Chapter 41: The War of the Dogs (1)
A group of men and horses hurried over, and on the back of the leading unicorn was a big fat man with a height of eight feet and a waist circumference of nearly nine feet, and his whole body was as big as snowflakes and white meat. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Someone who knew him exclaimed, "Ah, it's Ling Shou, the head of the Ling clan, why did he come in person?"
Unlike Ling Fu, who died in Huyakou two days ago, Ling Shou is the real butler of the Ling family, in charge of all the internal and external affairs of the Ling family, and the real power is only under the current head of the Ling family. If it is not something really important, where will ordinary people have the opportunity to see him with their own eyes?
Fatter than Ling Fu three times, Ling Shou's figure was unusually agile, and he rushed to the commercial dock with a large group of guards, and before the mount could stop, Ling Shou was already floating as lightly as a dandelion ball in the wind, silently sweeping a distance of more than twenty zhang, and falling lightly to the ground.
Ten huge ships leaned against the shore, and the private soldiers in armor walked out of the cabin with expressionless faces, and in the high-pitched commands, they lined up in a neat square of 100 people on the dock.
The sound of low footsteps kept ringing, and every time a hundred-man square was formed, they immediately walked in orderly steps towards the open space in the distance. One after another, the hundred-person phalanx moved, the pace was like thunder, and the murderous atmosphere on the dock and the smoke and dust gradually rose more than ten feet high.
More than a dozen middle-aged men wearing brocade robes and behaving with an indescribable arrogance, but there was a unique hint of caution and caution in the corners of their eyes and eyebrows, stepped down from several huge ships and hurriedly walked in front of Ling Shou.
Ling Shou bent down slightly with difficulty, saluted the group of people, took out a handwritten letter from his sleeve and handed it over.
"A few stewards, this is a letter from Master Zhou, he is organizing the Dragon Gate Banquet, and he can't be separated, this is the detailed experience of everything that has happened in the past few days. The six sons, I'm afraid it's unfortunate. ”
Ling Shou's eyes flickered, and he looked at these people in front of him with mixed emotions.
They are the stewards of the six families behind Li Qian, Zhao Kuo and other six sons, they command the family fleet, and they rushed all the way to Qizhou, in order to cooperate with Zhou Liuyun to act in Qizhou.
Who knows, it was easy to travel all the way, sailed in the wind and rain for more than half a year, and saw that they were about to arrive in Qizhou, they suddenly received a spirit bird message, and the six of them worshiped the son of Zhouliu Cloud Gate, and they disappeared inexplicably!
said that it was missing, but Zhou Liuyun told them very frankly that Li Qian's six guards died tragically next to the Chu family's mine, so Li Qian's six people were likely to suffer misfortune. However, Zhou Liuyun warned them in the letter that the Chu clan was the head snake of the prefecture, and unless they seized conclusive evidence to prove that they murdered Li Qian and the other six people, they could never rashly clash with the Chu clan.
The private soldiers of the brigade kept coming out of the cabin, and there were gangways sticking out of the other cabins, and many shirtless sailors and laborers shouted loudly, and pushed out cartloads of grain and grass from the cabin, and brought out bundles of unidentified objects wrapped in oilcloth.
Although the tarpaulin obstructed the view, the heavy metal crashing sound of the packages as they were stacked on the dock made it clear that the tarpaulin packages were filled with heavy metal objects of all kinds.
Looking at those expressionless and vicious private soldiers, the locals on the dock immediately understood that these heavy oilcloth packages must be all kinds of weapons, as well as all kinds of arrows, armor and other objects.
Angry cursing could be heard in the distance, followed by panicked screams.
The commercial cargo wharf in Qizhou could not accommodate so many giant ships at the same time, and the giant ships of several big families behind were too lazy to wait, so they simply rushed up the river and rushed to the wharf of the White Python River Fish Market.
The sails of the giant ship shimmered, and these giant ships made of steel rivets set off huge waves and crashed into the shore with impunity.
Many fishing boats were overturned by the huge waves, and more than 20 fishing boats were run over by the huge ships, and the wooden fishing boats were smashed to pieces, and the fishermen on board jumped to flee for their lives.
The huge ship landed extremely brutally, a large number of fishing boats and more than a dozen simple trestle bridges were smashed by the giant ship, the sound of wooden planks and wooden stakes was endless, large pieces of dust flew up, and countless wood fragments spewed out more than ten zhang away, like arrows, knocked over a large area of fishermen, fish teeth and procurement personnel of various households on the fish market wharf.
Several of the fish teeth were broken by the splintering and flying stakes, and blood spurted out of the wounds.
Many people were cut by broken wood, injured their arms and legs, and one by one they cried and cried and fled in all directions.
Many sailors and private soldiers on the giant ship laughed and laughed, pointing at the crowd fleeing in confusion on the dock.
With a low sound, the broadside decks on both sides of the giant ship opened, wide metal gangways stretched out, and a large group of private soldiers rushed out, and sailors and laborers shouted trumpets to transport a large amount of baggage and materials from the cabin.
From the huge ships that docked, there were also some men who were also dressed in brocade robes, and their demeanor was full of arrogance, but the corners of their eyes and eyebrows had the characteristic caution and shrewdness of a subordinate, and they hurried here with their guards.
An old man with white temples and old age spots on his face played with a huge Ruyi jade handle in his hand, looked at the steward of the six major families and laughed loudly: "Lao Li, Lao Zhao, what's going on with the six of you? Li Qian, Zhao Kuo, why are they planted here?"
Shaking his head vigorously, the old man sighed: "You six families are really unlucky, and the good seeds that you have worked so hard to cultivate are broken like this. Tsk, take pity on the decoctions they have soaked in the bath and the pills they have eaten in the past 20 years. ”
The stewards of the six surnames had dark faces, and they looked at the old man one by one and trembled.
The old man smiled and pointed to his nose and laughed loudly: "The six sons must be dead, there is nothing to say." Hey, you better think about it first, how to send a message to your family master, how to explain to your family! We are different, we have to assist our own son-in-law and make contributions in this city!"
The housekeepers behind the old man laughed, and some people raised a high voice like an idle man in the market: "Lao Jin has a point! Hey, let's go into Qizhou City, go to see Master Zhou, and say hello to our little master by the way, right?"
The steward of the six surnames looked at the old man and the stewards of the other families one by one through gritted teeth, and the steward of the Li family took the handwritten book handed to him by Ling Shou, read it carefully, and then read it seriously, and finally he stomped his foot, sneered with a gloomy face: "What is that Chutian? This time, we will pick his skin and pull his tendons! None of his subordinates can be spared!"
Ling Shou nodded slowly, he glanced around, and suddenly saw an extremely burly figure in the crowd of onlookers in the distance.