"Your Highness … Your Highness, please spare me. I'm really wronged …"
Lu Zheng had received the news that the rations had been robbed and hurried over, just in time to see two soldiers dragging the tied-up general out to be dealt with according to military law. The general knew he was going to die, but he refused to give up hope of survival. Seeing Lu Zheng's figure from the corner of his eye, he hurriedly straightened his neck and shouted, "Military Counselor! Military Counselor! I'm wronged! I've been diligent in supervising the rations. I've never betrayed my lord! "
Hearing him shout, Lu Zheng's feet paused, his wooden clogs making a muffled sound on the gravel.
The general struggled and said, "It's not my fault that the rations were leaked … Military Counselor, save me! I'm really wronged! "
"The rations were fake. They were switched long ago. I'm wronged!"
"Military Counselor, save me!"
Lu Zheng regained his composure after just one breath. He lifted the curtain of the main tent and bent over to enter.
He was late. The tent was already filled with people, but many of them had grave expressions and didn't even notice his arrival.
An Cui had just ordered the execution of the general and was still angry. Seeing that Lu Zheng was late, he was even more displeased.
He hadn't expected Lu Zheng's tent to be set up so far away from the commander's tent. Even if Lu Zheng had jogged all the way here, he wouldn't have arrived so quickly. Of course, as a qualified scumbag, An Cui wouldn't find fault with himself.
Ordering people he didn't like to come and go at his beck and call was the typical behavior of a scumbag.
When there was nothing to do, he ignored Lu Zheng. When there was something to do, he spoke intimately.
He suppressed his displeasure and asked for a solution in a low voice. His eyes seemed to flow with pure trust.
Lu Zheng had long been used to An Cui's behavior. While sighing that his lord was a drama queen and every inch of her was an actor, he bowed in shame and said, "I heard about the rations being robbed and rushed here. I didn't have time to understand the details …"
An Cui choked, feeling even more suffocated.
Seeing that An Cui had nothing to say, Lu Zheng turned his head to ask the others what had happened.
An Cui silently swallowed the roiling scolding in his throat. He suppressed his irritation and waited for Lu Zheng to understand what had happened.
Two hundred thousand dans of rations was not a small number, and it was also related to the army's consumption for a while, so the troops guarding the rations naturally did not dare to slack off. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, they still failed to defend against the enemy. When the grain transport army was about to arrive, they were robbed by the enemy.
Everyone thought that it was Jiang Pengji's masterpiece with her execution ability.
Jiang Pengji's status rose along with the tide. The things she had done were studied under a magnifying glass and analyzed over and over again. As her enemies, An Cui and the others naturally knew how many things this fiend had done that made people tremble in fear just by hearing her name.
After the analysis, they unanimously threw the blame to her.
Little did they know that after Jiang Pengji turned over a new leaf, she did not roam the frontlines anymore, let alone bring people to rob rations.
It was true that the people under her command had robbed the rations, but she was not the one who had benefited from the rations.
Lu Zheng was keenly aware that something was wrong. He furrowed his brows and asked the people around him.
After a while, he said to An Cui, "My lord, there are still doubtful points in this matter. I sincerely ask my lord to retract your order and spare General Chai's life for now."
An Cui almost fainted from anger. He could not suppress his temper and reprimanded Lu Zheng for having ulterior motives in front of everyone.
General Chai, whom Lu Zheng had accused of collaborating with the enemy and betraying his lord, should be killed if not this kind of person?
Kill Lu Zheng?!
An Cui did not expect Lu Zheng to plead for mercy on General Chai's behalf. He was even more furious.
"I sincerely ask my lord to listen to me. There are many doubtful points in this matter. My lord should treat it with caution." Lu Zheng looked like he was going by the book. His tone was indifferent. "The matter of the rations is a secret of our army. How did the enemy know so much about it and catch General Chai off guard?"
An Cui laughed coldly and asked in return, "This person even has a letter of collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of his lord. How do you think Liu Xi knows so much about it?"
The enemy could tell at a glance that this had been planned for a long time. There must have been an insider who leaked information to them.
Who else could it be other than General Chai, who had irrefutable evidence?
He really did not know what was wrong with such a stupid question.
Lu Zheng said, "In that case, after the rations were stolen, why didn't he take the opportunity to be captured by Liu Xi and escape from his predicament? Instead, he led an army to break out of the encirclement and pass the news to my lord, causing him to be killed in the end. Also, General Chai said that the rations were fake. What's going on? "
An Cui said angrily, "It's just a traitor's way of survival and framing others."
Lu Zheng did not think so.
When the enemy had launched a sneak attack, General Chai had tried his best to protect the rations. However, the enemy had the advantage of time, place, and people. They had suddenly attacked and caught everyone off guard. With a ferocious move, the soldiers guarding the rations had been beaten senseless. General Chai had tried his best to delay the enemy but to no avail. In the end, he had no choice but to burn all the rations. They could not use them, and the rations could not fall into the enemy's hands.
In the end …
The rations on the top were normal, but the rations on the bottom were disguised. They did not contain rations at all.
When General Chai discovered this, he was completely stunned. This was far more terrifying than an enemy's sneak attack.
An Cui wanted to kill him, so he revealed this matter. In the end, no one believed him.
"Framing others? Framing who? "Lu Zheng said in a low voice." No matter how protective the lord is, he should not be biased at a time like this. "
The person in charge of the rations was Hua Yuan.
If the rations Hua Yuan had prepared were real, then General Chai was the liar.
On the other hand, this problematic batch of rations had been prepared by Hua Yuan.
Perhaps the one who leaked the details of the rations and attracted the enemy's precise attack was Hua Yuan.
After some maneuvering, this batch of 200,000 dans of rations was rightfully taken by Hua Yuan.
Of course, An Cui was not the only one who did not believe this. The others did not believe it either.
What would Hua Yuan gain by doing this?
They did not know, but Lu Zheng did.
That madman's inner core was Liu Xi. What did he gain by seizing the rations and heartlessly betraying his teammates?
This monster was preparing to ascend to the heavens!
Of course, even if Lu Zheng told the others that Hua Yuan's essence had been divided into Liu Xi, no one would believe him. Instead, they would think that he was using clumsy and underhanded methods to suppress Hua Yuan. Lu Zheng could not be bothered with this thankless task. Do whatever you want! He had lost all hope in his teammates.
An Cui was so angry that he was about to ascend to the heavens.
What did Lu Zheng mean by this?
Was he reprimanding him for being biased in front of everyone?
They did not know that Jiang Pengji was also very angry. The anger levels of the two feudal lords had reached a delicate balance.
Jiang Pengji looked at the rations that Li Yun had snatched back, and her face darkened.
"Hmph, Lu Shaoyin has eaten a lot of pig's brains over the years. His brain is quite nourished. He even schemed against me."
She gritted her teeth so hard that they made a ringing sound.
The rations that she had spent so much effort to steal were actually fake. Her efforts had become a joke.
After thinking about it, she locked her target on Lu Zheng. After all, this kind of underhanded plotting was indeed like him.
No matter how big her brain was, she could not have guessed that An Cui's official, Hua Yuan's essence, had created a Liu Xi and was secretly preparing to cause trouble.
The real mastermind, Hua Yuan, stared coldly at the small porcelain bottle in his hand and smiled.
"What is this …" the Xichang Emperor's concubine asked anxiously.
Hua Yuan said, "Poison."
The Xichang Emperor's concubine stuck out her belly and trembled. She asked fearfully, "To whom?"
Hua Yuan laughed. "Guess."
The Emperor's concubine was speechless.
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