After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Maybe that hairpin was originally meant for men?

Miss Yuan held her chin in her hand and pondered. After a while, she suddenly realized that whether this hairpin was given to a man or a woman...it seemed to have nothing to do with her. What she wanted was just to make Zhan Yanfeng desperate and reveal his true identity. Now he has done so, but the wall he is jumping is Hong Lan's.

To be on the safe side, he even set up a series of killing moves, just to send a woman who loved him so much to death.

Honglan, it’s really not worth it.

At lunch time, Lin Mu brought the confession of the Wang brothers. It was not much different from the confession of last night. They were indeed brothers who depended on each other at the foot of the mountain. One was farming and the other was hunting. Because their parents had both passed away and they lived in poverty, even though they were of marriageable age, no matchmaker came to their door. They gave up these thoughts and were able to get by. Who knew that half a year ago, Wang Erjie got addicted to gambling. From then on, he was out of control. The few silver and money in the family were lost, and he borrowed money from loan sharks. The silver and money he owed snowballed. By chance, he met the third elder Zhan Yanfeng.

Zhan Yanfeng paid off their debt, and from then on he would assign them some tasks from time to time as a way of paying off the debt.

Some errands were simple, such as hunting some game and sending it to the mountain, or going to the neighboring town to buy some things that were not available here, mostly physical work of running errands. Of course, sometimes there were some bad things, such as stealing some property from some places. At first, they were reluctant, but the third elder always said that those items originally belonged to Zhixuan Mountain, and now it was better to find someone to steal them back than to tear their faces off and snatch them back in public. Thinking about it this way, it made some sense, not to mention that the third elder was a benefactor and treated them kindly. He also owed a huge debt, so he really couldn't say anything to refuse.

Such petty thefts may make you feel uncomfortable at first, but you will get used to it after doing it many times. However, this is the first time I have ever done a murder.

Xu Chengjin, who has been getting along well at the foot of the mountain these days, said that the life stories of the Wang brothers should be true, because when he was eating at the foot of the mountain these days, he met some warm-hearted ladies who asked him about his life-long affairs. When they heard that he was still single and had no wife or concubine, they all advised him not to be so playful and end up like the Wang brothers. After that, they gossiped about the Wang brothers and introduced him to the unmarried and widowed women they knew and didn't know from all over the place.

Fortunately, he has always been thick-skinned. When they introduced their friends to him, he would naturally take advantage of their food and drinks, and take advantage of every opportunity to put on an ambiguous attitude, saying "hello, I'm good, and everyone is good". After the meal, there were many people ready to be married, comparable to the three thousand beauties in the harem.

Yuan Ge couldn't help laughing when he thought of that scene, and joked that he was so lucky.

Young Master Xu rolled his eyes and struck him mercilessly with the handle of his fan, "Laugh, laugh! You only know how to laugh! You don't even think about how to deal with the Third Elder... Now it seems that although I don't know what he wants to do, I think he should have started planning long ago. The Wang brothers didn't even dare to steal, but now they are being led step by step to kill and rob without fear... Tsk, so cruel."

Petty theft is nothing more than boiling a frog in warm water. Who knows how many such "Wang brothers" there are around Zhan Yanfeng, who are induced by his gentle and kind appearance to step by step onto the deadly path of theft and murder.

Even... the fact that Wang Erjie became addicted to gambling was a deliberate human intervention.

Yuan Ge thought for a moment and asked, "Where is the gambling house? Do you know?"

"I know. It's at the foot of the mountain, at the westernmost part of the town. I heard it's the largest gambling house nearby, and business is booming!" After just a glance, the tacit understanding between the two of them for many years made Xu Chengjin understand Yuan Ge's intention. He opened his folding fan with a "snap" sound, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Let's go take a look?"

Of course he had to look. Yuan Ge glanced at Lin Mu and asked, "Where is Song Wenyuan?"

"I was called by the Great Elder before, and he said he wanted to play chess with the Master to judge his character..."

Judging a person's character by playing chess? Yuan Ge felt overwhelmed, and really didn't know what this old man was planning. The old man was a martial artist. If he was discussing martial arts secrets, he could work tirelessly for three days and three nights without sleep, but if he was talking about playing chess... I'm afraid he would fall asleep before the game was over. How could he judge a person's character? I'm afraid that my character of making jokes and playing tricks has been recognized by others! Yuan Ge shook his head repeatedly, "In that case, let's not wait for him, let's go down the mountain and take a look at the gambling house."

The two of us? Lin Mu asked awkwardly, "What about my subordinates?"

"You? Of course you stay on the mountain to look after the Wang brothers!" Xu Chengjin fanned himself in the chilly weather and glanced at Lin Mu. "You kid still want to follow us? What are you going to do? We're going to the gambling house. With your righteous and wooden appearance, who would dare to gamble with us if you just stand there?"

Lin Mu was often criticized for being unreliable and having no image. This was the first time someone described him as "upright". He was flattered. He was stunned for a moment, and then, seeing the first and only mentor about to leave, he jumped up as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He straightened his body, patted his chest and promised loudly, "Master Xu and Madam, rest assured! I will definitely fulfill my mission!"

The pitch of the voice and the intensity of the emotions are unprecedented.

Miss Yuan stumbled and nearly fell. After stabilizing herself, she glanced at Xu Chengjin who was secretly laughing, and said in a low voice, "Honest people can't stand being teased. He must have believed it."

Xu Chengjin laughed loudly, handed the folding fan in his hand to Yuan Ge, and introduced it like a treasure, "Look, this is the treasure found in the teacher's room. It's not that the fan is so good, but the landscape painting on the fan is from the hands of a master of the previous dynasty! Look, the old man didn't know the value of it and used it to make fire and boil medicine. It's really a waste... Not bad, isn't it?"

Yuan Ge flipped through the fan from top to bottom. She felt that the fan looked familiar to her. She had indeed seen it in her teacher's room. To be honest, she... probably didn't know the value of it. She really didn't see how it could be a masterpiece. But seeing Xu Chengjin's look as if he was presenting a treasure, she finally complimented him with a few words and threw it back to him. It was not Feng Qingtan's fault for not knowing the value of the fan. Such a folding fan was not convenient for fanning fire. Perhaps in the old man's eyes, it was far less useful than a cattail leaf fan.

Only Xu Chengjin is like this, he doesn't feel cold even in such a cold day, fanning himself.

"You're so pretentious. I advise you to stop it." Yuan Ge took two steps and couldn't help but said in disgust, "Wearing a big coat and fanning yourself is just pretentious in Shengjing, but in the town at the foot of the mountain... probably those matchmakers will turn around and say that you have a problem with your brain. No wonder you don't even have a wife at your age."

Young Master Xu choked and gritted his teeth to resist hitting Yuan Ge on the head with the fan.