Now, General Mao, who was originally planning to lie, didn't have to lie anymore. After he went back and told Zhou Xi, he said with an embarrassed look on his face, "That Long Yin is not someone you can easily deal with. I heard he's even more powerful than the princess."
Zhou Xi said, "Why should we deal with him? If he wants to follow us, then let him follow. You just received a notice from the Crown Prince and came to help him. Wherever the Crown Prince says there are bandits, then there they are. If you go there and don't see any, then you should ask the Crown Prince and Su Cheng."
Zhou Xi had already made up his mind to leave secretly, so his words became a little perfunctory.
General Mao said angrily, "You have only said these two things. You must find those bandits and kill them before you can leave. Otherwise, I will not be at ease."
How could he not sense Zhou Xi's attitude?
Although he had the same plan, he always felt that he had a decisive position in their partnership, so Zhou Xi should listen to him. Now that he understood Zhou Xi's thoughts, he felt embarrassed as if he was being teased.
The next day, Long Yin and Su Cheng followed General Mao out to suppress the bandits. Wei Fu watched them leave with some envy. Although he knew they were just going through the motions, they were still out for fun!
Seeing Wei Fu's regretful look, the prince touched her hair and said in a distressed tone, "Don't you want to be with your big brother?"
"Does Fu'er not like big brother anymore?"
Wei Fu shuddered and shook his head quickly. He held the prince's hands with his two little hands and said seriously: "How could it be? Fu'er likes big brother the most."
The prince: “…” Why do I always feel that there is something wrong with my sister’s appearance?
"Young Master Long and his companions will probably get nothing if they go there today. Wouldn't it be better for Fu'er to eat roast chicken at home with her big brother?" The prince mainly wanted to keep Wei Fu to take care of her health. Wei Fu had been busy running around these days, and he felt very distressed to see that she had lost a lot of weight.
When Wei Fu heard about roast chicken, he put aside the depressed feeling of not being able to join in the fun.
The prefect's wife is not only good at making delicious pork elbows, but also roast chicken. Wei Fu likes these two dishes very much.
Wei Fu liked the prefect's wife and was happy to cook for her. If it weren't for Wei Fu's noble status, the prefect's wife would have wanted to shamelessly adopt her as her goddaughter.
After Su Cheng and the others left, Zhou Xi originally planned to find out where the bandits were being held, but he received news that the place where they were hiding was surrounded by an army that came from nowhere, and those who had left earlier were also captured.
Only then did Zhou Xi realize that the prince was playing a feint to the east and attack in the west.
The prince asked General Mao to bring the troops here, but he had no intention of asking General Mao to suppress the bandits. From the very beginning, he wanted to transfer General Mao's troops away, and then dispatch troops from other places to besiege his lair.
On the surface, I pretended to know nothing, as if I was being deceived and teased by them, but in fact, everything was under control.
Zhou Xi immediately and decisively left Liaocheng.
When he left, someone came to the prince and said, "Your Highness, are you going to send someone to arrest him?"
Wei Fu gnawed on a chicken leg and said, "Don't try to catch it, don't try to catch it, it will come to you on its own."
Wei Fu said no, so the prince naturally stopped sending people to chase him.
General Mao followed him out for a stroll and came back to find that Zhou Xi was missing and was furious.
When the prince heard that there was no trace of the bandits at the place where the bandits had said they were, he became furious and immediately brought out the captured bandits and interrogated them in front of General Mao.
General Mao was on pins and needles, fearing that the bandits would betray him. But the prince was willing to interrogate him in front of him, and General Mao felt that the prince still trusted him and that Zhou Xi's previous statement was a lie. However, he couldn't understand why Zhou Xi would deliberately deceive him like that.
Unable to figure it out, he could only look at the bandits nervously, wondering how he would defend himself if the bandits gave him away.
However, what General Mao had not expected was that these bandits kept their mouths shut. No matter how the prince interrogated them, they refused to confess and insisted that their lair was near the post station. Even when the prince had them dragged away and tortured them, and they were tortured to death, they still kept their mouths shut.
The prince interrogated them for several days, but they didn't confess. When General Mao was about to be moved, someone suddenly opened his mouth.
He told us where they were actually hiding, and also about the collusion between General Mao and Zhou Xi.
General Mao: “…” It was so sudden that he was caught off guard.
When someone confessed, General Mao immediately drew his sword and wanted to kill him, but how could the prince, who had been prepared in advance, let him leave?
After General Mao was captured, the people from Jingzhou came in and reported to the Crown Prince, "Your Highness, we have also captured General Mao's men."
When General Mao saw the soldiers from Jingzhou, he suddenly realized that he had been deceived by the prince.
He stared at the Crown Prince with red eyes: "Your Highness, did you know from the very beginning where the bandits were hiding, and did you know that I was colluding with them?"
The prince nodded slightly.
"Did Your Highness also know Zhou Xi's identity long ago?"
"That's not the case. I only found out about it on the day I was poisoned."
General Mao suddenly laughed: "Your Highness has been playing along with me these past few days, waiting for the Jingzhou army to arrive. I'm sure the bandits' lair has already been wiped out by Your Highness!"
The prince nodded again.
"Since Your Highness knew that Zhou Xi was the bandit leader, why did you let him go?" This was the last thing General Mao didn't understand.
"Fuer said to let him go."
General Mao never expected this answer, and didn't understand why Wei Fu let Zhou Xi go. But thinking of Wei Fu's style of doing things, General Mao knew that she was not the kind of person who would tolerate any injustice, and was afraid that she let Zhou Xi go to seek death.
For some reason, he felt better when he thought about Zhou Xi's bad end. He knelt down and said, "Your Highness, my family is completely unaware of what I have done. Please don't take your anger out on them."
The prince said coldly, "Your family has also enjoyed a lot of the benefits you earned."
"General Mao, it's too late now."
General Mao sat on the ground with a dejected look on his face. The prince had already taken control of his men and the bandit's lair. It was only a matter of time before he found evidence.
These things were indeed bound to happen sooner or later, but what he didn't know was that the prince had already got all the evidence of his dealings with the bandits in his hands. Knowing the location of the bandits' lair, after the prince came to Liaocheng, he let his people infiltrate the bandits' lair.
On the one hand, it is to understand the specific situation of the bandit's lair, and on the other hand, it is to see if the evidence can be found in advance to prevent it from being destroyed in advance.
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