Rogue master in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 209 I Have No Mother
Hundreds of meters away, under the gray sky, the dwarf mountain stood quietly on the plain.Chen Wei immediately recognized this place. Although the trees were denser compared with later generations, the shape of the low mountain was surprisingly similar to the surrounding terrain.

At the foot of the short mountain, a large number of people were digging the soil, and there were guards and patrols within a mile radius.On the top of the sentry post, there is a black embroidered flag.Chen Wei was very familiar with that flag, it was Dong Zhuo's flag.

"Dong Zhuo?" Chen Wei frowned.

"Er Zaizi, wait for me here, I'll come back as soon as I go." Chen Wei turned his head and said to Er Zaizi.

Er Zaizi nodded foolishly, and squatted down to play with Hei Zaizi.

Chen Wei smiled slightly, then found a path among the weeds and walked down.

The wind suddenly picked up, black clouds rolled in from the sky, and it began to drizzle again.A few moles startled by Chen Wei ran out of the bushes, squeaked a few times, and swooshed into the hole in the mud ditch.

Chen Wei landed under the mud pool, and braved the drizzle and walked quietly towards the short mountain.Although he couldn't see the terrain ahead clearly when he landed on the plain, Chen Wei slowed down after walking a few hundred meters because he saw a sentry post ahead.

In the dense forest ahead, in addition to the sound of rain falling on the leaves, the voices of people in front can also be faintly heard.

Chen Wei stopped under a big tree. After waiting for half an hour, it was getting dark before Chen Wei continued to move forward. Relying on the dark light and the cover of trees, he gradually approached a sentry post. The thatched canopy sheltered from the rain, surrounded by a bonfire in the middle, and there was a clay pot on the bonfire, cooking something.

Taking advantage of the time between their meals, Chen Wei bypassed the sentry post and continued on his way.

After avoiding several sentry posts, Chen Wei finally came to the foot of the mountain.I saw a supervisor in coir raincoat standing on the low slope, and at the foot of the mountain, hundreds of people were digging the soil.There are traces of excavation around the short mountain, but on the west side of the foot of the mountain, a deep hole has been dug, leading to the interior of the mountain.

Chen Wei, who was hiding behind a tree, noticed that in the excavated soil, there were gray pottery fragments mixed with human-like severed limbs.

"Terracotta Army?" Chen Wei frowned slightly,
At this time, the supervisor standing on the short slope came down and walked towards Chen Wei.

Chen Wei caught a glimpse of the wooden shed not far away, jumped up, climbed up the tree, and then covered it with leaves, looked down.

The supervisor passed under the tree where Chen Wei was, but he didn't notice that there was a person hiding above his head.He went to the wooden shed, and while taking off his wet coir raincoat, he complained to the people in the wooden shed, "Damn it, I don't know how long this weather will last."

"Get through the underground palace as soon as possible, and you won't have to suffer this much." Another voice sounded from the wooden shed.

"It has been raining for days, and the project has been slowed down... After more than a month of digging, all the terracotta warriors and horses who were buried with them were dug out, and there was not even a shadow of the underground palace."

"The superiors keep urging you, if you can't dig it out, you and I will suffer. It's not like you don't know the tactics of the military master. If you are tortured, life would be worse than death."

"Every time I see the mask on his face, I get horrified."

"However, more and more things have been dug out recently, and it seems that the underground palace is not far away."

"Well, although there are a lot of things dug out, they are all useless terracotta warriors and horses. They can't dig up any valuables. I plan to take this opportunity to get some oil and water..."

"Don't even think about treasures or anything else. Little people like you and I won't be able to get our hands on them anyway. The people below need us to urge them to dig into the underground palace as soon as possible."

Another person came outside the wooden shed, saw two people inside, and immediately shouted: "Hey, come and say something."

"Why, sneaky, who else is here besides us, speak freely if you have something to say."

"I just received the news that the lord can't win Luoyang, so he withdrew his troops."

"Ah, do you still want to dig?"

"Dig, you have to hurry up. I heard that people from above have come here in the past few days. If we can't dig it out, we are going to be buried with Qin Shihuang like these terracotta warriors and horses!"

"But we don't know how long we can dig with this little manpower, why don't we go to Lintong County and bring some peasants over?"

"Do you want to be beheaded? Whose land is here? It's okay to leak it out?"

"Just talking. But we have to think of a way, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with business."

……

Listening to the conversation below, Chen Wei finally understood that these were the people Cao Cao sent to dig up Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, pretending to be Dong Zhuo's people to hide from his eyes and ears.However, in the barren mountains and wild mountains here, as long as the surrounding news is blocked, small-scale excavations are not enough to attract the attention of outsiders.

Suddenly, a cry of surprise sounded from the foot of the mountain, "I got it, I got it."

The three people talking in the wooden shed looked at each other with joy, and hurried out.

From a hole dug in the west, a dozen people covered in sand and mud ran out, shouting in surprise: "My lord, my lord, I found something, I found it..."

The three overseers immediately ran into the hole.

Chen Wei, who was hiding in the tree, could only look at the cave from a distance. "

After a while, the three supervisors came out.One of them said with a look of disappointment on his face, "It's just a few stones."

Another supervisor was overjoyed and said: "These stones are all carved by hand. Although we can't find the underground palace, we can know that the underground palace must be here."

"That's right, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is divided into the outer palace and the inner palace. It seems that these stones are the walls of the outer palace, and the underground palace must not be far away."

"Dig, transfer all the people from the south, and continue digging for me along here!" The supervisor said happily.

……

Without anyone noticing, a shadow slid down a tree and left without a sound.

"It seems that the underground palace will be dug out in a few days." Chen Wei thought to himself as he returned along the way.

"Second bastard, let's go back."

……

Beside the ancient road, outside the small shop.

"Qiye, you also know that my son is a fool, ignorant, and offended Qiye, you can take this tiger skin, no money, no money..." Shopkeeper Liu knelt in front of Chen Qi with a flattering expression on his face Said.

Chen Qi looked indifferently at shopkeeper Liu who was kneeling in front of him, and there were a dozen minions standing behind him.

"Hehe, tiger skin? I peeled off your skin!" Chen Qi kicked Shopkeeper Liu in the face.

Shopkeeper Liu hurriedly got up and knelt down in front of Chen Qi again. His face was covered with blood, but he still smiled and said, "Master Qi fought well, I should fight, I should fight! If Master Qi doesn't like this tiger skin, I will And the few coins I won today, I'll treat it as tea money for you from the second son. Accept it, accept it."

Chen Qi saw the few taels of silver in shopkeeper Liu's palm, took the money unceremoniously and threw it to the minion behind him, then grabbed shopkeeper Liu's messy hair, stepped on his shoulder, leaned his face together and said with a grinning smile: "Bad gambler, I just like your temper. You laugh at people, when you lose money, when you are beaten, or when you are beaten. Do you think you are cheap?"

"It's cheap, Seventh Master is right, it's cheap!"

Chen Qi slapped him with a slap, and said with a smile, "Laugh, please continue to laugh."

Shopkeeper Liu grinned, and blood continued to flow from his teeth.

"Haha, why do you say that you have no backbone at all, more a slave than a slave. No wonder you gave birth to an idiot!"

Chen Qi kicked him over again, stepped on Shopkeeper Liu's face with his shoes, spat, and said with a smile, "I'll spare you idiot this time, and send the tiger skin and tiger penis to my house tomorrow." , do you hear me?"

"I hear, I hear. Lord Qi can go..." Shopkeeper Liu got up on his knees, and after Chen Qi left with his minions, he brushed aside the hair with a few strands of silver that was sticking to the blood on his face, and pouted. A mouthful of blood fell to the ground, and two teeth lay in the blood.He grinned in pain, and limped into the room with his waist supported.While wiping the blood off his face, he walked into the dark house, pulled out a crock pot from under the bed, dug out a cloth bag from the rice, put it in the bed, opened it, and found some broken silver.

Shopkeeper Liu tremblingly took out a few pieces of silver from Chen Wei from his pocket, smiled, his mouth was full of blood, "Fortunately, I hid three liang."

There was a sound outside the door, and shopkeeper Liu was startled. He hurriedly put all the money together, wrapped it up, put it back in the rice vat, and walked out.

"Father, I'm back."

When Shopkeeper Liu saw his son, his expression changed immediately, he picked up the pole by the door and hit Er Zaizi, cursing: "I let you commit crimes, I let you commit crimes!"

Er Zaizi stood there without moving, letting his father's pole hit him, and he didn't dodge, looking at Chen Wei with a silly smile, he seemed a little embarrassed.

Inexplicably angry, Chen Wei grabbed the pole and pulled it. Shopkeeper Liu staggered and fell to the ground by the pole, coughing violently.

Chen Wei was about to apologize, but Shopkeeper Liu stood up and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay, let the guests laugh, laugh."

Chen Wei frowned slightly, and said in a serious tone, "Master Liu, originally this is your family business, and I shouldn't take it too far. But it's only natural for a father to beat his son, and the premise is that you treat the second son as a son. You chase the second son every day When you go hunting, you have to catch a tiger. If you can’t catch him, you won’t let him go home. If you sell the prey for money, you spend it for him? You spend it all and lose it cleanly. If you lose the money, you take it out on your son. Do you think you are qualified to be a father?"

Shopkeeper Liu smiled on his pale, wrinkled face, but the smile was a bit forced. He nodded and murmured feebly: "The scolding is justified, the scolding is justified."

Chen Wei shook his head, turned around and looked at Er Zaizi who was squatting on the ground.He looked up at Chen Wei, then looked up at his father again, then scratched his head and smirked at the black boy lying at his feet.

"I'll make dinner for you." Shopkeeper Liu turned his legs and walked into the kitchen.

Chen Wei looked at his withered back, and suddenly felt guilty that he had shot too hard just now.

"Shopkeeper Liu, I should stay here for a few days, is it convenient?" Chen Wei asked.

"Convenient and convenient." Shopkeeper Liu turned around at the kitchen door and smiled.

"You can accept this money." Chen Wei said.

Shopkeeper Liu hesitated for a moment, but still stretched out his hand to take the money.

……

After the meal, shopkeeper Liu held a long pipe and crossed his legs, and sat in the corner smoking a cigarette. His shriveled eyes looked at the dark mountains outside the window. Seeing Chen Wei looking over, he put down his feet and nodded with a smile.

Chen Wei also nodded and walked out the door.

The air in the mountains is good, the evening breeze blows slowly, with the smell of damp grass and mud.

Chen Wei walked to Er Zaizi who was sitting by the door, and the black boy lay beside him, licking Er Zaizi's feet.

Chen Wei raised his head and looked into the distance. Under the night, the strange peaks and rocks were faintly hideous.

"Second bastard, do you hate your father?"

"Don't hate."

"why?"

Er Zaizi scratched his head, as if he couldn't figure it out. After a long time, he opened his mouth, hesitated, and finally said:
"I don't have a mother, only a father."

Chen Wei trembled and fell silent.

At night, the mountains are completely empty, only the oil lamps in the small shop are shaking alone.

(End of this chapter)