Chapter 116 The Iron Heart Source of Powerlessness

Listening to the hoarse questioning of the shopkeeper of the armory shop, Tie Xinyuan felt very uncomfortable in his heart, and Wei Chizhuo had already burst into tears.

Fifty years ago, the Great Song Dynasty was signing an alliance with the Khitan, and countless scholars suggested that the emperor move the capital south across the Yangtze River.

Twenty years ago? Twenty years ago, the emperor was angry with the Manchu Dynasty for the affairs of the two palace queen mothers, and the young emperor vowed to give his biological mother the highest standard of etiquette in the world, who had the time to pay attention to whether Khotan, which was thousands of miles away, was at war.

As for now, it is only because of such an unlucky guy as Tie Xinyuan that they gave an edict on the way, comforting the Khotanese people who have reached a dead end - everything depends on themselves. The proprietor of the armory shop is a Persian, which Tie Xinyuan can see very accurately, whether it is his gray eyes, curly hair, and high nose bridge, which proves that he is a standard Persian.

A Persian is now angry at Li Chengfeng.

Listening to the shopkeeper's cry, Tie Xinyuan asked Wei Chi Zhuozhuo in a low voice: "You don't know this person?" ”

Wei Chizhuo shook his head seriously and said, "I don't know." "It's easy to do if you don't know each other, just talk about business, since he knows Li Chengfeng, maybe he can buy more.

However, the development of things was not the same as Tie Xinyuan imagined, and the price that the Persian shopkeeper wanted to come out of, even Wei Chi Zhuozhuo, a little girl who wanted to slaughter Tie Xinyuan once, was dumbfounded.

Tie Xinyuan didn't touch the carved arrows taken out by the Persians when he was killed, and he was very afraid that once he held it in his hands, he would have to buy it for himself.

A gold coin and a carved arrow, Tie Xinyuan felt as if he couldn't afford it.

"You only bought the old man's blade, which shows that your Song Kingdom is ready to sincerely help Wei Chi Chengfeng."

The Persians who wept bitterly in front of him and denounced Song Guo for not saving him when he saw death became the blackest-hearted businessman Tie Xinyuan had ever seen in an instant.

Tie Xinyuan stomped his frozen numb feet and looked at Yu Chizhuo and said with a smile: "It seems that Li Chengfeng's friends are not optimistic about him, and they only want to earn the last silver coin from him." ”

Wei Chi Zhuozhuo said with hatred: "He is not my uncle's friend, and we will not have such friends." ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "I think so too, it's better for us to buy some weapons from the Western Xia army stationed here." ”

The Persian shopkeeper sneered: "Make a deal with the army? Aren't they afraid of military justice? ”

The swallow-winged crossbow in Tie Xinyuan's sleeve slipped out of his sleeve at the first moment. Aimed at the Persian shopkeeper and pulled the trigger.

The swallow's wings slammed open, and a crossbow bolt left the crossbow machine and was nailed to the throat of the Persian merchant.

After Tie Xinyuan shot the crossbow arrow, he dragged Wei Chi Zhuozhuo and turned around and walked out of the armory shop.

He didn't even have time to see if he had shot the Persian merchant.

Fortunately, next door was an inn opened by the Xixia people, and after running into the inn in a hurry, he looked back at the weapons store behind him.

More than a dozen Persians with scimitars in their hands stood at the door of the weapons shop, coldly looking at Tie Xinyuan and Wei Chi Zhuozhuo, who had already run into the store.

"Why did you kill him? We have nowhere to buy weapons. Yu Chi Zhuozhuo broke free from Tie Xinyuan's hand and yelled angrily. Xu Dongsheng, who was standing in the courtyard, smiled and looked at the thunderous Wei Chi Zhuozhuo, and then stretched his neck to look at the Tibetans and Persians outside.

Haha laughed and said, "Now half of the people out there want to kill me, and the other half seem to want to kill you, which is so fucking fair." ”

Tie Xinyuan entered the dining room. I saw that the dining room was clean again, and the corpses of the Tubo people on the ground were gone, so he asked for a pot of mare's milk wine and sipped it slowly.

Xu Dongsheng saw that there were only two crossbow arrows on the swallow-winged crossbow that Tie Xinyuan put on the table, so he took the swallow-winged crossbow and studied it carefully, put it on the table and said, "Who did you kill just now?" ”

Tie Xinyuan poured Xu Dongsheng a glass of wine and said, "The shopkeeper of the weapons store." ”

"Why?"

"Because as the shopkeeper of an arms store, he even told me that the Western Xia army was not allowed to sell weapons without permission."

Xu Dongsheng nodded and said, "Fortunately, you started quickly, as long as you are late, you will die." ”

Tie Xinyuan pointed to the Persian standing outside the courtyard of the inn and asked, "Where did these people come from?" ”

Xu Dongsheng looked at it for a while and shook his head and said, "I don't know." In this place in the Western Regions, the situation can be said to change three times a day, and this country is still there today, maybe when you go again tomorrow, this country will disappear.

But. This group of people didn't even know the Western Xia military system, which means that they had just come to Shazhou. ”

Wei Chi Zhuozhuo looked at the two of them and wondered, "Could it be that the Western Xia army can really buy and sell their own weapons at will?" ”

Tie Xinyuan nodded and said, "The Western Xia army is different from other armies, they are all assembled by tribal warriors, and their weapons are all self-prepared. Military law has very low constraints on them, and selling their surplus weapons is the most normal means of accumulating money among them. ”

"You killed the shopkeeper with this suspicion?" Wei Chi's burning eyes widened to the extreme.

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and said, "That guy was wrong from beginning to end, and the room was as cold as an ice cellar." I've seen that there is actually a brazier in the house, but the ashes inside are already cold, which means that the shop has not been lit for at least three days.

And the tail feathers of the eagle feather arrow he sent over had water stains, but it did not freeze, and the tail feathers of the carved arrow were scattered, obviously not a new arrow, this was taken out of someone else's quiver, and only those who were always ready to fight would dip some water on the tail feathers of their eagle feathers to prevent the eagle feather from curling. ”

"And then you're going to kill him?" Wei Chi Zhuozhuo was still asking Tie Xinyuan, which made him think that there might be something wrong with this girl's head.

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "Actually, when he forcibly sold me a broken knife with three silver cakes, I wanted to kill him." ”

When Wei Chizhuo heard Tie Xinyuan say this, he lowered his head a little sadly, sat on the bench and picked his palm.

There was a lot of noise outside the courtyard, Xu Dongsheng looked out, saw that the sun was about to set, and sighed: "We still haven't done what Master Mu ordered. Whether it is the Tibetans, the Persians, or the people of the Western Regions, they still dare not rebel against the Tanguts in this part of Shazhou. ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled bitterly: "They don't even dare to come in this courtyard, which is very revealing."

Isn't it time for us to go? ”

Wei Chi Zhuozhuo raised his head and looked at Tie Xinyuan suddenly, sad and sad, and his eyes were slightly red.

These days, she has actually believed that Tie Xinyuan is an official sent by the Song State to help the Khotanese State.

Now that I heard that they were leaving, I couldn't help but feel extremely sad and indignant in my chest, and a feeling of betrayal arose.

Tie Xinyuan patted Wei Chi Zhuozhuo's small hand clenched into a fist and said, "You don't believe me, so I don't need to stay here longer, staying any longer will only make you look down on me."

I know that you are very disappointed in me, or in the Great Song.

This has nothing to do with me, I have more important things to do when I come to the Western Regions, and for Da Song, you are not all he has. Wei Chizhuo got up and left the table, looked at Tie Xinyuan and said, "We have always been fighting alone, we were, we are, and we will be ...... in the future."

Tie Xinyuan took out a bag from his arms and handed it to the little girl who made a declaration with tears in her eyes and said, "The beads in here are exchanged for money, which is enough for you to sell grain to survive the cold winter."

I'm just a little baron, not a high-ranking official of the Song Kingdom, and that's the only help I can give you.

In the future, it may be better in the future. “

Wei Chi Zhuozhuo wanted to take the bag and throw it in Tie Xinyuan's face, but when she thought of the young children waiting in the camp, the skinny old man, and the hungry soldiers, she gritted her teeth and took the bag, and the strong sense of humiliation made her bite her lip without realizing it.

"Go to my room and get a good night's sleep, and when these Persians and Tibetans are gone, you will be able to find your companions."

After Tie Xinyuan finished laughing, he continued to joke with Xu Dongsheng about the warm mare's milk wine.

"Why don't you tell her about your current situation?" Xu Dongsheng saw that Wei Chi Zhuozhuo honestly walked into Tie Xinyuan's room and asked.

"My situation only makes them feel more frightened, it is useless to talk about it, their courage is running out, there is no need to continue to consume it on me."

Xu Dongsheng nodded, called the guy who was dozing off on the edge of the brazier over and asked, "Don't you plan to drive those Tubo people and Xixia people away?" ”

The man laughed: "If they don't go into the courtyard, it's not a harassment of you, if they have the money to come here to eat and drink, they are guests just like you."

Guests and guests fight, we don't care. (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 2