A knife in love

Chapter 1166

All the soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one dared to move.These sergeants have always looked down on Qu Baiyan in their hearts, but because of Qu Baiyan's brother-in-law's despicable power, they had no choice but to give in.Just now Zhang Shi stuffed Qu Baiyan with a 500 tael silver ticket, and these sergeants were eager to get a piece of it.It was just seeing Qu Baiyan stuffing the banknote into his bosom, and with his greedy nature, he would never give him a penny, so everyone was annoyed.When they saw Hu San was thrown out of the cabin and fell into a mess, all the sergeants were terrified and refused to sacrifice their lives for Qu Baiyan.So although Qu Baiyan was furious and yelled loudly, these sergeants were timid and no one dared to rush towards the cabin.

Seeing this situation, Qu Bai was startled and angry. He held up the steel knife in his hand and shouted at the soldiers: "Do you dare to disobey? Believe it or not, I killed you bastards?!"

Unexpectedly, the louder he shouted, the soldiers not only dared not move forward, but retreated one after another.Despite Qu Baiyan's bluff, no one paid any attention to him.Although Qu Baiyan yelled fiercely, how dare he slash at the sergeant with a knife?Waiting for all the sergeants to retreat, forcing him to retreat with him, he was less than half a foot away from the side of the ship.

But at this time, only the sound of "cracking" was heard, but someone stepped on the stairs and came out of the cabin.When Hu San heard the sound of footsteps, he shrank his head into his neck in fright, and couldn't help but took another two steps back, bumping into Qu Baiyan, almost knocking him into the sea.Qu Baiyan was furious, he stretched out his hand and pushed Hu San, and was about to yell at him, but saw a person coming out of the cabin, walking towards the crowd.

I saw that this man was wearing a Lugong scarf and a navy blue gown, with a fair complexion and quite elegant.Li Qiufeng and others recognized him as Xiao Dong, the accountant of shopkeeper Bai.Qu Baiyan didn't know the origin of this person.He originally thought that the person who could throw Hu San from the cabin must be a burly man, but unexpectedly the person with this ability turned out to be a middle-aged scribe.Seeing Xiao Dongwen's gentle manner, as if a gust of wind could blow him down, Qu Baiyan's courage suddenly strengthened.He stretched out his hand and pushed away Hu San and the two sergeants who were standing in front of him, and rushed in front of everyone, pointed at Xiao Dong and shouted: "Who are you? You're playing tricks here, aren't you afraid of the king's law?!"

Xiao Dong walked in front of the crowd, stopped in his tracks, looked at Qu Baiyan with disdain, and said in a deep voice, "Who are you? Showing off your might here, aren't you afraid of the king's law?!"

Qu Bai's eyes were startled, he was speechless for a moment because of Xiao Dong's words.Seeing that Qu Bai's eyes were speechless, Xiao Dong gave him a contemptuous look, ignored him, and glanced over the faces of all the soldiers one by one.These sergeants were originally arrogant people, but they just lowered their heads involuntarily under Xiao Dong's gaze.

Xiao Dong took out a gray envelope from his pocket with his right hand, and said to the soldiers: "Is there anyone who can read and write, stand up and see what is in my hand."

All the soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and looked at Qu Baiyan at the same time.Xiao Dong sneered, and said in his mouth: "This guy is illiterate, what do you see him doing?"

Qu Baiyan was touched by Xiao Dong's sore spot, his face flushed immediately, his heart was extremely annoyed, but he was forced by Xiao Dong's momentum, so he didn't dare to utter insults.

All the sergeants were terrified, and no one dared to stand up and take the envelope.Xiao Dong snorted, reached out his hand and took out a piece of paper from the envelope, held it up in front of all the soldiers, and said with a sneer: "This is a survey from the Ministry of War, one of you should come over to see if it is true or not."

As soon as Xiao Dong said this, the expressions of several sergeants changed drastically.One of the veterans was so frightened that he let go of his right hand, and with a "dang", the steel knife fell to the deck.

Qu Baiyan didn't know what the Ministry of Military Affairs was, but seeing how frightened a few veterans were, he knew that this thing must be something extraordinary.He turned to a sergeant and said, "What does this thing do?"

The sergeant said in a trembling voice: "My lord, this is a military order issued by the Ministry of War. Those who hold the survey and cooperation are the envoys of the Ministry of War. The generals and schools of the guards in various places must follow the order. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy."

Qu Baiyan was startled, he looked Xiao Dong up and down.Although he was a scoundrel, he also knew that the situation was not good at this time, and the original arrogant arrogance disappeared without a trace.I saw him with a happy face, nodded and bowed and said: "I don't know if the Shangguan is here, the villain is so rude, please don't blame the Shangguan."

Xiao Dong snorted, held Kanhe in his hand, and said to Qu Baiyan: "Why don't you come and see if this Kanhe is true or not?"

Qu Baiyan was embarrassed, and said in a trembling voice: "The villain dare not, the villain dare not."

Only then did Xiao Dong put Kanhe back into the sealed bag, raised his eyebrows, and shouted at Qu Baiyan: "Get out of here?! Can't you just wait for me to invite you to dinner?!"

Qu Baiyan shook his body, bowed to Xiao Dong in a flustered manner, and turned to leave.Xiao Dong sneered, and said darkly: "You openly asked for bribes, and I can take your head with the help of this military department in my hand. By this time, don't you know that you have committed a serious crime?"

Qu Baiyan trembled and said: "The villain is guilty, the villain is guilty. I beg the adults to remember the villain's first crime, and forgive the villain this time."

While talking, he took out the 500 taels of silver note that Zhang Shi gave him just now, handed it back to Zhang Shi in a panic, and then knelt down on the ground with a "plop" and knocked "bang bang bang" repeatedly. Three rattles.

Only then did Xiao Dong nodded in satisfaction, and said in his mouth: "The next time I encounter you acting so foolishly, I will definitely kill you! Get out of here!"

Qu Baiyan seemed to be pardoned, he struggled to get up from the ground, cupped his hands towards Xiao Dong, turned around and ran towards the warship.It's just that the plank between the two big boats was shaking endlessly. He was in a panic, just stepped on the plank, his body wobbled a few times, and he almost fell into the sea.Hu San who was following behind him hastily helped him, so that he did not fall into the sea.

Shopkeeper Hu and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Qu Baiyan and a dozen officers and soldiers scrambled and fled back to the warship, then retracted the planks of the ship, and fled towards Ningbo Mansion.Zhang Shi looked at Xiao Dong with a look of astonishment, and said in his mouth: "Mr. Xiao... No, no, Mr. Xiao, the villain deserves to die. I don't know the identity of an adult. There are so many disrespectful things. I hope you will forgive me."

Xiao Dong shook his head, and said: "This time I was ordered to run a business, and I didn't want to reveal my identity, so I pretended to be the accountant of Shopkeeper Bai. Mr. Zhang didn't know about this, what is his crime?"

Li Qiufeng watched coldly, and saw that although Xiao Dong spoke politely, he called himself "my official" at this time, his arrogance was beyond words, and he no longer had the humble and kind expression before.He thought to himself that Zhang Shi knew the identity of this person long ago, but deliberately did not disclose it.Just now he pretended to be terrified and inexplicable, just to confuse Xiao Dong.This Xiao's martial arts is not weak, but he is too impatient.After being praised for a few words, he immediately put on an official air.Compared with Zhang Shi, this person is much easier to deal with.

Zhang Shiwu repeatedly confessed his crimes, but shopkeeper Hu and others were bragging, praising Xiao Dong's superb martial arts skills, and with just a few gestures, they threw Hu San to fly three or four zhang away.Such magical skills are invincible in the world, and the mysterious devil and clown are vulnerable to a single blow.

At the beginning, Xiao Dong said a few words of humility, but after he arrived, he was stroking his long beard with a satisfied expression.

Seeing everyone flattering Xiao Dong, Li Qiufeng had no choice but to say a few words of praise for Xiao Dong.Finally, Xiao Dong waved his right hand, shopkeeper Hu and others stopped talking.Only Xiao Dong laughed and said: "This time I hide my identity and go to Fusang with everyone, it is really a heavy responsibility. I also hope that you will do your best to help me complete this matter. If we are successful, everyone will be a big brother of the imperial court." Meritorious officials. Those who want to be officials will be officials, and those who want to get rich will get rich. From then on, high-ranking officials will be able to be high-ranking officials, and horses will be able to ride on them, and they will benefit their children and grandchildren. What an honor!"

Shopkeeper Hu and others cupped their hands and said, "Thank you, Mr. Xiao, for your support."

Li Qiufeng and Zhang Shi also bowed and saluted along with the crowd, but cursed secretly in their hearts.

After Shopkeeper Hu and others surrounded Xiao Dong and walked back to the cabin, only Zhang Shi, Li Qiufeng, Qin Laowu and a few boatmen were left on the deck.Zhang Shi glanced at Li Qiufeng, hummed, and said in his mouth, "Brother Zhu, you just left me alone, and you didn't do it very well."

Seeing Zhang Shi's angry face, Li Qiufeng knew that he hated himself for not obeying his orders to kill people.So he cupped his hands and said: "Mr. Zhang, I have heard that there are masters lurking in the cabin just now, so I didn't act rashly. Otherwise, if I kill the officers and soldiers first, how can this Master Xiao claim his identity?"

(End of this chapter)