Zhu Chaoshi laughed loudly and said: "Xu Daofu never dreamed that the mountain road he opened to collect grain would become a smooth road for the army to march against him! Let me encourage you!"
The two of them smiled and left arm in arm, but they didn't notice that at the foot of an elm tree more than a hundred steps behind them, an inconspicuous, tall and thin man was looking at their leaving figures coldly, and he opened his mouth. , with a missing front tooth and a wide-open mouth, let out a disdainful and mocking voice: "Is it just you?"
Another slang hawker covered in tattoos walked up to him. While picking up the fabrics on the tall and thin man's stall, he whispered: "Second leader, the big leader is here. He is in the old camp by the river. He wants to see you."
The face of the tall and thin man changed slightly, and he frowned slightly: "Good come, I was just about to see him. You continue to stay here and sell more wood. How much rice can be harvested? Remember, there will be more wood in a while. He piled them all together and said that if they refused to charge the price of three large logs per stone meter, we would rather burn all these logs!"
As he spoke, he stood up and stretched. A chief-like man next door glanced at him and cursed loudly: "Tulimuping, you are lazy here all day long. You are not a fish." Have you eaten enough? Go back to fishing quickly. If you don’t catch twenty fish today, go back and see how I whip you!"
The tall and thin man named Tulimuping nodded and bowed for a while, and then ran away as fast as he could. Several Han traders and timber merchants nearby burst into laughter, and the vendor who took his place in his place said loudly: "Listen up, you Han people. Although we slang people come from the mountains, we are not stupid. If three big logs cannot be exchanged for one stone of rice, we would rather burn all these logs..."
Tulimuping ran all the way, and the noisy market behind him gradually faded away. After running for five miles, a temporary small village on the river bank caught his eye. He opened the door of the small village and several people were walking in the village. The slang people all nodded slightly to him, with a look of respect on their expressions, but he didn't say a word in reply, and turned straight into an inconspicuous small tent.
The moment he walked in, the tent door opened and closed, and his tall and thin figure suddenly felt like blowing up a balloon. All the joints in his body crackled, and a muscular figure of a strong man over nine feet tall appeared in the tent. The beating flames in the inner brazier caught the eye of a Taoist priest sitting cross-legged on the ground. The Taoist priest slowly raised his head and handed over a bamboo tube filled with water. Lu Xun: "Third brother, what do you want to do?"
Xu Daofu, who had regained his original shape, sat opposite Lu Xun, picked up the bamboo tube without politeness, raised his head and started pouring heavily. His Adam's apple moved in response to the gurgling sound. Soon, the arm was thick, A large tube of water more than a foot long was given to him and he drank it all.
Putting down the bamboo tube, Xu Daofu smiled and looked at Lu Xun, who had always had a gloomy face, and said, "The news from my second brother came so fast. He actually came here in person, just in case our whereabouts were discovered by the Jin army. , the great cause of the divine religion is in danger of overturning."
Lu Xun said coldly: "Aren't you the one who put the great cause of the divine religion in danger of overturning? You are causing trouble and provoking wars here. Are you looking for death again not even two days after these good days? Last time you gave me I haven’t settled the accounts with you about the puzzle brown that Liu Yu gave you, but next time, no one will renew your life, it will be the Beifu Army who wants to kill us!"
A flash of light flashed in Xu Daofu's eyes: "What does second brother mean? If you just do nothing and wait for death in Lingnan, you can live a hundred years and ten thousand years? Just rely on Liu Yu's kindness. Dafa, if you shake hands with us and make peace, you can be a grass-headed king in Lingnan forever?"
Lu Xun gritted his teeth: "How many times have I told you to wait for the opportunity? This Lingnan area of Guangzhou is our newly conquered territory, and the people's feelings are not attached to it. Haven't I been preaching among the slangs in these years? Wait. These people have also believed in our religion. Then they will expand slowly, first swallowing up the Du family in Jiaozhou, uniting with Linyi to the south, and entering Ningzhou to the west. These places are beyond the reach of the Jin State, and they will not touch Liu Yu's Northern Expedition. Plan, the conflict between Liu Yu and the aristocratic family is irreconcilable, and it is impossible for him and his several old brothers who fought in the army to be reconciled forever. When they start fighting among themselves, or when Liu Yuyuan goes to the north, this will be our chance!"
Xu Daofu laughed: "Opportunity? Liu Yu will never give us a chance. If Murong Chao hadn't taken the initiative to seek death this time and acted as a shield for us, I'm afraid we would have fought here in Lingnan with He Wuji or even Liu Yu himself. Liu Yu and the children of the aristocratic family may be at odds with each other, but they are unanimous in dealing with us. We should never place our hopes on others not noticing us. You see, He Wuji will forget it this time Without food or soldiers, they all want to take the initiative to destroy us."
Lu Xun's expression changed: "How is this possible? He only has more than ten thousand men under his command, and they are scattered all over the country to collect food. How can he have the strength to fight us? If you are eager to fight, don't make up excuses. This is a major military and national event, and it cannot be done in vain. of!"
Xu Daofu sneered and said: "Do you really think that He Wuji didn't dare to fight without troops? When Jingkou Jianyi was established, He Wuji, Liu Yi and Liu Yu dared to challenge him when they didn't even have 2,000 men. Huan Xuan, who has hundreds of thousands of troops, is the true nature of these desperadoes in Beifu. He scattered his troops to collect food to confuse us, and wanted to cover our eyes and ears for a sudden attack. What he really wanted to collect was not some local products, but I don’t need to say more about what things such as patchouli and barley are used for, my leader!”
Lu Xun frowned: "If this is true, then we really can't let He Wuji go. However, our troops are scattered now, and most of the disciples are spread across various tribes to preach. You have brought your trusted disciples with you this time." They disguised themselves as slang and sneaked into Nankang, what do they want to do?"
Xu Daofu's eyes flashed with excitement, and he said word by word: "Now, I won't hide anything from you, second brother. I just want to use these one thousand disciples to join three hundred barbarians to raid Nankang The county, especially the thousand veterans of Beifu under Zhu Chaoshi, as long as the defenders of Nankang are destroyed, the army will march north to take Yuzhang, the target is He Wuji!"
Lu Xun shook his head: "You take it too much for granted. Zhu Chaoshi's thousand veterans are elites who have fought for many years. Now they are hidden by him. Their location is unknown. How could you possibly succeed in a surprise attack?"
Xu Daofu smiled slightly: "They should be dead now. As long as the soul-breaking grass is added to the hyacinth, it will become a magic medicine to fight the epidemic and a ghost charm to remind people of death!"
