Chapter 11: The Lamb to the Slaughter
Finally stayed up until the lunch break, Gu Yao nibbled on half a steamed bun at will, and asked Zhang Sheng to take her to find a rabbit. Zhang Sheng admitted that he couldn't catch any of them, so he found another veteran, a young man with fast legs, plus Gu Yao, a total of four people, and went to fight rabbits.
The veteran saw that Gu Yao was very inattentive and always looked around, so he asked, "What is the girl looking for?" β
"Mushrooms, fungus."
As soon as her words fell, the other three couldn't help laughing, Zhang Sheng was more reserved, and after laughing, he explained to Gu Yao: "Those are only available after the rain in summer." Now the trees are dry, where are the mushrooms? β
I didn't know such a simple common sense, Gu Yao's "old" face turned red, and he suddenly stepped on a lotus, and walked extremely focused.
There were six rabbits in the litter, two large and four small, Gu Yao was overjoyed when he saw it, and turned around and Zhang Sheng caught them "unharmed", so that he could take them back and raise them.
It's not difficult to beat rabbits, but it's not easy to catch them alive. Zhang Sheng grabbed the male rabbit for half an hour and accidentally injured the male rabbit's leg, so he caught all six rabbits.
When he returned, only the young general Xu San was left in the camp.
Xu San had a joy on his face that he couldn't hide, and he said: "Li Liang has found a herd of twenty or thirty wild boars, and the general is slipping away, so he asked me to go down the mountain to find some pig baskets, and send the girl down the mountain first." β
The scene of twenty or thirty pigs being slaughtered was too cruel, Gu Yao held the rabbit and followed a few people down the mountain.
Cai Linzi has 38 families, all surnamed Cai, and is housed by the patriarch. Thirty-eight small courtyards are gathered, the village is surrounded by the outside, and the general's mansion of the whole village is almost the same.
Xu San rented thirty pig baskets for two stones of wheat, plus took Gu Yao in for two hours. Xu San wanted to take Zhang Sheng away, but Gu Yao disagreed. There are four people in the group, she only knows Zhang Sheng, how can he leave?
Xu San is a general banner, if someone else says "no", he can slap him. But the little bean in front of him was the granddaughter of the servant, Xu San endured it, pointed at Zhang Sheng and said, "You say it yourself." β
Zhang Sheng thought that Gu Yao was good to his younger brother, so he chose to leave his boss behind, stay with Gu Yao, and ask Xu Sanhao to scold.
Cai Laohan's little daughter is fourteen years old this year, the same age as flowers, looking at the handsome, but different masculine Zhang Sheng, smiling very sweetly.
Zhang Sheng smiled warmly, and the girl blushed, turned around, and ran back to the room.
About a moment later, Cai Erni was ashamed enough, so she went out and led Gu Yao to play in the courtyard. Zhang Sheng saw that Gu Yao was accompanied, rolled up his sleeves, didn't use a ladder, stepped on the wall and climbed to the roof lightly, and repaired the roof with Cai Dalang.
At this time, Zhang Sheng not only got the blue eyes of the little girl, but also entered the old eyes of Mrs. Cai.
Mrs. Cai asked Gu Yao: "Do you have any sisters next to you?" β
"Yes, I'm five, and there are four sisters above."
Mrs. Cai was so energetic that she was about to ask, but she was taken away by Cai Laohan, only to hear Cai Laohan say: "Stupid mother-in-law! Open your mouth and two stones of grain, can you still enter the Lingshan hunting family, can you use it to exchange relatives? β
When Gu Yao pondered what it meant to change relatives, Cai Erni said, "Is your family very rich?" β
Although his grandfather is very picky, it is true that the Gu family is not poor, at least they are richer than Cai Linzi's people, Gu Yao bowed his head.
Cai Erni asked again: "How rich is it?" β
"My house in Fengcheng is as big as your village."
How rich do you have to be to have such a big house in Fengcheng? After Cai Erni was surprised, she looked at Gu Yao's gray linen clothes suspiciously, and said, "Children who lie will be taken away by big insects!" So rich, why don't your clothes look good as I am? β
Gu Yao could only hehe.
Old man Gu was afraid that she would damage her silk clothes, so he asked her to put on old linen clothes on the grounds that "wealth is not exposed". Gu Yao would not lift his clothes to show others in order to prove that he was rich.
Cai Laohan lives mud and adds grass; Cai Dalang has a lot of strength, dragging bucket by bucket; Zhang Sheng's body was as light as a swallow, and the mud was used very well, and the three of them repaired the roof in a short time.
Zhang Sheng was about to jump off the roof, and saw a team of people coming at a high speed from a distance, and after a closer look, it seemed that he was dressed as a Mongolian person, and he was busy calling Cai Laohan to come up to the wall to see.
Cai Laohan slid off the roof and beckoned to his son: "Someone has invaded." β
Cai Dalang skillfully pulled out a broken gong from the corner of the wall and struck it; Cai Laohan came down and told the daughter of the Hun family to go into the cellar and prepare a machete herself.
Before long, the whole village resounded with the sound of a broken gong.
Gu Yao asked Zhang Sheng: "What's wrong?" β
Zhang Sheng's face was as heavy as ink, he didn't answer, and after asking Cai Erni to take care of Gu Yao, he took out his saber and went out of the courtyard with Cai Da.
Listening to the sound of swords outside, in the cellar where it was pitch black and could not make a sound, Gu Yao's heart beat like thunder. Time seemed to stand still, as if a century had passed, Gu Yao heard a sound of footsteps, and Cai Erni immediately covered her mouth tightly.
Of course, the people outside were originally coming for the cellar.
The next moment, Gu Yao and the others saw the light, and they also saw a bearded Mengren. After the man drove Gu Yao and the others up, he swept the empty cellar, and his companion grunted for a while with a disappointed expression, and finally his eyes fell on the three of them.
One old and one young, one Fanghua, the man carried Cai Erni into the inner room. Cai Pozi guessed what he was going to do, and pounced on it. The man didn't look back, and with a sideways kick, Mrs. Cai hit the wall and fainted.
Hearing Cai Erni's cry, Gu Yao's nails were buckled into the flesh.
"Wait!"
didn't hold back, Gu Yao opened his mouth and asked the man in Jinling Zhengguan's words: "Can you speak Chinese?" β
The man turned around and replied in stiff Chinese, "I understand, I can say a few words." β
Gu Yao said: "You rob the village, as winter food." You let the people of the village go, and I asked my grandfather to give you a hundred stone of grain! The Gu family is a scholarly family, and the most important thing is to make a promise. β
The man laughed cheaply and said two words, although it was not clear, Gu Yao knew that he said the word "naΓ―ve". No matter what he says, it's good to be effective. Look, that person has left Cai Erni and come to arrest himself.
While running, Gu Yao said to Cai Erni: "Run!" β
She didn't run slowly, the man ran faster, but after a few breaths, Gu Yao was caught. The man carried her with one hand, ripped off the rope for drying clothes with the other, and quickly tied Gu Yao to the tree. Cai Erni didn't react until this time, and hurriedly ran to the door, only running ten steps away, and was caught again.
Suddenly, Cai Erni's miserable scream in his ears, Gu Yao closed his eyes, and hot tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes, which instantly condensed. Hearing the sound of footsteps, Gu Yao raised his eyes and saw Zhang Sheng. Zhang Shenglu smiled, but after hearing the movement in the room, his color changed, changed his route, and broke into the house.
Seeing that Cai Erni had been humiliated, Zhang Sheng slashed at Mengren with red eyes.
Mengren was not yet interesting, so he stabbed him again, and he was immediately angry, and as soon as his index finger and thumb touched his mouth, a loud whistle sounded, and two more people came to the Cai family's courtyard. Two fists are hard to beat six hands, one knife is not as good as three knives, Zhang Sheng endured the slow motion of Ling Chi. Not long after, the linen-colored dark clothes on Zhang Sheng's body, and the rendering of menstrual blood, have become ink-colored.
Gu Yao begged bitterly: "Brother Zhang, please, you go!" β
At this time, Zhang Sheng, who had lost too much blood, stumbled and insulted Cai Erni, taking the opportunity to cut off his right arm.
Losing his right arm is losing his weapon, Zhang Sheng didn't care about the pain, and hurriedly grabbed the knife with his left hand, but fainted directly to the ground and became a lamb to be slaughtered. The scimitar fell and landed on Zhang Sheng's ear, and Gu Yao fainted.