Li Bochen took two more steps forward with the knife in his hand, stopped, and thought to himself that he was really unlucky today, no one was helping, they were all here to cause trouble.
Looking at the knight sitting on the horse, I saw that he was tall and tall, with a broad face and a messy bun on his head. But the attire on his body is very extraordinary. The upper body is made of fish scale armor, which is shiny, and the lower body is wearing satin trousers, which are dark purple.
The big bow in his hand was obviously not suitable for use on horseback. He could have pinned the monster to the ground with two arrows from forty or fifty steps away, which shows that he was also a good arrow wielder. Looking at the strength with which he cut off the monster's head just now, we can see that this person has extraordinary cultivation.
Li Boxen knew the identity of this person after just a moment's thought.
It should be Zhu Hou.
The first thought that came to his mind was to hide, but the bottom of the valley was very flat, and the two of them were only about twenty steps apart, so there was no place to hide. He thought to himself, well, why should I hide my head and tail in front of such a person? I thought again, it shows that I really can't swear casually - if I had really remembered what I said to Xiaoman just now and not chased this monster, I wouldn't have collided with Zhu Hou.
He simply shook the knife and stood firmly.
At this time, Zhu Hou reined in his horse and looked towards him. Behind him were seven or eight riders, who all ran to the monster and reined in their horses. When they saw it was dead, they all cheered and shouted, "The general is brilliant!" "The general is amazing!" "You're damn accurate!" "Okay! Well... okay, okay!"
Zhu Hou returned the saber to its sheath and raised one hand, and those people fell silent. He glanced at Li Bochen a few more times, then rode his horse to the monster's body to take a look. He suddenly smiled and said, "Hey, I didn't kill this."
Then he turned to look at Li Boxen and said loudly: "Brother, you are quite capable. Where are you from?"
Li Boxen said in a deep voice: "People from Tunli."
Zhu Hou was stunned and said with a smile: "I actually have a warrior like you here? To tell you the truth, I have chased this thing several times, but I told him to run away! I didn't expect that he would be caught in your hands!" "
Li Bochen pointed to the side with the knife: "It's not my fault alone, it's also because of Mr. Chang's help."
Chang Qiuwu passed out behind a pile of rocks. When he pointed, Zhu Hou saw two legs still exposed over there. He was stunned and said, "Chang Qiuwu?"
"yes."
He rushed over and said, "How's Mr. Chang doing!? What the hell are you looking at? Come and save him!"
This was said to the riders behind him. When those people heard this, they rushed over on horseback. But Li Bochen knew that Chang Qiuwu's life was not in danger, so he just gave way.
But this Zhu Hou really surprised him. Listening to his words, although he was a bit vulgar, it made people feel very close to him. He didn't have the harsh and cold air as imagined by the gangster. He looked at the body and said it was not his fault. Seeing Chang Qiuwu unconscious on the ground, his eagerness was genuine.
Now he jumped off his horse and squatted on the ground to check Chang Qiuwu's pulse. It seemed that he was completely defenseless... Li Bochen really couldn't compare such a person with a gangster who was known to do all kinds of evil.
What went wrong?
He thought for a moment and slowly took two steps back. If Zhu Hou was worried about Chang Qiuwu's injury and ignored him, he could leave quietly.
But then he saw one of Zhu Hou's entourage suddenly turning his face, staring at him carefully and frowning.
Li Bochen was startled, and a thought jumped out - could this person be one of the people who ran away from the manor! ?
Sure enough - the man stared at his magic knife again, suddenly stood up, pulled out the knife from his waist, and shouted: "It's you!!"
Then shouted: "General, it's him! It's him! It's him! It's him who killed the eldest son!!"
When he shouted, Zhu Hou suddenly turned around and stood up, saying: "What?"
The man rushed two steps toward Li Boxen, then thought of something, and quickly returned to Zhu Hou, saying: "This is the man who entered the garden and killed the eldest son!"
At this time, Li Boxen felt certain in his heart and was no longer worried. He simply smiled and said: "Oh, we are really enemies on a narrow road."
Several other followers immediately drew their swords and surrounded him. The man who recognized him shouted: "Be careful, this man is not easy to deal with!"
Li Bochen sighed, thinking that last night Xiaoman said that he might not be willing to kill Zhu Hou. But looking at it now, if you don’t want to kill, you have to kill.
He was about to raise the knife, but he saw Zhu Hou raised his hand to suppress it, looked him up and down, and said, "Friend, did you really kill my son?"
Li Bochen really didn't expect Zhu Hou to be so magnanimous - at this time, he would actually ask first.
He hesitated for a moment, but did not make a move, and just said: "Yes."
The attendants immediately started making noises and yelling curses. But Zhu Hou frowned and shouted: "Shut up!"
Then he looked at Li Boxen: "You and I have no grievances, why would you want to take my son's life?"
Li Bochen smiled: "You really don't know what Zhu Yi did in Sanguan City?"
Zhu Hou thought for a while and said, "Let's talk about it."
If he were an ordinary bandit leader, Li Bochen would only think that these words were teasing and sarcastic, and it would be time to take action. But after listening to Zhu Hou's words and seeing the way he acted, he thought to himself, could this person really be asking?
He was silent for a while, and then said: "Zhu Yi led the bandits into Sanguan City, burned, killed and looted. The people who were killed were not the officials and soldiers in the city, but ordinary people. I can't stand this kind of thing the most. It's true, I didn't know he was the general's son when I killed him. But even if I knew, I wouldn't spare anyone."
The few people surrounding him seemed to be ready to curse. But before receiving Zhu Hou's order, he only moved his lips. Seeing this scene, Li Bochen couldn't help but thought to himself, no matter what Zhu Hou was like, he did have a way of controlling his subordinates. If his subordinates were to obey orders and prohibitions like this, they would be considered a strong army.
After Zhu Hou heard what he said, his eyes widened, he looked at the man who recognized Li Bochen and said, "Is what he said true?"
The man was stunned and said hurriedly: "That's... a bunch of nonsense!"
Zhu Hou nodded, turned to look at Li Boxen, and took out his sword.
Li Bochen sighed lowly and thought to himself, this man really can't get rid of the bandit's temperament. But the next moment, Zhu Hou swung his sword and chopped off the head of the follower.
The rest of the people were shocked, and one even dropped his knife on the ground. Even Li Boxen was stunned, wondering if this person was venting his anger. But Zhu Hou shook off the blood on the knife, returned it to the sheath, and said in a deep voice: "Okay. That's it."
After thinking about it, he sneered again: "It's useless. I asked him to go to Sanguan to treat his parents well and consolidate his foundation. But he did such a thing, and he deserves to die!"
Then he raised his hand to Li Boxen and said, "Brother, thank you for protecting my reputation."
Li Bochen glanced at the head on the ground a few more times before he was convinced that he was really dead. At this moment, his mind was in confusion - what was this man doing? Is he really fair and aboveboard? But if he is such a person, what can he say about killing women and children in the past? Then Zhu Yi turned into a monster...could Zhu Hou not know about this? Did someone else do it behind his back?
Or... he saw that he was with Chang Qiuwu, so he temporarily suppressed his murderous intention, because he didn't want to offend the Chang family for his important matter?
He didn't know how to answer for a moment. At this time, Chang Qiuwu said "hmm" and woke up. Zhu Hou turned around quickly and said, "Mr. Chang, how are you?"
Chang Qiuwu turned his eyes and looked at him, feeling a little confused for a moment. After a while, he whispered: "Oh...it's okay - General Zhu, have you seen Brother Chen?"
Zhu Hou was stunned and looked towards Li Bochen.
Li Boxen sighed in his heart, knowing that he could no longer hide his identity at this time. He said: "Mr. Chang, my name is not Chen Boli, my name is Li Bochen."
Chang Qiuwu must have been stunned by the fall. He reacted for a while before saying, "Li...Bo Chen?"
He stared again: "Your name is Li Bochen!?"
Li Boxen said: "Yes."
He must have guessed his identity. I heard him talking to Chang Xiu last night and knew that they knew about his existence and that Chang Tingwei had a child. It was time to follow Chang Tingwei's route south and find the village. But since the original "Li Boxen" was not taken away, it should have been investigated after Chang Tingwei's death.
At that time, the original Li Bochen should have joined the army. They only knew this name and could not find him.
At this moment, he, "Li Boxen", had gone to Mengjiatun again, and he was also a cultivator, and he wanted to get close to him... Chang Qiuwu should have guessed that he was Chang Tingwei's son.
However, Zhu Hou may not know this. He should only think that he was a low-ranking officer who killed the Sui king's grandson.
Chang Qiuwu thought for a while and was about to stand up holding on to the stone. Zhu Hou rushed over to help him and said, "Mr. Chang, be careful!"
Chang Qiuwu grabbed Zhu Hou's hand, stared at him, and said, "General Zhu, I heard before that Master Ling was killed in Sanguan."
He glanced at Li Boxen again: "There must be a misunderstanding about this matter, for my sake..."
Zhu Hou smiled bitterly: "Mr. Chang, don't worry, there is no misunderstanding about that."
Then he turned around and said, "This is Brother Li who took Quan Zi's life - I have already asked him about it. Zhu Yi slaughtered people in Sanguan City and did not listen to a word of my words, which almost ruined my foundation. Brother Li I will never blame him for eliminating harm for the people."
Chang Qiuwu had the same reaction as Li Boxen before, he was also stunned. Then he wanted to laugh again, but he realized that it was inappropriate to laugh, so he straightened his face, let go of Zhu Hou's hand and bowed to him, saying in a deep voice: "General Zhu has a broad mind and an astonishing magnanimity. I, Chang, admire him." ! General Zhu, our ancestors told me yesterday that if the general comes to visit again, please ask me to introduce him."
Zhu Hou's face immediately showed joy and said: "Okay, okay, okay! I'll wait for a while - no, wait until I prepare all the gifts tomorrow, and then invite Mr. Chang to come out!"
Then he turned to Li Boxen and said, "Brother Li, we don't know each other until we fight. Let's wipe out the grudge between you and me!"
Then he shouted to the people around him: "Go back and withdraw the fatwa!"
The followers around him looked very reluctant, but they could only agree in unison.
Chang Qiuwu didn't seem surprised by Zhu Hou's behavior, but Li Bochen became more and more puzzled... Is there really such a person in the world? He asked himself, even if he encountered such a thing, he would not be able to do this.
At this time, Chang Qiuwu said again: "General Zhu, that monster——"
Zhu Hou pointed dozens of steps away: "He's dead."
Chang Qiuwu said: "Then please ask General Zhu to send it to me. This thing is weird, I have to ask my ancestor to take a look. I still have a few words to say to Brother Li."
Zhu Hou smiled: "Okay."
He turned around and walked away, calling his followers again to move the monster's body.
Chang Qiuwu walked up to Li Boxen. Seeing that Zhu Hou's man was walking away, he stared at him first, and then whispered: "You..."
Li Bochen sighed and said, "Mr. Chang, my mother Chang Tingwei."
Chang Qiuwu shook his head and nodded again, the expression on his face changing. Suddenly he bowed and said, "Excuse me, cousin. I didn't know etiquette before, so I offended you a lot."
Li Bochen was startled and quickly held his hand and said, "Mr. Chang, please don't call me that!"
I had joked with Xiaoman before, saying that in terms of seniority, he was Chang Qiuwu's cousin. But now that this man in his forties really called him that, he felt uncomfortable all over and was about to break into a cold sweat.
But Chang Qiuwu shook his head and said: "How can you mess up the etiquette, cousin-"
Li Bochen said hurriedly: "If you really want to scream, then call me...Brother Li? Is this okay? Otherwise, Zhu Hou will feel weird too."
Chang Qiuwu frowned, but finally changed his tune and said, "Okay, that junior is rude...Brother Li."
Li Bochen breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and saw that Zhu Hou's men had come out with an empty horse and worked together to carry the monster's body up. After they finished their work, they did not come over again, but waited aside.
Zhu Hou really respected Chang Qiuwu, but he didn't know if he was sincere. But if not, it would prove that this person is indeed a dragon and a phoenix among men.
Chang Qiuwu also looked at him and said: "This is not the place to talk. Let's talk after we go home. Let's go home first - our ancestors must be extremely happy!"
Li Bochen thought for a while and said, "Okay."
The two walked over. Zhu Hou looked very happy and asked his followers to let the two horses out. The group of people walked along the river at the bottom of the valley and out of the mountain, with the followers trotting behind.
After walking for a while, Zhu Hou said: "Mr. Chang, Brother Li, how did you catch this thing? I blocked it several times and it ran away!"
Chang Qiuwu smiled and said: "The main credit is not my contribution, but Brother Li's bravery. Without him, I might have died when you saw me."
Zhu Hou raised his eyebrows, turned to look at Li Bochen, and said, "Oh? I really didn't expect that - Brother Li, what did you do in the past?"
After saying this, he laughed loudly: "Look at my memory, was Brother Li a general in the past? A serious general is not comparable to a grass-headed general like me. Brother Li, I heard that you were in the Sui Dynasty You killed someone, but now that you have settled here, and I am thirsty for talents, how about you come to my mountain? I won’t ask you to serve me, I am the general, so you will be the deputy general!"
