Ancient paintings connect the present, I hoard goods to support the villain Wang

Thinking of this, Zhi Ren asked curiously and hesitantly:

"Your Highness, I heard that the fairies in the Heavenly Palace are all extremely beautiful. I wonder what this fairy in the painting looks like?"

As soon as he said this, Xiao Jingyan's mind instantly flashed back to Shi Xi's appearance of wrapping herself in a bath towel after taking a shower.

Her face was without any makeup, her skin was fair and rosy, and her bones were noble and generous. Even in the capital of their Great Yong Dynasty, she was absolutely a beauty that could topple a country.

"Cough cough~"

He felt that he was thinking about things he shouldn't be thinking about, so he coughed lightly to bring his thoughts back to normal.

Although Xiao Jingyan didn't say anything, Zhi Ren also noticed it from his intoxicated look just now.

I'm afraid that his soul has been taken away by the fairy in the painting!

"Oh, I just wonder if this fairy can fall in love with a mortal?"

"Ordinary mortals probably can't do it, but our prince is of royal blood!"

The man holding the blade spoke to himself as if he were performing a monologue.

He had no intention of talking to Xiao Jingyan, but after hearing what he said, Xiao Jingyan couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

He is a prince, commanding an army of hundreds of thousands.

Thinking of this, he realized that he seemed to have been fooled.

"You kid, if you keep talking nonsense, you will be punished by military law!"

Xiao Jingyan scolded harshly.

They are so bold that they even dare to dream about fairies. It is a sin!

Although Xiao Jingyan fell in love with Shi Xi at first sight and had a good impression of her, he knew that they did not belong to the same world and never thought of anything else that was unrealistic.

In his heart, he only regarded her as a deity who could save people from suffering and respond to his every request.

The gods are sacred and cannot be blasphemed by a mortal like him.

While the two were talking, there was a knock on the door.

"Your Majesty, there is a secret report!"

Zhimo said outside the house.

"Enter."

Xiao Jingyan's expression turned a little colder and he replied seriously.

Although Zhi Ren didn't know the content of the secret report, he also restrained the smile on his face due to the tense atmosphere.

Zhimo walked into the room, took out a bamboo tube from his arms, took out the letter paper inside, and presented it to Xiao Jingyan.

"Your Highness, our spies in the capital said that the Emperor has learned that our Xiao family army has been blessed by the gods and has obtained food."

"But, the things about gods are too absurd, no one believes them."

"They believe more that you have defected to the Qianshuo Dynasty than to the gods."

He held the inkstone and bowed to report.

Xiao Jingyan's frown deepened. Those people were so quick. It had only been more than half a month since Shi Xi first gave him food, and they had already told the emperor about it.

You know, Lingyao City is thousands of miles away from the capital. Even if you ride at full speed and do not sleep, it will take more than half a month to walk there.

These people are really desperate to kill him!

"That day, after those people from Shanwai Village came to cause trouble, I asked you to investigate the undercover imperial agent in the camp. Do you have any clues?"

Xiao Jingyan remained calm in the face of danger and asked about this matter calmly.

The source of the God-given food and fodder that reached the emperor's ears was still in the army. If something happened, it was natural to solve the problem from the source first.

"This……"

Zhiren scratched his head in embarrassment.

Xiao Jingyan sighed. He knew without asking that this kid had nothing serious on his mind.

He turned his head to look at Zhimo, and Zhiren also cast a "help" look at Zhimo.

It felt like saying, "Brother, you must have a clue!"

Zhimo lived up to everyone's expectations and said:

"Seven days ago, the prince asked his subordinates to check on General Chen. I discovered that the snacks that were distributed were indeed not in General Chen's room."

"Though the amount of snacks wasn't excessive, they definitely weren't something he could eat all at once. I really don't know where he managed to get them."

In the end, Zhimo also felt a little guilty.

Upon hearing this, Zhi Ren, who had been looking complacent, suddenly became like a deflated ball.

His miserable expression seemed to say, "It's over. I failed this time too. The prince must punish us."

But the punishment he had imagined and Xiao Jingyan's anger did not come.

Xiao Jingyan, with a serious expression, asked Zhimo, "Have you ever tried to find out if Chen Daming's confidants have eaten those snacks?"

The snacks that Shi Xi gave had unique flavors, and anyone who had eaten them would never forget them.

Relatively speaking, if someone has never eaten it, they will definitely not know what it tastes like.

"Your Highness, I have inquired with those people and none of them have tasted the snacks."

Zhimo is very sure about this.

But even so, Xiao Jingyan still couldn't determine that Chen Daming was a court spy based on these alone.

However, he could make an assumption.

If Chen Daming is really a spy, what can he do with the snacks that Shi Xi gave him?

1. Send it to the people in the capital.

Second, sell it directly at a high price locally, exchange it for silver, and keep it for later use when running away!

After this analysis, Xiao Jingyan hurriedly ordered Zhiren and Zhimo to investigate the matter.

"One of you will go to the Lingyao City Market, especially visit some of the wealthy families. The other will go to the city gate and pass on my order to ask the soldiers guarding the city if anyone carrying large bags and resembling members of the Xiao family army left the city seven days ago."

Xiao Jingyan explained in detail.

The Xiao family army has an extremely high status in Lingyao City. Even if it is just a small soldier, as long as he wears the uniform of the Xiao family army or holds the badge of the Xiao family army, he will be respected by everyone.

Therefore, Xiao Jingyan speculated that if Chen Daming asked his people to transport this batch of snacks back to Beijing, he would definitely ask his people to pretend to be members of the Xiao family army.

However, Xiao Jingyan did not expect that the person who betrayed him in the army was Chen Daming!

Like Wang Tiezhu, Liu Deyou and Guo Wen, he was an old subordinate of his father.

Indeed, one cannot judge by appearances alone.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jingyan shook his head and sighed deeply.

The emperor regarded him as a thorn in his side. Not only did he want to seize his military power, but he even bribed his closest confidants and made them betray him.

He suddenly understood better how Shi Xi felt when her uncle came to the supermarket to ask her for money that night.

He knew that Shi Xi would never sit still and wait for death, so he had to fight back appropriately!

Xiao Jingyan narrowed his eyes and shouted to the guards at the door:

"Come here, call the four generals to the council hall."

Now, since the imperial court wants to accuse him of colluding with foreign countries, he naturally cannot let them succeed.

"Cousin Emperor, since you say that I am colluding with Qian Shuo, then I have no choice but to send troops against them!"

"I really don't want to fight them. After all, they've been pretty well behaved during the two months you cut off our Xiao army's food supplies. They never attacked us!"

Xiao Jingyan stood in front of the door, looking at the dark sky that squeezed out from the crack of the door. The curve at the corner of his mouth was so cold that it made people's hair stand on end.

He shook his wide sleeves and threw the secret letter that Zhimo had just handed him into the crackling stove behind him.

In an instant, the paper ball was burned to ashes by the hot charcoal fire.

The seeds of rebellion, like this flame, burned brighter and brighter in his heart.