Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The damn Jin Kingdom and Tiansheng, not only did they unilaterally tear up the twenty-year non-aggression peace treaty, they also joined forces to attack the pass and killed so many of their brothers. They are simply beasts.

Everyone present was gritting their teeth, furious at the heavy casualties caused by the Jin Kingdom and Tiansheng joining forces to attack the pass in the middle of the night.

But no matter how angry you are, the most important thing at the moment is how to curb the losses.

"General Ge, I want to know how many people at the pass knew that I would come yesterday, and how many people knew where I was staying?"

"Your Highness, what do you mean?"

Captain Ge asked subconsciously, and then his heart suddenly tightened. Could it be that... "Your Highness means that someone has leaked your residence."

"Yes." The prince nodded grimly and told Captain Ge what Princess Le'an had discovered last night.

Captain Ge has been guarding the border for many years, so he is not stupid. When he thinks about the fact that many enemy troops had sneaked into the city and wreaked havoc and killed people wantonly before the gate of the pass was breached last night, what does this mean? It means there is a traitor in the Gucheng Pass!

If there were no traitors working together with external enemies, how could the enemy sneak in through the city gate without anyone noticing?

Damn, who is it? If he were to dig it out, he would definitely dig out this traitor even if he had to dig three feet deep.

However, the news that the prince was coming to Aikou was no longer a secret, and even many people in Aikou knew where the prince would stay.

Captain Ge thought about it carefully. At least a dozen people, including his personal guards, colonels, cavalry, the centurions under his command, and the secretary who was in charge of military supplies, knew the location of the prince's residence.

In this way, we need to carefully investigate one by one to find out who is the spies lurking in the narrow pass.

Lin Xiaoyue was not very good at thinking. So, she just watched the prince, his think tank, and Ge Qianhu discuss things for a long time. Finally, they chose the most perfect plan and vowed to completely pull out the deeply hidden nail to avoid future troubles.

It was not until Lin Xiaoyue yawned countless times that the prince and others' plan to remove the nail was finalized.

"Well, okay, we finally have an agreement, let's adjourn the meeting."

Lin Xiaoyue felt that her brain was already knotted with sleep. She barely slept last night and spent the second half of the night fighting desperately. Today she worked as a laborer all day, helping to move things and finally cleaned up the battlefield, but ended up being dragged here by the prince and tortured like chanting a sutra. Damn it! She was very polite to be able to hold on until this time.

Now that we have finished the discussion, let’s adjourn the meeting.

Really, men can be so talkative, it's terrible.

The prince was obviously extremely tolerant of Lin Xiaoyue's words and walked out. He shook his head and called on the think tank people to follow him out.

When Captain Ge saw the prince move, he hurried to follow. A prince and a princess, both of them were higher in rank than him, so as a fifth-rank captain, he could only keep quiet and follow.

The group braved the pitch-black night, turned left and right, and after passing through several alleys, they were about to reach the residence where the princess was to stay. However, they could hear a noisy noise coming from the other end of the alley from a long distance away.

Lin Xiaoyue's five senses were much stronger than those of the people around her. Therefore, before the prince and the others could hear clearly what was happening in front of them, Lin Xiaoyue's face had already gloomy. The lazy and sleepy feeling in her bones had long been driven away by her.

As everyone got closer, the faces of the prince and others became as cold and solemn as Lin Xiaoyue's.

There was no other reason, probably because they saw several corpses covered with white cloth outside the house where Princess Le'an was staying. At the same time, the relatives and friends who looked like corpses were either wailing and crying on the ground, or shouting and denouncing Princess Le'an for being inhumane, cruel, and abusing her compatriots.

The princess's guards were so angry that their faces turned red, and their fists were clenched so tightly that when they were close, one could even see the veins on their fists throbbing and bulging.

It looked like he was obviously very angry.

They were all straightforward and honest, soldiers who could not stand the dangers of the battlefield, but they were defeated by a group of unreasonable, crazy old women who could only scream and throw tantrums.

"I've never seen such a cruel woman, she actually used others as tools to defend against the enemy's attacks."

"This is just too inhumane. We are all compatriots. It's just a few words. Is it necessary to take someone's life?"

"Bah, you're still a princess. It turns out that country folk are country folk. Even if you put chicken feathers on them, you can't turn them into phoenixes."

"What everyone didn't see was that woman was like a madman, chopping melons and vegetables, and easily harvesting the lives of the enemies."

"Yes, it would be fine if that huge force was used on the enemy, but it happened to be on our own people. Tell me, isn't this frustrating? It's really too much."

"We don't ask for anything, we just want the princess to come out and give us all an explanation. Why is she using our daughter-in-law as a shield? She has to give us, the families of the victims, an explanation, right?"

"That's right. It was a living life after all. It was destroyed just like that. How painful it must be for an old woman like me. Oh, God, please open your eyes and take a look."

"You...you guys are really going too far. The princess risked her life to save you last night. But after the enemy was repelled, you turned around and blamed her. You ungrateful bastards like you deserve to be hacked to death by the enemy." Xiao Cao was so angry that he picked up the firewood stick at hand and was about to rush forward to beat these people up in the face.

But in the end, she was stopped by the guards and Ergouzi. Ergou held Xiaocao tightly to prevent her from being too impulsive and causing unnecessary trouble for the princess. He angrily scolded the other party, "Justice is in the hearts of the people. If you really feel angry, you can sue them one by one. There is no need to disgust people here."

"Bah, who are you calling disgusting? She dared to do it, can't we say anything? Is the princess so great? She was born in a humble family, just a country girl, but she thinks she is a phoenix after flying to the top of the family."

"Even if the emperor breaks the law, he is guilty of the same crime as the common people. The princess murders her compatriots, so she is equally guilty."

Papapa

In the darkness, the princess approached the crowd silently like a ghost, and applauded the families of the dead, who were making righteous and tearful accusations.

"Well, that's a good point. You can say that the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people. It seems that not all of you are barbarians, right?"

The appearance of the princess silenced the group of people who were shouting and cursing just now. They looked at her in horror as she stepped out of the darkness and got closer. They felt a chill on their backs, and their heads were numb from the cold.