Chapter 5: Arrival at Marble City
With a few coughs, Zhang Huo walked out from behind a big tree, he was not dead, but he was seriously injured, and these thunderbolts almost killed him. Fortunately, he didn't get excited, rushed forward in order to kill, and deliberately kept a little distance to avoid this thing.
The chase must have been lost, and Zhang Huo also knew that they must have run out of the woods, and this mission was declared a failure, and how to face the buyer was still a big problem. And these two people are definitely not nobles at first glance, they should be the royal family, this time it's troublesome, the nobles are better to say something, after all, there is some discord between the nobles, and the royal family has to wait for endless pursuit.
Before Zhang Huo took a few steps, he felt that an eye was staring at him, and a cold sweat on his back was like water, "Who?"
No one answered, there was not even a bird in the silence around, Zhang Huo didn't take a step, he knew that he couldn't run away and simply didn't run, he just smiled, he didn't expect that this time he was used, and in the end he had to get rid of himself, but he was still too greedy, if he wasn't greedy, there shouldn't be this.
This is a master, he is already around here, and Zhang Huo doesn't even know where his location is, it is estimated that he is at least a guy who has opened the 5th vein.
A gust of wind blew through the leaves and fell, and after a while, the leaves fluttered with the wind and flew around Zhang Huo, Zhang Huo pulled out his knife and kept swinging the flying leaves, and he finally wanted to prick the needle.
He cut off all the leaves, and he shouted, "Come on, why don't you show up, you will be afraid of you!"
Inadvertently, a leaf cut through Zhang Huo's neck, and the blood began to gush out unstoppably, Zhang Huo's eyes were wide open, and he wanted to say something in his mouth but couldn't scream out, his body staggered and staggered, as if he still had some sense, and his body fell down after a few seconds, just like this, no one knew how this person made a move, and no one knew the true face of this person, and a generation of thieves died like this.
At this time, Zhao Ze felt that his feet were about to lose consciousness, and he began to shake when he walked, which should be the sequelae caused by too much force just now, so Xiao Dongzi had to support him by his side.
There happened to be a group of men and horses in front of the barracks coming in the direction of the woods, and the sound of the explosion just now also attracted the attention of the barracks, so Li Chun sent a small team of men and horses over to find out what the reason was.
Horses have always been one of the best companions of human beings, and the reason why Zhao Ze gave up riding horses was to better be able to run in the dense woods, otherwise he wouldn't want to run like this, he was really tired, watching this team of cavalry soon arrive in front of him, he finally had a sense of relief.
He must be looking for revenge on that person in his heart, this feeling of being hunted down is really unpleasant, and he still doesn't know why that person wants to kill him.
The cavalry leader of this squad is a burly man with a scar at the corner of his eye, and the soldiers behind him are all uniformly wearing black armor and holding 3-meter spears.
The scarred man was the first to speak: "Who is the one who came to report the name?"
Xiao Dongzi was furious, "Presumptuous, this is His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince, why don't you quickly dismount and come to meet you." ”
The man with the scar laughed: "The bold madman dares to pretend to be the prince of his country, of course your grandfather is a stupid fool and easy to deceive, right, the brothers surrounded me and didn't let them run away." ”
The order quickly surrounded Zhao Ze and Xiao Dongzi, and they couldn't run away if they wanted to. Xiao Dongzi was shocked, "Presumptuous, it's so presumptuous, you guys are so big... You dare to surround His Royal Highness the Prince, are you really not afraid of death?"
"Hmph, what a prince, I think you are a fine work, you are sent by the enemy country to investigate, quickly and truthfully recruit it, otherwise you can ask grandpa's knife is fast. The scarred man preached fiercely.
Zhao Ze is very weak now, he forcibly ran out of the woods with the marching pill and it hurt his body a lot, and now not only his legs and feet are inconvenient, but he is also tired and out of breath, so he didn't speak at first, just took out something and handed it to Xiao Dongzi and asked him to pass it over.
Xiao Dongzi held the thing high and said, "This is the evidence, you open your eyes and take a good look to see if we are lying." ”
The man with the scar looked at it, but unfortunately he only saw clearly that it was a jade pendant, and he didn't see the specific appearance clearly, so he ordered the people around him to take it from Xiao Dongzi's hand and take it carefully, and sure enough, it was the jade pendant of the royal family, and he was taken aback, and then ordered a group of people to wait and get off the horse and kneel to welcome His Royal Highness the prince.
"Li Dali, the former commander of the army, knocked on His Royal Highness the Prince, and asked His Royal Highness the Prince for forgiveness. He bypassed the mistake just now, and he didn't remember anything about it at all.
Xiao Dong was about to lose his temper and was stopped by Zhao Ze, everyone knew that Zhao Ze, the prince, had no power and no power, and he couldn't become a big climate, so he didn't fear him very much, and being able to give him a face was basically the best treatment given in front of his father.
Zhao Ze said weakly: "General Li Dali, lead the way ahead, don't let General Li Chun wait for a long time." ”
After that, the two followed the team to the barracks, Li Chun also knocked on Zhao Ze, but the attitude was good, but unfortunately Zhao Ze's system looked at Li Chun's attitude was disgusted, it seems that Zhao Ze came to his barracks He was very resistant to the matter in his heart, of course Zhao Ze would not say anything, but now he temporarily holds on to safety, which is the most important thing.
It is also strange that the prince can do this, that is, no one is in awe and no one has a good face, because this prince is not only a waste but also a well-known troublemaker, and everyone avoids him in fear.
And Zhao Ze also mentioned the matter of the forest to Li Chun, Li Chun just made a show and said something like: "The bold fanatic dares to assassinate His Royal Highness, if the old man was present at the time, he would definitely not let these little ones look good." "Wait for some words that can be safely fooled around, Zhao Ze doesn't want to pay attention to this greasy middle-aged man, who has a set on the surface and a set in his heart, which is really annoying.
In the traditional officialdom, you don't know how to look at words and looks, that's not good, it's normal to become such a person over time, but it's rare for a general to look like this, and generally lead troops to fight are straightforward people, otherwise how to understand the order soldiers. It's all the work of the readers.
Li Chun was forced to become like this, he had suffered a lot of losses before, all of which were caused by telling the truth, so now he has begun to twist and turn a set of things.
Zhao Ze didn't bother to talk to him anymore, so he asked Li Chun to arrange a tent to rest, his legs and feet were really painful, and he couldn't walk anymore.
That night, I came to the basin in the center of the woods, and the corner of the center looked like a hill of corpses, not only the corpses of the 200 soldiers, but also the corpses of 400 robbers and criminals, among whom there were 3 men in black waiting silently for something.
...... On the other side of the woods, 4 black shadows were moving rapidly, all wearing night clothes, one of them was also carrying a corpse, and if you looked closely, it was Zhang Tuo's corpse, and each of them had the word 7 on the chest of their clothes.
At this time, four black-clothed men also came to the center of the basin, and one of them threw Zhang's body on the corpse pile at random.
"The mission failed. A man in black said.
Another black-clothed person looked at Zhang Huo's corpse and said, "It's really useless waste, and you can't do this little thing." With that, he kicked the corpse.
Then he continued: "It seems that if you want to kill him, you have to think in the long run, and I will explain it to the master, and close the team." ”
The seven people present quickly separated and left the woods, and the corpses had already been gathered by them, and they didn't know what they were using, and the corpses were on fire.
Early the next morning, the troops stationed here had already set camp, and after coming to Xijiang Town, they all got on the boat, which was still very large and could carry a thousand people, and Zhao Ze was also assigned a good position.
This time he doesn't have to worry about his feet, he doesn't have to be so troublesome to take the boat, anyway, there are people waiting for him.
Several building boats set off slowly, lined up in a line and went down the river to southern Xinjiang. Zhao Ze's bed is done, just next to the window, he looked at the beautiful river of Yunjiang and sighed constantly, but unfortunately he was touching the trouser bag in his hand, but it was a pity that the clothes he was wearing were ancient, there was no trouser bag, and there was no mobile phone, this is the instinctive reaction of modern people, and he wanted the mobile phone to come out to take pictures and share, but unfortunately he still did not forget the instinctive habit after coming for a few months.
Yunjiang is also the mother river of the Song Kingdom, nourishing the surrounding farmland and villages, of course, sometimes there will be some floods, resulting in some fertile fields being flooded, houses collapsed, and people displaced, fortunately, my father has increased the management and development of Yunjiang in recent years, and now there are many fewer floods in recent years, and Yunjiang is very wide, and Yunjiang has also been in full swing in recent years, so there is today's prosperity.
I only knew about these things by asking Xiao Dongzi, and I originally wanted to inquire about more detailed things, but Xiao Dongzi had been around the former Zhao Ze for a long time, so I didn't know.
This time it's really a black eye, if you don't know the most basic information in this world, there must be a lot of trouble, and you have to find a way to collect information.
It's okay to find someone on the boat to ask, but it is easy to arouse suspicion if someone with ulterior motives knows about it, and the assassination is not every day.
Books are actually good things, and reading books is the best way to obtain knowledge and information, but unfortunately Zhao Ze couldn't find a decent book when he was in the prince's mansion in the capital, so he didn't bring out one.
Fortunately, the boat had to go to a riverside town to replenish it in less than a week, so every time he went to the town, he asked Xiao Dongzi to buy some books and come back, and of course Zhao Ze couldn't move and still recuperated on the boat with a foot injury, which was the sequelae of the marching pill, but fortunately, there were experienced military doctors in the army this time, and the military doctors were the best at such symptoms.
A boring week has passed, Zhao Ze also feels much better, it doesn't hurt much, but he can't walk on the ground yet, what he told Xiao Dongzi to do has been done, and he really bought a lot of books back, Zhao Ze was overjoyed after seeing it, and praised Xiao Dongzi.
It's a good idea to read books when you're fine, Zhao Ze is doing this, and he doesn't seem to be very happy, the reason is that most of these books are the Four Books and Five Classics or some disciple rules, hundreds of family names, etc., and there are only two miscellaneous records Zhao Ze has calculated.
It seems that this world is somewhat similar to Zhao Ze's original world, that is, there is a sage doctrine, and most of the content is the same, but some details can be a little different.
At this time, the most important thing is not the doctrine of these saints, but the miscellaneous records are the most important, because the miscellaneous records can better understand the customs and customs of this world in an all-round way.
If there is nothing superfluous, forget it, I can only look at those two miscellaneous books first. One of them is better called (Yunjiang Travels), the author records the beautiful scenery of several villages around Yunjiang, as well as his way of life and other cultural events.
"Alas, there is still too little information, and now I am really confused, what should I do?" Zhao Ze said to himself.
There are still too few types of books in these towns, all of them are books that have won fame, and other books are rarely read, and of course no one sells them.
At this time, Xiao Dongzi also came in, still holding a food box in his hand, and it seemed that it was time for lunch. He said with a smile: "Your Highness should have dinner." ”
Zhao Ze saw that it was another stew, and he lost his appetite in an instant, but he also ate a bowl at random for the sake of his injury.
Xiao Dongzi's craftsmanship is still excellent, but this cooking technique is very backward, the world has not yet invented a wok, and there are not too many seasonings. If it's either a pot of stew, or a barbecue, there will be no other superfluous methods.
And the most alarming thing is that some soldiers eat raw river fish, which is the way to eat sashimi. They all ate it, including General Li Chun, and invited Zhao Ze to their sashimi banquet, but Zhao Ze refused because he was unwell.
This way of eating has a long history, and it was slowly not lost until later, and it has been passed on to an island country to be well preserved. I didn't expect this world to have it, and it's crazy, and I basically like to eat fish in this way.
Zhao Ze also warned Xiao Dongzi not to eat river fish like this, if others asked and said that they didn't like to eat fish, Xiao Dongzi couldn't figure it out for a while, but he didn't ask too much, anyway, His Highness shouldn't be wrong.
After arriving at the destination, Zhao Ze has to start improving the food standard, otherwise it will be too uncomfortable.
Another week passed to the last riverside town to replenish, this time Xiao Dongzi did not buy a book, it is far from the center of the dynasty, and the books have become more expensive, it is difficult for ordinary peasant families to buy, some of them are all sages they have seen, and then they are not buying.
After that, Zhao Ze didn't have much hope, and Zhao Ze's legs and feet were almost good in the next week, so he got off the boat and took a look.
The farther away from the center of the empire, the more unexplored the pristine forests became, and the town began to see people of different nationalities. After inquiring, I learned that these are aborigines, all of whom have their own tribes, and they came to the town to trade the necessities they need.
Things like exchanging fur herbs for some silk clothes, or hunting to the market here are all feasible.
In Zhao Ze's opinion, this place also has a lot in common with the original world, and it is inevitable to deal with these natives in the future.
....... After a long month's journey, they finally arrived at their destination, Marble City. This is also the strength of the Yunjiang River, which in the past was endless primeval deep forests and 100,000 mountains.
The city was built with stones, and it was not difficult to build a city with such large stones because of the method of opening the pulse.