Chapter 313: He Has a Master Behind Him Who Helps Him and Provides Him with Spiritual Herbs?

She took a half step forward slowly.

"I don't have a brother, let alone a family." Shen Ningning's voice echoed in the cold of the snow and ice, and was carried by the wind, sounding emotionless.

There was a dead silence around, only the countless eyes looked at her silently.

Dong Aniu couldn't help but be stunned.

Shen Ningning pursed her pink lips and said, "Haven't you heard from your godfather?"

"My family was killed by bandits a long time ago."

"So, why would they come to me? No matter what you say, I can't help you, let alone help!"

"Go to the government. If you make trouble again, don't blame me for being rude!"

The little guy said, and then walked away with his little feet.

Ye Shangyi and Lu Shaoyuan hurriedly chased after her.

The two people talked one after another, asking Shen Ningning not to argue with Dong Aniu.

Dong Aniu looked at her figure going away, opened his mouth again and again, but didn't know what to say.

"This, this..." This girl's heart is too hard.

Originally, he wanted to say something embarrassing to her in public, so that Shen Ningning could not get off the stage and had to agree to help him find someone.

However, Shen Ningning did not care at all and did not accept it.

The students of the National Academy saw that he was a rogue.

They shouted to drive him away-

"Get out, we don't welcome you here."

"Princess Funing is pitiful enough, and you still told her miserable life story in public. If it were me, I would have beaten you to death long ago."

Amid the curses of the crowd, Dong Aniu fled like a rat crossing the street.

As soon as he turned the corner, he was stopped by two ferocious guards.

"You, you, what do you want to do?" Dong Aniu was shocked.

The guard did not waste words with him.

He just said fiercely: "Our master has ordered you to be arrested and put in jail, go!"

The two grabbed Dong Aniu's arms on the left and right, and took him back to the Dali Temple.

All night long.

In the cold and damp dungeon, Dong Aniu's screams never stopped.

At first, he refused to confess.

But the interrogating officials in the Dali Temple had many ways to make him speak.

The next morning, Xie Mingan was wearing a navy blue robe, and his figure was as slender as jade.

He stepped into the Dali Temple.

The chief clerk came up to him and said, "Sir, that Dong Aniu finally confessed."

After Xie Mingan sat down at his desk, he picked up Dong Aniu's interrogation report and checked it.

He looked at it line by line, narrowing his eyes slightly, showing his coldness.

It turned out that Dong Aniu accepted money from a wealthy businessman in the town and wanted to sell his sister Dong Sanhua as a concubine.

But Dong Sanhua disagreed and ran away the day before the wealthy businessman proposed.

He has been missing until now.

However, Dong Aniu took the money from the wealthy businessman and spent it all.

Now he can't hand him over or pay the money back, and the wealthy businessman wants his life!

In desperation, Dong Aniu thought of asking Shen Ningning for protection and help.

He wanted to use Shen Ningning's connections as a princess to find someone in the capital.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ningning didn't accept it at all.

Xie Mingan read all the events and closed the file.

The chief clerk asked: "Sir, how to deal with him next?"

Xie Mingan's eyes were slightly cold: "Send someone to ask Shen Ningning, explain the whole story, and ask her how she wants to deal with this person."

"Yes." The chief clerk was about to go out, but was suddenly stopped by Xie Mingan.

Xie Mingan thought about it, and said in a clear voice: "By the way, tell her that Prime Minister Xie misses her a little. If she has nothing to do today, she can go home for dinner."

The chief clerk nodded and wrote it down, and hurried to do it.

However, an hour later, the chief clerk returned with a difficult look on his face.

"Sir."

Xie Ming'an put down his pen: "Speak."

The chief clerk sighed: "The princess said that Dong Aniu has nothing to do with her, and Grandma Qin also supports the punishment according to the law."

"So, she won't come, let the adults decide for themselves."

Xie Ming'an's pair of clear and bright eyes suddenly seemed to be covered with frost.

"Did she agree to go home for dinner?"

"No..." The chief clerk shook his head: "The princess said that she was busy with schoolwork, and she had dinner with the prime minister in the city yesterday, and she will not come back today."

Xie Ming'an frowned.

It turned out that Shen Ningning didn't go back to the Xie family now, but was eating alone with Xie Suzhi outside?

And Xie Suzhi didn't mention it at all.

They are like father and daughter! Treat him as an outsider.

Xie Ming'an thought about it and pinched his eyebrows in annoyance.

"I understand. You leave."

"Uh..." The chief clerk hesitated: "Sir, you haven't told me yet, how to deal with this Dong Aniu, should we transfer him to the government, or?"

Xie Mingan opened his thin eyes again, his eyes were as sharp as a knife.

"The princess is the title conferred by the emperor himself. He humiliated Shen Ningning in public, which is disrespectful to the emperor. According to the law..."

Xie Mingan pondered for a moment.

The chief clerk was about to say that according to the law, he should be severely beaten with thirty boards.

Unexpectedly, Xie Mingan immediately said: "Fifty lashes and imprisonment for half a month to serve as a warning to others."

The chief clerk was secretly shocked, and hurriedly bowed his hands: "Yes, I will do it right away."

He smacked his lips.

Originally, the files handled by the Dali Temple were all major events involving officials and the court.

It was already a sledgehammer to punish a commoner like Dong Aniu without going through the government.

Now, Dong Aniu was punished so severely.

It was cold in winter, and the wounds from the whip would not heal.

Everyone said that Xie Mingan was cold and ruthless. The chief clerk now felt that the rumors outside were indeed true.

At the same time.

The border, which is as cold as the capital, is also a cold world of ice and snow.

The gloomy sky and the cold snowy field.

The Black River flowing in front of the city has long been frozen into thick ice.

The border city of Cangyun Country, Shitou City, is standing in such a boundless and cold wilderness, facing the Black River.

It is like a silent giant, and the extended city wall is like an arm, guarding the border of Cangyun Country behind it. It is difficult for the enemy to climb over such a majestic and lofty mountain.

In the dim and cold ice and snow, looking up, Shitou City is like a black mountain that rises straight into the sky, towering and indestructible.

The soldiers of Changliu Country set up a camp near Shitou City.

They are just waiting for a suitable opportunity to attack the city.

However, at the beginning, they were full of fighting spirit and came to fight with abundant supplies, just to take advantage of the cold disaster to tear off a piece of meat from Cangyun Country!

However, they have been here for more than a month, but they still can't attack Shitou City.

First, the general Xie Mingxu of Cangyun Country led six columns to attack the barracks of Changliu Country several times, catching them off guard!

In addition, the female general Fang Qingdai and her husband led troops twice to encircle the front and back.

They didn't kill people, but only robbed rations. The soldiers of Changliu Country were only concerned about the beginning and not the end, and they were often succeeded by the couple.

That's fine, but what's more excessive is-

There is always smoke from cooking in Shitou City!

The people and soldiers seem to have no shortage of food.

This makes the generals of Changliu Country feel very confused.

Before coming, they had already found out that Cangyun Country had suffered from drought and cold disasters one after another, and it was a good time to make ends meet.

It is said that the people were so hungry that they ate dirt and snow. How could there be a constant supply of food in the city?

On the contrary, the Changliu soldiers were almost dying of exhaustion.

Their people froze to death one after another.

And the rations they brought were even less.

So far, they have not gotten any benefit from Xie Mingxu, the general of Cangyun.

Several generals of Changliu had to gather together to discuss strategies.

Several people held their own opinions and quarreled.

But in the end, they came to a conclusion.

If they don't do something, they will lose the battle!

"General, the spy we planted finally sent a letter!" A scout, carrying Bai Xue on his shoulders, ran into the tent excitedly.

The leading general, Kimura, hurriedly opened the letter.

After reading it, he was shocked.

"Xie Mingxu has a master behind him to help him and provide spiritual herbs?!"