Shen Yan nodded, “I’ll leave this to you.”
Lieutenant Wei immediately said, “I will join him.”
Shen Yan allocated a hundred men to them.
After Shen Yan led the men away, Lieutenant Wei commanded the hundred men to carry buckets of water and pour it on the walls. He patted Song Yin’s shoulder as he watched, “I can’t see that you still have something in your head.
Song Yin’s gaze fell on the hand he was patting his shoulder, and Lieutenant Wei’s movements staggered as he looked at him.
As soon as the thought occurred, Lieutenant Wei was startled and shook his head in a panic to drive the thought out of his head. How could Song Yin have the temperament of a diligent king? Had his brain been damaged by Song Yin, why was he imagining things?
“Pour slowly down the wall, it’s going to be even.”
Not some time later Song Yin walked up to the city wall and said to the soldiers who were pouring water downwards.
The words came out without thinking, “Listen to him, do whatever he tells you, as long as the walls are frozen, we can spend the New Year in peace.”
Half an hour later, a thin layer of ice had formed on the outer wall from the first layer of water poured, and Song Yin poked his body out to touch it before ordering a second layer to be poured, just like earlier, down the wall.
By mid-afternoon, a thick layer of ice had formed on the outer walls.
Lieutenant Wei and Song Yin went down the wall and had the ladders brought in. He did the experiment himself and sure enough, the ladders could not be set up at all, let alone climb up.
He was overjoyed and ordered his men to guard the gates and greeted Song Yin, “Go, go back to the camp, with this idea you must be promoted to captain.”
The corners of Xiao Si’s mouth couldn’t help but grin, although a junior captain wasn’t much of an officer, at least the young master was no longer at the beck and call of others like before. No, even if he wasn’t promoted to captain, no one would dare to tell him what to do now, but with power came convenience.
The group went back to the barracks and before they could enter, they heard the boiling sound inside.
“What’s going on?”
Lieutenant Wei asked as he casually stopped a junior soldier who was running inside.
The junior soldier smiled happily and replied, “The captain doesn’t know, but the Ministry of War has given us an extra month’s pay this year, as well as good cotton clothes and a new batch of weapons, so everyone has gone to see them.”
Lieutenant Wei was surprised to hear this, “Has the Ministry of War gone mad this year and treated us so well?”
They were always at the border, but they had never been withheld from their pay, but every month there were delays of several days.
The little soldier nodded his head in deep thought, but halfway through the nod he thought he had heard about it and hurriedly said, “It’s not that the Ministry of War has gone crazy, it’s said that a little girl called Song Wan Yue donated a million taels of silver to the Ministry of War, specifying that they should spend it on us.”
At first hearing Song Wan Yue’s name, Song Yin’s heart tightened; Xiao Si was even more exaggerated and hurriedly looked around, wondering if Miss Song would suddenly come out of nowhere and beat up their young master and scramble for his head in front of the entire military camp.
But Lieutenant Wei listened with wonder and regret, “This Song Wan Yue is also a fool, why didn’t she just send us the silver and give it to the Ministry of War for nothing and let them pick up a layer of skin.”
“You’re the one ……”
The last word “foolish” was pressed into the throat.
The new weapon was not heard by Captain Wei, who was so intent on seeing the new weapon that he greeted Song Yin and walked away quickly.
“Young master.”
When he was far away, Xiao Si came up to Song Yin’s side and asked in a whisper, “Did Miss Song guess that you had come to the border?”
Thinking of that possibility, Xiao Si couldn’t help but shiver and once again looked around in panic, thinking that Miss Song would come out of that corner at any moment and violently beat up Young Master and him.
Song Yin was no better than Xiao Si, and he was also panicking, his eyes seemingly looking around the barracks, but his face was steady, his voice even more convincing, “No.”
The young master’s voice was even more convincing, “No.” Xiao Si brushed aside his mouth, wanting to ask his own young master if he believed this himself? If he didn’t know the young master was here, how would Miss Song have donated a million taels to the Ministry of War?
A million taels?
The young master had only left 600,000 taels for Miss Song, where did she get the other 400,000 taels?
Song Yin also thought of this and his face was a little heavy. After his fraudulent death, he was afraid that someone would keep an eye on Song Wan Yue, he did not keep anyone by her side and knew nothing about her.
“Should we contact Young Master Cousin and ask him to look into it?”
Xiao Si asked softly.
Song Yin didn’t answer and walked towards the boiling place.
The soldiers were all happy, those who had received their pay and new cotton clothes stood to one side clutching them in their hands, while those who hadn’t went forward to collect them.
The faces of the generals were as cheerful as they had ever been before, for many years the soldiers at the border had never been treated like this.
“Who the hell is that Miss Song? How come there is so much silver?”
A million taels, enough to feed the generals at the border.
“I’ve asked the people at the Ministry of War ……”
Someone next to him replied, “It is said that the third prince coveted the property of Miss Song’s fiancé’s family and killed all 113 members of that family. This Miss Song was only nine years old, yet she went to the capital alone to sue the imperial court, and this one million taels was the compensation that the emperor sentenced the third prince to pay to Miss Song, who didn’t ask for a single penny and donated it all to the Ministry of War.”
“Nine years old?”
Those who heard this were incredulous, a nine-year-old girl wouldn’t even dare to leave her home, right, and yet Miss Song dared to go to the capital alone to sue the imperial court?
“I didn’t believe it even when I heard it just now and confirmed it again and again that she is indeed nine years old, but she also has something to fall back on, his maternal grandfather’s family is the contemporary great Confucian Xu family.”
The crowd suddenly understood, no wonder she dared to go to the capital to sue the imperial court, so she had the backing of the Xu family.
“Then this little girl is also good enough, if it were anyone else, they would have to admit their own bad luck, that is the Third Prince.”
“Who says otherwise, such a young girl will be great when she grows up.”
……
Listening to their chatter, Junior straightened his back with pride and straightened it some more.
That was their future young lady!
The hand behind Song Yin’s back, however, tightened. He had asked Daya to send Song Wangyue the silver cheque in the first place, one to tell her implicitly that she had died by fraud, and the other to make her stop the family’s business, but he had never expected that she would go to the capital to sue the imperial government.
Quietly backing out of the crowd, he instructed Xiao Si, “Send someone to find out how the Third Prince was disposed of?”