My lady, I'm going to rebel.

ha?

Poisoned?

These two simple words made Li Lian stunned for a long time.

Seeing that he was in a trance, Mu Zheng asked, "Who fed the horses at noon?"

Li Lian shook his head. These were all things done by the servants, and he really hadn't paid attention. But those servants had been with him for many years, so there shouldn't be any problems. Could it be an accident?

Mu Zheng understood Li Lian’s disbelief, but since he had taken over Li Lian’s safety, everything had to follow his rules.

As the two continued their discussion, several figures appeared in front of them.

"Hahaha! Li Lian, I didn't expect you to perform such a great show right after arriving in Jiao County. It's really eye-opening."

Li Lian rolled his eyes and shouted, "Lu Ziqi, don't be so proud! In three days, I want you to beg me in tears!"

"Haha!" Lu Ziqi chuckled twice, turned to look at Mu Zheng, and asked, "Is this your bargaining chip this time?"

"What the hell is your business!" Li Lian snorted coldly and pulled Mu Zheng, "Brother Mu, let's go."

Those people didn't stop them. After they pulled away from each other, Mu Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Who are they? What about what you said about making him cry in three days? What kind of bargaining chip am I to you?"

Uh.

Li Lian's eyes rolled, revealing his dimples again. "Brother Mu, my father asked you to protect me. Doesn't he want to see me get hurt?"

Mu Zheng glanced at Li Lian indifferently and said nothing.

Because experience tells him that when a person starts talking nonsense, it means you may not want to hear what he is going to say next.

Seeing that Mu Zheng didn't answer, Li Lian touched his nose awkwardly, "Okay, then, let me change the question. At this moment, do you obey me or my father?"

Mu Zheng saw the glint in Li Lian's eyes and said, "If you have something to say, just say it directly. Aren't you tired of beating around the bush?"

Li Lian chuckled and said, "Then Lu Ziqi has food."

Oh?

Mu Zheng looked at him, "What do you want to do?"

"Let's get it from him." Li Lian said with a calculating look on his face, "You know, my father doesn't allow me to do business, and I'm giving away grain for free, so my wallet is empty. If we can get the grain from Lu Ziqi, we can save at least hundreds of thousands of cloth."

Mu Zheng snorted, "How do we do this?"

"Horse racing!" Li Lian looked at Mu Zheng. "We have a competition and originally wanted Cao Pengfei to go, but looking at your horsemanship, I think you're more suitable."

race?

Mu Zheng was a bit curious. In ancient times, especially before the Three Kingdoms period, people loved horse racing. Many matters, big and small, were decided by horse racing. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the saying "Tian Ji's Horse Racing".

"You want me to go?" Mu Zheng said.

"What? You don't want to? I'm telling you, you're my subordinate now, what can I say..."

"it is good."

The word "simple and straightforward" almost made Li Lian's tongue slip.

Do you agree?

It seems that my boss is still very successful.

Meanwhile, Cao Pengfei had also finished dealing with the frightened horses. After everyone found a place to rest, Li Lian gathered everyone together.

"Who's taking care of Chasing Wind today?"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Li Lian, seeing this, shouted, "What? Doesn't he know who fed the horse?"

Seeing Li Lian getting angry, a servant stood up and said, "Master, I will serve you as fodder today."

Seeing his frightened expression, Mu Zheng asked, "Where's the fodder? Take me to see it."

The servant was confused and turned to look at Li Lian. Li Lian shouted, "Brother Mu, whatever you say is what you will do."

Everyone was extremely shocked, and Cao Pengfei even looked at Mu Zheng twice more.

What does the master mean by this? In the entire cavalry, he is the next in command after Li Lian, but now Li Lian says that whatever Mu Zheng says is the final word. So where does he rank?

No one knew what Cao Pengfei was thinking, and no one noticed his clenched fists and unclear look, because everyone was attracted by Mu Zheng's next move.

Mu Zheng leaned over to the fodder, digging in it with one hand, "Is this the fodder mixed at noon?"

The servant immediately responded, "No. We always feed them on time. The grass for lunch has been eaten, and this is for dinner."

"Oh? So this is the new one?" Mu Zheng found a slightly yellow leaf from the grass and looked at it carefully.

"Yes. But before we could throw the leaves into the trough, the young master asked us to gather together." The servant replied after taking a look at the slightly yellow leaves in Mu Zheng's hand.

"Yes." Mu Zheng nodded, "Unwrap the hay bag."

The servant frowned slightly, not understanding what Mu Zheng was going to do.

"Brother Mu, what's wrong with this grass?" Li Lian was the only one who knew Mu Zheng's purpose. Seeing him pick out a piece of miscellaneous leaves from the grass, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

He hoped that it was just dead leaves that had been accidentally caught while collecting fodder, but Mu Zheng soon slapped him in the face. He dug out a few more dead leaves from the untied new fodder bag.

Li Lian's face turned grim, and he shouted, "Why is there something in this fodder?"

Uh.

The servant was startled by the shouting. Isn't it normal to have one or two leaves in the fodder? But there were also small stones mixed in the rice.

However, he didn't dare to retort. He just lowered his head and glanced at Mu Zheng from time to time, wondering in his heart if he was nitpicking.

"You don't recognize this thing?" Mu Zheng cleared out all the miscellaneous leaves from the fodder. There were more than twenty of them. If he hadn't searched carefully, it would have been difficult to find them.

The servant looked at Mu Zheng in confusion. He wasn't stupid. If this was just an ordinary leaf, Mu Zheng definitely wouldn't ask like that. Thinking about today's frightened horse incident, his expression changed drastically. "Guardian Mu, what's wrong with this leaf?"

"This leaf is called three-branched nine-leaf grass, also known as three-headed six-armed grass. It usually grows under trees, beside ditches, and in wastelands. Some animals will go into heat after eating it, especially horses and cows. They will howl all day long and are particularly irritable." Mu Zheng explained while looking at the miscellaneous leaves.

The servant's face suddenly changed, and before he could say anything, Li Lian flew into a rage. "What's wrong with you? How careless? It's bad enough that the fodder isn't clean, but you actually mixed something poisonous into it."

The servant kept apologizing, while Mu Zheng carefully observed his words and actions. He knew that this three-headed six-armed beast was definitely not an accidental addition of grass, just like a pile of feces would never appear in your white rice for no apparent reason.

After the crowd dispersed, Cao Pengfei approached Li Lian and asked, "Master, do you really believe that this three-headed, six-armed creature was accidentally introduced by a servant?"

Li Lian gave him a speechless look: "In your eyes, is your young master so stupid?"

Oh?

These words made Mu Zheng realize that Li Lian was not stupid.

Li Lian said: "I don't believe this was an accident, I believe Chen Er."

Chen Er is that servant.

Mu Zheng didn't think that Li Lian was blindly confident. Based on his observation just now, Chen Er did not seem to be lying.

"Master, you are wise. I just thought about it carefully. The horse has been fine all along the way, but it has a problem here. That's a big problem."

Cao Pengfei glanced at Mu Zheng with a smug look after he finished speaking, which left the latter baffled. "What are you showing off for? Showing off that you can analyze?"

Even pigs can do it!

Hearing this, Li Lian snorted heavily, "How dare you, Lu Ziqi, play dirty tricks on me? If I don't take away all your food supplies this time, I won't be named Li!"

"But young master, your Zhuifeng was stabbed by Guard Mu." Cao Pengfei reminded.

Uh……

Mu Zheng looked up: Is it my fault?