In the famine, she stockpiled space supplies and became a bandit.

Chapter 128: Defeat at Fengling City

The soldiers kept arguing with each other until Le Zheng Feiyuan scolded them away. Only then was Si Jia able to escape. However, he did not move forward, but kept glancing at her secretly, making Si Jia laugh and cry.

Over there, Le Zhengfeibo, who was unloading grain with his men, saw Luo Xi and the others coming and happily greeted them.

"Fei Yuan, the food this time is really good. It's not mixed with bad rice or anything like that like before."

Le Zheng Feiyuan thought about it and knew what was going on.

"Maybe Du Hong felt that if the grain was mixed with inferior grain and returned to his hands, it would be troublesome, so he did this."

"You're really trying to steal a chicken but end up losing the rice!" Le Zheng Feiyuan's face was full of mockery.

The two men thanked Luo Xi solemnly again. Although they told others that it was Si Jia who transported the grain, they knew in their hearts that it was all thanks to Luo Xi.

On the other side, the big man who had disguised himself as a bandit has now changed into a gorgeous suit of armor and is carrying grain back to the Nanyue County granary, waiting for Du Hong to inspect it before collecting it.

"Come here, tell the county magistrate that Zhang Qiang has fulfilled his mission and has brought back the grain." He ordered a soldier beside him.

Du Hong had been waiting for them at home. As soon as the soldiers arrived, he sat in a sedan chair and went to the granary.

When Du Hong saw the carts of food in front of him again, the heart that had been hanging in his throat finally settled down.

This time, he had spent a lot of money to punish the Si brothers. If something unexpected happened, he would be so angry that he would die.

"Come here, open all the bags. I want to check them one by one."

"Yes!" The yamen runners nearby quickly took action, and one man per cart began to untie the ropes on the grain bags.

Half a minute later, the first bag was opened, and the blood on the faces of the yamen runners instantly disappeared.

I'm going to die. How could this happen?

Their hands and feet were shaking, no one dared to make a sound, and they wished they could hide underground.

Du Hong's heart skipped a beat: "What's wrong? Why don't you say anything?"

He rushed over and opened the bag. There was no food in it, only fine sand mixed with dirt.

"Zhang Qiang——" Du Hong shot a murderous look at the big man.

Zhang Qiang, who was waiting to be rewarded, was confused: "Sir, what's wrong?"

"Oh, what's wrong?" Du Hong laughed in anger. He drew out the sword from a yamen runner next to him and chopped at the grain bag with gritted teeth.

Zhang Qiang was startled and was about to run forward to stop it, but he saw a string of dusty sand flowing out of the bag that was supposed to contain food. There were only two words in his mind... It's over.

"Sir..." He wanted to make an explanation, but his mind was a mess and he had no idea what was going on.

Does Du Hong want to hear his explanation?

He didn't think about it, he just knew that this guy messed up and deserved to die.

"Take... it down!" he said gloomily.

Before Zhang Qiang could figure out what was going on, he was pinned to the ground and kept shouting that he was innocent.

But Du Hong would never listen. What does it matter whether the person who failed to do his job was wronged or not?

He held the knife in his hand and walked over step by step.

"Waste! Idiot!..."

As Du Hong cursed, he stabbed Zhang Qiang with the knife in his hand again and again. Bright red blood splattered all over his head and face, but he didn't care at all. He vowed to vent all the anger in his heart, and stopped after a long time.

At this moment, Zhang Qiang no longer looked like a human being.

Du Hong slowly took off his blood-stained outer garment, wiped his face and threw himself into the pile of meat.

"Burn them all." He ordered expressionlessly.

"Yes!"

After Du Hong left for a long time, there was still no sound in the entire granary, and everyone's face was filled with fear.

After Du Hong went back to take a shower and change his clothes, he asked someone to investigate what was going on. However, after investigating for a long time, they still couldn't figure out the reason.

However, news came from the border troops that Si Jia had transported food and fodder to Le Zheng Feiyuan and his men. The situation he had planned for so long was easily broken.

"Oh, the food and grass were transported by Si Jia, how is that possible?" Du Hong had checked before doing this, and Si Jia no longer had any extra food and grass, so what could he use to transport it over?

"Go check again. I still don't believe it." This matter was so bizarre that Du Hong couldn't figure it out for a while. He could only pin his hopes on the information he got from the investigation below.

Luo Xi didn't know what was going on with Du Hong, because she had already said goodbye to Le Zheng Feiyuan and the others, and returned to Fengchuan County Magistrate's Mansion with Si Jia.

The drought in Fengchuan County was getting worse day by day, so he asked Luo Xi to help mark a few places and dig some wells just in case.

Chu Zhe, thinking that he couldn't help much by coming here, stayed. When the time comes, he will find a chance to recover his legs and come back on his own.

As for Jiuxian, he was bored and no one knew where he went.

They were all living people, so Luo Xi naturally wouldn't care about them and followed Si Jia to the Fengchuan County Magistrate's Mansion.

With the experience of Tongning County, Luo Xi was much faster this time. However, a county is not comparable to a small county like Tongning County. It still took her almost half a month to complete all the markings.

That day, Luo Xi was finally able to rest, and Si Jia cooked a large table of dishes to thank her: "Boss, you have been working hard recently, and I don't know how to thank you, so I can only ask the kitchen to cook some food to show my appreciation."

The food was delicious. Luo Xi really liked it. She picked up the chopsticks and started eating.

However, after eating a few bites, a yamen runner came in hesitantly: "Sir, something happened..."

"What's wrong?" Si Jia glanced at the yamen runner who didn't say anything further, thinking that he was worried about Luo Xi's presence and didn't want to say anything, so he explained: "It's okay, Madam Luo is one of us, you can say whatever you want."

But the yamen runner's expression didn't improve at all, it even became uglier. He stared at Luo Xi for a long time, then looked at Si Jia, and after a while he uttered a few words.

"My lord, Madam Luo, the barbarians invaded five days ago, and the Red Soul Army was defeated in Fengling City. General Feibo died in the battle, and General Feiyuan and Mr. Chu... are nowhere to be found."

When the bailiff finished speaking, there was already a hint of tears in his voice.

With a "clang", the bowl and chopsticks in Si Jia's hands fell to the ground, and the rice in the bowl scattered everywhere. He staggered to his feet suddenly.

"No, no, this is impossible! This is impossible!"

"The Si family's Red Soul Army is the strongest frontier army of Apocalypse. Fengling City is also a city with high walls and thick walls. Brother Feibo is a veteran of many battles. How could the city be breached? How could he die in battle?"

"And Fei Yuan, he is the best general of this generation of the Le Zheng family. He is not even as good as Uncle Le Zheng who died in battle many years ago. How could he be missing?"

"I don't believe it. I don't believe it..."

Si Jia kept muttering, tears slowly welling up in his eyes, flowing over his lower eyelids and sliding silently down his handsome but pale cheeks.

In his mind, there kept flashing images of his elder brother Feibo playing with him and Feiyuan when they were children, helping them drive away bad kids, and teaching him swordsmanship.

There is also Fei Yuan, who always says that he is a scholar and he is a general, so a general should protect the scholar and not let him be bullied.

But now, these two people... are gone?

They had met two days ago.