The banquet in the county guard mansion lasted from noon until the sun set, except for a few generals such as Meng Tian and Meng Li, whose spirit was okay, the civil officials, including Huang Dong, the county guard, were basically drunk and fell to the ground.

A subordinate from the county guard came in and helped all the civil officials down to rest, and Meng Tian also stood up with the help of a subordinate. Meng Li was not bad, at least he stood up without help.

"General, are you okay?" looked at Meng Tian's unsteady body, Meng Li burped and asked.

Meng Tian waved his hand, stumbling under his feet, and almost fell to the ground with the soldier who was helping him. Meng Tian maintained his figure and said to Meng Li, "I...... I'm fine, big brother, you drank more than me, are you okay?"

"Haha, brother, you don't know, this is the happiest time my brother has drunk in the past two years, when you were in Xianyang, your sister-in-law was in charge of it tightly, and there was no one to accompany your brother and me here, today you came, I drank more as soon as I was happy." But don't worry, this amount of alcohol can't knock your brother and me down. Meng Li patted his chest and swore that he might have used a little more strength in his hand and almost knocked himself down.

Meng Tian was helped by the subordinates of the county guard to the annex prepared for him by the county guard, not to mention, this Huang Dong is quite good at doing things, and there is actually a small lake with a rockery in this small courtyard, which makes this courtyard look extremely cool at this time. There are two houses in the courtyard, one main room and one side room, all the things in the room are available, the mattress is new, and the whole room is filled with a faint fragrance of flowers.

Meng Tian was helped into the house, sat on the soft sitting, and instructed the subordinate of the county guard who helped him in: "Okay, it's none of your business here, you go down first." ”

The subordinate bowed deeply to Meng Tian, "General, please rest here, if the general has anything to do, you can order the villain, the villain will retire, and the general will have a good rest." ”

Waiting for the subordinate to close the door of the room and leave the room, Meng Yi, who was sitting there listlessly, suddenly stood up, and his body did not sway at all as before.

Meng Tian took a sip of the hot tea that the man had just poured himself, then sat down again, snapping his fingers. The closed windows of the room were opened from the outside, and a gray-clad masked man jumped in from the outside.

"Meet the General. The gray-clothed masked man walked up to Meng Tian, and then knelt down on one knee and said.

Meng Tian nodded, "Stand up and speak." ”

"No. The man in gray stood up, and then stood there waiting for Meng Tian to question him.

Meng Tian pillowed his head with one arm, then closed his eyes and asked, "How is the investigation of the situation in Dongjun?"

The man in gray bowed slightly, and then said respectfully: "Back to the general, my subordinates have been in Dongjun for more than half a year, and they have secretly investigated the affairs of Dongjun for the deputy commander. ”

Meng Tian didn't open his eyes, and the man in gray didn't know if Meng Tian was satisfied with his answer, so he stood there without saying a word.

After a while, Meng Tian opened his eyes, sat up straight, and said to the man in gray: "I know, I should have thought that if the situation in Dongjun was so easy to investigate, Brother Meng wouldn't have to delay here for two years, and he couldn't wipe out that group of rebels." What's more, there's more than one force here, and that's not your fault. Tell me everything you know. ”

"No. The man in gray replied, telling Meng Tian what he had investigated in Dongjun for more than half a year.

After a long time, it was completely dark, Meng Tian sat alone in the room, there was no candle in the room, Meng Tian just sat there thinking about things. According to the iron guard he arranged in the East County before, the situation in the East County is indeed not optimistic. Long before he came to Dongjun, after receiving Meng Li's secret letter, Meng Tian felt a little uneasy in his heart, and when he arrived in Dongjun, this feeling did not disappear, but became even stronger.

Meng Li said only three things in his secret letter, but he didn't make it clear, just briefly said about the Mars that fell from the sky in Dongjun, the traitor, and an old acquaintance. The spark landed outside Dongjun City, and there was nothing wrong with it, and Meng Li had also gone to check it himself, and he didn't find anything unusual on it, so he didn't pay much attention to this matter. There is also the rebel army outside the city of Dongjun, the origin of this rebel army is somewhat vague, and there has been a deep study of the Qin army's methods, so that Meng Li led the army to encircle and suppress many times without success. In the end, Meng Li said about an old acquaintance of his own, that is, the righteous son of Lu Buwei, the former prime minister of the Qin State, and the arrogant and domineering Liu Xiaoye in Xianyang City, this person is now also involved in Dongjun, and has a lot of intersections with the Qin army in Dongjun and the rebel party, which Meng Tian did not expect.

When Lü Buwei was in charge of the emperor, he stepped down and returned to his fiefdom to retire, and Yingzheng saw that Lü Buwei was so knowledgeable, and he did not embarrass him too much, so that he was born, old, sick and died in his fiefdom. Now that Lü Buwei has been dead for several years, when he died, there were still many officials from the Qin State who went to mourn, and even the Prime Minister Li Si went in person, after all, there was still some incense between the two people, and others couldn't say anything. After Lü Buwei's death, his fief was also recovered, but the property left by Lü Buwei disappeared almost completely overnight, and no one knew his traces.

"Now it seems that this Young Master Liu is still like back then, and he is not at all at ease. It should have been Lu Buwei who handed over all his family property to him, otherwise with his ability, I am afraid that it will be really difficult to mix here. But it's okay, since they're all old acquaintances, they should always pay a visit. ”

Early in the morning of the second day, Meng Tian changed into clean civilian clothes and walked out of his courtyard, outside the courtyard, Li Qing and other eight brothers, as well as ten Mengjia soldiers who came with him, were waiting for him to come out.

"Yo, you guys got up pretty early!" Meng Tian looked at Li Qing and the others. Today, the eight of them all changed into clean clothes, but they were black plain clothes from the Meng family's army, covered with a coat, and several of them looked like they had changed into a different person.

Li Qing scratched the back of his head, and said with some embarrassment: "The general took us in, our brothers naturally can't be as sloppy as before, our shame is a trivial matter, if we lose the face of the general, it is the sin of the villains." ”

Meng Tian nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his hand and made a gesture to the ten soldiers of the Meng family, who understood what the general meant and quietly retreated.

Meng Tian walked up to Li Qing and the others, and said to them with a smile: "Are any of you a native of Dongjun?

One of Li Qing's brothers spoke first: "General, I am a native of Dongjun, and I also lived in the city earlier, but then my family fell into the middle of the road, and the villain sold all his family property and went out of the city to live, and then I met Brother Li. But the general, please rest assured, the villain in this Dongjun city is very familiar, if the general wants to tour the city, the villain can lead the way for the general. ”

"Okay, it's okay to be idle today, just to appreciate the customs of Dongjun. Let's go, I'll take you to a good meal after the turn. Meng Tian said with a smile.

"General Xie. ”

Before leaving the county guard's mansion, Huang Dong learned that Meng Tian was going out to visit the city and wanted to accompany him, but Meng Tian refused, but before leaving, Huang Dong sent someone to send some silver money for Meng Tian to use. Huang Dong didn't say that it was okay, Meng Tian had never carried silver on his body, and when he went out, the nine people didn't have a single baht of silver on them, which would make people laugh.

Poor Li Qing and the others had never seen so much silver, and they drooled one by one when they looked at the few yellow ingots of gold, as if what was in front of them was not gold, but like a big steamed bun placed in front of a very hungry person.

Meng Tian shook his head helplessly, asked Li Qing to put away the money, and then led them out of the door.

The Dongjun Junchen is not very large, the city is surrounded by residential areas, the only lively thing is the location of the center of the city, and there are only two intersecting streets, which add up to fifty or sixty zhang long. Merchants on both sides of the road set up stalls to buy and sell are lined up, clothing, food, housing, transportation, wine, meat, tea bowls, etc., it is indeed very prosperous and lively.

"Originally, from one end of the street to the other, there were merchants on both sides, and merchants from the south and north would set up stalls here for a few days as long as they passed through the eastern county. Later, when the Qin State dominated the world, it was not so prosperous, and then I don't know why, slowly there were fewer and fewer people, and finally it shrank to such a large area now. The man who was familiar with Dongjun who led the way said to Meng Tian.

Looking at the crowd in front of him, Meng Tian was in no mood to move forward, and he asked, "There is a Liu Mansion in Dongjun City, do you know where it is?"

"Liu Mansion, is the general talking about the mansion of the richest young master Liu in Eastern County?"

Unexpectedly, there was still the name of Liu Xiaoye here, Meng Tian smiled and said, "Yes, it is that Liu Xiaoye's home." ”

The man replied: "General, don't say it's a villain, anyone in this Dongjun City can know where this Liu Mansion is." Not to mention anything else, this Liu Mansion is much bigger than the County Guard's Mansion, not to mention the Liu Xiaoye, who is said to be able to pile up a mountain of treasures in the family, he is in this East County City, and it is better to talk and do things than to find the county guard. ”

"Really?" It's no wonder, not to mention anything else, just because his stepfather was the former Xiangguo of the Qin State, but on this point, there are many people who buy his account, not to mention that he is so rich.

Meng Tian said, "Let's go, take me there." I'm still an acquaintance with this Xiao Ye Liu, I haven't seen him for so many years, and this time I came to Dongjun, there is no reason not to see him. ”