Silence, dead silence!
If it weren't for the wrong situation, Wu Xian would have wanted to pick his ears right now - did he just hear something wrong? It wasn't "Dawei is the daughter of General Zhao", but "Dawei is the son of General Zhao", right
The people in Qin Li's faction were a little confused.
How come the messenger from Chen Youli's side looks exactly like Cui Shanxiao? Hey, the broken sword fan that he always carries around his waist is the same; the young man who tried to stop the caning looked a little familiar, and looked a bit like Lao Zhao's wife.
After that—
Oh, it turns out she is Lao Zhao’s daughter.
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When did Old Zhao have such a tall and heroic daughter
Thinking about it again, it seems that Old Zhao only has one daughter, and she was raised by his uncles and aunts. How could they not recognize what Madam Zhao looks like? Could it be that she gave birth to another child without telling them? This daughter... She is growing up a little too fast.
Wu Xian also sorted out his thoughts. Although his expression was not gentle, his tone was a little softer: "Although Zhao Xiaolang's trip was a filial act, it is against military law to harm colleagues and delay military affairs for the sake of justice. We cannot show mercy. Considering that Xiaolang is still young and is under Brother Shen's command, we will not pursue it. Zhao Xiaolang, please get out of the way."
This is an internal conflict within Wu Xian's camp, and outsiders cannot interfere, even if the outsider is Zhao Feng's son.
Zhao Wei wanted to say something but was interrupted by Cui Xiao.
He corrected: "Mr. Wu, this is General Zhao's daughter."
Wu Xian: “…”
He couldn't have hallucinated twice.
Everyone under Wu Xian fell into silence again.
He said: "Although the young man is not wearing the martial courage tiger talisman, he is surrounded by surging martial energy. How can he be a righteous woman?"
Wu Xian's gaze fell on the person involved, Zhao Dayi.
Although Zhao Feng's heart was chilled, he was still able to speak. He explained in a stiff voice: "Dawei, it is indeed my daughter. Several years ago, she escaped from her marriage and went to Longwu, and she has never returned home. The lord also knows about this."
Of course Wu Xian knew that Zhao Feng had a daughter who ran away from her marriage.
He still remembered that Zhao Wei had run away from his marriage, and the brothers Zhao Feng were so anxious that they sent their guards to search everywhere. Wu Xian even did him a favor and blocked all the important roads in Tianhai, but in the end they still couldn't find Zhao Wei who had run away from home. It was only several months later that they knew he was in Longwu.
Zhao Feng, the father, was not in a hurry, so Wu Xian was naturally not in a hurry either. Moreover, Shen Tang had a good way of governing, so Zhao Wei was safe in Longwu County. As a result, the tall young general in front of him turned out to be Zhao Feng's eldest daughter who had escaped from marriage for a long time
Wu Xian stared at Zhao Wei.
Asked: "Are you really a woman of righteousness?"
Zhao Wei clasped his fists and said, "That's right."
Everyone under Wu Xian's command was whispering, and no one believed it.
Qin Li's group was half-believing and half-doubting - if they looked closely, Zhao Wei's features were indeed similar to those of their familiar niece.
At this moment, one person's voice was particularly piercing.
The tall and strong general with a sullen face said sarcastically: "No matter whether this person is Zhao Feng's son or daughter, or whether he is neither male nor female, when will it be the turn of someone who has defected to another party to interfere in Tianhai's internal affairs? Ha!"
Zhao Wei looked at the person who spoke.
She had seen this person before.
Wu Xian has six powerful generals under his command.
The man who was speaking was one of them. He was older, more experienced, and stronger than Zhao Feng. Because of his strength and good family background, he was not interested in dealing with generals of low birth. When they occasionally met, his response was either "humph" or "haha".
Because Zhao Feng was the pillar of the foreign forces, and he saved Wu Xian's life in a crisis, Wu Xian used him and allocated a large sum of money to expand the military force. His overall prestige surpassed that of the generals from Tianhai forces, so he was treated coldly. Zhao Feng also knew that he was unpopular, so he would not take the initiative to cause friction with them.
It’s not that I’m a coward, I just don’t want to put Wu Xian in a difficult position.
But in Zhao Wei's heart, Zhao Feng was the most noble and majestic person. Since this man treated her father like this, she naturally had no good feelings towards him.
Zhao Wei said coldly, "My father is a very cautious and modest person. He would never do such a thing as 'harming his colleagues and delaying military affairs'. Do you have any evidence to prove what you said?"
"Who do you think you are? Do you have the qualifications to ask this general for evidence?" After saying that, a pressure that just touched Zhao Wei's limit came overwhelming. Before it got close, Zhao Wei was grabbed by the shoulder and pulled back by a hand, and his body flew backwards uncontrollably.
He didn't stop until Xu Quan slapped him on the back.
"Xu Wenshi?"
Zhao Wei turned her head to look at Xu Quan behind her. The latter's face was flushed, his eyes were wet with excitement, and he didn't pay any attention to her, staring straight ahead. She also looked in the direction of his line of sight, and saw the back of a head full of pigtails, but it was not Xu Quan.
Gongxi Chou!
His back was full of impatience.
"Who do you think you are? Do you have the qualifications to attack the people under my master's (tribe's sacred object) account?" Gong Xichou stood there alone, with his hands folded across his chest. The pressure was like a breeze in front of him. "Just talk, don't provoke me!"
The burly general's facial muscles twitched violently.
He said, "Gong Xichou, you are stretching your hand too far!"
Gong Xichou turned his head to look in Cui Xiao's direction and made a suggestion: "If that's the case, why don't we go back the same way? We didn't even see Huang Lie's troops along the way, let alone the ghosts created by his sixteen great generals. We are bored."
He had reason to suspect that he had been defrauded by Mama.
The general was choked by these words and his face turned as black as soy sauce.
Wu Xian lowered his eyes and looked at Zhao Feng, who had a blank expression on his face, not seeming to have any concern or intention to explain.
Zhao Feng definitely knew about Zhao Wei's affairs not just now, but he never mentioned it to him. Xu Jie's cousin served in Shen Youli and worked with Zhao Wei for many years. In addition, Xu Wenzhu also made efforts to find Zhao Wei, so he probably knew about it too, right
Are they worried that he will know that Zhao Wei is special and will do something bad to him
Wu Xian didn't dare to think about this question any further.
In a split second, he sighed in his heart: "Forget it, I have beaten eighty-seven out of a hundred, let me spare the rest."
Zhao Wei's eyes turned red when he heard the number.
"Eighty-seven sticks?"
No wonder a large piece of flesh on the back was beaten to pieces!
No matter where you are, the cane punishment in the army does not allow the use of martial energy to protect the body, and can only rely on the flesh to hold on. Even so, let alone eighty-seven sticks, even eight hundred and seventy sticks could not cause too much scars on Zhao Feng's back, so there are different cane punishments for different people! The soldiers who carried out the execution were brave warriors, and the execution sticks were infused with martial energy, and the force could even break a person's spine!
The general was obviously reluctant to end it so abruptly.
He said, "My Lord, this is inappropriate."
After he finished speaking, several generals beside him also spoke.
Zhao Wei glanced over and was horrified.
Wu Xian had six brave generals under his command, including three of them, and the others were the trusted supporters and friends of these generals. In other words, most of the generals under Wu Xian were against the abolition of the remaining thirteen sticks! Not only Zhao Wei looked bad, Wu Xian looked even worse.
Finally, Zhao Feng ended the "farce" with a sneer.
"Just hit me, am I afraid of these thirteen blows? Can these thirteen blows really beat me to death here?" Even if Zhao Feng was willing to die here, they had to kneel down and rescue him. Losing him would mean losing the support of everyone in Qin Li's faction, and it would be painful for Wu Xian, "That bastard was chopped into pulp with more than three hundred blows!"
Zhao Wei was very anxious at first.
You are so provocative, aren't you afraid that the Thirteen Sticks may be tampered with
Even for a brave warrior like Zhao Feng, his internal organs are not made of steel or iron and are still fragile compared to the surface of his body.
But when she heard the next sentence, she was dumbfounded.
Zhao Feng had a desperate attitude: "I am not the kind of hypocritical person who is two-faced and lies that I didn't do it. I did it, and I did it. It is true that I delayed the opportunity to fight and killed the so-called "colleague". Haha, if it is not for 'returning the favor in their own way', I would not hesitate to borrow Huang Lie's soldiers to chop him up with my own hands!"
At that time, it would not be a simple end of more than 300 cuts, but 3,600 cuts! Not a single cut could be missed!
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone under Wu Xian was excited.
The general had an even sulkier face.
"Zhao Dayi, you are looking for death!"
Gong Xichou seemed not to understand the hint and did not move.
Well, he can't see now.
Zhao Feng sneered, "How can this be called courting death? When your mother's brother killed my brother, what did you say, old man? What's the matter? Your mother's brother's life is a life, but my brother's life is shit? He doesn't have the guts to admit it, and doesn't dare to come at me, but picks on my brothers. I, Zhao Dayi, will teach him what it means to be brave and responsible!"
Cui Xiao watched Zhao Feng go crazy quietly.
He left early, so he naturally didn't know about the death of Deputy General Zhao Feng, but he guessed a little. He seemed calm on the surface, but in fact his heart was turbulent, and his knuckles were turning white from the effort of holding the knife fan.
The general was so angry that he was shaking: "Beat him! Not one less stick!"
Zhao Feng sneered, his eyes closed, as if saying "fight if you want". Zhao Wei naturally couldn't bear it and tried to stop him again.
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She was bound by Cui Xiao's words.
With this little bit of force, she could break free with a little luck.
Before he could take action, Cui Xiao stopped him: "Dawei, don't be willful, your father won't die, let him finish the fight!"
Didn’t you see that Qin Li and the others didn’t say anything to stop it
Bang-bang-bang-bang
As the sound of sticks hitting flesh reached her eardrums, tears welled up in Zhao Wei's eyes. Because of her father's influence, she always respected her father's master Wu Xian. Anyone her father was loyal to must be a great man.
But this beating completely shattered the filter into pieces, and a strong hatred rose in her heart. Based on her father's words and her understanding of her father, if he had not been forced into a desperate situation, he would never use such radical and brutal means to seek revenge...
Bang!
As the last blow was struck, Zhao Feng's straight back suddenly fell forward, and he supported himself on the ground with his hands, vomiting large mouthfuls of blood.
He shook his dizzy head and got up from the ground.
He clasped his fists towards Wu Xian and said, "I have received all the blows without missing a single one. One life for one life, and this matter is settled."
After saying that, he spat out another mouthful of blood, wiped it off with the back of his hand, and asked for leave in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Shen Jun's reinforcements have arrived, and our army's crisis can be resolved. Please forgive me for my injuries, and I want to rest for a few days."
"Take good care of your injuries."
Wu Xian's voice was emotionless.
After all, Zhao Feng did cause him a big trouble.
It was originally agreed that he would give him a satisfactory explanation after returning to Tianhai, but Zhao Feng changed his mind and deliberately killed his colleagues regardless of the situation on the battlefield. He knew that Zhao Feng wanted revenge, but his method was too radical and he didn't even inform him.
He became so passive only after the incident.
Is he so unworthy of trust
Zhao Feng said: "Thank you, my lord."
He turned to leave, but after a few steps, his injuries made him lose his balance, and his personal soldiers supported him to prevent him from falling. After walking a distance, he still heard some people in Wu Xian's tent complaining: "How can we use someone who disregards the interests of his lord and plots to harm his colleagues for his own personal vengeance? Who knows who he will harm next?"
Wu Xian felt his cheeks burning when he heard this.
He shouted in a low voice: "That's enough! Isn't it embarrassing enough?"
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels far and wide!
Shen Youli's messengers are still here.
At this time, Cui Xiaocai released Zhao Wei from his imprisonment. This niece, who had always been so heroic and high-spirited, was like a wilted flower, listless, as if she was the one being beaten with a stick.
Wu Xian and Cui Xiao both agreed not to mention Zhao Feng anymore. He was delighted that Chen Tang was so willing to send troops, but when he looked at Cui Xiao, he felt that he looked familiar, so he asked very naturally, "What's your name, sir? You look so nice."
Everyone in Qin Li's group: "..."
This time it was Cui Xiao's turn who couldn't laugh.
Cui Xiaodao: "Cui once served Mr. Wu."
Wu Xian: “???”
He looked at Choi Hyo's face for a long moment.
Cui Xiao's appearance and temperament are obviously not ordinary, and he is still a bit outstanding in his scholar's robe. His appearance is considered to be above average among scholars, but I have no impression of him
He said, "My surname is Cui, my given name is Xiao, and my courtesy name is Shanxiao."
Wu Xian was stunned for a moment: "You are... Shan Xiao?"
He had a good memory and remembered that there was a scholar named Cui Shanxiao under his command, who came with Qin Li.
Qin Li recommended him to him again and again, and Wu Xian also gave him face and met him a few times, but this Cui Shanxiao is really ordinary.
He has little talent and mediocre abilities.
Completely different from a great talent like Qin Li!
After Qin Li recommended him many times, Wu Xian finally realized it!
This is because Qin Li wanted to recommend someone from his own group to have more say, but he didn't have many people around him, so he could only recommend this mediocre person.
Wu Xian naturally disliked Cui Xiao and had some complaints about Qin Li. But for Qin Li's sake, he reluctantly gave Cui Shanxiao a sinecure. After that, whenever Qin Li recommended someone else, Wu Xian only responded verbally, but didn't actually express any opinion.
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Is this person in front of me Cui Shanxiao
Silence, a silence so awkward that I want to pick my feet!
Facing Cui Xiao's frank eyes, Wu Xian felt that he had never been so embarrassed in his life. Fortunately, his face was thick enough and he looked normal: "Very good, very good, Brother Chen has a kind personality, and he is a good place for Yu Shanxiao."
Wu Xian showed a generous attitude of "I'm very happy that my old subordinate found a new job", and seemed to be genuinely happy for others.
I was muttering in my heart: Why don’t I have any impression
He remembered that Cui Shanxiao was really ordinary!
He is absolutely different from the person in front of me!
Wu Xian maintained a perfect facade until Cui Xiao said something that completely tore his expression apart like a spider web: "There is one thing Lord Wu doesn't know - my master is not 'brother Shen'."
"Aren't you Brother Shen's soldiers?" He was confused.
Cui Xiaodao said: "My master is actually a girl. If Lord Wu calls her that, it should be 'Sister Chen'. This is what my master asked me to tell you before he left. I have kept it a secret for many years. I had no choice."
Wu Xian: “…”
Everyone in Qin Li's group: "..."
Other people under Wu Xian: "..."