Chapter Seventy-Three: Deserters
"Bold, someone saw you flee from the bandit squad with their own eyes, and you still don't admit your guilt?" The guards on the side shouted at the kneeling man, with a posture that did not allow him to argue. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Why did the subordinate confess if he was not a deserter?" The man was still iron-boned, and his back was straight.
Shen Wan looked at the man in front of him who was captured as a deserter, he didn't look like a fake, so he waved his hand at the guard on the side to signal him to retreat, and then lowered his voice and continued to inquire.
"This princess's military camp does not raise bad seeds, don't you have a good opportunity to suppress bandits and make meritorious contributions, but you run away halfway, do you still wrong?"
"Your Highness the Princess!" The man suddenly showed a little moved, feeling that he couldn't gain any benefit from holding his breath any longer, so he simply gritted his teeth and said what was in his heart.
"The old mother in the subordinate family was seriously ill and wanted to return to her hometown to visit many times, but she was not allowed to do so, and she was forced to suppress the bandits. This bandit line, it will take more than a month to go for more than two months, and I am afraid that I will not be able to fulfill my filial piety in front of my mother when I come back! The subordinates can't be this unfilial person after thinking about it, so they can only risk death to go home, otherwise my mother has three long and two short, what is the point of my life? ”
This man was so sincere that he couldn't stop crying every time he talked about his mother.
Shen Wan carefully looked at the kneeling man again, and with her ability to read people, what the man in front of her said could not be false. But this filial piety must be fulfilled, as a soldier of Daji, or a soldier under his nose, no matter what reason he leaves the barracks without permission, he should not be. To put it mildly, desertion is a capital offense!
Otherwise, she would not have mobilized the crowd today and personally brought so many guards to arrest such a deserter.
Of course, Shen Wan would never admit that he heard a report from his subordinates that the deserter ran to the Liufang Xiaozhu Courtyard, and he was not worried that he would personally bring someone to arrest him. Hmph, that person didn't know how to make her angry!
The more Shen Wan thought about it, the more depressed he became, and most of the emotions that were touched by the man's filial piety at first were gone, leaving only a cold face, looking at the man and coldly reprimanding: "No matter what the reason, if you escape, you will escape, and if you escape, you will be punished!" ”
The man's body trembled, shook his messy hair, and bowed down to Shen Guan.
"My subordinates don't want to be deserters, they are completely forced to be helpless! It's okay to be punished, ask Her Royal Highness the princess to allow her subordinates to visit the old mother in the countryside first, whether you live or die is all up to Her Royal Highness the princess! ”
Shen Wan looked at the man in front of him and asked again, "What's your name?" ”
"Subordinate Li Shan!"
"Li Shan?" Shen Wan carefully went through the name in his mind, and his eyes stayed on his bloodstained face for a half moment before he coldly threw out another sentence.
"But that Li Shan who has made military merits before?"
"It's a subordinate."
"Look at what you've become now?" Shen Wan snorted coldly again, and said sharply to Li Shan: "You can instinctively make great contributions to Daji, but the good man has chosen such a stupid way, this princess doesn't believe it, you came to this princess to ask to go back to her hometown to visit her mother, will this princess not allow it?" You're a deserter! ”
"Subordinate, subordinate not, not deserter!" Li Shan clenched his fists, his sturdy body trembled, and he gritted his teeth and argued towards Shen Yun.
"You still don't admit it? No matter how you leave the barracks without permission, or leave the team that is going to suppress the bandits, it is a capital crime! Shen Wan finally couldn't suppress his emotions anymore, and broke out on the spot, shouting at Li Shan.
"It's a capital crime, Her Royal Highness the princess is right!"
A guard standing on the side suddenly interjected, and then, before everyone could react, they saw that the guard had pulled out the sword on his waist and stabbed at Li Shan!
"Poof!" With a bang, the sword was inserted into Li Shan's shoulder, and a burst of blood splattered out.
"Stop! What are you doing? ”
When Shen Wan was angry, he saw a figure flashing beside him, and when he saw it clearly again, the guard's sword had been knocked to the ground, and Mo Fuluo, who was standing next to him, was looking at him coldly, making him tremble with fright.
Mo Fuluo stared coldly at the little guard who was scared half to death by her, and asked faintly, "You dare to commit murder in front of Her Royal Highness the Princess?" ”
The guard pounced on the ground and kowtowed to Shen Wan repeatedly.
"Her Royal Highness the princess spares her life, the little one also listened to Her Royal Highness the princess said that this person is a capital crime, so I thought that since Her Royal Highness the princess said so, then this person can't stay, that's why it's ......."
Is that okay too?
After listening to the little guard's explanation, Mo Fuluo felt inexplicably funny. Immediately, she raised her eyes to look at Shen Guan, at this time, she wanted to know what this princess would do.
"According to you, on the orders of Princess Ben?"
Shen Wan slowly asked the murderous guard, and his momentum was compelling.
"This, this ......" the little guard didn't know how to answer, so he couldn't stop kowtowing.
"Her Royal Highness the Princess......" Li Shan opened his mouth at this time, kowtowed to Shen Wan, and said sharply: "The subordinates are really not deserters, the subordinates were forced to leave the bandit team!" ”
"You talk nonsense!"
As soon as Li Shan's words came out, Shen Wan and Mo Fuluo didn't react yet, but the first to respond was the little guard who was spread on the ground, he straightened up suddenly, his eyes were red, and he rushed straight towards Li Shan.
The two soon got into a scuffle. And the little guard among them wanted to put Li Shan to death.
Mo Fuluo's eyelids trembled, and he seemed to have caught something in his heart, but he didn't step forward to help Li Shan again, but looked at Shen Yun again.
"It's the other way around! Come on, pull the two of them apart! ”
Shen Wan gave an order, and several guards around him instantly surrounded him, and quickly separated Li Shan and the two of them who were fighting together, and pushed them to the ground with their arms tied respectively.
"Say, who sent you to kill Li Shan?"
Shen Wan shot a sharp knife at the little guard, as long as he dared to make waves again, she would definitely not go around lightly.
The little guard, knowing that the matter had been revealed, could no longer justify his actions, and suddenly his mouth bulged and his teeth began to move.
"He's going to take poison!"
Mo Fuluo's figure flashed, and he quickly stood beside the little guard, reached out and pinched his chin fiercely, so that his mouth could no longer move.
A stream of black blood flowed down the corner of the little guard's mouth, and the pair of frightened eyes could no longer be closed.
No matter how fast Mo Fuluo moved, it was still too late.
Mo Fuluo let go of the hand holding the little guard and slowly stood up.
"Li Shan." Shen Wan walked out of the small pavilion, came to Li Shan, and approached him with a fierce momentum.
"Tell this princess what the hell is going on?"