Chapter 46: You deserve it, you really deserve it!
Although my relationship with Li Ming is not that good, we have had dinner together a few times before.
Especially when I had a good relationship with Li Shen, they went to brothels together several times.
The man saw Li Ming and gave him face. He put Qi Nanfeng down and greeted him, "Mr. Li."
Qi Nanfeng took a look and found that these were indeed Li Ming's men. It seemed that he had used some connections.
Now I can be saved!
So he quickly started to speak nice words.
"Brother Li, thank you so much! We are brothers. Your brother's misfortune is a fact. From now on, we two brothers must work together."
Li Ming sneered, staring at him with a cold gaze: "Now you keep saying we are brothers, but when you betrayed my brother, have you ever considered that he is also your brother?"
Qi Nanfeng's heart tightened, and he quickly shook his head: "Brother Li, this is unfair! I have nothing to do with this matter. It was Ruan Mian who colluded with the Prime Minister to capture your brother."
"Do you really think I don't know? My brother told me everything that happened a long time ago! Qi Nanfeng, you are a despicable villain, a shameless person! And you still want me to save you? I am doing my brother a favor by not cutting you into pieces today!"
His eyes were bloodshot and he gave the man a fierce look.
The military officer grinned and without saying a word, he clamped Qi Nanfeng from behind!
After a while, a man's miserable screams were heard from the tent!
One sound after another makes people feel scared.
Hearing this familiar voice, Qi Lin laughed out loud.
"You deserve it, you deserve it, you really deserve it!!"
At this moment, Ruan Mian, who was taken into the tent alone, looked calm. Beside him were Ruan Qing, who was trembling with fear, and Mei Xi, whose eyes were bloodshot.
Mei Xi was touched by Ruan Mian's calmness. She took a deep breath and said decisively, "Miss Ruan, I have a solution."
Ruan Mian looked over suddenly and found that there was an exquisite dagger hidden in Mei Xi's sleeve. The blade was sharp and it quickly cut the rope.
After untying her, he cut Ruan Mian's rope without saying a word.
Ruan Mian held her down and said, "Take my elder sister behind the screen."
Mei Xi looked over in confusion, not knowing why Ruan Mian wanted them to go to the other side of the screen at this moment.
It was called a screen, but it was just a tattered thing. I don’t know where those soldiers picked it up from.
Anyway, the conditions here are simple.
Ruan Mian didn't want to waste time, so he spoke seriously, "Mei Xi, since you've chosen to follow me, I'll hand my eldest sister over to you now. Please take care of her. I'll deal with the man outside."
Mei Xi was a little worried, but her determined look made her put those worries aside.
Miss Ruan is capable, she knew it from the beginning.
So she decisively followed Ruan Mian's instructions and took Ruan Qing behind the screen first.
At this moment, Ruan Mian touched the jade bracelet and took out something from the space.
Following a sound outside the tent, the leading military officer walked in with big strides. But when he entered the tent, he saw no one at first glance?
He frowned and was about to call for help when Ruan Mian suddenly rushed out from behind him. She held the sharp dagger and pressed it directly against the man's throat!
She spoke first and took out another document.
"Master Jun, do you know what this is?"
The man was not afraid of being threatened, but when he saw the document, he suddenly opened his eyes.
Because the content of the document was actually related to food and wages!
There were even orders to transfer grain warehouses.
The unique paper and official seal are impossible for others to forge!
"How did this get into your hands?!"
Ruan Mian smiled calmly: "If I tell you that I know where the food and money are, will you let them go?"
"You were once the people who defended our country, how could you be reduced to being nothing more than bandits now?"
The soldier's armor trembled. Hearing her question, he laughed sarcastically, his eyes filled with deep resentment.
"Defending our country? Hahaha, that's ridiculous! We sacrificed our lives and shed our blood! And for what? Not for military honors or horses, but precisely to defend our country! But how has our country treated us?"
"We're on the front lines, and they can't even guarantee us basic rations. We're left to starve to death! We're soldiers, and the battlefield is our final destination. But don't you see how many soldiers on the frontier died on the battlefield? More than half died of starvation in those crappy tents! Don't you think that's ridiculous?"
His saliva was flying everywhere, and his anger seemed to have found a breakthrough!
"You officials' families have lived a carefree life, yet you were exiled for your greed and crimes. Even so, you had supplies shipped to you, and rations replenished at the town post stations to keep you alive. Why on earth do we, who risk our lives, not even have a single bite of food?!"
Every word and sentence seemed to carry the accusations of thousands of soldiers.
His words were indeed heart-wrenching.
If Ruan Mian were one of them, he would definitely feel disheartened.
But they don't know one fact.
Ruan Mian told him, "It's not that the court doesn't provide you with food rations, but most of your food and wages have been withheld by the corrupt prefect of Huicheng, Ding Cheng."
"What?!"
He didn't seem to believe Ruan Mian's words, and Ruan Mian shook the document in his hand.
"The news of Ding Cheng being skinned and displayed to the public has spread, and even the governor has been dispatched. You have nowhere to go now. If you force your way into the city, you will be hunted down and killed as deserters by the imperial court."
Ruan Mian had read the original book, so he knew how harsh this dynasty was towards soldiers at the border.
Anyone who is conscripted into the army and escapes without permission before serving a certain number of years will be charged with treason!
The lighter punishment is imprisonment, and the worst is the implication of nine generations of the family.
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