"Princess, there is news."
After finishing lunch on the spot, Fengming was enjoying the fruit platter prepared by the little angel Bi Chun. Ye Xuwen came over with a little excitement on his dark face to report the news.
"This group of people are indeed from the same platoon. The team leader is their former platoon leader. Currently, only the team leader knows the whereabouts of the remaining fifteen people."
"Hey, who told you this news?"
"It was the youngest among them. The others were determined and said nothing, just like the leader.
Only the youngest, who must have been in the army only a short time ago and whose willpower and abilities had not yet been fully trained, could not withstand the interrogation and told everything he knew.
Ye Xuwen handed the text version of the report to Fengming, who quickly read it and passed it to others for circulation.
"Tell me more details. Logically speaking, there are quite a few of them who don't look like they should be retired."
"Yes, Princess, you have observed correctly. Many of them chose to retire early because of the large sums of money promised by the team leader.
According to the youngest one, he had only been in the army for about half a year and had basically just completed the recruit training stage. He was also not on the list of people the team leader wanted to take away.
He was pulled out because he accidentally caught the team leader trying to persuade the others.
The team leader promised that as long as they followed him and obeyed his orders, they would be rich and prosperous in the future. They were tempted and took the initiative to resign from the army and follow the team leader to become a private guard.
According to him, this was their first time pretending to be bandits; before that they had only worked as bodyguards for others.
After Ye Xuwen finished speaking, Fengming finally breathed a sigh of relief, but then he became concerned.
Finally, it is not true that regular soldiers in the Daqing Army robbed ordinary people, but I don’t know how common it is for people to be lured into retiring early by large sums of money.
This is a shameful act of openly undermining the Daqing Army!
"Alright, write a letter to tell Father and Third Uncle about this. Then send some people to escort these dozen people back to the capital. We'll interrogate them on the way and see if we can find out who bribed them with such a large sum of money."
Feng Ming didn't care that Feng Heng was eager to investigate the case herself. She always felt that there was a mysterious organization behind these retired soldiers.
Now that Feng Heng and Yunniang, a potential lucky person supported by the mysterious organization, have come so close, leaving it to him would probably alert the enemy.
"By the way, did they tell us why they came to rob us?"
"This subordinate has not yet been tried."
Fengming didn't care. After all, it was such a short time, and it was good enough to have so much information. She decided to leave the matter to her emperor father and third uncle. She just needed to get the results and follow the clues to investigate the mysterious organization.
"Oh, all right, let's keep going."
Fengming stood up and stretched, then told everyone to continue heading towards Qingzhou. After all, if they delayed a little here and a little there, it wouldn't take more than a day.
She was no longer panicking at all. The threat posed by Yunniang and Wu Wan to her destiny had basically disappeared.
She now wanted to get to Qingzhou as soon as possible. The progress of the mystery of Wu Wan's fake death had been hanging at one tenth, which made her upset.
When everyone was packing up and getting ready to leave, Yunniang quietly pulled Fengheng to a secluded place.
"Heng Lang..."
The tone was mournful and sad, and tears began to flow before he spoke.
"Yunniang, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying again?"
Feng Heng has been a little fed up with Yunniang recently, although he still covets her beautiful face and enchanting figure.
But she cried at the slightest provocation, and he was really a little impatient. Couldn't she just talk it out nicely? Look at the pine and bamboo trees.
He felt regretful when he thought of Songzhu Fengheng. He had originally planned to go and comfort her privately. He believed that with his own methods, Songzhu, who had just suffered a minor injury, would definitely be moved by him and become his woman.
But he didn't expect that Fengming got there first and introduced him to Lin Qing, a woman who was not even considered a woman, to be a soldier. It was such a pity for such a beautiful girl.
As expected, he still appreciated women with a greater spirit. Yunniang was beautiful, but she was too crybaby and petty, and was only suitable for playing with.
"Heng Lang, are you tired of me?"
Yunniang naturally heard the impatience in Fengheng's tone, and secretly complained, "Just because you're annoyed doesn't mean I'm not annoyed too? You've been pretending to be weak and pitiful for so many days, I feel like vomiting."
But thinking about the task that the adults had assigned to her before, Yunniang could only grit her teeth and throw herself into Fengheng's arms, her full breasts pressing against Fengheng's chest.
Feng Heng was reminded of his physical memories by Yunniang's actions. He looked down at Yunniang's big watery eyes and sighed in his heart, "Oh, why am I so sympathetic to women?"
Then he hugged Yunniang tightly, and his tone became gentle and kind.
"Okay, okay, how could I be annoyed with you? What happened? It hurts me to see you crying."
Yunniang, who was sobbing in his arms, rolled her eyes, feeling distressed. Men’s words are deceitful!
"Henglang, I was afraid to look when you were fighting with the thieves just now, so I didn't notice it. But when you went to see the tied-up thieves just now, I noticed... I noticed..."
"What did you find? Tell me!"
Feng Heng was quite clear about the serious matters. When he heard that it was about a group of retired soldiers who were disguised as bandits, his tone and expression became very serious.
"I discovered that they had been my father's guards before, and it was under their protection that my father unfortunately... uh... tragically died... Originally, I thought these guards were also dead, but now I realize that my father was the only one who died, uh..."
What Yunniang said is indeed the truth!
She was indeed the daughter of a salt merchant in northern Jiangsu, and her father was indeed silenced because of certain things.
But she only told part of the truth. The real situation was that her father was the one who should have been arrested in the Subei corruption case. Her father's death was not due to just reporting, but because her father was too greedy and touched the bottom line of the larger interest group behind him, so he was punished and silenced.
Of course, Yunniang knew all of this. She was just watching coldly when his father was silenced.
And she came to Feng Heng because she was sent by that organization.
Because there were indeed people who wanted to report corruption among the salt merchants in northern Jiangsu. Their purpose was to lure away the eldest prince Feng Heng, who was going to investigate the corruption case in the future, so as to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
After all, the eldest prince is too difficult to bribe, but the other ministers are easy.
As long as Feng Heng takes the bait and leaves with Yunniang for a while, they are confident that the original complainant will become a corrupt official who will never be able to speak again!
When Feng Heng returns to northern Jiangsu, evidence of the corruption case will appear in front of him continuously and seemingly randomly, ensuring that he can investigate and prosecute a huge corruption case.
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