Chapter 199: Secret Investigation of the Military Camp
Chapter 199: Secret Investigation of the Military Camp
Inside the Su Mansion in Taohua Lane, Su Yu and the others had just finished their morning exercises when An Huo saw the maid Qing Ning leading an old doctor into the west wing. An Huo finally became curious today and asked, "Why did you call in the doctor again? Who is sick?"
The little girl Xie Nanxing said: "Master Cheng, the homeless old woman you rescued on the roadside is sick."
Anhuo looked as if he had realized what was happening. He glanced at his disciple Su Yu beside him, and felt very emotional. This disciple was really kind-hearted. He even saved an elderly widower who came from the roadside. He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. After all, one of the training programs for their secret guards was not to have too much sympathy.
Su Yu asked: "Master, I have finished reading all my books. Are there any other annotated versions?"
Anhuo was very surprised. When did his apprentice's learning progress become so fast? "Has he really finished reading it?"
Su Yu nodded affirmatively and said, "I have finished reciting it."
Anhuo flew to Su Yu's study, picked up a copy of "Mencius" at random, and talked about a passage in the book, "Duke Wen of Teng was the crown prince, and was about to go to Chu. He passed by Song and met Mencius. Mencius said that human nature is good, and he always mentioned Yao and Shun in his speeches."
Su Yu immediately recited the rest of the poem, "When the Crown Prince returned from Chu, he met Mencius again. Mencius said, 'Does the Crown Prince doubt my words? The Way is only one...'"
Su Yu recited this comment word for word.
An Huo asked another question, and Su Yu still answered fluently.
Anhuo felt that his apprentice was actually very talented in studies. He was afraid that he had misjudged him last time. He secretly speculated in his heart, well, it must be that the previous teacher's teaching level was too poor, and he actually wasted such a piece of uncut jade.
Master Yuan said his reputation was damaged!!!
Anhuo immediately agreed: "I'll bring it to you tomorrow."
After breakfast, Anhuo left as he had other matters to deal with with the prince.
While Anhuo was using his lightness skills to climb walls and fly over rooftops, he was also very puzzled. He felt that something was wrong with the prince recently. He always sent him to do trivial things and always felt that he did not do well here or there.
Anhuo didn't know at this time that this behavior was called finding fault.
The prince seemed to have a lot of opinions about him, but he hadn't done anything wrong recently. Every day he was either teaching martial arts at the Su Mansion or training guards at the prince's mansion. I really couldn't think of any other mistakes he had made.
He didn't know that the food he ate every day in the Su Mansion was better than what the prince ate. He didn't even know to offer the delicious food to his prince and brought other guards to eat together, but he missed Prince Ye.
This was definitely provoking someone, but he hadn't realized it yet. After all, in his mind, the prince had seen all kinds of delicacies!!!
Not long after Anhuo left, people from Chenjia Village came dragging limestone over.
Su Yu called Xie An, Mingyue and others to move the three materials needed to make baking soda into their rooms first. After he used instruments to turn the alkali into baking soda, he left the rest of the matters to Xie An to handle and arrange, and he just became a hands-off boss.
Then they made and packaged toothpaste outside, while Su Yu read in the study, flipping through the book on policy essays he had just bought in the bookstore. However, after flipping through it, he found that the views in the book were very exaggerated and impractical, and the words and sentences were a little too ornate. Su Yu disagreed with this.
Su Yu thought it would be better to memorize all the Five Classics first. He opened the Book of Songs, one of the Five Classics, and began to recite it.
Time passed quickly, and it was noon in the blink of an eye. In the noisy military camp, Zhang Feng, the secret agent specially arranged by the emperor, had successfully integrated into the army.
He was currently queuing up for food. At the moment, he was standing quietly in the queue, his eyes revealing a subtle alertness, while his heart was silently observing everything that was happening around him.
He had been waiting in line for a long time, and when it was his turn, the cook started to clean up the empty basins as if he didn't see him at all.
The person standing behind him looked helplessly at the empty basin, sighed softly, and turned away silently without any complaints.
However, Zhang Feng did not flinch at all. He suddenly shouted at the cook who was serving the food, "I haven't gotten my food yet! I haven't gotten my food yet!" The noise echoed in the barracks, attracting many people's attention.
The cook stopped what he was doing, frowned, looked Zhang Feng up and down, and said disdainfully: "You're new here, don't you know the rules of this military camp? You're so slow in getting meals, and the amount of food is only this much."
"Come early to line up in the evening, maybe you can have a chance to eat a hot meal." After saying that, several cooks left in a hurry with empty wooden basins without looking back, leaving Zhang Feng standing there in a daze.
The other soldiers who got food were squatting on the ground eating black steamed buns with stir-fried cabbage. He chewed a few mouthfuls of the steamed buns and said, "Yeah, you should be faster next time. I've been here for a while, and these are the last few people here who can't get any food."
Zhang Feng came to breakfast early and had never encountered such a situation before. Although breakfast was also black steamed buns with cabbage, at least he had something to eat. But at noon he couldn't even eat a black steamed bun. Is the military salary paid by the court so little?
After a day of training, Zhang Feng's stomach was growling with hunger.
Wang Er, who was passing by, heard the rumbling of his stomach and generously gave a steamed bun to Zhang Feng, saying, "Eat it."
Zhang Feng took the steamed bun and said, "Thank you, brother."
When he looked up at the fair and handsome boy in front of him, seeing that the boy still had a childish face, Zhang Feng couldn't help but asked curiously, "Brother, how old are you?"
Wang Erdao: "My name is Wang Er, and I am sixteen years old."
Zhang Feng was very surprised. He came here just to investigate the case of people being forced into the army before they reached the required age, but he ran into the real culprit on just one day. He pretended to be curious and asked, "Why are you in this military camp when you are only sixteen?"
Wang Er said frankly: "I was captured by the officers and soldiers."
Zhang Feng quickly pulled Wang Er aside and whispered, "Did you give me some silver?"
Wang Erdao: "No, they were captured and sent to this military camp for training."
Zhang Feng didn't dare to ask too many questions to one person, so he quietly found a few honest-looking soldiers and asked them the same questions, all about conscription and pay, and the answers he got were the same.
At this time, Zhang Feng realized that there was something fishy in the military camp. Not only were soldiers forcibly conscripted, but there was also possible suspicion of embezzlement of military pay.
But Wang Er noticed every move of this person. This person is not simple.
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