Chapter 156 No way to escape
On the left side of Zeng Yu and the other two were undulating mountains and forests, but the sound of horse hooves and footsteps were coming from the two peaks several miles away on the left, so there was no time to hide in the woods. On the right side of the three of them were large areas of soothing mudflats and valleys, extending to the north bank of Xinjiang without any barriers. Zeng Yu and the other two were in trouble for a moment, and they didn't know where to hide?
Zheng Shi, who was riding on the back of the donkey, looked at the snowy mountain on the left, and said with a lucky look: "It's not so unlucky, you'll encounter a thief if you avoid it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a faint voice coming from the direction of Xinjiang on the right. It was obvious that it was not one or two people, but a large group of people. Zeng Yu said in a shocked and suspiciously: "Who are these? Are the officers and soldiers of Qianhu Station in Qianhu Station in Qianshan who are suppressing the thieves?"
At this time, it is not safer to meet officers and soldiers than to encounter thieves. It is common to kill good people and make achievements. This is a place that is farther away, the better. Zeng Yu rode a horse, Zheng Shi rode a donkey, and the servant Lai Fu spread his big feet. The three of them ran northeast.
Lai Fu carried the suitcase and bookcase, and slid as he ran. The books in the bookcase were scattered on the snow. Lai Fu hurriedly got up to pick up the books. Zeng Yu turned around and said, "Leave here first. If it weren't for the soldiers and bandits, it wouldn't be too late to come back and clean up later."
Zheng Shi also shouted: "Laifu, run quickly."
Lai Fu carried the suitcase on his shoulders and ran behind Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi's mounts.
Horse riders and walkers rushed out of the forest on the left came very quickly. More than ten horses and the messy crowd running behind quickly appeared on the snowy ground at the foot of the mountain, which was very eye-catching. Zeng Yu and the other three were also very eye-catching. They were soon discovered by these people and immediately shouted to chase them.
Zeng Yu turned his head and saw this group of people wearing straw straw hats, wearing hats, wearing arms, holding spears and short axes in their hands, and some carrying copper hoes and iron rakes, shouting and chaotic. This is clearly a bandit composed of miners, farmers, and vagrants.
When Lai Fu walked, Zheng Shi's brown and black donkey was also not running fast. Zheng Shi panted and said, "Jiuli, hurry up, go first. If I have any good things, my mother and wife will ask me if I have a child."
Zeng Yu slowed down the horse trail: "Why is this? I should overcome difficulties with my three-cy brother. Don't panic, talk less, and don't fight against the thieves. The thief can lure them for profit. We will be able to escape when we feel wronged. I will deal with everything."
While talking, Zeng Yu took the horse's head and faced the group of people chasing him, he stopped leaving, but he could no longer leave anyway.
Zheng Shi also stopped and looked at the bandits coming from all over the mountains and fields. He was frightened. The scholar was indecisive when he met a soldier. When he met a thief, he would have to pay his life. Zheng Shizhi had old men and young men. Looking at Zeng Yu again, he seemed calm because he had martial arts skills. Zeng Yu was not Lu Bu, and Zhang Fei had the courage to be inappropriate. Facing these many bandits, he would definitely not be able to compete with him. Does Zeng Yu have a clever plan?
But Zeng Yu jumped off his horse, took out two small silver ingots, looked around, threw the two small silver ingots under a bald tree next to the road, crushed them with his feet, and the two small silver ingots fell into the snow, and then stretched out his feet to cover the snow without any traces, saying, "Even if you let passers-by pick them up, it would be better than snatch them away for the bandits."
Zheng Shi also wanted to find the silver, and Zeng Yu said, "There is no need to hide the broken silver. There is no silver or thieves who believe it." Zeng Yu knew that Zheng Shi only brought a few taels of broken silver, and in addition to the ten taels of silver he had just hidden, he also had more than three taels of small silver.
Several thieves riding horses followed him first, and saw clearly the outfits of Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi. The thief who was leading the thief riding a big red horse and waving a short knife laughed wildly: "Good luck, good luck, two scholars are here to bring wealth. These are scholars who are going to Shangrao for the exam. There are horses and donkeys, hahaha, this horse looks good, it belongs to me."
Another thief shouted: "The horse returns to the second king, the donkey returns to me, the donkey returns to me."
The other few bandits shouted that they were vicious and ordered Zheng Shi to get off the horse and get off the donkey, preparing to search and rob.
Zeng Yu shouted: "All rich people are gone, don't panic for the poor, poor people come to help."
Several bandits were stunned and looked at each other. They plundered from Fujian to Jiangxi. The scholars, farmers, workers, merchants and even military households were robbed. Those who were robbed were either frightened and trembled, or kowtowed or begged for mercy. The young scholar was brave and shouted the slogans of their rebels. Could it be that they would be spared if they shouted these few words.
The leader of the bandit did not dismount. He rode his horse and stalked to Zeng Yu, and sneered at the top of his head, saying, "Scholar, are you rich or poor? You can't be considered a poor person."
Zeng Yudao: "How can we distinguish between rich people and poor people?"
Seeing that Zeng Yu was not afraid, the bandit dared to ask him back, which made him very upset and shouted: "You scholars are exempt from labor service, and the food and tax burden are all on the heads of poor people like us. We should be killed."
Zeng Yu shouted, "But I am a rich man."
The thief sneered: "You are wearing a silk robe with a big cocoon and riding a tall horse. Are you a poor person?"
Zeng Yu said: "The horse is borrowed, it is just a barely enough food and clothing, and it is not considered a rich man."
The bandit said angrily: "Who is patient with you? I said you are rich and you are rich." Their lives took off Zeng Yu's clothes and hats.
Zeng Yu raised his hand and said, "Wait, I am a descendant of the Zeng family in Sanliao Village, Xingguo, Ganzhou. I have a relationship with King Zhang Long. Aren't you all subordinates of King Zhang Long?"
The Zeng family in Sanliao Village is a Feng Shui family and has a great reputation among the people. Several bandits who came forward to take off Zeng Yu's clothes saw Zeng Yu talking solemnly, and did not dare to act rashly for a moment. They turned around and asked the bandit leader riding a jujube-red horse: "Two kings, who is King Zhang Long?"
The bandit leader holding a short knife stared at Zeng Yu and said, "Do you know our Han Feilong King?"
Zeng Yu said without changing his face: "Xie Maoqin, the leader of the Seven-Son Poetry Society, is very close to Master Zong, the deputy envoy of Fujian Tixue. Later, he traveled with the old poet Xie, so he met King Zhang Long. Of course, King Zhang Long was still a minor official at the county yard at that time, and he was not as famous as he is today."
Zhang Lian, who calls himself the "Flying Dragon King of Han", was once a minor official in a county in Fujian. This was what Zeng Yu heard from Chen Menglei, the magistrate of Anren. At this time, he pulled out to scare these bandits-
The bandit leader heard Zeng Yu say something about the leader of the poetry club, and the deputy envoy of the school was serious and half-believing and half-doubted: "Didn't you say you are a child of the Zeng family in the Sanliao of Xingguo? How could he be here in Guangxin Mansion?"
Zeng Yudao: "The ancestor of my family moved from Ganzhou to Guangxin Mansion, and settled his home here. If the heroes don't believe it, I see a letter in my bookcase, which is a letter to the Dragon King of Han Fei." As he said that, he took out a piece of paper from the horse's back box and handed it to the bandit who wanted to strip his clothes-
The bandit was illiterate and confused. He turned around and handed it to the bandit leader riding a horse. The bandit leader, known as the Second King, looked closely and only recognized the four words "Han Feilong King" at the beginning. The others were densely packed with words that were written in the song. He didn't recognize them. He was still inferior to himself. The two kings hummed, looked towards Xinjiang, stuffed the paper into his arms, and ordered his subordinates: "Let's take care of them first, and then ask questions later. We will go to welcome King Wu first."
A bandit looked at the large silk robe worn by Zeng Yu and asked, "Two Kings, do you want to strip the robe of these two scholars?"
The two kings said: "Don't touch them for the time being, let's talk about it later." With both legs, they held the horse's belly and roared away with a group of bandits. Dozens of people riding horses, mules, and donkeys, and hundreds of people walking, storming the snow on the ground into a dirty mud.
Five bandits were left to guard Zeng Yu and the three bandits were named Peng Laoqiu. Five or six arms were wrapped around their waists. The heavy gold, silver and jewelry were obviously stolen. Peng Laoqiu held a sharp axe and snatched the reins of Zeng Yu's hand and shouted: "Let's go to the Seven Star Temple."
The other four bandits looked towards the river and someone said, "Peng Laoqiu, don't rush back to the Taoist temple first, see how much gold and silver the king has robbed, and then go back together."
Peng Laoqiu stood by the roadside and watched. Zeng Yu ordered Laifu to take back the scattered bookcase. Laifu agreed, put down his wardrobe and left, but two bandits held it with iron rakes and said, "Be honest, be careful to kill you with a rake."
Zeng Yu pointed to the books scattered on the snow halfway inside and outside and said, "There is a letter written by King Zhang Long to me there. If it is lost, can you afford it?"
A few bandits just saw the second king saying that they should not take off the clothes of the young scholar. They are obviously quite polite to the young scholar. You should know that the scholars they met before were humiliated in every way to show that they were useless to read the books of sages. Peng Laoqiu and other bandits were all vagrants from Longnan County, Ganzhou. They followed Wu Ping and burned, killed and looted them all the way, but they didn't know who Zhang Lian, the King of Feilong, was, but judging from the attitude of the second king, this young scholar should have some background.
Peng Laoqiu asked two bandits to escort Lai Fu to pick up books. At this time, only Peng Laoqiu and a bandit with dark spots were left behind. The bandit with dark spots was holding a hatchet in his hand.
Zeng Yu looked around. There was a jujube stick on the back of the Mongolian horse led by Peng Laoqiu. If he suddenly pulled the stick to attack the two thieves of Peng Laoqiu, he would have a great chance of winning, but the team of bandits was not far away. It was not easy for him and Zheng Shi to escape, so he should be patient.
Lai Fu quickly brought the bookcase back, and the shoulder pole was also picked up by a bandit. Zeng Yu asked Lai Fu: "Have you found the letter from King Zhang Long?"
Lai Fu opened his mouth wide and shook his head.
At this time, there was a thunderous cheer in the southeast direction. It seemed that two bandits had met and were about to return soon. Peng Laoqiu smacked his lips and said, "This time I will grab a lot of money. It is said that the mouth of the river is rich and it is so rich."
Another bandit said: "It is hard to say that rich people are afraid of being wiped out and run away first."
Zheng Shi took advantage of the dispute between the bandits and asked Zeng Yu quietly: "What's going on with that letter?"
Zeng Yu whispered: "When I wrote a letter to Zhang Zhenren in the morning, I took out a picture of the Qianzizi text in Zhuan style I copied before, and added the four characters of the Han Feilong King. I didn't expect it to come in handy. It's really unfortunate."
Zheng Shi wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh. These bandits killed people without blinking. Now they were in the hands of the thief. If they had known this, they wouldn't have gone to Shangrao to take the exam. The fate of a person's life is really unpredictable.
The thieves came over, noisy and messy, with both unrestrained laughter and begging for mercy and crying. Zeng Yu looked carefully and saw that the bandits were divided into two teams, but there were a long list of people with their hands tied back and beaten to the face of blood. There were about two or three hundred people who were stumbled by the bandits.
Chapter completed!