Chapter 258, Black and White Shuangsha
Entering the winter moon, the weather is getting colder and getting dark earlier.
In winter, everyone had dinner and took a rest early.
There are only a few sporadic lights on in Wuchangbo Mansion, among which the lights in the study of Lanyuelou are the brightest.
In the study room, several pots of silver charcoal were burning vigorously. Compared with the biting cold wind outside, the room was as warm as spring.
Shi Fuxin, who was wearing a lotus-colored skirt, was standing by the wall at the moment, and pasted a small red flower on the map of Dachu hanging on the wall. After pasting it, she took a few steps back, full of smiles Looking at the map.
On the map, the northern border has been covered by small green flowers, and the small red flowers are plastered all over the provincial capitals of Dachu.
The small green flowers represent Shennongtang branches. There are nine in the northwest border area, eight in northern Xinjiang, and nine in Liaodong. A total of 24 Shennongtang branches have all opened for business.
The little red flower represents the branches of Hongyanxiao. There are 26 provinces in Dachu.
Shi Fuxin looked at the colorful map with satisfaction, and then pasted two small yellow flowers on the Blue Sky Ranch in Liaodong and Baiyun Island in Beihai respectively.
Seeing that there are twenty or thirty little green flowers and little red flowers, while there are only two little yellow flowers, Shi Fuxin is a little dissatisfied.
We have to continue to expand the territory!
The medicinal materials and raw materials produced by a pasture and an island cannot meet the needs of all Shennongtang and Hongyanxiao shops.
Shi Fuxin turned her gaze to the south of the map.
I heard that there are many islands in the sea to the south.
Shi Fuxin suppressed the eagerness to move in her heart. As the saying goes, it is easier to defend the country than it is to defend the country. The Shennongtang branch and the Hongyanxiao branch add up to fifty or sixty stores. It is not easy to manage.
Walking in front of the table, Shi Fuxin began to read the local price information submitted by the branch stores of Hongyanxiao in various provincial capitals.
Although the branches of Confidante in various provincial capitals are managed by cooperative local businessmen, the person in charge of purchasing the stores is personally sent by Shi Fuxin.
One is to better coordinate sales and supply, and the other is to help her collect information from various places.
Shennongtang, she not only wants to open in the northern border area, but also wants to open in the southern provinces.
When Shennongtang is opened all over Dachu, she will also build Shennongtang Women's Medical College.
However, this store doesn’t just open just by saying it.
The Shennongtang branch was able to open in the northern border area because of the needs of the army. Even if the interests of some people were violated, these people did not dare to clamor.
And Hong Yanxiao can open ten branches in the capital because she is backed by the National Women's Supervisor. Sometimes the emperor will intervene, and the jealous people can only watch eagerly.
Whether it is Shennongtang or Hongyanxiao, it is difficult to open a branch elsewhere.
The market is so big. If the business of Shennongtang and Hongyanxiao is good, they will inevitably seize the interests of others. The local family merchants will definitely join hands to suppress it.
It is for this reason that she has to choose to cooperate with local businessmen in the branches of Confidante in various provincial capitals.
Hongyanxiao can cooperate, but Shennongtang can't.
Now that the provincial governments have opened branches of Hongyanxiao, she has to use the resources of the branches to prepare for the opening of Shennongtang branches in the future.
While Shi Fu was carefully understanding the situation in various places, after two months, under the leadership of the First Prince, the plague in Jianghan Province was finally contained. Moreover, the First Prince personally supervised and watched the local officials distribute the relief food. distributed to the victims.
The emperor was very happy after receiving the report from Jianghan Chief Envoy, and praised the eldest prince in the morning. After going to court, he went to the Shoukang Palace of the Empress Dowager and praised An Guogong.
The Jianghan plague has been resolved, and the disaster has been effectively alleviated. The eldest prince's errand has been completed beautifully.
The emperor was happy about this, but the crown prince and other princes were downcast.
Eldest Prince, the eldest son of the Empress Yuan, the most legitimate heir to the throne, his identity is like a mountain in the hearts of the princes.
The affairs in the court hall have nothing to do with the family members of the prostitutes. In the winter months, it is the time to sit around the stove and eat barbecue.
During the 15th day of the winter month, because it snowed heavily the night before, the snow scene in the yard was excellent. Early on, Jin Yuee posted a post to the family members, inviting everyone to come to Yigui courtyard to enjoy the snow and eat barbecue.
Two days ago, Shi Zhenghe and his men hunted a few deer in the countryside, and brought back two, one for the mansion, and one for his wife and children to eat.
In the room, the stove was burning vigorously, Mrs. Jin sat with Mrs. Shi, Mrs. Shi, Mrs. Fifth, and Mrs. Seven sitting together and gossiping, while the girls were eating meat around the oven.
On the oven, the venison was grilled until it was sizzling, and the rich aroma filled the noses of everyone. Everyone was chatting and laughing.
Looking at the joyous people in the room, Mrs. Shi felt relieved, and then secretly looked at the Jin family, and found that the Jin family was already able to be the host without knowing it.
This small family gathering was very well organized, and even the pickiest daughter-in-law, the seventh daughter-in-law, always had a smile on her face.
Shi Fuxin was busy eating the meat her sister roasted for her, when she saw Xiaofang enter the room before eating a few pieces.
"Girl."
Shi Fuxin got up and walked to the corner: "What's wrong?"
Xiao Fang said in a low voice: "Fifth master Fei Ge sent a letter back."
When Shi Fuxin heard this, her complexion brightened immediately, she turned around and talked to Shi Fuyin, and then quickly walked back to Lanyue Tower.
"The eldest prince was attacked and needs help."
Looking at the news on the note, Shi Fuxin looked serious.
Her brother is now a catcher of the Yamen of the Southern Headquarters, and can dispatch a lot of manpower. Just like that, he even sent a letter back to ask for help. It can be imagined that the situation of the eldest prince must be very bad.
"What happened?"
Shi Fuyin suddenly walked in.
Shi Fuxin looked over: "Sister, why are you here?"
Shi Fuyin: "You left the table suddenly, I don't feel relieved to come and take a look." Saying that, she looked at the note in Shi Fuxin's hand.
Shi Fuxin handed the note to her: "Brother Feige sent the letter."
After Shi Fuyin read the contents of the note, her expression changed: "Brother will not ask us for help easily, the situation with the eldest prince must be very critical." Looking at Shi Fuxin, "Take the six people around us All nine ranks have been sent over?"
Shi Fuxin shook her head: "Not enough, there may be more than one wave of people who took action against the First Prince."
Shi Fuyin's expression was shocked: "What are you going to do?"
Shi Fuxin: "I'll take a trip myself." His eyes narrowed slightly, "The eldest prince didn't show up before, just because of his status as the eldest son, he was poisoned by cold and poisoned by a gu. Great merit, the person who makes the move must put the eldest prince to death, I don’t feel at ease if someone else goes.”
Shi Fuyin hurriedly said: "Then I will go with you."
Shi Fuxin: "Sister, you still have to go to class, and I'm leaving, and the family also needs you to cover me."
Shi Fuxin: "Sister, I will go to Zhuangzi to check and purchase raw materials on the excuse of later, and then I will go out of the mansion directly. I will not come back at that time, and tomorrow you will say that I have contracted a cold, and I have to recuperate in Zhuangzi for a while." time."
Shi Fuyin nodded: "Okay, I'll make arrangements at home."
After that, Shi Fuxin quickly packed up some belongings, then went to Yiguiyuan, told everyone that there was a problem with the newly purchased raw materials, and they had to deal with it immediately. After getting Jin Yue'e's approval, she took Xiaofang and An Ran and left quickly up.
Jianghan Provincial Government, under a canyon wall, the eldest prince who had been hunted down for more than half a month sat on the ground in a state of disarray, panting, and asked the guards: "Did An Guogong be found?"
The guard shook his head: "Eldest Prince, An Guogong was separated from us last night. In the current situation, I'm afraid we won't be able to find him for a while."
The eldest prince frowned. An Guogong is the only child of the empress dowager's natal family. If something happened to him, even if it wasn't caused by him, the empress dowager would probably blame him.
"go back."
The guards looked over one after another.
The eldest prince stood up, gritted his teeth, and said, "We are going back to Yang Mansion now, and my highness won't believe it. Jianghan officials dare to watch my highness be assassinated to death!"
He can still live until now, fortunately he met Shi Dingxuan who was handling the case in Jianghan, if Shi Dingxuan hadn't arrived in time and helped him lead away two batches of killers, he might have gone to see the King of Hades by now.
The eldest prince looked at the remaining dozen or so guards, and his heart sank. He hoped that Chu Yao would come quickly.
Under the protection of the guards, the First Prince turned back to Yang Mansion.
When they were only 20 to 30 meters away from the gate of Yangfu, the eldest prince and his party were surrounded by a group of black-clothed killers again.
The killers this time were more skilled than the previous batches of killers, and there were so many people. Soon, the guards around the eldest prince were a little overwhelmed.
The eldest prince looked at the closed gate of Yangcheng, and saw that there was not a single patrolling guard on the city wall, and his heart fell to the bottom.
Those who killed him dared to do it outside the city gate blatantly; and the officials of Yangcheng also dared to watch him, the eldest son of the emperor, be killed.
really have no scruples
Under the cover of the guards, the captain of the guards tore a hole and pulled the eldest prince to break through.
However, before the two of them could run two steps, a gust of wind hit them and directly knocked them to the ground.
The eldest prince was lying on the ground, feeling like his body was about to fall apart. Then, two figures appeared in his sight.
The captain of the guard, a ninth-rank master, had just rushed up, but was hacked to death by one of them.
The eldest prince's pupils shrank sharply, and when he saw the two walking towards him, his heart became tense.
Is he really going to die in Jianghan?
At this moment, the eldest prince regretted it a bit. He was the one who made things worse. He never thought that the prince and others would be so reckless in order to kill him.
Just when the two assassins were about to approach the eldest prince, there was a piercing sound in the air, and then, several cold lights came from 'swish swish swish'.
In an instant, except for the last two killers who dodged the attack, all the other killers fell to the ground and died.
The First Prince looked up, and a figure in a black suit and a black mask appeared in sight.
Seeing the person coming, the First Prince heaved a sigh of relief.
Finally arrived!
The two killers looked at each other, and attacked the black-faced man together.
The guards quickly approached the eldest prince and surrounded him.
At this moment, the eldest prince's heart finally fell back into his stomach. Chu Yao is the ultimate master, even if the two killers are the pinnacle of the ninth rank, Chu Yao can solve them.
However, before the eldest prince was relieved, another group of black-clothed killers appeared.
Five of the nine ranks, and the remaining twenty are all eight ranks.
When the killer came, his purpose was clear, the ninth rank besieged the black-faced man, and the rest of them all went to the eldest prince.
Seeing the black-faced man, he wanted to fly over to stop him, but was surrounded by seven rank-9s.
Even if the black-faced man was superb in martial arts, surrounded by so many rank-9s at once, he was dragged back for a while.
The eldest prince had only a few guards left, facing more than twenty eighth-rank killers, he was almost powerless to resist.
Just when the eldest prince felt that he might die in a foreign country, and the guards decided to desperately buy time, the accident happened again.
A gust of wind blew by, and the sky filled with leaves.
Everyone sensed danger and stopped.
Looking around, I found a long-haired woman wearing a white mask and a white robe appeared on the gate of Yangcheng Tower at some point.
A woman in white stands with her back to the moon, holding a white folding fan.
Winter Fan Fan, a normal person would definitely say something sick when they saw this, but at this moment, everyone looked at the woman in white warily.
"is her!"
Seeing the people on the tower, the black-faced man's eyes were full of surprise.
White Moonlight!
How did she appear in Jianghan?
The killers looked at the black-clothed and black-faced man they were fighting with, and then at the white-clothed and white-faced man on the city wall. Although they were apprehensive in their hearts, they still challenged the eldest prince to enter the palace again.
On the tower, Shi Fuxin sighed in a low voice: "Don't give me face."
As he spoke, he slammed the folding fan in his hand, and the leaves flying in the air suddenly became as sharp as blades.
Next, a horrifying scene appeared. Except for a few ninth-rank killers, all the other killers in black fell to the ground without a sound. After a while, a bloodstain appeared on their necks, and soon, the blood flowed all over the floor.
The eldest prince who was besieged by black-clothed killers was immediately emptied.
The eldest prince stared blankly at the woman in white on the city wall. At this moment, he didn't know that this person was here to save her.
However, he didn't know such a powerful person.
Could it be that the father sent someone to rescue him?
On the other side, the black-faced man also quickly dealt with the ninth-rank besieging him, and then looked at the people on the city wall with piercing eyes.
"This is black and white double evil!"
There is still a wave of killers hidden in the dark, but they dare not show up.
The black-masked man and the white-masked man are too strong in martial arts. The black-masked man kills the nine-ranked man as a cabbage, and the white-masked man is even more exaggerated, directly cutting the killer as a leek.
(end of this chapter)