Chapter 318: Elm Head
"Hey, are you really the sixth prince?" Tu Boan straddled a black horse, pinched the horse's belly, and soared to Rong Run's side. Rong Run sat on the prisoner cart with one leg propped up, one leg hanging leisurely in the air, closing his eyes to recuperate.
Hearing Tu Bo'an ask him, Rong Run opened his eyes and asked, "This king said yes, will you believe it?"
"No, it won't. Tu Boan shook his head in a daze.
"If the king tells the truth, he will answer yes, and if he tells a lie, he will answer yes, but unfortunately you will not believe the truth or falsehood. If you don't believe it, what's the use of you questioning this king?"
Tu Boan's head turned several times in a row before he understood what he said. Tu Boan snorted and said, "You'd better be real, if your kid is debunked by the sect master, see how I clean you up!"
"Hey you!" the witch doctor tied his hands, but he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and point at him: "Why don't you eat oil and salt! ”
Tu Bo'an turned red, saying that he could only use force to intimidate, pressed the handle of the knife on his waist, and demonstrated: "Who do you say is a dog!"
"I said you!" The witch doctor glared: "You still have a knife, what do you want to do, and you dare to kill me?" The witch doctor leaned his neck over: "You kill, you kill one for the little master to see! I see you kill me, how can you explain to Sect Master Wei!"
Tu Boan hesitated, with his temper, he really wanted to slaughter this arrogant boy with a knife in his hand, but he was worried that it was really the sixth prince sitting in the car. If you rashly kill the people of the six princes, it will be difficult to recover.
Rong Run caught a glimpse of Tu Bo'an's stunned expression, and couldn't help laughing: "Witch doctor, shut up." The captain of the school also acts impartially, so where is the dog's eye looking down on people? You kid, don't be too mean. ”
The witch doctor pursed his lips and slowly lowered his head: "Yes, Your Highness, just don't say anything about your subordinates." ”
Rong Run smiled at Tu Bo'an and said, "The captain just has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai." ”
Flutter!
Seeing that Tu Boan's face was blue and white for a while, the witch doctor hurriedly turned his face away, turned his back to Tu Boan, and smiled like chaff.
Tu Boan took them on the road for two days and two nights, and in order to save time, the meals on the road were only white water and bread. Today's bread is very hard, and the witch doctor is so choked that he burps. Tu Boan smiled: "You kid, at first glance, you are fed by big fish and meat, and your throat and eyes are so thin." ”
"Nonsense!" The witch doctor glanced at Tu Boan angrily: "Lao Tzu, I have never eaten such a hard thing since I was a child, and I can't bite it, how can I eat it?"
Tu Boan stuffed the black bun into his mouth, and pulled it as if he was struggling for his life, and the bun made a stabbing sound. Tu Boan said vaguely while chewing: "Don't you see that I eat very deliciously?"
The witch doctor was stunned: "Grandma's, it sounds like the felt soles made by my grandmother when I was a child." I said, "Do you have all your teeth?"
Tu Boan glanced at him, rubbed his gums, and told him to say this, and he really felt his jaw sour.
Rong Run pinched a piece of hard black bread, put it in his mouth and bit it, and it was quite toothy. When he took the bun out of his mouth, only a shallow layer of tooth marks was left on it, and the bun skin did not move.
The witch doctor pressed Rong Run's hand and said, "Sixth Master, let's not eat this, we will go to Donglin Prefecture immediately, and when we see Sect Master Wei in Donglin, we will say that the kid is abusing us." ”
Tu Bo looked at the witch doctor in amazement: "What? I abused you, how did I abuse you?"
"Yesterday, it was still a white-flour steamed bun, although it was not very delicious, at least it could be bitten," the witch doctor took the hard black bread and said, "Is this true? It's as hard as a scale? How can we eat it?"
"Hehe!?" Tu Boan tilted his head, took a bite of the bun and chewed it hard: "Why can't you eat it, don't I eat the same as you?" Tell you, the closer you get to Donglinzhou, the poorer the people become, the rice and white noodles or something, that must be pushed to other places with a small cart, so as to sell them at a good price to support the family, who is willing to take them to steamed steamed buns to eat? It's good to have this, you have to know how many people, the black flour buns have to be mixed with wild vegetables to eat!"
"Since the Sect Master's Mansion has occupied Yuexi Prefecture, why don't you open a warehouse for the people here to release grain?" Rong Run took the black bun and tried his best to bite it, but he still couldn't bite it.
"Our sect master wants to open a warehouse to release grain, but where does this grain come from? The grain stored in the former Donglin government has already been given to the people of Donglin. Where is there any surplus food?" Tu Boan snorted disdainfully, tapped the horse's head, and said, "You people from the capital are drunk and don't know the suffering of the common people. Do you know why the Sect Master's Mansion was able to take Yuexi and Tongzhou in such a short period of time?"
Rong Run and the witch doctor glanced at each other, and both shook their heads: "Because of what?"
"It's because the people in Yuexi are too poor, and the people in Tongzhou are too rich. Originally, there were only more than 1,000 soldiers in Donglin, but after being stationed in Yuexi, the common people heard that they could serve as soldiers and eat food, so they joined the army one after another. The Donglin Mansion soldiers expanded nearly tenfold at once. The war is fought with silver, and the people of the same state are used to being rich, so they are reluctant to contribute money and efforts. As soon as our army arrived at the border with Tongzhou, the government led the people to surrender. ”
"I see. Rong Run sighed, for the common people, there is really no justice. As long as they can be fed and warmed, let alone surrender to the Sect Master's Mansion, it is not a big deal to surrender to the Lu State.
Tu Boan took Rong Run and his party and did not stay in Ankang Town for long, and Rong Run only crossed through Ankang Town in a hurry.
"This town is much richer than the place just now, why, isn't this the territory of Yuexi anymore?" asked Rong Run.
"Not really. Tu Boan whipped hard on the horse's buttocks, the horse was frightened, raised its four hooves, Tu Boan smiled: "This is the place where our Sect Master Wei started, and it is also a nail that was wedged into our three states with the prince." And you can't be poor!"
Tu Boan took Rong Run and the others to the side gate of the Sect Master's Mansion, and only escorted Rong Run and the witch doctor in. The others Rong Run brought out of the capital were still tied hand and foot, sitting on the cart, attracting passers-by to stop and watch.
Rong Run looked around for a while, this sect master's mansion was quite presentable, and it had a kind of majestic style of heaven. Tu Boan escorted Rong Run and the witch doctor to Wonxi's study.
"Yo, isn't this Captain Tu?" Hua Yue walked out of the study with a basin of dirty water, turned around and splashed the water on the ground of Huahuagen under the courtyard, and asked, "Why is Captain Tu here today?"
Tu Boan recognized her, wasn't she given to the wealth-keeping Huayue girl by Wonxi. He arched his hand and said with a smile: "I'm tired of Miss Huayue to report it, Tu Boan has an urgent matter to meet the sect master." ”
Hua Yue bundled her hands and said, "Captain Tu, it's not that the slave doesn't help you report, it's really a misfortune that you came today." ”
"What's the wrong thing?" asked Tu Boan.
Hua Yue was also a little strange: "The sect master took Mother Zhong to Ankang Town, why, no one told you when you entered the mansion?"
"Ankang Town?" Tu Boan slapped his palm on his thigh: "Hey, let's go two forks, we just came from Ankang Town." If you know where the sect master is, why do you want to come here?"
Hua Yue flattened her mouth: "Why don't you go to the flower hall and sit for a while, and the slave will bring you a cup of tea?"
"Yes!" the witch doctor interjected, "I'm dying of thirst." ”
Only then did Hua Yue notice the two people who tied their hands and feet, and said with a smile: "Who are these two?"
Tu Boan sighed, looked at Rong Run and the witch doctor, and didn't know what to call them for a while. He said, "It's two prisoners." ”
"Huh?" Hua Yue was a little frightened, and shrank behind the pillar: "Captain Tu, since they are prisoners, why did you bring them to the mansion?"
The witch doctor gave him a blank look: "You are the prisoner!"
Tu Boan snorted and pointed to the witch doctor's face: "You kid still dare to be hard-mouthed, before you find out your identity, you are the prisoner of the general." ”
The witch doctor turned his face sideways: "You are so tough, you go and point at him!"
Tu Boan turned to Rong Run, and as soon as he raised his fingers, he saw Rong Run's eyes staring at him contemptuously, he was a little deflated, and put his hand down. He asked Hua Yue instead: "The sect master didn't say when he would come back?"
Hua Yue stroked her pigtails and shook her head: "Oh, this is not for sure, the sect master just said that he would go to Ankang Town to meet a few old friends, and he didn't say when he would come back?" ”
"Hehe!" Tu Boan smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's really not a good time." He raised his head, looked at Hua Yue and said, "Miss Hua Yue, these two people or I will leave them in the empty room in the backyard of the mansion." You find a few government soldiers to watch them, and you're asking someone to get them something to eat. Although these two people's martial arts are good, as long as you don't let go of the rope, they can't escape. ”
"Oh, no, no, no!" Hua Yue waved her hand again and again, and her mouth seemed to be blistered, and a long list of words of no came out.
"They're prisoners!" Hua Yue said with a bitter face: "Captain Tu, you better take them away, the surname He was scary enough a while ago, and you sent two more." Isn't that our lives?"
Tu Boan frowned: "I can't take them home, can I?" there are more than thirty of them outside!"
"Three ......" Hua Yue stared at Tu Bo'an inexplicably: "I said Captain Tu, are you going to rebel? More than 30 prisoners, why don't you hurry up and escort them to the prison and send them to the Sect Master's Mansion?"
"Prison?" Tu Boan turned his head to look at Rong Run: "Can you live in prison?"
Rong Run was also speechless: "Can I say no?"
"Okay, that's the only way, escort them to the prison first, wait for the sect master to come back, and then go to the prison to verify the truth. Tu Boan said, pushing Rong Run's shoulder: "Let's go?"
Rong Run stared at Tu Bo'an, and said after a while: "Captain Tu, is your head a solid sandbag?" That is, this king has a good temper, and if you change to the king of Lijun, if you dare to do this, ten heads will also be twisted off for you!"