Since he had the intention of tearing his face, Xie Jingde no longer deliberately treated Liu Hui with respect. With his hands on his chest, he just looked at Liu Hui and Weng Lang with cold eyes, carefully inspected the ruins of each granary, and marked down the location of all the loose logs.

In the end, when Xie Jingde inadvertently caught a glimpse of fifty or sixty black dots on the yellowed drawing, the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitch a few times with hatred.

"Vice General Xie, please see, there are omissions in the annotations on the placement of pine piles on this drawing. ”

With Liu Hui's kind inquiry, Feng Qi unfolded the drawings in front of Xie Jingde without reservation.

Xie Jingde glanced obliquely at the drawings, and said with a smile: "What the prince says is what it is." ”

He didn't believe it, even if it turned out that someone had set the fire, it would be a big deal to deduct more basins for that hapless Dou Treasurer. Anyway, the left and right are dead, even if there is one more crime, the emperor can't behead him twice.

I remember that his daughter-in-law added a little grandson to him not long ago, and he hugged him every day to show off his rarity. Later, someone will secretly take that little thing away. With that little thing in hand, I am not afraid that Treasurer Dou will not confess his guilt according to his will.

Thinking of this, Xie Jingde pressed the saber on his waist, and the sinister smile on his lips became more and more profound.

Liu Hui didn't seem to notice his disrespect, he took a handkerchief and wiped the black ash on his hands, while saying casually: "Since Vice General Xie also approves of it, I will put a handprint on this drawing." Then he smiled lightly and said as if explaining: "Vice General Xie is strange, this king has developed the habit of signing and drawing a charge when he was a county order. ”

Xie Jingde frowned, why did this sound so harsh. He instinctively resisted in his heart, and refused: "King Xian is afraid that he has forgotten that this is a military camp, not a county hall." Signature and Drawing..... What a joke!"

King Xian said good-naturedly: "This king knows that this is a military camp and not a lobby, so everything is simple, just stamp your handprint, and you don't need to sign." ”

Xie Jingde's eyes rolled, and he politely refused again: "Even if King Xian wants everything to be simple, there is neither pen and ink nor cinnabar here, which is really inconvenient." Let's wait until we get out. ”

"It's a shame that you're still a big man, and it's like this mother-in-law to cover a handprint!"

General Weng Lang on the side was impatient, he strode forward, grabbed Vice General Xie's right hand and twisted it back violently.

"What to do, let go, let go....... Ahh

In Xie Jingde's exclamation, Weng Lang unsheathed his waist knife and lightly swiped it on Xie Jingde's thumb. In an instant, the skin opened and the blood stained his fingers red. Feng Qi immediately stepped forward with the drawing, Weng Lang unceremoniously pulled his hand, used the blood to fill the cinnabar, and pressed his bloody handprint under the drawing.

"Presumptuous, you dare to do it to Shangguan, it is because you don't want the position of this general. Xie Jingde covered his injured fingers, and finally revealed his hideous and twisted side: "Don't forget, there are no more generals in your general's mansion, and I can no longer protect you." ”

Weng Lang will bow his hand to him and say, "The matter is urgent, if there is any offense, please forgive me." After the matter is understood, the lower officials will personally come to the door to ask for the guilt. ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Xie Jingde to react, and slashed his thumb across the sharp blade, which was also full of blood. Weng Lang will carefully leave his own handprints on the drawings.

"Lord Wang, please look!" Feng Qi sent the drawings stamped with bloody handprints to Liu Hui. Liu Hui took a closer look and nodded with satisfaction: "Very good!" He reached out and took the drawing, carefully folded it, and put it in his sleeve pocket.

Because Xie Jingde was suddenly pulled in by Liu Hui, he did not follow him. Now that I have suffered a dark loss, even though I am angry in my heart, I have not immediately attacked. He snorted coldly and said, "Since King Xian has already finished investigating the scene, he will not accompany him." With that, he flicked the sleeves of his robe and strode out of the ruins.

At this moment, it is close to the time of Shen, but the number of onlookers around is not decreasing, but increasing. Anyone who hears that a season's rations have been burned down by a fire will be alarmed and want to find out.

Seeing that Xie Jingde was the first to come out of the ruins, several of his relatives immediately surrounded him. Sharp-eyed caught a glimpse of the blood stains on his cuffs, and exclaimed, "General, why are you injured?"

The bleeding on his finger quickly stopped, but it still hurt a lot. Xie Jingde had no way to vent his anger in his heart, and when he saw his personal entourage, he immediately raised his hand and pulled it over, and scolded with hatred in his mouth: "Are you wastes serving like this? I knew that General Ben was forcibly pulled in, but I didn't know how to follow." "If he had his own people by his side, he wouldn't let the Weng family's puppet get his hands on it easily.

The few people who were beaten didn't dare to dodge, but only held their heads and shouted: "The general is angry, we wanted to follow up." However, King Xian's men did not let him, saying that there were too many people to destroy the scene. Xie Jingde was stunned when he heard this, and he raised his eyes to see that he was just in line with Feng Wu's cold and waveless eyes. His heart tightened, and he immediately remembered something else.

He didn't care about being angry anymore, he pulled his most powerful entourage on weekdays, and said in his ear: "You immediately find someone to go to Old Man Dou's house, kidnap his newborn grandson, and then get an object from that little ghost." I have an urgent need. ”

"What is it?"

Xie Jingde smirked: "Fingers, toes, ears, anything, you can do it!"

The retinue nodded, and was about to leave, when Xie Jingde grabbed him again.

"General?"

"Remember, don't do it yourself, it's better to find an idler. After seeing the little ghost's head, he immediately ....... the idler Leave no trace. His palm pressed down like a knife. The dear nodded understandingly, and immediately turned away.

"Take Old Man Dou with you, let's go too!" Xie Jingde was already keenly aware that this virtuous king was not a good comer, so he naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to sit here and wait for death.

"Wait, King Xian hasn't spoken yet, you can't go!" Feng Wu led someone to block his way.

Xie Jingde only glanced at him, and immediately stepped forward to confront Feng Wu: "Why don't you Xianwang speak, and our general can't leave? This is not the capital, and it is not the turn of Xianwang to point fingers here." ”

"I don't care about the side, I just know that King Xian didn't let you go, so you can't go!" Although Feng Wu has a wooden tongue, he has an advantage, that is, he can suffocate those who are eloquent to death with just one sentence over and over again.

"If General Ben wants to leave, what are you going to do? General Ben has been personally fighting the fire here since last night, and the water and rice have not entered so far. It's okay for you to continue to spend here, but this general doesn't have the spirit to continue to accompany you. ”

Xie Jingde's eyes narrowed slightly, and his tone was gloomy with a bright provocation. He was no longer interested in continuing to maneuver at the moment, and he just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. He raised his voice and said, "Listen up, General Ben is going back to bandage his wounds now, and fill his stomach by the way." If anyone dares to block the way of General Ben, there is no need to be polite to them. ”

"Yes!" the crisp sound of the sword unsheathed rang out in the small clearing in front of the ruins. Most of the soldiers around him were full of doubts, and they had seen that Vice General Xie was polite and polite to King Xian, why did they have to start after a while?

The two sides faced each other with swords and swords, and no one dared to take it lightly, but Xie Jingde held his hands on his shoulders, held his waist straight, and strode out. He didn't believe it, Feng Wu and they really dared to hurt themselves in front of 100,000 soldiers.

Feng Wu was really frightened by Xie Jingde's momentum at this moment, he passively followed Xie Jingde's footsteps and slowly retreated, but his mind was spinning rapidly. However, after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't come up with a good way to successfully keep the deputy general Xie in front of me.

Do you really want to do it?

Seeing that Xie Jingde was about to squeeze into the crowd, Feng Wuyi gritted his teeth and prepared to use force to leave Xie Jingde behind.

Behind him, a crisp woman's voice spoke: "Vice General Xie, please stay!"

Xie Jingde's eyes flashed, he looked back, but saw movement in the carriage that came with King Xian's horse team, the tightly hung curtain was lifted, and Xiaoxiao and Hua Lianyue, who was wearing a duck blue jacket, walked out of the carriage.

Although Hua Liyue wore men's clothes for the convenience of her movements, she was handsome and had a green temperament, as long as she was not blind, she knew that she was a genuine beautiful woman.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Moon!"

Xie Jingde raised his thick eyebrows and said unceremoniously: "General Ben advises Mrs. Yue, the women should still abide by their duties and stay quietly in the inner house. ”

Hua Lianyue knew in her heart that Xie Jingde was already suspicious, so she was so unscrupulous. She sighed slightly, and said with a melancholy face: "Although I am a woman, I also know that this granary fire burned the hope of 100,000 soldiers. ”

As she spoke, she took a few steps forward, until she was sure that the ordinary soldiers with melancholy faces could hear her words clearly, and then continued: "These people in front of you, they are not soldiers for fame or profit, but only to be able to fill their stomachs three times a day, have two clothes to keep warm, and be able to kick a few large sums of money in their arms every month to buy a bowl of wine to drink. But the fire ruthlessly burned away what they had left.

Although the imperial court will not let them go hungry without their eyes, it will take time to raise silver taels or buy food, plus transportation all the way, your soldiers will have at least two months without food and clothing. Seeing that winter is about to begin, even wild vegetables have nowhere to dig up, thinking of this, can you really eat them when you go back?"

Although Hua Liyue raised her voice as much as possible, only the soldiers standing in the front rows could hear it clearly. Those who have military positions, in addition to military salaries, also have side income, so naturally they don't take Hua Lianyue's words to heart. And those ordinary soldiers were touched by her words one after another.

In addition to those who hold hereditary military positions, most of those who are willing to serve in the army come from poor backgrounds. The vast majority of them are illiterate and unreasonable, and naturally they do not have the lofty ambitions of worrying about the country and the people. All I want is to be able to have a bowl of rice to eat, even if it is just enough to satisfy my stomach. You can hear the soft sound of copper plates colliding in your pocket, even if it's just enough to beat the cheapest muddy wine in a bowl.

Now that the granary is burned, it means that in the days to come, they will have nothing to eat, and they will go hungry. Although there was still silence in the crowd, there was already a silent spread of uneasiness.

"Madam Yue, please pay attention to your words and deeds!" Xie Jingde roared with some annoyance: "It is a big crime to shake the hearts of the army, even if you are the lady of the virtuous king, you can't confuse the people here." ”

"Evil words confuse the public?" Hua Lianyue frowned, looking worried: "If Vice General Xie thinks that I am a demon to confuse the public, I will say more." Although King Xian did not participate in the firefighting last night, he rushed back from Beiming non-stop, and did not rush into Beijing to ask for merit, and did not hide back to Dancui Villa to rest, but plunged into the ruins of the fire, just to find the truth about the fire.

Vice General Xie, are you really in such a hurry to leave, don't you want to know what King Xian has found?"

As soon as Hua Lianyue's voice fell, before Xie Jingde could say anything, the soldiers around him had already shouted:

"General, you just stay for the time being and see what you have to gain from King Xian. ”

"Yes, General, we all know how hard it is for you to stay up all night. If King Xian can really find out the truth about the fire, so what's the matter if you wait for him a little longer? ”

"General......

It is also to blame that Xie Jingde's image of worrying about the country and the people was too deeply rooted in the hearts of the army, so the soldiers dared to shout loudly and unscrupulously.

"You ......" Xie Jingde angrily looked at Shanghua Lianyue's cold and waveless eyes, and after half a sound, he said stupidly: "Mrs. Yue is really eloquent, and General Ben admires it very much." ”

Hua Lianyue hooked her lips and smiled, she lowered her eyes, and said seemingly extremely humble: "Don't dare, what I said is just the truth." ”

Xie Jingde snorted coldly, but the feeling of uneasiness in his heart was even stronger. Feng Wu wants to keep himself, and Hua Lianyue also wants to keep himself. Don't...... Xie Jingde suddenly thought of Hua Lianyue's mention that the virtuous king Liu Hui had returned from the Northern Underworld.

Could it be that he already knows the truth of the matter, so the people around him will forcibly leave him.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he felt, Xie Jingde didn't continue to talk more, and said with a smile: "No matter how clever your tongue is, Mrs. Yue, General Ben has something important to do at the moment, and he must leave immediately." If you stop it again, don't blame these rough men under me, they won't pity the jade. Get out of the way ....."

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he unceremoniously pushed towards Hua Lianyue.

"Don't touch our wife!" Xiao Xiao beside Hua Lianyue was like a wild cat that had been provoked, and opened her mouth to bite the back of Xie Jingde's hand.

"Presumptuous!" was entangled by two women, which made Xie Jingde's eyes completely red, coupled with the pain in the back of his hand, he couldn't care about maintaining justice on his face, so he raised his leg and kicked Xiaoxiao's lower abdomen. He is tall and strong, and he wears hard cowhide boots, if this kick is really hit, Xiaoxiao will be considered a waste.

Feng Wu immediately rushed forward, the long knife was already out of the sheath, he grabbed the handle of the knife and swung it out hard, everyone's eyes were dazzled, only to see a snowy afterimage slashing towards Xie Jingde's calf.

If it is split this time, Xie Jingde's calf will not be saved. It happened so quickly that the surrounding sergeants only had time to let out a burst of exclamation.

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