Chapter 317: Crooked Strike
Cui Mansion.
Finally waited until the sun was shining, and Cui Ziying, who hadn't slept well all night, heard her brother come back, and she hurriedly ran out.
As soon as she ran to the door, Cui Ziying met Cui Zixuan and the others who were walking towards her, and was about to step forward, when she saw her brother's face at a glance, she couldn't help but stop.
Cui Ziying watched her brother walk towards the study step by step.
After a while, Cui Zixuan summoned a guard and asked in a low voice, "Has my brother eaten?"
The guard shook his head.
Cui Ziying waved him back.
At this time, Cui Ziying's cousin Cui Ziyue ran over.
Seeing Cui Ziying lower her head and wipe away her tears, Cui Ziyue asked, "Ziying, what's wrong with you?"
Cui Ziying turned around and saw that it was Cui Ziyue, she choked up and said, "I saw my brother like that, and my heart hurt for him." ”
Cui Ziyue actually saw Cui Zixuan, and she said puzzledly: "Brother Zixuan is nothing, even if his face is a little ugly, it is because he hasn't slept all night." ”
Cui Ziying shook her head, and she said in a low voice: "You don't understand, you don't understand him." In a blink of an eye, she said: "He is the most self-disciplined, and I am a little scared ......."
Cui Ziyue hurriedly asked a few more words, and when she saw that Cui Ziying didn't want to say anything, she stopped talking.
After a while, Cui Ziyue came to the courtyard of her mother, Mrs. Cui Wu.
Mrs. Cui Wu was frowning and thinking about something, and after Cui Ziyue walked next to her and sat down, she was a little stunned.
After a while, Cui Ziyue asked softly: "Mother, they all say that the Jiang family is deeply blessed, does this have to be true?"
Mrs. Cui Wu came back to her senses. She looked at her daughter, nodded and said, "It's not vain!"
Cui Ziyue was anxious, her voice was raised, and she said unhappily: "I'd rather it be fake! Hmph! She was so bold, she ran out as soon as her shoulders were loosened!" In a blink of an eye, Cui Ziying said with bad intentions: "The world outside is so chaotic, I really hope she can meet a few robber refugees! Hmph! It's better for her to call the sky now, not the earth!"
Mrs. Cui Wu's face sank, she stared at her daughter, lowered her voice and shouted: "What's the matter? Jiang hasn't spoken to you yet, why are you so malicious to her?" After a slight pause, Mrs. Cui Wu said again: "Last time, you let people make noise everywhere. It is said that the Cui family has no dowry. Now you want to be confused again? Do you really want to force your grandmother to lock you up in the ancestral hall?"
Cui Ziyue lowered her head, and she retorted: "I'm just ...... for Lu Li's grievances."
Mrs. Cui Wu stood up, she stared at her daughter, and regretted a little in her heart. Over the years, the Bolingcui clan has been in a bad situation. She was busy taking care of her entertainment and neglected to discipline this daughter. When I came back to my senses, I found that this daughter no longer had the atmosphere and vision of a lady from a gate valve family!
With a straight face, Mrs. Cui Wu warned in a deep voice: "The matter that the Jiang family is not in the mansion, your grandmother and your cousin are not allowed to say it again and again! If you still make a mistake in this matter and leak it to others, then you will live in the Taoist temple in the future and don't come back!"
Cui Ziyue's face was pale, and she shouted unwillingly: "Mother!"
"Don't call me mother!" Mrs. Cui said angrily: "If you don't know what to do, I will be without you as a daughter!" As soon as her voice fell, Mrs. Cui Wu brushed her sleeves and left.
......
When the sun was shining, everyone in the caravan who had been tossed by the Cui family for a long time last night also woke up.
After a bustle, the convoy began to set off.
Shao Xiaozi is very energetic, obviously he made trouble for half the night last night, and this time he will be alive again. Seeing that Jiang Mi had been listless, he said there: "It's really weird, things were so big last night, everyone woke up and you didn't wake up, why did you sleep the most and have the worst spirit?"
Jiang Mi buried her face in the palm of her hand, and she said weakly: "I can't get used to sleeping." ”
"What a pampered one!" Shao Xiaozi snorted twice, turned his head and didn't know what he saw, and suddenly said: "Hey, didn't you see it last night, the jade-faced Cui Lang who dumped the entire Wu Yue's daughter, tsk, I don't know what happened, that haggard and that pitiful, until now I still muttered in my heart when I think of it!"
Jiang Mi didn't respond.
Shao Xiaozi is a talker, Jiang Mi should not, he can also talk about himself. In the blink of an eye, he talked about his own brother from Cui Zixuan, but Jiang Mi on one side kept his head down and didn't say a word.
In this kind of carriage subversion, there are people around you who are chattering, and a day has passed in a blink of an eye.
Today, the caravan is a long distance away from Mingzhou City, which means that it is no longer safe.
As a result, the caravan sent several waves of people early to find a suitable and safe camping site. By the time we finally arrived at the chosen place, the sun had already sunk in the west.
Fortunately, the people in the caravan were all veterans, and everyone worked together to set up the tent and make dinner in less than half an hour.
Like last night, Jiang Mi sat in the corner, she was munching on the pot in silence, and Shao Xiaozi talked to her for a day, and after seeing that she had never been, she had already run to another fire and blew nonsense with others.
Jiang Mi couldn't lift her spirits, she filled her stomach a little, washed up indiscriminately, and then climbed into the carriage and lay down.
Actually, there is ** in this carriage, and Jiang Mi's body is dirty and itchy after a day, so she doesn't feel sleepy at all when she lies down like this.
But Jiang Mi still wanted to force herself to fall asleep. She knew that now she was out of the bow and there was no turning back.
In Jiang Mi's confusion and thoughts, the night became darker and darker, and gradually, there were fewer and fewer people talking.
When everyone went to rest, Shao Xiaozi also came back, just like last night, he did not climb into the carriage and squeeze with Jiang Mi, but relied on his self-cooked skills to borrow the piece of felt from last night again, roll a roll and put it under the carriage, Shao Xiaozi turned over and lay down for less than half a moment before snoring!
The night is getting deeper and deeper.
Maybe it's because I'm extremely tired, Jiang Mi still had a very rare look for a while tonight. When she sat up in a daze, there was no sound outside, only the light of the torches stuck in inconspicuous corners.
Jiang Mi wiped her sleepy eyes. Feeling a little bloated in his lower abdomen, he crawled under the car in a daze......
As soon as Jiang Mi slipped off the carriage, she stepped on a warm **, she didn't have time to figure out what it was, and Shao Xiaozi, who was stepped on by her, let out a pig-like scream from her sleep, "Ahh
The scream was too loud and too loud! It was even more terrifying in the silence of the night!
Running around all the year round, the caravan people were vigilant even if they slept the deadest, and suddenly heard such an amazing scream, and everyone got up in a panic, and there was a rush of soldiers. Chickens fly and dogs jump. From time to time, someone asked urgently, "What's going on?" "Isn't there a bandit?" "Who! Who is screaming?"
All of a sudden, those who wore clothes got on their horses, and those who took weapons gave orders......
Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi were stunned by everyone's grass and trees at this time. Especially Shao Xiaozi, he bent over and covered his inner thigh, bared his teeth and screamed in pain for a while. Suddenly faced the scene in front of him. I can't close it for a while with my mouth open!
A moment later. The men in the caravan are fully armed and ready for battle!
A steward walked out of the queue and asked sharply, "What's the screaming just now?"
The carriage was next to Jiang Shao, and several servants turned their heads to look at Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi!
The steward saw this. Striding towards the two of them, staring at them, the steward asked in a deep voice, "What happened? Who was screaming just now?"
Shao Xiaozi's face turned pale, and he stammered for a long time before saying a few words, "Yes, yes, yes." ”
Jiang Mi's face was also weak, she pursed her lips, and said, "Yes, I wanted to go to the toilet and accidentally stepped on his ......"
As soon as Jiang Mi's reason came out, the guards with swords in hand and armor on their bodies brushed their muscles together.
Several stewards were so angry that their faces turned black, especially the regular steward who advocated taking in Jiang Mi and the others, and his face was even longer. He glared at the two of them with hatred, endured the ** who vomited blood, and shouted angrily: "It's really not enough to succeed and more than to lose!"
As soon as the voice fell, he turned and walked towards the steward.
He was just about to plead guilty, but at this moment, the head of the guards in the caravan suddenly had his eyes cloudy, and he saw him raise his hand and suddenly shouted: "Quiet!"
Everyone was stunned, and at the same time turned their heads to look at him.
At this moment, the leader of the guard was already lying on the ground and listening.
Listening to this, he jumped to his feet and shouted in a dumb voice, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Everyone array! Everyone array!"
Fortunately, everyone was already in armor by this time, so he gave the order, and the sound of footsteps rolled in all directions, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the well-trained caravan had already set up the carriage, drawn its swords, laid out its traps, and laid out a standard formation to repel the enemy!
Almost as soon as the caravan was set up, on the official road in the dark, more than 100 200 knights rushed in. These knights were all masked in black scarves, dressed in black, and had strips of cloth wrapped around their horses' hooves!
Those knights emerged from the darkness like ghosts, but they never imagined that their target was already in full swing!
All of a sudden, both sides froze!
In the silent silence, a rough voice came from among the masked people, "Interesting! Interesting! I didn't expect that Lao Jiu would be able to meet such a good team in his life!"
You must know that they came prepared! They wrapped their horses' hooves in cloth and landed silently, and the whole team of 200 men, all of whom were knights, could come and go like the wind! Over the years, by virtue of this, they had never returned in vain when they attacked a caravan at night!
But the caravan in front of him looks ordinary, but it can react in such a short period of time, and it is still from a deep sleep, this alone can overshadow nine out of ten armies in the world!
Those masked men thought of this.
Therefore, after the rough voice fell, in the blink of an eye, a middle-aged masked man waved his hand and shouted, "Withdraw!"
As soon as the sound fell, the two hundred horsemen retreated, and after a while, they turned their horses around and disappeared like a whirlwind!
It wasn't until those people were gone, whether it was the steward or the guards in the caravan, that they all let out a long breath and collapsed to the ground.
For a moment, there was only the sound of exhiration in the camp.
After a while, the leader of the caravan's guards came to the chief steward, and his face was pale under the light of the torches, and he approached the chief steward, and the chief of the guards whispered, "The situation is not good!
As soon as the three words of Mengshan thief came out, several people, including the chief steward, had no blood on their faces!
The earliest history of the Mengshan Bandits begins at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the entire territory of Wuyue, it has been rampant habitual thieves for many years, they practice thieves in the way of military training, and they act cautiously, and they have not killed people for decades. It's just that all along, Mengshan thieves have been haunting the south of Hangzhou, how can they appear in Mingzhou this time?
If it is really a Mengshan thief, as they say, tonight is only afraid that it will be the first time in their lives that they have missed!
For a moment, several leaders of the caravan fell silent again.
At this time, everyone in the caravan had already laughed and scolded Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi, "I didn't expect you two to be a lucky general!" "That's it! This kid's earth-shattering howl saved everyone!" "Haha, even if you two boys are lucky, you two will probably kick you out by mistake!"
Amidst the laughter, several leaders led by the chief steward also turned their heads to look at Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi. After looking at the two skinny little guys for a while, the chief steward turned to the steward surnamed Chang, who was the first to allow them to join, and said with a smile: "Lao Chang, I have always blamed you for being soft-hearted, but I didn't expect you to beat you up this time, and the two muddy boys who saved it casually actually saved us all." ”
That old man didn't expect such a change, and he grinned when he heard this.
At this time, the chief steward said: "In my Gao caravan, merit must be rewarded and guilt must be punished, although these two boys are by mistake, but the old man only looks at the result." In this way, you let people vacate an empty carriage for them, and they will be entertained with good food and drink along the way!"
Lao Chang hurriedly responded, and when Lao Chang walked over to announce the reward for Jiang Mi's Shao boy, the entire caravan burst into laughter.
Until he got into the spacious carriage, Shao Xiaozi was still a little dizzy, he looked at Jiang Mi for a while, and suddenly slapped his thigh, shouting: "Ouch! I didn't expect Lao Tzu to be so lucky, and he saved his own life and everyone else!"
Jiang Mi smiled and couldn't help but say, "Yes, your luck is good." ”
When Shao Xiaozi heard her words, he grinned more and more, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.
......
Choi Mansion.
There was a sound of footsteps, but a guard hurried outside the study.
Glancing towards the tightly closed study, the guard was slightly stunned, and after a while, he walked to the steps and knelt down on one knee, and said: "Childe! Hou Zhou has a flying pigeon to pass on the book, Chai Rong has become the lord of Hou Zhou, in order to assist Gongzi, he has sent several generals over, and will arrive in Hangzhou in the near future!"