Confused country poison concubine

Chapter 440
It's just that when he came up, he immediately hugged her in his arms like a child, which really made her... not used to it.

"The darkness before dawn is always the darkest. If dusk is the time of demons, before dawn is the last time for demons and ghosts to wander around and eat people's lives in the dark night." Baili Chuyi said lightly, then lowered his head and sniffed the man in his arms The aroma of children.

Feeling the warmth emanating from the person in his arms, he slightly curved his lips in satisfaction, and put a piece of snack between his lips.

What a pity, Xiaobai probably isn't in the mood to let him eat today.

As far as he was concerned, when those garrisons were privately transferred to the capital, they had already set foot on the road of no return, and they had the duty to be loyal to whatever master they followed.

But Xiaobai is different. She is just like the old saying, a peerless sword that has just sacrificed blood. It is just showing its edge, but it still needs time to adapt to her fate of bloodshed.

Qiu Yebai looked at the semi-frozen lake in the backyard reflecting the broken shadow of the full moon that was about to fall in the sky, and her heart softened instantly. How could she not know that he saw her depressed and wanted to calm down with her for a while, then Talking about dawn does not seem to be what he would say, and it is just his thoughtfulness.

She closed her eyes tiredly, and leaned her head lightly on his shoulder. The snow was falling, and in this vast and cold world, the feeling of having someone to rely on seemed to be the most calming and relaxing thing in the world.

They didn't stay on the rockery for too long, and Qiu Yebai was always concerned about the rat's situation, so they set off immediately after Bailichu finished their snacks.

Arriving near Yecheng, Qiu Yebai found that all the battles had ended long ago. The soldiers from the East and West camps had already set up camp to rest. Rat got a little wound on his hand, which was bandaged casually. When he suddenly saw her coming, surprise flashed in his eyes. .

"Senior seat, why are you here?"

Qiu Yebai raised her eyebrows strangely: "Why, I can't come?"

The rat didn't understand, so he said: "Didn't you say that the affairs in the city are over, so you ordered us to camp outside the city?"

After Qiu Yebai heard the words, she glanced at Baili Chu behind her, but seeing him looking at her with a half-smile, she understood in her heart that it seemed that this highness had made the arrangement in private again.

She didn't ask any further questions, and simply followed the rat into the tent while asking shortly, "Well, let me see what's going on here."

To know what happened, the best way is to let the other party say it by themselves with short questions or quotations.

Rat nodded, with a strange look on his face: "You ordered us to come before, saying that there might be people blocking the road, and we must make a quick decision, so my subordinates used tokens to lead the soldiers and horses of the East and West camps and rushed out. Indeed, as you expected, someone stopped them, and they were soldiers disguised as bandits. They were well-trained. At the very beginning, the soldiers of the East and West camps were almost scattered by the opponent, but ..."

"But what?" After sitting down, Qiu Yebai looked at the rat.

The rat's expression became more and more strange: "However, there are a lot of people in the East and West camps, so although they were in chaos for a while, they still surrounded the opponent under the command of General Huang, and there was a scuffle, and then..."

He thought for a while, as if he was recalling the scene at that time, trying to find a suitable explanation, but in the end he seemed to be unsuccessful, so he could only say briefly: "Then those 'bandits' died suddenly."

Qiu Yebai was stunned: "All of them died suddenly?"

What does it mean to die suddenly?
The rat nodded, and there was no falsehood in his expression: "The subordinates don't quite understand, a white smoke suddenly floated in the mountain, and everyone couldn't see anything at once, and after the smoke cleared, they found those The 'bandits' were all dead, all poisoned, but the ones we smelled the smoke with were all right."

The Yecheng garrison was completely destroyed.

Qiu Yebai was silent for a while, she glanced at Baili Chu who was standing beside him with normal expression, sighed softly in her heart, then nodded: "Well, maybe it's because they have all taken some kind of poison before. , some people raise the dead will indeed do so."

Rat didn't have a better explanation, so he nodded, "General Huang of Dongdaying also said the same thing."

Then he suddenly remembered the situation in the city, and hurriedly asked: "Yes, deputy, what happened to the people in our city? You asked Miss Ning Dong to pass the order, but Miss Ning Dong hurried back, and she spoke inexplicably." .”

Qiu Yebai instantly understood that this was the disguise of the person in charge of the Crane Prison. She looked at Bai Lichu who was still calmly wiping the bench with a handkerchief. It was a false order that even a treacherous old man like a rat would believe. At this time, only Bailichu could do it, but it also reminded her that maybe she should redesign a set of ordering methods, otherwise it would be bad if she was used by others in the future.

She briefly told Rat a few words about the battle of the Meijia semicolon in Yecheng, and didn't say much else. Rat only heard that the enemy was dead and that our side had won a complete victory. Naturally, she could only be happy Son, he was happy for a while and then choked up, and then he pouted on the ground bitterly: "Xiaolou and Xiaofu's revenge must be avenged!"

While he was happy, he didn't think too much about it, so he just said that he was going to prepare the celebration wine.

Seeing him leave, Qiu Yebai looked at Bai Lichu: "Your Highness, did you ask someone to do it?"

Bailichu nodded, wiped the stool and backrest three or four times slowly, and just sat down, lazily playing with her catkins: "Before I came to Mei's house, I sent someone to go to the outer city first, and I can't It would be a waste of trouble to use the knife directly, but the less people know about the affairs in the city, the better."

Akiba Bai looked a bit complicated: "Yes."

This is crisis control. The fewer people enter the city, the less people will know the secrets of the Yecheng garrison.

But from now on, this secret may only be swallowed by everyone, and this army can only mysteriously 'disappear' from the world.

Seven days later.

His Majesty the Emperor fell ill again, and was bedridden with a cold. Therefore, when the case of smuggling arms was played at court for the first time, in addition to His Royal Highness She Guo, the Queen Mother, Lafayette, was also alarmed and personally Entering the court, hanging down the curtain to listen to the music.

So a group of courtiers started a heated debate in front of the two masters who controlled the power of life and death in Mingguang Palace and Yongning Palace.

First of all, Qiu Yebai, the admiral of the ceremonial supervisor, was ordered by the emperor to investigate the smuggling of military firearms. After returning from the case of passing it off as a good one, he presented multiple account books, and participated in one of the eighth prince Baili Lingfeng, accusing him of being the one behind the scenes. The mastermind behind the private forging of weapons and the embezzlement of silver.

In the court, many people who seemed to be part of the fifth prince's party stood up and argued, saying that those account books were all found in the Mei family's mansion, and the seals stamped on them belonged to the Mei family. Daoming also said that the Mei family was the mastermind behind this matter.

(End of this chapter)