Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 14

[Chapter 14: The Axe Tree]

In the evening of the next day, Wei Liangxing rushed to Shiyi in the night, and shouted a furious battle under the city gate, and the sound reached the head of the city.

Shiyi is located in the north of Taihang, backed by the graben, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and now Shiyi is too defensive Chen Huan, the character Xiaoxian, is Chen Rui’s uncle, has been guarding Shiyi for many years.

Chen Xiang Chen Rui’s father and son are known for their cruelty, but Chen Huan has a reputation, and he also loves and cares for the people under his rule, which is quite popular, and in the early years, Wei Shao’s father Wei Jing attacked Shiyi several times, because the people actively contributed to Chen Huan’s grain supply, and returned after a long time without success. A few years ago, Wei Shao was full of vigor and thunder, bent on conquering the westward gateway, and once again set his eyes on Shi Yi. When Chen Huan heard the news, he was afraid that Wei Shao was coming menacingly, and he was afraid that he would find an excuse to attack, so he expressed his complaint to the imperial court Chen about the county situation, and cried that the people under his rule were determined, and now that the wind and rumors had re-emerged, the wasteland and abandoned wells dragged children and women to run around Countless people, the people were not happy, and they were miserable, alluding to Wei Shaoxing’s soldiers. The imperial court naturally did not want Wei Shao to sit on the throne, so he ordered interference. Wei Shao asked Yu Gongsun Yang. Gongsun Yang said that Shiyi had always been owned by Chen Xiang, and that Chen Huan had a kind favor to the people under his rule, and even if he attacked, he must leave a heavy army to defend, otherwise he would abandon his previous achievements, and now he should take the stabilization of the inherent territory as the first priority, and the time to advance westward is not yet ripe, and the division is unknown and unpopular, advocating a suspension. At that time, Wei Shao listened to the plan, and Shi Yi escaped the disaster. Suddenly now a few years have passed, Chen Huan trained his troops to hoard grain, Shi Yi has been fine, did not want to be at this time but there was a city gate lieutenant to report, saying that Youzhou Wei Liang came to fight, because of the sudden incident, there was no wind before, frightened, hurriedly ordered the soldiers to climb the city wall to deal with, seeing that only Wei Liang alone under the city with a dozen followers, and there were no thousands of troops and horses, this was a little bit of relief.

Wei Liang was a fierce general under Wei Shao,000, and Chen Huan had naturally heard of his name. He suddenly came to the city to scold the battle, afraid that there was another reason, so he talked in the air. When Wei Liang saw that Chen Huan had appeared, he didn’t say much, sneered, and shot a scroll of letters at the head of the city with a bow, and the feather arrow carried the sound of Ling Li’s whining and breaking through the air, and nailed it into the flagpole planted at the head of the city.

Chen Huan ordered the people to take off the letter on the arrow shaft, unfold it and look at it again, and his face suddenly changed dramatically.

……

Just a few hours ago, his nephew Chen Ruigang came to the city to call the gate into the city. Chen Huan heard the news of Boling’s defeat in the Battle of Boling a few years ago, and thought that Chen Rui had already returned to Jinyang with the army, but he did not expect that he suddenly appeared and ran to his place at this moment, so he opened the door to welcome him in. He described fatigue and complained that he had not closed his eyes last night and had been rushing to this side all night. So he asked him where he came from, but he was stubborn, and he didn’t say it explicitly, and he saw that there was a carriage with him, the walls were tightly covered, and he didn’t know who was inside, and then asked, Chen Rui was still vague, only saying that he was a female relative, shy and unwilling to show his face.

Chen Huan knew that this nephew was greedy by nature, and the concubines in the room were like clouds, and when he saw that he had eaten a defeat and ran away, he did not forget to take a woman with him, his heart was unhappy, he taught him two sentences, and told him not to disturb the people in the city.

He had thought that the nephew had brought into the city was just an ordinary woman, and that he had snatched it from somewhere. Wan Wan also did not expect that it would be Wei Shao’s newlywed wife, the Qiao daughter of the Yanzhou Qiao family.

This is no small surprise.

Chen Huan ordered people to guard the city gate, and no one was allowed to open it, so he turned around and went down to the city and hurried to find Chen Rui.

……

When Chen Rui arrived at the residence, everyone was scattered, and not a single one was allowed to stay. When the people were all driven away, they took Xiao Qiao from the carriage and went straight into the house, the door was closed, took off the cloth towel that blocked her mouth, and then untied the rope that bound her hands and feet, and saw that a pair of jade wrists had been strangled out of a circle of bruises, and she was suddenly very distressed, and she went up to catch her hand and blow it for her, and her mouth kept saying: “Beauty Hugh is strange!” I’m not such a rude person either! I am really afraid that you will shout out indiscriminately and make my uncle suspicious. If you don’t make trouble, how can I be willing to be rude to you?

Xiao Qiao avoided his outstretched hand, turned sideways, and slowly rubbed the numb wrist that was bound, while coldly looking at this Chen Rui in front of him, without saying a word.

Chen Rui was beside him, looking at Xiao Qiao in a daze, his eyes straight.

Last night in the carriage, she was tired at the moment, there was a faint blue mark under her eyes, and her sideburns were somewhat scattered, but this did not damage her color in the slightest, but it made her more of a pity and delicate state.

Chen Rui is strong, fourteen years old royal daughter, so far no less than a hundred people, including many beautiful people, but has never seen Xiao Qiao’s face, only to feel that the more you look at the more love, how to see is not enough, eager to knead her into a ball and swallow into the abdomen, the heart seems to have countless insects in the bite, itchy unbearable, can’t help but pounce on a hug, open your mouth to kiss her, the mouth randomly begged: “Beauty! I love you so much! That Wei Shao is ruthless and unjust to you, and will send you away the day after the wedding, is it not a man under his head? He’s not a man, and you don’t want him! And you’re from me!” After that, I will pity you…”

Xiao Qiao was horrified, dodged his mouth, dodged the upper head, did not defend below, struggled hard, the shoes and socks on one foot were actually ripped off by him, the jade foot was invisible, suddenly exposed under Chen Rui’s eyelids, white and tender like a piece of frozen tofu, Chen Rui’s eyes were straight, he swallowed with a loud gulp, and he forced himself to pounce on the idea of biting enough, hesitated, and drew his sword to threaten: “If you don’t follow me, I’ll kill you!” Falling into the hands of

this Chen Rui, he said that he was not afraid of being fake, but Xiao Qiao also saw it somewhat, this person was thinking of attacking his heart, and he was not afraid of being ugly in front of himself, and at this time he threatened with a sword, he should just be scaring himself, and gradually he was a little fixed, afraid that he would use his strength again, and simply said angrily: “My Qiao family has been a herdsman in Yanzhou for three generations, and I am also a family family, I am no longer poor, how can I allow you to be so bad?” No matter how rude you are, I would rather die than be humiliated by you!” Beauty is

angry, but also a different style. Facing such a face of Yi Xiyi, Chen Rui’s hand was soft, the sword could not be held, and the sound of “ding” fell to the ground, and he also knelt down and said: “Good, good, I will not force you.” Are you asking me to marry you before you are willing to take it from me? How hard is that! My wife’s seat is vacant, and it is just right to marry you…”

He was talking, when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, followed by the sound of “snapping” on the door, and uncle Chen Huan was shouting.

Chen Rui looked chafed, jumped up from the ground, turned around and was about to go out, suddenly stopped again, turned back to Xiao Qiao and whispered, “Don’t let my uncle know that you are Wei Shao’s wife!” If he knew, he would definitely send you to Jinyang!

Chen Rui finished his instructions, so he went to open the door, and did not let Chen Huan see Xiao Qiao inside, so he went out and took the door with him, asking: “Uncle is looking for me?” Chen Huan’s face was very ugly, and he pointed to the door and said directly, “The

woman you brought back, but Wei Shao’s wife?”

Chen Rui was startled and was about to deny it, but Chen Huan’s fingers had already poked at the door in front of him, and he shouted, “Do you want to cause trouble to my Shiyi?” What woman was not easy to move, and actually moved on Wei Shao’s head? How could he tolerate such humiliation? Now Wei Liang was cursing the battle under the city! Where is she? Before Wei Shao arrived, send her out as soon as possible!

Chen Rui did not expect that Wei Liang had found himself so quickly, and he was stunned, seeing that Chen Liang wanted to push the door, where was the beauty in hand, where would he send it back, not to mention that he and Wei Shao had a grudge first, reached out and stopped Chen Liang, and sneered: “I took Wei Shao’s wife, so what?” He has the ability to take it back from me.

Chen Huan paused and said, “Confused! I have been painstakingly running Shiyi for many years to maintain today’s situation, and you just gave him an excuse to attack me! Don’t get out of the way for me yet!

Chen Rui was stunned, and then he said indifferently, “Wei Shao will come, will I be afraid of him?” The last time I fought in Boling, I was just not defensive enough, so I lost my hoof. I was thinking of another duel with him, waiting for him! Chen Huanqi’s

hand trembled. Chen Rui saw his uncle’s lips dark blue, thought about it, and coaxed: “It is so easy to catch Wei Shao’s wife, how can you say that you will return it?” After that, it was passed out, calling me and where is the face of the state? Moreover, even if he sent her out now, it would be too late, and Wei Shao would still come to attack! I had already written to my father, ready to exchange her for Wei Shao’s two cities. Shi Yi had a heavenly graben to lean on, and it was like a golden soup, hadn’t Wei Shao’s father also come to fight in the past? Still didn’t hit it! Why should the uncle increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige? “Did

you really go to Jinyang?”

Chen Rui swore to heaven.

Chen Huan hesitated.

If Jinyang had already known about this, I am afraid that he would not be able to take the initiative to return this Wei Shao’s wife, and now it is difficult to ride the tiger, so he can only wait for the echo first. After hesitating, he glanced back in the direction of the door and went first with hatred.

After Chen Huan returned, he ordered someone to go to the head of the city to investigate, and reported that Wei Liang was still sitting on the horse’s back with a knife in the same place, knowing that this matter could not be good, recalling the scene when he talked to his nephew at that time, after all, he could not rest assured, he quickly wrote a letter, added fire paint seal, called his cronies in, and ordered the stars to be sent to Jinyang quickly. Cronies came out on top of the letter. Chen Huan paced uneasily in the room, and suddenly heard a voice at the door: “Uncle, do you believe in your nephew?” Chen Huan

looked up and saw Chen Rui pointing a sword at the messenger he had just gone out with a sword in his hand, forcing him to retreat. His face couldn’t help but change, he sank his face, and said angrily, “Yunji, what do you mean by that?”

Chen Rui sneered, “Uncle, when I was in Jinyang, I often heard people speak in front of my father, saying that you were cowardly by nature, and for the sake of Bo Fang’s good name, you did not hesitate to bow to Wei Shao to seek peace.” Your fame is there, but you have fallen into my Jinyang prestige. Now that I have come here, how can I sit idly by? Uncle, you are also old, good life will be raised, this Shiyi matter, rest assured to hand over to the nephew is it. As

soon as his voice fell, a dozen armored warriors rushed in behind him, and when they came up, they put their swords on Chen Huan’s neck.

Chen Huan was furious, scolding Chen Ruizi for his ignorance, and tears flowing: “When you were young, I knew you were different!” Today it’s getting tougher! I have been holding on to Shiyi for more than ten years, and today I am afraid that I will be broken in the hands of a woman because of you! Chen Rui was stubborn when he was

young, Chen Huan did not like it, often said in front of Chen Xiang that he was not, Chen Rui had long been dissatisfied with this uncle, listening to him scold himself, angry, ordered people to block his mouth and go to prison, and then passed on the order, saying that he had taken over the defense of Shiyi City in accordance with his father’s orders, and everything here was dispatched by himself in the future, and if there were those who did not obey, the military law would be cut off.

The general and sergeant in the Shiyi Castle Guard were inexplicable. It’s just that Chen Rui is the third son of Jinyang, who has military merits, and who usually has the favor of Chen Xiang, and now Chen Huanren is gone, he holds the letter in his hand and is mighty, and those who say that they are disobedient are beheaded, and they dare not obey, trembling and trembling, all with Chen Rui as their order.

Chen Rui saw that the officers and soldiers above and below Shiyi were respectful to themselves, and the depression of these days was swept away.

Shiyi had 20,000 defenders, all of whom were elite soldiers, and the terrain added a boost to the defense of the city, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

He would wait for Wei Shao to come now, as long as he defeated Wei Shao, not only would he be able to shame jinyang, but he would also raise his eyebrows in front of the beauty from now on, forgiving her that she no longer dared to look down on herself.

Chen Rui’s chest was full of heroism, and he personally took a column of archers to the city wall, and when he saw that there were more than ten meters under the city gate, Wei Liang was indeed still there, and the archers were ordered to shoot arrows in unison to force Wei Liang to retreat, and he leaned outside the city wall and said in a loud voice: “Go and tell Wei Shao, wait for the third prince and I to marry the beauty, and then have a good time to fight with him for three hundred rounds!”

Wei Liang was forced to retreat by the arrow array for more than ten inches, and saw Chen Rui laughing wildly at the head of the city. Not knowing what the lady of the city was doing, nor did he know whether the meteor horse had already passed the news to Xindu, he groaned for a moment, ordered the sergeant to stay and continue to spy on the movements in the city, and got on his horse and turned back.

He was anxious, coupled with self-blame and guilt, he rushed all the way without stopping for a moment, and in the evening, when he rushed to Qingyun, more than a hundred miles away from Shiyi, he saw the flag on the opposite road moving, the dust covered the sky, he recognized that it was Wei Shao’s banner, and rushed straight into the battle, the sergeant recognized Wei Liang, saw that he was full of dust, his expression was anxious, and gave way one after another, Wei Liang rushed straight to Wei Shao, got off his horse, rolled on the ground, knelt on the ground, and prostrated: “Please ask the prince to give death!” The prince entrusted the heavy responsibility of escorting the female monarch to the last general, who neglected his duties, causing the female monarch to be in danger. The last general will face the prince again without face! When the last general attacks Shiyi and saves the female monarch, the last general will ask himself to apologize for his sins! Wei Shao rolled

over and dismounted, lifted Wei Liang up, and asked, “What happened to her?”

Wei Liang looked up at Wei Shao, saw him staring at himself, hesitated, and finally whispered, “Chen Ruina said at the head of the city, saying that he would first marry the female prince, then meet the prince, and fight with the prince for three hundred rounds…”

The air around him suddenly seemed to freeze.

Wei Shao didn’t move, and after a moment, one eyelid suddenly jumped twice, and with a cry of “Ling”, he drew his sword, and with one knife, he cut off an old willow with a thick bowl next to the road.

Willow bent over and fell down hula.

Wei Shao’s face was gloomy, he turned his head, and said word by word: “Pass the order, go on the road in the starry night, attack Shiyi, kill without forgiveness, capture Chen Rui alive, and reward him again!” ”

[End of This Chapter]