The twenty-eighth chapter of life and death
The Khitan tribe had a difficult living environment and was not engaged in farming and sericulture. Their daily necessities were completely exchanged for hunting. This developed the Khitan tribe's tough and fierce personality. In their eyes, it was normal for them to plunder.
So Li Chengqian's request was agreed without thinking. This was a surprise fortune. For the Khitan warriors, killing fewer people during the robbery and leaving more living mouths. For the Khitan tribe, doing so can get a lot of salt on which to survive.
In Gu Ge's opinion, this is a win-win situation. One of the two parties is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell. Both the Tang and the Khitan can get the benefits they want. Even the Goguryeo slaves did not suffer any losses, at least they survived the robbery.
Moreover, even in Goguryeo, their living standards do not necessarily seem to be better than being slaves in the Tang Dynasty.
At noon, Li Chengqian, who had reached a consensus with Gu Ge, left the inn and was about to go to Cheng Yaojin to go to Changsun Wuji's house. He still had some things that were a little undecided and needed to discuss with someone.
"Chenghu, how fast do you think our carriage can run?" Li Chengqian suddenly asked like Wang Chenghu when he was about two streets away from Chongrenfang.
"I don't know, I haven't tried it." Wang Chenghu shook his head and said silly, not paying any attention to the flashing vigilance in Li Chengqian's eyes.
"Then let's try it." As he spoke, the long knife on Wang Chenghu's waist had been pulled out by Li Chengqian, and without thinking, he stabbed it into the butt of a horse pulling a cart in front of him.
"Your Highness, you..." Wang Chenghu's face turned pale because of fright. I don't know what Li Chengqian was going crazy. It's Chang'an City. Horses who are stimulated like this may have very terrible consequences.
But soon Wang Chenghu didn't care about so much, and the horse was injured and made a tragic tear. Just as the two horses rushed out, a series of screams rose and fell.
"Catch it firmly, lie down..." This was Li Chengqian's shout. Because he was right beside him, Wang Chenghu could hear it very clearly.
"I discovered it by them, take action." This was a strange voice. Wang Chenghu had never heard it before, but because the incident happened suddenly, Wang Chenghu didn't understand what "take action" meant.
"Kill that horse, don't let them run away."
"Catch up..."
Several sounds sounded almost at the same time. Wang Chenghu had no time to reflex to follow Li Chengqian's order to grab the shaft and lower his body. Then he heard the "bangbang" sound of a series of crossbow arrows shooting into the wood.
Kill?! It was not until the crossbow arrow entered the wood that Wang Chenghu completely realized what had happened.
However, there was no time for him to continue thinking. The sound of arrows entering the flesh continued to sound, and the horses' tearing was getting more and more tragic.
"What are you doing outside? Get in?" Li Chengqian had already been holding his head in the carriage and curled up. Seeing Wang Chenghu lying on the shaft of the carriage in a daze, he couldn't help but shout.
Although the carriage is made of wood, it can at least block the sight of the assassins, and then bet on life. Although it is a bit cowardly, it is much better than being a target outside.
However, Wang Chenghu shook his head stubbornly. He looked around and found the horizontal knife that was thrown aside by Li Chengqian. He picked it up and said to Li Chengqian: "Your Highness is so hiding. As long as the minister is not dead, don't come out."
Wang Chenghu's responsibility is to protect, so he did not obey Li Chengqian's arrangements. The noise and chaos around him have proved that they were surrounded by the assassins. If he also entered the carriage, it would basically be like handing over the assassins to the hands of the assassins.
At this time, Li Chengqian's heart was almost drawn together, and a large amount of adrenaline was constantly secreted, causing his heart to beat almost twice as much as usual.
The previous life was combined with this life. In addition to having a group fight with a neighboring class when I was in college, it was the last time I was hunting in the suburbs of Beijing.
However, the two experiences above are completely incomparable to the present. At most, they can use bricks and fold stools to fight. However, in the last assassination, there were only two assassinations, but there were hundreds of guards.
But now? Apart from Wang Chenghu, there is no other guard around him. The grandsons who usually follow him who pretend to be beggars have gone.
Li Chengqian did die once. He knew that he could go to the underworld after he died, and perhaps he could be reincarnated, but this does not mean that he is not afraid of death.
But the moment the crossbow arrow passed through the window and rubbed his nose and shot into the floor of the carriage, he still felt fear, fear of death.
No matter what, Li Chengqian was just an otaku in his previous life, a otaku who fought a group fight but was defeated. How could he not be afraid of such as a slaughter of countless people?
If it weren't for the shadows projected on the ground by Li Chengqian just before the assassin launched, he found someone following him through the shadows projected on the ground in the surrounding houses, I'm afraid that Wang Chenghu and both of them would have turned into hedgehogs at this time.
The bumps of the carriage were getting lighter and lighter, and the shouts of killing around him were getting closer and closer. Li Chengqian understood that the two horses should be about to die, and soon they would meet with the assassins.
It seems that there is no point in continuing to consider life and death. Judging from the other party’s methods that even the powerful crossbows were used, he clearly did not want to return to the palace alive, so as long as he was caught up, he would inevitably be dead. Neither he nor Wang Chenghu had a way to survive.
"Chen Hu, are you dead?" Li Chengqian asked with a trembling voice when he thought of this.
"Don't worry, Cheng Hu still has strength." Wang Chenghu's voice was a little weak. It seemed that he was injured, but Li Chengqian could not see it because of the blockage of the car box.
But now it’s not the time to care about these things. Li Chengqian continued to ask without thinking: “Did you still have the last cloud-piercing arrow?”
"It's gone, it's too inconvenient to hold it, and it's all thrown into the palace." Wang Chenghu's big head came in from outside the carriage, glanced at Li Chengqian up and down, and then he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was not injured.
"How many people are there outside?" The rear compartment behind the carriage was sealed and there was no way outside, so Li Chengqian wanted to know what was going on outside.
"I don't know, there are about ten, and they are now left behind." Wang Chenghu turned around and stabbed the horse twice in the butt, but the speed did not change at all. It seemed that the two horses had reached the point where they were exhausted and seemed to die at any time.
"Your Highness, the assassin has already caught up with you. If this continues, we will be caught up by them soon, so it's better to let me stay and continue running forward..." Wang Chenghu hesitated in his expression. Although he was silly, he was not stupid, and he knew that staying would mean death.
But what else can I do besides this? Will I drag Li Chengqian to die together? What's the point?
Chapter completed!