Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 163 his father

Zhao San was restless. Seeing that the old man was dead, he thought: Even if Guo Shao could pass the survivor, he quickly guessed that the envoy wanted to take revenge on his own way. This was a bit too fast. After all, it would take time to arrange manpower.

Before, Zhao Sanyi asked the old man if he knew Guo Shao. He was worried and angry and thought that Guo Shao wanted to harm him, and believed that Dong Wujiang was the killer sent by Guo Shao to assassinate him! Now Zhao Sancai suddenly felt that maybe Dong Wujiang was arrested for stealing something, but this guy happened to have stayed in Guo Shao's mansion, that's all.

He was indeed a little bit full of soldiers... but he was so scared that Guo Shao was also a senior general who fought in the battles in the north and the north. Will his brothers take revenge on him? How will he take revenge?

...

According to Zhao San's intention, several servants began to deal with the thief's corpse. They went to a person and found a car to load it at the stable, otherwise no one would want to carry the corpse on the street.

Dong Er from the stable came over in a cart loading groceries and waited at the small door on the side of the yard. Dong Er was a groom and a slave of the Zhao family, so he heard it shouting: "Drunk body, Dong Er is here to help."

Dong Er then covered the reins on the stake next to him and walked into the door, but saw a dead body wrapped in a broken straw mat. One of the shoes of the corpse was thrown away, with one bare feet and the straw mat was short, so the dead man's barefoot was exposed outside... It was so miserable. However, Dong Er was not surprised. When he escaped from Hedong, there were many people who died tragically along the way, which was not much better than the person in front of him. Some people who starved to death were even more miserable. They wanted to have a full meal before they died, but they couldn't get what they wanted... Dong Er tasted the taste of hunger, which was hard to say anyway.

However, when he got closer, he was immediately shocked and was stunned. The dead body in front of him was nothing but his father!

Dong Er never expected that his father would come to Tokyo thousands of miles away, and he did not expect that his father would die in the Zhao Mansion.

"Why do you stand stupidly? Come and help carry it." The slave shouted. Another person said, "Let's just carry it three of you. Dong Er was so scared!" They immediately laughed a few times.

"He..." Dong Er's voice was unclear.

A slave said, "The thief caught this morning stole some food in the kitchen and hid in the pile of firewood. Zhao Sanlang came up to interrogate and stuffed wheat cakes into his mouth, choking to death." "Zhao Sanlang's actions were not light or heavy, but a thief who was so poor that he died, which was not a big deal. Dong Er, why are you so scared like this?"

Dong Er said in a trembling voice: "Zhao Yanei killed someone, so the government will not investigate him?"

The slave said: "When will there be no distinction between high and low people? How could the government disturb the Zhao family like a thief? A thousand people who die like this cannot be as good as Zhao Sanlang alone.

Dong Er believes what the slave said. Zhao family Alang and his son Zhao Kuangyin are both generals of the imperial guards. Even if such people make a mistake, the government will not dare to investigate them. What's more, the dead are people who are humble and uninquired. The victim stole things from the Zhao family in advance, and there is a mistake first... Although it is just a small mistake, the villain's small mistake will be killed, which is a common thing.

No one can control Zhao San, at least he won't control them because of a "bad life".

Others said again: "It's probably not good to throw it outside the city. There is a slope by the Bianshui River in the northeast of the city. It was originally a mass grave that buried dead bodies in the deserted valley during the war in Tokyo. Let's dig a hole there and bury people."

Someone echoed: "It's good to bury it, but when you throw it on the side of the road, someone always asks it. It sounds bad. Who would ask about this dead person if you dig a hole?"

"Yes, fortunately there is a mass grave, otherwise there would be owners everywhere in Tokyo, and there would be no place to bury people."

Several people carried the corpse onto the carriage, which had no tents, so everyone brought some thatch for raising fires to cover the corpse. The group drove the chariot out of the yard through the side door.

Dong Er followed him and understood the place. He silently returned to Zhao's mansion and said that he had a stomachache and wanted to see the doctor and ask his companions to help with the work of the stable. Then he went back to his place, lifted a tiled floor from the corner of the wall, digged up the soil and quietly took out a jar from the ground.

While taking the money, he secretly wiped his tears, and found that the money was not enough to buy a coffin! He suddenly became more and more sad.

Born as a son, his father died without even a coffin, and he buried his hole with barefoot on a straw mat! Dong Er felt that it was too embarrassing to live in this world for a moment. Moreover, he didn't even dare to cry, so he could only hide in the corner and wipe away a few tears, so that others would not know.

If the people in the Zhao family knew that the old man killed by Zhao San was Dong Er's father, could Dong Er still stay in the Zhao family? No master would leave a slave who had the "revenge of killing his father" at home, and it would be the most kind way to drive him away directly. But what puzzled Dong Er was: Why did he still stay in the Zhao family and work for his enemies who killed his father?

If his father had not died, of course he would not want to leave Zhao's mansion. Even being a slave would be better than begging for life outside.

Dong Er squatted in the corner for a long time. He originally wanted to use the money he saved to buy a coffin, but at night he secretly dug up his father's body and buried it again. But he didn't have enough money, so he couldn't buy the coffin. He didn't know what to do for a moment.

Dong Er began to recall what happened to his father during his lifetime... In fact, he didn't have a high opinion of his father. He loved to steal in his hometown and was lazy. He made the family live a very hard life. He couldn't live a famine once he encountered a famine, and his mother starved to death. But no matter what, he was finally Dong Er's biological father. No matter how hard his life was, he was the one who raised him to adulthood.

Moreover, when Dong Er thinks about it, he feels sad and pitiful to his father. He has not lived a good day and lives by eating braised vegetables. He has suffered all his life. In the end, he dies so miserably. He is buried in a chaotic grave like a thrown rag in a mess.

Thinking of this, Dong Er only felt that his father was really pitiful and he was very unfilial, so he couldn't help but feel sad.

...

In the Guo Mansion, Yang, Luo, Zuo You, Jing Niang and others were sitting in the living room, sitting at Guo Shao's lower head. Zuo You said: "The main entrance in front of the mansion, the yard opposite the mansion must be bought for additional personal guards to live. On the side and behind the mansion, there should be additional secret sentries and patrols to rotate on duty; in the mansion, Jing Niang is not some of his subordinates, so choose some good-looking women to take care of the lord's daily life nearby."

Guo Shao said: "Actually, it's not so nervous now. If Zhao San fails to hit one blow, can he have a second chance? What's more, this person has just become an adult and there is no one around him who can be used; Li Xia'er is still useful but he dies. Even if Zhao San does it again, he will be powerless. What I think most now is how to end this matter."

Yang Biao advised: "Brother is right, but we still have to pay attention in the future. Brother, when he goes out, try not to ride a horse when he walks around the city. It is better to take a car."

"Second brother is right." Guo Shao nodded.

Because Guo Shao is good at shooting archery, he immediately thought of "hidden arrows hurting people" when he heard the suggestion of abandoning horses and driving. The crossbow is not a sniper rifle, and it is not that easy to ambush and kill people, but there is indeed a certain danger.

Arrows need to kill people with one blow, and they need to shoot headshots, and they cannot be shot on the helmet, otherwise it will be more difficult to kill people with one arrow. Especially when generals usually wear soft armor to protect their hearts when they go out... There are two generals in the imperial guards, bragging about heights and no one obeys each other. Later, they simply compare the scars on their bodies. Whoever has more injuries will become the eldest brother. As a result, one of them actually has dozens of arrow wounds on their bodies! The other general just calls him the eldest brother, because the man has dozens of arrows but has not died.

The key to shooting small and medium-sized targets with one arrow requires the killer to have high martial arts skills and train archery since childhood. However, people with high martial arts skills are in the current era of governing the country by martial arts. Why do they have to do such business? The powerful ones have long been the generals of the imperial guards. Although they are also working hard, they are honest and openly eating imperial grains, living with dignity, and being legally protected by social rules without fear. It is probably much better than killing people to live. Therefore, the right way is to "acquire civil and military skills and sell them to the imperial family."

If you kill a single arrow, you can only use a bow, not a crossbow; just like Guo Shao shot Zhang Yuanhui, a powerful general in the Northern Han Dynasty, and you can't do it with a crossbow... In Guo Shao's view, the biggest advantage of crossbows should be that the user does not need too much practice, unlike bows and arrows, ordinary people cannot use it at all; but crossbows themselves rely on production technology, and no matter how good the craftsmanship is in this era, it will be like that, and the controllability is poor. On the contrary, bows rely on human skills, which can be achieved through training, but may have extremely high accuracy.

In short, it is not easy to kill the target by only arching and crossbow. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, the local governor was lawless and sent people to Chang'an to assassinate the prime minister. He also shot and injured people first, and then went forward to kill with melee combat.

But if you are unlucky and just careless, you will have to finish your work if you are shot on the face. So Guo Shao agreed with his second brother's suggestion. He would not be sniped when he was on the bus. The arrows were not penetrated very well. If he was shot to death by a few arrows in the carriage, it would be incredible.

However, Zhao San's chances of taking action again are low, at least there is no possibility for the time being. Guo Shao just wanted to seize his handle and go to death on the spot, but it depends on the emperor's attitude...

Guo Shao pondered: "I went to the Guards Department today. When I came back, I met Prime Minister Wang Pu on the west side of the imperial city. Wang Pu said that this morning the emperor sent eunuchs to the Palace Front Office and called Zhao Kuangyin into the Great Inner."

Yang Biao asked: "What does the official family mean?"

Guo Shao said: "It is very likely that Zhao Kuangyin will see the criminal's confession, the minister's memorial, and then tell the matter in person and let Zhao Kuangyin explain it. If it was not for this matter, but for military affairs, the officials would generally call Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin together, instead of summoning Zhao Kuangyin alone."

After hearing this, Zuo You said, "This matter is probably a bit lingering. The government is committed to the Northern Expedition. At this moment, it is definitely unwilling to reach the point where the generals are alive and dead, and they are in vain to fight."

Guo Shao nodded and said, "I didn't want to make a grudge with Zhao Kuangyin, but Zhao San has done everything. At this point, Zhao San has made me very uneasy, it's a disaster!"

...

...

...
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next