"What a daring!"

Wang Cheng was furious, although he didn't know much about officialdom, he could also hear that if he wanted to do this, he had to be a high-ranking official with real power.

Because the total amount of food and salary approved in the end was done by those bigwigs, it must be their hands and feet.

It's just that this hand and foot is too obscure, even the current Zhou King Zhou Zhaowu can't see anything wrong, because the total amount of food and salary is right, and no one will think that some of these food is missing and is converted into silver.

Suddenly, he thought of something and asked Li Hong: "Does General Liu know about this?" ”

"I know." Li Hong nodded.

Wang Cheng asked: "Now that you know, how did General Liu deal with this matter?" ”

"The general once wrote a letter to General Zhenxi, but there was no follow-up after that." Li Hongdao.

"No more?"

Wang Cheng's expression changed, and the sentence "no follow-up" was really intriguing.

"So, General Zhenxi also knows about this!"

Wang Cheng's face became solemn, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore.

If Song Huchen, the general of Zhenxi, colluded with those people in the court and the central government to be greedy for food and wages, would the entire Western Army still be reliable?

Thinking of the Black Eagle Army at the beginning of the month, the Black Eagle Army entered Yinshan County, and yesterday Li Xiang and his gang severely damaged the defenders of Nanli County.

Wang Cheng turned around and said solemnly to Li Hong: "Remember! Don't tell anyone about it anymore, keep it in your stomach forever! ”

"The little one understands!" Li Hongdao.

In fact, if he hadn't been frightened by Wang Cheng just now, he wouldn't have said this at all.

He entered the army at the age of sixteen, and now he is twenty-six years old, and he has been a soldier for ten years.

It was also because he was tired of these pickled things in the army that he didn't dig out the heart to climb up, otherwise he wouldn't be a centurion after ten years of being a soldier.

"Come with me again!"

Wang Cheng continued to walk along the east and west streets, and the houses he met in the places he passed were basically looted.

The doors were either open or violently smashed, and the owners of the houses were either dead in the courtyard or disappeared, as was the case with hundreds of homes passing by in a row.

It's not that Wang Cheng has never seen the tragic situation in the world, but the scene in front of him is also the first time he has seen it in his life.

"Purgatory on earth, nothing more than that!"

Wang Cheng sighed secretly, unable to imagine how Li Xiang's gang ruined this place yesterday.

"The little one can escape, and when he left, the Xia people hadn't slaughtered the common people, this should have been done after the little one escaped from here." Li Hongdao.

Wang Cheng looked at the empty courtyard around him, and said in a deep voice: "It won't be that there is no one alive, right?" ”

Previously, he also sent Xu Yu and Li Xu to each lead 500 sergeants to check the population, but he didn't even find a single person along the way, and he checked it!

Li Hong said at this time: "General, don't worry, our people here have no other skills, and the ability to escape is definitely much stronger than ordinary people." There was nothing in those courtyards, and most of the people in them were hidden, and when they sensed that there was no danger, they would run out of the courtyard themselves. ”

Wang Cheng looked at the courtyard where there was no one on the side, and said, "So, at least half of the people escaped?" ”

Li Hong nodded and said, "There should be." ”

Nanli County has not been peaceful for so many years, either when those savages from the mountain country come down the mountain, or when they meet the Xia people who come to fight the autumn wind, the people who live here are gradually getting used to it.

Therefore, every time there is any trouble, the people here will "flee from the wind".

As for where they fled, there were many more, some hid in the cellars of their own yards, some simply ran out of the city and hid in the countryside, and when the "limelight" passed, they would come back.

Sure enough, the two of them didn't go far, and a head poked out from behind the door of a small courtyard to look around, and when they saw the two of them, they were so frightened that they quickly retracted their heads.

Wang Cheng's eyes lit up, and he disappeared in place in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was already in that courtyard.

I saw a man covered in cigarette ash running to the firewood room in a panic.

Wang Cheng's figure flashed, appeared behind him, and reached out to grab his shoulder.

"This big brother!"

The man's body trembled, and then his whole body became limp, and he fell to the ground.

Wang Cheng's five fingers were slightly forced, and he immediately stabilized his body, and then broke it in front of him.

"Spare your life! Don't kill me! The little one also hid two hundred taels of silver, and they were all given to you, and they were all given to you. ”

The man was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head, his eyes were closed, crying and crying for mercy.

Wang Cheng stretched out his other hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a calm tone: "Don't be afraid! I'm not that Xia people, I'm just like you, I'm a Zhou person. ”

As soon as the man heard this, he finally stopped crying and slowly raised his head to look at the past.

The first thing that catches your eye is a handsome face, and then a black robe with a red armor inside, not the kind that covers the whole body, but a Rukai.

Rukai, as the name suggests, is to imitate the form of Confucianism, Confucianism needs to be tied on the sides of the shoulders to ensure that it will not fall off, Rukai is to replace the fabric with armor, so it is named Confucianism.

Some Rukai add two pieces of armor to the shoulder, which can defend against attacks from the upper side, and there is a tie where the right shoulder is connected to the chest armor, which belongs to the right style.

The man can be regarded as having seen a little bit of the world, this kind of Rukai he has only seen in Liu Xingze, the general of Yangwei Zhonglang, so he immediately realized that the young man in front of him was at least a general.

His body softened again, but this time he knelt down, and said respectfully: "The villain has seen the general!" ”

"That's it!"

Wang Cheng pulled the other party up, looked at him and joked: "Don't be afraid of me, I won't eat people." ”

When the man heard this, his mood finally calmed down.

"What's your name? All the way I went, hundreds of families were just you, and where did everyone else hide? Wang Cheng asked.

The man whispered, "The villain's name is Li Sheng." ”

"Li Sheng?" Wang Cheng looked back at Li Hong, "It seems that this eldest brother was the same family with you five hundred years ago." ”

Li Hong smiled, and said again and again, "Yes." ”

Originally, he just said it casually, but the man called "Li Sheng" also nodded and said: "The villain was indeed the same family as the centurion five hundred years ago, and the villain is also from Wanxian County." ”

"I know you! It seems that you were really a family before. Wang Cheng said with a smile.

Li Hong didn't expect that there was still a fellow living under his nose.

immediately talked to Li Sheng, and finally found that the two of them were really people of the same clan, and the eighth generation of ancestors was the same person, they were the same generation.

With this relationship, the relationship between the three is also much more harmonious.

"Quite a few people were killed by those Xia people, and everyone else went into hiding." Lee Seung Dao.

Wang Cheng asked, "Then do you know any way to call back those who are alive?" ”

Li Sheng nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Wang Cheng immediately said happily: "Okay! If you can call them all back, I can grant you a request, as long as it is within my ability, I can satisfy you. ”

Li Sheng looked at him with blank eyes and said, "Really? ”

Wang Cheng showed a look of "reassurance" and said, "What I said is quite effective. ”

"The general only needs to give me a hundred or ten people, and within half a day, the little brigadier will call those people back!" Li Sheng swore solemnly.

"Good! I promised you! ”

Wang Cheng immediately looked at Li Hong and ordered: "You go back now and bring all the brothers under you, and you will follow your old family and call those people back!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Hong saluted, and then rushed back with the brother he had just recognized.

Wang Cheng was the only one left on the street, but he didn't stop there, and continued to walk alone.

After walking through about ten mansions, a spacious courtyard appeared in front of him, covering an area of dozens of acres, a few points larger than the general's mansion where he lived now.

After walking for so long, this was the first time he had seen such a magnificent courtyard in Nanli County.

There was blood in many places on the courtyard wall, and the gate was open, and a black plaque was hung on it, which was inlaid with two gilded characters - "Wufu".

"Wufu?"

Wang Cheng looked at the two gilded characters, and dared to name a mansion with "mansion", it seems that the owner of this courtyard has a lot of power!

After stopping at the gate of the courtyard for a while, he still did not enter, but just as he was about to leave, there was a quarrel from the courtyard.

One of them was familiar, for he had spoken to this person not long ago.

"It's her!"

He no longer hesitated, stepped over the threshold of the Martial Mansion, and strode towards the courtyard.

Walking through the front yard, he came to the middle courtyard, where he saw a girl in purple confronting a dozen men.

The dozen or so men were all burly and vicious, with guns and sticks in their hands.

The purple-clothed girl had already drawn her sword, but the body that had not yet developed was in front of this group of burly men, and it looked like a child facing a group of adults.

However, instead of being afraid, she said in a fierce voice: "You hurry up and hand over Xiaobi to this girl, otherwise my sword will not be long!" ”

"Huh! It's not a small tone! Aren't you afraid that the wind will flash your tongue? ”

The one who spoke was a man in his thirties with a long stick, with a very striking scar on half of his face, like a centipede that could bite people.

He sneered: "Little girl, this is not a place for you to come, you leave now, I can act as if nothing has happened." If you keep messing around, I don't care who you are! ”

"Do you know who I am?"

The girl in purple was stunned for a moment, and then scolded loudly: "Since you know the identity of this girl and dare to detain me, I think you are impatient!" ”

The man with the scar on his face sneered: "If your father lives, I am afraid of three points." But your father has become a dead ghost, what can I do? ”

The girl in purple was poked in the sore spot, shouted "die", and stabbed out with a sword.

"Humph! Bite off more than one can chew! ”

The man with the scar on his face suddenly turned obscene, and said unabashedly: "Lao Tzu has not tasted such a beautiful little girl's skin for a long time, since you sent it to the door, Lao Tzu will take it!" ”