Jin Se

Chapter 23: old friend

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Cui Wangye gritted his teeth and said: "I'll bring you another ten stones of food and grass, General Gu will see..."

Shi Wuduan seemed not to have heard Prince Cui's words at all, so he turned to Gu Huaiyang and said, "Brother, how did you sing that song when you were in famine? I'll sing it for the prince to relieve his boredom. What is it?" house, the land is in a wilderness...'"

Prince Cui got angry and slapped the table so hard that the sauce on the plate flowed out.

Gu Huaiyang slapped Shi Wuduan on the back of the head and scolded: "How can you speak without words in front of the prince?"

Shi Wuduanmu looked at him blankly, then at Prince Cui, and after a while, he said: "Oh - I just saw that there is no one singing ditties in the courtyard of Prince Cui, just hum a few words for everyone to drink."

Gu Huaiyang scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, even eating can't stop your mouth."

Shi Wuduan blinked and said pitifully: "I can't eat anymore."

Gu Huaiyang glared at him, and said: "If you can't eat, eat slowly, don't talk!"

Prince Cui was about to have a seizure, but the kidnapper Zhang secretly pulled him under the table, stroked his goatee and said, "I think it's not enough for the prince to allocate ten stones of grain and grass to General Gu. Why don't you allocate another ten stones?"

Shi Wuduan poked the bowl with his chopsticks, and said aggrievedly: "Brother, I really can't eat anymore, my stomach is full. I don't think you are too polite, please eat less, eat less. People who are full of food all day long are prone to laziness. When people are lazy, they don’t like to move. They don’t want to do anything.

Lord Cui gritted his teeth and said: "Thirty-five stones of grain and grass can't be more. It's not a long way. It's troublesome if you have too much luggage. If you take down Guji, there will naturally be a place for brothers to eat and drink."

"Yes, yes." Gu Huaiyang said with a smile, "Your Highness is so generous, he can accommodate a big belly, and he definitely does not hesitate to tip if he achieves great things. He will be famous in history in the future, and he will do something great!"

The flattery was loud, and Prince Cui's expression softened a little, thinking that it would be more speculative to talk to General Gu.

Unexpectedly, Shi Wudu shook his head and sighed again. Prince Cui felt his stomach cramping when he heard his voice, so he wanted to pretend he didn't hear it, and only heard Shi Wudu say: "Brother, the prince values you so much, don't let him He is disappointed!"

Huh? How did you say something human? Prince Cui turned his head to look at Shi Wudu suspiciously.

Shi Wuduan continued: "What if we can't break into Guji County? I heard that the Guji King is as tall as a small tower. He can knock people up by stomping on the ground. He has copper bell eyes." , a white tiger face, and a big bloody mouth. The beard on the face is like a steel wire. It can be cut continuously with ordinary swords, and it can stop a child from crying at night..."

Kidnap Zhang interrupted him, coughing dryly: "If you have any requests from Xiaoxiong Shi, feel free to ask."

"Oh." Shi Wuduan stopped, and took a sip of his wine, "I heard that the prince has some catapults here. They are very exquisitely designed and ingenious. I want to borrow them. As the saying goes, wine is strong and cowardly. If I'm cowardly, I'd better bring some more guys to the battle to be sure, so as not to lose the prince's face."

Those catapults were specially built by Cui Hu. They look like treasures. Hearing that he pushed his nose on his face like this, his nose became crooked for no reason. Unreasonably said: "You..."

Gu Huaiyang dragged Shi Wudu up, dragged him out without any explanation, and quickly said: "Thank you, my lord, for your hospitality. It's shameful that my younger brother lacks discipline. In the end, I will take him back to teach him a good lesson, and I will leave." .”

Shi Wuduan was covered by Gu Huaiyang's hand, and while he jumped out, he struggled and turned around and shouted: "Mr. Zhang, my chicken leg, don't forget my chicken leg—"

Gu Huaiyang and Shi Wuduan, who had robbed the palace, walked out side by side. When they reached the street, Gu Huaiyang slapped Shi Wuduan lightly on the head, and said in a low voice, "You bargain with him endlessly. On Cui Hu's territory, what should I do if I make him anxious?"

Shi Wuyuan walked slowly to a small stall on the side of the road, bought a pack of snacks and put them in his arms, and said, "Let's jump over the wall."

Gu Huaiyang frowned and said, "Still eating? I didn't feel full after eating so much? Did I suffer from famine or did you suffer from famine? Why do you always look like a starved ghost? Go back and ask Si Niang to take a good look at it for you. Eat so much Where did you eat so much, you are skinny, don’t you have other problems with your body?”

"I'm full, I'll grind my teeth after buying it." Shi Wuduan said, paused for a moment, and then explained, "Don't worry, I know what that idiot Cui Hu is. The fourth sister has already said that he is a 'bear heart rabbit Courageous, big eyes and small belly, a dog who can hold eight bubbles. He has no ability to fight. He is not satisfied with being an emperor in a corner of the country because of the chaos in the world. He always wants to occupy a few more places and dream of his emperor. Do it, I'm afraid that we will fall to Gu Ji's side at that time."

Gu Huaiyang nodded and said: "It's also reasonable. I have been looking at Cui Hu for a long time. Since he is bleeding this time, let's take it as ordered. Let's take Gu Ji first and go back and call your third brother and the others. Look at this How to fight a battle."

Shi Wuduan responded, grinding his teeth like a rat with the hard shortbread.

Gu Huaiyang glanced at him again, endured it for a long while, but still couldn't help but rolled his eyes, and said, "Remember to rinse your mouth when you go back, I think your teeth are really hard work, if you grind them like this, the iron pestle will be ground into embroidery needles gone."

Shi Wuduan bent his eyes with a shortbread in his mouth and laughed, with a lot of crumbs on the corner of his mouth, and a small dimple on his left cheek, which is really cute no matter how you look at it, and you can't see that he just asked for a price and paid back the money on the spot Shameless to come.

But when they arrived in Guji, they realized that there was no need to fight this battle at all—the so-called "King Guji" was actually just a big bastard. A prince, two generals appeared tomorrow, he was very itchy, so he gathered a group of his own brothers, broke into the city lord's house, beat him by surprise in the middle of the night, murdered and seized his seal.

Originally, people in Guji City were distracted, but his move was very easy, so easy that even King Guji himself did not expect it.

However, he hadn't finished his lordship when he heard that something was wrong, Cui Hu, king of Anqing, sent troops to seek rebellion. King Guji thought to himself that he had succeeded in rebelling, and he was also a hero after all, so he organized people to fight. Standing on the city wall, listening to the wind blowing against the flag on the wall, he couldn't help but feel a passionate spirit rising in his heart, as if the road to world hegemony was about to start from here.

Unexpectedly, this dream was not finished yet, when he saw the Anqing army approaching from a distance.

This King Guji is just a big bastard, two baskets of words are not enough for one basket, and the marching and fighting is even more nonsense. I have never seen such a battle. I stood on the city wall and went limp. The wet piece turned out to be urine.

His proud general, General Wang Ergou Wang, who was born as a local ruffian, saw that he knew the general situation was coming, so he changed his mind and attacked him from behind King Guji, stabbed him to death, and then rushed forward, standing upright. Kneeling down, raising his hands high, he shouted loudly, "The traitor is dead, the last general Wang Ergou welcomes the prince into the city!"

He didn't even know who was coming, so he stabbed his former master with a steady and ruthless blow. Whether it was Gu Huaiyang and others who were approaching the city, or the defenders on the city, they all stared at this rare scene in a hundred years with stunned eyes. People react.

For a moment, Shi Wuduan was still riding on the horse, and poked Meng Zhongyong with his saber, which was used as an ornament and never came out of its sheath. Meng Zhongyong finally came to his senses and shouted: "Your mother, we will never open the gate if you don't open the city gate." Where to go in?"

The murderer in the city shouted: "Yes, the last general will open the city gate!"

The guards in the city looked at each other, "the prince" was slaughtered, so what's the point of guarding? I only hated myself for not reacting fast enough and not catching up with the top skills, so they also dispersed in a swarm, scrambling to open the city gate to release the suspension bridge, and let Gu Huaiyang in, so Gu Ji was taken down without a single soldier.

Before Gu Huaiyang and his party recovered from such an easy victory, Shi Wudu sighed.

Li Siniang asked: "Little monkey, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Wuduan hesitated for a moment, then sighed: "It's a pity."

"What's the pity?" Meng Zhongyong was impatient, "Why do you have to drag your fart for three paragraphs? If you have something to say, can you say it quickly and let us all live a few more years!"

Shi looked at him leisurely for no reason, and let the horse bounce across the suspension bridge in a small step as if on an outing, and said: "I was afraid that Guji would be difficult to hit, so I went to Lord Cui to borrow the trebuchet, but he refused to borrow it. I So I misunderstood the prince and thought he was deliberately making things difficult for eldest brother."

Gu Huaiyang coughed and looked straight ahead with both eyes.

Shi Wuduan then continued: "It seems that I treat a gentleman's belly with the heart of a villain, alas! Before I left, I was still thinking about this matter. Seeing the prince so jealous of the virtuous and capable, I felt very sad. When I was sad, I gave it up. The prince looks at the little brother Zhao in the warehouse, which is ten taels of silver. That little brother Zhao is a foreigner living in Anqing. Dry, put a fire on the warehouse."

Both Meng Zhongyong and Li Siniang looked at him with expressions on their faces.

Gu Huaiyang turned around and said viciously: "Xiao Liu shut up and follow!"

Shi Wuduan shook his head with shame on his face, and followed after hearing the words.

The next day, when the three small county towns and eight villages near Guji were leaderless, they all came to surrender when they heard that there was a team coming from here.

A few days later, it was just in time for the city's estimated 15th day of the month market, the upper end of the street was a scene of cars rushing like water and horses like dragons, crowded shoulder to shoulder.

The guards in the city were all replaced by their own people, so Shi Wuyuan had nothing to do, so he went to the streets to wander around.

Suddenly, he saw a small stall not far away that sold animals from the mountains and forests. There were pheasants, squirrels, and rabbits in small cages lined up. Shi Wuduan's eyes fell on a rabbit.

It’s not that he has good eyesight, it’s that the rabbit is so eye-catching—the fat head and big ears are so big that it’s the size of a puppy. Compared with it, the rabbits next to it are like a group of hungry cubs. In the small cage where other rabbits are so comfortable, they can't even turn their bodies away, and they can still nibble on vegetable leaves with relish, explaining their heart and body fat to the end, and everyone passing by will point out and criticize.

Shi Wuduan looked at the rabbit and its three-petal mouth wriggling rapidly, and was slightly startled for a moment, not knowing what it was like, but a smile appeared on his face, and he squeezed through the crowd, After a few steps, he opened his mouth and said, "Boss, that..."

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a person took a step ahead of him, lifted the cage containing the rabbit, held it in his hand and looked at it.

This is a man in white clothes, with a tall and tall figure, who is completely different from the people in the market. Shi Wudu frowned, squeezed over, coughed lightly behind this man, and asked: "This brother Do you also want to buy a rabbit?"

The man in white turned his head, revealing a handsome face, just in time to meet Shi Wudu's eyes, Shi Wudu's remaining words were all stuck in his throat, and the two of them were stunned at the same time.