The General and His Enemy Your Highness

Mei Geng originally wanted to send Chu Ce back to the inn first, but this time the child didn't obey, instead he wanted to stay with a cold face, Mei Geng had no choice but to let Chu Ce stand in the courtyard with them.

This was the first time Mei Geng saw Chu Ce's expression since he was reborn. There was resentment in his coldness, but he suppressed it. He only had a tight little face, which made him feel a little dazed.

Mei Geng had seen such an expression on Chu Ce's face before. At that time, he was already the prince of Da Chu. Come on, still the glamorous His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"My lord." Qin Gui's voice brought him back to his senses, and he withdrew his probing gaze. Mei Geng nodded, "How is it?"

"The attack was very neat." Qin Gui's face was much uglier than before, and he even had a hint of gnashing of teeth, "The Zhang family was killed with a single blow, only ours... these bastards."

Only the dark guards they sent out died so badly that there was hardly a piece of intact skin all over their bodies, almost deliberately venting their anger or ruthless hands like a warning, and seeing the dead body would tell how painful it was.

Mei Geng patted Chu Ce's shoulder lightly, without making a sound, but went forward to inspect the corpse of the hidden guard, seeing the obvious wound, which could be called a living cut, his expression darkened suddenly, and he muttered : "It's really cruel."

A low murmur made the surrounding temperature completely cool down.

"Let Feng Yucai come here." Mei Geng got up, and it was the noble and unparalleled King Xiping again.

Naturally, County Magistrate Feng arrived early and brought a lot of people with him, but they were all stopped outside, and they were almost detained. Until King Xiping showed mercy and called them in, he only brought Feng Yu into the courtyard alone.

"Your Majesty, see King Xiping, His Highness the Fifth Highness." Feng Yucai knelt down directly, with his head bowed, trembling as if he had been greatly frightened.

Mei Geng's eyes were almost murderous, and he had already suppressed the smile on his lips. He looked down at Feng Yucai expressionlessly, and said in a cold voice, "Magistrate Feng, is this what you told me that nothing happened?"

"The lower officials are terrified!" Magistrate Feng trembled even more, tremblingly said, "Forgive me, the lower officials will definitely investigate this case strictly."

In the massacre, the murderer was an official ordered by the imperial court. Even if he wanted to hide this case, he couldn't hide it. Mei Geng looked mockingly, and kicked Feng Yucai's shoulder fiercely. On his shoulder, he sneered in a low voice: "This Linzhang hides all kinds of filth, so instead of working hard for County Magistrate Feng to investigate the case, why don't you go to the prison to rest first."

County magistrate Feng was kicked so hard that he screamed, and he couldn't believe it when he heard the words. He was stunned for a moment, and the pain was so distorted that his face appeared astonished, and he immediately shouted: "Wang... my lord, I am wronged!"

Few of the officials in Linzhang were clean. Mei Geng didn't believe that the county magistrate Feng who was crying for his father and mother was just a matter of a few soldiers, but the other party ruthlessly wiped out Zhang Xiancheng's family, even Hanging the dead body on the tree so cruelly is a warning, a provocation, and a declaration of war.

He stopped his foot, and County Magistrate Feng couldn't stand the pain. That blow almost broke his bones. While struggling, he said loudly: "My lord, I have been wronged! This official is for the sake of Da Chu, and I am wronged!" !"

"Let this king hear another word, and you won't have to speak for the rest of your life." Mei Geng waved his wide sleeves lightly, threatening lightly, but the coldness in his eyes did not hide it.

Mei Geng relied on his power to successfully throw County Magistrate Feng into prison, and ordered all the officials in Linzhang to be summoned to discuss the matter immediately, leaving Qin Gui on the spot to continue the investigation, and then left.

When the Linzhang officials were hurriedly summoned, Mei Geng had already waited in the yamen for a while, looking at the ministers, the smile on his lips became colder and colder.

Everyone looked terrified, as if they were afraid of something. It can be seen that this group of people was not surprised by Zhang Xiancheng's death, and even seemed to have known about it for a long time, and they were extremely frightened.

The death of Zhang Xiancheng probably wasn't him who wanted to deter him, but this group of drunks and riches.

The imposing man straightened the wide sleeves of the black brocade jacket, lowered his eyes, his handsome and sharp eyes were darkened, and remained silent for a long time.

People down there were even more panicked, most of them had heard this man's ominous name, and when they saw that he kept silent and only looked at him with a pair of eyes from time to time, they were frightened out of their wits and wished they could escape.

The first one to speak was the young man in plain clothes next to the man. The young man changed from his gentle and gentle appearance, and said slowly with a sullen face: "You don't have to hide anymore. You are greedy for official money, officers and soldiers are missing, and Zhang County Chancellor wiped out his family." , if the adults insist on concealing it and not reporting it, this hall does not mind changing the entire Linzhang for a batch of court officials."

The implication is that if you don't say anything, the court will not let you go without the murderer behind your back.

As a result, the people who were hesitant before became even more hesitant. Naturally, they all knew about the embezzlement of official money, but after all, the money was in the hands of Cheng Xuan, the governor. Happy, not to mention that they all made money.

Several officials looked at each other, already shaken, someone tremblingly said: "Your Highness, this... this case of the disappearance of a soldier, the officials really don't know."

After the sound fell, the lord in Xuanpao raised his eyes, his eyes were deep and dark, and he sneered: "You don't have to pretend, even though you found the official bank in the governor's mansion, there are still a large number of silver coins missing. Instead, tell me, whose pocket did these go into? Or..."

After saying that, Mei Geng glanced meaningfully at the several adults present, and chuckled slowly: "I don't really care, you are the only ones left and right."

All the adults were dumbfounded, and they all said that King Xiping went north to deal with corrupt officials, but he didn't want to deal with them in such a way, whether you were innocent or not, you would rather kill by mistake than let it go.

The few people who were planning to fool around just now broke out in cold sweat, but this time they no longer evaded, and confessed everything: "My lord, my subordinate said that all the money was taken by County Magistrate Feng to build a chess club!"

Mei Geng was stunned for a moment, and looked at each other with Chu Ce, the two were confused.

It was all the money used for disaster relief. After the floods, plagues often appeared, and the people's harvests were not good, so the money was allocated for this reason, but I didn't want Feng Yu to take the official money to... build a chess club?

Almost instantly, Mei Geng was sure - there was something weird about the chess club.

Asked again but couldn't find anything, Mei Geng made a decisive decision and sent Fang Lian to visit several chess clubs of County Magistrate Feng, and ordered all the people to be brought back, if they were alive, they would not let them go.

As soon as Fang Ren left, a hidden guard came to report that the body of Li Zhong, a soldier who died suddenly a few days ago, had changed.

King Xiping, who didn't even have time to drink a cup of tea, took His Royal Highness the fifth prince to Yizhuang without complaint.

Before entering the Yizhuang, I could hear the noisy voices inside, and even a little bit of breaking wind.

As soon as he opened the door and entered, he saw that the dark guard in black was holding an old man with white beard in common clothes, and he was dodging back and forth in the lobby where the coffin was placed. There was also a black and blue corpse lying on the ground, which was the guard of Yizhuang. old man.

Mei Geng frowned, and a blue shadow came towards him, before he could see clearly, he took Chu Ce into his arms, dodged sideways and did not forget to close the door behind him.

When she turned her head and saw the flying thing, Mei Geng's complexion suddenly sank, completely black as if stained with ink.

It was a butterfly, with magnificent blue wings, outlined with round black lines, like a flying enchanting flower, extremely dangerously beautiful.

"Blue-winged butterfly."

Mei Geng gritted his teeth and paused, casually snapped off a dead branch from a dry potted plant, summoned his inner strength and flung it out suddenly, piercing a hole in the butterfly wing, and the dagger in his sleeve was unsheathed, bringing out a cold glow , cut off the black ink-colored sleeve robe, and a piece of the sleeve fluttered to the ground, just in time to catch the falling butterfly.

Seeing this, the dark guard immediately put down his dizzy operation, stepped forward and said, "My lord, this thing came out of the corpse, the man accidentally touched it, so..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the lifeless corpse on the ground.

Mei Geng didn't speak, but his heart was already full of turmoil. A pair of extremely beautiful eyes stared fiercely at the dying butterfly. His eyes were fierce, as if he wanted to whip the monster blue butterfly to death.

He had seen this butterfly in his previous life. At that time, Chu Hengzhi passed away and the new emperor ascended the throne. It was ten years later that the blue-winged butterfly appeared in Dachu, and then it spread at an extremely fast speed. This butterfly is poisonous. If you touch it, you will die. After the butterfly dies, it will go into the soil, and there will be no grass in this place for a whole year.

Because of this, Chu Ce was accused of being unworthy to be a king back then, not to mention that the Huai River flooded the next year. He would rather go to the northwest because he wanted to stabilize the foundation for Chu Ce at that time.

The blue-winged butterfly was born in the small country of Nanyun, and it was supposed to appear in the country of Chu ten years later, but it did not expect to plant the root of disaster early on. Mei Geng is so smart, and he can guess it after thinking about it carefully. These tribes on the northern border are not the only ones who are fat.

He let go of Chu Ce in his arms, turned around to look at Li Zhong's corpse, there was a hole in the abdomen of the decayed corpse, and there was nothing in it, no internal organs, he opened his chest cavity with a blade, and the already black ribs still fell With dense milky white eggs.

Mei Geng closed his eyes, and slowly exhaled: "Bring Feng Yucai, he's alive."

He originally thought that this group of bastards embezzled officials and money, but now it seems that there is one more thing to add, collaborating with the enemy and conspiring against them.

No wonder the blue-winged butterfly appeared in Dachu inexplicably back then, forcing Chu Ce to seek help from Nanyun, and was cheated so badly that the original source was in the hands of his own people!

Mei Geng was so angry that his fingertips kept trembling, fuck the foreign enemies!

In the previous life, the great Chu fell into such a situation, but it was all caused by his own people. He withheld food, grass and weapons, led to the disastrous defeat of the Mei family, and even planted the disaster of the blue-winged butterfly early. This step-by-step downhill road was originally caused by these The court salary should be paved for the courtiers who work for the king!

With the new emperor ascending the throne, calamities and natural disasters occurred frequently, Chu Ce was almost forced to write an edict of guilt.

How ironic.