Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 24 Ge Duo's Nest
The north wind blows the ground and the white grass turns, and Hu Tian snows in August.

Zhang Zhao sang softly in his mouth, but if Cen Jiazhou did not go to Luntai, but went to Qilian Mountain, he would find that there might be heavy snow here in June.

It is now September, when Shouchang and Dunhuang in Shazhou can still live by wearing only a crotchless shirt, the foot of Qilian Mountain is already howling with cold wind.

Zhang Zhao was wearing a linen robe, which was sewn with two layers of linen, and then stuffed with broken linen, silk floss, silkworm cocoons, kapok wadding, reed wadding, animal hair and other miscellaneous things, and finally compacted.

This is the clothing that ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty wore to resist the severe cold in winter. To be honest, it was not very warm.

It is a test of skill to compact these things. Often, some people can barely keep warm, and some people can freeze people to death.

And even if it is well done, there will often be a piece of stuffing missing somewhere, and when the cold wind blows, it will be so cold that people can only sway.

At the same time, in order to enhance the effect, it is also necessary to tie the chest, waist and the thighs of the legs with ropes, which is ugly and troublesome.

However, it was under such circumstances that the cold wind was blowing in September, and Zhang Zhao found his first golden finger that could be opened.

cotton!

The ability to think of cotton is also related to his experience. Although Zhang Zhao was from Xi’an before traveling, he was born in the southeast of Chongqing in the later Republic because of his grandfather, and moved back to Shaanxi with his family after he went to university.

Southeast Chongqing belongs to a relatively poor area. When I was a child, cotton clothes were basically made by my family. My mother was a Tujia woman. Besides being a private teacher, she was also good at ginning and weaving. My father was a well-known cotton craftsman.

As a child, he was often teased by his classmates because his father was a cotton maker. For a long time, he heard about picking cotton!Play cotton!If you cry out, you will have PTSD, which is manifested as feeling weak, feeling uncomfortable all over, and twisting your fingers in embarrassment.

So cotton and plucking cotton have run through his entire childhood. For a while, his father even hoped that Zhang Zhao could inherit this craft. He was so scared that he hurriedly studied hard and was admitted to a key high school in the provincial capital. Only then did his father dismiss it. thought.

But even so, due to the influence of his family, Zhang Zhao still knows some cotton ginning and cotton picking techniques through more than ten years of reading and seeing.

Cotton ginning and plucking cotton seemed to be unrecognizable occupations in the later Republic, but in the Tang Dynasty, how about proper high-tech?

"Mr. Erlang, above is Ge Duo's big village, and most of the people in the village are Ge Duo's relatives!"

Qiong Re Duojin pointed to a small road hidden in the mountains and said, Ge Duo's big village is really hidden, no wonder the Shazhou Youyi Army and Yamen can't find it.

To get to this cottage hidden in the mountains of Qilian Mountains, one has to go through a desert Gobi with a diameter of more than one kilometer.

After leaving the Gobi, the surrounding scenery was similar. Qiongre Duojin and Bai Congxin both relied on the small stone piles placed on the ground to confirm their direction. People who don't know that these small stone piles represent information can easily get lost.

Since it is a person who goes to the Yin, then the person can't bring too much, too much will definitely arouse suspicion.

Therefore, Qi Xiahu, Zhang Zhong and others led fifty or sixty people to wait five or six miles away, and they would not go until the cottage released the wolf smoke.

And beside Zhang Zhao, only Yin Yaozi and two Ding Zhuang with good archery skills under Qi Xiahu's men, together with Bai Congxin, Qiong Re Duojin and a few Uighurs.

"How many can fight in the village? How far is it from here to Dazhai?"

Zhang Zhao didn't wear his Mingguang armor today, because it was too conspicuous and too heavy. He is now wearing a Tubo armor with only the upper body, and a linen robe outside, so the defense is not bad, but it is not conspicuous.

"There are not many who can fight. Ge Duo claims to be five hundred brothers, but in fact there are more than a hundred people who can fight. Most of them have already surrendered to Lord Erlang. The rest are said to be brothers under his command, but in fact they are all Ge. What a serf!"

Bai Congxin said to Zhang Zhao in a low voice, with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face. The two sides are still in the stage of taking refuge now. He doesn't trust Zhang Zhao too much, and Zhang Zhao certainly doesn't trust him too much.

"You and Ge Duo are both from the royal family of the Bai family. Are there any relatives of yours in this village?"

Bai Congxin shook his head, "The servant is the descendant of the king of Changhua, and Ge Duo is the son of the elder brother of the county king. Two hundred years ago, they may have been a family, but now, they are not considered relatives. The servant's parents died early and have not yet married. , the only younger brother, also died long ago in the battle with the Canwei people."

Zhang Zhao looked at Qiong Re Duojin again, which is why he wanted to bring the two of them with him. There was no time for confession these two days. As long as he kept asking questions, anyone who dared to speak nonsense would be found out. .

"Ge Duo was not willing to part with property, and he was unwilling to raise Pu's family in the cottage, so Pu didn't have any relatives in the cottage.

However, Ge Duo's three sons are all grown up and quite brave. The servant can lure them over first, and the gentleman will violently kill them. Get rid of these three people, and this village will belong to the gentleman. "

. . . .

Passing through one path after another, cheating one secret sentry after another, a crude cottage appeared in front of Zhang Zhao.

It is said to be a stockade, but it is actually very crude. The location of the stockade is on a leeward alpine grassland. Scattered yaks and a group of long-haired goats are wandering around the stockade. He looked up at the few people up the mountain.

Zhang Zhao also finally understood why Bai Congxin said that the people in this cottage were Ge Duo's shepherds, because if they were really Ge Duo's horse thieves, they would never be dressed in such shabby clothes. Looking at Bai Congxin and the others Not so afraid.

'Kuji! Zhang Zhao stepped on something soft and looked down, it turned out to be a fucking lump of half-dried cow dung!

This dilapidated cottage is like a large garbage dump, Ge Duo doesn't know how to take care of it.

"White horse, where is my brother? Didn't you say there are beautiful Han girls? Why haven't I seen them?"

Before Zhang Zhao could remove the cow dung from his shoes, a fat man wearing snow leopard skin and a Tibetan fox fur scarf ran down from a big stone building in the middle of the cottage.

While calling Bai Congxin's nickname unscrupulously, the big fat man kept looking back.

The elder brother here does not mean elder brother, but refers to father. Both father and elder brother in the Tang Dynasty can be called elder brother, which is a kind of respectful title rather than a specific title.

"The Han girl is carrying fine cloth at the foot of the mountain. Dalang has reserved those thin skinned and tender ones. Dagan also brought some good things for Erlang and Sanlang. Dalang asked them all to come out. Let's go down the mountain together to meet them." As soon as you welcome it, let's do it!"

Qiong Re Duojin bent his waist and looked at the fat man in front of him with a kind of flattery on his face, like a housekeeper. This set of movements is extremely skilled, and it seems that he has practiced for a long time.

"Dog slave! Since the Han girls are here, you don't hurry to take one up the mountain, but you have to go pick them up yourself. If those Han girls are as black as your sister, you will reward your sister to a groom!"

Zhang Zhao lowered his head and twitched the corner of his mouth, he clearly saw Joong Re Dokin's drooping hand pinching the corner of his clothes suddenly.

This assist is really in place!Originally, Zhang Zhao was still a little worried that Bai Congxin and Qiong Re Duojin would not be firm in seeking refuge, but now it seems that there is no problem.

It is trivial for Ge Duo's elder son to insult Bai Congxin and Qiong Re Duojin, this is a feudal society, Qilian Mountain is still in the period of slavery, it is common for the master to insult his subordinates with words.

The key lies in the fact that Ge Duo's eldest son has no talent at all from his expression and words!

You must know that Bai Congxin and the others are horse thieves. Once Ge Duo dies, there will be no successors. If you don’t find a big brother with thick thighs to rely on, your death will not be far away. As for why you don’t stand on your own, haha!I'm afraid it's not so easy to be a leader.

'Boom!Boom!Boom! When the fat man was full of displeasure, two little fat men with different appearances but similar expressions also ran down from the stone building he had just run down.

The older one looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, and the younger one was maybe fourteen or fifteen years old. Behind them were a few servants with low brows and pleasing eyes.

"Mr. Erlang, Mr. Sanlang, you are all here! Good! Good!" Qiong Re Duojin, who had been worried all the way to help Zhang Zhao deceive the gate of the village, suddenly had a happy face and said yes repeatedly.

The fat men frowned and looked at Qiong Re Duojin in confusion, they were a little confused.

"Okay? You dog slave! What are you doing? Are you hysterical?"

The fat man named Erlang Jun showed reluctance on his face. The old man's airs are getting bigger and bigger, and he wants someone to greet him. What's there to welcome him?On such a cold day, it would be too cold to warm up by the fire in a leather robe. Who would want to go down the mountain.

"Brother Duojin agreed, it's because you all happened to be here, so you can find one by one!"

Mr. Erlang was stunned, but then he saw a horizontal knife with a cold light shining, stabbing towards him.

What does it mean?Someone is going to kill me?
"Ahhh! It hurts!" The tip of the sharp blade pierced into the stomach, and Erlang Jun reacted from the stupefied state. He screamed and looked at his brother, "Brother, it hurts!"

"Who are you? How dare you stab and kill my younger brother, my older brother is Ge Tuo Dagan!"

The knife came so fast, the second fat man was already twitching on the ground in a blink of an eye, the sudden turn of events stunned the big fat man, probably he had never seen such a scene before, he was the only one who scolded others, never saw No one dared to stab them with a knife.

'brush! The horizontal knife swept again, and the fat man stretched out and pointed at Zhang Zhao's five fingers on his right hand, four of which disappeared immediately.

Zhang Zhao drew out the horizontal knife and stabbed again. The blood-red blade easily pierced the leather robe on the big fat man. He pushed hard again, and the big fat man couldn't bear the strength and fell to the ground. At the same time, he rushed out blood crazily.

The remaining third child was still a handsome young man. Although he was a little fat, he was much more pleasing to the eye than his two elder brothers.

Seeing his two domineering elder brothers suddenly disappear, the youngest let out a miserable howl, fell to the ground with his ass and crazily used his hands and feet to crawl back.

The ground was full of cow dung and mud, and it was very slippery mixed with ice seeds. The third child was like a hamster on a running wheel. After working for a long time, he still couldn't run far.

Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment, he looked like a junior high school student!He has no hesitation in killing adults. If you don't kill me, then I have to kill you. But for minors, the moral conscience established for him by the later republic still constrains him at the bottom line.

Zhang Zhao hesitated, but others did not. Qiong Re Duojin, who was beside him, saw that Zhang Zhao did not go after him, and gave him a grateful glance. The Tubo slave thought that Zhang Zhao deliberately left a cub for him to come out. Out of anger.

'Boom!Boom! Qiong Re Duojin, who quickly chased after him, took a black iron hammer, and hit the third child who was crawling on the ground violently, only red and white were splashed everywhere.

"You son of a bitch! You are a dog slave, your brother is a dog slave, your mother is a dog slave, and your whole family is a dog slave. My sister and I want to marry a hero, so your sister will follow the groom and become a lowly woman! "

Qiong Re Duojin, who was smashing and shouting, fell into a frenzy. He rushed over after smashing the third child, and hammered the old head who had not died for a while and was struggling on the ground into a rotten watermelon.

"It's Duojin from Qiongre's family in Langmi Dongdai. Ge Duo is dead. All men from all families come out, and join me to surrender Ge Duo's property to Mr. Zhang's Erlang!"

Time seemed to have stopped for a moment, and the expressions on the faces of the poor shepherds who had been numbly watching them kill Ge Duo's three sons suddenly became vivid.

"Let's go! Share gold and silver with Dokinjula (big brother)!" Someone shouted, and the shepherds who were still cowering just now seemed to feel some kind of call, and screamed from their respective sheds. rushed out.

Zhang Zhao took a look, and the one who rushed the fastest seemed to be the shepherd who was kneeling on the side of the road just now.

Blue and black smoke rose in the village, and a few horse thieves with weapons rushed out from the stone building in Dazhai, but when they saw dozens of herdsmen rioting with wooden sticks and dung forks, they hurried again. Slipping back, it seems that he wants to rely on this stone building to hold on.

Zhang Zhao suddenly felt a little boring. He also deliberately wore a Tubo armor. He was terribly cold all the way. He thought that he would definitely have a big fight in this cottage, but he killed Ge Duoerong smoothly. After the birth of a son, the shepherds in the village were able to deal with Ge Duo's family.

"Mr. Erlang, there are more than a dozen of Ge Duo's confidantes at the main road below the mountain. Let's kill them now. Let's leave it to Qiong Re Duojin to deal with it. I guarantee that Ge Duo's family will not be left behind!"

Bai Congxin thought it was Zhang Zhao who was worried, because Ge Duo's wife, concubine and daughter were still in the stone building, and if he did such a thing, he would definitely kill the root.

Zhang Zhao was stunned for a moment, shook his head and didn't say anything. He just drew his horizontal knife and walked towards the middle of the mountain. If Ge Duo took care of the cottage, there would be nothing left for the people around him.

. . . .

In the southwest of Shouchang, about one regiment of cavalry is resting. These soldiers are wearing simple cotton robes, brown leather hats on their heads, light cowhide armor on their bodies, and sackcloth on their faces to protect them from the wind and sand.

They are all one person and two horses, one horse rides by itself, and the other horse is tied with a unified ring chain armor.

"Mr. Fourteen! The stronghold of the descendants of the Qi family should be in the mountains a few miles away. The traitors of the sixth team of the third regiment Jiazi who we caught outside Shouchang city said that the third lady was sent by them. Entered Qi's cottage, but this place is hard to find."

A guy wearing a linen robe like a herdsman came down from a hill, and was telling a man wearing a hooded head.

"Ma Yaozi, you'd better tell your subordinates to hurry up, Mr. Luo Erlang is waiting for you to make meritorious deeds!"

Mr. Fourteenth Lang stared fiercely at the horse kite that came down from the mountain bag, and he deliberately emphasized the word meritorious service.

Ma Yaozi's complexion changed, he didn't even bother to drink water, so he quickly got on the horse again.

It would have been better if Mrs. Cao San hadn't been taken captive, but Zhang Zhong, who had been living in Shouchang, was also missing.

To make matters worse, the gentleman Zhang Zhong was protecting also disappeared.

What's even more ominous is that the chief culprit who kidnapped Mrs. Cao, Zhai Tongjin, captain of the sixth team of the third regiment of Yaqian Yabing in Jiezhen, and three others died in the cave of that gentleman.

And the biggest misfortune is that his master Jiedu Yaya, Shouchangyi envoy Luo Erlang Lord Luo Xianda's elder brother, Jieduyaqian right horse step Duyaya, Yunmen army envoy Luo Tongda, used to be The prime minister of the main hall of the emperor in white, it can even be said that the three brothers of the Luo family were all promoted quickly during Zhang Chengfeng's period.

Mr. Erlang is gone, and Mrs. Cao San is gone. As long as you are not stupid, you can easily get in touch with the brothers of the Luo family. Therefore, the most urgent thing is to find Mrs. Cao, but Mr. Erlang!

(End of this chapter)