Zhao Kuo suddenly received a secret report from the military officials at the wedding banquet of Ying Yiren: there was a mutiny in the Wu'an camp, and the envoy of King Zhao was detained in the camp, and his life and death were unknown.

The stakes were very high, and after the anxious Zhao Kuo left the banquet, he didn't even have time to enter Handan City, but only sent an entourage back to the mansion to inform the old housekeeper, and then hurriedly rode his horse to the Wu'an camp overnight.

It was early the morning of the next day when they arrived at the Wu'an camp, and it was supposed to be training time, but the soldiers were scattered in the camp sitting or standing in twos and threes, and some soldiers threw their weapons aside and gathered together to talk and talk on their own.

Seeing the sudden arrival of the general, the soldiers stood up one after another: "General! ”

Zhao Kuo ignored it, but rushed straight into the shogunate of the Chinese army, and the general of Wu'an, Le Yizheng, was pacing back and forth uneasily in the big tent.

Zhao Kuo hurriedly flew off his horse, strode into the big tent, and opened his mouth to ask, "How is the situation?" ”

As soon as Le Yi, who had no master of the six gods, saw Zhao Kuo, he suddenly had a backbone, so he told the situation one by one: it turned out that after the triumphant return of the army, King Zhao sent a royal family order named Guo Kai to escort the reward money to the Wu'an camp to work the army. I don't want this Guo Kai to be a person like his name, and when he saw the money, he had the audacity to swallow a lot of reward money that should have been distributed to the soldiers. Originally, it was just a matter of doing this without knowing it, but the sky did not hide the traitor, and because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, the matter was poked out by a small official under Guo Kai. The angry soldiers immediately poured into Guo Kai's tent and took the group hostage. Guo Kai, who was so frightened, immediately expressed his willingness to spit out the stolen money, but the soldiers still did not give up, and they were ready to stay until noon today, and then all Guo Kai and his attachés were executed outside the gate.

Zhao Kuo calmly listened to Le Yi finish explaining the situation, and then directly ordered: "Gather the whole army, Ben will have something to say." ”

Intimidated by Zhao Kuo's prestige in the army on weekdays, all the mutinous soldiers came to the gate after a while. Zhao Kuo then walked quickly to the hurriedly erected platform, and said to the soldiers who were surging like a red tide in the audience: "Guo Kai has already understood the matter of privately swallowing the reward!" You also understand your feelings! Swear in public, today's events have nothing to do with you! You are still a loyal soldier of Da Zhao! ”

Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, "General! What do you say about Guo Kai? In the crowd that had gradually calmed down, there was a buzz again, and the soldiers shouted one after another, "We are fighting bloody battles to fill our own pockets for scum like the DPRK and China!" It's not over! Kill Guo Kai! "That's right! Kill Guo Kai! ”……

Zhao Kuo hurriedly stretched out his hands and pressed down, making a quiet gesture: "Guo Kai's own Sikou Mansion will be disposed of according to law." Zhao Kuo calmly glanced at the angry soldiers in the audience, and then said, "Soldiers! Who are the people who are in the army? It's not King Zhao! It's not me Zhao Kuo! but for your parents, brothers, and sisters! It's also for you to wait for yourself! Do you think that if you put down your weapon, the tiger and wolf Qin will ignore it? Big fallacy! If the country is overthrown, the family will be safe! What is the family? ”

After listening to Zhao Kuo's words, the soldiers looked at each other for a while, and their faces showed a trace of shame. In an instant, under the leadership of the soldier who had just taken the lead in coaxing, the whole army knelt down in front of Zhao Kuo: "Please punish the general!" ”

Zhao Kuo then raised his arms and shouted solemnly: "Take Guo Kai!" ”

After a while, Guo Kai, whose face was as soft as mud, was put under the stage by two soldiers who were like wolves and tigers. Looking at the thousands of soldiers with angry eyes around him, Guo Kai was suddenly frightened and urinated, and crawled all the way to Zhao Kuo's feet and cried: "General, help!" General help! ”

"Why did you know today?" Zhao Kuo glanced at Guo Kai with disdain, snorted coldly, waved his hand, and said, "Escort Guo Kai into the prisoner car and send him to Si Kou's Mansion for punishment!" ”

After the two soldiers got the order, they dragged Guo Kai onto a prisoner car that had already been prepared, and Zhao Kuo turned his head to the general Le Yi and said, "Please leave the rest to the general!" Immediately rushed to Handan to meet King Zhao! ”

Le Yi arched his hand and said: "No! Admiral, rest assured! ”

Zhao Kuo then strode off the platform, swept his horse under the eyes of the soldiers, untied the prisoner car, and went straight out of the barracks.

When the news of the mutiny in the Wu'an camp came, chaos immediately broke inside and outside the palace. Pingyuan Jun was far away in the clouds to supervise the army, the old general Lian Po was ill, and King Zhao finally gathered the ministers, but a group of people had no backbone, and they were helpless to gather on the main hall. At this moment, the attendants outside the hall shouted: "The general has arrived!" ”

In a panic, King Zhao seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly got up to meet the throne. After a while, the general Zhao Kuo strode to the center of the hall in full view of the ministers, and knelt down on one knee and reported loudly: "Report to my king, Zhao Kuo rushed back from the Wu'an camp, and the mutiny has subsided." ”

As soon as the riot subsided, everyone in the hall suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and King Zhao's gloomy face finally showed a smile: "The general has worked hard!" ”

King Zhao stretched out his hand to help Zhao Kuo with a smile on his face, but he didn't want Zhao Kuo to get up at all: "My king!" Zhao Kuo has this participation! ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it. Seeing that Zhao Kuo didn't appreciate it, King Zhao had no choice but to put away his hand in embarrassment, turned around and returned to the throne, and put on a majestic appearance again.

Zhao Kuo said word for word: "The royal family ordered Guo Kai to privately swallow the reward money, causing a mutiny in the whole army!" The sin is great! When a thousand cuts! I implore my king to immediately clarify the canonical punishment and reassure the hearts of the soldiers! ”

"Any objections?" King Zhao motioned for Zhao Kuo to return to his seat, and then looked around the hall, and saw that no one spoke, so King Zhao was about to speak as soon as he patted the king's case.

"The minister has an objection!" Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd, and everyone looked at it and it turned out to be the crown prince Zhao Yan.

"Say!" King Zhao looked at Zhao Yan calmly and said lightly.

Zhao Yan arched his hand towards the throne and said in a loud voice: "Zhao Lu Huanghuang, the soldiers mutinied, the initiator died, and the servants were all tortured and exiled!" The law of the country is inseparable, why punish Guo Kai alone, and pardon the mutinous soldiers? ”

Zhao Kuohuo Ran got up and argued: "There is a reason for the incident, and the law does not blame the public, and common sense is also!" How could the prince not know? ”

Zhao Yan snorted coldly, bowed to King Zhao and said, "That's all the words, only the king decides!" ”

King Zhao waved his hand, motioned for Zhao Yan to sit down, and then said to Zhao Kuo, who looked indignant: "The general should also sit." ”

There was a sudden silence in the main hall, and Zhao Kuo bowed deeply towards King Zhao, and then slowly sat down. Seeing Zhao Kuo sitting still, King Zhao opened his mouth and said: "The general's words are reasonable, and there is a reason for the mutiny, so I will not pursue it again!" Guo Kai privately swallowed the reward, and the crime was extremely evil. However, he remembered that he had repentance, so he was exempted from the death penalty, expelled from the palace, and exiled to the clouds. ”

"The king must not!" Zhao Kuo was anxious when he heard this, stood up on the ground, and said excitedly, "If Guo Kai is forgiven, the soldiers will be cold!" ”

"Zhao Kuo is bold!" Zhao Yan stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhao Kuo and shouted angrily.

King Zhao just smiled: "The general is alarmist!" It's all gone! With that, King Zhao turned around and walked away.

As soon as King Zhao left, the ministers scattered one after another.

Zhao Kuo had to leave the palace in a daze, and he didn't want to see the old housekeeper hurriedly come over to tell him: Ji Xue is missing!

Things came one after another, Zhao Kuo only felt dizzy for a while, hurriedly reached out and grabbed the parchment letter held in the old housekeeper's hand, unfolded it, and there were only a few words in the letter: "Snow has left, and the son is precious." ”

"Ji Xue!" Zhao Kuo held the parchment tightly with his hand and stood trembling in the courtyard in front of the hall. Suddenly, Zhao Kuo threw the parchment into the air violently, then drew out his sword, and there was a flurry of dances, and the parchment was instantly split into pieces by the sword. Looking at the parchment scattered on the ground, the hard work of running back and forth and sleepless all night plus the endless desolation in his heart, Zhao Kuo, who had always been like an iron beater, finally couldn't hold on, only to feel that it was dark in front of him, and he actually fainted to the ground.

"Childe!" The old housekeeper was caught off guard, and hurriedly knelt down to help Zhao Kuo, sighing for a while, not knowing what to do. After a while, Zhao Kuo woke up to the cry of the old housekeeper.

Zhao Kuo smiled at the tearful old housekeeper and asked calmly, "How long has Ji Xue been gone?" ”

The old butler wiped away a handful of tears and stammered, "Don't ...... at lunchtime The Missing Husband...... Madame, but I don't know ...... I don't know when. ”

"That's it! Let her go. Zhao Kuo lay in the old butler's arms like a child, looked blankly at the dusky sky, and muttered, "Evening...... The glow is so beautiful......"