Ye Fan, in addition to dealing with the family's business, accompanied Fujiwara No Chiko, Jinchan, and Xiao Zhao to tour around the scenic spots and temple fairs. Xiao Zhao was dazzled by the sight, and exclaimed in pleasure. Early in the morning, Ye Fan was about to take everyone to the nearby temple when he received a pigeon message from Ye Kong. The snow-white pigeon was standing on the windowsill, cooing.
Ye Fan saw the letter tied to the pigeon's leg with a red string, and knew that the matter was urgent. He quickly picked up the pigeon, untied the letter, and opened it. When he saw it, he turned pale with fright.
"What's wrong?" Fujiwara No Chiko, who was at the side, saw Ye Fan's expression change, and walked over to ask.
"Something has happened." Ye Fan said with a frown, and handed the letter to Fujiwara No Chiko.
Fujiwara No Chiko doubtfully took the letter, and after reading it, she was also shocked, "This … What's going on?"
"It seems that Matsumoto Takeyoshi can no longer hold back, and has already ordered the forces in the imperial court to begin to ostracize the Ye family." Ye Fan said with a dignified face.
"There's no time to lose, quickly do as father said in the letter." Fujiwara No Chiko hurriedly said.
"En." Ye Fan said to Fujiwara No Chiko, "You go and inform mother-in-law and Xiao Zhao, and tell them to find an inn to stay in for the next few days, and try not to go out, and be careful in everything. After three days, the imperial court will send people here to search the house. "
"En." Fujiwara No Chiko nodded and said, "I'll take care of this matter."
"I'll now arrange for people to move the important things in the house to another place, and it will take about a day." Ye Fan said, "You have to pretend that you don't know about this. You can't let the servants know about this. You have to act as if nothing happened. Otherwise, once the servants panic, things will be troublesome."
"Don't worry about it," Fujiwara No Chiko said as she walked up to Ye Fan and tidied up Ye Fan's clothes. "Leave this to me."
"Mm, I'll be leaving first." After saying that, Ye Fan turned around and left. However, after taking just a few steps, he turned back.
"What's wrong?" Fujiwara No Chiko asked.
"From now on, no matter where you go, you must bring your scabbard with you. Do you understand?" Ye Fan instructed.
"I know," said Fujiwara No Chiko. "Don't worry about it."
Ye Fan nodded and turned to leave.
Fujiwara No Chiko immediately went to inform Xiao Zhao and Jinchan.
It took Ye Fan a whole day to secretly move the important things in the house to a safe place. It wasn't that he was slow, but that there were too many important things in the house. Not to mention other things, just the rare treasures in the pawnshop alone, such as famous calligraphy and paintings, were enough to fill several large carriages, and this didn't even include the ordinary antiques.
In the secret room, there were dozens of antique swords collected from all over the world. There were all kinds of swords, knives, spears, swords, and halberds. The most difficult thing to move was the materials used to forge weapons. These materials were extremely precious. There were meteoric iron that fell from the sky, black gold that was bought at a high price, and other precious minerals. All of these added up to more than a thousand pounds.
In fact, it wasn't difficult to move these things. The difficult part was to move them out without being discovered by outsiders. After Ye Fan personally packed these things, he found eight large ox carts used to transport iron ore and parked them at the back door. He then loaded all these things into the carts. The Ye Family owned several mines, and the mines often sent some ore samples back, so it wasn't unusual for several ox carts from the mines to be parked at the door.
After all of this was settled, Ye Fan returned home. At this time, Fujiwara No Chiko was waiting for him in the house.
"How is it, is it all done?" Fujiwara No Chiko saw Ye Fan come back, and quickly handed him a cup of tea.
"It's all done," Ye Fan sat heavily on the chair and said, "What about Popo and Xiao Zhao? Are they all settled? "
"They're all settled, you can rest assured." Fujiwara No Chiko said, "I arranged for them to stay in a very ordinary inn, no one will find them."
"That's good." Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
"What do we do now?" Fujiwara No Chiko asked softly.
"Wait." Ye Fan sighed and said, "Wait for the house to be confiscated."
"There should be a crime for confiscating a house, right? They can't just confiscate it as they wish," Fujiwara No Chiko said.
"Father didn't say in detail in the letter, hmph." Ye Fan smiled bitterly, "If you want to condemn someone, you can always find a pretext." Ye Fan took Fujiwara No Chiko's hand and said, "It's been hard on you, I wanted you to come back with me to enjoy a few days of happiness, but in the end …"
"There's an old saying in China, 'If you marry a chicken, follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, follow the dog.' Following you is already a blessing, I don't care about anything else." Fujiwara No Chiko lowered her voice and laughed softly, "Besides, don't we still have the 200,000 taels of gold?"
"Pu …" Ye Fan had just taken a sip of tea, but when he heard Fujiwara No Chiko's words, he couldn't help but spit out the tea in his mouth.
"Cough … Cough … Cough … Ye Fan coughed violently, and Fujiwara No Chiko hurried over to massage Ye Fan's back.
"Cough … You … You're really my good wife, cough …" Ye Fan laughed while coughing violently, "You're born to be a money grubber. That 200,000 taels of gold must have made it hard for you to sleep, right?"
"Don't worry, with me here, you won't starve." Fujiwara No Chiko smiled and said, "I've already put away the gold notes, so I'll definitely sleep well."
"Tell me," Ye Fan pulled Fujiwara No Chiko to sit on his lap, "Where did you put the gold notes?"
"What are you doing?" Fujiwara No Chiko smiled and said, "Those gold notes were given to me by Grandpa."
"You have to put them away properly. In the future, I'll have to rely on my wife to eat." Ye Fan smiled.
"It depends on your performance." Fujiwara No Chiko said proudly.
"Okay, I'll definitely perform well." Ye Fan said as he picked up Fujiwara No Chiko and walked to the bed, "I'll perform well now."
"Ah …" Fujiwara No Chiko, who was in Ye Fan's arms, hammered Ye Fan with her delicate fists, "You're so bad …" Although she said so, her arms were already tightly wrapped around Ye Fan's neck …
Two days later. Early morning.
On this day, Ye Fan and Fujiwara No Chiko got up early. After tidying up, they sat in the room and drank tea while waiting for the house to be confiscated.
"Should I leave for a while?" Fujiwara No Chiko asked.
"Why should I leave?" Ye Fan said while drinking tea, "No, you can help me identify if there are any Fusang people among them."
"Fusang people?" Fujiwara No Chiko asked doubtfully, "Aren't they people from the Great Ming Dynasty?"
"That's right," Ye Fan said, "But I'm worried that there will be spies trained by Matsumoto Takeyoshi who are officials in the Imperial Court. Their speech and behavior must be the same as the Han people, but since they are spies, they must have received special training. You grew up in Fusang, so you must be able to see the traces of the Fusang people. "
"What you said makes sense, but," Fujiwara No Chiko asked, "why don't you let me hide and observe? Wouldn't that be more convenient?"
"Hide? Haha, "Ye Fan said with a smile," you are my wife, why should you hide? Zhou Quan must have told Matsumoto Takeyoshi everything here. Your identity has already been exposed, so it's better to show up openly. They are now officials of the Imperial Court, so they won't dare to do anything to you in public. "
"That makes sense," Fujiwara No Chiko said, "we'll do as you say."
"When they come later, you must pretend to be shocked," Ye Fan said, "understand?"
"Don't worry," Fujiwara No Chiko said with a smile, "I understand."
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