Professional Ethics of a Concubine

After a long while, Xie Jin finally calmed down and thought for a moment. Suddenly, he remembered something and immediately called Zheng Qinghe and told him,

"Send your people back to Funing City and tell my aunt not to let anyone go out during these days.

The guards at the Princess' and Prince's Palaces must also be increased, and the gates of Funing City must also be strictly inspected, and anyone with suspicious behavior must be temporarily detained."

Zheng Qinghe was shocked when he heard this. His face turned ugly and he asked in a deep voice,

"Your Highness, are you worried that the Chu people will go around to Funing City and harm mother and the others?"

“If you ask around, you’ll find out that I brought quite a few royal descendants to Funing City.

If the Chu people who know the truth about Yancheng want to cause trouble for us and force our army to retreat, kidnapping the royal heirs to threaten us is the most effective way. "

Xie Jin spoke up.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. The Princess's Mansion has a lot of guards. Every time there is a big battle, Mother will ask the people in the mansion to pay extra attention."

Zheng Qinghe comforted her instead.

"It's better to be cautious than to go wrong. Just add an extra layer of defense," Xie Jin insisted.

"Yes, sir. I'll send someone to deliver the message right away." Zheng Qinghe clasped his fists in response and turned around to do his work.

At this moment, it is already past three quarters past noon (around noon), and it is estimated that in more than half an hour, Xie Wenyuan will arrive first with the cavalry.

Xie Jin suppressed his anxiety, got up and went out, ready to greet them at the city gate.

Unexpectedly, he ran into the King of Qi as soon as he went out.

"Something?" Xie Jin asked him.

Because he was in a state of high tension, Xie Jin was particularly concerned about any unexpected events. When he saw the King of Qi, who shouldn't have been here, he frowned.

"We've captured someone." King Qi said, motioning Xie Jin to follow him.

"The Chu people who are plotting evil?" Xie Jin asked him.

"I don't know." King Qi shook his head.

"You should cover your face. Many of the Chu generals know you. However, you'd better go back to Funing City first and come back tomorrow."

Xie Jin spoke up.

The King of Qi is very recognizable. It’s not that his face is particularly good-looking, but his temperament is too cold. He doesn’t like to talk and always looks at you.

Moreover, he is tall, the kind that stands out from the crowd. With all these unique features, even if he is in a crowd, you will see him at a glance and be attracted to him.

"Accident." said the King of Qi.

Xie Jin rubbed his forehead with a headache, and said with a gloomy face, "Speak properly and explain it properly. What is the accident?"

It’s okay to speak less, but at least make things clear when you encounter problems.

The King of Qi looked at the really angry Crown Prince, stopped, was silent for a moment, and spoke incoherently,

"I was practicing martial arts and found him on a mountain road outside Funing City. He was very skilled in martial arts. It took me a long time to defeat him and I brought him to you."

Xie Jin, ...

Okay, now it’s finally clear.

Xie Jin's expression eased a lot, and he smiled at King Qi and said,

"Right, it's so good to talk like this, everyone can understand what you mean."

"It's annoying to talk." The King of Qi expressed his disgust.

"..." Xie Jin calmed down, ignored his complaints, and continued,

"No matter who this person is, he has such high martial arts skills. Fortunately, you met and caught him, otherwise who knows what would have happened."

The King of Qi responded, "Only I can defeat him."

Xie Jin felt relieved, thinking that this was the right trend.

Because a few days ago, he asked Xiaokang to give him blessings, wishing him all the best in his recent affairs and that he could detain tens of thousands of Chu troops.

When he heard the news that his daughter Qingqing had an accident at this critical moment, he felt that something was vaguely wrong and felt a little uneasy.

I still don’t quite understand it now.

However, the appearance of King Qi and the capture of a master gave Xie Jin some new guesses.

"I knocked him out." The King of Qi took Xie Jin to where the man was, and said, "I'm leaving now."

"...Yeah." Xie Jin looked at the person he had casually thrown into the stinking ditch, then looked at King Qi, waved at him with mixed feelings, and asked him to return to Funing City as soon as possible and patrol and be on guard more in the next two days.

The King of Qi responded and left quickly.

"Bring him out, wash off the stink on him, take him to a side room, and I will interrogate him myself."

Xie Jinchong instructed the guards around him.

The guard responded and went down into the stinking ditch to fish the person out, enduring the stench. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart why the King of Qi wanted to dump the person into the stinking ditch, it was so stinky.

They fished him out and washed him so that he didn't stink so much. They also took away all the sharp weapons hidden on his body and tied him up again. The man who was knocked unconscious was also woken up by the torture.

"Tell me, who are you?" Xie Jin looked at him and asked.

"Hahaha... I didn't expect that I, Hu Xiaoqi, would be treated like this. I was interrogated personally by the Crown Prince of Great Zhao." The young and handsome man looked at Xie Jin, raised his head and laughed, his laughter was very crazy.

However, because of his handsome face, when he laughed like that, apart from the fact that he seemed to be a little bit mentally ill, it was quite pleasing to the eye.

"Since you feel honored, just be honest." Xie Jin said calmly.

Hu Xiaoqi continued to laugh, but suddenly started crying after he finished laughing, "Wow...why am I so unlucky...it's my first time, I've never achieved anything, so what..."

Xie Jin, "…died before achieving success."

Xie Jin rubbed his forehead with a headache and corrected him.

With more weirdos around him, his tolerance for all kinds of weirdos seems to have improved a lot.

Allow them to go crazy in all kinds of ways and add drama to themselves.

Just watch silently.

"Yes, yes, that's it. You've read a lot." Hu Xiaoqi wiped her tears and praised Xie Jin. Then, without Xie Jin's urging, she told him everything with a wronged look on her face.

"Yingyingying, I went to Funing City to ambush yesterday and wanted to kidnap your favorite concubine and your two children, but they went to the military camp.

I ran outside the military camp and waited, but no one came out after waiting all night.

I was caught by the King of Qi so early in the morning. Oh my god, I covered my body with leaves and found a hole to lie down, but I was still caught by the King of Qi. I am so unlucky.

It won’t be a problem if I’m seen by other people, I can definitely defeat them all, but I just can’t defeat the King of Qi!

I don’t dare to break into the military camp. Once I go in, I may not be able to get out.

Oh, why did your concubine go to the military camp for no reason? Why did she stay overnight in the military camp? There are so many masters in the military camp, shouldn’t she be a little bit shy? Is she deliberately going against me?..."

Xie Jin, ...

Because she was injured in a horse riding accident.

Xie Jin suddenly understood that the closed loop of the incident was here.

If Ye Qingzhi had not gone to the military camp yesterday and was wandering around the city, she might have been kidnapped.

If they went to the military camp and came back directly without riding horses, they would also run into Hu Xiaoqi's hands on the way back to the city.

Compared to falling off a horse and just spraining your ankle, being kidnapped is obviously much more serious.

So, connecting the whole incident together, it was not that Ye Qingzhi had the misfortune of falling off the horse and spraining her foot, but rather that it was because of her foot injury that she and the children avoided a greater crisis.

After Xie Jin figured it out, he breathed a sigh of relief, and the anxiety in his heart also dissipated a lot.

Xie Jin squatted down, patted Hu Xiaoqi on the shoulder, and said with a smile,

"It's not that she is against you, it's that God is not on your side because you are so wicked."

When Hu Xiaoqi heard this wicked remark, he immediately became so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick. He screamed like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

"Impossible! My old man said that I am very blessed. I came down from the mountain to help the world! How could I be so immoral... Wuuuuu... Go away! I won't live if you humiliate me like this!"

As he spoke, Hu Xiaoqi cried even louder, and shouted in particular with grievance,

Wuuwuwu... the old man lied to me, and he even lied to me before he died... what noble person, what good fortune, what world is waiting for me to help, I have been thrown into the stinking ditch!"

Xie Jin stepped back and watched him go crazy quietly. As he listened, he changed his gaze to staring at him, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

"How old are you this year?" Xie Jin waited until he calmed down a little, then asked.

"Twenty! Oh, by the way, leave me a complete body, bury me, and build a tombstone for me, writing my birth year on it..."

Hu Xiaoqi began to speak and told Xie Jin about his life story, and asked Xie Jin to have it engraved on his tombstone.

Xie Jin, ...

However, Hu Xiaoqi's life is also very simple. He is an orphan who was adopted by a master since childhood and grew up in a Taoist temple in the mountains. He is very good at martial arts and knows a lot of miscellaneous things. He is not stupid, but his thinking is peculiar.

He had only been down the mountain for two months and happened to be staying in Yancheng. Because of his superb martial arts and his love of standing up for the weak, he was noticed by the former Yancheng County Magistrate Zhou.

Seeing that he had good martial arts skills but a simple mind, no friends or relatives, and nowhere to go, County Magistrate Zhou kept him by his side as a bodyguard.

After the incident in Yancheng, County Magistrate Zhou was a patriot, but he also knew that he could not defeat the enemy, so he pretended to surrender on the surface, but in fact gave Hu Xiaoqi a task, asking him to go to Funing City and kidnap the prince's concubine and children.

Hu Xiaoqi is not stupid. He would not act rashly. He has made a lot of preparations, but he still failed in the end.

After Xie Jin heard what he said, he was silent for a moment, then asked him seriously,

"In fact, what your master said is correct. You are indeed blessed and will meet a noble person. However, your noble person is not Magistrate Zhou, but me."

"...Ah?" Hu Xiaoqi was stunned, but also very surprised. He stared at Xie Jin with wide eyes and shook his head.

"I don't believe it! Don't try to deceive me. The old man often praises me and says that I am very smart."

"It's better if you are smart, so it will be easier for you to understand what I mean." Xie Jin said.

"You just mentioned that your master said that you will help the world in the future. Do you know what helping the world means and how to do it?"

"Of course I understand. Yancheng is in danger now and is occupied by your Great Zhao. What I want to do is to make you withdraw your troops and save the people of Yancheng from the dire straits."

Hu Xiaoqi raised his chin and said with a sense of obligation.

"Yancheng was indeed occupied by our Great Zhao, but under the governance of our Great Zhao, the people of Yancheng have a better life and are not in dire straits. Do you agree with this?"