Chapter 3 East Gate (No. 7 Middle School)

Seeing that a rare chance to escape was about to disappear in front of his eyes, Wang Ermao was not willing. Before the woman's voice fell, she immediately made a bitter face and muttered loudly: "Then the two of us have to wait for death." You're ruthless. It's a shame that people still treated you as a friend just now! ”

"You're self-acquainted. Which one said it was your friend who came? The cuckoo had never seen such a lazy person, and snorted angrily.

"Instead of treating you as a friend, will I tell you about the affairs in the county? The two of us were forced to come, and we are not corrupt officials? Why do you have to kill us! Besides, who doesn't know Zhang Dawang's reputation for eating people's hearts? If the two of us really have a good relationship with the dog officials in the city, how could they send us out to die! ”

At every moment of life and death, people's potential is often fully stimulated. Wang Ermao is like this, knowing that reasoning with female bandits is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger, but he said it very righteously and strictly. The seven-master cuckoo was speechless by his rhetorical question, and blinked his eyes for a long time before he replied stupidly, "You two deserve it." If you are afraid of death, why didn't you surrender last night? Why did you kill so many of us this morning? ”

"The female leader is sorry to say this!" Cheng Mingzhen found that Du Juan's tone had softened again, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to help Wang Ermao. "Last night, who knows what King Zhang wanted to do? If we hadn't resisted, the two of us would have been cut down a long time ago! How can I come to your barracks as an emissary? ”

"Nonsense, we never kill people who surrender voluntarily!"

"The two of us are here to surrender now!" Wang Ermao pointed at Cheng Mingzhen and his chest, becoming more and more straightforward.

"You two were scared of being beaten, so you surrendered, and you can't take the initiative!" After all, the cuckoo is a girl, and she knows that the more she argues, the more she will be taken into the ditch by the two teenagers, and she still has to distinguish between right and wrong.

"Anyway, you didn't put down your weapons after rushing to the city! Now that you have entered your camp, you have a point! Wang Ermao shrugged his shoulders stupidly, with a sneer written on his face.

"Then you go back to the city and wait for your aunt to cut off your head!"

"If you refuse to let us go, how can we go back to the city?"

Going around and around, the topic goes back to the same place last time. The seven-master cuckoo was suffocated by Wang Ermao's little face turned red, waved his horsewhip and whipped it in the air, gritting his teeth and being ruthless, "Don't you two just want to live?" I'll let you go, and ......."

"Thank you for your help!" This time, without waiting for her to take back her words, Cheng Mingzhen immediately knocked on the bricks.

"You ......" cuckoo shuddered with anger when he found out that he had been fooled again. He raised his whip and wanted to whip the other party, but he felt that he was too heartless to do so. After staring at him for a long time, he twisted his head and strode forward.

Wang Ermao and Cheng Mingzhen looked at each other and smiled, saying that they finally had a glimmer of hope for survival this time. Quickened his pace and silently followed behind the cuckoo.

Zhang Jin's camp was extremely messy, and the three of them walked for more than a mile. Only then did I see the cowhide military tent next to it with the banner of Tianxingdao. "If you don't want to die, just wait here honestly, I'll go in and say hello to Uncle Zhang first!" The female bandit Du Juan glared back at Cheng Mingzhen and ordered hatefully.

"Thank you, Chiefess! Cheng is grateful! Cheng Mingzhen knew that he had indeed won just now, and thanked him curtly.

"I told you, my name is Cuckoo. Don't you have a name? Opening Cheng Mou, closing Cheng Mou, it's not too awkward! The cuckoo snorted coldly, and his anger did not subside. I can't tell Zhang Erbo and a few other big bosses that there is a coward surnamed Cheng outside who has come to beg for mercy. Give me the gift list of the bullshit county order, so that you won't even have a chance to take it out, and you will be cut down! ”

Cheng Mingzhen smiled bitterly and gave it away, then took out the list of gifts and the handwritten letter of Lin County's order from his arms, and handed it over to Du Juan with great trust. "Cao Cheng Mingzhen, the new soldier in Tao County, Xiaguan, came to ask for surrender on the order of the county commander. If the female commander can save the lives of my county's children today, Cheng will not dare to forget it in this life! ”

"His name is Cheng Mingzhen, you can call him Cheng Xiaojiu!" Wang Ermao couldn't stand his good friend suddenly becoming so pretentious, pushed him aside and confessed loudly. "His soldier Cao has been in office for less than 20 days, and his ass is still hot. The last time you beat Jia on the head, the two of us were still bitter people carrying big bags on the canal haha......"

"Gotcha, gotcha, long-winded!" The seven-master cuckoo waved the gift list and envelope vigorously, turned around and walked away. Wang Ermao, who was dying, was so frightened that he didn't wait for the other party's back to go far, so he poked his good friend next to him with his finger, lowered his voice and said: "Little Brother Jiu, this girl is really delicious!" It's just a tigress, I don't know who would dare to marry her home in this life! ”

"Be quiet, you're looking for death!" Cheng Mingzhen was so frightened that he hurriedly blocked the other party's mouth with his hand. "The two of us are still counting on her to help, why bother annoying her again!"

I don't know if the words of the two were heard by the cuckoo, or because there were too many debris on the ground. In the corner of his eye, Cheng Mingzhen saw very clearly that the cuckoo's leg had stumbled. To be bad! He secretly complained in his heart, and was ready to be whipped by the other party. The shadow in the distance continued to move forward as if nothing had happened, and in the blink of an eye, it had been swallowed up by the cowhide tent.

The two teenagers waited near the big tent of the Chinese army with their heads in their hands, their hearts full of uneasiness. Whenever someone passed by, they looked up vigilantly to see if the other had a sharp knife in their hand. And the eyes of the passing rogues are full of greed, and their eyes always look at this side as if they are looking at a pile of fresh meat. It's a ridiculous feeling, and it can drive people crazy. However, the bandits in the barracks were undisciplined and came and went endlessly.

I don't know how long I waited, but at the moment when Cheng Mingzhen felt that he was about to collapse, two teams of biao sweaters ran towards him with ghost head swords. The young man's first instinct was to run away, but his hand reached out and grabbed his companion with rattling teeth. He found that Wang Ermao's palms were as cold as a corpse, and the cold sweat blended with his own cold sweat, dripping to the edge of his palm.

"Little Brother Jiu!" Wang Ermao kept swinging, and his voice was crying, "I didn't be a bad seed this time." I'm worthy of you! ”

"Neither of us is a bad breed!" Cheng Xiaojiu gritted his teeth in response, his smile looked worse than crying. The two of them held back their fears and raised their heads and chests, refusing to show more fear under the ghost-headed knife. The strong men with ghost-headed knives glared at them viciously and walked quickly into the distance.

As soon as the nervous feeling in his heart was relaxed, Wang Ermao almost fell on the spot. looked at Cheng Mingzhen with a bitter face, and found that his good friend's body had also softened, and his waist was bent like a prawn. The two smiled at each other, and once again waited for death. There was no movement in the cowhide tent, quietly, like a sleeping Hades Palace.

Suddenly, another group of men with iron chains running past the tent, and at the end of the chains hung iron hooks, which were pitch black, and it was unknown whether they were human or animal blood. The two teenagers were startled again, stiffened and waited for the iron hook to pass through their lute bones. After a while, the sound of chains dragging on the ground disappeared again, and the cowhide tent returned to silence, like an old demon who had just woken up, thinking about what to eat for the next meal.

The third wave came running a group of shirtless butchers, carrying wooden basins and boning knives. Cheng Mingzhen was not as scared as before, pushed Wang Ermao, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, the more we are afraid, the happier Zhang Jincheng will be!" ”

"No, no, I, I can hold it!" Wang Ermao straightened his thin and angular chest and gritted his teeth in response.

As soon as the words fell, the butchers had already rushed closer. I couldn't help but pick up the two teenagers, and tied them up with all fours like pigs. Then he took a stick and put it between his hands and feet, lifted it up, and walked towards the cowhide tent.

"Help—" Wang Ermao shouted hoarsely. Snot and tears flowed all over his face. Cheng Mingzhen knew that he would not escape death today, and tears rolled down his cheeks. At this juncture, he didn't want people to see his weakness anymore, so he inhaled hard and shouted angrily: "Let me go." Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated! ”

"You hairy kid is a bullshit taxi. King Zhang said, the guy with fine skin and tender meat, just eat it without stuffing his teeth! Walking beside Cheng Mingzhen was a scar-faced evil man, who reached out and pinched his face, and said with a smile.

Cheng Mingzhen was pinched by the other party's oily hand and became disgusted, forcefully turned his head sideways, and scolded hatefully, "You people are simply a bunch of brutes!" Grandpa won't let you go after he becomes a ghost! ”

"Then you have to line up, there are not a thousand ghosts who want to seek revenge on me, but also eight hundred!" The scar-faced butcher didn't care at all, and continued to fight with Cheng Ming without saying a word.

Cheng Mingzhen snorted coldly, closed his eyes and waited for death. Wang Ermao's shouts in his ears came like a pig, one after another, "Help, help." The girl surnamed Du, you promised to save us! ”

"Ermao, if you die, you will die!" Cheng Mingzhen was upset when he heard this, and opened his eyes to dissuade him.

"No, I can't. The girl didn't believe her word. I don't see what I'm going to do! Wang Ermao's voice was already hoarse, but he was still unwilling to be killed, "Dead girl cuckoo." Black-eyed female bandit Cuckoo, you said you were going to save us! Your words don't count, and you won't have ...... to have a son in the future! ”

Before he could finish scolding, the eyes of the two suddenly darkened. There was a hot smell of sweat that made it almost impossible to breathe. Immediately after, the wooden stick that lay between the limbs fell suddenly, and only a "bang" sound was heard in the ears, and countless gold stars appeared in front of him.

"Ahh Lao Tzu doesn't ...... ghosts," Wang Ermao continued to scream, and his body rolled on the ground. Cheng Mingzhen struggled twice, found that his efforts were in vain, and closed his mouth tightly, refusing to continue to let people see jokes.

At this time, he was facing the sky on his back, just enough to see the roof of the cowhide tent. A few blackened wooden poles lay there, dirty and I don't know how many years it had been. At the lower end of the pole, there is a new name. The weighing pan and the scale star are made of sterling silver, which is dazzling and shiny.

Isn't this surnamed Zhang a merchant before he fell into the grass? Cheng Mingzhen looked curious, and secretly ridiculed in his heart. When I was confused, I heard someone laughing and asking, "Girl! These are the two bold young heroes you are talking about? Isn't it good to be guts? Your voice is almost hoarse? ”

"I'll tie you up and put it on the side of the soup pot, you kind of don't say anything!" Wang Ermao's voice trembled in fright, but his mouth refused to soften at all.

"The speaker is a big man. It is really an honor for Cheng to be treated so vigorously by the head of Laoda! Cheng Mingzhen's mouth is not good at stubble, and he followed Wang Ermao's words and ridiculed.

Immediately, there was a burst of angry shouts in the big tent, "Bold! "Hard mouth!" "Give him two mouths!" "Drag it out and slaughter it!" It's a mess, one after another. These voices fell on the ears of Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao, but as if listening to fairy music, their fear was reduced a little, they tilted their heads and squeezed each other's eyes, laughing.

"Haha, haha, hahahahaha......" Hoarse laughter interrupted all the noise in the tent. Zhang Jin was so angry that he slapped the table hard, "Shut up, laugh at something." Death is on the horizon, what's so funny! ”

Wang Ermao Chong Cheng Mingzhen blinked his eyes and signaled his good friend to hurry up and seize the opportunity. Cheng Mingzhen nodded with a smile, and replied loudly: "If Zhang Da wants to kill the two of me, he will directly cut them down, so why bother sending people to toss them again and again." Since it was to scare the two of us, we were already scared, and Zhang Da was too addicted. The next thing must be safe, naturally the two of us will have a good laugh! ”

"You two think it's beautiful. If I don't kill you, what will happen to the lives of my more than 300 brothers? A guy with a duck's throat asked angrily.

"First hurt so many of our brothers, and then whimsically came to the camp to deceive him! Tell me, "Why don't we kill you?" Another rough-voiced man asked angrily.

Cheng Mingzhen sneered lightly and didn't say a word. Wang Ermao saw that his good friend had regained his composure, and his courage slowly grew stronger, and he sneered like the other party.

"Why don't you answer? Dumb! ”

"Nothing to say, right? For the sake of you daring to come here, Lao Tzu will give you a good time! The duck's throat and the panting man continued to question.

Cheng Mingzhen refused to speak at first, and only after the other party asked several times in succession did he roll his eyelids and respond with disdain: "I came to ask Zhang Da to surrender on the order of Lord Zunlin of Tao County." If Zhang Da Dang had something to ask, he would naturally let me stand up and speak slowly. is tied up like this, but it is just a lamb to be slaughtered, and I am afraid that the words will not match the preface and the afterword, and it will not be true! ”

These few sentences are even provocative and flattering, which is very unexpected. The noise in the big tent immediately subsided, and the person who was clamoring to kill him looked at Zhang Jincheng cautiously, lest the other party really be soft-eared and lively, and blame himself for being noisy. Zhang Jincheng, who was sitting in the position of the coach, refused to be fooled at all, clasped the table in front of him with his fingers, and ordered with pity: "It seems that I have to cut your tongue at least today, so as not to disturb our army's heart." Come on, drag the two of them out, and hit twenty boards to brake the majesty first! ”

Another group of strong men immediately rushed around, dragging the ropes on Cheng Mingzhen and Wang Ermao and leaving. Cheng Mingzhen and Ermao didn't ask for mercy, hummed and sneered twice, and posed as a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and let the other party toss at will.

Seeing that the two teenagers were not afraid of their own intimidation at all, Zhang Jin said that he felt that the other party was a little interesting. After a few more bangs on the table, he ordered loudly, "Drag it back, I still have something to ask him!" ”

The strong men dragged the two teenagers back like dead dogs, and threw themselves under the handsome case. This time, Cheng Mingzhen can see Zhang Jincheng's appearance clearly, but he is just an old force with triangular eyes, a gray beard, and a mouth full of twisted and crooked teeth, although it is ugly, it is far from being as vicious as the legend.

It was just Zhang Jincheng's gaze that also looked from above, and met the eyes of the young man. The old thief's eyes widened viciously, trying to suppress the young man's arrogance. Cheng Mingzhen had already been frightened, and simply smiled at the old thief, looking mysterious.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhang Jin said that he was stunned by laughter and instinctively asked.

Cheng Mingzhen was prepared in his heart, and immediately gave a disgusting answer loudly: "I laughed at me for being unproductive since I was a child, but I came to you, but I was tied tightly, and I had to be beaten to the board to be beaten off my majesty." ”

This time, it was Zhang Jin's turn to be angry. As soon as he slapped the table hard, he wanted to order his minions to drag Cheng Mingzhen down and beat him, but thinking about the trap in the other party's words, he felt that he was really going to beat the young man's board, which was equivalent to admitting that his momentum was not as good as the other party. Desperately suppressing his anger, he shouted from between his teeth: "Come on, let the two of them loosen their bonds." Let them stand and talk. Prepare a cauldron outside, and when the king asks about the situation in the city, he will cook them alive for me! ”

The guards on the left and right agreed to pounce, and untied the rope for Cheng and Wang. Cheng Mingzhen got up from the ground with a roll, took a few steps back, first lowered his head and tore off the robe that was tied out of wrinkles, and then carefully dusted off the soil on his body, just put the soft crown on his head, and when everything was cleaned up, he proudly bowed to Zhang Jincheng: "Guantao County soldier Cao Cheng Mingzhen, I came to surrender on the order of the county lord!" ”