However, there was no scream from the grass as Lai Xing'er expected, but the bison let out a terrible howl again......

Lai Xing'er opened his eyes in surprise, only to see Jiang Zhongshi standing in the grass unharmed, pointing to the distance, and scolded unsatisfied: "You one-horned monster, but you are still interesting, the master found your weakness in the abdomen, punched a few times, and if you don't escape, the master will take your life tonight." ”

"You, you knocked it away?" Lai Xing'er rushed over, pulled Jiang Zhongshi out of the grass, and looked up and down to see if he was injured.

"General, you don't know. It turns out that the monster's weakness is in its lower abdomen. When it rushed towards me, I didn't have time to stand up in the grass, so I had to lie on the ground and shrink to avoid its trampling, and when it ran past me, I used my hands and feet to punch and kick it in the lower abdomen, and guess what? It hit me a few times, but it couldn't bear it anymore, and ran away. The next time I am called to meet it, it will not be so cheap. Jiang Zhongshi embarrassedly broke free of Lai Xing'er's hand, his face was full of excitement, and said.

"It's not a monster." Lai Xing'er looked at the direction of the bison's escape, as if remembering something, "When I was in Luo, I saw a wall decoration painted with the shape of this thing in the Tubo people's room, if I am not mistaken, it should be a rhinoceros one of the three treasures of Linyi." ”

"Rhinoceros? There is such a ferocious bull in this world that even tigers are afraid of it! Jiang Zhongshi didn't know where Lai Xing'er was talking about, and he had never heard of the Tubo people, so he sighed suspiciously.

Lai Xing'er turned around and walked to the location where the bloody corpses of the two sergeants were, frowned and said, "It's just that I've heard people say that this rhinoceros usually has a gentle temperament and rarely takes the initiative to hurt people. Why is this rhinoceros so hot-tempered that even a tiger provokes it? The rhinoceros is known as the Three Treasures of Linyi, and it is said that only the Linyi located in southern Xinjiang has this thing, and there are rhinoceros infested in Wangwu Mountain, so isn't it strange? ”

Jiang Zhongshi followed behind him, and as he walked, he guessed, "I also wonder." Ever since I settled in Songtai Village, I've often heard from the elders of the village that in the past year or two, a monster has appeared in the mountains, often haunting the mountainside near the foot of the mountain, and more than a dozen people have died under its single horn. Today, it must have been the sergeants who set fire to the village and disturbed it, so they rushed up the mountain and were bumped into by us. ”

As they spoke, the two men approached the two sergeants. Lai Xing'er couldn't bear to witness the tragic situation of the two, turned his face away, and asked Jiang Zhongshi: "Is there a place near here where their bodies can be placed, we have to move the two of them to a proper place first, and then choose a place to bury them after visiting the top of the mountain." ”

Jiang Zhongshi pointed to the extinguished torches beside the two of them, but said: "General, according to the customs of our hometown, it is better to set the two of them on fire, so as to avoid having jackals, tigers and leopards and other fierce beasts to gnaw on their bodies after we leave." ”

Lai Xing'er knew that the two had been trampled by a rhinoceros and lost their human form, let alone keep the whole corpse, so he nodded silently after listening to Jiang Zhongshi's reasoning, fell to the ground, bowed to the bodies of the two three times, and then signaled Jiang Zhongshi to set fire to the corpse.

Jiang Zhongshi went to the side of the road and picked up some dried artemisia grass, piled it on the two sergeants, and lit the torches first, and then led the artemisia grass with the torches. Not long after, Lai Xing'er smelled a pungent smell, which made his stomach turn over and he almost vomited.

"General, both of your sergeants, these two people in front of you are not much better than the two sergeants who killed people in the village, why do you treat them so differently?" Jiang Zhongshi noticed that Xing'er couldn't get used to the pungent smell of the burning corpse, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support him with one hand and continued to walk towards the rooftop.

When Lai Xing'er heard this, he turned his face and looked at Jiang Zhongshi, and did not answer him directly, but asked him in reverse: "Didn't you be King Ying's guard for a few days?" Don't you understand the truth that lieutenant generals in the barracks love and respect soldiers? I beheaded two people in the village, both because they killed innocent people, and they should be beheaded, but these two people were killed in an accident on my errand, and they deserve mercy. I also plan to wait until the prisoner is caught, and ask the merit book to list the names of the two of them. ”

Jiang Zhongshi was stunned by Lai Xing'er's question, and then replied indignantly: "Although I have not been forcibly conscripted to the palace for a long time, I have never seen generals and captains beating and scolding their sergeants. Occasionally, a sergeant died of illness, and the official never cared about what happened to him, at most he instructed someone to wrap the corpse in a straw mat, carry it outside the city, and find a place to leave it alone, and never saw a general treat his subordinate sergeants like this. But," he said, suddenly stammering, refusing to continue.

Lai Xing'er was trying to know more about the situation in Li Shujun, when he stopped halfway through his words and asked strangely, "What is it?" The two of us are the same age, just like brothers, don't worry, just say what you have to say. ”

Jiang Zhongshi subconsciously let go of the hand that was supporting Lai Xing'er, and said in a snort: "General, don't misunderstand. I've seen the prince kill people with my own eyes, and it's almost exactly the same as when you killed people in the village when it was just dark."

Lai Xing'er had only seen Li Shu's appearance as a sick and weak scholar, and when he heard Jiang Zhongshi say that he killed people who were no different from himself, he couldn't help but be surprised, and asked repeatedly: "Tell me in detail, who did he kill?" What was the situation when you wanted to kill someone? ”

"Speaking of which, it was still when I was in Jiangling City, the prince seemed to have received a letter from Chang'an City, and after reading the letter, he screamed, and before a few of our guards woke up, he drew his sword and slashed the three brothers standing beside me in a row, and then shouted on his back: 'My good brother! You forced my mother and sister to death with your own hands, and this hatred is not shared. One day, I will not break your body into thousands of pieces, and I will not be a human being. 'General, you don't know, he was going to cut another sword, but I was afraid that it would be my turn. ”

Jiang Zhongshi recalled the scene when Li Shu received the news of the death of his mother and sister more than a month ago, and he still had palpitations when he spoke.

Li Shu actually used killing people to vent his hatred for the emperor in his heart, his heart is not vicious, and his methods are not cruel. Lai Xing'er listened to Jiang Zhongshi's narration and sighed secretly.

"General, I heard that this morning, you caught my godfather's house my prince, no, Li Shu, King Ying, right?"

Jiang Zhongshi's question made Lai Xing'er suddenly alert, he deliberately took a few steps away from Jiang Zhongshi, and asked vigilantly: "It's not your question, I can't remember, where did you go this morning?" ”

Jiang Zhongshi didn't realize that Lai Xing'er had become wary of him, and replied casually: "These days, I have been staying in a small shack halfway up the mountainside, waiting for the man-eating monster to appear, so that I can subdue it in one fell swoop and avenge the villagers who were injured by it, and I didn't go down the mountain to return to the village until I saw that the village was on fire." ”

Lai Xing'er observed his words and looks, and saw that he didn't look like he was lying, so he relaxed his guard a little and answered him truthfully: "You follow me to the top of this mountain to catch Li Shu." Would you like to? ”

"There is only a beautiful fairy girl living on the top of this mountain, how could he run to it, lord?" Jiang Zhongshi was obviously afraid of Li Shu, the old master, and avoided answering Lai Xing'er's questions.

Before Lai Xing'er could ask Jiang Zhongshi who the fairy girl who lived on the top of the mountain was, the two had unknowingly climbed to the rooftop of Wangwu Mountain. (To be continued.) )