Chapter 38: Shura wields a knife and is pitiful Three
"How many people do you need to kill?" After hearing the name of Ruyiju, he was a little relieved, with Ruyiju behind him, 10,000 is really nothing.
The name of Wang Yuanbao, the richest man in Chang'an, is known to everyone and no one to know. Speaking of which, the horse bandits had also plundered Ruyiju's caravans before, and the glass they transported was brilliant and valuable, and it was also easy to sell, comparable to gold and silver. However, the idea is very hard and very strong, and there are many guards, and the horse bandits are not in the last resort, and they are not willing to break ground on the head of Ruyi.
"It doesn't take too many, just twenty or thirty." The employer does not take human life seriously at all: "However, the other party is very strong, and it is better to have more manpower at the moment." ”
Hosophono hesitated for a moment, and was about to agree. Tong Luo Puli, who had not been silent, whispered to the leader: "Father-in-law, Tingzhou is remote, we still have to be careful. Why don't you let the little girl lead half of the brothers to go, you sit here in Lingzhou and look for a more suitable time. ”
The chief thought about it, felt that it was reasonable to talk to Luo Puli, and proposed this plan to his employer.
The young employer looked up and down at the delicate Tong Luo Puli a few times, obviously not trusting.
Furious, she walked out of the room without saying a word, took out her bow and arrows, and turned back into the room. Shoot it.
Before the employer could react, the arrow had pierced through the screen window and into his bun.
The employer was stunned, laughed, not angry but happy, and praised the festival: "Unexpectedly, the lady is so magical, just now it was rude, and I apologize to the lady!" ”
So, in November of the seventh year of Tianbao, the horse bandits and Luo Puli turned around as guards, and led more than 100 horse bandits to Tingzhou with a caravan from Chang'an.
When traveling all the way west, Tong Luo Puli found that this caravan under the banner of Ruyiju was mixed with many craftsmen. These craftsmen are engaged in a wide range of fields, from making gold and silver utensils, to making polo utensils, to making lanterns and candles, and to specialising in custom-made wooden utensils.
I secretly inquired with Luo Puli and learned that these craftsmen said that they were hired by a Ruyiju merchant who claimed to be the king's shopkeeper at a high price and went to Tingzhou to create a batch of refined utensils.
After carefully inquiring into the appearance of the shopkeeper Wang, Tong Luo Puli found that his employer was actually the young shopkeeper Wang.
Could it be that he is Wang Yuanbao's domestic slave? Or is it Wang Yuanbao's illegitimate son? So at a young age, he suddenly got a high position in Ruyi Curing?
However, Tong Luo Puli had no intention of exploring it too much, since there was not much doubt about the identity and purpose of the employer, and the bid was so generous, this vote must be done to the end.
On the way, I really met two peers with Luo Puli and her party. But in Datang, the security is obviously much better, and these peers are very unsuccessful, and they are easily defeated.
One of the horse bandits from the Hui tribe was wiped out, and they were all killed by Tong Luo Puli.
The leader of the other group of Qarluq horse bandits was very cunning, and led the remnants to flee in a hurry. In a fit of rage with Luo Puli, he annihilated all the horse bandits he caught.
When I arrived in Tingzhou, it was already the moon. The caravans and craftsmen entered the city, and Luo Puli and the brothers were arranged to live in a manor in the west of Tingzhou.
On the same day, a masked old man came to the door and took out the token and connected with Luo Puli.
After comparing the tokens, Tong Luo Puli said that he and his more than 100 people would obey the old man's command as agreed.
She asked the old man when he would start, and the old man smiled slightly, saying that he was not in a hurry, saying that it would take about a month or two before there was a suitable time.
Tong Luo Puli didn't expect it to take so long, but thinking of the high remuneration offered by the other party, she endured it.
But the old man's slight smile was deeply imprinted in Tong Luo Puli's mind, because she felt that this expression seemed familiar.
For a period of time after that, the idle-doing Tong Luo Puli has been recuperating in the manor.
On the afternoon of the 14th day of the first month of the eighth year of Tianbao, the old man suddenly came in a hurry. Tong Luo Puli thought that the time had come, and she was so excited. Unexpectedly, the old man said that there was another small task, and only four or five people were needed, and the remuneration was calculated alone.
Tong Luo Puli was going to go in person, but the old man said that the matter was very simple, and she would not have to do it.
Tong Luo Puli asked the old man what his specific task was. The old man said that it was an important thing to protect from being destroyed by the opponent, and it would take two or three days.
It sounded like it was an easy task, so she ordered four capable brothers and secretly told them to pay attention to the old man's every move to avoid being cheated.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. Tong Luo Puli, who was practicing archery in the manor, suddenly found that the Tingzhou City in the east was burning with flames. The blazing fire burned most of the sky red, even obscuring the brilliance of the bright moon.
The monstrous heat wave caused by the fire made Tong Luo Puli, who was far away in the manor outside the city, feel hot in the face.
The burning heat on his skin gave Luo Puli a sense of foreboding, and the four brothers were probably in an accident.
As she expected, in the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the old man came to the door at night and informed him that the mission had failed, and all four of his subordinates were missing, and it was estimated that they had been killed by their opponents.
Tong Luo Puli was very angry and asked who did it.
The old man hesitated again and again before he said, "Hedong Wenxi Hall." ”
After hearing the word "Wenxitang", Luo Puli's heart was shocked. When Lingzhou was crisscrossing, Tong Luo Puli also plundered Wenxitang's caravan. Compared with Ruyiju, Wen Xitang's guards are not so many, but they are also very difficult to mess with.
Because Wen Xitang is ruthless and will be revenged, it is easy to grab it once, but it is difficult to avoid its retaliation.
After knowing that the opponent this time was Wen Xitang, he and Luo Puli regretted being involved in such a behemoth struggle.
The old man saw Tong Luo Puli's hesitation, so he said quietly: "Wenxitang's shopkeeper Zhou is cunning and unscrupulous. Originally, it was just a simple battle of will, each using its own means, through the production of the lamp tower and the lamp wheel competition. Unexpectedly, he actually hired a master and set fire to our lamphouse. All four of your brothers were killed with swords in order to protect the tower. Won't you take revenge for this? ”
Tong Luo Puli knew that the old man was agitating, but from the day he saw his mother's red bloodstains, Tong Luo Puli had already made up her mind that she didn't want anyone she cared about to be innocently killed.
The horse bandits are by no means good, but in the past ten years, they have taken good care of her and given her the warmth of home. She must avenge the revenge of her brothers!
"Who's that master?" Tong Luo Puli asked quietly.
"It's not clear yet, but I think Shopkeeper Zhou knows the details of this person." The old man's answer is very clear.
Without hesitation, Tong Luo Puli greeted more than a dozen brothers, and was about to prepare to enter the city.
The old man smiled slightly, and took out the documents and a sharp sword that had been prepared long ago: "This is the place to enter the city." The scimitar you use is too conspicuous, why don't you use a long sword instead, and the master invited by the other party will also feel your anger and challenge from the sword marks. ”
At this time, Tong Luo Puli suddenly realized that she would feel that the old man's expression was so familiar. Because the shopkeeper who hired them in Lingzhou smiled like this.
What is the connection between the old man and the employer? The thought flashed in Luo Puli's heart, and then he laughed at himself for being stupid. Isn't it normal for both the employer and the elderly to have a connection?
In the early morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, he and Luo Puli disguised themselves as a caravan entering the city, successfully passed the inspection of the guards at the city gate, and broke into the shopkeeper Zhou's house.
Shopkeeper Zhou, who was still asleep, obviously didn't know where the disaster came from. He tried to use Wen Xitang's prestige to protect himself, but he angered Luo Puli even more.
When he confronted him about who had killed his four brothers, the shopkeeper pleaded that he knew nothing and denied everything.
Since the city is a place of right and wrong that cannot be stayed for a long time, Tong Luo Puli thought to herself, since she already knew that the opponent was Wen Xitang, and the four brothers were estimated to have encountered an accident, it didn't matter if Shopkeeper Zhou said it or not. This operation was originally intended to combat Wen Xitang's arrogance.
So, according to the advice discussed with the old man before, he issued an order to destroy the door. She even killed the shopkeeper Zhou with a sharp sword, and wrote the four big characters "for the heavens" in blood on the wall. It seemed that only the intensity and crimson of blood could express the anger in her heart.
After the matter was completed, he and Luo Puli and his party quickly withdrew from Tingzhou City. After returning to the manor outside the city, he calmed down and thought about the events of the past few days, and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became.
If it was really Wen Xitang who invited a master to kill his brothers in order to set fire, why did Shopkeeper Zhou have no protection at all? Isn't he weak and worried about his own safety?
Tong Luo Puli has lived in the horse bandits for more than ten years, and knows that behind the big gulps of drinking and eating meat, there is the nervousness of not being able to sleep at night and the vigilance of never leaving the knife. Shopkeeper Zhou was so relieved and comfortable that Tong Luo Puli was puzzled.
On the evening of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, when Luo Puli had not yet sorted out the clue, the old man came again with a portrait and told her that tomorrow morning, a little Langjun who was very important to Wenxitang was going out of the city to play polo. In order to completely attack and retaliate against Wen Xitang, Ruyiju prepared to snipe this Xiao Langjun near the polo field.
When he heard that the mission was not in Tingzhou City, he breathed a sigh of relief with Luo Puli. Tingzhou, as the garrison of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, has more than 10,000 Hanhai soldiers and horses, and the city is well guarded. The last time the shopkeeper of Zhou was full of doors, she realized that it was too risky to do it in Tingzhou City.
In addition to breathing a sigh of relief, hearing that a Xiao Langjun was going to snipe and kill made Tong Luo Puli a little uneasy.
After being a horse bandit for more than ten years, Tong Luo Puli knew that she was no longer the innocent and pure little girl on the prairie. Countless midnight dreams, and Luo Puli dreamed that his hands were dripping with blood, staining every piece of land under his feet.
Therefore, in recent years, Tong Luo Puli has become more and more fond of robbing and killing the Hui caravan. Because when she wields a knife and kills the Hui people, she can enjoy hearty revenge without any guilt.
Although he was a little uneasy, he understood with Luo Puli that there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and since he took the deposit of Ruyiju and formed a bond with Wenxitang, he could only go all the way to the dark.