Volume 2 Ember Chapter 63 Ulterior Motives/Meeting
Several wolf Gu soldiers with light hands and feet worked together to drag the corpses of Cheng Bi and Wu Leadbaht into a bag of animal skin with dried blood, and sprinkled a large jar of agarwood ashes into the bag, and the smell of the fishy smell disappeared in an instant. They twisted the very thick hemp rope to seal the bag tightly and lifted it down a layer.
Beitang Sheng looked at the blood stains on the animal skin bag for a long time, and recognized the true function of this animal skin bag. It is nothing more than a way to clean up the traitors of the wolf Gu and some people who don't know what to do, and throw the corpses into the wilderness for the beasts to bite. In the territory of Youya Country, they can't kill people so arrogantly without the slightest shy away.
"Are you scared?" Yan Yitu approached Beitang Sheng, took off Da Yu's hood, and took a long breath.
"Stupid people, they should pay for their stupidity, they just found their home." Beitang Sheng withdrew his gaze.
"To them, you may be shrewd. But as far as Ning Ye is concerned, are you still shrewd? Yan Yi slaughtered Ning Ye's retreat, and waved his hand to signal the two wolf Gu soldiers to guard at the entrance of the second floor, "And you thought that the decision was perfect, but in the end, you gave up two fingers, which really outweighed the loss." ”
"So what does Director Yan think of me?" Beitang Sheng went straight to look at Yan Yitu, smiling rather than smiling.
"Ignorant pride." Yan Yitu sneered.
Beitang Sheng didn't say anything more, just looked around at everything. The mottled blood stains on the ground had begun to dry up, and a soldier quickly came up from the first floor, holding a wet rag in his hand, carefully wiping the blood stains there. It was a soldier sent by Lu Chi, and Lu Chi's soldiers would stay here, obviously with other intentions.
"There's no place here where you can put your mind at ease." Yan Yitu said to himself, "You'd better not show your feet." ”
"Of course," Beitang Sheng put on his coat again, and had the intention of leaving, "It's just that Director Yan has to pay more attention......
"No, you can already change your words, from now on I am no longer the director." Yan Yitu used a voice that only two people could hear, and the subtle was even covered by footsteps, "but most of them are ......."
Beitang Sheng smiled and finally went down to the attic.
At the same time, there was an unnamed wine shop on the outskirts of the city.
The secluded suburbs are not as lively as the city. A few dim candles flickered and flickered, and the four people sitting around the table talked in a low voice. Their shadows were reflected on the wall, flickering and flickering.
Half of the mottled walls are almost peeling off, and if someone lightly pastes them, the whitewashed walls will peel off and sweep all over the tabletop. In the center of the table was a small oil lamp, and there was constantly burning black smoke rising on the board wall, which was scorched and blackened, and a thick layer of greasy accumulated on it.
In the cold breeze of the wine shop, only the last table of customers remained. It was already late, and almost everyone was celebrating Tim Tim and was playing around the city. The shopkeeper of the liquor store is an old man with a broken foot, who runs the liquor store in order to make a living. He had no relatives, so he wouldn't go to the city to buy anything for the celebration of Tim Day.
It's a liquor shop close to the city, surrounded by endless forests. Since the Wu family was taken back most of Lie Xun's military power, some collateral descendants have taken over the entire forest in the suburbs and used it as a forest farm in order to make a living. Lumberjacks returning home late from their work was a trail that had to be passed, and there was a liquor shop that workers frequented.
No one spoke, all drank quietly and ate a few simple side dishes.
"The soldiers in Liexun are not a problem, I will send my subordinates to keep an eye on them." On one side of the table, the leading man was the first to break the silence, his face thin and lean, his dark complexion becoming more and more red in the light of the oil lamp.
"This is the Codex that the Governor gave me, open it and take a look at it first." Yi Yu, who was on the other side of the table, took a deep breath and handed the book in his hand to the man in the lead.
"How many of you came?" The leader looked around, glanced at the two subordinates, and finally opened the codex.
"Including me, there are only six of them. The smaller the number of people in this arraignment, the better it will be for us. Yi Yu whispered.
Between the flips of the codex, the man moved his hand closer to the candle flame so that he could see it more clearly. It's not hard to imagine what's in the Codex. Yi Yu of Yuji will come to Liesun City and find his people, so what he has to explain can only be an emergency at the front line. But it wasn't until the end of the words that he realized that what he had expected was not the case, which really surprised him.
"Wolf Gusi's men have arrived in Liesun City?"
"Yes, and their purpose is to rebel against Liexun Lord Lu Chi." Yi Yu looked serious.
"Plotting against Lu Chi? What kind of ability or great reward do they have to be able to plot against Lu Chi? ”
"We don't know."
"Maybe it's a little troublesome......" The man in the lead rubbed the codex, thoughtful.
"But what is certain is that Lu Chi ...... Seems to be very interested in Wolf Gu. Yi Yu looked directly at the man.
"Why? Could it be that he already knew that Wolf Gu would come to Liesun City to plot against him? Or did Wolf Gu make a big concession? Just for a city of Lieson? It's impossible! ”
"Of course I know that this is impossible, but you, as Lu Chi's subordinate and the director of the Forty-Fifth Guard, should know what Lu Chi is like."
"A mediocre marquis, but unexpectedly knows a lot of tricks." The man clenched his codex, "I'm his personal guard, but I don't know much about him. He was cautious, like an old fox. Even eating had to disperse the domestic servants. ”
"So Lu Chi should know the pros and cons well," Yi Yu pulled his close-fitting thick clothes off the table to avoid getting contaminated with oil smoke, "My guess is that Wolf Gu came to Liesun City to persuade Lu Chi with the edict issued by the Guangcai Martial King. And promised extremely generous rewards. ”
"But it doesn't make sense," the man in the lead shook his head, "The martial king of the Guangcai Kingdom is an overlord, and he will never compromise and promise a ridiculous knighthood in order to capture a city." Not to mention sending an anti-bone division like Wolf Gu to hide in the Youya Kingdom to win over. What's more, they will take this opportunity to defect to Guangcai Country and hand over all the information they have discovered. This was not a shrewd decision for King Wu. ”
"Could it be that the wolf Gu ...... Have betrayed the Warrior King? Yi Yu's words became deeper and deeper in the cold wind, like an old bellows.
The leading man was silent again, and he wiped the book in his hand over and over again, trying to find some hidden meaning in the book. The two subordinates beside him shrank on their stools, trying to get close to the oil lamp.
In the end, they are two young people, they haven't had much time to enlist in the army, and they can't bear a little cold, and this time they are brought to listen to some secret things, which is also the experience and reliance of the leading man on them.
"Sit down for Lao Tzu!" The man in the lead slapped the two young men fiercely, and his face was gloomy.
"Yes!" The two agreed in unison, ignoring the sharp pain in their heads, and bowed their heads deeply.
"What? Your bull temper comes up, just to use your subordinates to be angry? Yi Yu stopped the man's hand reaching out again, a little angry.
"Yi Yu, listen, you'd better take care of the affairs in Lao Tzu's Division!" The man withdrew Yi Yu's hand, but still refused to give up, "These bastards just owe a beating!" ”
"You're enough!" Yi Yu slammed his fist on the table, bursting the small half of the table.
Large and small dishes flew up and fell on the table, and all kinds of small vegetable juices were scattered on the table, slowly flowing down the ground through the cracks, making a slight sound. Fortunately, there were not many things on the table, so it did not cause the dishes and oil lamps to fall to the ground, causing more loss.
The man fell silent, he looked at the two cowering young men for a long time, finally sighed, sat back on his stool, and took a cigarette stick from his waist.
It was a black sandalwood stick, and the black rod had become smooth and shiny due to the long friction time.
Yi Yu remembered the cigarette stick that was often held in the palm of the hand by the man, and whenever the man had something on his mind, the man would take out the cigarette stick, knock on the tobacco, sit cross-legged on the stone, and smoke fiercely for a while. He even remembered a few men's words sporadically, as if he was talking about the origin of this cigarette stick, and how precious the sandalwood used to make the rod was.
"You know, Yi Yu." The man took a deep puff of his cigarette and exhaled it like a white silk thread slowly rising into the air, "My cigarette stick is not a bargain, it has been with me for a long time." ”
"I know." Yi Yu stared at the man's face, as if the two of them had lived in the same tent before.
"What do you know about me," the man also stared at Yi Yu, "Don't look at me as poor now, my grandfather was a well-known gentleman from far and near." This fine sandalwood cigarette stick was handed down by him. ”
"But it also turned you into an old smoking gun."
"What about the old smoking gun, as long as I can complete the task of the governor." The man took another puff of his cigarette, his free left hand digging into tatters.
"What a mission, it's just for you to stay in Liesun City and act as an eye and ear." Yi Yu smiled, "It's much easier than our Haji's task. I have died so many brothers that I don't even have the heart to cry. After weeping for the first dead brother, it won't be long before or even the next day I will weep for the second dead brother. ”
"You really haven't changed at all, mother-in-law, like a." The man lightly held the cigarette stick and spat out a puff of smoke in the direction of Yi Yu.
The man's mood has calmed down, and his already irritable temper often causes him to scold his subordinates, which is not uncommon. And at the beginning in the camp tent, Yi Yu would calm his anger and calm things down. And after that, there was no one else. Therefore, he has offended many people.
"It's called calm." Yi Yu pinched the cup and drank the warm wine syrup inside.