Chapter 10: Salt is poisoned
The moment she hugged him, Ning Sichen's body stiffened obviously, he didn't expect that Shu Qingyue would hug him from behind, but he didn't stop, and he whipped up all the way.
Along the way, Shu Qingyue didn't let go of the hands holding Ning Sichen's waist, not that she didn't want to let go, after all, men and women don't kiss, just because he rode the horse too fast, if she let go, she would be thrown under the horse immediately.
Her front body was close to his back, and through the touch of his body, Shu Qingyue noticed that there was a little unnaturalness coming from him, and it was only after a while that Ning Sichen gradually got used to her existence.
She wrapped her arms around him, not very strong, soft and weak, as if she would be thrown away at any moment.
"Hold it tight." In the wind whistling in his ears, Ning Sichen's voice came.
Ning Sichen's back is not generous, but he comes very steadily. The road in the wilderness was very bumpy, Shu Qingyue had to stick to him tighter, and later, even her face was attached to his back, and she hugged him tightly with all her might.
I have to say that along the way, Shu Qingyue was really upside down on horseback. The embarrassment that the two of them had because of hugging each other also stumbled and fell on the road, and they couldn't care about it at all.
With the help of horsepower, in the evening, they finally caught up with the army.
"Phew!" She first hit Ning Sichen's back hard, and after a while, she felt the horse stop.
Shu Qingyue breathed a heavy sigh of relief and let go of his hands, which had long been out of strength.
Ning Sichen got off the horse, Shu Qingyue was still sitting on the horse, he stretched out his hand to support her, and she got off the horse.
"General Ning, if there is a next time, I will ride it myself." Shu Qingyue came back to her senses and said to Ning Sichen. She thought to herself that there would be no next time for such a thing.
Fortunately, before Shu Qingyue got on the horse, she tied the rope of the military hat, otherwise she didn't know where to throw the hat, at this time, her military hat was crooked, and a few strands of hair were scattered in front of her forehead, exhausted.
Ning Sichen stretched out his hand, originally to straighten Shu Qingyue's military hat, but when he saw Yue Rongfei coming this way, his movements stopped again. He and her, it seems, are too close.
Yue Rongfei first looked at Shu Qingyue, and when he saw that she was fine, he calmed down.
"General Ning, it's been hard all the way." Then, Yue Rongfei faced Ning Sichen and said.
"It's within the general's duty." Ning Sichen's face had changed back to his previous coldness at some point, but when he looked at Yue Rongfei's eyes, there was a little complexity in his indifference, perhaps, it was related to Ning Sichen's knowledge that Yue Rongfei was Ruan Lingtian's son.
"Then I'll take her back." Yue Rongfei was referring to Shu Qingyue beside Ning Sichen.
"General Yue, please." Ning Sichen said.
"After a day's journey, you must be tired, go back to the military tent and take a rest." Yue Rongfei said to Shu Qingyue.
Yue Rongfei's concern for Shu Qingyue, Ning Sichen saw it in his eyes, and he could see that Yue Rongfei was not ordinary, but he cared about Shu Qingyue very much.
Shu Qingyue walked towards Yue Rongfei and glanced at Ning Sichen intentionally, but in his eyes, she only saw sharp and cold.
In the end, Shu Qingyue followed Yue Rong and flew away.
In the distance, Shu Qingyue's figure was no longer visible, and Ning Sichen also turned around and left there.
He and she are just two strangers.
The sky turned from gray to black, and then to all black, and this day came to an end.
The next day, the army marched normally, and it was getting closer and closer to Shanyang City.
I don't know why, it was obviously a smooth journey, but on this day, Shu Qingyue was a little restless.
In the evening, camp and eat after dinner.
Inside Ning Sichen's military tent.
"Someone." Ning Sichen shouted in the military tent.
"General, what's the matter?" A soldier came in.
"Where did General Ye go, I didn't see him for a night." Ning Sichen asked.
"My subordinates don't know." The soldier replied.
It didn't take long for Yue Rongfei to send someone over and invite Ning Sichen over. Yue Rongfei looking for him? What could it be? Is it related to the war or something else?
Ning Sichen was suspicious, so he still went with the people, but he didn't go to Yue Rongfei's military tent, but the warehouse where the army stored grain and grass. Outside the warehouse, it was heavily guarded, and in the granary, in addition to Yue Rongfei and Shu Qingyue, there was also Ye Xiangquan, who was detained by the soldiers.
Ning Sichen entered the warehouse, intentionally or unintentionally, looked at Shu Qingyue standing beside Yue Rongfei, Yue Rongfei really took her with him whenever and wherever he wanted.
Shu Qingyue also looked at Ning Sichen, but her expression was very strict.
Ning Sichen only glanced at Shu Qingyue, then took his gaze back, and then looked at Ye Xiangquan.
"I don't know what General Yue is doing?" Ning Sichen was referring to Ye Xiangquan's arrest.
"What to do? General Ning needs to ask your subordinates. Yue Rongfei's face was rarely stern, and he ordered the soldiers on the side. Carry it. ”
Subsequently, the two soldiers each carried two bags of salt and threw them in front of Ning Sichen. One of the soldiers also held a silver needle about three inches long, which the soldier plunged into the sack, and when it was pulled out, the part of the silver needle that had been submerged in the salt turned black. Everyone present saw it really clearly, and without Yue Rongfei's explanation, Ning Sichen understood at a glance that the salt had been poisoned.
"What's going on?" Ning Sichen asked.
The grain and grass in the army have always been taken care of by Yue Rongfei, Yue Rongfei is also a battle-hardened person, knowing the importance of grain and grass in the war, he will definitely protect it strictly, which Ning Sichen is not worried about. Therefore, after setting off for so long, Ning Sichen never asked about grain and grass.
Ning Sichen looked at Ye Xiangquan who was arrested again, this matter has something to do with Ye Xiangquan?
"After dinner, Vice General Ye said that he had come to inspect the grain and grass on the order of General Ning. So, the people under General Ben brought him to the warehouse. Later, it was discovered that the salt had been poisoned. Yue Rongfei was more of a question than a statement.
"Listening to General Yue's tone, General Yue suspected that it was General Ye's poison." Ning Sichen was calm and unhurried, he looked directly at Yue Rongfei, his eyes were unusually sharp.
"Not a doubt, it's a certainty." Yue Rongfei said.
Fortunately, Yue Rongfei was wary of Ning Sichen, and after Ye Xiangquan left, he ordered someone to check all the food in the granary, only to find that the salt had been tampered with. It is highly poisonous, and if it is eaten by mistake, I don't know how many people will die. This poisoned person shows the viciousness of his heart.
"General Ning, the last general didn't poison him, they are framed." Ye Xiangquan wanted to break free from the people holding him, but he didn't break free, and shouted loudly to defend himself. "Behind the scenes, Chu Huiguo's soldiers are dissatisfied with the general's leadership, I think they are using this to frame the last general, and then replace the general."
"Your life is not worth these two bags of salt." Yue Rongfei's angry eyes were already filled with murderous intent.
"General Yue keeps saying that it is General Ye's poison, but there is evidence." Ning Sichen asked.