The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

When Zhu Xi saw through Gao Ming's true thoughts, he felt chills all over his body. If Gao Ming was allowed to continue, he would not only lose an ear, but his entire life.

Seeing Ji Su getting more and more irritable, Zhu Meng realized that he had to save himself, or in other words, Gao Ming had to save him.

Like a trapped wild animal, Ji Su yelled wildly: "I will give you a quarter of an hour to think about it. During this period, I will not have any conversations with you. If you say another word of nonsense, I will chop off Zhu Xi's hand! "

Gao Ming heard that this is good, he pretended to dissuade with a sad tone: "General Ji, you must not be impulsive—"

Seeing that his life was hanging by a thread, Zhu Xi hurriedly said to Ji Su: "Tell me to talk to the people outside! I will ask for mercy in person, and they will definitely listen."

He had no idea whether Gao Ming would listen to him, he just wanted to ask Ji Di to give him a chance to talk to Gao Ming.

In a fit of anger, Ji Su raised his hand and slapped Zhu Mo, "Go away!" But after the beating, he felt that it might not be a bad thing to ask Zhu Mo to talk to them, and it might be more powerful to ask Zhu Mo to urge the officers and soldiers. , even better.

"Tell you, don't play tricks! You just saw Lao Tzu's magic arrow, and if you want to take the opportunity to escape, you will die!"

Ji Su asked someone to tie a rope to Zhu Mo's body, and then took aim with a bow and arrow behind him, then said: "Think about it, don't make me misunderstand, or I will have no eyes!"

Zhu Mo repeatedly agreed, tremblingly climbed up the wall, and shouted, "It's me, Zhu Mo—don't attack—"

Gao Ming saw Zhu Miao's face dripping with blood on the top of the wall. He raised his hand, half-climbed on the wall tremblingly, and waved to them, "It's me, Zhu Mian——"

Gao Ming narrowed his eyes, "Are you really Master Zhu? It seems that there is something different from my impression——"

When Ji Su heard this, he raised his eyebrows, "Huh? Are you a fake?"

Zhu Miao was scared to death, and immediately shouted, "Of course it's me, I'm Zhu Mian, take a good look!"

But except for Gao Ming and the servants of the Zhu family, no one else had seen Zhu Xi, not even Hua Rong had seen him directly.

If Ji Su thinks Master Zhu is a fake, he will be furious and kill him directly. The servants of the Zhu family almost kneel down to Gao Ming, begging his grandpa to tell his grandma, "Master Gao, is that true?" It’s our master, it’s just that his ears were cut off just now, and his face is covered in blood, that’s why you can’t see clearly, please take a closer look.”

Gao Ming said: "Then let me take a closer look." So he narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhu Xi hard.

In fact, he had already recognized the other party as Zhu Xi, and he said that he couldn't see clearly, just to further consume Ji Su's patience.

However, he didn't want to continue with this statement, after all, if Zhu Shi was killed because he didn't recognize him, it would be difficult to shirk responsibility in the future.

"Oh my God—it's really Master Zhu—" Gao Ming said exaggeratedly: "Master Zhu, you must persevere, you have suffered—let me persuade that Ji Su again—"

Zhu Xi panicked, and shouted in his heart, don't be so damn persuasive anymore, if you persuasion me again, this life will really be lost by your persuasion.

"Lord Gao, listen to me!" Zhu Xi said in a low voice, "I beg you, as long as I return to Hangzhou, I will definitely reward all the soldiers. I, Zhu, have no talents and are of no use. I can only use my family's wealth. Say thanks."

He conceded, he surrendered, can't he buy his life with money? !

What is rewarding generals?It's almost like saying, if you save me, I'll give you money!

Gao Ming frowned, eh?Zhu Xi is willing to spend money to reward the soldiers, it's not bad.He looked at the soldiers around him, they rushed all the way back from Runzhou, defended Hangzhou, recaptured Yuling Pass, and ran to rescue Zhu Qian without much rest.

He hesitated, originally he wanted to kill Zhu Xi here, and it would be over once and for all.But in the current situation, there are benefits to not killing him, so he can't help but feel a bit in a dilemma.

Seeing that Gao Ming was moved, Zhu Xi begged for mercy further, and gritted his teeth, "Master Gao, I will cover the price of the three Taihu stones that were finally selected!"

Is there anything more important than life?

Where there is life, there is hope.

Gao Ming thought about it in his mind. It was true that he needed a sum of money to reward the soldiers who participated in the defense of Hangzhou. In addition, there was also the money to buy the Taihu Stone, which was not a small sum of money.

It would be great if Zhu Xi could be reimbursed.

If Zhu Shi died here, his wealth and land would become inheritances, which would be inherited by his wives and children, and outsiders would not be able to get a penny of benefits.

Thinking about it this way, it would be a good deal to rescue him and ask him to pay the three armies plus pay for the repurchase of Taihu Stone.

"Master Zhu, why did you say that? We rescued you out of our duty. The soldiers rushed here non-stop when they heard you were in trouble at Yuling Pass. Although it was a bit hard, for you, it was worth it. what?"

Zhu He hated in his heart, isn't that what you are saying, the soldiers have worked so hard and need to be rewarded, "I, Zhu He, swear to God, what I just said is true, I can't work hard for the soldiers, the rewards of silver taels and Taihu stones Silver taels, I'll take care of it all!"

Don't hesitate, hurry up and save me——

make a deal!Gao Ming saw that Zhu Xi had reached this point, so he didn’t need to ask for proof anymore, “Well, Master Zhu, hold on, I’ll try to save you! Please believe me! I believe that the soldiers of Hangzhou City will also We all look forward to your return."

Looking forward to your return to send money.

Zhu Ming knew that Gao Ming had agreed to the deal, but he couldn't take it lightly now. Gao Ming just didn't want to harm him further, but he didn't know if he could be rescued successfully.

At this moment, he directly felt that the rope tied to his body was pulled back by force, and he was caught off guard and was suddenly pulled off the wall and fell to the ground.

Ji Su came over cursing, and kicked him a few more times, "You are so fucking rich, rewarding the army? Buy Taihu Stone?"

Although Ji Su was envious of Zhu Qiang's wealth, he also understood that the most difficult problem he needed to solve was how to escape the siege of the officers and soldiers. As for how much money Zhu Qian had, he couldn't get it no matter how angry he was.

Zhu Xi endured Ji Su's beating and scolding, and when Ji Su got tired of beating and scolding, he said: "This time they should be sincere."

Ji Su snorted, "I hope! I'm really running out of patience. If it doesn't work, it's all over." Killing Zhu Xi will make him happy before he dies.

Ji Di was pacing back and forth in the courtyard in a hurry, but fortunately, that Mr. Gao who was in charge of negotiating did not continue to teach him, otherwise he would be really annoyed and want to kill.

"General Ji, General Ji, I have an idea here, can you see if this works? I will give you twenty pieces of clothes from our army, you and your capable men, as well as Zhu Xi and Zhu Xu, will all wear them, and your heads will also be worn." They are all covered. In this way, we will not be able to tell which one is you and which one is Zhu Xie and Zhu Xu, so we will not dare to shoot cold arrows. When you ride to a safe place, leave them on the side of the road. What do you think? ?”

Ji Su himself knew how to shoot arrows, and he was really afraid that he would be shot dead by the ambushing officers and soldiers as soon as he rode out. If he and Zhu Xi both wore the same clothes and covered their heads, the officers and soldiers would not be able to tell who was who. Don't dare to make a cold shot.

Otherwise, if one accidentally shot Zhu Shi to death, the officers and soldiers would have to bear the responsibility of shooting the hostage, not to mention their busy schedule.

Seeing the sun go down, Ji Su just ran away, thought for a while, and responded, "Yes, let's do it this way! You send someone to deliver the clothes this way, and I will also send someone to pick them up."

The soldiers under him were still enough, so he assigned a soldier to go out, go to the middle of the battle between the two armies, and drag several large bags of clothes back to the courtyard.

Ji Su carefully inspected the clothes of these officers and soldiers, and made sure that there were no special marks on them. He saw that two of the clothes were left to Zhu Xie and Zhu Xu, and the remaining eighteen clothes were worn by himself and his cronies.

After putting on their clothes, they tore off all the quilts of Baozheng's family, and each of them got a piece of cloth covering his head, which tightly wrapped his head, leaving only his eyes and nose exposed, for seeing the road and breathing.

The clothes are the same, and the heads are all covered. If Ji Su didn't know that there was a flower on the cloth covering the heads of Zhu Xi and Zhu Xu, he might not be able to distinguish them from this group of similarly dressed people.

Not to mention the officers and soldiers outside.

Ji Su laughed happily, "In this way, who can recognize who we are?"

He yelled out through the courtyard wall, "You officers and soldiers retreat, we will only go out when you retreat until we can't see you."

"Okay, let's back up." Just listen to the answer from the people outside.

After Ji Su confirmed that the officers and soldiers had indeed retreated far away, he led his cronies out of the gate of Baozheng's house on horseback and galloped towards the south of the village.

Except for him and the leaders who ride horses, most of Ji Su's group are infantrymen. After leaving Baozheng's house, they ran towards the south of the village. How could the infantry outrun the horses? Soon the infantrymen were thrown off by the horsemen. up.

Ji Di didn't intend to take care of these people at first, the most important thing now is that he escapes by himself, as for his subordinates, he can just recruit them later.

A group of 20 of them, including Zhu Xie and Zhu Xu, galloped wildly on horseback.

Ji Su observed the terrain all the way, and as soon as he was sure that he had shaken off the officers and soldiers, he chopped off the brothers Zhu Mo beside him and fled into the forest.

At this time, some subordinates found that there were officers and soldiers chasing behind them, and said worriedly: "The cavalry of the imperial court has caught up."

"It's nothing, they're just afraid that we won't let Zhu Man go."

"That's right, we all look the same, do they dare to shoot arrows? They're not afraid of shooting Zhu Man to death."

Zhu Xi listened to him, sweating in his heart, praying that Gao Ming would not mess around, after all he and his younger brother were still in Ji Su's team.

His mouth was gagged and his hands were tied. He couldn't think of any way to make the officers and soldiers recognize him as Zhu Xi.

"Haha, there is a suspension bridge in front of me, God help me." Ji Su said happily.As long as they cross the suspension bridge and cut off the ropes, let alone the officers and soldiers, even the Heavenly King and Lao Tzu can't do anything to them, and escaped to heaven from then on.

At this moment, Ji Di suddenly heard the subordinates beside him panicked: "No, an officer suddenly increased his speed and came towards us. He has a good horse, and his speed is too fast."

Seeing this, Ji Su hurriedly ran towards the suspension bridge, "It's just an officer, let's cross the bridge first!"

The suspension bridge was so close that he even felt that the horse's hooves would scratch the ground a few more times and he would be able to reach it.

At this time, he looked back and saw the officers and soldiers behind him raised their bows and arrows, as if they were going to shoot arrows towards them.

While Ji Su was angry, he thought it was funny, they had twenty riders, even if this officer was a good archer, how could he avoid shooting Zhu Chong from the same appearance.

Besides, at such a distance, how could it be possible to shoot them accurately?

At this time, Ji Su seemed to see the officer behind him let go of the bowstring, and before he could react, he swished an arrow and shot at him impartially.

Originally, the front hooves of the horse he was riding had stepped on the plank of the suspension bridge, but because of the arrow, before he even had time to ask why, he was shot off the horse and never had a chance to step on the suspension bridge.

Ji Su fell into a pool of blood, and seeing the other nineteen riders in a mess, they all squeezed onto the suspension bridge.

"Boss got hit by an arrow!"

"How did you recognize him?"

"Don't worry about it, go to the suspension bridge!"

In order to escape for his life, the horseshoe stepped on Ji Di's body who might still be breathing, but when he stepped on the suspension bridge, he was shot by an arrow and fell directly into the river.

There were still some people who did not believe in evil and attacked the suspension bridge again, and were shot to death at the end of the bridge as soon as they stepped on the suspension bridge.

"Don't cross the bridge! Run along the river bank!"

From the bloody lesson of the three people who fell down in a row, the remaining people realized that the identity of the archers behind them was judged by who rushed to board the suspension bridge.

Those who hurriedly set foot on the suspension bridge to escape must be robbers.

But they had wasted time by the suspension bridge before, and at this moment they saw the archer behind him on a good horse, and had chased him not far away.

What frightened them even more was that they recognized this person as Hua Rong, who had won more than an arrow with Pang Wanchun.

They are already within the shooting range, and the opponent is a sharp archer, as long as they draw their bows, their lives will definitely be taken.

Even Pang Wanchun could shoot dozens of bows in one go, not to mention Huarong, as long as he had enough feather arrows, he would be able to shoot them all to death.

"Don't come here! Otherwise, I'll kill him!" Someone pointed a knife at Zhu Xi.

As soon as he finished speaking, he was shot through the head by an arrow flying from behind and fell down on the horse.

As a result, Hua Rong recognized Zhu Yu, silently remembered his horse, mounted an arrow, and continued to aim ahead.

The fleeing robbers realized that at this time, threatening the lives of the hostages actually helped Huarong locate the hostages.

"You can't just sit and wait!" Finally, another person couldn't bear the feeling of being hunted down like this, picked up the bow that was hanging on his horse, put an arrow on it, and shot back at Huarong.

The one who can attack him must be a bandit, Hua Rong didn't even think about it, just shot this man off the horse with one arrow, then took out several feather arrows from the quiver, held them between his fingers, and shot them continuously.

Zhu Xi only felt the kidnappers around him falling down one after another, screaming in fright, afraid that the officers and soldiers behind him would shoot him or his younger brother by accident.

He couldn't make a sound, his hands were tied again, only his head could move, and he looked worriedly at his brother's position.

Hua Rong had already identified which Zhu Mian just now, and now seeing this person's head looking at someone, he judged that it was his younger brother, otherwise he would not have worried to look at it.

After making this judgment, Huarong no longer had any scruples, and the arrows were worthwhile.

"Separate and run!" Seeing a small path, some people saw the horse and ran away from the main force.

Hua Rong didn't care, and continued to eliminate the enemy. The group of people were shot to death, and those who fled halfway fled. There were only five people left, and two of them were Zhu Xi and Zhu Xu.

"I'll kill him!" Feeling that death was imminent, one of the kidnappers leaped onto Zhu Miao's horse, and put a knife against Zhu Miao's neck, "It's not bad for me to pull him on his back."

But Zhu Xi was lucky, he hadn't enjoyed the glory and wealth yet, so he shook his head at Hua Rong, but Hua Rong ignored him at all, and still shot an arrow in this direction with a blank expression.

Zhu Xi closed his eyes in despair, thinking that he was going to die, but he was not the one who died. He saw the kidnapper got an arrow in the head, and fell to the side and fell off his horse.

When the other two remaining kidnappers saw this, how dare they resist, they immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "Grandpa, we know that you are powerful, so you won't run away, you really won't run away. Surrender, we surrender, don't kill us."

"You, go and untie Zhu Xie and Zhu Xu, and then tie up your companion." Hua Rong commanded without even getting off the horse.

When a person untied Zhu Xie's brother and tied up his accomplice, Hua Rong instructed Zhu Xu again, "Go and tie this man up."

After Zhu Xu finished all this, Hua Rong said: "Okay, we can go back, Mr. Gao is waiting for us."

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"Master Gao, General Hua is back." The subordinates came down to report.

Gao Ming hurried out from Baozheng's house, and saw the triumphant Hua Rong, the bewildered Zhu brothers and the two prisoners with desperate expressions.

Gao Ming's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, he showed a big smile, and walked forward quickly.

Zhu Mian thought that Gao Ming was going to talk to him, and was about to speak, but Gao Ming completely ignored him, and went straight to Hua Rong, "Are you not injured?"

Hua Rong chuckled lightly, "Worried about me?"

"Just to ask, I know you are unrivaled, you must be fine." Gao Ming shrugged, but still looked Hua Rong up and down with his eyes, and after confirming that he was fine, he looked away and went to see Brother Zhu Mo, hypocritically. Said: "Great, I thought I would never see Mr. Zhu again."

Zhu Xi was in a state of extreme exhaustion, and he nodded his head in a breathless manner, "Why am I not?"

I held back my tears so they didn't fall.

He walked on the verge of death today, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as picking up a life.

As far as this is concerned, the treatment is still bought with money, otherwise, next year today will be his anniversary.

Zhu Xu was no better than his brother, he was already wiping away tears, and it seemed that he was quite frightened.

Shi Jin, who was watching from the sidelines, frowned and thought disdainfully, it turns out that the brothers Zhu Mo, who sounded mighty from the outside, are so virtuous.

Especially Zhu Xu, who was so arrogant in the teahouse at the beginning, thought he had a lot of courage, but turned out to be so unintimidated, which is really despised.

I heard that Mr. Gao was caught by Wang Ying and went up the mountain to make hangover soup, but he was not afraid at all, and he turned the corner.

In contrast, Zhu Xi was also cowardly and cowardly, not worthy to lift Mr. Gao's shoes.

Gao Ming said: "Master Zhu, I have prepared a doctor, you can go in and have a quick bandage."

In this era, there was no surgery to replace the broken ear, and Zhu Mian would only be able to live with one ear in the future.

However, it's not bad, it's better than missing an arm or a broken leg.

Zhu Xi nodded in agreement, it would be nice to have a doctor, it would be better to sprinkle some medicinal powder, otherwise it would be troublesome if the wound festers in this weather.

All the soldiers looked at Zhu Qian coldly, and thought to themselves, Mr. Gao is so kind to you, you have to remember, he is planning to save you, and he is also hiring you a doctor, where can you find such a good person? ?In particular, I heard that your relationship didn't seem to be very good when you were in Tokyo.

The latter point was told by Shi Jin. When he was in the Imperial Army in Tokyo, he personally experienced the discord between the Zhu family and the Gao family.

After Zhu Xi treated the wound, everyone returned to Yuling Pass.

Gao Ming was no different than the generals, it was a miracle that he was able to ride all the way. When he returned from the original road, he couldn't ride the horse anymore. As soon as he sat on the saddle, he wanted to bend down and hug the horse's neck.

With his appearance like this, Hua Rong immediately proposed reasonably, "I'll take you."

Gao Ming was taken aback, "Huh?" He scanned around and saw that everyone else nodded in agreement.

"There is no other good way, or go to the village to see if anyone has a carriage and borrow it first?" Shi Jin said.

Qin Ming didn't understand why Gao Ming showed a reluctant expression, did he think it would be bad to ride a horse with Hua Rong in front of the general?In fact, there is no need to worry at all, no one will misunderstand except him.

He said: "The carriage is too slow, and it is easy to get separated from the army. Mr. Gao, you can ride with General Hua on the same horse. If there are not enough horses, or when someone is injured, it is very common to ride like this in the army. It's really nothing." of."

Did I say something? !Gao Ming said in his heart, Thunderbolt, don't talk any more, "That's how it is."

So all the cavalry got on their horses, and Gao Ming and Hua Rong rode the same horse and turned back towards Yuling Pass.

Gao Ming leaned on Huarong's back, not as tired as he was riding a horse.

At this time, Huarong turned slightly back and asked him, "Did it save a lot of effort?"

Gao Ming lazily hummed, besides not being so tired, he also felt relieved.

Sure enough, I still feel at ease by Huarong's side.

He couldn't help thinking of the dream he had before, and felt particularly contradictory. This friendship was about to deteriorate. Should he do something, such as giving Huarong a test first to see what he really wanted to do, but at the same time Afraid of the result of the test, he couldn't stand it.

All the way back to Yuling Pass, Gao Ming's physical strength was almost exhausted, he got off his horse as if he was stepping on cotton, and hurriedly found a bedroom to rest.

Before his head touched the pillow, he secretly prayed that he would never dream of taking the test questions, and if he had to dream, then please let him see the answers.

……

Gao Ming found himself standing at the end of a very long queue. He leaned forward to look forward and found that everyone in front was receiving something.

He wondered and asked the person in front, "Dear brother, what is this?"

Who would have thought that this person turned out to be Qin Ming, "Master Gao, why did you come here to line up? This is not something you should receive?"

"Why can't I get it?" Gao Ming wondered, "Could it be possible that you can get it?"

"Well, I can take it, but Mr. Gao can't take it." Qin Ming said seriously.

Gao Ming was unconvinced, and just at this moment, seeing Shi Jin in front of him brought something over, he stepped out of the line and snatched it, "What is it, tell me to see it, why can you get it? I can't? "

I saw a certificate in my hand, and when I opened it, there were three words written on it: straight male certificate.

"What the hell?!"

At the same time as he exclaimed, he woke up suddenly from his dream, and when he opened his eyes, he found that the sky was bright, and he judged that it was already the next day.

Gao Ming sat up, recalled the dream just now, and shook his head vigorously to dispel the absurd feeling.

Walking out of the room, standing in the sun, breathing in the fresh air, stretched, "What a beautiful day." Suddenly seeing Qin Ming standing not far away talking to Shi Jin, remembering the dream just now, staring at them Look, I thought angrily, what kind of garbage certificate, why can you get it?

"Have you rested? Do you want to sleep for a while?" Hua Rong's voice came from behind.

Gao Ming looked back at him, thinking in a daze, are you eligible to receive the certificate?

Hua Rong smiled slightly, "Why do you look at me like that?"

"It's nothing, just looking around. I slept pretty well." It's just that the dream was a little absurd.

Gao Ming decided to talk about something serious and divert his attention, "By the way, when are we going back to Hangzhou? According to what Zhu Xi said, he has to distribute money to reward the soldiers defending the city and you reinforcements. Ma Liu gave the money to the soldiers Buying wine and meat plus rewards, this is what he promised, and it will not do anything less. If you dare not give it, you will definitely ask him to collect debts."

Hua Rong turned to look at him with a smile, "Speaking of debt collection, I remembered one thing, you owe me, when do you plan to pay it back?"

Gao Ming laughed and said, "What do I owe you?"

Hua Rong said slowly: "You owe me a daughter-in-law?"

Back then, Gao Ming and Fu An knocked on the wrong door, leading to a misunderstanding, and asked Gao Taiwei to imprison Hua Rong. His prospective father-in-law saw that he had offended the Taiwei's house, and simply broke the engagement.

Now that Hua Rong mentioned this matter, it must be that Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Pei Gong, not the wine.

Gao Ming bit the bullet and snorted, "This is the old calendar of hundreds of years? Do you still remember?"

"Anyway, you owe me a daughter-in-law." Huarong said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "You should think about how to pay for it."

"Is it interesting to collect debts in the early morning?"

"Of course it's interesting. Anyway, you have to pay me one."