Taiqing Sword

Chapter 265, anger
The trembling of the old man's body did not stop at all because of the money in Shangguan Jinghong's hands, but became more intense: "Don't dare, the leaders live in the old man's house, and the old man is too late to be moved, how dare he accept the money again."

Shangguan Jinghong couldn't help but put the silver in the old man's hand: "Seeing that the old man's family is not rich, let's take it."

The old man wanted to hand over the money, Shangguan Jinghong said: "There is no need to refuse, please find me a room?"

The old man said: "This, this is too much, old man..."

Shangguan Jinghong didn't listen any more, but walked into the house on his own, seeing the simple layout, there were only three huts, the old man said: "The leaders should live in these two rooms." The old man pointed to two rooms. main room.

Shangguan Jinghong frowned: "Where does the old man live?"

The old man smiled: "The old man has rough skin and thick flesh, just live in the woodshed."

"Impossible, there is no reason for guests to expel the host. Besides, the old man is so old, how can he sleep in the woodshed, so I live in the woodshed with two followers, let my maid sleep in the room .”

Linghu panicked: "Holy... Director, let the maidservant sleep in the woodshed."

Shangguan Jinghong waved his hand: "No, you go to sleep, I still have some things to ask the old man."

After finishing speaking, ignore Linghu, and Jue Xin and Jue Zhi also went into the firewood room, while Shangguan Jinghong approached the old man, who swallowed hard: "I don't know what the leader wants to ask .”

"Old man, I want to ask, how far is it from Persia?"

The old man said: "There is still about 100 miles to the west from here, but it is a vast desert, and the road is not easy to walk."

Shangguan Jinghong nodded: "Old man, there is still one thing I don't understand. Please explain clearly why the old man was so scared when he saw me for the first time just now? After thinking about it for a long time, I don't remember where I saw the old man before, but why? "

The old man's eyes dodged a bit: "This, this, the old man was just blind and mistakenly mistaken the leaders as robbers on the spot." After speaking, the old man took two steps back involuntarily, wishing to slap himself twice, and hurriedly explained: " No, no, it's not the old robber..."

Shangguan Jinghong knew that the old man was not telling the truth, so he didn't point it out. When he lowered his head, he suddenly found that his clothes were still foreign clothes, and he understood immediately: "Is the old man afraid of Persians?"

"No, no, no, no, the old man is really blind."

While the two were talking, a young man pushed the door open and entered: "Grandpa, I'm back." The young man was holding a steel fork and a hare in his hand. When he saw Shangguan startled, he immediately threw the hare aside. , holding a steel fork to Shangguan Jinghong: "You bastards, we have no food, do you want to starve us to death?"

The old man was terrified, and pushed the young man: "Shut up!" Then he knelt down in front of Shangguan Jinghong: "Boss, the child is young and ignorant, you must not blame him."

Shangguan Jinghong quickly helped the old man: "Please get up, old man, what are you doing? You just said food? What do you mean?"

The old man was stunned, and quickly got up and walked into the room, and came over with half a bag of rice: "Boss, that's all I have left in my house, as long as you don't hurt this child, you can take it away, by the way, the silver, The money will be returned to you."

The boy hurriedly shouted: "Grandpa, that's all we have. If we give it to them, we still have more than three months to harvest the food. How will we live the rest of the day?"

"shut up!"

Shangguan Jinghong's brows became tighter and tighter, and he stepped forward to pick up half a bag of white rice, which weighed less than ten catties. Could it be that such a small amount of food would take three months to eat: "Old man, you may have misunderstood, I don't want food , but I want to know, why are you afraid of the Persians? Are they looting food?"

"You bandits still..."

"Shut up, are you going to piss grandpa to death!" The old man was clearly in a hurry, Shangguan Jinghong suddenly saw the young man's handsome face, he didn't look like a boy, so he asked, "Are you...a woman?"

Hearing this, the old man quickly hid the previous year behind his back: "The chief misread, this is my grandson, how could it be a woman?"

Shangguan Jinghong took off the foreign clothes on his body, and the old man was even more startled: "Boss, boss, this is really my grandson, not a woman."

Shangguan Jinghong threw his clothes away: "See clearly, I am not a Persian, I just went to Persia for some business, so I had to dress like this, now can you tell me what happened?"

The old man was silent for a while, and the young man couldn't help it: "Are you really not a Persian?"

Shangguan Jinghong nodded firmly: "Look at me, do I look like a Persian?"

The old man sighed, after seeing Shangguan Jinghong more than a dozen times, he seemed to be sure of Shangguan Jinghong's identity, and finally told the truth.

"Hey, leader, oh no, sir, you don't know something. People here are living a hard life. Five years ago, a group of Persians suddenly came here. At first they only came to collect food, and the price was high. Happy, the people in the village were very excited and sold their surplus grain one after another, but not long after, they came to harvest again. The grain harvested by every household on this land was already small, and the grain that was sold before was also stored for many years , where there is still food for sale, they didn't say anything, they only said to come back in a few days, but after going back and forth, they seemed to find some martial arts that no one here seemed to understand, so they showed their true colors, not only taking the money they had collected before They snatched all the food back, and also took away the food. They also designated a small square. If anyone refused, they would cut off the head of the person and hang it on the flagpole of the small square. The villagers quit, One after another fought with them desperately, and they killed nearly a hundred people at once. Later, a rule was established that anyone who dared to hide grain privately would be beheaded! The people in the village did not dare to resist and could only watch helplessly. Later, they not only They just robbed money and food, even the women in the village, they robbed them all, and the rest had to disguise their children as men to escape the catastrophe!" The tears of the old man were like The broken beads fell drop by drop.

The more Shangguan Jinghong listened, the angrier he became, and at the end he burst into laughter: "Fanbang villain, how dare you do that!"

"Hush, sir, keep your voice down, if they overhear you, you will die."

Shangguan Jinghong kept pacing back and forth: "Old man, tell me, where are these thieves? I must kill them all!" Linghu, Juexin and Juezhi also heard Shangguan Jinghong's voice. They rushed over one after another.

(End of this chapter)