Everything the queen says is right

But Zhu Shun still didn't worry about his body.

"But……"

"There's nothing left."

Tuoba Jun's pale face showed a bit of exhaustion.

"It's rare that I have time today, so let's go to the altar to see what's going on."

Now it is difficult for him to even walk. He is really afraid that in two days, he will not be able to walk at all.

No matter what, he had to ensure that the lifeboat was in normal operation before Ah Cha arrived.

And he really didn't want to burden Ah Cha because of his own reasons.

Zhu Shun really couldn't convince him, so he could only hesitantly agree, but in his heart he kept praying that Zuoqiuge would tell the goddess the news as soon as possible.

He was afraid that if Tuoba Jun's health continued to be delayed day by day, he might really not have much time left.

However, Tuoba Jun had already given the order, and he could not say anything more, so he had no choice but to accompany Tuoba Jun to the place where the lifeboat was being built.

It is said to be a place where lifeboats are built, but in fact it is not that far away from the altar built for the Dog Emperor.

Of course, this arrangement is also to better conceal others.

Tuoba Jun dragged his heavy body, supported by Zhu Shun, all the way to the outskirts of the altar.

"Okay, you don't have to hold me up anymore."

He didn't want his current weak appearance to be seen by others, otherwise he would be taken advantage of by someone with intentions, and he was afraid that there would be big trouble in the fiefdom.

Zhu Shun didn't want to let go of his hand, but Tuoba Jun's insistent eyes kept falling on him, and there was nothing he could do.

"……Yes."

But as expected, Tuoba Jun took two steps and started coughing violently.

"Ahem! Ahem——"

This time he seemed to be coughing out all his internal organs, and his whole body was shaking violently.

Zhu Shun took out the handkerchief he had prepared and handed it over.

Nowadays, every time the master coughs, he will cough up a lot of blood, so when he knows to go out, he has prepared several handkerchiefs on him in case of emergency.

Unexpectedly, Tuoba Jun pushed the handkerchief away, shook his head weakly, and swallowed it with great reluctance.

"No need, I'm fine."

He believed that he could still hold on, at least he could not be seen outside. His body was already dying.

Zhu Shun clearly saw the bloodshot eyes between his teeth and opened his mouth to persuade him again, but was shut up by Tuoba Jun's look.

"We don't have much time, let's go check on the condition of the altar first."

"……it is good."

If he hadn't been able to disobey his master, and the construction of the altar was extremely urgent, he would have really wanted to knock Tuoba Jun unconscious and take him back to recuperate.

But he knew that his idea was doomed to be unrealistic.

He sighed deeply in his heart and followed Tuoba Jun step by step.

"Master, most of the altar has been repaired now. It just needs some more decorations to complete it."

Tuoba Jun slowly walked up the stairs that had been repaired on the altar step by step, trying to calm down his breath.

"Well, it must be built as soon as possible, but at the same time, some unnecessary work must be left for dedicated manpower to fill in."

Although Ah Cha hadn't told him the specific purpose of building this altar, he already understood Ah Cha's thoughts when he walked up the high stairs to the top of the altar.

Rather than saying that this is an altar for the emperor to pray for blessings and transshipment, it is better to say that it is a refuge place built in advance for the people.

The altar is located on a higher ground, and with such high steps blocking it, the top of the altar will certainly not be affected by floods.

In addition, the top of the altar was specially built by Acha to be flat and open, making it very suitable for people to stay temporarily when they were fleeing.

He could already imagine the scene when the people who had not been able to board the lifeboats set up tents here in an orderly manner to stay temporarily.

He slowly closed his eyes, and in his ears he seemed to hear the rejoicing of the people who had taken refuge and their gratitude to Acha.

It was even mixed with compliments about himself, the wise and powerful king of Ding'an.

That scene is really beautiful and harmonious.

The only pity might be that he couldn't see it with his own eyes.

Tuoba Jun opened his eyes, with a satisfied smile hanging on his lips.

"Please accompany me for a walk on this altar."

He wanted to see if there were any imperfections in this refuge for the people soon, and he wanted to make up for the flaws while he was still there.

But the calmer it is, the more turbulent it is.

Tuoba Jun had already checked the situation of the altar and called Zhu Shun to see the lifeboat.

"Let's go and see the other side."

The other side refers to the place where the lifeboats are built.

As he finished speaking, a guard hurriedly came to report.

"King Ding'an, no good! Something happened over there!"

Tuoba Jun staggered and almost lost his balance.

If it weren't for Zhu Shun's support behind him, he might have fallen to the ground, but he didn't have the mind to think about that now.

How could something happen to a place where lifeboats are being built properly?

He obviously sent the most reliable manpower there, and the construction process was also very secretive. Logically speaking, there was no possibility of anything happening.

Tuoba Jun calmed down his mind slightly and looked straight at the person in front of him with his sharp eyes.

"Tell me first, what happened over there?"

"Master, a large part of the wood over there suddenly lost a lot, and the masters couldn't fill the gap, so... then..."

The guard didn't dare to say anything else.

King Ding'an's expression had deteriorated visibly. If he continued to speak, he would probably get burned.

But what he didn't know was that Tuoba Jun had already keenly grasped the key words.

Wood is the most important raw material for building lifeboats. If simple wood is lost, then he can send a large number of people around to collect wood.

But this is not just a simple loss of wood!
Even the guard who reported the situation said that it was because the masters could not fill the gaps that they came to report the situation.

That is enough to show that the problem of lost wood no longer exists for a day or two, but that the existing amount of wood has reached its bottom. I am afraid that not even a lifeboat can be built.

After realizing this, Tuoba Jun turned cold and nodded quickly to Zhu Shun before giving the order.

"From now on, we will inform you that all personnel building the altar here and there today will not be allowed to enter or exit! All entrances and exits will be closed immediately!"

"Everyone should stop what they are doing immediately and stand by where they are. No movement or sound is allowed!"

"Violators will be shot to death and executed on the spot!"

The loss of wood is a problem accumulated over many days, and the people who build altars and build lifeboats here are relatively fixed.

In order to prevent anyone from going out to leak the news, they have strictly controlled the number of people coming in and out here, and there must be records of everyone who comes in and out every day.

Now that the wood is missing, without outsiders, it is obvious that it is closely related to insiders.

This is also the main reason why Tuoba Jun wants to control all the people who are still here first.

As for the shoot-to-kill order, it was also because the lifeboats were related to the safety of all the people in the flood zone, and there must be no mistakes.

At this time, I would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.

Fortunately, although that guard was Tuoba Jun's new guard in the fiefdom, he was loyal and he immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and quickly agreed.

"Yes, this subordinate will inform you."

After the guards retreated, Zhu Shun was the only one left beside Tuoba Jun.

"I may have to force you to do some chores."

No matter how you say it, Zhu Shun is a shadow guard who has been carefully cultivated. Now that he is placed beside him as a masked guard, it is already a sign of humiliation. Now he is even more required to do chores. Tuoba Jun also feels a little sorry.

"It is my honor to serve my master."

In fact, Zhu Shun was also fortunate to be appreciated by Tuoba Jun, so he was able to grow from a beggar wandering to the end of the world to a shadow guard.

Tuoba Jun knew that time was urgent, so he didn't want to be polite to him anymore.

"You are the only person I trust now, and you are also the most attentive person. When I interrogate everyone one by one, you must help me observe the subtle expressions and movements of each of them, and in the end, you will be suspicious. Someone told me."

Yes, when I was training Zhu Shun, I was specifically trained on micro-expressions.

And Zhu Shun is the best at understanding micro-expressions.

With him by his side to help keep an eye on him at all times, Tuoba Jun believed that he would soon be able to find the person who caused the loss of the wood.

Now that he was in his area of ​​expertise, Zhu Shun became a little excited.

"Yes, my subordinates will definitely find the suspicious person!"

"Okay, that's good, ahem -"

Tuoba Jun coughed violently again, causing him to bend over.

After being excited, Zhu Shun felt worried again.

"Master, it would be too time-consuming to interrogate everyone in turn. Why don't you take a break first and then interrogate them."

He was worried that Tuoba Jun's body would not be able to hold up during the interrogation.

Originally, Tuoba Jun shouldn't go out today, but needs to stay in the room to rest. If he spends a lot of energy interrogating everyone at this time, I'm afraid it will make his body even weaker.

Of course Tuoba Jun knew that his concern for him was not groundless, and he also knew that his body might not be able to hold on, but he had no other choice.

"No need, the loss of wood is a big deal, and there is no room for sloppiness. If the construction of the lifeboat is delayed any longer, more lives will be wasted."

"By the way, go ahead and give the order now. Send all the rest of our men out to look for wood, and hurry up to transport the wood that has been cut down before. It must be as fast as possible."

"And go find me a room suitable for interrogation, and then find some rooms that can be used for solitary confinement. Those who have finished our interrogation can't collude with each other in private, and..."

Tuoba Jun continued to explain, but Zhu Shun became more and more worried as he listened and couldn't help interrupting him.

"Master, I know all this. You should rest for a while. I will inform you after the arrangements are made."

He hoped that Tuoba Jun could take this opportunity to rest for a while, otherwise the interrogation later would consume too much energy, and he was worried that Tuoba Jun's health would become even worse.

Tuoba Jun nodded slightly to him, indicating that he should hurry up and do those things.

Now he is the only one standing on the altar.

He closed his eyes again and felt the atmosphere here.When he was still in the capital, he used the special ability in his Blue Moon bloodline to control the toxins in his body in order to avoid Ah Cha's suspicion, but now he has completely lost the ability to control the toxins.

The only thing he could do was to do as much as possible in the limited time to solve Ah Cha's problems.

He was also very scared, afraid that he would never see Ah Cha again.

He has always had a different kind of affection for Ah Cha. He knows that Ah Cha is a person with his own ideals and ambitions, and he also knows that he must not delay Ah Cha because of his feelings.

But now that life is coming to an end, he can't help but want to put an end to his regrets.

but……

"Master, I'm ready."

It was Zhu Shun's voice.

Tuoba Jun's thoughts were suddenly interrupted. He took a deep breath and looked up at the distance of the altar.

The people's residences are stacked on top of each other, and the surging rivers and villages coexist. It is such a harmonious scene, but it is a pity that it will soon face a devastating flood.

From the bottom of his heart, the education he received as a prince for many years was to carry on the unique knowledge for the saints and create peace for all generations. He did not want to see the people suffer.

There was no time to think about it anymore, he wanted to take advantage of the limited time to do more.

"Okay, you take me there."

Zhu Shun quickly took him to the specially found room for interrogation.

"Master, this is it. There will only be the two of us and the person being interrogated in the room."

"That's the best thing. Let's start now, starting with the person in charge of lifeboat repair."

It would have been a big mistake for the person in charge not to take the initiative to report such a major matter as the loss of wood. Tuoba Jun wanted to see what other reasons he could have to excuse himself.

"See King Ding'an."

The main person in charge is a short and thin middle-aged man, but his big and shrewd eyes began to look around the moment he stepped into the room.

"You also know why I called you here."

"I know it's about the loss of wood."

"Then why didn't you report it to the king until you couldn't make up for the shortcomings?"

"There is no fixed amount of wood consumption, and I didn't notice it for a while. I didn't know about this situation until the people below came to report. I wasted time. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The person in charge was not nervous at all and answered fluently, as if he had already prepared a set of words in his mind.

Tuoba Jun saw his cunning and careful thinking at a glance.

"Then tell me, since you are responsible for supervising the construction of lifeboats, how are you responsible?"

The man thought for a moment and immediately answered with his head held high.

"As for the prince, I will be patrolling everywhere since morning every day. I have to supervise everyone's progress, be responsible for all matters here, and at the same time face various emergencies."

"I ask myself that I have fulfilled my responsibilities. It is not an exaggeration to say that I am diligent."

It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s good.

That's a good thing to say, but Tuoba Jun doesn't want to talk nonsense to him anymore.

"Then tell me, is the wood within the scope of your supervision?"

If he remembered correctly, the main person in charge should also supervise whether the large and small tools and materials in the field are complete.

Who would have thought that when that person mentioned this, he would become more confident.

"Your Majesty, I have too many things to supervise every day, so I have hired people to help me. This can be considered a reasonable use of resources."

Tuoba Jun almost laughed at his words.

This person really knows how to use resources rationally, right?

It is really unusual to assign one's own work to others and know how to take it easy. In the end, when something goes wrong, one has to blame others.

To use the words he learned from Ah Cha, this is purely workplace pua.

He couldn't see anything about this person's behavior anyway, and he could guess that the loss of wood was closely related to the person in charge without asking any questions.

Tuoba Jun tilted his head slightly and motioned to Zhu Shun to take the person in charge down and hold him alone first.

Zhu Shun saw Tuoba Jun rubbing his eyebrows tiredly, and immediately asked with concern: "Master, do you want to continue the interrogation?"

"Of course. Go and bring the person in charge of the wood that the person in charge just mentioned."

Tuoba Jun really wanted to hear what different reasons that person had.

Zhu Shun was very efficient and quickly brought in the person in charge of wood.

"Under..."

As soon as he spoke, Tuoba Jun raised his hand to interrupt him.

"You don't need to salute, just tell me directly, will you be in charge of all the wood?"

"It's true, but..."

"When did the wood disappear? How much wood is left now?"

Tuoba Jun's two questions came down together, causing the man's rhythm and prepared words to be instantly broken, and the whole person began to panic.

"The loss of wood may have happened before..."

"There's no wood left now..."

It was obviously a very simple reply, but he felt very guilty. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead after he finished speaking.

"Then why didn't you report this situation to the king before?"

"Yes... the person in charge said that we will have wood and asked me not to ask anything about it yet, so..."

If his legs weren't still supporting him standing upright here, he really wanted to kneel down to Tuoba Jun immediately.

But every answer he gave was as expected by Tuoba Jun.

Sure enough, all the wood was gone. They must have thought that they would not be able to keep it a secret because of their sudden arrival today, so they deliberately asked someone to report it before they went there.

Tuoba Jun knew very well that even if he kept asking like this, there would be no results. They had already colluded with each other to make excuses.

He once again asked Zhu Shun to take him down.

"Go and help me find the most honest and kind person this time. It's best to be the kind of person who stays alone in a corner and doesn't stand with others."

That kind of person is the one who is isolated and not accepted by these people, and the one who is most likely not to collude with them and know some real information.

Not long after, Zhu Shun quickly found someone.

This time it was a person who seemed to be honest and by the rules.

The moment he entered the door, he didn't dare to raise his head at all. He closed his eyes in fear and knelt down.

"Grass people join the prince."

Tuoba Jun looked at him deeply and started asking about other topics.

"What's your name? Where is your home?"

"My name is Wang Da, and my home is not far away from Wangjiazhai."

"Then why did you join the army?"

The people who built the lifeboats here were all soldiers he transferred from the army, so Wang Ziran in front of him was also a soldier.

"My family was poor, but my mother said that joining the army would help her take care of food and pay her, so I came."

Well, he is an honest person.

In fact, when asked here, Tuoba Jun knew that he could get some useful information from him.

"How are your relationships with other people?"

Wang Da scratched his head and said it was very embarrassing.

"I don't have a good relationship with them, and they all think I'm too stupid. They only know how to eat and don't want to do anything with me."

Wang Da was indeed the one who was ostracized and isolated among the crowd.

Tuoba Jun didn't want to make any more detours with him, so he went back to the topic.

"Then do you know why the king asked you to come here?"

After Wang Da was silent for a while, he changed into a sincere and serious look.

"The prince may be looking for me to ask why the wood is missing."

"Indeed." Tuoba Jun raised his eyebrows slightly, but his eyes did not miss his every little move, "I want to ask you about this, but do you know the inside story?"

Wang Da is also a man with a bit of backbone, but he refused to answer his questions.

"The common people know that the inside story is true, but the common people cannot tell the prince."

This actually made Tuoba Jun feel a little more interested besides being surprised.

"Oh? Why can't you tell me?"

"The grassroots made a promise to everyone and cannot break it."

Everyone?

Well, Tuoba Jun felt that there was no need to ask further.

Since everyone is involved, it means that the loss of wood is something everyone did together and everyone knows the inside story.

It seems that there are still quite a few secrets hidden among the soldiers who built the lifeboats.

"Okay, you can leave."

After Wang Da left, Tuoba Jun did not call new people in for interrogation, but directly asked Zhu Shun.

"According to your observation, among the three people I interrogated just now, how many of them do you think are telling the truth?"

Zhu Shun answered the question directly without any hesitation.

"Only Wang Da in the end told the truth."

"The other two are lying."

Tuoba Jun raised his lips and sighed.

"These people have all discussed it. It's really getting more and more interesting."

But he was also very irritable. In this last situation where time was very tight, what on earth did these people want to do by making such a fuss for him!
He frowned tightly and gave Zhu Shun an order.

This time he was going to cheat the person in charge directly and see what he could say.

"Go and call the person in charge."