On the elephant chariot of King Lu.

Zhu Zhen didn't look outside the car, but on the way from Nanyang, he kept sending people along the way to find out how many boys had been taken away.

The results were shocking, and a large number of civilian and military children were taken away in various places, causing panic among the people in the feudal domains. When the common people saw his men, they mistakenly thought that they were also from the Lu Palace. It's like seeing an evil ghost and avoiding it, exactly the same reaction as the people of Nanyang Town.

It's really that the people's grievances are boiling to the extreme.

And this is only the 'masterpiece' of the old ten in just one year. If you give him another two years, I don't know what he can do......

He is still in a hurry to save the child, he really doesn't have time, and he is not in the mood to go around in circles with this guy anymore.

Then he asked King Lu directly:

"I found a strange phenomenon along the way, I saw so many men, women and children, but I didn't even see a little boy, don't the people of Yanzhou give birth to sons?"

"This ......" Lao Shi didn't expect him to be more direct than himself, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Did the sixth brother hear any rumors?"

Zhu Zhen nodded: "I heard that King Lu's Mansion is still arresting boys everywhere, so the common people are hiding boys." ”

"There's such a rumor." Lao Shi nodded and said:

"But that's a trivial matter for the common people to listen to the wind and rain, and make them spread bigger than the sky - a few months ago, there was a shortage of people in my house, and the princess didn't understand the rules, so she didn't consult with me, so she wanted to recruit a group of children to serve in the palace."

"Little brother, I also have no experience, and I didn't stop it, but I didn't expect to make an uproar. And the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes, saying that the two of us are perverted and like little boys; Even said that we want to cut off a few of the child's alchemy...... Isn't that, you say? ”

"But the common people didn't have the ability to distinguish, and they really believed it, so scared that they hid all the boys in the family and sent them outside." Lao Shi twitched his face aggrievedly and explained:

"The matter is getting bigger and bigger, and many officials are also involved, impeaching this king, and causing my father to be angry and send someone to scold me. At that time, I released all the people and announced that I would no longer castrate boys into the palace. Who knows that they are still not at ease, and they still dare not let the boys go on the street. ”

"......" Zhu Zhen listened to him patiently, then looked at Lao Shi fixedly, and asked in a deep voice: "You mean, all the boys have been put back?" Haven't caught any more boys? ”

"Yes." Lao Shi nodded without hesitation, his eyes were very honest.

"Then last night, we were in Nanyang Town, why did we meet the eunuchs of your palace catching children? And almost caught Xiongying? Zhu Zhen asked in a cold voice.

"Ah......" Lao Shi was startled at first. I didn't expect those fools to hit the emperor's eldest grandson with the idea. No wonder I saw that Zhu Xiongying's nose was not a nose just now, and his face was not a face.

He rolled his eyes, and was about to answer, but he heard the sixth brother say in a deep voice:

"I will answer after thinking clearly, although I have the responsibility to find out the problem of Lu Wangfu, but I am still your brother, if I don't tell the truth, I can't help you if I want to!"

"Yes, Sixth Brother." Lao Shi didn't dare to deny it now. He lowered his head and wiped his sweat, and slammed his skin several times before stammering:

"Is there such a thing? Could it be that the people below are messing around under my banner? Sixth brother, don't worry, I will definitely find out about this matter and give you and Xiongying an explanation! ”

When Zhu Zhen heard this, his face showed disappointment, and his voice turned cold: "This is your answer?" I'll give you one last chance - you might as well make it clearer, I just came to Yanzhou with the intention of calming things down! ”

He stared at Lao Shi for a moment, and said bitterly: "You hurry up and release the arrested child for me, there is still a matter to discuss!" Otherwise, I will be saddled with a ruthless and unrighteous infamy, and I will investigate this case to the end! ”

Lao Shi was almost out of breath by Zhu Zhen's powerful momentum. The whole person was about to collapse when he saw it, but he suddenly remembered the words of the immortal chief, and he surged up the courage to resist stubbornly. Shaking his head, he said:

"I really didn't do it. Sixth brother, would you rather believe the words of outsiders than your younger brother? ”

"You!" Zhu Zhen saw that he was still stiff-mouthed at this time, and grabbed Lao Shi's collar with hatred, but immediately let go again, and said to Lao Shi word by word:

"Okay, that's business."

"You check...... "Lao Shi felt that he was going to be strangled to death by Lao Shi at that moment, and now he was angry: "If you really find out something, if you want to kill it, you can do whatever you want, I will never say anything!" ”

Zhu Zhen is really convinced, from the eighth to the tenth, all of them are as hard as diamonds.

But it's not a big deal, it's just that because of their special status, they can't be tortured to extract confessions, otherwise it's just a matter of a few pieces of wet rice paper.

Now the rescue can only depend on Ma Sanbao's side......

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The days are short of the season, and it starts to get dark after dinner.

Ma Sanbao easily waited until it was completely dark and the children were asleep. The lights were still on in the shacks, and the sound of sergeants and eunuchs eating and drinking and fighting could be heard inside.

He had to continue to wait, until the second watch, when the lights went out in the shack, and after a while, he began to snore.

Feeling that the defenders were all asleep, Ma Sanbao got up from the ground and quietly touched the edge of the shack, away from the sleeping children.

Only then did he find the firework hidden on his body, and held the fire fold in the other hand. He tore off the oiled paper wrapped around the fireworks, blew out the fire fold again, and then without hesitation, he put the red light on the fuse of the fireworks.

After a brief burst of smoke, the fireworks burst into the sky. Then there was a pop and an explosion and a brilliant white flower bloomed in the night sky!

"What's going on?!" It was quiet on the sandbar, but suddenly the sound of firecrackers exploded, waking everyone up.

The sergeants and eunuchs rushed out of their huts to check. Even many children were woken up, rubbing their sleepy eyes and following the sound, they saw the fireworks that were still blooming in the night sky, even brighter than all the stars combined!

This is not an ordinary firework, but a new type of flare developed by the students of the Academy of Sciences of Guozi University in a science competition.

In order to make it bloom in the sky for a longer time and play a better role, college students have worked hard to use what they have learned, not only to add a small parachute to it, but also to use a low-charge fuse and a segmented detonation design, so the fireworks are floating in the sky and constantly exploding.

Although each lasts for a different time, most of the time can be more than a minute.

The children cheered in surprise, but the sergeants and eunuchs were furious. Eunuch Zhou's shrill voice resounded through the sandbank: "Who the put this?!" Grab me! ”

Before the words fell, he saw that the shack behind him was set on fire again. At this time, it does not rain for a long time, and the reeds that build the hut are extremely dry, and when they are lit, they are on fire, and the whole sandbar is as bright as day.

(End of chapter)