The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 69 Some 'companions' are for sale

".The county also ran away."

Zhao Hongjun, who was dressed in a soap-colored narrow-sleeved gown, had a swollen belly and spread his hands with a proud grin. Looking at Geng Qing who was coming, his mustache stretched out in a smile.

"Are you surprised"

Before the word 'Xi' could be uttered, what he answered was a fist slamming into the eye socket, and a scream of 'Ouch' came out, and the birds in the woods on one side flew around in fright.

The Fat County Magistrate stumbled back and raised his finger to the opposite side. The next moment after he said "Dare you...", another old fist hit his big round face.

Geng Qing pressed him to the ground, and rode on the opponent's chest, his fists fell like wind and raindrops, and his fat rippled in circles.

All around was the sound of beating, bang bang, and the wailing of the fat county magistrate on the ground begging for mercy.

"Don't, don't. It won't work there, it hurts, it hurts"

"Ouch, the bone is about to break. Stop hitting it."

"I want to live, but I don't want to be a traitor, why can't I just run?!"

The women along the way of Zhao Hongjun wanted to come over with their bags, but there were many Jianghu people with weapons around them, so they didn't dare to move, and stood timidly by the side of the road; over there, Geng Qing got off the fat county magistrate, rubbing his fists , "Who doesn't want to live, but you are the parent officer, the biggest one in Feihu County. If you run away, what will the people below do? Thanks to your righteous and awe-inspiring look yesterday morning."

"When the county left, I left a note for them. If they couldn't keep it, they were allowed to surrender. Hey, what are you doing? Call the county to do it again."

Geng Qing, who was walking away, rolled up his sleeves, and walked back, punching and kicking the fat man sitting on the ground, causing Wang Jinqiu to poke his head out in the middle carriage, and asked, "Da Zhu, what's the matter?" Stop?" At that time, he retracted his fists and feet, and Zhao Hongjun lowered his face-protecting arms on the ground, and shouted angrily at the young man who was backing away.

"This county is afraid of death, is there something wrong?!"

Suddenly, the young man raised his foot, and instinctively raised his hand to block the door. Over there, Geng Qing put down his foot, but did not really kick it. It was still a few moments before noon. He looked at the sky and looked back. If you take a shortcut on the mountain road at that time, you can reach Feihu County in the evening.

But. He glanced around, one carriage after another was waiting to move forward, and more than 30 gang members were also watching him. If he left and returned, what would the team do?

When the time comes to the city, the stubborn bull may not necessarily follow him. When he goes out of the city, whether he can catch up with the convoy or not, if he gets diverted halfway and the two sides go in the wrong direction, the consequences will be hard to say. .

"Mr. Geng, are you going to return to Feihu County?" Dou Wei patrolled from behind when he heard the movement, and somewhat heard what the county magistrate said.

Geng Qing was silent for a moment, waved his hand to let the convoy move on, shook his head and smiled at the big man, "I won't go, everyone has their own way of life, if we don't die, we'll see each other again, let's go."

In the air, the whip slapped, the hooves of the horse and donkey moved away, and the shaft turned again, rolling over the rough road and fine stones, and the fat figure sitting on the side of the road was disheveled in clothes and had a messy bun , with black eyes, looking at the car body and figure passing in front of him.

"What about this county? What about this county? Give me a ride."

Shouting, he pulled the hand of his 'wife' and stood up, took the burden from her arms and put it on his shoulders, sucked the blood from under his nose, and hurriedly followed the convoy, walking on the side, catching up with Geng Qing in front from time to time, Show a flattering smile.

"Brother. It's good to say that the beating is for intimacy. When the county government is in office, don't I often take care of you? Hehe, if you don't like it, you can beat it again, but today is not enough, several times a day, it hurts." Health, how about another day? First let me walk with the team for a while, and go to Chang'an together, and you can do whatever you want on the way."

Geng Qing, who chatted with Dou Wei for a few words, turned around, looked at the flattering magistrate in front of him, and frowned.

"These words, coming out of your mouth, feel a little disgusting."

"Hey, just treat me as a wife."

Geng Qing looked him up and down: "Just you?"

The fat county magistrate hurriedly straightened his messy bun, coughed dryly, puffed out his chest and bulging belly, "When I was young like you in this county, I was also a handsome young man."

Ha ha ha ha
Most of the gang members with the car were straightforward, and when they heard what he said, they all laughed. Zhao Hongjun saw the people around him laughing, with a solemn and serious expression, and pointed at himself anxiously: "How can this county lie? Back then, then And quite handsome."

The chattering words followed the convoy slowly along the mountain road to the southwest, and not long after, they passed through the forest and left Feihu County. There are more and more people with mouths.

In order to avoid the refugees, Geng Qing temporarily stopped the convoy in the forest, led people to explore the nearby paths, and then continued to walk through the mountains and fields. Although the speed will be slower, at least it is relatively safe. Once you reach Dingzhou, the road behind Good to go.

However, it was wishful thinking after all. The helpers who had explored the road in front came back and told Geng Qing that many corpses were found in front of him. It seemed that his family had escaped the war and went to Dingzhou.

When the convoy passed over there, Geng Qing's face gradually became ugly. In his field of vision, corpses lay scattered on the mountain road. Most of the corpses were killed by knife wounds, and there were also arrow wounds. However, the arrows were taken back by the other party. All of them were stripped of their clothes, among which seven or eight pretty women had been humiliated, their legs were spread wide, and their lower bodies were in a mess.

There is still the wreckage left by the carriage in the middle. Looking at the track of the wheels, it leads to the cliff outside the road. Standing on the edge and looking down, you can faintly see the fallen trees.

"It belongs to the Cai family in the city. I saw Cai You just now. He was stabbed twice and his neck was slit. He was lying with his wife. It seemed that he was watching his wife being killed."

"Stop talking, move the body away, let's hurry up."

Geng Qing's face was very ugly. If they were faster and came here before the Cai family, it would be their team that would have suffered disaster.

Right now, I don't know if it's bandits or Shatuo people, but one thing is, bandits can't kill all of them, especially women, most of them will be taken back to the village, unless they are Qingqi who have a mission and beat the fat sheep along the way , stole the money, vented a bit, then killed the person and left.

The convoy drove past the corpses piled up on the side of the road, Qiao Niang glanced through the curtain of the car, shivered in the corner of the car in fright, Rao Bai Yunxiang, who had seen a little of the world, was pale, remembering Geng Qing's previous persuasion The words of leaving really came true.

"If I stay in the city, once the city gate is broken and thieves enter the city, I will be the same as those women outside."

The Golden Knife Gang, who were catching knives outside, fought and killed people all day long, but in this environment, they were also nervous and apprehensive. Everyone kept calm on their faces, but in fact, their hearts were covered with the haze of an impending war.

After passing through this mountain road, when we arrived at a mountain depression, the gang who kept a certain distance to explore the road came back suddenly, with panicked faces, "There are many horseshoe marks on the ground, it seems that they have just passed by not long ago."

The sky was getting dark, and Geng Qing's mind was a little confused. He had never been in contact with this kind of military affairs. If he really wanted to predict the opponent's movements, he obviously couldn't do it.

"It's getting dark, even if the other party doesn't go far, it's impossible to enter this kind of cliff and steep mountain road again. I will spend the night in the mountain depression tonight. Remember not to start a fire, otherwise the position will be exposed and people will see it."

After saying a few words, Dou Wei led people to drive all the carriages to the mountain depression and formed a circle, and everyone rested in the circle, while the old man and the woman stayed in the carriage to rest.

The yellow sun fell on the mountain.

The night covers the world along the ridge, and the stars and moon hang in the night sky. In the cold night, the dark barren mountains and mountains are like female beasts, eerie and terrifying.

woo~~
The night fox neighed in the forest, the little fox ran to the car and squatted with its furry ears shaking, looked curiously at the unfamiliar mountains and forests around it, stroked the curtain of the car, Geng Qing comforted his parents, turned his face, stretched out his hand He touched the little girl's head and knew that she had the shadow of being robbed.

"Don't be afraid, I'm still here, and nothing will happen."

Geng Qing withdrew her hand, said softly to Qiao Niang, then got out of the car, and threw a worn thin blanket to Zhao Hongjun, who was dozing on the shaft of the car, and the woman who escaped with him, that was not his wife at all, but It was a maid in the backyard of the county government.

"Bro, you said we'd be fine, right?"

The fat county magistrate covered the woman with the blanket, and leaned forward with a bruised nose and swollen face. When he saw Geng Qing turned his face and gave him a sideways look, he quickly retracted to lean against the car shaft, and asked a little worriedly: "Where are you going? "

"pee."

Replying, Geng Qing walked past the carriage, went outside to untie his belt, let out the urine stains that he had been holding back for a long time, and the yellowish water column swept across the arc to water the grass, and when he turned and walked back, he suddenly stopped in a carriage.

A carriage away, the voices of several people were faintly heard.

"Walking down this road, I feel frightened, so I might as well leave."

".I also feel that it's not good to go to Chang'an for what to do in the north? But I'm not reconciled to leaving like this. There are so many good things in this car, enough for all our brothers to become rich."

"It's good to be a rich man. Look at Cai Dahu, he was killed like a dog. If you want me to say, just talk to other brothers on the road tomorrow, and take things away. Let's roar in the mountains and forests, then That's what makes you happy!"

"Besides the money, why not take that Bai Yunxiang away too. I've been greedy for her for a long time."

"Hehe. Brothers are finished, it's our turn"

"Should we be together?"

Talking softly, some people were worried, got up and walked around the carriage to look around, seeing no one, went back to the three companions and unscrewed the wine bag while talking and drinking.

Not far away, in the shadow of another carriage, Geng Qing turned around and left quietly with a blank face, returned to the donkey cart at home, and took out a paper package from a bundle that belonged to him inside. When I was in the city, I asked someone to buy some poison for soaking iron filings.

Opening the paper bag, Geng Qing silently took out a pottery bowl from the pile of belongings, poured the powder into it, then mixed it with water and stirred it evenly, untied the rice bag next to it, poured the poisonous water on it, and stirred it with his hands After a while, he threw the pottery bowl under the donkey cart, tightened his pockets again, and walked back to the fat county magistrate, sitting on the ground with his sleeves wrapped around him, and fell asleep.

The sky was bright, and the sun broke through the gaps in the clouds and shone on the mountain. Geng Qing got up with red eyes, only to realize that a thin blanket was covering her body at some point. After a while, Qiao Niang leaned out of the carriage and came to him with a blushing face. To beg, after a night, she recovered fairly well.

The camp gradually became lively, and everyone went back to their carriages one after another, and continued to move forward. Geng Qing found Dou Wei and pointed to the gang members near the two carriages in the middle section.

"Let them exchange with the brothers in the donkey cart."

Although he didn't understand, Dou Wei was used to being sent, so he nodded and went over with a knife in hand to arrange those people to escort the donkey cart.

Soon, the convoy dragged a piece of axle creaking and creaking up the slope, and continued along this mountain road to another big mountain.

In the distance, a cavalry team of more than a hundred people went around the foot of the mountain and climbed up a hill. The cavalry team was led by a Shatuo general named Xiehuer. He was waking up from his sleep and yawned. After crossing the surrounding terrain, the deputy garrison suddenly approached him on his horse, whispered something in his ear, held his whip, and pointed in another direction.

In the distance, among the winding mountain roads, a convoy is walking slowly close to the mountain.

"sheep"

He spoke in Turkic, and immediately pulled out the weapon at his waist, and the hundreds of horsemen around him suddenly shouted "Wow!" He pulled the reins, led the horse's head to turn around, and rushed down the hillside below. , Going straight towards the foot of the opposite mountain.

The sound of rumbling horseshoes and waves resounded.

It could be heard hundreds of feet away. The walking crowd looked back, and Geng Qing, who was sitting on the carriage and flipping through the map, also turned his head to look over there, and his eyes shrank suddenly.

Dou Wei came running with a knife in hand: "It's from Shatuo, they didn't go far yesterday, and they camped nearby."

"trouble"

Geng Qing frowned, looking at the cavalry rushing down the hillside dragging dust and smoke, there were hundreds of them, and they were all light cavalry, and it took only half a stick of incense to catch up with their convoy.

"Smashed the two worthless carriages behind, blocked the mountain road, let people ride the poor horses, and hurried away."

His tone paused, and he suddenly subconsciously looked at the donkey cart at the back, his eyes lit up, and after thinking of something, he ordered again.

"Let the gang get into the carriage nearby, squeeze, and rush through here!"

The order went down layer by layer, and the hands-on helpers smashed the two carriages they had selected, and removed the wheels to block the back. Immediately, they all ran to the carriage they were escorting, and squeezed the chariot. The crowd shook the reins and urged the horses to speed up.

bang bang bang --

The shafts of the carriages were undulating rapidly, and the carriages drove back and forth along the mountain road at high speed. In the tense nerves of the crowd, they forgot about the donkey cart behind them. The four whipped their whips, and the green donkey only barked twice and walked slowly.

"Come on, hurry up—"

"They're catching up!"

Someone turned his head, and in the horrified sight, the sound of rumbling horseshoes spread, and the figures on horseback galloped along the mountain road in the form of long dragons. When they rushed to this side, two carriages full of porcelain were blocked in the middle of the road. The donkey cart was ten feet away, and the four Han men on it were dancing with whips and screaming, and kept turning their heads.

call out!
The arrow jumped over the blockage below, shot over there, and nailed the man's back.

　There was a mistake in yesterday's chapter, it wasn't Yanmen Pass, Yanmen Pass was still above Weizhou, and now it has been changed.

　　There is only one chapter tonight, four thousand words!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)