"Ahem, you are being too polite, aren't you?" Uncle Zhu Shouren began to wonder after hearing what they said. He thought again, although Zhu Ping'an was honest and simple, he was also very clever when he was a child.
"What do you mean by exaggerated? Brother Zhu, which of what we said is not true? Is your nephew recognized by the government and the public as the 'No. 1 God of Music in the Ming Dynasty'? Did your nephew offend Lord Yan and was banished to the south of the Yangtze River, but then he made a comeback? There are sea sacrifices in Jingnan and Yingtian City, did he kill so many Japanese pirates?!"
Xia Qiang said this excitedly, wishing he could go up and grab his uncle Zhu Shouren's ears and pour the liquid into his head.
"Ahem, that's right. Even if he wants to borrow heads for training, he won't necessarily borrow our heads. There are more than 2,000 people in his camp for him to borrow. I am his uncle. In terms of relationship, he can't lend me my head. Also, the three of us are well-read in the books of sages. We are a hundred times better than the peasants in the camp who can't read a single word. In terms of whether they are useful or not, he can't lend us heads. At most, he can make a mistake and pick a few unlucky guys from the more than 2,000 soldiers to borrow heads from."
Uncle Zhu Shouren was not very worried. Just as he said, he also thought so in his heart.
Even if my nephew wants to emulate Sun Wu and Cao Cao, Erzhu Rong can't borrow heads from me.
No matter how many fellow Taoists die, as long as I am alive, nothing else matters.
Therefore, Uncle Zhu Shouren was still very calm at this moment.
"My brother Zhu, think carefully about the story of Sun Wu, Cao Cao and Erzhu Rong borrowing heads?! If you think about it carefully, you won't say that!" Hu Wei speechlessly tapped his uncle Zhu Shouren's shoulder.
"What do you mean?" Uncle Zhu Shouren was even more confused.
Hu Wei was so disappointed that he rolled his eyes speechlessly, "Brother Zhu, why are you still so stupid?! Sun Wu was training his troops in front of the palace. There were two concubines of King Wu and hundreds of palace maids present at the time. Why did Sun Wu borrow the heads of the two concubines? Wasn't it because they had status and their heads were important enough?! Why did Cao Cao borrow the head of the grain officer but not the heads of the grain soldiers? Wasn't it because the grain officer was in charge of grain and grass, and his head was important enough?! And Erzhu Rong, why did Erzhu Rong borrow his nephew's head but not the heads of the soldiers? Wasn't it because his nephew had a special relationship with him and his head was important enough?!"
"If your nephew wants to borrow heads, the first one he wants to borrow is yours! Because you are his uncle, your head is important enough. When the soldiers see that Lord Zhu's uncle violated military discipline and was beheaded by Lord Zhu, who wouldn't be terrified? Who would dare not obey Lord Zhu's orders?! The two of us are just implicated by you to make up the numbers! Lending three heads is much more deterrent than borrowing one head!"
"Erzhu Rong borrowed his nephew's head and trained an iron army that obeyed orders in one day! Your nephew borrowed our heads and can also train an iron army that obeys orders and is as good as his fingers and arms in one day!"
"In a few days, the Japanese pirates from Songjiang Prefecture will come. Your nephew can lead this iron army and make more achievements. He can also get promoted and make a fortune! It's just a pity that the three of us are in our prime years. We have not yet put our knowledge to use, and we have become stepping stones for your nephew to train and make merit. Your nephew's fame has been wasted!"
The more Hu Wei spoke, the more emotional he became, and his face became paler and paler. The fear in his heart wrapped around him tighter and tighter like a nightmare.
"No, that won't happen. I'm his uncle. If he lends me his head, how will he explain to my father and grandfather?!"
Uncle Zhu Shouren shook his head repeatedly.
Hu Wei shook his head when he heard this, not understanding where his uncle Zhu Shouren got his foolish self-confidence from. He said speechlessly, "Brother Zhu, one is the old son who has failed in the exams and can't even pass the exam to become a scholar, and the other is the good grandson who has passed the imperial examinations and is a fourth-rank official at a young age with a promising future. Who do you think the old man is on his side?!"
Xia Qiang followed suit and said, "That's right. Besides, history is written by the victors, at least by the living. He borrowed your head, and you can't speak. Isn't it him who decides right and wrong?!"
"Well... these are all our guesses." Uncle Zhu Shouren hesitated, "Those peasants have become officials appointed by the court. Although they are military officers, they have also made the leap to become officials."
He still didn't want to wake up from his dream of becoming an official.
"Brother Zhu, this is not a sensational guess, but a well-founded one. Has your nephew already started working on it?!"
Hu Wei said sinisterly.
"What do you mean?!" Uncle Zhu Shouren turned pale with fear, and before Hu Wei could speak, he began to hold his throat and tried to spit out, "Ugh, are you saying that my nephew poisoned our food?!"
But he had been eating for a while, and when he bit his throat again, he just vomited a few mouthfuls of sour water.
faint!
Hu Wei covered his head and said helplessly, "Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu, there was no poison and it is impossible to poison. If Lord Zhu wants to borrow our heads, he will only summon the entire army like Erzhu Rong did and execute us in front of all the soldiers."
"Huh, you scared me by telling me so sooner. If you didn't poison the food, how did you start?" Uncle Zhu Shouren complained, and then he was shocked again, "Is it a slow-acting poison?! So that we don't have the strength to resist?!"
Hu Wei was speechless. He looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren with eyes like a harpy and said word by word, "Master Zhu wants to kill us. He only needs to give an order and two thousand soldiers will do it for him. Why bother with so much trouble?"
"Then why did Brother Hu say that he has already started working on it?" The uncle shook his head.
"Brother Zhu, have you forgotten our preferential treatment? We have only been here for less than three days, and we have already received a month's salary and five taels of silver as resettlement allowance?! This is not salary and resettlement allowance, this is clearly money to buy your life!
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Hu Wei said with a pale face.
"Also, even Lord Zhu is queuing up for food, but they asked someone to deliver food to us! This is not food, it's clearly the last meal before execution!"
Xia Qiang followed suit, his voice trembling and his face as pale as if he had fallen into a pile of ashes.
"Fuck, after hearing what you said, I also feel something is wrong. Now that I think about it carefully, my nephew has never taken the initiative to give me money! Even if I ask him for money, I almost never get it! Not to mention giving him so much money at once like today, it's not normal, too abnormal."
Uncle Zhu Shouren's face turned pale, and he jumped up like a monkey with its butt scalded. He urged the two men, "Then why are we still waiting? Hurry up and leave. It will be too late if we don't leave now."