Chapter Eighty-Seven: Clearing the Mountain Bandits (8)
Su Su hurriedly said: "I'll take you there!" β
Huang Lian's mansion does not have a dungeon, most of the prisoners sent these days are sent to the firewood room, and the important ones are to find a small servant or a maid to live in and throw them into it - anyway, the mansion is very empty now, and everyone is helping in the epidemic center, but he has a place to lock people up.
Tie Ying was the most important prisoner among these people, and his "cell" was extremely spacious, but all the furniture and ornaments in it had been removed, and it was an empty room, except for the bed, there was no light, and the windows were sealed, and he didn't know how to spend the night.
When Xiao Yuexi opened the door and locked it in, he had already woken up, but he was tied up and lying on the bed, unable to move anywhere except his head. He turned his head, and after seeing that it was Xiao Yuexi, he was stunned for a moment and then laughed angrily: "Mrs. Xiao is really a good means!" β
"Awards, awards." Xiao Yuexi glanced around absentmindedly and found that there was no place to sit, so her brows furrowed.
Su Su immediately understood and went out to move a chair for her.
Xiao Yuexi tilted her head to look at Tie Ying, and said, "It's really ashamed, last time I was in Guishanzhai, I was treated extremely well, compared to your current situation, I really don't look like a half-level prisoner." She said "guilty", but there was no guilt in her eyes.
Su Su quickly moved a chair, and even asked someone to bring a table in, and made her a pot of tea on the spot.
Xiao Yuexi enjoyed the opposite treatment from the prisoners, squinted her eyes, and said with a smile: "But I'm a little skeptical now, did you deliberately get caught by me?" β
When she said this, the teacup was gently pressed against her lips, but her eyes did not let go of any of Iron Eagle's slight expressions. He's not only angry, he's impatient, and he doesn't look like a disguise. Xiao Yuexi wrote it down quietly, and then said: "I sent you down the mountain, and returned to Guishanzhai on a whim, and burned your house, but I found an interesting thing...... That master of yours doesn't seem to care much about you, huh? β
Tie Ying snorted coldly, not wanting to pay attention to her.
"You've been missing for so long, and your master didn't send someone out to look for you?"
After a long silence, Xiao Yuexi maintained a playful smile on her face, and finally waited for Tie Ying to speak: "Mrs. Xiao doesn't have to go around in circles together, no matter how you knock on the side, I won't spit out any useful news for you." β
"Huh?" Xiao Yuexi pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Aren't you in a hurry?" In case your master doesn't care about you, is too sick, or ...... Is it dead? β
"You fart!" Tie Ying finally couldn't hold back his roar, speaking of which, this was the first time Xiao Yuexi had seen him show an expression other than a smirk, and he felt fresh for a while. Seeing his murderous expression, "If I hadn't been tied up and couldn't move, I would have rushed over and strangled you to death", the smile on Xiao Yuexi's face slowly spread.
Xiao Yuexi said: "Yo! Your master-servant friendship is still very deep! I'm just casually saying that Your Excellency won't react so much, right? β
"Less nonsense!" Tie Ying finally didn't have the patience to go down with others anymore, he said coldly and resolutely: "This time I fell into the hands of Mrs. Xiao, I can only blame my bad luck, if you want to kill it, you have to listen to it, and there is nothing else to say." Can Mrs. Xiao go? When he was about to die, he wanted to leave himself a pure heart. β
Xiao Yuexi, who had never received such a blatant eviction order in her lifetime, smiled undiminishedly, she played with the teacup in her hand, and said indifferently: "I haven't finished yet, don't rush to catch people." Iron Eagle closed his eyes and twisted his head to the side, making it clear that he didn't want to deal with anyone anymore. Xiao Yuexi ignored it, and just continued: "If your master doesn't send someone out to find it, then I will have to send it back." I don't have the habit of raising things for others, and it's not a matter for your excellency to stay with me all day long to eat and wait for death, so it's better to go back early. β
Tie Ying was stunned, and opened his eyelids to give Xiao Yuexi a puzzled look.
"But whether you can take it away or not depends on how capable your master is." Xiao Yuexi hooked the corners of her mouth, got up and said: "I won't disturb Your Excellency's purity, when he sweeps away the bandits and cleans up the back mountain in the south, I will definitely tell Your Excellency this 'good news'." β
After she finished speaking, she turned around and left, but the iron eagle behind her exploded: "Wait! What are you doing? You're back! What are you doing? Mrs. Siu...... Xiao Yuexi! β
Xiao Yuexi was not deterred by his roar, nor did she look back, went out of the room and locked the door, ignoring the angry roar in the room, but paused slightly. Now that the chaos has gradually calmed down, she seems to have less and less reason to stay on Binzhou's side.
She didn't know what to do for a while, but Su Su, who was on the side, suddenly asked, "Madam, why didn't you listen to that iron eagle when you tried your best to trap it?" β
Xiao Yuexi smiled: "What's the use of listening? The mountain bandits still have to be suppressed, and the back mountains still have to be cleared. And so many innocent people who are forced to work as coolies, and what can he do with his time when he says that he can't shake me? Tell him, just to make him anxious, to see if he will have any back-ups. As for what he has to say, I don't have time to listen. β
Su Su looked at her and didn't speak.
Sensing her gaze, Xiao Yuexi laughed: "What are you looking at me like this?" β
Su Su thought about it seriously and said, "Hmm...... I just think that many of Mrs.'s ideas are different from ordinary people, and the more I come into contact with them, the more interesting I feel. β
Xiao Yuexi didn't feel that she was interesting, and said inexplicably: "What are you talking about?" β
Su Su also smiled, shook his head and didn't say anything more, followed Xiao Yuexi and walked a few steps behind, just in time to catch up with Chengfeng, who had settled down and returned to his life.
"Ma'am."
Xiao Yuexi nodded: "It's all arranged?" β
Chengfeng: "Yes, Miss Wind has already led people to the cottage as you instructedβuh, ma'am......"
Seeing his expression of wanting to speak and stopping, Xiao Yuexi was relieved, and said indifferently: "You want to ask why I didn't send someone to keep an eye on Wei Chang?" β
Chengfeng was stunned and nodded hurriedly.
Xiao Yuexi hooked the corners of her lips, and said slowly: "There is a miasma of smoke in the court, most of them have ghosts, sit and watch what kind of virtue the country will be mixed up by a nest of waste, there are very few people who sincerely think about the king, but Wei Chang is definitely one of the few." β
Chengfeng's face became even more puzzled: "How can Madame be so sure?" β
"Because your master trusts him." Xiao Yuexi said. "If he didn't believe it, how could he send him to Binzhou?"
Chengfeng looked at his wife in a daze, and always felt that the meaning behind her words seemed to be saying, "Your master believes in him, and I believe in your master"?
Xiao Yuexi didn't give him time to figure it out slowly in his heart, and said, "Prepare the horse, I'm going to the Binzhou garrison camp." Well...... Just ask Deputy Commander Zhao to come with me. β
Chengfeng asked a little confused: "What is Madam doing in the garrison camp?" β
Xiao Yuexi glanced at him, a little worried about his intelligence, sighed and said, "Have you been hanging around me for too long, so you really think that you are a person who can put on the surface?" β
"Huh?"
"Tsk!" Xiao Yuexi looked disgusted with hatred and regret. "The matter of encircling and suppressing the mountain bandits, you guys are secretly fueling the troubles, do you still want to go out to replace the garrison?"
"......" Chengfeng was stunned for a long time before he reacted.
That's right! He belongs to the Zangfeng Pavilion, the Zangfeng Pavilion is the most mysterious force in the rivers and lakes, once he interferes in the affairs of the court with great fanfare, what will people think? Doesn't this make it clear that everyone in the world knows that the mysterious mastermind of Zangfeng Pavilion is His Majesty the Emperor? Although those who have always been unfavorable to Xiao Yuexi have some speculations about this, there is no substantive evidence after all, but once their meddling is exposed this time, it is equivalent to confirming the identity of the master of Zangfeng Pavilion......
No wonder...... Chengfeng looked at Xiao Yuexi, and said silently in his heart: No wonder the tasks given to us by Madame are so hidden, although they are important, as long as they are careful, they will not make people suspicious, it turns out that she has already thought about it......
Xiao Yuexi noticed the change in his gaze, smiled and asked, "Figured it out?" β
Chengfeng nodded stunned, in exchange for Xiao Yuexi's crying and laughing: "What are you waiting for if you figure it out?" β
"Huh? Oooh! The subordinates will go to prepare the horse, please Deputy Commander Zhao! As soon as the words fell, the person had already run away.
Xiao Yuexi hooked the corners of her lips speechlessly, turned her head to look at Su Su, her face was quite puzzled, and she lowered her voice and asked, "Is the intelligence of the people in your pavilion all of this grade?" Your master's criteria for selecting people are too casual? β
Susu: "...... Heh, hehe, Madame is really joking. β
Xiao Yuexi didn't think she was joking, she was very serious about making this doubt, but she didn't know that the criteria for selecting people in Zangfeng Pavilion were better than those of the Prison Division, but few people could have so much thought about her, and at the critical moment, who would have so much scruples?
Xiao Yuexi thought of Fengshuangxue, this person is smart and powerful, and then think about the famous Prison Division, isn't there also different qualifications? A handful of seeds are sown, and the seedlings that grow are all of different heights! Thinking of this, Xiao Yuexi somewhat relieved her heart. Just why be reassured? Xiao Yuexi couldn't think of it, and she didn't bother to think about it.
When she was waiting for Zhao Rong outside the gate of the Huangfu, she said to Su Su on the side with some emotion: "Speaking of which, I have been exposing my identity here for several days, why hasn't the direction of the wind in the middle been transmitted to this side at all?" β
Su Su didn't understand this, and said innocently: "Presumably the emperor managed to suppress it, after all, Madame, you are still very important in the emperor's heart." β
Xiao Yuexi smiled, disapproving.
If only it were that simple......
In all dynasties, no palace concubine has gone out of the palace to inspect like her, even in such an era when the capable are respected, women can enter the official career, but how many women have really entered this threshold?