Chapter 3 Applying both hard and soft(1/3)
The Lord's Mansion is in the center of the city. This is a small manor with several buildings and a large yard.
The courtyard walls were dilapidated. The walls built with stones seemed to be overwhelmed at any time. The flowers, plants and trees planted in the yard were only dead grass and leaves. Two soldiers were guarding the door, and the entire manor seemed quiet and deserted.
When Yang Zheng appeared here, he unexpectedly found the blood wolf waiting at the door.
He had a strap on his shoulders and his face was a little pale.
But when he saw Yang Zheng coming, his face turned red with excitement.
Yang Zheng looked like a mummy, and his appearance was not visible to everyone, but people who were familiar with his style could easily recognize him.
Moreover, the special connection between him and his personal guards made the Blood Wolf confident.
Before getting close, Yang Zheng had already said, "It was Ta'an boy who told you, I knew this kid would definitely not be able to stand it and come back to report the news."
"grown ups."
Yang Zheng stepped forward to support him and said, "I'm not here for a few days, you'll get some injuries..."
The Blood Wolf was immediately ashamed and opened his mouth to explain.
Yang Zheng had waved his hand to stop him and said: "Go in first, we will talk about this later, and someone will help me prepare bath water and clothes."
To be honest, Yang Zheng was really smelly. He stayed with the dead for a few days and was covered in gauze. He hadn't taken a shower for a long time and had a pungent and strange smell on his body. Although he had been in contact with him, he would not be able to say that because of this, Yang Zheng himself couldn't stand it.
Moreover, in order not to reveal his identity, the gauze on his face has not been removed.
In fact, his injury has been cured long ago.
The Blood Wolf led him into the manor, and the former lord lived in a two-story Yugang stone building.
Now this place has become Yang Zheng's bedroom. The small building looks gray and old, but the material of Yugang stone is not damp and it is cleaned very clean. When Yang Zheng entered, a 16- or seven-year-old girl walked out with a broom.
Seeing Yang Zheng, who was wrapped in gauze and had a strange look on his face, her face turned pale in fear.
Just noticed the blood wolf beside him, and the girl forced herself to blurt out her voice.
He bowed respectfully.
"Who is this?" Yang Zheng looked at the Blood Wolf.
"Sir, this is the maid I hired. When the Lord's Mansion first came, it was a mess, just like I had just been looted by bandits. You know, we are a group of big men, you can kill and fight, but we can't clean the manor or something, so I took my own initiative to hire some people from the city. This little girl is called Qiqi, who is specially organized for your small building."
After the Blood Wolf finished speaking, he waved to the girl: "Qiqi, haven't you come to see the Lord of Lord, he will be your master from now on."
"Lord... Lord?" Qiqi opened her eyes wide and then looked at Yang Zheng boldly. When she saw Yang Zheng looking at her, she lowered her head in horror. She could not understand that this dirty and smelly man wrapped in gauze would be Lord Lord... Aren't the nobles all dressed in bright clothes and behaved elegantly, and they were elegant at any time?
The little girl's fantasy about the nobles was broken.
Qiqi's cramped behavior did not make Yang Zheng care. Even when he was on Earth, he was used to being served. Although he had strong ability to do it himself, he did not reject someone to serve him. After nodding to the little girl, he walked into the small building.
Soon, the hot water was ready.
When Yang Zheng was about to enter the bathroom, he found that the little maid also followed in with a blushing face.
"Huh...what are you doing here?"
When he heard Yang Zheng’s question, Qiqi, who had been lowering her head, raised her head and said in a hurry: “Ah…oh…Master…Master, I…I…Come in…What are I doing?”
The little maid's head was completely confused and she looked stupid.
Yang Zheng smiled and rubbed her little head: "Okay, go out. It must be the Blood Wolf who asked you to come in and serve me. No, I'm used to washing alone."
"Oh, oh." The little maid ran out in a hurry after receiving a pardon.
After closing the door, Yang Zheng quickly pulled off his clothes and straps. The gauze stuck to his face and pulled it hard, and there was a pain of tearing off the skin. Yang Zheng looked at the bronze mirror. The skin that was bitten by the black beetle had grown again, and the original bronze skin became tender and red.
If there is anything else worth thanking for Barbie, who made Yang Zheng hate, is that it gave him this perfect body.
Those horrifying injuries recovered in just one day.
Yang Zheng felt that his body was becoming more and more perverted, and even compared with those monsters, it was no less beautiful.
After watching for a while, he jumped into the big wooden barrel.
After cleaning up the dirt that had left on your body for many days, it turned out that a large bucket of water had turned gray and black. Even Yang Zheng himself felt very disgusted. It was so dirty.
He changed the wooden barrel and cleaned it again, and then crawled out after he made sure there was no odor on his body.
Then he began to disguise.
The originally handsome face soon turned into the ordinary face of the Demon General.
After changing into a comfortable cotton robe, Yang Zheng opened the door.
As soon as I walked to the small flower hall, I saw the Blood Wolf guarding there with several personal guard captains.
When they saw Yang Zheng coming out, they all stood up and saluted excitedly.
"grown ups!"
Yang Zheng waved his hand: "No need to be polite, sit down, I have something to tell you."
Everyone was also accustomed to Yang Zheng's style. After sitting down, Yang Zheng looked around and his voice was a little low: "Although I'm just back today, I've actually been in Wigolan County for more than a week. This week, I have almost left most of the county, experienced many things, and seen many things. The situation is much worse than I thought. When I was in the Giant Horse Province, I had already learned about some situations, Blood Wolf, are we seriously insufficient in manpower now?"
Blood Wolf cleared his throat and said with a serious expression: "Sir, I'm telling the truth, we are indeed very few. Now, in the county, I only leave one hundred people, four hundred people maintain order on the border, and there are five hundred people. I can only break up the three large veins in turn patrolling, but the area of those three veins is too large and it's hard to defend. Just the day before yesterday, a group of bandits came to Sipanshui Iron Mine, and I rushed to reinforce. Although I killed the bandits away, twenty-three people died and 56 seriously injured. These people can no longer be used in the short term. There are constant small frictions every day, and almost some soldiers will be injured. I once tried to ask for help from the province, but they kept saying that their private territory was not under their jurisdiction and refusing to send troops. It's really annoying."
When the Blood Wolf said this, he patted the armrest of the chair, but he pulled the wound and started coughing repeatedly.
"Blood Wolf, don't be anxious, I'll have a solution." Yang Zheng comforted him and analyzed: "The situation is already very obvious now. We are unlikely to rely on the official power, but relying on our own troops to fight with tens of thousands of water thieves in the county, we are definitely not smart... Humph, let alone, things are not as simple as the surface. I encountered some strange things and I will tell them later, but you must keep it confidential. No one is allowed to leak this matter until it is cleared."
Although Yang Zheng's words were light, those who heard them were all solemn.
In the hearts of soldiers in the Demon God Camp.
He is another belief after Chi Yun and Zuo Qingzi.
It is difficult for outsiders to understand this passion for faith.
Yang Zheng whispered slowly and told the deal between the octopus thief and the mysterious convoy. When the Blood Wolf and the others heard that the octopus thief was a group of mutants with gills and occupied a large island with thousands of people, everyone gasped.
Mutant amphibians mean that they are invincible on the water.
Now at least two-thirds of the area in Wigolan County is immersed in water. There are so many amphibians that even the warriors of the Demon Gods Camp, who are extremely tough, feel heartbroken.
They are brave, but it does not mean that they will be blindly optimistic about hopeless wars.
The situation is so bad.
Even if there are no octopus thieves, other large and small thieves of water thieves are enough to wipe out all their troops.
Blood Wolf pondered and said, "Sir, it seems that there is only a dead end to our current situation. But I don't believe how harmonious the water thieves are. Most of them are ordinary people because of life and greed, so they become water thieves. It is unlikely that they will unite. If I say something, except for the octopus thieves who have the strength to compete with us, other water thieves should be able to defeat them one by one."
Yang Zheng nodded: "The Blood Wolf said it makes sense, but it is just suitable for the current situation. Because the first two lords were killed by the water thieves, the official prestige of Wigolan was reduced to the lowest level. Those water thieves may not be able to look down on us, thinking that we were all the same as those lord forces in the past. But if we wiped out one by one, things might change. Wigolan's water thieves have deep roots, and there are tens of thousands of water thieves. I don't believe that there are no talent among them. If our official forces continue to suppress and fully expose our strength, these desperate water thieves may really unite. In that case, we will be in trouble."
No one present was fool. An impatient captain blurted out: "What should I do? It's not right to fight, nor is it not right to fight. I've had enough of this group of turtle sons bullied all day long."
"Shut up, Sgoth, how do you talk to the adults?" Blood Wolf shouted fiercely.
Sgots was frightened, Yang Zheng was extremely prestige, and he regretted it when the Blood Wolf was yelled, but Yang Zheng smiled at him and waved his hand to the Blood Wolf, "Captain Sgots is right, who are we? We are soldiers, they are thieves, and there is no reason why soldiers are afraid of thieves, so the war needs to be fought, but not blindly, there must be strategies, Blood Wolf, you must know that when I entered the city, I brought a few people back."
"Well, sir, I heard Ta'o say that... what about the people brought back by sir."
"These people I brought back are not good people." Yang Zheng said a rare humorous sentence, which made a group of big-headed soldiers stunned.
Yang Zheng smiled mysteriously, lowered his voice and said a few words.
The generals here all looked strange.
Blood Wolf said in a very surprised tone: "Sir, do you really want to do this?"
"Of course, what do you think?"
"It's OK...but... cooperate with the water thief..."
"I think it's difficult to put down my airs, right?" Yang Zheng said: "In fact, most water thieves are ordinary people tempted by interests. If there is no flood in Vigolan and the people live and work in peace, everyone has a way out. I think most people will not choose to be a bandit, so they must use both soft and hard to deal with them, and use their strength to fight. Although there are many people in the water thieves, they are all mobs. You are the most elite soldiers of the Weirong Kingdom. Do you have no confidence in dealing with them?"
"Of course not!" Sgoth, who had the most temper, was the first to roar. This time, even the Blood Wolf did not stop him. Everyone's eyes burst into heat, and a boiling aura suddenly rose, and the depressed aura that had been suffering for many days was wiped out.
Yang Zheng nodded with satisfaction: "I believe you can solve the problem of water thieves well, but there is still a poisonous sting here. Those mutated amphibians must be related to the Black Mage Tower. If you really get involved with those people, things will be tricky. So, for octopus thieves, you should try not to provoke them. That needs to be discussed for a long time."
This section of the session is of far-reaching significance, and the sky in Wigolan is about to change.
When Yang Zheng appeared in the hotel again, it was a little dark. The Hongmao and the other two were waiting anxiously in the room, but they saw a man with a strange face coming in and stood up with vigilance.
Malta yelled with a knife, "Who are you?"
The Hongniang also stared at the man walking in with a loud look.
On the contrary, the monk Russell stood aside with a deep face, his expression was not fluctuating, and his fingers were tugging up and down like playing a piano.
Yang Zheng ignored the imminent tension and stepped forward slowly.
But the voice came out: "Are you not recognizing someone after leaving for a while?"
Hearing his voice, Maltha and Hongmao were stunned. The skylight shone in outside the window, which just reflected half of Yang Zheng's face, which seemed familiar.
"Yes..." The Hongniang couldn't name her name when she spoke, because Yang Zheng had never said his name before, and she always called someone and replaced it with "hey...hey".
But Yang Zheng has understood what she means.
"It's me!"
"Master?" Maltha slowly fell down with his knife.
To be continued...