chapter 77
In the commander's mansion, Wei Yuan reported on the expulsion in the morning.
"If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place." Mu Ying snorted twice and said: "The city wall, the river around the city, which one was not made by us, and we are embarrassed to put forward the idea of carving up Bermuda City, hum!" ”
"They're just being bewitched." Ling Gu said.
"Little bones! You can't be soft-hearted! Mu Ying immediately glared.
Ling Gu raised his hand to beg for mercy: "I'm just telling the truth, and I let the people out, and I won't swallow back the words I said." That's right, Wei Yuan. Ling Gu turned to Wei Yun and asked, "What did those people who caught him say?" ”
"A total of 73 people were captured in various places in the city, and 37 of them were taking people's money, and it was found that they were all from the Ma family, but the people from the Ma family had already evacuated. All the Ma family's salt shops in the city were also closed, and all the salt stocks in the stores were dumped into the Huancheng River. ”
Ling Gu frowned slightly, shook his head, and said, "These people will be registered on another list and driven out of the city." At the gates of the city, let them tell themselves what they had done. As for the rest...... I'm afraid I'm completely brainwashed. ”
Wei Yun nodded, those people had completely decided that the Shuai Mansion was a complete demon, and Bermuda City under the control of the Shuai Mansion would become a purgatory. This arrest will not make them reflect, but will make them more hostile to the Shuaifu.
Ling Gu said: "Those people also recorded a list and were detained first. Ah, those Taiyuan students......"
"There are twelve students in Taiyuan, and they are all the rest." Wei Yuan said.
Ling Gu was not too surprised, after all, the students of the Taiyuan, it was a little difficult for the Ma family to buy them. However, he didn't expect that the admissions of Taiyuan were all under the sign of Shuaifu, but he didn't expect that there were still these students who were so hostile to Shuaifu.
"Hey." Ling Gu sighed, then turned his head to ask Qin Qian, "How are the You family and the Gong family preparing?" ”
Qin Qian's old god is here, and it is obvious that everything Ling Gu wants him to do is very satisfying: "The Gong family has contacted other scattered salt merchants in the city, and there are also salt boiling workshops in the port that the Ma family has not had time to destroy, and now they are stepping up production, and it is no problem to survive this juncture; Outside the city and on the side of the iron mine, the You family has already sent people. Boyan and Meng Yu are now taking people to draw the line, and Luzhu said that the wedding is three days later, and they should be able to rush back. ”
Ling Gu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "That's good." Those people outside the city also bothered the temple to take care of it, it was freezing cold, don't die, otherwise it will be difficult to do it later. ”
"Understood." Qin Qian nodded.
"What are you going to do?" Bai Yu waited for them to finish before asking Ling Gu. Now that he has dealt with those city citizens, there is no need to hide the rest of the affairs from him.
Ling Gu smiled, he really didn't hide it from Bai Yu, and told him his plan. Bai Yu was very surprised after hearing this, stared at Ling Gu for a long time, and said something similar to what Qin Qian said before: "It turns out that you will manage these." ”
Ling Gu coughed lightly and looked at the sky and said, "It's time for lunch." ”
The Shuaifu's actions can be described as bold and resolute, and the people of Bermuda City who were shocked couldn't help but be shocked, as well as the envoys of the various cities in the post station.
Among the post stations, the largest city-states are the Eastern Beast Kingdom and the Luoshui Snow Kingdom, and now that this has happened, the envoys of the other small cities are panicked and naturally begin to gather. However, on both sides of Beast Lan and Shi Luoxue, there are different statements.
Shi Luoxue told the messengers: "What you are worried about is actually very unnecessary, right? When you were attached to Bermuda, did you have the idea of paying tribute for refuge? Think Bermuda will always be a deterrent but docile lion? Its strength is obvious to all, and it is only a matter of time before the country is established. As to what kind of state it will become, what kind of rule it will have, and what policy it will impose on the city-states under its protection, then I do not know. ”
"The momentum of Bermuda is evident now, and the annexation of you, sooner or later, is only a change in form. As for what kind of policy they will implement, in fact, part of the decision is in your hands, isn't it? ”
Beast Lan didn't say anything more to those people, who could come to him to find him, he knew in his own heart. After sending off the messengers, another attendant came in and whispered to Beast Lan what Shi Luoxue had said.
"Huh. Hypocritical woman. Beast Lan sneered and didn't pay much attention to it: "What about the two families?" ”
"Wanlu came with news, saying that he wanted to introduce Ma Wanlong to the prince."
Beast Lan laughed in a low voice: "They thought that the Shuai Mansion would let them go like this? Idiot. I messed up things, and I still want to lead dirty water to me, why do you keep such a thing? ”
The attendant understood what he meant, and respectfully whispered: "Yes." ”
The attendant stepped back, and soon another attendant walked in, and said respectfully in front of the beast, "Prince, someone is coming." ”
The squire stepped out of the way, revealing the man who had appeared by the door at some point, a petite man dressed in a red fur cloak, with his head bowed and only a pointed chin exposed.
Beast Lan chuckled lightly, raised his head slightly, and the attendant retreated with amusement, and closed the door with his hand.
"Come here." Beast Lan screamed softly. The person by the door raised his head, revealing a handsome face, it was Ling Zhaowen.
Ling Zhaowen smiled meekly, unbuttoned his cloak and let it fall to the ground, his long hair was scattered, and he only wore a thin robe inside, and even his shoes were taken off when he entered the door. He walked over to Beast Lan and rested on Beast Lan's lap like an obedient pet. He looked up at the beast with wet eyes.
Beast Lan's hand touched Ling Zhaowen's face and said, "You did a good job this time, the influence of the Taiyuan students in Bermuda City is much greater than those fools. Now that they have been arrested, what is the saying in the Taiyuan? ”
Ling Zhaowen immediately shrank his expression, and lowered his head with a very pitiful look: "The priest of the temple went to the Taiyuan one step ahead of me, and now the students are all persuaded by the priest, and they feel that those people are to blame. ”
Beast Lan's eyes narrowed, but the usual kind smile on his face did not change at all, his big hand touched the top of Ling Zhaowen's hair, and said, "You did a good job, you are very obedient, I am very satisfied." ”
Ling Zhaowen immediately raised his head, his expression moved, he held Beast Lan's hand with both hands, and gently rubbed it with his face.
"Are you still giving the gift to Ling Gu?"
Ling Zhaowen stopped and responded, "It will be delivered every three days, but every time it will be collected by those elite soldiers or the girls who serve him, I think eight or nine times out of ten it will not reach him." ”
Beast Lan's hand ran through Ling Zhaowen's long hair and said softly, "I have something here, you have to give it to your brother." Give it to him with your own hands, understand? ”
Ling Zhaowen raised his head and responded obediently: "Yes." ”
"I'm going to let him keep this thing around, can you do it?" Beast Lan didn't bow his head, but lowered his eyelids and looked at Ling Zhaowen as if he were looking at something that didn't care about it.
It's a kind of look that doesn't care. Not caring means being able to discard at any time.
Ling Zhaowen nodded: "It can be done." ”
If not, what value does he have?
"That's good." Beast Lan chuckled lightly and pressed Ling Zhaowen's head like a reward, and Ling Zhaowen once again lay obediently on his lap, like a Persian cat, enjoying the master's touch.
Two days later, on the eve of Bai Yu and Ling Gu's wedding.
In the past two days, all the thirteen gates of Bermuda have not lowered the drawbridge, and the tens of thousands of citizens who have been driven out have gathered in front of the three gates and have not left, they have looked at the city gates, and for a day or two, the sun has set and risen again, but the drawbridge has always been hung high, and the city gates have never been opened.
In the past two days, there have been frequent cries from the crowd outside the city gates. They didn't dare to go, because most of them had never left Bermuda, they knew that the outside world was dangerous, and they had heard of the ferocity of the beasts, the cruelty of the people of the other world, and the strange but powerful weapons from the other world. The world is full of enemies, where can they go?
For these two days they endured cold and hunger, enduring the panic that the beast could attack at any moment. Then they began to remember the goodness of the city, the warmth of the bedding in the city, and the heroism of the city defense army......
Oh my God, what the hell were they so confused!
When despair and remorse hung over these people's heads for a long time, two days later, a group of figures appeared on the tower of Baihumen.
The crowd, who had long been familiar with the shift time of the guards of the city defense, was in a commotion, and they stood up one after another, and the family supported each other to squeeze towards the river around the city. It's a beam of light, and they're going to desperately grab it!
Above the city tower, it was Ling Gu and Bai Yu and others.
Snowflakes fell again in the sky after two days of silence today, and Ling Gu was wrapped in a large animal skin, holding his swaddling clothes in his arms. He watched the crowd gathered outside the moat and watched their movements.
Finally, someone in the crowd suddenly knelt down with a "poof", and then everyone else also woke up, and everyone quickly knelt down. They wept loudly, expressing their remorse, and begging Ling Gu and Bai Yu to accept them again.
They finally understood that this was a troubled time.
Above the city tower, Ling Gu let out a soft breath - he had already thought of two possibilities, these people would either be very remorseful or even more hateful. Fortunately, it's not the latter.
"Sounds like you still want to be a citizen of Bermuda?" Ling Gu gathered his spiritual power in his mouthpiece, and his voice was soft and pierced through the cold wind and snow, hitting the ears of everyone outside the moat. At the same time, on the other two city gates, Mu Ying and Qin Qian also repeated what Ling Gu said.
"Yes!" Hearing Ling Gu's questioning, the crowd scrambled to express their position, for fear that if they were one step behind, they would be expelled forever.
Ling Gu smiled, he glanced at the excited crowd, and said, "The Shuai Mansion has never thought of exterminating any of the city's citizens. Everyone knows that they are wrong, and I am naturally willing to give everyone a chance. ”
The crowd was stunned for a moment, as if they couldn't believe that they had heard such good news, and then the crowd boiled, cheered, and knelt on the ground with tears in their eyes and bowed in thanks.