Chapter 126: Sacrifice

"This Pei Zhi is really floating, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World came to greet him, and he didn't hurry out to greet him, and he was grinding!"

Han Chuang complained with a stiff face while carrying his luggage into the house.

When everyone entered the city, he sent his subordinates to the Taishou Mansion to report, but he didn't expect to wait at the city gate for half an hour, and he didn't see Pei Zhi bring people to come.

However, Wen Chen didn't care much about these red tapes, and his mother told him before leaving, this Pei Zhi was one of his father's cronies when he first started the army, and he was extremely short-tempered, but he was a good soldier.

He was a big man, and he couldn't talk more than his brain, and the king of Zhennan couldn't stand his stinky temper, so he sent him to the estuary to guard it.

Another point, Pei Zhi had a good relationship with the second prince Wen before, and Wen Yue's martial arts were learned from him.

When entering the city, Han Chuang originally planned to take Wen Chen to the former residence of the King of Zhennan to settle down, which was spacious and worthy of the status of the King of Shanghai.

But the proposal was rejected by Wen Chen, saying that the big mansion was not used to living, so he spent two hundred taels of silver and found a secluded mansion to buy it.

In fact, he was worried that the house would be difficult to manage if it was big, and it would be easy to mix in some spies sent by Lincheng, and it would be enough to deal with the dozen or so girls by himself, and he didn't want to make trouble again.

As for Dao Jiu and the other brothers in the guard camp, Wen Chen gave them two thousand taels of silver to settle down nearby and buy a family, but he didn't put much thought into it.

With the efforts of everyone, the small mansion also gave birth to some fireworks before dark, and it had a bit of home, and the "Wen Mansion" plaque brought from Qingcheng all the way was also rehung on the door.

However, since entering the city, Wen Chen has rarely seen passing people on the street, it stands to reason that such a large city is also a border fortress, and the troops stationed there alone should be counted in tens of thousands.

The strange thing is that not only are there few pedestrians on the roadside, but they all look panicked, and even the high-paying recruitment notices posted by Han Chuang are basically ignored.

At night, everyone set up two large round tables in the courtyard to prepare for dinner, which looked very harmonious.

Han Chuang, who had taken off his armor, glanced at the women at the table next to him who were silent and frowned slightly.

"Your Royal Highness the Sea King, these girls don't look like ordinary women......"

Wen Chen smiled slightly, "What is that like?" ”

"That fierce look looks like the silver armor army under the general's account."

Wen Chen had already expected this.

"It's just that my father is not at ease, and the spies who have come over are not in the way."

Han Chuang frowned, "The prince is really right, he is still so wary of his own son, and he is not afraid of other people's jokes when he says it!" ”

Under the tent of the king of Zhennan, there are few people who dare to say such things like him.

Dao Jiu, who was eating vegetables with his head down, suddenly turned cold, and said in a deep voice, "Shopkeeper, do you want to find a few brothers to kill them?" ”

Han Chuang's face turned pale, and he was about to speak, but he saw Wen Chen raise his hand and said, "There's no need, kill a batch, my father still has a reason to send a batch, and I can't kill it clean." ”

What King Zhennan was worried about was nothing more than that he was sending a message to Emperor Jingren behind his back as an internal response, but Wen Chen didn't have this idea at all, and it was not necessary to get rid of these girls, if they could be collected for their own use, it would be better.

Lingyu saw that the atmosphere on the table was a little strange, and everyone was fighting and killing with one mouth, and deliberately diverted the topic, "Everyone said that this estuary is really weird, Wen Gongzi has offered a monthly salary of five taels of silver a month to recruit workers, but no one responded, are the people here really poor or fake poor?" ”

Han Chuang sighed slightly, "Poor is definitely poor, when the prince started the incident, it has been ten years since he received all the local taxes, plus most of the men in the city have gone to serve as soldiers, and most of them are women who run the family business, even if they go out to sea to fish every day, they can't earn much silver." ”

"Then why didn't anyone come to apply?" Lingyu was curious.

"This ......"

Han Chuang was speechless for a while, so he could only bury his head in eating.

Suddenly, Wen Chen, who was laughing with his body down, sat up inexplicably and looked in the direction of the gate, since he practiced Zhu Youshu, his facial features were extremely keen, and a chaotic footstep could be faintly heard at the mouth of the alley on the west side of the door.

"What's the matter, Your Highness the Sea King?"

"Someone's coming."

Han Chuang laughed loudly, "It must be Pei Zhi's dog thing, dare to be late to take over such a big thing, see how I clean him up in a while!" ”

said that it was to clean up, but in fact, the two of them had a very right temperament, they were both reckless men, and they had a good friendship when they fought before.

As soon as the words fell, I saw a team of black-armored officers and soldiers kicking in the door, which did not look like they had come to ask for peace.

Then a long-bearded Taoist priest wearing a yellow Taoist robe, wearing a heavenly master crown, and carrying a peachwood sword walked in with square steps, his eyes swept over the many women in the courtyard, the corners of his mouth hooked a strange smile, and he was followed by a twelve or thirteen-year-old young attendant who was also wearing it.

"From out of town?"

Han Chuang's face changed slightly, Pei Zhi's dog thing is becoming more and more disagreeable, how can his soldiers let a Taoist priest run around casually?

was about to open his mouth to scold, but was stopped by Wen Chen raising his hand.

"Who are you?"

The Taoist priest snorted, "This Dao Yun Zhongzi, on the orders of Lord Taishou, came to look for sacrifices. ”

"Come on, take down all the female dependents in the courtyard and put them in the bamboo cage!"

"No!"

When Dao Jiu and Tu Sanqian heard this, their eyes were fierce, and they stood up with a bang to make a move!

"Wait!" Wen Chen's face was slightly cold, and he walked step by step towards the Taoist who claimed to be Yun Zhongzi.

"Those who want to take me can do it, but you have to give me a reason first, dare to ask Dao Chief, who are you worshipping, and dare to use living people as sacrifices?"

Yun Zhongzi sneered and nodded his chin at the boy next to him, as if he didn't bother to talk too much nonsense with the young man opposite.

The little boy also looked like a master with low eyes, and hooked his hand towards Wen Chen in an old-fashioned manner, seeing that he didn't react, he simply hugged Wen Chen's neck, almost in a commanding tone.

"It is the obligation of every citizen of Hekou City to cooperate with the master to worship the god of the sea, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it when you first arrive, those who have money will pay, and those who have people will pay people, understand?"

Poseidon?

Wen Chen's face is weird, and he still fucking has a fantasy story?

When Han Chuang heard this, he couldn't sit still at all, you kid dare to mention the sea god to the sea king? Is there any royal law left?!

Slammed the table and stood up, "Fuck your shit, why have I never heard of a sea god in the estuary?" Hurry up and tell you Taishou to come out, don't wait for Lao Tzu to get mad, beat him so that his mother doesn't know him! ”

"Don't be ashamed!" Yun Zhongzi snorted coldly, "Lord Taishou is also someone like you who can see him if he wants?" ”

As he spoke, he walked to the table where several people were seated, with a hint of malice in his eyes, and glanced at Lingyu and Tan Yuan, "The more beautiful a woman is, the more bad things will happen!" ”

"Come on, lock these two demon girls alone, wait for this way to train well, and dedicate it to Lord Seagod!"