Chapter 424: She seems to have killed someone (Second update, please give me a monthly ticket)
I vaguely remember that it was the follower of Wu Siqing——
But at this moment, the two of them were so close that when Song Xian looked at him, he suddenly felt as if he had met him before.
Now is not the time to delve into this, and Song Xian has no time to think more. In order to avoid being discovered by the rebels, he subconsciously took the dagger and hid it in his wide sleeves.
As he turned around, he forced himself to calm down and thought quickly in his mind.
At this time, Tan Li had already grabbed him and pushed him forward to Wei Shuyi.
Seeing the three rebels, an official finally reacted and yelled, "Wei Shuyi, you are paid by the court and respected by the emperor, but you actually joined the rebels... You have absolutely no sense of shame!"
"... You spineless people will be despised by the world for eternity!"
Tan Li turned around and said in an inviting and urging tone: "My Lords, when life and death are at stake, the one who knows the current situation is a hero!"
The officials cursed even louder.
"Sir Balang, we are here to kill the envoys, not to persuade them to surrender!" Seeing the hesitation of the young man beside him, the deputy general spoke in a bad tone and looked at Wei Shuyi with a wary look: "If something goes wrong, I'm afraid that the general will blame us, and no one can bear it!"
"What's wrong?" The young man's rebellious mentality grew wildly again: "Just relying on these three weak scholars?"
"I recruited talented people for my father, what's wrong with that?" He looked at the deputy general with a cold look in his eyes: "General Hong has repeatedly acted presumptuously. Does he not take my father seriously? Or does he not take me seriously, believing that I am a loser who can do nothing and can only be deceived by others?"
The deputy general wanted to say something but stopped himself. In the end, he suppressed his words. It was so shameful to have internal strife in front of the battlefield.
The young man suppressed his anger, dismounted from his horse, and pretended to have a sincere conversation with Wei Shuyi.
Wei Shuyi took a step back and raised his hand to salute him.
The young man bowed slightly, glanced at Wei Shuyi and the other two, and asked, "I admire your wisdom and decision-making, but your relatives and clansmen must be in the capital. If you openly join my father's army, aren't you afraid of implicating your clansmen and causing their deaths?"
Wei Shuyi smiled and said, "We all died here this time, the court will only praise and compensate us——"
"That's right!" Tan Li said quickly, "We will keep our identities secret for the time being and serve Envoy Kang. When Envoy Kang achieves great success one day, will we still worry about not being able to benefit our people?"
The young man looked at the imperial guards and officials behind them with interest: "What do you two mean..."
Wei Shuyi said in a very calm tone: "Of course we can't give them the opportunity to talk nonsense - please, Mr. Balang, help us eliminate this trouble."
The faces of the officials and guards changed drastically.
If it was said that Wei Shuyi was unworthy of being a human being just now, he is now a non-human!
The young man laughed and clapped his hands, saying, "Great! You are indeed a useful talent!"
After he kills all the remaining people, he will bring these three back to present to his father. In this way, he will not only block the envoys from going to Dong Luo, but also find talented people who can be used. This will surely make his father look at him differently!
My father was indeed looking for advisers, but in terms of talent and vision, they could not be compared with those talents who had passed the imperial examination and entered the officialdom.
Moreover, Wei Shuyi will certainly be grateful to him, and if he manages things well in the future, he can secretly use him...
Even if Wei Shuyi really had other intentions, he should keep a close eye on him on the way and bring him back to his father for review. If he is really useless, it will not be too late to kill him then!
In just a moment, the young man thought about all the pros and cons he could think of.
He gave Wei Shuyi a friendly smile and said, "Then let's follow Minister Wei's advice!"
He raised his hand and ordered: "Kill them all!"
While he gave the order, he kept an eye on Wei Shuyi's reaction, and saw that the young man didn't waver at all.
The young man believed it even more and couldn't help but sneer in his heart - these literati, all of them said they were concerned about the country and the people, but in fact they were the most afraid of death, vicious and selfish.
The rebels quickly charged forward with swords raised; the imperial guards were both frightened and angry, and fought hard to resist.
One official fell to the ground in fear, saying in a trembling voice: "I... I also want to serve Envoy Kang!"
The young man burst into laughter upon seeing this, as if he had just seen the funniest and most enjoyable show in the world.
These are the officials in the capital who can only use their tongues to point out the country's affairs! The next moment, his laughter suddenly stopped.
A dagger was pressed against his jaw and neck from the side, forcing him to look up and raise his jaw.
It’s Wei Shuyi.
The young man was extremely frightened and angry. When he was about to subdue the other party with his backhand, suddenly a dagger was pressed against his back.
Song Xian had been paying attention to Wei Shuyi's movements. When he saw Wei Shuyi about to take a step forward, he immediately followed.
At this moment, he and Wei Shuyi had already restrained the man on the left and right.
Tan Li shouted at the same time: "Tell them to stop! Otherwise, your life will be in danger!"
The young man gritted his teeth: "Wei Shuyi...!"
"This is the first lesson that I, as a counselor, teach you, Mr. Balang. You should never trust others easily. When you are doubtful but think you can control everything, you will be easily carried away and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of you." Wei Shuyi said with a smile, "I'm sure you will remember this lesson for the rest of your life."
It is true that he is a good-looking scholar, but he is not completely powerless.
Wei Shuyi exerted a little strength with his hand, and the dagger cut the skin on the young man's neck, and blood oozed out.
No matter how much anger he had, it was all gone in the face of the fear of death. The young man immediately shouted in shock: "... Stop! Stop!"
The situation around them returned to a stalemate.
The official who had just been lying on the ground and saying he wanted to surrender, climbed up in a daze.
So...Minister Wei, was he acting?
Why are you all looking at him? He... Of course he is also acting!
If he hadn't just sacrificed his dignity and deliberately acted cowardly and ugly, then how could Mr. Balang... have been careless for that moment?
He was creating an opportunity for Minister Wei! That's right, that's it... Whoever asked about it afterwards would say that it was true!
The official immediately regained his righteous look, raised his hands to protect several young new scholars, and asked them to step back.
"Wu Siqing, you go first." Wei Shuyi said as he retreated with the hostages, "Just leave one carriage behind."
Wu Siqing hesitated for a moment in this sudden change, and finally responded and signaled his colleagues to get in the car while urging his daughter: "...Chunbai, hurry up!"
He was so frightened that his seven souls had not yet left his body and returned home, so he didn't bother to conceal his name.
When Wu Chunbai was about to board the carriage, he suddenly heard a dull and hoarse voice: "Who allowed you to leave?"
The person who spoke was the deputy general named Hong.
Seeing him looking at him indifferently, the young man suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart: "General Hong, what do you mean!"
"Sir Balang, I have tried to dissuade you many times, but you still acted recklessly. This is really wrong." A cold look flashed in the eyes of the deputy general surnamed Hong. "The order of the envoy cannot be disobeyed. Please forgive me for not letting them leave today. Please take care of yourself, Sir Balang."
"Hong Chen! How dare you!" Seeing him raise his hand to give an order, the young man was horrified: "My last name is Kang! I am my father's eighth son!"
"If something unfortunate happens to Balangjun, I will inform the envoy that Balangjun fought bravely and was seriously injured and died, so as to preserve Balangjun's last dignity." As soon as the deputy general surnamed Hong finished speaking, he raised his hand and shouted, "Balangjun does not want to cause a bigger mistake because of his own fault, so he ordered us to kill him to fulfill the envoy's order! Kill!"
What eighth son? He is just a bastard born to a Hu concubine and has never been valued by the envoys.
The envoy had nine sons in total, and the fourth son was born to the daughter of the Hong family. As for this useless person, he died.
He was obviously more prestigious in this team than the young man. After hesitating for a moment, someone took the lead and started killing.
The young man felt angry and humiliated.
Wei Shuyi was really panicked this time.
He thought that by holding the Kang family's son hostage, he could at least solve the problem temporarily. However, he didn't know that the generals of Kangding Mountain didn't care about the life and death of the Kang family's bloodline at all.
For a moment, he didn't know whether to keep the person in his hand or throw him away, so he could only drag him back and temporarily hand him over to the two imperial guards.
Looking at the fierce fighting around him, with people constantly falling down with injuries, Wei Shuyi kept repeating in his heart - Cui Ling'an, Cui Ling'an! Hurry, hurry, hurry! "Father!"
A young girl's voice was heard without any disguise, and Wu Chunbai rushed forward and pushed Wu Siqing away from the rebel's knife.
She rushed forward with all her strength, pushing her father away and falling heavily to the ground.
Just when she thought the rebel's knife was going to fall on her, she looked up in panic and saw a man coming from behind the rebel, grabbing the rebel's neck with a horsewhip and pulling him backwards.
This is a very chaotic way of defeating the enemy in a hurry, and it is obviously not a move that a skilled person would use.
Wu Chunbai didn't care about anything else. He picked up a bloody knife at random, held it tightly with both hands, closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and stabbed it straight into the rebel's body.
The rebel's knife finally fell from his hand and he fell backwards.
Wu Chunbai stood there trembling, looking at Song Xian in front of him in shock: "Song, Master Song..."
She didn't know what to say, she seemed to have killed someone...! Song Xian turned around suddenly and looked forward.
He seemed to hear the sound of horse hooves! Wei Shuyi, who was almost hacked by the swords, also heard it.
But the direction is wrong...
The sound of horse hooves came from the front, not from the back where the reinforcements sent by Cui Ling'an should have appeared.
If it's not Cui Ling'an, then who is it? I updated 6,000 words today! I'm begging for monthly votes! I'll try to write more tomorrow! Good night~
(End of this chapter)
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