At night to the third watch, a dark cloud covered the half of the bright moon in the sky, the stars were dim, and a basket slowly hung down at the head of Jincheng City, and after reaching the ground, two people clumsily crawled out of it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ruosu, a member of the Zhongshu House, held the rope and shook it twice, indicating that everything was safe, sighed softly, walked towards the bridge, and the entourage followed closely, looking back non-stop, although Jincheng is small, it is a safe island in the ocean, leaving here, I don't know how long it will take to wander before I can land again.

The two of them each carried a burden, all the way to the west, there are relatively few Huns here, a few miles away is the mountains, after entering, maybe be able to avoid the Hun cavalry, the entourage of the big burden contains a lot of dry food, sinking straight down, he has to often drag twice on the shoulder, suspecting that he will not be starved to death, but tired to death.

Soon after, Dongcheng rushed out a group of cavalry, more than 100 people, trying to attract the attention of the Huns, but it did not have much effect, the Huns had strong troops, not panicked at all, hundreds of people got on their horses to meet the battle, and the other camps did not move, and they were not affected at all.

The Chu army did not dare to really confront each other, and soon retreated to the city.

Zhao Ruosu and his entourage have not even walked to the mountains at this time, such two people, want to walk all the way through the blockade of the Huns, it is completely whimsical, after hiding and trekking for nearly an hour, they were captured alive, there are also Huns in the mountains, with ropes to tie the hands of the two firmly, like livestock.

The only consolation of the entourage is that the baggage of both of them has been snatched away, and a lot of burden has been relieved.

The Huns were talking and laughing happily, but the two Chu people couldn't understand a word, and Zhao Ruosu suddenly had a fear that if the Huns didn't take him seriously at all and killed him on the spot, his plan would be ruined.

So he yelled and put on a very important stance, and he received a few lashes, leaving a bloody streak on his face, which hurt fiercely.

The two were tied to a pillar in the camp, and the passing Huns laughed and spat at them.

When it was dawn, there was still no one to talk to, interrogate them, not even bring water and food, they had not been killed, and the only reason seemed to be to show the strength of the Huns: no one could escape from their encirclement.

Zhao Ruosu kept his head held high, refusing to show submission, and said to himself in his heart that there was still hope, and the Huns would not react so quickly.

It was close to noon, and he couldn't bear it anymore because he was hungry and thirsty, so he had to sit on the ground, leaning his back against the pillar, looking at Jincheng, and his heart was not as calm as when he told the emperor his plan.

The attendant also sat down, licked his lips, and whispered, "We're not going to die here, are we?" ”

Zhao Ruosu is not good at inspiring, thought for a while, and said: "According to my observation, only one out of ten strange tricks can succeed, so governing the world is based on integrity, and you can't often use strange tricks, this time it is a last resort, can it succeed...... It's up to providence. ”

"Huh? I think you said it very well in front of Your Majesty, and I thought it was ...... I was deceived by you. The entourage was a man from the emperor's side, named Loach, who only knew a little about the whole plan, and his courage disappeared, and he said with a crying voice: "I came with you voluntarily, so I ran so far, and I can run farther by myself." ”

"Cry, cry loudly." Zhao Ruosu said.

"Why do you look down on me?"

"As soon as you cry, it becomes more like a real thing, and you cry hard."

The loach howled twice, and soon the sorrow came, and he really cried, and the snot was a handful of tears, which caused the surrounding Huns to laugh.

Zhao Ruosu shouted loudly, scolded him for embarrassing the Emperor of Great Chu, and the loach cried even more, until someone was annoyed and came up and whipped twice, he stopped crying, sobbed quietly, and waited for the Huns to go away, and whispered: "Lord Zhao, my reputation is completely ruined, and you have to save my reputation in the future." ”

"Don't worry, as long as you can leave alive, the credit is all yours."

The loach almost cried again, this Lord Zhao really won't boost morale.

It was getting late, the Huns had been bluffing, there was no fighting, the two captured were so hungry that the loaches couldn't cry if they wanted to, and muttered: "Last night I thought the dry food was too heavy, and now I really miss it." ”

Zhao Ruosu was sweating profusely all over his body, and when he heard the word "dry food", his stomach growled, but he still straightened his body and tried to maintain a sitting posture, "You always have a name, right?" ”

"Yes, loach."

"I mean the daimyō, the official name, the name given by the husband or the elders of the family."

"This ...... I knew that my surname was Chao, and my name was Loach. ”

"Which Chao?"

"Is there a lot of chaos?"

"There are not many, there are only two commonly used, one with the tongue and the other without the tongue." Zhao Ruosu said as she wrote the words "Chao" and "Cao" on the ground with her bound hands.

The loach couldn't read, so he tried to roll his tongue and not roll his tongue, muttering back and forth for a long time, and said with certainty: "I am Curly Chao." ”

"It's this." Zhao Ruosu pointed to the word "Chao" on the ground, "I'll give you a name." ”

"Isn't loach good?"

"It's good, but it's hard to get into the hall of elegance, and when you become an official in the future, you will interrogate the prisoner in court, and he will just call ...... Big fish, aren't you embarrassed? 'Lord Loach gave the order, and the rod was punished with ten big fish. ’”

"Huh." Loach smiled, "Can I still be an official?" ”

"Of course, you are a close confidant of His Majesty, as long as you don't make a mistake, it is a matter of time before you become an official, and you are a big official."

The loach coughed twice and shouted: "Lord Loach has given an order, if you dare to call a big fish, you are guilty, and you will be beaten with a cane and sent to the frontier." ”

Zhao Ruosu just wanted to say that ordinary people can't stand eighty rods, and the loach cried again, this time it was really crying from the beginning.

Zhao Ruosu sighed lightly and didn't say anything more.

"Lord Zhao...... Give me...... Let's come up with a name. The loach sobbed and said, "De...... Big Fish ...... It's also big. ”

"Bigger than a big fish, it's a whale, it's a giant beast of the sea, and it's said to be able to swallow an entire ship." Zhao Ruosu wrote the word "whale" on the ground, but unfortunately it was dark, and even he couldn't see the handwriting.

"Swallow the whole ship?" The loach was both unbelieving and leisurely, "Then I'll call it a whale, a whale." ”

Except for a new name, nothing happened this night, and another squad in the city came out to test the enemy, but it was useless, and the Huns were unmoved.

Zhao Ruosu and Chao Whale were hungry, they slept against the pillar, and were woken up by cold water early in the morning.

This is the only food they have had in the past two days, and no matter how dirty it is on the ground, they pick it up with both hands and gobble it up, even Zhao Ruosu can't care about the image, and after taking three bites in a row, he changed to chewing and swallowing slowly.

"The Huns don't know how to make bread." Chao Whale said, licking the dregs off his lips, his bread was finished.

Zhao Ruosu tore off most of the remaining half of the cake and handed it over, Chao Whale didn't dare to be polite, took it in his hand and finished eating, the hunger in his stomach decreased slightly, and he looked up and sighed: "It's a pity that my gold and silver treasures, the whole village can't get so much money for ten years of hard fishing, although I have to return it to Your Majesty in the end, I can always touch it for a while, and now I can't even touch it." ”

"Give it back to Your Majesty?" Zhao Ruosu didn't understand.

"It was His Majesty who asked me to accept a bribe, and then ......" Chao Whale covered his mouth with his hands, remembering that it was a secret.

Zhao Ruosu laughed twice, didn't say anything, and had some new impressions of the emperor.

On this day, there was only breakfast, no lunch and dinner, the whale was more hungry, especially thirsty, regretting that he did not take a sip when he was poured cold water in the morning, and he really didn't want to see the Huns running around on horseback, and asked in a dumb voice: "Lord Zhao, you seem to be calmer today than yesterday." ”

"It's up to people to do things, it's up to heaven to get things done, it's useless to be anxious, it's better to go with the flow, and you can quench your thirst and quench your fatigue."

"Really?" Chao Whale also sat upright like Zhao Ruosu, and after a while, he felt that his back was sore, he gave up trying, looked at Jincheng from afar, and muttered: "Zhang Youcai must be eating fragrant and spicy food, just let him come out at that time." ”

After nightfall, the Huns opened the meal, the smell of meat came from afar, the whale cursed quietly, and even felt that he couldn't sleep, but when he saw a group of Huns riding horses, he hurriedly shut up, and he didn't eat in front of him.

The Huns untied the ropes on the pillar and led the two prisoners to the outside of the camp, the horses were fast and the people were slow, the two could only trot to follow, Zhao Ruosu shouted a few words, asked where to go, but did not get a response, Chao Whale's face turned pale, "It's over, this is going to be done, the Huns love to be clean, and they want to take us outside the camp, won't ...... It can't be the corpse pile, right? ”

The fire of the corpse pile has not been completely extinguished until now, there is still green smoke rising, when he thinks that he will die there, the whale is neither thirsty nor hungry, but he feels weak in his heart and his legs are weak, and he is afraid of embarrassing the emperor, so he has to force his composure and never speak again.

I don't know how far I walked, but the surroundings became more and more desolate, and it seemed that instead of going to the pile of corpses, I was digging a pit on the spot.

The Huns stopped, said a few words to each other, and most of them left, leaving only two, and when their companions were far away, one of them jumped off his horse and said in the Central Plains dialect: "Let the two adults suffer." ”

Chao Whale was dumbfounded, Zhao Ruosu clenched his fists and said, "Your Excellency is not a Huns?" ”

The man took out a dagger and cut the rope on Zhao Ruosu's hand, "We are the Chu people of Liaodong, we are ashamed to say that for the lives of the family, we have to follow the Huns and Fuyu people into the customs, we have no choice, we can have the opportunity to save the two adults, it can be regarded as our atonement." ”

Chao Whale was even more surprised, but he didn't forget to reach out and ask the other party to cut the rope.

Zhao Ruosu looked very vigilant, "Your Excellency let the Huns leave so easily?" ”

The man shrugged, "It's a thousand-year-old, and someone will listen to what he says." ”

Zhao Ruosu nodded, expressing his belief.

"This place should not stay for a long time, two adults hurry up, I have surveyed the terrain, enter the mountain from here, walk along the mountain on the left hand, and you can go to the official road after more than ten miles, there are no Huns there."

Zhao Ruosu shook his head, "We can't leave now, our things ......"

The man turned and asked for a small bag from his silent companion, "Here's the thing." ”

Zhao Ruosu hurriedly took it in his hand, checked it by the moonlight, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you to the two righteous men, I don't know the names of the two honorable people, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can ask for credit for the two of you." ”

The man smiled and said, "How dare those who surrender to the enemy dare to leave a name to insult their ancestors?" Hurry up, two adults. ”

Zhao Ruosu took the burden on his shoulders and thanked him, and Chao Whale also arched his hand and asked, "Where is our dry food?" ”

The man smiled, walked over to his mount, untied a leather bag and threw it over, "No dry food, just a little wine." Then he got on his horse and left with his companions.

"I'm so lucky to have met a righteous man." Whale Road.

Zhao Ruosu patted the burden on his body, "It's not the righteous who helps, it's it." ”

The two of them walked towards the mountain with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Chao Whale didn't think so much, opened the wine bag and drank a big sip, and handed it to Zhao Ruosu.

Zhao Ruosu shook his head, he had forgotten his hunger and thirst, he just wanted to leave this place quickly and find the northern army that was stationed in the unknown location. (To be continued.) )