"Not good, General! Something happened at the military camp!"
"What!"
Xiao Chongjing frowned and stood up immediately, walking quickly to the door. Looking at the panic-stricken boy kneeling in front of him, he was dissatisfied, "What's going on in such a panic? What does it look like!"
"General, it's military rations!"
The boy didn't care about the grievance of being scolded and quickly reported succinctly, "Many people have eaten the new batch of military rations, and they are making a fuss..."
"Military rations?"
Maybe he had a guilty conscience. When he heard these two words, Xiao Chongjing's heart immediately tightened.
"What are you still doing? Go get your horses ready!"
Xiao Chongjing said, and immediately set off, taking the boy with him, and quickly left Suifeng Garden.
After he left, Ruan Yunluo recalled Xiao Chongjing's abnormality just now, and asked Aunt Wan to send a letter to Concubine Yi, asking her to pay attention to whether there was anything strange about the Sixth Prince.
After all, murdering the prince was a serious crime that implicated the nine clans, and she didn't want to be accidentally implicated in it.
…
The military camp was noisy.
When Xiao Chongjing arrived at full speed, Vice General Wang was guarding the gate of the camp with an anxious face.
"General, you are finally here!"
Vice General Wang was so anxious that he rushed towards Xiao Chongjing before he could get off his horse. He led the horse for him and reported the situation, "General, most of them are veterans making trouble. The leader is a centurion named Xue Gan."
"Xue Gan?"
Xiao Chongjing secretly remembered the name, quickened his pace, and quickly reached the center of the trouble.
"what happened!"
Xiao Chongjing shouted and immediately stopped the noise of the soldiers.
He glanced coldly for a week, and then his eyes fell hard on the veterans who were leading the trouble. Then he asked loudly with a cold face, "What time is it now!"
"Back to General, it's Mao hour!" Vice General Wang immediately sang from the side.
"Mao Shi?"
Xiao Chongjing nodded with a cold face.
His eyes fell on a centurion with a determined look in front of him and asked, "Xue Gan, right? Let me ask you, what time is Mao Shi in the military camp!"
"Back to General, it's training time."
"Then why are you still here?"
Xiao Chongjing asked angrily, "Does His Majesty raise you just to make you quarrel?"
"of course not!"
Xue Gan shook his head decisively, but immediately asked loudly: "But does your Majesty know that the soldiers are eating moldy food?"
Without waiting for Xiao Chongjing to react, he immediately stepped forward and handed over the rice bowl in his hand, "General, see for yourself, is this something for people to eat? Since the brothers ate this, they have been running around all day and all night. Hey, let alone combat training, if we continue like this, we have no idea whether we can survive this year or not!"
"Yeah, how can someone like this celebrate the Chinese New Year give us this!"
In the crowd, there were soldiers throwing bowls in agreement one after another.
"okay!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiao Chongjing frowned and quickly stopped the complaints of the soldiers.
He sighed, changed his tone of voice, and continued: "Brothers, I know you are working hard, but there is no surplus food in the national treasury... As soldiers who defend our country, we cannot do anything at this critical moment. If you only think about yourself, you also have to consider the difficulties above..."
"No matter how difficult it is, we can't let our brothers eat moldy food!" Someone was immediately dissatisfied.
"That's right, let's go to war with our heads tied to our belts, and if we finally win, we won't even get a mouthful of fresh food when we come back!"
"This Chinese New Year guy is deliberately trying to be disrespectful to others!"
"I know..." Seeing the soldiers getting emotional, Xiao Chongjing quickly calmed down and comforted him more gently, "I know the suffering and fatigue of brothers, but..."
"what do you know!"
Someone in the crowd sneered, "We are all going through life and death, we are the cannon fodder in the front, and you are the commander in the back.
We have also won the battle, but you are delicacies from the mountains and seas in the general's mansion, and we can't even feed ourselves. What do you know! "
"I do not know how!"
Seeing someone pointing the finger at him, Xiao Chongjing frowned and snorted, "I also climbed up step by step from the mountain of corpses and sea of blood. I have never suffered anything! I dare to eat meat on the battlefield, but I dare not eat moldy food." ?
If you don’t eat it, I will! "
Xiao Chongjing said, snatched Xue Gan's job and started eating in big gulps.
After finishing the meal in a few mouthfuls, he threw the rice bowl and said loudly: "I, Xiao Chongjing, have always been blessed and shared the hardships. Since my brothers are suffering in the military camp, I, Xiao Chongjing, will never enjoy the blessings!
From today on, I, the general, have decided not to leave the camp or return home, but to eat, live and celebrate the New Year together with all my brothers! "
"good!"
In the deep silence, a lonely cheer came from the gate of the military camp.
Jun Yizhen clapped his hands and looked at Xiao Chongjing with a look of approval, "General Xiao is worthy of being a military general, he is so heroic!"
"Third Prince, why are you here?"
Xiao Chongjing looked at Jun Yizhen and was shocked. He quickly stepped forward and wanted to kneel down to salute...
"no."
Jun Yizhen raised his right hand in vain, sparing Xiao Chongjing the courtesy, and taking advantage of the situation, he also spared the courtesy of all the soldiers.
His eyes swept over the soldiers, and he said with a smile: "The Chinese New Year will be here in two days. My father is thinking about the soldiers stationed here, so he sent me here to have a look. I want to ask if everyone slept well. , Are you wearing warm clothes, are you eating enough..."
Jun Yizhen paced, talking and approaching the soldiers... At this time, he saw the grain that was thrown to the ground...
"Why is this good food being thrown everywhere?"
Jun Yizhen looked at everyone with a puzzled look.
Seeing that no one dared to say anything, he bent down, picked up the grains on the ground, and was about to put them into his mouth...
"Third Prince, no!"
Xiao Chongjing immediately came up to stop him, "Third Prince, you are a prince, how can you eat whatever comes into your mouth?"
"fine."
Jun Yizhen smiled boldly and put the grains into his mouth calmly... Feeling the bitter and musty taste on the tip of his tongue, Jun Yizhen spit out the grains with a cold face.
Narrowing his eyes and looking at Xiao Chongjing meaningfully, he asked with a smile, "General Xiao, why is this food moldy?"
"this……"
Cold sweat broke out on Xiao Chongjing's forehead.
He was about to find an excuse to explain. At this time, the third prince asked very thoughtfully, "Is there something wrong with the Ministry of Revenue? The food funds have not been allocated?"
"this……"
Xiao Chongjing became even more nervous.
"What is this? Why are you hesitating? Are you worried that the household department will cause trouble for you?"
In public, Jun Yizhen blocked all Xiao Chongjing's excuses very considerately, "General, don't worry, I will go with you in the worst case. Come on, for the sake of the soldiers, let's go to the Ministry of Accounts now to ask for the account..."
"No, no, don't be impatient!"
Xiao Chongjing quickly held back Jun Yizhen, and at the same time winked at Deputy General Wang, "What are you doing standing there in a daze! Tell me quickly, what's going on! Has the food payment been allocated?"
"Dial, dial it down..."
