Chapter 86, or you’re dead.

Jing Hong chased after the order and wanted to spur his horse to go after him, but he was uneasy about Su Yan.

Since out of the Hawksbill Lake captive that thing, he blamed himself for a long time, determined to change the desperate assassin mentality, can no longer kill people as the purpose, but should always put the safety of the adults in the first place.

After changing his mind, he simply lifted his body and leaped onto Su Yan’s horse, and gave a low confession, “My subordinate has offended.” One hand moved forward from Su Yan’s waist side to control the reins, while the other hand reached out to the concealed pocket and clasped a Willow Leaf Flying Knife.

“–Leave him alive, I have something to ask.” Su Yan hastily added.

At the moment, his back was pressed against Jing Hongchou’s chest, and between the horses, each other’s necks and cheeks inevitably touched each other, which could almost be regarded as sideburns. Jing Hongchou smelled the wind blowing the breath that belongs to Lord Su, couldn’t help but feel his heart and blood surge, forced himself to hold his breath and said in a deep voice: “Don’t worry about your lord.”

He said that his fingertip flying dagger shot out, separated by a distance of more than ten feet, like a meteor shooting toward the figure in front of the horse flying away.

The man did not turn around, and seemed to sense the danger coming from behind, his legs clamped down on the horse’s belly, matching the rhythm of the horse’s running, and leaned to the side to dodge. The horse control movement was extremely skillful, obviously a horsemanship expert.

The flying dagger shot a blank.

However this flying slash was only a front. Jing Hongchou seemed to have long guessed his opponent’s immediate evasive maneuver and predicted that it would be tilted to the right as with his usual hand.

So after the hilt of the blade was out of his hand, a small mass of broken silver that he had clasped in his palm with his tail finger flew out immediately afterward, shooting to the right of the former horse and striking the vital point in his back waist just as the other party was making a move to avoid it.

The opponent ate a boring loss, lumbar spine sudden sharp pain, along with the legs are also numb and powerless, from the horse’s back to fall down. Fortunately, the reaction in time, the instant of falling arms holding the head, rolling on the grass to remove the impact, did not suffer any injuries.

Jing Hongchou took the opportunity to chase him to his side, swept down from the horse’s back, and with two half-reverse cuts of his arms, his feet stepped on his hindquarters, restraining the man.

Su Yan reined in and dismounted, and saw the face of that person in the grass leaves and broken soil that stuck all over his head and face, and it was really Wang Chen.

“…… Long time no see, Second Lord.” Su Yan faced Wang Chen with a somewhat complicated mood. He always had compassion in his heart, and sincerely wanted to beckon down this pair of thief head brothers, and almost succeeded, who would have thought that messing around with the royal historian a vicious operation, and when he saw him again on the night of the prison robbery, it was already a different story. Wang’s brothers also know that they have committed an unforgivable felony, there is no shore to turn back, but also because of his status as an official, do not dare to put down the guard and stereotypes to trust him, can only go one way to the black.

Wang Chen twisted his head extremely hard and looked at the visitor from the bottom up between the blades of grass. Facing Su Yan again, his feelings were also complicated. If we talk about hatred, he did anger Su Yan at that time, and the arrow that cut off the righteousness, not only cut off the way back to become a bandit for the people, but also plucked out the strand of vague feelings in the bottom of his heart, and if he didn’t have to fill it with hatred, how could he fill the hole that seeped blood?

But he rationally knew that his parents’ revenge could not be blamed on Su Yan. If he blamed others for not being able to help him in time when he was in trouble, what difference was there between him and a selfish and despicable fool?

On the contrary, Su Yan sanctioned Lu An Gao, although he didn’t take a life for a life, but he also avenged half of their brother’s death. Revenge should have been their brothers own thing, the remaining half, if the emperor did not cut the head of Lu An Gao, they should also think of their own future to cut, and with Su Yan why?

Between their brothers and Su Yan, there is no personal grudge, and even a few points of sin, but because of each other’s status disparity, position relative to each other, only to fall into today’s incompatible situation. They can blame the sky, blame the ground, blame the originator, is not to blame him.

Not to blame him, but it does not mean that the enemy can be turned into a friend. After all, it’s still the same saying – “If we see each other again in the future, we’ll just be enemies fighting for our lives.”

Seeing that Wang Chen didn’t speak, but only had an unwillingly wrathful face, Su Yan sighed darkly and squatted down to look at him flatly, “What are you doing in Qing Ping Yuan dressed up like a herding army?”

Wang Chen hissed back, “You’re dressed like a rich merchant’s son, and what are you doing here?”

Su Yan didn’t answer and continued, “If you are here to rob, wouldn’t it be more economical to lead your troops to raid the stables at night and directly grab the horses and run away? To pretend to be a herding army, it seems that you have other plans.”

“What can we want in this shithole but barren grass and half-dead, sick horses!”

“No rudeness to the lord! Honestly explain.” Jing Hong chased him down and twisted his wrist, Wang Chen stifled a grunt in pain and gritted his teeth without answering.

Su Yan glanced back at the horse camp castle that was further away, his brows frowning slightly, “Just now, you clearly had a better escape route, it was that camp castle, as long as you mixed in with the herding army, you could interfere with our line of sight, and then take advantage of the gap to sneak out from the back. You are not stupid, why did you choose the opposite direction?

“There is only one possibility, you do not want us to chase into the camp fort and affect what you are trying to …… Is your brother Wang Wu in the fort?

“I can roughly guess what you’re trying to do, not to rob the horses, but to turn the herdsmen!”

Wang Chen’s body shook as he asked offhandedly, “How do you know?”

Su Yan said: “Wang Wu has been a herdsman for a few years, so he knows his way around and can easily bring you in. In addition, he knows better than anyone the difficult situation of the herdsmen, and there are some old friendships that can be utilized, so I think he will be able to instigate a lot of people to follow him to become a bandit. If these herdsmen want to flee, they will definitely take away the relatively good horses in the breeding, so you don’t move a single soldier, the horses are also available, and the personnel is also expanded, isn’t it?”

Wang Chen looked at him, and the look of dismay in his eyes changed to a sigh of admiration, and then to hostility, “You want to spoil our business? Unless you kill me right here and now, I’ll shake out your true identity as soon as I get the chance – you came to Qing Ping Yuan in micro-suits because you don’t want your identity to be known, right?”

Su Yan slapped him on the back of the head: ”Bad thing! You don’t think about who I’m doing this for? I said I would clean up the horse administration and return the people to the fields, so I will follow my promise step by step, and I have no intention of giving up even if it’s hard. But what are you doing? Being thieves and bandits yourselves doesn’t count, but you want to drag the other horse households and herding armies down with you as well.”

Wang Chen said, “You’re so weak, who knows if you’ll make it? Besides, even if it does, being a good citizen who is bullied by others is not as easy as being a thief or a bandit! There’s no turning back, it’s useless for you to persuade me anymore, just do it, kill me with a sword and get it over with.”

Seeing him going further and further down the astray path, Su Yan was inevitably annoyed and disappointed, and got up and said to Jing Hongchu, “Tie him up and dig a pit to bury him! Let’s go to the fort to find out Wang Wu.”

Wang Chen lost his voice, “You really want to kill me?”

Jing Hongchou knows what Su Yan means, this guy can’t be killed for the time being, and can’t let him escape, but it’s inconvenient to go into the fort with him, so he can only find a place to trap him for the time being.

He used the horsewhip to bind Wang Chen’s wrists, and infused internal force into his long sword, and in a few moments dug a narrow, deep pit, and threw the man feet down into it, cultivating the soil like planting a tree, and leaving only his chest and above exposed. In this way, even if the other person breaks free from the binding, but also can not pull themselves out of the soil, and the grass and leaves are deep enough to cover the head and chest tightly, onlookers do not come close to find out.

Wang Chen was gagged, whimpering and struggling in protest, yet to no avail, and was quickly planted as a prairie mushroom.

“Just stay here honestly, I’ll go and arrest your brother, turn around and you two will go to the jail together to reflect.” Su Yan patted his disheveled head, and smoothly removed the string of wolf teeth necklace he wore around his neck.

Jing Hongchou’s mount also slipped and followed him at this time, and the two of them each rolled onto their horses and sped towards the Horse Camp Castle.

Wang Chen stared angrily at their distant backs, cursing and cursing can not make a sound, even gnashing his teeth can not do, can only hatefully use his head to hit the grass blades next to him. The blades of grass flexibly shook, overwhelmed and bounced back, making fine marks on his cheeks, as if sending out a silent mockery.

At this time of the year, most of the herdsmen were out grazing, and not many of them stayed in the camp fort, about 50 to 60 people, in charge of chopping grass, cleaning stables and logistic affairs, etc. They looked like they were busy with their own business, but they also had groups of three to five people chatting privately. They looked like they were busy with their own business, but they were also in groups of three to five, exchanging private chats from time to time.

Seeing two strange men enter the doorway, the herdsmen stopped and turned their heads. Their gazes were both cold and fierce, like they were insensitive to the status quo, and like they were disdainful of all things other than survival – such as law, morality, and human nature ……. After many of them saw Su Yan’s appearance, they were like hungry wolves seeing a sheep, revealing cruel and lustful looks.

Jing Hongchou hated to gouge out their eyes, and just as his hand touched the hilt of his sword, he heard Su Yan whisper, “Even if they are prisoners exiled to fill up the army, they can’t be killed at will, unless they make the first move.”

Jing Hongchou had to block him behind him and use his true qi to shout sternly inward, “Wang Wu! If you still want your brother’s life, come out yourself!”

There was some slight commotion among the people present, obviously all knowing who the Wang Wu he was talking about was.

Jing Hongchou threw the wolf tooth necklace on the ground and bellowed once again, “Look carefully, is it your brother’s stuff!”

The crowd was silent for a few moments before a stocky figure in the uniform of the Pastoral Army stepped out of the gloom as if he were an enraged alpha wolf, a ferocious gleam in his eye as he pressed a murderous snarl into his throat.

“It’s you again!” Wang Wu glared hatefully at Su Yan, “Dare to touch a hair on my brother’s head, and I’ll tell you to come in straight and go out sideways!”

As he spoke, many herdsmen each took their own sticks, as well as long tongs for clamping charcoal, iron forks for raking grass, and so on, and came around from both sides with unfavorable faces, vaguely forming a situation of encirclement.

Jing Hongchou disdainfully drew his sword, “A bunch of rabble, unbeatable.”

Su Yan stepped forward and said calmly to Wang Wu, “Your brother is fine, he is just being kept by us temporarily, find a place to talk?”

Wang Wu wanted to dislike him, “If you want to fight, then fight, there is nothing to talk about”, but after all, he was not overwhelmed by anger, and knew that even if all the herdsmen present obeyed his orders, they might not be able to win against Jing Hongchou. And his men and horses and settled outside the court, even if this moment to let his men to move help, hard to break into the Qingping court, need to also at least two quarters of time. Two quarters of time is not too long, not too short, enough for Jing Hongchou to put everyone on the ground.

“We have no malice, we just want to talk to you about a solution, otherwise once we start fighting, we are bound to bleed to death again – you can’t bear to see these former fellow robes of yours die for nothing?” Su Yan said in a tone that was both sincere and very beaten up, “I think you must have encouraged them to fall into the grass, promising big bowls of wine and big chunks of meat, not to die before they even stepped out of the garden gate in order to act as a fighter for you, right?”

Jing Hongchu slashed his sword at the green stone mill used to grind beans in the courtyard, and the lingering sword qi split a deep crack in the stone mill.

Seeing this high level of martial arts, the herding troops showed shocked colors and involuntarily stepped back, feeling timid. A few of them couldn’t help but look at Wang Wu, as if hoping that he would give a statement.

Wang Wu gritted his teeth and squeezed out a cold smile, “It’s fine to talk, just you and I alone, keep him away.”

Jing Hongchou’s gaze was like solid ice, piercing people’s bodies with chills: “Don’t even think about it, I’ll never leave by half a step!”

Su Yan returned a faint cold smile towards Wang Wu: “You seem to have failed to understand one thing, the person who is taking the initiative now is me. I am willing to negotiate with you, it means that you two brothers still have hope to survive, otherwise, together with the tens of thousands of troops of the Shaanxi Commanding General’s Department, do you really think that you can’t eliminate your district’s gang of ringing horse thieves?”

Wang Wu’s face suddenly turned green and white, and finally lifted his chin towards the camp fort gate.

Su Yan nodded in agreement and turned to leave, Jing Hong chased after him and followed with his sword. Wang Wu took advantage of their inattention and gave a wink to the men he brought in. The henchman understood and quietly slipped away through the back door of the camp fort.

The three of them walked out of the gate of the camp fort and came to the bottom of a deserted grassy slope. Wang Wu silently counted the time and decided to show weakness and delay: “What does Royal Secretary Su want? You don’t want us brothers to surrender, do you?”

Su Yan said nonchalantly, “First, one of your brothers has already been captured. Secondly, if you turn yourselves in, I will ask the court for leniency. After all, you killed a lot of officials and soldiers when you robbed the prison and committed a great crime, now even if I want to recruit, I can’t offer the condition of exoneration again.”

Wang Wu said angrily, “You just had to force the two of us brothers to die?”

Su Yan sighed and said sincerely, ”You are trying to force yourselves to death. Since ancient times, how many rebellious gangs of thieves and bandits can have a good end? Mr. Naiyan’s ‘Water Margin’ has been read, right? How powerful are the Liang Shan heroes, how powerful are the one hundred and eight generals, and what is the final result? They all died and fled. I’ll tell you the truth, you can’t accomplish anything, you’ll only bring about your own destruction.”

Wang Wu choked and retorted with a twinkle in his eyes, “And what did the current Great Ancestor say?”

The dynasty of Emperor Taizu was born poor, from the end of the micro, in the chaotic world of self-employment, south and north finally hit the whole mountain, creating a great Ming Heh dynasty. Since the aftermath of the prison robbery, Su Yan on the ambition of Wang Wu hidden perception, but still did not expect, he was too ancestral for the envy and the goal of the struggle, I have to say that …… the ideal is very full, the reality is very dry ah Da Dangjia!

Su Yan patiently persuaded: “This time is this time. At that time, it was a chaotic time when the people did not want to live, and the turmoil in various places rose up, and it was a situation where the division was bound to be united, and Taizu occupied the right place and time, so he was able to accomplish things. And he was the only one in history who could make things happen.

“Nowadays, the country is prosperous and the people are at peace, although there are chaotic politics and evil laws, but after all, it is only a small part, and it can be solved after governance. The vast majority of the people are still living and working in peace and contentment, and no one wants the world to be in turmoil and war. As for the northern barbarians that have repeatedly invaded the borderlands, from the imperial court to the people and army are all fighting bravely, and will not shake the foundation of the country.

“If you make such a fuss, you will only make your relatives suffer and hate each other, wasting the country’s troops and money and food for nothing. If you have this kind of energy, why don’t you lead the army to fight Tartary? Drive Tartary out of Hanhai, not to mention exempted from punishment and recruited peace, seal you a general count is also possible, how about it, go or not?”

Wang Wu was speechless.

The Tartars are fierce, savage and poor, so what is the benefit of fighting? He recruited soldiers and horses to build his own mountain in order to live a better and more comfortable life, but not to go to the battlefield to seek death.

As if Su Yan guessed what was in his heart, he shook his head and said, “That’s why I said, you guys can’t make things happen, even if you have a momentary momentum, you will ultimately be defeated by inflated desires. It’s better to recognize the reality earlier, each in their own way, and keep your feet on the ground.”

“Going back to being a horse household again is impossible.” Wang Wu said flatly.

“The Household Horse Law will be repealed, it won’t take long. Otherwise, why do you think I came to the Supervisory Court undercover? It’s to support the government herdsmen. If you support the official herdsmen, you won’t need the civil herdsmen.” Su Yan spoke with a dry mouth, thinking that I have already done my best to be kind and righteous, and if I don’t listen to persuasion, I have no choice.

Wang Wu was silent for a long time, his expression changing.

Just when Su Yan thought that he had been touched and started to soften his attitude, the other party suddenly sank his face, “If you don’t become a horse household, aren’t you still going to be a farmer, a herding army, and a peddler?”

Su Yan laughed in anger: “The world’s millions of people can be, why can’t you be? You want to be an official? Can ah, literature exams, martial arts war heroes, have the ability to want to be how big line, how not to go? Don’t be low-eyed, not to mention harming yourself and your brother, but also harming the people of a township.”

Wang Wu doubled down on the bull’s-eye in order to suppress his heart and resentment: ”You’ve been clothed in fine clothes since you were a child, you’ve never suffered or been starved, so how do you know the life that the common people lead! I’m not in the same boat as you, there’s nothing to say! You put my brother back, or else thousands of men under my command will step on this Qing Ping Yuan! No matter how capable this guard beside you is, can he protect you in the midst of thousands of troops?”

Jing Hongchou coldly said, “I’ll cut you down with this next sword, the tree will fall into a sinking ship, not everything will be fine.”

Wang Wu raised a pair of snowy short knives, “Come, do you really think I can’t beat you?” Before he finished speaking, the blades went up towards Su Yan’s neck, wanting to take advantage of the other party’s close proximity to speak, first striking out suddenly to take hold of it, and then switching his brother back.

Jing Hongchu had long been staring at his every move. Just as he raised his hand, Jing Hongchu’s long sword stabbed out like a viper, while pulling Su Yan behind himself.

The two blades hit each other, clanging in the sound over a few moves. Su Yan in the side of the forehead: if alarmed Yan Chang, he secretly visit plan failed not to mention, afraid of the alarm pulled, here and ringing horse pirates thousands of people to face. Qingpingyuan almost no military strength to speak of, a few hundred herdsmen have no military training at all, is not a yellow skinny folk, is the head of the two ends of the stray criminals, then fall to the other side can not be said.

Is thinking about the solution, without thinking to see the far side of the pasture, a team of soldiers wearing armor galloped horses, behind the chase 囿长 Yan Chang, forward stretching his arms and shouting something, a look of exhaustion.

Wang Wu glimpsed it, was taken aback, and asked, “Where did the soldiers come from?”

Su Yan remembered that the minor official came to Yan Chang before and said, “It is Zhang Qianhu of Ningxia Wei. A serious border army that has fought with the Tartars, don’t think that your rabble can beat it.”

Hearing this, Wang Wu became even more panicked, and with a forceful lattice of his twin swords, he withdrew from the battle circle, threatening as he withdrew, “Don’t move my brother! Let him go, or I will definitely take revenge later and kill you as a ghost!”

Su Yan calmly said, “I also have a sentence to send you – don’t ever pull a big flag and fight slogans, as long as you don’t fight the flag of rebellion, there is still a possibility of survival, otherwise you’re dead!”

Wang Wu left in a hurry, not knowing if Su Yan’s advice had been heard.

Su Yan turned to Jing Hong and chased after him, “They rushed the camp fort, let’s go quickly, don’t touch a spot. Go and lift Wang Chen up, this kind of burying method, after a long time, people will be killed.”