By the time the three of us arrived at the barn, the fire had already been extinguished. The soldiers' faces were blackened, making the two tear stains under their eyes particularly visible. Grain and grass are the lives of all people in Yongcheng, and the grain and grass are burned, which means that if the reinforcements are not available within a few days, Yongcheng will not be able to hold on.

"Where's the general?" We turned back to the wooden building and happened to bump into the servant who came out of the door.

"Talking to Gongzili, General Qi, and Doctor Baili in the inner room!"

"I'm going to plead guilty to them!" Candlestick took the sword from his waist and handed it to me, and walked in as if he were dead.

"Wait a minute!" I grabbed the candlestick, turned my head and asked, "Have you found the arsonist?" ”

"Well, it's locked up in the backyard, Xiao Ying will take someone to watch."

"Follow me!" I pulled the candlestick and walked to the backyard.

Under the waning moon, a woman in white knelt in the middle of the courtyard with her hair scattered, Bo Huan's face was gloomy, and she slapped her several times in a row, and then pointed a sword at her cheek, and said word by word: "Where are the others?" Are there any of your people in the city? ”

Bo Huan seems to be a different person at the moment, she is resolute and ruthless.

Candle Chu strode forward, and waved away Bo Huan's sword: "Sister! ”

Bo Huan saw Candle Chun and immediately eased his face: "You guys are here, quick, this is the female assassin who burned the barn." ”

Candlestick knelt down and hesitantly brushed the woman's hair from her face. When he saw the woman's face clearly, his voice was the same as his, and he fell in an instant: "Is it really you?" You are Prince Qin's assassin. ”

The woman spat at the blood, looked up at him, and lowered her head silently.

Although the woman's cheeks were red and swollen and blood was dripping from the corners of her mouth, I recognized her immediately.

"Mi Cao?" I crouched down and whispered.

Mi Cao was obviously startled when she saw me, she leaned back and said in horror: "Aren't you already dead?!" ”

"You know her?" No shirt asked.

"She is a concubine given to the prince by someone else." I glanced at Mi Cao, who was kneeling on the ground, and she looked even more embarrassed now than she had been on the slave trading platform that day. I pulled out a handkerchief to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, but she suddenly bit her index finger.

I tried to pull my fingers out in pain, but Mi Cao bit into the bone.

Seeing this, Wuxian slammed his sword on Mi Cao's back, and she closed her eyes and fainted to the ground.

"Zidian, how are you?" Bo Huan came up, "Oh my God, a piece of meat has been bitten off!" ”

"Stop the bleeding quickly." The shirtless took a handkerchief and wrapped it around my wound a few times, raised an eyebrow and scolded, "Why are you so careless!" What kind of grudge do you have against this woman, so that she hates you like this! ”

I looked at the blood that was constantly oozing from the veil, and secretly said in my heart: Mi Cao can not hate me, Gongzili was for me, so he exchanged her and the people of Loufu for innocence, and she became the assassin of the prince today, and I can't escape it.

"I'm fine, now the key is to ask about the whereabouts of the other assassins."

"Leave her to me!" Candle Chu came to his senses, hugged Mi Cao, who was lying on the ground, with both hands, ignoring the reactions of a few of us, and carried the person into the room.

"What is he trying to do?" Bo Huan's mouth opened wide, "Didn't he start going crazy again?" ”

"Now is not the time to pursue the assassins, the grain and grass in the city are burned, and we won't be able to last a few days." Shirtless sank his face, worried about the current situation.

"Only the stems of corn are burned in the barn, and the grain and grass in Yongcheng are hidden elsewhere." "In order to stabilize the morale of the army, every soldier will receive three days' rations tonight. ”

"You already knew!" Wuxian said in astonishment.

"When I first arrived in Yongcheng, I told the general about this, and I suggested that he take the grain and grass out of the barn, and put some flammable wheat stalks in it, and put corn leaves in it, to lure the prince's men to burn them. In this way, when the prince saw the fire in the city, he naturally thought that the grain and grass had been burned. ”

"The people of Bashu attacked the city today with countless casualties, once they know that the grain and grass in the city are burned, they will definitely besiege and not attack, and want to force Wu Feng to open the door and ask for surrender! But in the past few days, we have been guarding the barn for several days, but no one has ever come to transport grain and grass? ”

"That's right! This was my original intention, but the general had already done it long before we entered the city. ”

"So, I've been sleepless for the past few days, just guarding a pile of hay!" Bo Huan suddenly woke up after listening to my words and Wuxian, "No wonder when I said that there was a hole in the barn garrison, General Wu didn't care at all. ”

"You don't blame him, do you?" I asked cautiously.

"I can't hide the secret in my mouth, if you tell me, I'm afraid that Candle Chu will tell that Qin girl today." Bo Huan laughed at herself, and it seemed that she didn't mind her hard work in the past few days, but admired Wu Feng's strategy and foresight.

"Hmph, your mouth may not be able to pry things out with a sword, but a woman like the eldest sister is more cute." Shirtless looked at me and teased.

"That's all we can do, and now we can only hope that reinforcements will arrive sooner."

As soon as I finished speaking, a woman's mournful cry suddenly came from the candle room. Everyone opened the door and rushed in, only to see Mi Cao burying his head deep in Candle Chu's arms, his shoulders trembling violently, and a heavy cry from the depths of his throat seemed to vomit out all the pain in his heart.

Candle Chu just hugged her tightly, without saying a word, and the blue and purple veins on her neck suddenly rose and beat because of the excitement.

This is not a prodigal candlestick, the man in front of him is clearly heartbroken for the woman in his arms.

I suddenly felt that the bond between Candle and Mi Cao was definitely more than just a night of pleasure......

Mi Cao finally fell asleep on Candle Chun's bed when she was tired of crying, Candle Chun stood up and closed the door, and suddenly knelt down in front of Bo Huan: "Sister, please let her live!" ”

"I let her go?!" Bo Huan pressed her forehead and turned around twice, barely calmed down, and said to Zhu Zhen in a serious voice, "I don't know what kind of madness you are doing this time, but this woman inside is an assassin of the enemy army, and she just drugged you and burned down the barn in Yongcheng." If General Wu hadn't transported the grain and grass in advance, she would have killed everyone in Yongcheng by doing so. Such a scheming woman, what are you obsessed with! Ah Box, if you were not a Jin person but a Qin person, you would have been dragged out and beheaded a long time ago, do you know? ”

"I know, I will ask General Wu for guilt later, and I only ask Sister Ah to let General Wu spare Mi Cao's life."

"How could General Wu listen to me?" Bo Huan grabbed the candle that kept kowtowing, and said bitterly, "Ah Box, what kind of spell did this woman put on you!" Wake up! ”

"Sister, if you tell the general that you are the eldest daughter of the prime minister, he will definitely spare Mi Cao for the sake of your face." Candle Chu grabbed the corner of Bo Huan's clothes, and only came out with such a sentence after thinking for a long time.

"You really should be crazy, he didn't come to the door to propose, and he didn't ask the name Nacai, I ran to him like this, do you want me to lose the dead?" Bo Ying broke his hand, took a few steps back, and said to Wuxian: "You come and talk to him!" ”

"Candlestick, you asked the wrong person, if you want to leave the life of the woman in the house, you should ask this son of God." Wuxian pushed me, who was stunned, to the side in front of the candle, "Not to mention General Wu, if she asks Gongzili for a mountain of gold and silver, as long as Gongzili has it, she will definitely not blink her eyes." When the crown prince is defeated, Gongzili will be the prince of Qin, and it will not be easy to say that he wants to release an assassin at that time? ”

This Zhao Wuxian, Candle Chun was in a hurry like this, and he didn't forget to tease me.

"Zi Di, do you really have a way to save Mi Cao? I don't know what kind of grudge Mi Cao has between you and you, if you can spare her life, I'll cut off her finger right now to make amends! Candle Chun's eyes were red, and he said bitterly.

The grudge between me and Mi Cao? Before today, she was just a snob woman to me who wanted to climb to a high position, looking at people with her nostrils when she was favored, and embarrassing me when she became a maiko. But Candle Zhen's reaction today surprised me very much, how could a prodigal son who said that women in the world were the head of the Tao, fall in love with a woman like Mi Cao at first sight? No, looking at his appearance at the moment, it is simply deep-rooted.

"I don't want her fingers, you just tell me, who the hell is she? What is the relationship with you? "I pulled the candlestick up.

Candle Chu glanced at Zhao Wuxian behind me, and said in a low and hoarse voice: "She is the youngest daughter of Yi Ziyi, the last monarch of the State of Yi, Mi Cao." ”

"Is that her?!" Zhao Wuxian sighed, leaned into my ear and said, "This story is long, if you want to listen to it, I'll tell you later." ”

The two of them are really old acquaintances, Mi Cao is still the daughter of the monarch? I suppressed the shock in my heart, and said to the candle tree: "Don't go to the general to excuse yourself now, and wait until I have told him before you go." ”

"Will you help me?" Candle Chu clenched my hand and thanked me repeatedly, "Zi Di, as long as you save her this time, I will be sent by you in the future, and I will never complain." After he finished speaking, he let go of my hand, picked up the sword he had thrown on the ground, and walked out with murderous vigour.

"Where are you going?" Bo Ying chased after him and asked.

"Go and kill the other Assassins hiding in the city." Candlestick dropped a sentence and ran away.

"Eldest sister, the woman in the house is the little aunt who has been looking for five years, you have to take care of it." Wuxian said with a wicked laugh.

"What about you?"

"I'm going to tell this man a story." After saying that, he dragged me up to the roof in shock.

Growing up, my favorite place to listen to stories was the rooftop, which was empty, quiet, and undisturbed. Coincidentally, Zao also likes to tell stories from the rooftop, so the two of us hit it off on this matter.

"Do you say it first, or do I say it first?" Wuxian asked with a smile as he pointed to my injured finger.