After resting for a few days at the Nansha County Branch, Elder Mo Qianshan personally brought a group of elite gang members here with the purpose of thoroughly investigating the attack on everyone.

Tangning suffered internal injuries, so Mo Qianshan arranged for him to return to the gang to recuperate and sent two people to escort him along the way.

Three days later, Tang Ning returned to the gang and met Cui Yilin immediately.

"Master." Tang Ning bowed respectfully.

"I know everything." Cui Yilin said, "How is your injury?"

"I've rested for a few days and it's no longer a serious problem."

"As long as it's okay, you will always encounter unexpected things when traveling in the world. This is inevitable." Cui Yilin handed him a small bottle: "This is Wuyi Pill. Your injury will heal faster if you take it."

Tangning took the medicine bottle and said, "Thank you, Master."

"Go and have a good rest!"

When Tang Ning returned to the room, Liu Ruhan was busy knitting clothes. She couldn't help but be overjoyed when she saw that he was back. She put down her needlework and trotted up to him. She looked at him with watery eyes and pouted her mouth slightly, looking aggrieved.

Tangning took her little hand and walked to the bed and lay down on it. Zhengzheng looked at the white wall above her head, feeling lost in thought. Liu Ruhan got into his arms and kept rubbing her face against his.

He has been holding back a lot of things in his heart these days and has no one to talk to.

"Ruru, do you know that we were ambushed by a group of people a few days ago, and many people died."

Liu Ruhan raised her head and looked at him with worry.

"I'm fine." Tangning naturally wouldn't tell her that she had suffered internal injuries, otherwise she would definitely cry again.

Liu Ruhan felt relieved when she heard Tang Ning say it was okay. She didn't care whether others lived or died! As long as he was okay. If she had known it was so dangerous, she would have never let him go no matter what she said.

"I killed someone." Tangning continued, "I killed four people."

"I didn't think much about it at the time, and I wasn't afraid at all. But later when I returned to the helm, I was very scared when I thought about it. I dreamed about them twice."

"I have no idea who they are or why they ambushed us." Tangning paused and took a long breath, as if she had made a decision: "Ruru, when we get married and have saved enough money,

Let’s just leave here and open a restaurant, do you think so?”

………………

The Jieyou Tower is full of lights and feasting, filled with the sounds of singing and dancing.

Jieyou Tower is the largest brothel in Qinghe County. The boss behind it is the young master of the King of Qinghe. Therefore, many dignitaries come here, making Jieyou Tower even more famous.

This is his favorite place to come. The woman in his arms is named Qiu Chan, who was his sweetheart in his early years. At that time, he was just an unknown boy who came here to have fun whenever he had spare money.

And now he is the helmsman of Qinghe County, and he can be considered a prominent figure in Qinghe County.

Thinking about bits and pieces of the past, Xie Anshi couldn't help but feel as if he was in another world, as if he was still the young boy he was twenty years ago.

"Thank you, uncle, thank you, uncle." Qiu Chan shouted three times before he came back to his senses.

"Why are you so distracted these days?" Xie Anshi held the woman in his arms, his eyes a little confused: "Qiu Chan, uncle, I have to leave soon."

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know, I won't be in Chu State anyway. Do you want to come with me?"

Qiu Chan was stunned.

"I mean get out of here and be my wife."

Qiu Chan looked at him blankly, his eye circles gradually turning red.

"Why are you crying?" Xie Anshi smiled: "I have already paid the ransom fee for you. You can pack up and move out later! There is a house over there in Nanyuan. You can live there first."

Qiu Chan couldn't bear it anymore and lay on his chest crying with joy.

"Tart tart." A knock on the door broke the warmth between the two.

"Who?"

"Master, it's me." A man outside the door replied.

Xie Anshi patted the jade arm of the woman in his arms. Qiu Chan quickly got up and put on his clothes, wiped his tears, opened the door and walked out.

"What's the matter?" Xie Anshi asked. He knew that it must be a very important thing to come here to find him at this time.

"That old boy Chen Dong wrote a letter to the gang to report you."

Xie Anshi was shocked: "Has the letter been sent?"

"No, he sent Xiao Liu to deliver the letter, and Xiao Liu changed hands and gave it to me. Fortunately, we were on guard against him, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

"Where is the letter? Bring it to me."

Xie Anshi couldn't help but take a breath after reading the letter, secretly thinking that it was lucky that he sent Xiao Liu. If it had been anyone else, if this letter had been sent to the gang, his plan would have failed.

………

Chen Dong walked back and forth in the house. As the head of the Foreign Affairs Hall of the Qinghe County branch, he was in charge of logistics work. He was very aware of the branch's accounting issues over the years. He had always turned a blind eye.

.

But this time the problem was far more serious than he imagined, as the entire sub-rudder's belongings had almost been evacuated.

The inspection team was coming soon. If such a situation was discovered, he, the leader of the foreign affairs hall, would naturally be implicated. After careful consideration, he decided to write to the gang to report the truth about Xie Anshi's empty helmsman's property and the fact that he had deceived his superiors for so many years.

He concealed the evidence and embezzled huge amounts of money from the helm.

He asked Xiao Liu to handle this matter. Xiao Liu is the housekeeper of his family. He has followed him for many years and works diligently. He knows nothing about the things in the branch. It is best to let him do it. He would not worry about anyone else.

"Master, thank you, the helmsman, for asking you to come over immediately and say there is something urgent." Someone shouted from outside the door.

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

What's important? Could it be that he found out about sharing the property? Chen Dong thought to himself. When he opened the door, a flash of sword light flashed, his vision went dark, and he fell down.

"Tang Ning, Tang Ning." Early in the morning, Tang Ning opened her eyes and heard someone calling her outside the house. The voice sounded familiar.

Liu Ruhan was also awakened by the sound, opened her eyes drowsily, and squeezed into his arms.

Tangning lightly thought about her face and said, "Ruru, get up. Someone called me outside."

Liu Ruhan reluctantly got up and opened the door, only to see a smiling young man standing outside with his hands behind his back. It was Gu Chengqian.

"Cheng Qian, why are you here?" Tangning was also very happy to see it was him.

"I am now also an official disciple of the caravan!" Gu Chengqian said with a proud look on his face.

"When did you come here?"

"I came here a few days ago! I came to see you and heard that you went outside. I found out yesterday that you were back, so I came here today. By the way, I also became a disciple of Master Dong Wenhai."

Tang Ning glanced at Liu Ruhan and saw that Cheng Qian had come to see her, but she didn't mention it at all.

"Tang Ning, I heard from my master that you have made rapid progress, and I have also made great progress in martial arts this year. Let's come back and learn more about your moves," Gu Chengqian said eagerly.

Tangning smiled and said, "We'll talk about it in a few days! You've only been here a few days, so you haven't been to many places yet! I'll take you everywhere to have fun."

"OK!"

"Ruru, let's go together!" Tang Ning said, holding Liu Ruhan's hand, and the three of them walked out of the yard and walked around the town until midnight before returning.

In the next few days, Gu Chengqian would spar with Tang Ning every day. With Tang Ning's current level, he was certainly no match for him, but he was not complacent and became more courageous with each defeat. Every time he came up with a new move or found a way to break Tang Ning's moves, he immediately came to him to spar with him.

Time passed quickly, two months passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, a piece of news shocked everyone in the caravan.

Xie Anshi, the helmsman of the Qinghe County sub-rudder, ran away and the entire sub-rudder was evacuated. When they first heard the news, Mo Qianshan and others were still skeptical.

In the evening, some more news about Qinghe County's helmsmanship came in, and they were convinced that it was true.

It's ridiculous. This kind of thing has never happened to the caravan since its establishment. Not only did the people defect with their money, but more than a thousand horses they raised were also sold. The caravan knew nothing about this matter.

Selling all the more than a thousand horses will not happen overnight, but the gang has not received any news before.

After Cui Yilin and others discussed it in the meeting hall, they sent people to Qinghe County overnight to investigate the matter, and then sent an elite team to hunt down and kill Xie Anshi.

The team that went to Qinghe County to investigate sent a letter back a month later. They found out that Xie Anshi had deceived his superiors and concealed his secrets for many years and embezzled more than 30,000 taels of gold and silver. What was even more shocking was the ambush of Tang Ning and his gang two months ago.

He was actually the mastermind behind it.

Xie Anshi's defection was something that had been planned for a long time. Over the years, he had misappropriated property belonging to the branch, which had led to growing holes in the accounts, and it was almost impossible to stop the scandal.

Xie Anshi had made a plan at the beginning of the year to transfer all the existing property in the helm one by one and sell all the horses at a low price and exchange them for cash.

Because he was afraid of being discovered by the patrol team, he bribed killers in the Jianghu to intercept and kill them, and specifically chose to do it in Nansha County to avoid suspicion of him.

Things went as he wished. After the patrol team was ambushed, they did not continue patrolling, and the investigation team behind them did not suspect him.

He planned the ambush of the patrol team in order to buy time to complete his follow-up plan of defecting.

According to preliminary estimates, the property losses caused by Xie Anshi's defection were nearly 80,000 taels.

When the letter was sent to the gang, Cui Yilin was furious and ordered all the forces of the caravan to be used to find Xie Anshi. He also sent three more elite teams, plus the previous one, a total of four teams to hunt down Xie Anshi.

On the other hand, we continue to dispatch inspection teams to strictly inspect each branch, determined to rectify the atmosphere and prevent another defection.

Because of Xie Anshi's incident, the inspection work this time was extremely strict and many people were implicated, which I won't talk about for a while.

Half a year later, a hunting team discovered traces of Xie Anshi in the Kingdom of Wu, and finally found him and brought back his head.

It is said that Xie Anshi has settled there, opened a medicine shop, and married a wife. On the day he was killed, his wife also committed suicide. Later, some people said that his wife was a brothel girl from Qinghe County.
Chapter completed!