Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1615 Escort
  Zhang Han walked quickly to the desk, first looked down at the box, and then glanced around meaningfully.

Bai Tu and Zhong Limei followed closely and walked in, but Bai Tu was still a little worried and sneakily glanced at every corner of the camp to confirm whether Shu Lu had completely left.

Zhang Han glanced back at Bai Tu, who looked sneaky, and asked with a slight smile:
  "Colonel Bai seems to be looking for someone?"

"No, no!" Bai Tu was shocked and hurriedly explained with sweat on his forehead, "It's just that the Yinghuo Stone is of great importance. I'm afraid something will go wrong for my humble position. I'm a bit too sensitive."

"Really... How are Colonel Bai preparing for the escort?" Zhang Han didn't care much about Bai Tu, and immediately turned to the topic and asked.

"This..." Bai Tu was stuck, not knowing how to respond.

How could he be prepared?
  He didn't have any elite soldiers and generals, and he didn't dare to escort him, so what could he be prepared for?

If you need soldiers, just drag them away on the spot and that's it!
  But Zhang Han's intention is obviously that he should be solely responsible for the escort operation... How can he do this!

After muttering for a long time, he finally thought of a prevaricating answer, "Shouldn't the Yinghuo Stone wait until General Wang Li arrives with his army, and then be personally escorted to Xianyang by the armor-piercing soldiers of Hundred Wars?"

"It's not convenient to act privately in a humble position..."

Zhang Han glanced at Bai Tu, who had his head lowered, and replied with a smile, "Colonel Bai is cautious, but His Majesty Yinghuo Zhishi is pressing hard. We should share your worries for you."

"The Yinghuo Stone must be sent to Xianyang as soon as possible, so you need to send a team to escort the Yinghuo Stone to the Hundred Battle Armor-Piercing Soldiers and hand it over to them for transportation."

"Ah..." Bai Tu was speechless.

This request is reasonable and reasonable. The most important thing is that facing the leader of the Shadow Guard, he has no right to say no.

At this time, Zhong Limei actually spoke to relieve Bai Tu. Of course, this was not his purpose:
  "General, at the end of this matter, I am willing to serve as a vanguard officer and personally escort the Stone of Enlightenment!"

Zhong Limei made this request not to gain credit or to be conspicuous, but simply because he could not trust Bai Tu.

For this trash, entrusting him with the task of escorting the Stone of Enlightenment, wouldn't that be equivalent to giving something away?
  Seeing the peasant family eyeing the Yinghuo Stone, as well as the rebellious elements of the Mo family, Bai Tu alone was definitely unreliable.

Zhong Limei is a standard imperial soldier who puts military orders first. If Bai Tu can't be relied on, then he must be duty-bound.

Originally, Gu Xun sent him here for this same thing.

Of course, he was actually a little surprised as to why the Shadow Guard didn't directly take over the entire escort mission.

With the strength of the Shadow Guards, it would not be a troublesome thing to directly send the Stone of Enchantment back to Xianyang... Why does it have to be Bai Tu, the local captain, to carry out the task?
  However, as a soldier, he usually puts aside his excess curiosity when it comes to his superior's orders.

Zhang Han turned around and looked at Zhong Limei, "Zhong Xiaowei is willing to take the initiative to take over this task?"

"It is my duty to be the last general!" Zhong Limei replied with a fist in his hand.

"Well, he is indeed a loyal minister and good general of the empire. He deserves to be cultivated and promoted personally by the Imperial Master." Zhang Han praised him a few words, and then asked, "The fall of the Yinghuo Stone must have caused a lot of turmoil. Attention of the forces, have you discovered anything recently?"

Zhong Limei immediately replied, "Yes! The general did meet a few rebels at the end of the day."

"Yes, yes!" Bai Tu nodded frantically. "There are rebels. Those people are very rampant. They not only obstruct the low-level military affairs, but also try to directly attack the imperial army!"

He was too embarrassed to talk about the fact that he was almost killed and was so scared that he pissed himself and ran away.

Zhong Limei didn't bother to expose his shortcomings... He just wanted to finish the things here and leave. Staying with this kind of imperial worm made his blood pressure soar all the time, and he wanted to kill him himself.

Zhang Han basically ignored Bai Tu and looked at Zhong Limei with interest:
  "Tell me, who are there?"

Zhong Limei cupped his fists and replied, "Back to the general, there are four of us in total."

"Two of them are rebels from the Mohist family, Gao Jianli and Big Iron Hammer, and one is holding Xueji, who should be Xiaoyaozi, the head of the Taoist sect."

"The last one is holding a spear and has red hair. He is wearing armor and looks like a member of the army. The general guesses that he may be Long Qie from the Tenglong Legion of Chu State."

"The Mohist Taoists, the remnants of the Chu Kingdom...the people are quite together, and the speed is not slow, hum!" Zhang Han nodded slightly, smiled inexplicably, and then asked, "Have you fought against them?"

"Yes, the general was incompetent and failed to capture the traitors, allowing them to escape."

Zhang Han couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Is it something you can catch when these four people come together?

That's something you can't escape!
  "It seems that they have no intention of killing you..." Zhang Han stopped his smile and said thoughtfully.

Zhong Limei didn't have the nerve to refute. The combat power ratio between the two sides was indeed very different. What kept him safe was that they didn't intend to fight him to the death.

Zhang Han continued, "However, most of these people coming to Dongjun are related to the Yinghuo Stone. In addition, the farmers who are constantly gathering disciples... this mission has not even started, and there are already too many people on it!"

"Zhong Limei, as a vanguard escort, do you know the dangers involved?"

"Where military affairs are concerned, the general will not hesitate to die!" Zhong Limei responded decisively without any thought of retreating.

………………

Daze Mountain, Farmer Lieshan Hall.

Tian Meng had already been buried in a coffin, and he only had to wait for seven days before mourning.

Outside the mourning hall, long poles were erected on both sides of the road, all carrying a piece of pure white mourning. The disciples of Lieshan Hall, wearing hemp and mourning, formed two long lines to guard in front of the mourning hall.

There was a coffin in the mourning hall, and Tian Meng's body was lying in it. There were wreaths of elegiac couplets, pure white curtains, and the most indispensable big 'mourn' in the hall.

The layout of the entire mourning hall seems to be very suitable for a big man like Tian Meng. It is simple and uncomplicated. The only awkward thing is that the mourning hall is a somewhat old wooden house.

It looks very similar to the place where Tian Meng was killed before. I don't know how poor Lieshan Hall is... maybe it's because of people's aesthetic preferences.

Outside the mourning hall, Tian Hu led a group of people and walked toward the mourning hall aggressively.

After Tian Meng died yesterday, Tian Zhong helped Tian Hu shout a few times, and initially gathered the hearts of the people in Lieshan Hall in the name of revenge.

However, this was obviously not enough. At most, it only allowed him to occupy a small section. Today, he had to grasp the more important righteousness in his hands - that is, to get the permission of Tian Meng's heir to really mobilize Lieshan Hall.

Although his eldest brother had just died, Tian Hu walked with a vigorous and energetic pace. Of course, it’s not that he really didn’t feel anything about Tian Meng’s death, it’s just that his personality was like this, and he was used to being arrogant and domineering.

Following Tian Meng were his loyal followers whom he had just gained yesterday - Tian Zhong, the leader of Gonggong Hall, and Hu Yao, a backbone master of the five-star bead grass level who was affiliated with Chi You Hall.

This is of course not his real name, more like a nickname, but because he has been called that all year round, it has replaced his real name over time.

And the reason why he got such a title was because... he was extremely talented.

He was over eight feet tall, slightly shorter than Dianqing. Standing taller than Tian Hu and his group, he had a whole big head. He also had a ferocious face, with a long beard and hairy hair, a round face, wide cheeks, sharp teeth, and a sharp mouth on his forehead. There is also a faint "king" wrinkle, the upper body is naked, and there is a palm-wide tuft of heart-protecting hair on the chest. The palms are wide and fat, the fingertips are slender, and the lower body is simply wrapped in a tiger skin skirt of the same style as Brother Monkey. , on his feet are a pair of shoes that are similar to insoles and have a simpler structure than straw sandals. The soles of his feet are as different as the palms of ordinary people.

In short, the whole person is like a tiger that has become a spirit, so it is not surprising that he is called a tiger monster.

According to legend, he was born weird and was abandoned by his parents at birth. He was raised by tigers in the mountains. When he became an adult, he had the strength of a liger.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but the bloodline seems to be quite pure.

The reason why Tian Hu recruited him was probably because he felt that he would be more compatible with him.

In fact, what Tian Hu planned to recruit before was the broken-hearted bone monster that was rampant in the Taihang Mountains. Unfortunately, Wei Zhuang beat him to it, so he had to settle for another monster.

However, in terms of strength, this tiger demon is definitely not inferior to the bone demon, but it is completely opposite to the opponent's weak and boneless style. He takes a fierce and domineering path, pursuing the most intense, extreme, and ferocious. attack.

Of course, looking at his burly body, you can tell that he has practiced some external skills, but his level is average and he cannot reach the level of invulnerability like the ceremony.

After the group of people approached the mourning hall in a hurry, Tian Hu thought for a moment and left most of them outside, including the tiger demon, and only took Tian Zhong into the mourning hall.

In any case, this is his eldest brother's mourning hall. It's outrageous to bring so many people in at once. There is no use for these people going in anyway, so they might as well stay outside.

When the two entered the mourning hall, the first thing they saw was a fine mahogany coffin. In front of the coffin were placed incense burner offerings, and behind the coffin was an offering table with Tian Meng's memorial tablet.

Kneeling at the foot of the hall was a young girl dressed in plain clothes and wearing a wooden hairpin.

That is Tian Meng's only heir, Tian Yan, the eldest daughter of the peasant family Lieshan Hall, and the theoretical successor to Lieshan Hall.

The farm family is not a family, and there is no rule passed down by blood. However, Tian Meng is in his prime and has not yet cultivated a successor. The only qualified person in Lieshan Hall is Tian Yan, Tian Meng's daughter.

The most important thing is that the Nongjia has lost its real leader, Xia Kui, for so long that all the Nongjia’s six halls have become the hall master’s ‘private soldiers’ to varying degrees, and Hejia Tianxia is almost the same.

Without Xiakui to take charge of the situation, Lieshantang would really have no choice but to pass the succession to Tian Yan.

But this is only in theory. In fact, although there is no hero, there are others who want to help the orphan girl take charge of the situation.

Tian Hu and Tian Zhong were not in a hurry to talk to Tian Yan. They first offered incense and worship to Tian Meng. Tian Hu also made a series of oaths and vowed to avenge his eldest brother.

Logically speaking, when someone came to offer incense and offer condolences, Tian Yan, as a relative of the deceased, should express his gratitude, but she always lowered her head and said nothing, and knelt there silently.

By the way, the clothes she wore were not formal mourning clothes, but ordinary linen clothes, the clothes she wore every day.

Tian Hu and Tian Zhong seemed to understand her character and were not unhappy.

Tian Yan, the eldest daughter of the peasant family Lieshan Hall and the daughter of Tian Meng, has been frail and sick since she was a child and rarely appears in the outside world. It is only rumored that she is extremely intelligent and unparalleled in resourcefulness. She is known as the peasant girl Guan Zhong.

And she is also one of Tian Hu and Tian Zhong's goals today - Tian Hu not only wants to hold the power of Lieshan Hall in his own hands, but also wants to take the opportunity to ask his eldest niece to come out to help him with suggestions.

Different from other people in the world who can only catch wind and shadow, Tian Hu and the others know very well that although Tian Yan has been a medicine jar since he was a child, he is so weak that he can fall down when the wind blows. He is always bored in his room and rarely even goes out, but his brain is really good!

The name of the peasant girl Guan Zhong was not just blown away.

However, due to her health, she rarely provided advice for Lieshan Hall. Tian Meng seemed to have no intention of exploiting his only daughter during his lifetime, so the development momentum of Lieshan Hall could not keep up with the Zhu family's Shennong Hall.

Now that Tian Meng is gone, Tian Hu doesn't want to continue to waste his eldest niece's intelligence.

It's not that he is mean and ruthless and wants to exploit his own niece, it's just that he thinks it's just a brain move and it's no big deal.

If you're not in good health, I won't let you do any physical work. You won't be exhausted just by talking, right?

Helping my uncle to win the title of Heroic Leader is also for your own good, right?
  The two of them approached Tian Yan, and Tian Zhong spoke first, without getting straight to the point:
  "Miss, my condolences."

"You have been weak and sick, please take care of yourself."

Tian Yan lowered his head, there was no trace of blood on his fair and beautiful melon face, his breathing was rapid and shallow, and Xia Tian was holding a small hand warmer in her hand - everything showed how bad her physical condition was.

After hearing Tian Zhong's comforting words, Tian Yan raised his head, without any expression on his face, and replied in a calm tone:

"The earth nourishes all things, and Shen Nong will never die."

"It may be a good ending for the peasant disciples to follow the ancestors of the Shennong family and stay away from the troubles of the world."

Tian Hu waved his hand and said with a frown, "Okay, Ayan, don't worry, my second uncle is here and I will definitely take good care of you!"

Tian Yan glanced at Tian Hu, nodded slightly, and said nothing.

Tian Hu has a bad temper, but he is not angry at his niece's rudeness.

Because Tian Yan has been like this since she was a child, not to mention her second uncle, even her biological father Tian Meng can hardly say a few nonsense words to her. Over time, everyone got used to it.

Her younger generation is also a sick child, so it would be pointless to argue with her.

However, we still had to continue talking. Tian Hu winked at Tian Zhong, who immediately understood. He took half a step forward and coughed lightly and said:
  "Miss, the Second Master and I are here this time, firstly, to worship the First Master's spirit of the land, and secondly..."

"For the Stone of Fire?" Tian Yan interrupted Tian Zhong and told him his purpose first.

Tian Hu was startled when he heard this, then smiled and said, "Ayan, there is really nothing you can't guess!"

Tian Yan looked up at him again, showed a faint smile, and responded, "Coincidentally, the Zhu family said the same thing."

"This bastard from the Zhu family!" When Tian Hu heard the name of the Zhu family, he immediately became furious. He punched his right hand with his left hand and cursed bitterly, "My eldest brother was killed by this bastard!"

(End of this chapter)