In the afternoon, Guo Huai came to the second righteousness temple ten miles away.
He looked up at the small black dots hovering in the sky, and doubts reappeared in his heart.
Something is wrong with this eagle!
Why is it always hovering above his head?
For a moment, Guo Huai felt that he was enveloped in a huge conspiracy.
It seemed like there was an invisible big hand controlling him and everything secretly.
Although he had reviewed the case many times, he could not find any evidence that he had been tricked.
But this intuition of being plotted is very strong and cannot be suppressed.
Guo Huai picked up his bow and arrow and aimed upward at the eagle, intending to scare it away.
Unexpectedly, the black eagle landed downwards and flew provocatively above his head.
As if to say: Come on, shoot me!
Guo Huai fired an arrow angrily, but it missed by dozens of feet.
The Eagle Monster screamed and flew away in the northwest direction, as if mocking him for his futility.
Seeing that the eagle was so psychic, Guo Huai's uneasy feeling became stronger and stronger.
So I decided to stay in this righteousness temple for a while, firstly to wait for myself to recover from the plague, and secondly to confirm whether I had fallen into the trap.
This sudden plague tortured his body completely. Except for the skin on his face, which was still intact, the skin on other parts of his body... not even an inch of it was intact anymore. It was like psoriasis and measles were fighting each other, with patches of blue and white interspersed with dense spores.
Small red pustules, itching that is difficult to stop.
Fortunately, his vitality is still very strong.
Guo Huai checked his body and found that all the small pustules all over his body were bursting with fluid, swollen to the point of being transparent, and felt like pinpricks of pain when touched, so he couldn't help but squeeze it with his fingers.
Zhi!
White juice splashing.
A slight feeling of relief spread throughout the body.
Sizzssssssssss--
Guo Huai immediately got into trouble with these little pustules.
Soon, all the squeezed pustules on the body were scabbed, and the itching came in waves, but Guo Huai did not dare to scratch anymore, so he could only clench his teeth and wait for them to fall off naturally.
One night passed.
Early the next morning, Guo Huai found that his body temperature, which had been consistently high since he contracted the plague, returned to normal. The heaviness in his head and discomfort throughout his body had also disappeared, and the symptoms of shivering whenever he was free were also much relieved.
, physical strength gradually returns to normal state.
This sign meant that he had survived the most dangerous stage of the plague. From this moment on, the terrifying plague could no longer threaten his life.
In the afternoon, the bloody scabs on the body began to fall off piece by piece due to friction with the clothes, and soon they all fell off.
Guo Huai was overjoyed and decided to clean himself thoroughly. There happened to be a creek three miles away from the righteousness temple, so he took his bow, arrows, dagger, money bag, and led the donkey to the creek.
He squatted down and stretched out his hand to try it. The water in early spring had a refreshing coldness. At the same time, the reflection of a middle-aged general appeared clearly in front of him.
That angular face is now full of dust, and his eyes show endless exhaustion.
Guo Huai untied his clothes, slowly stepped into the stream, squatted down, and began to clean the dirt from his body.
When Guo Huai saw the scars covering his body like scales, his first feeling was not anger, but joy.
I am glad that I have been given a new life.
So he simply sank into the water and washed away wantonly.
The little donkey wandered docilely by the river, nibbling at the green and yellow weeds.
This bathing lasted for a long time, until Guo Huai was shivering from the cold, and then he went ashore.
When Guo Huai was taking a bath,
Ma Su and Zhang Xiu came to the second ancestral hall.
Zhang Xiu quickly took out the remaining four plates of meat pies and four pots from the big wooden box, put them into dry food bags, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "General, isn't this a bit too much for us?"
"Won't!"
Zhang Xiu said "Oh", thought for a while, and simply picked up the large wooden box that was half a man tall: "General, since it's not too much, let's carry this back!"
"It just so happens that we don't have it in Liangzhou."
"..."
Ma Su glanced at the bell above his head that suddenly started ringing non-stop, and said in a deep voice: "Okay!"
"It's too late to explain."
"Let's go!"
“Take the trail!”
The two generals left the righteous temple and walked quickly along the beautiful mountains.
After a stick of incense.
The strong hunter carried an iron fork, rode a horse, and carried a bag to the second ancestral hall. From a distance, he saw that the door of the ancestral hall was open and empty inside.
He was stunned immediately.
Then he quickly jumped off the horse and rushed over holding the iron fork.
After a while, the strong man came out angrily and looked around. His eyes were as big as a bell. He glared fiercely at Guo Huai who was turning around in the shower, and asked sternly: "Did you do it?"
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Guo Huai quickly looked inside and was startled. He argued: "Brother, although I arrived yesterday... it really has nothing to do with me."
The strong man was noncommittal and sneered: "Did you get the food from the first temple?"
Guo Huai was startled and looked suspicious: "I took it, but I gave the money..."
The strong man waved his hand and interrupted him impatiently: "There is not a single dollar in the charity box!
"This..." Guo Huai was suddenly speechless.
The strong man looked down at Guo Huai and said in a bad tone: "Do you want it to be public or private?"
"What if it's public? What if it's private?"
The strong man sneered: "If it's a business, you pay me double the money! If it's a private business... if my subordinates see the truth, either you will kill me or I will kill you."
As he spoke, he drew out his brand new sword.
"..." Guo Huai wanted to explain that he was unjust, but looking at the strong man with a particularly strong body and an extremely excited look, he felt that the other person did not look like the kind of person who could listen to his explanation, so he chose to follow his heart.
He took out the money bag that had been warmed for a day from his arms and handed it over.
But the strong man shouted coldly: "Not enough!"
"My charity box is a good treasure, and it's very valuable."
"Gotta pay more!"
"If you don't have money, just add that donkey!"
Guo Huai looked at the strong man speechlessly, and suddenly felt a little angry in his heart. He truly felt the suffocating feeling of a tiger falling flat and being bullied by a dog.
If he had his past violent temper, even if he was being unreasonable at the moment, he would fight this guy to the end.
For now, forget it.
A man can bend and stretch!
The most important thing is that he feels that he may not be able to beat this guy.
"Here you go! Give it all to you!"
The strong man's face softened slightly, he put away his sword, took the reins of the donkey, threw the bag of five baht back, and said sternly: "I won't take advantage of you, all the losses will be on this donkey."
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After that, he took the horse with one hand and the donkey with the other, passed by Guo Huai, and walked away.
After the strong man left, Guo Huai angrily kicked a protruding stone in the ancestral hall.
However, the expected scene of the feet flying out of the rocks did not appear.
The obtrusive stone didn't move at all.
Instead, Guo Huai quickly bowed his waist, hugged his toes and screamed "ho" repeatedly.
Just like that, after another two days, Guo Huai's toes slowly returned to normal.
During this period, the strong man carried another charity box and filled it with food. Then, as if to guard against thieves, in front of Guo Huai, he used two large iron locks to lock the charity box on a three hundred kilogram stone.
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Even though he was looked down upon by others, Guo Huai had no time to argue with the strong man.
An imminent question was placed in front of him - what to do in the future?
In the past two days, Guo Huailu gradually learned about the current situation in Longxi from the strong man's mouth.
After Zhuge Liang withdrew his troops, You Chu also returned to Longxi County from Qishan Fort, while Sima Yi withdrew his troops from Longxi and garrisoned in Ji County, Tianshui.
Because he had pretended to surrender to Shu for more than three months before, and the Shu army had widely publicized news such as "Guo Huai rebelled against Wei and surrendered to Shu", "Guo Huai was greatly promoted", "Guo Huai was about to serve as the governor of Liangzhou in the Shu Han Dynasty" and other news.
As a result, all the Wei troops stationed in Longyou cursed him as a "thief who betrayed his master".
Even the strong man, a non-partisan opposition citizen, gnashed his teeth with hatred when his name was mentioned, and kept stabbing the tree with an iron fork, as if the tree was him.
After learning the news, Guo Huai was a little confused.
In other words, before meeting General Sima Yi, it is impossible for him to appear as "Guo Huai" again for the time being.
Can't even mention it.
It will kill people.
If this incident is not explained clearly, no matter how big the Wei State is, there will no longer be a place for him.
Guo Huai let out a long sigh, feeling helpless.
Because the Guo family is on good terms with the Sima family, it is not too difficult to meet Sima Yi.
It is not difficult to temporarily get a false identity to go to Tianshui County.
But before doing these things, he must figure out one thing first -
