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Yun Jiu'an laughed "puchi", "Do you think it's a shame that I have changed my appearance? Back then, I asked you to marry me home, and you would rather raise me for the rest of your life than follow me."

Lu Jingxuan flicked her forehead with his fingers, and smiled heartily, "Even if you become a fairy, you can only be my sister. How can a brother marry his own sister?"

Yun Jiu'an pouted, "Obviously she doesn't like me. Well, then I'll always see what kind of beautiful woman you marry to be my sister-in-law."

Lu Jingxuan knocked on her forehead again, "Then you can take care of it, the woman I marry must be unique in the world, she cannot be described by a beautiful woman."

"Hehe, according to what you said, does it mean that Brother Lu already has a candidate? Tell me which girl it is." Yun Jiu'an suddenly became interested.

Lu Jingxuan ignored her gossiping heart, "This time, Xiao Mo went out of the capital to be in danger this time. I am lucky to meet you. Otherwise... If my mother finds out, I don't know how frightened she will be."

Seeing him evading, Yun Jiu'an stopped asking, "You came this time to get her back? How can you let go of your official business in the capital?"

Lu Jingxuan's handsome face was slightly haggard, and he sat back in the grand master's chair, "This time I went out to Beijing to find her for one reason, on the other hand, the blood-sucking monster in Pingjing City was not caught before, the Holy Majesty and our lords were worried that the monster would hurt her." Min, I came to Jiangnan after following that monster all the way. Besides, there is another matter, which is quite troublesome now..."

He instantly became preoccupied, and Yun Jiuan's heart tightened, "Could it be that something happened to Yaoyu?"

Lu Jingxuan was startled, "You know?"

Did not expect this to be the case.

Yun Jiuan shook his head, "I don't know, I'm just guessing."

Lu Jingxuan frowned, "Where did this guess come from?"

Yun Jiu'an didn't want to mention her entry into Liang Ziyuan's secret room, but said: "The benefits that Yaoyu will generate are too tempting. After I signed the contract with the Jiang family, I told the stewards of Shangjing to let them try their best. Be careful. But this caution is too general, there must be one omission in a hundred secrets, and it is really impossible to guard against. Tell me, what happened over there?"

Lu Jingxuan also felt that her analysis was good, and sighed: "There is nothing wrong with the contract signed with the Jiang family. The one who made the mistake was the craftsman of the Northern Wei Dynasty who mastered the technique of firing medicinal jade. After the completion of the medicinal jade kiln Originally, it could be officially produced at the end of the first month, but the night before the opening of the kiln, the master Qifeng who was in charge of firing the jade ingredients was killed, and he was brutally dismembered and tortured to death."

Yun Jiu'an frowned, "What do you mean? This murdered master was in charge of the ingredients? Don't tell me, among the people who burned the jade in the Northern Wei Dynasty, no one knew how to make the ingredients except him?"

Lu Jingxuan nodded heavily, "According to Dongfang Feiyi, when they were in Persia, they did this kind of work on behalf of the owner of the farm there, and each took responsibility for it. For fear of leaking the technology, the owner of the farm once ordered them to set up poison I swear, don't tell anyone else. Therefore, each of these ten people has learned something, and if we want to make medicine jade, one of them is indispensable."

Yun Jiuan can understand this kind of behavior. In this era, the production and manufacture of glass is like a chicken that can lay golden eggs. nothing is impossible.

And those who master this way of making money naturally don't want their technology to be leaked out, so that their interests will be damaged.

It is impossible for these market owners to produce by themselves, so the only way is to distribute the technology to different people, and then imprison them, or even restrict them with oaths, so as to ensure that their monopoly position remains unchanged.

The people brought by Dongfang Feiyi performed their own duties when they were in Persia. It is understandable that the things they met did not pass on to the second person, but it also brought an irreparable disaster to this cooperation...

Her mood also became heavy, and she sighed: "I didn't expect something to happen to the firing master. Without the master of the ingredients, how can the medicine jade be fired? Everything will come to naught. The contract signed in advance is difficult to complete. If we break the contract, we will have to pay ten times the liquidated damages, which is about 100 million taels of silver..."

Lu Jingxuan's face was extremely ugly, "One million taels of silver is a huge amount, even if we pay the Lu family and the Pei family together, it is impossible to get it together."

When he said this, Yun Jiu felt sad. After all, she also participated in the production of Yaoyu. Last year's deposit of 10 taels, the steward of Pei's family, specially gave her 5000 taels when he was in Beijing for business.

She frowned and said: "Now that the people from the Northern Wei Dynasty had an accident, Dongfang Feiyi didn't give another rescue plan?"

"What can she do?" Lu Jingxuan shook his head, "Now that the Yaoyuchang has stopped working, she is also anxious like an ant on a hot pot. If she wants to pay compensation, the Northern Wei Dynasty will have to pay nearly 50 taels of silver. This The amount is not a small amount for the Northern Wei Dynasty, which just implemented the New Deal, not to mention those old ministers who have always opposed it, it is almost impossible for the Northern Wei Dynasty to pay the money."

Yun Jiuan thought for a while, "Didn't we find out who killed Qifeng?"

"Qifeng was abducted and killed when he went to inspect the preparations and went back to sleep. No one noticed at the time. It was only discovered that he was missing the next day, and he was found in the woods not far away. What exactly happened? There is no way to find out who killed him. But according to our analysis, someone should have forced him to hand over the formula and tortured him. We don’t know whether the other party got what he wanted. But it can be concluded that this matter must be It is the hands of those who covet the production of medicine jade. They can't get it, and they don't want to be obtained by us to gain benefits."

Yun Jiu'an didn't expect good things to turn into bad things.Back then, Dongfang Feiyi gave her a favor to help her find a partner.She also introduced this opportunity to Lu Jingxuan out of good intentions. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen at a critical moment?
Suddenly, her heart moved. If the Jiang family hadn't signed this contract with the Pei family and Qifeng had died, at most these initial investments would have been in vain.

As soon as the contract with the Jiang family was signed, the nature changed fundamentally.Now not only is the investment in vain, but it has to be lost again...

Thinking of Liang Ziyuan's description of the Jiang family's background in the dossier of the secret room, she said: "This matter...could it be a situation set up by the Jiang family from the very beginning?"

Lu Jingxuan smiled wryly, "My grandfather and uncles also guessed this way, but the contract has come into force, and we haven't been able to get the evidence that they killed Qifeng. Even if it is a game, we are already deeply involved. Besides, this matter is not necessarily so. It's what they did."