Chapter 52: The Spy

Although Gu Zi'an, who had just rushed over, looked calm, Le Yi on the side couldn't hide his anger when he saw this picture, he looked at the cow and sighed.

"Yo, why is there a missing ear?" Spring and summer hurriedly came and asked quietly. The marks of the knife on the cow's ears are still there, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be the result of mutual bites. And Meng Yining could see at a glance that it was a spy. Generally speaking, after the spy has achieved the purpose of listening, he cuts off a part of the supply poultry and other parts of the army to prove that he has indeed reached the army. And this has become a way of proof of the tacit understanding of the spies.

"General Gai," Gu Zi'an called out to the general who was invited over in a low voice, and didn't say the next words, just raised his eyes to look at him. General Gai, who has experienced a hundred battles, naturally knows the severity of such incidents, and says: "Check out, which team is missing!" ”

Zhang Ji nodded on the side and ordered to go down to see if the people in the mission were still complete. Meng Yining touched the severed ear of the cow, and the blood was still sticky on her white fingertips, maybe she didn't run far, but these four sides were wild, how could she find it?

"I should have gone to Beiyang! The nearest city is Zhaojun where we are headed! Le Yi looked at the worried girl, "I don't know what news I heard." ”

"Only a few of us know the plan, this Xia King's 8,000 army is already known to everyone!" Le Yi also reacted: "Indeed, so far, we have no information to listen to." Meng Yining's eyes were suddenly filled with anger, like lightning in a rainstorm in July.

"Spring and summer," the girl called back, "your silver hairpin to ward off evil spirits comes in handy!" That was a gift from Zhang Jiu to her before leaving, because she loved medicine in spring and summer, Zhang Jiu ran all over Chengping out of his own pocket to send some valuable medicinal materials, and also got a silver hairpin to ward off evil spirits and silver chopsticks to avoid poison in the store. In the spring and summer, I got this silver chopstick, and I tried it first in the meals of Gu Zi'an, Zhang Ji and other people, and now it is no big problem for a few days, and I haven't eaten yet, so naturally I haven't tested the poison. The silver chopsticks were still in the carriage and didn't go to pick them up, Meng Yining couldn't wait for her to run to the front of the long line to get them, and directly ordered her to get them.

Chun Xia understood what Meng Yining meant, and plucked a silver hairpin inlaid with nanmu from his head, and the black hair poured down like a waterfall. She carefully tried to avoid everyone's bowls one by one. Originally, there was no change, only in Gu Zi'an's bowl, "Ah-" She whispered, then looked up at Meng Yining with a gloomy face, and nodded.

Meng Yining looked at the silver hairpin, and sure enough, the front hair was black.

Gu Zi'an has been eating outside the tent or house in recent days, and he has not deliberately tested the poison in the dishes, and it may be because of such an observation that this person dared to poison. But who knew that the poison-avoiding chopsticks in spring and summer were made of wood, and there were ten silver threads like hair inlaid in the wooden texture, and if you didn't hold it in your hand, you couldn't tell that it was a pair of silver chopsticks. Even if it is separated by one foot, it is just a pair of carved wooden chopsticks with precious points.

She glanced back at Gu Zi'an, and the two of them confirmed each other's thoughts. "He may not have run away yet, but the person who may have been poisoned has slipped to the edge of the unit, ready to fall behind and escape!" Le Yi also interjected, after all, if Gu Zi'an was suddenly poisoned and fell, it would definitely cause chaos in the group, but at that time, it would also be searched more carefully, and it would be difficult to escape. Knowing that Gu Zi'an had never tested poison in the past few days, that person decided to prepare everything and leave after poisoning and before poisoning.

"Colorless, odorless, and imperceptible." Chun Xia said with the bowl of porridge next to him.

At this time, General Gai and General Xiao Zimu had just returned from inspecting all the personnel on horseback, and dismounted to report that the mission and the army were not short of a single person. Le Yi glanced sideways at Meng Yining's slightly spirited appearance, and she had four big words written all over her face: I guessed right!

"Report!"

In the distance, a member of the mission ran over: "Your Highness, Prime Minister, General, people seem to have been caught!" Xiao Liuzi, who was in charge of cooking just now, looked panicked, and originally lied that he had a stomachache and wanted to go to a distant place for convenience. You just gave the order, and he was so scared that he couldn't find the north and ran around. It doesn't hurt anymore when I look at it! I'll bring it to you right away! As he spoke, he beckoned back.

After a while, two soldiers pushed a cowering man into front of the crowd.

"Say it."

The man looked up in horror, his eyes full of fear, he shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's not me, it's not me!" ”

Meng Yining looked at the brown marks on his body that were bulging from the inside to the outside, she looked at it, and the person next to her took it out, and sure enough, it was a cow's ear with blood that had just dried up. When everyone looked at it, their eyes were full of disdain.

"I won't kill you, but you have to explain the cause and effect clearly." Gu Zi'an spoke. The man saw that he could not escape, and when he heard this, it was like an amnesty, and he took everything in one go.

"I don't want to betray His Highness and the Prime Minister, how dare I betray. It was Zhao Yien's people who arrested my family and found me and said that if I don't kill His Highness, the lives of my wife and children will be gone! I can't help but listen to them...... I know that these people who are inferior to us on the Prime Minister's day are not thin, so I secretly changed the fierce medicine, but I just made His Highness faint with a headache for ten days and eight days, and I didn't worry about my life. When I get back to my life, I'll ask you for my guilt. As he spoke, his crying face was furrowed and he shook his head frequently.

Zhang Ji recognized this person, he was an inconspicuous family member in his house, and the original mission was to go abroad without Zhao Hai, so he chose someone he could trust. Fortunately, although this person was poisoned, his heart was not bad, and Zhang Ji suddenly had a clever plan.

"You said you killed Gu Zi'an, how could they believe it?" Meng Yining asked.

"I'm calculating, I'll be in Zhaojun in three days at the latest, and there should be their men and horses watching. The poison they gave me caused symptoms similar to those I did, and a comparison shows that I am telling the truth. By the time His Highness recovered, I had already taken my family away! As he spoke, probably thinking of his family members whose lives were at stake, he cried and kowtowed.

The girl listened and looked at the expressions of the crowd.

"He's right, it's not lethal." Spring and summer rubbing the thick rice soup in the sunlight observed.

Le Yi felt something, and whispered in her ear: "You won't be thinking about bad ideas again, right?" ”

"Stay away from me!" She whispered a scolding, but her eyes were smiling.

Le Yi shrugged, jumped a step, moved a little away from her, and then looked helpless.

Meng Yining whispered: "Wait for me to report to my sister, you are so close to me, see how she cleans you up!" As he spoke, he put on a fierce expression.

Gu Zi'an ignored the small quarrel between the two people.

"My wife and children won't survive, I'll go down and wait for them first!" As he spoke, the man was about to break away from the soldier and slam into the nearby boulder. General Xiao was quick and grabbed the man. Gu Zi'an motioned to let go of the trembling man, lowered his eyes, and said slowly: "It seems that I can only die, as they wish." ”