Chapter 47: The Puppet (Four Watches)

Zilong didn't hesitate, nor did he confirm the object attribute scanning, so he followed the young man.

Originally, Zilong was very skeptical today, why Helan Xiao was more like a leader than Fei Lianbo, why Helan Xiao's dry cough could make Fei Lianbo change color immediately, and he might be able to have an answer tonight.

Out of the courtyard, the wind of Tucheng entered Zilong's chest, the day on the grassland, the heat made people dizzy, and the night on the grassland made people sober up in an instant.

The night was deep, there was no one on the road, and even the stars in the sky converged the light, and he couldn't see the road ahead, and he didn't know how many turns he had passed, and in an alley, Zilong came to a dilapidated and unseemly small earthen house.

The young man let Zilong into the house, and he stayed outside, looking nervous, always looking around, so that Zilong was also nervous, not knowing who Zilong would see after pushing the door open, and what kind of truth he would learn.

Taking a deep breath, Zilong pushed open the dilapidated wooden door, and the creaking sound of the wooden door stabbed people's ears and bones in the silent night.

The room was pitch black, no one could be seen, and no light could be seen, Zilong's heart was always tugging, and he finally stepped into the threshold.

"Coming? Feel free to sit! ”

The voice in the room, familiar to him, was the one he had heard in the morning.

But at this time, it sounded like the casualness and laxity that I had heard in the morning, and my voice was hoarse, and in this night, it sounded a little desolate and a little mad.

"Leader Ferren?"

Zilong asked tentatively, he didn't want to trust anyone casually, especially in this unfamiliar place, where hundreds of lives were in danger.

Suddenly, a spark the size of a bean slowly ignited, with a faint light, and it was difficult to even take a few steps in this broken earth house, but Zilong still couldn't see the person's appearance clearly.

However, judging from the body shape, it is indeed the fat man who is fat enough to pinch out the oil.

"Huh, Chief? Do you think I'm still like a leader? ”

Fei Lianbo's laughter was very bleak and helpless, which made Zilong's heart sour for no reason, as if he had suffered a great grievance with Fei Lianbo.

"Aren't you the leader of the Alliance? So what should I call you? Patriarch? ”

Zilong was a little confused, and he understood that Fei Lianbo had something unspeakable, and he was confused about being the head of a clan, what made him look so unbearable.

"The Ku is my sister-in-law, if you don't dislike it, you can call me Uncle Fei Lian!"

There was a hint of hope in Fei Lianbo's voice, it seemed that Zilong could call him uncle, which was a great recognition and support for him.

Zilong also heard the expectation in his voice, that kind of expectation Zilong also had, whether it was in his previous life or in this life, he had a strong expectation of being recognized, and it was not until not long ago that he had the possibility of realizing this expectation.

"Uncle Fei Lian, if you have anything unspeakable, you can tell Zilong, if Zilong can help, he will definitely go all out."

I don't know if it's out of sympathy, or if it's really empathetic, or in order to accomplish what he wants to do, Zilong not only called Uncle Fei Lianbo, but also directly stated his position - go all out to help!

However, in Fei Lianbo's next words, Zilong didn't hear much joy, but only a little laissez-faire and indifference over time.

"The alliance is no longer the alliance it used to be, and the world of Great Wei is probably no longer the world of the Tuoba clan in the near future! As for me, the leader, hehe, I'm just a puppet now! ”

Zilong was shocked when he heard this, although he knew that Fei Lianbo was definitely not a simple character, but he didn't expect that Fei Lianbo could see it so clearly, and even foresaw the fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In Fei Lianbo's next narration, Zilong hears the tragedy of a once unrivaled hero, who was gradually pinched in the palm of his hand in the midst of tribal struggles and power conflicts, and turned into a puppet who could be manipulated at will.

The tragedy of Fei Lianbo began on the day the seventh concubine was taken into the chief's mansion.

As one of the earliest Xiongnu tribes to be humiliated, the Helan clan was almost second only to the Tuoba clan in power, and it was the in-laws within the Tuoba clan for generations, which can be described as infinite.

However, with the relocation of the capital of Emperor Xiaowen, most of the Helan clan entered the Central Plains, and the talents of the Helan clan who remained in the Xianbei homeland on the grassland withered and almost became vassals of other tribes.

It wasn't until the woman I saw today, who was Helan Xiao's sister who married Fei Lianbo and was supported by the Fei Lian tribe, that she slowly regained some of her former glory.

However, Helan Xiao was very deep in the city, and he was not satisfied with being subservient to the Feilian tribe, and his sister also responded to it, so that without the assistance of the Helan tribe patriarch, he slowly mastered the financial accounts of the entire Feilian tribe.

Fei Lianbo didn't notice it at first, but he was tempted by Helan's appearance, so he was always reluctant to go against her will, so although Helan didn't get Fei Lianbo's exclusive favor, he was a top among many ladies.

Fei Lianbo did not expect that with the assistance of the Helan clan, Helan Xiao not only began to intervene in the affairs of the Fei Lian clan, but also slowly infiltrated the alliance leader's mansion.

Helan Xiao, who stretched out his black hand to the Chief's Mansion, quickly recruited a group of henchmen in an extreme period of time, and the funny thing is that this group of people who no longer obeyed Fei Lianbo turned out to be bought by Helan Xiao with the wealth of the Fei Lian clan.

Until one day, when the leaders of the tribes of the alliance proposed to encircle and suppress the bandits in Funiu Village, without Fei Lianbo, the leader of the alliance, without knowing it, Helan Xiao was able to make a decision in the name of Fei Lianbo.

At this time, Fei Lianbo really woke up, and after several attempts to stop the encirclement and suppression, Fei Lianbo sadly found that except for the patriarchs of the various tribes, even the confidential guards in the palace no longer obeyed him.

Felenbo was isolated, no, exactly, Felenbo was placed under house arrest.

Helan Xiao didn't know where he learned that Fei Lianbo was vigilant, so he simply took over all of Fei Lianbo's daily life and diet, and completely turned Fei Lianbo into a puppet.

At this time, Fei Lianbo is the meat on the chopping board, when Fei Lianbo is not in the mood, he can let him leave it there, but once Helan Xiao is moved, Fei Lianbo can only be slaughtered!

Fortunately, Fei Lianbo is also a person who can bend and stretch and disguise, since he did not have a head-on conflict with Helan Xiao, he simply pretended to be a twilight hero who was sad about the beauty pass.

Or, not like a hero at all, more like a deaf old man, that's all.

Enjoying himself every day, he no longer cares about the encirclement and suppression of Funiu Village, and even all the big and small matters in the leader's mansion are handed over to Helan Xiao, and he indulges in Helan Clan's incense pavilion all day long.

But he didn't lose his fighting spirit as a hero, he just used these depravities to make a disguise.

He was waiting for an opportunity, a chance to completely get out of control, although this chance was slim, but he was willing to wait, waiting for those tribal patriarchs to turn back.

It is a pity that he underestimated the ambition and resentment of the patriarchs of these tribes.

Ambition and resentment come from the gap between the old nobles who stayed in their hometown and the new nobles who moved the capital with their drivers, they saw too much of the extravagance and pleasure of the new nobles, and were fed up with the shabby and boredom of their hometown.

Intermittently, Fei Lianbo poured out all the secrets hidden in his heart to Zilong in one go, because Zilong brought him hope.

Hope is the Dugu tribe!

"Fortunately, the letter you brought me today made me wait for the hope that could save me from fire and water!"

The night wind poured into the broken earth, and the peas flickered slightly, and Fei Lianbo hurriedly held it with both hands, not letting it be blown out by the wind, as if he didn't want to see the hope he had just seen shattered.

The cold wind rested for a while, Fei Lianbo picked up a dead branch, picked the fire core, and the broken earth house lit up for a while, and under the hazy firelight, Zilong saw a familiar and somewhat unfamiliar face.

Familiar, because I have only seen it today, unfamiliar, because the expression on the face no longer has the laziness of the first sight, instead of the solemnity of the occasional sight when I hear about the Funiu Village, and ......

And a hint of exhaustion!

"Uncle Ferrian, what can I do for you?"

Zilong couldn't help but ask, but Fei Lianbo looked at him and didn't answer.

The dead branch became a toy in Fei Lianbo's hand, and from time to time he played with the fire core, not letting it go out, and not letting it burn too much.

"Your business, Helan Xiao should have already done it, right?"

Zilong couldn't help but be stunned, why did Fei Lianbo still care about this matter at this time?

"It's done!"

"Well, it's his style, everyone who can be used, he can take care of it properly!"

Fei Lianbo was still talking about a match, which made Zilong quite anxious, can't he just talk about the topic? How can it seem as if you are the meat on the chopping board, and you Feilian Patriarch are like a butcher's knife that is immediately swung?

Zilong said this sentence inexplicably in his heart, and then he was surprised, thinking of the good and evil value obtained by scanning Fei Lianbo today, this possibility seems to be there.

"He will still look for you, and will give you a very tempting promise, which is much more affordable than my promise, after all, his promise will be fulfilled soon, and my promise is just an ethereal promise."

Fei Lianbo's words made Zilong suddenly understand that they all regarded this as a transaction, and as a young man with no name, Zilong was definitely not qualified to negotiate a deal with others.

Then it is obvious that the object of the transaction is simply the Dugu Ku who is standing behind Zilong and is willing to write an autograph letter for Zilong, or rather, the entire Dugu tribe.

"Uncle Ferren, I don't want your promises, I just hate being cheated."

Zilong's words sounded a little abrupt, and Fei Lianbo was suddenly a little stunned, but he changed his expression to appreciation.

"Don't worry, no one can fool you, because you're an outsider, aren't you?"

Hehe, outsiders, outsiders have now become the object of competition among insiders, besides, often outsiders are the ones who are most deceived, and bystanders are clear, and what is the score.

"Uncle Fei Lian, just say, how can Zilong help you?"

Fei Lianbo stared at Zilong for a long time, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, which made Zilong's heart tremble!

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