Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One Light Three Incense Sticks
When Wu Shigong was thinking hard, he saw a group of military households carrying dozens of large pots of porridge, and they were about to open the gate of the Qianhusuo fortress to give out porridge.
"What's going on?" Seeing the question mark in Wu Shigong's eyes, Xue Yongli asked these military households on behalf of Wu Shigong.
A leading military household hurriedly came forward and reported: "I am informing the Lord Qianhu, Mr. Li and his wife, that the young ones should go out to give porridge again."
Wu Shigong's brows furrowed even more tightly. He thought to himself: "These soft-hearted women have long hair but short knowledge. If we continue to give out porridge like this, won't these gangs of rioters be even more reluctant to leave?"
However, in front of these military households, Wu Shigong couldn't say anything. He waved his hand, meaning to let these military households go to give porridge. After the leading military household received the order, he gave another salute and took it with him.
Those military households left the gate of the Qianhu Fortress.
Wu Shigong thought to himself: "If anything happens, let's go back to the inner house and talk about it." So Wu Shigong nodded to Xue Yongli, and then walked to the inner house.
Seeing Wu Shigong enter the inner house, a woman stepped forward and said to Wu Shigong: "Master!"
Wu Shigong was a little strange. Usually when he came back from an outing, his four wives would greet him at the door of the inner house. But why didn't he see any of them today? Wu Shigong looked at the woman who saluted him again and found that he didn't recognize her at all.
So Wu Shigong asked the woman: "Where are the ladies? Who are you?"
The woman said another blessing: "The ladies are all worshiping the Bodhisattva in the Buddhist hall. My name is Chunlian. Actually, I met my slave in the tent yesterday..." The more Chunlian spoke, the redder her face became, and her voice became louder.
Say the smaller.
Wu Shigong suddenly remembered that this Chunlian was the naked woman in Master Mou's tent.
That day, when Wu Shigong's guards were stuffing Zhi Zhi and Deng Qifan into the carriage, they hurriedly stuffed the two people into the carriage where Chun Lian was hiding.
It was precisely because there were three people in the carriage, and there were differences between men and women, that the carriage was swaying and the officer discovered that there were people inside the carriage.
When Xue Yongli and the others brought these three people back to Qianhusuo Fortress, Zhi Zhi and Deng Qifan naturally found a sturdy room and locked them up.
And this Chunlian was difficult to arrange. Xue Yongli and the others didn't know what Wu Shigong was going to do with Chunlian. However, they guessed that the most likely possibility was that Wu Shigong wanted to take this Chunlian. So, they took this Chunlian
Arrangements were made to enter the inner house.
In the inner house, the four wives Wu Shigong felt a little uncomfortable after seeing Chunlian, but they still let Chunlian stay for the time being. They had to wait until Wu Shigong came back.
After understanding Chun Lian's identity, Wu Shi Gong let Chun Lian lead the way to the Buddhist hall in the inner house. While walking, Wu Shi Gong thought of Zhi Zhi and Deng Qifan who were captured by him. Wu Shi Gong decided to take a good rest today.
Let’s take a moment and think of a way to deal with them, and we’ll deal with them tomorrow.
This Buddhist hall was formed by a porcelain statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva that Zhao Ruya brought from the capital and placed it in an empty room in the inner house. Since Wu Shigong went to fight, the four ladies came to worship Guanyin Bodhisattva devoutly every day.
, come and wish Wu Shigong return home safely.
When Wu Shigong entered the Buddhist hall, the four ladies were reciting sutras. After seeing Wu Shigong, they looked happy. They used their eyes to ask Wu Shigong to wait for a while until they finished reciting the sutras.
Wu Shigong waited for a while, and the four ladies finally finished reading the sutra. They all gathered around Wu Shigong with a smile.
It was Zhu Yun who spoke first and said: "The slaves just saw how pitiful these people were, so they just wanted to gain some virtue for the children." After speaking, Zhu Yun playfully stuck out her tongue and touched her belly with her right hand, a look on her face.
Happy image.
Wu Shigong also laughed. He also touched Zhu Yun's little head and said, "If you do this, none of them will leave."
"What should we do?" Li Xin asked with concern.
"It's a trivial matter." Wu Shigong replied nonchalantly: "Of course the trouble caused by women must be solved by men. Otherwise, what do you want us men to do?"
Wu Shigong's words made the four ladies laugh happily.
Zhao Ruya said: "You should also come and worship Guanyin Bodhisattva. It is very efficacious."
Wu Shigong smiled and shook his head, refusing: "I don't really believe in these. I won't worship now. If one day I believe in it, I will worship. Sincerity will lead to success."
Hearing what Wu Shigong said, Zhao Ruya stopped trying to persuade her. Wu Shigong learned that the four ladies still had to finish their homework on several scriptures, so he said hello to them and thought about going back to his room to rest first.
But when Wu Shigong reached the door of the Buddhist hall, he suddenly stopped and looked back at the faint smoke rising from the incense burner.
Li Xin, who was standing by, asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
Wu Shigong did not answer. He turned around and walked to the Buddha statue, picked up three sticks of incense from the Buddha's table, lit it on the candle on the side, clasped his hands, and bowed three times to Guanyin Bodhisattva. Then he inserted the three lit sticks of incense into the Buddha statue.
into the incense burner.
Wu Shigong just remembered the little girl he killed before they launched their farewell charge. He seemed to see the little girl's big, absent-minded eyes looking at the sky.
Now Wu Shigong has some regrets: he didn't actually have to kill the little girl at that time. He could have just knocked her unconscious and thrown her aside. He could even have ignored the little girl. Because at this time, Wu Shigong and the others actually
Ready to charge.
Wu Shigong felt that he was too impulsive at that time. Now, he can only light three sticks of incense to bless the little girl.
When leaving the Buddhist hall, Wu Shigong sighed in his heart: "I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times!"
At this time, Wu Shigong made a decision in his heart. He immediately left the inner house and sent people to announce to the rebels: These people can stay in Qianhusuo Fortress if they want. However, those who stay will all become Wu Shigong's family
slave.
People who become Wu Shigong's family slaves must be mentally prepared. They may have to do very heavy work and may not receive any monthly salary. However, Wu Shigong guarantees that they will not starve to death in this disaster year.
For those who were unwilling to become slaves of Wu Shigong's family, Wu Shigong would give each person three days' rations and let them disperse and return home on their own.
In addition, let those who are willing to become Wu Shigong's slaves count the number themselves and nominate ten leaders. At that time, Wu Shigong will communicate with the leaders and make specific arrangements for the work of these slaves.
Moreover, Wu Shigong asked the domestic slaves who were willing to stay to organize themselves immediately and not to gather under the hillside and block the way in and out of the Qianhusuo Fortress. Let them bypass the Qianhusuo Fortress and go to the hills behind the Qianhusuo Fortress.
Go up, first find some open space and build some straw huts to live in.
The reasons why Wu Shigong made this decision can be summed up as follows: he was a little unwilling to disappoint his four wives and wanted to satisfy them; he was also a little soft-hearted.
But the more important reason is that Wu Shigong believes that his current manpower is still too small. If there are some slaves who only want to feed them, then why not do it?
Wu Shigong never thought at the time that his arrangement had actually divided his men into three classes: the family generals and soldiers class composed of the guards led by Xue Yongli; after Wu Shigong arrived at Qianhusuo Fortress, the new recruits
There is the servant class composed of soldiers and the military households in Qianhu Station; there is also the domestic slave class composed of these captives.
No matter what class they belong to, they all have the word "family" in front of them, which means that they are all owned by Wu Shigong and can only obey the orders of Wu Shigong.
Because of this, Wu Shigong has actually taken the first step on the road to becoming a warlord.
After accepting Wu Shigong's arrangement, just as the people Wu Shigong was about to send out were about to leave, the gate of Qianhusuo Fortress opened again. Zhou Xun led fifty soldiers and escorted three people to come to Wu Shigong.
Zhou Xun first came to Wu Shigong. He looked at Wu Shigong and felt a little embarrassed. Because just now he did something bad with good intentions, which increased the burden of nearly 600 people on Wu Shigong's place.
Wu Shigong smiled, punched Zhou Xun on the chest, and said, "Yes, that's what a man should be like."
After hearing Wu Shigong's compliment, Zhou Xun immediately acted like a child, with a smile on his face.
When Zhou Xun captured the prisoners, he was just doing bad things with good intentions. But of course Wu Shigong had to praise him for his proactive and brave behavior, so as not to dampen Zhou Xun's enthusiasm.
After Zhou Xun died, the three people he escorted to the fortress of Qianhusuo also stepped forward to salute Wu Shigong. They were: a minor official sent by the Qi County Magistrate, Li Lu, and Jiang Guerzhi, whose whereabouts were unknown.
The clerk first told Wu Shigong about the message brought by the Qi County Magistrate to Wu Shigong: The governor of Henan learned that the reinforcements led by Eunuch Xiao to Guide Fucheng were defeated. Therefore, the governor of Henan organized a large army near Kaifeng City.
And he personally led it, and he was almost arriving at Guidefu City.
After learning that the governor of Henan was about to arrive, the governor of Guide Prefecture sent someone to inform Qi County Magistrate, asking him and Wu Shigong to rush to Guide Prefecture as soon as possible to greet the governor of Henan together. Therefore, Qi County
The order then sent this young official to inform Wu Shigong, and asked Wu Shigong to take some soldiers with him early tomorrow morning to escort the Qi County Magistrate to Guide City.
Of course, Wu Shigong was not qualified to participate in the ceremony to welcome the governor of Henan. This was just because the governor of Henan, on the way, learned about the messenger sent by Guide Fucheng and reported the situation of the Holy Spirit Society's rebellion and annihilation. He wanted to communicate with Wu Shigong.
See you before.
After learning the news, Wu Shigong was very helpless. He had just returned to Qianhusuo Fortress from Guide Fucheng, but he didn't expect that he would have to go to Guide Fucheng again before his butt was still hot.
After putting the clerk down to rest, Wu Shigong asked Li Lu and Jiang Guerrilla: why they came?