Unlike Chu Luoci, who knew little about the original owner's father, General Chu, Yan Que knew a lot about General Chu and had some friendship with him.

When Yan Que first joined the army, he started as a small soldier.

At first, it was with a lieutenant general under General Chu.

And he learned from the mouths of the adjutant general and the soldiers in the barracks that General Chu was a resolute, loyal and courageous figure.

How could such a person have died in the first place?

Yan Que slowly recalled the cause of General Chu's death.

General Chu disappeared during the First Battle of Mobei, and the adjutant general found his blood-stained robe, but did not find his body.

And this battle was quite tragic at the beginning, the year when the war first started, the treasury was empty, General Chu took his 60,000 soldiers and horses to Mobei to fight the enemy, but the grain and grass could not keep up.

Just when General Chu was struggling, officials from the court came to the table and led some local tycoons on the south side of the Yangtze River to levy a batch of grain and grass, saying that it could be used for the urgent needs of the army.

It is precisely because of the guarantee of this batch of grain and grass that General Chu, who was on the front line, had a bold idea when he was forced to a desperate situation by the enemy-

He prepared to go deep into the enemy camp with half of his soldiers, and the food and grass he had calculated should arrive within a few days, so he prepared to make a desperate bet.

However, the grain and grass were still late, and when the grain and grass arrived, General Chu's men and horses had been surrounded by the enemy, and the soldiers and horses stationed there desperately tore open a hole and saved some of the remaining soldiers, but they couldn't find any trace of General Chu, not even the corpse.

And at this moment, the Yan Kingdom, which was at war with them, suddenly launched a request to the emperor to negotiate peace.

In this battle, there were many injuries, and the emperor hesitated to accept peace talks.

In the end, the war ended with the disappearance of General Chu and the signing of a peace agreement between the two countries.

And the batch of grain and grass collected from Jiangnan did not come in handy, and returned to Kyoto by the same way.

It is said that the wealthy merchants in Jiangnan also raised a large amount of cash at that time, but General Chu disappeared and was not used in the end, so the treasury was filled.

Yan Que hadn't touched the core of power at that time, how much grain and grass there was, and what the amount of cash was there, he had never been able to figure it out, and he had been secretly investigating it all these years without any results.

He had already given up the investigation, but later met Chu Luoci and fell in love with her, after Chu Luoci jumped into the lake, he was crazy with thoughts, and one day he suddenly had an idea to find out the truth about the general's disappearance for Chu Luoci.

This time I checked, and I found out that something was wrong.

The batch of grain and grass raised back then was led by the local officials in Jiangnan and the military department of the court, and the military department was the prince's person, and the local official in Jiangnan was a relative of the four princes' mother's family......

After this incident that year, all the officials and officials who handled this matter were promoted, but those adjutant generals who followed General Chu to the battlefield were defeated that year and suppressed a lot by various forces, and they had already returned to the field without a trace......

What's even more strange is that not long after this incident, those wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan who had donated money to win money in this incident died of illness one after another......

No matter how you look at it, I think this thing is full of weirdness.

Yan Que sensed that something was wrong, and found a few deputy generals who had been disarmed and returned to the field to inquire about the affairs of the year, and those people were secretive, bluntly saying that they still had families and rooms, and they didn't want to cause trouble again.

Yan Que also concluded from this that this matter is definitely not simple!

Therefore, when the emperor was about to order a prince to go on patrol on behalf of the Son of Heaven, Yan Que spent a lot of effort to take over this errand, and the idea was to come to Jiangnan to thoroughly investigate the matter of raising this batch of grain and grass back then, and maybe he could get a glimpse of the truth of the year from this matter......

This night, Yan Que slept with countless questions, and Chu Luoci slept soundly with the two children.

Before dawn, there was a knock on the door of the courtyard.

Chu Luoci looked at the children who were about to wake up in the futon, patted their backs gently, and coaxed the children to sleep again, before getting up and cautiously asking the identity of the person who came through the door.

Knowing that it was someone sent by Zhou Ci, he opened the door and let him in.

Zhou Ci tossed and turned last night and almost didn't sleep all night, he didn't dare to send someone to remind Chu Luoci at this stall, but he was afraid that something would happen.

As far as he knew, Yan Que had a suspicious personality, no matter how natural the people of their Zhou family behaved, he could always find clues.

For today's plan, I can only remind Chu Luoci to be more careful.

So, before dawn today, Zhou Ci sent his subordinates to exchange news with Chu Luoci.

Chu Luoci was a little surprised when he learned that Yan Que was suspicious of the Zhou family, and he learned that Yan Que had found the Zhou family because of a recipe, and he felt even more mixed in his heart.

At the beginning, she repeatedly retreated from her bottom line for the sake of the banquet, just hoping that her relationship with him could be cultivated;

But she endured it again and again, but in exchange for his failure in every way......

But then she died, and this man made this affectionate appearance again, crazy for her, sad for her until the end of the night, and heard that even every thing she had collected well, and this prescription was one of them......

To be honest, Chu Luoci didn't feel moved.

When she was alive, she was let down in every way, and she didn't see how much Yan Que cherished her, and then she died, Yan Que made this appearance, who was she looking at?

"I know, tell your young master that you don't have to worry, I will take the two children to hide. Also, don't come here if you're okay these days, the person at the banquet is very suspicious, I'm afraid that you will expose your behavior instead. ”

The man nodded and left.

Chu Luoci didn't guess wrong, Yan Que did let the secret guard pay attention to Zhou Ci's movements.

It's just that this time Zhou Cixue is smart, and he didn't move any of the people close to him, but the people he sent were the people who worked in the outer courtyard.

There are many such subordinates in the Zhou family, and it is reasonable that the secret guards can't notice it.

When the sky was dark, Yan Que woke up.

He still had doubts about the affairs of the Zhou family, so he found Zhou Ci and told him that he would stay at the Zhou family during this time, only come to rest, and would handle official business elsewhere during the day.

Zhou Ci responded with a smile, he couldn't see any clues on the surface, and Yan Que was not in a hurry.

Take your time, he's going to stay in Jiangnan for a long time anyway.

After spending the morning in the Zhou family's mansion, Yan Que left a secret guard in the Zhou family's mansion and left with another secret guard.

He was going to meet with the officials in Jiangnan today, and by the way, he would visit the descendants of those dead wealthy businessmen.

The officials in Jiangnan waited and waited, and finally waited for the reception of Yanque, and they were apprehensive and relieved at the same time.

This kind of knife hangs on the neck and it doesn't taste good!

Whether it's life or death, it's better to draw conclusions to them as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, however, Yan Que showed unprecedented calmness, and even when local officials tentatively asked if they wanted to set the conversation in a restaurant where they could watch the dancing girls, Yan Que agreed.

When I arrived at that place, there was naturally good wine and good food served, and the famous Yangzhou thin horse came to serve.

Yan Que let a woman because he was beside him, but the woman brought a sip of wine.

The woman wanted to get closer, but she received a glance from Yan Que, and only a faint glance made the woman's back cold, and she no longer dared to act rashly.

The officials said a bunch of compliments, and the banquet was only lightly answered.

Finally, after drinking a glass of wine, he said with a smile, "You don't have to be so nervous, before coming, my father specially instructed the king to be more cordial to the officials in Jiangnan, after all, Mobei was in an emergency, and it was thanks to you who borrowed grain and grass to fill the treasury to avoid that crisis." ”