"Emissary?" Wang Huan frowned when he heard this, and asked the messenger who was out of breath: "Whose messenger is it?" How many people are there? ”

"I don't know whose messenger it is, there are forty or fifty people, Lord Chen is stopping him at the mouth of the valley, my lord, go and have a look." The person who reported the news was a man from the Ma Chongming clan, who usually followed Chen Ergou to do things, because Chen Ergou was Wang Huan's brother, although he was not a fart official, the homeless natives also called him Lord Chen according to Wang Huan's title, which made Chen Ergou embarrassed and happy, and he was more active in doing things, and tried to make himself worthy of this title.

Wang Huan's brows furrowed into the word "Sichuan", and his mind turned for a long time, and he didn't feel that he had any intersection in Yuzhou, and he couldn't guess that any messenger was coming, so he had to go to Gukou to see it first.

After walking a few steps, he summoned another attendant and ordered: "Go and call Ma Qianzong over, and ask him to come to me at the mouth of the valley with all the soldiers in Wanshou Valley." ”

He had a faint foreboding in his heart, those who are not good will not come, and now is the critical period for silver mine production, don't be targeted by people with intentions.

Ma Xintian is on the other side of Wanshou Valley at the moment, where Wang Huan has zoned a piece of land for the boss, and is ready to level it out, and after the construction of the city is completed, it will be used as a school ground for military training. Ma Xintian is taking all the soldiers and some homeless people, pulling stones and grinding the field there.

There were only ten armor soldiers who followed Wang Huan, because Wanshou Valley was full of homeless people who had been trained by him, and there was no danger, so there was no need for Wang Huan to run around with hundreds of people at all times. But at this time, there seemed to be fewer people, Wang Huan was a master who was not afraid of death but cherished life, and after sending someone to call Ma Xintian, he still felt unsteady, and called nearly 200 homeless people who were working on the nearby construction site, followed behind him, and went to the valley mouth.

Wanshou City is not far from the mouth of Wanshou Valley, it is also four miles, everyone walks fast, it doesn't take a while to arrive, far away, I saw the tall Guan Lou that has been formed, the building is three zhang high, the whole body is loess rammed, there is no brick, but it is also majestic very, the city wall is one zhang wide, can accommodate five people in parallel, it is more than enough to place some guarding equipment, although it looks very simple, but the emphasis is on practicality, ordinary horse thieves and mountain robbers, there is no heavy siege equipment, it is impossible to attack at all.

This Guan Lou was the first to be repaired by Wang Huan, and with it, before the completion of Wanshou City, it was a dangerous barrier that could resist potential enemies.

Wang Huan looked at the closer and closer Guanlou, his heart was happy, the more he looked at it, the happier he became, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, and he got closer, but he saw that there were many people gathered at the city gate, there was a group of people on horses standing in the middle of the city gate, and the people he sent to guard the pass were standing on both sides in fear, looking flustered, and there was a faint sound of scolding, mixed with a lot of foul language, and the sound of the horsewhip twitching on the flesh, because it was far away, it was not very real.

Wang Huan frowned, and the smile suddenly disappeared without a trace, how to look at this situation, how wrong is this, the uneasy emotions in his heart surged up again, and his feet couldn't help but speed up a little.

At the entrance of the building, there are several tall wooden poles, which were originally used to hang lanterns and torches and illuminate at night. At this time, there was a person who was tied to it backwards, his hair was scattered, and the sackcloth on his body was drawn one by one, and the whip marks were all over it, and the blood oozed from the whip marks, and his body was dyed red, which was shocking.

The beaten man clenched his teeth, and although his expression was painful, he could not let out a scream, but only stared at a pair of eyes and looked fiercely at a short-bearded man in fine clothes who was surrounded by a group of knights.

The man in the costume was not tall, about thirty years old, with a long horse face, a hooked nose and slightly hanging eyebrows, a pair of fine eyes that could not be seen when squinted, high cheekbones, an inch-long mustache, neatly built, and the whole face was full of mean and unsympathetic appearance. At this moment, he was condescending with a look of contempt, looking at Chen Ergou who was beaten, and said coldly: "Little thief, do you know it's wrong?" ”

Chen Ergou gritted his teeth and was silent, just staring at him with cannibalistic eyes, his face full of arrogance.

The strong man with the whip was dressed in a tight arrow robe, his face was full of pockmarks, he reached out to wipe the sweat on his face because of the whip forcefully, and turned his head sideways to flatter and smiled: "Big shopkeeper, this little thief is very angry, and he doesn't say anything." ”

"Humph! I think you haven't eaten! Did you fucking take the silver salary that Lao Tzu gave you to soak in the kiln? The man in Chinese clothes said with a cold face: "Use some more force!" ”

"Yes!" The pock-faced man in the arrow robe sneered, the pockmarks on his face trembled, and he said respectfully: "The little one is really speechless for this kid." ”

The knights who hugged the man in Chinese clothes laughed: "Li Mazi, I'm afraid you used all your strength on the belly of the girls last night, and now you're bored, go back quickly and let the brothers come." ”

The pock-faced man's face was blue and red, he was holding back his resentment, and he didn't dare to turn back and scold back, his face was so black that water was about to flow out, he tightened the whip in his hand fiercely, roared low, his eyes were staring at Chen Ergou's body, and he used all his strength to raise the leather whip high, and he was about to pull it over.

"Whew!"

A sound of breaking the sky sounded like lightning, and a blood flower exploded on the shoulder of the numb-faced man, and he felt a sharp pain spread from his shoulder all over his body, and with a shake of his hand, the whip fell to the ground, and he screamed, and a feather arrow was inserted in his left shoulder, and he fell to the ground and wailed and rolled.

The people on the horses were all startled, and someone shouted: "It's a crossbow arrow!" Protect the treasurer! Immediately several horses were driven by the knights, and they hid themselves in front of the man in fine clothes, and kept him in the way. The man in the fancy dress was also startled, his squinted eyes suddenly opened, and he looked at a group of people standing more than a dozen feet away.

Wang Huan slowly put down the mountain-destroying crossbow in his hand, and sighed secretly in his heart, this crossbow is really not very powerful, and it only shot people at such a close distance.

"According to the shield!" A knight shouted, and a man who looked like a leader hid himself behind the horse's neck and shouted, "Who dares to shoot people with arrows, but he can't rebel?" ”

He was very nervous, because standing beside Wang Huan, there were nine people in leather armor who were also holding a four-foot-long crossbow, aiming at their group of people motionlessly, the crossbow arrow had a quiver box, which was a sharp weapon for continuous fire, once launched, nearly a hundred arrows would be shot like flying locusts, and at least half of the dozens of people on his side would be shot into a sieve. And behind the crossbowmen, there were hundreds of people in the black press, staring at this side with sticks and sticks.

Wang Huan ignored him, handed the crossbow in his hand to a soldier, strode up to Chen Ergou, who was tied to the stake, drew the short knife in his arms, and cut the rope.

Chen Ergou had been beaten so much that he couldn't stand, and as soon as his body was weak, he fell down, Wang Huan caught him, and his hand was full of slippery, which was the slippery feeling of blood, and Chen Ergou's upper body couldn't find an inch of good meat.

"Brother Huan, I'm sorry, I've embarrassed you." Chen Ergou forced his eyes open, leaned on Wang Huan's shoulder, and said in a low voice.

Wang Huan had tears in his eyes, gently supported Chen Ergou's waist, and said in a deep voice: "Don't speak, go back first!" ”

Chen Ergou nodded weakly, Wang Huan hugged him, and walked back slowly, a few homeless people had already rushed out, took Chen Ergou lightly, and helped him to the back.

A few knights saw that Wang Huan was like no one around, and they didn't hear the words from their own side at all, they were furious, and their horses were about to run out, and the leather-armored crossbowmen standing in place had two hands on the crossbow handles, and two arrows flew over the scalps of those knights, so frightened that several people immediately grabbed the reins and stood still and did not dare to move.

Wang Huan's face was terrifyingly dark, and he looked at the homeless people standing on both sides of the city gate with a panicked face, they were all led by Chen Ergou, who was here to repair the final sweeping project of the Guanlou, and at the same time take care of the guards.

"Why didn't Chen Ergou be beaten, and you didn't come forward to resist?" Wang Huan burst out a sentence from between his teeth, his eyes were so cold that he almost froze, and his murderous aura overflowed.

A bunch of homeless people were frightened, you look at me, I look at you, no one dared to talk, and finally pounced, knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing.

Wang Huan's face turned from black to red, his anger became bigger and bigger, bloodshot burst out in his eyes, and he said coldly: "Go down, each person will be punished with thirty whips, and you are not allowed to eat today." ”

When the homeless people kneeling on the ground heard this, they dared not say a word, and they did not dare to raise their heads, but only cared about prostrating vigorously.

"You can't blame them." A slow voice came, with a flat tone, as if to say a very inconspicuous little thing: "They don't dare." ”

Wang Huan paused, paused for a moment, and then slowly turned around and faced the man in gorgeous clothes who was speaking, his face had already recovered his expression, not happy or worried, quiet as autumn water.

The man in the Chinese costume was protected by a bunch of shields in the middle, full of security, and said leisurely with a beard: "Who are you here?" Dare to hurt my guards. ”

Wang Huan looked at him, quietly did not speak, looked his eyes up and down, looked at it for a long time, but waved his hand and shouted to the homeless people who followed: "Go to the gate!" ”

Immediately, more than a dozen homeless people answered in a loud voice and rushed up the stairs from both sides of the stairs.

The man in the fancy clothes was inexplicable, looked left and right, frowned, and said in an accentuated tone: "I am Xu Qianli, the big shopkeeper of the Daming Yuzhou Silver Workshop, on the orders of the chief soldier Zeng, I have something important to discuss with Qin Liangyu, the stone pillar consolation, who are you waiting for?" Dare to hurt my guards, block my way, delay my errand, can you afford it? ”

In the end, Xu Qianli was already full of voice and majesty, in his opinion, the young man in front of him didn't know what was going on, he actually had a crossbow arrow, and hundreds of people with sticks, probably the children of the local people here, although there were more people than his own side, but the people have always been afraid of officials, as long as the name of Zeng Ying behind him is revealed, this person will naturally retreat, there is no need to worry.

Wang Huan listened to him quietly, and when he finished roaring, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he actually laughed with a "poof".

"What kind of person am I, it turns out to be a merchant." Wang Huan laughed and laughed, but the laughter was indescribably weird, as ugly as a ghost sound, which made people shudder when they heard it.

With a laugh, Wang Huan turned his face flat, and his facial expression changed so quickly that he was caught off guard, and said: "Business is the end of all people, this is the ancestral training of Emperor Taizu, how did he become the messenger of the general army of a province today, it is really a strange thing!" ”

Xu Qianli stopped doing it, his horse face was stretched longer, the muscles on his face spasmed, and he pointed at Wang Huan and wanted to shout a few words and scold, but he didn't know how to scold, because what Wang Huan said was indeed the truth.

However, his guards were not so reasonable, and when they saw that this mountain native dared to hurt people and scold people, and insulted the big shopkeeper, they immediately screamed in a mess.