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Chapter 243: Red Gate B-Class Death Soldiers

"Then I'll trouble you to take care of it." Jiang Youzhen nodded. She did have some ability to protect herself, but her family was unarmed.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Youzhen left the house, "Mom! I'll sleep in the new house today! I need to light the lamp to do my homework at night."

Shen frowned, "Although the new house is almost furnished, it still lacks some daily utensils. I'm afraid you will find it inconvenient. Why does your teacher assign so many homeworks and ask you to study so late at night?"

"It's okay! I'll take it myself." Jiang Youzhen didn't want to implicate Shen and the others, so he went to sleep in the new house at night.

"Manager Qiu, please ask the other guards to stay here to protect my family. You just need to come with me."

Qiu Zhong was somewhat dissatisfied. Their main task was to protect Jiang Youzhen, but now Jiang Youzhen left all the guards behind. If something went wrong with her, how would he explain it to His Highness?

"Master Jiang, those people are only targeting you, and I'm sure they won't attack your family. If they are from the Red Gate, it's even less likely that they would harm innocent people."

Jiang Youzhen was also very unhappy. "How do you know that the assassins who come later must be from the Red Gate? After all, your Highness said that there are several forces behind the iron ore case."

Jiang Youzhen's face was solemn, and when her expression turned cold, Qiu Zhong actually felt a little pressured for no reason.

"Some people want my life, and some people want what I have. My family is no threat to them. If they kill them, or capture them to threaten me, it is all possible. Since your highness asked you to protect me, you must obey my orders. I hope you can obey and don't question it."

Jiang Youzhen's tough attitude made Qiu Zhong's heart tremble. It seems that what Chen Yi said was right. This kid should not be underestimated. He is not some ignorant farm boy.

That's right! If an ordinary person encountered such a thing, they would definitely stay away. Why would they come close? And he was able to bargain with His Highness. How could he be an ordinary person?

"Yes! I will follow Young Master Jiang's orders!" Qiu Zhong bowed deeply, turned around and started giving orders.

After dinner, Jiang Youzhen started copying the annotations again. He had already finished copying the Four Books, and he planned to copy and memorize the remaining Five Classics within two months.

Late at night, Tong Huaian was dragging his tired body home on the other side. Passing by the Jiang family's old house, he looked inside. There was no light on, so he was afraid that they had gone to bed.

"Oh! I was so busy that I lost my mind. Jiang Youzhen doesn't live here anymore." Tong Huaian slapped his forehead. He was so busy these past two days that he was dizzy.

Thinking of what Jiang Youzhen had in his hand, he finally sighed. In fact, he didn't need to ask the Fourth Prince for permission, because he already knew the Fourth Prince's choice.

Compared to the iron ore case, the Fourth Prince would definitely prefer to know where the military pay went. The emperor must have been unhappy with the failure of the last mission. Although he said he would be rewarded, His Highness has not been assigned any mission so far.

Although it's not worth it for His Highness, the Emperor is a suspicious person. Especially since the military pay is not a small amount, it has been calculated over the years to be as much as 500,000 taels.

Among them was the military salary that had just been paid at the beginning of the year. Unexpectedly, those people not only withheld the money, but also melted the silver again and added a large amount of lead and other substances into it, making the silver impure.

How could the Emperor not be suspicious when such a large sum of money was missing? He might even think that His Highness had used it for some other purpose!

As a result, not only was the military pay embezzled, but also the silver was forged. Unfortunately, those people got the news from somewhere and moved the forgery workshop. Finally, after carefully checking all the accounts, it was found that these people were so bold that they embezzled more than 400,000 taels of silver.

This was only at the beginning of this year. It is useless to ask the soldiers now whether there was any fraud before.

The army pays four times a year, totaling more than 2.7 million taels. For the court, this is a considerable expense. But how can the emperor tolerate it being embezzled by those people?

But in the end, the silver disappeared, and even the counterfeiting workshop and the biggest mastermind behind the scenes could not be found.

His Highness has been unable to sleep or eat for several days because of this matter. He has done so many tasks, but this is the first time he has suffered such a big setback.

In front of the civil and military officials, the emperor saved his face. But who in the court didn't know that the Fourth Prince had failed in his mission this time?

Now that the Second Prince has the news, His Highness will definitely be tempted, but Tong Huaian doesn't trust the Second Prince. This man is as cunning as a fox, how can he be so kind? Exchanging news, I'm afraid he has evil intentions!

But no matter what, the one who makes the decision is the Fourth Prince, so he sent a pigeon to the capital yesterday, and there should be news in the next two days.

He sighed. In the end, Jiang Youzhen still didn't believe him. But when he thought about Jiang Youzhen's situation in the past two days, his originally sad and angry mood suddenly calmed down.

If a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth! Jiang Youzhen was also considering the lives of himself and his family. If he had known this earlier, he should have sent people to protect Jiang Youzhen's family earlier and taken the initiative.

In fact, he overestimated his position in Jiang Youzhen's heart. He thought that the two of them were in a cooperative relationship and had become inseparable, but he didn't expect that he was just being too sentimental.

"Xiao Wu, send a few guards over to protect Jiang Youzhen." Tong Huaian thought about it and thought that maybe it was his negligence that he did not consider Jiang Youzhen's safety at the first time, so Jiang Youzhen refused him.

The second prince saw this clearly and was much more careful than him.

"Master, doesn't Master Jiang already have a lot of people protecting him? I see the guards around the Second Prince are always with her! With so many guards, do we still need to protect her?"

Xiao Wu didn't understand. Jiang Youzhen had already rejected his young master, so why was he still rushing to do this? Thinking of this, he felt even more resentful towards Jiang Youzhen.

How kind the young master was to Jiang Youzhen before! She is indeed an ungrateful person.

"If you are asked to transfer, then transfer five people! After this matter is settled, withdraw them back. Go over there and say hello later, so that there won't be any misunderstandings and a fight between the two sides."

Tong Huaian looked unhappy, and Xiao Wu didn't dare to say much, so he took the order and left.

"Young master, the subordinates report that five of our Class B warriors died yesterday." At this time, a man in black suddenly appeared in Tong Huaian's room and reported to him.

"What mission?" Tong Huaian frowned. It is not easy to train Class B warriors. He spent so much effort on this, and five of them died at once, which made him feel sad.

"This is the mission contract, please take a look."

Tong Huaian quickly took it over. All the missions in the sect came with contracts, and both parties signed and sealed them, but the names on them were not their real names.

Looking at the contents of the contract, Tong Huaian gasped.