Chapter 35: The Wolf's Den and the Tiger's Den
When I entered the dock fort, I suddenly opened up, and I saw a field that could be called a school field and could run horses. In the distance were scattered old people, women and children. After Liu Si and Liu Shen passed, some guards also followed with horses. Some men over the age of 50 and under the age of 14 and fifteen were staring at them with great unkindness.
Nearby, a Confucian old man with five or six elderly people stood in front of Liu Tong and his party, "Guo Jiabao Guo Bi Guo Gongfan has seen the general, and Xiaomin and others are willing to give 100 grains, 10 sheep, and a few treasures, in order to replenish military funds and comfort the hard work of the soldiers!" I don't know where your army is stationed? The gift is delivered immediately. ”
Liu Tong saw that although the old man was smiling and his posture was extremely low, he didn't want Liu Tong to enter the dock fort to rest.
"Lord Guobao is polite, the march is tired, just borrow your place to rest for a while, the wealth and silk will be freed, kill a few sheep and let me wait to satisfy my hunger." Liu Tong said, and Chong Wu Ji signaled.
Wu Ji took out a piece of gold cake from his arms and handed it over, Guo Bi hurriedly waved his hand and refused. Wu Ji saw that he didn't take it, so he threw it to Guo Da'an, the steward on the side.
Liu Tong dismounted and took Guo Bi's hand, "The lord of Laojiao Castle arranged a venue for me to rest and prepare some forage and food." ”
Guo Da'an stepped forward at this time, and said while leading the way: "Master Hou, please come with the little one." ”
"Master Hou, there is a room at the turn of the east end that can accommodate 100 people, and there is a row of stables outside." Liu Si came over alone and said to Liu Tong.
"Then stay there." Liu Tongchong Guo Daan said. Guo Da'an looked at Guo Bi, and Guo Bi nodded expressionlessly in agreement.
"Master Hou, we have prepared a few upper rooms for Master Hou and a few young ladies, please come with me." Guo Bi glanced at Cao Xian and the others and said to Liu Tong.
"Don't bother, I'll live together." Liu Tong was in an unfamiliar environment and didn't want to live separately, so he followed Liu Si directly.
Liu Tong asked Wu Ji to hand over food, forage and other matters with Guo Da'an, and everyone tied the horses to the stable and went to the house to rest. The room has nearly 100 ready-made beds. Liu Tong asked Liu Shen to enclose a small space in a corner with tables, wood, and cloth for red carp and other women to rest.
Liu Si pulled Liu Tong to the side, Liu Tong had already known Liu Si's shrewdness these days, and knew that he had something, so he followed him to the side.
"Master Hou, this Guo Jiabao is weird?"
"Oh, how do you say?"
"There are no young men in the fort, they are all old and weak women and children, there are traces of a long period of military training in the playground, the stable should be able to feed dozens of war horses, and there should be hundreds of people sleeping in this room. But where are these people and the horses? As if agreeing with himself, Liu Si nodded as he spoke.
"Are these centaurs chasing us?"
"Nine times out of ten!"
"Damn, we're in a den of thieves!" Liu Tong smiled bitterly.
"Then Guo Bi should know, after we come in, we will definitely find something, I am worried that they will jump off the wall in a hurry!"
"Let's do it, let's eat as soon as possible, and leave as soon as we are full of food and drink, Xuancheng and they estimate that they will chase after them in a few hours."
"Okay, Master Hou don't just eat their stuff." Liu Si left a few steps and turned back to Liu Tong.
This kid has a future, Liu Tong nodded at Liu Si appreciatively. Liu Tong called Liu Chou over and instructed him to make porridge with the remaining corn and then heat the pancakes he carried. After being reminded by Liu Siyi, I really didn't dare to eat the things in the dock fort.
When the porridge was boiled and was being distributed, Guo Da'an came over with a group of women and brought a few jars of wine and plates of cooked mutton.
"Master Hou, how can you eat so simply, there is good wine in the dock fort, and the patriarch specially honors all the military masters."
As he spoke, he motioned for the women to pour wine for everyone, and handed them over bowl by bowl. Pang Tong picked up the wine bowl, craned his neck, drank it gurglingly, wiped the wine beads on his sparse beard, looked intoxicated, and greedily handed the wine bowl to the woman next to him, and the woman poured him another bowl.
This bastard is not afraid of poisoning, sweat medicine or something? Liu Tong secretly scolded, no, this kid can't wait to take sweat medicine, even if he knows it, in order to lure us into the bait, he will also drink it. Liu Tong thought of this section and felt a deeper disgust for Pang Tong.
At this time, Liu Tong saw that the guards were looking at him with bowls, and if they didn't drink it, they obviously wouldn't drink it.
Liu Tong put the bowl on the ground, "Brothers, we will set off in a while, maybe there will be a battle, save this wine for later!" ”
The guards put down the wine bowls one after another, the guards don't drink alcohol on weekdays, even if they celebrate after the war, they rarely drink alcohol, their duty is to guard, twenty-four hour guard! Duty finally Tarzan. If Liu Tong had an accident, they would need to be martyred. After Liu Tong disappeared in Wuduhe, his guards were basically buried. I heard that many people were killed by Marshal Wuqiu Jian himself!
"The military masters don't drink, just eat some mutton, it's all freshly killed!" Guo Da'an asked the women to put the mutton down and then withdrew on their own.
Pang Tong was a little disappointed when he saw that everyone didn't drink, so he grabbed a handful of mutton and turned his head away, reclining against the wall, and watching everyone while eating.
Liu Tong saw that Pang Tong drank two bowls of wine and was fine, so he probably was too careful, and he was hesitating to ask someone to eat mutton. At this time, I saw Liu Si take a few pieces of mutton and throw it to a few dogs at the door, the dog pounced on the mutton as soon as it saw it, and ate the mutton after a while.
Since Liu Tong didn't drink, and seeing Pang Tong's strange eyes, he grabbed the pancakes and ate them. The guards saw that Liu Tong didn't eat mutton, so they had to drink porridge and eat pancakes by themselves.
Two bowls of porridge and one pancake went down, and Liu Tong was comfortable. As soon as he put the bowl down, he heard Liu Si shouting: "The food is poisonous!" ”
Liu Tong looked out of the door and found that Liu Si had not eaten, and was still staring at a few dogs at the door, and the dogs had already fallen crookedly!
Liu Tong jumped up, walked quickly to Pang Tong, and found that Pang Tong had fallen asleep, pushed twice, but did not react at all, and was still panting when he touched his nose.
Liu Tong didn't know what kind of poison Guo Jiabao was, and he didn't know anything about the poison, judging from Pang Tong's situation, it looked like the legendary Menghan medicine.
"Red carp bring a water bladder!" Liu Tong shouted when he saw the red carp standing beside him.
As soon as he went down with a handful of water, Pang Tong really coughed and coughed, and woke up after a few sounds.
Seeing that the guards were already very angry, they had already picked up the Mo knife and the bow and crossbow, and stood in line, Liu Tong picked up the Canglong stick and walked out, just in time to meet Liu Si entering the door.
"Master Hou, the war horses are weak and thin! Also poisoned. ”
Liu Tong is more and more impressed with Liu Si, and at this point, he can still think of war horses!
"But your red rabbit doesn't seem to have the forage in the manger!"
When Liu Tong heard this, he was a little relieved in his heart, it was really a divine horse! It is not comparable to other ordinary products, but it does not eat unclean things!
"Master Hou, two people ran up the mountain along the road we came!" At this time, Liu Yin, who was guarding the gate, also came.
"Arrest all the people in Guojiabao!" Liu Tong was angry, he just knew that they were a gang, and he didn't plan to deal with them, he just wanted to walk away quietly, he didn't think about their old and weak women and children, and he wanted to kill himself, how much hatred he had to have with himself, it was really hateful!
"Master Hou's entire castle has hidden in the ancestral hall, and the gate has been blocked by them!" Liu Zi came over to report.
"Don't stay in the house, but go out into the open." Liu Tong pointed at Pang Tong and said. Wu Ji took Pang Tong and followed.
Liu Zi led the way, and everyone came to the center of the dock fort, only to see that this building was the most magnificent, with a high wall built of earth and stone, a beam of green tiles, a high door closed, and the cry of a child came from inside.
Liu Tong glanced at it and said, "Find some ropes!" ”
Liu Si led a few people to the stable, and he had seen a rope there.
The gate was probably killed from the inside, so he had to enter from above, and Liu Tong asked people to get wood and ox carts from the distance and pile them under the wall. Liu Tong took the rope handed by Liu Si, took more than a dozen steps back, and after running, he jumped onto the roof with the help of the platform he built.
Liu Tong put down the rope and pulled up Wu Ji, Liu Si, Liu Zi, Liu Yin and a dozen other people. As soon as everyone went to the roof, they quickly lifted the green tiles, and the green tiles fell into the ancestral hall, causing a burst of exclamations and shouts. The old and weak women and children inside were already frightened and took refuge everywhere. Many people wanted to open the door, but Guo Daan stopped them.
Liu Si was the first to tie the rope to the roof beam, and slipped down the rope with a Mo knife in one hand.
When Liu Tong was still in the air, he saw Liu Simo wielding his knife, and the first knife cut off Guo Da'an, who was blocking the door, and blood gushed out, and the entire ancestral hall was suddenly filled with screams and shouts.