Chapter 7: Capture the Thief and the King
"There are people on the roof,"
"Catch them, they must be spies sent by officers and soldiers,"
In the continuous exclamations of everyone, the villagers who chased Zhang Kuisu were divided into two groups, some people went to besiege Zhang Kuisu, and others came towards Chen Nian and Lu Xiao. Lu Xiao immediately unsheathed his scimitar and protected Chen Nian behind him. Ke Chennian was afraid that Lu Xiao would be too ruthless, so he hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Don't hurt people's lives,"
Lu Xiao snorted coldly, and secretly said that you just said that Zhang Kuisu is a woman's benevolence, and I see that you are not much better than him. Although he thought so, the knife was also eased a lot, even if there were villagers who came over regardless of life and death, he did not take their lives, but only knocked unconscious with the back of the knife.
As a result, they were trapped by the growing crowd of villagers. In the melee, Chen Nian saw Wen Fengming hiding behind people at a glance, his mind suddenly moved, and he took the opportunity to come to Lu Xiao's side, and shouted in a low voice: "Capture the thief and capture the king first,"
The two of them had teamed up to deal with the officers and soldiers of Jizhou, and they were very smart, Lu Xiao nodded slightly, grabbed the hand handed over by Chen Nian, threw it out with all his might, and shouted loudly: "Go,"
With the power of his throw, Chen Nian flew over everyone's heads like a cloud, and rushed towards Wen Fengming like a bird. Wen Fengming's attention was all on Zhang Kuisu's side, and he didn't realize it until Chen Nian pounced over, and hurriedly hid behind others. Even though Chennian's martial arts are not good, it is still much higher than that of masters such as Lu Xiao and Zheng Lun, compared with ordinary villagers. At this moment, she was calculating with her heart and without intention, and her body moved flexibly a few times, and she flashed all the villagers who came to block it, and rushed to Wen Fengming.
The dagger in Chen Nian's hand stabbed at Wen Fengming's door, but he said with a smile: "Second master, you still know me." ”
Chen Nian was still covered with a black scarf on his face, Wen Fengming didn't recognize her until he heard her voice, and he was shocked for a while, and hurriedly leaned back and avoided her. Chen Nian counted that he had this move, and his other hand was already poking out, slamming a few points in front of him, restraining him, and shouting to everyone: "Stop, or I will kill Wen Fengming,"
Although her voice was high, she couldn't shock the audience like Zheng Lun's lion roar, and the scene was extremely chaotic, and only the people next to her heard it stop, but the people in the distance didn't hear it. Chen Nian glanced around, and then shouted to Lu Xiao who had just arrived: "Go to the high platform and beat the drum,"
There is a big drum on the east and west sides of the high platform, which is used to gather the people in the village on weekdays. Lu Xiao hurriedly swept over, took the drumstick, and beat the big drum to a loud sound. Everyone was shaken by the sound of drums and looked over in unison. Chen Nian had also rushed to the stage at this moment, and actually jumped onto the high platform with Wen Fengming, and shouted: "Wen Fengming is here,"
Xiao Yanagi had been hiding in a corner of the high platform under the protection of Ye Xiaoqi, and at this moment he realized that it was Chen Nian who kidnapped his father, and he couldn't help but shout in amazement: "Chen Nian." ”
Ye Xiaoqi was even more furious, and shouted: "Xie Chennian." What are you doing. ”
Chen Nian didn't care about the two of them for a while, and only shouted to Zhang Kuisu in the distance: "Master Zhang, if you don't want to suffer injustice, then come back and make it clear to everyone,"
Zhang Kuisu hesitated for a moment, and then really returned despite the opposition of the people around him.
The single helmsman didn't recognize Chen Nian for a while, and only shouted to her: "Since you want to make it clear, let's let go of the second master first,"
Chen Nian smiled: "That's not possible, there are many of you, I have to point to the second master to save my life first." ”
On the side, Xiao Liu saw that Chen Nian was forced to use his father's order, and said sadly with tears: "Chen Nian, you let my father go, I will go and take you hostage,"
Chen Nian looked at her like this, and felt a little guilty in his heart, and explained: "Xiaoliu, I just want everyone to stop doing it first and explain things clearly." Don't blame anyone, and don't let go of the real traitor. You go down first, and I'll explain it to you when I get back. ”
Xiaoyanagi shouted angrily, "That's my father,"
Chen Nian frowned slightly, and said: "I know, but the hundreds of people who died in Feilong Cheng are also human lives, and you can't call Aunt Yan and they all died in vain." Who betrayed the family in the village, we have to find out,"
Seeing that Chen Nian was holding Wen Fengming hostage, the single helmsman glared at her angrily with his sword, and asked loudly, "Who are you?" Why should we care about the affairs of our Qingfeng Village. ”
Chen Nian handed over Wen Fengming to Lu Xiao for control, and he flew to the drum, ripped off the black scarf covering his face to reveal his true face, and said loudly to the people in the village: "In Xia Xie Chennian, many brothers in the village should still recognize me, Mu Zhanyue and Mu Siye are my father-in-law,"
As soon as she shouted like this, some younger villagers in the audience recognized her, "Little Fourth Master, it's really Little Fourth Master,"
Chen Nian said loudly again: "Don't do it yet, let's listen to who harmed our Qingfeng Village, and who betrayed our family members," she turned her head sideways to look at Zhang Kuisu and said: "Zhang Da Master, since you have admitted that you colluded with Yang Cheng to kill Xue Zhi, then you tell everyone why you did this." ”
Zhang Kuisu hadn't opened his mouth yet, but Wen Fengming said coldly first: "You and Mu Zhanyue are both under Zhang Kuisu's orders, they are a raccoon dog, how can your words be true." ”
Chen Nian laughed instead of anger when he heard this, and said: "Second master, you don't allow people to talk like this, it's not because of your own weak heart. My father-in-law has stayed in this Qingfeng Village for more than ten years and has never participated in the affairs of the village, and no one knows about this Qingfeng Village. Where do you have to obey Zhang Kuisu's words. ”
Wen Fengming asked rhetorically: "Didn't he assassinate Xue Zhi on the orders of Zhang Kuisu?" ”
Chen Nian said with a smile: "Naturally not, my father-in-law killed Xue Zhi on the orders of the big boss of Qingfeng Village, as for who this big boss is, I dare to say that my father-in-law and his old man have never cared." If you, Wen Fengming, are the big boss of this Qingfeng Village, your father-in-law can also listen to your orders,"
With a smile on her face, she turned her head and said to everyone: "You are all old people from Qingfeng Village, and you must know my father-in-law's personality. When Qingfeng Village took in our father and daughter, my father-in-law responded by killing ten people for Qingfeng Village in return. Xue Zhi was the tenth, he took Xue Zhi's head, and said that he had finished paying off the kindness of Qingfeng Village, and then took me out of the cottage. At that time, when the Flying Dragon was separated, many of you were also present, so you should know the situation at that time,"
Lu Rongfeng, who had been silent, stepped forward and said: "That's right, I, Lu Rongfeng, can testify." ”
Two more leaders on the stage, who had always been neutral, stepped forward and replied, "I was there at the time, and it is true." ”
Wen Fengming was a little flustered in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Even you, Mu Zhanyue and Zhang Kuisu are not accomplices, but you followed Yunxi Fengjun Yang that day, who knows what evil intentions you harbor when you come back at this time,"
Chen Nian looked at Wen Fengming with a smile and said, "Second master, am I harboring evil intentions, let's talk about this later, I am all here, are you still afraid that I will not be able to escape." She paused, glanced at Zhang Kuisu, and said, "Master Zhang, since you have admitted that killing Xue Zhi was a conspiracy with Yang Cheng, then I want to ask, why did you do this." Why did you pull Qingfeng Village to intervene in the battle between the military town and provoke this catastrophe. ”
What she asked was exactly what everyone in the audience did not understand, but no one objected.
Now, Zhang Kuisu doesn't want to hide anything. His vest was slapped by the single helmsman, and his internal injuries were quite serious, so he took a deep breath at the moment, endured the severe pain and said, "I was deceived by Yang Cheng." He said that at present, the civil strife in Daxia, the people are not happy, and the rise of the Mobei Xian clan is gradually invading the south, and one day it will invade Jingyang Pass like the previous Northern Desert. ”
This statement was greatly unexpected by everyone, even Chen Nian did not expect that Yang Cheng would use this set of awe-inspiring rhetoric about the righteousness of the family and the country to impress Zhang Kuisu.
Zhang Kuisu said: "In order to avoid the Shengyuan Rebellion that year, we must plan early, that is, we cannot unify Jiangbei, and we must combine the two states of Qinghai and Hebei in one place to resist the Tartars." Yang Cheng said that he was willing to follow Mai Shuai back then and protect the people of the world with the soldiers of Qingji. For this, I got rid of Xue Zhi for him, and used Qingfeng Village as bait to lead the Jizhou army into Taihang Mountain, so that he could capture Jizhou. He should have thought that as long as the Jizhou army entered the mountain, the Qingzhou army would sneak attack from behind, don't want to?? Until the cottage was broken by Xue Shengying, the Qingzhou Army did not come to the rescue. ”
When Chen Nian heard this, he couldn't help but secretly scolded Zhang Kuisu for being stupid, so he changed her to Yang Cheng, and he wouldn't come up to fight against Xue Shengying.
When Zhang Kuisu said this, he knelt down to everyone in the audience with his robe, and said sadly: "It's me Zhang Kuisu who is incompetent, and Yang Cheng's trick in this way, but I never thought that it would harm Qingfeng Village like this, let alone that there would be a mole in the village, and the family members who harmed my Qingfeng Village were all poisoned." I have no shame to live in this world, I just want to find out the traitor who betrayed the cottage before I die, so that I can go underground to meet those innocent and tragic deaths."
After that, Zhang Kuisu actually fell to the ground and cried. When the audience looked at him like this, they couldn't help but think of their relatives who died tragically, and many people cried bitterly. Chen Nian looked angry and ridiculous, bent down and picked up the drumstick and knocked on the big drum, and shouted: "Zhang Da Master, don't cry in a hurry, it's better to find out the traitor first,"
Before she finished speaking, Lu Xiao suddenly threw the scimitar in his hand behind her back, and she heard a few slight sounds of "ding", and several thin needles flying from behind were knocked down on the stage by the scimitar. Lu Xiao let go of Wen Fengming, flew behind Chen Nian, stopped the man in black who was about to escape, restrained him in a few moves, broke his two arms without saying a word, and threw the person at Chen Nian's feet in the stunned eyes of everyone, and asked her, "Is it hurt?" ”
It turned out that in the chaos just now, someone untied the rope on the man in black, and saw that Chen Nian wanted to track down the traitor, and the man in black was weak for a while, so he shot a poisonous needle to take Chen Nian's life. Thanks to Lu Xiao's quick response, he shot down the poisonous needles with a scimitar, and arrested the man in black who was about to escape.
Chen Nian shook his head, squatted down to look at the man in black, and picked up a steel needle as thin as a cow's hair from the ground with a handkerchief, and took a closer look at the tip of the needle that shone with blue light, and couldn't help but say angrily: "It turned out to be you,"