The remaining 400 or so bodies were wearing cotton battle suits that were much finer than linen.

Lai Xiaoshuo said that these cotton battle uniforms were also of a unified style, and the style was clearly modeled after the state soldiers' close-fitting battle uniforms.

Hundreds of people wearing uniform battle uniforms may be the private army of a wealthy family.

"No matter how these people died, thousands of well-trained soldiers were killed or injured overnight. How did a mere fishmonger and his followers escape from the battle?" The guard of Li Qian's family laughed strangely, looked in the direction of the Baimang River Fish Market and said coldly: "There are many turtles in a shallow pond. This Qizhou City is interesting."

The group looked at each other for a few seconds, and the bearded man from the Zhao family suddenly said, "No matter what, even if Chu Tian has some weirdness, he can't be a match for you gentlemen. His head must have been taken off by my young master himself."

The bearded man looked at the guards of the other five families provocatively: "The first one to inherit the Thunder Seal of the Qingming Sacrifice Thunder Sutra must be my son Zhao Kuo!"

The guard of the Li family immediately laughed. He pointed at the bearded man and sneered, "Hey, Zhao Lao Hu, want to make a bet?"

The big bearded man Zhao Lao Hu jumped up and rubbed his hands together excitedly: "Let's bet, ha, let's bet on which young master will take off Chu Tian's head. Hey, we have two hundred taels of gold notes here!"

With a movement of his hand, Zhao Laohu pulled out a crumpled, palm-sized piece of light golden paper from his sleeve and threw it forcefully on the ground.

Before the Li family guards could speak, the white-browed man with the word "Lin" embroidered on his chest started to laugh loudly: "Zhao Lao Hu, your Zhao family is one of the most powerful merchants in Dajin. Hey, hey, you led the team to protect your young master Zhao Kuo to come to Qizhou to make achievements, how come you only have such a small amount of gold and silver on you?"

Zhao Laohu rolled his eyes, pointed at the white-browed man and sneered, "Lin Baimei, and Li Laoshi, you know my temper. I can't keep gold or silver on me. Here are these two hundred taels. You can gamble if you want!"

The six guards were all interested.

They all followed their young master from afar to come to Qizhou. Before that, they all hung out in the capital of Dajin. They saw each other on the streets every day and had some friendship with each other, but more often than not, they were fighting overtly and covertly.

Among these young men from wealthy families, which one is the easy-going one?

For the charming smile of a beauty, for a majestic BMW, for a thousand-forged sword, Zhao Kuo, Li Qian and others have stirred up many disturbances in the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty. Naturally, their personal guards have taken action openly and covertly for their own young masters.

Everyone came to Qizhou this time with the same purpose, and the heads of each family also carefully warned them to "value peace". The heads of the families said that it was not okay to continue fighting, and they could only save some face in the gambling of gold and silver.

All of a sudden, the guards took out the gold and silver notes they carried with them. More than thirty guards actually collected 7,000 to 8,000 taels of gold notes and 40,000 to 50,000 taels of silver notes.

For the guard leaders who came from big families, this amount of money was not a huge sum, but it was enough for them to live a life of debauchery for a long time. For a moment, everyone stared at the pile of gold and silver bills with sharp eyes, secretly worrying that their young masters must fight for their honor this time and must chop off Chu Tian's head.

Money can move people's hearts, and a group of people are gambling here. They ignore the slight noise coming from the fish market and the riverside.

They didn't even notice that around the depression where they were hiding, among the dense shrubs, a few rock ears were quietly blooming.

Rock ear, a kind of lichen and a close relative of moss, looks like a thin shell attached to the ground when it dies. Once there is dew or rain, the rock ear with tenacious vitality can quickly swell and revive, spreading to a large area in a very short time.

Like moss, rock fungus can be seen everywhere in the wild, and no one will notice whether a new rock fungus has grown under their feet or in the bushes around them.

These rock ears are as their name suggests, grayish white or grayish brown, thick and fleshy, about the size of a thumb, shaped like ears, and mostly grow on rocks, hence the name rock ears.

However, normal rock ears in nature would never be like these rock ears. Not only did they grow and bloom quickly, they also moved gently a few times like the ears of animals, and pointed their ear holes towards the direction of the guards.

With a small pile of gold and silver bills placed in front of them, the men became so excited that they started to speak without thinking.

"This time, our families will join forces to assist Master Zhou in opening up a new state. If we succeed, we may even be able to earn a title for our wife and children."

"It will work, it will definitely work. Not to mention the family backgrounds of Master Zhou's other disciples, if the six families join forces, there won't be many things that we can't accomplish in Dajin."

"Isn't it? Isn't it just taking away Sima Zhuifeng's position as governor, borrowing the manpower and material resources of Qizhou, and then opening up a new state? This matter is a bit complicated, and it's really not difficult to say it's difficult."

"Hehe, I hope that Governor Sima can be smarter and resign voluntarily, so that he can save some face!"

"That's right. The Sima family is a truly aristocratic family in our Great Jin. Governor Sima is one of the Eight Horses of Sima. If we really fall out with him, we won't be afraid, but it will be troublesome."

"It's strange. How come this Sima Taishou is a direct descendant of the Sima family? How come the Sima family didn't help him at all in the past few years in Jizhou? They couldn't even deal with the Jizhou Chu family?"

"Shh, you don't know this. Although the Sima governor is a direct descendant of the Sima family, the Chu family is not without support! No matter how powerful the Sima family is, a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake!"

In the forest seven or eight miles away, a vampire bat was hanging upside down on a big tree branch.

Lord Rat stood up, stood on a big branch, closed his eyes and listened attentively.

The sounds picked up by those rock ears rang directly next to Master Shu's ears. The conversation of the guards seemed to be right in front of him, and Master Shu heard it clearly without missing a single word.

No matter how rich the experience these big men have in the underworld, they just make sure that no one is approaching them and they pretend that everything is safe and sound.

They never dreamed that there was such a strange secret technique in the world. Their words could be overheard clearly by a tiny silver-haired mouse from a distance of seven or eight miles through a few "naturally grown" rock ears.

"People from the six major families are here to open up a new state?"

Lord Rat held his tail in both hands and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it hard. Saliva kept dripping from the corner of his mouth, and his two scarlet eyes flashed with crazy red light.

"I can't help it, I can't help it. Woohoo, I smell a strong conspiracy!"

"I can't help it anymore. I can't help it anymore. Hehe, let's quickly discuss with Tian Ge'er how to trick you into leaving nothing but corpses and tears."