Pei Yuanxiu was quiet, and said slowly at this time: "I just said that the siege is not good, what's going on?"

Song Huaiyi frowned, and was about to say something, Cui Jiancheng behind Cui Tai immediately got up and said: "Childe, Childe, think about it, the grain and grass in Cangzhou City have already been set on fire by us, and we have already calculated it, the granary of the government has not much surplus grain at this time, and is waiting for the Cao from the south to come up; The timing of our move is when their memory is exhausted and foreign aid has not arrived. According to our previous estimates, at most half a month, all the grain and grass in the city will be exhausted!"

Pei Yuanxiu lowered his eyelids and listened silently.

Cui Jiancheng said again: "Ordinary people don't have enough food and rice, not to mention a month, even if it is ten days, they will already starve to death, where can they still go into battle to kill the enemy?"

“……”

"We have long estimated that in the latest ten years, there will be dead people in the city one after another. But there was no movement at all!"

Song Mi sneered: "Why, before the people in the city die, do they still beat gongs and drums and shout to tell you that they are dead?"

Cui Jiancheng said: "Even if you don't beat gongs and drums, but if a person dies, won't you even do a single ritual service? Besides, the 'gate' of the city has been closed until now, and people can't go out of the city to bury them when they die, so they can only be dealt with in the city." Although it is a cold winter now, it is impossible for one or two people to die in the end, and those who know a little know that if many corpses are piled up together, then the epidemic will be inevitable, and there is no other way than to burn the corpses!"

“……”

"But have you ever seen the smoke coming from the burning of corpses in the sky above Cangzhou City?"

“……”

"Now, the siege has been under siege for so long, and the people in the city can still move, and the soldiers defending the city still have combat power. The two of us fought together, and I also asked my soldiers, and they all said that although the soldiers in Cangzhou City were not very good, their strength was not small, and that was not the performance after starvation at all!"

“……”

"Childe, don't you think it's strange to have these signs?"

“……”

Before Pei Yuanxiu could speak, Song Mi on the side immediately slapped the table and said, "This is strange, what does it have to do with us?"

Cui Tai sneered: "At least, it has nothing to do with us." ”

"You-"

Song Mi was so angry that his eyes were split, and he almost couldn't hold back to get up and do something with them, but Song Huaiyi pressed the back of his hand with one hand and pressed him hard.

Song Mi couldn't perform it several times, and stomped his foot fiercely.

Song Huaiyi slowly raised his eyelids and said lightly: "It has nothing to do with you, does it have to do with us?" Cui Tai, your mouth is getting more and more powerful now. No matter how powerful it is, you have to have evidence to speak, and you have to be framed with empty words and white teeth, this kind of thing is just done in ordinary times, and in front of the son's eyes, you are not afraid to laugh and be generous?"

Cui Tai squinted his eyes slightly and looked at him and snorted coldly.

It seems that he doesn't plan to directly conflict with Song Huaiyi, and glanced at his son out of the corner of his eye, Cui Jiancheng immediately continued: "Okay, we can press this matter for the time being-however, it doesn't mean that we won't continue to investigate this matter." Childe, there is one more thing, I think it is enough evidence to prove that their Song family has two hearts!"

Song Huaiyi looked at him with a frown.

Pei Yuanxiu was still silent, as if he had heard the most ordinary words, and said, "What is that?"

Cui Jiancheng said: "Gongzi also knows, we originally agreed to start an incident, this matter is very thorough, before this, the dispatch of any horses, the allocation of grain and grass has not been discovered by the people of the government, as long as it can be smoothly started, then taking Cangzhou in one fell swoop should be like probing for things." ”

Pei Yuanxiu nodded: "Hmm." ”

Needless to say, there were several places in Huai'an that were done like this.

Cui Jiancheng said: "But before we got into trouble, this matter was discovered, and all the plans were exposed. ”

Song Huaiyi's breathing suddenly sank.

Seeing him like this, Cui Jiancheng was even more proud, and said, "I don't know if the son has heard about this matter?"

Pei Yuanxiu nodded: "This, I also heard the son of the Song family talk about it." It was because an imperial businessman visited Mrs. Zhang when he was passing through Cangzhou, and found some clues when he stayed at the Song family, so he rushed to the government to report, so they were prepared in advance. ”

"That's right!" Cui Jiancheng immediately said: "Childe, think about it, why didn't that imperial merchant go anywhere, but came to the Song family!"

Song Mi sneered: "Our family originally had some business in various places, and it has not been a day or two since we had dealings with past merchants, which you have known for a long time. They passed through Cangzhou to visit my family, what's wrong?"

"Yes, there was nothing wrong with that, but why did he find out about our plan?"

“……”

"Besides, what we are doing is a groundbreaking event, it should have been thorough and thorough, and it was even more important to avoid people's eyes, but you, just let people come to your house at this time, if you don't mean it, then I don't know what you are for. ”

“……”

This time, Song Mi was also speechless.

The facts are in front of them, it is indeed that the imperial merchant found some information in their house, so he will go to the government to report it, which they cannot refute.

After a moment of silence, Song Huaiyi said: "This-it may indeed be that we have not done enough in some places. But those businessmen who pass by Cangzhou on weekdays will come to my house to visit my mother, and the reason why I don't stop him is that I don't want people to think that our family is acting abnormally. As the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, and in that way, it will cause others to speculate and affect the overall situation. ”

When Cui Tai heard this, he immediately sneered: "If you want to say whether you have done enough and not thoroughly, I can't say." If it's just not done well enough, that's it, none of us want to. I'm afraid, I'm afraid, someone specially 'exposed' this matter, then it's-"

When Song Huaiyi heard this, his face immediately sank, and he said sharply: "Cui Tai, you must have a solid basis for what you say about this." The imperial merchant came to my house because I was afraid that I would be seen, so I deliberately said that I was ill and did not come forward, and I did not see him, and my brothers and nephews were also worried that they would leak out and shut up from him. The man went directly to the front of his mother to say goodbye, and the people who came and went to serve were all the 'servants' and maids in the family who never asked about important matters. And my mother, who is old and decrepit, often can't even recognize people, let alone know what we do, you don't know this. Do you want to say that it was my mother who leaked the secret?!"

Cui Tai was robbed by him and was about to argue with reason, but when he opened his mouth, he swallowed the words back.

Come to think of it, the rise of the two of them in Cangzhou City must have cooperated, and Zhang Lao Taijun is also his Cui Tai's elder according to his seniority, and if it involves the affairs of the elders, of course he is not easy to say clearly, so as not to fall into the notoriety of disrespecting the elders. So he sneered and said stupidly: "Well, ...... this"

Pei Yuanxiu listened, noncommittal.

The two sides have their own opinions, but each side has its own reasoning, and it is indeed difficult for him to make this judgment easily.

After all, making any judgment may offend one of the forces, of course he is not afraid of offending them, but he has reached the boundary of Cangzhou, and these two are the backbone of the siege here, so naturally they can't make any trouble at this time.

After all, his purpose was not to judge these two families, but to open Cangzhou and enter the capital!

Therefore, if he is allowed to judge, at this time, he must first calm things down, at least on the scene, and do not let the two sides completely stalemate.

At this time, I, who had been sitting quietly under Cui Jiancheng's hand, said softly: "Mrs. Zhang has been confused like that, and he can't even recognize people, will he still go to tell the informant?

As soon as I spoke, the eyes of everyone at the table, and even in this hall, looked at me.

Song Huaiyi also looked at me, and his gaze added a little bit of 'excitement'.

Pei Yuanxiu probably didn't expect me to speak at this time, and frowned slightly: "Light, you-"

"I'll just tell you the truth," I said lightly, "The old man is so old, I can't let her carry this black cauldron." As a junior, I don't know anything else, respect for the elderly, or talk about a little bit. Aren't you righteous teachers?"

“……”

"I guess you think that in the past two days, Mrs. Zhang has been treating me affectionately, and I want to help her speak. Indeed, people have feelings, and in fact, she treats me affectionately precisely because she can't recognize people clearly, and she is confused. I'm telling the truth. ”

Hearing me say this, Pei Yuanxiu didn't say anything immediately, but frowned thoughtfully.

As soon as I saw that he didn't speak, the people on the Cui family's side were a little anxious, and out of the corner of my eye, I just saw Cui Tai frowning at Han Ruoshi, Han Ruoshi chuckled, and said slowly: "Miss Yan's words...... There is some truth to this. ”

As soon as everyone heard her speak, they all turned their heads to look at her.

I was a little surprised—she said, "I have a point?"

Just now, it was clear that Cui Tai was making her eyes 'color', and she would speak, although I knew that even if Cui Tai didn't make her eyes', as long as I opened my mouth, she would definitely not be able to hold back, which is also the reason why I was able to speak just now, and more importantly, I knew that Cui Tai would come here tonight, and he made a statement against Song Huaiyi and them, of course, he was instructed by her, how could he say that my words made sense.

I'm afraid that there will be something to say later.

Sure enough, she said slowly: "The old man is indeed confused, and often says something - inexplicable, you say, isn't it?"

When she said this, she looked at Song Huaiyi, and this said, of course, meant that the old lady of Tianzhang recognized her as a subordinate.

Song Huaiyi thought about it, and naturally could only nod: "Yes." ”

"So, she probably doesn't even know what she's talking about, and she doesn't know what she's saying seriously. ”

“……”

"You said just now, it may be that you are not careful enough, I think there is, this is not thorough, but it may not be in the eyes of the imperial businessman, but it is not impossible to be seen by Mrs. Zhang. The old lady is already confused, what to say and what not to say, can she tell the difference?"

At this moment, Song Huaiyi's face turned blue.

Han Ruoshi's words, although they are still unfounded, are actually directed to the Song family.

It seems that although Mrs. Zhang's words before were "unintentional mistakes", Han Ruoshi still held a grudge, even though Song Huaiyi had been paying attention to repairing the relationship with her, he still failed to redeem Mrs. Pei's attitude towards the Cui family.

Now, things are somewhat obvious.

Han Ruoshi and Cui Tai's side have obviously formed a line, and Song Huaiyi is actually helplessly forced to stand with me.

Feeling a gaze fall on me, I raised my head and saw Xie Feng looking at me burningly.

There was an indescribable sharpness in his eyes.

I don't know what he saw, but no matter what he saw, all of this happened in broad daylight, and I could find a reasonable excuse, but I wasn't afraid that he would think about it too much, and even say more in front of Pei Yuanxiu.

The current Pei Yuanxiu, only facing the confrontation between the Cui and Song families, is troublesome enough.

At this time, Cui Tai said: "Childe, that's what I mean. Even if Brother Huaiyi has no dissenting intentions, but in the end, what happened to him is here, and the son should not take it too lightly. According to the humble opinion, Gongzi has been in the Song family for two days, so it is better to go to the cold house to sit down, and there are some important things in the next place, and I want to discuss with Gongzi. ”

This is already obvious to make Pei Yuanxiu alienate Song Huaiyi.

When Song Huaiyi heard this, his brows were twisted, and he was about to step forward to say something, but at this moment, Han Ruoshi gently touched his shoulder with one hand, and said softly: "Yuan Xiu, this matter can be ignored for the time being, but we have been bothered here for a long time, Mr. Cui is right, we might as well -"

Her voice was soft and 'rubbed', and the last few words had disappeared between the 'lips', although I couldn't hear it, but the meaning of the words was clear enough.

Pei Yuanxiu turned his head to look at her and said, "You want to go to Cui's house." ”

Han Ruoshi nodded.

“……”

Pei Yuanxiu didn't speak immediately, of course he had already seen the relationship between Han Ruoshi and Cui Tai, but this would not affect anything, after all, with Han Ruoshi's identity as the 'daughter' of King Jiangxia, he was also happy to be able to win over Cui Tai, but he wanted to completely alienate the Song family, and he obviously didn't have this plan.

At this time, his eyebrows frowned slightly, as if he suddenly remembered something, and turned his head to look at me.

I chuckled just as he looked at me, and said, "Madame's words are reasonable. ”

“……”

"However, the doctor has 'delivered' before, and my fetal pulse is scattered, and it can't be bumpy, especially in this half a month, if it's really tiring again, I'm worried that there will be an accident. ”

“……”

"So," I turned my head to look at Song Huaiyi, "I hope Mr. Song won't think I'm in the way." ”

Song Huaiyi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Where", I smiled and said, "I still plan to stay here to raise the baby." ”