Chapter 879

Camp.

After the magistrate cleaned up, he finally looked like a human being. When he came to the main tent, he kept wiping away his tears, "General, thanks to Ms. Chu, otherwise I would be imprisoned to death."

Tang Jinghong looked at the magistrate, and went straight to the point, "Why did they kidnap you? Why did they imprison you?"

The magistrate sniffed, "I was kidnapped a year ago. At that time, my wife and daughter went on an outing. I was busy with work so I didn't follow. In the afternoon, the people under my command came to tell me that my wife and daughter had gone out. There was an accident, let me go and have a look."

"I was worried about them, so I didn't suspect him. Without saying a word, I rode on the horse and rushed to the place where they happened. But what greeted me was not my wife and daughter, but a group of bandits."

"That's how I was captured, and then imprisoned."

"General, can you send someone to the government office in Linzhang City to see my wife and daughter, I haven't seen them for more than a year."

Tang Jinghong signaled to Meng Shengdong, "Go and have a look."

Meng Shengdong cupped his fists, "Yes, General."

The magistrate continued, "As for why I was imprisoned, I was testing those bandits, as if I had taken a fancy to the fertile land of Linzhang City."

"The general should know that the land in Dongling is sparsely populated and the land is barren. Only the land near Linzhang City is relatively fertile and there is a plain."

"I tested those bandits, and they didn't reveal anything else, they only said that they were used to plant treasures."

Tang Jinghong had a bad guess in his mind. The land was probably used to grow drugs. "If it was a bandit, it would not be so bold to kidnap a city magistrate."

The magistrate nodded straightly, "The general is right. They were ordered by others. The bandits who imprisoned me didn't have any brains, but what they did was extremely meticulous and impeccable. It can be seen that there are masters planning behind it."

Tang Jinghong thought for a moment, got up and left the main tent, and walked towards the tent where a group of bandits were tied up.

The bandit was still in a state of losing consciousness. Chu Qingzhi had taught Tang Jinghong to wake him up by pricking him between the eyebrows with a silver needle.

Tang Jinghong woke up the third child, "Can you answer the question properly?"

The third child looked at the soldiers, and was immediately discouraged, "After you tell me, can you let me live?"

Tang Jinghong said, "It depends on your performance."

The third child hurriedly said, "I will definitely behave well. If you ask, I will tell you everything I know."

Tang Jinghong asked, "Tell me about the origin of your cottage."

The third child was eager to make good and blame, and said honestly, "Our cottage was formed more than a year ago. The boss is a butcher in Linzhang City. He was wronged and murdered, so he became a bandit."

"The second child has some unknown origins, I don't know."

"I'm a beggar, and I've been with the boss all the time. Originally, the boss just wanted to find a place to hide, and wait for the wind to pass and escape to live in another place."

"Unexpectedly, the second brother appeared at this time. He persuaded the boss to form a cottage, and brought back all the men who fled around to act as bandits."

"The fleeing people come from all directions, and they are all people who can't survive. Now there is a way to survive, and they all agreed to join."

"After we got the manpower, we started to loot houses and build cottages."

"Suddenly one day, a mysterious person appeared. Only the boss and the second child had seen him, and no one else had ever seen him. With the help of the mysterious person, the cottage expanded a lot and became what it is now."

Tang Jinghong pondered, "That mysterious person helps you expand the cottage. It's impossible to do nothing. What does he want?"

The third child said, "He didn't ask for anything, so he borrowed our cottage to transport things, one box after another, and he didn't know what it was."

Tang Jinghong asked, "Where did things come from?"

The third child shook his head, "I don't know, I only know that things are often shipped to our cottage, and then shipped away after a few days. I asked the boss, and the boss only said to make a fortune, and didn't reveal anything else."

"Why do you have to let it go for a few days?"

"I don't know, those things were secretly placed in a room, and then secretly transported out of the room a few days later, and carried away from the back mountain."

Tang Jinghong glanced sharply, "Since it's a secret, how do you know it?"

The third child hurriedly said, "I saw it secretly."

"Kaiming, put him on a bet and go to the cottage to have a look."

"Yes."

When he came to the cottage, seeing that the village had become empty, the third child didn't dare to have second thoughts, and hurriedly took him to the room where his things were kept.

The house was also remodeled from a cave, filled with bottles and jars, much like Chu Qingling's pharmacy.

It looked like nothing special. Tang Jinghong looked around the room and found a hidden compartment. He walked over and removed the stone that put the oil lamp, and there was indeed a mechanism.

He twisted the mechanism, and the cabinet for bottles and jars was moved away, revealing a door, and a smell of medicine rushed over from the door, which was very pungent.

Tang Jinghong walked over, took a look, and thought to himself, this is the real pharmacy.

No, it's a smoke distribution room. The smoke made from Afulan is filled with the smell of that smoke, which is very similar to the Afulan that I smelled in the capital before.

If the asparagus is planted in Linzhang City, then this is the right place to make cigarettes.

There were still some medical supplies on the table, and extra drugs in a basket.

Tang Jinghong walked out of the house and ordered sternly, "Set fire to this place."

"Yes, General."

Tang Jinghong returned to the camp on horseback, took the prefect with him, and went to the fertile land that the prefect had mentioned.

This is a very vast plain, one hour away from the camp on horseback.

After a group of people came here on horseback, they understood everything.

The plain is full of asparagus, each tree is very luxuriant, and some of them have already bloomed in the middle. At a glance, they are very spectacular, but the white and beautiful flowers are full of evil.

Many people were weeding in the field, and there was a man in charge standing by the edge of the field, and four people stood behind him, looking at the plain together.

The soldier Xia Lanfeng looked shocked, "General, I didn't expect these harmful things to be planted in all the places where food should be grown."

Tang Jinghong's voice was a bit stern, "Bring people up and bring all those people up."

Xia Lan responded, "Yes."

Those people were terrified when they saw the soldiers, especially those who acted as stewards. They didn't look proud at all, and begged for mercy on their knees, "General, please forgive me. thing."

Tang Jinghong's eyes were filled with coldness, and he looked at the people kneeling in front of him, "Who told you to plant it?"

The steward stammered, "General, yes, yes..."

Xia Lanfeng kicked the steward on the ground and rolled around a few times, "If you don't tell the truth, you will be killed by now, crazy thing!"

The steward was in pain and didn't move for a while.

One of the subordinates behind him glanced at the steward and said hastily, "I said, I said, general, please forgive me."

Tang Jinghong didn't speak, but just moved his sharp eyes like blades to him.

The subordinates couldn't help being terrified, "General, we planted these drugs under the order of the magistrate of Linzhang City. He threatened our family, and we dare not refuse. General, please be careful."

It seemed that it was time to meet the magistrate, Tang Jinghong slightly lowered his eyes and thought.

The real magistrate next to him was frightened physically and mentally when he heard this. This kind of thing is obviously a serious crime of beheading. If the person pretending to be him leaves in the future and puts him on top, isn't he the one who died?
He understood why the other party imprisoned him instead of killing him.

Tang Jinghong ordered, "Pull up all these drugs, and then burn them. Not a single one will be left!"

"Yes, General."

Xia Lanfeng led a group of soldiers, walked quickly to the plain, and pulled out the drugs one by one.

Seeing this, the subordinates hurriedly said, "General, we are also willing to contribute. This thing harms others and ourselves. If we are not forced, we are not willing to serve it."

Tang Jinghong nodded, "Go."

A middle-aged man among the farmers who helped take care of it said, holding back his fear, "General, we are also willing to destroy those harmful things."

Tang Jinghong looked back at the middle-aged man, "Go."

A group of farmers also went, and one of the teenagers walked last. He looked at Tang Jinghong, hesitated for a moment, rushed over and knelt in front of Tang Jinghong, "General, please, please help me find our family back?"

"Tell me what's going on?" Tang Jinghong looked at the boy, very ordinary and timid.

The boy cried and said, "General, we are all nearby villagers. After the government occupied our farmland, they also drove out the surrounding villagers. Now the village is empty, and the former villagers can't be found."

"when did it happen?"

"A year ago, when I went to the county town to sell eggs, I escaped being driven away, but I didn't escape being caught serving A Furong. General, I asked many times, but there was no news."

"Did the villagers take their finances and clothes with them when they left?"

"No, everything in the house is intact, but everyone is gone."

Tang Jinghong's brows slowly creased. If this is the case, the villagers may be in danger. "This general knows, I will send someone to take a look."

The young man kowtowed, "Thank you General, thank you General."

The magistrate came over, "General, what shall we do next?"

Tang Jinghong glanced at the magistrate, but said nothing.

……

Camp.

When Yi Chuanchuan walked into the tent, he saw Rong Shenning and Du Zhaolin wrapped in quilts shaking their hands, "What's wrong with you?"

Rong Shenning rolled his eyes uncomfortably, "I'm uncomfortable, I feel so cold."

Du Zhaolin gritted his teeth, "I'm also very uncomfortable. It's spring, but it feels like the twelfth lunar month of winter. Liu Shu, you can help us find a military doctor."

"Okay, you guys wait, I'll find someone." Although I usually hate these two people, I can't just watch them die.

Yi Chuanchuan came out of the tent and went straight to the military doctor's tent, "Rong Shenning and Du Zhaolin are sick, one of you should go and see."

Several military doctors were dispensing medicine, and they looked at each other, but they were unwilling to go.

(End of this chapter)

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