General, he's cheating again

Chapter 17

After Ye Ru'an and others arrived at the village mentioned in the certificate, they asked the way to go to the village chief's house to check.

And since he wrote the certificate, the village head guessed that there might be officials visiting in the future, so he surrounded the earth mountain containing salt and iron early in the morning, fearing that something might go wrong later.Now that he knew the purpose of Ye Ru'an and others, he called a few villagers to accompany them and lead the way.

Ye Ru'an came to the cave, saw that the cave was wide and deep, and guessed in his heart that the cave was probably dug artificially.Turning around to look at Leng Ji and Li Zhenyi and nodding slightly, the two led the guards and bodyguards, lit torches and entered the cave, and took out dozens of boxes of storage from the cave in a short while.

Being able to secretly detain so much salt and iron, Ye Ru'an knew that the mastermind behind the scenes must have planned a long time ago, and now I am afraid that the stolen goods he has collected are not limited to this mountain.So he asked the village chief if there were any inaccessible places near the village, and sure enough, he found another cave in the middle of a dirt mountain not long after.

Chen Linxiang followed a group of people and waited for a day to run around, feeling troubled, but seeing Ye Ruan finding more and more salt and iron, he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.He didn't know that after returning to Beijing after the statistics, if the emperor knew that there was such a big omission in the transportation of salt and iron, would he finally agree with him to make up for the crime without any derogation.

When he was resting at night, he was exhausted physically and mentally. When he returned to the village, Chen Linxiang lay down on the bed in the thatched cottage that the village chief had placed for them and fell asleep soundly.

After a while, he was awakened by hunger by the faint smell of meat, opened his eyes in a daze, got up and followed the smell all the way to the door.

When he reached the door, he saw Ye Ru'an, Leng Ji and Li Zhenyi roasting rabbits on the open space in front of the house.

Each of the three people sat on a wooden stake, surrounded by a fire, and the wooden basin on the ground next to the fire was filled with freshly changed water. Next to the basin, there were a few tufts of bloody rabbit fur in a mess.

Chen Linxiang stared straight at the roasted rabbit and swallowed his saliva, then silently went into the room and took out the good wine he treasured from his bag, took a low stool in the room, stepped out excitedly, and huddled beside the fire .

He looked at Ye Ru'an, who was roasting a rabbit with one hand and fanning the fire with the other, looked at the one-eyed Lengji who was sitting upright, and Li Zhenyi, who was serious and strong, and finally looked up at the moonless night sky. Let's talk.

Taking out the wine, he uncorked his head and swallowed it. Chen Linxiang's eyes fell on Ye Ru'an's roasted rabbit legs, and he smiled flatteringly with all the flesh on his face: "Master Ye, you have worked hard today. This wine tastes good, Ye Ruan." Do you want to taste it, my lord?"

Seeing this, Ye Ruan followed Chen Linxiang's line of sight and looked at his rabbit leg. He deliberately sent the rabbit leg towards Chen Linxiang with a smile on his face. Seeing that Chen Linxiang wanted to take it, he took it back and pretended that he was just looking for salt. , and handed it to Chen Linxiang without paying attention.

Seeing that he had flung himself into space, Chen Linxiang's face was embarrassing, and Ye Ruan's smile deepened. He sprinkled salt on the rabbit leg, took a big bite of the rabbit leg meat, and looked at Chen Linxiang, nodded straight in his mouth, and mumbled: " Well, Mr. Chen's mess is really difficult to deal with, and today I am really exhausted."

Seeing Chen Linxiang staring at his rabbit leg and swallowing, Ye Ruan bent his lips and smiled and handed the rabbit leg to Chen Linxiang, "I don't drink the wine that Mr. Chen has drunk, but the rabbit leg in my hand is also It's very fragrant, as long as Mr. Chen doesn't mind the one I gnawed, I'll give it to you."

Stomach growled loudly, Chen Linxiang looked at the hare's leg that had been bitten off in half, and finally shook his head and refused sadly.

Unexpectedly, Leng Ji on the opposite side stood up and handed a roasted leg to him, Chen Linxiang's eyes lit up again, and the corners of his mouth couldn't hide his joy. He smiled gratefully: "Thank you, lieutenant general, I didn't expect the lieutenant general to be so cold-faced and warm-hearted. Hahahaha."

Chen Linxiang reached out to get Leng Ji but withdrew his hand, his eyes fell on the wine in Chen Linxiang's arms, Leng Ji looked at the wine expressionlessly and then looked up at Chen Linxiang.

Immediately understanding what Leng Ji meant, Chen Linxiang handed over the wine with a full face, and finally exchanged it for the rabbit leg in Leng Ji's hand.

Leng Ji, who got the wine, smelled the aroma of the wine in the bottle and handed the wine to Li Zhenyi. He nodded to Li Zhenyi and said succinctly: "Boss Li, this is good wine."

Li Zhenyi took the wine and looked at Leng Ji with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. He raised his head and took a sip, then returned it to Leng Ji, who immediately took another sip.

After drinking, the two looked at each other and smiled relaxedly. They felt as if they had returned to the time when they were on the battlefield last year.

At that time in the barracks at night, Gu Zhen often took everyone to warm up and drink together. Several people shared a pot of wine and everyone would not dislike anyone.At that time, they worked together and were brave and fearless on the battlefield. All the praises came from each other's sincere hearts, and all the comforts came from the irreversible friendship between comrades in arms.

But now not only were they restrained, even Gu Zhen was forced to hold back his edge just to be a beast imprisoned in the imperial city.

"It seems that you were comrades-in-arms before?"

Ye Ru'an, who was bored at the side, felt that the interaction between the two was very interesting, and asked while stretching his head and looking at the two.

Hearing this, Leng Ji looked at Ye Ru'an and nodded, "Yes, Mr. Ye. Li Biaotou went to the military camp to help the general for a while before."

"Oh, that's it." Ye Ru'an was curious, he suddenly wanted to know more about Gu Zhen through Leng Ji, so he pretended to sigh: "I think General Gu must be a very powerful person who can regain Korea."

Hearing this, Leng Ji didn't make a sound, but he began to meditate in his heart, his general had a lot of ideas since he was a child, if he didn't have some means, he might not be alive today.

At that time, the candles in the prison of Tanzhou Governor's Mansion were dimly lit.

Inside the rusty iron gate was a man with disheveled hair and wearing a prison uniform sitting slumped on the ground. The prisoner's feet and hands were chained. I don’t know, I don’t know…”

Gu Zhen stood upright in the cell with his hands on his back, looked down at Yu Duocheng who was on the ground and said coldly: "Yu Duocheng, this general will ask you one last time.

When the case of Qian's disappearance was transferred to you, did you find any clues?Or you know that the case of hiding salt and iron is related to Qian's disappearance, so you dare not continue to investigate? "

On the ground, Yu Duocheng just shook his head in a daze and said, "General Gu, I don't know..."

Seeing that Yu Duocheng was pretending to be crazy and foolish but refused to tell the truth, Gu Zhen's expression was heavy, and a narrow smile suddenly flashed in the phoenix eyes of the people on the ground, he already had some plans in mind.

In the middle of the night, the cool wind rustled into the dungeon.

Through a small window on the wall, some night light penetrated into the cell, and Yu Duocheng huddled in a corner of the cell, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

Suddenly seeing a white shadow passing by the iron sill door, he couldn't help being frightened, and stared at the door in front of him carefully with his eyes wide open.

Seeing the white shadow appear again, the white shadow was thin and disheveled, rushed straight to the iron gate and hit it, Yu Duocheng felt dizzy when he saw this, and he was about to pass out when he rolled his eyes.

Looking again, the white shadow disappeared again.

Looking around the gloomy prison cell, Yu Duocheng couldn't help crying and crying. He thought about it all his life, he was lustful and greedy for money, he spoiled many little girls but never killed anyone.

But just now it was obviously a female ghost who came to ask for her life, and then recalled the imperial decree in the day saying that Qian's wife sued for suicide, Yu Duocheng couldn't help feeling weak all over, and kept looking around suspiciously.

He faintly heard the sound of weeping, and at last he couldn't hold back anymore, broke down and cried, "Auntie, Auntie, I beg you, don't come to me again!

If you want to blame it, blame your husband's bad luck. He happened to transport the batch of salt and iron that was about to be embezzled, so he was killed...

But this matter, this matter was not done by me... I just got some benefits from it, so I don't know the details and dare not check.I'm in prison now, and it's considered that the wicked will be rewarded with evil, you should let me go if you have a lot..."

Kneeling on the ground, kowtowed and begged for a while, and I don't know how long it took for the low sobs to be heard again. Yu Duocheng collapsed on the ground exhaustedly, his face full of bitterness.

Outside the dungeon, Qin Qingrong was rubbing his forehead and walking out in a hurry with disheveled hair, not seeing the way clearly, and bumped into Gu Zhen who was waiting for him at the door.

Under the moonlight, Qin Qingrong's mo hair was scattered behind him like a waterfall, and he was dressed in white and stepped on the ground with bare feet.

When he raised his head, there was a swollen redness on his forehead. Qin Qingrong just wanted to shake Yu Duocheng twice in front of the door, but who knew that the night was too dark and his long hair blocked his sight, so he didn't pay attention. He hit the door and almost cried out in pain.

But fortunately, his bump directly got all the words out of Yu Duocheng's mouth.

Gu Zhen lightly touched the wound on Qin Qingrong's forehead with his fingers, and the corners of his lips slightly raised a hint of ridicule.Lowering his eyebrows and seeing that Qin Qingrong was still standing on the ground with bare feet, Gu Zhen made a silent movement towards Qin Qingrong, then picked him up and walked out of the governor's mansion.

Although there were no people on the street in the middle of the night, Qin Qingrong still felt a little embarrassed to be carried by Gu Zhen all the way to the inn.

When she stepped into the door of the inn, Qin Qingrong caught a glimpse of Xiao Er standing in front of the counter, and quickly buried her face in Gu Zhen's arms to avoid Xiao Er's gaze.

After entering the guest room and closing the door, Gu Zhen put Qin Qingrong on the bed to play with his expression: "Why, Gu asked Mr. Qin to help pretend to be a ghost. Did Mr. Qin pay for all his clothes and shoes?"

Qin Qingrong's face was still red, and he lowered his head and let his long hair fall on his shoulders, exposing a section of his white and slender neck, silently looking at his muddy feet and frowning slightly.

Seeing this, Gu Zhen went to the inner room to fetch a basin of hot water, and found a bottle of plaster and put it on the low table beside the bed.

Sitting by the bed and wringing out the towel, he tilted his head slightly and lifted Qin Qingrong's feet to wipe them carefully with the towel.

Seeing that Qin Qingrong remained motionless and did not refuse, Gu Zhen raised his eyes and took a glance with a smile, and saw that Qin Qingrong's face was already as red as blood.

The more Qin Qingrong couldn't stand teasing Gu Zhen, the more he wanted to tease him. He weighed the jade feet in his hand to add fuel to the fire, and Gu Zhen nodded and praised: "That's right, I didn't expect Master Qin to have such beautiful feet."

It was said that Qin Qingrong avoided Gu Zhen's sight and turned his face to the wall. After Gu Zhen finished wiping his feet, Gu Zhen dug out another ointment and wanted to put it on his forehead to reduce swelling, but he didn't refuse.

Gu Zhen just lamented Qin Qingrong's luck and said: "Master Qin, you must know that Gu has lived for so many years, and he has really served you alone.

Mr. Qin is also comfortable with it, is he just enjoying it like that? "

Raising his eyes to meet Gu Zhen's gaze, Qin Qingrong's skin has grown a little thicker after getting along with Gu Zhen these days, and now he has a faint smile on his blushing cheeks, "I helped Master Gu pretend to be a ghost, this is Mr. Gu owes me.

Pay off the debt. "