With a bottle of metal beetles in his pocket, Zhou Shu, who got a new toy, always wanted to find a chance to experiment with this thing. =.

However, as the gray witch who gave him the toy said, this thing has little effect, and it seems that it is really a 'trick' used by her, the unpredictable prophet, to pretend to be Zhuge Liang, and it will only show its power at a fixed time.

Baiyu received a gift from Zhou Shu, but in her opinion, it was nothing more than a beetle ornament. She is still the one who has an extreme hatred for Zhou Shu, but after returning to the Sword Blade Plain, she also had an epiphany, and she is not ready to be overly hostile to Zhou Shubiao, she needs to focus on the management of this area.

After being starved for so long, she wasn't sure if she was really the same unyielding and resilient self she used to be, and if she had become weak and bullied by nearly five days of hunger. In order to give a negative answer to this question, she naturally didn't have a good face at all.

Master Zhou led the team, found the road, and walked towards Sunshine City. Nikko Castle is a city that sits on a plain in the wilderness, like a loaf of bread on a plate, with low walls but a vast area. It was the people of Higashinokuni who continued to gather and expanded the city to what it is today.

As soon as he found the main road and walked along a section, Zhou Shu saw some horse teams passing in front of him.

The horse caravan on the outskirts of the city, he had seen this kind of thing many times, it was nothing more than a caravan. Nikko Castle did not suffer much damage after the war, but it is believed that the commercial activities of the past have been completely cut off. There are still businessmen who can do business, and almost none of them have dealings with the army, or they are engaged in some business that specializes in making war money.

"Slave caravan again?" Zhou Shu sighed as he looked at the procession that passed by like a train.

The goods these men were carrying were 'people', half of whom were able-bodied men. The other half are civilians no matter how you look at it.

Every city is the first to trouble the slave traders, and Zhou Shu has maintained this tradition for a long time. But this time he wanted to change it, after all, he was a merchant in his own territory, and he had to pay taxes for himself, so it was better not to toss them.

Hyakyu followed the procession, staring at the slave traders. She could see who they were. It can also be seen that the identity of their 'goods' is that half of them are their own soldiers, and the other half are their own subjects.

The self-proclaimed duke of the Hundred Tongues tried not to pity them. It is precisely because these soldiers and civilians failed to resist foreign enemies with all their strength that they ended up like this.

Baiyu remembered that the afternoon when he was captured by the army, it was much worse than these people in front of him, and the subsequent situation was also worse for himself. These people were just captured and sent to the mainland of the West to do hard labor, and it would not be long before they would die in the mines or some other place, and they would not be able to fall into the hands of the enemy. Now I am still humiliated.

Zhou Shu stared at the top sun and walked on the side of the road with three girls, and at this moment he was suffering from the eyes of the slave traders with a depressed face.

Several vendor leaders on horseback had been walking around him, staring at the three girls as if they were looking at fatty pork.

With Nati's appearance level, it is indeed not very suitable to appear alone in this kind of place where there is a waste after the military disaster. Nikko City is currently a military-run city, and law and order is almost impossible to be good, and the situation of arbitrary abduction of people on the streets may not occur. But this is the suburbs, so it doesn't have to be.

Master Zhou in order not to let himself have conflicts with these people. Pulled out the 'Dinglan Sword' from the young eagle's waist and reminded the guys on horseback. I'm armed here.

It worked well, and the men didn't seem to be prepared for anything, so they rode away honestly. Just as Zhou Shu poked the sword back into the scabbard on the young eagle's waist, his martial arts ears heard the sound of a horse team galloping in the distance.

Looking in the direction of the sound, a cloud of smoke and dust was billowing in the wilderness, attacking in the direction of the road.

Horses are born to run around. However, in the terrain full of gravel potholes, under normal circumstances, no one would ride a horse so roughly, and it is easy for the horse to be injured. At this point, it was clear that something had happened, and if there were no monsters chasing after these smoky creatures, then they were chasing someone.

Zhou Shu saw this interesting situation. It was also regarded as a welcome ceremony for himself, the earl, to give up some positions a little, and to stand on the side of the road with the ineffective hundred tongues ready to watch.

This time it had nothing to do with him, which was very rare.

The slave traders were nervous at the sight of the rushing horse caravan, and the leader of them shouted, 'Horse thief, fight!' and his younger brothers gathered together, drew their weapons, and prepared to defend themselves against the enemy.

"Slave traders are a dangerous profession. Zhou Shu sighed on the side, honestly being his own bystander.

The firefight between horse thieves and slavers was a more pleasing sight, and the clumsy appearance of an ordinary person fighting had not been seen in a long time.

She is different from Zhou Shu, she has never had much chance to leave the royal capital to go to the battlefield in person, and even the young eagle ran to the front line and was plotted by the moon god once, only Nati has always stayed in a safe place.

This will be she watched with relish the two people riding horses and hula hula to fight into a mess, both sides are about forty or fifty people in size, plus the size of the horses still looks relatively imposing, once the fight starts, it will soon be impossible to tell who is who.

As the horses of the two sides came into contact, the knives and arrows began to collide violently on the human body**, causing destruction and bloodshed, and the war began.

Since the men and horses on both sides were cavalry, one side rushed into formation, and the other side instantly ran with it. Suddenly, Zhou Shu's eyes were full of cavalry driving horses and holding weapons to fight against the enemy, running around like a group of threads under the claws of cats.

The so-called horse thieves are actually guerrilla troops left in the Sword Plain by the East Country. It may be a volunteer army formed by the residents, or it may be a regular army in hiding, or it may be a mixture of the two sides.

All in all, the place of Sword Blade Plain does not seem to have a very good business environment, and Zhou Shu expressed concern about this.

Baiyu hid behind Zhou Shu with a nervous face, staring at the battle situation in front of him. She recognized one of the horse thieves as a large, middle-aged officer with some familiar eyes. She can't remember his name or position, but she's sure she'd met him at a battle meeting at her castle before.

It was clear that these horse thieves who had attacked the caravan on the outskirts of Nikko Castle were rebels. A rebel to her, a rebel to Zhou Shu.

Baiyu is very nervous now, and has been peeking at Zhou Shu. She knew that this man had a strong fighting power, although she didn't know it. However, her family's regular army was wiped out by Zhou Shu's army that swept away a little bit, and she had no doubts about the authenticity of this news.

Zhou Shu stood honestly on the side, releasing a murderous aura to force back those who tried to attack him.

Occasionally, some stray arrows will shoot over, but they are also blocked by the young eagle and Nattie's raised hand, and the action is very easy and freehand. And they were all looked at by a hundred tongues.

'Can't let them fight these people!'

Baiyu is now in a situation where she is in Cao Ying's heart and in Han, so she naturally will not sincerely help Zhou Shu, and Zhou Shu also knows this. However, the Plains of the Sword Blade is the hometown of the hundred tongues, and it is her responsibility to restore peace here. Zhou Shu understands this even more. However, after having a certain amount of calm, Bai Tongue did not mind contacting the resistance forces left here in the East Country, assassinated Zhou Shu in total, and regained control of the Sword Blade Plain.

Master Zhou is not mentally retarded, of course he knows what Baiyu can do. He didn't expect that he would influence Baiyu and let her stand on the same front with him, and he didn't think that he could take care of this guy. He was very relieved about Baiyu, and he wasn't worried about her getting into any big trouble. The reason is simple. He believed that as long as Hyakuzu did things for herself, then she would become a traitor to the Plains of the Blades. The people of the East Country will not believe her, and it is estimated that she will not be able to explain it clearly in this life.

For a guy who is destined not to be trusted and can't be washed by jumping into the Yellow River, Zhou Shu is still quite relieved. The only fear is that this guy will be killed by someone who hates her while working for her, so she has a Grey Witch's metal beetle to protect her.

The horse thieves, who were as numerous as the slave traders, lost, which Zhou Shu did not expect.

The battle didn't last long. The horse thieves seem to want to save someone in the ranks of the slaves, and have been absent-mindedly fighting while looking for someone. It was this act of contempt for their opponents that caused them to lose seven or eight people under the stray arrow.

"What are these guys trying to save?" Zhou Shu pinched his chin and was very curious, and swept the book of summoning nearby, but didn't find any strange guys.

Baiyu will also feel very puzzled. I thought there was something important in the slave ranks, but I squinted my eyes and looked around from a distance, only to see a group of trembling cowards who didn't even dare to resist and run away from the chaos.

As a cunzài who was also captured and escorted, Baiyu was fully qualified to accuse these guys of cowardice. During the days when she was being escorted, she had to try to resist at every opportunity, which is why she was beaten to tattered clothes while the others were intact.

Baiyu is a rare girl who is more resistant to fighting, and she doesn't care about the pain in her flesh at all, except for hunger.

The fighting continued, and although the horse thieves showed signs of defeat, no one fled and evacuated. After losing about four or five more men, they seemed to have found the man they were looking for, and all the cavalry regrouped and charged the slave ranks.

It turns out that these people are not trying to save someone, but to kill one of the slaves. A group of horsemen grabbed their weapons and slashed at a group of flailled charges, killing the slaves in an instant.

The slave traders were so angry that when they saw the destruction of the goods, they also ran to avenge the goods and drive away the horse thieves who had completed their mission.

The slave owner looked at the fleeing enemy and stamped his feet in anger, telling the two teams to chase the group while the others defended themselves in place to avoid being attacked again. It can be regarded as beware of the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain.

Zhou Shu saw that the big scene was over, and escorted the girls out from behind the bushes on the side of the road. "It seems that this place is not peaceful. He said this with a sigh, and then Baiyu was not happy.

"It's not the result of your invasion!"

Zhou Shu rolled his eyes, "If you were heard by Tiddleleme, she would be able to make you into a pork roll and eat it all by yourself." Do you know that your moon god assassinated her king, brother?"

"Who do you say is pork!" is the main point in the dialogue of the hundred tongues.

The war that just ended, it was indeed the moon god who provoked it, yes. Originally, it was just a contradiction between the guardian saints, and humans were innocently involved. However, the two countries are two tigers living in the same mountain and have the same gender, even if there is no religious problem. It is estimated that it will not be too peaceful.

Zhou Shu looked at the horse thief who had not escaped too far, and asked Nati and the young eagle to protect their assistant Miss Sword Blade, saying that he wanted to go and see the situation.

"Those horse thieves don't seem to be so simple, I'll go and see the excitement, maybe I should kill them if necessary. ”

When Baiyu heard this, he immediately showed a panicked expression, and grabbed the hem of Zhou Shu's clothes.

"No! you can't go!"

Zhou Shu understood everything when he saw her like this. He smiled and asked, "Are there any of those horse thieves you know?"

The hundred tongues 'tsk', and the keenness of the man in front of him expressed dissatisfaction.

"I don't know them, and I don't want you to go because I'm afraid of other dangers. I don't want to die here. The slave traders over there have killed so many slaves, what if they want to block the road and catch the good people?"

"How could it be. Zhou Shu waved his hand. "Where do you get so much prejudice. ”

"How could it be impossible? Can an ordinary slave trader have the upper hand in fighting the same number of bandits? And they dare to chase the enemy, these people are obviously soldiers. Are the soldiers of the West Country less likely to do the kind of kidnapping of people as slaves?"

Zhou Shu was speechless by a hundred tongues, but he admitted this girl's logic. Sounds pretty reliable.

The slave traders' side seemed to have a grudge against Zhou Shu, and they also sent half a dozen cavalry to run in a certain direction at this point in time. The man who looked like the leader shouted to the cavalrymen from afar, "Catch more young women and come back, kill the useless old people and children on the spot, go and return quickly." ”

These words were shouted loudly, and they could hear it clearly, and Zhou Shu also relied on his thick skin recently. Forcibly did not blush.

"Okay, okay, you're right. I'm not leaving, I'm protecting you. ”

He originally thought that the military discipline of the West Country was not bad, it was the kind of good army that did not commit any crimes in the autumn and did not take a stitch from the common people, but now it seems that it is not like that.

Baiyu is not at all happy that his nonsense has been confirmed, which means that another villager is going to die. There are women who are going to be slaved. Just like yourself.

Ignoring the chaos that happened on the road, Zhou Shu took the three girls all the way forward and entered the Sunshine City, where he met two groups of officers and soldiers on the way, who saw the smoke signal from the caravan of the slave traders and came to support. A caravan has a problem. The relationship between the army and the army rushing to help so soon is self-evident.

Nikko Castle has no walls, and it is basically considered to be in the city after crossing a slum made of yellow mud and entering a place with a brick and stone pavement.

Zhou Shu still has some impressions of the city, he came here once before, and together with Aleusha, he randomly dealt with some troops, walked around the city, and then continued to hurry.

He doesn't feel that he has no hatred with Baiyu now, and it is obvious that the culprit who caused her family to die is really himself, which is quite depressing.

At this time, Nikko City was quite desolate, there were almost no people on the streets, all the shops were closed, or the doors were wide open, and it looked like they had just been robbed.

Growing up here, Baizu naturally knows how prosperous the original city streets were. The sight at this time made her sad and wanted to shed tears.

The group couldn't even find anyone who asked for directions, and it took a long time to find an old man hiding in a small alley, who seemed to be looking for something, and finally asked from the old man's mouth about the area where the army was stationed, and found the camp of the occupation army.

Walking a street in the direction pointed out by the old man, I saw a little human activity here, all of them patrolling soldiers. Zhou Shu also didn't know what to patrol on this empty street, and then he was surrounded by soldiers.

He took out the credentials given by Tiddle and met with the commander of the occupation forces, escorted by the soldiers. The chief looked at the voucher with an embarrassed face, and then said to Zhou Shu with a sad face: "This...... It should be the authenticity of His Majesty, yes, I also know you, Sir. I was there when you were fighting against the enemy gods. However, according to the regulations, I must wait until the official palace appointee Wen Jiàn arrives before I can hand over the rights to you. ”

Zhou Shu flew in. Although Tiddlelem's Wen Jiàn said that a fast horse had been sent to the Plains of the Sword Blade a few days ago, it had not yet arrived, and it would take at least two days to wait.

"It doesn't matter, anyway, just one or two days of work, you just need to find me a place to live. ”

The officer nodded humbly, indicating that there was no problem. Directly pointed to the City Lord's Mansion, which is the mansion of Duke Black Feather, the home of Hundred Tongues.

Hundred tongues went home......

She didn't expect that when she returned home again, she would have both the status of duke and captive, which made her a little embarrassed.

Duke Kuroba lives in the castle, which is also a castle in the city, built in the southern part of Nikko Castle, the highest terrain in the city.

The castle was always empty, but it was cleaned by the soldiers of Nishinokuni, after all, there was no war here. Duke Kuroba surrendered and was captured on his own initiative. Hyakyu still remembers the situation that night, when the army of the West Country forced his family to end up like this by killing prisoners and slaughtering the city.

By the way, Zhou Shu's arrival also brought a few maids and attendants who made sundries, and the empty castle suddenly became popular. The army of Nishinokuni basically regarded him as a god, and the soldiers still relished the scene when he fought against the hundreds of patron saints of the enemy country

, and gave rise to catchphrases such as 'Go with the wind, little bugs' and 'I am the embodiment of power'. are all shameful lines that Zhou Shu said in order to create an atmosphere during the previous battle.

Living in Baiyu's house, this incident made Master Zhou a little embarrassed. He's not a cruel man. As soon as he entered the castle, he immediately pushed Baiyu in front of the guards who came here and the maids and attendants he brought, "This young lady will be the housekeeper here from today onwards, you all listen to her, she has the same rights as me." ”

Zhou Shu hopes to alleviate Baiyu's resentment towards him as much as possible, and now he wants to return her home to her. Save this stingy guy from being angry.

In fact, Baiyu was really a little depressed when she stepped into the castle, and Zhou Shu's approach made her appreciate it a little.

She, the owner, immediately divided the rooms for Zhou Shu, Nati and the young eagle, and the three of them lived in three rooms, and she herself went to live in her parents' room, which was the largest bedroom in the castle. It is surrounded by two guardhouses and a study with a secret passage.

In this way, the aristocratic life of Zhou Shu was about to begin. There was nothing to visit in Baiyu's house, and he didn't plan to be further hated by the little girl.

"Hundred tongues, hundred tongues, I'll leave it to you here. I'm out for a walk. ”

Baiyu's current identity is the assistant to the city lord, but Zhou Shu has not officially taken over this place yet, and all she can do is to ask these attendants to clean up the castle and buy some things she needs by the way.

She needed money to buy something, so she reached out to Zhou Shu to ask for it.

Looking at the white and tender palm stretched out by this girl, Zhou Shu touched it, and then asked with a smile, "Don't you want my money?"

Baiyu almost slapped someone when she was molested in the palm of her hand, but she felt that she couldn't hit the guy in front of her, so there was no need to waste her efforts, so she snorted and withdrew her hand.

"If you don't give me money, how am I going to work?"

"I didn't say no. Say, how much. ”

"I don't know, how much can you give me at most?"

The reason why Zhou Shu was willing to come to the Sword Plain and was confident that he could adapt this side to his own requirements was that the source of this self-confidence came from the gold he got from the Book of Treasures.

He conjured a treasure chest in the corner of his room, then pulled a cloak and put it on top of it, and staggered out the door. He was ready to take Natty and the young eagle out for a walk. He had heard from the officer just now that all the people in the city had gathered in the west city and were under unified management. The army has limited manpower and can manage a small area, so it can only do this. He was going to go over there and take a look.

Baiyu opened the treasure chest after Zhou Shu left, and then was blinded by the gold. Although she was from the Duchess, she had never seen so much gold, and she could even feel the floor begin to sink because of the weight of the box.

She never dreamed that this guy Zhou Shu would be so generous, but considering that the mint was looted by this guy, she felt that it was reasonable for this person to have a little money.

It is better to have money than no money, she beckoned the guards who came to the castle, wanting him to take her to meet the officers of the occupation army, and now the whole city of Nikko is in a state of material control, and if you want to buy things, you can only go to the army.

The guard looked at Baiyu with a hesitant expression, and after hesitating for a long time, he asked her uncertainly, "You...... Could it be the eldest daughter of Duke Blackfeather?" (To be continued......)