The residence that Zhong Xin arranged for Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin was called Nongmei Pavilion. When Qiao Wan came in, she paid special attention to it. They were not far from Zhuxian Garden where Quchang was under house arrest. The main part of the mansion is separated by a landscape stream, and the only access corridors and small bridges are guarded by soldiers, which to some extent separates them from the disaster victims living in the governor's mansion.

As soon as Qiao Wan stepped out of the door, two soldiers guarding the yard blocked her way, one on the left and one on the right with their sabers outstretched.

"What are you doing?" one of them asked.

Qiao Wan covered her lips with her hands and said coquettishly, "Why are you so fierce? You're bored in the room, why don't you come out and enjoy the moon?"

"What kind of moon are you enjoying, go back and go back!" The two of them were about to push Qiao Wan with their hands.

"Hey, hey!" Qiao Wan took a wrong step to the side, and said while stepping back, "I warn you, don't touch me casually, my little gentleman has a bad temper, if you dare to touch me, she will kill you fingers."

"Really?" After hearing Qiao Wan's words, the two men had obscene smiles on their faces, "I want to see how bad my temper is?"

"Master Zhong asked us to guard the yard and not enter the house, but you ran out by yourself, so don't blame us brothers..."

Qiao Wan looked at them like this, and for some reason, a common scene in dog-blooded dramas appeared in her mind. She held back a smile and continued to lead the two people back to the wall, pretending to be afraid: "Don't come here, don't come here again!" Come here, I'm going to call someone..."

It's a pity that the two of them didn't have a chance to say the bloody line of "you shouted, no one came to save you if you broke your throat", and they were knocked down from behind by Luo Fengxin who came out of the room without a sound.

"Hey, I told you that my little gentleman has a bad temper, why don't you believe me." Qiao Wan clapped her hands regretfully, stepped forward and took Luo Fengxin's arm, "Let's go."

Luo Fengxin bent down to pick up a saber, and stared coldly at the two people lying on the ground.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Wan was puzzled.

"Chop off their hands." Luo Fengxin remained expressionless.

"Hey, I was just joking, but I didn't touch me." Qiao Wan pulled Luo Fengxin.

Luo Fengxin snorted unhappily: "Of course I know I didn't meet you, if I did, I wouldn't just chop off my hands, but chop off their heads!"

Qiao Wan rolled her eyes with a smile when she heard this, and pushed Luo Fengxin away again and again: "Okay, okay, it's better not to cause trouble on other people's land. Let's go, hurry back."

Before the two of them entered the city, they had prepared for accidents. Luo Fengxin put on a night suit under the armor in advance, so as not to make noise when wearing the armor in the middle of the night.At this time, she took off her armor, put the saber she picked up in her waist, and supported Qiao Wan to climb up the courtyard wall, then turned over with a hook, and took Qiao Wan from the outside.

The two hid behind the shrubs on the side of the corridor, ducked all the way to avoid the guards, and soon reached the outside of Zhuxian Garden.

The layout of Zhuxian Garden is different from that of Nongmei Pavilion. The outside is not a brick courtyard wall, but a bamboo fence with a height of one person. Through the gap in the fence, two soldiers can be seen fighting in the courtyard. drowsy.

Luo Fengxin asked Qiao Wan to stay where she was, and rolled inside to knock the two soldiers unconscious before picking up Qiao Wan.

The night covered up the whereabouts of the two, and the guards patrolling outside did not notice any abnormalities along the way.Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin squatted in the corner, and waited for the patrolling people to leave before they came out and knocked on the door.

"Who?" A man's voice came from inside the room.

Qiao Wan didn't answer, but knocked on the door again.

"Who is outside?" asked again in the room.

This time, Qiao Wan was sure that the owner of the voice was Qu Chang. She leaned against the door and replied softly, "Inspector Qu, it's me, Qiao Wan."

The door opened, and Qu Chang saw Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin appearing here, with expressions of both surprise and joy on his face, he quickly put the two of them into the room, and then looked outside to confirm that no one had noticed Then closed the door.

"Qiao Yushi! It's great that you're here, it's great that you're here!" As soon as the door closed, Qu Chang walked up and down the room excitedly. If he hadn't considered the difference between men and women, he would have been afraid It was time to grab Qiao Wan's hand to express his joy.

Qu Chang had been staying in Minzhou during this time, and he didn't know about Qiao Wan's appointment as princess, so he still called Qiao Wan according to his original official position.

In the past when Qiao Wan was Yu Shi Zhongcheng, he was Qiao Wan's subordinate, but now even though he has been promoted, he still habitually regards Qiao Wan as his superior when he sees her.Everyone in Yushitai knew that Qiao Yushi was the most resourceful, and now that Qiao Wan came here, Qu Chang felt that the stalemate in Minzhou was finally saved.

After babbling a few words, Qu Chang realized his gaffe, and hurriedly saluted Luo Fengxin again: "Your Highness, Princess."

"Inspector Qu doesn't need to be polite." Luo Feng lifted a guilty conscience, and went straight to the point, "The two of us came here late at night to ask what happened to Inspector Qu after he came to Minzhou, and Zhong Xin and his gang occupied What happened after leaving Qianyang City?"

"Sit down, both of you, and let the official speak slowly." Qu Chang led the two of them to sit down at the table, moved the lamps and candles to ensure that no shadow would be cast on the window, and then returned to the table Sitting down, he said, "That's how it is. After obtaining His Majesty's will, I rushed to Minzhou non-stop. When I was about to arrive at Qianyang City, I met a group of bandits who robbed me..."

At that time, there were more than 5000 forbidden troops accompanying Quchang to escort the food, and the number of bandits was very large. According to Quchang's estimate, there were at least [-] people. These people did not seem to come from the same village. News of the distribution of food relief, several bandit villages joined forces to attack.

They lost to the bandits, and they fought and retreated. Later, Zhong Xin led his men to fight back from the city and repelled the bandits, but half of the food was robbed by those bandits.

"...Since entering Minzhou, the lower official has separated from the colleagues of Yushitai who are investigating the case. The capital must not know about this."

"I really don't know. In this way, the surplus grain in the city is less than we expected..." Qiao Wan said, "I don't understand one thing. Today, His Highness and I were investigating in the city, and saw that Zhong Xin's way of distributing grain was particularly weird. Does the supervisor know the reason for this?"

Qiao Wan described the scene of distributing food to Qu Chang, and Qu Chang said strangely after hearing this: "This official is not clear, since the official entered Qianyang City, he was put under house arrest that night. But..."

"But what?" Qiao Wan asked.

"However, I saw that Zhong Xin had a dispute with several of his subordinates that day." Qu Chang recalled, "The lower official vaguely heard Zhong Xin say to someone, 'We are a rebel army, how can we do such robbery', and then Some people said again, 'If you grab it, you grab it, everyone has been hungry for so long, you can't have a full meal'."

Qiao Wan felt as if she had grasped the crux of the problem, and hurriedly asked, "Is there anything else?"

"No more. The officer was escorted away after hearing this sentence. Privately, he kept wondering if there were some conflicts among the rebels, so he was deeply impressed."

"'Bandit behavior'...that makes sense." Qiao Wan pondered for a moment, then said to Luo Feng, "I heard that Zhong Xin was not from a poor background, and he was said to have a temperament like his father, with a chivalrous heart , so I can’t figure out his decisions. But if these decisions are not from his will, or if he is forced to help..."

"It's possible." Luo Fengxin was the leader of the army, and he understood Qiao Wan's words, "Commanding more than a hundred families is different from commanding a thousand soldiers, and commanding a thousand soldiers is different from commanding an army. Zhong Xincong He has never commanded so many people, and these disaster victims may be willing to obey him in a critical moment in order to have a chance of survival, but once the crisis is lifted, they may not be willing to be restrained again."

"Exactly. These people have been starving for several months, and they will inevitably plunder when they enter the city. If he has no way to stop it and is unwilling to sit back and watch the matter continue, he will order all the food and materials in the city to be confiscated and shut down. It would be a good idea to stop all the shops and order every household to close their doors."

"Oh, what kind of solution is this? I transferred the problem to the common people here because of my own incompetence. It's really a cowardly act." Luo Feng laughed heartily.

Alas, not everyone is as smart and capable as you!

In front of Qu Chang, Qiao Wan didn't have the nerve to tease Luo Fengxin, but just looked at Luo Fengxin and smiled.

Luo Fengxin understood Qiao Wan's meaning from Qiao Wan's eyes, and gave Qiao Wan a sideways glance, but there was still a trace of complacency in her eyes, obviously very satisfied with Qiao Wan's silent flattery.

Qiao Wan calmed down, and continued to talk about the business: "In this way, the matter of food distribution may also be related to this. I guess something bad happened, and Zhong Xin had to personally supervise the process of food distribution. And there are so many households in Qianyang City, if he personally goes from door to door to carry the food distribution, it may not be enough to distribute food from morning to night, so he came up with such a stupid method, I don’t know how to abandon some people Who came up with the idea again?"

The three of them thought together for a while, and temporarily came up with a general idea of ​​what happened in the city.

"Inspector Qu, where are the group of forbidden troops you brought with you now? Are there any still alive?" Luo Fengxin asked.

"Most of those forbidden soldiers were killed or injured in the battle with the bandits, and the rest were captured by Zhong Xin and his group. They should be locked up somewhere in the city. It has been more than a month. How many people are still there? I don't know."

"It's okay if those who ran away at that time were fine, but those who were pushed back to the city by Zhong Xin, I don't think they would survive." Qiao Wan sighed.

Everyone understands the truth. Since there is a shortage of food in the city, how can it feed so many people with food?It's just sad to say that.

Speaking of this, Qiao Wan thought of the followers that Luo Fengxin had brought. If the matter in Qianyang City could not be resolved as soon as possible, those people would be in danger.

Qu Chang's knowledge is limited, and he is not very clear about the resettlement of similar disaster victims in the city.Seeing that Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin had finished their questions, they got up to leave.

"By the way, when I entered the city today, I saw the person in charge of guarding the tower, who seemed familiar. Does Inspector Qu have any impression of this person?"

"Your Highness asked, is that person tall and thin, and he speaks with a northern accent?" Qu Chang thought for a while and shook his head, "Your Majesty only knows that other people call him 'A Chai', and I don't know anything else."

This news is similar to what Yuexiu knows, but tonight's trip, the harvest is not bad.Qiao Wan and Luo Fengxin bid farewell to Quchang, and returned to their yard by the same route.

In the corner of the yard, the two guards who were knocked out were still lying there.Luo Fengxin and Qiao Wan walked to the door of the house, just as Qiao Wan was about to push the door open, Luo Fengxin suddenly pulled her behind her and whispered, "There is someone!"

As soon as the words fell, the door was opened from the inside, and a short, ugly man appeared in front of them. Qiao Wan recognized that this man was one of the three people who were staring at them lewdly in the hall today. one.

"Hey, where did the two little beauties go this big night?"

The short man Jie Jie came out of the room with a strange smile, his eyes swept from their faces to their chests, and he said in a strange way, "You knocked out the guards and sneaked out privately, if I go and tell you Master Zhong, you don’t want to live here comfortably anymore, if you don’t keep it, you have to go to the prison to take it with you.”

"There are so many rats and cockroaches in this prison, it's dirty and smelly, and it's full of people now, but there's no single room for the two of you. Why don't you make me cheaper tonight, and if I am happy to serve you, I won't tell Master Zhong about you, how about it?"

The short man wanted to touch Luo Fengxin's hand as he said that, Luo Fengxin protected Qiao Wan and kicked him in the chest with his leg: "Dream your dream!"

This man looked so wretched, but his reaction was very fast. A thick black iron rod was always behind his back, and when he saw Luo Fengxin's leg move, he moved sideways, just in time to block the blow, and screamed strangely: "Yo yo, little girl The beauty is quite tempered, uncle, I am not one of those soft-boiled grandsons, I will play with you first today, so that I can teach you how powerful grandpa is!"

The man came with his stick up, Luo Fengxin drew out his saber, the sound of the saber and stick colliding was very ear-piercing in this quiet night, soon there was a group of footsteps outside the courtyard.

Taking advantage of Luo Fengxin's restraint on this person, Qiao Wan quietly retreated to the wall and picked up another saber, and hid her hands behind her back to wait for the opportunity. As soon as she stood up, one person led the team and appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

The person who came was A Chai whom they had just talked about. When this person appeared, Luo Fengxin had already picked off Lao Yu's stick and was about to slash her head, but A Chai grabbed her wrist with his bare hands.

"This person cannot be killed." A Chai said seriously.

Luo Fengxin didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he turned around, elbowed A Chai, and at the same time changed hands with the long knife, stabbing Lao Yu.

Lao Yu turned around and ran. Seeing that the saber was too long, Luo Feng resolutely withdrew his move. With the help of A Chai's arm, he stood up and kicked Lao Yu's back with such force that he kicked him to the ground and kicked him back. Slide forward a little.

Luo Feng thought very clearly, since the origin of Ah Chai is unknown, since he has come to interfere, it is better to use this to test the bottom line.She turned the blade and slashed at A Chai's neck, A Chai had to let go and retreat, drawing out the knife to deal with Luo Fengxin.

The two of them are faster than each other, they have passed more than a hundred moves, but they can't tell the winner from the loser for a while.

The guards that A Chai brought had expressions of surprise on their faces, probably because they had never seen anyone who could match their chief.Qiao Wan was also secretly surprised, she didn't expect such a master to exist in this small place.

Lao Yu lay on the ground for a long time, finally heaved a sigh of relief, coughed and propped himself up, and the stunned guards remembered to rush in to snatch people.

Qiao Wan was quick for them to grab the saber and hit Lao Yu's head, knocking him unconscious again.She stepped on Old Yu's back, drew out her saber, pointed at the back of his neck and shouted to everyone, "Stop, don't move! If you move again, I'll kill him!"

A Chai swung away Luo Fengxin's saber, hurriedly retreated to the courtyard gate, and stood in front of his subordinates.Luo Fengxin also temporarily withdrew his hands, and confronted everyone indifferently under the moonlight.

The author has something to say: Today is much better, thank you cuties for your concern!I will make up for the missing chapter when the writing is a little smoother in the next day~

Thanks to the little angel who irrigates [nutrient solution]: ge1 bottle;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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