C140 While looting is in progress
Murong Fenghuang looked at his son's expression, and said somewhat mockingly: "A little brat like you, do you know what's called 'politics'?"
"Is the county governor still in the Fengyang County?" Gongsun Ztian pondered for a moment before asking again.
"It should be. According to the reprimand your father received, he did not say that he would be escorted to the capital." Murong Fenghuang thought for a while, then said with slight uncertainty.
"En!" Gongsun Ztian responded with a "yes" before sinking into deep thoughts. He did not say anything further.
On this trip to the Imperial Capital, he had long ago informed Canghai and Huang Quan about this. At the same time, he had let them be prepared for the Listening Rain Pavilion's forces to enter the capital at any time.
For the past few days, Gongsun Ztian had been thinking about entering the imperial city, so he had ignored the drought. Now, it seemed that the drought was quite serious and the empire had no time to deal with it.
The atmosphere in the carriage became heavy. No one was in the mood to continue joking around.
After a while, Gongsun Ze Tian could no longer hold it in and said: "Mother, your son will go out and see!"
With that, he jumped off the carriage, and Murong Fenghuang did not have time to stop him, as he could only shake his head helplessly.
There were dozens of people standing in front of Situ Family's convoy, and on both sides of the convoy were people holding all kinds of farm tools. This stance clearly showed that their own convoy was surrounded.
Before Gongsun Zaitian could reach the front, he heard the leader of the robbers say: "I ? I... We. Come ? Fight... Fight... "Fight..." After that, this old bro didn't even have time to 'play' all the way to the end.
"Robbing!" someone added.
"Right, fight ?" Robbing! Release ? Release ? Put it down... Wealth ? "Wealth ?" This fellow continued with his' wealth '.
"Property," the man added.
"I say, can you find someone who can slip away and rephrase it?" The one who spoke out was Murong Kuanglong, he was almost amused by him, with just these few few people dared to rob him, it was simply 'I want money but not my life', the most speechless thing is that he was a stuttering person, a person who stuttered to make the opening remarks, is he someone who wants to be robbed?
"Humph!" A cold snort came from the back of the group of robbers. Although the voice was cold enough, it was obviously made by a woman.
The robbers automatically opened up a passage. A lady in white rode a red horse and slowly came to the front of the team.
This woman's white clothes fluttered, her figure was long and slender, plus a cold 'humph' just now, although cold, she still couldn't suppress that beautiful voice, but the only regret was that this woman covered her face with a white veil, making it impossible to see her face. However, just from these words, one could determine that she was a beauty.
"I don't know who you are, but I need food and money. These are not worth mentioning to officials like you, but to us, they are existences that can save lives. As long as you leave money and food, I promise I won't hurt you, what do you say?" The woman's voice was clear, but it was still as cold as ever. Although they were discussing the content of the words, Ye Xiao could feel a sense of irresistibility in his tone.
"Haha, you little girl, you are so funny. You want us men to surrender? Yet, you think you can think of something like that! " The one who spoke was Murong Badao, also Gongsun Zaitian's grandfather.
It could be said that Gongsun Zaitian had experienced this grandfather's way of handling matters. The moment he said those words, it was as if they were about to start a fight. Could it be that this grandfather of his wanted to start a war?
"Father, have you forgotten your sister's request? It's best if you don't say anything! " Murong Kuanglong covered his face, with a painful expression. It seems that this was not the first time he had encountered his father's method of creating an awkward situation.
"Oh, oh, I forgot when I was excited!" Murong Badao's words made Gongsun Ze Tian have the urge to bury himself in a pit.
"This hero, I am the patriarch of Situ Family, Situ Qingtian, I will not stay, but I will do my best to help, so there is no problem." Situ Qingtian, who was at the side, could not watch any further and quickly spoke up.
"I want everything!" That woman unquestionably named her price.
"Then there's nothing to discuss?" Murong Badao said again.
"Father, let's just go secretly and let your brother-in-law settle this!" Murong Kuanglong advised again.
"... Hmph, got it! " Murong Badao was a little unhappy. Originally, he was already very unhappy from being robbed, but now he could not even talk about it.
"Hehe, this female hero, do you think that by relying on you, you can loot all of our possessions? Even if your martial arts is powerful, I'm afraid that the people behind you will find it hard to block the attack of my family's guards? " Situ Qingtian said while laughing loudly.
"This... I still insist on everything! " The woman clearly hesitated, but after thinking for a moment, she resolutely asked for more.
"I can ask the heroine, why are you so insistent? Even if the people you brought with you die with you? " Situ Qingtian asked in confusion.
"No comment, if not, let's fight!" This time, the woman replied without any hesitation. It was as if she had made a decision that she would rather die than turn back.
"If my guess is correct, then you have something to hide!" Once he said that, everyone was slightly stunned. The one who spoke was a five-year-old child.
This person was none other than Gongsun Ze Tian. He had heard all the conversations and then looked at the surrounding farmers. Although they were a little scared and their bodies were trembling a little, their expressions showed that they were ready to die.
"..." The woman did not deny it, but neither did she admit it. Although she looked at the little boy in confusion, it was only doubt. Her heart was set on things like money and food.
"You don't talk, I can guess. If I'm not wrong, you don't want to rely on looting to get food and money, but this bunch of farmers are the ones who really want to rob. But how could a group of farmers have the guts to rob a large caravan? " Gongsun Ztian calmly said. His confident manner suddenly shocked everyone present.
"..." No one said a word as they listened to Gongsun Zaitian recount his conjecture.
"I don't think the reason is as simple as you bringing them here, right?" Gongsun Ztian looked at the woman in amusement.
"..." However, the woman still did not reply.
"Let me not talk about my guess, how about we play a little game?" Gongsun Ztian smiled. At this moment, everyone was focusing on him. He quickly controlled the tempo of the entire arena.
"What little game is this? I want to take a look too!" Murong Fenghuang carried Situ Lan Er and walked up. She glanced at the white clothed female for a second, and then spoke while cooperating with her son.
"Mother, watch from the side." Gongsun Ze Tian gave his mother a look before waving his hand for the guard leader to come to his side.
The guard leader was puzzled, and did not dare to move, his eyes looking at Patriarch Situ Qingtian, who had never seen his son's performance before, and was even more confused, thus Situ Qingtian turned to look at his own wife, hoping to know something from her.
But he was disappointed. Situ Qingtian saw nothing else other than a slight tiredness in his wife's eyes.
"I'll listen to Little San's arrangements!" Without waiting for Situ Qingtian to speak, Murong Fenghuang spoke first.
"Yes sir!"
The leader came to Gongsun Zaitian's side. Gongsun Zaitian motioned for him to lean over and whispered a few words into Gongsun Zaitian's ear. Then, the leader left Gongsun Zaitian and walked towards the back of the convoy.
This action confused everyone. They had no idea what this young master wanted to do.
"First Uncle, I'll have to trouble you to go meet this white-clothed female hero alone!" Gongsun Zaitian told Murong Kuanglong who was at the side in a clear voice.
With Gongsun Zaitian's superb mental power and knowledge, he could easily judge that Murong Kuanglong's abilities were slightly above the lady in white. In a one on one battle, he was afraid that Murong Kuanglong would not even need a hundred rounds to completely win.
"Cough cough, do you dare to fight my uncle alone? If you fail, you will only die by yourself, and this will save the trouble of bringing these people down with you. What do you think?" Gongsun Ze Tian tried to persuade the lady in white.
"And if I win?" The woman asked.
"Then, how about following your conditions?" Gongsun Ztian said indifferently.
"Alright, let's do it!" The woman was straightforward. She placed one hand on the saddle and leaped up, then steadily landed on the field between the two groups.
"Haha, good, I'll come meet you then!" In this regard, his first uncle was truly a good son of the Murong Family.
The two of them quickly began to fight without wasting any time on idle chatter. Murong Kuanglong used a large blade, his movements extremely powerful and mighty, the wind generated by the blade causing sand to fly in all directions, after a few rounds, the dust and dirt in the center of the area were all swept up.
"It's such a waste not sweeping the streets!" Gongsun Ztian commented to himself.
As for the woman, she was actually using short, sharp, and exceptionally agile Emei Thorns. However, Gongsun Zaitian knew that this woman was adept at using soft weapons, such as whips or flexible swords.
The two of them fought back and forth, and the battle was extremely intense. Murong Kuanglong used his long blade to suppress his opponent. On the other hand, the lady was like a small boat in the middle of a raging wave, relying on her agile body, she avoided the slash of the big blade a few times, and even relied on the sharpness and strangeness of the Emei Spike to create trouble for Murong Kuanglong.
Soon, fifty rounds had passed. The two were on the verge of splitting up into the upper and lower ranks. With a sweep of Murong Kuanglong's blade, he forced back the woman who was trying to get close, and after the woman dodged the blade's sweep, she immediately flipped over and attacked Murong Kuanglong's next three moves.
Murong Kuanglong laughed, he did not mind at all, and the blade aura suddenly changed from a horizontal to a vertical slash. However, the woman could not avoid the attack. She crossed her arms and tried to block the sword's slash.
Just this time, the woman's hand felt a wave of numbness. "What a heavy force!" The woman couldn't help but be surprised.
He had used all of his strength to forcefully lift the blade he had suppressed. When the blade was slightly raised, the woman quickly moved, and instead of retreating as expected, she rushed towards Murong Kuanglong, releasing the two Emei Thorns in her hands and brandished them out of her hands as though they were hidden weapons. Murong Kuanglong's face was filled with shock.
Just at that moment, Murong Kuanglong used Iron Bridge Technique and barely dodged the Emei's sneak attack, but he was still injured by his left arm.
But before she could finish, the woman removed the white ribbon from her waist. One end of the ribbon was in her hand and on the other end hung a bell made of unknown metal.
As for her other hand, she actually touched her waist. After a flash of cold light, a white sword hilt and a thin, long sword appeared in her right hand.
This time, Murong Kuanglong was a little dumbfounded. After going through that dangerous situation just now, Murong Kuanglong stopped looking down on them and started to seriously fight the opponent in front of him.