Chapter 327: Maverick
Seeing that Zhang Shou pulled Zhu Ying and walked out of the house leisurely, Xiao Peanut couldn't help but glance at the lost prince, as if he wanted to engrave this Tianhuang nobleman who had killed many people in his heart, and then hurriedly chased Zhang Shou. And Zhu Er was not even more interested in meeting or talking to the eldest prince, and he also slipped away quickly.
As for Ah Liu, what the hell do he and the eldest prince have to say? However, finding that the old salted fish still stayed in front of the door and did not leave, he thought about it, although he felt that the safety of Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying was the first priority, but it didn't matter what the old salted fish wanted to do to the eldest prince, but out of the consideration of not causing trouble, coupled with the belief that Zhu Ying's force was enough to deal with the emergency, he still stayed.
However, the young man, who was already quite scheming now, quickly flashed into the shadows.
Sure enough, the old salted fish found that everyone seemed to be gone, and he had just stood outside the threshold, so he stepped over the threshold and went in, and then stopped six or seven steps away from the eldest prince. Seeing the man sitting on the ground with his head drooped, like a lifeless clay carved wooden statue, he said softly: "If Emperor Taizu sees his descendants become like this, he will definitely regret it." ”
The eldest prince suddenly heard Emperor Taizu, a proper noun that was not often mentioned in front of him, and suddenly raised his head. When he saw the old man in front of him who had carried him to face a group of chaotic people, he couldn't help but say angrily: "A chaotic thief like you is at large? Zhu Tingfang and Zhang Shou are so favoritism? ”
"First, I am an innocent person who was chased and killed by Xu Cheng and those big dogs in Changlu County, who was scolded by Your Highness, and I can't afford the four words of chaos and thief; Second, before you talk about people bending the law for personal gain, think about what Your Highness did with a nest of people, snakes and rats! ”
The old salted fish had never faced the dragon and the phoenix grandson at such a close distance in these years, and at this time, the snake and mouse said the four words, and he only felt extremely happy. Therefore, when he saw the resentful eyes of the eldest prince, he was still not afraid, but sneered.
"The capital is the place where people like you, Your Highness, who play with power and are insatiable, Cangzhou doesn't need people like you!"
Seeing the old salted fish leave quickly, Ah Liu in the shadow flashed out, but he returned to the door. Seeing that the eldest prince was scolded so that his whole face twitched together, he didn't make a sound, just looked at each other quietly, until the eldest prince raised his head as if unconsciously, and his gaze happened to meet his gaze unexpectedly, and the corners of his mouth curled.
However, his smile was hardly a soothing weapon, and the eldest prince stepped on the ground like an overly frightened rabbit, holding his hands on the ground and kicking his feet on the ground, and desperately retreated, until finally his back hit one of the legs of the desk.
"You...... What do you want? "This kid knows that he is the most powerful dog leg by Zhang Shou's side!
"Don't do anything, just take a look." Ah Liu burst out these eight words, and then shrugged his shoulders slightly uninterestedly, as if he was an ordinary idle man watching the excitement, "It turned out to be nothing to look at." ”
Ah Liu's completely indifferent - if Zhang Shou was there, he would definitely say that he was so idle that he had a painful tone, which immediately angered the eldest prince. However, the experience of challenging Zhu Ying before but being ravaged made him completely afraid to challenge Ah Liu, who was obviously much higher than Zhu Ying, so he could only shrink there and grit his teeth.
"You won't be complacent forever!"
With such a sad cry of a defeated dog, Ah Liu naturally had no interest in responding. He glanced at the eldest prince lightly, then turned around and left, even if there was no more ugly abuse and curses from behind him, he didn't have the slightest urge to ridicule him. It's just that when he was about to reach the gate of the courtyard, he suddenly stopped, took off the short bow he was carrying, and turned around to be an arrow.
The eldest prince, who was scolding Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying's adulterer, suddenly heard a sharp bowstring. He had been threatened in such a way that he was so frightened that he did not dare to move. Sure enough, the next moment, a short arrow flew past his cheek, and the strong wind that broke through the air cut his face painfully.
When he turned his head with difficulty and saw the short arrow nailed to the desk behind him, and the arrow feathers were even trembling, the eldest prince finally got out of anger. He struggled to get up, grabbed the feather in one hand and tried to pull it out. He had even made up his mind to pull out the short arrow in his arm, and then shouted at the assassin.
He didn't believe it, Du Heng, the commander of the left battalion of the sharp cavalry battalion, would even turn a deaf ear to his assassination!
But as he was doing this, he heard a cold voice in his ears: "This short bow and short arrow are all given to me by the emperor for his appreciation of my archery skills for blocking the traitors and assassins of Rongshui Village." ”
You'd better use your brains when you're planting...... Besides, if I want to get serious, you'll be dead a long time ago!
The eldest prince's face turned blue and white for a while, but after all, he was still ruthless, but after that, he was dumbfounded-not because the short arrow was three points into the wood, and he couldn't pull it out at all, but because it was ...... was so hard by him that the short arrow was directly broken by him...... It's broken in two! Isn't it a gift? How can it be so powerless?
Although he didn't see the stunned scene of the eldest prince, Ah Liu could imagine what the eldest prince would do, so on the way to the small kitchen, he always had a smile on his face, and even remembered what the emperor said to him in his heart.
"The wood and string used in this short bow are very rare, but this short arrow is not so much special as it is deliberately weakened. Not only is it not tenacious, but it will break without much force, and I don't know what the craftsman who made it has in mind, so this bow and arrow has not been used, so I will give it to you. I think the only good thing is probably ...... When the arrow is drawn, the arrow gets embedded in the flesh? ”
"Ah Liu, where did you go! I almost went to Du Heng to find you, and I was worried that you would be stopped by him! ”
Hearing this fiery voice, Ah Liu, who was wandering in the world, suddenly came back to his senses, and when he saw that it was Zhu Ying, he was silent for a while, and then his ears suddenly moved, and then he said: "General Du is tolerant and generous, no." ”
Separated by a wall, Du Heng, who was said to be tolerant and generous for the first time in his life, suddenly darkened his face. He wasn't sure if Ah Liu heard him coming, so he said that, or if the simple, direct and rude kid really thought so. Right now, he originally came over to ask Zhang Shou face to face, what should he do with the eldest prince, and what should he do with Xian Yunhe and other people who had made trouble.
He also wanted to know what Zhang Shou planned to do in Cangzhou and what he wanted him to do, but at this moment he suddenly felt that it was unnecessary.
As soon as Zhang Shou and others went to the palace, he heard the report, so he quietly went around to the wall of the eldest prince's residence, and heard the whole process of these people going to see the eldest prince. It is said that he has a big temper and a strange temper, but he only saw it today, what is a real big temper and a strange temper...... Even if the eldest prince has a thousand kinds of guilt, but after all, it is the prince!
Zhu Ying saw Ah Liu's eyes squeezing at herself, as smart as she immediately woke up to the fact that the wall has ears. Although she wanted to ridicule the commander of the left battalion of the Rui Cavalry Battalion who listened to the corner, she finally smiled happily: "Yes, yes, just because Commander Du is tolerant and generous, Ah Shou and I went directly to see the eldest prince, otherwise we should go to see him directly......"
Du Heng finally couldn't hold back anymore. He'd better not see them, and it's better to deal less with them...... Save yourself from being!
It wasn't until he heard the extremely slight sound of leaving footsteps that Ah Liu said to Zhu Ying, "The person is gone." ”
"Humph!" Zhu Ying snorted angrily, and then said ruthlessly, "There is a big brother here, there is no need for him Du Heng to be here at all, and when he turns around, let him lead the troops to escort the eldest prince back to Beijing, so that all the nasty ghosts have been swept away, and Ah Shou and the eldest brother can also free up their hands to clean up the situation in Cangzhou!" ”
After saying this, seeing that Ah Liu was silent again, she remembered the business of running here, and immediately coughed heavily: "Okay, don't think so much, Ah Shou took them to see Xian Yunhe!" ”
Ah Liu's eyes, which seemed a little casual just now, suddenly sharpened: "Just him and the second son, Xiao Peanut, went together?" ”
"And the old salted fish who just came over to meet......" Zhu Ying had just said this, only to see Ah Liu rushing forward with an arrow, she was slightly stunned and realized what he was worried about, and hurriedly pulled out her legs to catch up, "Xian Yunhe is the main culprit, he must be wearing shackles, and he can't do anything with Ah Shou!" ”
I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of ...... This thought flashed through Ah Liu's heart, but he didn't explain, and his steps were faster. When he came to the seemingly remote courtyard, he heard Zhu Er's shouting.
"Is this Du Heng intentional or unintentional? Isn't this the firewood room you used to lock up the prince in the first place? ”
Ah Liu was slightly stunned, and then heard Little Peanut's crying voice: "Uncle Yunhe, Uncle Yunhe, what's wrong with you?" You open your eyes and look at me...... You speak! Realizing that the situation was a little delicate, he didn't care about anything else, and two or three ups and downs had already rushed over. When he saw the old salted fish kick open the door of the firewood room, his eyes sharpened even more.
And Zhu Er felt that this scene was familiar, and he only felt complicated when he landed. Seeing that the old salted fish and the little peanut rushed in one after the other, he saw that Ah Liu had already come to Zhang Shou's side, so he hurried over and whispered: "That day, the eldest prince was also locked up here, only one meal a day, and people were so hungry that they had no strength, and the old salted fish couldn't wait for the key and broke in." ”
How did Zhu Er fool the eldest prince, Zhang Shou once heard him show off and said in detail, at this moment, seeing the old salted fish that seemed to be old and wrinkled so brave, he glanced at Ah Liu, and already understood in his heart what the young man was worried about when he came over so quickly.
Seeing that Zhu Ying also ran in like a gust of wind, probably because her steps were too fast, and there were already slight beads of sweat on her forehead, he smiled and handed her a handkerchief, and then came to the door. Seeing that Xian Yunhe, who was shackled, had already woken up, but he was weak to speak, and he couldn't hear clearly at the door, so he simply went in.
With so many people crowded into this small firewood room, there was naturally not much open space, and after Xiao Peanut carefully wiped Xian Yunhe's face with his sleeve, he saw that the white cloth wrapped around his wrist seemed to be wrapped on the day Zhu Tingfang came, and the blood stains were like blood, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red: "...... How can they do this to you? ”
"Then what do you think people should do to a thief repeat offense?" It was not Zhang Shou who interrupted the little peanut, but the old salted fish. Seeing that Little Peanut was stunned for a moment, he laughed and said, "You only sent one meal a day to the eldest prince at the beginning, and now people are doing the same to Yunhe, what's wrong?" He is a repeat offender, and you still expect someone to come and change his dressing package every day and serve him well? ”
Seeing that the little peanut was speechless, the old salted fish said lightly: "Success and defeat, you kid understand this truth." ”
"Uncle...... Uncle, little peanut is still ......"
Xian Yunhe said a few words with difficulty, and when he saw the old salted fish glaring at him fiercely, he had no choice but to smile apologetically at the little peanut, and then looked up at the people behind the old salted fish.
He didn't recognize Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying, but at least he knew Zhu Er. The person who can make Zhu Er, the second son of the Zhao State Mansion, follow behind, is expected to be more important than Zhu Er.
Two days ago, he was detained by Zhu Tingfang in the palace, and it was a coincidence that the firewood room where the eldest prince had been locked up. And he soon knew that the Rui Cavalry Battalion had sent another group of soldiers and horses, and they were stationed in the Cangzhou Palace as guards.
Although this group of soldiers and horses is not the hundred people who were stripped of their clothes and taken away their weapons by him before, it is inevitable that there is some friendship between colleagues, and the previous incident can't contain the fire, and they are also from the Rui Cavalry Battalion, so it is inevitable to help people get angry, even if it is limited to the strict order not to abuse him on the surface, a repeat offender, but as long as people are careless in eating and changing dressings, he will naturally inevitably become weak and weak.
Having said that, he also knew that his uncle was right, he couldn't expect people to treat his felony as a guest, so he stabilized his mind at the moment, and then smiled bitterly: "Uncle, you're right, I'm already a prisoner, and I don't dare to ask for anything." All the mistakes are my fault, I am the first offender, and everyone else is just subservient to me. ”
He paused for a moment and said word by word: "Moreover, the previous thing was done by me on the spur of the moment, and I didn't discuss it with you, uncle, so you were hunted down with the second son without knowing it." And Little Peanut is only fourteen years old this year, he is very young, he is just taken by me, in fact, he doesn't know anything......"
Zhang Shou suddenly interrupted Xian Yunhe's words: "In these years, youth is not an excuse to get away with it. Come to think of it, you should know that the two filial sons of Tang Shi, who were also less than fourteen years old, just set a trap to avenge their unjustly killed father, and stabbed the enemy, so the revenge of blood relatives who were praised by countless people, most of the public opinion was on his side, but as a result, he was still executed by Tang Xuanzong. ”
Speaking of this, he said in an aggravated tone: "Do you think that if you take all the charges alone, you can exonerate Little Peanut?" What he did, he really has to be investigated, and the responsibility is not lighter than yours! ”
Xian Yunhe chuckled in his heart, and immediately looked at Xiao Peanut, his face full of hatred. A man disguised as a woman to hold the eldest prince hostage is such a big thing, how dare you admit it in front of outsiders?