Chapter 20: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell
Seeing a room full of Khitan soldiers preparing to commit suicide, Chai Rong laughed all of a sudden, he looked around, and said with a smile: "Haha, what do I think is the matter, do you think I won't kill you in this way!"
At this time, there was a gray-haired old man among the Khitan soldiers in the house, and he said a few words of Khitan dialect, Chai Rong didn't understand the Khitan dialect, so he asked the guard next to him and asked what the Khitan soldiers said.
The guard replied, "Back to the saints, he said that they knew that they would die today, but they had to choose the way they died, and if we went in now, they would immediately kill themselves by cutting their throats, and their blood would cover the whole ground." Also, Holy Lord, I didn't understand the meaning of the last sentence, but it probably meant that if blood covered the whole ground, that thing would never be found. ”
Chai Rong was originally very contemptuous of the practice of the Khitan soldiers in the room, and he smiled contemptuously at first and listened to the guards' translation. Since ancient times, the king has been defeated and defeated, victory is victory, defeat is defeat, and the fate of the defeated person is always decided by the victor, and these Khitan soldiers can't change anything at all. If you have to say that the Khitan soldiers show any temperamental characteristics, it is also a little bit of integrity that has become extremely cheap in the war era.
However, after hearing the last sentence of the guard's translation, Chai Rong's face changed greatly, he looked at the Khitan soldier who spoke incredulously, first showing a look of puzzlement and disbelief, and then after staring at the Khitan soldier's eyes for a few seconds, his expression changed to fear.
"Then, what do you want?" When he said this, Chai Rong's voice was already trembling a little.
At this time, the Khitan soldier said a few more words, and the guard who had just translated them translated truthfully: "Shengshang, he said that they will hold a ceremony before being beheaded to return their souls, this ceremony is very sacred, and we Han people cannot be present." He told us to go out and wait, and at noon they would come out of the house on their own, and then we would be at our mercy. ”
After confirming that the translation had been completed, the Khitan soldier no longer looked at Chai Rong, but lowered his head, slowly raised his hand, and motioned Chai Rong and the others to go out.
Chai Rong thought for a moment and ordered, "Go back." After speaking, he led everyone down the steps with a blue face.
Xiao Hongtao, who witnessed the whole passage, was even more puzzled in his heart, what is the situation? Why did Chai Rong react like this to the Khitan soldiers who were about to commit suicide, this is not normal. The subordinates who ordered to kill Zhao Kuangyin in Ximen just now didn't blink their eyes, how could they retreat when facing outsiders. Also, I can't find what the Khitan soldiers said, what the hell is it.
Suddenly, a thought appeared in Xiao Hongtao's heart: Could it be that the fundamental purpose of Chai Rong's attack on Yizhou City was the "thing" in the Khitan population!
Yes, it is very likely, otherwise Chai Rong would have no reason to react like this - to show weakness in the face of weakness.
After coming down the steps, Chai Rong became more and more uneasy, pacing back and forth in the open space in front of the steps, he ordered the soldiers to surround the house, and then ordered the archers to aim at the doors and windows, and shoot anyone as soon as they saw it coming out.
When Chai Rong was pacing back and forth, Xiao Hongtao was happy to watch a good show on the side, the experience of living in ancient times in the past two days was really too rich, and he had not fully entered the role before he was drawn closer to a huge conspiracy by his identity. Xiao Hongtao found a grassy area with weeds and sat cross-legged, watching Chai Rong walk back and forth with a blue face. Looking at it, Xiao Hongtao discovered a new situation.
Xiao Hongtao found that the twilight aura on Chai Rong's face was even stronger, almost the same as the twilight aura on the face of the village chief's son that he saw when he was a child before he died, if Xiao Hongtao's estimate was right, Chai Rong's remaining yang life was less than three days.
Thinking of this, Xiao Hongtao actually felt a trace of pity for Chai Rong in his heart: after all, he was a king, and when he was at the most glorious time in his life, he was targeted by death, and the circumstances of life are really difficult to understand.
Just when Xiao Hongtao was thinking wildly, Chai Rong suddenly stopped, stopped where he was, and then suddenly turned around and shouted to the guards: "Come on, hurry, rush into the house!" Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Chai Rong continued to shout loudly: "Hurry, immediately!"
At this time, Chai Rong's own soldiers confirmed Chai Rong's order, quickly climbed the steps, slammed the door open, and rushed in. Xiao Hongtao couldn't understand Chai Rong's actions, what's wrong, he just took us out, why did he rush in again not long after.
Soon, the leader of Chai Rong's personal soldiers ran out of the house again, ran to Chai Rong, and after kneeling, he looked panicked and reported: "Hey, report to the saint, the house is empty." ”
Chai Rong gritted his teeth and said, "That's really the case!" Chai Rong took two quick steps forward, suddenly stopped, looked down and thought for a while, and continued: "That's fine." ”
After finishing speaking, Chai Rong strode towards the house. Xiao Hongtao also wanted to know what was going on in the house, so he got up from the grass, patted his buttocks, and after patting the grass off his buttocks, he also followed. Naturally, Wei Jiang and the others also followed into the house one after another.
When he arrived at the house, Xiao Hongtao found that the house was empty, there was no one, the stone floor in the house was very clean, there was almost no dust, and all the people were gone!