Xue Bajin was just about to speak, but he heard Xiao Tao's voice outside the door: "The eldest young master, the second young master, the slaves and maids have prepared toiletries, do you want the guests to wash up first?"

Xue Bajin had no choice but to swallow back the words that were about to be exported.

Mei Yixuan looked at Xue Bajin's buried appearance, and hurriedly said, "Okay, come in!"

As soon as the words fell, I only heard the sound of the door curtain, Xiao Tao and Xiuqin walked in one after another with a basin of water, soap powder and a clean cloth towel. The two came to Xue Bajin, bowed to him, and said in unison, "Please wash up." ”

"This is not a guest, this is Xue Bajin, the guard in the mansion!" Mei Yixuan then remembered to introduce Xue Bajin's identity.

"The slave has seen Xue Guard!" Xiao Tao and Xiuqin heard this, and cleverly bent their knees to give Xue Bajin a salute.

After Mei Yixuan introduced Xue Bajin's identity to the maids, she turned her head and smiled: "Brother Xue, these are all newly added subordinates, and they don't know you yet." You wash up briefly, then drink some tea and eat some fruit. Don't worry, when you have rested, it's too late for us to talk about it. ”

Xue Bajin looked at the appearance of himself buried up and down, and said embarrassedly: "Hey, look at me······ I was so anxious that I wanted to tell you about the situation quickly, so I forgot to wash up first. ”

As he spoke, he washed his hands and face in the living room, exhaled comfortably, and sighed: "Hey, it's still comfortable at home!"

Xiao Tao and Xiuqin took the dirty water out, and before leaving, the two of them secretly glanced at Xue Bajin's burly and domineering appearance, and hurried down.

After Xue Bajin finished washing, the eldest girl Baiguo walked in with three cups of steaming tea on a tray and served tea to the two masters and Xue Bajin.

In the tray of the sunflower that came in the back were three servings of fresh seasonal fruits newly purchased in the house this morning, which were placed on the coffee table for the two masters and the guests.

In fact, when the two masters came over together and heard that there were still guests coming outside, Luo Kui ordered that the tea be made and the fruits were prepared, and they waited for the master to serve them with a word.

Then, the two of them said goodbye to their masters, bowed and walked out. When they got outside, they covered the door of the house and guarded the door of the main house on the left and right to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

Mei Yixuan saw that a few maids in her brother's house did things properly without orders, and knew how to advance and retreat, and knew how to know proportions, so she couldn't help but nod secretly.

In the house, Xue Bajin rode a fast horse all night, he was really thirsty, and when he saw that the tea in the teacup was not too hot, he took the teacup and drank it all, and rudely wiped a handful of water stains on the side of his mouth with his big hand, and then said with a heavy face: "Young master, I'm afraid something will happen this time!"

Mei Yixuan saw that Xue Bajin didn't care about washing up and came to see him, and now that he said this, he couldn't help but feel nervous, and hurriedly asked, "Is there really an accident?"

"Hey, special mother, don't mention it, when I rushed over, General Tong Xiao, oh, it's your uncle, he was not in the army, but went to the coastal near Thornton Port to inspect the construction of the guard. I thought about it and couldn't delay it, so I went to see General Tong and told him the truth······" Xue Bajin told Mei Yixuan in detail about his trip with a solemn expression.

It turned out that after Xue Bajin knew that there were Japanese people patronizing that isolated island and killed fishermen, he knew that without further ado, he should let General Tong know as soon as possible. Therefore, along the way, the horses were fast, sleepless, changed three horses on the road, and galloped for five hundred miles for three days and three nights in a row, before finally arriving at the location of the garrison of the Thornton Harbor.

The port of Thornton is an important coastal town in the Celestial Domain, and it is mainly guarded against the Ryukyuan people, that is, the Japanese people, who are very close to Yizhou. The imperial court garrisoned 150,000 soldiers and horses here, and built 16 fortified posts along the coastline.

These guards were one of the suggestions of General Tong when Tong Zhuoxin returned to Beijing this time. After the emperor's approval, some professionals were specially transferred from the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry to take charge of the coastal defense construction.

Because Tong Zhuoxin has been involved in this matter from beginning to end, General Tong asked him to act as a full-fledged agent for himself, and cooperate with people from the capital to be responsible for the construction of the guard.

After the fortification is completed, a garrison will be dispatched inside, and no matter which direction the Japanese come from, they will be the first to know the situation. Not only to defeat the invading enemy, but also to light the wolf smoke in time to warn the headquarters!

In order to select a location, Tong Zhuoxin traveled all over the corners and corners of the coast, ditches and ditches, and some places that he usually does not pay attention to, and he also carefully inspected and inspected, and did not let go of any defensive corners.

However, this investigation unexpectedly found several places where the Japanese people lived in seclusion. When the dens were destroyed, I asked the villagers in the vicinity, and they were told that some of them had even lived in the area for 10 years.

This situation shocked Tong Zhuoxin deeply!

He didn't dare to slack off, and immediately reported the situation to General Tong. After that, he took people to disguise themselves for a deep investigation and covert visit. He knew that this situation was very abnormal, and there must be traitors in the Tianyu Dynasty who colluded with the Japanese people, and the power should be quite large.

This secret visit doesn't matter, but it allows him to discover the biggest den and a shocking secret!

Those widows are not all afraid of death, they extorted confessions through iron-blooded means, and confessed some circumstances, just to ask for a happy death!

Only then did he discover that these Japanese people were actually connected with some of the military of the Heavenly Domain Dynasty, and the Japanese were even using the weapons provided by the military of the Heavenly Domain Dynasty. And these Japanese people are responsible for providing secret bases for some people in the Tianyu Dynasty military overseas, and are responsible for training special soldiers codenamed "Poison King" for them as secret weapons, which can be taken out at critical moments and won by surprise.

It is said that if the "Poison King" is successfully trained, ordinary soldiers will be poisoned to death immediately as long as they get on their clothes, and they will be killed in an instant! The "Poison King" will not be invincible on the battlefield in the future, and who can be their opponent? If these people are allowed to form a scale, what combat effectiveness will the imperial court's army have on the battlefield?

If the other party smeared this poison on the bow and arrow, then ordinary soldiers could only be slaughtered by others, and they would be killed!

So, who will be the garrison in collusion with the Japanese people? Who has the courage and energy to do so? Who is willing to take the risk of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans?

In addition to General Tong's 150,000 soldiers and horses, the garrison in the south is the 150,000 troops of Cao Peiyao of the Cao family in the southwest. If it weren't for the high-ranking generals of Thornton Harbor eating inside and out, then the answer would be self-evident.

Realizing this, General Tong immediately sent his henchmen into Beijing to report to the emperor.