Chapter 29: The Bizarre Bet in History
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The pine forest was full of soldiers barbecuing around torches, and some soldiers carried iron pots to fulfill everyone's needs, and cooked some tasteless wild vegetable soup.
Zheng Qian and Hua Mulan formed a circle with three or five acquaintances of the original recruits, and in the middle was a small fire with stones. Zheng Qian handed a grilled fish to Mulan, and told Mulan to be careful of scalding, in fact, when you really eat this kind of food, it is not as delicious as it is in the costume drama on TV, after all, there is no seasoning.
It was supposed to be a peaceful night, but some unwilling people had to do something, when Zheng Qian and Hua Mulan were chatting about the Big Dipper, not far away Li Xiang suddenly shouted, there were a few Li Xiang's doglegs around Li Xiang who were still coaxing, although Li Xiang's current status is like sunset, but the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, these people probably think that Li Xiang is orthodox anyway.
"Zheng Qian, it's good that we all trust you so much, but look at what you've done?" Because they had to gather around for a barbecue, Zheng Qian and Hua Mulan left the original resting position, and the original position had a pair of quilts given by a soldier, as well as Zheng Qian and Mulan's weapons, and now there are three more letters. And Li Xiang was pointing to these three letters and questioned Zheng Qian in front of a group of soldiers: "This is a letter written by a general of Rouran to a traitor within my Li family's army, and there is also the seal of the general Rouran, which can be said to be true, but now it appears hidden in your position, and you dare to say that you are not a traitor!" ”
"You didn't hide it, did you?" Zheng Qian taunted Li Xiang lukewarmly, in Zheng Qian's opinion, the obvious framing was not vulnerable at all.
"Of course it's not me, I've been on the same fire with everyone since I finished picking mushrooms, and besides, you've sat here before, and I told you not to want to put the blame on me, if you're a man, don't drag the mud and water and admit it happily!"
"If I'm a traitor, why am I still running out of the fire with everyone, and if I don't do anything, wouldn't it be more in line with my status as a traitor?"
"There is no excuse for the sin that you want to add!" Hua Mulan looked at Li Xiang fiercely, how could Zheng Qian be a traitor if she had been with her all the time, and besides, she believed in Zheng Qian.
"You also know that Rouran's final goal is to attack the capital, and you just want to bring everyone back to the capital to join the army, right, when the time comes, everything you do will naturally make Your Majesty trust you, and Bao Buqi will invite you into the palace to set up a banquet in person, and you, a traitor, will hold Your Majesty and Rouran's general Shan Yu in the hall hostage! Hello a clever move, if I didn't happen to see that I was suspicious of you, how could I exist in the Northern Wei Dynasty? Li Xiang gritted his teeth and pointed at Zheng Qian's nose, and his words were impassioned, and he looked jealous and hateful towards Zheng Qian.
"If I were a traitor, why didn't I take this letter with me, or simply set it on fire, and instead threw it here to increase the chances of danger?"
"That's because you might have dropped the letter when you got up, or you thought you were so popular in this army that you didn't have to do anything and no one was going to rummage through your bags, but you didn't expect it to leak it! If you want to prove that you are not a traitor, you better show proof, otherwise everything will be empty words! ”
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The soldiers did not fully believe Li Xiang, firstly, they only believed what they saw, Zheng Qian was indeed the hero who led them out of the fire, and secondly, there were too many doubts in the position of Zheng Qian in this letter, which was not entirely credible.
At this time, after a period of silence, Zheng Qian spoke again: "You want evidence, I can give you the evidence, I can also give you the witnesses, I can even find out the person who framed me in front of more than a thousand soldiers, but I can't be framed in vain!" ”
"And what do you want?" Li Xiang listened to Zheng Qian's words and felt a little weak, after all, although the letter was not hidden by him, he asked a dog leg of his own to hide it, and he did not guarantee that the dog leg would not betray him. And he couldn't guarantee that the dogleg wouldn't be seen when he hid the letter, after all, there were so many people here, although everyone was barbecuing at night, and Zheng Qian's position was at the top of the hillside, but there were one or two people who drank too much soup and happened to come to release the water.
"Li Xiang, I want you to make a bet with me, a bet between our pure masters!" Zheng Qian looked at Li Xiang extremely seriously: "There are two bets you can choose by yourself, the first bet is to gamble on your life, if I have no evidence to prove that I was wronged, or there is no reason to convince everyone, then good, I don't have to do it, I took a sword and cut my throat by myself, but on the other hand, if I can prove that I was framed, I can give you a convincing reason, then you have to be the same as me, take a sword and cut your throat, of course, seppuku is also fine, whatever you like!" ”
"Zheng Qian, why should I play such a boring gambling ...... with you?"
"Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet, the second bet is also a gamble, if I don't have evidence, or don't have a proper reason to prove myself, then even if I lose, I will break myself like the last bet, but if it is the other way around, I have evidence to prove myself, or I have a proper reason, then even if you lose, and you can do nothing, you don't have to pay anything, there are no conditions at all!"
"Completely unconditional......
"That's right, one or two, one sentence and one word, the choice of Ma slip!"
Li Xiang's brain quickly chosen, if I choose one, then the chance of me losing is too great, because I can't guarantee that no one will see and no one will know, after all, there are more than 2,000 people here, and if one can't take care of it, it will be exposed, and if you die because of this, it will not be worth it. And the second one is obviously an option for Zheng Qian, an arrogant guy, I will die if I win, Zheng Qian will die, I have nothing to lose if I lose, why not, there is a cheap and not a bastard.
Li Xiang thought about it quickly, and then quickly blurted out as if he was afraid that Zheng Qian would regret it: "Then I'll choose two!" ”
After listening to Li Xiang's choice, Zheng Qian didn't pay attention to Li Xiang anymore, and planned to take Mulan and go back to eat grilled fish, after all, it was very unappetizing to be interrupted during dinner. And since Li Xiang chose two, then all the wins and losses have already had a result, and Li Xiang is really two.
Seeing the soldiers gritting their teeth and looking at him, Li Xiang immediately felt that the world was spinning, and he didn't know that the true face of Lushan was only because he was in this mountain, so it turned out that this gamble was a pit.