Chapter 10 This killer is a little cowardly
In the morning, it was the incident of Cao Hongjie, and at noon, he was stunned by the sudden information from Chen Deng. Until the evening, when he calmed down, Wang Hou discovered that there was a head full of fear and horror on the street at the gate of the Lufu. It was the servant of the Lufu who led him to the inner house last night.
No wonder Chen Deng congratulated him at noon, and it turned out that this Lu Mansion was hidden in murderous intent.
Fortunately, Cao Xiaojie came to "sacrifice himself for the tiger" last night, otherwise Wang Hou might have been the one who was hanging here. Thinking of this, Wang Hou could not help but look back with glory while following the servants to the banquet.
But I guess I was still angry with him. The little lady of the Cao family dressed in a tiger and leopard cavalry rolled her eyes with a proud little head.
Everything was as expected. Although Wang Hou still praised the group leader at the dinner and tried hard to praise him, Brother Lu was not sure whether it was because the marriage was about to happen or the incident last night. Brother Lu obviously did not have the enthusiasm these days and seemed a lot colder. He sat on the side and said nothing and drank a drink.
Chen Gong probably had an unhappy relationship with Lu Bu because of the matter of the servant in blue. He had a black face and his expression was rigid and as if someone had owed him 2,400 taels. However, because his marriage with Yuan Shu was about to be immigrated, he was unwilling to have troubles. That night, he didn't pick any more, and just treated him with a black face.
In this case, Wang Hou also said goodbye and returned to the court. Before leaving, he made a blank check to recommend Lu Bu as the left general and Xuzhou governor. With this lottery, Brother Lu finally squeezed out a smile and said a few polite words, but he was just polite and didn't even pay a farewell gift. He really didn't understand the "rules" in the officialdom.
A tasteless dinner was dealt with. Early the next morning, Wang Hou started his journey home with more than 300 ox carts borrowed by the Chen family and heavy food.
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Even if there is a ox cart to carry, the journey back is even more full. I have to complain about the dirt roads of this era, with a pit on the left and a ditch on the right. When I was a child, Wang Hou rode a hand tractor on his second uncle. At that time, he thought that this broken thing was the best in the world. Now he has found a rival to this thing. The two-wheeled broken car doesn’t even have a soft tire. It’s just two wooden wheels. Wang Hou’s stomach is about to spit out.
If you have the life to go back, you will do nothing else and get the tire done first! Your old face turned green, and Wang Hou was so cruel that he was sad.
However, as an official, he was still a little privileged. He could sit behind the grain truck and sway. Cao Hongjie and another tiger and leopard cavalry were not so idle. Each of them had a specially chosen rough stone in their hands, and polished the precious crystal salsa that Wang Hou had to come from Chen Deng with a thick skin. In this era, there was no effective means of processing hard gems, so they could only rely on this method to hard grind them.
After grinding for more than an hour, my wrists were so tired that I had lost my skin. I was so angry that I threw this thing into the grain basket. Cao Xiaoniang grabbed Wang Houyi's collar and shouted fiercely with a bare teeth.
"What exactly is this thing going to do? You said! Did you deliberately write the whole book?"
It really means to suffocate her temperament, but of course I can't tell it to the truth. The old Japanese melon face was so stern that Wang Hou pretended to be so arrogant that he flapped his thumbs up south, and he was so cold that he didn't explain.
The handle was in this guy's hands, and he let go of Wang Houyi's collar in a sad way. Cao Hongjie had to pick up the half-sand crystal again, and rubbed his hands up and down with a sad face.
He glanced at her proudly, and Wang Hou immediately turned his eyes behind the convoy.
On the hillside about two or three hundred meters away, several cavalrymen followed the convoy slowly as if no one was around, trotting while trotting, while seemingly chatting and talking. It seems that Chen Gong's vigilance is really not ordinary. Since leaving Xia Pi City in the morning, these guys have been following him.
He snorted coldly, and his eyes moved away from these tails with contempt. The next second, Wang Hou moved his old face aside in a cold manner, and spitted all over the ground with an elegant voice.
In this era, people were indifferent, and even the tail spies were not professional. They camped on the edge of Sishui overnight and had not left the territory of Xia Pi. The next morning, the cavalry sent by Chen Gong to monitor were not known where to go to the straitor.
However, Wang Hou did not relax his vigilance. He let the convoy march west for a long time and sent cavalry to search nearby. After confirming that no one was following him, Wang Hou gathered the tiger and leopard cavalry given by Cao Cao.
Apart from the three who went back to report the news, there were still 47 heavy cavalry and 99 war horses. As for Cao Hongjie, who wore iron tiles, stood up with his basin collar, and tried to stand up with his chest, he was directly filtered out by Wang Hou.
No wonder this army is truly unique in being among the top ten famous armies of the Three Kingdoms. It is not as ostentatious as the White Horse. More than 40 heavy-armored cavalry are neatly oriented in three rows, and their faces are all cold and rigid under the heavy iron helmets.
He despises life and death and remains silent at all times. Nothing seems to influence their emotions. Even if the sky collapses and the earth breaks, he can remain heavy and calm. This is the veteran warrior who has been through the battlefield for a long time. Looking at them, Wang Hou even felt that he didn't need to say anything to boost morale. He could lead them directly to the mountain of swords and the sea of fire.
However, some preparations are still needed. After all, this time I put my life in it to bet. The cloth given by Chen Deng was turned out to be the strongest. The knife was cut into strips of cloth in the crisp sound of the crack. Each person sent two. According to Wang Hou's appearance, everyone also tied a piece of cloth stirrup under the saddle.
He stomped on the cloth stirrups for two rounds in a novel way. Cao Hongjie even let go of the reins of the horse, spread his arms and moved his hands and feet, and then shouted in surprise: "No wonder you, a useless man, rode your horse so well in two days. This trick is really convenient."
Ignoring her, he took off his iron sword from Lu Bu with a loud bang, pointed at the setting sun and waved it. In the surprised eyes of the Chen family servants transporting the grain trucks, the heavy cavalry group trampled on the loess all over the sky, and rushed majesticly towards the direction Wang Houjian pointed.
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"Forehead……"
Thanks to this era, the vast land is sparsely populated, and after the war, there is no one in Pengcheng for a hundred miles. In addition, Wang Hou seemed to be very experienced and sent people to take off their armor and explore the way forward, so some people avoided the village, and there was no trace of the road.
The crystals that Cao Hongjie polished came in handy. The two round pieces were ground, and the exquisite crystals were ground into two thin convex lenses. They were rolled up by Wang Hou in a paper tube. He also tinkered with a most primitive telescope.
However, Wang Hou, who was standing next to Huguang Mountain by Hongsi, was stunned for a moment when he was ambitiously looking down.
"This! This is Yuan Shu's mission!!!"
Under the effect of magnifying the convex mirror like goldfish eyes, dense crowds were coming down from the tent and Dou Ke boat. The guards in front held more than three meters high ceremonial spears and lined up in four rows with flags. The next year, five two-wheeled carriages were unloaded from the big slab ship in turn and pushed to the shore from Hongze Lake. The only good news is that cavalry is more precious these days, and because they have to cross Hongze Lake, the two-wheeled carriages pulled by cattle take up too much space, only six cavalry came, but more than five hundred infantry wearing light and heavy armor, holding long halberds, spears, and carrying bows and arrows.
On various forums in later generations, groups of great gods gritted their teeth and insisted on the sky and earth. On the plain, cavalry fought infantry, and one could fight ten! But looking at the selected team of Yuan Shujun's envoys who were begging for marriage, and then looking at the small tiger and leopard cavalry under his command, Wang Hou was still guilty.
Two good-quality crystals and Wang Hou's own good vision can be seen for about a thousand meters. He has been watching here for a long time, but Cao Hongjie has no sight. It was still the morning by Hongze Lake. The steam was particularly large. Looking down, you could see an ant-sized crowd. Following Wang Hou's side, he couldn't understand anything. Finally, she urged her impatiently.
"What else do you think? Since you have found Yuan Zhe's envoy, rush down and kill him!"
However, Wang Hou also started to play with aloofness and ignored her at all. The telescope in his hand followed Yuan Yin's envoy team from getting off the ship until he had sorted out the formation and walked onto the official road. He remained motionless like the statue. Finally, until he left the shadow, he put down the paper-bottle telescope and rubbed his eyes uncomfortable.
"Don't you do it yet? People will run away in a while!"
I really don’t know what kind of educational environment Cao Hongjie was like when he was a child. The little girl was crazy about playing swords and guns every family. This girl was whispering in her ears. Wang Hou’s head was getting bigger, so he simply rolled his eyes.
"If you want to die, you will go to your own place! Pass my order! People will take a horse and go to the bell, and you must not keep up within 800 steps of Han Yin's delegation!"
Seeing Wang Hou pulling the sword back, he actually kicked the horse's back and slowly went down the mountain. On the other side, the envoys of the marriage were also getting further and further away. Cao Hongjie couldn't help but his impatient little face turned red again. He pointed at Wang Hou's back down the mountain, gritting his teeth and contempt.
"Fear of the Death! Coward!"
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Although the tiger and leopard cavalry from Cao Hongjie to the bottom were quite dissatisfied with Wang Hou's decision, they were well-trained and did not order an attack, so they could only endure it and hung from behind Yuan Shu's delegation from afar. However, what Cao Hongjie unexpectedly expected was that this torment was particularly long. In the autumn weather in September, a group of cavalry followed Yuan Yin's butt for two and a half days without launching an attack.
"I'll be timid!"
Every day, he looked at Wang Hou holding a paper tube mysteriously, but he didn't order an attack. Cao Hongjie was so anxious that his aunt came in advance, and he followed him to grind his teeth behind him every day.
Chapter completed!