Chapter 116: Border General Li Meng
Although the voice is different, the tone is extremely familiar. @Β·error-free start~~
Under the surprised eyes of the soldiers, the wine jar in Li Meng's hand smashed to the ground and fell apart.
He turned over and dismounted in disbelief, crawled to the cage, stared closely at the woman in white who looked a little similar to Zhu Jiu, and his mouth trembled for a long time before he finally shouted: "Little general?!" β
Since the death of Zhu Jiu, Emperor Yan quickly appointed a group of generals in order to ensure that the army's morale is not scattered.
Now when the name of the little general is mentioned, no one can think of Zhu Jiu, who was admired by the world at the beginning.
Seeing that Zhu Jiu didn't speak, looking at him quietly, Li Meng hurriedly slapped himself, smiled dumbly, and retreated and muttered: "Lao Tzu is really confused, why can't he even recognize Zhu Jiu?" This woman doesn't look like Zhu Jiu at all! β
Then, he sighed in frustration: "Alas, if Zhu Jiu's little hooves saw me derelict my duties and imprisoned the people, I am afraid that she would have whipped me eighty lashes long ago!" β
When several soldiers saw that their general was frightened like this woman in white, their faces suddenly turned ugly, and they almost instantly rushed up and dragged Zhu Jiu out of the cage, beating and scolding: "Stinky woman! What kind of trick did you play on my general? Dare to confuse my general! β
"There's no demon magic, it's just that I'm an old acquaintance with your general."
As Zhu Jiu said this, his gaze fell on Li Meng's face.
With this pair of eyes, Li Meng was completely sure that the woman in front of him was Zhu Jiu.
Immediately, his eyes were full of shock, but when he thought about it, there were too many people here, and it was not the place for them to speak, so he beckoned to the soldiers and sent them to patrol behind.
Then, he released Zhu Jiu from the cage and led Zhu Jiu to the long river in front to talk.
This long river flows out of the territory of Yan Kingdom, passing through the high mountains and snow peaks, and finally flows into this border line, all the way to the lower reaches of the Gaoxin Kingdom.
The long river here meanders and the water is wide, and the breeze blows the waves, revealing the reflection of the two people on the river.
Li Meng threw a jar of wine to Zhu Jiu, and then poured two sips himself, until the spicy taste woke him up, and he was sure that he had indeed seen Zhu Jiu.
Working under Zhu Jiu, he clearly knew that there would never be a second person in the world who was so similar to her.
So, he couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at Zhu Jiu: "Tell me, how did you come back to life?" Aren't you dead? Or is it that you didn't die at all, and someone deliberately wronged you? β
Seeing that he was still curious about her life and death, Zhu Jiu's eyes narrowed slightly, staring at him: "Let's talk about you first, why did you become like this?" β
When he was ordered to come here to be a border general, Li Meng himself promised to be good and would definitely not cause trouble here.
It's only been a long time since he has become a bandit leader, and he is still imprisoning those children of good families!
If it was in her barracks, I am afraid that she would have broken this Li Meng's legs a long time ago.
When Li Meng heard her words, he was also very aggrieved, sighed, and sat down beside her: "General Zhu Jiu, you know me, although I usually disobey your discipline, and I am extremely reckless in marching and fighting, but I am loyal to Emperor Yan, to Yan Kingdom, and to the people of Yan Kingdom!" β
"......"
Speaking of this, he seemed to be choked in his throat, and the rest of the words looked at Zhu Jiu, unable to say anything anyway.
After a while, he turned his head away, and some tears flashed in his eyes: "Since your death, all the generals who are close to you have been executed, and the position that originally belonged to you was now given to his son under the control of Prime Minister Leng, and his son was already the Duke of Ning Guo, but he was still greedy for military power, and arranged all the children of the Leng family's clan." β
"Now the army you lead, the remnants of the old people are dead and scattered under the suppression of the Leng family, and they are no longer the Great Yan Army that fought with you to defend the country and conquer the world!"
Zhu Jiu never deliberately inquired about these things, and the two brothers Zhu Mo and Zhu Qin did not tell her.
When they dined with their adoptive father and others at Zhu's house last night, they only chatted with her about the situation between the DPRK and China, and they didn't mention anything more.
But what Li Meng just said, if it is true, then her old department has already been by women.
The ministers were slaughtered?!
This flashed in Zhu Jiu's mind, and a chill surged in her blood almost all over her body.
Subconsciously, she poured two more sips of wine into her mouth, and felt the spicy meaning of her throat pouring into her abdomen, so she seemed to come back to her senses, staring at the person in front of her tightly: "Li Meng, is there any evidence for what you said?" β
Li Meng held his breath and glared at her aggrievedly: "I never lied to you!" β
In the end, it was the one she pulled up, and it was a coincidence that the two met.
Indeed, there was no need for him to lie to her about such a thing. @
Sitting by the river, blowing the cold evening breeze, Li Meng made a bonfire, and the two chatted over the bonfire all night, and Zhu Jiu also learned that Li Meng kept her current rank precisely because of her original order to protect the border general.
It's just that he can no longer take the lead to make meritorious contributions, and he has no chance to go to the battlefield to lead the troops to kill the enemy.
Even, in order not to be wiped out by the Leng family, he had to take these brothers to wander around the border all day long, and he didn't dare to go to the territory of Yan Country at all.
In the past few days, he has keenly smelled the fireworks of the war between Gaoxin and Xuanyuan, it turns out that there are also traitors in Gaoxinguo, and some people actually sell military salaries to Yan in large quantities, wanting to stand with Xuanyuan to the end.
If there is a fight here, the most innocent people are the people who have suffered in vain and have no time to avoid the disaster.
When Li Meng said this, he let out a deep breath, his face was also a little ugly, and he scolded: "These ordinary people really don't know what to do, I persuaded them to leave the border city, but they didn't listen, I had to ask someone to tie up these guys and put them in a cage to be honest!" β
It turned out that after these people were locked up by him, in order to prevent him from making trouble in the future, once they left from here, they would immediately sell their fields and go out to flee for their lives.
So they may have money for them.
"The land in the border city, someone has been buying it aggressively recently?"
Zhu Jiu keenly smelled the unusual meaning in his words, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, and asked more.
Hearing this, Li Meng nodded: "Yes, I have inquired, the person who bought the land is a rich businessman from Xia Kingdom, I don't know what his surname is, in short, it is very mysterious, anyway, it is not only the land on our side that he bought, but even the land on the border between Gaoxin Country and Xuanyuan Country, he also bought it." β
It stands to reason that this frontier land, the country is the most important, and it is impossible to sell it at all.
Right now, as soon as this rich merchant made a move, he bought the border land so easily.
Either these three countries united to pit his money, or the rich merchant had a strong enough background of strength that the monarchs of these three countries had to sell his face.
But who could such a person be?
Zhu Jiu's mind brought up Xuanyuan Che's face, and he couldn't help but hook his lips and smile.
It's really rare for even Xuanyuan Che to dare to offend someone.,If there's a chance.,She'll meet this person.γγ