Chapter 118: Two miles outside Xianyang City
The Northern Route Army was defeated, and the defeat was beyond everyone's expectations, and the defeat was so rapid that even Uncle Guo's political enemies didn't react for a while.
There was a lot of discussion in the entire Xianyang City, it was not 350,000 people, it was the million-strong army of Qin and Yan. Even if you stretch your neck and let people cut it, it will take a few days, right?
On the day the news came, a group of dignitaries, including the Taiwei, gathered in the palace and discussed all night.
On the second day, the uncle of the country, who had unswervingly stood on the side of the King of Qin, sued the old man and returned to his hometown in the snowflakes. King Qin didn't say yes or no, but just asked the eunuch to pass on an edict to let him pay attention to his body and recuperate with peace of mind.
Zheng Er, who has been by his side all the year round, went to Yanbei with Zheng Anping, and the four masters of wind, rain, thunder and lightning also went with him.
The only thing that accompanied him all the way back to his hometown was a groom and a servant girl left behind by Uncle Guo's wife.
Seeing that the gate of Xianyang City was getting farther and farther away, and the population was becoming more and more sparse, the groom driving couldn't help but start worrying. Uncle Guo has offended a lot of people in Xianyang, although not everyone is eager to eat his flesh and sleep his skin, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be so many people who fall into the well.
His eyes were no longer wandering when he returned to the city, constantly examining every person and carriage that happened to pass by, for fear that at the moment of staggering, someone would tear the carriage and take the life of Uncle Guo.
This carriage is no different from the carriage of ordinary rich and noble families, and it is dyed with tung oil mixed with coloring to make the common black. The groom dressed in a lily coat is also inconspicuous, if it weren't for the half-cut handle exposed under the buttocks, no one would have thought that this ordinary coachman would be the so-called master.
The carriages staggered past one similar carriage after another, and from time to time someone pointed and pointed. Where is this, this is Xianyang City, it is the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom, any person who rides in a carriage, which one is not a dozen or twenty servants. There was only one one, and there was only one driver driving the car.
In the tea sheds and wine stalls on both sides, several men who seemed to be walking were staring at the carriage with their eyes, and the man sitting in the middle said something from time to time, seemingly joking, but the rest of the people did not smile at all, but held the burden of picking things.
In the field not far away, more than a dozen working men raised their heads from time to time to look here, and then lowered their heads and bent down to work.
There seems to be a lack of even the nature of the discussion.
Everything seemed so normal, but the groom couldn't help but put his hand on the hilt of the knife. Those men who walk on feet seem to be really ordinary foot coolies, but they don't have the scarves commonly used by those real foot coolies. But on the clothes of those men, there is no wear on the shoulders, so it is inevitable that there is something too much.
Those men who work in the fields, the flaws are even more obvious. What kind of ground are you still plowing in winter?
The coachman lowered the brim of his hat and whispered, "Master, there are many horses in ambush on both sides, I'm afraid it's not good." ”
"It doesn't matter, this place is only two miles away from Xianyang City, they dare to do it here, are the warlocks patrolling the city really dead. Uncle Guo sat in the car, and the servant girl who was also in her thirties knelt beside her with her armor.
On the official road, a person suddenly reined in his horse: "In the car ahead, there is the anti-thief Zheng Guangming! I will arrest the criminals by the king's order, and the idle people will disperse as soon as possible!"
The man driving the car suddenly clenched the handle of the knife, but was pressed down by one hand. When I turned my head, Uncle Guo was already wearing plain clothes and got out of the carriage. The handmaid stood aside, holding a suit of armor and a sword.
"I don't know, Lord Prison Shi, which king's order is it to arrest Zheng?" Uncle Zheng Guangming stared playfully at the slightly flustered prison history in front of him: "What's more, when will you have the power to enter Beijing to arrest criminals when you will have the power to enter Beijing to arrest criminals?"
"The bold traitor Zheng Guangming still dares to quibble! Someone come! Take down the thief, and follow me back to Beijing to receive the reward!" The immediate supervisor Yu Shi waved his hand, and the men on both sides who were still pretending to be farmers on foot one after another drew their weapons and surrounded the carriage.
On the road, carriages and pedestrians hid far away.
Zheng Guangming looked back in the direction of Xianyang, and several warlocks had obviously noticed the movement here, and they had risen high, but they were stopped by others.
Uncle Guo smiled slightly: "Unexpectedly, the city defense of Xianyang City has been taken over by the master behind you?" Let me guess who wants the old man's life so much, and he doesn't even want the old man to go out of the Xianyang range, so he can't wait to do it." It's Sosho-sama, right?"
"Full of nonsense! Lord Zongzheng has always been law-abiding, how could he do anything to block the road and kill people!"
Uncle Guo smiled and said, "Since Lord Zongzheng abides by the law, then you will not fail to know the armor and sword given by the previous king." When the first king gave him this set of armor, he said in public, "You can pardon me for three capital crimes!" Do you want to trap the king for injustice, or do you want to take advantage of the opportunity to murder the old man!"
The maidservant took half a step forward at the right time and stood beside Uncle Guo, the armor and sword she held shining in the white sun.
The eunuch led by "this 、、、" obviously didn't expect that this uncle of the country, who only took a servant and a maid out, actually carried the armor given by the former king with the car. It was difficult for a while.
"What do you have to do with him, hack him to death with a knife, and go back to the city to receive the reward!" The man who was sitting in the middle of the wine stall just now stood up at this time, slapped the table, and was free and powerful.
Zheng Guangming said with a smile: "Lord Taiwei's high-ranking apprentice Sun Servant shot, I Zheng didn't expect it, and I also offended Lord Taiwei." I want to ask you to bring a good son to Lord Taiwei, if you offend somewhere, please bear with me. ”
Seeing that his identity was revealed, the servant immediately took off the human skin mask on his face: "Do it!"
A good show of everyone besieging and killing Uncle Guo is about to be staged in this Xianyang City, two miles outside the city.