After hearing what Dili said, the officer leaned down, narrowed his eyes, stared into the eyes of the old patriarch, and said with a sinister smile: "Master Patriarch, are you threatening me? You probably still know who we are?
Who is coming tomorrow?"
Dili translated truthfully, and the old woman did not show any timidity. She stared into the officer's eyes and said: "I heard that the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty was a great leader with generous rewards and punishments. I don't believe that he would be so treacherous and bully the weak! We won't.
Sacrificing any girl, as for food and grass, what my son just said is the limit of what we can offer. We have not committed any crime. If the general is not satisfied, just take me to Zhongjing for questioning!"
Seeing that his mother was so courageous, Dili also lost all cowardice and translated the words into Chinese in his mother's tone, but changed the word "Lao Shen" to "our mother and son".
I originally thought that the officer would think about it for a while, but unexpectedly, after a burst of laughter, the officer issued an order in a calm tone:
"Everyone listens to the order. The Keji clan has slandered our royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty and obstructed our army's westward march. Now they have tied the clan leader to a horse post outside the tent to await punishment. They also hanged her two sons in a conspicuous place outside the tent.
Find a tent to guard the other people in the tent, and don't give them anything to eat until all the food and grass are delivered. If the food and grass are not delivered before sunset tomorrow, the girl's weight will be used to offset the shortfall. Girl
If the portion is not enough, use the lives of the leaders in your account to make up for it. One pound is worth one pound!
Under twelve years old, no, all young women are also locked up in a tent. I will personally select a few tonight. Others who are not locked up will be given half an hour to leave the camp. If the notice is late, be careful about your leader.
Come on! Pang Ke, tell them exactly what I said."
Dili and Chanda had been restrained by the officers, and the old patriarch was even dragged out of the tent. Although Pang Ke had lived here for a long time and knew the Keji language, he could not speak it fluently, so he asked fearfully: "Sir
, can you say it again?”
Unexpectedly, he was kicked hard again. The officer said angrily: "Trash, just let them know what you mean! How dare you bargain for someone so weak?"
"Okay, let me tell you." Pang Ke finally stammered and spoke the officer's order in Keji language to the leaders of each camp in the tent, and then more than twenty people rushed from the big tent to another tent like animals.
The team of sergeants brought all the 200 people from the camp to the open space in front of the big tent. The young girls were separated, and the others were asked to immediately go to other camps to notify them of delivering food and grass, and sending girls to redeem their people.
A woman in the crowd with a baby in her arms saw Dili being hung up with her hands tied behind her back. She rushed out of the crowd like crazy and shouted: "General, general, please let them go!"
The officer waved to the men who were about to stop the woman to let them go. The woman rushed over and knelt down on her knees, saying: "General, I am the daughter of the governor of Yangquan County. I married here. I hope that the general will consider my father as an official of the court.
Let us go!"
The officer said: "Is that a girl you are holding? Very good. Which one are you marrying? Lift your head?"
The woman raised her head and said, "This is Dili, I will advise them to raise more food and grass..."
"She is quite handsome. If you don't marry a good Zhou native, how can you marry a barbarian? Sheriff? It seems that the governor of Xiazhou needs to investigate carefully. Why is there a county guard who is a collaborator with the enemy under him?" the officer smiled evilly.
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"Sir, my father has kicked me out of the house. You must not accuse him unjustly." The woman shouted, and the baby in her hand was so frightened that she started crying.
The officer looked to the left and right and said angrily: "Didn't you hear my order just now? Is the child in her arms a boy? Or is he middle-aged?"
A sergeant hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the child, and quickly threw it into the tent where the young woman was detained. Dili was so angry that he had a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth and could only struggle in vain in mid-air.
"I originally wanted to find someone from the Kyrgyz tribe, but I see that you are also to my liking, so you will accompany me tonight. If the service is good, I can consider taking you with me. We also need someone to take care of our daily life while we are traveling west." The officer said.
He smiled lewdly, then deliberately turned his head to look at Dili, who was about to go crazy, and said: "If you want to keep your wife and daughter, just do as I say!"
Seeing her husband in such pain, Dili's wife suddenly took out a pair of scissors from her sleeve and stabbed her neck violently. However, before anyone could react, the officer kicked her wrist and the scissors fell to the ground.
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"If you want to commit suicide again, I will kill your daughter and husband now." The officer sneered at the woman, and then watched the woman collapse weakly to the ground.
When the officer saw that no one left the nearly two hundred Keji tribesmen in front of the big tent, he said to Pang Ke: "Tell them to get out of here quickly. If they don't go to bring food and grass over, don't blame me for being rude."
Pang Ke could only repeat the officer's threat. After a commotion in the crowd, no one left. Perhaps realizing the crux of the problem, the officer stood up and propped up Dili's wife's face with his toes. After taking a look, he walked straight to the bed.
In front of the clan leader, he said: "Old woman, if you don't want the Keji clan to be destroyed in your hands, let them notify other camps!"
This time, without waiting for Pang Ke to translate, the old clan leader, who had been keeping his mouth shut, suddenly spoke a long series of words loudly to the clansmen in front of the tent. Those clansmen looked sad and seemed to be leaving.
Pang Ke was so anxious that he stamped his feet. The old lady spoke a little too fast and he only understood half of it. The officer noticed something was wrong and signaled to his men not to let anyone leave yet, and then asked Pang Ke to tell what the old patriarch said.
Pang Ke didn't dare to say that he didn't understand, so he could only stammer: "The patriarch said: pack your things, go to the camp, bring, bring food and grass, follow the two heroes who trapped Tianju, God Silver Dragon, bless you
.”
"Any more? She has said so much, do you understand it?" the officer frowned.
Pang Ke hurriedly said: "One more thing, one more thing, hurry up when it's dark, don't wait, you have to live... Sir, I understand this..."
The officer said to Pang Ke with a sullen face: "Ask the old woman who are the two heroes who trapped Tianju? Aren't they his sons?"
Pang Ke followed the order, but the old patriarch closed his eyes, ignored Pang Ke's questions, and fell into silence again.
The officer laughed ferociously and said: "Fight with me? Someone, bring the little girl you just carried in!"
"What are you going to do?" the woman who fell to the ground screamed loudly.
"Do you know what killing a thousand swords means? Tell me who is the hero of Tao Tianju? Did the old woman ask someone to notify other camps to escape? Tell me what the old woman just said. If you dare to lie to me, I will take your daughter from you.
Let me start with my husband and let you know what it means to kill a thousand swords." The officer took out the knife from his waist and threw it to a soldier who was carrying the little girl.
"Please let us go..." the woman cried and begged. The crowd crowded in the open space began to commotion, and some people wanted to rush towards the soldier who flashed a knife and gestured at the child's face.
But there was a sudden burst of blood. The soldiers watching the crowd saw someone rushing towards them. Without asking for instructions, they pulled out the slender scimitars from their waists and slashed them twice. They fell to the ground and one of them was injured in the thigh.
Another young man from the Kyrgyz ethnic group who was a little ahead was slashed with a knife from his neck and chest to his waist. Blood spurted out. He fell to the ground and twitched a few times before dying. There were cries and howls, but no one dared to act rashly!
The officer smiled proudly, grabbed the hair of the woman on the ground, dragged her to her husband, and then asked someone to bring the child with him. He put a short knife against the face of the child and Dili respectively, and then said: "
I’ll count to three, and if you don’t answer me honestly, I’ll start having people operate on you until you speak. One, two—”
"Chief, promise them." Someone in the crowd shouted, and then the tent where the leader was detained also heard the cry: "Chief, let's accept our fate." The old woman opened her eyes with difficulty and screamed at the top of her lungs.
He shouted: "We all promise you, let them go!" After saying this, he was so angry that he fainted.
Pang Ke understood all these words and said happily: "Sir, they have all agreed."
"Three!" the officer became more and more proud and said: "But the little lady still didn't speak. Do you think I am farting? One person still has to be scratched with a knife. The little girl is worthless if she scratches the knife, so let her go.
, his father took all the debt he owed, what do you think?"
The hoisted Dili nodded desperately, while the woman on the ground shook her head wildly, with tears flying down her cheeks to both sides. The crowd became commotion again, and the soldier standing next to Dili raised his dagger and swung it at Dili's cheek.
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Seeing He Qizhou and Xu Mu returning, the face of the Keji tribesman who led the way was both anxious and happy. Although they could not complete what Changda told them, if they were willing to sacrifice the two horses, maybe the tribe could escape.
After a moment of calamity, he followed the two of them and galloped away. However, the horses of the two were so steed that they tried their best to beat the horse, but soon they were far away...
"What should we do after we go back?" He Qizhou controlled the speed of his horse. His horse was much faster than Xu Mu's.
"Let's take a look at the situation first. If someone is really harmful to the Keji people, just fight them!" Xu Mu said.
"Okay!" He Qizhou replied. When the two of them were about a mile away from the camp, they dismounted and ran towards the camp. After running a few steps, they heard screams from the camp, followed by the group of tribesmen.
There was a loud cry, because everyone was circled into the open space in front of the big tent, and the outer tents were already empty.
The two sneaked into the camp quietly and could already see the clothes of the soldiers. Everyone had a one-foot-long yellow feather stuck on their helmets. Xu Mu said: "They are Helian Qingfeng's royal guards. That is
The most elite Yu Lin Guards in the Great Zhou Dynasty, I will try to get as close as possible, and you can find a place convenient for shooting and move randomly." After saying that, he used the cover of tents to sneak towards the big tent.