Chapter 21: Misunderstanding (Full)
Zhou Cang's mood was happy, because he was going to meet his brother soon. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Although he and Pei Yuanshao's personalities are very different, they have been together for several years and still have a very deep affection for each other. It is as sincere as a brother, as close as a brother. The two have been separated for several months, because they have never been separated for such a long time, and Zhou Cang's heart is a little worried about Pei Yuanshao. Of course, he buried all this in his heart so that no one could see it. After all, Zhou Cang is a big man, and he knows that he can't and is not used to revealing all his feelings - that will definitely be looked down upon.
"As long as you pass the bend in front, you will reach Woniu Mountain." Zhou Cangle said happily, a mouthful of snow-white teeth curled into his dark face. He said this to himself, and to his fellow men. The soldiers who are traveling with him now are all Zhang Fei's subordinates, and none of them have ever been to Woniu Mountain, so most of them don't know where Woniu Mountain is. Walking calmly all the way, they had already made their hearts a little impatient. "Why hasn't it arrived yet?" Although they didn't dare to say this, the brows on their foreheads were still tightly furrowed, and they showed their dissatisfaction slightly. This fell into Zhou Cang's eyes, so there were the above words.
"Isn't that close?" Looking at a turn not far ahead, the soldiers who followed Zhou Cang couldn't help but smile happily. They all breathed a sigh of relief.
Walking on the mountain avenue, there is a steep mountain wall on the left, and a green forest on the right that cannot be seen at a glance, although it is not yet the time to go uphill, but such a terrain still makes everyone feel a trace of thrilling hidden in it.
"This terrain is quite dangerous, but it is much more dangerous than our ancient city." The soldiers whispered. Under the mountain breeze that rose at the right time, they clearly felt a trace of cold chill.
"Risk? It's still down the hill! If you get to the mountain, you're only afraid of ......" Zhou Cang said with a smile, but when he said this, he generally stopped, and he vaguely heard the sound contained in it from the oncoming mountain wind. "Someone." He looked at it and quickly understood something: "There were two groups of visitors, one in front and one behind, the people in front seemed to be on foot, and the people in the back were on horseback. Well, it seems that it is still the pursuit of one side against the other. As the sound got closer and closer, Zhou Cang clearly heard the presence of shouts and wails.
"What's going on? Who would be so bold as to make a fuss at the foot of Woniu Mountain? Zhou Cang's face suddenly became solemn. Just as animals have their own territory, so do people, especially those with power. Although Zhou Cang's power is not strong, he is unique around Woniu Mountain within a radius of 100 miles, and he has long regarded Woniu Mountain as his territory. In his heart, it is cut off from being pointed at by others.
So, Zhou Cang was a little concerned, he hurriedly asked everyone to speed up, quickly turned the corner, and saw the two groups of people rushing towards him in a round way: sure enough, the other party was chasing the other as he had just looked.
"What a bold man, he dares to fight and kill under my Woniu Mountain." Zhou Cang's face darkened even more. He wanted to step forward and scold the comers, saying that he couldn't give them something powerful. But he only took a few steps forward, and then stopped, and he looked at the approaching one in a daze, and his heart couldn't help but chuckle, and a very bad feeling welled up in his heart. He recognized the group of people who had come before. "Si'er...... Is that you? He asked incredulously at the comer.
"Big Boss?" Hearing Zhou Cang's question, the group that was chased by the people behind raised their heads in surprise, and a hint of surprise immediately appeared on their faces. "Big boss, save us, the people behind are coming." They shouted like Zhou Cang for help. It has been a long time since they were drowning, and even if there was still a straw at the moment, they were desperate to grasp it, not to mention that the big boss they knew and respected was not a straw.
"What's going on? Can anyone tell me? Zhou Cang hurriedly let them go and asked nervously, "Why aren't you on the mountain?" What about Chief Pei? ”
"The cottage has been breached by the enemy, and not many people have escaped. Leader Pei was killed, and we only snatched his body. Taking a slight breath, Si'er, who had escaped from one, said.
"What?" The news that came out of everyone's mouth was like a thunderbolt from the sky to Zhou Cang, and an incident knocked him down from the sky, but he was quite dizzy and couldn't find the north: "What the hell is going on?" Can anyone tell me? Zhou Cang's eyes widened in annoyance, and he looked at the people around him with a look of choosing people and looking at them, which was really too terrifying.
"I don't know exactly what's going on! I only knew that such a group of enemies suddenly came last night. Si'er said with a shudder, he seemed to be frightened by Zhou Cang's roar.
"Huh?" Zhou Cang snorted, he was not satisfied with Si'er's explanation.
"Actually, I seem to know a little bit about it." Si'er's little thief said.
"Say!" Zhou Cang spit out such a word briefly.
"A few days ago, Boss Pei went down the mountain to rob a horse and injured the owner of the horse, and now the owner of the horse has come to take revenge. He was so powerful that he assassinated Boss Pei with just one shot. As soon as the little man thought of Zhao Yun's bravery, he couldn't help but be terrified.
"It doesn't make sense. Since the owner of that place is so powerful, then he shouldn't come to Yuan Shao to snatch his horse. Zhou Cang was puzzled by this.
"We sent hundreds of people at the time, and we took advantage of his serious illness to rob him. The weather was strange the other day, and many people were sick. The little man hurriedly said this.
Hearing this, Zhou Cang was speechless. Is he okay to say anything more about this? The whole thing seems to be on my side from beginning to end. Everything that happened like this is very similar to the scene that made me meet General Guan Yu a few months ago: it was Pei Yuanshao who wanted to steal General Guan Yu's Red Rabbit that made his people meet General Guan Yu, but at that time, he and the others were lucky, and they immediately changed their tone and did not carry it with General Guan Yu, so that they could be under Liu Bei's account today. And at the moment, Yuan Shao went to steal the horse again, and once again ran into the person who pierced his hands, but he was slow to see the opportunity, robbed the other party's horse, and beat the other party's people, so there was such a disaster.
"Maybe it's a retribution." The unnatural Zhou Cang suddenly remembered a word "retribution" that had often been on the lips of those in Zhang Feijun who had been associated with the Futu Sect. "Hey!" Zhou Cang said dejectedly: "Those who come out to mix must have the consciousness of killing or being killed after all." ”
Since the matter was already so clear, Zhou Cang thought of giving up. He was going to go up and ask the people who were chasing him to solve the problem at hand. He didn't want to continue to fight with the other party. It's not that he's afraid of the other party, but that he's already aware of his current identity: after submitting to Guan Yu, he is already a general and not a bandit, so naturally he can't continue to be happy and vengeful like before. What's more, it has long been clear who is right and wrong in this matter?
Zhou Cang thought about it and was about to step forward, but the perseverance and pain on his face made the people around him stunned. No one knew what he was planning at the moment, except for Si'er.
"Second uncle, don't you want to avenge Uncle Pei?" Si'er is a smart person, and he sees through Zhou Cang's thoughts from Zhou Cang's actions. Si'er couldn't understand this idea. He is not very old, and he has always grown up in a cottage, and he has long regarded the law of the jungle as a rule. He didn't think it was wrong to plunder the other party's horses. Of course, based on this, his reason told him that it was normal for Pei Yuanshao to be killed, but he was still a young man after all, and he couldn't extinguish that feeling of being a human being in his heart. He was heartbroken by the death of Pei Yuanshao, who was best to him, and despised those who scattered and fled after Pei Yuanshao's death. The most important thing in the cottage is righteousness, and when he found that the people around him were not righteous, he regarded these people as strangers. He was so innocent that he couldn't understand Zhou Cang's decision at all. So, he reminded Zhou Cang that he was just trying to keep the last remaining relative around him from becoming a villain without righteousness.
"Si'er, you don't know ......" For this nephew of the family, Zhou Cang tried to persuade him.
"There's nothing you don't understand." Si'er's gaze was very firm: "I only know that this is an unrighteousness to Uncle Pei, and the unrighteous person, General Guan is very disgusted, because General Guan himself is also righteous and angry." I don't know why the second uncle forgot this, could it be that the second uncle is already timid and already afraid of fighting? For a person like Zhou Cang, who is quite calm, but not really calm, Si'er is very clever to stimulate him with words. He understands that Guan Yu attaches great importance to righteous people.
"Well, maybe you're right!" Zhou Cang succumbed. The person he admired the most was Guan Yu, so when he heard that Guan Yu admired people with deep righteousness, he knew what he should do. After plastic surgery and hard work to lift the momentum on his body, he blocked the people who were chasing him.
"Who is here, don't you know that we are chasing the bandits here?" The other party came from a distance and shouted at this side. They seemed to have seen that something was wrong here, and they spread out their formation at the right time to make it look like an attack.
"Hunt down bandits? Your grandfather and I are the bosses of this Woniu Mountain, let me see how you hunt me down. How dare you kill my brother and slaughter my son? Zhou Cang said in a rough voice. At this moment, he has regained his original bold nature of being a thief, and he no longer has any scruples in his behavior, he is completely the kind of appearance of killing gods and killing ghosts when encountering ghosts.
"In that case, let the weapons in our hands decide everything." Zhao Yun shouted, let alone speak, and rode his horse to Zhou Cang's side to kill. It was really as fast as a gale, like a flash of lightning, but in the blink of an eye, he rushed in front of Zhou Cang, and a fierce shot at his throat.
"So fast!" Seeing that the opponent's gun was handed straight to his eyes like a white line, Zhou Cang couldn't help but be surprised, he hurriedly raised the long knife in his hand and took an oblique angle to avoid the tip of the opponent's gun and smashed it on the opponent's gun. He originally wanted to use this to deviate from the other party's incoming guns, so as to escape the situation of piercing the throat. However, he didn't want that huge force to come from the opponent's gun, and he actually rebounded the knife that Zhou Cang stabbed down.
"How so?" Zhou Cang frowned involuntarily in pain. Although the shot that Zhao Yun stabbed just now did not kill him, under the slash that struggled, he avoided the pain of piercing his throat, but the difference in strength between the two made Zhao Yun's gun still cause a wound on his body after all. The spear stabbed Zhou Cang's left flank, which was another key point in the general's body, a backstabbing was a death that could not be killed, but it made the general completely lose the ability to fight. As long as the other party has another shot, I'm afraid that Zhou Cang will have to completely explain here.
"Damn, it looks like you've messed with a lot of characters." Zhou Cang was shocked. In the blink of an eye, he saw the gap between himself and Zhao Yun: "This person is definitely at the level of Guan Erye and Zhang Sanye, and I am not a little worse than him." He believed that with the opponent's level, it was absolutely possible to kill Pei Yuanshao in one round.
"Bastard, am I really going to die here?" Seeing Zhao Yundu raise the silver spear in his hand, Zhou Cang suddenly became desperate. He knew that with his current strength and condition, he would never be able to dodge this next blow. Can we just close our eyes and wait for death? Although I was very reluctant in my heart, in this situation in front of me, it seemed that there was nothing else to think about except to sit and wait for death. Helplessly, Zhou Cang closed his eyes.
However, the pain did not come, and in the darkness, it seemed that a man stabbed his mount in the back with his weapon, and then caused his mount to run away. The sound of the wind quickly picked up, and Zhou Cang clearly heard the screams coming from the wind. Zhou Cang turned his head, but saw that the four of them were picked off their horses by Zhao Yun with a silver spear, and the red blood spurted out of their bodies like a spring, obviously they couldn't survive.
"Si'er......" Zhou Cang called the name miserably. There is nothing more heartbreaking than watching a loved one die in front of him, Zhou Cang's eyes widened suddenly, and his bloodshot eyes protruded from the front, and he looked like he was about to split. In an instant, he understood everything, and understood that the reason why he was still alive and well here was entirely because the four of them used their lives to stop the enemy. They already know that they are no match for each other.
"What should I do?" Zhou Cang was in tears, with trepidation in his heart. His feelings told him that he must turn back and fight the enemy and avenge his sons and nephews; And his intellect constrained him from doing so. After all, it's just a stupid charge, at most, it's just an extra kill record for the opponent's gun. He is not the opponent of the other party, everyone can see this clearly.
"Since you are not his opponent, then go find someone who can defeat him." Zhou Cang quickly thought of this in the heart-wrenching pain. He rode his horse and galloped wildly, and the direction he went was Zhang Fei's military camp. He thought of asking Zhang Fei to come out and deal with the guy in front of him. He is somewhat sure of this. After getting along with Zhang Fei for so many days, he has somewhat figured out Zhang Fei's personality: Zhang Fei is very impulsive. Zhou Cang was sure that he could convince him.
The next thing really developed according to Zhou Cang's own plan. Under his eloquent speech, Zhang Fei was really a little interested in that person. He went out, although Zhou Cang himself couldn't guess whether this Zhang Sanye went to the enemy's side in order to get justice for himself, or whether he heard that there was such a strong master and was in a hurry to compete with the other party, but for Zhou Cang, Zhang Fei's heart is not important, the important thing is that he is willing to make a move. Zhou Cang knew that with his Zhang Fei's personality, once he started to make a move and didn't decide the winner in a moment and a half, that Zhang Fei would definitely fight more and more fiercely, so that he would look desperate in the back. This is exactly what Zhou Cang wants to see.
Zhang Fei is out of the battle. Zhou Cang followed behind him and hurried to the place where he had fought at the beginning. Behind them, the two of them were followed by two hundred cavalrymen who belonged directly to Zhang Fei's tent. Because they didn't know if the other party would stay where they were or if they didn't go far, Zhang Fei and the others were in a hurry, and they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to see each other.
After galloping for a long time, Zhang Fei, under the leadership of Zhou Cang, came to the vicinity of the battle just now. The enemy was gone, leaving behind only a few disheveled corpses and a palpable horseshoe print. Pei Yuanshao's corpse was naturally among them, but unlike other corpses, the head on its corpse was taken away, leaving only that lifeless torso. Looking at this sad scene in front of him, the tears in Zhou Cang's eyes fell irrepressibly. He looked at everything in front of him stupidly, and the sadness in his heart was needless to say: in this large mass of lifeless corpses, some were his men, some were his sons and nephews, and some were his brothers. These were people with whom he had lived for several years, and it would be absolutely impossible to say that he had no affection for them. So Zhou Cang cried, this is a normal thing, isn't there a saying that says: "Men don't cry, just when they are sad." ”
Zhang Fei saw that Zhou Cang was sad, so he comforted him softly: "Don't cry, although it is normal to cry sadly, it always makes people feel that they are weak." No matter how much you cry, you can't wake them up, but you might as well get up and follow in the footsteps of the enemy, so that you can kill the enemy with your own hands. Of course, that would not bring the dead back to life, but it would give peace of mind to the living. As far as the doctrine of the so-called 'floating slaughter' is concerned, this seems to be a matter of cause and effect. ”
"Huh? What does this mean? Zhou Cang was confused by what Zhang Fei said. He didn't understand the profound meaning of these words, but he only knew that they reminded him of something very important, and that was revenge.
"yes, revenge is required." Although all the cause and effect of this incident was provoked by Pei Yuanshao himself, he was his brother after all, and he absolutely did not want to see his dead zone. This is not only true for Pei Yuanshao, but also for Si'er. No one wants to see someone they have a relationship with die, even if it's a bad guy who can't tolerate heaven and earth.
"Revenge!" Zhou Cang muttered the word softly, his eyes became clear and resolute, and he stared straight into the distance, turning a light full of anger at the place that had once been his home.
There was no enemy in sight here, so Zhou Cang proposed to go to the cottage in Woniu Mountain to have a look. Although he also knew that it might be occupied by the enemy, judging by the enemy's estimated time and their actions, it seemed unlikely that they would have cleared the battlefield and left so quickly. "Perhaps, we can capture a few captives there and get some other news!" That's what Zhou Cang intended.
"It's good!" Zhang Fei nodded and agreed.
All the way up the mountain, although the road was all the way, and there were no enemies to stop them, but the speed of the people was not very fast. Naturally, this is not because they want to walk slowly, but because of the terrain of the road and the difficulty of going up the mountain. It became more and more evident that the cavalry was not suitable for boarding.
After going around and around with nine turns and eighteen turns, Zhang Fei and the others finally saw the figure: a gate with a straight slope leading to the cottage, in front of the gate, hundreds of soldiers with bows and arrows and spears in front of them were waiting to face their group of people, they were all after rejecting the horse, the big bow in their hands had already been pulled away by them, and the sharp triangular arrows were placed on the bow to exude a little chill.
"You're all prepared?" Zhang Fei, Zhou Chang and others, who originally thought that they could see a panicked scene, were secretly surprised in their hearts, and immediately ordered the soldiers who followed them: "Attention, don't make mistakes!" Zhang Fei knew that the two hundred elite cavalry under his command were following them at the moment, and the rest of the infantry were led by his lieutenant general and slowly came behind. It would take them some time to get here, and they could not attack themselves until they arrived, because that would only cost them nothing - to attack the prepared camp with cavalry would be a death attempt.
Zhang Fei didn't do anything to send him to death, he restrained his subordinates and stepped forward on a horse. He saw that in front of those soldiers, there was a young general in silver armor and white robe holding a bright silver spear standing on his horse, which was quite similar to the person described by Zhou Cang, so he thought that the person in front of him was the master, and his face suddenly showed excitement.
Coughing lightly twice, Zhang Fei, who was full of literary brilliance, had already compiled the words he was going to say next. He rode forward and was about to speak, but he saw that the person opposite him was one step ahead of him.
"Are you the same party of those bandits in Woniu Mountain?" The silver-armored and white-robed young general scolded roughly.
Although the white-robed young general had already lowered his voice, the people who listened to him were a little strange in their hearts, "Why is there still that faint shrill voice in his words?" ”
"Hehe, it seems that this Zhao Yun learned her brother's voice, and it is quite similar." Li Sheng stood on the cottage square behind the walled gate, while reorganizing the cavalry team in his hands, he was paying attention to the situation in front of him.
As the one who planned all this at the moment, he naturally knew everything clearly: the real Zhao Yun, the Zhao Zilong who stabbed Pei Yuanshao to death with one shot, is now resting in the side room of the cottage because of the overwork of his injured body. At this moment, it was Zhao Yun's sister Zhao Yun who was confronting Zhang Fei in front.
It's just that he, Li Sheng, is also a human being, and he only knows some of the things he arranged with his own hands. It was his plan to arrange Zhao Yun in front to face the team that was likely to be Guan Yu's subordinate Zhou Cang, so that she could have some misunderstandings with these people, so that he would have a better chance to win over Zhao Yun. He knew that the big general was Zhou Cang, and he also understood that Zhou Cang's kung fu was not Zhao Yun's opponent. After all, Zhao Yun's strength is also extraordinary under her brother's tutelage. Although it can't be compared to someone of Zhao Yun's level, it is only slightly worse than her brother. With her level to deal with Zhou Cang, Li Sheng thought it was more than enough. Li Sheng didn't expect that there was Zhang Fei among the people who came over, he thought that Zhou Cang had only brought more people after being taught a lesson by Zhao Yun, so Li Sheng was very relieved. He asked Zhao Yun to face the people outside directly, while he reorganized his cavalry in the rear, preparing to rush out at the right time to make this fireside more vigorous.
He let Zhao Yun face the other party directly.
Unlike Zhao Yun, this little girl has never seen the legendary three Taoyuan brothers. Her understanding of Liu Bei and others only exists in her brother's words. She didn't recognize Zhang Fei in front of her, but she just regarded the person who chased him to the front of the gate as Li Sheng told her, the fellow party of the thieves in Woniu Mountain. Of course, this is not that Li Sheng is deliberately misleading her, because Li Sheng himself has not seen Zhang Fei's true appearance. In Li Sheng's thoughts, Zhang Fei has long been the appearance that people have praised for thousands of years, with a leopard head and ringed eyes, a lion beard, and a dark face, where will he still be associated with the dashing and elegant military general in front of him. Therefore, Li Sheng didn't know that he was Zhang Fei.
The conversation began after Zhao Yun's opening. may be because Zhao Yun, under Li Sheng's hint, has long regarded these people as accomplices of the bandits, and the words she just said were a little rushed. Calling others a companion to a bandit may sound boring to those who are indeed fellow bandits, but it is a bit of a slander to those who have no connection with the bandits or anything like that, and who have risen to the current position by exterminating the bandits. Hearing this, Zhang Fei's brows furrowed involuntarily, and anger gathered secretly in his heart. He naturally understood that the words were just unintentional by the other party, but he understood and understood, and he still felt a little uncomfortable when he heard these words in his ears. So, he retorted.
"I'm an accomplice of the bandits? Joke, when you Grandpa Zhang and I were exterminating the bandits, you didn't know where to eat! Zhang Fei said vulgarly. This was the surprising side of him, and it was strange that his handsome and elegant face uttered words that were not much different from those of the marketmen.
Hearing Zhang Fei's words, Zhao Yun couldn't help but blush. She wasn't surprised, but angry. For an unmarried girl, Zhang Fei's rebuttal was a bit unbearable.
"Or not? Who is the man who is with you? I heard from my subordinates that this guy thinks he's the boss of Snail Mountain. Zhao Yun's words were said loudly. Because it's something that did happen, she was sure.
"Brother, you're right. There is nothing wrong with him being a bandit originally, but the prodigal son does not change his money, and now he is already a general under my second brother's account, and he is in the same line as you. How? Can the matter be revealed, and then it will be closed? I heard Zhou Cang say that you also have some skills, so why don't you join us and contribute to this big man. My eldest brother is Uncle Liu. Although he was very eager to compete with the other party, Zhang Fei, who had already suffered from willfulness, still suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart and proposed a solicitation to the other party. He could see the level of the other party, and knew that although the person on the other side did not reach such a level as Zhou Cang exaggerated, it was not about the same, and it was rare in the whole world. If he can be recruited, it will also be very helpful to the eldest brother's career, so he works hard.
"Want to recruit me? Then you'll have to win the gun in my hand first. Zhao Yun frowned, and faced Zhang Fei with a frosty face. She didn't know what Zhang Fei said later. It wasn't because Zhang Fei's words weren't loud enough, but because his words were so loud that her ears hurt, she couldn't hear Zhang Fei's words clearly. Although she also vaguely understood that Zhang Fei was soliciting herself, she didn't dare to agree at will, firstly, there was a brainless second brother above her, and secondly, she was still under someone else's account, and that person was still kind to her, she couldn't do that kind of betrayal of her kindness. Of course, she won't explain all this clearly, after all, the other party is not her, and she explains so much to do. Out of disgust with Zhang Fei's previous words, she finally chose to speak with a gun without wanting to explain more. She attacked Zhang Fei.