In any case, it is a good thing to be promoted to several levels of military rank, saving a lot of years of seniority and military exploits, and the problem that Brother Shao is facing now is to establish prestige and control his subordinates, and first sit firmly in the position of centurion.

At dusk, Guo Shao left the school yard and went to the barracks to get a mule from the capital, so that he could go back to get the personal belongings of the marching army. He planned to rush to the barracks that night after taking his things, and inquire about the grain storage of mules and horses in Pontus.

There were five or six sergeants accompanying him, all of whom were old subordinates of the fourth team when Guo Shao was the tenth general, and they happened to live in the south of the city. These people are obviously more familiar and close to Guo Shao, and it stands to reason that they can turn the fourth team into their own personal soldiers on the spot, and it is easier to control the entire army if they have military power and are loyal to themselves; It's a pity that the ten generals of the fourth team are now Yang Biao, who has just been demoted from the capital to the top ten, and there is no way to move him for the time being. In Guo Shao's opinion, this situation is relatively unpleasant.

Walking to Suzaku Avenue, Guo Shao beckoned the soldiers to go home and led the mules alone from the back alley. As soon as I entered the alley, I heard the sound of "ding ding ding" smashing things, and the direction was from Yulian's house.

Sure enough, when I walked to the door of Chen's house, I heard the beating and scolding in the house and the crying of a woman. Yulian's choked voice, "Let go of my hair...... Stop fighting, how can you tell me to meet people......"

"! You still have a face! The scolding was accompanied by a crackling slap, and the woman's cry was very miserable.

Guo Shao was suddenly furious, threw away the reins of the mule, and saw that the pile of firewood from last night was still outside, so he rushed to the door with one and kicked it sideways. The dilapidated door panel was not kicked open, but flew straight into the room with rivets, and the dust on the side of the door was shaken and fell down. Guo Shao, who was wearing more than 50 pounds of armor, was as light as a swallow, and he stepped in with a jump.

Entering the door was a hall-like room, empty, with only a table, two round stools, and a bamboo chair, and broken porcelain pieces on the floor. A man sat on a bamboo chair, still holding Yulian's hair in his hand, and the two of them were shocked by the battle just now, and they both looked at the uninvited guest in iron armor.

"Let her go!" Guo Shao pointed at the man with a firewood stick and shouted.

The man of the Chen family came back to his senses from his astonishment, and snorted angrily and annoyedly: "The adulterer is here? ”

Balls! Or maybe you don't realize your danger yet. Guo Shao didn't say a word, and swept his head with a stick, and the man instinctively let go of his hand and raised his arm to protect his head. "Smack!" There was a loud bang, there was a faint sound of bones cracking, the firewood was directly broken in two, and the screams like cracking the lungs suddenly resounded throughout the alley.

"Guo Lang......" Yulian was also frightened, her face was so white that there was no blood, and her shoulders were trembling.

Guo Shao ignored it, threw away half of the stick, stepped forward, grabbed the man's collar, and tore off a piece of gray cloth with a "whoosh". He threw away the rags, grabbed the man's wounded arm with his pincer-like hands, and lifted him from his chair. was dragged by someone who had just injured and might break his arm, and the man's crying father and mother's screams were unbearable.

Guo Shao strode out of the door with a man weighing at least more than 100 pounds like a chicken, and threw it outside, and the man fell into the foul-smelling gutter with a rolling belt, struggling to get up.

"Stop, you're going to die!" Yulian followed, her voice trembling.

Guo Shao was full of murderous aura, his face was pale, and he stood like this for a while before he said coldly: "I have been promoted to the head of a hundred people, and the commander of the king knows that Zhang Yongde, the commander of the horses, has a relationship with me. ”

He didn't speak loudly, cold and without much emotion, but it sounded inexplicably terrifying. He's not showing off, and he's not trying to fight against people...... It is just stating a fact: The government of the two prefectures in Tokyo will never dare to dispose of a forbidden army without authorization, and the command of the forbidden army will make Wang Degong hinder Zhang Yongde's face and will not really do anything to Guo Dutou. That Yang Biao crippled people for no reason, and if no one spoke for him, it was just a demotion.

The man of the Chen family had not fainted yet, and he was crying and looking at Guo Shao in fear. For a while, the two frightened men and women didn't seem to have an aftertaste of what Guo Shao was talking about.

Guo Shao slowly reached out and touched the barrier knife on his waist, and the "silk ......" metal rubbed against the cold sound on the scabbard.

"What are you—what are you going to do?" Yulian hurriedly grabbed Guo Shao's wrist and stared at her frightened eyes. Guo Shao's voice: "I helped you dig the abscess of the wound." ”

……

The knife face reflected the last rays of light coming in from outside the alley, and slowly lifted up, and the whole movement seemed to be extraordinarily long. Yulian could have done a little more to stop Guo Shao, such as stepping forward and holding Guo Shao's arm; But she didn't do that, and even at the last moment she didn't even persuade her, looking as if she was scared there, just watching the whole process.

The trajectory of the steel knife was not impatient, but it did not hesitate. Hearing a scream, blood splashed on the earthen wall next to it, and the head of the Chen family man fell heavily on the stones in the ditch, and a stream of blood polluted the debris and sewage in the ditch.

With the eerie dull sound of the blade breaking through flesh, and the air red with the blood mist, it all seemed to be over!

Seeing him being killed in filth like this, Yulian felt very uncomfortable for a while, and felt very pitiful for him. In fact, she never really hated this man, even if he often beat and scolded her, she only had pity and contempt in her heart.

But pity and compassion alone did not sustain her in such a difficult struggle, and a woman who had endured gossip for months and months of adulthood and had to take care of a disabled husband who was addicted to alcohol, she had long hoped that one day she would be freed from the sea of misery. Although she didn't want to admit it, this cruel scene really made her feel inexplicably relieved...... It's just that Yulian still feels very guilty about letting an outside man, a person who already has rumors, kill her husband in front of her.

She didn't even have the heart to think about how to end up after the death, and she was stunned for a while in complicated emotions. Until Guo Shao called her: "You go and call someone, let the neighbor go to the official shop on the street to sue the official, and say that I killed your man." ”

Yulian's face turned pale, and she looked back at him and said in a daze: "Sue you?" She found Guo Shao, who was holding a cloth and slowly wiping the blood on the knife after he killed him.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a scream from the house not far away: "Kill, kill, kill, kill......"

…… Yulian hurriedly called the neighbors as she said, saying that Brother Shao had killed someone, and everything was a fact.

After a period of confusion, she gradually figured out what had happened in the past two days. Guo Shao said what he said last night "I'm not sure", and just now he said that he was promoted and made friends with who and whom: because until last night, he was not sure whether he would be severely punished for killing someone, but today he was finally convinced that he didn't have to pay for killing someone!

This person is scheming, even if he is impulsive, he will not act arbitrarily, but he is very ruthless when he has the chance to win, and his killing methods are even more brutal, and he is really a terrible person. However, Yulian also realized that he was not the kind of person who would do whatever it takes, because he didn't kill people for himself at all.

Even if you don't pay for your life, there will always be trouble and a price! Killing the Chen family is obviously not beneficial to himself at all. And this morning he also gave the land deed to Yulian...... Why is he being so nice to himself? Yulian naturally thought that Brother Shao was interested in herself. But if you think about it, Brother Shao is young and tall, and he has just risen to the capital, so it is not difficult to ask for a yellow flower girl; If he just wants to steal, there is no need to be so troublesome, he has many opportunities in the blacksmith shop, and there is no need to do so much, even if he is strong, no one can sanction him, because there are rumors in the market that Yulian does not abide by women's morals.

It didn't take long for the official errand to come, the first to come was the errand in the official shop on the commercial street, and the two errand officers saw that Guo Shao was armed to the teeth in battle armor, where could they solve it? Then the officials in the county government brought more people, and they also went to the back alleys.

I saw Guo Shao sitting in the shop, and the murder weapon was placed on the anvil next to him, as if he was sitting and waiting to be caught. Outside, there was a group of soap-clothed officials and countless onlookers, but no one dared to step into the shop.

It was the first time for Yulian to look at him so carefully in the crowd, and there was a fog in her heart, what kind of person was he?

At this time, the official sent the people to disperse slightly, and one of them hugged his fists and said: "The victim has lost his breath, the deceased's left arm is broken, his shoulder bone is dislocated, and his face is fatally wounded by a sharp blade......"

A man wearing a wooden bone lacquered veil and a green cloth round-necked robe, pointed at Guo Shao and asked, "You killed the person?" Why kill? ”

"I killed it. The insulting remarks of the man surnamed Chen annoyed me, and I wanted to give a beating to get angry, but accidentally killed him. Guo Shao sat still, looking very rude. However, looking at the color of the official's clothes and the style of the head, he knows that he is a petty official who is not in the stream, and maybe he is not as high-ranking as Guo Shao, the forbidden army.

A man wearing a tall hat next to him wanted to step forward to take someone, but suddenly saw Guo Shao reach out and pick up the knife next to him, the official was startled, hurriedly took two steps back, and blurted out: "You committed a life, and you dare to resist?!" ”

Unexpectedly, he got up and picked up the barrier knife and just threw the knife out to show that he did not resist, and took the initiative to explain: "I am Guo Shao, the head of the small bottom army under the jurisdiction of the front division of the palace, commanding in the north of Fengqiu Gate, commanding Wang Degong. ”

When the official heard this, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the leader of the errands, and said in a low voice: "Send someone to the north of the city immediately to inform his generals of this matter." ”

The person next to him asked, "What about the criminal?" ”

Guan Er Dao pondered for a moment and said: "Bring the corpse back to the Yamen for autopsy, collect the murder weapon, and after finding out the facts of the case, first pay homage to the court, and then make a decision, don't act rashly." Leave a few people here to watch, go in and tell Na Guo Dutou to go to the back to avoid first...... It would be better if you could write a confession. ”

Yulian outside saw that Guo Shao was fine, so she silently detoured to the back alley and went back to her home to wait.