Dong Zhi stepped forward, broke the lock, and looked at them one by one. The largest one contained an emerald cabbage. The carving was lifelike. It was obvious at first glance that it was worth a lot of money. It was probably intended as a birthday gift. The other boxes were all filled with it.
Some of the jewelry and jewelry were also extremely exquisite. They were probably intended to be given to the Huang family's family members. It seemed that the big shopkeeper had put a lot of thought into them. Unfortunately, he encountered this disaster when he arrived at the door of his house.
Inside one of the wooden boxes, which was about a foot long, was a wooden statue with two heads and four arms. The statue's face did not look like a human face, and it was terrifying and ferocious.
When Lao Lu saw the statue, his expression changed slightly and he asked, "Where did this statue come from?"
Dong Zhi thought for a while and said: "It seems that the shopkeeper bought this on the way back. By the way, when we were taking the waterway, on the boat on the Wei River, an old man who was in the antique business sold it to the shopkeeper. He said it was collected by barbarians.
Thousand-year-old treasure."
Lao Lu said solemnly: "I guess this is the reason why you are being hunted. This thing looks like a statue of barbarian sacrifice. It is also the two-headed god that the barbarians were talking about just now. This thing is similar to the one I saw when I was quelling the chaos in the southwest.
The barbarian god statues are very similar."
Zhang Suidao: "Is it the kind of statue you said that cannot be burned?"
Lao Lu nodded, took out a fire folder, asked Dong Zhi to collect some dry firewood, lit it and threw the statue on it.
The three of them stood by the fire and looked at the statue in the fire. It burned for a while. Then they went up and kicked the statue out. A few people stepped forward and took a look. The statue was indeed undamaged, just a little blackened by the smoke.
But there were no signs of burning.
Dong Zhi stepped forward and struck a few times with his long knife, and the sound it made was the sound of wood. He chopped heavily with the blade several times, but only a few white marks were left. If you look closely, you can still see the texture of the wood.
Zhang Sui was amazed. He stepped forward and lifted one of the arms of the statue with his right hand. Just as he was about to study it carefully, he suddenly felt a heat on the fingertips of his right hand, and a panicked wailing came from his mind. Before he could react, the statue suddenly let out a crisp sound.
There was a loud noise, and then it shattered on the ground!
Everyone stared dumbly at Zhang Sui who was holding half of the statue's arm!!
Zhang Sui was also a little dumbfounded!!
Zhang Sui never expected that he just lifted the statue gently and it broke. He looked at the wooden arm in his hand and found that there were also cracks. He threw it on the ground and it immediately broke into several pieces.
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Zhang Sui was about to say something when the sound of rapid horse hooves came from the direction of Kunzhou City.
Soon, a group of knights wearing green armor, carrying sharp blades on their waists, carrying short crossbows and wearing shields on their faces appeared. They were the green-clad guards mentioned in the old intersection.
The leading knight saw dead bodies lying on the ground, and two of the three people standing next to the carriage were covered in blood. He waved his hand and roared, and the knights beside him immediately took off the short crossbows on their backs, surrounded them in a half-moon formation, and pointed straight at them.
Three people next to the carriage.
The leading knight asked: "Who are you? What's going on here?"
The three of them looked at each other, and Dong Zhi threw away the long knife in his hand, raised his hands and stepped forward: "My lord, I am Dong Zhi, who is the bodyguard of the Huang Family Trading Company, and is protecting the Huang Family Jiannan Road Shopkeeper when he returns to Kunzhou to celebrate Mr. Huang's birthday.
We encountered barbarian robberies here, the shopkeeper was killed, and the other guards were killed. These two were passing by to help each other out of righteousness."
Lao Lu also raised his hand and took two steps forward, introducing Zhang Sui and saying: "This is the second son of the Zhang family in Tanhua Bookstore, Kunzhou Prefecture. We were returning to the city from the place where the Zhang family studied. When we heard a call for help, we saw that it was a barbarian kidnapping.
So he stepped forward to help." After saying this, he motioned to Zhang Sui to give the Zhang family identity jade pendant around his waist to the leading knight.
Zhang Sui took off the jade pendant and threw it to the leading knight. The knight caught it casually and looked at it. It was indeed the jade pendant of a member of the Zhang family, so he threw the jade pendant back to Zhang Sui. At the same time, he motioned to the knights behind him to put away their shorts.
crossbow.
The three of them breathed a sigh of relief. It was not a good feeling to be pointed at by these murderous weapons.
The knight motioned to his knights to come forward to check the situation at the scene. As expected, everything matched what the three of them said. The knight turned over and dismounted, lifted off his mask, and revealed a young face, with eyebrows as sharp as knives and lips as sharp as a knife.
He was thin and pale. He stepped forward and looked at the corpses on the ground. He saw that each of the dead barbarians had serious injuries to their vital organs and died tragically. It was obvious at a glance that the person who had done the killing was proficient in the art of killing.
The leading knight said: "I am Cheng Di, the commander of Qingyi in Kunzhou. I received a warning from someone and reported that someone was fighting and fighting here. I came here to check."
After the leader of the Tsing Yi Guards finished speaking, he looked at the three of them and said to Lao Lu, "I wonder which general this old man has ever served under?"
At first glance, the situation at the scene was the result of the cooperation of the military formations, and Lao Lu, who was covered in blood, showed no concealment of his murderous aura.
Lao Lu smiled and casually cupped his hands and said: "I have only been in the Red Flame Army for a few decades. When my leg became lame, I returned to the family to take care of myself."
The Red Flame Army was a major force in quelling the rebellion in the southwest. The Red Flame Army was originally called the Nanshan Army. During the battle to suppress the rebellion in the southwest, the early troops suffered heavy casualties when they fought against the barbarians in the jungle. The barbarians were familiar with the jungle.
The mysterious presence in the jungle caused the Nanshan Army to suffer a lot.
Later, Feng Mang, the commander of the Nanshan Army, directly used black oil to open roads and achieved great success with fire. Later, he became particularly fond of fire attacks and came up with various methods of fire attacks. In the middle and late stages of the Southwest War to quell the chaos, more
The barbarian, who relied on his fire attack skills to burn the ground and was not afraid of death, cried for his father and his mother, destroying the city and fortress along the way. If the supply of black oil had not been insufficient later, Commander Feng Mang would have burned down the entire Black Forest.
Feng Mang was also nicknamed the Fire Madman by his colleagues, and his subordinates called him General Fire. After the rebellion was over, the banner of the Nanshan Army was directly changed to the Red Flame Army by the emperor who understood the situation. The fighting style of the entire army was under Feng Mang's leadership.
He was on the road of using fire and never looked back. He was also one of the most difficult armies in the Yan Dynasty.
Cheng Di, a guard in blue, said respectfully: "I'm sorry! It turns out he is a meritorious warrior."
Lao Lu said: "It's just a common man, not worth mentioning. I suggest you check the background of these barbarians. Logically speaking, these barbarians should not appear in Kunzhou. If something goes wrong, there must be monsters."
Cheng Di nodded and said: "That's true. In the past half month, there have been many incidents of barbarians robbing and killing people, but they were all in other prefectures, and the farthest one was in Hanjiang Road in the north." He looked at the men and gathered them together.
He looked at the corpse of the barbarian and said: "This is the first time that this situation has happened in Kunzhou Prefecture. All Qingyi Prefectures attach great importance to it, and it is not convenient to disclose the specific situation."
Lao Lu waved his hand and said: "This is your business, you don't need to explain it to me in detail. I'm just a lame groom now. I just need to take good care of my young master."
After saying this, he greeted Zhang Sui and said, "Second Master, let's go back. It's getting dark soon. It's so uncomfortable to be wet. Go back and wash up early. Otherwise, Widow Liu will be scared half to death when she sees her, and she will probably never talk to her again."
Me."
Widow Liu was the daughter-in-law of an accountant of the Zhang family. The accountant died of tuberculosis a few years ago. The Zhang family took pity on their orphans and widowed mothers and it was difficult to make a living, so they asked Widow Liu to take care of Zhang Sui's courtyard, wash and rinse, and provide subsidies.
Household use.
The accountant's son was also fourteen or fifteen years old. He used to work as a boy with Zhang Sui. Before Zhang Sui had typhoid fever, he got into a fight with someone and broke someone's skull under Zhang Sui's instruction, causing a commotion.
Was sent to the farm.
Widow Liu was doing odd jobs in Zhang Sui's courtyard. As they went back and forth, Lao Lu became acquainted with Widow Liu, who was in her thirties. They are still developing.
One moment he was a tough and fierce man, but in the next moment he turned into a henpecked man.
Zhang Sui was a little unaccustomed to the change in Lao Lu's painting style and said, "Then go say hello to Dong Zhi and then come back."
At this time, Dong Zhi and several green-clothed guards were moving the bodies of the guards, loading them into carriages, and preparing to transport them back to Huang's house. Zhang Sui and Lao Lu walked up to him and said hello. Zhang Sui said: "Dong
Brother, Lao Lu and I will go back first. After you deal with the situation here, if you need our help in any way, just come to us. We can all share the sorrow."
Dong Zhi quickly saluted and said: "I should thank you two for your life-saving grace. If it weren't for you, I would probably be lying with a few brothers." Speaking of the other brothers, Dong Zhi looked sad. On the old road
He stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Sorry, people can't be resurrected. Go back and settle down. I live at the east end of Shengjingfang. If you have nothing to do, come and have a drink with me." Dong Zhi nodded in agreement.
Zhang Sui and Lao Lu walked for a while before they remembered that Lao Lu's horse had its front hooves chopped off by barbarians. The horse was still lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the wound and could only neigh softly. Lao Lu stepped forward and squatted down.
In front of the horse's head, he stroked the horse's head with his hand for a while, sighed, and said: "Poor old guy, if you try harder, you can avoid it, you must be old after all!" The horse hummed softly a few times,
As if responding to him, Lao Lu drew out his short blade, blindfolded the horse with his left hand, and inserted the blade directly into the horse's neck with his right hand. The horse's body shook for a moment, and then it died lifeless.
Lao Lu pulled out his short blade, stood up, and took a long breath. The Tsing Yi guards not far away were watching Lao Lu's series of actions without saying a word. Cheng Di, the Tsing Yi guard, whispered to one of his men, and the man walked to Tsing Yi.
The guard's horse group led a spare horse, came to Lao Lu, saluted the Yan Dynasty military salute, and said: "Our commander asked me to bring it to you and take it down. After returning to the city, you just need to hand it over to the guard.
"
Lao Lu thanked him quickly, raised his hand to Cheng Di in the distance, greeted Zhang Sui, and the two got on their horses and ran towards Fucheng.
Zhang Sui looked a little dazed. He felt that something was wrong with him ever since the statue broke into pieces. It was not obvious at first. After Qing Yi Wei came to the scene, his feeling deepened. No matter with Dong Zhi or Qing Yi Wei,
The communication was all done by Lao Lu, while he only watched from the sidelines.
After riding on the horse, Zhang Sui felt that his right hand was heating up, and it was like someone was whispering in his head, which made him unable to concentrate, and he felt as if he was motion sick. Zhang Sui thought, it was not the broken statue.
Let the "Wishful Book" in your hand react?
Thinking of this, Zhang Sui couldn't help but feel excited, and couldn't wait to return to his small courtyard to check the situation of the "Ruyi Book". Zhang Sui called to the old road, whipped his riding whip, and ran towards the city gate at a faster speed.