The hand of the herb-gathering girl tightly grasped the braided strap of her backpack.
She stared in Yu Wensheng's direction with dazzling eyes.
She didn't know Yuwen Sheng's identity at first, but when she heard the stranger call him "General Yuwen," she made a bold guess.
The general wearing the Shura mask is the God of War of Ye State.
There are many generals in the Ye Kingdom, but there is only one who can be called a general - the highest military commander of the Ye Kingdom, General Yuwen, who is also privately known as the Living Yama.
She just doesn't understand. Is this big insect skin so rare? Can't buy it anywhere else?
Even people like General Yuwen who came from the wealthy capital had to be robbed?
Zheng Quchi's mind felt like mush at the moment.
She went into the city today simply because she wanted to sell a tiger skin to make some money. By chance, she ran into two people who were in the limelight. She tried to escape, but was caught again. In the end, it turned into a fight between them. seller.
She spoke after Yu Wensheng, and after noticing a period of silence around her, she said helplessly like a mosquito, "Little girl, I only have this piece of skin..."
If Gongshu thought that Yu Wensheng was deliberately causing trouble with him, Lan Shaxia's plain voice was a bit colder: "General Yuwen, I took a fancy to this big insect skin first."
Yu Wensheng smiled: "Is it yours? Have you paid for it?"
It's a complete gangster theory, but I have to say, it makes damn sense.
Gongshu Jiruo's eyes flashed through the gauze and said, "If General Yuwen hadn't come out of the blue, we would have already paid for everything."
"That means I haven't paid yet." Yuwen Sheng said with regret.
He looked at Zheng Quchi and saw that her little head was lowered to her chest. He didn't know whether it was because she was scared or because she was embarrassed to see others.
It's already short enough, but now it's balled up, kneaded, and rolled into balls.
The hypocritical smile on his lips deepened a little, and his voice sounded like spring water: "How much do you sell this big insect skin for?"
"He said, give me one ingot of silver."
After hearing this, Yu Wensheng frowned. She didn't know how much effort she had to put in and how much risk she took to hunt down such a big insect skin. She only gave it ten taels?
The chief craftsman of Beiyuan Kingdom is a bit too petty.
"This general will give you a piece of silver."
Zheng Quchi suddenly raised his head, his dark face full of surprise: "One tablet?!"
One ingot of silver is fifty taels?
After being poor for such a long time, Zheng Quchi usually spent her money on a coin-by-coin basis. She never imagined that one day, she would be able to live a life of extravagant consumption based on silver coins.
Gongshu Jiruo saw Zheng Quchi looking at the money and said calmly: "Two ingots of silver."
"Three ingots."
"Four ingots."
"..."
As the two of them, like the auction house, refused to give in and raised each other's prices, not only was Zheng Quchi's heart trembling with excitement, but the people around him also heard their heads full of money clattering down.
At the same time, jealousy, envy and hatred are also a true portrayal of their mood at the moment.
How could they not be so lucky to choose such a time and place, and then wait for such a pair of bastards who are not short of money to give them money to make them rich!
"One ingot of gold, if the public loses it, can you afford it?"
In Yu Wensheng's wealthy and powerful attitude of "it doesn't matter, he will take action", Gongshu, who was away from home, fell into silence for a long time even if he had not tried hard to save money.
Zao Zi was so angry that his chest was heaving. He was really a madman. One ingot of gold was enough to buy the insect skins in the entire Ye Kingdom. In order to embarrass their husband, he was really despicable, despicable, shameless, insidious and rich!
Wei Yao sighed with a smile, as long as their general wanted it, he would basically not tell others about the rules, because he just followed the rules.
Wang Zebang looked at Zheng Quchi sharply.
Thin, dark, and short, she looks like a typical peasant woman.
Such an ordinary-looking woman should not be able to arouse the general's abnormality. The general suddenly did such a weird thing that was contrary to his usual behavior. It should be because the public lost the situation.
Seeing Gongshu Ruoruo no longer responded, Yu Wensheng took off the silk gloves on his hands and accepted the ingot of gold offered by Wei Yao.
"Take it."
This was the first time Zheng Quchi saw Yu Wensheng's hands taking off their gloves. Before, she had been entirely focused on other things and had not paid attention to these small things.
Looking at it, she felt that his hands were delicate and white, with well-proportioned bones and flesh, and well-defined finger joints. They were the kind of hands that would be crazy about hand control... It shouldn't be, she actually felt that these hands looked familiar inexplicably.
Do all these beautiful hands look the same?
"No, no need for that much, just one ingot of silver is enough."
Although Zheng Quchi loves money, she is not greedy. If she really asked Yu Wensheng for a piece of gold to sell a tiger skin, and made a fortune in front of everyone, she might have been robbed while sleeping at night.
Seeing her refusal, Yu Wensheng certainly knew what she was thinking. She was different from ordinary foolish women, so she naturally understood that people who are too greedy will generally not end well.
He followed her wishes and asked Wei Yao to exchange for a piece of silver. Under the furious gaze of Saw and the speechless gazes of those around him, he had no shame and deliberately used a large sum of money to suppress her, and then turned around and exchanged silver for gold to buy it. Under the tiger skin.
"I just heard you say that the fox skin is to be left to your husband-in-law, but ordinary people are reluctant to use such precious things. You are very kind to your husband-in-law."
Zheng Quchi didn't understand why Yu Wensheng would start a family affair with a hawker like her. She was wary of whether there was a flaw in her that made Yu Wensheng suspicious.
"He is my husband-in-law. I won't treat anyone well if I don't treat him well."
Just because he is the husband-in-law?
Zheng Quchi's simple answer obviously did not please Yu Wensheng. He continued to ask: "If you married someone else, would you be so willing?"
Marry someone else? She didn't know if she would.
Zheng Quchi told the truth: "But my daughter has not married anyone else, so this assumption is meaningless."
Zheng Quchi's words left Yu Wensheng speechless for a moment.
He didn't intend to keep her here to "appreciate" what happened next. After paying the money, he let Zheng Quchi go.
Wei Yao picked up the tiger skin and got on the horse. He glanced at Wang Zebang, who looked confused and suspicious, and became thoughtful.
When Yu Wensheng saw Zheng Quchi walking away, he turned around and said with a smile: "I'm sorry to hear you lose. Now that I've come to Fu County, I'll show you my kindness as a landlord. Please come."
As soon as he finished speaking, it was like a dangerous signal fell to the ground, and the cold light of the weapon was threatening, coming out aggressively.
Gongshu Jiruo glanced around: "What if I don't leave?"
Saw gave a low shout, arched his back, and a row of knives protruded from his clothes. The knives were like eight legs of a spider. He protected Gongshu Jiruo and looked around coldly.
Zheng Quchi hadn't gone very far when he subconsciously turned around when he heard the movement behind him, and saw the scene of the nine-foot-old man transforming into a "spider spirit".
"..."
Oh...what kind of mechanism are these eight legs made of? How could it be installed without leaving any trace? She was really curious, very curious!
"As expected of the leader of craftsmen, even his followers are equipped with a pair of good machines."
Yu Wensheng stared intently for a moment, put on his gloves again, and waved back.
"I wonder how powerful it is?"
I saw soldiers holding sharp grass swarming up, using saws to block ten or even hundreds of people. The eight legs mounted on his back were sharp knives. The back was thick and the inside was thin, and it was as flexible as a whip and could be thrown. Stabs and slashes are also as hard as swords, breaking bones and committing seppuku.
When they fought and blood spattered in chaos, people in the street screamed and ran away in panic, fearing they would be hurt.
There was a buzz of people all around, but Zheng Quchi had already hid behind the wall, secretly observing the nine-foot tall man named Saw.
"The spider knife adjusts its direction by rotating the arms and coordinating the strength of the back. It should use a very thin silk thread to contact the mechanism, yes... and fingers, just like operating a puppet..." Her pupils suddenly brightened: " I understand."
"Haha~" Yu Wensheng saw the power of the saw's spider knife, stretched out his hand again, and said, "Continue."
The strength of the troops continued to increase. At this time, the saw, which was one against a hundred, gradually fell into a disadvantage. No matter how powerful the weapon was, it also needed the support of manpower. At this moment, Gongshu Jiruo put down the hand in his sleeve pocket.
At that moment, the momentum around him changed from casual and indifferent clouds to a sudden and rolling cold wind. It blew through small trees, graves, and sand hills, destroying everything, and became more and more intense.
"Yu Wensheng, do you want to see how the public loser can conquer the Seven Kingdoms?"
He opened his arms, and the thick white bear skin on his body was lifted up, revealing the incredible sight underneath the bear skin cover.
It turns out... he's not fat at all. He looked bloated and bulky before because——
Zheng Quchi looked stupidly at Gongshu Jiruo's white bear skin, which was actually an iron skeleton, and it was even worn on his body.
Different from the armor worn by ordinary people, it consists of shoulder bones, sternum... trunk and limb bones, completely and fittingly covering the important organs and joints of the human body, and it also hides mysteries.
No, that's not iron, that's steel!
Where did steel come from? It involves heating and forging "fine iron" more than a hundred times, weighing each time it is forged, until the weight does not decrease, that is, hundreds of times of steelmaking.
This not only requires stringent alchemical techniques, but also requires a skilled blacksmith.
As far as Zheng Quchi knew, the weapons used in the military at this stage are basically based on iron. The art of steelmaking is not mature at all, and even the very few that can succeed are just blind cats and dead mice.
But even if the public loses, it is already extraordinary. I don't know how many military industries there are. Wearing a complete set of steel clothes on his body, he is really arrogant and inhumane.
Yu Wensheng was also filled with excitement at this time, and the enchanting luster emitted from his pupils made him smile happily. The tail of his eyes curled up with a red smile: "Okay, let me see it, I'm looking forward to it." ~”
Gongshu Jiruo had heard about Yu Wensheng of Ye State before, but this was the first time he had met him face to face.
He frowned slightly, feeling unprecedented fear and vigilance in his heart.
This man... doesn't look normal. He's crazy and inexplicably excited. Although he looks smiling and chatting on the surface, what he reflects in his eyes is the face of a Buddha and a demonic heart, full of malice.
A sharp thorn came from behind. Gongshu didn't even look back, he just listened! With a sound, the pointed grass cut off itself.
The steel bones on his body are much harder than ordinary iron tools.
When the soldier was stunned, he pressed the arm mechanism, and a row of ox-hair-pointed needles flew in all directions like a goddess scattering flowers.
ah--
Some of the sharp needles pierced the eyes, and some hit the neck and face. Suddenly, there was a continuous scream, which made people shrink back in horror.
But Gongshu Jiruo's killing spree didn't stop. He pulled out a row of wooden frames from under the white bear's skin. At first glance, it seemed like it was just a support. It was this kind of support that made Gongshu Jiruo's body under the white bear's skin round.
But when he disassembled and reassembled it with the speed of his hands, it quickly turned into a wooden handle.
"what is this?"
This person is so creative, he breaks things into pieces and then puts them back together again.
She could probably tell that it was a handle, but she couldn't tell what it was used for.
Just when Zheng Quchi was puzzled, she was surprised to see Gongshu Jiruo remove a steel bone from his body, and then install it on the handle of the weapon. With a click, it became a crossbow.
It is not a crossbow in the traditional sense, but a self-embedded steel arrow in the "barrel bone". After firing, it can also carry a slender chain and retract it.
Gongshu Jiruo handed over the crossbow to Saw, and they cooperated tacitly. One of them knelt on the ground, put it on his shoulder, pointed it at a group of soldiers who were rushing towards him, pulled the trigger, and shot an arrow with gravity——
Poof - it penetrated five people immediately, and the scene of them falling to the ground in succession was so horrifying that it made people stunned.
Zheng Quchi, who has made a crossbow himself, knows that in order to achieve such terrifying power, but the body of the crossbow is so delicate, the attention and skill involved are enough to turn this crossbow into a magical weapon.
There are also shooting arrows, which are so sharp that they can cut through the chest and bones.
She was surprised and inexplicably excited. She gasped heavily and pressed hard on her wildly beating heart with one hand.
She finally remembered.
Who is the public loser?
Public loser, he really deserves his reputation.
Gongshu Jiruo still wore a hat, and said in a tone that said, "Yu Wensheng, if Gongshu Jiruo doesn't want to do something, no one can force me."
At this time, a group of Gongshu disciples jumped up from the eaves. They were not uniformly dressed. There were farmers, craftsmen and vendors in civilian clothes, and even people wearing the uniforms of Fu County officers and soldiers.
They came with the same purpose, which was to encircle Yu Wensheng, and then take Gong Jiruo away at all costs.
They set up a dragnet, and the net was covered with iron nails and caltrops. One group of people jumped down and dragged the net to clear the way, while another group of people threw gray and white bullets in the direction of Yu Wensheng's large army.
Ahem...
Because Zheng Quchi had a favorable wind, those gray-white bullets were blown by the wind and floated to her, causing her to sneeze and make her throat feel itchy.
Isn't this thing just a mixture of Sichuan peppercorns and pepper? !
If you don’t know how to make smoke bombs, go find her. Using this precious spice as a hidden weapon is simply too wasteful, too luxurious, and too distressing. Tell her quickly where you found these things, and she will go too. pull out!
From the beginning to the end, Yu Wensheng never took action personally.
He just wanted to see if Gongshu Jiruo was worth all the trouble, and now it seems that he is indeed worth the money.
"General, Gongshu's craftsman disciple is here. Do you need to prepare the surrounding archers and warriors?" Wang Zebang asked loudly, covering his nose with his elbow.
Yu Wensheng jumped on his horse and glanced at a certain corner with his peripheral vision. His thin lips were red: "There is no need to chase him. As long as Gongshu Lan is still there, Gongshu Jiruo will not leave Fu County."
(End of chapter)
