Li Qing finished sorting out the seventy-two volumes of military books and found that a bundle of bamboo slips was missing.

Li Qing frowned, Nie Jingtuo counted after writing the military book, and the seventy-two volumes of military books totaled one hundred and eight bundles of bamboo slips, but now there are only one hundred and seven bundles left, and one bundle is missing.

Meng Ying looked at the bamboo slips, and seemed to be very interested in the strategy of the book of war, Li Qing did not want to hide Meng Ying's meaning, although the art of war left by Wei Ying was precious, but Li Qing was not the kind of person who swept away his own treasures, for Meng Ying's own people, Li Qing was never stingy, but just reminded Meng Ying not to talk about it to outsiders.

Meng Ying also knows the importance of the art of war, Wei Yi was originally the captain of the Qin State, if the Shang Ying reform made the Qin State a powerful country on one side, and laid the foundation for the unification of the six countries, then the Wei Yi army really made the Qin Army the strongest army of the Seven Kingdoms, the Qin State has no shortage of strong generals, Wang Qian, Li Xin, Meng Tian, etc. are all famous generals in the world, but their light is covered by Wei Yu.

After the unification of Qin, the existence of Wei Yu became a thorn in the hearts of many nobles in Great Qin, and Ying Zheng also dismissed Wei Yu from military power because of suspicion, and put him in prison, and asked Wei Yu to hand over the art of war several times, but Wei Yu was always unwilling to hand it over, and finally angered Qin Shi Huang and was executed by Qin Shi Huang's secret order.

In the military book written by Wei Mi, the art of war strategy accounts for only half of it, and the other half contains all kinds of knowledge such as politics and religion.

Li Qing secretly said in his heart: "Wei Yu's predecessor is worthy of being a military strategist who can be called Sun Wu, but it's a pity, the birds are as good as their bows and hidden, and this courtier still can't be too dazzling, otherwise it will inevitably be envied." ”

The loss of a book of war made Li Qing a little worried, Nie Jing thought about it carefully, and felt that it was very likely that it was accidentally lost during the dispute with Na Wang Xin during the day, so Li Qing decided to go to the city gate to see if he could find any clues.

Meng Ying wanted to accompany Li Qing very much, but because it was late, for fear that Meng Yi would be worried, Meng Ying had to go back to Mengfu first, and after she went back, she would ask Meng Yi to help find the lost military book.

"Who?"

As soon as Li Qing and Huang Meng approached the city gate, they were discovered by the Qin soldiers guarding the city, and six Qin soldiers in armor immediately rushed out and surrounded Li Qing and the others.

"It's me, Li Qing in the Imperial History."

Li Qing was afraid of causing a misunderstanding, so he hurriedly reported to his home, and the soldiers of the Qin army took a closer look and recognized Li Qing.

Commander Qin hurriedly saluted and asked, "Lord Li Qing, I don't know what the use of coming here late at night is the brothers?" ”

Li Qing thought to himself that these soldiers had been on duty here, maybe they had picked up the soldiers' books, so he asked, "I lost a bundle of bamboo slips during the day, I don't know if you have seen it?" ”

Hearing this, Commander Qin shook his head, then looked at his subordinates behind him and asked, "Have you seen Lord Li Qing's bamboo slips?" ”

The soldiers of the Qin army shook their heads one after another, indicating that they had never seen bamboo slips.

Li Qing frowned, the commander of the Qin army knew that Li Qing had a close relationship with the Mengshi clan, the generals of Great Qin, with the second clan of the Mengwang clan being the most powerful, and the Qin soldiers and soldiers were proud to join these two generals, especially after Meng Tian took the throne, following Meng Tian meant military merit, therefore, this Wu Chang saw that Li Qing seemed to be in trouble, and his heart moved, and he thought: "Isn't this a good opportunity for me to curry favor with the Meng family?" ”

The commander of the Qin army is surnamed Ma, called Ma Er, and has no other skills, but he is the best at drilling camps, and he has a wide range of contacts in the army, he thought about it carefully, and said to Li Qing: "Lord Li Qing, although we have never seen any bamboo slips, but I can go to the brothers who guard the city during the day to ask, and as soon as there is news, I will immediately report to the adults." ”

Li Qing nodded, although this method may not be useful, but it is better than looking for it blindly, I just hope that the things on the bamboo slip will not be seen by people who know the goods, otherwise, things will be difficult to do.

Li Qing searched around, but didn't find any clues, so he could only take Huang Meng and the others to prepare to go back, and when he left, Li Qing asked Ma Er: "This brother, what is your name?" ”

When Ma Er heard this, a bright smile suddenly appeared on his face, and he replied: "Don't dare to call the adult brother and brother, the younger surname is Ma, the second in line, you can just call me Ma Er." ”

Li Qing showed a smile on his face, nodded, and said, "Ma Er, if there is any news, you can come directly to the Li Mansion to find me." ”

After speaking, Li Qing and the three of them turned to leave, Ma Er looked at Li Qing's back, his face was full of pride, he knew that he had already been connected with this upstart of Great Qin.

"Don't worry, my lord, Ma Er will definitely help you find out what you lost."

Although Ma Er's status is not high, he does know a lot of people, he knows that it is not easy to get involved with Li Qing, so he is very attentive to doing things, and in the end, he was really found out by Ma Er.

Da Niu, an ordinary soldier in the Qin army, his only hobby on weekdays is drinking, and he is not drunk in a thousand cups, just because of this hobby, he has a good relationship with one of the guards of the Marquis of Tongwu, Wang Ben, and often drinks together, and that guard is the younger brother of the bamboo merchant who picked up the bamboo slip, Zhou Peng.

Zhou Peng offered bamboo slips, and Wang Ben naturally would not be stingy, rewarded Zhou Peng and the brothers with some money, and gave Zhou Peng a jar of wine.

Zhou Peng got the wine, and thought of his drinking friend Da Niu, so he took the wine to Da Niu to drink, and the two were drinking, and they happened to meet Ma Er, who came to Da Niu to ask about things.

When Da Niu saw Ma Er coming, he was overjoyed: "Second Brother Ma, you came just in time, Brother Zhou Peng brought a jar of wine, just for Second Brother Ma to taste." ”

As soon as Ma Eryi heard that there was wine, he naturally wouldn't refuse, so he sat down and drank with Da Niu and Zhou Peng.

Ma Er swallowed a glass of wine, his face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise: "Good wine, the two brothers are rich, and they are even willing to buy and drink such fine wine." ”

At this time, Zhou Peng was already slightly drunk, and said with a smug smile: "This is my family's marquis." ”

Ma Er said with a smile: "It turned out to be a fine wine given by the Marquis of Tongwu, no wonder it is so mellow, this wine is probably the first wine in Xianyang, a distillation bar." ”

Zhou Peng nodded and said, "Thanks to my brother this time, if not, the marquis of this kind of fine wine would be reluctant to give it to us subordinates." ”

"Oh? And for what else? ”

A thought suddenly sprung up in Ma Er's heart, and a glimmer of light flashed in Zhou Peng's eyes.

Zhou Peng didn't notice Ma Er's abnormality, and poured a full glass of wine at the moment, looking at the transparent wine, Zhou Peng couldn't help but drink it all.

Ma Er got up and filled Zhou Peng with wine, and then pretended to say casually: "Brother Zhou, I heard that your brother sells goods at the North Gate on weekdays, I don't know how the business is recently?" ”

Zhou Peng waved his hand and said drunkenly: "A businessman, it's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning, but this time he did a big thing......

Ma Er smiled: "What's the big deal, is it possible to pick up any treasure?" ”

"I really picked up the treasure......"