Chapter 60: The Corpse in the Well
An hour ago, outside the gate of the South Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Sima, there's something in this well too!"
Although Jiang Jin led Sima's official position, in fact, there were only a few hundred people under his hands, and the strength was not as good as Zhao Yunjiao's, but his prestige in Liaodong, because he was small with the general Yanbei as the township party, and his status was only under Lu Yi, Frustration, and Gao Lan, and he was a veritable Liaodong hob meat.
Yanbei's trust and affection for him are obvious to all in Liaodong. embezzled grain and grass for personal use, acted like a bully, and the sergeants under his command confronted the subordinate officers who were too frustrated...... Just a few crimes, try another person, who would dare?
But Jiang Jin did this, and as one of the earliest four captains of Liaodong, he was dismissed from office and became the captain of General Duliao's personal guard.
Is this a punishment? This is a great gift.
When they appeared on the battlefield, Jiang Sima always stayed in the safest place - behind the general.
Just like now, Jiang Sima sat on the iron slug with his feet crossed, calling out to these guards to find the well that had not been blocked.
"It's all blocked? Fucking Liangzhou cub! Jiang Jin spat rudely, stood up and walked a few steps before looking back and letting people pick up his pocket, walked to the mouth of the well and looked down, his eyes were faint and dark, he looked up at the sunshine that was waiting to sink in the west, and saw that the soldiers around him were still standing stupidly in place, and glared: "What are you still doing in a daze, the general asked me to find water, the well is here, take a rope to hang people down to see what blocked the well, and hang the stones out!" β
From here to Luohe is only four or five miles away, but across an urn city, to Suzaku Que, it is separated by two city gates of Nangong, more than ten miles.
This is the nearest well outside the palace, and if this well can't get water, they can only get water from the palace...... If they can't get water in the palace, then they will finish playing, and they can't defend the empty city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so they can only pull the whole army to the bank of Luoshui.
Otherwise, the army will be surrounded in the palace as soon as the water is cut off, which is worse than running out of food!
This is the twelfth wellhead they have found, and the Liangzhou cubs have destroyed Luoyang City in all directions, especially the wells outside the city. Although they had encountered the well water being artificially blocked when they were fighting before, it was usually only sealed with a large stone, and it was only possible to take it out if they let people hang it, and it was nothing more than some effort.
After all, no one knows if they will return to those places, but in the south of Luoyang City, the people of Liangzhou really spare no effort. In the previous dozen or so wells, they were either stuffed with river sand or mixed with mud and gravel...... I can't fish it clean, but the stones are okay, and the well is sealed with mud, and the water is mixed.
Those Liangzhou people didn't plan to return to Luoyang at all!
This really tickled Jiang Jinqi at all.
Watching the soldiers use ropes to hang the stones in the well, Jiang Jin's anger in his heart subsided slightly. Hanging out of the stone is a good sign, as long as there are no clods of soil in the well and no poison, even if the water soaked in the stone is still drunk!
The little joy in his heart had not yet disappeared, and he saw the sergeant who had jumped down the well with a rope tied to him climb up with a sad face, and climbed up with two breaths and said, "Sima, this well can't be drunk, there is a dead man sinking in the well, and it is all soaked!" β
"What the are you doing, what are you still doing lying on your stomach by the well, climb up, do you still want to sleep with the dead in there?"
After Jiang Jin finished speaking, he asked his subordinates to cross the iron pocket, and beckoned more than ten horsemen on the left and right to scatter to find the soldiers who searched for the ruins of the Three Princes' Mansion, and ordered them to move to the South Palace.
The water soaked in the stone made him drink it, and soaked it in the water of the dead...... If it's not forced to a certain amount, who will drink that?
But I saw the soldier by the well stammering and said, "Sima, I see that the man in the well is dressed...... Luxurious, why don't you catch it and take a look? β
Jiang Jin's footsteps stopped, and he turned around and asked, "How luxurious?" Let's catch it, it is estimated that it is also a dignitary who threw himself into the well and died, if he sends a gold and silver ornament to our brother, we will be compassionate and dig a grave for him, which is better than the cold in the well. β
Not to mention picking up dead people's things, this kind of thing is done by the old revolutionists, and whoever grabs the profits on the battlefield does not do less. What's more, even if he Jiang Jin has done a lot of evil things in digging graves and robbing graves, now he is picking up some jewelry, which is still a matter?
With Jiang Jin's approval, the sergeant let go and went down to the well without saying a word, and now the riders on the ground were all sent out by Jiang Jin to spread the message, and heard the soldier under the well shouting: "Sima, bolt up, pull up!" β
Jiang Jin took two mouthfuls of his palm, grabbed the rope and tied it to the horse's back, whipped it up, led the mount and ran away, and dragged the soldier and the corpse together a few steps and smashed them on the ground, letting out a cry of pain.
He didn't have time to reach for the rope...... He's just alone, can he pull two people from the well? Not to mention a dead one!
The soldier who fell a guy was okay, and there was nothing sad on his honest face, and he didn't even understand the rope when he got up and touched the swollen corpse on the ground, and when he touched the flesh and clothes, it was rotten clean, and the bones were cut out in three or two strokes, and the soldier touched the pelvic bone and grinned: "It's still a woman!" β
"Tsk, look at this soak." Jiang Jin pinched his nose and hid far away, let this kid touch the stinking corpse, looked at it with his eyes and asked, "It's going to be dead for more than a year!" Did you touch anything? β
"Sima, there's a big piece of jade!"
The young soldier was obviously very skilled in doing these things, and he didn't even feel disgusted, and he really taught him to find a jade seal. After looking at it twice, he was pleasantly surprised by Jiang Jin and said, "Sima, there is still a piece of gold on this jade!" β
Gold, jade!
Hearing that it was a valuable object, Jiang Jin didn't care about the rancid smell in the sky, he took three steps and two steps over, stretched out his hand and took the jade seal in his hand and looked at it carefully, looked at the obscure seal on the tiger button, and muttered in a low voice: "What life, what day, blessed ......."
Jiang Jin didn't know many words, not to mention that the seal was written in the pre-Qin period, and it took him even more effort for a long time to recognize the three words, but just three words made him feel like he was struck by lightning, and his eyes suddenly widened and his face turned pale.
The story of Emperor Gao has been spread in the hearts of the people all over the world, who doesn't know that the jade seal of the pre-Qin dynasty is engraved with 'ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity'!
"Sima, what kind of official seal is this, it looks more powerful than the bronze seal of the high school lieutenant!"
In a very short period of time, Jiang Jin hid his shocked face, turned his head and said with a smile: "I don't know, this piece of jade is in good condition, it looks like a valuable object, and your reward will be indispensable when the time comes...... Isn't there anything else in this man? β
The soldier raised his head when he finished planing, shook his head at Jiang Jin and said, "It's just such a piece, it looks like it may be a palace maid of the imperial court, and there are no other valuable objects on it." β
"Well, I think this jade may be a set, is it leaking in the well?" The smile on Jiang Jin's face towards the soldier was almost the greatest enthusiasm in his life, and he raised his two fingers to the mouth of the well and said, "Why don't you go to the well again, there may be ornaments that have fallen into the water." β
When the soldier heard this, his eyes rolled and his eyebrows were overjoyed, and when he heard this, he got up and tied the rope tightly, and shook his hands while walking towards the well, and said, "Sima is right, just let me go to the water to wash my hands again." β
"Well, there you go."
Jiang Jin pursed his lips, and when the soldier just turned around, he had already torn off a piece of his shirt, wrapped the seal in his arms, and then walked quickly to the well. Holding the well rope in his left hand, he reached behind him with his right hand and held the cold hilt, licked the tiger's teeth with the tip of his tongue and asked as if casually to the well: "Hey, are you illiterate?" β
The well corporal had already half of his body into the cold well water, and vaguely heard Sima above's question, so he raised his head with his hands and shouted: "Sima, what are you talking about, I can't hear clearly!" β
The cold blade pulled out an inch from his waist, and Jiang Jin looked at the wrist-thick well hemp rope and shouted downward, "I asked you if you can read and write?" β
Then I heard an echo from the well, "Where can I read and write, a peasant boy!" β
"Where can you read?"
"Where can you read?"
"Illiterate...... If you are illiterate, you will not be able to read in the future. Jiang Jin frowned, sat on the side of the well with his feet crossed, muttered to himself, thought about it and leaned over and shouted to the well: "Do you still have relatives in Liaodong?" β
"I have a blind old mother in Liaodong...... Sima, there's nothing in the well, it's muddy! Let's go up. β
Yes! Now I understand it.
"You waitβ" Jiang Jin shouted again towards the well, with a hideous face, he took out a short knife and slashed it back and forth on the well rope with one hand, gritting his teeth and saying like a demon: "I'll pull you up, pull you up!" β
Although the hemp rope is thick, it can't hold Jiang Jin's strength and there is still a person hanging from his head, and he broke a few locks in a blink of an eye.
"How is Sima ...... Ah, the rope is broken! β
At the moment when he asked, Jiang Jin's hand was light, and the thick hemp rope on the child's wrist was cut by him, and there was a sound of heavy objects entering the water with a 'plop' sound in the well.
Although the rope was cut, Jiang Jin felt that it was not enough, so he simply didn't do it, put the short knife into the sheath, and used the strength to lift the boulder that had just been lifted to the wellhead and fell.
This time, nothing will climb up!
After doing all this, Jiang Jin only felt a cold breath on the back of his neck, looked left and right and saw that there was no one around, then he sighed, rubbed his face and sat back at the mouth of the well to listen to the time, and saw that there was no movement under the well, and reached into his arms to touch a seal, which was completely relieved.
Untying the reins on the horse's back, Jiang Jin didn't care about the rotten flesh and dry bones that were still lying outside, and the flying horse galloped towards the Nangong, shouting to the soldiers guarding the corner along the way and asking the general Yanbei's location.
At a whole moment, the horse was tired and was about to spit out foam, and then through the continuous guidance of the soldiers of the resumption road, he went to the vicinity of the arsenal, and after throwing the reins, Jiang Jin asked the soldiers on the left and right: "What about the general, let the general come out!" β
Hearing the soldier say that Yanbei had discovered the secret passage under the arsenal, Jiang Jin hurriedly stomped his feet, looked left and right, and felt that anyone could snatch the seal from him. He hurriedly asked the messenger, "Who is with the general?" β
"Zhao Sima, Taishi Changshi."
As soon as Jiang Jin heard that there were others, his face changed, and with a roll of his eyes, he pushed away the messenger and walked into the ruins of the arsenal with his hands in his arms.