The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 30 Investigation [Please collect and recommend]

"I'm sorry!" Yan Yan closed his eyes and bowed to the old man. He couldn't do anything, couldn't change, was powerless, completely powerless.

"Actually, my child has died in the battle, right?" The old man asked, looking at Yan Yan with red eyes.

Yan Yan fell silent.

The old man looked at Yan Yan's expression and guessed the result. He just sighed quietly, looked at the moon in the sky, and said slowly, "Actually, I guessed it when you read home letters to everyone in the afternoon, but I just didn't want to admit it. .”

"I have also been on the battlefield, and I know more about the dangers of the battlefield. How is it possible that not a single person was killed in battle? When you were studying at home, not a single child was killed in battle."

"Can you tell me how many of the children who left the village are still alive?"

The old man looked at Yan Yan and asked calmly.

"Less than seven!" Yan Yan replied tremblingly.

"Bang~" The old man did not sit still and fell to the floor behind him.

Yan Yan hurriedly helped the old man up, but was pushed away by the old man. He stubbornly got up and sat back on the stool.

"In which battle did he die?" the old man continued to ask.

"The Battle of Handan." Yan Yan did not hide it. The only one with such battle losses was the battle between the Chu State and the Qin Army when it rushed to the aid of the Zhao State.

"Bai Qi?" The old man's body trembled slightly, as if he was afraid.

"No!" Yan Yan shook his head. Bai Qi was not involved in the Handan battle.

"We are tenants of the King of Chu. When there was a battle in Yingdu, the little old man was a member of the Chu army. But we saw nothing and did nothing. The city was destroyed, and deserters were everywhere. The Qin army was chasing after them like crazy."

"The little old man only found out later that the general of the Qin army in that battle was from Chu, and was Bai Qi who escaped from Chu!"

"What's even more ridiculous is that the one who started that war was our princess of Chu!" The old man looked at the bright moon and mocked.

"So, sir, you have read a lot of books. Tell me, what is this war about?"

"When brothers and sisters quarrel, they will smash up their homes, destroy their fields, and kill their children?"

"They are brother and sister. Why is this happening?"

The old man looked straight at Yan Yan.

Yan Yan also fell silent. On this question, he could once say that because Mi Bazi was the queen of Qin and the mother of the king of Qin, he could praise Mi Bazi's righteousness.

But facing the old man, he could no longer say such words, because to the Chu people, Mi Bazi was a complete white-eyed wolf, a vicious woman in the Chu country.

"Less than seven, less than seven!" The old man stood up slowly and staggered towards the back room.

"Why is this? If Handan is gone, it will be gone. If Zhao is gone, it will be gone. What does it have to do with us?" The old man's voice came slowly.

Yan Yan looked at the moonlight, still unable to answer the old man's question.

Yes, Handan is gone, Zhao is gone, what does it have to do with these ordinary people?Why should they bear the consequences of the power game?
Because of aiding Zhao, the Chu State was qualified to destroy Lu, but what did the benefits obtained from destroying the Lu State have to do with these people?They are not beneficiaries or vested interests.

"Are you here?" Yan Yan looked at the girl in purple standing on the courtyard wall and sighed helplessly, not wanting to ask why she could find him.Shao Siming looked at Yan Yan and frowned. This was the first time she saw Yan Yan looking so helpless as if all his energy had been drained away.

"As you can see, I'm probably just a self-proclaimed piece of trash who can't do anything!" Yan Yan sighed and returned to the room to pack his bags. He didn't know how to face the old man and the villagers. The villagers had no choice but to leave in the dark.

But Yan Yan searched all over his body and couldn't find even half of Chu's big money. He also threw his wallet to Jing Ke in Juyang to buy wine.

"Do you have money? Lend me some!" Yan Yan raised his head and looked at Shao Siming on the wall.

Shao Siming looked at Yan Yan, then took out a purple sachet from his waist and threw it in front of Yan Yan.

Yan Yan hurriedly reached out to catch it, took out ten large coins and put them on the simple table, then quietly closed the courtyard door and walked towards the outside of the village.

Shao Siming didn't say anything, and just followed him towards Yangling County.

At dawn, Yan Yan finally reached Yangling County and entered the city just as the city gate opened. Shao Siming disappeared without knowing where he went.

Yan Yan did not go anywhere else. Instead, he came to a restaurant not far from the city gate and watched storytellers who specialized in reading letters from home to them.

"The guest has been watching, is he the king's envoy?" However, Yan Yan's behavior still attracted the attention of the restaurant manager, who took the initiative to come and asked in a low voice.

"How much does the shopkeeper know?" Yan Yan calmly took out a large coin from Shao Siming's wallet and handed it to the shopkeeper under the table.

"It depends on how much the customer wants to know!" the shopkeeper said with a smile.

"We all want to know, the more detailed the better!" Yan Yan also replied in a low voice.

"The pensions for those killed in battle were all embezzled by Lord Yangling's Mansion, and the county government did not dare to take care of them. Also, the servants in Lord Yangling's Mansion originally had to perform corvee and military service, but Lord Yangling collected money from each village. He recruited all the young and strong men, and then took on the names of the servants and retainers in his house." The shopkeeper looked around and then whispered.

"The shopkeeper is not afraid that I am Yang Lingjun's son?" Yan Yan looked at the shopkeeper and asked.

"The villain has been running the shop for 20 years. I have seen a lot of business travelers coming and going from north to south. I can still read people very accurately. I can't hide the anger in the eyes of the guests." The shopkeeper said with a smile, "Besides, I don't know anything. I didn’t say anything and didn’t understand anything, but the whole Yangling also knew and understood it!”

Yan Yan nodded, bought some food to take away, then found an alley and handed the food to a beggar, and this beggar was obviously the eldest among the beggars in Yangling.

"What do you want to know, sir?" The beggar looked at Yan Yan and asked.

The so-called snake has its own way, and the rat has its own way. Each line has its own doorway.

The beggar obviously knew that Yan Yan had an extraordinary background and must want to know something, so he did not directly accept the food from Yan Yan.

"Family letters and conscription orders!" Yan Yan didn't talk nonsense.

"A noble man is not afraid of death?" After hearing Yan Yan's words, the beggar sat up straight, not as lazy as before.

"Afraid, but more people are more afraid of death!" Yan Yan replied.

"Everything you see is true!" The beggar obviously knew that Yan Yan had already grasped some of the information, so he said.

"That's it?" Yan Yan frowned.

"There is someone above Lord Yangling who can prevent the impeachment from reaching the king. As for who it is, I don't know who it is!" The beggar took the food sent by Yan Yan.

(End of this chapter)