贵女撩夫攻略

Chapter 067

Chapter 67 – Sweet Desire

As for why this gold mine has not been discovered till this day was due to how remote it is located which is almost within the original border of the West Di territory. A lot of efforts are required to secretly transport these refined gold nuggets to the distant Northern Land, others will definitely not be able to take upon this job but Ye family can.

When the ancestors of Ye family established their tea business, they once opened up a southern Silk Road there and till date it is still one of their most important trade routes. As soon as the checkpoints from southwest border to Wangdu sees the antler emblem, they will be let pass without a hitch. So, there will be no problem to secretly transport these gold nuggets at all.

This however is just the middle part of the journey. As the transition route to Northern Land does not belong in Ye family's sphere of influence so more thoughts are needed to plan the course of this route. Not to mention Ye Huaili is now in Wangdu, so to do this, they will need to keep this under wraps and masked it right under his eyes.

Ten days later, Ye Huaiyang personally went to Tianqi Restaurant.

"Ci Yuan, has Steward Zheng from Youzhou responded yet?"

"Reporting to Young Miss, an urgent letter has just arrived one hour ago, please take a look."

Taking out a letter from the dark gold box, Ci Yuan bowed and handed it over to Ye Huaiyang, who browsed through for a moment before crumpling and throwing it into the brazier by her side, "Bring the map over."

A huge sheepskin scroll was spread out on top of the table, where the mountains, rivers and city fortresses were clearly drawn on it. Ye Huaiyang's rapt attention shuttled over it for a while when she soon found the route stated in the letter. The slender finger of hers trailed along and several triangular flag markers were dropped before finally settling on an endpoint.

"Starting from Youzhou via Yong'an and Junxian to Fengzhou, there are two routes to choose from. In my opinion, it's better to take the land route of Changzhou as there are still supports from Ye family's people enroute these major cities but the waterway of Shuzhong Lang Gorge will be different. Although the time spent will be shorter, the terrain is treacherous and if you run into seasoned water bandits, they can see what's loaded just from the bulk of the ship and the water level line alone, so the risk is too great."

"This subordinate also deems the land route is better. After all, we have traveled along this trade route for many years and have dealings with the local brigands, so there should not be any problems. As a contingency plan, forces can be positioned in these several places as reinforcement."

Ci Yuan marked several more places on the map again. Pondering for a moment, Ye Huaiyang nodded in agreement.

"Besides you and him, no third person should know about this. Bring someone with you personally to Youzhou to keep a close eye for me."

"Yes, Young Miss. This subordinate will have them pack their bags and prepare to leave."

"Wait." Ye Huaiyang stopped him suddenly. Her profound eyes seemingly covered by a layer of gray mist, "Steward Zheng is an elder of Ye family and familiar with the trade route over there. I'm relieved to leave this matter to him and letting you go is just a double insurance. Thus, you should know the importance of this matter to me and if once again you inform Elder Brother like last time then you do not need to come back to my side anymore, understand?"

The look on Ci Yuan's face changed slightly as if there were layers of worries looming before he finally held back everything and responded in a low voice, "This subordinate understands."