Chapter 466: The Reverse Brigade of Green Ridge
On the day of the trial of Dai Wang's case in the Liangzhou Prefecture, a large number of soldiers sat cross-legged in the open space outside the Governor Fa Cao Gong's office, half of whom were motivated by money and half out of spontaneous indignation. The story of Dai Wang's revenge for his brother is very incendiary, the protagonists are the same as them, and the men have more or less happy blood buried in their bones, and it only takes one sentence to ignite such blood: "If it were me, I would do the same."
Under the pressure of the superiors and the indignation of the masses, Zhang Shunhe could only make a judgment to exile Dai Wang to Longling and a fine of 50 catties of copper.
The exile of Congling is not a coincidence, but the result of Li Siye's mediation, and as for the fine of fifty catties of copper, this is not a small amount. Ever since he rescued Dai Wang, who had changed his identity, from the tunnel, he has been losing money inside, which can be called a bottomless pit.
When the final result was obtained, the stone in Li Siye's heart was put down. As the envoy of Shule Town, he has been off his post for more than three months, and if he let the Longyou Dao interview envoy know, not only will he be impeached by the imperial court for neglecting his duties, but he will even be rated as inferior in the next year's examination.
He decided to set off early and rode back to Anzai Prefecture alone. Duan Xiushi, Yan Xiaosi and other personal soldiers were left behind by him to continue to wait in Liangzhou, waiting for Dai Wang to escort him on the road after being assigned to Congling.
Li Wei, the housekeeper of Guzang Li Mansion, was furious when he heard the news, and waved a golden ruyi to smash the glazed porcelain cup in the room.
"Zhang Shun and this Wang Ba Lamb Tian Shelang! Returned all the gold and silver sent by Lao Tzu! It's infuriating! If you don't avenge this revenge, you swear that you won't be a man!"
The lady was crying and shouting next to her: "What's the use of you smashing the glass!" It's provoking you! If the Liangzhou government doesn't kill him, won't we kill it ourselves! You've been in Wuwei City for the rest of your life! Don't you even have the ability to do that? ”
Li Wei suddenly had an epiphany, it turned out that things were so simple, as long as he found a few bandits outside Wuwei City, it was not easy to intercept and kill a prisoner who had been exiled for 3,000 miles halfway.
He wants money, money, and power, and this matter is easy.
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Exile is the second most severe punishment after the death penalty, and is a bit heavier than the prison sentence. In ancient times, prison sentences did not have high-walled compounds, but just worked in shackles. The imperial court had to dig canals and build water conservancy, and the prisoners were used first, and then the people who were recruited, and although the prisoners had a high mortality rate, they could return to their homes freely once the sentence arrived.
However, exile is basically a road of death, whether it is the miasma land of the distant southern Xinjiang or the bitter cold place of the green mountains in the west of the moraine, it indicates that there is no return to the homeland in this life. Exile did not only mean living in a bitter cold place, but also serving in constant labor until death. If there are connections related to it, it is another matter, Lin Chong is a related household when he looks at the forage farm in Cangzhou. This time, Dai Wang was assigned to the Green Ridge, which was under the jurisdiction of Li Siye, so he would naturally be given special care.
At the end of March, Dai Wang went on the road, and the Liangzhou government sent two messengers to escort him, because Duan Xiushi used the money, so that he was exempted from wearing a flail, and also provided him and the messenger with horses, otherwise with his leg and foot with a broken right tendon, it was really possible to die halfway through.
They walked through the sloping valleys between the post roads, lined with towering green pines, the tops of which pointed straight to the sky, and the clear sky was pale blue and silent.
An errand rode a horse in front, an errand officer in the back, and Dai Wang rode a dwarf red horse in the middle. Duan Xiushi and the others hung far behind.
Behind the pine trees on both sides of the road, several figures flashed, full of bowstrings and shooting at the three of them. The officer who led the group was shot to death instantly, and Dai Wang was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and he quickly turned over and leaned against the back of the dwarf red horse to avoid the arrow, and the officer who fell behind hurriedly slapped his horse and turned around and fled.
Several people put on the bowstring again, aimed at the red horse and shot repeatedly, the horse was injured and painful, and threw off Dai Wang and fled forward. If it was Dai Wang in the past, it would be possible to be trapped in this desperate situation, but now Dai Wang is slightly equal to a weak scholar, except that his brain is a little smarter.
He quickly rolled through the bushes after falling from his horse, and rolled himself downhill like a stone, avoiding two or three flying arrows, though his body was inevitably cut through his skin by thorns.
At this moment, Duan Xiushi had already rushed up with his own soldiers, he was not the casual archery practiced by these people, but a higher-level arrow without missing a shot, holding up the horn bow and piercing the throat of two people in a row. Yan Xiaosi even put several arrows on the horse's back, then pulled out a horizontal knife from his waist, suddenly flipped up from the other side of the horse, and slashed down one person with a knife. The rest of the soldiers also brandished knives and cut down the two men.
When they were completely surrounded and caught up, only one of the bandits threw away their weapons and ran up the mountain, Duan Xiushi drew a full horned bow and shot an arrow in the crook of the leg, and the soldiers went up and pulled him out of the forest like a dead dog.
"Who appointed you?"
Yan Xiaosi raised the horizontal knife above his head with one hand, as if he couldn't hear the correct answer, he would cut it down.
"Li Wei, the big housekeeper of the Li family!"
As soon as this person's voice fell, Yan Xiaosi's knife had already been cut off, and the blade made intimate contact with his throat, and he suddenly shot out blood and fell to the ground.
Duan Xiushi asked reproachfully, "Why did you kill him?"
"If you don't kill it, will you keep it for the New Year?"
"I wanted to tattoo a few words on his face and ask him to go back and bring a message to Na Li Wei, if he dares to break ground on the head of our Anxi army again, the next thing he needs will be his life."
"I think it's better to have one less thing, that person is the big housekeeper of the Li family's Gu Zang Fang in Longxi, isn't it equivalent to making trouble for Li Zhen's envoy?"
Duan Xiushi spat viciously: "Phew, it's just a dog from a big family, and he really treats himself as a person!" Li Xuangong let the evil dog come out to hurt people, and sooner or later he would have to kill the dog to calm the anger of the public. ”
One of them suddenly asked, "Alas, where is Dai Wang?"
Everyone hurriedly searched around, and finally rescued Dai Wang, who was dying from thorns, in the messy grass.
After experiencing this small turmoil, everyone continued on the road, and after walking out of the pine forest valley, they came to the western section of the Wusheling Ridge, and saw that there was another group of bandits blocking the road on the hillside, and the number of people far exceeded the ambush just now.
The crowd nervously grabbed their weapons, pulled their horned bows and put them on their arrows, and prepared to face a fierce battle, and they did not expect that this cunning slave was prepared with both hands.
At this moment of tension, the gang of bandits on the hillside shouted: "Boss Dai! Dai Liulang! I'm a mountain leopard, these are your brothers, don't you remember!"
Duan Xiushi looked back at Dai Wang, Dai Wang was also a little ignorant, whether he recognized it or not, he had to step forward to solve the bad relationship that Dai Liulang had caused before.
He beat his horse and came out of the crowd, came to the gang of bandits a few feet away, stretched out his hand and took off the hood of his cloak, and the face full of burns and scars was exposed to the blue sky, which looked particularly hideous and terrifying.
The bandits' faces showed surprise, and one of the women covered her mouth with a sigh, and then tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably.
Duan Xiushi and the others no longer doubt that these people are indeed Dai Wang's old friends, but it seems that they are destined to part ways.
The person named Dai Wang, who is actually Xu Bin, said some ambiguous words: "The Dai Wang you see is no longer the Dai Wang of yesterday, and I thank you here for the friendship of the brothers in the past, and I will say goodbye."
The mountain bandits moved out of the way, watching as their former leader turned into such a non-human and ghostly appearance. Someone couldn't help but shout: "Chief! Why go to the Green Ridge to suffer from the extreme cold. Wouldn't it be nice for you and my brother to gather in the mountains and forests!"
Dai Wang immediately hugged his fists at everyone: "Dai Wang's mind has been decided, please don't persuade you anymore."
The woman named Qiu'e finally burst into tears, and she followed behind Dai Wang with the reins of her horse, crying in her mouth: "No matter what you become, Qiu'e is willing to follow you!" I'm going to go with you to Green Ridge!"
Dai Wang couldn't help but feel cold all over his body when he heard this, he still had love debts?
And several Tang Army singles who followed him, their eyes changed with the woman's figure, from envy to despair, eager to use their trouser belts to find a crooked neck tree to fish themselves to death, others were disfigured and disfigured like this, and women did not give up and swore to follow. is also born as a human being, why does the sky favor one over the other?