Chapter 79 Road Encounter(1/2)
In mid-November, the weather in the Central Plains became very cold. Although it was not yet the coldest month of the twelfth lunar month, it was enough to freeze people to death.
For poor people, winter of the year is the most difficult time. If the family still has some savings and keeping grain in that year, and the family hides in the house and makes do, they can barely survive the winter; but if there is no savings and no food, then after the first heavy snow in the cold winter blocks the road, countless people will die of hunger and coldness.
However, for some wealthy families, winter is their best hunting season, because the wild beasts that still come out to feed in this cold season are the most ferocious jackals, tigers and leopards. If they can hunt a ferocious beast, it would be a shameful thing.
Just now, despite the snow, a carriage slowly drove from Yongqiu to Chenliu. I really don’t know which rich family was idle and took their clan brothers or domestic servants to play dangerous games like winter hunting.
Wait, it doesn't seem like a carriage from a noble man, but rather a carriage transporting goods, and it seems like it's unmanned...
Could it be a hell?
Of course not.
Not long after, the snow on the roofless carriage of the carriage moved slightly. Then, a head came out of the snow pile. After a quick glance at the road ahead, he shrank his neck and quickly pulled his head back.
"Boss, the direction is right..."
"I said trillion, you kid are too lazy, aren't you?"
"Steal you!...You go and try driving outside?"
"Why haven't I tried it?"
"You got in less than a mile and you got in again. Are you embarrassed to say to me?"
"Stop making noise!... Just do it, look at the direction every twenty breaths..."
A few young and powerful voices were faintly heard in the snow in the carriage, but those voices trembled because of the coldness of the owner.
These poor guys were Zhang Huang and others who came to Chenliu County from Guangling County.
Because he was punished. Although Zhang Huang and others made great achievements in the Guangling Army, they were unable to get some silver coins in the end. However, Li Tong, who was in charge of the financial power of the Black Feather Crow, had the silver notes he treasured in his arms, after several attempts to trade with local merchants, they had completely become waste paper. If they had not obtained some copper coins funded by close friends such as Wang Zhuo and Han Hu before leaving Guangling, they would probably not be able to support them even in Chen.
However, these few copper coins were exhausted from the local villagers for the last portion of food before they stepped into Chenliu County.
Hunger and cold are intertwined. It is no exaggeration to use this sentence to describe the black-feathered crows at this time. In such a cold winter, they do not have enough cotton coats to drive away the cold, nor enough food to fill the hunger. It is really unimaginable to embarrass.
The only comforting thing is that the craftsmanship of logging and building camps in Zhujia Town was used on the way. Several young men worked together to transform the grain carriage and added a ceiling to the carriage behind the carriage. Although the sluggish craftsmanship would probably frown the carriage who was good at this. However, the carriage was quite insulated, which helped these penniless little guys to support the arrival of Chenliu.
“Gu…”
"Gugu..."
In the sealed carriage, the six Black Feather Crow brothers sat in a circle, among them the last piece of jerky left. Half a month ago, a group of hungry jackals foolishly set their sights on the horses they pulled the cart. As a result, the wolves became the only food to support the brothers in distress.
It’s a pity that there is only one portion of this wolf meat now, only one of the lengths and thicknesses of two fingers.
Because they all knew that this was the last food for the brothers, even though the black-feathered crows in the car were so hungry that they were rumbling in their stomachs, no one touched the piece of meat. They just stared at the dried meat with their faint red eyes and swallowed their saliva. The "furious" eyes were like the group of jackals they had encountered before.
After a long time, Taishici said, "Dafu, brothers, you have the weakest bones. This piece of jerky...you can eat it."
"Let's give it to the boss. The boss is the leader of our Black Feather Crow. How can you tell the leader to be hungry and his subordinates to eat full?... In addition, please tell me Dafu and don't blame me for turning against each other!" As he said that, Shan Fu pushed the jerky handed to him by Taishi Ci to Zhang Huang.
"Please give it trillion." Zhang Huang thought for a while and said. He knew very well that Li Tong had almost never had enough food on the way. Although this guy was greedy for money, once he was involved in the word "brother", Li Tong was absolutely righteous and had nothing to say. Several times, he secretly hid his dry food and then put it back into the bag of dry food. No one noticed it once or twice, but after a long time, he could understand it even if he was a fool.
"I? I'm full!" Li Tong patted his stomach and said in surprise. It was strange that among the six brothers, Li Tong had the least groans in his stomach, but this guy obviously ate the least dry food.
The black-feathered crows looked at Li Tong in surprise. Suddenly, Chen Dao seemed to have noticed something, reached out and picked up something under Li Tong's butt, and then asked with a strange look, "Financial fan, where are your stack of silver notes?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Tong's expression froze and he snorted coldly, "Hide it with his close body!...What do you want to do?"
"Take it and see it."
"Not give!"
"Bring it!"
"If you have the ability, come and grab it!"
"..." Chen Dao stared at Li Tong for a while after hearing this, spread the things he had just picked up in his palm. Zhang Huang and others leaned over and looked at it, and then they found that it was half a silver note, and there were traces of teeth biting in the tearing area.
"You guy is not..." Shan Fu looked at Li Tong in shock. The others also understood that Li Tong had secretly put the stack of silver bills to satisfy their hunger during these days.
"What are you talking about?!" Li Tong, who was exposed in the secret, glared at Chen Dao hatefully and patted the dried meat on the latter's face. Seeing that the atmosphere in the car was a little stagnant, Li Tong spread his hands and said with a smile, "I just said I ate the most, right? All the things worth hundreds of taels have come to my stomach... What are you doing? I worked hard to keep my property in charge, and I can't eat more?"
"..." The black-feathered crows looked at each other and fell silent.
He looked at Li Tong, then at the jerky meat in his hand, and Chen Dao threw it to Zang Ba: "I'm not hungry. Give it to you, Xuan Gao."
"I'm not hungry either!... Give it to Ziyi." Zang Ba pushed the jerky to Taishi Ci with a panic expression, as if the jerky that could satisfy her hunger was something terrible.
"I'm not hungry!" Taishi Ci shook his head and put the jerky meat in his hand back to the original position in the center of everyone. What followed was the strange sound of his stomach.
He was obviously lying, but no one laughed at him.
After strolling around in the hands of everyone, the jerky meat still returned to its original position.
“Gu…”
"Gugu..."
The gurgling sounds in my stomach are still ringing.
Everyone looked at each other tacitly and burst into laughter.
This is the Black Feather Crow!
The black-feathered crow gathered together with one another. Even in the most dangerous times, there will never be a person who will murder his brother's interests for himself!
After a lot of laughter, the piece of jerky was still in its original position, but no one in the carriage went to see it as if it did not exist at all.
"To be honest, it's all because Mr. Zang is too stingy!...At least we have made great contributions, right? Our boss, even the commander of the rebels, Shen Xing, is the one who kills us. Isn't this a gift for us?" Li Tong stings Zang Min in the ground and buries him.
"Be careful when speaking, that's my uncle!" Zang Ba couldn't listen anymore. He rolled his eyes and said angrily, "It's said that he's overcoming the merits!... Besides, our wanted order. Didn't my uncle say that he would find a way to revoke it?"
"Nonsense!... His nephew and grandson bear a reward of two thousand taels of silver. If he is an uncle, he will naturally find a way to cancel it."
"Isn't there still Ziyi's 800 taels of reward?"
"Anyway, Mr. Zang is just stingy!"
"I'll go to you!"
After a disagreement, Li Tong and Zang Ba started fighting in the carriage, but no one persuaded each other.
It’s not because of anything else. It’s just that everyone knows in their hearts that this is an excuse for the two of them to get up and move. After all, they have been sitting on the ground for a long time and have no food. Everyone’s bodies have gradually become stiff and cold. If they don’t get up and move, they may really be frozen to death here.
But the carriage was so crowded that Zang Ba and Li Tong fought, causing the carriage to shake.
Seeing this, Zhang Huang quickly opened the two of them: "Okay, okay, let's use the 'hard body' to drive away the cold... If you two continue to fight, the car will overturn."
Li Tong and Zang Ba were not really fighting, so they stopped immediately after hearing this. The Black Feather Crows took a deep breath and used their rigid bodies one by one.
I have to say that this arduous journey was not a slight gain. Since Zhang Huang accidentally discovered that the rigid body could be used to keep the cold, the black-feathered crows have mastered the rigid body one after another. There is no way, who said that the weather was too cold, which forced them to master the rigid body as soon as possible.
People are forced out, and this sentence is true. I am afraid no one would have thought that within just half a month, Zhang Huang, a group of little ghosts who had just learned the rigid body, quickly mastered the rigid body under the cruel training of nature, and reached the state of freedom that Cheng Pu said in the beginning. Even the slow-moving single blessing can barely support half a stick of incense. As for others, one stick of incense is no problem.
Before they knew it, even Zhang Huang and the others did not realize that they were much stronger than when they were in the Guangling Army. At this time, even if the elite Du Bo Lu Min, they were resurrected, they might not be able to easily defeat these little ghosts.
"Huh, it's much better." After exercising the rigid body, Zhang Huang and others suddenly felt that the cold air around them suddenly disappeared without a trace. They started talking while moving their bodies, which were stiff and cold.
To talk about the topic they talked the most, I probably had to count the confrontation between Sun Jian and Sailer in Guangling County half a month ago.
I remember that at that time, although Sun Jian asked Zhang Huang and his wife to escape in the carriage early, Zhang Huang and the others stayed at the beginning, and they felt that it might help Sun Jian. But when Lu Er started fighting with Sun Jian, they were shocked to realize that such a level of confrontation was definitely not something they could interfere with.
In the face of the terrifying strength of the earth as thick as the mountains, the black-feathered crows were very sensible and obediently following Sun Jian's advice, and fled quickly in the carriage. Even they did not dare to stop all the way, for fear that the terrifying guy from the terrifying guy from the terrifying one would catch up.
"Boss, that guy really came to intercept you because you abused Taoism?... Think about it carefully?" Li Tong raised this topic again while idle.
Zhang Huang shook his head and said helplessly: "How many times have I explained it? I have never seen that loss at all, and it is even more impossible to make a grudge with him!"
Think about it, who would have been idle enough to provoke a guy as terrifying as losing?
"If it is true as the boss said... the boss should try not to use Taoist techniques. It would rather believe that there is nothing but not nothing!" Zang Ba said seriously.
Zhang Huang nodded after hearing this and said helplessly, "After this disaster, I said I would never dare to use Taoism again... But if the Sailing Er chased after him in the future, you might as well disperse and escape. Sailing Er wants to kill me, and it will not make things difficult for you."
The Black Feather Crows were silent. They knew that Zhang Huang could escape with one hand. As long as there was no burden around him, no matter how powerful he lost, he would never be able to kill Zhang Huang.
[burden……]
Li Tong, Chen Dao, Zang Ba and Taishi Ci looked at each other tacitly, but they didn't say anything. Although Zhang Huang had never said it, the four of them knew very well that if they were unlucky, they would be Zhang Huang's burden. Because if they were not for them, Zhang Huang would never be so afraid of losing.
[Not enough!... I have to become stronger! As long as I wait to practice the strength like General Sun Jian, I don’t have to be afraid of losing...]
The four future heroes made great vows in their hearts.
Zhang Huang immediately noticed the abnormality of the four brothers. He frowned slightly, and suddenly changed the topic and said, "When I talk about it, I am even more curious about who will win the battle between Lost and General Sun Jian..."
After hearing this, the Black Feather Crows immediately became interested. After all, they just saw the beginning and ran away in a hurry. They had no courage to see the end.
"I think it's General Sun!" Chen Dao touched his chin and said, "Did you forget? That night, the Danyang soldiers fought with us, and the camp was in chaos. General Sun only shouted loudly, and thousands of people were trembling and unconscious... They were simply monsters!"
"Then isn't a monster?" Li Tong curled his lips and gestured with both hands. "That big heavy sword can actually be handled with one hand, and it feels easy to play like firewood..."
"Well, that's really awesome." Perhaps thinking of the scene at that time, Zang Ba felt a deep sense of horror in his heart, shook his head and said, "When you wave it casually, the earth bursts... To be honest, this kind of opponent is not something we can resist at the moment. If there was no General Sun's protection at that time, the consequences would be unimaginable..."
"I think General Sun Jian is more powerful." Taishi Ci touched his chin and said, but unfortunately he couldn't tell a reason, but he was refuted by Li Tong's few words.
Zhang Huangqing fell into deep thought as he listened to the arguments between the brothers.
It is undeniable that the strength of the Sailer and Sun Jian is really surprisingly terrifyingly powerful, and they are definitely the two strongest ones he has ever seen. However... Sun Jian, who was so powerful, failed to keep Xu Zhao when he was in Kuaiji County, and watched Xu Zhao be rescued by the cloaked man of a mysterious origin. Doesn’t this mean that the strength of the cloaked man is actually equal to Sun Jian? Even stronger than Sun Jian?
Thinking of this, when they recalled the tent of Shen Xing, the commander of the rebels in the 5th Army, they assassinated Shen Xing in front of the cloaked man. Even Li Tong attacked the cloaked man at that time...
To be continued...