Chapter 410: Group Thieves, Green Bamboo, Ajiu
The sound of hooves is clearly audible.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a girl say, "Master, we have an appointment with our fellow Lulinists in Luzhou first, and we will not cross the border to Luzhou to commit crimes. Will people say that we do not abide by the rules of the world this time?"
The wind was a little loud, and the girl's voice was small, which was extremely unheard, but Chu Zheng's ears were amazing, and he could still hear every word clearly.
Another old man heard an answer: "This batch of goods alarmed the green forests of Luzhou. I heard that there were ten large iron boxes, full of gold, silver and jewelry. As long as we got a tin box, we would not be in vain. Of course, we would not take action in Luzhou. We can act as a bodyguard for the fat sheep and transport the goods back to Jizhou for him before taking action, right?"
The girl giggled and said, "Master, you are too smart. The colleagues in Luzhou are afraid that they will be angry to death..." Her laughter came to an abrupt end, because at this time, the two of them had gone around the corner and saw Chu Zheng who was blocking the middle of the road.
The two immediately stopped the horse alertly, with hostility hidden in their eyes, obviously because they were afraid that Chu Zheng would hear their conversation.
Chu Zheng did listen to the conversation between the two, thinking to himself that it seemed that most of these people were from the green forest, and it might not be smooth to ask them for directions.
However, the two mentioned Luzhou just now. Did they actually run to Luzhou?
He looked at the two of them and saw that the old man was nearly 70 years old, his beards and eyebrows were all white, but he was energetic. His fingers holding the reins were short and powerful, and he was obviously very good at martial arts.
The girl in green next to her was only about fifteen or sixteen years old. Although she was still young, she was extremely beautiful, elegant and noble, and looked like a rich daughter.
Neither of them brought any weapons, and they were covered in dust.
After stopping for a while, the cavalry behind had arrived and saw this, they also strangled the horses.
Almost all of these riders are strong men, with different clothes and weapons. The only similarity is that they are inserted into the hat with a piece of five inches long, especially the green bamboo with bamboo leaves.
Countless eyes fell fiercely on Chu Zheng.
The war horses neighed, and white air spurted out from their nostrils, as if they were murderous.
Chu Zheng frowned slightly, he guessed that he was right. These people were indeed not good people. Ninety-nine percent of them were a group of green forest robbers to do a major case.
Chu Zheng was observing the group of thieves, and the group of thieves on the opposite side were also looking at Chu Zheng.
"Hey, what are you doing in the middle of the road? Do you want to beg? Or do you want to rob the road?"
The old man didn't say anything, but the girl spoke first. Her voice was soft and crisp, like a pearl falling from the plate, which was extremely beautiful. Speaking of the final "robbery", she probably felt it was impossible, so she burst into laughter.
Chu Zheng was stunned. Why did he become a beggar?
He looked at his clothes and realized the reason.
At this time, his shirt was covered with sword marks and bloody sword wounds. In addition, he was traveling in the dense forest for most of the day, and his clothes were probably wrinkled and his hair had not been carefully combed. He looked quite embarrassed.
Seeing that Chu Zheng didn't answer, the girl said with a crisp voice: "Hey, where are you talking about, why don't you answer? Mute?"
She is innocent, her cheeks are flushed, and although she is young, she is extremely bright.
Chu Zheng has seen countless beautiful girls in his life, and the appearance and demeanor of this girl is no less than that of Qin Ruyun and Guo Xiang.
However, for Chu Zheng, who has seen all the flowers without color, no matter how beautiful the girl is, it cannot cause any turmoil in his heart. He just glanced at the girl and withdrew his gaze and said calmly: "I just happened to pass by here. I want to ask for a way, but I wonder if it's a convenient way?"
He wore a human skin mask. Although his workmanship was exquisite and lifelike, the expression on his face was a little bit dull compared to that of a real person. With Chu Zheng's calm tone, he looked dull when he fell into the girl's eyes.
"Ask for directions?" The girl suddenly laughed. When she smiled, she had two dimples, which were extremely cute: "How could you block the middle of the road and ask for directions?"
Chu Zheng thought it was right. According to the practice of the world, when he encountered a large group of people on the road, he should dodge to the side of the road for a while and wait until it is close before asking.
These days, he has become accustomed to the thinking of superiors and is strong in his work. He has not changed his mindset for a while and cannot help but pat his forehead.
Now I am not willing to go back on my own. I am a small character in the world. I am not the leader of the Young Marshal Army and the world's number one master.
However, since he had revealed his flaws in front of these people, Chu Zheng was too lazy to pretend, so he said coldly: "Tell me where this is now and where the nearest town is, I'll leave immediately."
Seeing his attitude, the big men behind immediately started to scold: "Boy, you have a tough attitude! You're not going to die?"
The old man raised his hand, and the clamor behind him quickly calmed down. It was obvious that the old man was very prestigious among the thieves.
The old man turned around and asked the girl: "Ajiu, I'll test you. Who do you think this kid is?"
The girl Ajiu looked up and down Chu Zheng again and said with a smile: "Look... he was dressed ragged, but he could tell that the material was of good quality. His face turned pale, his face was thin, his eyes were not clear, but his waist was hung with a sword. He was obviously a person who knew martial arts, but his martial arts were not too high. But when facing us, he was fearless and calm... Well, would he be a child of a troubled family and used to being arrogant at home? I only see these, Master, do you think I'm right?"
The old man laughed and said, "It's not easy to see so much. Please pay attention to it. The scabbard on his waist looks simple and inconspicuous from the surface, but the body of the sword is cold, which should be a very rare sword with your mouth. So you guessed one thing, this kid must be from a simple background."
The old man seemed to be alone, and actually regarded Chu Zheng as a tool to teach his disciples to identify "prey", and continued: "Ajiu, think about it again, there are all barren mountains and rivers in the radius of dozens of miles, and there are no villages in front and no shops behind. He is alone and has no horses. How could he come here in this ice and snow?"
The girl's eyes lit up: "What do you mean by your hometown? He has accomplices? He is just here to explore the way?"
"Not bad." The old man nodded with relief: "This is the junction of Jizhou and Luzhou. Maybe it is the Green Forest Friends in Luzhou who are afraid that we will get involved in that batch of goods, so they arranged people to intercept us here in advance."
When the big men behind him heard this, they nervously pulled out their weapons and were on guard.
Chu Zheng kept watching the conversation between the master and apprentice coldly. He finally confirmed after hearing this. It turned out that this was the boundary between Jizhou and Luzhou. He was far away this time. Fortunately, it would take about a day and a night to find a town to take a direct carriage to Xiangcheng. There were six days left before Xiang'er's birthday, so there was no time to go too fast.
However, the actions of hundreds of thieves aroused Chu Zheng's interest.
Combined with the first conversation, Chu Zheng had already understood that there was a "fat sheep" in Luzhou with ten iron boxes filled with gold, silver and jewelry. This batch of treasures was too tempting. After hearing the news, the bandits in front of him did not care about the rules of the world. They dispatched five or six hundred people at a time to cross the boundary and "make food".
Chu Zheng couldn't help but feel excited.
If you are a black man, eat this batch of treasures, and then transport them to Xiangcheng, and then give them to Guo Xiang in the name of a birthday gift, and then transfer them to Guo Jing for military pay, it is much easier than destroying two thousand Mongolian elite cavalry.
Moreover, Xiangcheng has always lacked food and salary. Although he drew the location of Xiao Mimi's underground palace for Huang Rong last time, it was too remote and difficult to find. Secondly, when the underground torrent broke out, it was afraid that the entire underground palace would be destroyed. Even if he found the correct location, it would be impossible to dig out Xiao Mimi's treasures again.
But the batch of treasures in front of us can immediately solve the urgent need for Xiangcheng's shortage of wages!
Besides, there is a canal in Luzhou that leads directly to the Yangtze River and then enters the Han River through the Yangtze River. This batch of jewelry can be easily delivered to Xiangcheng, which is more than six days.
This plan is completely feasible!
Thinking of this, Chu Zheng made up his mind. If he could, he would get into the group of thieves first. If he couldn't, he would play with him and come and have a trip to get black.
At this time, more than a dozen cavalrymen had already walked around Chu Zheng from both sides of the road, forming a siege. They just didn't see the old man's instructions and did not take action. Several cavalrymen ran out far away, obviously checking if there was an ambush.
Seeing Chu Zheng lowering his head and not speaking, the old man seemed to not take their group seriously, he couldn't help but say coldly: "Boy, which clerk are you from? Evil Hugou or Luanshi Village?"
At this time, Chu Zheng had no way to pretend to be an ordinary small character in the world, so he used the trick and deliberately followed the girl's words and snorted like a young man in the aristocratic family:
"You are so blind and you have conflated this young master with the Green Forest bandits! You might as well tell you that I am the second young master of Chu Junwai, Chujiazhuang, Jicheng, Luzhou. I have been practicing martial arts with masters since I was a child and have learned a lot of martial arts! Now the world is in chaos, the Tartars invade and the Han territory is falling. I am about to go to Xiangcheng to join Guo Jing and Guo Hero, so as to kill the Mongolian Tartars and guard our Han people's great rivers and mountains!"
He said as he pressed the hilt of the sword, his face full of awesomeness and arrogance, which looked like a rich child who had never seen the world but was arrogant.
Chu Zheng's acting skills are at the level of a movie emperor. The old man couldn't help but believe it for a minute or two, looked at him a few more times, and then asked tentatively: "Young Master Chu is so ambitious. How could you be alone here? Will your family let you go out to join the army?"
Chu Zheng said with anger and depression: "Oh, don't mention it. Of course my father disagrees, saying that I am a great talent... what is the talent..."
Ajiu covered her mouth and smiled, "I ambitious and talented."
"Yes, it's just that I am very ambitious and talented... Bah, I'm not a person with great ambition and talented, I'm a person with real abilities!"
Ajiu giggled, thinking that this young man was so stupid and funny.
The old man deliberately said, "Young Master is so majestic. Of course, he is a capable person. Why did you come here before you say that you have come here?"
Chu Zheng slapped his thigh and said happily: "Old man, your eyes are much smarter than my father. You can see at a glance that this young master is so majestic and a phoenix among people! Originally, I secretly brought a few loyal servants to the carriage and sneaked out of the house. Unexpectedly, I met a strong man halfway through the road. They were many people and powerful. I thought that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of me... Cough, no, it was because of the young master who saw them wearing ragged clothes and thin faces, so he became kind-hearted and let them take my carriage away and searched all his luggage and garbage..."
The great men couldn't understand what was going on. They just heard that he wanted to save face and couldn't help laughing.
A man said, "Young Master, you are so righteous."
Chu Zheng said proudly: "That's, who doesn't know the name of my 'kind, kind-hearted and righteous, jade-faced little man's son Chu?"
Everyone laughed in unison. They felt tired and bored after driving in the wind and snow for two or three days. Chu Zheng pretended to be crazy and stupid here, and played a "Young Master who wants to be honest and brag, and is arrogant" with great climax. It immediately made them laugh and their suspicion of this "Young Master Chu" was greatly reduced.
Before Ajiu could wait for the old man to speak, the princess asked with a smile: "Why did that young man make his body ragged?"
Chu Zheng said angrily: "This is a good person who is not rewarded! I saw that they were pitiful and gave them all the things, but they actually wanted to tie up the young master and ask me for money. Do you think you are angry!"
At this time, the hoof sound returned, but the man who was going to the squad came back and made an ambush gesture.
Everyone's doubts about Chu Zheng were almost gone, and they all hugged their arms and watched the silly young man play tricks.
Ajiu smiled like a flower and clapped her hands and echoed: "Of course I'm so angry. How did Mr. Chu escape later?"
Chu Zheng saw it and knew that he had a great chance to get involved in the bandits. He held back his smile, showed a strong expression on his face, and said indignantly:
"Escape? I am a very powerful martial arts master, can I run away? I just don't want to hurt people's lives, so I let them go and leave alone. But my subordinates showed mercy, but they took the ruthless action. Look, the wounds on my body were left behind by them! I ran away in the darkness of the barren mountains and forests for a long time, and my clothes were torn by branches, frozen, hungry and exhausted. I finally ran to the main road and then met you. By the way, who are you? If you escort me to Xiangcheng, I will definitely be rewarded!"
Ajiu Gege smiled and said, "Do you still have silver on you now? What can you give us rewards?"
Chu Zheng was speechless, and the men burst into laughter again, and even the old man laughed out loud.
Chu Zheng was angry and embarrassed and said, "Why are you laughing at? Then I will write you a note, and you can go to Chujiazhuang, Jicheng to find my father to reward silver!"
The girl teased: "Young Master Chu, your martial arts must be very good. Why not use the sword technique all the way to show us?"
Chu Zheng raised his head and said disdainfully: "How can you rough people see this young master's sword technique?"
The girl blinked and said deliberately, "It's not that your swordsmanship is too bad, so I'm sorry to use it?"
Everyone burst into laughter again.
Chu Zheng looked unbearable and immediately drew his sword: "Okay, let's open your eyes!"
He hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehe hehes his sword skills, and he saw that the sword light shines with many tricks, which looked very good, but it was a typical mid-looking and unpractical routine, and it was not much better than the art sellers in the world.
Everyone was a master at home. After watching for a while, he understood. After Chu Zheng finished dancing with "gasp" and shouted "smugly": "How about it, are you convinced? If I hadn't been hungry now, I could have danced more!"
With his current martial arts realm, he pretended to be rough and skilled in martial arts, so he was perfect. Not to mention the thieves, even a master of Guo Jing or Yang Guo of the level may not be able to see the flaws here.
Seeing that he was indeed very skilled in martial arts, everyone was suspicious and laughed even more happily. Many people covered their stomachs and shouted:
"Oh my god!"
"This kid is so funny. Gang leader, don't kill him. It's hard to find such a funny person in the world."
Chapter completed!