The Heroes of Gulong: Great Chefs from Past to Present

Chapter 59 Kucha Royal City
  The sand city rises from the ground, with stone walls several feet high.

Kucha City is not too far from King Kucha's oasis, but within one day, Li Chaofeng and Ji Bingyan saw a city built with stones.

The morning sun shines on the white stones, giving the entire city of Kucha a slight golden light.

Under the city wall, five armies were attacking Kucha City from all sides, and the King of Kucha was sitting on the camel throne, nodding in approval.

Under the throne, seven or eight Kucha warriors were kneeling to report to King Kucha.

"We have lived up to our trust and returned today with reinforcements from the four countries."

"Okay! Okay! Okay! You are worthy of being the most loyal warrior of Kucha Kingdom. I will definitely give you a heavy reward when you are done!"

King Qiuci praised him three times, because his group of people were the ones he truly trusted, and they were the ones who asked for help from all directions with their gold, silver, and jewels.

Instead, it was Princess Qiuci and Princess Pipa. King Qiuci always had doubts in his heart. For more than a year after losing the throne, King Qiuci had been vaguely aware that there was a traitor around him.

But he never thought that the traitor was the princess who had been ill for a long time.

Fortunately, he kept the secret of the Bliss Star tightly enough.

Now, King Qiuci trusts Li Chaofeng and the two, because without them reporting, it will be of little use for him to regain the throne. When the time comes, he will still be killed by the princess with one blow.

On top of the city, countless Kucha people were being forced up the city wall by the rebels, throwing stones at the bottom of the city one by one, and then being killed one by one by soldiers or vicious sand bandits.

Seeing the almost crushing siege on the city, King Qiuci looked proud and his heart was filled with joy.

"The two knights from the Central Plains now know that this king is not lying."

King Qiuci did not reveal the secret of the Bliss Star. He just told Li Chaofeng and Ji Bingyan that as soon as they arrived in Qiuci City, they knew that he and Shi Guanyin were definitely not the same people.

Because what he wants is war, and in the war, the strength of Hu Tiehua and the three Jianghu people is only a drop in the bucket.

Capturing Hu Tiehua's three friends will make them fight for their lives. King Qiuci would not do such a stupid thing.

In order to gain Ji Bingyan's trust, King Qiuci even accepted that he had always been within the control of the two.

And similarly, before Hu Tiehua returns, Li Chaofeng and Ji Bingyan will be his personal bodyguards.

The rebels were allied with people from the Central Plains, and "Killer Ruthless" Du Huan had already proven that he was not even half a cent better than the Kucha guards.

Ji Bingyan killed Du Huan, and Li Chaofeng even defeated Sun Kong, the strongest assassin among them, with one move, so he was naturally the best person to prevent assassination.

Ji Bingyan squinted her eyes and thought about it. She didn't object to this suggestion, but she just sneered in her heart.

King Qiuci trusted Ji Bingyan, and another reason was that he felt that Hu Tiehua had to come back with his soldiers if he wanted to come back from the desert, so there was no need for the two sides to break up before Hu Tiehua came back.

It's a pity that Ji Bingyan doesn't need him to find Hu Tiehua.

Hu Tiehua didn't have nothing with him. He had Li Chaofeng's tracking pill with him.

Ji Bingyan's initial plan was that after Shi Guanyin left the camp, he and Li Chaofeng would capture King Qiuci and lead Shi Guanyin around to look for people.

And they threw King Qiuci into the desert with their backhand. Li Chaofeng followed the tracking pill route to find Hu Tiehua, and even rescued Chu Liuxiang.

With a humanoid radar like Li Chaofeng, it would be a pity not to use it.

After discovering that Shi Guanyin and King Qiuci were not of the same mind, Ji Bingyan hatched a second plan.

If King Qiuci was willing to cooperate with them in plotting against Shi Guanyin, they did not need to throw away King Qiuci. It would be safer and more secure for him to hold Shi Guanyin in person.

If he doesn't want to, then he can continue to be a hostage and be thrown into the desert by Ji Bingyan to seek his own happiness.

The result was that King Qiuci believed that Ji Bingyan and Li Chaofeng were not Shi Guanyin's people, but Ji Bingyan did not quite believe that King Qiuci did not know that Princess Qiuci was Shi Guanyin.

Only then did we have a trip to Kucha City.

In fact, after the King of Kucha learned that the five-way reinforcements had arrived in Kucha, he was already preparing to break camp.

Reinforcements have arrived, why is his employer still staying in the oasis?
  Continue to be a target?

Whether it was the king or his employer, he was not a target.

The city gate was completely opened, and King Qiuci sat on the throne, proudly inviting Li Chaofeng and Ji Bingyan.

"Two heroes, are you willing to go into the city with me and meet the treasonous traitor Andeshan?"

However, the response was only silence from the two of them.

Ji Bingyan was silent because his plan was to capture King Kucha, but King Kucha said that he and Shi Guanyin were not the same people, so he was still dubious. If there was anything abnormal, he would definitely grab King Kucha and run away.

As for offending the Kingdom of Kucha.
  What else could the small country of Qiuci do to him, a rich man from Lanzhou?

I didn’t realize that the Qiuci City was only three feet high, so Chu Liuxiang could climb over it with a little help.

But once you enter the city, it's hard to get out.

And Li Chaofeng, ever since he saw the killings at the top of Qiuci City, his face has become paler and his eyes have become more and more confused.

At this moment, King Qiuci invited the two of them to enter the city. Ji Bingyan also turned to ask Li Chaofeng for his opinion. He also noticed something unusual about the other party and hurriedly stepped forward to ask. “Snake boy, what’s wrong with you?”

"It's okay. Phew. It's okay."

In addition to Kucha soldiers and civilians, the garrison on the top of the city also had several Han Chinese wearing Kucha clothes. They held knives that Li Chaofeng was very familiar with.

The Yanling knife is also the most commonly used standard knife by the frontier army.

Shen Dao Tang also uses Yan Ling Dao, but it is half an inch shorter to distinguish it.

Combined with the title of "Invincible Magic Sword" mentioned by King Qiuci in the camp.
  Li Chaofeng couldn't laugh or cry.

In this Kucha rebellion, it turns out that instead of one or two Shen Sword Hall disciples acting like a fox, a group of Shen Sword Hall disciples mobilized?

Don't talk about mercenaries. No matter how short of money the Shen Knife Hall is, there is no need for a bunch of people to go to a small country like Qiuci to work.

Shen Knife Hall stretches across nine sides and is very popular. It is almost considered to be the best gang in the world, and it will not be short of such a small amount of money.

With one or two, Li Chaofeng could treat them as if they were just passing by, but with so many, it was definitely not a chance.

Not to mention going up to the top of the city to serve as a defender. Before Li Chaofeng broke through the city, he even saw a disciple of the Divine Sword Hall dragging the master of the sand pirates to fall off the top of the city and die together.

This is not the style of Jianghu people. Jianghu people, let alone going to the top of the city to fight for their lives, can only protect and serve as a shield in front of the rebel leader only if they have a life-long friendship.

Countless thoughts flashed through Li Chaofeng's mind. He looked up at the foot of Kucha City, where there were countless corpses, and an inexplicable sense of absurdity erupted in his eyes.

Andershan... was his original surname "An"?

There seems to be no Han Chinese around King Qiuci! Mutual communication is also in Kucha language.

On the other hand, on the Andershan side, everyone spoke Chinese.

Movies and TV shows misled me.

……

Li Chaofeng said that he was fine, but no matter how you looked at it, his face was frighteningly white at the moment. Ji Bingyan continued to ask.

"You don't look like you're okay now? What's wrong?"

Li Chaofeng covered his face. He also knew that something was wrong with his current state, but he was only upset because he felt that he was in the wrong camp.

It's just that the palpitations were so intense that Li Chaofeng was speechless.

He quickly calmed down, showed a gentle smile, and explained in a low voice.

"It's okay. The smell of blood is too strong, you"

He nodded and motioned to Ji Bingyan to look around, implying that there was something wrong with his five senses.

Ji Bingyan understood immediately. At this time, King Qiuci also noticed something strange and asked with some concern.

"Could Young Master Snake be frightened?"

Hearing this, all the Kucha warriors around him laughed, because Li Chaofeng looked as if he was frightened by the war just now.

Li Chaofeng did not explain. He looked straight at his right hand and sighed helplessly.

It was enough that the soul of Emperor Han actually broke out in another world, but he didn't remember that his Emperor was so extreme?
  Just a moment later, he looked up at King Qiuci, forced a smile on his face, and explained.

"Indeed, the first time I saw the killing in the battle formation, the boy was so clueless that he worried the king."

Li Chaofeng smiled, but the smile was so fake that it made Ji Bingyan even more uneasy and made King Qiuci feel a trace of contempt in his heart.

He's just a rotten scholar with some skills.

"Snake boy, what are you doing?"

Li Chaofeng stretched out his hand to stop Ji Bingyan from continuing to ask. He took a deep breath and gradually transformed the smell of blood into a part of the environment. Soon, he completely ignored the blood and his face gradually turned rosy.

"Don't worry, Master Ji, I'm really fine."

When he recovered, Li Chaofeng nodded and smiled at Ji Bingyan again, just like usual.

Seeing Li Chaofeng's recovery so quickly, King Qiuci nodded in approval and laughed awkwardly.

"Being able to adapt to the battlefield so quickly, Snake Young Hero will surely achieve great things in the future."

"Hahaha, thank you very much for the king's kind words."

Li Chaofeng smiled happily.

King Qiuci saw that the young snake hero's expression had recovered, he was sitting on the camel throne, and he issued the king's order with a straight face.

"Enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)