It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 314

After resolving the issue that had troubled him, Fu Jian finally remembered to ask Fu Yi, "What did you want to say when you came in just now?"

Fu Yi pulled himself away from the mood of choosing the right person to go: "Oh, I heard about Jiang Cao."

In the Fu Mansion's guard circle, Jiang Cao has a much stronger presence than Jiang Yan.

The latter was merely the one who turned down good jobs in the mansion and disappointed several masters and stewards who wanted to see her. Apart from Jiang Fu's niece from the same village who died in an absurd way and Fu Nulang's maid who was released from prison, the impression of her faded after a few days of talking about her.

But Jiang Cao was different. Not only did this person cause their people stationed in Zhongyuan Prefecture to suffer losses without knowing why, but when they later traced the situation back to the beginning, they discovered that even Wu Fusui and others had fallen into her hands.

After much effort and investigation, she only found out that the parents and wives of the Fang brothers in the mansion had traveled with her for a while, had drugged her, and had completely disappeared after entering Rongcheng County.

In order to find her, the government secretly increased the reward to five taels of silver, but in the end there was no news at all.

Fu Jian: "Where is she now?"

Fu Yi lowered his eyes: "Dongshan Village, Jiang Yan."

Cough~cough~Fu An was choked by the tea in his throat and was trying hard to suppress a smile on his face, looking a little weird.

Fu Jian slammed his hands on the table, and after a long while he finally said, "I'll go meet her in person."

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In March, although the midday sun was not too hot, the villagers of Dongshan Village had withdrawn from the fields. Later, they wandered to the open space in front of the ancestral hall to watch the blacksmith from the Hao Mansion forging iron pieces.

After a morning of work, the iron comb in the style of a bamboo comb is still far from its prototype.

Juhua squinted her eyes and stared at it for a long time, then whispered to Li Hao beside her, "I don't know if this blacksmith is easy to talk to. My kitchen knife and hoe are both chipped. I'd like to ask him to give them a few thumps when he's free."

Because of the military service in previous years, except for the wealthy families who might still employ blacksmiths, the blacksmith shops in Rongcheng County had disappeared. People used their farm tools with even greater care, wishing they could replace them with their own.

"Sister Xiaoyan," Jiang Ning quietly approached Jiang Yan, "Grandpa Jiang Wang said that there is an honored guest waiting for you at home."

"Where did the distinguished guests come from? Whose house are you going to?" Jiang Yan walked out from the crowd and bumped into three men before she could get the answer.

Jiang Yan looked up and took a closer look. The moment he recognized the person, he subconsciously took two steps back. Boss Fu, Boss Fu's brother, there was another one he hadn't seen before.

The visitor is not good.

Jiang Yan quickly reviewed the possible connections between her, a small follower, and these three people, but she really couldn't find any clues.

After the previous incident, she hasn't done anything out of the ordinary recently. Even when she went to Fu's house to look for someone, she only stayed outside the side door for a short while and didn't even run into a steward.

But I won’t move unless the enemy does. Jiang Yan greeted him obediently and stood behind Jiang Wang without saying a word.

Fu Jian suddenly spoke: "Jiang Cao, is that you?"

When Jiang Yan was out and about, she only gave herself two stage names: Jiang Cao and Jiang Mancang. With her memory, she couldn't forget them even if she wanted to.

When Jiang Cao was in power, she had indeed done some shady things to protect herself, but what did that have to do with the people in front of her? Her territory hadn't even expanded to Zhongyuan Prefecture yet.

Jiang Yan wanted to play deaf, but Grandpa Jiang Wang was already looking at her in confusion. She had no choice but to ask in confusion: "Ah, could it be me?"

Fu Jian didn't care about Jiang Yan's denial and threw a roll of paper at him. "It looks familiar, right? You've worked with Chunying before. Although it's only a superficial imitation, it's certainly disturbing and makes us waste our time."

Jiang Yan unfolded the paper...

Although she was a little thin at the time, her skin was dark and rough from the wind and sun, and her clothes were torn in many places, but when she looked in the water mirror, she did not look like the portrait, but just an old, skinny lady.

Jiang Yan's worries were finally put at ease. "They look familiar. Adults, go look for them in the nearby villages. You should probably find one or two in each village."