Zhou Xu rode to the bullock cart. All the people near the bullock cart looked nervous. Zhou Xu glanced at them and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, a good man will do it to the end and send others to the West. I always like to start and finish everything. When the city gate opens, I will send Madam Xiao in to feel at ease."
Yu Nu's expression changed, especially when he saw the giant sword in Zhou Manzi's hand, he turned pale with fright. What he just said sounded more like a threat.
The maidservant came back in a hurry. The county guard said that the enemy was outside and they did not dare to open the city gate at will, not even the Xiao family.
Yu Nu bit her lip, anxious, guessing that her identity was not qualified. The Qionghua County Sheriff was afraid when he saw the Ghost Tuqi and did not dare to open the city gate. What should he do?
Wei Wuji's face was ashen behind the screen. He had expected everything, but he didn't expect that the Qionghua Prefecture Governor was so cowardly that he dared to ruin his good deeds.
"Zhou Youzhou, you heard it too. If you don't stay away from me, I won't be able to go home." Yu Nu started crying as she spoke.
Zhou Xudao: "Ms. Xiao, if you don't bring all your people with you, of course it won't be possible to go home."
Yunu's crying stopped suddenly, her eyes widened with disbelief, she took a few steps back and bumped into Chang Ji.
Wei Wuji, who was behind the screen, suddenly stood up.
Sun Yan clasped the young prince's wrist, his eyes darting, already thinking about running away, and he was afraid of Zhou Manzi, who was fighting him for the first time.
Zhou Xu showed a cruel smile: "I have always been cautious, and I will always think over and over again when I encounter something unclear. Unfortunately, I am now interested in your true identity."
"Your tails were indeed well hidden at first, but it's a pity that you encountered the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry."
Wei Wuji looked at Zhou Manzi through the screen with a gloomy expression.
"Ghost Slaughter Cavalry obeys the order!" Zhou Xu suppressed a smile and suddenly shouted: "Get in formation!"
Jin Ben waved the flag and took the lead in the counterattack. The right cavalry general rode his horse and led a small team towards the southwest. Thousands of ghost slaughter cavalry dispersed in a semi-fan shape and gradually closed up to encircle them.
For a moment, the sound of killing was loud, and the two sides were already fighting.
Zhou Xu smelled the smell of blood in the air. The giant sword was placed in front of his arm, just blocking the short figure coming out of the bullock cart.
Sun Yan's face was stiff and he retreated little by little.
Zhou Xu slowly pressed down on the man's neck with his giant sword. Sun Yan knelt on his knees, sweating profusely.
"Which one is it from?" Zhou Xuxiao asked.
No answer was heard.
"If you don't say anything, you won't have the chance to speak in the future." Zhou Xudao.
Although his words were calm, Sun Yan only felt a fierce aura coming towards his face. He swallowed, squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying, and lied: "He is from the Cheng family."
"Cheng Quanhai sent so many people to want to kill me?" Zhou Xu looked down at the short man: "Why don't I believe it?"
At this moment, an armored general suddenly rushed out of the encirclement. With a spear like a dragon and a cold light, he rushed straight towards the bullock cart and dispersed the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry behind him.
The iron gun roared like thunder and shot directly at Zhou Xu's face.
Zhou Xu let go of the short man, reined his horse to one side, turned his head to avoid the blow, and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Wei Shu was covered in blood, looked directly at Zhou Youzhou, and roared without looking back: "Hurry up and leave!"
Sun Yan quickly led the remaining attendants, rolled and crawled, drove the ox cart and hid under the city gate, shouting with all his strength: "King Chu Ling is here, why don't you open the city gate quickly."
The governor of Qionghua Prefecture was horrified and quickly opened the city gate.
Wei Shu had been blocking the city gate, and when he heard the sound of the city gate closing, he said, "I am Wei Shu, and I have the honor to consult the general today."
Zhou Xu looked at the unmasked young man on the city wall and Xiao Yuniang beside him.
He stared at that annoying face for two seconds and understood.
"Please ask the general of Peking University to give me some advice!"
Zhou Xu finally looked at him, threw the giant sword to Jin Ben, and then weighed Jin Ben's charging spear.
There is nothing to say on the battlefield, it's just life and death.
After three or five rounds, Zhou Xu pushed Wei Shu off his horse with a gun, his eyes cold, and then he also turned over and dismounted, punching Wei Shu in the abdomen until the armor cracked and his flesh and blood were a mess. At this moment, the general who provoked him had already He continued to vomit blood, and the blood blurred his face. After struggling for a few breaths, his breath was completely cut off.
Zhou Xu stood up, his sleeves were dripping with blood, and his face was hot. He wiped his face and smiled at Wei Yanshan's son on the city wall.
Then he turned around and saw the rain pouring down, and Zhou Xu muttered to himself.
"I have to eat Chaohu whitebait with my wife today, so we can't be too late."
Chapter 197
Jin Ben followed the lord. Under the continuous spring rain, the muddy official road mixed with blood was splashed with mud and water when he stepped on it. He took the lord's giant sword and looked back at the man lying in the pool of blood. His face could not be seen clearly. A majestic military commander.
A hundred feet away, the city gate of Qionghua Prefecture was closed.
"Take care of last night's tail more cleanly." Zhou Xu got on his horse and ordered the right general of the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry who was coming.
"General, I obey." The right general lowered his head deeply, not daring to look at the general. Incompetence, self-blame, and shame lingered in the heart of the right general of the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry. The hand holding the spear was stained with blood. Just now The enemy general led his troops out of his encirclement from his side.
After the general left, he picked up his gun, mounted his horse, and rushed into the battlefield again, shouting with murderous intent.
"Generals, listen to my orders and kill me! No one will be left alive!"
The sound of fighting on the official road, the sound of horse hoofs, and the sound of rain were intertwined. Jin Ben led a group of cavalry to outflank the enemy's retreat. Since the lord's original words were to deal with it cleanly, Jin Ben already knew what to do.
He jumped across the river on horseback. It was rainy this spring and the river was fast. Stopping on the bank, the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry was no ordinary ghost rider. Whether he was riding a bow and arrow on horseback or riding a sword under his horse, he was a first-class elite. On the battlefield, Be the first to charge into battle.
The sharp blade of the Youzhou Sword was held in rough hands, reflecting the cold light.
Jin Ben looked at the defeated enemy troops being chased by the right cavalry general and killed them.
Soon, the river water turned red.
The right cavalry general walked up to the commander, shook off the blood on his body, looked at the corpses on the ground, and asked: "Do you want to cut off the head? I estimated that there are thousands of people." When they were fighting against the Turks, they all Beheadings are used to mark merits. Last year, many heads were cut off during the attack on the Huiyi Alliance. Looking at the past, the enemy corpses were as high as buildings, and the view of the capital stretched like tombs.
"Wait a minute, let me ask for instructions from my lord." Jin Ben said, asking the right cavalry general to finish the battlefield.
The old skinny donkey I bought on Zhou Liu didn’t know whether he was frightened or got gonorrhea from the rain. He kept barking. Zhou Liu, who usually takes great care of this old skinny donkey, didn’t dare to breathe at the moment. He was really hurt by his uncle’s cruelty. scared.
The enemy general named Wei Shu just now also looked very powerful. His uncle could actually punch him until he vomited blood. From far away, Zhou Shiliu seemed to hear the sound of his spine breaking, and he couldn't help but think of the whip his uncle had given him last year. , a terrible thought suddenly appeared in my mind.
Could it be that my uncle showed mercy at that time?
Zhou Shiliu's face suddenly twisted.
Zhou Xu had already changed into regular clothes and came out, and the bloody smell on his body had dissipated a lot.
"Are you injured?" Xiao Luolan's face turned slightly pale, worried about Sect Master Zhou and frightened by witnessing the murder.
"No." Zhou Xu sat next to his wife. Seeing that his daughter's usual lively chirping had disappeared, his voice softened and he said, "I'm going back to Luzhou at noon today. Is there anything my dear daughter wants to eat?"
Xiao Qingxue exclaimed and looked at her father in panic. Her mind was filled with the murderous scene she had just seen unexpectedly: "No, there is nothing I want to eat."
Xiao Qinghe sat on the table and said shyly: "I remember there was a man in Luzhou who was very fond of eating. The outside is crispy and has the aroma of sesame. There are orange cakes and osmanthus inside. My cousin should like to eat it."
"Well, let's go to Luzhou and buy a few copies." Zhou Xu said: "I drove all night yesterday, and I guess everyone didn't sleep well. Now you can go back to the carriage and have a good rest."
Zhou Xu asked everyone in the carriage to disperse. They didn't need to be here, so Madam treated them as children and took special care of them, allowing Zhou Shiliu and Xiao Qinghe to get into the main carriage as soon as the battle started.
He said that apart from their precious daughter, Shiliu and Qinghe didn't need his wife to worry about them at all.
"Cousin, let's go." Xiao Qinghe said.
The three of them got off the carriage.
Zhou Liu looked at the picture of the frightened little girl, curled his lips, and shouted: "Hey, I'll give you this knife."
Xiao Qingxue lowered her hands and discovered that it was a Youzhou knife that Zhou Liu often showed off. There was also a strange scripture engraved on the scabbard: "What are you doing?"
"Amitabha, this knife has Buddhist scriptures engraved on it, so it should be an offering." He Jin said.
"That's right. This knife was once sent to the temple by my mother-in-law and was consecrated by a master. It can protect people after reciting sutras." He didn't look at Xiao Qingxue on the 16th and raised his chin high: " Since you are afraid, I will give you this knife."
"Who is scared? I don't want it!" Xiao Qingxue became angry. How could she show weakness in front of Zhou Shiliu? She happily returned the knife. Being interrupted like this, the bloody scene in her mind didn't seem so scary. .
Xiao Qingxue clenched her fist, she was not afraid!
A-niang hugged her immediately. She was a good girl and loved to play, so she couldn't help but glance out the window a few times.
Inside the carriage.
Xiao Luolan wanted to get up.
Zhou Xu pulled his wife to sit down and said, "A good daughter will have to get used to it."
Xiao Luolan sat silently next to Sect Leader Zhou, feeling uneasy, and finally murmured: "She will be scared at night."
It was fine during the day, with people drinking, playing and doing things to divert Qingxue's attention. But at night, in the dead of night, she would recall bloody war scenes, just like the first time she saw a murder scene.
Of course Xiao Luolan knew that this was inevitable. Her daughter would always grow up in this troubled world. She just hoped that this day would come later.
Zhou Xu took his wife's hand and said, "Let Dongxue make some soothing soup for her to drink tonight."
Xiao Luolan suddenly felt strange. She looked down and found that the bones and joints on the back of Zhou Zongzhu's hands were injured to varying degrees, and some of them were obviously missing a piece of skin.
She was startled and said, "Didn't you say you weren't injured?"
"What's this little injury?" Zhou Xu was very satisfied that his wife was looking at him wholeheartedly. After thinking about it, he frowned and said, "Actually, it still hurts a little."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Xiao Luolan anxiously found his medicine box and was slightly angry at the stubborn Zhou Zongzhu.
Xiao Luolan carefully bandaged Sect Leader Zhou, her eyebrows furrowed.
"Don't get wet these days. Get better soon." Xiao Luolan warned.
"There is a faster way." Zhou Xu stared at his wife's worried face, and shook his hand.
"What can I do?" Xiao Luolan packed up the medicine box, thinking that she would go to Dr. Li later to see if she might have better medicine.
Xiao Luolan looked at him in confusion after not hearing Sect Leader Zhou speak for a long time.
"Ma'am, blow it for me." Zhou Xu smiled and said, "I won't feel any pain."
Is this person a child? Xiao Luolan pursed her lips and the tips of her ears turned red. It was obviously Sect Leader Zhou who made such a childish request, but in the end, it was her who was embarrassed.
But it would be very painful to connect your fingers to your heart.
Xiao Luolan lowered his head and blew on the injured back of Sect Leader Zhou's hand, gently and softly.
Zhou Xu looked at his wife's calm and focused expression, hoping that the pain would go away. He was startled for a moment, and clenched his other hand into a fist, not noticing the traces of blood soaking into the gauze.
"Do you feel better?" Xiao Luolan raised her eyes and asked.
