"Wu Qianhu, thank you for taking care of me these days, I'm going to say goodbye." At the gate of Jiguan City, a woman in her twenties wearing a net on her head saluted Wu Gen. There were more than a dozen carriages parked behind him, followed by many guards and maids.
The woman's name is Ning Yuxi, and she is Meng Zhuo's first wife. Meng Zhuo hurried to Baiya City to seize power that day, leaving all his family members behind in the city. As soon as Baiya City became stable, he sent someone to pick up his wife and concubines.
Wu Gen cupped his hands with a smile on his face, "You're welcome, Madam. The journey is long. Do you need Wu Gen to send someone to escort you?"
Ning Yuxi bowed slightly, and the white gauze curtain trembled slightly, "My husband has sent someone to pick him up, so there is no need to trouble Qianhu." He looked around and lowered his voice, "My husband will never be grateful for the kindness of Qianhu." Forget it, I hope the two families can move around more."
"It's easy to say, please tell the Master Meng, Madam, that if you don't be surprised by favor or disgrace, if you accumulate a lot of experience, you will skyrocket one day." Wu Gen took a step back, bowed and gave a shallow salute.
"Thank you Qianhu for your kind words, I'll take my leave." Ning Yuxi turned around and got into the car. With the sound of whips and the sound of horses and carriages, the convoy meandered along the official road.
Looking at the retreating shadow of the convoy, Wu Gen looked calm. This woman is very smart. Wu Gen has been plundering the city these days. Instead of using her identity to stop her, she opened the door and allowed Wu Gen's people to come in and out. This made Wu Gen a little embarrassed and quickly stopped his men. Enter the Meng Mansion again.
"Wu Gen, when will the Lu family come?" Bao Xiang asked from behind.
Wu Gen woke up from his trance, turned around and walked towards the city, "According to the previous agreement, it should be here in the next two days. It is said that the person coming is a powerful general from the Lu family, his name is Lu Peng."
While walking, Wu Gen suddenly raised his head and said, "Baoxiang, when will you break through? If you don't break through, you will become the one with the lowest cultivation level among our brothers, and you will be miserable."
After hearing this, Baoxiang became furious and hugged Wu Gen's neck, "You think I don't want to break through? The devil knows how to break through." Feeling the strength of Wu Gen's resistance under him, he put down his hand and said dejectedly: "It's really a bit awkward. , even you can't beat me. I'm different from you. You will achieve breakthroughs if you succeed in cultivation. I just got lucky, and my last breakthrough was inexplicable. After something strange appeared at the top of Qinghuai City this time, I always felt that I'm a little hungry and haven't had enough to eat all day long."
Wu Gen blinked and rubbed his chin, "I guess you have to eat some natural materials and treasures to make it. I have also asked around these days. Meng Ling said that there is a deer mountain on our way back. There is an ice lake in the mountain. At night, There are often calls. I heard that there is a kind of fish in the lake called the vertical cold fish, which is extremely rare. When we go back, we will take a detour to see if we can catch a few to eat. I wonder if we can find an opportunity to break through."
"Would that delay the trip back?" Baoxiang was obviously a little moved and said sheepishly.
Wu Gen hugged his neck and said disdainfully: "The older people get, the thicker their skin becomes. You're good. You're as shy as a little daughter-in-law now. Don't worry, we just won the battle. It's time to take a walk and relax." Yes. If only that old boy Mo Xin were here, together with Cong Yue, we old brothers could brag and beat us up again."
"Yeah, so much time has passed in the blink of an eye, and I don't know what happened to Fuming Pass."
The two of them supported each other and walked and chatted, sighing and lamenting, which was like the change of things and the passage of autumn several times.
The next morning, Wu Gen was bored and boxing at the top of the city. Suddenly there was dust smoke in the distance, and a group of people appeared from the dust smoke. Looking at this posture, it was definitely not an ordinary army.
Wu Gen squinted his eyes and saw the shadowy banner with the Chinese character "Lu". So quickly, Wu Gen summoned Zhang Wuyang with a murmur, "Close the city gate and change your clothes."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Wuyang quickly blew the horn, and the gate of Jiguan City rumbled shut. Then, as instructed the day before, all the fearless soldiers took off their armor and put on leather armor, and also wore some shabby clothes.
The powerful crossbow soldiers at the top of the city were all removed and replaced with tattered equipment. The originally tight guards became sparse. The fearless soldiers gathered together in twos and threes and looked at the rapidly approaching soldiers and horses with interest.
The army soon stopped a few hundred steps in front of the city gate. A horseman rushed over and shouted: "My family, Lu Qianhu, is here, please come out."
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Wu Gen looked at the city, then turned to ask Zhang Wuyang, "Our people have all changed their equipment."
"The village leaders have all been replaced, and I also told them not to reveal their wealth." Zhang Wuyang replied quickly.
"Okay, Ye Ziming said that the Lu family is quite dissatisfied with us plundering money. We don't show off our wealth, and we don't show off our wealth. We just want to show the Lu family that the Fearless Army is very poor. How can we live without grabbing some property?" Wu Gen sneered. He said, walking to the crenel, "I am Wu Qianhu, is this Lu Peng and Lu Qianhu coming?"
"Exactly, please wait a moment for Wu Qianhu." The junior high school officer patted his horse and returned. After a while, a general with a beard who looked to be in his thirties rode to the city gate.
"There is Wu Qianhu in the city." The general said loudly: "I am Lu Peng, and I have been ordered to come and take over Jiguan City. This is the order of the head of the family." After saying that, he asked the soldiers behind him to shoot an arrow at the top of the city. A cylinder was tied to the arrow.
Zhang Wuyang took the arrow over, opened the cylinder and took a look. There was a piece of gold silk paper inside, with a few lines written on it, which meant that Wu Gen was asked to hand over Jiguan City and not take any of the property in the city away, and he would be credited later. Unified reward distribution and so on, and finally the seal of the head of the Lu family.
Wu Gen curled his lips. Fortunately, he had asked Lexi to transfer most of the belongings back to Youyi Mountain in advance, otherwise it would have been difficult to explain to Lu Peng.
"Wait a moment, Lu Qianhu. I will immediately order people to open the city gate. However, the city is small and we cannot all enter the city. How about we bring a hundred men into the city." Wu Gen shouted towards the city.
Meng Peng snorted coldly, this Wu Gen is a cunning woman. With so many people from the Fearless Army entering the city, it is possible that they cannot accommodate his five hundred people. However, before coming here, the head of the family told him not to start a dispute with Wu Genshan. This man was able to conquer three cities of the Meng family and destroy the wolf soldiers that the Meng family was proud of, so he should not be underestimated casually.
"You can do anything you want." Lu Peng agreed against his will. Anyway, the Fearless Army was about to hand over this big city.
Soon, Lu Peng led a hundred people to the city. The city gate rumblingly opened, and Wu Gen brought Bao Xiang and several others to greet him in person.
"Oh my, I'm really flattered that Lu Qianhu is here in person." Wu Gen stepped forward with excitement on his face, stretched out his hand to grab the reins, and wanted to help Lu Peng off the horse himself.
This time, Lu Peng was a bit confused. Normally, the two of them were from Qianhu, so they were on the same level. They just bowed to each other when they first met, so there was no need to be so warm.
Lu Peng reached out to avoid hitting the smiling man, and quickly turned over and dismounted. Seeing Wu Gen holding his arm diligently, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in his heart. The corners of his mouth twitched twice almost imperceptibly, "Wu Qianhu, doing this is really embarrassing for your brother. Let go quickly. There is such a thing here." Many men are watching."
"Hey, Brother Lu, although we have just met each other for the first time, we feel like old friends today. It makes me feel that my life has been in vain all these years, and I regret not getting to know Brother Lu sooner." Wu Gen tightened his grip and turned around to shout. Said: "Niu Chao, come here and dust off Lu Qianhu."
"Here we come, sir, please keep an eye on me." Following the voice, Niu Chao ran from a distance, threw himself directly at Lu Peng's feet, wiped Lu Peng's boots with a clean white cloth, and thoughtfully let Lu Peng step on them. I wiped the soles of my boots bit by bit on my knees, and applied a layer of butter to the uppers.
For a moment, the people following Lu Peng were dumbfounded. What kind of method was this? Could this fearless soldier be a street shoe shiner? How could he be so skilled?
"Wu Qianhu, we are all from the military. I think this... this is not necessary." Lu Peng looked dumbfounded and pointed at Niu Chao, who was about to wipe the dust off his armor.
"Uncle, I'm going out. Let's take off our armor for a while, and then take a nice hot bath. I'll help you rub the dust off your body. It'll be so refreshing. You won't be rewarded with ten taels of silver. It's cheaper than those little girls. More." Before Wu Gen could say anything, Niu Chao suggested loudly while working hard.
Wu Gen's face darkened when he heard this. This damn Niu Chao added words without permission. He took him aside and asked Lu Peng to go inside with a flattering smile. "Brother Lu, your mansion has been cleaned. Let's use the original city lord's mansion." That’s it.”
Lu Peng finally got rid of Wu Gen's clutches and looked at the fearless troops on both sides as he walked. These people were in disgraceful appearance, their helmets were crooked and their armor was dark, and they had no way of standing. Their faces were all gray, and some even had
Just carrying a simple spear.
Before coming here, I heard that this fearless army should be a rare and powerful force in Lian Keduo City, but I didn't expect it to be so shabby. It is worse than some horse thieves. It seems that it is indeed a bit poorer.
"No, no, no, Wu Qianhu, I can't move into the city lord's mansion. Its owner is back." Lu Peng quickly waved his hand, "I can just choose another mansion myself, so I won't bother Wu Qianhu."
"Master?" Wu Gen was startled, maybe it was Meng Zhuo who came back with him, "Brother Lu, why did you say this?"
Lu Peng smiled slightly and ordered to the soldiers behind him: "Madam, please come into the city to rest, and you will go to the city lord's mansion in person to protect us."
The soldier agreed, and soon a carriage came to the city. The curtain opened and a woman poked her head out.
Wu Gen was a little dumbfounded when he saw it. Why was Ning Yuxi back again? Which song was he singing?
"Lu Qianhu, Wu Qianhu." Ning Yuxi nodded slightly in the car, showing no hint of happiness or anger.
"Madam, please go back home and rest first. My soldiers and horses will be guarding you all around." Lu Peng cupped his hands and motioned for his men to pull the carriage away.
Seeing Wu Gen's puzzled face, Lu Peng smiled slightly, his eyes a little unintelligible, "On the way here, I saw a thief robbing the convoy, so I rescued him on the way. But I didn't expect it to be the wife of the head of the Meng family. She was really What a coincidence."
"Brother Lu won't suspect that it's ***, right?" Wu Gen frowned and asked angrily.
"That's not the case. This is what the thief did. There may be someone who instigated the thief to commit the crime. He just didn't want his wife to go to Baiya City. Here, this is the thief's mask that was picked up at the scene." Lu Peng asked someone to send one to him. A black mask with a crudely carved smiling face.
