On the way back to the city, Wen Qingzhu ran into Lei Yan who rushed over.

"What's going on? Are you alright? ”

Wen Qingzhu shook his head: "It's okay, let's go back first." ”

Lei Yan saw that her expression was calm, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and when he turned his head to look at Lei Shuo, he found that her expression was very wrong.

rode over and walked side by side with her, no matter how he asked, Lei Shuo just wouldn't say.

After walking for a short time, Gu Kuo rode to Wen Qingzhu's side and said goodbye: "Since Lord Lei is here, there is still something to do here, so I will leave for the time being." ”

Wen Qingzhu looked at him sideways: "You go back to the Lu family with me first, there are some things I need to know in detail, Dingyuan...... It was worse than I thought. ”

Gu Kuo wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and ordered a subordinate to go to the barracks to reply, and he followed Wen Qingzhu all the way back to Lu's house.

At the door of Lu's house, they happened to run into Lu Chengen and a man with a square face and triangular eyes.

This man was wearing Xuantie armor, and judging from the feathers on his hat, he was only one level lower than Lu Chengen's grade.

After a little thought, Wen Qingzhu understood who this person was.

Nodding at them, she turned back into the house.

Seeing this, Lu Chengen hurriedly stepped forward and shouted to her: "My lord, please stay." ”

Wen Qingzhu looked back at them: "I have something to do now, if I just introduce someone to me, I will come back in an hour." ”

Lu Chengen could only reply: "Then the adults are busy first." ”

Wen Qingzhu led everyone into the house, and disappeared after a short time.

At the door, the man behind Lu Chengen stepped forward, put his hands behind his back, looked at the direction Wen Qingzhu left and said, "Who is this adult?" made the generals retreat like this. ”

Lu Chengen pondered in his heart, turned his head and said to him: "General Zhao should not act without authorization in the future, this adult's surname is Wen, and he is a person sent by the emperor." ”

"Wen?" General Zhao was puzzled for a moment, and he didn't remember who it was at all.

Suddenly, he remembered the powerful woman!

It's just that the person who went in just now was clearly a man, not a woman!

Could it be her brother or cousin?

According to the information he got here, Wen Qingzhu had indeed sent one of her cousins away in person, and no matter how they inquired, they couldn't find any news.

Wen Qingzhu went to his small courtyard here, asked Jasmine to bring the eggs down to rest, and Green Tao took Lei Yan to deal with the uncle's corpse, and at the same time investigated the specific situation of the slaughtered village.

Things were arranged, and the only people left in the house except for Yang Liu were Lei Shuo and Gu Kuo.

Wen Qingzhu personally poured the tea and invited all of them to sit down.

Lei Shuo and Yang Liu did as they were told, but Gu Kuo subconsciously excused: "My lord, my subordinates—"

Before he finished speaking, he found that the other three people in the room were staring straight at him, and swallowed back in the middle of his words.

Wen Qingzhu pointed to the remaining empty seat: "Sit down, I don't just pay attention to these false courtesies here." ”

Gu Kuo sat down uneasily.

After waiting for a while, she slowly spoke: "Yesterday, Yang Liu's side probably told me the news, but Sister Shuo hid something, so let's start with Sister Shuo." ”

"I ...... I shouldn't have given the uncle gold, it's all my fault, my fault ......" Lei Shuo grabbed his right hand with his left hand, obviously his emotions had not yet recovered.

Gu Kuo couldn't bear to look at it, just now in the village, he could probably know the reason, and knew that Lei Shuo also wanted to repay the uncle, not with a heart.

So he couldn't help but help explain: "Miss Lei just came here in Dingyuan, she doesn't know a lot of things, and she doesn't know that doing this will hurt the uncle, not to mention the slaughter of the village by the Huns, we can't expect it." ”

"I understand what you mean, it's just that Sister Shuo herself has mistakes, if you can't face them squarely and face them directly, guilt and self-blame will accompany him for the rest of his life."

Wen Qingzhu has excellent patience, looking at Lei Shuo in front of him, as if he saw himself in his previous life.

After Jiang Yuancheng revealed her true face, she used to be like Lei Shuo, or even worse.

After those things in his mind, Wen Qingzhu is now able to face them very calmly.

She motioned to Gu Kuo not to interject for the time being, and then said to Lei Shuo: "I know that you are uncomfortable now, but think about it, if the Xiongnu did not sneak into Daqi, the villagers would have lived a stable life, even if you helped the uncle, at most it would cause some conflicts between the uncle and his son-in-law's family, but that's all." ”

"I know, but if I hadn't made a claim, my uncle wouldn't have died so miserably." As soon as Lei Shuo remembered the previous picture, he couldn't help but hug his arms and tremble.

Wen Qingzhu reached over, held her hand, and said in a gentle and powerful voice: "Lei Shuo, you are only the smallest link in this matter, and you can't decide the fact that the uncle was killed at all. ”

"So everything is the fault of the Huns?" Lei Shuo knew that Qingzhu was smarter than himself, and he could see farther and clearer than himself, and his heart slowly stabilized.

Wen Qingzhu shook his head firmly: "Not really." ”

Doubts appeared in Lei Shuo's eyes, and he opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"This matter should be divided into two aspects, one is the responsibility of the government, and the other is the responsibility of you or Gu Kuo."

Seeing Wen Qingzhu mention himself, Gu Kuo's heart tightened, but he obviously felt that Wen Qingzhu was just objectively analyzing the facts.

Wen Qingzhu continued: "You are at fault, but your fault is not the main reason, the murderer is the Hun soldiers, but why can the Hun soldiers be like no one on the land of Daqi?" ”

"It's they who don't protect and the people." The tears on Lei Shuo's face dried, and she slowly speculated back with Wen Qingzhu's thoughts.

Wen Qingzhu nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, if the government and the army of Great Qi protect the border, this kind of thing will not happen at all!" ”

"So there's a problem with the government, and there's more than one problem!" Lei Shuo clenched his fists.

"It's a big problem." Wen Qingzhu said lightly, it seems that the news she got from Green Tao Jasmine yesterday shows that the Lu family's power has been completely deprived!

If it weren't for the Lu family's influence for hundreds of years, I am afraid that the current Dingyuan has changed hands.

Wen Qingzhu's first impression of Lu Chengen was not good, but it was by no means bad.

At least it's not a little bit better than the Zhao Qing next to Lu Chengen just now.

Thinking of Zhao Ke who died in the capital, Wen Qingzhu was almost certain that the Zhao family and the Xiongnu definitely colluded!

She raised the teacup and took a sip of tea, moistened her throat before saying: "Twenty years ago, it was almost impossible for Daqi to see the Huns, but now it has changed greatly, whether it is the Dingyuan Prefect, or the Zuo Lord, including the Lu family and the Zhao family, there are problems, and this matter may require the emperor's action." ”

"What are you going to do?" Lei Shuo's heart became excited, "Can you go to take revenge immediately?" Since the Huns are coming, wouldn't it be better if we just fought back! ”

Wen Qingzhu explained helplessly: "Fighting a war is not such a simple matter, the pressure on the emperor's side is also great, and Yunzhou is even more-"

Thinking of what she saw when she passed through Yunzhou, Wen Qingzhu's heart became heavier and heavier.

She turned her eyes to look at Gu Kuo: "You have been patrolling at the grassroots level, and what you see in Dingyuan is more real, let's talk about it, what are the problems in Dingyuan?" That said, it's a great opportunity! ”

"Can you really say that?" Gu Kuo was a little flustered in his heart, he really didn't know what Wen Qingzhu's identity was.

I thought it was a secret messenger, but she was a woman, so it couldn't be a messenger.

Wen Qingzhu nodded, Gu Kuo was still struggling in his heart.

But over the years, he has suffered for more than ten years, and he has watched Dingyuan come to this point step by step.

After gritting his teeth and struggling for a long time, Gu Kuo finally said: "Then the subordinate said it!" First of all, the prefect's yamen continued to reduce the salary and number of patrol soldiers, and later there was even a person who needed to be on duty for twelve hours a day, and the first three or five years were in arrears to us for several months, and then the Lu family took action and accepted our patrols, and life gradually got better, but the salary was still less than before, but there was more work! ”

Speaking of this, Gu Kuo was very angry: "If it weren't for the face of the people, we wouldn't be able to hold it out!" ”

Wen Qingzhu had never been to the northwest before, so he didn't know much about things here: "Was the patrol army under the jurisdiction of the prefect's yamen in the past?" ”

"Not really! But it's no wonder that I don't know the lord of the house, it's really that the money allocated by the treasury is too small to support it, and in peacetime, the daily patrol army has slowly become the existence of solving all kinds of trivial things for the people, which may also be the reason. ”

After the anger, Gu Kuo slowly calmed down, and his tone was much better.

Wen Qingzhu probably understood the situation of their patrol army, and after careful analysis, their existence belonged to the ability to quickly transmit information and discover the enemy's situation, but the cost was still very large.

"Then do you still pay the money account of your patrol army?" Wen Qingzhu wanted to see for himself what was going on.

Gu Kuo was stunned: "There is a yamen, but the salary has always been escorted by the capital, and the real accounts are in the hands of the second general of the Zhao family." ”

"I remember that General Zhao only came here more than twenty years ago, what about the previous salary?" Wen Qingzhu asked again.

Gu Kuo was a little unsure: "It should be, the Lu family is in charge of the handover." ”

Wen Qingzhu nodded, and asked him again, "Do you have any other questions?" ”

"Yes!" Gu Kuo's expression was very serious, "In recent years, more and more Huns have infiltrated Daqi, and there is a large army in Dingyuan to guard it, they dare not act rashly, but Yunzhou, which is closest to here, has suffered a lot of disasters. Now the problem in Yunzhou is-"

Halfway through speaking, he seemed to think that Wen Qingzhu was from the capital, and he stopped with some scruples.

Seeing Wen Qingzhu motioning for him to continue, he thought about it and said: "A lot of the grain in Dingyuan was donated by wealthy businessmen in Yunzhou before, not to mention the rich businessmen now, there are few people, and the treasury has been reducing military salaries, not only the Lu family, but also the Zhao family and the government are not having a good time, they are not having a good time, and the people's lives are naturally more bitter." ”

He said these words vaguely, but Wen Qingzhu heard them clearly and understood them very clearly.

Wen Qingzhu nodded, didn't say anything on the side, only asked, "Do you still have questions?" ”

"These are all big things, I figured it out myself, and I don't need to tell the adults about the small things." Gu Kuo didn't dare to say it again, and if he did more, he would blame the boss badly.

Gu Kuo was speechless, Wen Qingzhu probably knew it, got up and sent him out.

When he arrived at the door, Gu Kuo hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Don't send each other, adults!" This is this tormenting subordinate! If there is anything you need to know about it in the future, just come to me. ”

"That's good!" Wen Qingzhu promised that after two days of contact, she had an excellent impression of Gu Kuo.

As soon as he left, Wen Qingzhu turned back into the house.

After sitting down again, she asked Yang Liu: "You have just come to the northwest and don't know much about things here, but you have been to Ganzhou and Youzhou before, what do you think of Gu Kuo?" ”

After thinking for a long time, Yang Liu carefully organized the language: "I think his words are basically no problem, the Lu family army is famous in the entire Daqi, and even the surrounding small countries, and the patrol army system is a team separated from the Lu family army at the beginning!" ”

"Separated from the Lu family's army? Why didn't Gu Kuo say it just now? Wen Qingzhu was very puzzled.

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