Evil Dao Ghost Confucian Demon Monk

Chapter 18: Little Good General, Big Crisis

Shangguan Chouchou rode a little yellow horse to the gate of Beicheng.

Although there were fortifications built on the city gates, the Kingdom of Shu had been at peace for a long time, and there was no curfew for a long time. The city gates were also wide open at night, and the fortifications were like decorations.Even the "Surprise Drum" upstairs to warn of enemy attacks is mottled, and I don't know if it can still be sounded.

At this time, the gate of the city was a bit strange, a group of people were crowding in front of the gate, watching something.Shangguan Chou Chou has a lively heart, and when he sees this kind of excitement, he must rush forward to see what happened.Now there is a feeling that things are right and people are wrong, and they don't care much about this kind of crowd watching.Guessing which truck's cargo was knocked to the ground, and they were busy packing it up.Or a dog-skin plaster seller from out of town is hawking for business.These are common lively scenes in front of the city gate.

Suddenly a city guard on the tower roared and threw a big black ball from top to bottom.The black ball fell tightly with the rope, and then shook, swaying on the city gate.

Shangguan Chouchou looked up, it was not a black ball, it was clearly hanging a man in black, his hands and feet were bound and he couldn't move.

Shangguan Chouchou just glanced up casually, and felt that the hanging man looked familiar, and looked carefully, wasn't the hanging man the little general who saved him from the gambling house?
Xiao Pi still had the whiplash on his face, and his eyes were closed tightly, as if he had already passed out.

Shangguan Chouchou hurriedly got off his horse and squeezed past, there was no need to ask any more questions, the passers-by around the city had already talked about it, and after a few words, they knew the general idea of ​​the matter.

It turned out that Xiao Pi had offended the envoy of Dayun, so he was hanged here.

This morning, the envoy Dayun ordered the warriors in his entourage to compete with the Duke's men.

After the competition, Dayun Kingdom won three out of three matches.

Envoy Dayun was overjoyed, and his words were more or less disrespectful to the Duke.After a while, he said, "The warriors of the Shu Kingdom are nothing more than this, and I, Da Junerlang, are really good at fighting."After a while, he said, "Ke Guogong's method of leading troops is not as good as my cook in Dayun Kingdom."

General Pi, however, was not reconciled to his army of destroying mountains being underestimated by the envoys of Dayun.Mao then recommended himself and insisted on a competition with the warrior Dayun.

As expected, those warriors were defeated by the little general. They were also three of them, but they were defeated one after another.The last person who looked like a general was knocked unconscious by General Pi.

Unexpectedly, this incident caused a catastrophe.

Seeing that the general was knocked out, the envoy of Dayun Kingdom turned pale with fright, jumped up and stood up, hastily calling for the medical officers in his entourage to come for diagnosis and treatment.

Before the general could wake up, the envoy of Dayun yelled at the Duke angrily: "The general is the son-in-law of Dayun Kingdom. Such a noble man was injured by this humble warrior under your command. Life and death are unknown at this time. If you don't kill this stupid martial artist, you are trying to provoke war between the two countries."

Grandpa Guo didn't even blink his eyes twice, and he was about to execute Xiao Pi to death.

Pedestrians spoke vividly, as if they were on the scene, and they didn't know the truth or falsehood.

Some of the onlookers, who were afraid of the power of the army, praised the Duke for doing a good job, and easily resolved a war that was destructive to the country and the people.

There was also that injustice sticking out his neck and muttering: "Da Yunguo has deceived people too much, what kind of shit son-in-law was just knocked out, but he made my son-in-law of the Shu Kingdom pay the price of his life, and hang up like this!" Show it to the public, and you will be humiliated before you die."

But the man didn't murmur a few times before his companion covered his mouth and left in a hurry.It turned out that a group of soldiers in battle armor came out from the city gate.

One of the soldiers held up a tiger list and proclaimed: "Today, there is Wang Jitu, a general of the Duke's family, who is stubborn and dull. , Extremism, must not be tolerated. It must be severely punished, and it must be severely punished. From today, it will be shown to the public for three days, and you must be an example. From now on, you will be a good citizen of our Great Shu Kingdom."

After the soldiers read it out, they posted the tiger list on the city wall.On the list, you can see the bright red seal of the Destroying Mountain Army.The tiger list is an order of the military, and other officials are not allowed to interfere unless the emperor orders a pardon.

Shangguan Chouchou saw that the tiger list had been posted, and knew that the matter was a done deal, so he couldn't help but secretly worried.

"You can't let little Pi kill this savior just like that, hurry up and ask third uncle for help."

Only this sentence lingered in Shangguan Chouchou's mind, hurriedly urging the little yellow horse, and rushed towards the lotus alley in a hurry.

Lotus Alley is a particularly chaotic place, with all three religions and nine streams in it.

There is an official post station near the lotus alley, which is also the transit point of the road leading to the north of Shu, so there are always some foreigners entrenched here.Shangguan Chouchou took a few turns in the alley and came to a very ordinary dwelling.

The third uncle is doing an empty-handed business. Although his subordinates are a group of thieves, they call themselves thieves on the road.

But those who know them may not know their origins
There were many thieves in ancient times, including masked thieves, lustful thieves who stole incense and jade, and tomb robbers who entered tombs and opened coffins.

It is said that robbers look down on lecherous thieves and tomb robbers.There are only two patriarchs who worship.

One is Robber Zhi who dared to teach Confucius a lesson, because he practiced the way of robbers.

And the other is a big thief in ancient times, who is best at the art of stealing chickens and dogs.

The big thief has no name and no surname, Shangguan Chouchou has only seen the portrait of that person, he is a little old man.

There are also two sentences written next to the portrait, one is "bone soft and healthy", and the other is "walking like a flying fairy", criticizing "Meng Changmenke".

The wooden door in front of the dwelling was ajar, and Shangguan Chouchou opened the door to enter. In the yard, a woman was busy peeling yellow corn cobs, and a little girl of thirteen or fourteen was peeling sweet potatoes.This is not like a stolen door, the outside is ordinary, but the inside is also so ordinary.

If it wasn't for the fact that Shangguan's mother and third uncle were related, how could Shangguan Chouchou know that this was a robbery.The so-called "big hermits hide in the court, middle hermits hide in the city, and small hermits hide in the wild".Thief door up and down can be regarded as the hermit.

Shangguan Chouchou entered the door, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and said respectfully to the woman peeling corn next to the room: "Good morning, third aunt!"

The third aunt responded casually, but her hands didn't stop. She saw that her little fingers were extremely nimble, and with a light swipe, the golden corn kernels fell off the corn cob quickly, and the corn kernels were intact without any damage.

The third aunt doesn't like to talk, but her stealing skills are excellent, her status is very high, she is usually very dignified, and she looks like a shrew, Shangguan Chouchou is really afraid of this third aunt, so she stands cautiously at the side .

The little girl next to her was noisy: "Nephew and grandson, why don't you greet your little aunt and grandma?"

Shangguan Chouchou hurriedly took a step forward, and said, "I'm not coming here, come from behind, little aunt, good morning!"

The little girl has bright eyes and bright teeth, pure and innocent, and her seniority is quite high in the bandit door, but no one else cares about her seniority, only Shangguan Chouchou makes her happy from time to time, calling her little aunt a few times to coax the little girl Gotta smile.

The little girl made another sound of cheap money at this moment, and she was flattered in her heart, and said with a sweet smile: "Good boy! There is no meeting gift today, I will give you a ribbon."

I saw a piece of sweet potato skin was thinly peeled by the little girl, neatly, not broken at all.

This is peeled from the whole sweet potato, but the surface of the sweet potato is flawless. If you pick up the sweet potato skin and stick it back, it can be restored to an unpeeled sweet potato.

Shangguan Chouchou praised again: "As expected of the true story of Pirates, my aunt's craftsmanship is getting more and more amazing now. Whoever marries you will be blessed in the future, and this sweet potato is not wasted at all."

The little girl is still young, and she seems to understand the meaning of "marry".At this moment, with a sweet smile, he picked up another sweet potato and peeled it.Sweet potatoes are not smooth and round fruits. The sweet potatoes dug out from the ground are convex on the left and right on the right, and have uneven potholes.Seeing Shangguan Chouchou secretly smacking his tongue.

"Why are there so few people today?" Shangguan Chouchou asked.

While peeling the skin, the little girl said: "Today, there are tributes riding horses and parading through the streets in Dongcheng. There are people coming and going on the streets. They are all going to earn money for food."

Shangguan Chouchou chuckled and said, "That's very lively, why don't my aunts go?"

The little girl pursed her mouth, stared at Shangguan Chouchou with watery eyes, and said aggrievedly: "Senior brother won't let me."

At this time, the third aunt finished peeling the corn, patted the little girl's pink and tender face and said, "Shangjun, stop making trouble, what should you do for a little girl like you, who went to that messy place and was kidnapped by someone's teeth." Seeing the little girl's anger, the third aunt said again: "Your name is Liang Shangjun. I hope you will become a gentleman on Liangshang in the future and carry forward our craft of robbery. We have high hopes for you."

The little girl lowered her head angrily and continued to peel the sweet potatoes.

Seeing this scene, Shangguan Chouchou walked in with a smile in his heart.

The third aunt pointed to the backyard and said to Shangguan Chouchou: "Your third uncle is playing with his collection in the backyard, do you really want to go in?"

"Is this 'vomiting'?" Shangguan Chouchou's face tightened, and the steps he had just taken stopped again, "Why don't we wait a little longer."

The third aunt pointed to a young boy in the back room and said: "This is the boy, his name is Li Pi, he was your third uncle's favorite student.

He gave away a pair of close-fitting Pixiu worn by the eldest son of Prime Minister Zhu's wife and brother.That family is engaged in big business, and losing the pair of Pixiu is afraid of affecting the fortune of his family's business, so they have to find the things back.The whole family was in a row, because Prime Minister Zhu was alarmed by this matter.Fortunately, the third uncle was well-informed and returned the things earlier, otherwise the matter would have become a big mess. "

Shangguan Chouchou asked: "Third Uncle's personality, how difficult it is to tell him to spit out what he eats, I'll ask someone else to do it in the future. One person does the work and one person does it. Why don't you ask Li Pi to go?"

The third aunt said: "Your third uncle punished him for frying peanuts, and he is not allowed to go out to do errands for a few days until the frying is finished."

Shangguan Chouchou looked in and was startled.I saw the young man frying peanuts in the hot oil pan empty-handed. From time to time, he used his hands to remove the peanuts from the oil pan with a calm oil surface and green smoke. Shangguan Chouchou knew that the oil would not boil when it was extremely hot. of.Li Pi's skill is not weak.

It's just that Li Pi can only fry a few grains in the oil pan, and there are several large bowls of peanuts piled up next to him. It seems that he has to toss for two or three days in this dangerous training.

Shangguan Chouchou had never seen this kind of punishment before, so he turned to ask his third aunt, "He won't get hurt?"

"This is one of the practice methods of Robbery. As long as he can fry peanuts in the frying pan with one hand without hurting his hand, his Stealer skill will be considered a breakthrough. Although this is punishment, it is actually practice. Li Pi these days You figured it out very well, yesterday you could only drop one grain at a time, but today you can already drop four or five grains, which is not bad. It seems that your third uncle wants to cultivate him as the current sect master. "The third aunt said casually.

Li Pi's appearance is ordinary, and he doesn't look like a mouse-eye.He seemed a little tempted when he heard this. Although his expression was focused, his eyes glanced over.Just being so distracted, he almost fried his hands, and he had to concentrate again.

"It doesn't look like it's good enough, the heart and eyesight are not enough." Seeing this, the third aunt commented in a low voice.

Shangguan Chouchou was stunned, the third aunt was teasing this little brother.

After all, Shangguan Chouchou was still concerned about the safety of the little general, ignored the taboos of the third uncle, and walked straight in.

When I came to the backyard, I saw an ordinary-looking old man standing in the yard with a gloomy expression. The fingers of his hands behind his back were constantly moving. There was a knife light on his fingers, like a small blade.The blade hovered and danced around each slender finger as nimbly as a snake wrapped around it, bringing a ray of light from time to time, reflecting the white and clean hands of the old man.

(End of this chapter)