"Actually, you are a master of swords, aren't you?" Chen Tu lowered his head and ate the mutton. Suddenly, he felt a little hurtful of his self-esteem, so he couldn't help but say something.
Gu Liubai was stunned.
Chen Tu narrowed his eyes and smiled, "And you are still using a knife in your left hand."
Gu Liubai frowned and said, "How do you know?"
Chen Tu knocked his finger on a piece of firewood and said, "Let me first talk about why you think we are nine people."
"I judged it according to your style."
Gu Liubai said seriously: "You like to mislead people, but you also like to prepare more retreats. According to the military file records, at most you are in a group of two, and there are three places to do it, but I think according to your style, each group will have one more person to support you."
"This inference makes no sense." Chen Tu shook his head and said, "It's hard to have one more person like us. Besides, even if we hide people in secret, why aren't there two more people in each group, let alone why can't there be one more group?"
Gu Liubai smiled and said, "It seems that I was wrong. How do you know that I am a master of swords and a knife with my left hand?"
Chen Tu's face was a little stiff. He looked at Gu Liubai with his eyes horizontally. The more he looked, the more he felt that this person was nauseous.
"In this kind of weather, you don't ride a horse, and you can't even sweat when you walk for more than twenty miles of mountain roads. Even if you work hard, you can't practice it without the profound true qi method."
He took a deep breath and sneered: "Liang Fengning was the leader of Shanyin Guard. Shanyin Guard's Qi Refining Method is very clever. I also heard that the reason why Liang Fengning came to such a place to make a secret stump was that he was instigated by someone in Shanyin Guard, and he won a lot of face than a sword technique. You must have obtained Liang Fengning's true teachings."
"This is not difficult to reason." Gu Liubai stretched out his left hand, "The key is how do you know that I use a knife with my left hand?"
"You use your right hand to drink tea and serve a bowl of wood, but the things you use with you, including your purse, are more comfortable to pick up with with your left hand." Chen Tu laughed and said, "Doesn't this mean that your left hand is actually easier to use than your right hand."
"It's amazing!" Gu Liubai looked at Chen Tu in admiration, "It seems that this can't be hidden from a real smart person."
"I'm eating a little too much, I'll go out for a walk to digest food." Chen Tu rubbed his stomach with one hand, grabbed the cloak and felt hat from the straw mat beside him, said something and walked out.
After he went out for a while, Gu Liubai suddenly laughed and asked the woman in white named Yin Shiniang, "Does Brother Chen Tu usually have to be particularly respectful?"
Yin Shiniang noticed something, frowned slightly, and said, "It doesn't count, it's a little competitive."
Gu Liubai laughed, "It's very cold outside, I guess he will be back soon."
Chen Tu put on his cloak, pressed his hat on his head and went directly to a place where the horse gang could rest.
The horse gang set up several camp tents to make food, dozens of people built several fires, and many copper basins hung on it. They drove the horses to the outside to prevent the wind. The beach of horse manure on the ground was like a natural barrier for those who love to clean.
When Chen Tu passed by here before, he didn't go in and checked the fires. Now he was in front of him. Although the horse manure had already frozen like a stone, he still hesitated for a moment.
It happened that someone in the horse gang came out to involve these animals, as if he wanted to lead a few horses to feed the food first. Seeing this, Chen Tu immediately waved to the man and threw a few things over, "Brother, please borrow the treasure land to ask about something."
The man from the horse gang had a short figure. He was originally a little displeased when he saw Chen Tu's sneaky look, but he saw clearly that the other party seemed to be a Tang man. He grabbed the thing that the other party threw over and found that it was actually a few copper coins. He immediately changed his smile, "You are so kind, what's the matter?"
"Our boss is in a fur business. This time I sent us here first. When we arrived here, a young man named Fifteenth Brother claimed that he was open to the roads here. He just took us around here and seemed to know you too." Chen Tu lowered his voice, looking afraid that others would hear it. "I see that this person is very angry. There was a large pot of mutton on the upper floor above. I just wanted to ask if this person is really as capable as he brags. Someone told me before that this person seemed to be powerful with a knife. Is it true?"
"Hey, what do I think it's a matter." The man in the horse gang felt that these copper coins were a bit hot and dared not take them easily. After hearing Chen Tu say that, he immediately put the copper coins in his arms. "You are talking about Gu Shiwu. Don't look at him as young as a young man, this man is a very good man in business and doesn't even cheat people. He is really capable. I think he is willing to lead you. It seems that what you are not doing is worthless grocery and fur business, probably a top-notch fox fur? But he is very good at using a knife. Who is talking nonsense with you? It's two hundred miles that often walks here. It's Guo Beixi who has taught him how many years of swords."
"He uses a sword?" Chen Tu's face felt a little hot, but then he felt that the name Guo Beixi seemed familiar, "Is Guo Beixi?"
The man from the horse gang said, "I heard that he is a famous swordsman from Luoyang. I don't know why I came here. It seems that I had tuberculosis when I came. I died after being delayed for several years but not cured."
"The famous swordsman in Luoyang, Guo Beixi?" Chen Tu's expression changed suddenly, "'The old terrestrial thorn in the dragon's fetus skin, the elbow pedicle quenches the white squid tail', is it the Guo Beixi from the Canglang Sword Sect in Luoyang?"
"What kind of thorns, what tails?" The man from the horse gang was puzzled. "I don't know these things. I only know that this man is very powerful. In the two years when he was about to die, he couldn't walk anymore. He even stabbed a ruthless character to death with a bamboo stick."
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A gust of cold air surged into Chunfeng Tower with the creaking sound of the door opening.
Chen Tu still had a habitual smile on his face, but even the two people beside the fire pit inside could see that he was smiling awkwardly.
"It's very fast to digest food." Gu Liubai smiled, "Actually, those two Hu cakes will be pushed to the throat for a long time after being soaked in oil tea."
"I..." Chen Tu sat down. Before he could start cleaning his cloak and boots, he suddenly felt like a raft leaking. "How did you know that we are nine people? I really can't think of some mistakes."
Gu Liubai pretended to be surprised, "Am I guessed it right?"
"Brother Fifteenth brother, you are all your own people and don't be so mean. You are not good-looking." Chen Tu tried hard to make his smile gentler, "And I have asked clearly, you are not a knife player, but a sword player."
When Chen Tu and Gu Liubai were talking to each other before, Yin Shiniang remained absolutely silent, but when she mentioned the word "Sword", she raised her eyebrows slightly and her eyes suddenly lit up, "Is he practicing a sword?"
"It's really easy to inquire about news in this place." Chen Tu glanced at her and said, "I thought the people in the horse gang looked at him incorrectly. I probably knew more than ordinary people. I just asked, I guess why didn't you think that the one who taught him sword skills here was Guo Beixi, and Guo Beixi died of illness here."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "This is indeed no secret."
Yin Shiniang took a deep breath, as if she refused to believe it, "The Master of the famous sword in Chunfang, Guo Beixi from the Canglang Sword Sect in Luoyang?"
"Yes." Gu Liubai nodded calmly and said, "It's just that he was not very famous when he arrived here, so few people cared about him."
"You said it was a coincidence." Chen Tu glanced at Yin Shiniang, "The person who didn't know whereabouts back then actually came here."
Gu Liubai looked at Yin Shiniang and was a little surprised, "Are you old acquaintances with him?"
"I haven't seen him." Yin Shiniang shook her head, "I just don't understand why a swordsman who was at the peak of his life suddenly disappeared and fell into such a place again."
Gu Liubai glanced at the straw mat beside him.
Yin Shiniang's face was still very calm, but Gu Liubai felt that the straw mat she was sitting on was slightly vibrating.
“It doesn’t matter.”
Gu Liubai lost the mood to tease Chen Tu. He calmed down and said seriously: "I don't want to waste time with you anymore. If nothing unexpected happens, the Turkic Black Rider will arrive here before sunrise tomorrow."
"So fast?" Chen Tu's lips twitched with a smile.
"My people have seen the beacons they send messages." Gu Liubai said calmly: "They will spend a night preparing. No matter whether the blizzard stops the next day, they will come. According to their habits, they will kill all the Tang people they meet along the way."
Chen Tu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Don't matter if it's a problem, kill them all?"
Gu Liubai did not answer his question at all, but continued: "The Fire Flying Dragon of the Turkic Black Rider is the oldest sandbank species. In the cold weather, no horse can surpass the Fire Flying Dragon. And even if some of you are particularly powerful and escaped by chance, their means of venting anger and massacre of the Tang people will continue until next spring. And during this period, they will definitely continue to invade our border fortresses."
"These people are indeed crazy enough."
Chen Tu's face was so gloomy that it seemed like water dripping.
But he knew very well that if he was the leader of the Turks, he would do this.
If you cannot show enough cruelty and strength, and cannot cause trouble to the Tang Dynasty border army in winter, after the beginning of spring, the Tang Dynasty border army will quickly gather its forces to encircle and suppress them.
On the contrary, if they curb the expansion of the Tang Dynasty border army, they will have value for existence for the Uighurs or cannibals.
"Whether they are the big men of the border army or the noble men of Lucaoyi, they should be as clear as I do about these Turks. They know very well what these Turks will do after the son of the mad dog Baimei is killed."
Chapter completed!