Your Majesty, please do not

When the group arrived at Qingyang Mansion, several generals and officials from the capital immediately began to discuss strategies.He didn't want to hear the statement at first, but no one kept "Chaduo's secret work" away from the military plane, so he vaguely heard some.

This time, Daping plans to divide his troops into five groups and quickly march into Chaduo from different directions, trying to regain the lost territory of Yongzhou before their recruitment formation is completed. It is best to continue to go deep and take a few cities from them.

The mission of the statement is to reorganize the soldiers according to the results of the discussions between the generals and the officials of the Ministry of War, and to repeat the newly promulgated laws.

He has no power to modify the law, but only to complete the announced work.When the soldiers were assembled, he sat on the chief seat and handed the law to the generals who were standing aside, so that he could read it to everyone.

The war is imminent, and the new law has become very strict. It not only emphasizes the control of the generals over the soldiers, but also has stricter requirements for discipline, and the punishment for soldiers who make mistakes is also more severe.

After the general finished reading it, there was a lot of discussion among the crowd, and some people even yelled things like "I don't accept it", "The commander is cruel and ruthless", "It's better to kill me now".

Chen Zhi originally wanted to explain a few more words to them, but the general whispered in his ear: "If you disobey orders, you will be executed according to the law. You want to kill chickens to make an example to monkeys, so you don't have to be polite to them."

This law is not set by the statement, he is just an executor, there is no need to compete with them, so he let the general handle it.

But the soldiers below didn't know what was going on, and thought it was Chen Yuanwai who made such a strict law, so they were very dissatisfied with him.

At the same time, Yu Wenjing and a general led forty soldiers out of Qingyang Mansion, all the way west, into the depths of the desert.

The Fifth Route Army set off from Qingyang and arrived at various counties under Pingliang Mansion.Since the Chaduo people did not expect their attack, the cities were almost unguarded, and Daping's army seemed to be in an uninhabited land. It took only a few days to take back Pingliang Mansion and most of its subordinate counties.

During this period of time, Chen Zhi has been following the people of the Ministry of War to command in Pingliang Mansion.On the day he learned that Huaiyuan County had been recovered, he excitedly climbed up the tower and looked towards his hometown.

The weather was gloomy, the strong wind lifted the sleeves of clothes, and the sky was full of sand and dust.Looking from the tower, hundreds of people were still fighting not far away. Presumably, the Chaduo who escaped from Linxian ran around like headless chickens and accidentally bumped into Pingliang Mansion, so they sent people to clear it up.

In the distance, where the sky and the sand meet, the shadow of the city can be vaguely seen, but it is not clear.Statement Zhi squinted his eyes, looking for traces of his hometown in the blurred images.

Last time, he came to Yongzhou to fight on a whim, and when he was stationed in Qingyang, he went to fight Baizhen recklessly, just to regain Huaiyuan.

Now Huaiyuan has been taken back, but if I want to go back to my hometown to have a look, I don't know who it is.

Maybe this desolate wilderness is his original belonging. In comparison, the complicated and beautiful capital city is just a dream too extravagant.When people in the desert go, they will be dazzled by the bustling scene there, and it is difficult to retreat completely.

The wind on the tower was the strongest, and it blew away his temple hair in a short while, making his head a mess.He looked left and right to see if there was no one there, and then untied his hair tie, intending to comb his hair again.

He wrapped the hair tie twice around his fingers and pushed the broken hair back.The dark blue printed headband was put together like his other headbands, but it was always the one he picked up most often involuntarily.

At this moment, the wind at the top of the city suddenly changed its direction and rushed towards it.Inadvertently, it got into the fingers, pulled out the hairband, fluttered in the air for a while, and finally fell outside the city.

Statement Zhi was startled, ran towards the steps without thinking, fell down the tower, and came to the city gate.

The guard at the gate recognized him, seeing that he was about to go out, he hurriedly persuaded him: "There is a fight outside, it is dangerous for you to go out of the city now, go later."

"I dropped something outside, I picked it up, and it came back immediately."

"What did you drop, we will help you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Zhi pushed a few guards away and squeezed out.

When it fell off just now, the hairband was still attached to the base of the city wall. When he left the city, it had already been blown away for a certain distance.He was a little anxious, and on the way to chase, the hair tie was blown farther and farther, and flew towards the fighting side.

He glanced at the fighting scene over there through the wind and sand. Fortunately, the people on the side of the city gate were his own people, and there would probably be no danger in chasing them now.

After all, this thing is too precious.

After running a long way there, the sound of fighting gradually sounded, and he couldn't bear it anymore, and he had already started to pant.When he looked up, he saw that the hair tie was blocked by a stone, and he felt a little happy.The stone was still some distance away from the battlefield, so he slowed down and moved there.

On the way, he accidentally glanced at the battlefield, and met the eyes of a soldier fighting in front of him.Seeing that it was his own person, he didn't think much about it, but he didn't expect to see that person turn around and walk towards him when he continued to walk forward.

He was a little puzzled, but he didn't stop.When he got to the rock, he knelt down and picked his hair belt from the crack of the rock. Just as he felt more at ease, when he stood up, he saw the man standing in front of him with a knife in his hand, staring at him viciously.

The statement suddenly felt fear, it was obviously one of my own, what does this mean?

Amidst the loud fighting sounds, just as he was about to ask, the man suddenly raised his machete with both hands and slashed straight at him.

"Shameless dog officer, if you kill my brother, you will pay with your life! Go to hell!"

This roar broke through the heavy sand curtain and reached the sky.

Statement's head was still dizzy, and his body instinctively wanted to dodge and resist, but he had no strength at all.Finally, he moved his body a little bit, but changed the knife that should have been cut on the head and neck to the chest and abdomen.

Beads of blood splashed, and the sudden severe pain made his legs go weak, and he fell backwards in shock.

Seeing that the cut was crooked, the man growled and raised the knife again, wanting to mend it at the vital point.But at this moment, a companion behind him suddenly asked him to go back.

He was also afraid that others would find out that he was attacking his own people, so he had to put down the machete and turn back, but the second knife did not fall on the statement.

The whole person of the statement fell down in the sand, accompanied by several corpses that died in the battle.Before his whole body was completely overwhelmed by pain, he saw the man holding the knife. When the man turned around, the knot-shaped pendant around his neck dangled.

As soon as he saw Jiang Ji walking into the garden, Bai Ming handed him a letter, and said with a smile, "You don't want to ask about the cause of Bai Rang's death. I'll ask my family to find out. This is what they wrote to me."

Jiang Ji, who was strolling leisurely, immediately became nervous when he heard this, and his hand trembling when he took the letter.

Jia Xuan suggested going to the pavilion on the rockery to enjoy the flowers, and several people followed him away. Bai Ming turned his head and shouted, "Yunkai, we are going to the mountain, are you coming?"

Jiang Ji, who was sitting on the bench, was concentrating on reading the letter with his head down, and ignored him.

"Let's go, leave him alone..."

Jiang Ji read the letter in his hand bit by bit, his face became more and more dignified.After sitting absent-mindedly for a while, he suddenly stood up from the bench and walked quickly to the door.

In Bai Lailai's mansion, he was writing in the study room, when he heard footsteps, he raised his head from the book and looked at Jiang Ji at the door, "Long time no see, do you need me?"

Jiang Ji stepped forward to salute, and said in a solemn voice, "Do you know how Brother Ling died?"

"My brother? Bai Rang?" Bai Wannian was a little taken aback, "Why are you asking this?"

"Brother Ling and I used to be classmates, and we had a deep friendship with him. Later, when we heard of his death, we have been asking him the cause of his death. I wonder if what I heard from you is the same as what other people said."

Hearing what he said, Bai Lailai slowly stepped down from his seat, "In this case, it's okay to tell you. At that time, our father passed away. According to the rules there, we had to go to the mountains to observe filial piety, and three days replaced three years. The next night He suddenly came out of the cave where we slept, and I didn't ask, and saw his body the next day. I didn't dare to look at it carefully, but later I heard that he was bitten to death by wild beasts in the mountains."

Jiang Ji's heart was beating extremely fast, and he asked nervously, "Why did he go out that night?"

Bai never thought about it for a while, "He said he was going to find someone, but he didn't know who it was."

"The person he is looking for...is me."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Ji stepped forward and handed him the letter in his hand, "I asked Bai Ming to help me inquire about the cause of your younger brother's death. He gave it to me."

Bai never accepted the letter in surprise, and was even more surprised after reading it.

"how could this be……"

Bai Rang was indeed bitten by a ferocious beast and injured his leg, but the wound was not fatal, as long as he rested where he was, he would be fine when someone came to rescue him.But Bai Rang wanted to walk, dragging his injured leg all the way, blood dripped all the way, and finally died of excessive blood loss.

Jiang Ji sighed: "Bai Shangshu has been working hard to simplify etiquette since he entered the Ministry of Rites. Could it be related to this matter?"

Bai Wannian folded the letter and returned it to him, with his head up and his hands behind his back, "My original name was Bai Xun. After my younger brother died, I was quite shocked, thinking that it was the etiquette system that harmed him. After that, I changed my current name to Bai Xun. The name, has always been like this, is it supposed to be like this? If there are not so many complicated etiquettes, wouldn't it be possible for some people to suffer less?"

"I didn't expect that the obsession for so many years would be unreasonable..."

Hearing these things, Jiang Ji couldn't help but smiled wryly, and comforted him: "You can't think like that, if he hadn't gone to the mountains, he wouldn't have done what happened later. It's not right to keep filial piety in the mountains where there are ferocious beasts."

He felt that knowing the truth of the matter would never have any impact on Bai Bai.Although etiquette was not the whole reason for Bai Rang's death, it was at least one of the reasons.

But his own obsession for so many years is really unreasonable.

When he heard the news of Bai Rang's death, he was devastated and had been thinking hard about the cause of his death.The day of Bai Rang's death was originally a special day for them. Bai Rang made an appointment with him to leave home on that day and come to the south to find him.

But why did Bai Rang die?At that time, Jiang Ji believed that Bai Rang used to complain to him about his mother, saying that his mother was extremely arrogant to him, beat and scolded him frequently, and would punch and kick each other for no reason. Only his father could stand in front of his mother and protect him.

However, at that time, his father died.Jiang Ji thought that Bai Rang lost his father's protection, and was either beaten to death by his mother, or committed suicide because he couldn't stand his mother's persecution.

Since then, he has been disheartened and left home to travel around, trying to dispel his grief.He has been to many places, but none of them can heal his pain until he came to Yongzhou.

He got acquainted with followers of Liusha Sect in Yongzhou, and was deeply attracted by their teachings.Everyone has no right to control others, so everyone can completely control himself.If Bai Rang could control himself instead of living under his mother's domineering, wouldn't he die...

After living in Yongzhou for a few months, Jiang Ji secretly went to Chaduo, where he met Lousa.In the gatherings of the Quicksand Cult, he became more and more devout, believing that as long as the country is governed according to the teachings, everyone will eventually be free.

Lou Sa knew that Jiang Ji was a scholar, so he asked him to return to Daping to continue his scientific research. He would be an official in the court in the future, so that he could bring the teachings of Liusha Sect to Daping.He joined Suyin Church at the beginning because the Quicksand Sect opposed Ouyang Qing's strict policies.

At the same time, he established contact with Gou Xiong and others who were stationed in the capital by the Liusha Sect, and he was always waiting for Lousa's instructions.

If Bai Rang's death had nothing to do with his mother's rape, then the Quicksand Sect that he had been talking about for so many years was just a figment of his imagination, and everything he had done for them was meaningless.

Bai Rang died looking for him, so it turned out that the culprit who killed him was actually himself...

Such a big mistake.

After leaving Bailai's mansion, Jiang Ji did not go home, but walked to the suburbs.

This day is the day when Gou Xiong and the others go to the city to inspect, and there will be no one in the house this afternoon.And since the bear's house is used for the gathering of the Quicksand Cult, each of them has a gate key.

Do what you can to make amends, and then leave.

The author has something to say: Soldier 1: Mr. Chen has been out for so long and hasn't come back, what did you do?

City Guard Soldier 2: I think he is in a bad mood recently, I'm afraid he can't think about it, there is no benefit to dying directly, and dying on the battlefield can still embezzle the court's pension!

Soldier 1: Makes sense.

Statement: How could the main character die? ?