Chapter 38: Welcoming Guests at the Middle Gate
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Uncle Cheng wiped his tears and said: "Ah Weng, the two concubines who were supposed to be martyred for their uncle yesterday escaped, and Ah Ji took people to arrest them, and said that he would take this opportunity to drive into Sangli, Douli, and Jiali, and turn the three villains who changed their doors upside down!" ”
"What!" Cheng Weng was shocked inexplicably.
"How many people did he take? Where is it now? ”
"More than 200 people, most of the men in my Cheng clan have followed, and there is no news back yet, probably, it has probably arrived in Jiali."
Cheng Weng collapsed instantly, and in despair, he kept slapping his hands on the wooden couch: "How dare Aji do this!" Now is the time to keep a low profile, and my Cheng clan may still have a chance to live! If you provoke the gentleman again, it will be self-defeating! ”
Cheng Weng had a breath of phlegm and almost fainted again.
There was a sudden panic in the room.
However, the scene outside the house was even more chaotic, with screams and running sounds constantly ringing into the room, followed by a flurry of brushing steps in the distance, as if hundreds of soldiers were marching in formation.
Cheng Weng asked weakly, "What's going on outside?" ”
Several members of the Cheng clan who came in from outside the house trembled and said in a trembling voice: "Ah Weng, it's a gentleman without mercy, he led a large group of people, wearing armor and holding soldiers, and surrounded the manor!" ”
Cheng's manor is besieged? Uncle Cheng's eyes were dull when he heard this, and he sat on the floor, and all the clansmen were also frightened.
"Hahaha, good, what a gentleman without mercy, worthy of being a descendant of the Zhao family, the bloodline of the Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, at the age of thirteen years old and weak crown, he can be so ruthless and decisive!"
Cheng Weng laughed a few times as if he had returned to the light, pushed away his son and clansmen who wanted to support him, and stood up again.
A clansman came over and said, "Ah Weng, do you want to gather the clansmen to get the armor for defense?" ”
"Smack!"
But it was Cheng Weng who pulled out the dove cane and smashed his head to the point of bleeding!
"Preparedness? How to prepare! Do you think my Cheng clan's situation is not bad enough? In case the gentleman reports to the palace without mercy, saying that we have openly gathered a crowd to rebel and lead a brigade of elite Zhao soldiers to attack, what else can we do except give the head and destroy the door? From the beginning, it was wrong! ”
"It's also my fault, I returned to this small town to live in a small town for a few years, and my horizons have become smaller, and I can't recognize the true gentleman, and I still try to confront him in vain......"
"Ah Weng, what should I do now?"
Cheng Weng gasped heavily, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he finally regained some of the shrewdness he had when serving Wenzi and Jingzi.
Now, there is no other way.
"Change your clothes, open the door to welcome guests!"
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Let the two Sima Yang Tongue Rong and the township Situ Dou Pengzu take some of the people to stay under the big mulberry tree to take care of the more than 200 Cheng clansmen. Zhao Wuxian led the rest of the soldiers and the strong countrymen, and marched towards the four miles of the Cheng family.
The night was already dark, and the team of as many as three or four hundred people was mixed, and under the maintenance of the grandson of the king of Xiangxi, it was still able to maintain order. This made Wuxian look at Wang Sun Qi again, but he didn't know that his prestige was also playing a role.
Under the propaganda of the ulterior motives of the gods and witches in the past, the deeds of "riding alone and repelling more than 200 people" under the big mulberry tree quickly spread among the people. They looked at the unsympathetic gaze, and changed from love to reverence, and when they marched, they consciously obeyed the order, and did not dare to follow their temperament.
What's more, the people of Sanli have accumulated a lot of resentment against the arrogant and greedy Cheng clan in the past, so why not follow the township to beat the water dogs?
They lit torches made of pine and firewood, like a long dragon of light, and arrived at the Cheng manor one after another, completely surrounding its front.
This is the first time that Wuxian has come to Chengli, and at a glance, he found that Cheng, as the richest man in this place, is a hundred-year-old clan with the best in seven miles, and he is also quite confident, no wonder he dares to go against him in frenzy.
The front of Cheng's manor is a wall of rocks, two people high, with a middle door on the wall, made of strong and heavy wood, and nailed with copper willow. Above the door is a hard mountain-style watchtower that allows three people to stand on it and shoot arrows downward, and the top is covered with blue-gray tiles. As for whether the role is to warn thieves or prevent Zhao Wuxian and others, it can only be a matter of opinion.
Unless there is a distinguished guest, the middle door will not open at will.
The high wall almost completely sealed off the passage in and out of Cheng's four miles, and according to the boy who kept the dog, he and his sister had come out of a dog hole that no one knew about.
Therefore, once there is something, the Cheng clan can retreat and defend it, and Cheng Wu described that there are farmland, mulberry trees, granaries, treasury, etc., which are completely self-sufficient and independent of the township temple system.
On both sides of the stone wall, there is a one-person-high rammed earth wall, which will eventually be integrated with the Chengyi Township Wall, and a side door is opened on it. There was a small eyehole on the door, and now there seemed to be someone behind him peeping out, but he was so frightened by the formation of everyone that he didn't even dare to come out.
"Lord, let so-and-so cut down a big tree, knock this door open, and then take me as the vanguard and rush in! Kill him and don't leave a chicken! This is Tian Ben's suggestion, and it can be seen that this is something he is extremely passionate about.
"Why bother, Lord, this wall is so low, I can crawl over it, just kill the gatekeeper and open the bolt from the inside?" The nimble Yu Xi came over to make this suggestion.
Wang Sunqi silently stepped forward and poured cold water: "The little gentleman has thought about the consequences of using force?" ”
Zhao Wuxian was still groaning, to be honest, today was because of the suddenness of the incident, he took advantage of the situation, but he didn't think about what to do with the Cheng family.
Since Zhao Wuxian has become a township leader, he can't tolerate the existence of such a powerful independent force as the Cheng clan within his territory! Therefore, he must destroy the "wall" that separates the Cheng clan from the outside world, at least make it a threat.
But on the other hand, Cheng Weng is a third-generation old minister, and there are not many such people in the Zhao family, and Wuxian must also pay attention to public opinion. The reputation of forcing the old minister to die spread, but it is not very good, and it will be a troublesome thing for the retainers who rule other counties in the future.
Therefore, unless Wuxian is crazy and crazy, he will really play the kind of atrocities that the reckless man Tian Ben is keen on, and the blood is washed into the four miles of the clan. Now it's the Spring and Autumn Period, and the country that destroys people still pays attention to not dying its society and temple, not to mention the retainers who don't sin to death?
If that's the case, I'm afraid that Wuxi's life will leave a bloody stain, and it will be very unfavorable for him to compete for the support of other retainers and compete for the position of the prince of the Zhao family, not to mention what kind of political achievements he wants to make in Chengyi Township, which has less than half of the population in the next year.
After my sister Ji Huan heard about it, she would probably be disappointed.
At this moment, a pair of eyes appeared in the eyeholes of the siders, and the urn shouted angrily outside: "The head of the house said, the township lord is coming, there is a long way to welcome, please don't be anxious, I will open the middle door to welcome guests!" ”
Welcoming guests at the middle door?
Zhao Wuxian's subordinates looked at each other, and Wuxian also glanced at Cheng Wu, who knew the details of the Cheng clan, and secretly said in his heart that this Cheng clan was really smart and did not take a posture of resistance. But that's fine, don't look at the people of Sanli Guoye who follow the shirtless to support the scene, the momentum is violent, but the reliable combatants are actually only the twenty or thirty Zhao soldiers in the lower palace, and the rest are cheerleaders.
So he waved his hand and said, "Pass the order, no one is allowed to act rashly, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by family law!" ”
Squeak, squeak, the middle door of Chengli doesn't know how long it has been since it has been opened, maybe a month, maybe a year, and the dust and mud that have accumulated for a long time keep falling. The crack in the door gradually widened, and the people on both sides of the door finally saw the situation on the other side.
For the first time, Zhao Wuxian met his "opponent" this time, the old patriarch of the Cheng clan.
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