I have a book to play

Because of the lessons learned from the past, even though Da Chu's prince and the emperor are biological brothers, they don't have many soldiers on hand.

The defense is that they are too strong and counterattack the capital.

But even so, there were still some who wanted to borrow [-] soldiers from King Jing.

Xie Chen took eight hundred king's soldiers and horses and trekked all the way back to Changzhou.For him, the disaster situation in Changzhou was already clear to him, but these soldiers who lived with King Jing in Bingzhou did not expect to live such a miserable life outside.

Along the way, I met countless people whose wives were separated and their families were ruined. When they arrived at the Jinling Mausoleum, one of the generals even gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, tell us what you want us to do! Who is not raised by his parents, there is no reason to say That dog official is ruining human life for nothing!"

The general's words were echoed by many soldiers.

Thank you Chen Chengqing: "Okay. I will trouble everyone then."

On the way to Jinling, Xie Chen had already briefly told them about the situation in Changzhou.He never added oil and vinegar to his words, but seeing the current situation, even without pouring water, it was enough to explode the frying pan of these eight hundred soldiers.

The gate of Jinling City is still the same as before, with sporadic and bony people coming and going.

Because of the food donated before, the number of people who starved to death gradually decreased.But there are still people who can't bear the hunger and cold.Worried about the plague, the corpses were buried early, and they didn't care about doing rituals.

Xie Chen brought the talents to the gate of Jinling City, and saw the guards who had no energy at the gate suddenly opened their eyes wide.

"Your Majesty!"

The guard shouted.

"Your Majesty is back! The county government went into trouble last night!"

"It's all right, why did it suddenly catch fire?" a general called out.

The guard was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how to answer: "According to... it is said that it was an old man working in the county government office. My candle fell out, and I found some kindling for it. So it was..."

Xie Chen didn't care to listen to these nonsensical words, so he whipped his horsewhip immediately and drove his horse to the county government office.

A guard shouted from far behind: "Don't worry, Your Highness! Master Sun and the others are fine—"

However, it was said that the fire in the county government last night was really too strange.

The old man who fell to death was in charge of pouring Yexiang in the county government.He is not too old, and he walks steadily on weekdays, with unbelievable strength.

Sun Xiancheng once thought about letting him go home, but when there was a famine, letting him go was tantamount to sending him to a grave.After much deliberation, he still kept the person.

The old man doesn't get in touch with people on weekdays, probably because he is afraid of smelling on his body, so he always hides in the house alone.He likes to drink, but he has never delayed his business because of drinking.

When I woke up that night, I stumbled and stumbled outside the door for no reason, and everyone who asked me was surprised.

But people have already fallen to their deaths, and they can no longer care about how they tripped.The candle in his hand was lit, and he found firewood piled up at the door, as well as several jars of wine that seemed to be broken because of his fall.

The fire was just like this, burning from the house where the subordinates lived all the way to the small courtyard where Sun Peng and others lived.

Those who escaped were just broken in the house.

Fortunately, Sun Peng responded in a timely manner. When he came out, the flames had already covered the window sill, but he finally saved his life.

As soon as Xie Chen entered the county office, he smelled the smell of smoke that hadn't dissipated.

The main hall of the county government office was fine, but most of the living quarters behind were burned down.Jinling was short of water, so there was no time to put out the fire last night, the best way to extinguish the fire was to rely on the people of the whole city to go outside to collect water spontaneously, and it took a lot of effort to put out the fire that was about to reach the main hall.

Xie Chen only saw the yamen servants with people coming and going, and he took one of them and asked him carefully. As soon as the fire was extinguished, Sun Peng drove Sun Xiancheng out to continue working on the canal, and he led his people to be burned by the fire behind him. Find something in the ruins.

He strode towards the backyard with big strides. On the way, he met wolfberry, whose face was full of distress. The latter's eyes lit up, and he turned his head and ran, shouting as he ran, "Qilang! Qilang—Master...His Highness is back!"

Xie Chen paused, and calmed down to keep up with the wolfberry.

The house that had been burned by the fire was no longer habitable, the doors and windows were all destroyed, and smoke could still be seen curling away from the ruins.

Sun Peng bent down to search for something inside, and Xie Chen stood still until he saw the other party straighten up and turn around to look at him, the gloom in his heart suddenly disappeared.

"How did you become like this?" Xie Chen frowned, reaching out to wipe the dark marks on Sun Peng's face.

Sun Peng subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but the man's hand had already grasped his cheek forcefully, and his fingers brushed against his chin, as if accidentally brushing against his lips.

"The fire was too big, and I didn't have time to bring out important things. If you don't look for it, it may not be finished."

The place touched by the man's fingers was scorching hot, Sun Peng avoided it calmly, his ears felt hot.

"Borrowed soldiers and horses?"

"Borrowed." Xie Chen said lightly.

"That's good. It just happens to come in handy."

Sun Peng wiped the ashes off his palms, and stretched out his hand to pull Xie Chen.But just as his fingers were about to touch the other party's sleeve, Sun Peng pursed his lips and withdrew his hand when he saw the crescent-white monk's robe and his own gray fingers.

"Go to the front first..."

Before he could finish speaking, someone grabbed his palm suddenly.Xie Chen didn't seem to care about his cleanliness or not, so he dragged him to the front of the hall.

"The fire is burning strangely. I'm afraid you want to talk to me about it."

The county government office is already uninhabitable.After explaining the matter, Sun Peng found an inn in the city to stay.It took a lot of effort to find water for bathing, but Sun Peng didn't dare to waste it, so he washed himself thoroughly before coming out to analyze last night's fire with Xie Chen.

It's not difficult to explain the matter, Zuo Zuo and Ren Cui Yuan are inseparable.The old man never placed firewood in front of his door, and because of the famine, he even stopped drinking alcohol. The road in front of his house was looked back and forth several times, but no unevenness was found.

So many suspicious points are strung together, and if he can't think of the reason, it will be in vain that he was born in the Sun family.

After listening to Sun Peng's analysis, Xie Chen sneered: "Ren Cuiyuan is easy to calculate."

Sun Peng pursed his lips: "He wants to burn me to death. Even if it doesn't kill me, it's a good thing to burn the evidence we have collected so hard."

Xie Chen looked at Sun Peng, and stretched out his hand to smooth his neckline: "If the evidence is gone, you can collect it again. You shouldn't take risks. What if the beams fall down on those houses that were burned down?"

Sun Peng couldn't help laughing, raised his hand to press the back of his hand, and said in a low voice, "It's nothing, just pretending."

Xie Chen's eyes flashed.

Sun Peng said with a smile: "I have hidden the things long ago. Ren Cuiyuan wants to burn them. Yes, I will let him think they have been burned."

He said, bringing the middle coat he changed.On the inside of the thin tunic, something was tightly sewn onto the whole garment with needles and threads.

Sun Peng sat down and began to remove the stitches, unaware that the look in Xie Chen's eyes gradually softened, the things hidden in his eyes that were suppressed and never surged out seemed to be struggling to break out of the cocoon.

"Tomorrow, I will find someone to send these things to the capital. Regardless of whether His Majesty will send someone over to investigate thoroughly, I will first take down Ren Cuiyuan and open a warehouse to release..."

"Shichiro."

After talking, Sun Peng suddenly heard Xie Chen call his name, and he raised his hand to look, when he suddenly stretched out his hand, covered his eyes with his big palm, and breathed close in front of him.

"I'll do the rest."

"Grandmaster……"

Sun Peng opened his mouth and blocked his sight with his palm.He was a little nervous, and for a while, he could only reach out subconsciously.

The outstretched palm accidentally touched a chest, the wrist was firmly grasped, and the arm was slightly bent.And where he couldn't see, Xie Chen placed a long kiss on his eyes through the palm of his hand.

"Fortunately, you're fine..."

The man's voice was low, and Sun Peng's heartbeat stopped for half a beat, and then jumped up crazily.

The familiar sandalwood fragrance was close in front of his eyes, and it seemed that he was only a hand away. Every alternate breath made him feel the heat from the tip of his lips to be astonishingly hot, and it even spread to his whole face bit by bit.

After that day, Sun Peng and Xie Chen brought up everything.Sun Xiancheng was no longer busy with the water canal, but released all the people in the county government, leaving only a few old servants that Mr. Huang brought with him when he took office.

Someone in the gold mine on Jinling Mountain hid for a few days and was letting down their vigilance, but the soldiers and horses brought by Xie Chen wiped out all of them and took over directly.

This happened so suddenly that Ren Cuiyuan from Wuyin hadn't gotten any news at all. After taking over the gold mine, Xie Chen took the rest of the people and rushed straight to the Shifu, killing the fat and strong Ren Cuiyuan from scratch. It was tied tightly to the feet.

Someone in the Governor's Mansion was about to flee upon seeing this.But the [-] soldiers, although they have never been on the battlefield, can deal with such dog legs without breaking a sweat.

The huge Governor's Mansion was taken down in less than half an hour.

When Ren Cuiyuan was pushed and brought out from the Governor's Mansion, he got the news from somewhere that all the people in Wuyin rushed to the street.

Most of these people were pale and thin, with numb expressions, but when they saw Ren Cuiyuan, they didn't know who started it.Eggs, stones, and rotten vegetables were thrown at him.

Wu Yin was forced by Ren Cuiyuan, and no one dared to escape.Those people who died of starvation, thirst, and disease were all rushed to landfill.There was a bold man who wanted to run out of the city and Changzhou to ask for help, but was chased by Ren Cuiyuan's men all the way, and finally fell off the cliff and never came back.

Now, seeing Ren Cuiyuan in such a mess, who wouldn't be happy!

Most of the people in the Governor's Mansion have never seen Xie Chen.When he saw Ren Cuiyuan last time, there were only a few people around him.Ren Cuiyuan has a lot of ferocious hooligans under his command. Hearing the news, he came to fight Xie Chen and the others with a stick and machete.

Xie Chen was dressed as a monk, others thought he was powerless and was about to exclaim to be careful.But he stretched out his hand and pulled out a soldier's saber beside him.

With the knife in hand and the fall, the head of the oncoming gangster has been separated.

Xie Chen's knife was still stained with blood - it was a sharpened saber used for defense, maybe it was once stained with blood, maybe it wasn't.But at this moment, the blood flowing on it, like the spell of Kaifeng, released the fierceness of the weapon.

Those local hooligans were terrified and couldn't help but backed away.

However, when they took a step back, some people formed a human wall and stepped forward to firmly block them.

Xie Chen returned the knife to the soldier, and glanced at Ren Cuiyuan and one of his minions, which made him shrink back in fright.

"Natural disasters have struck, and people all over Changzhou have been displaced, and countless people have died of hunger on the roadside." The voice of Zeng who had read Buddhist scriptures for more than ten years was a little low, but it seemed to carry the inherent majesty of a superior person. Your Majesty will naturally give it to you. But you are greedy and know that the people are suffering, but you only care about your own enjoyment. Are these not the people you protect? Why did you become an official for the imperial examination?"

"Stupidity! Greed! The hole in your heart will only be filled more and more by your greed. In the end, you can only die by your own hands! The people raise you with food and rice, not for the sake of being enriched by you, licentious pleasure! "

After thanking Chen, he turned his head to look at Ren Cuiyuan's family members who ran back from the governor's mansion crying.The oldest of these women is only in their thirties, and the youngest looks to be only twelve or thirteen years old, but they have already counted women's buns, and they are clearly Ren Cuiyuan's wives and concubines.

They all cried like pear blossoms and rain, but they only cried to the cold eyebrows of the soldiers and the common people.

They only know that their sky has collapsed, but they don't seem to know how many families fell apart because of their "sky".

"From today on," Xie Chen retracted his gaze, "I will temporarily act as governor of Changzhou. When the imperial court appoints a new governor, I will entrust everything to you. As for Mr. Ren, before you return to the capital, you should think about it carefully. How to plead guilty to His Majesty."

Ren Cuiyuan was dripping with cold sweat and opened his mouth to yell for mercy, but a soldier stepped forward cleverly and stuffed a smelly cloth into his mouth to block his words.