It was already the early morning of the twenty-month period that He Nan had made an appointment with Ma Mian. A group of seven people each rode a horse down Xiaoshan, and their destination was naturally near the village Ma Mian mentioned.
These seven people are all the leaders and senior officials in Xiaoshan Yanluo Village except Niutou, who is still in He Nan's hands. Ma Mian could betray Qing-faced Yama for profit, and naturally he could also betray He Nan, so He Nan held the bull's head in his hand as a hostage in order to restrain Ma Mian and prevent him from betraying him again.
But even so, it didn't stop Ma Mian from betraying their alliance in the end - it was certainly true that he and He Nan agreed to encircle and annihilate Qing-faced Yama together. They were sincere at the time, and he had long been unable to bear Qing-faced Yama's behavior. But it is true that he betrayed He Nan in the face of the pressure of Qing-faced Yama, because he could feel that the result of his not telling the truth was that he had his throat crushed to death by Qing-faced Yama last night.
"People must know how to be flexible." Ma Mian comforted himself in his heart, "There is a saying - he who knows the current affairs is a hero, and a good man will not suffer the immediate disadvantages."
Don't worry about who is the leader of the village. If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood. If your life is gone, what kind of freedom do you need? It was not that Ma Mian had never thought that his sworn brother Niu Tou was still in He Nan's hands. At that time, He Nan made it very clear and understood: "If I find out that you have betrayed me, then even if I die, I will have to support your brother." .”
But his own life was at risk, and he couldn't care less about his brother's life. Besides, he was the one who could contact He Nan. If he died, where would Black and White Wuchang and the others go to find He Nan? ? Not to mention the fact that Qing-faced Yama was tricked out, He Nan's plan also completely failed. So whether it’s for your own life or for the overall situation——
"Brother, I'm sorry." Ma Mian made a decision in his heart viciously.
Therefore, people should think carefully before bowing down. It is better to follow the example of Taoyuan and the sworn brotherhood than to follow the example of Wagang and one burner of incense! Meeting a sworn brother like Ma Mian, who can share joys but not sorrows, is really bad luck for eight lifetimes.
What happened last night was quite interesting. Qing-faced Yama just walked slowly to Ma Mian, and Ma Mian was so frightened that he almost wet his pants, and then he explained all the plans of himself and He Nan. The list of people involved in the rebellion and the details were all reproduced verbatim to Qing-faced Yama.
If this Ma Mian had this kind of memory when he was young, wouldn't it be easy to pass the exam and become a small official to feed the common people openly? There is no need for Luocao to fight for his life every day with his head in his hands.
It seems that pressure can indeed bring out people's potential.
Blue-faced Yama has always done things vigorously and resolutely. This is one of the rich experiences he gained in his once poor life - if you are slow, you will not be able to eat, and if you are not able to eat, you will starve to death. So he immediately sent people to pull out the leaders of each village from their beds without stopping. It was not until midnight that the seven people finally gathered in the lobby of Yan Luo Village.
"I heard that you people are very dissatisfied with me recently..." Qing-faced Yama leaned on his big tiger-skin chair with his legs crossed. The difference from before was that the copper plate in his hand had disappeared, replaced by his The weapon - the dark ghost-headed iron rope.
"I don't dare!" The second master, the smartest among them, knelt down first, kowtowing and bowing to the blue-faced Yama. Although he didn't know the plan of Ma Mian and others, and he didn't hear any bad news recently, he saw that when he walked in, Ma Mian was already kneeling there without saying a word, just like Knowing that he was following the same example, he kowtowed and crawled a little further away from the horse, which meant to draw a clear line with this guy.
When the others saw that the second boss had done this, they followed suit. Anyway, it was the second boss who started the trick, so they followed suit. Even if it didn't go with the boss's wishes, they had to take advantage of the second boss first and start scolding him.
For a moment, everyone in the hall was kowtowing one after another, but Ma Mian was the only one who stood motionless on his knees.
"Okay..." Qing-faced Yama felt much better when he saw the people below him groveling to him, and waved his hand to tell them to stop. "Whoever is in cahoots with Ma Mian, I will never punish him if he comes forward now. However, if he doesn't take the initiative to admit that he was caught by me..."
Qing-faced Yama did not continue, because everyone knew "the consequences of not actively admitting it." "Death" may be the lightest punishment for them - they still vividly remember the tragedy of the previous Right Ghost King - that guy knew he was wrong after going to court with Blue Faced Yama, and was about to beg for more money. When he got a chance, he was hit in the face with a ghost-headed hammer at one end of the iron rope. His flesh and blood were all bruised. Seeing that he could only breathe out but not in, Qing-faced Yama even took a short knife and skinned him alive. Pi, his death was so brutal that even these bandits who had no regard for human life couldn't bear to look directly at him and felt fear in their hearts.
The skin of the previous Right Ghost King is still hanging on the flagpole of their Yama Village! Occasionally, on a whim, Qing-faced Yama will lead the bosses and minions to the base of the flagpole to engage in some team-building activities of "seeing things and remembering people, recalling hardships and remembering sweetness".
With such cruelty and perversion, it is no wonder that Ma Mian had vowed to express his ambition in front of He Nan: "If I don't kill the Blue-faced Yama, I will be ashamed of my majestic seven-foot body." In the blink of an eye, when he saw the Blue-faced Yama himself, he had already Liu Shen Wuzhu is pissed off and quits.
The two people kneeling together here, Black and White, were kowtowing and shouting: "This guy Ma Mian gave us this bad idea. We only listened to his words because we were obsessed and tried to challenge Tianwei with our arms." So, the Zuo Ghost King over there was still thinking about shrinking back, and Qing-faced Yama looked at him. He also followed the example of his predecessors and started banging his head on the ground, slapping himself in the face while hitting him. The stool has swollen to the size of a pig's head.
"What does the military advisor think should be done?" Qing-faced Yama was rare this time and did not get angry. Instead, he handed over the decision-making power to the second master.
The second master is an old fox. When he saw the pitiful expressions of these people asking for forgiveness, and what they said before, he knew that these low-level people wanted to stroke the tiger's beard, and seemed to have collaborated with the copycats. Outsiders conspired to kill the village owner. Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. The second master, who has served as Qing-faced Yama's advisor for these years, certainly understands Qing-faced Yama's psychology very well - he uncharacteristically handed this hot potato to himself because he did not want to clean up the family now. So the second master pretended to be a peacemaker and sold a favor to these traitors: "In my humble opinion, these people originally deserved death, but now that the internal troubles have been solved and the external troubles have not been eliminated, Everyone still needs to work together... It’s better to let them atone for their sins and wait until everything is settled.”
At the end, he seemed to feel that his words were inappropriate, and added: "Although they can be exempted from the death penalty, punishment is still necessary. This will not only lose the strictness of our Yama Village laws, but also demonstrate your magnanimity and benevolence, the leader of the village." Heart of virtue. After this incident, more talented people will be impressed by the charm of the village master and come to seek refuge with you, and heroes from all over the world will join you. At that time, the name of Yama will be heard all over the world. No one knows it. People don’t know? Civilization has become a martial virtue, and it will be famous all over the world. It will rule the world for thousands of years!"
The second-in-command was really not in vain, let alone his eloquence is very comparable to others, this slogan-like flattery was so hard that Qing-faced Yama made a "hiss" sound in his mouth and took a breath, but it was very useful to him. : "Okay... then I'll do as you say!" Both the traitors who were still kowtowing and the Yougui King who was watching the excitement were shocked by the second master's shameless attitude and felt in their hearts. I thought: "Damn it, people who have studied for a few years are different." But I was shocked, and I couldn't laugh out loud. Otherwise, even if ten second masters begged for mercy, I would have to die on the spot. .
In fact, Qing-faced Yama still made up his mind to eat these traitors alive afterward as a warning to others. However, since the second master has praised himself so much, of course it is not easy for him to get angry, so he still has to give him some face, right? ? He cleared his throat and said: "Since the Second Master is interceding for you useless losers, I will spare your lives for the time being. As for whether you will live or die in the future, it depends on you." show."
Qingmian Yanluo asked Ma Mian to repeat the plan he and He Nan had made to everyone, and asked everyone to work together to come up with strategies to defeat the enemy. At this time, everyone has obtained a temporary death-free gold medal. In order to turn this "temporary" into "permanent", the traitors have become more active.
Someone said that "a group of people were entangled to kill each other at the place agreed upon by the two", which was immediately rejected. The reason was that "with so many people, the other party would be scared away at the sight of it, and it would be difficult to find it again. If you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid." The thief is worried and must be eradicated." What's interesting is that this reason was proposed by Ma Mian himself, but now he remembers that it must be eradicated.
A clever woman can't make a meal without straw, so the appointment was made for today's morning. There really isn't much time left until now. Even if there were all kinds of strategies and changes, it would be difficult to deploy them. In the end, everyone had to choose the most primitive method, "use the trick to make a plan." ".
So there was the incident of "Seven Ghosts descending to Xiaoshan" in the early morning. Although the second master was not skilled in martial arts, he was regarded as a military advisor. Qing-faced Yama also felt that it would be safer to take him with him, so he also followed the team. Not only that, in order to show his loyalty, Ma Mian also volunteered to recruit more than two hundred people from his own men to follow on foot, lying in ambush not far from here, ready to follow the leaders and loot the village.
The agreed place was said to be a village at the foot of Xiaoshan Mountain, but it was still some distance away from Xiaoshan Mountain. Everyone trekked down the mountain in the early morning and finally arrived at noon.
"Be careful... I'm afraid there may be an ambush here." The second master looked at the village from a distance and suddenly said to Qing-faced Yama with vigilance.
"Why did the military advisor say this?" Qing-faced Yama was naturally a little confused. This was still some distance from the village, and he didn't see anything strange wherever he could see, so he asked.
"Master of the village...it's noon at this time. How can ordinary people not eat at noon? Since they have to cook, why can't they see the smoke?" The second master really showed his expertise. He could tell the village at a glance. The abnormality in his face was quite proud. "Obviously, this village is already full of ambushes. They only wanted to ambush us, so they missed these details."
Qing Mian Yanluo glanced at Ma Mian and signaled him to go explore the limelight first. Ma Mian also knew that only he who had been in contact with He Nan could shoulder such an important task, so he had no choice but to accept it and left the team even though he was unwilling to do so. Riding alone towards the village, everyone naturally stayed where they were and waited.
Ma Mian walked into the village and wandered around for a long time without seeing anyone. Suddenly he heard someone above him calling him: "Why is it just you?"
Ma Mian looked up and found He Nan sitting with his legs spread on the roof of the only tiled house in the village. Yu Ruyi in red was standing behind him, but Wei Kui was missing.
"Well... the leader of the village sent me to investigate first." Ma Mian responded, and then he asked He Nan: "Why are there just the two of you?"
Unexpectedly, He Nan looked like a matter of course: "Aren't the two of us enough?"
Ma Mian's mind was confused at this time. What nonsense was this man talking about? He couldn't help but asked tentatively: "Don't you have any other ambush soldiers?"
He Nan didn't answer directly, but he didn't deny it either: "You said it was an ambush yourself, how could you still see it?" This was so cleverly said that even Ma Mian was not sure whether He Nan had arranged it, so he could only ask Zhu Henan nodded: "Then I will go and bring them in."
Seeing He Nan didn't react at all, Ma Mian felt even more unsure, but there is an old saying that says when it comes, take it easy - no matter what happens, you can take advantage of the chaos and escape, so no matter who wins, you will have something to lose. A way out...that should be it, right?
No matter what, Ma Mian still truthfully reported everything he saw and heard in the village to Qingmian Yanluo and the second master. After listening to the second master, the second master was also very puzzled: "Could this guy be carrying out this empty city plan?"
The final decision-making power still returned to the hands of Qing-faced Yama - otherwise, why would he be the boss? Qing-faced Yama has this kind of courage: "No matter what plots and tricks he has, they are all vulnerable in the face of absolute power."
As soon as this statement came out, the second master also attracted a burst of praise, which was still some clichés such as "wise and powerful". Everyone swaggered into the village like this, only to find that it was exactly as Ma Mian said along the way, with a slightly weird atmosphere everywhere.
"Horse face, horse face..." He Nan saw Qing-faced Yama, and the latter naturally saw the former, but He Nan did not keep his eyes on Qing-faced Yama's face for too long, but turned to look at Ma Mian Question: "You, you...are still betraying me."
Ma Feng had nothing to deny, because he would either admit it outright, or make a decisive attack on Qing-faced Yama - he would never dare to choose the second option, so he could only ask: "How did you do it?" Did you see that?" It can be regarded as a disguised admission of the fact that he betrayed the water.
"Tsk tsk..." He Nan smiled, "I said I was not prepared to believe you from the beginning, do you believe it?"
"Then I don't have anything to say, do I? Everyone has their own motives from the beginning..." Ma Mian also said bitterly.
"You are wrong..." He Nan snorted coldly, "Don't you care about your brother's life or death?"
In fact, Ma Mian was still a little shaken, but now he was in a situation where he was riding a tiger and it was difficult to get off, so he thought: "Humph... That is because he did not know what is good and what is good, and he died unjustly. Since he wants to challenge Tianwei with his own hands, then I have no choice but to do it." I don’t recognize this brother anymore! Today our village leader wants you to take a good look at what it means to be ‘no matter what his conspiracy and tricks are, they are all vulnerable in the face of absolute power’!”
What he said makes sense... Let's not talk about the fact that he copied the words of Black and White Wuchang and Qing-faced Yama. Even the blame for "colluding with He Nan" was completely placed on Niu Tou, and he was blamed for it instead. He looked completely clean, as if he was the strange man who had to betray his master for the sake of brotherly loyalty, and now he abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side.
"Okay! Okay! Okay!" He Nan clapped his hands three times in a row, "What a conspiracy, what an absolutely powerful one, what a vulnerability!"
"Then I'm going to cut my butt with a knife today - to open your eyes! See what it means to be absolutely powerful and what it means to be vulnerable!" He Nan stood up suddenly, making a loud noise.
Naturally, Qing-faced Yama saw Yu Ruyi's astonishing appearance, and he couldn't help but feel happy in his heart. However, although he was lustful, he was not a fool. In this situation, he was observing He Nan's every move with all his attention.
But seeing that He Nan was calm and unhurried, he uttered some domineering words with arrogance, and then - grabbed Yu Ruyi's hand and walked away. In the blink of an eye, he jumped off the eaves and disappeared.
This guy... slipped away?
It was the second master who reacted quickly. He was eager to achieve success and shouted: "This guy has set up an empty city plan, chase him quickly!" Everyone recovered from their shock and urged their horses to chase and kill He Nan.
Everyone in Yanluo Village decided that this kid could no longer pretend and chose to leave as a trick. Now they have completely dispelled their doubts and lowered their guard.
But they saw a long sword overturning the thatched house in front of everyone, and a proud figure fell to the ground, standing with his hands behind his back.
