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"Prince, this is the secret letter from the Eastern Mountain Manor yesterday."

At this moment, Ye Feian was writing on his desk when he saw a letter delivered by the butler.

After opening it, Ye Feian started to read it carefully.

Luo Lingxiao, who was helping him by the side, saw that he had matters to attend to, so he obediently left the study. He also instructed the servants not to disturb Ye Feian.

The letter said that three days ago, Dongshan Prefecture's HeQu County had discovered a group of foreign people. Their whereabouts were strange, and since they were unable to confirm if they were the strange and unusual people invited by the Palace, they had not been apprehended. They had sent people to track them, and now they wanted Ye Feian to confirm and make a decision.

Ye Feian saw that there was something fishy about this matter. In the past few years, in order to manage the sixteen prefectures of Shan Yang, Ye Feian had indeed gone around recruiting people and started providing support to his hanger-ons. However, from what he remembered, he had never recruited such a group of people. The matter of Ye Feian raising his family wasn't made public, so these people couldn't possibly be people who came to honor his name.

He immediately replied and told the Prefect of Eastern Mountain Prefecture to capture these people and deliver them to the prince's mansion. He himself was going to interrogate them personally. Ye Feian believed that these people were most likely sent by the imperial government.

However, these people were not assassins sent by the imperial court. Instead, they were warriors chosen by Xue Kaishan from the Kurman tribe to help him take revenge. That was why he had been so careless and exposed his whereabouts.

After Ye Feian lost in the capital, he retreated back to his feudal fiefdom. Although he had suffered a crushing defeat, he was not discouraged. Ye Feian was waiting for an opportunity. At this moment, Ye Feihan had already become decadent. He was no longer as ambitious as he was in the past and wanted to point out the future and grasp power. After a few twists and turns, Ye Feihan, who had experienced the ups and downs of his life, had now completely sunk into depravity, becoming a monarch who only knew how to indulge in pleasure and greed.

After all, with a powerful official like Nightingale, in addition to his own innumerable comatose moves, the current Grand Profound's de facto controller had already become Nightingale Lianhe. Many government officials and ministers also directly reported it to Nightingale. The crowd gradually began to forget about the emperor who had spent his days in the midst of shouting lecherous words.

Ye Feiye understood in his heart that if he continued to fight with Ye Lianhe in the capital, it would be an extremely unwise action. In the capital, Ye Lianhe occupied the prime of his life, and his entire fortune was in the mountains.

Ye Feian, who had experienced two failures, gradually understood that although he had raised the banner twice and once forced Ye Lianhe to his death, both times were because there was a problem with those people who supported him, which was why he was defeated one by one. As for those fence-sitters, after seeing that he had lost his power, they left his side in a scattered manner, once again creating a tombstone for Ye Lianhe.

This time, Ye Feian decided to return to his feudal fiefdom. After he had reactivated this last-ditch effort, he would hire troops and wait for the right moment to seek out a great cause. Thus, during the past three years, no matter what he did, he would secretly do it. He would even occasionally release some bewitching news so that the imperial government would not be able to discover his true intentions. This plan was also very effective. Even Ye Lianhe's intelligence network was bewitched by these feints.

Ye Lianhe even started to feel that Endless Night had given up on this idea and wanted to be the vassal lord peacefully.

In less than two days, the secret letter had arrived in the hands of the Prefect of Eastern Mountain Prefecture. He immediately gave the order to capture all the bandits. In the name of the bandits, over two hundred yamen runners from all the counties were gathered.

However, the group was composed of more than twenty warriors who were good at fighting and fighting. These bailiffs were usually good at bullying and bullying the common people, but now that they met these warriors, the killing intent coming from them made them break out in a cold sweat on a hot day.

In addition, Ye Feian's order was to bring the twenty people back to the manor, not to execute them on the spot. This immediately revealed the gap between the two sides. More than two hundred men were killed by these twenty men. In less than an hour, these two hundred men were killed by these warriors. When the Eastmount Prefecture received the news, they immediately sent people to send a message to Endless Night, begging him to send reinforcements.

When Ye Feian saw this urgent secret letter, he immediately sent out his most elite team of a hundred to help the Eastern Mountain Manor arrest him.

As for all of this, Xue Kaishan and Xiaoqing, who were still hiding in the mountains to recuperate, were completely unaware of everything. Every day, Xiaoqing would go to the mountains to clean up the "inescapable net" that she had made up. She would find some wild fruits for Xue Kaishan and the two of them would live quite leisurely.

On the other side, the news of the warriors' murder had immediately alarmed Ye Lianhe. Ye Lianhe immediately guessed that these killers were related to Xiaoqing, so he sent someone to investigate.

He planned to keep this matter a secret from Luo Lingwei. After all, it was still uncertain if this matter was related to Xiaoqing, and Dongshan Prefecture was within Ye Feian's sphere of influence. Although Ye Feian had already begun to plan to obediently become the vassal lord, it was inevitable that he would not do any tricks in private.

Even Ye Lianhe could not trust the others in this matter. Zhang Long, who had just returned, was once again sent out to inquire about this matter.

Firstly, it was because Zhang Long had been with Yen Lianhe for many years and was very skilled. With him inquiring about this matter, Ye Lianhe would be able to relax.

Second, because all these years, Zhang Long had never married. Although he never mentioned the reason why he didn't marry, Ye Lianhe knew that Zhang Long secretly liked Xiaoqing, but didn't dare to reveal his feelings to her.

This time, Xiaoqing left without saying a word. Besides Luo Lingwei and Whitey, Zhang Long was the most anxious person. During this period of time, once Zhang Long heard the news of Xiaoqing's whereabouts, he ran around in all directions. Although no one said what he was thinking, they all knew it very well.

Ye Lianhe had also thought that if he could find Xiaoqing and betroth her to Zhang Long, it would be a great opportunity for him.

After Zhang Long received his orders, he rode the horse out of the capital alone with his bag on his back.

That was his territory, so he had no choice but to be more careful. Otherwise, if he did not reveal his identity and let Ye Feian know of the things that he was secretly doing, he might be caught by him, which might bring harm to the Prince's Mansion.

Zhang Long ran frantically for three days and exhausted three horses. Finally, he arrived at Hechang County, at the Eastern Mountain Prefecture.

The place where River Qu County was located was one of the estuaries of the River Styx branch. As the name implied, the Curved Water River was filled with all sorts of twists and turns. It was an incomparably magnificent river.

River Qu County was situated on one of the largest river bays. This place was close to the mountains and had abundant resources. Many merchants also came here to buy mountain goods.