From the position of the table at the entrance of the village, one can clearly see the path that branches from the official road in the distance.
Zhang Shou noticed that as the group of people and horses meandering for hundreds of steps gradually approached along the path, the people around him had different reactions.
Zhang Chen, who was talking eloquently just now about who is afraid of whom, tensed up all over. Zhang Wu, who began to regret that he had not been of any help last night, had his shoulders trembling slightly. The others poured one glass after another of wine into their stomachs, but their faces were stiff.
Zhu Ying looked around, her face full of pride as a birthday girl, while Lu Sanlang ate and commented on the quality of the dishes from time to time. Both of them showed good psychological quality.
He didn't know if the latter two saw some clues like him. After thinking about it, he felt that he was not absolutely sure, so he didn't speak out his guess.
Seeing that Aunt Liu had already wisely helped her drunken mother Wu into the house to rest. At other tables, some villagers who had drunk too much were rowing fists, and some of the entourage of Guijie's children sang a ditty.
He suddenly shouted on a whim.
"Singer, please be louder. What's the point of singing to yourself? If you want to sing, let everyone hear it!"
"Yes, yes, sing louder. If you sing well, I will reward him with a golden flower!" Zhu Ying also immediately started cheering.
The person who was singing happily was interrupted by Zhang Shou's beat. He was a little hesitant at first, but when he heard that Miss Zhu, who was always known for her boldness, actually opened her mouth, it was like a golden flower. He was overjoyed and thought about it.
Without thinking, I started singing loudly.
However, before he even sang a few lines of his ridiculous tune, a group of people who couldn't bear it hurriedly held him down. After three glasses of wine, he fell drunk at the table. Seeing this, he drank more.
After having two drinks, Zhu Ying couldn't help but was so angry that she banged the table as hard as she could.
"Substitute, replace quickly! I will give a reward to whoever sings well, and I will never break my promise!"
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Immediately, another guard who claimed to have a good voice jumped on the stool and sang a high note with his voice: "The floating clouds are my shadow, the sad wind is swirling for me, and I have three vows."
The questions are clear and clear."
Hearing this beginning, even Zhang Shou, who deliberately pushed people to sing songs, couldn't help but feel numb. However, before he could hurriedly ask people to stop, the guard with a wonderful male and female voice started singing the next song.
The terrible lyrics came out.
"Mother-in-law, I have been waiting for the snow to fall for six months and the drought for three years, and then I will reveal you, the innocent soul of Dou E, who died in death!"
In an instant, everyone on the flowing table who had been eating happily was stunned.
Even if the eldest lady promises to sing "Bounty Flowers" well, at noon of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, at the eldest lady's birthday banquet, you sing "Flying Snow in June, Dou E's Injustice", you are a curse...
...or do you want to be beaten?
Even the long team of people who had just set foot at the entrance of the village, the tall and majestic looking officer on the horse in front of them, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he heard the lyrics that sounded like a demonic voice.
But at this moment, his mount seemed to be unable to bear the tune, and suddenly stumbled. At this moment, the mighty officer who had been distracted suddenly slipped down.
Fortunately, he responded to the situation and raised his breath when he fell from the horse. He immediately put one hand on the ground, then suddenly turned forward, and finally landed firmly. But even so, when he finally breathed a sigh of relief, he held his head high again.
When he stood still, he found that a group of people crowded at the table not far away were looking at him with extremely strange eyes. After being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly showed a fierce look on his face again.
Although the heroic officer almost made a fool of himself just now, as he mounted his horse again, dozens of soldiers followed him in unison, and when they were approaching the village entrance with great momentum, not to mention some of them hurriedly pulled him down.
The guy who was standing on the stool singing Dou E's injustice ordered him to shut up. Even Zhu Hong and other guards couldn't help but rushed over and gathered around the head table, their faces full of alertness.
Although Zhang Shou and Zhu Ying did not vent their anger, how could they not be upset with such a posture?
However, Zhu Ying impatiently put the wine glass on the table, and then asked loudly: "Is the person coming an official or a bandit?"
Seeing that when the leading officer heard this straight-forward question, his whole face was filled with straight and horizontal expressions, Zhang Shou couldn't help but become more convinced of his previous guess, and he immediately stood up and smiled.
"What Miss Zhu means is that if they are officers and soldiers coming for reinforcements, they should be invited into the village and have a glass of birthday wine. If they are rebels and bandits who are running around, then I'm sorry. There were already more than twenty people last night.
People are trapped in this small Rongshui Village, you might as well give it a try."
The officer finally restored the expression on his face to the ferocious one he had imagined, and tried his best to make his tone as tough as possible: "I have received the news about what happened last night. Although you are all nobles from the capital, I will accompany you.
There are many guards, but to say that we can easily capture these rebellious ministers and traitors is saying too much?"
Before anyone could speak, he raised his voice and said, "But before that, hand over those rebels first!"
"Why..." Before Zhang Chen could say a single word, Lu Sanlang covered his mouth and dragged him aside.
Thinking that Lu Sanlang was trying to prevent Zhang Chen from provoking a dispute, the other Guijie disciples and accompanying guards seemed to have tightened their strings. If they had arrows in their hands now, they would definitely let go and let them fly around.
, whether the shot is successful or not depends entirely on luck.
In contrast, the villagers in the back who were still shouting and punching were incompatible with the tense and heavy atmosphere at the head table, and they seemed to be in a state of ice and fire.
The stalemate lasted for quite a while, and no other answer came from Zhang Chen, who was stopped after speaking two words. The fierce officer seemed to feel a little uncomfortable. He licked his chapped lips and tried to emphasize his tone again:
"I say it again, hand over all the rebels, otherwise don't blame me for giving the order and we will be destroyed!"
"I don't need anyone, but I need a life. If you have the ability, come and get it!"
Zhu Ying's sudden shout suddenly brought the tense atmosphere to its highest point. But the next moment, she finally couldn't help laughing out loud, and then turned her back to rub her belly: "It can't be done, it can't be done, Ah Shou,
You keep acting, I can't hold myself any longer!"
"You can't stand it anymore and you still call me here?" Zhang Shou also couldn't help laughing. He took a deep breath and finally showed a more serious face, but then he coughed dryly and said, "Okay, stop pretending, Your Excellency.
That little trick has been seen through long ago!"
Seeing that the officer was stunned for a moment, and some of the soldiers behind him even lowered their heads and snickered, he smiled and revealed the answer to the mystery.
"It is not difficult for a carriage and a convoy of horses to pass on this small road from the official road. But if you have hundreds of people coming from such a small road, the passing speed will be slow. If you are really unfaithful,
It comes from good intentions, not to mention that there are harvested rice fields beside the road, even the green crops will be trampled on without hesitation, because time is tight, so I won’t waste time by coming from the side road.”
"Moreover, whether you are a comrade of the rebels, or a tyrannical official and army who came to demand people, or even more to say, as a person who takes on the important task of exterminating people and killing villages, your Excellency has a majestic image, a decent and rigorous style, and a precise and precise speech.
Yes...well, let alone bad acting, I can't play a treacherous and evil criminal at all. This is the biggest flaw."
In fact, these are all lies. The most important thing is that he just figured out that he was led astray by Hua Qi before. This kind of confidant of Zhao Guogong would only find out when the soldiers with malicious intentions arrived at the door of his house and then warn him.
And he went up to negotiate and deal with it a little tragically?
The officer didn't know what expression to show. He was obviously criticized for his messy performance, and then seemed to be praised? What the hell is this? It wasn't until a cough came from behind that he came back to his senses.
"Oh, I was so confident when I was patting my chest, but it turned out to be a disaster in the middle of the performance. It turns out that I didn't choose the role well."
Following this voice, Hua Qi, who was dressed in the uniform of a soldier, came out from the rear army on horseback. However, he ignored the angry glares of a group of noble disciples and asked with a smile: "Other than these flaws, Mr. Shou,
Did you see anything else?"
Of course, Zhang Shou was not surprised at all when he saw Hua Qi: "Also, although I have lived in the countryside for a long time, I have heard that the cavalry army is difficult to train. On the ground in Gyeonggi, no one except the imperial court can use such an army.
An elite cavalry army of a hundred people. Otherwise, this will not be peace and order, but chaos."
Hua Qi suddenly laughed: "You are very eloquent in praising saints, and your words make sense."
Zhang Shou was not allowed to change the subject by Hua Qicha, and asked with a half-smile: "Is what is happening at the moment caused by Hua Qiye's impromptu instigation, or was it that the military masters were ordered to scare us before they came?"
Hearing this, even Zhu Ying, who had just turned around, couldn't help showing a curious expression, not to mention the Guijie children and accompanying guards who had just been frightened.
"That was my idea." She confirmed with a smile, then Hua Qi suddenly changed her tone and said, "Of course, this is impossible."
After trying another lie, he said calmly: "The ministry meeting agreed to send troops to quell the rebellion, so the Queen Mother specially ordered Xiongwei to bring people over first to have a look, and escort the rebels back to Beijing, and scare them by the way.
I'm scaring everyone. The Queen Mother said that although the countryside is nice, there are no city walls. You should be more careful and protect yourselves!"
Seeing that Hua Qi said something serious, everyone felt ashamed and embarrassed after hearing this, but Zhang Shou couldn't help but murmur a little.
He really can't believe this lunatic... maybe Hua Qixing can probably... be able to do this thing of pretending to spread Yi's decree, right?
Of course, it does not rule out that the Queen Mother who returned to power is too idle... Aren't you afraid of scaring people to death?