Chapter 697 - 214: Annihilation_3
"Bai Xue, grind some ink for me," Jiang Li said. "I’m writing a letter to my cousin." Ye Shijie worked as a government official and might have heard some rumors; perhaps he even knew quite a bit of inside information. Even if he didn’t, it would be good for Ye Shijie to be cautious—better to be warned than to accidentally invite disaster upon himself.
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Tonight, Yanjing City was unusually lively.
Perhaps it was the news that Prince Cheng had been defeated and died, and the rebels had surrendered that allowed the residents to finally feel at ease and settle down completely. Many people even knelt before the residence of the Prince of Xia County to express their gratitude to the general who protected the peace of Yanjing City.
The Prince of Xia County must have been a good person, even his household servants greeted people with smiles, not condescending or arrogant. If elderly citizens came to express their gratitude, he would not accept their gifts but instead, would give them some silver, saying it was by the general’s orders. These days, Yanjing City was in chaos, and the people suffered along with it—things did not have to be like this in the future.
So, everyone praised him even more, declaring the Zhaode General a good person.
The storyteller at the tavern turned the tales of Zhaode General’s battlefield heroics into scripts, and those who came to listen filled the second floor of the tavern, and it was like this every time. In tea houses, taverns, brothels, and gambling dens of Yanjing City, there was not a single person who had anything bad to say about Zhaode General. When talking of the Zhaode General, they all acknowledged him as a fundamentally kind-hearted hero, a truly good person.
Within the Yin Mansion, Yin Zhan took off his robe, washed up, and entered his study.
Someone knocked on the door outside, and Yin Zhan called for them to enter. It was a middle-aged woman of captivating beauty, with a certain resemblance in her eyes and eyebrows to Yin Zhiqing—it was indeed Yin Zhiqing’s mother, Madam Yin, whom Yin Zhan had taken as his wife after the first one.