Chapter 41: The Age of Death
Later, Tang Xu fell asleep in a daze when he was thinking wildly, and when he woke up in the morning, Lan Jun was still asleep. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Tang Xu struggled to get up from the ground, wanting to go outside the tent to see the sun. Before Tang Xu could move to the door, Fat Tuo Sima opened the door and came in, and brought in some food.
"Eat." Fat Tuo Si Ma put the things on the ground and took out a knife to untie Tang Xu and Lan Jun.
"One last meal?" Tang Xu looked at the large piece of meat and the large pot of milk wine, but he didn't expect that the first foreign meal he had eaten here was actually a dead man's meal.
"One last meal." After the fat Tusi Ma finished speaking, he took the rope and the knife and went out again.
"Hey, it doesn't look very delicious, it's the last meal, why don't you give a roast whole lamb?" Tang Xu sat cross-legged on the ground and joked, Lan Jun felt very bitter when he saw him like this.
"Well, it's not bad." Tang Xu picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth and chewed it, although the taste was not enough, it was very chewy.
"You come and eat too, you've been hungry all night, you must be hungry, right?" Tang Xu didn't want the atmosphere to become so embarrassing, so he asked Lan Jun to come and eat with him, so he could be a full ghost.
"Yes." Tang Xu's forced smile made Lan Jun secretly wipe away his tears and come over to sit with him. Tang Xu ate this meal very slowly, and eating one more bite was like one step closer to death.
"It's so full!" When he finished eating no matter how slowly he ate, Tang Xu smacked loudly, he was going to die anyway, and he didn't want an image or anything. Lan Jun didn't eat a few bites, and most of the time he was in a daze.
"Come out! Time's up. As if he had pinched the time, as soon as Tang Xu said he was full, he came in.
"Can't we wait a little longer, let's eat?" Tang Xu was scared in his heart, and he didn't want Lan Jun to worry. Fat Tuo Sima glanced at him, didn't speak, picked up the rope and wanted to tie them up again.
"Don't talk nonsense, let's go!" Fat Tuo Sima was just tied here, and the person who slapped Fat Tuo Sima yesterday also came in, and actually spoke Chinese, but it was more than one level worse than Fat Tuo Sima's Chinese.
"People are going to die, what are you dragging?" Tang Xu gave him a blank look. The man ignored him, pulled Tang Xu and walked out. Tang Xu was dragged to the edge of a large haystack, and there were two wooden stakes erected on it, more than one person high, and Lan Jun's waist was as thick.
"Go up!" Tang Xu's back was pushed hard, and the whole person fell on the haystack, he was dragged up the haystack with difficulty, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he was re-tied to the big wooden stake by another thicker rope.
"What are you doing with all that effort? Isn't it too much trouble to tie it up? Tang Xu looked around, except for a dozen or so people who were thinking about it, there was no shadow of Wang Dali at all, let alone any soldiers. Tang Xu was anxious to the peak, and he actually laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" A woman's voice came out of the crowd below, and Tang Xu couldn't help but shudder when he heard it.
"Tang Gongzi, don't be afraid." A foreign woman walked up to the haystack with a smug look on her face.
"You..." Tang Xu's heart was completely cold, wasn't this the Khitan woman he had seen in the tea shop before? Since she got here, the trick she used to do with carrier pigeons must have been a goof, no wonder the man slapped the fat and slapped the fat two times yesterday, if she was played so badly, the person was arrested and the tea was copied, and the other party had to be burned with a fire.
“。。。” Tang Xu thought of this, looked at the half-human-high haystack under his feet, it was over.
"Tang Gongzi, you are so naughty." The woman's voice was still so crooked, but it sounded more oozing than the tea.
"One person does things and one person is responsible, you kill me, let Lan Jun go!" Lan Jun's face was really pale at this time, he was definitely not pretending, even if he died, he would be burned to death, Tang Xu was so distressed that he wanted to cry.
"I'm still worried about others when I'm dying, why bother in the first place when I knew it was like this?" The Khitan woman's tone changed, and her eyes were ruthless.
"Shall I beg you?" If he could, Tang Xu was really willing to kneel down for her and let Lan Jun die a tragic death like this, Tang Xu was ten thousand unwilling.
"Do you regret it?" The Khitan woman laughed.
"I regret it." Tang Xu regretted letting Lan Jun come out to purchase medicinal materials, and even more regretted taking Lan Jun out of the city this time, and regretted it very much.
"It's too late to regret it now, I also begged Tang Gongzi to come, but you have no sincerity at all." The smile on the Khitan woman's face disappeared suddenly, and only the cold eyes stared at the back of the spine.
"Tang Gongzi, don't ask her, it is Lan Jun's blessing to be able to get acquainted with Tang Gongzi and Brother Wang, even if they die together." Lan Jun had accumulated his strength for a long time and said loudly.
"The city gate is so tightly guarded, how did you get out?" Lan Jun's words made the Khitan woman's face change, and Tang Xu hurriedly diverted the topic, otherwise he might be on fire in the next second.
"Man..." The Khitan woman smiled ambiguously, Tang Xu's heart suddenly felt as awkward as eating a fly, in order to go out, he had unspoken rules with people?
"Hmm... Nausea ~ The baby is still young and the baby can't understand. "Tang Xu is a little crazy, but he is about to die, and ordinary normal people will become a little abnormal.
"It's better than being killed by you." The Khitan woman said coldly, and the chill in her eyes turned to hatred.
"If it weren't for you spreading tea poison, making money and killing people, and hurting so many innocent people in Lanzhou City, how could you have come to this point?" Tang Xu was suddenly a little afraid to look at her eyes, and he was almost about to feel guilty about her, but after thinking about it, why did he have to be such a virgin and feel sorry for a person who had done a lot of evil?
"I didn't force them." The Khitan woman disagreed.
"You..." Tang Xu was dumbfounded for a while, and he was about to explode with anger.
"There is a brazen woman like you in the world." Lan Jun couldn't get angry and cursed.
"There is a man like you who just wants to be a woman." The Khitan woman replied slowly.
"You've gone too far! You're going to die! The woman's words caused an uproar, followed by laughter. Lan Jun's face was ten points whiter than just now, Tang Xu was so angry that he went crazy, and he wanted to stab this cheap-mouthed woman to death immediately.
"I'm not going to die, it's you who are going to die." The woman said fiercely, and then turned and walked over to the head of the horse and said a few words to him. I saw that the man nodded when he heard this, and ordered his men to prepare to light a fire.
"Tang Gongzi." Lan Jun's face softened a little, and he called Tang Xu in a low voice.
"Lan Jun, even if you are a man, there will be people who really love you." Tang Xu turned his head to look at him, and there was an extra layer of regret in his heart, he was really unwilling to let Wang Dali know Lan Jun's intentions and let him die so inexplicably. Although Lan Jun knew that Tang Xu must have found out, he was still embarrassed when he heard such straightforward words, and he didn't know how to respond for a while.
"You say... Does Brother Wang have me in his heart? Lan Jun watched those people who kept pouring oil on the haystacks, and knew in his heart that death was coming, but he slowly calmed down, and simply asked all the questions that had been hidden for a long time.
"Yes!" Tang Xu is not sure, but when death comes, he must always leave some hope for people.
"Thank you." Lan Jun's eyes suddenly flashed with light, and then dimmed, he knew that Tang Xu was just comforting himself.
"Really, you trust me." Tang Xu could only carry it hard, anyway, if he died, there would be no proof of death.
"If we hadn't died, I..." Lan Jun bit his lip, but finally didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Tang Xu didn't bother to answer, his eyes were attracted by a torch, a desidualist holding a burning torch slowly approached the haystack, Tang Xu's throat was so dry that he could barely breathe, he closed his eyes and began to wait, every second was as slow as the most cruel torment, the noise around him disappeared all of a sudden, he was waiting for the sound of the haystack burning, but the sound never appeared, the heaven and the earth were eerily quiet, and he could even feel the air around him slowly becoming hot under the scorching flames, It turns out that waiting for death to approach step by step is so desperate and powerless.
"If you cross over, you don't necessarily have to be a local tyrant, maybe you won't even be able to get a good death." Tang Xu didn't know what he was talking about, so it was good to say less and listen to his own voice more.
Tang Xu felt that his body was starting to lighten, as if he was able to break free from the rope and float up, and suddenly, a piercing hiss pulled him back to reality.
"Tang Gongzi!" Tang Xu heard Lan Jun's anxious shout, could it be that the haystack was already burning? But why hasn't the air gotten hotter? Could it be that he has been burned to the point of losing consciousness? Tang Xu admitted that he was timid, so timid that he still closed his eyes and was afraid to see himself turn into a fireball.
"Tang Gongzi!" Lan Jun was still calling him, Tang Xu plucked up the courage to open his eyes, but was startled by the changes in front of him. Almost all of the people he had just seen were knocked to the ground, and Wang Dali and his men struggled to extinguish the flames on the haystack.
"Am I alive?" Tang Xu was dumbfounded, and then there was incomparable excitement, he was still alive, and then looked at Lan Jun, he was smiling at himself.
"Boss, are you alright?" Wang Dali almost rushed over to release the rope for Tang Xu, with an anxious look as if he was the one who was about to be burned to death.
"I'm fine, you go and untie Lan Jun, after tossing for so long, he will definitely not be able to stand it." As soon as Tang Xu was able to move his hands and feet, he immediately pushed Wang Dali towards Lan Jun's side.
"Yes." Wang Dali agreed, and turned around to untie Lan Jun, but his face was a little strange. Tang Xu didn't care about doing micro-expression analysis, he just wanted Lan Jun to break free from the shackles as soon as possible.
"Dali, what's going on with those people who are out of thinking?" When Lan Jun came down from the haystack safely, Tang Xu remembered the matter of thinking about the hemp people and the tea leaves.
"Don't worry, the owner has died, and I'll arrest the rest." Wang Dali replied.
"That Khitan woman is also here, and all the tricks we did before have been put into play." Tang Xu said again.
"Really? I didn't see her. Wang Dali was shocked.
"Did you let her run away?" Tang Xu is also anxious, this woman is very cunning, if she lets go, it will definitely be a scourge.
"Don't worry, I'll send someone to search again." Wang Dali found several subordinates and expanded the scope of the search, but the news reported was not found.
"This woman is really powerful, let her run away this time, we have to be more careful in the future." Wang Dali was very annoyed, Tang Xu persuaded him to be relieved, he would always catch her.
"Yes." Tang Xu was about to ask Wang Dali to take Lan Jun back to rest, when he suddenly felt something slimy on Wang Dali's back.