(twenty one)
There must be a reason for the sudden visit of the three Heba brothers and sisters. Among them, the eldest brother Heba Hongyi had an indifferent expression and erratic eyes, as if he wanted to stay out of the matter. However, due to some unknown pressure, he had to obey the words of his second brother Heba Sheng.
"Brother, can you please give me the first big gift for Mr. Zhao?" After He Basheng said this, he retreated with He Ba Yu'er beside him, giving up the position in the middle of the road, so that He Ba Hongyi no longer had a reason to escape. and opportunities.
However, after a while, the banquet and dance music took a break, and the nonsense in the court gradually took over. Many of the three guests of honor were surprised by this, and they all wanted to leave their seats and go outside to find out. It was during this gap that He Ba Hongyi accidentally saw Zhao Xiaomei.
After a moment of hesitation, he retracted the hand that he wanted to offer as a congratulatory gift, half-frozen in place, not daring to say a word.
"He Ba Hongyi!" When He Ba Sheng saw this, he called his eldest brother by his first name in public, regardless of his dignity, and urged: "Hurry up and offer a gift, don't spoil things."
"This... this..." He Ba Hongyi couldn't help swallowing his saliva, but he couldn't finish half of the sentence: "This move is particularly inappropriate! I..."
"Alas! You Han people are really like mother-in-law and mother-in-law. You are too timid to do anything!" He Basheng just cursed, and went to grab the gift. He kicked He Ba Hongyi to the ground and sneered. : "You are suitable to continue to stay where you are farming."
When He Bayuer saw the two eldest brothers quarreling, he immediately stepped forward to dissuade them and said, "Brother, that's enough. Isn't it embarrassing enough?"
"Uh..." He Ba Hongyi clutched his chest and screamed in pain, then looked at the two brothers and sisters in front of him with eyes mixed with sadness and anger - he knew that the person calling "big brother" was not him.
He Basheng calmed down his mood, then bowed to the palace, presented a congratulatory gift, and bowed his hands to the Zhao family and his son: "Master Zhao, Young Master Zhao, I have taken the liberty of visiting you today, have you not disturbed your lords' interest?"
The head of the family, Zhao Wei, knew that the person who came was not good at all, so he did not dare to neglect him at all, so he bowed his hands to each other as a peer and said, "How could Major General He Ba be so presumptuous when he is so thoughtful? Come, please accept the congratulatory gift."
"Wait a minute!" Who knew that He Basheng suddenly said for some reason: "Mr. Zhao, this gift cannot be opened later. It must be opened now in front of all the heroes."
Zhao Wei and Zhao Kuo looked at each other in confusion, neither of them expecting what trick He Basheng wanted to play. In the end, in order to show everyone's etiquette, they had no choice but to follow the guests' wishes and call the servants to remove the gifts.
But a moment later, there was a strong smell of rotting meat coming from the box containing the gifts.
"Yes... it's a human head!" The servant A-Bian covered his mouth and made an extremely frightened voice, "It's a woman." After saying that, the guards in the mansion took up their weapons to be on guard, and the Zhao family's father and son were surrounded by Bai Feng and other guests. protect.
"It's Tong Erniang from Woye Town!" Bai Feng was particularly shocked when she caught a glimpse of the head in the box.
The three visitors were afraid of the guards and raised their hands to show "friendship". The leader He Basheng even said boldly: "Why, isn't this your enemy? We three brothers and sisters have no weapons, so we specially offered the enemy's head as an act. Congratulations, is this how your Zhao family treats good friends?"
Most people in the mansion didn't know what Zhao Kuo and Bai Feng had conspired, so they really thought that what Heba said was true, and they all relaxed their vigilance. Bai Feng was the only one with a ferocious face, his hand never leaving the hilt of the sword, always ready to draw the sword out of its sheath.
"Then the second gift...could it be!" As soon as Bai Feng finished speaking, A-Bian opened the second box.
"Woye rebel general Tong Yao conspired with Tong Erniang to start a mutiny. We joined forces with Woye town general Tong General to suppress the rebellion. It took a full month to stop the traitors from continuing to cause rebellion." He Basheng pointed to the second box and continued: "It's a pity that the temptress named 'Xia' escaped. Tong Erniang clearly wanted her biological son to inherit the family business, so how could she turn her back on traitors like Tong Yao? It must have been the witch who did it. What kind of magic?"
Bai Feng's previously suppressed anger reached an unprecedented level.
"You bastard!" In an instant, Bai Feng came forward and had already touched He Basheng's throat with the tip of his sword. Unexpectedly, Zhao Kuo shouted, making Bai Feng helpless to stop the imminent assassination.
"Stop!" Zhao Kuo had already rushed over before he could finish his words. He grabbed Bai Feng's sword hand tightly and shouted, "Brother Bai, don't be impulsive."
The tip of the Longming Sword couldn't stop trembling, as if two forces born out of thin air were squeezing each other, one of killing and the other of forbearance.
Suddenly, He Basheng grabbed the Longming Sword with his bare hands. No matter how sharp the blade was, he just smiled contemptuously and said: "What, is Shaoxia Bai trying to assassinate me in public? Hahaha, that's true, like Shaoxia Bai. How could a knight-errant do something so despicable as stabbing someone in the back?"
He Basheng's hands were bleeding, but his smile was even brighter, and he continued: "Let me tell you one more thing, if I can't get out of the Zhao Mansion tonight, tomorrow, Yuyi Town will be captured by the coalition forces of the six towns. By then the blood will It flows into a river, and the city is destroyed and people die. I guess everyone here doesn’t want this to happen, right?”
"Then what exactly are you doing here?" Zhao Kuo said: "If Major General He Ba was ordered to come here to persuade us to surrender, huh, Yuyi Town will never surrender."
He Ba Yuer stood aside with shame and arrogance, and replied: "Now that Woye Town can no longer help you suppress the strength of the coalition forces in the rear, do you think you still have a chance of winning? Why don't you go out of the city early and hand over the handsome seal soldier talisman, and you can be spared. You won’t die!”
In order to stabilize the morale of everyone, Zhao Wei, who was under the protection of many layers of people, retorted: "The coalition forces are unjust, bullying my people, and killing my comrades. How can we surrender with such sworn hatred?"
"We will never surrender!" Tuoba Yan, who had been dealing with the troops in Wuchuan Town on the western front of Yuyi Town, suddenly shouted loudly. His younger brother Tuoba Guang also followed suit and shouted: "We will never surrender!"
However, after a while, voices calling for refusal to surrender filled the entire Zhao Mansion.
He Basheng knew that this move was asking for trouble, and complained to everyone: "They are all stupid people." After that, he took his sister Tuoba Yu'er and left the Zhao Mansion.
"Yu'er, let's go! These people are hopeless." He Basheng didn't know that his sister's mind was not on the war at all at this time, but he saw He Ba Yu'er's eyes looking at He Batao and muttering in his mouth. Say some strange things.
"Yu'er, what's wrong with you?"
"What should I do...what should I do?" Tuoba Yu'er rushed to her elder brother's side and begged delicately: "Brother, the person who once saved me is right there. I..."
He Basheng glared at the Tuoba brothers fiercely, then pulled He Ba Yu'er and walked out of the house, not forgetting to scold his sister for being emotional along the way.
After watching the Xianbei brothers and sisters He Basheng and He Ba Yu'er leave, the banquet continued as usual, but everyone felt that the fruit wine was tasteless and the dance music was dull. This banquet could no longer be as festive as before.
Everyone was worried and started talking about the war.
Bai Feng and Zhao Kuo picked up the heads of Tong Erniang and Tong Yao respectively, and safely placed them elsewhere. However, the young master He Ba Hongyi, who was once again abandoned by Wuchuan Town, hid aside in dejection. I don’t know when. At the beginning, he disappeared from Zhao Mansion.
