Chapter 169: Drawing Swords Against Each Other

Wan Niang really did it.

According to what Li Jicai said.

Zhao Wuxian went down the mountain during the day and came back in the evening.

Every day when she comes back, the late lady will prepare bath water in advance, a large bucket of hot water, to wash away the fatigue of the body.

After waiting for him to take a bath, Zhao Wuxian returned to his room to eat.

The late lady brought him a large plate of braised beef, a few plates of side dishes, a plate of steamed buns, and a pot of wine.

It's just that today she didn't take sake, but spirits.

Her explanation for this is: "The village has been cleaning up recently, and this wine has been skewered without paying attention, and I don't know how this altar is, if it doesn't taste good, I'll go and change another altar." ”

Zhao Wuxian is indeed a little tired, he is also used to getting along with his late mother, and they are plain with each other, living like an old husband and wife.

He waved his hand, saying that there was no need to bother, just drink, he was indeed tired, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

Just when Zhao Wuheng stuffed half of the steamed bun into his mouth, he suddenly remembered something.

"Pack up? How do you pack up what to pack up properly? "Zhao Wuheng's suspicion is relatively serious, and when he thinks about it afterwards, he feels a little strange.

His eyes stared at Wanniang carefully, although Wanniang's heart trembled, but her face still showed appropriate confusion and strangeness.

"Don't you know? I thought the owner of the village should have told you. ”

"What did you say?"

"Recently, the village has been cleaning up during the day, saying that it will be moved to the cave in order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers. So we were busy packing during the day. Saying that, Wanniang also took a look at her luggage by the way.

Zhao Wuxian's eyes followed Wan Niang's eyes, and found that the room was indeed much cleaner, and several boxes appeared.

"There are some things that we can't take with us, so I'm going to find a place to bury them, and then mark them, and when we come back, we will dig them up again."

"Who told you we're moving?" Zhao Wuxian interrupted impatiently, and the late mother was ready to continue to say a few words.

"This ...... I don't know about this, but it is privately rumored that the hall master is now defending against foreign enemies in the front, and then we will retreat first with the owner of the village. ”

It should be said so, there is nothing wrong, the measured Wan Niang felt that she also had just the right hand, and she didn't say a word more, she didn't say a word less.

Zhao Wuxian clearly heard the problem here, what did it mean? Could it be that he and more than a hundred brothers were in front of the officers and soldiers, and then covered their retreat?

He Xiao Qiang is greedy for life and afraid of death, but he Zhao Wuxian is not afraid of death, why should he throw him in front and block them as a target.

We are all brothers, blessed and shared in hardships, but is not he turning his back on his brother by doing so?

During the day, they fought back those officers and soldiers with difficulty, but he was able to show off his might and fortune in the stockade all day long, why?

Zhao Wuxian drank a large bowl of wine, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and evil was born to the side of his guts.

This Xiao Qiang didn't even tell him such important news, even if he wasn't in the village during the day, he actually cleaned up secretly, and when he came back at night, it was dark, and he couldn't see anything clearly, and he Zhao Wuxian didn't notice anything wrong.

If it hadn't been for the late mother telling him, would he still have been kept in the dark, and when they all ran away, he would have returned to the stockade to find that it was an empty stockade, was that the case? Treat him like a monkey?

This Xiao Qiang is inevitably going too far, right?

Wan Niang seemed to think that she had said something wrong, and then said with a twist.

"Hall master, I heard that they said that you were going to stay in the stockade, but the owner of the village said that everyone should retreat to the cave, this is ...... Wanniang didn't know whether to withdraw or not, but everything was packed up. ”

Obviously, Zhao Wuxian was not included in this all.

Zhao Wuxian was ruled out.

This made Zhao Wuxian very dissatisfied, and he slapped his big hand towards the table. "Bang" sounded, so frightened that he took several steps back in his old age, and didn't dare to squeak anymore.

Zhao Wuxian was angry, took the beef over and nibbled on two bites, and then drank a few large bowls of wine.

It was a long time before he gasped and stood up from the table.

He hadn't thought about whether to go to Xiao Qiang at night, so he paced back and forth in the house, pacing for a long time, and the late mother stood next to her without saying a word, and she didn't dare to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

When the wine was hot, Zhao Wuxian's wine strength finally came up, and he walked to his bedside angrily, and then lifted the bedcloth.

Lying on the bed board was a bright knife.

Wanniang was taken aback when she saw this scene, she didn't expect that Zhao Wuxian had hidden a knife under the bed.

How afraid is this man of assassination?

If he did something to offend him, it was estimated that he would be killed by Zhao Wuxian on the spot.

The late lady was dripping with cold sweat, and her back was wet unconsciously.

"Don't move here, I'll go find him." Zhao Wuxian thought to himself that if he didn't crusade against Na Xiao Qiang today, how could he have face in front of his brothers and in front of his late mother.

Recently, he has obviously said that he doesn't know much about their packing and relocation, indicating that Xiao Qiang is hiding it from him, in that case, shouldn't he ask for an explanation for himself?

After Zhao Wuxian made up his mind, he pinned the knife to the waistband of his trousers, and then rushed straight out the door.

Wanniang was so frightened that she stood in place for a long time and didn't react, after all, when the big white sword appeared in front of her, she was still very afraid.

For the bloody scene is that everyone is afraid.

Of course, Zhao Wuxian asked her to stand here and not move, she would not listen to him, she would go and tell Li Jicai that the things that Li Jicai asked her to do had already been done.

But in order to prevent Zhao Wuxian from squatting her outside, the late mother slowly moved and sat on the edge of the bed, and after doing it for a long time, she didn't find that Zhao Wuxian was squatting outside to guard her, thinking that he really went to find Xiao Qiang.

It just so happened that the cups, plates and dishes on the table were not cleaned up, and the late lady sat for a while and then stood up again, and then went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the kitchen happened to be next to the room where Li Jicai was.

There are no candles in the village at night, and even if they do, they will only light them for a short time, not for a long time.

Bright light alternates, dim and unclear.

The guards will only be watching from their own field of vision.

No one paid attention to which utility room they entered, whether they entered the kitchen or the firewood room.

What's more, Wanniang is holding a plate in her hand, and those who don't know the inside story will think that Wanniang is carrying a plate to deliver food to Li Jicai.

After all, it was the late mother who took care of Li Jicai for the past two days, and the two women couldn't stop talking.

When the mother walked out of the room with a pounding heart that night, she also felt extremely nervous, and her muscles were tangled together, as if she had done something shady.

The moment she stepped out of the threshold, she subconsciously glanced left and right, especially afraid of Zhao Wuxian, who secretly looked at her in the corner or something.

If it had been two years ago, Zhao Wuxian might have really done this.

Because he was extremely suspicious of Wanniang at that time, but after so many years, his relationship with Wanniang stabilized, and as his pillow person, he never showed any abnormal situation, took care of him, stayed in the room honestly, and did what a woman should do.

Zhao Wuxian gradually lowered his vigilance against her slightly, and the reason why she didn't squat outside to guard Wanniang today, guessing whether she was instructed by someone, or chose to go directly to Xiao Qiang, because his holiday with Xiao Qiang was far better than his suspicion of Wanniang.

It's so hateful, the brothers are bleeding and working hard outside, but he wants to run away and shrink back, so cowardly or not a man?

Zhao Wuxian thought that he had always been very brave, and he had the momentum of being a man and leading his brothers to fight with those officers and soldiers.

He thought he was a righteous man defending his territory from violation, but he didn't expect his brother to stab him in the back.

actually did something to betray himself, and actually did something about a turtle with a shrunken head, how could he bear it?

What's the point of planning to leave them behind and let him lead his brothers to guard this empty stockade alone?

The most infuriating thing is that this matter was decided without his consent.

No one told him about it.

Is it because he wasn't there during the day? But there is a lot of time in the evening, so why don't you come to him in the evening?

To be honest, Xiao Qiang herself had actually considered going to Zhao Wuxian to talk about this matter, but she didn't have to think about it to know that Zhao Wuxian definitely refused to do this, so since she already knew it, why bother persuading her?

The last time we quarreled, everyone had basically torn their faces, and the bridge returned to the bridge and went their own way. So now, as the owner of this village, Xiao Qiang has the right to decide the life and death of his brothers and the people who are born.

If they are willing, they will retreat to the cave in the mountain with them, and if they are unwilling, then they will follow Zhao Wuxian to die, anyway, those officers and soldiers will attack sooner or later.

Xiao Qiang himself also figured it out, so he didn't tell Zhao Wuxian, originally he thought that this matter was a trivial matter, and there was no need to discuss it with Zhao Wuxian, someone told Zhao Wen to tell it, anyway, it was not a big deal.

But what Xiao Qiang didn't expect was that from the day they started to clean up, to the time when they were about to finish cleaning up, no one took the initiative to tell Zhao Wuxian.

Because no one wants to cause disputes between the owner of the village and the owner of the hall, the taste of survival in the cracks is not pleasant.

Once they are asked to take sides, they will all be implicated, so if this is the case, it is better to protect themselves and not participate in anything.

I don't know when it began, the hearts of the people in this village have begun to slowly disperse.

At the beginning, when Xiao Qiang was in charge of the ten hall masters, everyone was very united and united to negotiate and cooperate with various things, including killing people and stealing goods, including robbing homes and houses, and so on.

As robbers, they have to praise them for really doing what robbers should be.

Therefore, such mountain bandits will attract the attention of the imperial court and the idea of eradicating them.

In other words, they have become the climate.

However, once there are different voices and different ideas, a team, a group of people begins to have disagreements and disputes.

Power will also begin to become something that everyone is chasing, after all, in the entire village, only Zhao Wuxian owns and owns the beautiful woman of Wanniang alone.

Not even the owner of the village.

Gradually, the prestige of the hall master Zhao Wuxian began to overpower Xiao Qiang, the owner of the village, in the village, but Xiao Qiang, who had always adhered to the idea of harmony, did not mind this.

I thought that everyone was a brother, there was no need to care about these things, and Zhao Wuzhen was a fierce and powerful brother to the outside, so Xiao Qiang also felt that letting him be the face of the village even ensured his safety to a certain extent, and there was nothing wrong with him honestly doing it behind the scenes.

After all, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.

It's a pity that Zhao Wuxian can't understand this, he only knows that what Xiao Qiang did was very inauthentic, and even offended him.

"Xiao Qiang! What the hell do you mean! "There are two people guarding Xiao Qiang's door, but the person who saw the two people in the handle today was the hall master Zhao Wuxian.

It's not good to stop him, let him get out of the way, but he didn't expect Zhao Wuxian to go in angrily and walked to Xiao Qiang's tea table, and then pulled out a big knife directly behind his waist and slashed it on the table with a click.

This intimidating move made Xiao Qiang, who was still sleeping very peacefully on the bed, sit up directly in shock.

He had already rested, but he didn't expect Zhao Wuxian to come out of nowhere.

"Zhao Wuxian, what are you doing here? It's against you, big night, what's crazy? Xiao Qiang also yelled impatiently, after all, anyone who was woken up from a sweet sleep would feel very angry and impatient.

Zhao Wuxian smiled fiercely in the dark, looking like a demon in hell.

I only heard him say coldly: "Xiao Qiang, let me ask you, have you been packing your luggage for the past two days and planning to escape back to the cave." ”

This cave was secretly located in advance on the mountain higher and farther away than the stockade, and it was prepared in advance by the brothers, just in case of any unforeseen emergency.

But is the current situation urgent?

Did the officers and soldiers encircle and suppress it?

I don't want to resist, I just know how to retreat, what is it?

How long have they dominated the mountain?

As for being afraid of them?

After hearing Zhao Wuxian say this, Xiao Qiang immediately understood, it turned out that he didn't know the news that they were going to escape until now.

"Yes and what? You want to die, I don't want to die! Xiao Qiang retorted without hesitation, he forgot that the big knife that was slashed on his table at this moment was something that Zhao Wuxian had used to threaten him.

"Heh, I have always led my brothers to work hard outside, and you, I only know that I am a shrinking turtle in the village, and I don't do anything, and now that something is wrong, I want to run as soon as possible, and find someone to stand in front, so good calculation! What a good calculation! "Zhao Wuxian was about to be mad by Xiao Qiang.