Didn't this guard know that Niu Weibang was punishing his subordinates?

At this time, he rushed in to report that someone had come to him, apparently deliberately at the risk of daring.

If he hadn't taken someone else's favor, he would have done it?

If you have the courage to reach out, you must be mentally prepared to accept the wrath and punishment.

Wu Peng has seen a lot of such people, and he doesn't bother to care.

It is estimated that Niu Weibang will not order the killing, but it is certain that he will be severely punished.

There's no point in staying here anymore.

The skinning executioner had already entered the main hall, and he was looking down at Liangdong who was slumped on the ground with a short knife in his hand.

Wu Peng turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard the guard say nervously: "King Qiqi, the leader of the Panshi Village, Tianhao, he ...... He claimed that there were a large number of prisoners of war from the Mengxiang village of the Lu tribe to be presented to the king. ”

"What?"

The national teacher's body stiffened and turned around suddenly.

The anger on his face froze on the face of the Thunder Bull King, turning into a frozen consternation.

"Tianhao, the leader of Panshi Village, claimed that there were a large number of prisoners of war from Mengxiang Village to be presented to the king." The guard repeated what he had said in a loud voice.

"Let him in." Wu Peng directly crossed Niu Weibang and gave the order.

……

When he walked into the main hall, Tianhao smelled the smell of blood in the air.

Liangdong was pressed to the ground by two men who were terrifyingly strong. His left arm was pulled apart alone, and the executioner was skilled and skilled in handling the short knife, the tip of the knife did not penetrate the muscles deeply, the cut section was not large, a semicircle was drawn at the edge of the identity brand, and the thumb and forefinger lifted the skin of the valgus, just like the common practice of butchers in vegetable market stalls in civilized times, and the sharp knife constantly moved between the skin and the fat, easily separating it.

The cut piece of human skin was twenty centimeters long, and there were four imprints arranged on it. From bottom to top, they are the heads of ten, the hundred, the five hundred, and the thousands.

Liang Dong kept screaming throughout the whole process, not so much in pain, but in fear and unwillingness. The executioner was ordered to peel the skin, and he untied a small leather pouch from his waist, took out a handful of plant ash from it, and sprinkled it on the surface of the wound, which quickly stopped the bleeding.

When he knelt down on one knee facing the steps of the throne, Tianhao suddenly remembered the model play of the civilized era. I don't know why, but it feels like a mountain eagle's lair, eerie, bloody, full of death and savagery.

"The Heavenly King covers the tiger, and the river demon of Pagoda Town." This sentence can only be recited silently in the heart, and it must not be spoken.

Niu Weibang, the patriarch of the Lei Niu tribe, sat on the throne, staring at Tianhao condescendingly, his gaze uncertain: "The little leader of Panshi Village...... Say, what have you brought me? ”

Tianhao took out a small animal skin from the inner pocket of his leather robe, held it in both hands, and respectfully raised it above his head: "I caught some deer people by luck in Xia, and I specially dedicated it to the king." ”

The guards took the animal skin from Tianhao and handed it to Niu Weibang. The latter took it and glanced at it, his pupils suddenly narrowed, and he couldn't help but show a shocked expression.

"Nineteen hundred and thirty, so many?" Although Niu Weibang was already mentally prepared when the guards reported before, he was still taken aback when he really saw the numbers marked with charcoal on the animal skin.

Tian Hao maintained the indispensable respect of his subordinates: "We captured one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five at that time, and as a deterrent, killed five. ”

"Are they all from the deer clan of Mengxiang Village?" Niu Weibang blurted out.

Tianhao nodded calmly: "Yes." ”

From beginning to end, his gaze did not drift at all, and his gaze was always locked on Niu Weibang, as if the old man Wu Peng sitting on the side of the throne was a statue.

Suddenly, there was a visibly irrational scream behind him.

"It's you, it's you who stole my booty!"

"It's you, damn Rock Village, Lao Tzu led people to bleed desperately in front. It's good for you to arrest all the deer people who escaped from Mengxiang Village, and now run to the king and the national teacher to ask for merit and reward. You...... You damn bastard! ”

"I'm going to kill you!"

Liang Dong raised his head from the ground desperately, and his strength was so great that even the guards holding him on both sides couldn't hold it down. He swept away the previous gloom and despair, his eyes burned with furious flames, his feet kicked back and forth, and he tried to struggle to stand up several times, as if the wound on his arm would not hurt at all, and his face was full of hideous desire to pounce on Tianhao and fight hard.

Tianhao subconsciously turned around and glanced at Liangdong, whose eyes were bloodshot, and immediately turned around, looking at Wu Peng, who was sitting next to Niu Weibang on the steps, with a look of admiration and shock, and said in a lost voice: "National teacher? ”

He disguised it just right. This is a time when extremely natural emotional outpouring is required. Although Tianhao already knew about Wu Peng's existence before entering the main hall, he felt that such a performance was the most realistic.

The old man in the fur fur looked indifferent, he took the animal skin from Niu Weibang's hand, looked at it very seriously for nearly half a minute, raised his head, and his eyes were full of majesty and calmness.

"Tianhao, the leader of the Rock Village and a sorcerer, visited the National Teacher." Tianhao immediately shifted the direction of kneeling, and while assuming his identity, he deliberately added the word "witch walker".

This statement immediately aroused Wu Peng's interest. His serious expression softened slightly: "You are also a wizard? The priest in the stockade? Who are your teachers? ”

"He has not yet been officially promoted to priesthood." Tianhao carefully observed the changes on Wu Peng's face, and replied cautiously: "Wu Xing, the priest of Panshi Village, he is my teacher. ”

"Witch walk?" When he heard this name, the corners of Wu Peng's eyes twitched slightly, and when he looked at Tianhao again, his gaze became a little complicated.

Behind him, Liangdong was still scolding unwillingly.

"Thief! Thief, you shameless dog mongrel. ”

"Give me back what belongs to me!"

"National teacher, king, it was he who robbed me of my credit, and it was he who robbed the deer people of Mengxiang Village!"

The shrill voice disturbed Wu Peng, who was thinking. He frowned, raised his left hand, and gestured to the guard standing next to him: "Go, gag his mouth." Before things are clear, there needs to be a quiet enough audience, not crows barking wildly. ”

A thick piece of wood was stuffed into Liangdong's mouth, and the guards used a very strong rope to go directly through Liangdong's lips, pulling it tight behind his head and tying a slipknot. The wooden block unceremoniously takes up almost all the space in the mouth, and the tongue is squeezed rigidly in the corner. Liang Dong felt that he was about to suffocate, he tried to widen his eyes, and let out a painful "whine" sound from his mouth and nose, but no one paid attention to him, the burly and strong guard still pressed his shoulders from behind, he pressed against the ground, his cheeks twisted and deformed under the force of irresistible force.

Wu Peng calmly looked at Tianhao, who was kneeling at the bottom of the steps: "Say, what's going on?" ”

It is extremely unwise to lie at such a time. Tianhao did not hide it at all, he started from the transaction with Haoping, the manager of Qinglongzhai, and told the whole story of the process.

I said it for nearly half an hour in one breath.

"So, it was the people from Qinglong Village who leaked the news themselves?" Niu Weibang felt a little incredible, and anger surged into his heart. He raised his head, his gaze crossed Tianhao, and fell directly on the face of Liangdong, who couldn't make a sound, picked up his fist, and slammed it into his leg, furious: "How did this king explain to you?" Strictly keep secrets and do not disclose half a cent to the outside world...... Well, very good...... So that's how you did things for this king? ”

The national teacher Wu Peng did not dwell on this issue, he measured his body in good spirits, and looked at the captain of the guard who was standing on the side of the main hall and was punished with Liangdong before: "Haoping, the head of the hundred people, is there such a person in Qinglong Village?" ”

Gangdian endured the hot pain on his back, walked quickly to the front of the bottom of the steps, and knelt side by side with Tianhao: "Yuguo Shi, Haoping is indeed the head of the hundred people in Qinglongzhai, and he has always been in charge of foreign transactions. The time that the leader of Tianhao said was not wrong, I remember that Haoping did sell more than 400 old and young people in the village at that time and brought back a large amount of grain. ”

Niu Weibang's anger showed no sign of subsiding, and he let out a thunderous roar: "A mere head of a hundred people dares to leak secrets, such a person should be killed!" ”

Gangdian hesitated for a moment, glanced at Tianhao slightly, and he quickly turned his gaze: "King Qiqi, I know this person Haoping." He...... He was cautious and cautious, not like a casual talker. ”

He still has resentment in his heart. No matter who is robbed of the credit, they will feel that this breath can't go down. On this issue, Gangdian stood on Liangdong's side, subconsciously treating Tianhao as an enemy.

"It's not Brother Haoping's fault." Tianhao was not surprised, and replied reasonably: "It is a guest from afar, not to mention that there are transactions between Qinglong Village and Panshi Village almost every year. As a leader, I'm sure I'm going to have a banquet. Brother Haoping was drunk that day, and he was also unintentional. ”

"Drunk?" Lei Niu Patriarch Niu Weibang was surprised.

The slightly softened face of the national teacher Wu Peng tightened again, the dense wrinkles became as hard as a knife, and his tone became cold again: "It's cold, many villages are short of food, and you still have wine to drink in Panshi Village?" ”

"It's wine made from apples." Tianhao was not afraid, and the majesty of the two big men on the steps did not affect him in any way: "There is a fruit grove in the north of Panshi Village, and we pick the ripe apples, half of them are made into wine, and half of them are dried apples. ”

He was clever and didn't let the topic touch on the sensitive word "food" in the slightest.

National Master Wu Peng's thinking was cautious, and his eyes flashed with a shrewd gaze: "Leave aside the matter of Haoping's leakage for the time being. Since you knew that you were going to use troops against the Deer people at that time, why didn't you just go to Qinglong Village to explain the situation? ”

Tianhao was silent for a few seconds, and slowly replied: "I don't dare." ”

"Why?" Wu Peng stared at him with perceptive eyes.

"It's going to implicate a lot of people, including myself." Tianhao's answer was very much in line with his identity.

"Humph!" Wu Peng sneered sarcastically, he narrowed his eyes, and the countless wrinkles on his old face squeezed towards that position again: "You secretly avoided Qinglong Village and acted alone, didn't you think that you would get the same result?" ”

"I didn't think about taking credit." A trace of resoluteness and stubbornness appeared on Tianhao's young face: "I just sent someone to sneak into the mountain behind Mengxiang Village and observe the situation from a long distance. The scouts I arranged were changed every three days, and for more than a month, the Qinglong Village side did not move, but my people found that Mengxiang Village had opened a new door on the north wall. ”

Wu Peng's question was still cold: "Why are they doing this?" ”

"I didn't understand it at the time. But I think things have definitely changed. Tianhao replied calmly: "After the scout brought back the news, I sent people to Qinglong Village overnight, but thinking that this was not very stable, I took the hunting team in the village and immediately set off towards Mengxiang Village." ”

He did send a cronie to Qinglong Village, but the timing was just right, Liangdong and Gangdian led the team to leave for half a day, and the talents from Panshi Village appeared slowly.

"Since you and Liangdong arrived at Mengxiang Village at about the same time, why don't you take your people to the battle, but hide in the back mountain and watch?" Niu Weibang's question is even more acute.

"At that time, the situation was very urgent, and the brigade of Qinglongzhai had already launched an attack on the main gate of Mengxiangzhai. I wanted to send someone to contact the leader of Liangdong, but it takes a lot of time to come and go, and it is estimated that by the time the news comes back, the leader of Liangdong has already finished fighting. Tianhao skillfully flattered without leaving a trace: "The king's army is really the elite of a hundred battles, and the deer people can't resist it at all." Not long after the battle began, most of the Deer people opened the northern gate and escaped. ”

Wu Peng's eyes were deep, and he let out a sarcastic sneer: "So...... You just picked up a bargain? ”

At this moment, Tianhao calmed down. He quickly went through the previous response plan in his mind, making sure that there were no flaws left out. After a full five seconds, he made a clear voice again.

"Actually, after learning the news from Brother Haoping that the king is going to do something to Mengxiangzhai, I have been thinking: Why did the king do this?"

"Mengxiang Village is a large village of the deer tribe, with a population of more than 3,000. The king's army was broken into pieces and quietly entered Qinglong Village to assemble, just to not attract the attention of the deer people and fight a quick battle. It is on this basis that I estimate that the army sent by the king should be about 5,000 men. ”

The coldness on Wu Peng's face eased slightly. He let out a long, deep breath: "Go on." ”

"The deer clan is a big clan, and it is obviously not the king's intention to cause a war. So a new question arises———— why is Mengxiangzhai the target? ”

Speaking is an art, and a subdued tone of voice intrigues the listener more than a bland dialogue: "An army of up to five thousand men is not a small number, and consumes a great deal of food every day. Even if the deer people of Mengxiang Village stand there and do nothing, let us break through the village, the food and cloth they get from their warehouses will be at most equal to the cost of this expedition. We don't get anything good at all. ”

"Our cattle tribe's specialty is forging weapons, and the deer tribe is weaving. So I boldly speculate: the king's purpose should be people, those deer people who can weave cloth in Mengxiang Village. ”