Chapter 21: The Death of Duke Zhou

At this time, several of the men who had gone to fetch the grain also returned, and each of them had a bag on his shoulder. www.biquge.info Zhou Bian saw that everyone was here, and after thinking about it, he said, "In the past, there were brave people who carried the flag for Zheng Zhuanggong, and today you can try it for this prince to see who can carry this flagpole alone." ”

During Zheng Zhuanggong's Eastern Expedition, he ordered that if he could raise the banner of the army with his bare hands, he would be selected as the vanguard of the army, which provoked his brave men to scramble and brew a good story, which was the story of the Spring and Autumn Period, and Zhou Bian had heard it told by the Taishi.

As soon as the words fell, Zheng Ji immediately stepped forward, rolled up his sleeves, squatted down, picked up the flagpole and exerted all his strength, only to hear the sound of clucking teeth, but when everyone looked at the flagpole again, they did not move at all. Zheng Ji exerted a lot of force, only to make his whole body sour and his face red, so he shook his head and retreated. Next, a few more people stepped forward, but all of them retreated in failure, and in the end, even the youngest Fan Yu and Liu Qiu were on it, but they were still helpless, Zhou Bian knew his own strength, so naturally he couldn't even get on.

Just when everyone was discouraged and their faces were gloomy, a guard guarding the door at the gate of the temple next to him couldn't stand it, this person had been standing there Zhou Bian didn't pay attention, but at this time he found that this person was in the prime of life, with a long face full of flesh and a fierce face. The guards separated from everyone and squeezed over, taking off their robes to reveal their flesh, it turned out that he was actually wearing thin clothes in this early winter weather. I saw him split his hands, his left hand and his right hand up, his body to the left, hugged the flagpole and shouted, up, the flagpole that seemed stubborn to everyone really left the seat, and the guard took a few steps and slowly lowered it to the ground. Zhou Bian couldn't help but secretly cheer in his heart, what a Lu Zhishen uprooted the willow tree.

The guard took the robe and put it on amid the cheers of everyone, and walked towards the palace gate, Zhou Bian hurriedly shouted, "What is the name of this strong man?" "The guard stopped," said little Liu Yun. Then he went to the temple gate. Zhou Bian stopped speaking, but secretly remembered the name.

This pulling out of the flagpole is just Zhou Bian randomly wanting to try everyone, and the next thing will be easy to do. Soon, when everyone took turns to fight, they made a bag of rice, and the appearance of white flower rice surprised everyone. Zhou Bian shook his head, this tool is not ready, and the efficiency of this rice is too low, and he only got so much in one afternoon.

Then Zhou Bian personally cooked, cooked a bowl of porridge for Ji Zhu, and sent it to him personally. The white rice porridge was tender and refreshing, which made the little girl very happy, and she actually rushed out of bed and hugged Zhou Bian and kissed her a few times, which made Zhou Bian's face red. The rest of the rice Zhou Bian handed over to the Queen Mother, and taught him how to supervise the armor and rice. In fact, some people in the Zhou Dynasty already ate rice, but the method of rice was still relatively backward and inefficient, so it was not popularized. The method of rice cooking taught by Zhou Bian to Jian Jia is derived from later generations, stepping on the lever with his feet, not only saving effort, but also improving the efficiency a lot, I think that the nobles of the royal family can eat white rice in the future.

While teaching the prison guard, Zhou Bian did not forget to ask the supervisor to help make a few stone hammers, that is, dumbbells made of stones, for everyone to practice their strength. Now Zhou Bian also sees that his subordinates still need to work hard, and he also needs to strengthen the exercises.

On this day, it was the cold weather of early winter, the sun had gone nowhere, the breeze was gently blowing cold, and a convoy was driving at the edge of Luoshui, from Chengzhou to Luoyang. The convoy was wearing thick robes, and in one or two carriages sat a slightly dignified middle-aged man, touching his beard and thinking, maybe complacent or suspicious, this person was Zhou Gong who was returning from Chengzhou.

These days in Chengzhou has gained a lot, the Shan family, who has been an enemy for many years, actually died by himself, saving himself a lot of trouble, and he also lost a lot of benefits when copying Shan's home, and also solved his biggest problem, that is, the beloved youngest son also has his own fief, which is the best solution in Zhou Gong's mind, the eldest son inherits his own rule in Luoyang, and the younger son has his own fief and does not have to look at his brother's face, how perfect it looks. But when I think about it, I feel that something is wrong, after the young son and son class came back from the mission to South Korea, they became a lot more confident, but sometimes they showed a sense of guilt, how could this be, especially when the son class took over Gongyi surprisingly smoothly, as if someone was helping behind it, and pulled up an army of 2,000 people at once, even if you count the sergeants who fled back from Cheng Zhou, there shouldn't be so many, it's strange.

Suddenly, Zhou Gong's thoughts were interrupted by a commotion, and the carriage driver sitting in front of him pulled the reins violently, and the carriage stopped sharply, and the four horses were frightened, and suddenly became irritable, and they kept walking on the spot without saying a word, and screamed a few times. And Zhou Gong's body fell forward again due to inertia, so frightened that Zhou Gong hurriedly sat firmly, and scolded the coachman a few words. Looking around, it turned out that this was a small village, which should be its own fiefdom, and some villagers were watching their own convoy on the side of the road, and the reason why the car stopped was because several villagers in shabby clothes gathered in front of the car, and their own sergeants were rushing out, and the two were deadlocked.

One of the guards hurriedly stepped forward to report, "The little ones are incompetent, and just now these villagers suddenly broke out from the side of the road, and the little ones didn't react so they disturbed the frame." ”

Zhou Gong listened carefully, but only heard those people shouting, "Adult, enjoy a small bite of food." "I heard that adults are the most merciful, so save us."

This kind of thing has been common in recent years, the Central Plains is full of disputes, wars are endless, Luoyang is in the middle of the world, and the natural displacement is continuous. Thinking of it, isn't it just a few people who want food, Zhou Gong couldn't help frowning, turned around and ordered a few guards to get some food. This time, Zhou Gong also made a lot of food in Chengzhou City, and there were several cars behind the convoy, and Zhou Gong thought that the food was a little more cheerful, so he ordered to take more.

The homeless people got half a bag of grain, all of them were very excited, and they were busy shouting thank you for your kindness, praising Zhou Gonglai, and some even knelt down, and the surrounding villagers also applauded again and again, and heard Zhou Gong touch his beard and be happy, it seems that it is really very useful to be praised by others.

I don't want one of the old people among the few displaced people to see the situation and put forward that he wants to thank Zhou Gong in person, and he wants to kneel in front of Zhou Gong to show his sincerity, this request is not too much, and thanking him in person is the basic etiquette. But the chief of the guard didn't follow, what kind of person Zhou Gong was, how could he say that he could see it, so he raised his weapon and shouted that he was not allowed. Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Zhou Gong's voice, it turned out that maybe Zhou Gong was in a good mood, and he wanted to get out of the car to talk to the old man, so as to show that he was benevolent.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Gong just got up and stood up straight in the car, and when his feet were not lifted under the car, two machine brackets sounded abruptly from the distant village, and everyone saw two streamers flashing, going straight to Zhou Gong, and in the blink of an eye, they saw Zhou Gong's body swaying, but it was two crossbow arrows that shot at Zhou Gong's upper body, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling.

Seeing that Zhou Gong's body leaned back slightly because of the power of the arrow, the chief guard only felt that time had frozen at this moment, and only Zhou Gong's angry face and the two exposed arrow tails were left in his eyes, and the whole world disappeared. The next moment, Zhou Gong didn't snort, he fell straight down, and slammed into the car. The captain of the guard suddenly came to his senses and shouted, "My lord! ”

The guards around him suddenly became chaotic, and the chief of the guards frowned, and hurriedly stopped, "You, you, you go after the assassin, and you come with me to defend Zhou Gong." No one noticed that the homeless people had taken advantage of the chaos to slip away.

It was a small colonel who led the people in pursuit, and just now he saw that there were several figures on the roofs of the houses by the roadside in the village, and the crossbow arrows should have been fired from there, so he hurried there. The figures probably wanted to fire a few more arrows, so they didn't retreat immediately, and when they saw someone killing, they hurriedly slipped off the roof and fled desperately into the distance. When the little colonel chased him under the roof, there was no one left, and only two well-wound crossbows were left on the ground, which must have been thrown by those people in a hurry.

The small school looked around, but saw that the houses in the village were dense, and there was no one in sight, this small school was also a bold person, waved his hand, and immediately recognized a direction, ran to the north, and ran out of the village, only to see those figures to the east, hurriedly turned around and went east, after chasing for a while, the figures in front turned to the south again, and then followed the chase, but not far in front of him saw Luoshui, rushed to the river, the small school waved his hand and everyone stopped, it turned out that there was a flat boat in the river to the south, and soon reached the shore, A group of people abandoned the boat and fled. The little school suddenly became anxious, across the river I was afraid that I would not be able to catch up anymore, but unfortunately there was not a single boat on the north bank of his own, there were not many boats on the Luo water, I thought it was winter, and the merchants did not travel far. So the school hurriedly divided the people into two groups to search for them upstream and downstream, but after walking a few miles, he found a small boat, and then called the boatman to cross the river to the south, but he couldn't find the direction at all. Helpless, Xiao Xiao had no choice but to take everyone back to the village, and when he saw that the two crossbow machines were still there, he picked them up and went back to his life.

When I returned to the convoy, I saw that the layers of guards were tightly surrounded, and several elderly people in the village were kneeling and shivering. The little colonel carefully reported the results to the chief of the guard, but fortunately, the chief of the guard only scolded a few words without pain, presumably he had expected this. The little school plucked up the courage to ask the master Zhou Gong again, but the chief of the guard just shook his head and didn't say anything, the little school also had self-knowledge and didn't ask again, in fact, just look at the faces of the people around him, Zhou Gong is only afraid that it is more than lucky!

Sure enough, after a while, I heard someone crying in the circle, and the little colonel raised his foot to see that it was several Zhou Gong's attendants huddled together, crying and twitching their whole bodies. Xiao Xiao couldn't help sighing, this is really a mess, I don't know how many people will die in the chaos, as long as you know a little about Zhou Gong's family affairs, you can imagine the next big chaos, alas, I just hope it won't hurt me, Xiao Xiao thought about moving to the side to find a place to rest.