Adou's contemptuous eyes aroused the anger of the middle-aged Qiang people. []

"Boy, dare to underestimate me, let you know that you know how powerful your grandfather is......" The middle-aged Qiang man rushed towards Adou with a hideous face.

At the same time, Adou kicked out, and his toe just hit the middle-aged Qiang man's chest.

"Heh......" The figure with broken bones sounded, and then, the strong body of the middle-aged Qiang man was kicked by Adou and flew up, and the middle-aged Qiang man spurted out a mouthful of blood in mid-air, and then fell the ground a few feet away, twitched a few times, and then lost his breath.

The other Qiang people opened their mouths wide and looked at the corpse of the middle-aged Qiang man in front of them in surprise, and then looked at Adou at the same time, their eyes full of anger.

"Up, kill him!" Several other Qiang people rushed towards Adou at the same time.

"Wait for death!" Adou said and drew his sword, and after three cold rays of light, the three Qiang people fell.

"What a fast swordsmanship!" The old village chief couldn't help it. With a light sigh, the old village chief finally understood how Adou was able to rescue Dolei from dozens of horse thieves.

"Ah......" After another scream, only one Qiang was left alive.

Now there is no more in the eyes of this Qiang man. The arrogance just now was full of horror. The remaining Qiang people screamed, turned and ran.

Adou also didn't chase for Adou. It's just a Qiang person, just run, it's not a big deal.

"Whoosh......" An arrow suddenly flew behind Adou, with lightning speed. It flew into the sky, and after flying a high distance into the sky, it turned into a parabola and fell, but it hit the head of the Qiang man, and the arrow pierced directly into the head of the Qiang man. After the Qiang people were hit by the arrow, they ran a few steps by inertia before falling to the ground.

"Good archery!" Adou was slightly startled, and then immediately turned around and saw the village. There was already an extra longbow in his hand, and the old village chief was holding the longbow, panting slightly.

For an archer, a flat shot to hit the target is not. It's difficult, but it's too difficult to shoot an arrow into the air like just now, and then drop it in a parabola to hit the enemy, which not only has to calculate the arc of the arrow's flight, but also calculates the wind at that time and the movement of the Qiang people, so it definitely requires a lot of skill to be able to shoot that arrow just now.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" the village chief gasped. After a few breaths and a few more coughs, he slowly spoke: "People are old, and they are ...... gasping for an arrow."

"This village chief is not an ordinary person!" Adou said secretly in his heart. A person with such outstanding archery skills is definitely not the village chief in a small and unknown village, it seems that there must be a wonderful story behind this old village chief.

"Come out!" The old village chief shouted, and the villagers came out one after another.

"Ah, look, what is that!" A villager points to the corpse of a Qiang man.

Dore walked out of the crowd, approached the corpses of several Qiang, probed them for a moment, and then stood up and shouted, "They are all dead!" ”

"The Qiang people are dead!"

"Oh my God, the Qiang are dead!"

The villagers were stunned for a moment, and then burst into cheers.

"Well dead, good dead!"

"I know that Qiang man, he almost killed my son last time!"

The villagers were eager to go up and put a few more knives on the Qiang corpses.

"Everyone, be still!" The old village chief waved his hand, and then said: "Don't be too happy, these Qiang people are dead, and the people of their tribe will definitely send someone to look for them after they disappear, if they die in our village, our village will be unlucky!" ”

Listening to the words of the village chief, the faces of the villagers suddenly became embarrassed.

The village chief said a lot, the Qiang people are gone, they will definitely send people to look for them, and if they know that these Qiang people died in their own villages, even if they are not killed by these villagers, the Qiang people will retaliate against the villagers, and when the time comes, it is likely to be a slaughter of the village!

Dolei immediately stood up and said, "Village Chief, let me go and bury the corpses of these Qiang people...... That way you won't be found. ”

"Dorey, if you bury it, it may be bitten out by wild dogs, and it will also be revealed, I don't think it's better to burn it directly." An old man in his fifties next to him spoke.

"Yes, burned, burned to ashes, and nothing will be found!"

"Hey...... It's useless! The old village chief said suddenly.

"Village Chief, why?"

"We are the only village in this hundred miles, and if these Qiang people go missing, they will definitely suspect us first. Besides, if these people had told their families that they would come to us before they came out, wouldn't the Qiang people come to our village directly to look for them? The village chief spoke.

"As long as they can't find the body, won't it be okay if we don't admit it if we die?"

"Death or not?" The village chief shook his head slightly, and said helplessly: "Do those Qiang people need a reason to kill people?" ”

Then the village chief pointed to the war horses of the dozens of horse thieves in front of him, and then said: "Even if the Qiang people can't find the corpses, how can these war horses be explained?" ”

"Village Chief, what do you think we should do?" Dorey spoke.

"Run, now it's just time to run! We can't stay here. Dorey, you go to the mountain at once, and tell all the people on the mountain to come out, and everyone else to go back and pack their things! After the old village chief finished speaking, he looked at Adou again and said, "Mr. Liu, how about going with me?" ”

"Village Chief, please." Adou nodded.

……

Sitting in the village chief's room, listening to the villagers outside noisily packing up their things, Adou suddenly felt a sense of guilt in his heart.

Adou knew that he was too impulsive just now, and it was cool to kill those Qiang people, but he didn't take these villagers into account at all. They could have patted their butts and left, but these villagers had to leave their hometowns and start a life of fugitive.

"Village Chief, let me ask boldly, where are you going to flee?" Adou asked.

"I don't know." The old village chief shook his head: "Wherever you flee, it counts!" ”

"Hey, village chief, it's all bad just now, if you weren't so impulsive, you wouldn't be ......"

"Mr. Liu doesn't need to say it, it's no wonder to you about this, we are used to those Qiang people oppressing, and they just have nothing to find fault with today. Besides, didn't I kill someone myself? The old village chief smiled.

Feeling the helplessness in the old village chief's smile, Adou knew that the village chief had just shot the last Qiang man out of necessity. If the Qiang man had been allowed to run back to report the news and bring in the rescuers, the village would be over, at least the villagers would not even have time to pack up their things and prepare to escape. Now you have at least time to pack your belongings.

"Mr. Liu doesn't have to blame himself, it's not a long-term solution for us to send people here. If we go to a new place, maybe without the Qiang people, we can have a better life. ”

Adou hesitated slightly, and finally spoke: "En...... Village Chief, do you have pen and ink here? ”

"Mr. Liu wants to use pen and ink? Wait a minute, I'll fetch it for you. The old village chief walked to the inner room.

After a while, the old village chief came out of the house, holding an inkstone in one hand and a stack of papers and a pen in the other. From a distance, the inkstone was covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Mr. Liu, please use it." The old man wiped the dust with his hands, and then put the pen and paper and inkstone in front of Adou.

"Thank you, village chief." After Adou finished speaking, he spread out the paper.

"Huh......" Seeing the paper in his hand, Adou was slightly stunned. The paper that the old village chief took out is also a good paper in the Central Plains, and only the nobles and children of the family can afford to use it, but it seems that this paper is already very old, as if it has been shelved for decades.

Look at the inkstone again, it turned out to be a mud inkstone!

The mud inkstone, in fact, is an inkstone fired after being kneaded with mud, which is regarded as a kind of pottery product.

Generally speaking, the early inkstones were naturally made of stone, and with the exhibition of the inkstones, jade inkstones, tile inkstones, mud inkstones and porcelain inkstones gradually appeared.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the ceramic craft was far less advanced than that of later generations, so the folk inkstones were directly carved and polished from stone. Compared with the stone inkstone, the manufacturing process requirements of the mud inkstone are much more cumbersome, so the price of the mud inkstone is more expensive than the stone inkstone, and only some dignitaries and some children of the big family will use the mud inkstone.

And now, Adou actually saw this mud inkstone in a small village of the Di people, and felt very strange in his heart.

"This village chief can take out good paper, as well as this mud inkstone, it seems that this village chief is really not an ordinary person!" Adou thought, but his hand did not stop, brushed and wrote a few lines on the paper, and then took out a mark from his bosom and printed it on the paper.

Adou folded the paper, handed it to the old village chief, and said: "Village chief, this is for you, if you have nowhere to go, go to Jincheng, Liangzhou to find the Tai Fa Miao there, show him this letter, and Fa Miao will arrange for you." ”

The village chief took the letter and did not rush to open it, but carefully put it in his arms, and said at the same time: "Thank you, Mr. Liu." ”

"Village Chief, I would like to ask rashly, I saw that your archery skills are extraordinary just now, and you must have been in the army before." Adou asked.

The old village chief nodded, but he didn't answer Adou directly, but asked rhetorically: "Mr. Liu, I heard that you are going to find Pu Lin before, I don't know what you are looking for Pu Lin for?" ”

Adou was stunned again in his heart, before he came, Adou had already sent someone to inquire, Pu Lin is a wise man among the Di people, enjoys a high prestige in the hearts of the Di people, and is respected by the Di people as "Adult", generally the Di people will say "Pu Lin Lord" very respectfully when they call Pu Lin, and now the village chief calls Pu Lin without saying it, and there is no trace of respect in his tone.

"The village chief must have also seen that I was originally from the middle, and I am a Han Chinese. Now Cherrigi is attacking Liangzhou, and I am here for this purpose. Adou said.

The village chief frowned: "Mr. Liu, you may also be disappointed. Pu Lin is cautious, and I am afraid that he will not get involved in the struggle between the Han and Qiang people. ”

"The village chief seems to know Pu Lin very well?" Adou asked tentatively.

"Hehehe, Mr. Liu, you are not an ordinary person, so I won't hide it from you. Didn't you just ask me if I was born in the army? The old village chief smiled, and then said: "My name is Pu Kang, and Pu Lin is my nephew!" ”

"What? Pu Lin is your nephew? Although Adou had long thought that the old village chief was extraordinary, he didn't expect that he could be related to Pu Lin, who he was looking for. At this time, Adou also understood why the old village chief in front of him had good paper and clay inkstones, and the paper had been left for a long time, it turned out that he was from a noble background

"Here's the thing. After our Pu clan migrated here, it used to be the largest tribe among the Di people here, ruling the entire royal region, and my father was also the leader near the royal department. Later, my father died, and several of my brothers and I fought for power, each of us supported our own army, and finally fought hard, which made our tribe lose its strength, so it was taken advantage of by the current king Fu Jian.

Fu Jian bought people's hearts everywhere, and our brothers were busy fighting for power. By the time we woke up, it was too late, and the strength of the tribe had been greatly damaged by the infighting of several of us, and it almost caused the disaster of extinction. Later, thanks to my eldest brother, who is Pu Lin's father, he sent Pu Lin to Fu Jian as a hostage, and won Fu Jian's trust, so we avoided the disaster of extermination.

My brothers and I felt guilty that I left the tribe and came here, and gathered some of the wanderers to form the village. ”

Adou nodded: "I can't imagine such a thing." ”

"Yes, it's just that Pu Lin's child has been a hostage with Fu Jian since he was a child, and his life is not easy. But because of this, Fu Jian trusted Pu Lin very much and gave Pu Lin a lot of power, so that Pu Lin is what he is today. Pu Kang continued.

Adou put his hand into his arms, took out the strange-looking golden knife that Wang Yue gave him at the beginning, and asked, "Mr. Pu, do you know this?" ”

"Wusun Golden Knife! How did you have this? Pu Kang looked at Adou in surprise.

"This is a ...... from an old friend of mine"

"No way, this can't be!" Pu Kang opened his mouth slightly, and then asked, "How old is your friend?" ”

Adou thought about it, Wang Yue should be eighty or ninety years old now, so he said, "My old friend is about ninety years old. ”

"But he has a big sword that is wide and long?" Pu Kang then asked.

"Not bad!" Adou nodded, when he first saw Wang Yue, he did bring a wide and long sword.

"That's right, it's him! It's really him......" Pu Kang took a deep breath and slowly calmed down.

"Mr. Pu, do you know Wang Yue's seniors?"

"It turns out that his name is Wang Yue!" Pu Kang said and nodded: "Yes, I used to see him when I was young. ”

"Senior Wang Yue asked me to come to the Wang Department of the Diren to find a person surnamed Pu, is it you?" A faint disappointment rose in Adou's heart.

At the beginning, Wang Yue gave him a message that was only looking for a person surnamed Pu, but did not specify who it was. Later, Adou once sent someone to inquire and learned that the most powerful person surnamed Pu among the Di people should be the wise man Pu Lin of the Di people. Adou felt that a person of Wang Yue's status would definitely not know ordinary Di people, if it was just a flat-headed ordinary person of Di people, Wang Yue would not specifically tell himself, and this golden knife knew at a glance that it was an extraordinary thing, not something that ordinary people could have, so Adou decided that what Wang Yue let him find was Pu Lin.

If Wang Yue asked Adou to find not Pu Lin, but Pu Kang in front of him, then things would not be easy to do, although Pu Kang had also been beautiful, but it was only once, and now Pu Kang is just an old man who is just a Diren old man, and it will not help Adou himself much at all.

I saw Pu Kang shaking his head: "The person surnamed Pu that Mr. Wang Yue asked me to find is not me, I think it should be my father." ”

"Your father?"

"Yes, here's the thing, I was just a child, and our tribe had just migrated to the king's place. But at that time, a group of Wusun people came, for one of the Wusun people claimed to be the prince of Wusun, and let us be slaves of their Wusun people, my father naturally did not want to, so he fought with those Wusun people.

However, that prince Wusun is very powerful, and there are ten generals under him. At that time, we had traveled thousands of miles to the current location of the royal department, and we were already exhausted, and as a result, none of the warriors in the clan were opponents of Prince Wusun.

At that time, a Han man suddenly appeared, I was still young at that time, and I can't remember what the Han man really looked like, but I remember that he had a very long and wide sword on his body. The Han man alone defeated Prince Wusun and his ten generals, and captured Prince Wusun to make him a slave of our Di people.

Wusun is also a big country, our people first arrived here, we are not familiar with the place, where dare to offend such a powerful enemy, so my father put Prince Wusun back. Prince Wusun felt that my father was a good person to repay his grievances with virtue, so he married my father as a brother and gave my father the Wusun golden sword that he wore with him to represent the status of the prince.

My father was very grateful to Mr. Wang Yue for coming forward to save my people from trouble, so he gave Mr. Wang Yue the Wusun Golden Knife, and said that if Mr. Wang Yue came to my father with this knife in the future, no matter what Mr. Wang Yue asked my father to do, my father would definitely help the clan! ”

"Gang Help!" Hearing these four words, Adou's eyes lit up, but his heart was still hanging.

When Wang Yue helped the people, Pu Kang in front of him was just a child, and now Pu Kang's father has been dead for decades, and the head of the Pu family is Pu Lin. Even if he went to him now, it was still questionable whether he would fulfill his grandfather's promise.

Another point is that the tribe of the Pu clan was the largest tribe of the Di people back then, and the entire royal department had to obey the orders of the Pu clan, but now the king of Di is Fu Jian. It seems that the road to asking for help from people is still full of difficulties.

Pu Kang seemed to see through Adou's thoughts, so he asked, "Mr. Liu, are you worried that Pu Lin will not keep my father's promise back then?" ”