244 Bad Situation

Chapter 244

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After a night, the frontier troops once again withstood the frontal attack of the wild beasts. The border troops and the residents of Lanyang City could temporarily breathe a sigh of relief.

Ling Kang was really helpful. After the big battle was over, he asked a friend to send a letter to General Ji to the border troops.

An hour later, a team of soldiers rushed to the inn where Fengming and his friends were staying, and escorted Ji Shiyu and his two guards to the barracks.

As outsiders, Fengming and his friends could not follow them into the barracks for the time being. Before leaving, Ji Shiyu said that he would remember their affairs.

Feng Ming also didn't think that Ji Shiyu would be a person who broke his promise. Besides, with his elder brother Bai and Ji Yuan, the orphan of the Ji family, here, maybe this is the chance to repair the Xiaobei Dou Tiangang formation.

Once the formation is repaired, it can greatly reduce the pressure on the border troops and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo were finally able to talk to Ji Yuan alone.

"When did you come?"

"A few days earlier than you, but I didn't have such good luck as you to save General Ji's only son on the way, otherwise we would have to consider breaking into the military camp privately."

In order to prevent man-made damage to the formation, the area covered by the formation was defended by the border troops, and outsiders were not allowed to enter privately.

So, Ji Yuan felt that Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo were really lucky. Look at how he came all the way, why didn't he save a key person.

His journey was much harder than Feng Ming and the other two, but he didn't mention it much in front of Qiu Yi.

Fortunately, with the help of the Scorpion King and a group of scorpions who had subdued the contract in the Tianluo Secret Realm, he was able to walk all the way from the Imperial City to Lanyang City alone.

Of course, the mastermind behind the scenes might not sit idly by and watch him get into trouble on the way, and would definitely "escort" him safely to Lanyang City.

Feng Ming said proudly: "Of course we have good luck. We have eaten and drunk all the way here." Ji

Yuan frowned, and Qiu Yi also smiled a little, thinking that it was much easier and more comfortable to get along with Feng Ming and the others than in the Imperial City.

Ji Yuan said: "You are good at making trouble. You have provoked Ye Xiao after just one trip. If you take away Ye Xiao's target person, they will not stop."

Feng Ming: "Then come with your ability. Who is afraid of who?"

Ji Yuan looked at Bai Qiaomo next to him. Feng Ming was so arrogant because of his good skills.

Ji Yuan deliberately said: "Yes, if you report your real identity, I am afraid that Ye Xiao will be scared."

Feng Ming was not ashamed but proud: "Of course, who let me have a good master."

Ji Yuan was defeated and left. In terms of thick skin, he was a little worse than Feng Ming.

In fact, he also wanted to know how the high-ranking officials in Night Owl would feel if they knew that the targets they were targeting were the young disciple of Master Yu Xiao, who had just entered the Soul-Opening Realm, and the grandson of the emperor.

Ignorance is sometimes a kind of happiness, just like when he knew nothing before, he didn't have all these worries now.

But if he were given another chance, he would rather live soberly like he does now, knowing who he is and where he came from, rather than being a rootless duckweed. While

several people were arguing here, Ji Shiyu met his father, General Ji.

The only bad thing was that General Ji was injured in this battle, and the General Ji that Ji Shiyu saw was a little wolfish.

After entering the military camp, Ji Shiyu found that many injured soldiers did not receive timely treatment. Some injuries could be completely healed with a healing pill, but many people were still injured, including his father.

Ji Shiyu had no time to care about his own affairs. He was worried about his father's condition first, and quickly took out all the pills on his body: "Father, which pill is suitable? Father, it is important to heal your injuries, and I will talk about my son later."

General Ji did not force it. No matter what happened, his son was now safe with him, so he handed his son to his men to take care of him, and he first healed his injuries.

Ji Shiyu took this opportunity to learn about the situation in the barracks and figured out why the barracks were in such a state. It was because there was a serious shortage of doctors and medicines in the barracks, and because of the frequent attacks by wild beasts, many elixirs could not be replenished in time.

Ji Shiyu didn't expect the situation to be so bad: "Shouldn't the imperial city distribute these supplies? Hasn't the situation in Lanyang City been reported to the imperial city?"

The deputy general smiled bitterly and said, "Of course it has been reported a long time ago, but the supplies sent are very limited, and the limited healing pills have been used on seriously injured soldiers."

Ji Shiyu said in disbelief: "How could this be? Don't you care about the lives of the border troops?"

The deputy general shook his head. In fact, it was not entirely true. Not all generals lacked supplies.

But their generals had the worst qualifications and the weakest foundation. Even if there were supplies transferred from above, the amount in their hands would be the least.

While Ji Shiyu was learning about the situation in his father's military camp, Feng Ming and his companions also wandered around Lanyang City, with Ling Kang, who was most familiar with the place, as their guide.

Lanyang City's area was about the same size as Gaoyang County, but its population was less than a quarter. The places with concentrated populations were fine, but the places that were a little off the beaten track seemed a bit desolate, even in the city itself.

Ling Kang introduced them: "Recently, because there are frequent attacks by wild beasts, many caravans have come to do business with the border troops, buying the wild beast carcasses in their hands, as well as the spiritual herbs and other resources harvested by the border troops in the wilderness. In fact, there are many resources in the boundless wilderness, but because it is too dangerous, not many cultivators dare to go deep into it."

Feng Ming and Qiu Yi went into those shops together to see the local special spiritual herbs.

The two found that the price of the same spiritual herbs here was much lower. If compared with the imperial city, the price there was less than a quarter, which was so cheap that they were a little surprised.

The materials from wild beasts were even cheaper. Without Ji Yuan's introduction, Feng Ming paid Yuan Jing to buy a lot of beast cores to feed the little turtle, the little yellow chicken, and the little snake as snacks.

Compared with the cultivators in this city, they could be called wealthy customers. They paid Yuan Jing without any hesitation, which made the merchants very happy.

Feng Ming discovered a strange phenomenon: "There are many people selling spiritual herbs, but no one selling elixirs."

The shopkeeper said: "There is a shortage of elixirs in the city now. Most of the elixirs shipped by merchants outside are directly traded with the military camp. There are very few elixirs that can flow into the city. There used to be a few pharmacists staying in the city, who would release some elixirs for sale from time to time, but now the situation here is not good, and several pharmacists have left, so the supply of elixirs can no longer keep up. Even if a shop receives some elixirs, I am afraid they will not sell them now, but keep them for their own use."

This situation surprised several people. It was much worse than the Qingyun City where Feng Ming first stayed.

In Qingyun City, his father at least hired a second-grade pharmacist to teach him how to make medicine and provide the family with elixirs.

This is the big city of Lanyang City, and it should also be considered a military stronghold.

Feng Ming found this situation a bit unbelievable.

"What about the Medicine Hall? Doesn't Lan Yang City have a branch of the Medicine Hall? Don't they care about it?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said, "The Medicine Hall in our Lan Yang City is just an empty name. If you go and take a look, you will find that there is no one inside. But if the higher-ups check, they will know that an alchemist was arranged to come here. But what can we do if he doesn't want to stay here?"

Feng Ming knew the problem as soon as he heard it: "He is a household with connections. Someone is protecting him. When he has enough time and experience and has gained enough experience, he can be transferred to other places."

The shopkeeper nodded and said, "I just said something extra. If they knew, I am not in a good situation either."

It was because Feng Ming and Qiu Yi were so generous that he specifically mentioned these things. He added: "Alchemists are all very noble, and it's no wonder they don't want to come to our Lanyang City. The wild beasts outside may break through the defense line at any time. It is dangerous to stay in the city, but the other palaces are guarded."

After coming out of the store, Ling Kang spoke: "I didn't expect the situation to be so serious now. If the situation in the city is like this, the border army camp is probably short of doctors and medicine. What's going on? Are they going to give up Lanyang City?"

"It's impossible," Feng Ming said, "If we abandon Lanyang City, the wild beasts outside will come in and invade the territory of human cultivators. The territory of the Dongmu Dynasty will shrink. I don't think the court can watch the situation develop like this. The current situation is more likely to be the result of deceiving the superiors and the subordinates."

Ling Kang thought about it and thought it was possible. He was also a person who didn't want Lanyang City to fall, because once it fell, the pressure would be exerted on other nearby cities, including the city where their Ling family was located.

Lanyang City still has defense lines and a large number of border troops blocking it, but other cities don't have such good conditions.

Ling Kang also thought that if the Ling family transferred a batch of elixirs, it would definitely sell well, but he still needed to investigate further to avoid offending local forces.

What he saw along the way made Qiu Yi feel very bad. He was in the imperial city, and if he hadn't come here to see it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have dared to believe that the border town was in such a situation. Ji

Yuan didn't say anything, but just paid attention to collecting useful information.

After walking around outside and scattering a lot of Yuanjing, the group returned to the inn, and Ji Yuan came to talk to Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo.

"Before I came, I specifically learned about the situation in Lanyang City and the border troops outside Lanyang City. I think I might have guessed why Master Ji was targeted."

Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo actually guessed it when they met Ji Shiyu. Ji Shiyu also said that someone was plotting against his father, so it must be related to this border town, or the border troops.

What the border involves is undoubtedly military power and status in the border troops.

Feng Ming said, "Let me guess, and see if I'm right."

Ji Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, Feng Ming, you go first."

He knew Feng Ming was actually always smart.

Feng Ming said, "I learned from Ling Kang that there are three generals in the border army. One is Ji Shiyu's father, General Ji, one is General You, and the other is General Liang. Among the three generals, General Ji has the simplest background. He started as a soldier in the army, and relied on his military merits and rapid improvement in strength to climb all the way to the position of general. The other two are from aristocratic families, and the Liang family has the largest background. Even the Lord of Lanyang City is surnamed Liang."

"Among the three generals, General Ji's status should be higher, but he is actually being marginalized."

Ji Yuan smiled and glanced at Feng Ming. "Feng Ming did a really good job of gathering information. After I found out about these situations, I heard that Young Master Ji was targeted by Night Owl, so I suspected that the other two generals of the border army would not tolerate General Ji's existence. They wanted to use Young Master Ji to plot against General Ji. If General Ji unfortunately met with an accident on the battlefield, then the military power would definitely belong to them." Ji Yuan

added, "There is a shortage of elixirs in Lanyang City now. I suspect that the army is even more in need, but now that wars are frequent, the situation in the barracks is probably very bad. The imperial city cannot fail to allocate supplies to the border troops. Your Majesty cannot be so foolish, but those supplies may not reach the grassroots. "

Feng Ming suddenly realized: "So it's also related to the problem of supplies. Is it possible that General Ji is unwilling to go along with them?"

Ji Yuan nodded: "It's possible, but we have to wait until we meet Master Ji to know."

If they really guessed it, then the situation here is worse than they thought, and those two generals really deserved to die.

In order to seize power and wealth, they ignored the defense line of this border city. Once the defense line is breached, how many people will die in the mouth of the wild beast.

"What about the silver armored guards? And the mysterious gold armored guards? Can't they find out about these situations?"

Ji Yuan spread his hands: "Just ask them themselves."

That night, General Ji had recovered, but he went to the barracks to visit his soldiers first. He took a walk and came back to talk to his son.

General Ji was always worried. His son suddenly came to the border town to find him. Something must have happened. He was in the border town, and the only thing he was worried about was his son.

"Why did Yu'er come to Dad? Did something happen?"

Ji Shiyu's eyes suddenly became red. He almost couldn't see his father. Seeing him like this, General Ji was anxious.

Ji Shiyu hurriedly said, "Dad, someone wants to use me to deal with you. I don't know who it is, but my second uncle may know. I overheard my second uncle discussing with someone and was discovered and escaped, but the person behind the scenes asked Night Owl to move. The other people Dad left for me all died at the hands of Night Owl's killer because of me. Only two people were left to protect me. Fortunately, I met a noble man on the road and saved my son, so I was able to come here to see Dad."

General Ji crushed the cup in his hand in an instant, his eyes were red, because of anger: "Did your second uncle do it? How dare he do this to you?"

When he didn't know, his son was almost sold by his own brother.

The Ji family can have the life they have now, all thanks to his hard work on the front line, so that they can live a good life, not to bully his son.

He thought that his son would be well taken care of if he was left to his family, but he got the result now.

The father is worried about his son, and the son is even more worried about his father: "Dad, who is it that wants to use his son to deal with you? Will your situation be dangerous?" If

one plan fails, there must be another one.