"General."

Lai Xing'er turned around with the voice, and saw Wu Bi, who was dressed in soft armor, standing behind him with a sword in his hand.

"Little brother, why are you running here when you don't rest at the lodging at night?" Wu Bi also recognized Lai Xing'er, and asked with a smile on his face.

"I've seen the general." Lai Xing'er bowed and saluted, "The little one sent Yu and Wei back to the Hanlin Academy, and they were in a hurry, so they came here." ”

"Hmm," Wu Bi replied, pointing at Lao Huang and asking the old soldier, "He still works hard, and he doesn't steal and slip, right?" ”

The old soldier replied with sincere fear: "Back to the general's words, Huang Mouchen was punished by the general to clean the latrine at the end of the year, during which he never rested except for eating, and he was willing to work hard. ”

Wu Bi raised his face and asked Lao Huangdao: "You should be the person who was supposed to be a captain, but you were punished by this general to do rough work, you must be unconvinced, right?" ”

Lao Huang glanced at Lai Xing'er uneasily, and saw Lai Xing'er standing next to him leisurely, staring at the distance and not knowing somewhere, as if he hadn't heard Wu Bi's question, so he put his mind at ease and replied cautiously: "If the little one makes a mistake, he should naturally be punished." The small ones are known to repent of their mistakes, and the general is expected to forgive them. ”

"It's getting late, you can go back and rest." Wu Bi nodded, commanded the old soldier, and then pointed at Lao Huang with his hand and ordered, "You, follow me back to the camp tent, have something to ask you?" ”

He turned around and walked a few steps, as if he remembered something, turned back to Lai Xing'er and said, "If the little brother has nothing else to do, you might as well go back to the camp with the old man." ”

Originally, Lao Huang was about to talk about the place where Empress Zhang was buried, but was interrupted by Wu Bi who came suddenly.

Although he and Wu Bi would meet every day, it was the first time that Lai Xing'er had come to the camp where he lived. The size of this camp tent in the palace is only less than half of the size of the marshal's mansion in Jingyun Conghe, except for a screen of gold lacquered nanmu, there is hardly a piece of furnishings that can be called luxurious. ”

Two soldiers walked into the tent with two steaming trays, and laid the food on the trays one by one on the low table. Lai Xing'er looked at it, and saw that there was a pot of corn porridge exuding bursts of aroma, and there were six vegetarian dishes in a circle around the basin, and there was no meat in them, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I can't imagine that the general's diet is so simple!" ”

Wu Bi smiled, and while beckoning Lai Xing'er and the two to eat porridge by themselves, he said: "The old man is used to being a vegetarian, and the little brother has to suffer some grievances when he comes to me." ”

Lao Huang obviously didn't expect that there would be this kind of treatment after being punished, and he didn't dare to step into the tent with his hands and feet in his hands, Wu Bi saw that he was so tight, and knew that he couldn't eat this meal in front of him anyway, so he ordered a personal soldier to serve him a big bowl of porridge, sandwiched some vegetables, and instructed him: "You take the rice to the tent to eat, and then come in and talk back after eating." ”

Lao Huang gave a military salute to Wu Bi as if he had been amnestied, holding the bowl handed over by the soldier, and ran out of the camp happily.

Wu Bi picked up the bowl, sipped the porridge for a while, picked up a piece of spring bamboo shoots and put it in his mouth to chew, and then asked Lai Xing'er: "The little brother has been in the palace for a few years, where is he from?" ”

He is a noble and an elder, and Lai Xing'er didn't dare to be too presumptuous in front of him, he only drank porridge in small sips with a bowl, and listened to Wu Bi's questioning coldly, so he quickly put down the bowl, stood up, and replied respectfully: "The younger one is the Jingzhaoren clan, who entered the palace at the age of ten and worked as an errand in the idle stable, and it has been five years. ”

Wu Bi beckoned to Lai Xing'er to sit down, and said with a big grin: "Although you and I have different identities, we are also doing errands for the emperor, so there is no need to pay attention to the rules like this." I once heard Master Xie say that you are familiar with the hibiscus in front of the Zhang family, I don't know if it's serious? ”

Lai Xing'er sat down, suddenly listened to this question, subconsciously stood up again, and replied: "Yes, the reason for this, the emperor, Lord Li, and Lord Xie all know, and the little ones dare not hide it." ”

Wu Bi stared into his eyes and continued, "Don't worry about it. Yesterday, the old man got the news that someone saw a female Taoist priest in Chang'an City, who looked quite similar to Furong. The old man suspected that Furong was not dead, she appeared in the capital, and the old man was worried that it would be bad for the emperor, because you knew her, so there was this question. Think about it, which monastery did she know in the past, or which monks did she associate with? ”

Lai Xing'er frowned and thought for a moment, shook his head, and replied: "The little one and she only met a few times in the palace two years ago, and there were no strangers outside the palace at that time. I heard that on that day, except for General Zhang Liang, the queen's party was all captured by Master Li, how could anyone escape? He faced Wu Bi and talked about Furong, and his heart was really unsure, so he asked tentatively.

"That's right, Furong was not by Zhang's side that day, and afterwards, the sergeants found a disfigured female corpse in Qingning Palace, and her physical characteristics matched Furong's, so they concluded that Furong was dead." Wu Bi didn't seem to care why Lai Xing'er asked so much, and explained to him casually, "Little brother, I see that you are quite respected by the emperor, and Yanying Hall is a place where the emperor often comes, so you should pay more attention in the future, don't be taken advantage of by the eyeliner of the Furong faction in the palace, and do something." ”

"There is a great general who personally leads the forbidden army to be stationed here, and they don't dare to come here to make a mistake." Lai Xing'er flattered Wu Bidao from time to time.

Wu Bi listened, frowned, changed his smile in an instant, pointed to the food in front of him and said, "Just talk, the food is going to be cold." Little brother, come, eat more. ”

After the two finished eating and drinking, Wu Bi instructed his soldiers: "Go and see if Huang has finished eating outside the tent?" ”

The soldier replied with a smile: "He has already finished eating, and he is standing outside the tent door waiting for the general to call him." ”

Lai Xing'er wanted to take advantage of Lao Huang's account to ask him about Empress Zhang's burial place, and took the opportunity to say goodbye to Wu Bi: "Thanks to the general's hospitality, I am grateful to the little one." If the general has no other orders, the little one will go back. ”

"Little brother, don't worry, stay a little longer, the old man still has something to worry about you." Wu Bi waved his hand to stop Lai Xing'er, and ordered his soldiers to go outside the tent to call Lao Huang in for questioning.

Lao Huang re-entered the tent, still a little uncomfortable, and after saluting Wu Bi, he stood there with his head bowed and straight, without saying a word. Seeing him like this, Wu Bi sneered and asked directly: "If it hadn't been for today's collision, General Ben wouldn't have known that there was such a great hero as you hidden in these hundred or so forbidden troops." Before the first emperor died, the Zhang family died at your hands? ”