Song Zhaoshui's letter had not yet reached Xiliang City, but since Shangguan XI had finally returned to the city, Wei Changying returned to Xiliang City with her husband.

Although left some days, but because Di Cui Guan also the same in the western Liang, and Huang's in the ancestral hall presided over the internal affairs, and they are in the time there is no difference, the house courtyard are cleaned spotless.

Looking at the windows and clean interior and exterior, Wei Chang Ying nodded with satisfaction and said to Huang, "Auntie has worked hard."

"It's all what a servant girl should do, what hard work can there be?" Huang smiled, seeing that Wei Changying was in good spirits, so she simply reported the matter, "A few days ago, over at the Ji Garden, Elder Abbot Ji sent Young Burger Cao over once more. Nominally, he sent some souvenirs, but the servant girl saw that Master Cao wanted to see the young lady. The servant girl asked this question, but in the end, Mr. Cao heard that the young lady and the son were away, so he said that he would wait for the young lady and the son to come back. The maidservant was going to write a letter to tell the young lady, but the letter hadn't even been written yet when I received the news that the young lady and the son were coming back, so ......"

"That little girl came again?" Wei Changying was a bit surprised, "She even sent souvenirs? But I don't know what kind of souvenirs? Could it be that the people of the Cao Family Fort have dug up a second ginseng from somewhere, or is it Ganoderma lucidum, Shouwu, or some other mountain treasure?"

Huang said: "I also guessed so, and told the person who received the goods to be careful! The result is to get the things out to look carefully, this time really are all native products. But it is some ordinary vegetables, maidservant is not assured, personally take to the kitchen to choose a part of the cooking, all cut up and break up have seen ...... but what is the entrapment is not."

"Then she just wants to see us." Wei Changying smiled and said, "I also wonder what it's about this time?"

Huang then asked, "Does the young lady want to see her?"

"Send someone to fetch her over tomorrow." Wei Changying thought for a moment and said.

That night, Wei Changying told Shen Zangfeng about this, "The Mengshan Gang seems to be unable to sit still."

"This is natural." Shen Zangfeng quickly removed her dress and said, "Earlier, when the Di people were defeated and split into two divisions to fight against each other, that Lai Dayong had the intention to defect. Now that Aitahu's request for peace talks has been granted, how can Lai Dayong not become more and more anxious?"

"He's in Guanzhou, not in Xiliang." Wei Changying allowed her husband to pick her up, stretched her arms around his neck and kissed him, and asked with a smile, "What's his hurry? Is he afraid that if you free your hands from the Di people, he will not let the Cao Family Fort go? Is his relationship with the Cao Family Fort that close? The Cao Family Fort is not in such a hurry nowadays!"

Shen Zangfeng lifted his head from her cheeks and said with a smile, "He is seeing that I have invited Brother Shangguan and temporarily freed his hands from external problems, fearing that if he is one step late, he won't be able to be a beloved!"

"Huh, he's actually running towards your beloved?" Wei Chang Ying asked in surprise, just what else she wanted to say, Shen Zang Feng can't have the patience to continue answering ......

The next morning, the subordinate brought Cao Ya.

Wei Changying met her alone and asked about Ji Gu's health. He was very happy to learn that Ji Gu was doing well and could now walk with a cane, and ordered his friends to send some more nourishing food to the Ji Garden.

After exchanging pleasantries, Wei Changying asked Cao Ya what she was looking for.

This wild girl, who was described as unruly and disrespectful to her elders by Qi Shan, the head administrator of the Ji Yuan, has always been shy in front of Wei Chang Ying, and when she asked, she didn't say much, so she took out a letter from her bosom and gave it to Shi Yu under the hall to send it up.

Wei Changying didn't take the letter, but swept it up with Shi Yu, and seeing that not a word was written on the envelope, he asked Cao Ya, "What is this?"

Cao Ya whispered, "Grandfather gave it to me to give to Young Lady."

After a few more questions, the little girl lowered her head and rubbed the corners of her shirt one by one.

Wei Changying could guess what was written in the letter, and Ji Gu was also in Xiliang city Wei Changying had been told off by Qi Shan several times, so he didn't have a good impression of Cao Ya, and didn't have the mood to tease her, so he sent her back.

Cao Ya was taken out by Shi Yu, while Wei Chang Ying handed the letter to Huang to open. After all, even if there was something wrong with such a thin letter, it would be poison. Huang, who had studied under Ji Zhaodi, was not afraid of poison.

A few moments later, Huang finished her inspection and handed it back to Wei Changying, "There was no tampering with the letter."

Wei Changying nodded her head, in fact, she also felt that this letter, no matter whether it was written by Ji Gu or Lai Dayong, could not have been tampered with. It's just that the son of a thousand gold is not sitting under the eaves, and it has become a habit for him to have his letter checked before reading it in his own hand.

After receiving the letter, Wei Changying had not yet read it, when a shadow flashed at the threshold, but Shen Zangfeng came in, his face a bit odd, with some laughter.

Wei Changying put down the letter and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Zangfeng lost a laugh: "I think up Shangguan brother followed us to Xiliang City, although he arranged a good place to live, but he has always been around only a house servant, is not to add a few envoys to him to serve, so come over to tell you ...... don't want to party on the road to meet that Cao family young fortress master. "

"What happened to Cao Ya?" Wei Changying asked curiously, "Did she say something crazy to you?" Qi Shan has always said that Cao Ya often scolds Ji Gu and never calls Ji Gu her grandfather to his face, but always calls him "old man", which is very unfilial....... Could it be that Cao Ya showed her true colors as soon as she got away from herself, and then Shen Zangfeng happened to see her?

However, Shen Zangfeng shook his head and said: ''My servant guided her outside, and when we met on the way, my servant reminded her to salute me in greeting. As a result, this little girl raised her head to look at me, immediately her face changed greatly, just as if she was frightened by me, panicked and gave a salute, and then tugged tightly at the servant's sleeve, almost as if she had taken the servant as a shield as hurriedly as she went."

Wei Changying was confused and said, "Did she do something wrong? She was very good in front of me just now."

Shen Zangfeng said: ''Yes, Shen Stack said that she may be afraid of being born? But I don't think she saw me once last time? Besides, when she didn't look up at me earlier, she wasn't that scared."

"I'll ask Qi Shan to inquire." Although Wei Changying didn't have time to read the letter because her husband came in, she scanned the letter's header and saw that it was "Mengshan Gang's Lai Dayong pays homage with his head", so she handed it over, "You're here just in time, this letter is for you."

Shen Zangfeng took the letter and read it carefully, Wei Changying also came over, the couple read the letter together and both of them smiled slightly.

The letter was not only written by Lai Dayong, the master of Mengshan Gang, but also Lai Dayong put forward the intention of defection in the letter with great alacrity.

"It seems that Lai Dayong's relationship with the Cao Family Fort is so deep that it's not as simple as the Cao Family Fort buying private salt from him." Wei Chang Ying held her husband's arm and tilted her head, "He's going to defect to you, yet he still hasn't forgotten to piggyback on the Cao Family Fort."

"Otherwise wouldn't have entrusted Ji Gu's side to forward this letter." Shen Zangfeng smiled slightly and said, "But since the letter said so, why is the bandit gang in Guanzhou so close to my Western Liang's straggler-inhabited fort, I think I will know if I ask ...... Caojia Fort's 3,000 fortress people, well, Shen Stack, you go to invite Ninth Uncle over to the ancestral hall for a catch up."

Ninth Uncle is Shen Donglai, now the Assassin of Xilang.

Because Lai Dayong for the conditions of defection, in addition to the Mengshan gang, including him, have a record of all the people in the case, but also mentioned a let Cao Jia Fort in the stragglers to return to their original homes, but also with the distribution of fields for the livelihood of the requirements.

These two points for Shen Zangfeng are not difficult, the first one he wrote a letter to the court, Shen Xuan, Shen Zu and the family discussion on it the saint loves to listen to good news, hate all kinds of bad news. Especially in the country appeared the news of bandits, the emperor least like to hear, every time to report this kind of subjects are inevitably by the emperor anger.

Over time, the news about the bandits simply no one to report. The Mengshan Gang had been ravaging the irrigation state for some years, but His Majesty still didn't know about it. Therefore, in order to cancel their case, just discuss with the Duanmu family in charge of the Ministry of Justice, and directly destroy the case file.

The latter is not difficult, and Shen Donglai greetings, for the Caojia Fort those exiles re-register, each household to allocate some fields ...... within a number of people in fact originally have a field, just unbearable harsh taxes, abandon the field and go, run into the Caojia Fort. As long as these people original field back to them, reduce some taxes will be.

Shen Zangfeng obviously wanted to do these two things immediately, so he sent someone to invite Shen Donglai over on the spot.

The ability is not much, all rely on the father to stand fast and accurate to get the position of the assassin of the Western Liang Shen Dong from the will not go against the Shen Zangfeng's intention.

Shen Zangfeng then wrote two conditions can be promised, and he has already begun to work on the reply letter, sent people to send to the Ji Garden.

That Lai Dayong is also quick, after receiving this letter, immediately took only a dozen or so not bad gang members, disguised as a merchant, and went into the city of Xiliang, as usual, to trust the help of Ji Gu, to see Shen Zangfeng.

"Your Uncle Lai from the neighboring county?" When Wei Changying heard Cao Ya, who had come to his door again, say this, he was slightly concerned, thinking that Lai Dayong's relationship with the Cao Family Castle was really not shallow, and he let Cao Ya call him uncle, so could it be that he was brother and sister to Mu Chunmian? In this case, the rumor that Woody Chunmian has an affair with Lai Dayong does not seem to be true.

However, these were all trivial matters--Wei Changying fixed his mind and, following Shen Zangfeng's earlier instructions, quickly asked Cao Ya to tell her uncle that he should enter Ming Pei Tang through the corner door two days later, and that there would be someone to guide him then.

Two days later, Wei Changying arranged for a tight-lipped servant to lead the way to the corner gate, and the person would be taken to a secluded courtyard in the front yard, where Shen Zangfeng would be waiting all of these were business matters, so Wei Changying didn't ask too many questions, and went to dispose of his own backyard affairs, which he had accumulated when he had left Xilang City.

At noon, Wei Changying had lunch alone and was about to take a nap. Smoke and Rain, a young maid chosen from among the Shen family's students, ran in in a flurry of activity, not even asking the maids standing on the corridor whether Wei Changying was asleep at the moment, but dashing headlong into the room, and without waiting for the ambassadresses to scold her, she angrily reported: "Young lady, the group of people you asked the maidservant to lead to see the prince in the upper courtyard in the northeast corner just now want the prince to take a concubine! "