, whose name is the same as his, spoke loudly and loudly, penetrating half of the study. Fortunately, Prince Ding's residence is heavily guarded. Otherwise, with his voice, he would have found out the secrets of Prince Ding without investigation.
The voice is solid, powerful, and has a few generals' iron-blooded majesty!
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