Chapter 245: Mask
"Forget it, I won't force you!" Yan Cai'er sighed, moved her steps, slowly sat on the chair next to Zhou Geng, poured a cup of tea with her own hands, and tasted the tea very elegantly.
"With my current situation, it's useless for you to force it!"
Zhou Geng's words, Yan Cai'er, who was drinking tea, almost choked, wondering if he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, he didn't know anything just now, but now it doesn't sound like that.
After a long time, there was a slight "creaking" sound from the door of the Yaohua Palace, and the closed door of the temple slowly opened, and a figure walked in, and then quietly closed the door again.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, I have already recovered the body, you can see if it is similar to Lord Zhou!"
Cao Bian carried a burlap bag in his hand, placed it on the ground and opened the mouth of the bag, revealing a charred corpse, very similar to the charred appearance of Zhou Geng when he fell down during the day.
"Very good, that's it...... the news of his death!" announced the news of his death early tomorrow morning, saying that he saved the benefactor of my Yan Kingdom, and the rescue was ineffective, in order to repay his kindness, we held the most solemn burial ceremony for him, and all the soldiers in the city mourned for him "Yan Cai'er looked at the charred corpse, the physique was almost the same as Zhou's, unrecognizable, and there was no good skin on the body.
"A soldier of an enemy country, but after his death, he can get the most solemn burial ceremony of your Yan country, the soldiers of the whole country mourn for him, and the eldest princess general personally sees him off. Zhou Geng looked at the charred corpse that was about to impersonate him and said.
It is true that there are people who work all their lives and end up doing nothing, and even if they die, they will not attract attention, which sounds sad, but most of the status quo is like that.
Now that this soldier has died on the battlefield, no one knows his name, even his face is pitch black char, and his whole face is burned together, it is really difficult to distinguish his appearance, if they hadn't pulled him back to replace him, there would not even be a corpse collector, let alone a ceremonial burial.
Now this enemy soldier, after his death, unexpectedly obtained the most solemn burial ceremony in Yan Kingdom, this kind of ceremony is estimated to be only available after the death of the king, even those ministers or royal nobles, the burial style is not so high, compared to the countless corpses lying there outside the city that no one cares about, this corpse is thousands of times luckier.
"It's really lucky, he attacked our Yan Kingdom, and we still have to bury him, but there is no way, if we don't prepare in advance, there will be trouble!" Yan Cai'er said helplessly.
The three of them discussed a little and quickly made up their minds, Cao Bian was responsible for the implementation, and Zhou Geng and Yan Cai'er waited for the news.
In the blink of an eye, a night passed, Cao Bian spread the news of the death of the benefactor of Yan Guo, prepared the items needed for the funeral ceremony overnight, and started to act early in the morning.
Suona blew in the imperial city, paper money was scattered on the empty streets, and each soldier tied a strip of white cloth and stood on both sides of the street bowing his head in silence for a quarter of an hour.
It is said that it is the most solemn burial ceremony, but it is only announced to the outside world, according to the current situation of Yan State, there is not much silver left in the treasury, at most he will scatter paper money in the whole city, and then go to a random place outside the city to bury it.
In order to save money, Yan Cai'er personally found a mountain, cut a large tombstone and came back, and stood in front of the grave of the soldier who impersonated Zhou Geng's death, and carved a few words with her sword;
The tombstones are all cut by themselves, but you can imagine the cemetery and the like, so you don't have to think about it, how could Yan Caier build a magnificent mausoleum for a nobody, let her soldiers dig a deep pit, bury it directly, and clap her hands and go back to the city.
From the funeral to the burial, the whole process took a short time, neither mourning, nor incense, putting people in the coffin and carrying them away in a hurry, it looked very perfunctory, but Yan Caier and Cao Bian personally led the team, and outsiders would only say that the treasury was empty and could not give the heroes of national salvation a thick burial, but the external name was definitely the most grand.
As soon as Yan Cai'er returned to the gate of the imperial city, the ground shook slightly, and the sound of horses' hooves and infantry running behind her came from behind her.
Tap ......
This army has about 20,000 people, led by the general Xiao Cheng, who looks like a 40-year-old Xiao Cheng, and his realm has reached the peak of his out-of-body body, even if he was the first founding king of Yan State back then, he was only one realm higher than him, and he was in the early stage of the God Realm.
"The last general is too late to save the car, please forgive Her Royal Highness the eldest princess!" Although Xiao Yan is in power, his strength is also the strongest in the entire Yan Kingdom.
But he still behaved, mainly for those who didn't know, and when he really became the king, he would not leave a bad reputation, and then he would have to show some benevolence and righteousness in the world, win the hearts of the people, collect the world's talents, and rebuild a new kingdom.
If it weren't for your dereliction of duty, the enemy army rushed through the border gate and drove straight in, causing my father to send troops to intercept the enemy troops who were about to arrive in the imperial city, and were ambushed and died, but you were nowhere to be seen, I think you just want to rebel. ”
Yan Caier has no conclusive evidence to prove that the other party has plotted to usurp the throne, colluded with foreign enemies to cause trouble in the country, etc., so she can only question the other party through anger.
Xiao Cheng did a lot of acting, and under her angry questioning, she immediately knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general's failure to intercept the enemy army is the fault of the last general, but the last general's loyalty can be seen by the sun and the moon, and there is absolutely no intention of rebellion." ”
"The reason why the last general has not shown up for a long time is because he has fallen into the tricks of that despicable enemy, and by the time the last general reacts, things have developed to the point of no reversal. ”
But the last general still hurried back to the rescue, how did he expect that an unknown fireball fell outside the imperial city yesterday, forcing Weichen to evacuate quickly, so he begged for death and escaped. ”
"After the catastrophe, more than 100,000 soldiers were not injured, seeing the distant enemy disappearing, thinking that the crisis in the imperial city had been resolved, the last general took the soldiers overnight, worked tirelessly, rushed to the fourteen cities, each city allocated 3,000 soldiers and a general to be stationed in the city. ”
"Except for the 20,000 soldiers behind the last general, the rest of the soldiers have been transferred to guard the border, the last general has not rested for a moment, and he has come back with men and horses to resume his life, if Her Royal Highness the eldest princess does not believe it, you can ask these soldiers one by one, if the last general has half a lie, may the military law deal with it!"
In the end, Xiao Yan said that it was a handful of snot and a handful of tears, indicating that he was loyal and had absolutely no intention of rebelling, and the excited emotion almost said, I don't believe I can take out my heart to show you.
His mask deceived almost everyone, and even Cao Bian's heart was shaken, but he couldn't hide Zhou Geng, who had mind-reading skills.