Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 16

[Chapter 16: The Wrath of Wei Hou (Middle)]

The embers of the Taishou Mansion were not extinguished, and they could not be stationed for the time being, and all the injured were placed in the Liu Cao Ya Gate in the East City.

The sergeant lit up with a fire wand, Wei Shao went all the way, in addition to the direction of the Taishou Mansion behind him there was also a fire jump, the street was pitch black, the doors and windows of the households on both sides were tightly closed, like a no-man’s city, when passing in front of the door of a family, suddenly there was a cry from a child, and before he finished crying, he immediately disappeared, presumably by the frightened adult who forcibly covered his mouth or was covered in a futon. At the gate of the yamen, Shi Yi Shoucheng, Chang Shi, DuYou, and dozens of other subordinate officials of all sizes were gathered in front of the fence room at this moment, the soldiers were angry at each other, the subordinate officials were all disheveled, their faces were like earth color, some sat in a daze, some hugged and cried, overheard the sergeant shouting “Junhou Zhi”, and then performed the military salute, turned their heads in unison, and saw a man dressed in armor and covered in blood on the entrance steps, describing Yingwei, quite young, and also in his twenties, knowing that this person was Wei Shao, who was famous in the north, all trembling, and did not dare to make a sound again, only peeking at him.

Wei Shao also ignored these Shiyi subordinate officials, and went inside to remove his armor, wiped the blood stains on his face, and went to comfort the wounded soldiers who attacked the city tonight.

This siege battle was really fierce, although The 20,000 defenders of Shiyi were completely destroyed, but Wei Shao’s side also suffered no light losses, not counting the dead, only here were full of wounded people, dozens of healers interspersed with them were busy healing the wounded soldiers, very busy.

When the general saw that the lord did not celebrate the merits first, and had just taken the city, he came to visit his wounded, and he was all grateful.

Wei Shao finished comforting the soldiers and went to visit Wei Liang alone.

Wei Liang felt guilty, the siege battle was desperate, accidentally hit several rockets, fortunately did not reach the point, the military doctor has finished healing his wounds, and he is lying on a bed with his eyes closed. Seeing that Wei Shao had come to visit, he struggled to get up to get down to the ground, and Wei Shao pressed him down.

Wei Liang’s body was poisoned by fire, the injury was really not light, his face was like gold paper, but he was still talking and laughing, and his spirit looked good.

Wei Shao asked him about the details of the incident in Qiuji that day, and Wei Liang repeated it from beginning to end, and finally gritted his teeth and said, “Hateful Chen Rui is a thief, who is used to conspiracy, and even took advantage of my lack of spares to rob the lady!” Damn it! When I find him next time, I will definitely unload him into eight pieces before I can dispel the hatred in my heart! Wei Shao

asked, “Are you saying that The Empress dowager was first robbed in the courtyard, and then someone sent someone to report to you that she had fallen into the hands of Chen Rui?” Do you know where that man came from?

Wei Liang shook his head blankly, “I don’t know.” It should have just fallen into the human eye, so it came to report. When Wei Shao

was groaning, the sergeant major hurriedly came to report that a soldier had found Chen Rui a few miles outside the west gate of the city, and he had snatched a military horse, seemingly heading in the direction of Leping, and was pursuing it with all his might.

Wei Liang was furious, and when he sat up, he was about to roll over and get out of bed, touching the wounds on his body and showing pain on his face.

Wei Shao looked as usual, but a shadow flashed in his eyes. He pressed Wei Liang’s shoulders, told him to recuperate from his injuries, and ordered the military doctor to treat him wholeheartedly and not to go out of the pool, so he got up and came out, turned on his horse, and went straight out of the West Gate.

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Chen Rui climbed over the wall of the hut of the Taishou Mansion and absconded out of the West Gate in a chaotic breath, but he saw the torches behind him, and the figure of Wei Shao’s soldiers was shaking, knowing that he was looking for himself, he panicked like a dog that had lost his family, and fled for a while, seeing that there was a bush of thorns in the field, and regardless of the thorns, he went into hiding, trying to escape this hunt, and then looking for a way to escape after dawn. Not wanting to be unlucky, he actually alarmed a nest of wild beavers that had settled in the thorny bushes, and the tanuki ran around and made a noise, attracting the sergeant, taking a spear and stabbing at the thorny bush, Chen Rui at first endured, not wanting a soldier to just hit him in the ass with a shot, and with a loud cry, he drilled out violently, viciously knocked over the sergeant, grabbed a horse, stepped on it, and fled westward.

He ran like a lifeless, and the soldiers who were chasing behind him were finally gradually thrown away by him, Fang was relieved, and saw that the horses under him were gradually breathing heavily, and the pace of the feet was slowing down, and it was expected that he was tired, lest he run to the dead horse, he really had no legs, plus he was really tired, so he came down and sat on the ground and gasped, and before he could catch his breath, he found that the road behind him seemed to be chased up again.

Tonight the moon is sparsely starry, and the four fields are empty, so it is faintly discerning that there are at least a dozen people in this crowd. Chen Rui suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, got up from the ground, turned over and jumped on the back of the horse and ran wildly again, not wanting to panic and choose the road, and finally ran into a large deserted cemetery, watching the people chasing him behind him getting closer and closer, and even could hear the sound of the horse’s hooves stepping on the ground.

Chen Rui knew that Wei Shao must now hate himself into the bone, if he fell into his hands, life is better than death, so that there is no way to escape if he runs any further, a horizontal heart, simply gamble a bet, turn over and roll off the horse’s back, kick the horse’s ass fiercely, urge the horse to continue to move forward, he even crawled into the desert grave with a rolling belt, bumped into a wild grave, and exposed a dark hole in the back of the shade, which seemed to be able to accommodate himself, and did not hesitate, and he drilled into it and curled up desperately. After hiding it, he took out a stone to block the entrance to the cave.

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Wei Shao personally led people to chase out of the city dozens of miles away, passed the cemetery, chased the horse in a moment, saw that the horse’s back was empty, Chen Rui was missing, stopped and ordered the sergeant to search nearby, did not see the house, thought that there was a deserted cemetery next to the Fangcai Road, so he ordered the sergeant to search again.

The sergeant returned one by one, reporting that he had looked everywhere and did not see Chen Rui.

Wei Shao groaned for a moment, looked back at the city, and thought that the sergeant had been rushing on the road for days, and he had attacked the city in the middle of the night, and he was already tired. And Shi Yi had just taken it, the affairs of the city were complicated, although there were Gongsun Yang sitting on his behalf, but he was not good enough to leave for too long, hesitated, and finally looked at the deserted cemetery not far away from the side, and ordered the team to return to the city.

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Chen Rui shrunk in the dark grave, unable to see his five fingers, not daring to move, only listening to the movement outside with his ears open. At first, there seemed to be footsteps nearby, but fortunately the other party did not notice the strange appearance of this back, and walked over. After a long time, there was no other noise outside, Chen Rui deduced that Wei Shao and his party should have left, and finally breathed a long sigh of relief, only then did he smell the smell of rotten fireflies in his nose, almost vomiting, muttering an “obscure breath”, pushing away the stone to climb out, the corner of the clothes behind him suddenly seemed to be firmly pulled by someone, and he could not let go.

Chen Rui flashed a ghostly appearance in front of his eyes. Although it is said that killing people on weekdays is not afraid of ghosts and gods, but like this, Sangen is in the grave in the middle of the night, the black hands around him can’t see five fingers, the corners of the clothes behind him are firmly pulled, and it seems that suddenly the wind has blown on the back of his neck, Rao is how bold he is on weekdays, and at this moment he is also covered in sweat and hair, lying on the ground and does not dare to move again, closing his eyes and mouth to pray. After a while, seeing that there seemed to be no other abnormality behind him, finally he had the courage to slowly reach out and touch the back, and only then did he feel that the corner of his clothes was just hung by a piece of wild thorn that grew behind him, and with a hard pull, he broke free, crawled out of the grave with his hands and feet, sat on the ground and gasped for breath, and waited for his mind to settle down slightly, and did not dare to stay here for a long time, climbed up and looked around the four fields, saw the vast expanse, and finally reluctantly identified the direction, and hurried to the direction of Hezhou.

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When Wei Shao returned to the city, there were already four more.

Chen Huan had earlier stockpiled more than a dozen water dragons. The sergeant suppresses the fire with a water dragon. The fire was finally extinguished. Although most of the Taishou Mansion was burned down, and the granary was slightly affected, only a few hundred stones of grain were lost, and the rest was safe and sound, and the fire did not affect the nearby houses.

Gongsun Yang was directing the cleaning up of the mess near the fire site, when he suddenly saw Wei Shao coming, he rushed up to report to him.

He also did not close his eyes for a day and a night, but his spirit was still very good, even called excited, Jian Hui finished, and smiled: “Congratulations Lord, today’s successful capture of Shiyi, occupy the portal, take Jinyang is just around the corner.” Wei Shao

smiled slightly, and said, “Sir bothered all night, the sky will be clear, the rest of the matter can be ordered to go down, Sir first go to rest.”

Gongsun Yang responded, thought about it and said, “This fire of the Taishou Mansion came in time, which can be said to have helped the siege of the city.” It’s just a little strange about the fire. Only then did I take matters into my own hands and visit the lady with the military doctor. Sure enough, it was the lady who let herself escape.

He said it again, and finally praised: “I can’t see that the lady seems to be delicate, and she can bear to give herself such a hand, and then she escapes by fire, which can also be said to be in danger and has a disciplined heart.” I saw that both of her wrists were really on fireThe fire was not light, covered with large and small bubbles, the situation was pitiful, even I could not bear to see it, when the military doctor diagnosed and treated her, he did not complain for half a minute, but comforted me, saying that he was fine. It really impressed me. ”

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Although this Chen Rui was a boy and a woman, he was reckless, Xiao Qiao was tied up on the bed by his backhand like a chicken, and when he went, he thought that Wei Shao had come to attack the city, the two sides fought, and among the chaotic troops, no matter which side won the city wall battle, if he had been locked up here like the meat of the chopping board, there would be no good end. When I was anxious, I suddenly thought of the two happy candles lit in the room, got out of bed and jumped in front of the candle, rubbed my sleeve high, turned my back to the candle, endured the severe pain of being burned, burned and stopped, and finally broke the rope on my wrist. When it was finally broken, a piece of skin on her white and immaculate wrist was burned out of large and small bubbles on the spot, the cold sweat of pain continued, the eyes of the people were blackened, almost fainting, and so on to ease up, untied the rope on the feet, used the candle fire to ignite the curtain in the room, covered her mouth and nose with a towel dipped in tea, and then covered her mouth and nose with a cotton quilt. When the fire in the room became bigger and bigger, when the servant woman outside the door was alarmed to open the door, because of the smoke, the servant woman could not see what was going on inside, and ran away in panic, so she took advantage of the gap to escape. Fortunately, in the battle at the head of the city, there was no shadow in the Taishou Mansion, and with the cover of night, he finally found a remote empty stable at the upper wind mouth and hid himself temporarily.

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Most of the Taishou Mansion was hit by fire, leaving only a few rows of houses in the upper wind. Little Joe was now placed in an inner room, the bed was complete, and it was clean. Before Gongsun Yang left, he ordered the two servants of the Taishou Mansion to accompany him outside, and left a group of soldiers to handle the passage and the front and back entrances and exits all night.

Little Joe knew he was finally safe.

In the past few days, she hadn’t closed her eyes for a moment. After being brought here by Chen Rui, there was a hungry wolf crouching next to him, who was drooling at himself, and he was even more trembling, neither daring to be too tough to provoke him, nor could he make him feel that he was easy to get started, in order to deal with Chen Rui, telling him not to get close to his body, it can be described as a painstaking effort, the whole body, even the hair is tight.

Now that she was safe, the gusts coming from her wrists were still like the pain of being burned by the fire, but she couldn’t sleep at all, and she only wanted to peel off the piece of flesh on her wrist.

Just now, when Gongsun Yang and the military doctor were still there, she had been forced to endure and did not want to show anything. Now there was no one in front of me, and the surrounding area was quiet, and I couldn’t help but shed tears in pain. I silently dropped the golden beans for a while, and I didn’t know whether the medicine given by the military doctor had worked, or Whether I felt more comfortable after crying, the pain on my wrists gradually seemed to be lighter, with residual tears on my face, and finally leaned on the head of the bed and slept confusedly.

[End of This Chapter]