Chapter 74: Tongcheng

Wei Jiuli ignored her directly and asked Bai Tang, "Are you hungry?" Eat something first. As he spoke, he opened the burden in his hand and took out a delicate three-layer snack box and opened it.

On the first floor, there are a few crystal shrimp dumplings and a few small soup dumplings, on the second floor, there are a few pieces of jujube mud cake, osmanthus cake and walnut quicksand buns, and on the third layer, there are more than a dozen wraps and shredded pork in Beijing sauce.

The food box is specially made, and there is a water barrier on the outside, and the inside is filled with hot water, so the food inside is still bubbling with enthusiasm when you open it.

"Wow, I want shrimp dumplings." Wei Yuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately reached out to grab a shrimp dumpling and took a bite, and said while eating, "Brother Jiu, it's not too cumbersome for you to go in a hurry and still carry such things, it's really nothing...... Oh, a wilderness survival experience. ”

Wei Jiuli's face darkened, "Eating can't stop your mouth." ”

Wei Yuan grimaced at him very much, and didn't forget to inch in, "Brother Jiu rolls me a roll of shredded meat." ”

Wei Jiuli grinded his teeth, eager to pick up this little girl and throw it back to the palace immediately, in the past, I only thought that she was lively and cheerful, and the cuteness of the eccentric elf, but now I feel hateful and hateful, just a wild boy.

"Sit down, you see how you look like a princess, the rules of this time are in vain?"

"Sister Tangtang said that we want to follow the customs, we are in the wild now, and the set in the palace is not suitable."

Bai Tang couldn't help but chuckle when he saw that the brother and sister began to fight each other again.

Hearing the laughter, Wei Jiuli looked over and saw that she seemed to be in a good mood, and her heart was full of anger.

He didn't pay attention to Wei Yuan anymore, handed Bai Tang a pair of chopsticks, and handed her the first layer with a cloth, saying, "Eat it while it's hot, this thing won't taste good when it's cold." ”

The few things he prepared were Bai Tang's favorites, especially shrimp dumplings and quicksand buns.

If it weren't for the limited space, he would have wanted to prepare more, but now that there is one more person, he can obviously eat less.

After thinking about it, he glared at Wei Yuan, who was gnawing on the quicksand bag again.

Sensing his gaze, Wei Yuan painted a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and made a grimace at him, "Slightly ......"

Wei Jiuli's face darkened, and he directly sandwiched a shrimp dumpling and stuffed it into her mouth.

Wei Yuan was gagged and almost choked, and after chewing it hurriedly, she poured a mouthful of warm water and glared angrily, "Brother Jiu, are you trying to murder your sister?" ”

"Good advice." Wei Jiuli glanced at her expressionlessly, and then ate the meat roll by himself, ignoring her.

Wei Yuan flattened her mouth, "Sister Sugar Candy, look at Brother Jiu, it's too much!" ”

"Okay, hurry up and finish eating, and you'll have to hurry." Bai Tang was helpless, so he put a soup bag on a clean bamboo leaf and handed it to her.

Wei Yuan had no choice but to pout and take the soup bag, glaring at his ninth brother unwillingly.

The rest of the people also sat or stood around to eat dry food, looking at this side from time to time.

"It seems that the rumors outside are good, and the relationship between the Nine Emperor Princes and the White Girl seems to be very good." Xiao Cheng, the former deputy commander, looked at the interaction between the three of them over there, and whispered to the commander of Wei who was also constantly looking over there next to him.

Unexpectedly, Commander Wei didn't answer his words, but instead darkened his face and said coldly, "When did Commander Xiao grow into a tongue woman." So saying, he got up and walked away.

Commander Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then his face darkened.

Although the two commanders are both in the palace, the relationship is not good, but it is not bad.

Xiao Cheng served as the deputy commander of the imperial front, although there was a deputy hanging in front of him, but according to his real power and official position, he was actually higher than the commander of Wei.

However, Wei Tongling's family background is higher than his, and he can be regarded as a royal relative, but he is almost a distant relative of Wufu, or his father has some relationship with Wei Guojun when he was a child, and later was killed by the demon concubine, so Wei Guojun gave him a position after he ascended the throne.

It's just that the ability of the commander of Wei is limited, and he is not suitable for being an official in the court, so he simply has some effort, so he became the queen mother's guard commander.

Relying on this connection, he can be considered a good mix.

Commander Xiao's family background is not bad, his father and brother are all officials in the court, but in terms of relationship, he is still not as good as Commander Wei.

However, there is no conflict of interest between them, so it is rare for the two to perform tasks together, and at first he planned to make friends with each other, but he didn't expect the other party to appreciate it.

The Xiao family also has a certain background, and Commander Xiao also has the temper of the young master of the Gaomen, so he directly dispelled the idea of befriending the other party at the moment.

Over there, Wei Jiuli glanced at Commander Wei with a gloomy face on the other side, and a dark light of unknown meaning flashed in his eyes.

After a short rest, everyone set off again.

Wei Yuan rode with Bai Tang as she wished, sat behind and hugged Bai Tang's waist and grimaced at Wei Jiuli from time to time.

Probably after the beginning of the adaptation period, the little girl began to be full of vitality again, energetic, still restless on the horse, from time to time pointing to the flowers and animals seen on the side of the road, babbling, Shengsheng turned the rush to save people into a spring outing.

However, because of her gag, the atmosphere of the team was not so tense and cold at first.

Seeing that there was a lot more smile on Bai Tang's face, Wei Jiuli didn't care too much.

And although Wei Yuan was noisy on the road, it did not affect the process.

In the afternoon, they arrived at the first city, Tongcheng.

Tongcheng is relatively close to the imperial city, so when the notice is sent, it will be the first fixed point, and the neighboring towns will spontaneously send the poisoned people here.

Perhaps because these cities are relatively wealthy, there are relatively many people who are poisoned.

These poisoned people have been verified to have had contact with some women, and some are even wives and concubines at home.

However, there was probably a disturbance in the imperial city to alert them, and when they continued to investigate, many women had disappeared, and if they were not missing, the people in the government could not detect whether they were poisonous or not, so they could only take care of them first, and wait for Bai Tang to find out.

The team didn't stop long, and rushed directly to the yamen of the Tongcheng prefect.

The prefect, who had already received the news, had been restless all day.

After all, he now has dozens of lives in his hands, including relatives and children of rich families in the city, and every person who dies will have to bear a share of responsibility.

"Xiaguan see His Royal Highness the Nine Emperor Princes." Seeing Wei Jiuli, who had an extraordinary bearing in front of him and was similar in age to the information, the prefect hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Although the poisoning incident was huge, it was not very serious and the impact was not great, but the imperial court successively sent the next two princes to deal with this matter, which made the people's evaluation of the royal family much higher, and they all claimed that Wei Guojun was a benevolent monarch through the ages.

The top attaches so much importance to it, and the officials below naturally don't dare to be sloppy, but they only think that those people are really poisoned, and they don't know that they are actually Gu.

Wei Jiuli gave Bai Tang an introduction first to explain the situation.

The prefect looked at Bai Tang with a surprised face, and then smiled kindly, but a trace of suspicion and contempt flashed in his eyes, and said, "It turned out to be Lord Bai, and this trip is going to bother Lord Bai." ”

Bai Tang only bowed slightly.

Rejecting the prefect's proposal to take a short rest and wash the dust, Wei Jiuli handed over the people to the two commanders to settle, and then rushed to the small Zhuangzi specially opened up for the poisoned people with Bai Tang's master and servant and Wei Yuan, who couldn't get rid of the kraft candy, to check the situation.