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Chapter 24 Cheng Xiao Has Someone Go to the Capital to Check You
Changying watched him go out and raised her cheeks.

Zixiang lay down on the table and came up to her, saying: "I want to eat the dishes cooked by Wu Ma too."

Changying flicked her forehead lightly and laughed.

……

After Du Jian and Yang Chan had dinner, Changying arrived just as soon as they returned to the house and lit the lamp.

He looked at her tiptoeing, rather disapproving: "Actually, no one will find out if you walk through the main entrance at this moment."

"That's what I said, but Cheng Mei will definitely tell Cheng Xiao about the private meeting between you and me during the day. I'd better be cautious at this moment."

She brushed the non-existent dust on the skirt, sat down with a smile: "What's the important thing for me?"

Because he had helped her get a good name in the shop during the day, the prejudice against him was also thrown away unconsciously.

Du Jian didn't hold back either, he squeezed a plum and ate it, and sat on the side of the table with his legs crossed: "Cheng Xiao made an appointment to meet someone at the teahouse by the river tonight. It's Haishi. Are you interested in going to see it?"

Changying paused: "The news is accurate?"

"It's true."

The news came from Xie Peng. In the dark alley opposite the rouge shop in the morning, he found time to meet him.

In the past few days, they have monitored Cheng Xiao almost without any blind spots. It has been two days since the incident happened, Cheng Xiao should have made some moves.

Originally, he didn't plan to call her, but after all, she has the standard of a qualified general, and taking her with him will have a better chance of winning.

Currently getting along so delicately with Cheng Xiao, and there is Cheng Mei who sticks to him like brown sugar, he also wants to finish his work and return home earlier.

Changying had no objection: "Go."

Du Jian remembered that at the beginning, her purpose was to catch the bandits and make meritorious service. She didn't know about Cheng Xiao's affairs at all, and maybe she didn't investigate deeply at all.

But in the past two days, her interest seemed to have shifted. Seeing her answer so straightforwardly, it was inevitable that she would take a second look at her.

"At that time, I will be waiting for you outside the yamen first." Changying said, then asked him again: "Did you see anything from the dice?"

He nodded: "The paint spots on it seem to be made by Japanese people."

"You recognize it?"

She brought it back precisely because she saw that the color and taste on the dice seemed to be made by Japanese people.

"I have dealt with Dongying people before." Du Jian said. "I have studied many things they made."

"Yo," Changying glanced at him, "The background of Mr. Du is not simple."

Du Jian smiled, and looked at her with a straight forehead: "Shen Changying, since you're so curious about me, why don't we negotiate another condition.

"I'll tell you my origin, and you tell me yours, how about it?"

Changying didn't do it.

Du Jian looked away, and suddenly said: "Cheng Xiao has already sent someone to the capital to check on you."

……

Changying stood under the courtyard gate for a while, and then went back to her room.

Although she rejected Du Jian's proposal to tell each other about her background, she still couldn't deny that she was indeed curious about him.

The Dongying people have been frequently active along the coast recently, and even sneaked into the Central Plains, but these people are often whereabouts secretive, and Du Jian has repeatedly studied the things they made. If he has no background support, it is impossible to do it.

But this was not as much a headache for her as Cheng Xiao sent people to Beijing to dig out her background.

There was a lot of buzz about that incident back then, if you really wanted to inquire about it, you would always find out.

She wrote a letter to Zixiang: "Send it to Xiuxiu."

When Ling Yuan took revenge on her, he obviously didn't intend to kill her himself. He just expelled her, all her belongings and the servants around her, and then used the power of the Ling family to cut off her way of life.

To prevent her from escaping from the capital and from dying, it is probably to see her step into desperation little by little, and finally disappear in ashes.

Later, Xiuxiu gave her life to earn a living for her, and let her take Wu Ma and Zixiang out of the capital quietly.

So if she doesn't cherish it, she will really feel sorry for Xiuxiu.

(End of this chapter)