After a fierce battle, all the Tatars were killed by the sword.
Qiu Bu lifted the reins to steady the horse. He looked around while the horse's hooves were circling around. He saw that Lin Linyou and Zheng Huasheng were both unharmed. He himself was slightly injured - he received a knife on his left arm, and the blood was gone at this moment. He stopped, but the blood on his hand was still very conspicuous under the light of the torch.
"Brother Qiu..." Lin Lin galloped forward.
"It's okay." Qiu Bu waved his hand.
It's not that his martial arts skills were inferior to those of the two, on the contrary, he was the strongest among the three. Because of this, he killed four of the remaining six Tatars. In other words, Lin Linyou and Zheng Huasheng were one on one, and Qiu Bu was one on four. A wound on his arm cost him four of his opponent's lives, including the life of the Tatar leader.
"Look at what's in the car." Qiu Bu said again.
Zheng Huasheng was proactive. He rode up to the bullock cart, stretched out his sword, and stabbed into a wooden box on the flatbed cart. Then he pried the box lid up, revealing a box of hay. He jumped off the horse and stretched out his hands to pull away the hay. Under the light of the fire, his eyes were filled with dazzling golden light!
"It's gold!" Zheng Huasheng shouted in surprise, without looking at the two of them. It seemed that he couldn't control his joy and shouted this sentence. After shouting, he dropped the sword and opened the bow with both hands. Grab the gold from the box and stuff it into the saddle bag on your horse.
"What are you doing?" Lin Linyou stepped forward and asked.
"Of course, take the gold back!" Zheng Huasheng glanced at Lin Linyou out of the corner of his eye - his eyes were all on gold now - only after hearing Lin Linyou's question did he seem to remember that there were two other people beside him. A comrade, the movements in his hands couldn't help but speed up a bit.
"You're stupid! Of course you have to take the whole car back!" Lin Lin said.
"Am I stupid? Is there a share for you and me to take the whole car back?" Zheng Huasheng kept holding on to his hands, stuffing gold cakes, gold Buddhas, gold horseshoes, gold toes... various gold ingots into his saddlebags. , the horse looked a little overwhelmed.
"Take the whole car back." The boss Qiu Bu said coldly. Zheng Huosheng's behavior really disgusted him. It's OK to be greedy for money, but who is not greedy for money? But you can't be so greedy.
What's more, you can't take me seriously!
On the surface, Lin Lin's lobbying to pull back the entire car seemed to be more greedy than Zheng Huasheng's, but that was not the case, because at least he could stay calm in the face of gold.
Qiu Bu also came forward, lifted a knife to pry open a wooden box, and peeled off the hay covering the top. What he saw was a pile of jade pots, piled together haphazardly, compared with Zheng Huasheng's box of gold. It looked like a box of rags.
"I'm afraid these goods weren't stolen." Qiu Bu said to Lin Lin, who held up a torch and approached him, "It seems like..."
"Mingwei." The two looked at each other and said almost in unison.
There are many tombs of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the border area. It must have been taken out from one or several of them. If it is one, it must be a big tomb!
This is probably the temporary transfer point for this group of Tatar tomb robbers. This truckload of goods was not transferred in time.
The tomb is nearby...
But just the box of gold on the oxcart was enough for the three of them to spend most of their lives. Obviously, Qiu Bu and Lin Linyou didn't want to do anything to touch Colonel Jin. As for Zheng Huasheng, they didn't know. After all, this person's greed is greater than the two of them combined.
Qiu Bu waved his long knife, patted the wooden box containing the gold, and said again: "Pull the whole car back."
Zheng Huasheng raised his eyes slightly, then lowered his head to grab the gold: "Boss, don't pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon."
"Have you picked enough?" Although Qiu Bu didn't stop him, he was already impatient. They would have to drive an ox cart back around the sand dunes in a while. They had just killed fifteen Tatars. Who knows if there are any nearby? Accomplice? In short, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time.
Fortunately, the war horse could not pull much gold. Zheng Huasheng took half of the box. Looking at the war horse, some of the horse's legs were trembling. Considering that the horse would have to hump him for a while, he stopped... I shook my head and saw a camel that survived the battle...
Zheng Huasheng ran over to take the camel, but Qiu Bu got there first and killed the camel with a single blow!
"You!" Zheng Huasheng was so angry that he couldn't speak.
"Lao You, push the cart!" Qiu Bu was too lazy to offend him and turned the horse's head back to Lin Linyou.
"Brother Qiu, you don't need to push this cart..." Lin Linyou got on the bullock cart and turned the shaft to go around the sand dunes.
After walking a few steps, Zheng Huasheng heard a shout of "drive" behind him, and rode his horse in the opposite direction of the two of them.
What does this guy want to do?
Qiu Bu Lin Linyou was a little confused!
Ordinarily, with this much gold, he would not go to his hometown; or, he wanted to take a detour and enter through another pass, that is to say, he wanted to flee the army!
Also, with so much money, who would want to stay stupidly in the bitter cold at the border?
But no matter what the situation, Qiu Bu couldn't let him go! He is the leader of the three people. If he is allowed to leave, he will not be seen alive or dead. How can he explain it?
It would be okay if he entered the customs and secretly found a place to live in seclusion without a name. If he really defected to his hometown, if something happened in the future, Lin Linyou would not be able to escape his involvement!
With this in mind, Qiu Bu shouted to Lin Linyou: "You go first!" Then he rode after Zheng Huasheng...
Lin Linyou drove the bullock cart alone, took his own horse, and drove to Guanxia...
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"Did you take all these back by yourself?"
The Longmen Guards General looked at a cart of silverware, copperware, and porcelain. While asking questions, his eyes were also trying to search for goldware among them.
"It's me and Qiu Bu," Lin Lin said.
"You two killed more than a dozen Tatars?"
"Fifteen." Lin Lin lobbied.
Finally, the general found ten gold cakes in a box...
He nodded, seeming to affirm Lin Linyou's achievements: "Why is this box so empty?"
"It was taken away by Zheng Huasheng." Lin Linyou replied.
"Zheng Huasheng? Where are the others?"
"Escaped." Lin Linyou replied, "Qiu Bu is chasing him. My subordinates will escort the spoils back first and hand them over to the general."
"He took away a box of gold by himself?" The General felt sad, "Why didn't you stop him?"
"At that time, my subordinates and Qiu Bu were busy fighting. I didn't want that guy to take advantage of the situation..." Lin Lin said, "When the two of us killed the Tatars, we stepped forward to stop them. In the chaos, the box was overturned and the gold was scattered on the sand. Among them, except those who were not allowed to be snatched away by Qiu, I only found these ten."
The general saw that Lin Lin's lobbying did not seem to be a lie. Although he had doubts, he could only wait for further investigation and verification in the future. Right now, he needed to get rid of this cart of loot...especially these ten gold cakes.
Shen generously threw five pieces to Lin Linyou.
"How can I bear this?" Lin Linyou declined.
"You deserve this." The general said with a smile.
"I don't dare." Lin Linyou gave in again.
"You must have it." The general put away his smile.
"So... I would like to thank the general for the reward!" Lin Lin said, but he only took two pieces, and gave the remaining three pieces to the general.
Seeing that he accepted it, the general did not refuse the three pieces. He sighed worriedly: "I wonder what will happen to Qiu?"
Lin Linyou knew that he was not concerned about Qiu Bu, but whether Qiu Bu could bring the gold back.
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A year later, Lin Linyou did not wait until Qiu Bu returned. However, he himself was promoted one after another by the staff general, first as a garrison, and then as a guerrilla general...
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