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Chapter 228 The mantis stalks the cicada(1/2)

Qiao Xinyu suffered a lot for two days and rested temporarily at Xu's house.

The hot water took away her fatigue, and she lay down on the soft bed. The wounds on her body that were soaked in insect bites were covered with medicine.

The maid put several basins of water in her room and put up the window.

The wind from the lotus pond was brought in, so it wasn't stuffy.

Qiao Xinyu finally had a good sleep.

On the contrary, King Wei's disaster has just begun.

Lin Gu ordered his men to hang him on the city wall for half a day.

Baked by the scorching sun, hungry and thirsty, the rope was so tight that it felt like it was about to break, leaving streaks of blood.

He cursed all the curse words he could in his life.

When he was put down, he looked like a broken gong.

"This method is useless and no one cares about it," the soldier reported to Lin Gu.

Lin Gu: “…”

The soldier added: "The attack by diverting water earlier must have frightened them into fleeing back to Xingzhou."

Lin Gu frowned: "Even so, there should be two or three spies left."

The soldier thought for a moment: "That means they don't care about the life or death of King Wei at all?"

The king of Wei heard this and was extremely humiliated.

"If there really is no one around..." Lin Gu pondered for a moment, wishing that he would have a smooth journey and reach the Emperor of Liang Dynasty as soon as possible.

He turned to Yao Minghui and asked: "Have all the people you arranged gone to Xingzhou?"

Yao Minghui said: "Well, I should have met the Anxi Army by now."

King Wei felt even heavier after hearing this.

Do they want to unite with the Anxi Army?

Completely block the army in the middle?

"This King of Wei..."

"Let's hang out for a few more days," Yao Minghui said.

Lin Gu said doubtfully: "It's useless now..."

Yao Minghui said coldly: "I hate the Liang Emperor and his son."

King Wei's eyes darkened when he heard this.

What does it have to do with me to hate my father?

But he had nowhere to appeal, so he was dragged off again.

Suburbs of Xingzhou.

An old man and a young man, dressed in shorts, pulled a donkey cart.

After walking three times around the military camp where the Anxi Army was stationed, I finally caught my attention.

"You are so brave. You don't know that this is an important military camp? Even if you are beheaded in public, you will have no grievance to complain!"

The old man hurriedly complained: "I am struggling to make a living, so I went to the streets to sell some goods."

Naturally, the soldiers guarding the camp did not listen to his sophistry and said in a funny tone: "This is the first time I have seen someone selling goods in the military camp."

The soldier's face darkened: "Who knows if you are here to spy on military affairs?"

The old man knelt down and said: "Seriously, seriously! It's not too late to ask Mr. Bing to see the goods here before he gets angry."

The two soldiers looked at each other.

Could it be that you want to bribe with money?

That's fine.

Wouldn't it be better to take the money and then kill people?

"What kind of goods? Let's take a look at it. If you don't like your grandfather's wishes, have you seen that dung ditch?"

Feces in the camp are usually buried there.

The soldier threatened him: "I will throw you two in and bury you alive in a moment."

The old man showed fear and tremblingly returned to the young man: "Son, take out the things."

The young man took down a box from the donkey cart and handed it to the old man.

The old man held it up to the soldiers.

Where would the soldiers dare to touch it? They were afraid that there was a hidden weapon inside, or that the lid was smeared with poison.

He said, "Just open it and show me."

The old man thought that An Xijun was not as stupid as he thought, so he opened the lid.

What was inside the box was a brochure.

The soldier sneered: "Are you kidding your grandpa?"

The old man kept saying: "I don't dare."

Then he took out the book and opened it, all he saw were young girls as beautiful as flowers and the moon.

He flipped through the booklet and showed about a dozen in total.

The soldier's eyes were immediately attracted, he touched his chin and said with a smile: "What? Are you going to kiss me?"

"No, no, these are all Yinghua... I thought that you have been in Xingzhou for some time, and you are inevitably depressed on weekdays, so I have the courage to come..." The old man smiled awkwardly.

The soldier showed emotion: "I've been miserable for the past six months, not just these few days... I'll take a closer look..."

The old man pointed inside: "I wonder what those guys..."

The soldier smiled and said: "Isn't it enough to do our brothers' business?"

The old man sneered: "You have to eat to raise so many people. Don't you all rely on me to provide you with the food?"

The soldier said with satisfaction: "If you can talk, I will go there for you in a while. But the money..."

"Why do you need money?"

"Get on the road!"

As the soldier said this, he took the booklet and turned around to go inside, but another soldier grabbed his sleeve violently: "No."

"how?"

"We are now under the control of His Highness King Xuan. The first thing he did when he took charge of the army was to let the military girls collect their money and send them home. How could we be allowed to play this in the camp?"

"But King Xuan is not in Xingzhou now..."

"But the Xuanjia Guards are still there!"

"Xuan Jiawei won't come to deal with such trivial matters like ours, right?"

The two soldiers actually started arguing while talking, and neither could convince the other.

The old man's eyes darkened and he cursed in his heart that things were not going well.

"I'm afraid that His Highness Prince Xuan will be held accountable, so why don't you pack your things and go ahead..." The old man looked panicked and deliberately made a move to retreat in order to advance.

How could the soldiers who had been moved for a long time allow him to leave?

He grabbed him and said, "I want to have a taste of this today. Don't you know what Xingzhou women taste like? Just wait!"

After he said that, he pushed the soldier next to him and strode into the camp with the book in his arms.

The other one quickly chased after him: "Stop!"

Now there were two guards at the door.

A smile flashed in the old man's eyes.

A little wary, but not much.

The young man lowered his voice, stepped forward and asked, "Go in?"

The old man said: "Don't worry, we have to meet an older official to be useful."

The young man thought so, nodded and waited there.

Two soldiers in this compartment entered the team leader's tent one after the other.

In fact, he is no more than an official of the ninth rank.

But this is already a "big" official that the gatekeepers can come into contact with.

The soldier entered the door and bowed first, then said eagerly: "Didn't the team say that the camp was boring that day?"

Team Leader, who had a beard on his face, said in a low voice: "I never said that."
To be continued...
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