Lu Zhiyao and the others stood by and watched for a while before those villagers discovered their existence. The horror and anger in their eyes flashed, and when they recognized the entourage standing behind Lin Yinan, they cried with joy and rushed over.

Lu Zhiyao didn't understand what was going on, so he could only stand there and watch them, his depressed mood was still immersed in this disaster, unable to extricate himself. Lin Yinan also seemed to be here for the first time, and those villagers didn't know him, so he also had time to take Lu Zhiyao forward and take her to see the border life she had always wanted to see.

Lu Zhiyao walked past the corpses of those women, they were lying there quietly, each of them had a beautiful appearance. It was as if they were asleep, and there were no scars on their bodies. But Lu Zhiyao still felt that the smell of blood here made her nauseous.

The footsteps finally stopped, Lu Zhiyao lowered his head and watched the middle-aged woman hold the dead girl on the ground in her arms, her expression calm and desolate. Compared to some of the other deceased relatives, she was very different, at least she didn't cry, and Lu Zhiyao didn't see a trace of tears on her face.

The woman sensed the presence of Lu Zhiyao and Lin Yinan, she raised her eyes slightly and glanced at the two of them, and then the corners of her mouth rose slightly, revealing a shallow smile, and the people who looked at it were almost heartbroken.

"Is my daughter pretty?" She opened her mouth to ask the person behind her, and then stroked the long hair of the woman in her arms lovingly, and said slowly to Lu Zhiyao, who squatted beside her: "Her father died of illness when she was three years old, I watched her grow up day by day, day by day, day by day, I have been waiting for her to marry in the future and marry a good family, I also feel at ease to see her father, and I have no regrets." But who knows, the girl even left me alone. ”

Her words made Lu Zhiyao's heart tighten suddenly, his nose was a little sour, and he wanted to cry.

Lu Zhiyao listened to the woman as if she was telling her a story, talking about the bits and pieces of the woman's life before her death, and also recalling the last time their mother and daughter spent together, she suddenly didn't have the courage to continue listening, gritted her teeth and stood up, grabbed Lin Yinan's hand and walked quickly to the side where no one was.

"What did the Nangong family do?" Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yinan intently and asked, after Lin Yinan nodded slowly, she clenched her fists hard, suppressing her emotions.

She didn't understand, the Nangong family, like the Xia family, had fought on the battlefield for so many years for the sake of this country, and had so many injuries on her body. For the sake of it, isn't it that responsibility, in order to be able to make the country and the people safe? What can they do with these people who are willing their lives to protect them?

"These villagers all know that the murderers of those girls are the Nangong family?" Lu Zhiyao asked coldly.

"I told you, here, Nangong Ling Feng is the emperor, and he is more deterrent than the real emperor who is far away in the capital. All the people here know the power of the Nangong family, they know that they can kill the enemy, and they also know that they can kill the people. ”

As soon as Lin Yinan's words fell, Ling Yi walked over from there with a cold expression. He looked at Lin Yinan and then at Lu Zhiyao, then sighed angrily, and then said, "Master, I have already asked the matter clearly. These girls were all selected to be sent to the barracks, but they didn't expect that they had been summed up halfway, and they thought about escaping back together, which annoyed those people. While they were moving, one of the women cut a soldier with a sharp weapon, which is why it became like this. ”

Ling Yi's words were very vague, but Lu Zhiyao still understood what he was talking about.

"There should be a lot of troops stationed here. How could just a few women solve their selfish desires. There must be other victims, right? Lu Zhiyao sneered and said sarcastically: "It seems that the prestige of the Nangong family is really nothing more than that." ”

"Ling Yi, give them some silver, I'll go back first." Lin Yinan left quickly with Lu Zhiyao, and on the way back, the two of them didn't say a word.

Back in the valley, Lu Zhiyao looked at the empty field, and the people she had seen before were completely gone. With so many people, it is very troublesome to evacuate in a short time, where did they go?

Lu Zhiyao followed Lin Yinan's footsteps and walked for a long time before he realized that this valley was unique.

Standing in the cave and looking at the soldiers who were training silently in the valley on the other side, Lu Zhiyao finally opened his mouth again and talked to Lin Yinan.

"Do they sleep in this cave on weekdays? With so many people, from whose army were they drawn from? ”

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. They're here, and it's not a matter of January or two anymore. These people were all selected by General Xia from his army, do you remember a few years ago, he had a dispute with Nangong Lingfeng, and the Xia family wanted to replace the Nangong family stationed in this pass? ”

"Yes." That incident made a deep impression on Lu Zhiyao, because at that time she didn't understand what was so good at the border pass, there was danger at any time, why did Xia Zhenkun want to come here, and he did not hesitate to have such a big conflict with Nangong Lingfeng. "I still remember that at that time, it happened that the enemy country deliberately wanted to attack, Nangong Lingfeng said that if my Xia family could defeat the enemy, he would take the initiative to evacuate, and the heavy responsibility of guarding the border would also be handed over to my father. It's a pity that we lost so badly that time that my father almost died. I have wondered more than once that the Nangong family has done something. ”

"If it weren't for the failure of your Xia family, how could there be these people here. That time, it was just a plan by the emperor and General Xia, in order to want the Nangong family not to suspect it, and unknowingly transfer a large number of people to use it as the main force to contain the Nangong family in the future. Although the border pass is dangerous, it is nothing to the battle-hardened Nangong family and the Xia family. Moreover, those with bad intentions can also benefit from it. Serving the country and collecting money for oneself is something that many people are doing. So this piece of fat, the Nangong family is reluctant to give up. ”

Lin Yinan's words made Lu Zhiyao think a lot, since he said so, what he meant was that Xia Zhenkun had already been the emperor's confidant? Otherwise, how could such an important matter be handed over to the Xia family to do? But if this is the case, then as early as when her father and mother were besieged in Xuncheng, and the people of her Xia family were brutally killed by the Nangong family, why didn't the emperor save her? !

"The current power of the Nangong family is no longer something that the emperor can recover if he wants to take back the military power. The matter of searching for the city, you may think that it is sudden, but for many people in the know, it is something that the Nangong family has been planning for a long time. So including me, including the emperor, they are not surprised, the emperor doesn't want to anger the Nangong family for the hundreds of lives of the Xia family, and there is ......"

"It's that the Xia family knows that the emperor has too many secrets, and the emperor is afraid that General Xia has been under the crown prince for a long time, and he is afraid that the Xia family will be afraid of the increasingly powerful Nangong family, so he will also stand on the side of the Nangong family. After all, Charlais has a lot of land and resources, and it is not so difficult to train another general, right? ”

Lu Zhiyao almost finished saying these words with a smile, not interfering in the government is a truth that every woman in Xia Lai Kingdom should understand and abide by. But at this moment, she wanted to defeat the Nangong family with her own hands, and even overthrow the cruel emperor.

"No wonder my father didn't tell me anything later, it turned out that he had long expected that there would be a day when he would be executed by the emperor." Lu Zhiyao looked at Lin Yinan with a light smile, "Then Brother Bai and a few of them are still alive, doesn't the emperor also know about it?" What is he asking you to save them, isn't he afraid, they know the truth of the matter, will it be bad for him? Or does the emperor feel that with the strength of the three of them now, he will not pose a threat to him in a short period of time, so he will agree with you to do so, and will want to train them to be generals against the Nangong family? ”

"The latter." Although Lin Yinan hesitated, he still told Lu Zhiyao the truth.

The reality made Lu Zhiyao feel sad and helpless. "I don't know what Lu Dao is for, I will now have a feeling that Nangong Lingfeng is smarter than my father."

"Far away, General Xia is for the people, and Nangong Lingfeng is for himself. You can't compare the two of them, and you can't hold a grudge against General Xia for not telling you the truth. The good days of the Nangong family are coming to an end. If you have any resentment in your heart, it's never too late to vent it. ”

"You mean, it's time to get rid of the Nangong family?"

"I mean, it's time to clear the name of the Xia family. The four words of collaborating with the enemy and treason were an insult to the dead General Xia. ”

Lu Zhiyao was silent and stopped talking, lowering her eyes and thinking, and suddenly, she thought of a very important question.

The emperor can use his son, can use his henchmen, and can also kill his henchmen when necessary, so as not to cause trouble. So, treating Lin Yinan, a son who already knows too many secrets about him, will he poison him one day? !

The moment this thought appeared in Lu Zhiyao's mind, it made her feel a huge fear. She opened her eyes wide to look at Lin Yinan, and when Lin Yinan asked her what was wrong, she didn't tell the truth after all. Suppressing that worry and fear in his heart, Lu Zhiyao smiled far-fetched and replied: "It's okay, I'm just thinking about how to rescue those girls who are trapped in the barracks without implicating innocent people." ”

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