That night, Zhao Hongrun, who had fallen asleep, was awakened and received a report that "someone violated the ban and stayed in the treasury in the north of the city to plot misdeeds".

However, because the matter has not yet been clarified, Zhao Hongrun will not make a rash decision because of Xu Jiong's one-sided words, after all, that "young man with suspicious deeds" cannot be confirmed for the time being whether he is a member of the Lun tribe of the Qiang tribe, and even if it is "yes", it cannot be proved that this matter has anything to do with Lu Balong, the patriarch of the Lun tribe of the Qiang tribe.

Therefore, he asked the guards to boil some water, made a large cup of tea with easy-to-carry inferior tea cakes, and sat in the tent and waited quietly. Because he knew that since Xu Jiong ordered someone to report such a serious violation to him, no matter whether the matter was finally found out to be a misunderstanding or true, Xu Jiong would personally state the matter to him later.

Sure enough, around the time of the child, Xu Jiong's voice sounded in the felt tent: "Everyone, may I ask His Royal Highness King Su has ever rested?" ”

Hearing Xu Jiong asking the Su Wang guards on duty outside the tent, Zhao Hongrun said casually in the tent: "Come in, Xu Jiong." ”

"Uh...... Be. ”

Xu Jiong answered outside the tent, then lifted the tent and walked in, clasped his fists and saluted.

"Just you?"

When asking, Zhao Hongrun looked up and down at the 3,000 generals of the merchant army in front of him.

As far as he knew, this 3,000-person general was not promoted by Wu Ji casually, this person was once the guard general of Chen County. Including Wu Ji's deputy general Zhai Huang, several 2,000 generals and 3,000 generals in the Shangshui army were all once the generals of Xiong Hu, the Yujun of Chuping, who surrendered last year to Gu Liangwei, Wu Majiao and Wu Ji on the way to attack Pingyu, Xiangcheng and Chen County, and then returned to Wei along with the people of Chu State.

After that, because these people were more familiar with Gu Liangwei, Wu Majiao, and Wu Ji, they chose the Shang Water Army among the Yan Ling Army and the Shang Water Army, and did not choose Qu Cheng's Yan Ling Army.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is these generals who have propped up the weak general system of the Shang Shui Army, otherwise, relying only on those generals who have been promoted from non-commissioned soldiers to 500 generals and 1,000 generals, the Shang Shui Army will have to be chaotic.

"Ah, I will ...... the last one person" Xu Jiong subconsciously answered, and then realized the reason why His Royal Highness King Su in front of him asked such a question, and hurriedly hugged his fists and explained: "Because Zhai (Huang) General Wei Lu Balong Patriarch interceded, plus ......"

"Plus what?" Seeing that Xu Jiong suddenly became a little hesitant, Zhao Hongrun asked curiously.

I saw Xu Jiong's face showing a little embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "Patriarch Lu Balong called his two youngest sons to the last general, and said that he would stay with the last general as a hostage, and said...... If he has even the slightest betrayal of His Royal Highness King Su, let the last general kill his two sons......" Speaking of this, he raised his head and looked at Zhao Hongrun with a sneering expression.

As soon as he heard this, Zhao Hongrun could guess that Xu Jiong must have pressed too hard at that time, so Lu Balon had to prove his loyalty and innocence in this way.

But he didn't mean to blame or blame Xu Jiong, after all, Xu Jiong was also loyal to his duties, and he should be praised, not blamed.

"Sit." Zhao Hongrun raised his hand, motioned for Xu Jiong to sit on his diagonal seat, and immediately poured him a cup of tea with a croissant, and then laughed jokingly: "There is neither good tea nor matching tea sets...... Let's make do with a tea cake and a croissant. ”

"How dare you ......" Seeing Zhao Hongrun pour tea for himself in person, Xu Jiong was flattered and took it with both hands, although it was just a cup of coarse tea, but his mood was inexplicable.

Once upon a time, like Xu Jiong, the generals of the Chu State who were persuaded by Wu Ji to surrender during their attack on Pingyu, in fact, they had not seen Zhao Hongrun with their own eyes before, but they had heard of these His Royal Highness King Su from time to time, and what they heard was not something that could make them feel at ease, but all about how Zhao Hongrun forced Wu Ji and others to surrender, and how to force down 50,000 Chu troops, etc., which made Xu Jiong and other generals extremely jealous of His Royal Highness King Su for a while.

It wasn't until later that they gradually learned how approachable His Royal Highness King Su, who was privately rumored to be vicious, and more importantly, His Royal Highness King Su was not as prejudiced against foreigners as Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, and treated the Wei people and the Chu people who returned to the Wei State equally, the most direct manifestation of which was undoubtedly that His Royal Highness the King Su regarded the Shang Shui Army as a descendant, so he equipped them with sharp weapons such as crossbows and catapults, and I heard that His Royal Highness the King Su seemed to be planning to personally design the armor of the Shang Water Army, ready to ask the Smelting Bureau to create an armor for them.

may be out of trust in Zhao Hongrun, when Xu Jiong saw that His Royal Highness King Su was not in a hurry or impatient, his originally anxious mood gradually calmed down.

Still, he had to say what he had to say, and that was his duty.

"Your Royal Highness, what do you think...... What's going on? ”

In fact, what he wanted to ask was "what do you think of Lu Balon, the patriarch of the Lun tribe", but it cannot be denied that Lu Balon's behavior of using his two youngest sons as hostages also made Xu Jiong trust him a little, so the words naturally had to be considered.

"The guy you caught...... Is it really a member of the Lun tribe? ”

"Yes." Xu Jiong nodded and said, "In addition, it's not one person, when the last general ordered martial law later, the soldiers arrested a few young people, all of whom were from the Lun tribe. ”

"That's right...... And then? ”

After this happened, the last general sent someone to inform General Zhai Huang and asked him to ...... Well, Lu Balon was temporarily detained, but General Zhai Huang acted steadily, and took the Lu Baron patriarch to personally go down to the city wall to confront him face to face. At that time, the last general saw with his own eyes that Lubaron was very angry when he saw the young men, and called out the name of one of them......"

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun was even more convinced that this matter had nothing to do with Lu Balon, after all, according to common sense, if Lu Balon really had any bad intentions, he would never stupidly call out the names of those clansmen after discovering that the clansman had missed, wouldn't this be suspicious?

"Patriarch Lu Balon and those young people of the Lun clan, where are they now?" Zhao Hongrun asked.

I saw Xu Jiong hesitate for a moment, and said in a low voice: "I was taken away by Lu Balon, he said that he would definitely give an explanation to His Royal Highness King Su about this matter." ”

"Give this king an explanation......

Zhao Hongrun gritted his teeth lightly, with a somewhat strange expression on his face, because he could guess what the "confession" in the mouth of Lu Balon, who was full of anger at that time, was referring to.

However, after catching a glimpse of Xu Jiong's puzzled gaze, Zhao Hongrun regained his posture and said with a smile: "Since Patriarch Lu Balong left these words, presumably he will give this king a satisfactory explanation." …… The general rested for a while, and I guessed that it would not be long before the patriarch of Lubaron would come to see the king in person and tell him about the matter, and we would analyze it slowly when the time came. …… Come, drink tea. ”

Xu Jiong took a sip of coarse tea, and then, as if he had thought of something, he said in a low voice: "By the way, His Royal Highness King Su, at that time, some objects were found from those young people, and the last general felt that His Royal Highness King Su had better ......look at it" As he spoke, he took out a dagger and a piece of flint and steel from his arms, and added in a low voice: "Those people have these two objects on them. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun put down the croissant, picked up the dagger and looked at it for a while.

It's a bone blade.

Don't underestimate this bone blade, you must know that the Qiang people have a long culture of bone blades, and they are very good at polishing the bones and horns of sheep into sharp blades, and even polishing them into arrowheads.

And the bone blades made by those of the Qiang people, although the hardness is not as hard as the bronze of the Chu State and the iron tools of the Wei State, but it is not inferior in the sharp angle, especially an arrow made of the hollow fine bones of sheep, which can be called terrifying, once it hits the enemy's chest, because the air is forcibly squeezed into the enemy's body along the hollow of this bone arrow, it can directly make the other party speechless, and then the whole body is stiff, and he can only wait helplessly for death with his eyes open.

However, it is a pity that according to Zhao Hongrun's knowledge, the Qiang, and the Qiang people, the bone blade culture seems to have gradually died out, and compared to the things left by these ancestors, the people of Sanchuan gradually tend to use stronger bronze and iron tools.

"Your Highness."

At this time, Zong Wei Gao Kuo lifted the tent and walked in, and said with a strange expression: "The Lu Balon Patriarch of the Lun tribe asks to see His Highness. ”

"Is he alone?" Zhao Hongrun asked casually.

Hearing this, Gao Kuo's expression became even more awkward, and he hesitated for a moment before he said in a hurry: "People, it's true that he is alone, but ...... And a couple of heads. With that, he showed an expression of 'Your Highness, you should see it with your own eyes', and lifted the tent sideways.

And at this moment, the gloomy face of Lu Balon strode into the tent, carrying three bloody human heads in his right hand.

"Good Guy......

Glancing at the three people's heads that were oozing and still dripping blood, Zhao Hongrun subconsciously leaned back slightly, only to feel that the tent seemed to be filled with a pungent smell of blood in an instant.

Although he had already guessed that Lu Baron would prove his innocence in this way, the so-called 'confession', he really didn't expect that this reckless man of the Yi tribe would come directly to see him with a bloody head.

It's no wonder that Fang Cai Zong Wei Gao has a strange expression on his face.

"Smack."

Lu Balon directly threw the three heads on the ground as if they were dirty, and then knocked on the ground on one knee, stroked his heart with his right hand, bowed his head, and made a very solemn gift to Zhao Hongrun on the grassland, and said in an urn in his mouth: "King Su, the Lun clan has betrayed the trust of King Su, and there are really wrongdoers in my clan, but I, Lu Balon, have killed all those shameful traitors...... Please condemn the king! ”

"Patriarch, please." Zhao Hongrun raised his hand and smacked it, and at the same time gestured to Zong Wei Gao Kuo, who was standing near the tent, with his eyes.

Gao Kuo understood and stepped forward to help Lu Baron up.

At this time, Xu Jiong seemed to have sensed something, got up and looked at the heads of those people for a while, frowned and said: "These three heads don't seem to be the ones I captured......

"Yes." After being helped up by Gao Kuo, Lu Baron nodded, and said calmly: "These three heads, one of them is a leader in our clan, and the young men of our clan captured by the general are the main envoys sent by this person to try to use the fierce fire oil to create civil strife in the city!" Speaking of this, he paused, glanced down at a certain head on the ground, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, closed his eyes and sighed slightly: "At the same time, it is also my younger brother." ”

“……”

Zhao Hongrun, Xu Jiong, and Gao Kuo looked at each other. (To be continued.) )