"Well, Ding Dali, last night Xiaoxuan personally looked at your injuries. Today, you are going to switch sides after being provoked by someone? You are such a white-eyed wolf!"
After Ding Dali and Bai Shanhai left, Cheng Chumo walked out of the firewood pile. Looking at the two people's leaving figures, he waved his fist and said bitterly.
"No! I have to tell Xiaoxuan about this as soon as possible!"
Cheng Chumo murmured to himself in a low voice, but as soon as he took his foot out, he took it back again. He rubbed his growling stomach and sighed: "Oh! It's better to fill your stomach! Missed it. After eating this meal, we can only wait until tomorrow morning to eat! It will be too late to tell Xiaoxuan after dinner! "
As expected, the sky is huge and the food is the biggest! For this guy Cheng Chumo, there is really nothing more important in this world than filling his stomach! However, he also expected that Ding Dali and Bai Shanhai would not be able to change things for a while, so he had the intention to eat first!
In the camp, Li Zexuan waited and waited until Cheng Chumo came back. He, who was not too worried at first, gradually became anxious. Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin entered the military camp to help him. Either one of them If something happened to the Xuanjia Army, then Li Zexuan would be very sorry for Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde, and he himself would feel guilty for the rest of his life! Just when Li Zexuan was about to go out to look for Cheng Chumo himself, there was finally a sound of footsteps outside the camp and Cheng Chumo's shout:
"Xiao Xuan, Xiao Xuan! Something happened!"
The curtain was opened and Cheng Chumo walked in quickly from the outside. Li Zexuan stepped forward and stood directly in front of him. He said in a cold voice: "Chumo, where were you during dinner?"
Seeing that Li Zexuan had the intention of calling an army to hold him accountable, Cheng Chumo couldn't help but shrink back. Even though he was saying harsh words behind his back that he wanted to trick Li Zexuan, but when they actually met him, he immediately gave up because he was really beaten. But!
"Ahem! Xiaoxuan! Let's not talk about it for now. I discovered something very important. Please tell me quickly!"
Cheng Chumo rolled his eyes and quickly changed the topic and said.
"No matter what it is, first explain clearly the question I just asked!"
Li Zexuan, who knew Cheng Chumo's character well, was not moved at all when he heard this. He looked at Cheng Chumo with a cold face and said calmly.
"Oh! Xiaoxuan! I really wasn't kidding you this time. I really discovered something very important! Someone is secretly instigating the soldiers of our battalion. It seems to be someone from Yizi Camp. They were outside the kitchen just now. That man found Ding Dali from our camp. I just heard everything they said. The man's name seemed to be Shanhai..."
In order to prove his "innocence", Cheng Chumo quickly told Li Zexuan what he had seen and heard outside the kitchen. Seeing that Cheng Chumo's words were serious and did not seem to be fake, Li Zexuan's face immediately became serious.
"Ang? Chief, Sun Dali, didn't we go to see him last night? Chief, you even looked at his injuries yourself. How could he listen to the bad things that person said about you, Chief?"
After Cheng Chumo finished speaking, before Li Zexuan could speak, Yuchi Baolin couldn't help but said angrily.
"I didn't have a close relationship with Ding Dali before. It's impossible for him to believe me just based on what I said last night! And from what Chumo said, this man named Shanhai seems to be related to Ding Dali They are familiar with each other, so it is understandable that Ding Dali finally turned against him!"
Li Zexuan patted Baolin on the shoulder to comfort him. Then he put his hands behind his hands and said, "The really hateful person is the one named Shan Hai. He said that he was from Yiziying, and that this matter was caused by the captain of Yiziying." Sun Tao's intention makes perfect sense now!"
"Huh? Why does it make sense? Xiaoxuan, why don't you say half of what you say?"
Cheng Chumo was listening intently, but Li Zexuan suddenly stopped talking. This made him anxious, so the guy couldn't help but come forward.
Li Zexuan glanced at this guy and said, "You'd better tell me where you were just now, right? How could you hear the conversation between Sun Tao and that person? And you weren't discovered by them?"
"Uh, well... if I tell you, Xiaoxuan, can you not be angry?"
Cheng Chumo scratched his head, feeling embarrassed.
"You speak first!"
Li Zexuan said calmly with a straight face.
"Uh, okay! I'll say it! I'll say it!"
Although there was no emotion or anger on Li Zexuan's face, Cheng Chumo, who was familiar with Li Zexuan's character, knew very well what Li Zexuan's expression meant, which was leniency for those who confessed and strictness for those who resisted. So he lowered his head and confessed honestly:
"Earlier you asked me to help in the kitchen, so I went, but the kitchen guy asked me to help them chop firewood. I have strong hands, so I finished the chopping quickly, but after I finished chopping, I didn't know where to go, so... ...I rested in the firewood pile for a while, but unexpectedly fell asleep!
When I woke up, I heard Ding Dali and that Shanhai guy plotting something outside the woodpile. I saw that they were without me, so I listened quietly there. You... you know everything about what happened next! "
"You guys just want to be lazy every day. Do you think Baolin is training hard all day long?"
How could Li Zexuan be so shrewd that he couldn't guess why Cheng Chumo didn't go back to the camp after chopping firewood? He glared at the pounder angrily and said.
Cheng Chumo knew he was in the wrong, so he shrank his neck and whispered, "If I wasn't lazy, how could I have heard their conspiracy?"
Li Zexuan suddenly laughed out of anger. He pointed at Cheng Chumo and said, "Then not only do you have no fault, but you also have merit? Should I ask the general to reward you?"
Cheng Chumo laughed twice and waved his hands quickly: "Hey! That's not a big deal! I don't need a reward! Uh, by the way, Xiaoxuan, you haven't finished half of what you just said, keep talking!"
Li Zexuan was helpless when encountering such a ruthless guy. He rolled his eyes secretly and said: "This matter is obviously someone secretly trying to instigate the soldiers who were injured during training in Wuzi Camp to sow discord between me and the soldiers." The relationship between us has disturbed our military morale. Once the morale of the military is in chaos, we won’t have to compete with Yizi Camp in nine days. We will just admit defeat!"
Hearing this, Cheng Chumo stared and said indignantly: "What? So, this matter must have been arranged secretly by Sun Tao? This turtle grandson is really a sinister villain. He can't defeat our Wuzi Camp head-on. , just stabbing him in the back! Damn! When I meet him one day, I will beat him to death!"
"shut up!"
Li Zexuan quickly interrupted Cheng Chumo and said: "Private fights are strictly prohibited in the military, and malicious harm to others is even more prohibited. Even if Sun Tao was behind this incident, he should be dealt with by military law. You'd better be honest and don't get yourself into trouble." Upper body! Besides, currently we have no evidence to prove that Sun Tao did this, so Chumo, don’t act rashly!"
"Oh...what? What do you mean there is no evidence to prove that Sun Tao did this? This is what the man named Shan Hai said himself. Isn't the evidence obvious?"
Cheng Chumo responded subconsciously, but then he retorted.
Li Zexuan sighed and explained: "As the saying goes, catching a thief and taking the stolen goods, these words are just one-sided words from you and him, and they are not enough to be used as evidence! And even if we capture this person, he will deny it. In this way, Not only will we not be able to uncover the real culprit behind the scenes, but we will alert the person behind the scenes and make the person behind the scenes alert. In this case, it will be even harder for us to guard against him in the future!"
"Then what should we do? We can't just watch them come to drive a wedge between the brothers in our camp, right?"
When he was undecided, Cheng Chumo scratched his head out of habit and said.
Li Zexuan shook his head and said: "Now that we have learned about their conspiracy, there is no reason to sit idly by and do nothing! It's just that the evidence we have is not enough at the moment, so for now we can only resort to it and keep silent. Baolin, come here... …”
After saying that, Li Zexuan waved to Cheng Chumo and Yuchi Baolin, and they quickly put their heads together. Just as Li Zexuan was about to speak, he smelled a strange smell. He was so smoked that he quickly backed away and waved his hand: "Cheng Chumo , how long has it been since you, boy, washed your hair and took a shower?"
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"Master, why are you back today?"
At two o'clock in the morning, before it was completely dark, Cheng Yaojin, dressed in military uniform, rode back to Duke Lu's Mansion. Mrs. Cheng, who came out of the backyard when she heard the noise, saw Cheng Yaojin. She hurriedly went up to him and was a little surprised.
Now that all the Twelve Guards in the capital have entered the closed training stage, the generals in the army usually stay in the military camp day and night to train soldiers. However, in comparison, the Xuanjia Army has just been expanded, so the training tasks are heavier. In the army, The generals and sergeants are more strictly managed on their comings and goings. The rest of the army is not as strict as the Xuanjia Army. If the general has something to do, he can still leave the military camp. However, despite this, Cheng Yaojin had not gone home to sleep for several nights in a row, so Mrs. Cheng was a little surprised when she saw Cheng Yaojin.
"Hey! There's something coming back!"
Cheng Yaojin turned over and dismounted. He handed the reins to the general in the mansion and replied to Mrs. Cheng's words.
"Master, have you eaten?"
Mrs. Cheng asked.
"Not yet! Just let the kitchen prepare two dishes and a pot of good wine! Alas, I've been so busy for a day, but I'm starving!"
Cheng Yaojin said loudly.
After that, he walked towards the main hall of the front yard.
Two quarters of an hour later, the main hall of Cheng Mansion.
Cheng Yaojin was drinking wine from a large bowl and eating meat with great relish. He was eating with great pleasure. Mrs. Cheng, who had already had dinner, sat aside and looked at the way Cheng Yaojin was eating so much that she couldn't help it. I'm thinking that the reason why my husband came back tonight is because he had enough of the coarse grains and rice in the army and came back to improve the food?
"Hmm! Madam, have you read Datang Daily today?"
Just when Mrs. Cheng was "thinking wildly", Cheng Yaojin finally spoke. He was chewing food while slurring his words.
"Look, what are you asking me for?"
Mrs. Cheng, who came back to her senses, asked with a strange look on her face.
"There will be some kind of fund-raising meeting in Lantian County in two days. Then you can ask the shopkeeper of one of our shops to take 5,000 yuan and go to Lantian County to donate!"
Cheng Yaojin raised his head and said something to Mrs. Cheng, and then drank another glass of wine happily, how pleasant it was!
Today is different from the past. Since Duke Lu's mansion got on Li Zexuan's "get rich express" last year, his monthly income has been thousands of dollars. After this year, not only have there been many old pavilions in the mansion Everything has been rebuilt, and even the tables, chairs and furniture in the house have been replaced with new ones! The Cheng family is no longer the fussy Cheng family it used to be. Although five thousand guan is not a small sum of money, it is still quite manageable given the current financial situation of the Cheng family!
"What? Master, you want to send people to that fund-raising meeting to donate money, and then one donation is 5,000 yuan? No! I don't agree!"
Hearing this, Mrs. Cheng almost overturned the table. She stood up, looked at Cheng Yaojin like a madman and said:
"Our family's money is not brought by the strong wind, and it is not easy to save some money! With your little salary, our family would have been drinking from the northwest! If Xiaoxuan hadn't let us buy shares in the wine shop last year, Chou and I would have Niu, Chuliang and the others must still be living a hard life with you! Now you just donate five thousand yuan if you ask for a donation. I think you have had too many good times and got carried away! Besides, the fund-raising meeting is between businessmen. What does this matter have to do with our family?"
To say that in ancient times, women had to be good at managing families diligently and thriftily. Before Li Zexuan appeared, the only source of income for the Cheng Mansion was Cheng Yaojin’s salary and the land rent paid by the people in the fief every year. Cheng Yaojin was an upright person. If he is not a corrupt official, the Cheng family can only rely on this income to survive! It just seems like we can barely maintain our lives!
After Li Zexuan appeared, because of Cheng Chumo, the Cheng family finally became rich! But Mrs. Cheng, who was accustomed to living a hard life, still had a strong sense of worry. How could she sit still when she heard that Cheng Yaojin was going to waste a lot of money in the family? It would be weird if you don’t blow up your hair!
"Ahem! Madam, don't be impatient! Listen to me and tell you slowly!"
Seeing this, Cheng Yaojin was a little frightened. On the surface, he was the head of the Duke's Mansion, but that was just his wife giving him face in front of outsiders. Secretly, he still respected his wife, oh, Not seven points! It would be strange if he didn't get scared when this tigress shows off her power!
"Hmph! Then tell me!"
Mrs. Cheng stared and said.
"You all go down first!"
Cheng Yaojin put down his bowls and chopsticks, and waved to the maids and servants serving in the room. Everyone took the order, and they were the only two people left in the main hall. Cheng Yaojin then continued: "Madam, this fundraiser The conference was actually organized by Xiaoxuan, and it was organized by His Majesty. Do you remember that I went to the second brother Qin’s house for a drink a few days ago? Xiaoxuan and Your Majesty also went there at that time..."
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