Chapter 416 The soldiers in the military camp hadn't had enough to eat in a long time, so they went to the enemy camp to steal food.
"Princess, what are you doing?"
The soldiers who followed Lin Luoxi out to fight the enemy felt that Lin Luoxi was a heroine among women, and an extremely powerful one at that.
Now that they saw Lin Luoxi cooking such delicious food, they all gathered around.
"Do you want some too?" Lin Luoxi asked as she saw them gathering around, swallowing hard.
"Yes, yes, we want to eat. We haven't had a full meal in so long..." A soldier who had gone out to fight the enemy twice with Lin Luoxi yesterday knew that Lin Luoxi was easy to talk to, so he spoke his mind.
He had barely finished speaking when someone next to him nudged him with their elbow.
The soldier realized he had said the wrong thing, and after saying it, he shrank back and hid behind.
"What? You're not full? Has the imperial court already provided you with military rations?" Upon hearing the soldier's words, Lin Luoxi immediately handed the shovel in her hand to the other cooks and looked at the soldiers who had gathered around her with a serious expression.
"Yes, yes, the court did provide military rations, but..." The soldiers stopped mid-sentence, glancing furtively at the former camp of Duke Xiao.
"Yes, I understand!" Lin Luoxi understood just by looking at the soldiers' eyes.
Lin Luoxi didn't speak, but let the cooks take the spatula from her hands. "You guys get the pot ready, I'll go find some rice to cook."
After saying that, Lin Luoxi walked towards her carriage that was driving into Junyun, and with a slight gesture, pulled her carriage over.
"This was originally a purchase of over a thousand dan of grain from our shop. Since you have no rice to eat, I'll take the liberty of using the grain purchased by our grain shops to fill your stomachs first..."
Lin Luoxi didn't want people to take her good deeds for granted; she believed that good deeds should be publicized.
"Thank you, Princess. You are so kind, Princess. May you live a thousand years..." The soldiers saw that the carriage Lin Luoxi had brought was filled with sacks of grain.
Everyone stared at the grain with shining eyes, excitedly shouting to Lin Luoxi.
"Don't be shy, unload all this grain. Tonight, we'll have a good meal." Lin Luoxi commanded the soldiers to unload the grain from the wagon with great enthusiasm.
"Yes, ma'am!" Upon hearing that they could have a full meal today, everyone was so excited that they rushed to the carriage without even being called out, and unloaded the grain from the carriage.
That night, the soldiers of the Crimson Flame Dynasty were undoubtedly excited and happy.
Lin Luoxi noticed that they were still missing some meat dishes, and then she remembered that they had gone to the enemy camp that morning to fight the enemy, and there should still be food and meat there.
They immediately assembled a team, and the large group set off again towards the enemy camp next door.
Lin Luoxi was right. After a thorough search, they found not only grain and meat, but also horses.
On the battlefield, the rarest thing is horses, and the Southern Feather Kingdom is most skilled at raising horses—something Lin Luoxi almost forgot.
Fortunately, the soldiers said they wanted to eat tonight; otherwise, tens of thousands of horses would have been locked in the stables and taken by others, and the soldiers would have been kicking themselves for it.
Lin Luoxi was also worried that there might be something wrong with the horses. After carefully checking them and finding nothing wrong, she used a special cigarette to fumigate the horses to remove any hidden bacteria and ticks before letting the soldiers lead the horses back to their camp.
Five large carts of grain were also found, along with very fresh horse meat, which they probably intended to eat today. They certainly didn't expect that they wouldn't survive the day.
One hour later—
Lin Luoxi led her troops back, laden with supplies. The wagons were loaded with grain, and behind them were horses, their heads gleaming – a truly magnificent sight.
"Princess, Princess, you are all amazing..." The soldiers who waited for Lin Ruoxi and the others to return in the military camp were all stunned by their harvest.
My goodness, they should have gone with us! They love doing things like this.
"Move all this grain and horse meat over there. We'll eat the horse meat tonight, and we'll save the grain for tomorrow since we have enough to eat tonight."
When Lin Luoxi saw the soldiers who came out to greet her, she looked full of regret and couldn't help but want to laugh.
Since there were so many people around, Lin Luoxi decided not to do it herself and let the soldiers handle it.
Kneeling on the ground, the soldiers who had once served under Duke Xiao looked on with envy at how harmoniously Lin Luoxi got along with them.
Just as they were watching Lin Luoxi's interaction with the soldiers with envy, the aroma of food wafted over, making their stomachs rumble.
"You should eat something too!" Just as the kneeling soldiers were desperately sniffing the aroma of food in the air, the other soldiers, having received Lin Luoxi's instruction, also served some white rice to the kneeling soldiers.
It's just that they don't eat as well as the princess. Hehe, this is what the princess ordered, not something they did by trickery.
The next day, Lin Luoxi thought that Duke Xiao also owned property on the southern border and that he had embezzled military funds. So she decided to search his residence and maybe find some valuable treasures to exchange for food to feed the soldiers.
After applying medicine to Xie Hanchuan, they gathered a thousand men and went to check on Duke Xiao's residence.
"Me too, me too..." The soldiers who regretted not going yesterday all raised their hands eagerly when they learned that Lin Luoxi was going to raid Duke Xiao's house, wanting to go with her.
Lin Luoxi was overjoyed to see these soldiers, but she still only sent a thousand.
The residence that Duke Xiao purchased was kept very secret; it was purchased under someone else's name.
If Lin Luoxi's youngest daughter hadn't communicated with the surrounding animals and learned about Duke Xiao's assets from them, it wouldn't have been so easy to find them.
"What are you doing? Why are you trespassing on private property? I'm going to report this to the authorities." Lin Luoxi led her people into the first residence of Duke Xiao. The steward inside the residence was both frightened and angry, and even threatened Lin Luoxi and her companions.
"Okay, go ahead!" Lin Luoxi ignored the housekeeper's anger and ordered the soldiers to begin the search.
"What are you doing? Do you know who owns this house? How dare you be so insolent! This is illegal..."
As the soldiers rushed in, the lady of the house ran out and yelled at Lin Luoxi and the others.
But this woman wasn't entirely stupid; she didn't immediately say that the house was bought by Duke Xiao.
"We knew! That's why we dared to obey orders to search our property..."
"Men, clear everyone out of this house! Swords and blades have no eyes; it wouldn't be good if someone got hurt..."
Lin Luoxi saw that the woman's face turned pale when she heard what she said, but she still had time to give a wink to the servant beside her. The servant took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and quietly slipped out.
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