Outside the city gate, the carriages and horses are ready to go.

"Zijun, Ah Ruo, don't worry! I will definitely send these 150,000 stone grains and grass to my little uncle! Xia Yuxuan's expression was firmly assured.

The two nodded with a smile on their faces, watching Xia Yuxuan leave.

"Is this journey safe?" Lin Jiaruo asked worriedly.

Lan Zijun nodded and said, "According to their marching speed, they will be able to reach the Reverse Horse Pass tomorrow, this road is all a horse and a flat river, and it is the land of Gyeonggi, there should be no surprise." ”

Lin Jiaruo just breathed a sigh of relief, and Lan Zijun spoke again: "There is one thing ......" She hesitated, and stopped talking about it, seeing Lin Jiaruo's heart rise again.

"You say, I can hold ......," Lin Jiaruo said nervously.

Lan Zijun was amused by her, but the smile was fleeting, she approached Lin Jiaruo with an indifferent face, and said in a low voice: "Your mother came to me......"

Yuan Yan inadvertently turned her head to look in the direction of Lin Jiaruo, and when she saw Lan Zijun saying something in her ear, she left first, leaving her alone in the wind, not knowing what she was thinking.

After hesitating for a moment, Yuan Yan walked over.

Before she could get closer, Lin Jiaruo noticed it, turned her head to look at him, raised her hand and made a gesture, and the maid with strong martial arts beside her silently retreated for a distance.

She still looked at him, as if there was anticipation in her eyes.

Yuan Yan couldn't help but speed up her pace, walked in front of her, and before he could speak, she asked first: "Have you heard of the Five Elements Guard?" ”

Her voice was deliberately muffled, as if avoiding someone.

Yuan Yan glanced at the maid who had just retreated, shook his head, and said softly: "I haven't heard of it, but if it is a dead soldier raised by the powerful mansion, most of them will not be famous outside." ”

"What kind of powerful person will raise the dead?" Her gaze suddenly drifted far away, and her voice was so soft that it seemed to be talking to herself.

"The four surnames in Guanzhong, the six clans in Jiangnan, the relatives of the emperor, the princes and generals." Yuan Yan couldn't help but glance at the maid again, and the woman swept over with extreme acuteness, her eyes cold.

"General Lin also raised dead soldiers?" Yuan Yan asked with a chuckle.

Lin Jiaruo didn't respond, looking into the distance, not knowing what he was thinking.

There was silence for a moment.

The sun gradually moved up, and Yuan Yan was about to remind her, but she came back to her senses, turned her face sideways, frowned slightly between her eyebrows, and asked, "How many private guards does the Yuan family have?" ”

Yuan Yan smiled and said nothing.

"Someone is going to rob the military rations!" Lin Jiaruo said.

Return to Apricot Alley.

The door of the main house was open, and the little Lin Yuanzhi was sitting upright to practice calligraphy, and Xu Yaoning, dressed in a homely thin shirt, stood behind him and watched, idly playing a fan, with a soft and kind expression.

Lin Jiaruo walked over step by step, and Xu Yaoning looked up and saw her, bending her eyes and smiling, it was a familiar appearance.

"Is it going well?" She asked casually.

Lin Jiaruo looked at her, then at Lin Yuanzhi, who was not affected at all, and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you see Mu Er?" ”

After moving to Xing'er Hutong, Mu Wei and Tu Wei also gathered, and Mu Er stood guard at the gate, often sitting on the beam.

When Lin Jiaruo entered the door just now, he looked up and saw that the beam was empty.

Xu Yaoning was stunned for a moment, and couldn't answer for a while.

Lin Yuanzhi suddenly raised his head, met Lin Jiaruo's gaze, and said, "Except for Bailing, Yanzi and Mu Wu, everyone else is not there!" ”

A trace of panic flashed in Xu Jiaoning's eyes: "I sent them out for something-"

"The Yuan and Xie families have already sent private guards to protect the military rations!" Lin Jiaruo quickly interrupted her words and looked at her with bright eyes.

Xu Yaoning smiled wryly: "I wish I would like to go back to the room first, my mother and your sister have something to say——"

"May it stay!" Lin Jiaruo said categorically, "Mother doesn't have to hide one after another, we are bloodlines that can't be closer, what can't be said clearly!" ”

Xu Haoning sighed and said, "It's not that I deliberately want to hide it from you, but the stakes are very high, and I don't know how to tell you, let alone ......"

Lin Jiaruo looked at it, couldn't help shedding tears, and continued for her: "What's more, my mother's position is opposite to my father and the Lin family, isn't it?" ”

Xu Yaoning closed her eyes and nodded.

"The person behind my mother is Yan Huai!"

Xu Yaoning suddenly opened her eyes and looked at her in shock.

Lin Jiaruo could only laugh miserably.

Lan Zijun told her that when her mother was at the beginning of the year, she had come to her in private, and between her words, she had the intention of soliciting, and even asked for food, and at that time, the theft of military rations had just been exposed.

"Behind your mother, there must be a force, and this force must be opposite to the imperial court!"

Where Lan Zijun can't see clearly, she can figure it out.

My mother must have known about the theft of military rations for a long time, and she also knew that this batch of military rations could not be recovered.

While using this big case to promote the prince's rebellion, she tried to recruit the Shen family and make the Guanzhong army completely run out of food.

In this way, the beneficiary is self-evident.

Yuan Yan said that ordinary people can't afford to raise dead soldiers. But the Yan family can, let alone fifty, that is, five hundred, with the Yan family's background in the army, they can also be raised.

When you think about it, everything can be explained.

It's just, how can you be embarrassed?

"Back then, my little uncle snatched the jade seal from your hands, how sad and angry you were—"

"Without the jade seal, Yan Huai can wave troops in the southeast, but now, what you want to rob is the military rations of the 200,000 Guanzhong army!" The heart is like a knife, and tears are like rain, "That's my father's life!" ”

"Mother, even if he failed you in his previous life, he can't satisfy you in this life, but ......" As if she couldn't bear such pressure anymore, she knelt on the ground and cried out in a lost voice, "He's my father!" Mother, I beg you, let him go! ”

Xu Jiaoning mourned in her heart, knelt on the ground, hugged her into her arms, and shouted "Ah Ruo" and "Ah Ruo" in a panic, bursting into tears, but she didn't know how to respond.

"Alas......" There was an awkward sigh in his ears.

"Don't cry!" A crisp and immature voice sounded beside him.

The mother and daughter turned their heads with tears, and Lin Yuanzhi was looking at them helplessly.

Seeing his mother and sister crying into tears, Lin Yuanzhi, who was only six years old, was very calm, cleared his throat in an old-fashioned manner, and said, "What is there to cry about, isn't it all right now?" ”

"Mother has sent someone to rob the grain, and she has done her duty; My sister asked people to stop it, and she also protected the military rations and her father; You've each done what you have to do, what's not to be happy about? Lin Yuanzhi squinted at them, as if he had a trace of disdain......

Both mother and daughter looked at him in confusion, unable to adapt to such an explanation.

Lin Yuanzhi waved his small hand and said, "Since it's okay, let's set the meal, I'm hungry!" ”

Lin Jiaruo habitually turned his head to Xu Jiaoning and said, "Mother, I wish I was hungry......"

Xu Yaoning gave the order woodenly.

The meals were put on the table one after another, and Lin Yuanzhi sat down in his usual position, suddenly raised his head and looked at Xu Yaoning seriously.

"Mother, I heard that the Rong people died when they heard the name of Yan Huai, maybe the men are more willing to fight in a dignified manner on the battlefield, life and death!"