Chapter 522: So you are still alive
As the identities of the chosen tribesmen were recounted one by one, the two tribesmen who were speaking also realized something was wrong during the recounting process. They looked at each other and one of them said, "Liu Lang, this is..."
This is a useless one, but you didn't pick it? You know, among the twenty-nine people, there are young people and middle-aged people who look old enough to be intimidating, but the only difference between them is the difference between "little waste" and "big waste"...
These people are all recognized as useless by the tribe, either because they have useless brains or useless temperaments...
The Cui family is not a place that produces only useless people. It is not easy to gather these 29 people at the same time. If one of them is useless, it may be accidental, but if all of them are useless... then Liu Lang must have done it on purpose? ! What is Liu Lang? After leaving Qinghe and setting off on the road, the elders of the clan once bitterly denounced Liu Lang as a rat that entered the rice jar. If that is the case, then Liu Lang's behavior is equivalent to... when this rat left, he even did not forget to clean up the rat shit in the rice jar and take it away?
If it were an ordinary event, this could even be called an unprecedented purification...
Liu Lang knows how to minimize the losses for the clan...
From another perspective, how can Liu Lang's move not be considered a way of knowing how to use people wisely?
It looks like he just clicked randomly, but in fact it was not random at all... It was clearly because of his extreme understanding of every member of the tribe.
After a strange silence in the carriage for a moment, a tribe member asked anxiously, "Is Liu Lang... not planning to come back?"
The more I think about it, the more I feel that Liu Lang's actions are simply resolute -
A kind of determination called "determined to eat up all the food of the Fanyang army, vowing not to offer a single strategy to the Fanyang army"...
After all, the people Liu Lang brought with him were of no great use other than being good at eating.
Liu Lang's decision to take a group of people like this with him really gave people the feeling that there was no way out.
"No, Liu Lang must come back safely." said the elder.
The young man who chose to push himself aside to save his people did not yet realize his true importance now.
"Once we arrive in Taiyuan, we will immediately send a message to the capital and inform the head of the family of this matter..." The elder said again: "No matter what, we must bring Liu Lang back to the family safely."
Several tribesmen agreed and urged the team to speed up again.
They all knew that Liu Lang's words to intimidate the Fanyang army were half true and half false. The truth was that Taiyuan would indeed send troops to support them, and the falsehood was that the Taiyuan defenders were only waiting a hundred miles away from Taiyuan and could not go any further away from Taiyuan.
Therefore, they had to shorten the distance between them and the Taiyuan defenders as quickly as possible before Duan Shiang discovered the situation.
This place should be still a hundred miles away from where the Taiyuan defenders are waiting. There are many of them and they are moving slowly, so they must speed up as much as possible.
The fact is that after listening to Cui Lang's proposal, Duan Shiang still sent people to Taiyuan to investigate the authenticity.
When it was getting dark, the people sent by Duan Shiang returned and caught up with Duan Shiang's team.
"General, there are indeed Taiyuan garrisons ahead to support the Cui clan, but they are only waiting a hundred miles outside Taiyuan City and have no intention of continuing to move east. They have only sent less than a hundred soldiers to the east to investigate the situation of the Cui clan..."
After hearing the news brought back by his men, Duan Shiang looked in the direction of Cui Lang's carriage and felt angry for being deceived.
Cui Lang did not lie, but his words clearly exaggerated the truth... making him mistakenly believe that the Taiyuan defenders were approaching, and he did not dare to rashly use force against the Cui family.
It's too late to chase him now.
And there was no way he could argue with a dandy and cunning guy about it.
Duan Shiang swallowed his anger, made a note of this, drove his horse in the dark, and shouted in a deep voice: "Hurry up!"
Duan Shiang's team had been moving slowly because he was waiting for news from the rear. At this moment, the horses suddenly sped up, and Cui Lang and others in the carriage began to shake.
But Cui Lang heaved a sigh of relief: "My uncle and the others must have already contacted the Taiyuan garrison..."
Including Cui Lang, there were a total of six members of the Cui clan crammed into the carriage. At this time, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy couldn't help but ask, "Sixth brother, at that time we were only a hundred miles away from where the Taiyuan garrison was waiting... Since they were helping us at the front, why did you take the initiative to be a hostage?"
“You are stupid.” Cui Lang rolled his eyes. “Didn’t you see what was going on? Duan Shiang is obviously a ruthless character who will not release his eagle until he sees the rabbit. If a fight really breaks out, even if we send people to ask the Taiyuan garrison for help, the Taiyuan garrison will be willing to take the risk and come, but before that, there will be many casualties in the tribe. You can’t even kill a chicken, so you might be the first to die in vain!”
The young man shrank his neck.
"Besides, how can we easily ask for help from the Taiyuan garrison?" Cui Lang lowered his voice. "It's already risky for them to leave Taiyuan a hundred miles away without permission. At this juncture, isn't the safety of Taiyuan more important than us?"
"And once they start fighting with the Fanyang army, Taiyuan and Bingzhou will be dragged into the war."
Cui Lang said, "They are willing to open the gates of Taiyuan to accept our Cui clan members because of my elder brother's request. But my elder brother is now in the northern border, busy with the war, which is already very difficult... We are only taken care of by my elder brother, but we have never helped him in any way. How can we continue to drag down my elder brother and Bingzhou without caring about him?"
After a moment of silence in the car, a young man said seriously: "Liu Lang's words make sense... Liu Lang's actions today were to take advantage of Duan Shiang's doubts to minimize the losses. It is indeed a good strategy, there is no doubt about this."
The young man said, looking at the young men on his left and right: "But... why did Liu Lang bring Lingjie, Shoufan and others with him?"
Excuse me for being frank, but the remaining twenty-nine people that Liu Lang brought with him are completely useless except for him.
"Of course it's because of you..." Cui Lang said this, met his cousin's puzzled and self-consciously wise eyes, coughed lightly, and changed the topic: "Of course it's because they are all trash."
In fact, his cousin Cui Chen was not much better. He was not stupid and had some intelligence, but he was also very self-confident. When the two offset each other, he often lacked seven points of intelligence.
A young man was dissatisfied and said, "Sixth brother, what do you mean by this..."
"Why are you so anxious? I didn't say I'm not." Cui Lang sighed, "I'm also a waste, everyone."
Cui Chen patted Cui Lang on the shoulder and said, "Liu Lang, there is no need to be so self-deprecating. You can think of such a good strategy to deal with it, and choose to bring me along, which shows your wisdom."
Cui Lang forced a smile at his cousin and nodded, then looked at the others and explained, "Think about it, we are not very useful on weekdays, so even if the clan chooses to give up on us, it won't be too painful—"
If we select only the best ones to take with us, wouldn't that affect the clan's decision? "After this, the frivolous things we did before can be written off in the clan." Cui Lang continued to comfort everyone: "Using only thirty of us to exchange for the safety of the clan members, isn't this a bloody profit?"
"We've made some money..." a young man said, his voice gradually choking up, "But I'm scared... Sixth brother, from what you said, do we just have to wait for death?"
"Death is within our reach, so why wait any longer?" A middle-aged tribe member in a long gown who was leaning dejectedly in a corner sat up a little straighter and pulled out a dagger from his sleeve: "Let's end it right away, so as not to embarrass the tribe."
Seeing him pull out the dagger, several teenagers in the car hugged each other in fear.
Cui Lang hurriedly said: "...Uncle, there is no need to be so anxious!"
"Your nephew is still here, why do you say you want to die so easily?" Cui Chen frowned and said, "Uncle, do you not trust your nephew?"
"..." Facing his nephew's confident and responsible eyes, the middle-aged man silently shifted his gaze away a little without saying anything.
Cui Lang took the opportunity to put away the dagger for him and said to him, "Uncle, let's take it one step at a time."
“In that case, just let me know when you need my uncle to help.” As the middle-aged man spoke, he leaned back into the corner.
Cui Lang nodded: "Okay, uncle, you take a rest first."
His uncle was also one of the outstanding young men in the family when he was young, but when he was 20 years old, he fell in love with a commoner girl and insisted on divorcing his wife and marrying another one. The Cui family would never allow such a ridiculous thing to happen.
The girl was also a passionate lover, and later she committed suicide by jumping into the river.
From then on, his uncle's mental state was not very good. He became depressed and decadent. Things at home were a mess. His only hobby was to advise others - if someone encountered troubles, he would advise them to die rather than live.
What happened in the past two days made everyone very tired. Gradually, no one spoke in the car. Only cousin Cui Chen was still working tirelessly to act wisely and racking his brains for a way to escape.
Cui Lang opened the car window and looked out into the dark night.
After a moment, he raised his hand and reached for the letter inside his lapel, with a slightly regretful look on his face.
Since the Fanyang army approached Xingzhou, he had been in a hurry and had not had time to reply to the last letter from Miss Qiao... She would be worried about him if she didn't receive a reply? She was in Jiangdu and might hear about him from other people. If she knew what he did today, would she think he was responsible? Would she think he was a bit like a man?
This kind of man should be worthy of her, right? Thinking of this, Cui Lang couldn't help but smile.
After a moment, he whispered, "I don't want to die..."
He hadn't replied to the girl he loved yet, and hadn't had time to tell her that he wanted to marry her.
Cui Lang looked far away towards Jiangdu. The night was pitch black and he could not see anything, but his eyes were full of brilliance.
On the Double Ninth Festival in September, after a rain, Jiangdu became a little colder.
September 15th was the ten-day holiday for the Wu Er Hospital Medical Center. Many students would choose to have a good sleep, but Qiao Yumian had no intention of sleeping. She got up from the bed before it was fully light.
After getting dressed, washing and combing her hair, it was already dawn. When Qiao Yumian was about to go out, a page boy who was in charge of receiving and distributing letters from teachers and students of the Medical Institute ran over and said that there was a letter for her today.
When Qiao Yumian expressed her thanks, she hurriedly took the letter, but after reading the handwriting on the envelope, her shoulders slumped in disappointment.
It's a letter from Dad.
It's not that she didn't want to see letters from home, but recently she wanted to see a reply letter from the north.
After Qiao Yumian left Wueryuan and got on the carriage, she opened the letter and read it.
When the Qiao family first learned that Qiao Yumian had gone to Yuezhou, they could not sleep day and night. But Qiao Jijiu was very supportive of Qiao Yumian's decision to follow Chang Suining to Jiangdu.
But Qiao Yumian had never been away from home for such a long time since she was a child, so the Qiao family couldn't help but miss her and would send a letter home almost every half a month.
This time, Qiao Jijiu still expressed his concern about his daughter's situation in Wuer Hospital in the letter, and also talked about some family matters. At the end, he said: "Father, mother and brother are all well, don't worry."
He also added: [Awu is also good, he is getting fatter in autumn and getting fatter day by day.]
Hearing this last sentence, Qiao Yumian smiled and her mood eased a little.
However, she did miss Awu a little.
The carriage stopped at the rear door of the governor's mansion. Qiao Yumian got off the carriage and knocked on the door. The guard at the gate recognized her and hurriedly invited her in.
When Qiao Yumian passed by the back garden, Adian saw her, waved at her and called out to her.
Qiao Yumian smiled and walked over, bowing in turn: "General Adian, Master Xuan Yangzi, Master Xuan Jingzi..."
Wu Jue, who had just finished his morning exercise, smiled and nodded to Qiao Yumian.
Just like the previous two times, Qiao Yumian couldn't help but look at the Taoist in front of him twice more. The strange sense of familiarity became stronger and stronger, especially when the Taoist was standing with Adian...
There is one thing that seems a little strange... Why doesn't Master Xuan Yangzi speak?
Qiao Yumian thought carefully and realized that she had never heard the other person's voice in the three times they met, and the other person did not seem to be mute.
Seeing the little girl staring at him, Wu Jue grinned.
This smile made Qiao Yumian stunned, and her expression was suddenly enlightened for a moment.
Maybe because she had been thinking about Ah Wu in her heart just now, she seemed to understand where the familiar feeling came from... This Master Xuan Yangzi looked very similar to her Ah Wu! But Ah Wu looked very similar to Master Wu Jue... Then why didn't she feel that Master Xuan Yangzi and Master Wu Jue looked similar before?
Qiao Yumian thought carefully and soon came up with the answer - probably because Master Wu Jue had no hair, while Master Xuan Yangzi had a thick bun of gray hair...
And if you block the view with this hair...
When thinking about this and trying to do it in his heart, Qiao Yumian slightly widened his eyes and Wu Jue could no longer hold back and laughed out loud.
Hearing this laughter and seeing this expression, Qiao Yumian was shocked: "You are Wu..."
As she was concerned that Master "Xuan Jingzi" was also there, Qiao Yumian barely managed to stop talking, but the shock on her face grew more intense.
"It's me, it's me!" Wu Jue said with a smile, "I'm just waiting to see when you, a little girl, can recognize me!"
Tianjing, who was meditating on a rock, also laughed.
Qiao Yumian knew that she could speak openly, so she dared to express her surprise: "Master Wu Jue... So you are still alive!"
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