Pig Killer

Chapter 271

"You're scraping the ground three feet deep and squeezing it without regard for the consequences." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and bottomless eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Huang Zhongchang nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

"Because their greed is insatiable, because we are nothing in their eyes," Shen Hui'e said with cold eyes, "Why do you try to guess his thoughts? The common people will overturn the table if they can't survive. His good days are over."

"I know." Huang Zhongchang looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "I just want to know how to learn from experience!"

Shen Hui'e smiled and said, "This lesson cannot be learned."

"How is this possible?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her with his eyes wide open.

"Because I can't do it." Shen Hui'e pulled down her scarf and said, "Will you share your money with others?"

"Uh..." Huang Zhongchang looked at her hesitantly, opening and closing his mouth for a long time, "I can do it."

"You can do it, but what about the people who came after you?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with amusement and said, "There are many people entrenched beside the County Magistrate in the County Magistrate's Mansion. Each of them has his own little thoughts. When they are like maggots on the heel and are as numerous as cow hairs, the County Magistrate can do nothing no matter how wise he is."

Huang Zhongchang leaned against the carriage, lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

"That's human nature." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and penetrating eyes and said, "You either go with the flow and become corrupt, or if you resist, you might be sidelined or even killed."

"Cough cough..." Huang Zhongchang was so frightened that he kept coughing.

"Why are you so surprised? The person above has not yet announced his death! Who knows whether it was a natural death or he was killed by someone." Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at him and said.

"That's..." Huang Zhongchang stared at her in disbelief with his eyes wide open.

"But what? He is also a human being!" Shen Hui'e snorted, "The head will fall off if you chop it off. He is not made of steel or iron, nor is he indestructible." She looked at him with a smile, "Anything is possible."

Huang Zhongchang clenched his jaw and looked at her silently, thinking all the way.

&*&

After more than ten days of hurried travel, I returned home in seven or eight days.

"You are finally back." Zhang Jixian said happily looking at them.

"I guess you must have been anxious waiting for me!" Huang Zhongchang said, looking at him with a smile.

"I'm not in a hurry. I count my days by the fingers." Zhang Jixian pointed at his fingers and said, "Next time I won't stay at home. I'll go with you guys." Then he asked, "Are you hungry? Why don't you eat something first?"

"No, we have dry food for the road. Let me tell you in detail about my trip to Hezhong Prefecture first, otherwise you will feel uneasy as if you were being scratched by a cat." Huang Zhongchang looked at him with a smile and said teasingly.

"Then let the kitchen prepare it first. This will take time." Zhang Jixian got up and went to the door of the room, and told Awu to go to the kitchen to cook.

"Are you okay at home?" Huang Zhongchang said to him as he sat down again, took off his dog-skin hat and scarf, and placed them on the bed.

"We are doing fine!" Zhang Jixian said while looking at them with a smile, "We haven't slacked off in training at all. We are hunting! We have basically dug out all the snake holes on this mountain." He smiled and added, "We are not short of meat." He chuckled and said, "The snakes are sleeping in their holes now, so it is much easier to catch them." He smiled and said, "Now the snakes have to avoid us when they see us."

"Be careful of poisonous snakes." Huang Zhongchang looked at him nervously and said.

"They are all rat snakes. This is not the south. There is miasma everywhere and there are many poisonous snakes." Zhang Jixian looked at him with his bright black eyes and said.

"That's good." Huang Zhongchang rubbed his arms and said, "That thing is not very comfortable to look at. Although I don't think it has any combat power, it is still creepy."

"You are not as good as the young master!" Zhang Jixian shook his head and chuckled when he heard it.

"My son." Huang Zhongchang looked at him in surprise.

"Yes! Young master is not afraid at all. He and his wife hunted a rat snake as thick as a bowl. The snakes we caught were too small." Zhang Jixian looked at him with a smile.

"Madam, have you ever hunted such a big snake?" Huang Zhongchang turned his head and looked at his wife who was painting on the linen.

"Oh!" Shen Hui'e nodded slightly, "It was a delicious meal at that time."

"That thick." Huang Zhongchang gestured with his hands, "Oh my god, how many pounds does that weigh?"

"Like a pig, about 100 pounds." Shen Hui'e said without raising her head.

Huang Zhongchang shuddered, "Let's not talk about this anymore." His eyes fell on Mr. Zhang and he said, "We've gotten a pretty good idea of ​​what's going on in Hezhong Prefecture this time..."

"It's too abominable." Zhang Jixian heard these outrageous and unbelievable things and asked, "When will the troops be dispatched?"

"Let's get ready and go." Huang Zhongchang looked at him with his dark eyes and said, "The earlier we go, the less suffering the common people will suffer." He clenched his fists and said, "They are so miserable."

"Take this up." Shen Hui'e picked up the drawn floor plan and showed it to them.

"This is Hezhong Prefecture..." Zhang Jixian looked at her with eyes wide open and guessed affirmatively.

"The floor plan of Hezhong Mansion." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her moist eyes and said, "Basically it's not bad." She pointed her chin at the wooden table in front of her and said, "Put your things aside, I'll spread it out for you to see."

Huang Zhongchang simply moved the wooden table in front of him and said, "Put it down!"

Seeing this, Shen Hui'e's mouth twitched and she spread the floor plan in front of them.

"The house with the most people is the county magistrate's mansion." Shen Hui'e pointed at the floor plan with her index finger.

"Rich families live in these places." Zhang Jixian said, pointing to the floor plan.

"How did you know that?" Huang Zhongchang looked at him in surprise and asked, "Have you been to Hezhong Prefecture?"

"No." Zhang Jixian chuckled and shook his head, "You can tell from the floor plan. There are fewer houses here, and they are obviously larger. They must be the residences of the rich. These densely packed houses must be the residential areas for the poor!"

"Yes! It's clear and concise." Huang Zhongchang said as he looked at the floor plan of Hezhong Prefecture, "Very intuitive." Then he added, "This will help in arranging troops."

"I will draw it later. It's the portrait of the county magistrate. Don't make a mistake. There will also be portraits of the wealthy merchants and nobles in the city." Shen Hui'e said to them with her bright eyes.

"Can that portrait be like the real thing? The portrait that this government office used to capture the notorious bandit doesn't look like the real thing at all," Huang Zhongchang said bluntly.

"You'll know once you've seen it." Shen Hui'e looked at him with amusement and said, "You'll definitely recognize it at first glance. It looks like a real person."

"Then I'll wait." Huang Zhongchang said with a smile when he heard it.

The three of them discussed it again and decided on the general direction of attack.

"Who's in command?" Zhang Jixian asked, looking at the two of them with his dark eyes.

"I'll be in command! I'll have to come to the first battle myself to give them courage." Shen Hui'e said without hesitation.

"No, no, how can you come in person?" Huang Zhongchang stopped her and said.

"If I don't go myself, will you do it?" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her ink-black eyes.

"Uh..." Huang Zhongchang and Zhang Jixian looked at each other and moved their lips, not knowing what to say.

"There are only men on this battlefield." Huang Zhongchang grunted for a long time before he finally said one sentence.

"Tsk..." Shen Hui'e sneered and bit her back teeth, "There is no distinction between men and women on the battlefield. There is only the commander who always leads them to victory." She said briskly, "Have you killed anyone?"

"No...no." They both shook their heads.

"How did you escape?" Shen Hui'e looked at them in surprise and said.

"We all agreed to charge together." Huang Zhongchang said honestly after hesitating for a moment.

"They were directly crushed before us. As for how they died, they were hacked to death or trampled to death." Zhang Jixian's eyes wandered and he didn't dare to look her in the eye.

Huang Zhongchang looked straight at her and pursed his lips and said, "I have killed pigs before."

"Killing pigs is different from killing people." Shen Hui'e looked at him with amusement and said.

"You haven't killed anyone either!" Huang Zhongchang looked at her with his dark eyes and raised his eyebrows meaningfully.

This guy, Shen Hui'e pinched her brows, "I'm fine now." After a moment's silence, she said, "I trained them and know every one of them." She looked at them firmly and said, "I can't leave any of them behind on the battlefield."

"You are daydreaming. There will always be casualties in a war." Huang Zhongchang said to her with his eyes wide open.

"I know!" Shen Hui'e looked at them with her jade-like eyes and said, "Try your best to bring them back alive, and don't abandon or give up on anyone." She raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Don't you know my ability?"

"Uh..." Huang Zhongchang was speechless.

"Is it okay? I'll tell you something." Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at Huang Zhongchang and said.

"I have nothing to say about your ability. Are the soldiers willing?" Huang Zhongchang thought for a while and said.

"Then just ask!" Shen Hui'e said, looking at them calmly.

"I'll give you an answer tomorrow." Huang Zhongchang thought for a moment and said,

"Draw a few more copies of this floor plan and give them to the five hundred masters." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her deep and clear eyes and said, "Make sure they remember it well."

"I'll do it!" Zhang Jixian responded readily.

"It's getting late. I'll go back first." Shen Hui'e said, looking at the sky outside.

"I'll take you there." Huang Zhongchang stood up and followed her out of the barracks. He sent her to the gate before returning to the barracks.

&*&

"Brother Huang, what do you think?" Zhang Jixian asked Huang Zhongchang who was sitting opposite him.

"Do we have any choice?" Huang Zhongchang looked at him with his dark eyes and said, "Although they have trained hard, they have not been baptized by the battlefield after all."

"But my sister-in-law has never been to the battlefield!" Zhang Jixian said to him with a raised eyebrow.

Huang Zhongchang scratched his head when he heard this. How should he respond? "They haven't even killed a chicken before, but my wife is very good at killing pigs."

"There is a big difference between killing a pig and killing a person." Zhang Jixian looked at him with a frown on his face.