Chapter 19: The Dragon's Drum Sounds (1)
As soon as the sky was bright, there were many sneaky figures on the street inside the south gate of Qizhou City. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the cave of the city gate, the lamp oil in several windproof lanterns was about to run out, and the firelight became much dimmer, and several state soldiers on duty at night cursed in a low voice, standing in the city gate cave with almost stiff bodies.
The sneaky figures on the street carefully avoided the gaze of several state soldiers, and looked at the closed city gate with a hint of anticipation.
Outside the city gate, in the dense forest next to the official road, a few gentle birdsong sounded.
The dew-covered Finch yawned, opened his eyes, and lazily straightened his body on a branch the thickness of a goose egg, stretched his waist, and slipped off the branch as soon as his body was sideways.
The tall and thin Finch fell silently like a cotton ball, and he shrunk into a ball under the tree, looking around instinctively and vigilantly. A few little sparrows on the branches above their heads chirped twice, and Ah Que smiled and stood up lazily.
Through the hazy morning light, you can see that on Ah Qi's delicate face, the two long eyebrows are like two long and thin swords, obliquely inserted into the sideburns. was originally quite handsome with long eyebrows, but he was distorted by Ah Qi's lazy smile, and he was so lazy that he was like two well-fed cats curled up on his forehead.
Yawning again, Ah Que walked through the woods and came to the official road.
Turning his head and looking in the direction of Huyakou, Ah Que laughed and scolded in a low voice: "A group of embryo-killing embryos, terrified, this smell of blood can be smelled from more than 20 miles away." For some gold that you can't eat or drink, as for it?"
Moved his body, grabbed the bun hard, and the long hair fell down indiscriminately, Ah Que tore off the tight-fitting suit on his body, and pulled out a dagger to cut a few long cracks in his clothes, and the whole person rolled twice on the official road paved with yellow sand, and suddenly became extremely embarrassed.
'Dong' a bell rang, a faint layer of light curtain above the city of Qizhou quietly withdrew, and the city gate building of the square city gate came from the long shouting of the city gate official. Just listen to the sound of 'kalala' iron chain rubbing, and the square gates of Qizhou City opened at the same time.
Ah Qi panted and rushed along the official road, and before the south gate of the city of Qizhou was fully opened, he crashed into it, almost hitting the tips of the guns raised by several state soldiers in shock.
"What are you?what??
"Report to the official, report to the official!" Ah Qi's face was distorted, and the two long eyebrows were beating murderously on his delicate face, and he roared loudly with a bit of panic: "Report to the official, report to the official, kill people, rob, our gold has been robbed!"
Pushing away a few spears on his chest, Ah Que roared all the way down the avenue towards the city.
On both sides of the street inside the south gate, many guys who had just opened the door of the shop leaned out most of their bodies excitedly and curiously, staring at Ah Que with wide eyes. Reported to the official? Murdered, robbed? Ah, there will be something to talk about all day today!
The sneaky figures laughed almost at the same time!
They all knew Ah Qi, one of the two irons around Chu Tian, early in the morning, the ragged and dirty Ah Que ran into the city of Qizhou and yelled to 'report to the official'!
Several people stomped their feet violently and shook their arms with hard fists.
Hey, I'm afraid it wasn't the one that my master raised that happened? That's 15,000 taels of red gold!
Many people turned around and ran towards their master's mansion, trotting briskly, these people had to forcibly suppress the smiles on their faces, and even more so to hide their heads and tails, so that the people next to them would not find out about their 'abnormal movements', and they really endured it.
In the city gate building above the south gate, a middle-aged scribe in a cyan robe pushed open a window, smiled at the back of the running A Que, and nodded happily: "Hurry up and tell Lord Taishou that Captain Li and Captain Zhao have become a problem!"
The two young people in green clothes hurriedly ran down the city gate building, jumped on the two big flower horses that had been prepared, and made a detour to the Taishou Mansion.
Ah Qi ran down the avenue panting, and as he ran, he yelled hysterically: "Report to the official, report to the official, kill people, rob, kill many people, many people have been killed, oh my God, so many people have died! Gold, gold, my eldest brother's gold has been robbed, 15,000 taels of yellow and clear gold!"
Whether it is a butcher who sells meat, a vendor who makes a breakfast stall, or a dung head who collects night incense, a cleanman who takes out garbage, or even the housekeepers who go out to procure, as well as the catchers, officials, clerical servants and so on who have just gotten off work from the major yamen, many people gather in the corners of the streets and alleys, drinking soybean milk, eating noodles, nibbling on baked cakes, and filling wontons, one by one, they are busy.
Ah Que ran all the way by, and many heroes in the streets recognized him at a glance.
"Brother Finch, come to a bowl of wontons?"
"Frightened, don't call him, look at him like this, something is wrong!"
"What can there be? What can it be? Could it be that the gold in the head of the Chu stall has been robbed?"
"If someone robs someone, it's expected. Frightened, more than 10,000 taels of gold, Chu stall head is just a fish line stall head, where is the strength to keep it?"
"Tsk, look at Brother Que'er like this, how many people have to die here?"
Gradually, there were idlers who liked to watch the bustle of the market throwing a few big bucks at the breakfast stall, and followed Ah Que all the way with great interest.
Gradually, there were thirty or fifty idlers who followed behind Ah Que and came to the front of the Taishou Mansion in Qizhou all the way.
The vermilion lacquer gate is full of golden door nails, there are two three-zhang high unicorn stone carvings standing on the left and right, and there are twenty-four burly soldiers wearing pure silver armor lined up on both sides of the gate, and the gold-plated Changge in his hand exudes a faint light in the morning light.
Seeing from a distance that a large group of idlers ran over with Ah Que, a military man suddenly stepped forward, pointed at Ah Que and the others and shouted: "Taishou Mansion Heavy Land, a group of pickled people dare to be presumptuous, retreat, otherwise they will be arrested and killed one by one!"
With a 'hum', the twenty-four military men stabbed forward fiercely with Changge in their hands. Changge broke through the wind, making a 'buzzing' sound, and the momentum was amazing. Except for Ah Qi, the other idlers stopped on the street more than a dozen feet away, not daring to take another step.
Ah Qi panted and ran forward two steps, stumbled under his feet, fell in embarrassment, and crawled forward seven or eight steps away, he gasped and climbed up, looked at those soldiers and said loudly: "I'm not here to make trouble, I'm here to report to the official!"
The military man who spoke just now pointed at Ah Qi and shouted: "Report to the official, how is the Taishou Mansion the place where you report to the official? What are the grievances, go to the yamen of various places in the state, Lord Taishou is in charge of the military and political affairs of a state, what is the matter with you, dare to alarm the Taishou?"
Ah Que didn't say a word, he strode towards a bronze drum on the right side of the gate of the Taishou Mansion.