General Qin

Pei County.

In ancient times, it was called Peize, and it got its name because of its vertical and horizontal water veins and lakes everywhere. However, in today's Chu State, this city is also called Peiyi, and it is managed by Pei Gong appointed by the King of Chu.

But now the Duke of Pei looked very panicked. He stood on the city wall of Peiyi and looked at the army outside the city in horror.

The black-armored army of thousands of people stood neatly outside the city, lined up in several square formations, lined with spears and halberds, full of chilling intent, it looked very scary at first glance.

"Pei Gong, the Qin army said that if the city gates are not opened within a quarter of an hour to surrender. When the city is broken, Pei Gong's... Pei Gong's head will hang on the city wall."

Hearing the message from the general under his command, Pei Gong swallowed, and involuntarily stretched out his hand to touch his neck.

He knew that a Qin army was coming from south to north, but he also knew that behind this Qin army was the tens of thousands of troops from Zuo Sima of Chu State who were chasing him.

According to Peigong's estimation, Zuo Sima should be able to catch up and destroy the Qin army near Liuyi, but there is a long distance there, and it will not affect his coming to Peiyi at all.

So Pei Gong was not flustered, it was just a crippled soldier, and the army led by the Lord General of Qin was wiped out by Shangzhu Kingdom, so how much trouble can these thousands of crippled defeated generals cause?

Although out of insurance considerations, he sent cavalry to patrol a few miles south of the city to prevent the Qin army from fleeing to Peiyi and causing chaos. But on weekdays, everything in Peiyi remains the same, and weddings and funerals are not prohibited.

Especially this morning when the son of the Liu family from Fengyi came to Yizhong to welcome the lady of the Lu family, because it was the local hero Wang Ling Fake, Pei Gong sent someone to send a congratulatory gift to save face.

Unexpectedly, only an hour after Liu's son picked up the bride, the cavalry guarding the south of the city discovered the arrival of a large number of Qin troops, and Pei Gong was so frightened that he quickly closed the city gate and ordered 500 guards in the city to stand on the wall for defense.

However, looking at the frightening Qin army battle formation outside the city, a question still popped up in Peigong's head.

What about Zuo Sima?

What about tens of thousands of troops?

Soon, the gate of Peiyi city opened.

Pei Gong walked out of the city gate tremblingly, and asked the Qin army to surrender.

No wonder other things, just because the Qin army showed the captured Zuo Sima banner of Chu State, as well as several flags of the Chu army led by thousands of people, and more than ten flags of hundreds of soldiers.

The blood-stained Chu flag shook Peigong's eyes sorely, what can he do if he doesn't surrender in this situation?

After a while, Zhao Tuo stood in the camp, looking at the Chu State Pei Gong who was kneeling in front of him, his fat head kowtowed and begged to surrender, his expression became strange.

Peigong?

This is a good title.

Zhao Tuo did not deliberately embarrass this "junior" who knows current affairs. While he ordered his soldiers to guard the gate of Peiyi, he also asked Pei Gong to bring food and clothing for the Qin army from the treasury in the city, as well as some medical treatment for injuries. Drug.

The Qin army fought in Surabaya, with many wounded, thousands of people. They walked all the way to Peiyi, and dozens of people failed to carry them on the way. This made Zhao Tuo very heartbroken, so he selected Peiyi. In addition to getting food, medicine and cloth to wrap the wound were all must-haves.

In addition, Zhao Tuo also seized nearly a hundred horses and dozens of chariots from the rich and wealthy homes in Peiyi for the wounded to rest and carry luggage. After all, there is still more than two hundred miles from Peiyi to Shanfu. They have to go for about ten days.

After finishing all the important matters, Zhao Tuo remembered that he came to Peiyi on this trip, and there was another person he wanted to meet, so he hurriedly summoned Pei Gong to ask him, but Zhao Tuo was shocked when he asked.

Liu Ji is getting married today?

Zhao Tuo was immediately confused, with question marks all over his face.

What's happening here?

Didn't Liu Ji marry a wife after the reunification of Qin State, after he became the head of the pavilion in Sishui?

Why is Liu Ji so young, he is only in his early thirties and is about to marry a wife?

And the target is Lu Zhi.

This made Zhao Tuo have a very strange feeling, why the time has been advanced so many years, and the two people still came together.

But Zhao Tuo immediately remembered the information he had learned when he was a single father.

Liu Ji coaxed Lu's family to move away from his single father and move to Peiyi. From then on, everything about Liu Ji seemed to have changed.

Could it be that the reason for this is because of himself?

"What a Liu Ji, it's interesting."

The corners of Zhao Tuo's mouth turned upwards. Now that he knew about Liu Ji's marriage today, he decided to go there even more.

Moreover, Fengyi is located between Shanfu and Pei County, so this trip happened to be on the way, so there was no need to detour.

After making a decision, Zhao Tuo didn't hesitate anymore, and after letting all the troops rest and eat in Pei County, they immediately set off in the direction of Fengyi.

Of course, before leaving, Zhao Tuo did not forget to take away the Duke Pei of Chu who surrendered in Kaesong.

After all, surrendering to the enemy country is considered a serious crime in the state of Chu. In order to prevent Peigong from being punished by the king of Chu, Zhao Tuo decided to be a good man to the end and invite him to the state of Qin to save his life.

Of course, Zhao Tuo can also get the merit of capturing a county magistrate of Chu State in this way, and he can record another sum in the credit book.

It's a win-win situation.

...

In Fengyi, the sun is approaching westward, and it is dusk.

The evening ceremony originated from the ancient ritual of robbing marriages with night as a cover.

Confucianism also believes that the marriage of men and women is a major event of the combination of yin and yang, which needs to be coordinated with the yin and yang of heaven and earth.

Therefore, since ancient times, Chinese wedding ceremonies have been held at dusk, until more than two thousand years later, the etiquette and customs from the West changed it to noon.

At this time, a grand evening ceremony was going on in Liu's mansion in Zhongyangli, Fengyi.

Taigong Liu was very happy.

His Liu's family background is actually quite good in Fengyi, with quite a small fortune, otherwise he wouldn't be able to afford the third child to idle around until he was thirty.

Compared with the diligent housekeeping of the eldest and the second child, and the studiousness of the fourth child, the third child Liu always makes Taigong Liu very worried, especially the marriage of the third child, which often makes him unable to sleep.

But now, his incompetent son went to Weidi for a tour, and unexpectedly abducted a rich man to Peiyi, and wanted to marry her young and beautiful lady, which made Liu Taigong feel more face.

Not to mention that Wangling, the hero of Peixian County, personally led all the rangers to come here to join in the show, making this evening ceremony even more lively and festive.

At this moment, all the rangers in Peixian County, Liu Ji's relatives and brothers, as well as friends such as Lu Wan and Chen Xi, all stood in the hall with smiles on their faces, watching the two newcomers on the main seat performing the ceremony of eating together in prison.

Liu Ji wears Xuanduan dress, black (zī) he (yì) 纁 (xūn) clothes, and red shoes.

Liu Ji's clothes have the elegance and nobleness of a scholar, but the cynical smile on his face gives people the feeling of a libertine.

Now is the critical moment of Huan Li, but he turns his head from time to time, showing a frivolous smile to the rangers.

Lady Lu is dressed in rán (rán) in pure clothes. This kind of clothes gives her a more solemn and luxurious temperament, but her immature and delicate face is expressionless and tense.

Between the two is a lacquered wooden zu (zǔ) with a lot of food on it.

Sauce made from snail meat, pickled spinach made from mallow vegetables, cured rice made from dried rabbits...

They will eat together, perform the ceremony of three meals, and then there will be a series of etiquettes such as joining together and eating together, which means that the couple will share joys and sorrows and love each other as one.

But now, when Liu Ji picked up a piece of Lazu and threw it into his mouth, while chewing his tongue, he noticed that the lady from the Lu family on the opposite side didn't move her chopsticks, her eyes stared blankly.

"Lady, please."

The admirers on the side hurriedly called out in a low voice.

Lady Lu came back to her senses, and hurriedly reached out to pick up a piece of cabbage with her chopsticks. This scene made Liu Ji look bad.

Naigong eats Lazu, but you go to pick up cabbage, what do you mean?

He let out a cold face, and the praisers on the side quickly reminded him in a low voice.

Only then did Lady Lu realize that she had made a mistake, so she hurriedly picked up another piece of Lazu, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it in small bites.

When the rangers below saw it, many of them burst out laughing.

"A gentleman eats meat, and a bride eats vegetables. It's inappropriate. It's not appropriate. Sooner or later, something will happen."

"Hey, wait until tomorrow, I will tear your mouths apart."

Liu Ji turned around and cursed.

Someone shouted: "When Nai Gong married a bride, Liu Ji was full of nonsense."

"Yes, yes, you also said that tomorrow you tore our mouths, you Liu Ji may not be able to get out of bed tomorrow, are you going to crawl over to find Naigong?"

Now, the rangers laughed even louder, and some even uttered obscene words.

This kind of behavior is quite common among rangers, Wang Ling and the others didn't stop them, but laughed along with them.

Only Liu's relatives were quite upset, and Liu Jiao, who likes Confucianism, even muttered: "A bunch of scumbags, they are indecent."

But intimidated by the behavior of those rangers, the Liu family dared not speak out, fearing that a dissuasion would make things worse. After all, once the rangers make a rush, they don't care about anything, and blood spattering on the spot is also possible. thing.

Amidst the bursts of laughter, Lady Lu's hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, and the newly picked food fell on the zu, her eyes couldn't help being blurred, already filled with tears.

Seeing this scene, Liu Ji became more and more upset, and said in his heart: "Cry, cry, let you cry louder at night."

Just when this evening ceremony was going on very embarrassingly, there was a sudden burst of exclamation outside the house, and the sound became louder and full of panic.

"What happened?"

Everyone, including Liu Ji, looked out of the house and pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what was shouting outside, Wang Ling even asked a few of his men to go out to check.

While everyone's attention was attracted by the sound outside the house, Lady Lu silently wiped away her tears, pursed her lips tightly, and her expression returned to calm.

She raised her head again and looked at the bearded man opposite who was looking sideways outside the house, feeling even more uncomfortable in her heart.

"Is this the man I will rely on for the rest of my life?"

At this moment, the ranger who went out to investigate just now shouted into the house and exclaimed, "It's the Qin army! The Qin army from Peiyi has already arrived two miles outside the city!"

"What!"

"Qin Jun, why do we have Qin Jun here?"

"Could it be the Qin army from the south? Doesn't it mean that our Chu army is chasing him and destroying him? Why did he come to my Fengyi?"

"The Qin army has already arrived in Fengyi, so did Peiyi also fall into their hands?"

All the rangers were shocked and shouted loudly.

Liu Ji, who was sitting by the side, heard their shouts, and his body trembled involuntarily.

Qin Jun?

Qin Jun!

The scenes of Waihuang City emerged in Liu Ji's mind. The soldiers of the Qin army were brave and fearless, and killed the Waihuang Wei people with a single charge, and took down the Waihuang city wall on the spot.

He and Zhang Er drove away, but were chased by the cavalry led by General Qin, who seemed to have expected it.

Liu Ji could even recall the appearance of that exceptionally young general of the Qin army wearing a board crown.

Fear instantly crawled all over Liu Ji's body, making his hair stand on end like a light on his back, as if those Qin people had laid their swords across his neck.

This is a death threat.

He even thought of Zhang Er whose head had been cut off. Even though he had never seen Zhang Er's corpse, the image of a headless corpse dripping with blood still appeared in his mind.

How cruel is the Qin army!

At this moment, an uncontrollable thought appeared in Liu Ji's mind.

"This Qin army came to Fengyi, isn't it to arrest me?"

He thought of the Confucianism that his younger brother Liu Jiao often said.

There is a sentence he likes very much, which is "He who knows his destiny does not stand under a rock wall."

Liu Ji didn't know the exact meaning, Liu Jiao seemed to have said it, but he forgot.

According to Liu Ji's own understanding, a smart person would not let himself stand under a dangerous wall, and would never let himself be in a dangerous situation.

And he, Liu Ji, is such a smart person.

"Everyone, sit down for a while. Before I go to the city, I, Liu Ji, will take a look at the movements of the Qin people for you. I will go back soon!"

Saying that, Liu Ji didn't wait for everyone's reaction, he left the bride and all the guests on the opposite side, and ran out in big strides. Before leaving, he didn't forget to take a sword.

In the hall, everyone was stunned, only Lu Wan reacted the fastest, he jumped up and ran out, shouting: "Ah Ji wait for me, let's go together."

At this time, everyone reacted.

Wang Ling shouted: "Qin people are approaching Fengyi. I don't know if it is a disaster? Liu Ji is a good man. He dares to investigate the Qin people. We will sit here and wait for the disaster to come. Second and third sons, come with me."

"Go, go with Liu Ji!"

In a blink of an eye, all the rangers rushed out of the house with their swords in their hands, leaving only the Liu family and the lady of the Lu family beside him with shocked faces.

A moment later, when Wang Ling led the crowd to the gate of the village, through the dim light of the sky, they could see countless black shadows approaching on the road a mile away. Thousands of them.

Wang Ling and the rangers suddenly took a deep breath.

At this time, a ranger called out.

"Hey, where's Liu Ji?"

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