Zhu Nao

As the sun rises, the birds in the forest begin to sing.At the beginning, two or three birds whispered tentatively, and soon more birds joined in, and the clear and crisp singing in the whole forest came and went.

The dew slid from the leaves and dripped onto the top of the head and heart of the person lying on the ground, and the chill spread from the scalp to the whole body.

"Ah...ahhhhhhhh!" One person sneezed coldly.

The sound of sneezing spread through the crowd like the singing of birds, rising and falling among the grass, accompanied by the sound of snot, coughing and yawning.

One person climbed up to Liu Heishan and asked, "Village Master, it's already dawn, will the Xiang soldiers come?"

Liu Heishan's face was gloomy, and his eyes were bloodshot.He got up from the grass and looked down the mountain.All I saw was peace and tranquility in the wilderness, where did the Xiang army to suppress the bandits come from?In any case, the night raid was out of the question.

Watched empty all night, but finally rushed to empty.Liu Heishan was puzzled and annoyed at the same time, so he kicked the big tree next to him to vent his anger.Dew fell from the tree in an instant, causing the bandits hiding around to gasp. Liu Heishan himself was also covered in cold dew, and couldn't help shivering.

He said in a bad mood: "Leave thirty people to continue guarding, and the rest go back to rest first."

After dawn, the field of vision is broadened, and people coming down the mountain can be seen from a distance, so there is no need to be so heavily guarded.

So the people in the grass stood up slowly, the people in the trees slowly climbed down, and people dragged their stiff limbs and walked towards the camp.Liu Heishan himself was tired and sleepy, so he went back to catch up on sleep while holding back the fire.

It's a pity that he couldn't make up for this sleep.He had just lay down for an hour or two when someone knocked on the door and woke him up.

"Village Master, Zhou Tian patrolling is here!"

Liu Heishan was woken up, and the anger that had just subsided a little bit rose up again.He turned over and jumped off the bed, and said coldly, "Bring him up to me!"

Not long after, Zhou Tianxun was brought to Liu Heishan by several bandits.

As soon as they met each other, before they could speak, Zhou Tianxun suddenly wrinkled his facial features and his mouth gradually opened; Liu Heishan wanted to curse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt his nose itchy.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

The two sneezed fiercely almost at the same time, splashing each other's face with saliva.

The pair of suffering brothers wiped their faces each, and only then did they have the time to look at each other.Both of them were haggard, their eyes were black and their faces were sallow, obviously they didn't sleep well last night.Zhou Tianxun was even worse. He slipped out after the regular meeting of the state capital in the morning, and rushed all the way here. When he dismounted too quickly, he fell and rubbed himself with yellow mud.

Liu Heishan originally planned to scold Zhou Tianxun severely, but when he saw Zhou Tianxun's miserable appearance, he became angry again.He frowned and said, "What's the matter with you? Didn't you say that Xiang soldiers were going to attack the mountain last night?"

Zhou Tianxun sniffed his nose, and said angrily, "Our state shepherd is simply a lunatic..."

Liu Heishan was baffled.

Zhou Tianxun then repeated what he heard from Yu Changming last night to Liu Heishan: "The state shepherd said that the Mid-Autumn Festival is not suitable for military action, so he temporarily changed the plan and canceled last night's action. I was also in the box yesterday. I have been guarding outside the barracks all day, and I didn't hear about it until night."

Liu Heishan couldn't believe it: "It's not appropriate to go to war during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Huh???" Then why did the state government decide to suppress bandits on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival?Did this Mid-Autumn Festival suddenly fall from the sky? ?

Before he could scold his mother, Zhou Tianxun was more outraged than him: "Zhu Zhoumu is absolutely absurd! Is it a joke to suppress bandits? How can you change as you say? Such a person can become a state shepherd! Absurd, absurd, absurd!"

Liu Heishan was dumbfounded.

He planned for seven days, and more than two hundred people in the whole village didn't sleep all night, and in the end, it was all for nothing because of this nonsense?This matter was so absurd that his first reaction was not even angry, but ridiculous.Then the anger gradually came to my heart.But he couldn't rush to the state capital to beat up Zhu Nao. In the end, he could only kick the chair viciously, and the chair fell apart.

"Then what is the plan of the state capital now?" Liu Heishan asked holding his breath.

Zhou Tianxun said with a headache: "I didn't sleep last night. I slipped out to deliver a letter to you as soon as the gate of the city opened in the morning, just to remind you that after last night, you must not take it lightly. They are likely to be killed tonight." Do it!"

Liu Heishan's eyes straightened instantly: "What?!"

The brothers on the mountain didn't sleep all night yesterday, how dare you have a sleepless night tonight?

He hurriedly said: "Are you sure? Will you really come tonight? It won't change again, right?"

Zhou Tian Xundao: "Yu Changming said so. But if the weather is bad tonight, it may be tomorrow night..."

Liu Heishan was taken aback for a moment, and then flew into a rage: "Whether tonight or tomorrow night, you make it clear! Do you know what it's like for me to lie on the grass all night for nothing?!"

Zhou Tianxun was yelled at by him, and he said aggrievedly: "How dare I play you? It's not easy for me... I'm just a petty official, I can only inquire about news, but I can't be the master of the state capital. Even the news I also risked my life to inquire about it. Even Yu Changming can't do anything about Zhu Zhoumu's decision, so what can I do?"

He was wronged so sincerely, Liu Heishan glared at him a few times irritably, but finally did not make things difficult for him anymore.

Liu Heishan still believed what Zhou Tianxun said.For more than half a year, Zhou Tianxun revealed to him many movements in the state capital.When the state government wanted to recruit him, Zhou Tianxun found out the state's bottom line early and told him.So he sat on the ground and raised the price all the way, and the state government really compromised again and again.It's a pity that just when Zhao'an was about to be settled, a rebellion happened in Tulangzhai, which made the wealth he almost got wasted.Not only that, he knew where all of Zhou Tianxun's family lived, and if Zhou Tianxun dared to have a second opinion on him, he could kill all his family members, even though Zhou Tianxun didn't have the guts to lie to him.

Liu Heishan could only scold the [-]th generation of Zhu Nao's ancestors in his heart, and said angrily: "I know. I will make preparations tonight."

Zhou Tianxun nodded again and again: "Then I'll go back first. People will suspect me if I leave for too long."

Liu Heishan waved his hands weakly: "Go. Keep an eye on it, and let me know if you have any news."

Zhou Tianxun hurriedly turned around and went down the mountain.

After Zhou Tian patrolled, how could Liu Heishan still sleep?Quickly send someone to inform, the state government is likely to take action tonight, so that everyone can continue to prepare for the ambush at night.

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It's three quarters.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, the officials in the second hall were a little lazy, and they just waited for the time to go back to rest.Zhou Tianxun was restless in his position.

While he was so sleepy that he wanted to doze off, his nerves were tense at the same time. His body felt tight and his heart felt even more uncomfortable.

It's almost midnight, if the Xiang soldiers are going to act tonight, they should start now.Have you set off yet?Why is the state capital so peaceful?How long will it take for the news of the soldiers to reach the state capital?It's almost time for a bath, so he can go out and have a look.

He couldn't sit still like a needle in his buttocks.At this moment, footsteps sounded at the entrance of the hall, and everyone looked up to see that it was Zhu Nao who had come.

When Zhou Mu came to check, all the officials cheered up immediately, and those who had jobs but not jobs hurriedly found some jobs to do, so as to show that they were conscientious.For a while, the atmosphere in the second hall became busy and tense again.

Zhou Tianxun also quickly took out some official documents and prepared to copy them, but his mind was blank, and the pen was hanging on the paper, and he didn't stop for a long time.

Zhu Nao paced slowly in the hall, inspecting everyone's official duties.He gradually approached Zhou Tianxun, Zhou Tianxun felt guilty, didn't dare to lift his head, and started writing randomly on paper, pretending to be serious.

The sound of footsteps reached his ears, but suddenly stopped.

Zhou Tianxun's heart skipped a beat, he quickly put down his pen, and looked up at Zhu Nao: "... Zhou Mu."

Zhu Nao tilted his head and looked at him for a moment, then wondered: "Zhou Xuntian, why do you look so haggard? Could it be that you didn't sleep well last night?"

Zhou Tianxun said dryly: "It's okay." Not only did he not sleep well last night, he didn't sleep at all.Today, I have been rushing for half a day. If I don't have worries in my heart at this moment, I am afraid that I will fall asleep early.

Zhu Nao said: "What do you mean by luck? Could it be that you didn't rest well at home last night?"

Zhou Tianxun was startled, and immediately looked up at Zhu Nao.Zhu Nao was also looking at him, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zhou Tianxun was terrified. He didn't know what Zhu Nao meant. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and he stammered, "No, no. I, I..."

Before he finished speaking, someone beside him laughed teasingly and said: "Zhou Mu, yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, a good day for reunion. Tian Xun is a family man, and I am afraid that he had a good 'reunion' with his wife last night. Bar?"

The crowd burst into laughter.

These nasty words saved Zhou Tianxun's siege.He raised the corner of his mouth in embarrassment: "Ah... um..."

"Oh? So that's the case." Zhu Nao smiled slightly, and said, "That's understandable. But life is still long, and we should take a longer view, so why rush to exhaust the source? Zhou Tian Xun, do you think so?"

There was another snicker all around.It doesn't matter if Zhu Zhoumu doesn't get close to women himself, but he can still manage his married life?Isn't it normal for young men and women to be full of vigor and lust?When Zhuzhou Mu himself meets his sweetheart one day, let's see if he will also "exhaust the source".

Zhou Tianxun couldn't laugh.Not only could he not laugh, but he also felt a chill invade his body, and the hairs on his neck stood on end.I don't know if he has a guilty conscience, but he obviously found that there was something in Zhu Nao's words...

Zhu Nao didn't say anything more, went around the second hall and walked away slowly.

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The sun sets and the sun rises.

On Baita Mountain.

Liu Heishan got up from the grass, but before he could stand still, he felt dizzy for a while.He staggered for two steps, and finally stood still while leaning on the knife.

One night passed, another white guard.

The bandits came out of their ambush one after another, everyone looked depressed and listless.Several people were unable to walk steadily and had to support each other.

Nine days ago, they learned the news that the state capital was about to attack Baita Mountain, and they began to deploy and train nervously.Time is very tight, they have not had a good rest.Some timid people have been unable to eat or sleep since nine days ago—although most of the people in this black mountain village are murderers and arsonists, but in the past they slaughtered unarmed civilians, but now they want to fight with the outside world How can you not be nervous when fighting in Changming Village?

It's okay to be tired from the defense training, and the young and strong men can afford these hardships.But now, they have not slept for two full nights, not only did not sleep, but also lay on the ground in fear for two nights in the cold, damp and dew-heavy mountain forest.Don't say that they are all mortal bodies, even the gods can't stand such a toss!

The entire mountain was shrouded in death, and it no longer had the ambition and morale it had two days ago.

Someone asked in a low voice: "Master, do you want to guard tonight?"

Liu Heishan's face was extremely gloomy.Two days ago, he was still ambitious, and he wanted to fight a beautiful battle of winning more with less, so that the six hundred soldiers would never return, and he would use this battle to make his name famous in Shu.But now, things are completely different from what he imagined.

It's all right if the Xiang soldiers come, but if the Xiang soldiers don't come, it's even more terrible.Baita Mountain has more than one way up the mountain, and the number of soldiers far outnumber them. If he wants to ambush, he must send out all the bandits in the village.But without sleeping all night, the bandits couldn't bear it at all, and many of them fell ill within two days.But if you don't arm it, it won't work.Even if they were asked to go back to sleep, they could not sleep well at all, and they were always frightened.What if the soldiers really sneaked up the mountain after they disarmed?

Neither is defense, nor is it not.But with his little manpower, he can only rely on the mountain to guard in the mountains, and it is impossible to go to the state capital to teach Zhu Nao a lesson.After a few days of tossing around like this, the state capital doesn't need to send a single soldier, and the people on their mountain should fall down.

Liu Heishan did not speak for a long time, and the bandits were full of resentment and suspicion.

"Village Master, isn't Zhou Tianxun playing tricks on us then?"

"That's right! Could it be that he couldn't find out the news, and wanted to cheat us for a bounty, so he made up a nonsense story to deceive us?"

"According to me, we will arrest him and beat him severely with a whip. If you don't believe him, he won't tell the truth!"

People tend to be very irritable when they lack sleep. When everyone said this, Liu Heishan was also startled and suspicious, and began to doubt Zhou Tianxun.He gritted his teeth and said, "You guys, go to his house right away, and bring his wife, children, and children back to the mountains."

He didn't know whether the problem was with Zhou Tianxun or the state capital.In short, holding on to Zhou Tianxun's handle, he didn't believe that Zhou Tianxun still couldn't get definite news.

Several bandits were killed and immediately went down the mountain.