Thank you sir, he is still outputting!

Qiu Jing naturally couldn't let Xie Zhao have an accident.Hearing the captain's words, before he had time to calm down the anger of being betrayed by his colleagues for many years, he watched the captain's hand forcefully, and the blood on Xie Zhao's neck soon oozes out.

This is Mrs. Xiao Xie, the emperor's favorite literary champion, the only descendant of the Xie family!

Qiu Jing was angry and impatient, so he could only ask someone to push Peng Yong over, while staring at the knife in the captain's hand, and shouted anxiously: "If you have something to say, please put down the knife in your hand first. Don't hurt Master Xiao Xie!"

Seeing that Peng Yong had already arrived at the captain's side, Qiu Jing hurriedly said: "Peng Yong has already been handed over to you, let Master Xiao Xie go!"

how can that be.

The captain is not a fool, he thinks he has no ability to escape with Peng Yong under the eyes of the seven thousand garrison troops.For him, Xie Zhao is the best hostage in the world.With Xie Zhao, he and Peng Yong could escape.

The captain sneered, picked up the rope at the side and tied Xie Zhao's hands tightly behind his back.

He pulled the rope and forcefully pulled Xie Zhao forward.

Xie Zhao was pulled forward by the sudden force, staggered a few steps, and almost fell to the ground.

He stabilized his figure, raised his head and saw the corner of the captain's mouth hooked up, and smiled mockingly at Qiu Jing: "Master Qiu, don't lead people to catch up with us. If you rashly lead people to follow us, when I find out, you will be killed." It's the day Master Xie died."

This lunatic!

Qiu Jing gritted his teeth with hatred, but he had nothing to do with the captain, he could only watch helplessly as he and Peng Yong disappeared into the night with Xie Zhao.

Tongzhi timidly stepped forward and asked Qiu Jing in a low voice, "Lord Qiu, do we want to send someone to follow?"

"Follow what? Didn't you listen to what he just said!"

Qiu Jing blushed and was furious: "Everyone, hurry up and find a solution! If something happens to Mr. Xie, I'll see how everyone will explain it to the Holy Majesty!"

Xie Zhao at this end was dragged by the captain and hurried over several hills.Thinking that the people behind him would never catch up again, the captain took a breath and tied Xie Zhao to the tree.

He knelt down, looked at Xie Zhao, lost his arrogance in front of Qiu Jing just now, and instead apologized to Xie Zhao in a soft voice, "Master Xie has been wronging us for two or three days."

Xie Zhao sensed sensitively that he didn't really want to really hurt himself.

The wound on his neck was still aching, he leaned back, and he was still interested in joking with the captain: "Since you know you have wronged me, then let me go now."

The captain got up and smiled dumbly: "Don't be joking. If we want to escape from Quzhou safely, we have to rely on you for a few more days."

It looks like he will be a hostage for a few more days.

Xie Zhao heard the meaning behind his words, couldn't help but sighed helplessly, and stopped talking.

Standing beside the captain, Peng Yong, who had been silent since he was rescued, asked dissatisfiedly, "Why did we bring such a burden when we ran for our lives? Rather than hijacking this little boy, it would be more useful to hijack that old fellow Qiu Jing."

"Little white face?"

The captain looked into Peng Yong's eyes and mocked: "Do you know that the reason why your bandit den was taken away is all thanks to this little boy?"

Peng Yong was full of disbelief.

He asked Xie Zhao: "You also came up with the dirty method that took me three days and three nights?"

Xie Zhao said modestly, "Hey, it's ugly if it's slanderous or not."

Peng was very courageous, held back his anger and continued to ask his last doubt: "There is only one way up the mountain, but that road has been blocked, where did you go up the mountain from?"

"There is more than one way up the mountain."

Xie Zhao said frankly, "Actually, there is a secret passage in the mountains."

"Impossible, we didn't even know there was a secret passage after staying for so long!"

Peng Yong narrowed his eyes and looked at Xie Zhao: "How do you know?"

Xie Zhao shut his mouth and did not speak.

How did he know?Of course, it all depended on the topographical map that Pei Shaonan sent him.

Peng Yong doesn't necessarily have to get to the bottom of it, it's good to know that the person in front of him is the culprit.Knowing that he has fallen to this point because of this person in front of him, he stretched out his hand cursingly, about to slap Xie Zhao on the face.

"I beat you to death, you meddling son of a bitch!"

"Snapped--"

A loud slap sounded.

It's just that it wasn't Xie Zhao who was beaten, but Peng Yong himself.

He didn't expect that he would be beaten for a moment, but when the right side of his cheek was burning hot and the smell of blood came out of his mouth, he realized what had just happened belatedly.

Peng Yong spat out the blood foam in his mouth, only felt that this slap was so hard that his right ear was buzzing now.He smiled at the expressionless captain, this smile was a bit cold: "You hit me?"

"Falling grass is a bandit and has no shame."

The captain put his hands behind his back, and no one noticed that his fingertips were trembling.

His face was as cold as ice, staring at the crazy-looking Peng Yong, he said slowly: "Ah Yong, you deserve this slap."

"What do I deserve?"

After hearing this, Peng Yong repeated it several times and laughed hoarsely.His eyes were red, and he smiled sarcastically: "You despise me as a bandit, why don't you ask me why I can't live a good life, but instead take the risk and become a bandit? If it weren't for the people from the imperial court pressing on every step of the way, I and the five thousand How did the miners fall to this point!"

Peng Yong was enlisted to be a miner that year.

He originally planned to dig iron mines for a few years when he was young, earn some small money, and then go home to marry a wife and have children to live his own life.Being a miner is considered to be working for the imperial court, not to mention digging iron ore for making weapons, so the wages are naturally more than farming.

In fact, in the first few years when Peng Yong was a miner, he was quite satisfied with his life.

Although it takes six or seven hours to dig iron ore every day, at least he has enough sleep time and enough food.The clerk who oversees the work is also a gentle person. He often talks and laughs with them. Sometimes if a miner is too tired and lazy for a while, the clerk will turn a blind eye.

But three years ago, people from the Ministry of War brought new orders, saying that they would increase the workload and drive out a batch of huge weapons as soon as possible.

The original clerk disappeared, and was replaced by another vicious supervisor sent by the Ministry of War.

At that time, Peng Yong, who was 21, saw for the first time what purgatory on earth is.

Wages haven't risen much, but the work to be done is much more than before.Peng Yong started work every day at Yin time and ended at midnight, so he could only sleep for two hours a day at most.

If someone was unable to bear the sleepiness and dozed off during the day, the supervisor would sneer and slam down the whip soaked in salt water until the skin was torn apart, and he would never dare to be lazy again.

Everyone dared not speak out.

In such dark days, Peng Yong and other miners worked for a whole year.

During this year, everyone was so thin that their cheeks were sunken.At first, the skin was painfully burned by the scorching sun, but after a lot of sun exposure, I gradually got used to the temperature.

Peng Yong gets up numbly every day, digs in numbness, and then watches the supervisor beat a miner severely with a whip again one day in numbness.

In the ear was the desperate and ferocious hoarse voice of the miner who was regarded as a punching bag.

A dignified seven-foot man was beaten so helplessly by the supervisor that he knelt on the ground with his head in despair and howled loudly.

He seemed to be crazy. In the end, the overseer stopped beating him with a whip, but he clenched his fists and beat his head hard, again and again, as if he wanted to smash his head, crying: "It's better to die!" Death! Life is worse than death! You scum, make life worse than death!"

He was in agony, weeping, crying without dignity.

When Peng Yong woke up the next day, someone told him that the miner who had been beaten yesterday had died.

It is said that he was too tired and his mood fluctuated too much yesterday, so he died suddenly.

The overseer indifferently ordered him to be buried in a random place, then picked up the whip and continued to whip the next person.Peng Yong on the side held the shovel firmly in his hand, and hearing the cries in his ears, his heart that was originally dead and numb suddenly beat faster.

He thought, will he be the next person to be buried in the soil?

When the shovel hit the supervisor's neck, Peng Yong's mood was unexpectedly relaxed.

Looking coldly at the overseer with a blushing face and dying, Peng Yong turned to face the other miners, and said only one sentence: "Anyone who doesn't want to be a beast, come with me."

After a brief silence, the five thousand miners in the mine all made a choice—follow him.

Peng Yong took these 5000 people to the mountains near Quzhou City, became bandits, and then began to blackmail Qiu Jing.Seeing Qiu Jing being forced to cut down on food and clothing helplessly, Peng Yong didn't feel any sympathy.

He even felt a little relieved: these officials are all colluding, so there is nothing good about it.

Even though he was taken away by someone now, seeing that he was about to live a wandering life of fleeing, Peng Yong never regretted what he did in the past two years.

"If we hadn't turned against each other, how would you see me again now?"

Peng Yong sneered: "So don't make the expression that you have to save me and do something against the original for me. I don't think I did anything wrong."

The captain twitched his lips, but he still didn't say anything.

When the two were confronting each other silently, Xie Zhao's voice suddenly sounded from the side.

"...Sorry to interrupt."

Seeing that he couldn't escape for the time being, Xie Zhao found a comfortable position and sat on the ground leaning against a tree.

His right foot was bent, and his blue gown was stained with a lot of dust.With his movements, the hem of his clothes undulated, revealing a little shadow of the black boots under the robe, and quickly covered everything up.

Xie Zhao looked at the captain, seemed embarrassed to interrupt the conversation between the two, tilted his head and asked curiously: "What's the relationship between you two?"

"We are brothers, brothers of our own people."

Without the brothers whose parents should support each other.

The captain suppressed his complicated emotions and looked at Xie Zhao: "Allow me to introduce myself to Mr. Xie again—my name is Peng Shen, and I am Peng Yong's brother."

A brother who is a thief and a soldier?

Xie Zhao raised his eyebrows.

Peng Shen saw his doubts, and explained: "I persuaded Ah Yong to change his ways, but he chose to go all the way to the dark, and he still felt that I and Mr. Qiu were in the same boat..."

He pursed his lips, "When he started blackmailing Mr. Qiu two years ago, I severed ties with him."

Different ways do not conspire with each other, Peng Shen originally planned to ignore Peng Yong any more.

But today, seeing Peng Yong knelt on the ground after being subdued, and looked over with a pair of angry eyes, he still made a move—it was not easy for him to climb from a commoner to the position of Captain, and it took him eight hours. Years before it achieved its current status.

But on this day, between his younger brother's life and his future, he still chose his younger brother.

Why is the bandit leader actually the younger brother of the captain?

Xie Zhaozhen felt that he was unlucky.

He didn't intend to talk about these anymore, and turned to talk about other things with Peng Yong: "Although you may feel that I am trying to quibble, I still want to say one thing - the imperial court has not issued an order to rush to manufacture weapons."

Xie Zhao had never heard of a war where so many weapons had to be rushed out.And as far as he knew, Quzhou was not responsible for the supply of weapons on the border.

So in this case, why does the Ministry of War force miners to work all day to make weapons?

Under Peng Yong's stunned expression, Xie Zhao shrugged and expressed his thoughts: "So, it is very likely that this is an order secretly issued by someone from the Ministry of War."

And the person who can issue such an order must not be low in status.Reminiscent of Wan Xu's plausible warning before his departure and Cheng Wang's dissuasion in the hall, Xie Zhao vaguely felt that he had understood something.

If everything is as expected, then the capital is really about to rise.

Xie Zhao heaved a long sigh when he thought of the things he might face after returning to Beijing.He met Peng Yong's gaze, and said in a good voice, "You let me go back, and I'll go back to Beijing to help you find the person behind it, what do you think?"

Peng Yong looked at his soft-skinned and soft-spoken appearance, and there was a bit of sarcasm in his eyes.

He squatted in front of Xie Zhao, and grinned sarcastically: "If it was really done by those high-ranking officials in the imperial court, just because of you, a brat, what ability do you have to knock people down?"

It's not right to judge a book by its covers.

Xie Zhao glanced at him reproachfully, resisting the desire to tell him about his past achievements, lifted his chin lightly, and said with a snort, "What's the point? Just because I'm from Yushitai."

Xie Zhao thought, when it comes to impeaching people, their Yushitai is a professional.

Peng Yong didn't know Xie Zhao's ability.

In his opinion, all the officials in Dayu are not good people, and the young and handsome civil official in front of him is the same.What he said at this moment was just to deceive him into trust and let them let him go.

Thinking about it this way, before Peng Shen next to him could react, Peng Yong's hand had already strangled Xie Zhao's neck.

He exerted force on his hands, ready to appreciate the embarrassment of the person in front of him with a bruised face: "—Unfortunately, I don't believe you."

Peng Shen on the side frowned fiercely, and said hastily, "Ayong, let go of Mr. Xie!"

Peng Yong has nothing now, even if he can still listen to Peng Shen's warning?

The humiliation, helplessness, and resentment he had suffered in the past few years came to his heart at the same time. He had lost his mind, and could only stare fiercely at Xie Zhao in front of him.Gradually, the face of the handsome young man in front of him began to overlap with that of the whip-wielding supervisor many years ago.

They are all Dayu officials, oppressive scum

Peng Yong's breathing gradually increased.

The strength in his hands increased, and he smiled ferociously, he was already moved to strangle people to death!

At this moment, something cold and sharp suddenly touched his waist.

Peng Yong woke up suddenly, stopped his movements, the veins on his forehead were throbbing, but he couldn't speak.

The night is cold as water.

The young civil servant who cut the rope at some point looked at him with a smile.Under the icy moonlight, the young civil servant who was defined by him not long ago as "spoiled and spoiled" had a bright smile, but there was no emotion in his eyes.

The sharp dagger was pressed against Peng Yong's waist, and the hand holding the dagger was white and slender, without trembling at all.

Whose hand is this, of course Peng Yong knows.

The breeze blows the leaves, and the broken shadows of the trees are reflected on the ground.

Xie Zhao met Peng Yong's gaze, and asked with a smile, "Guess, is it the faster that the fingers strangle the neck, or the faster the dagger enters the abdomen?"

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