Chapter 097: A Bitter Meat Scheme
Hearing Liu An's roar, Cheng Ze and his guards were stunned for a moment.
They never imagined that Liu An, who was worried a moment ago, would suddenly attack.
On the other side, Lu Bu and the three of them had been waiting for Liu An's order for a long time, and when they heard Liu An yelling, they all rushed to Cheng Ze's side with one arrow step.
Zhang Fei held down Cheng Ze, Lu Bu knocked over two Cheng Ze guards by himself, and Gao Shun also controlled the other guard in an instant.
The speed of the three of them was extremely fast, although Cheng Ze and the others were only stunned for a moment and recovered, but before they could make any resistance, they were taken down.
Cheng Ze glared at Liu An angrily: "Bold Liu An!" What do you want? ”
At this time, dozens of guards rushed into the guest hall and tied Cheng Ze and the four of them with ropes.
After that, Liu An asked the guards to be dragged elsewhere, leaving Cheng Ze alone.
Gao Shun is steady, and Liu An arranged it in advance to force Cheng Ze to bow his head.
Zhang Fei and Lu Bu are both reckless, and Liu An is afraid that they will accidentally kill Cheng Ze if their hands tremble.
Cheng Ze's nephew Meng Lan was not here, and Liu An did not arrange something for him to do at this time, but he did not come, so he did not dare to face his uncle.
Gao Shun pressed the tip of his sword against Cheng Ze's neck and forced him to surrender.
I don't know if Cheng is sure that Liu An will not dare to kill him, or if he is really not afraid of death, even if Gao Shun stabbed the tip of the sword into the skin and shed blood, he still glared at Liu An angrily, pursed his mouth stubbornly, and no longer spoke ill of each other, but he didn't say a word.
Gao Shun also forced his wife and children to force him, saying that if he did not surrender, after killing him, he would bring disaster to his whole family.
Seeing this situation, Cheng Ze was more stable, and looked at Gao Shun with disdain, and his expression seemed to say: If you dare to kill you, try it!
Liu An didn't expect this journey to be so fearless, and when he didn't know how to take the next step, there was a noise outside the lobby.
Liu An turned around in confusion, only to see Liu Bei walking in with a few people, escorting Meng Lan, who was bound by ropes.
This was not in Liu An's plan, he cast a puzzled look at Liu Bei, and saw Liu Bei nodding to himself.
Liu Anxin comprehended, knowing that this should be Liu Bei's response to the movement in the guest hall when he heard it outside the door, and he came up with a response in a hurry, so he nodded and let Liu Bei play.
After Meng Lan entered the guest hall, she cried and shouted to Cheng Ze: "Uncle! Uncle, are you alright? I regret not listening to my uncle's words, so I suffered today's catastrophe! ”
Cheng Ze looked at Meng Lan in surprise: "Yuan Pu, why don't you ......?" ”
Speaking of this, Cheng Ze turned to understand that Liu An really did whatever it took to force land on him, and did not hesitate to threaten himself with his own subordinates and his nephew.
Thinking of this, Cheng Ze was furious and began to scold Liu An again: "Liu An! You are not the Son of Man! In vain, I have a good skin, I don't want to be so femme fatale! ”
Liu An didn't explain, and let Cheng scold angrily with a calm face.
Liu Bei couldn't look at Cheng and insulted his uncle, and shouted: "Shut up! The prisoner under the stairs, dare to insult my master? I'll give you ten breaths to think about and ...... Or not down? After ten breaths, if it does not fall, I will cut off one of your nephew's fingers. When all his fingers are cut off, if you do not descend ...... Don't blame me for waiting! ”
When Liu An heard what Liu Bei said, he was a little nervous, for fear that Liu Bei would really cut off Meng Lan's finger.
Thinking that Liu Bei was not such a vicious person, it was impossible to sacrifice his colleagues in order to achieve his goal, so he relieved himself.
Cheng Ze was equally stunned, and looked at Liu Bei with a stunned expression.
Meng Lan cried more and more sadly: "Uncle, uncle save me!" I don't want my fingers cut off, I don't want to die! Uncle save me......"
Listening to Meng Lan's cry, Cheng Ze hesitated, but there was still a voice in his heart telling him that Liu An didn't dare to do this, he was just bluffing.
At this time, Liu Bei, who counted every other breath, had already counted to seven.
After another breath, Liu Bei said coldly: "Eight! ”
"Nine!"
Time fell, and one of the several people holding Meng Lan forcibly broke Meng Lan's fingers, revealing the little finger of his left hand, and pressed the hilt of the sword against the back of his hand, fixing it with brute force.
The two people on Meng Lan's side held down his body, and no matter how Meng Lan struggled, he still couldn't withdraw his palm.
"Ten!"
When he counted to ten, Liu Bei suddenly pulled out the sword at his waist and cut off Meng Lan's little thumb with a thunderous sword.
"Ah!!!h
Meng Lan's bitter cry came from the guest hall, and Liu An's head was already down at this time.
Liu Bei actually ...... Really hands-on?
After a moment of astonishment, Liu An reacted, rushed to Liu Bei, snatched the sword from his hand, and said angrily: "Xuande! You ......"
"Ahh It hurts! Meng Lan shouted even louder, Liu An turned his head to look at Meng Lan, and was about to lean over to check his wounds, but saw that Meng Lan's slightly moist eyes showed a look of humble pleading, and he shook his head at Liu An slightly.
After Liu An rushed to Liu Bei's side, he happened to be between Meng Lan and Cheng Ze, so Cheng Ze couldn't see Meng Lan's actions.
After only being confused for a moment, Liu An figured out the cause and effect.
This bitter meat plan was proposed by Meng Lan!
He was afraid that he would not agree, so he didn't even mention it in front of him, but found Liu Bei and asked him to cooperate with him.
Only with this explanation can Liu Bei's actions that do not conform to his character be justified.
After Liu An figured it out, he looked at Meng Lan with complicated eyes, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.
He knew very well that once he said what he wanted to say, Meng Lan's plan would fail, and his finger would be lost in vain.
Liu An looked at Meng Lan's severed finger in pain, which was bloody and still bubbling out.
He slowly raised his sword with a sluggish expression, and said in a dry voice, "How can you...... How about starting with the little thumb? Don't you know...... The thumb is the most important finger! You count...... This time, the official ...... Come in person! ”
Liu An's slow and undulating voice fell on Cheng Ze's ears who were in pain, but it was like a demon's whisper.
He was furious and scolded at Liu An's back: "Liu An! You don't have to die well!! ”
On the other side, Liu Bei had already started counting again.
Time passed little by little, and as the number increased, Liu An, who had his back to Cheng Ze, looked painful, and he didn't want to continue to torture Meng Lan.
Who can bear to do it with such a loyal subordinate?
But Cheng was still scolding angrily, and did not say what he wished to surrender.
"Nine!"
Liu Bei had already counted to nine, and at this time Liu An had already decided, he would not make a move.
If Meng Lan's finger can't change Cheng, he will surrender, and a few more chops will have the same result, so why torture his subordinates anymore?
It's a big deal to start a war with Cheng Ze, who has Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, Gao Shun and others under his command, as long as they can kill the other party and take the lead, the rest are all rabble.
"Ten!"
Liu Bei counted to ten, and Liu An was about to drop his sword to check Meng Lan's wounds, but Cheng Ze, who had been scolding angrily, suddenly shouted: "Wait! I'm dropping! I fall!! Don't hurt my nephew again! ”
Seeing this, Liu An immediately made a decision, quickly used a death card on Cheng Ze, and then ignored Cheng Ze, who suddenly quieted down over there, threw away his sword and leaned over to check Meng Lan's wounds.
Meng Lan saw that her uncle was still there, and Liu An acted like this, for fear that his uncle, who had already descended, would rebel again, so he endured the severe pain and whispered to Liu An: "Ming Gong can't ......."
Liu An ignored Meng Lan's reminder, he had successfully used the death card for Cheng Ze, others didn't know, but he knew that Cheng Ze would never repeat.
After waving off all the members of the escort team, and after they walked out of the guest hall, Liu An immediately took a set of medical kits from the warehouse.
Liu An was in a hurry to bandage Meng Lan's wounds, and he didn't have time to verify one by one whether all the members of the escort team were dead.
He quickly took out alcohol to disinfect Meng Lan's wound and apply medicine.
Liu An sprinkled Meng Lan's wound with a lot of medicine powder provided by the system, and watched the blood flow out get slower and slower, until it was completely stopped, and then he used a bandage to carefully bandage it.
Only at this time did Liu An look at Meng Lan reproachfully: "Yuan Pu, how can you practice yourself like this!" ”
Meng Lan sighed: "Alas! Ming Gong did this, wouldn't he give up his efforts? ”
Liu An didn't explain either, and asked Zhang Fei to untie the rope that bound Cheng Ze.
Cheng broke free of the restraints, came to Meng Lan urgently, and saw that his wound had been bandaged, so he didn't move again, but said to Meng Lan bitterly:
"Yuan Pu, the parents of the body, this move is a great unfilial piety!"
Meng Lan looked at Cheng Ze in surprise: "Uncle doesn't blame me for using bitter meat?" ”
"Alas! It's just that I didn't descend early, and I lost a finger of Yuan Pu! Cheng Ze, who was used with the Dead Shi Card, has changed his mentality unconsciously.
When Meng Lan heard Cheng Ze's words, she looked at Liu An in surprise.
"Uncle has surrendered, I hope that Ming Gong will spare his life!"
Liu An only then did he understand Meng Lan's intentions, it turned out that he was not only trying to help him collect Cheng Zhi, but also worried that he would not keep his promise and harm his uncle's life, so he tried to rescue him.
In this regard, Liu An smiled bitterly: "Since I promised Yuan Pu, I will definitely not lose my word, Yuan Pu doesn't have to be like this!" ”
After that, Liu An strictly told everyone present not to follow Meng Lan's example in the future, and repeatedly told Meng Lan not to do this in the future.
Then Liu An asked Meng Lan to go down to rest, and instructed his subordinates to stew more meat and boil some eggs for Meng Lan in the next few days to recuperate his injuries.
After sending Meng Lan away, Liu An discussed with everyone in the hall how to receive Cheng Zebu's trilogy.
Cheng Ze had a total of 2,200 county soldiers under his command, and Cheng Ze, as a captain, must be the nominal commander.
Liu An's idea was to place Liu Bei's four people in the name of Cheng Ze, plus the township Yong that Liu An had recently recruited, to form 2,800 people, each of whom received seven tuns.
Liu An's escort team still serves as Liu An's personal guard to protect Liu An's safety.
After the preliminary agreement, Liu An saw that it was getting late, so he asked Cheng Ze to go home first.
After asking Liu Bei and others to arrange the accommodation of Xiangyong, Liu An also went back to his room to rest.
Thinking about his future plans, Liu An lay on the bed and slowly fell asleep.
Hazy suddenly heard the prompt of the system's cumulative recruitment, Liu An originally wanted to ignore him and continue to sleep, but as soon as the prompt sounded, it continued.
After sobering up a little, Liu An guessed that this should be the contribution brought by Cheng Ze's personal servant.
After a long time, Liu An was almost used to the system prompt sound, and when he was about to fall asleep in a daze, the prompt sound stopped.
Liu An was helpless, he was so tossed by the system that he didn't feel much sleep, so he simply sat up from the bed, and opened the system to check while thinking about the next step.
Liu An roughly calculated, just now there were more than 1,400 people who were loyal, and the 100 contribution points of the lottery overdraft during the morning lottery had been automatically deducted, and Liu An had a total of 46 contribution points at the moment.
There are still 4 points left to draw ten draws.
Liu An's death card is almost used up, and after using it for Cheng Ze today, there are only 6 left.
His next plan is to do something to the Hao clan in the entire Wuyuan.
Judging from the information obtained by Liu An, the entire Wuyuan County is as small as a slightly large-scale family, as large as a behemoth like Cheng Ze, and there are more than 40 large and small wealthy families combined.
If Liu An wants to control the entire Wuyuan Hao clan like subduing Lu Bu and Cheng Ze, these 6 dead cards are obviously not enough.
It seems that we have to wait a little longer, and when the contribution is enough, we will draw another manor lottery plate.
It happened that it would take time for Liu Bei and others to receive Cheng Ze's troops, so Liu An decided to make a move on Haoqiang in a few days.
I've been waiting for so long, and it's not bad for a few days.
On the second day, Liu An ordered Xiangyong to lay down his weapons and leather armor and return to the outside of the city to continue building the manor.
He has not yet fully controlled the five plains, and he has to continue to do the drama that should be done.
On the other hand, Cheng brought Lu Bu and others to the military camp to serve, and at first his subordinates were naturally unconvinced.
It wasn't until the four of them showed unparalleled bravery that they hibernated in the barracks.
Liu An returned to the house outside the city again, practiced calligraphy and reading, practiced martial arts, hid his fame, and looked like a retired pensioner.
Three days later, Liu An finally saved up enough 50 contribution points.
At this time, he had to congratulate himself on his original policy of 'no refusal to come', so that Zhuoxian Manor could continue to provide him with contributions.
It's slow, but it's a big deal.
When he heard the system prompt, Liu An was sitting in the study of his house practicing calligraphy, and immediately put down the brush and opened the ten consecutive draws of the manor.
After the sound of ding ding, the results of Liu An's lottery came out.
The prizes were: 50 kg of sugar, 600 kg of sweet potatoes, 150 cans of Lao Gan Ma, 500 packs of compressed biscuits, 20 manor dead cards, 500 pieces of coarse cloth, 600 kg of potatoes, keep up the good work, 20 bottles of vitamins, 60 kg of fine salt.
Seeing that the prize included the Dead Soldier Card, Liu An felt lucky at the same time, and the Ten Consecutive Rewards did not hesitate to choose the Dead Soldier Card.
So Liu An no longer lived in the courtyard, took a dozen guards, and immediately rode to the prime minister's palace in the city.
After delivering the famous thorn, not long after, Liu An met Taishou Lin Fang under the leadership of the housekeeper.
It has been more than half a month since the last time the two met, and Lin Fang saw that Liu An had not made a move on Haoqiang for a long time, and thought that he was also restricted by Haoqiang like himself.
Now that he sees Liu An's face full of spring breeze and his demeanor is more confident, he knows that he doesn't want to be as incompetent as he imagined.
Lin Fang got straight to the point and said: "Guan Changsheng is confident, but are you ready to attack the heroes?" ”
Liu An smiled confidently, and said, "Everything is ready, only Lin Taishou has an order!" ”
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