Kou Ji really didn't do anything, he was telling the truth.
But Cao Wei didn't believe him.
Among those who went on this expedition, no one knew him better than Cao Wei.
When Kou Ji secretly planned to raise the punishment department, he participated in the whole process.
Cao Wei knew clearly how powerful Kou Ji was and how bold he was.
Seeing Cao Wei still staring at him suspiciously, Kou Ji said dejectedly: "I really didn't do anything."
"Ahem...it has nothing to do with them. It's just my own carelessness."
With the support of the old servant, Lin Te slowly appeared outside the door.
When Cao Wei saw Lin Te coming out, he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Superintendent Lin, are you okay?"
Cao Wei didn't really care about Lin Te, he just wished Lin Te would die soon.
But Lin Te is now in his army. If Lin Te has any good intentions, the civil servants in the court will definitely bite him and say that he has assassinated Lin Te.
So he had to pretend to be concerned.
Lin Te shook his head and said calmly: "I'm fine..."
"What's okay?"
After the imperial doctor cleaned his hands, he walked out of the room and hummed: "We are in big trouble..."
The eyes of Cao Wei, Lin Te, Kou Ji, Yang Wenguang and others fell on the imperial doctor.
The imperial doctor curled his lips and said: "When you get old, you have to admit defeat. Your body and bones are already weak, but you have to march with the soldiers and travel all the way, and your internal organs are almost out of place.
He fell into the ditch again and half his life was gone.
If I return to Beijing now and take a good rest, I might be able to live another year and a half.
If you continue to march north with the army, I advise you to prepare a coffin."
Cao Wei and Kou Ji looked shocked when they heard this.
Cao Wei hurriedly said: "Is it so serious?"
The imperial doctor nodded calmly.
Lin Te stared at Cao Wei and the imperial doctor, and snorted: "You two are acting in front of me? Do you want to persuade me to go back?"
Cao Wei looked embarrassed.
The imperial doctor spat at Lin Te and said disdainfully: "I need to act with others? When the late emperor was dying soon, I also told the late emperor frankly."
After the imperial doctor finished spraying Lin Te, he angrily said to Cao Wei: "If I hadn't seen the children fighting in battle and no one would treat them in time, they would have lost their lives. I wouldn't be willing to follow you as an army doctor.
If there are such ignorant people in the future, don't look for me.
Let them wait to die.
If I have this time, I can pick out the blisters on the feet of the children who are accompanying the army. It would be better than this."
After the imperial doctor finished cursing, he seemed to find it unsatisfactory, so he glared at Lin Te again and spat.
Then he shook his sleeves and left the inn.
Cao Wei was left alone, and Lin Te and others looked at each other in confusion.
Lin Te wanted to curse, but when the words came to his lips, he did not say them out.
The imperial doctor who accompanied the army this time was the one who donated his ancestral snow silkworms to extend Zhao Heng's life when Zhao Heng was seriously ill.
The old man helped Zhao Heng extend his life, and not only received a large number of rewards, but also received a golden plaque similar to a gold medal for immunity from death, which was hung in the hall of his home. It was very majestic.
The old man had a bad temper to begin with, but since he got the golden plaque, his temper has become even worse.
Whoever you want to scold.
Unfortunately, no one dared to offend him.
What if you get seriously ill that day and are dying and need the old man's help to stay alive? If the old man is stubborn and ignores you, then you will be in trouble.
After a few people were silent for a while.
Cao Wei glared at Kou Ji and Yang Wenguang with a dark face, and scolded: "You two..."
Lin Te's face darkened, and he said displeasedly: "I told you that something happened to me, and it has nothing to do with them."
Cao Wei said stiffly: "If they hadn't taken good care of you, you wouldn't have..."
Lin Te waved his hand and said: "I don't care about their business..."
Lin Te's eyes fell on Kou Ji, he sighed and said, "Boy, you win."
Kou Ji looked confused.
Lin Te said to Cao Wei: "Send a letter to Bianjing City and ask them to send another supervisory army. I am going back to the capital."
When Cao Wei and Kou Ji heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
But I felt incredible in my heart.
They felt that Lin Te had retired a little happily. Could there be other tricks?
However.
Until they sent Lin Te on his way back, they didn't see any unusual behavior from Lin Te.
Lin Te did not want to delay the march, so at noon that day, he asked the old servant to take the servants of the Lin Mansion, made a sliding pole, and carried him back to Bianjing City.
Cao Wei originally wanted to leave Lin Te to recuperate at the inn, but Lin Te was unwilling to do so.
He said that even if he had to die, he would die in Bianjing City.
If it was the imperial court's favor, he would still like to be buried with the late emperor.
Cao Wei could not keep Lin Te, so he sent a group of soldiers to escort Lin Te back to Bianjing City.
After Lint left.
Kou Ji and Yang Wenguang continued to escort the food and grass to Zhending Mansion.
The journey resumed for another four days.
There was one more person beside Kou Ji, a staff member named Zhang Yuan.
When Koji saw him, he looked like a savage, covered in weeds.
When he met Kou Ji, his first words were shocking.
"Lin Te died...died on the bank of Bianshui River..."
Kou Ji stared at him, said nothing, and glanced outside the door.
Zhang Yuan ran to the door of the room with interest, looked around, closed the door, returned to Kou Ji, and whispered: "No one pays attention here."
Kou Ji stared at Zhang Yuan and said calmly: "You took three guans of money from the house, bought a few hoes, and bought some eggs. Then you dug a lot of pits on the official road and threw a lot of stones.
Lin Te's carriage traveled all the way from Bianjing to Zhengzhou.
Later, you secretly fed Lint's horse eggs. When Lint's horse got used to eating eggs, you gave up and fed it eggs again.
Instead, I smeared egg white on the flowers and plants on the edge of the ditch.
It is precisely because of this that the horse Lint was riding fell in love with the flowers and plants on the edge of the ditch and threw Lint into the ditch."
Zhang Yuan was stunned, looked at Kou Ji with a somewhat stiff expression, and whispered: "The young master sent someone to follow the villain?"
Zhang Yuan raised his head slightly, glanced at Kou Ji without any trace, and then said: "Young master, can't you trust villains?"
Kou Ji snorted coldly and said, "I didn't distrust you, nor did I send anyone to follow you. It's just that you showed your flaws and almost got caught."
Zhang Yuan was startled and asked: "Is there something wrong with the villain?"
Kou Ji took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and threw it to Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan unfolded the handkerchief and saw a yellowed grass stem wrapped inside the handkerchief. The grass stem had some egg white attached to it, which had dried and stuck to the grass stem and the handkerchief.
Zhang Yuan's expression changed again and again when he saw the grass stem.
Kou Ji said coldly: "Since some things have been done, you should clean up the beginning and the end. If you don't clean up the beginning and end of things, you will easily be targeted."
Zhang Yuan originally wanted to ask for credit in front of Kou Ji, but now that he saw this thing, he no longer had any thoughts of taking credit or being arrogant.
He knelt on one knee and said solemnly: "The villain deserves to die..."
Kou Ji stared at him, put away his cold tone, and said calmly: "You should be glad that you were careful enough in doing things, leaving only such a tail, and I caught it in time.
If you leave too many beginnings and tails behind, you will be a dead person now."
Zhang Yuan cupped his fists and said, "Thank you very much, young master, for not killing me."
Kou Ji put away his cold tone, curled up his legs on the bed, and asked, "Didn't the imperial doctor say that old man Lin Te could live for another year and a half? Why did he die?"
Zhang Yuan lowered his hands, stood up, stood in front of Kou Ji with his waist hunched over, and whispered: "After Lin Te left the inn, the villain followed them all the way. After they arrived in Zhengzhou, Lin Te started to vomit blood.
The servants of the Lin Mansion found several local doctors in Zhengzhou to treat Lin Te, but the doctors were unable to do anything about Lin Te's illness.
The servants of the Lin Mansion could only rush on their way faster, as if they were planning to get to Bianjing City quickly to seek treatment from the imperial doctor in Bianjing City.
It was just that when he was on the road, he failed to take good care of Lin Te, so Lin Te got infected with the cold again.
When Lin Te was approaching Bianjing City, he died of illness on the bank of the Bian River."
Kou Ji said quietly: "I thought Lin Te could escape, but I didn't expect that I didn't take his life, but God did."
After Kou Ji muttered to himself, his eyes fell on Zhang Yuan and asked again: "On Lin Te's way back to Beijing, you didn't take action again, right?"
Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "You have ordered that Lin Te is not allowed to appear in Zhending Mansion alive, but you have not said that he is not allowed to return to Bianjing City alive, so the villain did not take action again on his way back."
Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded slowly.
He told Zhang Yuan: "The guy who led the donkey for me got lucky and was spotted by Yang Wenguang. He was sent to the army for training and planned to make him a dancing soldier.
Now that I am a donkey leader, you should be responsible for leading the donkey for me."
Before Zhang Yuan could speak, Kou Ji said with a smile: "The donkey I ride will not eat those weird things."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuan's expression changed, he knelt down on the ground again, and said in a deep voice: "I will never dare to touch your donkey, young master."
Kou Ji waved his hand, "I'm sorry you don't dare, go down."
Zhang Yuan stood up, opened his mouth, and wanted to speak. It was obvious that Kou Ji didn't listen to his intention to continue speaking, so he swallowed the words in his throat.
Wait until Zhang Yuan goes down.
Kou Ji clicked his lips and said calmly: "Finally one less trouble..."
"Bangdang..."
Just as Koji was talking to himself, his door was knocked open from the outside.
Just as Kou Ji was about to scold him, he saw Cao Wei walking into the room with a gloomy face.
Kou Ji looked at Cao Wei with surprise.
Cao Wei whispered: "Lin Te is dead!"
Kou Ji pretended to be surprised and said: "Lin Te is dead?"
Cao Wei nodded heavily and said: "Someone came from Bianjing City and said that Lin Te died on the bank of the Bianhe River."
Kou Ji pretended to ponder for a moment and asked, "What are the reactions of the princes in the court?"
Cao Wei frowned and said in a low voice: "No response..."
Kou Ji said blankly: "That's why you got rid of the army overnight and came after me?"
Cao Wei nodded and said: "If the princes in the court point their noses at us and complain that we didn't take good care of Lin Te, that's not terrible. The terrible thing is that they didn't react at all."
Kou Ji thought for a while and said: "Perhaps the princes in the court wanted to impeach us, but my grandfather stopped them. After all, at this time, military affairs are the most important."
Cao Wei nodded slowly and whispered: "I hope so..."
After speaking, Cao Wei bowed deeply to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji was startled, jumped out of bed quickly, walked to Cao Wei, helped Cao Wei up, and exclaimed: "What are you doing?"
Cao Wei said seriously: "I should thank you."
Kou Ji dragged Cao Wei's arm and said with a smile: "I didn't do anything, why are you thanking me?"
Cao Wei solemnly said: "There are some things that cannot be said openly, but I will remember your friendship."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and roughly understood the meaning of Cao Wei's words.
Although Cao Wei found nothing, Lin Te suddenly fell into a ditch and suddenly returned to Beijing.
Cao Wei determined that these things must be related to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji didn't say a word and dragged Cao Wei away.
After Cao Wei stood up, he added: "The new supervisor will arrive in six days. Although I don't know who he is, he must be stronger than Lin Te. If I encounter a war that the supervisor cannot intervene in, I will inevitably ask you to take action.
, one or two restrictions.”
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "You are asking me to control others. You clearly want us to control each other."
Cao Wei laughed awkwardly.
Kou Ji smiled calmly and said: "Although your thoughts make me a little unhappy, I have written down your instructions. Anyway, I don't understand military affairs. If I interfere in military affairs at will, I will definitely cause you a lot of trouble.
It's better to do nothing.
However, if you have made great achievements, I will inevitably share some of the benefits."
Cao Wei was happy when he heard this, "If you want it, just take it. With the current status of my Cao family, asking for so many meritorious deeds will only bring disaster.
Just don’t forget to keep in mind the meritorious service of those soldiers below.”
Kou Ji grinned, "Then it's settled."
"Farewell!"
"Farewell!"
"..."
The two hugged each other's fists, and Cao Wei left Kou Ji's bedroom.
He still has to rush back to the army to lead the troops.
The reason why he braved the frost and rushed to Koji overnight was to tell Koji the news that Linte was dead.
Lint is dead.
It has no impact at all on the lieutenants and soldiers.
But for Cao Wei and Kou Ji, it will have some impact.
Cao Wei told Kou Ji the news as soon as possible, just to vaguely remind Kou Ji that if Lin Te's matter really related to him, let him clean up the mess quickly to avoid being caught.
In addition, Cao Wei's trip also had another purpose, which was to ask Kou Ji to take action to restrain the supervisory army sent by the imperial court later.
If it weren't for these two important things, there would be no need for Cao Wei, the commander-in-chief of the first army, to abandon one hundred thousand soldiers and horses and rush over to find Kou Ji overnight.
The next few days.
Without Lin Te's carriage to drag him, and without Lin Te following him, Yang Wenguang let go of his arms and legs and began to march quickly.
Kou Ji had no choice but to urge Zhang Yuan and lead the donkey in a hurry.
The journey lasted for several days.
When the first heavy snow fell in winter, a group of people rushed outside Zhending Mansion.
Yang Wenguang left behind five thousand soldiers, controlled by Kou Ji, who set up camp outside the city to guard the food and grass.
He himself led the remaining five thousand soldiers, braved the heavy snow, and returned along the official road to clear the snow on the road so that the army that followed could reach Zhending Mansion unimpeded.