Chapter 42 - Turning Danger into Safety
The county guard said again: "But it's a little inappropriate for you to go like this, you don't know, although Liu Cong's son is extremely powerful, there is no lack of opposition, such as Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu, he has always opposed the abolition of Chang Liyou, often against us, Huang Zu is most afraid of our North County and South County united, if I send you directly to South County like this, I am afraid that Huang Zu will be assassinated on the way." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”
The county shou told the truth, Huang Zu is a Taishou who is absolutely loyal to Liu Biao, and he is quite trusted by Liu Biao, because he once taught Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi martial arts, and he is close to Liu Qi, but he has not had any contact with Liu Cong, so naturally he and Cai Mao They do not belong to the same force, so they have always opposed Liu Biao's abolition of Chang Liyu, and it is precisely because of Huang Zu's intervention that Liu Biao has not decided who to appoint as the heir. Huang Zu has always been fierce, and there must be his eyes in Beijun, so it is difficult to guarantee that he will not intercept Liu Bei and them halfway in order to deal with Liu Cong's forces.
"Ah, what should I do?" Liu Bei said pretending to be at a loss.
"That's where disguise comes in. The county warden said.
"Then my lord, how should we disguise ourselves?" Liu Bei hurriedly asked.
The county guard had a plan, but I saw him smile and said: "I can pretend to be prisoners, call you fugitives from Nanjun, and send some officials to escort you back to Nanjun, in fact, to protect you, so that you can reach Cai Mao smoothly, and besides, you are originally prisoners in the county jail, no one will think that you are abnormal with such an identity, but you have to be wronged by a few little friends." ”
I saw Liu Bei think for a while, and then discuss with the brothers for a while, and finally said: "My lord is really smart, we are not afraid of grievances, why not pretend to be prisoners, the master once taught us to endure hardships, in order to get the weight of Liu Cong's son, we still have to bear this grievance!"
"Haha, that's so good, so without further ado, I'll arrange for you to leave tomorrow!" the county guard laughed.
At this time, Long Xiangtian said to the county order: "My lord, there are still two of us who don't know where the county order is locked, and please be gracious, can you let them go with us tomorrow?"
"Oh, and what's going on?" the county guard beckoned outside the house, "Zigong, come in." ”
At this time, the county commander pushed the door in, saluted respectfully to the county guard, and said, "Teacher!"
The county guard pointed to the county order and said: "Zigong is my protégé, and he was pulled up by me, his own person." ”
It turned out that the county order turned out to be the protégé of the county guard, and Liu Bei and the others saluted the county order when they saw this: "I have seen the county order!"
The county guard asked the county commander about the situation of the two people, and the county commander seemed to have conveyed the message to the county guard and didn't know what to say, so the county guard said to everyone: "Don't worry, those two people are safe and sound, and let them go with you on the road tomorrow." ”
"Thank you, sir!" everyone thanked.
The matter was agreed, so the county guard ordered the county order to send Liu Bei and others back, and everyone was still grateful to the county guard for a while, and then returned to the county office with the county order whose attitude had obviously changed.
After the group had gone, the county keeper paced around the room alone, thinking: These people are extraordinary, they are by no means idle, except for Liu Bei, the identities of the others have not been found out, but they can have Daze Dragon and Tiger Pill, I am afraid that they are really immortal disciples, and they can't be rashly removed, so it seems that using them is more beneficial to me than killing them, although they are still only in the foundation realm, but the potential is endless, having them by Liu Cong's son's side is equivalent to having the backer of the immortal, and it will be a great help for the prince to compete for the position of the lord of Jingzhou.
When the people returned to the county office, they had another polite exchange with the county magistrate, and then they returned to the prison, so why did they return to the prison? Although everyone had reached an agreement with the county guard, it was all done in secret, and in order to hide people's eyes, everyone had to be locked up in this prison.
"I really didn't expect things to turn out like this!" Guan Yu sighed.
"Yes, I really didn't expect that the county guard not only let us go, but also gave us a fortune, and even the Daze Dragon and Tiger Pill was just a waste. Zhang Fei also said excitedly.
"Yes, Brother Bei, you are so powerful, you can turn the corner by playing tricks!" Long Xiangtian said to Liu Bei.
"There, there, thanks to Xiangtian, your bottle of Daze Dragon and Tiger Pill can get through the test, the reason why the county guard does not dare to kill us is because we have the identity of an immortal disciple, let him cast a mouse taboo, it is precisely because of that bottle of Daze Dragon and Tiger Pill that the county guard believes in the identity of our immortal disciple, and also makes him feel that there is a possibility to use us, we have changed from the relationship between the knife and the fish to the cooperative relationship. Liu Bei said modestly.
Long Xiangtian knew that Liu Bei's previous conversation with the county guard was a battle of wits and courage, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other, Liu Bei had figured out the county guard's heart of putting interests first, making him feel that it was more advantageous to use us than to kill us, so that he could make a fuss by virtue of the relationship of interests. Liu Bei's strength lies in making good use of all his favorable conditions, which is where Long Xiangtian needs to learn.
"I didn't expect this county guard to be a supporter of Liu Cong, so it seems that this Xuanxue Ascension Pill was originally what he wanted to offer to Liu Cong, but our accidental insertion broke his plan. Long Xiangtian muttered to himself, and suddenly asked Liu Bei: "Brother Bei, did you already know that the county guard wanted to get the Xuanxue Ascension Pill for himself?"
Liu Bei nodded and said: "Indeed, I have always wondered that the Xuanxue Ascension Pill has little effect on people in the realm of the Yuanying Zhenjun of the county guard, so at the beginning, I thought that the county guard was very likely not to use it for his own use, but to give it away to others, so that others could be loyal or something, but I didn't expect that the pill was given to Liu Cong, and I haven't thought about the complicated relationship yet." ”
"Now, we can finally get rid of the two birdmen of the county guard and the county order!" Zhang Fei said happily.
Zhang Fei's words, Guan Yu and Long Xiangtian deeply agreed, seeing that everyone was very happy, Liu Bei said uneasily: "We can't be happy too early, we are still in their hands now, even if we go out of the North County, we are not safe, and when we get to the South County, we also have to deal with Cai Mao, so we can't take it lightly, this county guard is not so easy to bluff, it can be seen by the fact that he can be the head of the North County." ”
"Brother Bei, will the county guard see through our plan?" asked Long Xiangtian.
"It's really hard to say, it depends on what the county guard thinks. Liu Bei looked at the endless void outside the prison and frowned and said.
The next day arrived in a blink of an eye, and the county order really released everyone as agreed, shackled, and brought to the county hall.
"Big brother, second brother!" Seeing two familiar figures standing in the hall, Long Xiangtian shouted excitedly.
"Xiangtian!" Those two were Liao Hua and Wu Dun, who had disappeared for a while, and when they saw Long Xiangtian, they also shouted excitedly.
"Okay, the hall is silent, and now the county order will pronounce the sentence on you!" the county commander told him.
Kneeling in this world is a great ceremony, but kneeling to the sky, kneeling to the ground, kneeling to parents and masters, but there is no etiquette of kneeling to officials, and even when you meet the leader of the Han Immortal Cultivation Alliance, you don't need to kneel, so Liu Bei and the others only need to bow to the county order, Long Xiangtian thought to himself, this is probably this world is a world of cultivating immortals, the people are fierce, and there is no Confucianism, so there is no red tape like on the earth.
Then the sentence of the county order was announced, which was nothing more than that Liu Bei was a fugitive who fled from Nanjun to Beijun, and they should be escorted to Nanjun to wait for Cai Mao, the Taishou of Nanjun, that is, Deqi Zhenjun.
This is made to show people, just go through the motions, Liu Bei and others naturally know the roots, but Liao Hua and Wu Dun don't know yet, when they heard the county order announced such a sentence, they naturally wanted to argue, but they suddenly heard Long Xiangtian's transmission, and they knew the mystery.
So Liu Bei and the other six were escorted to Nanjun by seven or eight officials.
The officials who were arranged by the county order to escort everyone were all fresh faces, building the foundation realm, and their attitude towards everyone was not very friendly, presumably these people were outsiders, thinking that Liu Bei and they were just prisoners.
From the North County to the South County, there are thousands of miles away, and if you walk on two legs, you can't walk there for a few years, so you need to take a special tool, and the prisoner has a special means of riding, that is, the prison car.
The prison car is like a mobile cell that can fly, the top is like a big box, that is, it is surrounded by those glowing columns like those in the county government prison, and below is a wooden flying car dragging the big box. There are many formations and spells engraved on the prison car, and energy is obtained by consuming spirit coins, and a piece of medium-grade spirit coins can make the prison car fly in the sky for a day. Except for its special shape and ability to lock up prisoners, the prison car is not much different from other flying cars.
Liu Bei and the other six people were put in a prison car, unable to get out, and they all relied on shackles on their hands, these shackles don't know what formation was cast, so that the shackles would suppress the wearer's true yuan, so that the true yuan could not be used, even if they had the ability to reach the sky, it would be useless.
The officials stayed in the cabin of the flying car below, Liu Bei and the others sat in the prison car, idle and idle, so everyone began to chat, Liu Bei was well-read when he was a child, naturally knew a lot of things, Long Xiangtian learned from Liu Bei that since the Xian Qin, people began to build a large number of cities, using magic circles to absorb the aura outside the city, to enrich the aura in the city, the city at that time was mainly used for garrisons and for the rich and local officials to live, most people still live in the countryside outside the city. With the passage of time, over time, there were more and more cities, and the aura content outside the city was getting thinner and thinner, and the people were miserable, and finally people began to rebel, and finally overthrew Xianqin. And today's Han Immortal League is also the same as Xianqin, except that the city is no longer the patent of the rich, everyone can enter the city, as long as your income is enough for you to live.
"At the beginning, people's desire was just to live in the city, which created the rebellion of Xianqin, but now the Han Dynasty cultivates the Immortal League, although there are many residents in the city, but in general, most people still live outside the city, and the realm is only refining qi, and the lifespan is no more than two hundred. Liu Bei said to Long Xiangtian with emotion.
"Why do I want to engage in farming and mulberry cultivation in my generation?" asked Long Xiangtian suspiciously.
Liu Bei sighed: " People in the city are either officials or generals, or merchants are dealers, people outside the city, those who farm the land are immortal farmers, hunting are hunters, no matter what industry they are engaged in, people are all in order to earn spirit coins, because with spirit coins, they can buy what they want, with spirit coins, they can enjoy life, with spirit coins, they can eat delicious food, live well, and use them well, and without spirit coins, you can't buy anything, cultivation is not easy, it is even more difficult to become immortals, some people give up cultivation, so they work hard to enjoy life, so even if they are monks, they will run around for money。 ”
Hearing this, Long Xiangtian couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect that people here would give up cultivation in order to enjoy life, in his opinion, cultivation is a rare thing, for him who has been in the cloud fairyland in such a place with rich aura, how can he understand the pain of the thin aura in the world for a long time. Heaven and earth aura is the foundation of the monk, the true element is the nourishment for the monk to maintain the body's energy, the true element is transformed from the aura, without the replenishment of the aura, people will die because the true element in the body is slowly exhausted.
"Samurai are different. Guan Yu suddenly interjected: "Martial artists, respect martial arts, take pride in meritorious deeds, martial artists will continue to cultivate to improve their realm and strength in order to pursue strength, so that they will not live for a living like those peddlers and pawns!"
Listening to Guan Yu's words, Long Xiangtian couldn't help but think in his heart: The world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit. No matter which planet you are on, no matter what world you are in, everyone can't escape the words fame and fortune, no matter what industry they are, either for fame or for money.
In Beijun, after Liu Bei was escorted away, the county order went to the county guard.
"Teacher, they are already gone, I believe that in less than twenty days, they will be able to reach Nanjun. "The prefectural order is reported to the prefectural magistrate.
"yes, I see. The county keeper said with a pensive expression.