Kou Liu's eyes widened at this moment, his face full of anger.
"No wonder I was looked down upon by people when I was in Sizhou, saying that I was some kind of Xianbei thief. I didn't know how to educate me, but now I know what a Xianbei evil thief is!"
"I came to you to trade with good intentions, but you are short of food and you want to rob me? You deserve to starve to death!"
Upon hearing Kou Liu's reprimand, several Xianbei people drew their sabers one after another with fierce eyes.
But the old man motioned for them to stop. He looked at Kou Liu with a smile, "Little baby, your family used to be officials, right?"
"Have you been to the frontier fortress?"
Kou Liu had a straight face and said nothing.
The old man sneered and said: "When we were at the frontier, each of us was surrounded by more than ten slaves. They would farm and weave, while we trained every day and were prepared to go into battle and kill people. But when we couldn't survive, we followed together.
Raise an army and beat those idiots until they are dizzy!"
"But what now? The big thing has been accomplished. The officials went to Jinyang and Yecheng to enjoy their fortunes, but we people were thrown into the middle of these Han people!"
"There were more than 50,000 people who came to Anping together, but now?! But they can't even get together 10,000!"
"Not long after we came here, the government took away our slaves. As soon as we learned some farming methods, they took away the land given to us. All kinds of taxes and taxes, no matter what, how do you let us live?
?!"
“If you don’t want to be a thief, you want to be a slave to the underground!”
"So what if we robbed it?"
"When King Gao asked us to come here, he made a promise to us. He said that the Han people were the masters here. They would farm and weave and feed us. He said that we were guests. If we accepted their benefits, we would have to take up arms.
Protect them!"
"But later, when King Gao was gone, these people robbed slaves and farmland, even cattle, sheep, donkeys and horses. Since they broke their promise and stopped supporting us, why should we protect them? They just want to rob,
If you want to take it, you have to fight with them!!"
The old man's voice became more and more intense.
Kou Liu laughed loudly.
"What a group of heroes Xianbei!"
"Did I rob your slaves? Did I rob your land?"
"Fight whoever robs you. If you can't beat the strong one, you only dare to bully the weak ones. And you dare to say that you are so righteous and shameless!"
The old man was so angry that he stood up suddenly and took off his belt. The belt made several noises in his hand.
"You talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but you are a piece of shit from Xianbei! You only know how to talk and don't do anything about human affairs!"
"Oh, don't do it? When we are doing things in various places, you are still here being thieves!"
"Grab them! Hang them up!"
The old man gave the order, and the Xianbei people rushed forward. Kou Liu led the people to fight back. Within a moment, Kou Liu and others were pushed to the ground. Three or four people lay on Kou Liu and tied him up.
Kou Liu's head was pressed to the ground, with a fierce expression on his face, "Come on, come on, give me a knife if you are brave enough. When my brother comes, he will slaughter your whole family. If you can survive, I will be your son!"
The old man sneered, "Okay, okay, I want to see it. There are nearly a thousand households in this township, and there are thousands of people who can beat them. One person can beat up ten people in the city, and I think your master has it."
How many heads dare to come here."
"Here in Anping, even if your master's surname is Cui, Nai Gong is not afraid!!"
"Is this the Cui family's Wubao?"
Yao Xiong stood on the high slope, staring at the city in the distance, dumbfounded.
There are tall dense forests on both sides, and in the dense forest, there is a huge fortress. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a military fortress. It is backed by a mountain and occupies a huge area. Even in such a cold day,
It was still very lively with people coming in and out.
The knight on the side was also confused, "This is a city, right? The Cui family dares to build a city outside the city??"
“This is too”
Just as the two of them were muttering, the sound of rapid horse hooves suddenly came from the distance. Yao Xiong and others hurriedly got on their horses. As soon as they were ready, more than thirty people appeared in front of them. These people were holding big bows.
They were all targeting Yao Xiong and the others. The leader was a tall man with a fierce appearance. He looked up and down at Yao Xiong in front of him, "How dare someone wander outside Cui's house?!"
Yao Xiong took out the official card and said, "This is the commander of the military building of the county and county! He is here to inspect and check for thieves."
The man sneered and waved his hand, "There are no thieves here, leave quickly!!"
Yao Xiong saw that the bows in the hands of those people were already aimed at him, gestured to the left and right, turned around and left in a hurry.
Walking on the road, Yao Xiong was quite depressed.
"This is different from the ones I encountered before."
"Let's go to the next Wubao!"
The Cui family is divided into several families, and each family has its own residence. These residential areas are in name, but in fact they are outside the city, and outsiders cannot even get close to them.
Yao Xiong went to several other places, but there was no difference. They were all inaccessible. The roads outside these wealthy residential areas were flat, and there were no hiding places around. Standing on them, you could see the surrounding situation clearly at a glance.
, it is impossible to approach secretly.
Yao Xiong felt very disappointed. Before dark, he finally returned to the school grounds.
As soon as he returned to the school grounds, he was shocked to see a row of heads hanging outside the school grounds.
Yao Xiong quickly speeded up and rushed into the school grounds. He saw Tian Zili and Liu Taozi talking about something, and not far away were two people hanging with injuries all over their bodies.
"What happened??"
Tian Zili breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Yao Xiong coming back, "It's good that nothing happened to you. My brother was attacked."
"Ah?? Where?"
"It's within the city! From now on, when we travel, the number of people cannot be less than five!"
Yao Xiong hurriedly came to Liu Taozi's side, looked up and down, and made sure that his brother was fine. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, "What's going on? How could the city be attacked?"
Tian Zili was also very confused, "It looks like a Xianbei person."
"However, when we first arrived, we didn't have any enmity with the locals at all. These people came here just for my brother. It makes no sense. There is no enmity. My brother is also an official of the same party. How dare he kill him like this?"
Yao Xiong hurriedly asked: "Could it be the prefect? ​​Wasn't he very angry with his brother before? Maybe he sent someone to take action."
"It's unlikely. I just had a quarrel with him today. If something happens to my brother, he will be the first to be investigated. Besides, I don't think he is so courageous."
Tian Zili thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with a motive.
Yao Xiong added: "Perhaps he knew that his brother was at odds with the big family, so he took action in advance. The Cui family! It should be the Cui family!"
"Otherwise, it's those Xianbei people who are afraid that their brother will suppress them. Either the Cui family or the Xianbei people!"
Yao Xiong gave his own conclusion, but Liu Taozi frowned and looked around.
"Where's Kou Liu?"
Hearing these words, Yao Xiong was shocked. He looked around suddenly, "Kou Liu hasn't come back yet?!"
"It's broken! It's broken!"
"Brother, the assassins must be those Xianbei people!"
"They couldn't kill you, so they arrested Kou Liu. Maybe Kou Liu has been killed."
Yao Xiong's eyes were red, and Tian Zili hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense, brother, he has six knights with him. These people are all good players. We have just arrived, and we have nothing to do with the Xianbei people. He is Xianbei himself."
As they were talking, suddenly the sound of horse hooves came from not far away.
The sound of the horse's hooves was extremely loud.
Everyone picked up their weapons and got ready, when they saw three people rushing into the school grounds.
The three of them were dressed in standard Xianbei costumes and were riding horses. The leader's horse was carrying a person, and that person was Liu Taozi's subordinate.
The man looked at everyone in the school grounds with a very disdainful expression, "Seven thieves came from our village and we caught them. They said they were your people. One person has fifteen dan of food, and seven of them, one hundred dan! What?
When will you hand over the food, when will you release the people!"
"Oh!!"
Then Yao Xiong roared and rushed towards those people. Those people hurriedly mounted their horses to run away, but someone closed the door in advance. Several people rushed up and pulled them off the horse. Soon, this
All three were captured, but the knight they brought was released.
The three people were pinned to the ground, still shouting: "Your people are in our hands!!"
The knight who was released hurriedly paid homage to Liu Taozi and told him everything that had happened.
Yao Xiong gritted his teeth angrily, "Brother, let's set off right now and kill him cleanly. What kind of Xianbei bird man can he be if he can only ride a horse and shoot arrows?!"
Tian Zili had a vigilant look on his face, "Brother, please don't act rashly. Thousands of Xianbei are going there rashly. We will die or not. Even the local county government can't do anything to them."
Liu Taozi pondered for a moment, "Let's wait until Chu Jian comes back."
Yao Xiong was confused, "Why do you want that liar to come back? He can't kill, brother."
Liu Taozi raised her head and looked at him slowly. Yao Xiong suddenly didn't dare to speak and sat aside irritably, his hands trembling slightly.
After waiting like this for a long time, Chu Jiande finally came back with his people.
This man was different from Tian and Yao. He had a smile on his face, and there were two cars behind him, with all kinds of things piled inside.
When Chu Jiande saw the head and corpse, he was startled. He quickly dismounted and asked about the situation.
After learning what happened, Chu Jiande also frowned, "I went to the temple outside the city today, and there is no Taoist temple here. I chatted with a few old monks in the temple, and the monks here are still quite weak.
Unlike Chongguang Temple, there are only a few dozen monks, and their residences and clothes are relatively ordinary. I asked a lot of things from them."
But Liu Taozi stood up and said, "You can tell me these words while walking."
"Let's set off and head to Kebo Zhenxiang!"
Everyone got on their horses one after another, and they even took the three prisoners with them. Under the leadership of Liu Taozi, everyone walked towards the outside of the city.
Tian Zili frowned. He didn't know where his brother got the courage, but he didn't dare to ask more.
Chu Jiande, on the other hand, was walking beside Liu Taozi at the moment, and he was the closest. The two of them were talking about something, and everyone clenched the weapons in their hands, preparing for a deadly battle.
After walking like this for a long time, they finally arrived at the residence of the Xianbei people.
At this moment, the Xianbei people had already made preparations and saw cars parked in the distance. These cars were very old and had no horses. These cars naturally formed a barrier, and many Xianbei people were hiding behind them.
Inside the car, people holding big bows were ready, and the sound of horses neighing could be heard in the distance.
The sky is a bit dark and not very bright. If you don't have good eyesight, it will be difficult to see the Xianbei people hiding in every corner.
Seeing Liu Taozi and others, the Xianbei people in the distance finally spoke.
"Did you bring the food?!"
Before Liu Taozi gave the order, Yao Xiong and others took out their bows and arrows.
The two sides were at war with each other. At this moment, Liu Taozi looked at Chu Jiande beside him and nodded towards him.
Chu Jiande dismounted and saw that he was wearing a coat made of fur. This coat looked extremely weird. Not only was it turned out, it seemed to be made of the hair of various animals. He was wearing a coat made of fur.
He put on a feather crown and a felt mask on his head, and took out strange bones and various things from the horse bag on the side.
Yao Xiong and others stared at Chu Jiande with their eyes widened, confused.
He saw Chu Jiande throwing the bones in his hand on the ground, and then asked someone to light a fire, and started humming around the bonfire.
His voice was weird but high-pitched. As he sang, he began to dance. His dance steps were loud and clear, and he was beating the instrument in his hand. He kept pointing at the Xianbei people in the distance. He danced more and more excitedly, and his voice became louder and louder.
The bigger.
Yao Xiong was shocked.
"Curse! That guy is cursing us!!"
Then I heard screams coming from the opposite side, and it instantly became a mess.
Several Xianbei knights rushed out from the opposite side and quickly came to Liu Taozi and others, holding long swords and glaring angrily, but did not dare to approach.
"Make this wizard stop! Stop!!"
"I told him to stop!!"
Several people shouted, but did not dare to approach.
Liu Taozi looked at these people and said, "Go and release my people, or I will curse you to be riddled with diseases, your springs to dry up, and you to vomit blood and die."
The few Xianbei people were helpless and ran back and forth. After a while, they saw an old man galloping towards him on horseback. When he saw Chu Jiande's outfit and standard dancing posture, his expression changed drastically.
He raised his head and looked at Liu Taozi, "If you have something to say, ask him to stop first."
Liu Taozi waved her hand, and Chu Jiande stopped dancing.
The old man was very afraid. He looked at Liu Taozi and gritted his teeth, "Who are you?"
Liu Taozi slowly pulled out the long sword from her waist and pointed it at the old man.
At this moment, many Xianbei people picked up their bows and arrows and aimed at Liu Taozi.
"Wait a minute!! Wait a minute!!"
The old man quickly stopped the people on his side. He looked blankly at the sword in Liu Taozi's hand, his lips trembling.
"That's King Gao's sword??"
The old man's face became very wonderful, with different expressions of shock, fear, surprise, excitement, loss, and anger one after another.
Finally, the old man looked at Liu Taozi, "Who are you? Why do you have this sword?"
"I am Commander Liu Taozi, and this sword was given by Lou Rui."
"General Lou"
The old man looked at Liu Taozi in front of him, but his face became more and more solemn, "King Gao broke his promise and failed to fulfill his promise to us."
"He didn't break his promise, it's just that the benefits he promised you were taken by others."
"who?!"
"Big business."
"Han people."
"No, big guy."
"The Han people are the big ones!"
"No, Han people are Han people, big families are big families, Xianbei people are Xianbei people, and robbers are robbers."
"We are not robbers."
"Then why do you want to arrest my people?"
"I"
The old man pursed his lips, then waved his hand, "Let their people go."
Soon, Kou Liu and several others were pushed here. They quickly walked to Liu Taozi's side. Yao Xiong dismounted, untied the ropes for them, took away the cloth from his mouth, and gave everyone a big hug.
"It'll be fine if nothing happens to you!! Just fine if nothing happens to you!!"
Liu Taozi looked at the old man and said, "I have something to tell you."
The old man asked everyone to stay here and motioned for Liu Taozi to follow him. As the two walked on the road, the old man slowly spoke, "You want to use us to fight against the Cui family?"
"right."
"Why should we follow you? Don't think that if you have the Gao Wang Sword, we will follow you. Gao Wang broke his promise and got fat!"
"Because the people in the city are not living well."
"There are big families from the Cui family who are occupying the people's farmland, and there are you Xianbei who are acting as bandits and plundering their property."
"So, I want to subdue you people so that you will no longer be thieves. Then I will take you to subdue the Cui family and make them spit out what they have eaten. In this way, the two evils will be eliminated."
"We are not robbers!!"
The old man argued again.
"What can you give us?"
"Eat."
"How many?"
"Eat enough."
The old man pursed his lips and said, "The Cui family is very powerful. There are forts everywhere outside the city, each one bigger than the other, and there are more than ten thousand guards and slaves in total. Moreover, the official rank is very high, and it is easier to break into the county government school than to break into their forts.
Be simple, can you do it?"
"have no idea."
The old man smiled and said, "You are a pretty good person, you don't talk big words."
"I will use you to organize the county army. I will feed you and feed your families. However, I will use military law to govern you. If you violate military law, I will never forgive you."
The old man was very disdainful, "We, who have been in the military for generations, are not bandits and we know what military law is."
The two of them arrived at the very center of the village. Liu Taozi stopped talking and the old man was speechless.
The roads in the countryside are quiet, and occasionally you can hear dogs barking from both sides.
The old man listened to the barking of the dog and said slowly: "We are like these big dogs. When they want to catch thieves, they will let us out to bite people. If there are no thieves, we will be tied up. If there is no food, we will be killed."
Kill us first and eat our meat.”
He suddenly stopped and looked at Liu Taozi beside him. He had seen the Gao Wang Sword, and then looked at Liu Taozi's scarred tall body.
"I can believe it again. But there is one thing you must promise me."
"Tell me about it."
"You must ask the great witch just now to cast a breaking spell on us again to break the evil curse he just cast!!!"
"good."
Chapter completed!