Chapter 221: Scratching the Tongue
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"Good idea, let's take a salary from the bottom of the kettle, make them eat or drink, see how they keep it." Liang Qi shouted.
Gao Muqing frowned and said, "But aren't their supplies hoarded on that small island in the east?" There's no way to sneak in, the whole island is hollowed out, and it's guarded by thousands of people, which is absolutely impossible. โ
Lin Jue shook his head and said, "That island can't be climbed, it's a self-defeating way." On that day, Hai Dongqing deliberately showed the defensive power of that small island, which was to tell us not to think about the idea of fighting there. But Hai Dongqing's words can't be believed in all. I estimate that it is impossible for all the supplies of the entire Peach Blossom Island to be stored on the small island to the east. First, the small island has limited storage materials, and second, it is very inconvenient to carry it back and forth. For example, in such weather, can the trestle still walk? The sea below can't be transported by ship, so how can the supplies on this Peach Blossom Island be supplied? I think it's possible to say that there is a spare storage warehouse, but there must be a storage place on this island, that's for sure. It is absolutely impossible for Hai Dongqing to hand over the lifeblood of these soldiers on the island to the people on the small island over there, otherwise once the bandits over there rebel, they will not be able to attack them, and they will all starve to death. โ
"Makes sense. Lin Gongzi said this very much. Hai Dongqing is such a delicate and cunning person, he will never leave such a hidden danger. Liang Qi nodded again and again with a salted fish tail in his mouth.
"But where is the storage of goods on this island? We don't know. Gao Muqing said.
Lin Jue smiled: "So I have to ask alive." There is also an arrow tower not far to the north, and we have to go and serve him, so we must catch a live mouth and ask him this time. Moreover, not only to ask about the situation on the island, we will definitely not be able to trespass on the island, we need to know the password and road routes, which need to be captured. โ
Gao Muqing pinned Lin Jue's hair bun with a branch, nodded and said, "Without further ado, let's go and catch the live mouth." It's all to blame for that bastard just now who found his own death, otherwise we would have saved the trouble. โ
The three of them got up immediately, this time they had the tools to protect against the rain, that is, the robes and hats that the bandits were equipped with on rainy days, and the three of them took off the clothes and hats from the wall and put them on, and went out of the arrow tower hut to re-enter the wind and rain.
The arrow tower on the top of the cliff to the north is not far away, but only a few hundred steps away. It's just that the mountain road is difficult to walk in the dark, and the three of them have to carefully grope their way forward, and finally return to the right path dozens of steps away from approaching this arrow tower, which is a path that zigzags to the arrow tower.
But the path was completely exposed to the view of the tower, so much so that the three of them were spotted by the bandits in the tower when they were a dozen paces away.
A pirate poked his head out of the lighted hut under the tower and shouted to the three black figures approaching with hats, "Who are they? Password! โ
Lin Jue knew what the password was, and they had been on the island for many days, and they heard the password exchange between the bandits on the island almost every day. But every day is a different password. Xu Xing, the military advisor of Peach Blossom Island, may have used poetry as a password to show his identity as a literati, changing every day or every three or five days. Even the top Confucian could not even guess these passwords on the island, because these poems were Xu Xing's own masterpieces.
"My own people." Lin Jue and the others kept at their feet, and they coped with it vaguely.
"Stop, and ask you for your password. The long river flows into the sea in the east. โ
The bandit was so anxious that he even said the last sentence of the password, which should have been the first to be said by the other party, and he replied with the next sentence 'Wuyue is on the sky', which is right, that is his own person.
"Hurry up and get the password right, otherwise you're welcome." Seeing that the three of them did not react, the pirates shouted angrily, and several pirates in the house who were sitting around chatting and laughing were also alarmed, and they all walked towards the door.
"The long river flows east into the sea." One of the pirates drew his sword and shouted, listening intently to the next sentence.
"Cut off your dog's head." Lin Jue shouted.
"What? No, no, your password is wrong. One of the pirates didn't have a good brain, and they thought that Lin Jue's words were the right answer, but the rest of the bandits instantly felt that something was wrong, and they had already drawn their swords one after another.
As soon as Lin Jue's sentence 'cut off your dog's head', Gao Muqing on his side had already drawn his knife and stepped forward, and Liang Qi also drew his knife and rushed forward. The distance of seven or eight steps was instantaneous, and the cold light of the steel knife in Gao Muqing's hand flashed, and he had already cut down a person with lightning speed. The rest of the bandits shouted in horror and resisted with their blades. Gao Muqing blocked the door and killed two people in a row, Liang Qi arrived in the rear, and Gao Muqing rushed into the house, and after the ping pong explosion, everything calmed down.
It was only a short moment from Lin Jue rushing to the front of the house from seven or eight steps away, and when Lin Jue appeared at the door of the house, the fight was over. The corpses of the five pirates were on the spot, and one of the bandits had already raised his hand with a pale face and was pushed to the corner of the house by Liang Qi with a blade.
Lin Jue raised a big finger at Gao Muqing and Liang Qi, and praised: "Well done." Then he jumped up the stairs and climbed to the top of the tower. Gao Muqing realized the mistake at this time, and actually forgot to check the situation on the top of the arrow tower, if there were bandits hiding on it, I am afraid that the signal had already been sent.
Lin Jue climbed up and checked carefully, but there was no one on it. The surrounding area was still the same, and the fight did not provoke a reaction elsewhere. There was no unusual movement in a flickering pirate camp a mile away. That's when I was relieved.
The man had been forced to crouch on the ground, holding his head in his hands, not knowing what he was thinking.
Lin Jue walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder with the back of the knife and asked in a deep voice, "Raise your head." โ
The pirate raised his head, this person's face was full of black pockmarks, he looked very vicious, his eyes were also unruly and unruly, and his face was not afraid.
"Listen, if I ask, you answer, and if you don't answer half a lie, I will cut you with a knife. Do you understand? Lin Jue shouted.
"Kill Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not answer your questions. Left and right is a death, don't think I don't know, I answered your words and you still want to kill me. The bandit said angrily.
Lin Jue frowned and said, "How do you know that we will definitely kill you?" โ
The bandit said, "I just know, that's what we do." We don't have much to do when we catch someone. โ
Lin Jue was speechless, these bandits were murderous, and they must have killed a lot on weekdays. Whether they resisted or cooperated, they were going to kill him in the end, so he thought he was dead.
"You're wrong, you're you, I'm me, and my words count. I said that if I don't kill you, I won't kill you, as long as you answer my questions honestly. โ
"You swear. If you don't speak, let God take you away. The bandit shouted.
"Fuck you, and bargain. I'll cut you right now. Liang Qi couldn't stand it anymore, raised his foot and kicked the bandit, and pulled out the steel knife to gesture.
Lin Jue hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, this was a thoughtful bandit, and he knew that he would use an oath to force himself not to kill him. This year, I am the most important to make promises, but I didn't expect the pirates to come to this hand.
"That's it, I promise you. As long as you tell the truth, I won't kill you. If I break my promise, I will ask God to take me. Lin Jue raised his hand and swore.
The pirate nodded and said, "Okay, remember your oath, you ask." โ
Lin Jue said: "What's your name?" โ
"My name is Chen Mazi. This year, there are two out of forty, and the T-shaped arrow tower team of the West Sentinel Battalion is positive. What else would you like to know? I'm ...... tall."
"Gotta get it, enough is enough, you don't have to go into that much detail." Lin Jue hurriedly stopped it, this guy was afraid that there was something wrong, if he didn't stop it, he was afraid that he would even have to say the color of his underwear.
"Do you know what happened on your island the other day?" Lin Jue asked again.
"That's what you're asking about? A few days ago, a lot of things happened on our island. Li Ergou pooped and fell down the dirt slope and hurt his buttocks, or was Zhang Yuer's stupid eating dried fish and getting stuck in his throat? Or is it the rebellion of the eldest son of the island owner? โ
Lin Jue and the others were completely speechless, this guy was a stunned young man, and he actually compared the big thing of rebellion on the island with the small thing of and eating fish. It doesn't look like he's deliberately pretending to be stupid, I'm afraid he really has something wrong with his brain.
"Naturally, it is a matter of rebellion of the eldest prince. You tell me what happened later? Lin Jue asked.
"So that's what else can happen? The eldest prince dared to rebel, how could the island owner spare him. After the owner of the island returned, hundreds of people who rebelled with the eldest prince were beheaded by the owner of the island, and the corpses were pushed into the sea to feed the sea tigers. We all went to see it, we really deserved it, and we deserved to betray the island owner. โ
Lin Jue frowned and said, "What about the eldest prince?" What happened to him? โ
"The eldest prince? Hanging on the flagpole of the Juyi Hall, the owner of the island said that he would hang it for 7749 days, so that the sea eagle would eat up his flesh. Chen Mazi said loudly.
Lin Jue and the others were all excited, they all thought that Jiang Jinfu's fate might be death, but they didn't expect it to be such a cruel death, being hung on the flagpole for 7749 days, Hai Dongqing's heart was really hard. Anyway, it's also his son, even if you want to kill him, it's over with a knife, why be so vicious.
"Also, in the past few days, many people from the Guishan Island cottage who participated in the rebellion have drifted back to Peach Blossom Island, and they have all been fished out by us, seven or eight people died soon after they came ashore, and more than 20 people were locked up in the dungeon. The owner of the island said that he would concoct them in a few days. Chen Mazi said.
"What? Are you saying that the people of Guishan Island still floated back alive? Gao Muqing said in surprise.
"yes, but they don't live long, and those people are going to die. If it weren't for the fact that there were officers and soldiers who were going to attack them, the island owner wouldn't have had time to take care of them for the time being, and they wouldn't have survived tonight. โ
Gao Muqing cried with joy, the more than 100 people he brought were affected this time, he thought that very few survived, but he didn't expect that more than 20 people would float back to Peach Blossom Island alive. That's great news.
Lin Jue nodded slightly to her, and he was quite comforted in his heart. Originally, Lin Jue had always felt guilty about this matter. Although these more than 100 people were originally death squads, they didn't plan to leave alive when they came to the island, but after all, they had to flee from Peach Blossom Island because of the failure of their plan, and they encountered a hurricane, Lin Jue has always been ashamed in his heart. At this moment, hearing that there were still more than twenty people alive, Lin Jue was naturally very happy.