Qingsong thought so, secretly wrote a letter behind Cui Wendong's back and had someone send it to Cui's house overnight.
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The document asking for credit for An Jingzhong was rushed to the capital, but ten days later, there was still no response, which made An Leiting feel a little uneasy.
At the suggestion of Lu Qiyan and Xiao Luoan, An Leiting once again made a statement, detailing An Jingzhong's recent hard work and achievements in the army, and even vaguely mentioned An's previous matter about military supplies and medicinal materials. Jing Zhong was innocently implicated.
On the second day after An Leiting's information was sent out, the people sent by Lu Qiyan to investigate An Jing Zhongqing's surrender to the army came back and said that the matter had been revealed.
"What's the reason?" Lu Qiyan asked.
The person who came to report was named Gu Zhen, one of the spies trained by the Wen family. When Lu Qiyan followed the head of the Wen family to work at the border, Gu Zhen and several spies followed him.
For Lu Qiyan to send him around so that he can work for the Wen family.
Gu Zhen handed over his hand, but said with some hesitation, "Young Master might as well take a look at this matter in person."
Seeing that Gu Zhen, who has always done things neatly and neatly, was so hesitant at this time Lu Qiyan's heart sank. After finding an excuse, he left the military camp and followed Gu Zhen.
The two of them headed north until they reached the border with neighboring countries.
Here, Lu Qiyan had been here before when he occupied Changzhou Fucheng and determined the new national boundary, and he vaguely remembered that there used to be several villages here.
Compared with the barren land further to the west and north, this area can be said to have a rare river passing through it. The land on both sides of the river is flat and fertile, suitable for farming.
So even though this place has suffered many wars and been fought for many times, many people are still unwilling to leave.
Now that the war has been decided, the people are even more relieved. More and more people are coming here to settle and reclaim land, and the villages are much larger than before.
But the further Lu Qiyan walked, the more he felt something was wrong.
This is the time for autumn plowing and winter wheat planting, but looking around, there is not even a single person in the field.
As we approached the village, the sight before us was even more shocking.
Originally, there were many houses, the people were happy, and the smoke was gone. Instead, there were ruins everywhere.
And the entire village had obviously been set on fire, and all the houses and the surrounding trees were charred black.
But even so, it still couldn't cover up the bloodstains that could be seen everywhere on the ground, and these bloodstains had long since dried and turned black due to exposure to wind and sun, which was shocking to look at.
Obviously, this place has experienced massacres that are unimaginable to ordinary people.
Lu Qiyan frowned, gritted his teeth and continued walking inside. After crossing the entire village, he could not find a single living thing in the village.
"The humble job has been carefully searched for, not only in this village, but also in the two nearby villages. No one has been spared." Gu Zhen said.
"Yeah." Lu Qiyan responded, feeling irritated.
Three villages were massacred and looted, and the number of people on the other side must be hundreds or more. If a mobile army of this size breaks into the border, it is impossible not to be discovered, let alone reported.
However, the military camp received no news.
And the corpses here were collected so cleanly, it was obvious that someone wanted to hide this matter deliberately.
And that day, An Jingzhong brought back an inconsistent number of heads and ears...
Judging from these things, it was not the enemy soldiers who massacred these innocent people, but the enemy soldiers. They were the hundreds of elite soldiers led by An Jingzhong who went to suppress the bandits that day.
As for why An Jingzhong massacred civilians, he probably felt that the number of bandits was too small to be worthy of his credit, so he thought of looking for more heads to make up the number?
But he and Xiao Luoan had told An Leiting and An Jingzhong about this matter many times. It was just a show. The quantity didn’t matter, as long as they had it, the second prince would do everything else. Help, feel safe though. But An Jingzhong...
Massacre civilians to take credit for himself!
How dare he, how dare he!
Lu Qiyan was angry, his eyes turned red with anger, and his teeth made a clicking sound.
After a long time, I exhaled the turbid air in my belly and closed my eyes.
The scene of fire in the night sky appeared before my eyes. The tragic wails, calls for help and begging for mercy seemed to ring in my ears, as if I could reach out and rescue the unarmed people who were slaughtered in their sleep. .
But as soon as I opened my eyes, the scene just now disappeared, leaving only endless desolation.
Lu Qiyan breathed out again, with a gloomy face. He stood up straight, cupped his hands, and bowed uprightly in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
May the deceased rest in peace.
And the one who started it...
He will never let me off lightly!
Lu Qiyan gritted his teeth, got on his horse after leaving the village, and headed all the way to the military camp.
The first thing Lu Qiyan did after returning to the military camp was to find Xiao Luoan and explain the matter.
Xiao Luoan was shocked for a long time after hearing this, and his face was full of anger. He smashed the cup in his hand and said, "This An family is bad to the core!"
An Jingzhong is a brainless person. He is such a reckless man, he dares to do such a thing, but he will not think it through at all. According to his usual behavior, he probably will not do the finishing work after the massacre.
I think the people who can do the follow-up cleanup are the people under An Leiting, and An Leiting must have known about this for a long time.
But he never made it public, concealed it completely, and acted as if nothing had happened. He was even angry because there had been no response from the capital about his request to seal An Jingzhong.
Thinking of human life as nothing...
Xiao Luoan was furious.
Lu Qiyan calmed down at this time and said, "Third Prince, do you want to do something big?"
"What big thing?"
"Something that starts with murder. Big deal..." Lu Qiyan said.
“Oh?” Xiao Luoan raised his eyebrows, “That sounds very interesting.”
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The big pot of mutton soup has been sold for more than ten days, and the business is booming beyond Xia Mingyue's imagination.
After this period of experience in setting up a stall and doing business, Honglian became more and more agile and diligent in doing things.
Xia Mingyue was quite satisfied with this, and assigned Honglian more work as long as she could bear it.
Honglian only felt that she had a legitimate use. She was happy in her heart and worked even harder. She was even more concerned about Xia Mingyue's usual fatigue, so she took the initiative to go to the central kitchen early every day to pick up today's dishes. All kinds of food and goods needed for the stall.
The central kitchen received orders from various franchisees on the first day. It was fully prepared before getting up on the next morning and the items were distributed one by one according to the orders.
When we arrived at the big pot of mutton soup stall, everyone in the central kitchen was in high spirits.
After all, this is the stall that Madam Xia went to in person, so there cannot be any negligence on all kinds of things.
But when he saw that it was not Zhuang Cui who came to pick up the goods, but Honglian, his expression changed. (End of this chapter)