Chapter 19 Past

Adou's contemptuous eyes aroused the anger of the middle-aged Qiang people.

"Boy, dare to underestimate me and let you know how powerful my grandfather is..." The middle-aged Qiang man rushed towards A Dou with a ferocious look on his face.

At the same time, A Dou kicked it out, and his toes hit the middle-aged Qiang man's chest.

"Ha..." The bone-shattered body began to affect it. Then, the strong body of the middle-aged Qiang man was kicked up by A Dou. The middle-aged Qiang man spewed out a mouthful of blood in the air, and then fell heavily to the ground several meters away. He twitched slightly, and then lost his breath.

The other Qiang people opened their mouths wide, looked at the corpse of the middle-aged Qiang people in front of them in surprise, and then looked at Adou at the same time, with anger in his eyes.

"Go ahead, kill him!" Several other Qiang people rushed towards A Dou at the same time.

"You are looking for death!" Adou said as he drew out the sword. After three cold lights, the three Qiang people fell down.

"What a quick sword technique!" The old village chief couldn't help but sigh. At this time, the old village chief finally understood how Adou could rescue Duole from dozens of horse thieves.

"Ah..." After another scream, only one Qiang man was still alive.

Now the Qiang man's eyes no longer had the arrogance he had just now, but were filled with horror. The remaining Qiang man screamed, turned around and ran away.

Adou did not pursue him either. For Adou, he was just a Qiang man, and he ran away, it was no big deal.

"Swoosh..." An arrow suddenly flew past A Dou and flew into the sky with lightning speed. After flying to the sky at a very high distance, it turned into a parabola and fell down, but it hit the head of the Qiang man, and the arrow penetrated directly into the head of the Qiang man. After the Qiang man was caught, he ran a few steps in arbitrarily before falling to the ground.

"Good archery!" Adou was slightly shocked, and then immediately turned around and saw that there was a longbow in the village's hand, and the old village chief was holding the longbow, gasping slightly.

For an archer, it is not difficult to shoot an arrow flat and hit the target, but it is too difficult to shoot an arrow to a high altitude like before, and then land on a parabola to hit the enemy. This is too difficult. This not only requires calculating the arc of the arrow flying, but also calculates the wind speed and the movement speed of the Qiang man at that time. Therefore, the arrow that was able to hit just now definitely requires superb technology.

"Cough cough cough..." The village chief gasped for a few breaths, coughed a few more times before slowly speaking: "When a person is old, he can breathe even if he shoots an arrow..."

"This village chief is not an ordinary person!" Adou said in his heart. A person with such outstanding archery skills is definitely not the village chief in an unknown small village. It seems that there must be a wonderful story behind this old village chief.

"Everything comes out!" The old village chief shouted, and the villagers came out one after another.

"Ah, look, what is that!" A village man pointed to the body of the Qiang man.

Duole walked out of the crowd, came to the bodies of several Qiang people, investigated for a while, then stood up and shouted, "They are all dead!"

"The Qiang people are dead!"

"Oh my God, the Qiang people are dead!"

The villagers were stunned at first, but then there was a burst of cheers.

"Die well, die very well!"

"I know that Qiang man, and he almost beat my son to death last time!"

The villagers wanted to go up and put a few more stabs on the Qiang people's corpse.

"Everyone calm down!" The old village chief waved his hand and continued, "Don't be too happy too early. These Qiang people have died. When the people from their tribe find that they are missing, they will definitely send people to search. If they find these Qiang people dead in our village, our village will be in trouble!"

After hearing the village chief's words, the villagers' faces suddenly became embarrassed.

The village chief said a lot. When the Qiang people find that someone is missing, they will definitely send someone to look for it. If they know that these Qiang people are dead in their own village, even if they are not killed by these villagers, the Qiang people will retaliate against the villagers. They may face the slaughter of the village at that time!

Duolei immediately stood up and said, "Village Chief, let me bury the bodies of these Qiang people... so that they will not be found."

"Duolei, if you buried it, you might be picked up by a wild dog and you will be found. I think it would be better to burn it directly." An old man in his fifties next to him said.

"Yes, it's burned, and it's burned to ashes, and nothing can be found!"

"Oh... it's useless!" the old village chief suddenly spoke.

"Village Chief, why?"

"We are the only village in this radius of a hundred miles. If these Qiang people are missing, they will definitely suspect us first. Besides, if these people told their families that they would come to us before they came out, wouldn't the Qiang people come to our village to find it directly?" the village chief said.

"As long as they can't find the body and we won't admit it again, will it be fine?"

"Don't admit it?" The village chief shook his head slightly and said helplessly: "Do those Qiang people need a reason to kill people?"

Then the village chief pointed to the dozens of horses and thieves in front of him, and continued, "Even if the Qiang people can't find the corpse, how can these war horses explain?"

"Village Chief, what do you think we should do?" Duole said.

"Escape, now we can only run away soon! We can't stay here. Duolei, go to the mountain immediately and ask everyone on the mountain to come out and everyone else will go back to pack up!" After the old village chief said, he looked at Adou again and said, "Mr. Liu, how about you go with me?"

"Please, village chief." Adou nodded.

Sitting in the village chief's room and listening to the villagers outside being packed up noisyly, Adou suddenly felt guilty in his heart.

Adou knew that he was too impulsive just now, and it was very pleasant to kill those Qiang people, but he didn't consider these villagers at all. He could pat his butt and leave, but these villagers had to leave their hometowns and start to escape.

"Village Chief, I'll ask boldly, where are you going to escape?" A Dou asked.

"I don't know either." The old village chief shook his head: "Where can you escape!"

"Hey, village chief, it's not good to be slaughtered just now. If you are not so impulsive, you won't..."

"Mr. Liu, you can't blame you for this. We are used to the Qiang people bullying. Today they are just looking for trouble. Besides, I also committed suicide by myself just now?" the old village chief smiled.

Feeling the helplessness in the old village chief's smile, Adou knew that the village chief had no choice but to shoot the last Qiang man just now. If the Qiang man was asked to run back to inform the news and bring in reinforcements, the village would be over. At least the villagers didn't even have time to pack up their things and prepare to escape. Now everyone has at least time to clean up their belongings.

"Mr. Liu doesn't have to blame himself. It's not a long-term solution for us to live under someone else's roof. If we go to a new place, maybe we will have a better life without the Qiang people."

Adou hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Well... Village Chief, do you have any pens and ink here?"

"Mr. Liu wants to use pen and ink? Please wait, I'll get it for you." After saying that, the old village chief walked towards the inner room.

After a while, the old village chief walked out of the house, holding an inkstone in one hand and a stack of paper and a pen in the other. From a distance, the inkstone was covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Mr. Liu, please use it." The old man wiped the dust with his hands, and then placed the paper, pen and inkstone in front of Adou.

"Thank you, the village chief." After A Dou said that, he spread out the paper.

"Huh..." Seeing the paper in his hand, Adou was slightly stunned. The paper that the old village chief took out was also good if it was placed in the Central Plains. Only dignitaries and noble families could afford it. However, it seemed that the paper was very old and seemed to have been shelved for decades.

Looking at the inkstone again, it turned out to be a clay inkstone!

A clay inkstone is actually a clay inkstone made after pinching it with clay, which is considered a ceramic product.

Generally speaking, early inkstones were naturally made of stone. With the development of inkstones, jade inkstones, tiled inkstones, clay inkstones, porcelain inkstones, etc. gradually appeared.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the ceramic craftsmanship was far less developed than later generations, so folk inkstones were directly carved and polished with stone. Compared with stone inkstones, the manufacturing process of clay inkstones is much more complicated, so the price of clay inkstones is more expensive than that of stone inkstones. Only some high-ranking officials and some children of big families can use clay inkstones.

Now, A Dou actually saw this mud inkstone in a small village of Di people, and felt very strange.

"This village chief can take out the best paper and this mud inkstone. It seems that this village chief is not an ordinary person!" A Dou thought, but his hand did not stop, and wrote a few lines of words on the paper, then took out a mark from his arms and printed it on the paper.

Adou folded the paper and handed it to the old village chief, saying, "Village Chief, I'll give it to you. If you have no place to go, go to Jincheng, Liangzhou to find the prefect of Farmer there, and show him this letter, and Farmer will arrange for you."

The village chief took the letter and did not rush to open it. Instead, he carefully put it in his arms and said, "Thank you, Mr. Liu."

"Village Chief, ask a rashly. I saw that you had extraordinary archery skills just now. I guess you have been in the ranks." A Dou asked.

The old village chief nodded, but did not answer A Dou directly, but asked back: "Mr. Liu, I heard you were going to find Pu Lin before, but I don't know what you were looking for Pu Lin?"

A Dou was shocked again. Before coming, A Dou had already sent someone to inquire. Pu Lin was a wise man among the Di people. He enjoyed a high prestige in the hearts of the Di people. He was respectfully called "Master" by the Di people. When Di people called Pu Lin, they would respectfully say "Master Pu Lin". Now the village chief called Pu Lin without saying anything, and there was no trace of respect in his tone.

"The village chief must have seen that I am from Central China, I am a Han Chinese. Now Cheriji is attacking Liangzhou, and I am here for this matter." A Dou said.

The village chief frowned: "Mr. Liu, you may be disappointed too. Pu Lin is cautious and may not interfere with the battle between the Han and Qiang people."

"The village chief seems to know Pu Lin very well?" A Dou asked tentatively.

"Haha, Mr. Liu, you are not an ordinary person, so I won't hide it from you. Didn't you just ask me if I was from the army?" The old village chief smiled and continued, "My name is Pu Kang, and Pu Lin is my nephew!"

"What? Pu Lin is your nephew?" Although A Dou had long thought of the old village chief's status as an extraordinary person, he did not expect to be related to the Pu Lin he was looking for. At this time, A Dou also understood why the old village chief in front of him had excellent paper and clay inkstones, and the paper had been left for a long time. It turned out that he was a Di nobleman from a Di family.

"This is the thing. After our Pu family moved here, we were once the largest tribe among the Di people here, commanding the entire royal area. My father was also the leader near the royal division. Later, my father died, and my brothers and I and I each held their own troops to compete for power, and finally fought. This greatly damaged our tribe's strength, so we were taken advantage of the situation by the current Di king Fu Jian.

Fu Jian bought people's hearts everywhere, and we brothers were busy fighting for power and profit. It was too late when we woke up. The strength of the tribe was greatly damaged by the internal struggle of us, and almost led to the disaster of extermination. Later, thanks to my elder brother, Pu Lin's father, who sent Pu Lin to Fu Jian as a hostage and gained Fu Jian's trust, we avoided the disaster of extermination.

All of us brothers knew that if we had united at the beginning, we would not have ended like this. At that time, I felt very guilty, so I left the tribe, came here after going around, gathered some wandering tribe members, and formed this village."

Adou nodded: "I didn't expect that there would be such a thing."

"Yes, it's just that hard for Pu Lin's child. He has been hostage with Fu Jian since he was a child, and his life is not easy. But because of this, Fu Jian trusts Pu Lin in particular and gives Pu Lin great power, so that he can have today's Pu Lin." Pu Kang continued.

Adou reached into his arms, took out the strange-looking golden knife that Wang Yue gave him, and asked, "Mr. Pu, do you know this?"

"Wusun Golden Sword! How could you have this?" Pu Kang looked at A Dou in surprise.

"This is given to me by an old friend of mine..."

"Impossible, this is impossible!" Pu Kang opened his mouth slightly, and then asked, "How old is your friend?"

A Dou thought about it and said that Wang Yue should be eighty or ninety years old now, so he said, "My old friend is about ninety years old."

"Does he have a wide and long sword?" Pu Kang asked.

"Not bad!" Adou nodded. When he first met Wang Yue, he did carry a wide and long sword.

"That's right, it's him! It's him..." Pu Kang took a deep breath and slowly calmed down.

"Mr. Pu, do you know Senior Wang Yue?"

"So his name is Wang Yue!" Pu Kang said and nodded: "Yes, I saw him when I was young."

"Senior Wang Yue asked me to come to the Diren Wang tribe to find a person named Pu. Could it be you?" A faint feeling of disappointment arose in A Dou's heart.

At that time, Wang Yue gave him the message only to find a Di person with the surname Pu, but did not specifically mention who it was. Later, A Dou sent someone to inquire and learned that the most powerful Di person among the Di people should be Pu Lin, the wise Di person. A Dou felt that people with the status of Wang Yue would definitely not know ordinary Di people. If they were just ordinary people of Di people, Wang Yue would not tell him specifically. Moreover, this golden sword could tell him that it was an extraordinary thing and not something that ordinary people could own. Therefore, A Dou believed that Wang Yue asked him to find Pu Lin.
To be continued...