The lights and candles in the tent flickered and flickered, and the summer heat seemed to have disappeared. Chen Chong turned around and slowly knelt on the ground.

"Those people are loyal to the general, and they will not betray me." He said dejectedly: "But now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still knows." Then Chen can only apologize for his sin with death. ”

Li Cong raised his eyes to look at him, walked to the simple spring stool and sat down, and said lightly: "It doesn't matter how the palace knows, what matters is, does General Chen think it's worth it?" ”

Chen Chong's eyes were staring at the ground, and his sturdy body shook slightly because he had been kneeling for a long time.

Li Cong continued: "When General Chen was in the army with the regent, he felt that this lord could be relied on after a long time, but it was human nature. It's just that the Chen family has been loyal and good for generations, don't you know that there is only one monarch in the world, and the soldiers fight for the people? ”

Chen Chong was still silent, but his face was red and white.

"Now, in order to cut off the grain and grass of the palace and defeat the Jin people and help the regent ascend the throne, you don't care about the lives of the people. Let's ask like this, all the loyal martyrs enshrined in your Chen ancestral hall may be blind? ”

His voice was not hurried, and the cold light in his eyes was dazzling, but there was no thunderous fury.

When Chen Chong heard this, he finally said in despair: "The last general only wants to frustrate His Highness's confidence, and has no intention of taking the initiative to defeat the Jin people. If you don't hide it from Your Highness, the last general will think that Your Highness's lingering illness for several years is not suitable for inheriting the unification. ”

Xu felt that he was about to die, but Chen Chong had no scruples when he spoke.

Also, stealing grain without permission should be sentenced to beheading.

"Really?" Li Cong looked at his fairly straightforward face and said coldly: "You have no intention of losing to the Jin people, so what does the regent think, do you know?" ”

Chen Chong raised his head suddenly, the horizontal flesh on his face trembled, and he looked at Li Cong in confusion.

Li Cong's eyes were deep, he raised his hand to take a cup of tea, and slowly drank it.

"Impossible!" Finally thinking about that possibility, Chen Chong's emotions were a little excited: "The regent once personally drove the Jin people to the north bank of the Wuboke River, killing and wounding tens of thousands, which can be described as a sea of blood feud, he won't!" ”

After saying this, his brain was like a car that couldn't be stopped, and he instantly thought of thousands of possibilities. This time, the Jin people tore up the agreement and gathered troops to go south, which was indeed abrupt and seemed to be just the right time.

It just so happened that His Majesty was ill, and the regent had a reason not to go on the expedition.

"So what do you think, why are the Jin people invincible this time? It is clear that there are people who are colluding with them inside and out. Li Cong looked at his hand that was hanging on the ground and trembling slightly, and said lightly: "Random speculation is like slander, there is something here in this palace, I don't know if you want to see it." ”

He said and called softly, "Crazy." ”

Crazy? Isn't it the dog that the prince got from Jingzhao Mansion?

Chen Chong's face was puzzled, and he saw a big black dog rushing in from outside the tent, brushing past him with a fishy smell, and stopped in front of the prince.

Its mouth was holding something, and its body was desperately trying to rub against Li Cong's body.

Li Cong covered his nose with one hand and pointed at Chen Chong, who was kneeling on the ground, with the other hand in disgust.

The big dog realized that he shook his head, and a red and white object fell at his feet.

It was a bloodstained white jade plaque, which should have been hung on his waist, but at this time it was thrown to the ground with a crack.

Chen Chong looked at the jade plaque for a long time, and finally raised his hand to pick it up, wiped the blood stain with fine soil, and watched it carefully.

The front of the jade plaque is engraved with bamboo leaves, and the back is engraved with two characters.

"This is ......" he muttered, "Zitou, this is—"

"Rocher, the words are clear. General Chen doesn't remember? This man has been working in the Regent's palace all along. ”

The big dog whined twice, and even it seemed to remember.

"Where did this jade plaque come from?" Chen Chong looked at Ah Mad as if it could answer. Ah Mad ran a few steps out of the tent, then came back, jumped on the sand table and pulled the black flag and bit it in his mouth.

It was the banner of the Golden Man.

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