A torch appeared in front of Gu Zhengchen. Gu Zhengchen could even feel the heat of the fire. When he squinted, he saw a one-eyed man with a strange smile on his face. The corners of his mouth seemed to have been burned and were wrinkled in a scary way.
"Yes, this is the man, carry him to the cave for me."
Guo Baijin took out the torch and arranged for Wang Hu and others to carry him away.
There is no door to the cave, and there are two people guarding the door.
After entering the cave, after two twists and turns, you arrived at a brightly lit mountain chamber. There were stone tables and beds in the mountain chamber, and an underground river flowed from the edge.
When Guo Huaer saw Guo Baijin approaching, he stepped forward and saluted, "Dad, you're back so soon."
There were some echoes in the cave.
Guo Baijin smiled heartily and said: "It's up to you, I'll come back naturally. How about the big guy? He's starving, haha. Let him wait for a while, and we'll send these people over later."
Guo Hua'er smiled and looked at Gu Zhengchen who was coming over, his eyes lit up: "I can't believe that County Magistrate Gu is so young."
Gu Zhengchen looked at the woman in green, then turned his attention to Guo Baijin: "You are so brave, you dare to attack and kill the court officials. Once the court finds out, you will be shattered to pieces!"
After hearing this, Guo Baijin laughed even louder. He suddenly stopped smiling and looked at Gu Zhengchen coldly: "So what if the court knows. You were killed by a tiger, what does it have to do with me?"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head and struggled to stand up: "Being killed by a man is very different from being bitten by a tiger. Don't look at the court officials!"
When Wang Hu and others saw this, they drew their swords one after another.
Guo Baijin waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous, just step aside."
"yes."
Wang Hu and others retreated.
Guo Hua'er walked towards Gu Zhengchen, bent down, stretched out his hand to caress Gu Zhengchen's cheek, and said with a smile: "I have never eaten such a tender skinned scholar before."
Gu Zhengchen turned his head and said, "Big?"
Guo Hua'er stood up, waved his sleeves and walked towards Guo Baijin: "The big guy is naturally the tiger I kept in captivity."
Gu Zhengchen took a deep breath.
Unexpectedly, these people actually have tigers in their hands!
Guo Baijin sat on a tiger-skin chair and said to Gu Zhengchen: "If you live your whole life, why should you be so serious? When you become a county magistrate, you should be a county magistrate and get some benefits. You will be promoted in three years. Why bother to go against the big family and still have to deal with it?" You want to overturn an old case, but if you have the guts to survive more than a year in office, I will lend you my head to kick."
Gu Zhengchen said seriously: "If you are an official and don't serve the people, you don't make decisions for the people, and you allow you to bully the good, then what's the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty?"
Guo Baijin sighed, crossing his arms on the back of the chair: "Difference? There is no difference, it's just a change of Quejia. The officials are still those officials, the people are still the same people, and the rules are still the same. Don't worry about the change of dynasties, just understand it clearly That’s right.”
"What?"
Gu Zhengchen asked.
Guo Baijin snorted: "Big fish eat fish, and fish eat shrimps. Big fish can eat them all, but we fish can only eat these common people. If you sympathize with the common people and protect the common people, you are making us our enemy. Let us Hungry! Gu Zhixian, this is wrong. Xiami deserves to be eaten because they are weak. This is the rule. For thousands of years, which dynasty and generation has not lived like this?"
"Do you want to be an upright official to gain fame? Haha, you are a scholar. Looking through history books, how many upright officials can there be? Very few. Do you know why there are so few upright officials? Because everyone has desires, and people who have desires become If you can't be an upright official. If the whole world is drunk and you wake up alone, then you should die. A strange and lonely man will not end well!"
Gu Zhengchen stood up with difficulty and looked at Guo Baijin coldly: "You compare the world to a jungle and use the law of the jungle as the law. This is wrong in itself."
Guo Baijin smiled disdainfully: "Wrong? Ha, in the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when all the heroes were fighting for hegemony, which one was not the weak and the strong? Although there is peace now, the Ming Dynasty is still unstable. One day, the Yuan Ting army will march south to conquer the country. The powerful cavalry rules this land again!"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head: "The law of the jungle is the law of the jungle, not the law of Chinese civilization. The reason why Chinese civilization continues to be passed down from generation to generation is because they always know how to protect the weak, sympathize with the weak, and protect the weak! When hunger and cold come, war comes. "Chinese men are using their chests and blood to protect the women, children, old and weak people behind them. Have you ever seen the old, weak, women and children sacrificed first?"
"The sage Confucius advocated 'pacifying the common people', advocated 'general love for all', and appreciated 'giving generously to all.' Mencius said that the people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least! The teachings of Confucius and Mencius have illuminated China for two thousand years, and there has never been a saying The weak eat the strong? When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the emperor issued decrees to bring peace to the people. He repeatedly warned officials and elders not to bully the people and harm the people. He also set up almshouses to take in orphans, widows, the elderly and the weak! How can the weak eat the strong? "
"The so-called predatory of the weak is just an excuse for you to oppress and plunder the people, just to comfort yourself! Besides, Guo Baijin, in the eyes of the court, the powerful clans are just pigs and sheep raised in captivity, and they can only live a stable life. Forget it, if you try to dominate a place and use your power to bully the people, then the imperial court will have a pig-killing knife and a sheep-peeling knife!"
Guo Baijin clapped his hands, stood up and said: "What a sharp-tongued man. He deserves to be a scholar. It doesn't matter what kind of sword the imperial court holds, as long as it doesn't fall on us. Gu Zhengchen, don't blame us for being ruthless. If you want to blame, blame you." He stretched his hand too long and took care of too much. Hua'er, feed the three of them to the big guy, and then send their bodies to the Wucheng Mountain Pass, letting everyone know that they were eaten by tigers!"
Guo Hua'er raised his hand: "Take them away."
"Wait!"
Gu Zhengchen shouted.
Guo Baijin chuckled: "What, asking for mercy?"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head: "Can you let me know clearly, behind the county government's yin and yang files, are you buying people to work as miners?"
Guo Baijin walked towards Gu Zhengchen and said with a sullen face, "You know a lot, and that's why you died!"
Gu Zhengchen sighed sadly: "I'm very confused. You can't make money by lime, so why do you put so much effort into doing these things?"
Guo Baijin raised his eyebrows slightly, smiled, and shook his head: "If you want to know, after you die, I will burn it for you and take it away!"
Guo Hua'er stepped forward and grabbed Gu Zhengchen's lapel, yanked hard, and looked at each other: "Gu Zhixian, it's better to live a confused life, and it's better to die a confused death. If you are too shrewd, too sober, then You are surrounded by people who want your life."
Gu Zhengchen broke free from the rope, raised his hand and grabbed Guo Hua'er's wrist. Under the astonished eyes of the other party, he smiled coldly: "If you want to kill me, you are not enough."
"Heart!"
Zhang Pei drew out his sword and flew forward.
Unfortunately, it was half a step too late. Guo Hua'er gave a sweet shout, flipped his wrist, made a palm with one hand, and slapped Gu Zhengchen directly on the heart. Gu Zhengchen took two steps back, coughed twice, and his breath became disordered. .
"Mr. Gu!"
Wang Liang was surprised.
"Leave me alone, arrest them!"
Gu Zhengchen endured the pain and said.
When Wang Liang saw Guo Baijin trying to run away, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot instantly. The arrow shot through Guo Baijin's leg. Guo Baijin screamed and fell to the ground, shouting loudly: "Come here, come here!"
Zhang Pei slashed the air with his sword, and then struck again, with wide opening and closing sword skills, forcing Guo Hua'er to retreat continuously, with a bleak look on his face.
call out!
An arrow was shot, and Guo Hua'er's figure froze. Zhang Pei couldn't retract the knife in time. The blade turned and instantly cut off Guo Hua'er's left arm!
Zhang Pei turned to look at Wang Liang hatefully: "This is my prey!"
Wang Liang pointed in the direction of the cave entrance, and there were a lot of footsteps.
Gu Zhengchen calmed down his breath and looked at Guo Hua'er who was leaning against the wall, holding his broken arm. With lingering fear in his heart, he raised his hand and reached into his clothes, fumbled for a palm-sized bronze mirror, and smiled bitterly: "I thought Without this thing, I almost fell on a woman."
"Heartguard? You are afraid of death!"
Guo Hua'er stared, extremely unwilling.
Gu Zhengchen put the protective goggles back and patted his chest to feel more stable.
This thing was given by Zhao Hailou. Gu Zhengchen thought about it and really needed it. If someone shot an arrow, it could be saved somewhere else in the chest, but if it hit the heart, it would be completely over.
Of course, if you are unlucky and get shot in the head like Chen Youliang, you can only consider yourself unlucky...
Fortunately, most people here use steel knives and there are not many archers.
Guo Baijin was still howling and screaming, and Yao Zhen picked off Guo Baijin's hamstrings and dragged him to the entrance of the mountain room to make him scream louder.
Sure enough, people outside heard the noise and started rushing inside.
Gu Zhengchen arranged: "Lin Sishi and Zhang Pei led four archers in the middle, Wang Liang and Zhao Hailou each led three swordsmen hidden on both sides, let them in and kill them.
Guo Baijin, who heard Gu Zhengchen's arrangement, was about to shout when he received a heavy kick and several teeth flew out.
Yao Zhen stared at the door of the mountain room coldly, then walked to Gu Zhengchen's side to protect him.
Men in black rushed in one after another. As soon as they rushed into the mountain room, before they could figure out what was going on, Gu Zhengchen waved his hand and arrows flew, killing several people. Zhang Pei, Lin Sishi and others dropped their bows and arrows. Waving a broadsword and shouting, he rushed over. The man in black was about to charge, but another shout of kill came from both sides.
The sound echoed through the mountain chamber, and the echo made the shouts thicker and longer.
Under attack from three sides, the men in black suffered heavy losses. More than ten people died in an instant.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the brutal battle and was secretly frightened.
Real killing battles are rarely fought between you and me, with dozens of people coming back to control them. Instead, people like these are killed with one move or fatal with two moves. It is rare for someone to survive more than five moves without falling to the ground.
Under the swaying light and shadow of the torch, the stumps and broken arms were flying, and blood lines spurted out from time to time. The strong smell of blood was disturbing. There seemed to be some power hidden in the blood, which made people feel a little impulsive.
"master."
Yao Zhen shouted.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Yao Zhen, followed Yao Zhen's gaze and looked down. He saw that the sword was halfway out of its sheath. He couldn't help but feel his heart tremble, and said in a deep voice: "The aura of blood and courage, the aura of blood surge! When you are in it, you can't help it. It’s hard to restrain myself!”
