Chapter 15 In Danger General, you are too poor!

Feng Shuo took the sugar-roasted chestnuts and the recipe and left Huotouying. He glanced at the sky and decided not to return to the palace, but went directly to his own military tent.

He needed to know whether the daughter of the Jiang family was dead or not, and how the people from Huotouying mistook him for Chi Qing.

As soon as he returned to his military tent, he saw Chi Qing slumped in a chair with his hands on his stomach, his two legs draped unruly beside him, and his head tilted back.

He was wearing a bamboo green coat with a crescent-white robe underneath. In this posture, he looked like a frog with its belly turned upside down.

"Master." Xing Yao bowed and saluted. He returned to the military camp a step late and did not find Feng Shuo, so he waited in the big tent.

When Chi Qing heard Xing Yao calling him master, he shuddered and rolled off the chair.

When he looked up, he saw Feng Shuo staring at him with a gloomy face.

Chi Qing laughed twice and got up. He saw Feng Shuo still holding a bag of sugar-roasted chestnuts in his hand, holding his stomach which was still aching from eating so much. He waved his hands repeatedly: "Why did you bring me midnight snacks? I can't eat anymore..."

Feng Shuo's appetite was bigger than others, and the dishes prepared by Huotouying for him were enough for a great general. He strolled over to find Feng Shuo in the evening, and heard that Feng Shuo had returned to the palace early in the morning, so he solved Feng Shuo's dinner.

Unexpectedly, he ate too much because of his greed.

Feng Shuo returned to his desk where he was handling official documents and put down the roasted chestnuts. "Who said it was for you?"

Before Chi Qing could express his hurt, Feng Shuo asked, "Do you know about Huotouying's private business?"

Chi Qing immediately felt guilty, but Feng Shuo had asked him directly, so he must have known about it. He nodded nervously and looked at Feng Shuo secretly.

But Feng Shuo's face was normal, so he couldn't tell anything.

Chi Qing became even more panicked and racked his brains and said, "I just found out about it this morning. I haven't had time to check it out myself, so I didn't report it to you."

Feng Shuo spread out an official document and asked as he read it, "How have you found out now? Why are there private stoves in the army?"

Chi Qing was not a freeloader. After learning about the private stoves from a few soldiers in the morning, he had already investigated the whole process clearly.

Hearing Feng Shuo's question, he said, "It's all because of that idiot Fan Wei. He is greedy for military pay and rations, so the grassroots soldiers can only eat coarse rice porridge every day. The Huotouying set up a private stove, and he took 80% of the profits."

The more Feng Shuo listened, the colder his expression became. After Chi Qing finished speaking, he asked, "Have the Liaoning Army and the Xizhou Army been eating coarse rice these two days?"

Chi Qing nodded, "A bowl of porridge in the morning and evening, and only rice at noon."

Feng Shuo clenched the wolf hair in his hand, with a hint of anger on his face, "Why haven't you heard anyone report this?"

Chi Qing muttered in a low voice, "You know these are the soldiers you brought out yourself. I guess no one would complain if you let them chew tree bark."

Feng Shuo glared at Chi Qing fiercely, and Chi Qing immediately recognized the situation and shut up.

Feng Shuo then pinched his brows and ordered Xing Yao who was standing beside him: "Call the grain and grass supervisor to me!"

The grain and grass supervisor was quickly called to the big tent.

After questioning the grain and grass supervisor, he found out that they had no time to connect with the fire camp in the Xizhou camp.

In the past two days, they had been eating coarse rice. Not only the lower-level soldiers of the Liaoning Army, but also some generals, thought that Feng Shuo had moved to the poor land of Xizhou and that the grain and grass transportation was difficult. Therefore, they were smart enough not to make trouble. For the time being, they did not bother Feng Shuo with the grain and grass. The whole army showed a heroic spirit of sharing life and death with their prince, and a bite of food was nothing.

After listening to the explanation of the grain and grass supervisor, Feng Shuo's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Chi Qing was having a hard time trying to hold back his laughter, but he didn't dare to lose his composure in front of others, so he had to turn his back and tremble his shoulders suspiciously.

The grain and grass supervisor, who had no idea what was happening, thought he was moved to tears, and suddenly felt that the army was really united, and the heroic spirit in his chest surged up and down. He

said to Feng Shuo, "We are willing to serve you, Your Majesty, and the desire for food and drink is nothing!"

He was an old subordinate who followed Feng Shuo to move from Dazhou, so he was still used to calling Feng Shuo "Your Majesty".

The gloom on Feng Shuo's face deepened as he said, "Immediately connect with the Fire Battalion of the Xizhou Camp. From tomorrow on, all the soldiers in the army will have good meals." The

grain and fodder supervisor was moved by the prince's thoughtfulness. He moved his lips as if he wanted to say more heroic words.

Chi Qing quickly said for Feng Shuo: "Okay, go down and hand over the grain and fodder."

When the grain and fodder supervisor walked out of the big tent, Chi Qing held his stomach and laughed breathlessly: "The soldiers under your command actually think that you are too poor to support them... If you were really poor, maybe the little emperor would not be so jealous of you, but even if you lost Dazhou, you still have Yuzhou and Hengzhou, two wealthy prefectures in your fiefdom. You are poor, are there still rich people in the world?"

Feng Shuo threw him a memorial, which hit Chi Qing on the forehead, and Chi Qing slowly stopped laughing.

He picked up the memorial and handed it to Xing Yao, who put it back next to Feng Shuo's desk.

Feng Shuo suddenly asked, "Who coffined the Jiang family's daughter?"

Xing Yao didn't know why his master suddenly asked this, and replied, "It was the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion."

Although the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion were infantry, they were all brought up by Feng Shuo, so it was impossible for them to betray him.

Feng Shuo's eyes froze: "You go and check it yourself, and you must find out whether the one who was coffined and buried that day was the Jiang family's daughter."

Xing Yao heard something unusual in Feng Shuo's words, and bowed and retreated quickly: "I'll go now!"

After Xing Yao left the big tent, Chi Qing asked: "From what you said, the Jiang family's daughter is not dead?"

Feng Shuo's eyes were deep and his eyes were dark and unclear: "You go to Hu Yanglin and find the list of camp prostitutes."

Without waiting for Chi Qing to answer, he frowned again. , took the cloak hanging on the wall and walked out: "Forget it, I will go by myself."

Speaking of Huotouying, after sending Feng Shuo away, Jiang Yanyi looked at Qiu Kui, who looked like she was about to cry, and unexpectedly understood her sadness, and hurriedly said: "There are more in the pot."

Qiu Kui sniffed and shook her head, her round face full of stubbornness and honesty: "You keep that for managing Huotouying, I won't eat it."

This girl is like this, you say she is stupid, but she is quite worldly.

You say she is not stupid, but she was sold and helped count the money without knowing it.

Jiang Yanyi was actually at a loss for a moment.

She said, "You are also from the Firemen's Battalion."

Qiu Kui was a little anxious when she heard her say that. She wanted to explain but didn't know how to say it. She was so anxious that her eyes turned red. "I... I want to help you." After she

finished speaking, she added, "It's not for food."

Although she said it in an ambiguous way, Jiang Yanyi still understood what she wanted to express.

She said, "What are you thinking, girl? You are naturally different from others. You have hot and sour noodles to eat, but others don't. You can eat a lot of sugar-roasted chestnuts, but I won't give so many to others."

Qiu Kui then showed her honest smile again, "You don't have enough for others, so I won't eat it."

This silly girl, Jiang Yanyi didn't know what to say to her for a while.

She went back to the barracks and put all the sugar-roasted chestnuts into a small basket, and gave a handful to each of the several firemen on duty.

She will be the official cook at the stove from tomorrow on. Several firemen saw tonight that the dishes she cooked were favored by the military advisor and they will get rewards tomorrow. They have been flattering her to begin with. Now that she is making sugar-roasted chestnuts, they are praising her in bunches. She

has made good connections, which will be useful in the future.

Jiang Yanyi said hello to them and took the small basket and Qiu Kui back to Hu Yanglin's barracks.

It was autumn and it got dark early. It was pitch dark outside not long after the You hour.

Fortunately, there were braziers on triangular scaffolds burning in every few military tents. Although they could not illuminate every place, they would not get lost.

The barracks they lived in were next to Hu Yanglin, and quite a distance away from where the soldiers lived.

This was a military camp after all, and if the barracks of a group of prostitutes were placed next to the barracks of the soldiers, wouldn't the soldiers in the barracks have to climb the walls at night?

However, there was a section of the road near Hu Yanglin's barracks that was not illuminated, so Jiang Yanyi specially brought a lantern.

On the way, she forced Qiukui to eat a handful of sugar-roasted chestnuts, and Qiukui happily ate as she walked.

But maybe it was because she ate too much today, Qiukui had a stomachache halfway through the journey.

"No, I... I have to go to the bathroom..." She covered her stomach, looking guilty and embarrassed.

Jiang Yanyi looked around. They were not too far away. It was too late to go to the barracks where the soldiers lived or to Hu Yanglin's barracks. There was only a half-man-high weed bush not far away.

In order to prevent enemy attacks, the entire Xizhou camp was surrounded by a fence made of sharp wood, and a sentry post was set up every two hundred meters.

Behind the weed bush was Hu Yanglin, but it was separated by a sharp wood fence.

Qiu Kui pointed to the weed bush: "I'm going to go there first."

Jiang Yanyi handed her the lantern: "Then you go over with the lantern, and watch your feet."

Qiu Kui waved her hands and said no, and ran directly to the weed bush.

Jiang Yanyi knew that she was afraid of being noticed if she went over with the lantern, which would be even more embarrassing, so she waited for Qiu Kui with the lantern in hand.

Suddenly, a pair of eerie eyes in the weeds were staring at the two of them.

Qiu Kui hurried over and found a place, but before she could untie her pants, she seemed to have discovered something and suddenly looked to the side. However, before she could make any noise, she was suddenly covered with her mouth and thrown to the ground.

The noise was a bit loud, and Jiang Yanyi, who was waiting for Qiu Kui on the side of the road, couldn't help but look over here.

The weeds were pitch black over there, and the light from the lantern couldn't reach through. Only the outline of the grass tip could be vaguely seen.

"Qiu Kui?"

She called, but no one answered.

A gust of night wind blew, and the grass rustled. In the distance, there were also a few crows crying in the poplar forest.

Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but tighten her hand holding the lantern pole. She took a few steps forward and called out again: "Okra?"