"What? 40,000 grains, 50,000 mixed satins, 3,000 agricultural tools, 40,000 catties of iron, 20,000 taels of gold, 20 buckets of pearls, 30 square meters of jade? ”

Listening to the figures reported by the leader of the sand bandits, Yan Zhiwei almost fainted.

Because no more, no less, these are all the dowry that the envoys bring! It's no problem to take it out, but it's all given to these sand bandits, but how can you explain it to the main owner of this peace, Mo Du Khan?

The leader of the sand bandits stretched out his big hand like a fan, patted Yan Zhiwei's cheek, bared his teeth and sneered: "The surname Yan, you heard it right, it's so much, no one can be missing!" ”

Concerning his own life, Yan Zhi was slightly numb and asked: "This is too much, as the saying goes, if you ask for a price all over the sky, I can still pay it back on the ground......

"Give Nima back!"

Before Yan Zhiwei finished speaking, the leader of the sand bandits had already kicked him to the ground and said, "Negotiate the price with your grandfather?" You don't want to think about it, Lao Tzu saved your dog's life, how much is your little life worth? ”

As he spoke, he was not idle at his feet, but he kicked it over violently and scolded: "I let you negotiate the price, I let you negotiate the price!" Let you old boy ask for money and not die! ”

"Stop!"

Cui Geng made his debut, "Just a sand bandit, do you know who you are fighting?" It's my Great Zhou Leopard Taowei General! You're impatient, aren't you? ”

Bang bang bang~

When the sand bandit leader saw Cui Geng say this, he kicked even more fiercely and fiercely, and Yan Zhi howled in pain.

"Choi Geng Nyima's ...... Do you wish General Ben died? You shut up!!! Yan Zhiwei, who fell to the ground, wanted to cry without tears, where did Cui Erlang save him, this was obviously deliberately provoking the sand bandit leader, hating the other party for being light on him.

He endured the pain and crawled to his feet.

The sand bandit leader was too happy to kick it, and he no longer paid attention to Yan Zhiwei, he waved his arm, pulled the thin and withered Yan Zhiwei away, and asked Cui Geng, "You are Cui Geng?" ”

"Yes, it's the official."

"Hidden Niang Cui Xiufang's good looks?" The sand bandit leader asked again.

"Uh...... Do you know Xiufang? The sand bandit leader Shi Po asked the earth, which made Cui Geng a little surprised, the other party actually knew Xiufang, and he also knew that Xiufang had a lot to do with him.

Suddenly, the attitude of the sand bandit leader changed one hundred and eighty degrees, "Oops, the big water washed the Dragon King Temple, it's really Lord Cui, the little one was rude just now, I hope forgive my sins!" ”

As he spoke, the leader of the sand bandits actually pushed Jinshan to fall to the jade pillar, knelt on the ground, knock knock, and knocked his head a few times.

“……”

Everyone present almost dropped their jaws in shock.

General Leopard Taowei, the third-grade master, was beaten fat, and the fifth-grade Changshi bowed his head, and everyone couldn't help but be speechless for a while.

Yan Zhiwei, in particular, was more disgusting like swallowing a few live flies, and was stunned for a long time.

Wu Yanxiu stabbed Song Genhai next to him and asked in a low voice, "Who is Cui Xiufang, the hidden mother?" This sand bandit leader is so afraid of her? ”

Song Genhai said: "This Cui Xiufang is not simple, there is a saying in the rivers and lakes called 'Beibi Longnan Yinniang'." Has the King of Huaiyang ever heard of it? ”

He crackled like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, and quickly told Cui Xiufang's origin and anecdotes about the rivers and lakes.

Yan Zhiwei also saw the direction and signs of the wind at this time, endured the humiliation in his heart, pulled Cui Geng's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "Cui Changshi, take a step to speak." ”

Subsequently, he greeted Wu Yanxiu and Tian Guidao and came to a secluded place.

He said to the three of them: "Since the leader of the sand bandits is afraid of Cui Changshi, why don't you leave this negotiation work to him?" Maybe you don't even have to spend a penny! ”

"Don't don't, General Yan, don't look for me about this!" Cui Geng shook his head and flatly refused, "People are in the rivers and lakes, give Xiufang a face." But this face can't be used as a silver flower, let's not be bored. ”

"You can't say that, Cui Changshi is better to bargain than us, isn't it? At least people won't do anything to you, look at this beating me, eh, what a fucking cruel fuck! Yan Zhiwei touched his rib bone, and he felt a pain.

Tian Guidao persuaded: "Cui Changshi, this time he is right. Looking at the meaning of the sand bandit leader, he can always tell a little price. As long as he asks us to give us some remaining dowry, we can have an explanation. Isn't it?"

Cui Geng hesitated a little and said: "The dowry can't be moved, after all, how many things the court brought over this time, there are numbers on the gift list." What's missing is what's missing, and it's clear at a glance that a pair of gift lists are silent. I can't explain it when the time comes! ”

"It's easy!" Wu Yanxiu beckoned to Yan Zhi slightly, and said, "General Yan, go and take out the holy decree of His Majesty's marriage." ”

"King Huaiyang, what do you want to do?"

Yan Zhiwei probably guessed what Wu Yanxiu wanted to do, but he found out the holy decree of marriage and handed it to Wu Yanxiu.

Wu Yanxiu did not hesitate to tear up the silk book on the holy decree and turn it into a pile of fragments.

Cui Geng and a few people were shocked, this kid Nima is going to heaven, and he even dares to tear the holy decree. However, they guessed Wu Yanxiu's purpose, not to destroy the dowry list on the marriage decree, so that Mo Du could not reconcile the accounts.

Wu Yanxiu said again: "Out of this Hanhai Desert, General Yan, your family has a history, it's no problem for you to carve a fake jade seal, right?" ”

Yan Zhiwei's grandfather and father are all people who carve seals, and there have been several great painters on their ancestors, and even characters like Yan Liben belong to his family. Carving a fake jade seal is naturally not a big problem.

Everyone knows that Wu Yanxiu's purpose in asking this question is nothing more than to forge a marriage decree and change the number of gifts on it.

However, he still frowned and said, "There is no problem, but ......"

"Huh? But what? Does it matter to have you and my life? Wu Yanxiu's face sank.

Yan Zhiwei thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, obey the orders of the prince." ”

Subsequently, Wu Yanxiu said to Tian Guidao: "Tianshe people, you ......"

"Don't say it, isn't it just writing a false holy decree? This live Weichen took it. To tell the truth, if these belongings are given to Modu, it is better to give them to those sand bandits. ”

In fact, this kind of matter is a shocking case for ordinary people and lower-level officials, but for Wu Yanxiu and other close ministers, it is the same thing.

Don't you see that Junchen has been overshadowed in order to marry Meifeng, the queen of the Taiyuan Wang family? Everyone knows about this, and he is not afraid that Wu Zetian will know.

Of course, this kind of thing can't be punctured, so that Wu Zetian can't pretend to be deaf and dumb. Wu Yanxiu tore up the edict, Yan Zhiwei engraved a fake seal, Tian Guidao wrote the edict, no one could run, and he must not use this edict to talk about things in the future.

Cui Geng relieved himself and said, "Then let's give it a try?" ”

"There's a long history of Lautreine."

Several people have decided on the plan, Cui Geng came to the front of the sand bandit leader again, and said: "This good man is a guest from afar, why don't you go to the official's tent and drink a glass of water and wine?" ”

The leader of the sand bandits waved his hand and said, "Our camp is not far from here, if Cui Changshi really has the heart to make friends with a certain family, please come with me." ”

"This ......" Cui Geng hesitated a little and looked at Wu Yanxiu and the others behind him.

Yan Zhiwei sold Cui Geng without hesitation, and said: "The good man is our life-saving benefactor, since it is the benefactor who wants to invite, does Cui Changshi have a reason to refuse?" ”

"Okay."

Cui Geng secretly scolded the old dog of the pit man, and as the leader of the sand bandits gradually moved away, he reached a tent ~ tent that had been set up temporarily.

As soon as he entered the tent~ tent, the leader of the sand bandits quickly took off his mask, knelt on the ground, and said, "My subordinates see my lord!" ”

Cui Geng picked him up as soon as possible and said, "Jiayuan, please hurry up, those horse thieves who were cleared this time, are our casualties big?" ”

The leader of this sand bandit is not really a Mohai sand bandit, but Cui Geng's own people who arranged for the Turks to enter the Turks early before he set off from Dingzhou, and the Freemasons from Peach Blossom Island are the old department of Xu Jingye.

The person in front of him was Fang Jiayuan, the commander of the Freemasons in charge of land warfare.

Fang Jiayuan grinned and said, "There are no casualties. They deserved to be unlucky, just staring at the Heqin Mission, but I didn't expect that we had been following the adults to secretly protect. A sneak attack tonight wiped out their entire regiment! ”

"That's good." Cui Geng stroked his palm and praised, "You not only saved me this time, but also got a lot of money, it's worth the trip!" ”

Fang Jiayuan said: "My lord, how much property are we going to blackmail in a while?" If you want too much, will it be very detrimental to the adult's trip? ”

"It doesn't matter! Anyway! Cui Geng waved his hand and said, "Mo is ambitious, giving him these dowries is tantamount to beating a dog with meat buns, and he will never go back." Besides, this person's attempt at my Da Zhou is not a day or two, he always wants to raise troops to attack Zhou, rather than the enemy, it is better to cheapen us. ”

In history, as soon as Mo Du saw the peace and pro-mission, he immediately turned his face, Cui Geng didn't think that this time the peace and pro-mission had his own participation, and that guy would change his mind.

Suddenly, Fang Jiayuan seemed to remember something, and shouted outside the tent: "Bring Zhao Ada!" ”

"Okay!"

I saw Huang Youwei pushing a man with a fierce face into the tent~ tent, flew up with a kick, hit the back of the opponent's knee, and shouted: "Donkey day, kneel!" Hmph, you dare to pretend to be a Turkic in front of your grandfather Huang and blind your dog's eyes! ”

Cui Geng was a little stunned, and he didn't know why, and asked, "What's the matter with this person?" ”

Fang Jiayuan looked at the man kneeling on the ground and said, "Zhao Ada, what about my family's adult asking you, to be honest, dare to hide half a sentence and kill you alive!" ”

The fierce-looking man lowered his head and said in a low voice: "My name is Zhao Ada, I am a Khitan, and these horse thieves are all pretended to be Khitans." ”

"Khitans? Pretend? What do you want to do? Cui Geng was also thundered by this news, you must know that he really thought that these people were horse thieves in the Turkic Desert, but he didn't expect to suppress a group of Turkic horse thieves, and actually pulled out the Khitans.

Zhao Adao: "My master said that Wu Yanxiu, the king of Huaiyang in the Great Zhou Dynasty, abandoned our Khitan noblewoman in chaos earlier, made his stomach bigger and didn't admit it, and got a corpse and two lives, so my master wants to take this opportunity to kill him and avenge our Khitan noblewoman." ”

Cui Geng heard it, damn, daring to be in love is a disaster caused by Wu Yanxiu, this kid can't control his pants~ crotch, and he caused a romantic debt.

Huang Youwei proposed: "My lord, it's better to send this person to Wu Yanxiu, so that he can know who he has offended, and let him owe him a favor!" ”

Fang Jiayuan also agreed: "My subordinates also think it's better to deal with it like this!" ”

Cui Geng originally wanted to nod and agree, not only to make Wu Yanxiu owe himself a big favor, but also to warn this kid not to mess around with women in the future, otherwise sooner or later he will lose his life because of women, after all, he still has a good impression of this kid.

But just as he wanted to agree, he suddenly shook his head again and said, "It's not appropriate! How many prisoners did you capture this time? ”

"There are more than twenty in total, this Zhao Adaa is a small leader, and it is Brother Huang who can tell that his accent is Khitan......"

"Okay, Moti is a Khitan." Cui Geng waved his hand and interrupted: "These captives, including Zhao Ada, don't leave any of them, they will all be killed!" In addition, these people are Khitan people, and they are not allowed to mention a word in the future. Especially you, Huang Youwei! ”

He looked at Huang Youwei and instructed repeatedly: "From now on, you will completely forget about the Khitans, and you are not even allowed to spit out when you are talking in your dreams." ”

Although Huang Youwei didn't know why Master Cui suddenly became so nervous and cautious, he still answered yes.

Cui Geng was afraid that the two of them would not take it to heart, so he did not forget to remind him again: "This official is also for your good, otherwise, if something really goes wrong, this official will not be able to protect you." ”

His words were not a threat, but they were truly heartfelt.

As far as he knows, Wu Yanxiu is different from ordinary Wu family members, not only likes to rely on a good skin to pick up girls, but also likes to travel around, including Khitan and Turkic places. It is precisely because he can speak Turkic fluently and is well aware of the customs and customs of the Turks that Wu Zetian chose him from many children of the Wu royal family to make peace.

But this does not mean that the news that Zhao Ada's saying that Wu Yanxiu abandoned the Khitan noblewoman from the beginning of chaos is accurate! On the contrary, Cui Geng felt that this was a smokescreen set up by the Khitans.

Previously, Da Wuzhou colluded with the Khitan to prepare to rebel during the locust plague in Hebei Province and force Wu Zetian to abdicate the king of Luling.

But who are these rebels most afraid of? In fact, they were not worried about the encirclement and counterattack of the Zhou army. After all, Wu Zhou usurped the Tang Dynasty, and his name was not right, and the hearts of the people in the world were towards Li Tang, and there were definitely many people in the Zhou army and the King of Luling.

In fact, once they rebelled, it was the Turks who were most worried!

Historically, it was Wu Zetian who moved the Turkic Khan to mutually, suddenly attacked Songmo City, the capital of the Khitan State, from behind, and captured the families of the Khitan soldiers alive to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, Sun Yangao and Fan Guanglie did not dare to provoke Mo Du at all.

Therefore, the Khitan people wanted to kill Wu Yanxiu.

Their actual purpose was to destroy the marriage between the Great Zhou and the Turks. Only when the Great Zhou and the Turks were not in harmony did they dare to rest assured.

But even if Cui Geng knew these historical trends, he didn't dare to say it! Because standing behind the Khitan and Wuzhou is Li Xian, the king of Luling, this is a man who will become the emperor in ten years and restore Li Tang.

At present, he can only bury everything in his heart, pretend not to know, and go with the flow.

Seeing that Cui Geng was thinking a lot, Fang Jiayuan didn't dare to ask too much about the inextricable threads inside.

There was silence in the tent ~ for a long time.

He suddenly remembered something and said, "My lord, there is one more matter! ”

"What's the matter?" Cui Geng pulled out of his heavy thoughts.

Fang Jiayuan said: "In addition to capturing these prisoners, we also captured a lot of loot. ”

Cui Geng waved his hand and said: "You can take these loot, and go back to the base camp of Peach Blossom Island."

"No, no, no," Fang Jiayuan said, "There is also a woman among these trophies, who should have been captured by the Khitans and packed in a hemp bag. ”

Where would Cui Geng be interested in any woman at this time? shook his head and said, "I guess it's a poor person, let it go." ”

"Don't mind! My lord, if it was an ordinary Turkic woman, why did these Khitans put her in a sack and carry her all the way? Find a place, vent the evil, and kill it directly? So the subordinates speculated that the woman they captured was probably not an ordinary Turkic woman. And this Turkic woman is definitely the most beautiful woman I have ever seen since I came to the Turks! ”

"The most beautiful Turkic woman?"

Fang Jiayuan's words aroused Cui Geng's curiosity, "If you say that, the official will meet him." I also want to know what kind of woman is worthy of so much attention from these Khitans! ”

"Well, let the brethren carry her up!"

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