Chapter 40: Impulsive and Calm
"Wang Dou, it's me!"
Just as Wang Dou was about to draw his sword, the hoarse voice caused by the people in front of him stunned, "Erlang!"
Gao Jin walked to Wang Dou. Under the pale moonlight, the two men with resentment were like vengeful evil spirits crawling out of hell.
"Erlang, what happened, what happened to Gao Bo?"
"Zhang Gui colluded with horse thieves and attacked the caravan." "My father died, Uncle Chen died, Uncle Wei died, and everyone else died, only Mulan and I were left."
"How could this happen?" "Erlang, come to me, are you going to take revenge with me?"
Wang Dou raised his head and stared at Gao Jin and asked. There was expectation in his eyes, but Gao Jin did not answer him, but blocked his way.
"You are not going to take revenge, but to die."
Gao Jin said coldly, Wang Dou has always been impulsive and stubborn. The two used to be their best partners, and he knew Wang Chong too well.
"Do you know, my father was beaten to death, and was beaten to death without human form, leaving only a ball of flesh and blood."
Wang Dou's voice was hoarse, and he looked at Gao Jin's gaze became sharp, "Whoever blocks my way today will make him die."
"I won't let you die."
Gao Jin did not get out of the way, he could understand Wang Dou's mood, because when he watched his father being dismembered by five horses, he was the same as Wang Dou.
"Then go with me, you a coward who has no courage."
Wang Dou drew his sword and slashed towards Gao Jin. As soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was full of his father's bloody corpse. Only by killing Zhang Gui can he feel better.
Wang Dou, who swung his sword in anger, lost the rules that Xinyou sword technique should have. Gao Jin slipped and dodged the blade that Wang Dou slashed, hit his wrist with the back of the knife, and then hit Wang Dou's arms, crushed him to the ground, and grabbed his neck with one hand.
"I watched my father be dismembered by Zhang Guiwuma with my own eyes, and watched him and his uncles burned to ashes by the fire. Do you think you are the only one who is in pain and angry?"
"I want to take revenge more than you, do you understand?"
Gao Jin roared in a low voice like a wild beast, venting the pain and anger of these days.
Looking at the crazy Gao Jin, Wang Dou's mind finally woke up. He threw away the knife in his hand, then his neck lightened, and Gao Jin also let go of the hand that was pinching his neck.
"Do you know now? If you want to take revenge, just listen to me. If you are not convinced, let's fight again." Gao Jin also threw the knife to the ground and said to the stunned Wang Dou.
"As long as you can take revenge, I will listen to you."
Wang Dou did not fight Gao Jin again because what Gao Jin experienced would only be more painful than him. The most important thing was that Gao Jin was right. He went to Baihu Mansion just to die.
"You go back and keep your spirits for Uncle Wang, don't have any abnormal movements. I will ask Mulan to find you. You have to help me contact my companions at my uncle's family, Chen Sheng, Shen Guang and others, to tell them the truth."
"There will be a temple fair in a few days. Then you will tell your family to go to the temple fair and go to the market, and we will meet at the valley entrance to the east."
Gao Jinchao Wang Dou said that now he felt that only the uncles and uncles from Zhejiang soldiers in the caravan were the most reliable, because they had no way out, just like he would not let Zhang Gui go, and Zhang Gui would not let them go either.
"I see."
Wang Dou picked up the long sword on the ground and said to Gao Jin, "Next time, I will definitely beat you."
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
Gao Jin also picked up the knife and had a smile on his face. Wang Dou is the one he is familiar with.
Under the night, the two parted ways. Seeing Gao Jin disappearing into the darkness in the distance, Wang Dou turned around and left and headed towards the village.
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For two consecutive days, the entire Hekou Fort fell into a heavy atmosphere. All the people in the Gao family caravan died. Twenty-seven families in the fort village and the village below were killed. What made these families even worse was that Zhang Gui levyed additional taxes on autumn grain, which was 30% more than in previous years. Without the pillars of the family, they could not pay the tax, so they could only sell the land to Zhang Gui at a low price.
Just as such people were panic, Wang Dou and Mulan, who rushed back from Gubei Village, contacted everyone they felt they could trust.
In the valley east of Hekou Fort, the agreed day was not yet here, Chen Sheng and Shen Guang arrived. Both were Gao Jin's companions who grew up with him. When he saw them, Gao Jin felt like he was a different life.
"Second brother!"
"Xiao Guang, A Sheng."
Gao Jin hugged Chen Sheng and Shen Guang. The three of them grew up naked since childhood. He was one year older than the two. In the past, he did take care of these two partners as younger brothers.
Although they had known that their father died under Zhang Gui's hands, when Chen Sheng and Shen Guang knew everything that happened from Gao Jin's mouth, they had to grit their teeth and swear to kill Zhang Gui and avenge their father.
"How is the fortress now?"
After the two of them calmed down, Gao Jin asked them just now that he needed to understand what happened in Hekou Fort. The same thing said, it was not difficult to kill Zhang Gui. If he really gathered the children of his uncle's family, as long as he could do his best, he would kill the Baihu Mansion to take Zhang Gui's life at night. But in that case, Chen Sheng and Shen Guang and the others would have to take their families to the end of the world with him.
So the real difficulty is that after killing Zhang Gui, they can continue to live in Hekou Fort without any impact.
"Zhang Gui added 30% of the autumn grain tax. Now all the servants of the Baihu Mansion go to the villages to collect rent and ask for food." Chen Sheng replied that the taxes of the state are already very heavy, and Zhang Gui's 30% of the 30% of the 30% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20% of the 20th century are equivalent to forcing people who cannot pay to offer him land and become a slave to the Zhang family.
"If you want to destroy someone, you must first make him crazy." Gao Jin murmured to himself. In his opinion, Zhang Gui was crazy and actually directly added 30% of the tax on autumn grain, which was to force the people of Hekou Fort to death.
I was speechless all night. Until the next day, when the grass-roots team invited by Zhang Gui in Hekou Fort was performing in front of Baihu Mansion, this temple fair that Zhang Gui had to show off his majesty seemed to be quite good.
In the valley, all the sixteen people Wang Dou and Mulan informed him arrived. When Gao Jin finished in detail how Zhang Gui colluded with the horse thief and killed his father and uncle that day, everyone was very angry and vowed to kill Zhang Gui to avenge this bloody revenge.
"Everyone, since ancient times, snakes cannot do without heads. If we want to take revenge, we must choose a leader, and then everyone will follow his orders."
Chen Sheng stood up and said to everyone that he had talked with Gao Jin for a long time last night, and felt that Gao Jin was right. It was not difficult to kill Zhang Gui. It was rare to kill Zhang Gui. Everyone took their little family out of the wall and became a bandit.
These words made the young men present look at Gao Jin together. Everyone is a family friend. When they were young, they played together. Gao Jin was the oldest among the people. Usually, their father has often said that they would go to Shangdu to do things in the future.
"It's right. Since we choose the leader, we might as well compete to win the commander. Whoever is the best is the leader."
Wang Dou followed Chen Sheng's words, and then he was the first to get off the field and said to Gao Jin, "Second brother, Wang Dou asks you for advice."
Seeing Wang Dou challenge Gao Jin, everyone was shocked. Gao Jin was their elder brother since he was a child. He was better than them in martial arts practice or other things, as if Gao Jin was born to be their leader.
But when everyone was young and arrogant, even if they still regarded Gao Jin as the leader in their hearts, they always felt that they might not be much different from Gao Jin!
Wang Dou thought so in the past, but now he is not so sure, so he wants to play another game with Gao Jin and know the distance between him and Gao Jin.
"The swords and guns are eyeless..."
It’s not that Chen Sheng disagreed with the idea of fighting martial arts, but everyone is a military family and his abilities are all about weapons.
"I have brought all the wooden swords and wooden guns."
Wang Dou took the package he brought, shook it suddenly, and several wooden knives and guns made of wood fell to the ground.
"You have prepared for it!"
Chen Sheng looked at Wang Dou and smiled bitterly. Wang Dou was as aggressive as his name, and was also a martial arts fanatic. He used to be entangled in Gao Jin's competition, but he lost every time. He was not convinced after losing. He said that when he was older and had a longer strength, he could win over Gao Jin.
Gao Jin ended up taking the wooden sword. Wang Dou, like him, practiced both Qi's sword and large gun. However, there was a secret master of the big gun, and it was not easy to practice. Although Wang Dou knew the big gun, he was not as powerful as his sword skills.
Since you want to compete for the martial arts and win the coach, Gao Jin naturally has to win beautifully and cleanly, so that these friends can be convinced so that they can get along with each other in the future.
Wang Dou was not angry when he saw Gao Jin not taking the wooden gun. He knew that Gao Jin was powerful in using the gun. If Gao Jin really chose the wooden gun, he had no chance of winning. So he took the knife and then bowed to Gao Jin, "Second brother, please give me advice."
Gao Jin made the defensive move in Xinyou's sword technique and fought in succession outside the wall, which made his martial arts go beyond Chen Sheng and Wang Dou's friends of similar age. That was the gap in combat experience, and it could not be smeared by hard work.
Wang Dou took the initiative to attack, and he asked himself that this move forward attack made the thief extremely skillful. Among the young men, there were many who had practiced the Xinyou sword technique, and they could see that Wang Dou's movement was very good.
But what everyone could not imagine was that when facing Wang Dou's sword, Gao Jin just slid his way and avoided it. Then the wooden knife in his waist came first and hit Wang Dou's abdomen.
Gao Jin's sword was not heavy, but Wang Dou knew that if it was a real sword, it would take his life in a flash and he would have lost.
"I lost."
Wang Dou threw away the wooden knife very barely and gave up. When the other young men watched this scene, even if there were those who didn't like Wang Dou, they had to admit that Wang Dou could afford to lose and was a man.
After the Wang Dou, every young man came to compete with Gao Jin. No one could go through the three-way match under Gao Jin. Even Chen Sheng was the same. He competed with Gao Jin in spear skills, but the result was a winner. Before his wooden spear could touch Gao Jin, the person fell down.
During the competition, everyone looked at Gao Jin with admiration and awe, and they all were convinced and worshipped Gao Jin as the leader.
Gao Jin knew that although he was good at martial arts, everyone had practiced martial arts for many years, and the gap was not that big. The main reason was that he had a lack of practical experience. If he wanted to lead these friends to kill Zhang Gui, he would have to find ways to increase their practical experience, otherwise it would be too late when he really wanted to fight.
Just when Gao Jin was thinking about being out of the way, Chen Sheng grabbed a pheasant from somewhere and said to him, "Chief!"
Chapter completed!