42Chapter 42 Aconitum

"Xiao Hei?" Jing Shao was startled, put down his bowls and chopsticks and ran out. You were fine last night, why did you get sick so early in the morning?

"Your Majesty!" Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao's half-eaten meal, sighed helplessly, got up and walked towards the stable.

"Eh..." Xiao Hei was panting angrily in the stable. The fodder in the trough was scattered all over the floor and was stepped on by it. The shepherd squatted aside holding his stomach. He was obviously kicked by Xiao Hei. .

You are so energetic, how do you look like you are sick? Jing Shao asked the soldiers who were trying to comfort Xiao Hei to get out of the way, lightly kicked the pillar, jumped onto the horse's back, and grabbed Xiao Hei's reins. "Hey~" Xiao Hei stood up immediately and chirped, knowing that the master was coming. He finally stopped tossing and breathed hot air, but he kept stamping his feet.

"Jun Qing, don't come here yet." Afraid that Xiao Hei would lose his temper and hurt him, Jing Shao hurriedly stopped Mu Hanzhang from approaching.

Zhao Meng walked over from the other side and saw Mu Hanzhang standing three steps away. He said jokingly, "That's right. It would be bad if someone with this thin skin and tender flesh gets kicked."

"Zhao Meng! Shut up!" Jing Shao glared at General Zhao who was talking nonsense. After Xiao Hei calmed down, he jumped off the horse, looked at the messy stable, and asked the stable boy on the ground, "What's going on?"

"Back to your lord, I got up late in the morning and didn't have time to cut fresh grass for Xiao Hei, so I gave him hay. Unexpectedly, he vomited it up after taking one bite and went crazy." The shepherd kneeled on the ground. He answered calmly, for fear that the prince would blame him.

"Is this horse still picking up food? You shouldn't be spoiled by beasts!" General Zhao was not angry after being scolded by the prince. He walked up and patted Xiao Hei and said to Mu Hanzhang, "Why don't you dare, military advisor?" Come forward? If you want to go to the battlefield, you can't be as timid as a girl."

Mu Hanzhang ignored the unpleasant General Zhao, walked slowly to the manger, looked at it carefully for a moment, frowned slightly, picked up a piece of hay and said to the stableman: "The horses in this stable are well fed. Are they all this kind of fodder?”

The herdsman didn't understand why the military advisor asked this, so he looked up at the prince and answered truthfully. He was afraid that Xiao Hei wouldn't like to eat hay, so he took the new fodder and gave it to him to eat alone. The new forage is not completely dry, and half of it is still green grass, which tastes better than hay.

"Jun Qing, is there any problem?" Jing Shao noticed something was wrong and turned to ask Mu Hanzhang who was standing aside.

"There is Aconitum in this forage!" Mu Hanzhang handed the grass in his hand to Jing Shao.

Zhao Meng took a handful of grass and looked at it: "What aconite? Isn't this just ordinary thatch?"

Jing Shao looked at the grass blades in his hands. The half-dried leaves were still a little green, slightly wider than thatch, and not irritating to the touch. Horses are born with the ability to identify poisonous weeds and will not eat them unless they are extremely hungry. Xiao Hei ate too much last night, so he will naturally be picky about poisonous weeds.

"Call Zuo Hujun." Jing Shao frowned. With Jun Qing's temperament, if he wasn't sure, he would never be unable to say anything.

Just then, the guards on the left and right heard about the accident in the stable and rushed over.

"We have seen aconite grass in Shu, but it doesn't look like this." Zhao Meng saw the prince's solemn look and couldn't help but interjected, aconite grass is a heartbroken grass, who would use it to deal with a horse in such a vicious way?

"The yellow grass that grows in Shu is the Aconitum longifolia, which grows on the grassland." Zuo Hujun said expressionlessly. He has always loved horses, so he naturally pays special attention to their horses' forage.

"Eh~" Xiao Hei snorted, seeming to agree with Zuo Hujun's statement.

Jing Shao touched the big black head and said in a deep voice: "Check!"

An hour later, those who feed the horses, those who manage the forage warehouse, and those who escort the grain and grass were all brought to the king's tent.

"My lord, it's really not a small matter!" The man kneeling down kowtowed and poisoned the war horse, which was a serious crime of beheading.

"Your Majesty, the general has already checked and found that all the newly imported grass in the fodder warehouse contains a small amount of aconite grass." Zuo Hujun said.

"You guys, do you have anything to say?" You Hujun walked up to you with a smile, "Poisoning a war horse is a crime of decapitation. If you don't admit it, you will all lose your head."

"My lord, please forgive me! It's really not a small matter!" I told you several times about the fodder. The fodder was only delivered yesterday. The warehouse was never close to the outside. Even though the escort was transporting it, no package was dropped during the transportation. It was an injustice. He was only responsible for feeding the horses with grass, and it was impossible for him to add poisonous weeds to the entire forage bank.

Everyone has their own reasons, but everything is here, and the poisonous weeds will never fly in by themselves. They didn't even admit it, so they were all dragged out and chopped! "Zhao Meng raised his hand. If something like this happens, he must be killed to serve as a warning to others.

Jing Shao frowned, he also felt that it was not done by someone in the military. The person who poisoned them wanted to poison all the horses. This did not happen in his previous life. This time when he was staying in the suburbs of Beijing, this happened. However, there is no problem with the ins and outs, but where did the poisonous weed come from?

"Wait!" Mu Hanzhang, who had been sitting and listening for a long time, suddenly spoke up and stopped the guards from dragging him away. "We haven't found out the matter yet, so we can't kill these people yet."

"Military advisor, this is the military law. If you say this, are you trying to protect someone?" Zhao Meng just couldn't bear to read. He asked what to check. If this kind of thing stays for one more day, the military camp will be more dangerous. What happened on the battlefield? This kind of thing must be resolved quickly, and if they are all killed, there will be no problem.

This kind of thing happened to this military advisor just after he entered the military camp, which is really suspicious. After hearing this, everyone looked at Mu Hanzhang with something wrong.

"General Zhao is so eager to kill, is he trying to cover up something?" Mu Hanzhang flipped through the records of the grain and grass warehouse in his hand and said calmly.

"..." Zhao Meng was choked and stunned.

Mu Hanzhang closed the book in his hand, not intending to let him go, and then analyzed: "The army is heavily guarded everywhere. If they dare to take advantage of the food and grass, they must have the leniency of a high-ranking official." A pair of black eyes stared straight at General Zhao, as if he had seen through everything.

"... Bloody mouth!" Zhao Meng was so angry that his face turned red, and his beard was shaking a little.

"Mr. Jun didn't say that he did it, why are you so excited?" The right guard said something to watch the fun, and the left guard remained expressionless and said nothing.

Jing Shao put his fist to his lips. Although he knew it was wrong, he couldn't help laughing twice.

"Your Majesty, I think we should detain these people first, and then make a conclusion after the matter is investigated." Mu Hanzhang stood up and clasped his fists to Jing Shao.

"If you have the ability, come and investigate this matter!" Zhao Meng pointed at Mu Hanzhang.

Mu Hanzhang curled his lips slightly: "Investigation is fine."

"You have to set a time limit!"

"Three days."

"Okay! If you can't find out after three days, you will be guilty of the same crime as them!" Zhao Meng was so angry at Mu Hanzhang's indifferent attitude that he shouted loudly.

"As long as General Zhao doesn't interfere." Mu Hanzhang's tone remained unchanged, his voice was gentle and peaceful, but it was more convincing than the screaming General Zhao.

"Hmph! Go to the military prison with them!" Zhao Meng was so angry that he almost jumped up. Although he didn't like it, he wouldn't do such a small thing. "Then we have to sign a military order!"

Mu Hanzhang glanced at him and thought that General Zhao was not completely a reckless man. He asked Yunsong to bring paper and pen, wrote a military order in a graceful and powerful handwriting, and signed the two words "Jun Qing" first. General Yunsong brought the order to Zhao Meng. General Zhao took the pen and signed his name in two strokes without even looking at it. He picked up the table on the ground and turned away.

Mu Hanzhang folded up the military order and handed it to Jing Shao.

After everyone left, Jing Shao couldn't help but hold his princess in his arms: "Are you sure you can find out about this?" Just now, when Jun Qing was against Zhao Meng, he was so handsome. He was so sharp, just like Hanzhang's sword, which made him intoxicated.

Mu Hanzhang was held on Jing Shao's lap, and he moved a little unaccustomedly: "It's just a guess, and I'm not 100% sure."

"Zhao Meng is a reckless man, why bother with him." Jing Shao frowned when he heard this, and couldn't help but worry. Military orders are not made casually. If they can't be found out at that time, it will be troublesome.

"It's the 'character' signed, not the 'name'. According to the Dachen law, any military order signed without the full name is not counted." Mu Hanzhang chuckled.

Jing Shao was stunned for a moment, swallowed his saliva, and thought to himself that he should not easily anger his princess in the future.

Mu Hanzhang asked everyone not to spread the news, and he would go to the account books in the military camp and check them carefully.

In the evening, Jing Shao, who had just returned from military training, took a bath and came to the desk. Under the candlelight, Mu Hanzhang placed a large pile of account books beside him and quietly flipped through them. Jing Shao flipped through these account books casually. There were not only accounts of food and grass, but also accounts of weapons, military uniforms, camps, and troop movements.

"What are you looking at these for?" Jing Shao asked puzzledly, "Aren't you going to check the food and grass?"

"I wanted to look at the military account books, and this happened to be an opportunity, so I took them all and looked at them." Mu Hanzhang turned a page and wrote a few words on the paper beside him.

"These are not urgent, you can look at them anytime you want," Jing Shao picked him up from behind, "It's too late, look at it tomorrow."

"Finish this book!" Mu Hanzhang struggled.

"No, I'm sleepy, the military advisor wants to sleep with me!" Jing Shao said, throwing him onto the wide bed, and then he rushed over.

Mu Hanzhang was overwhelmed by the pressure of the rushing over, and reached out to push him. Suddenly, he heard the footsteps of patrolling soldiers outside the tent, and hurriedly held Jing Shao to prevent him from moving. Then he remembered that the light was on in the tent, and the movements in the tent could be seen from outside!

Jing Shao was pressed on the chest under him, and his chin just rested on a small bean through the thin summer clothes, and he gently rubbed it back and forth.

"Hmm..." Mu Hanzhang glared at him, turned around and blew out the candle beside the bed.

"Jun Qing,..." Jing Shao widened his eyes. His own princess was so proactive today, blowing out the candles, which was obviously seducing! So, he quickly took off his coat, found the soft lips and kissed them.

Mu Hanzhang was caught off guard by the kiss and tried to push the guy away, but he seemed to be willing to resist because of his strength. She put her hand into his underwear and gently stroked his bright chest.

"Hmm..." Mu Hanzhang was excited and trembled. When Jing Shao's hand touched his underpants, he couldn't bear it anymore and raised his legs, pressed against his waist and abdomen, and pushed him off his body.

"Jun Qing..." Jing Shao was thrown down and stuck to him again with dissatisfaction.

"The candles in the tent are still burning, and people outside can see it." Mu Hanzhang frowned and pointed to the brass candlestick in front of the table. The eight candles on it were burning and beeping.

Jing Shao jumped up and blew out the candles in one breath, then got into the quilt and hugged him in his arms.

"Your Highness, have you forgotten what you said the day before yesterday?" Mu Hanzhang pulled the quilt over him and covered him. "You need to conserve your energy these days. You have to get up early tomorrow, so go to bed early." The gentle voice said it as a matter of course, like the advice of a loyal minister.

"Jun Qing..." Jing Shao immediately lost his confidence when he heard him mention the day before yesterday. He shook his arms, but he just buried his face in his chest, closed his eyes quietly, and seemed to have fallen asleep.

I thought that after fooling around for a day, the matter would be over, but I didn't expect that my own princess would hold a grudge like this! Jing Shao had to rub him in his arms again... go to sleep!