The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 856 840 Five: The Promise Iron Bull Eliminates Giant Snakes ([-])

When Duan Wuji and Tieniu followed the Quzhou prefect to the prefect's yamen, the sun had already set, and dozens of officials at the yamen's gate had already been waiting anxiously. When these people saw the imperial envoy and they came back, they hurried over.

These people took everyone's horses and brought them to a horse yard next to the Yamen to feed them.

The governor of Quzhou looked at Duan Wuji and Tieniu and said, "My lords, please come inside, it's getting late now, let's hurry in."

Duan Wuji and Tieniu were not too polite, they followed the prefect of Quzhou and walked straight to the lobby!
The two walked into the lobby and sat down on the proper seats. Seeing that the two of them were done, the Quzhou magistrate hurriedly ordered someone to bring up the fragrant tea.

Everyone chatted a few irrelevant gossips together, but the Quzhou magistrate said to the officers: "It's getting late now, why hasn't the banquet at Wangxian Tower been delivered yet, any of you should go and have a look!
If they are too slow, try to hurry them, my lord, they have been on their way all day, and I guess they haven't even eaten lunch.

If they dawdle any longer, be careful that I won't settle accounts for them properly then! "

Just as the guard was about to run out, another guard walked in.

"Report to the magistrate, the staff from Wangxianlou brought the banquet, and they are waiting outside!"

"Then why don't they let them in! Tell the yamen servants to arrange the tables and chairs immediately, and let's start the banquet immediately after the tables and chairs are arranged.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's not be idle, let's all make a move! "

When the prefect of Quzhou said this, the officials who were sitting immediately stood up. These people moved the table to move the table, and those who took the chair took the chair. The time was not too long, and everything was tidied up.

The restaurant guy brought in dozens of food boxes from outside and opened them.

Plates of dishes were quickly placed on the table, and the banquet was ready in a short amount of time.

The restaurant clerk moved the empty food box back outside the door and waited. The prefect of Quzhou said with a smile: "You two imperial envoys, you have worked hard on this journey. Today, I will serve you wine to wash away the dust.

My lords, please sit down quickly! "

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu were not polite either, they sat down on the main seat.

Duan Wuji looked at these officials and said: "Everyone sit down! After eating, nothing will happen."

After hearing this, the officials looked for seats and sat down.

There are a total of five tables in this banquet!

The prefect of Quzhou poured wine for Duan Wuji and the others.

"You two imperial envoys, come on, I'll serve you wine to clean up the dust today, let's finish this bowl of wine first!
Ladies and gentlemen!Come on, let's toast the two imperial envoys together. "

After hearing this, all the officials raised their wine bowls one after another.

"Master Imperial Envoy, thank you for coming to our place to help us get rid of this giant snake. I wish you can successfully remove this scourge for us and restore peace to our place!"

Duan Wuji smiled slightly.

"In addition to the giant snake, everyone needs to work together, everyone must not drink too much today!

Tomorrow morning, let's go to the field to inspect it together. Whether we can kill this snake depends on whether everyone works hard.

If anyone dares to make a mistake because of alcohol, don't say that I will turn my face and be ruthless at that time! "

Those officials laughed and said, "Master Imperial Envoy, don't worry, we only drink this bowl of wine, and we will never cause trouble tomorrow!"

"Well, that's fine!

Ladies and gentlemen, let's sit down and eat! "

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu often eat this kind of extravagant banquets, and they have long been accustomed to all this. The two of them didn't eat at noon, and they were already starving!

The two picked up the chopsticks and ate vigorously for a while. When they were full, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu put down the chopsticks.

When the officials saw that the imperial envoy had put down his chopsticks and ate in a hurry, they stopped eating more.

The governor of Quzhou looked at Duan Wuji and the two of them and said: "You two imperial envoys, let's go, follow me to the back yamen to rest, let's talk tomorrow if we have anything to do!"

Duan Wuji and Tieniu followed the prefect of Quzhou to a small courtyard in Houyali.

The prefect of Quzhou sent them to the house, said a few gossips, and then retreated knowingly.

When Duan Wuji and Tieniu saw that there was no one in the room, they quickly went to bed to meditate and practice inner strength.

The next morning, the two of them had a hurried breakfast, and then walked straight to the lobby.

Since the imperial envoy is here, which of those officials would dare to come late!These people arrived early!
Duan Wuji glanced at the crowd and said: "My lords, let's go! Let's ride a horse and go to the place where the cockscomb snake is infested for an actual investigation, and by the way, ask the villagers what's going on!"

As soon as these people heard what the imperial envoy said, they immediately walked out of the yamen.

The prefect of Quzhou urged his horse to lead the way forward, and said to Duan Wuji and Tieniu: "You two imperial envoys, the place where the cockscomb snake haunts is quite far from us, nearly a hundred miles away from our city of Quzhou. Well, and the road is extremely difficult.

We have to hurry to that place, otherwise it will be difficult to call back and forth in one day! "

Tieniu grinned and said, "Master Zhifu, why do you always want to go back to the government office?

If we come out this time, if we don't kill the snake, we will never come back, so what are we afraid of if we delay for three or two days? "

The prefect of Quzhou was taken aback for a moment, then nodded and said yes!

"Ah? It's a bit too fast to kill this snake so quickly! Your Excellency, can this be done?"

Duan Wuji grinned and said: "Isn't it just a big worm, what's so great about it!

I don't think it's going to take much effort to kill it!

Why!Lord Zhifu, I just remembered, you might as well bring dozens of yamen servants with you, once you kill the giant snake, they can send snake meat to the various mansions!

My soldiers are all from the north, and they are not very familiar with your geographical environment here, so I will not take them this time!
Isn't this snake meat delicious!Let them taste it when you send it to the yamen of various governments, and let them go around for a while, how good it would be!

Wouldn't it be a pity if it was broken!
Let them all ride horses, and when we kill the snake, let them go away with the snake meat at once! "

The prefect of Quzhou heard what Duan Wuji said, and hurriedly followed suit!

Immediately ordered an official to call those Yamen servants.

The prefect of Quzhou laughed secretly, and said to himself: These two northerners are too bragging, do you think it is so easy to kill that giant snake?
If it was really that easy, we would have killed it long ago, how could we have spent so much effort!
Could it be that all of us are full of wine and rice?

However, other people's officials are big, and their own officials are small. Since they have arranged this way, then I have to listen!

After all the yamen servants have arrived, these talents will continue on their way!

The team left Quzhou City and ran down all the way to the southwest.

After a short while, these people entered the mountain again, but they saw that: the mountain road is rough and difficult to walk, the mountain is full of fragrant grass and mountain wind, the strange rocks are jagged across the road, and the bamboo forest is green and lush.Occasionally, a woodcutter would sing, and the voice was desolate and really unpleasant.

Birds chirping in the forest, mountain scenery, gurgling streams, clear water.

Under the leadership of the prefect of Quzhou, the crowd rushed straight to the small village where the giant snake once haunted. After more than an hour, they finally arrived at the small mountain village.

Duan Wuji looked up, and saw that there were only dozens of families in this village. The village was built on the hillside, surrounded by green bamboo forests, and the distant mountains and close views are very beautiful!

The prefect of Quzhou said with a smile: "The place where the giant snake haunts is in the bamboo forest to the west, I will take you there to have a look later!

Why!Mr. Imperial Envoy, how about I have someone call those young people over again, and you can ask them about the specific situation, they are much more detailed than I am! "

Duan Wuji listened and nodded.

"Well! That's very good! Then you should send someone to find them immediately. Without their participation, it would be inconvenient for us people to take action and say something!

With the participation of their local people, it will be much easier. If this giant snake is removed, the people around them will not have to worry about survival all day long. "

The prefect of Quzhou nodded and said to the guards behind him: "Didn't you guys follow me last time? You know the situation of those families better. Now you can find someone for me." Go, tell them to come over quickly, just say we're here again."

A few guards agreed, and urged their horses to go straight to the small village. It was not too long, and a dozen young mountain people followed, and after a while, several old men and children also followed.

These mountain people have never seen such a big world!When they saw these people, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees and licked their heads.

"Cao Min sees all my lords, my lords, you must help us get rid of this giant snake as soon as possible!

This giant snake is so huge, it's too frightening. According to the old people in the family, this cockscomb snake is very cunning. Once it eats people, it won't eat anything else in the future No, once it is hungry again, it will come here and eat people again.

Such a big giant snake, who do you think can deal with it!
In the past, our village and nearby villages often lost pigs, sheep and calves. People thought they were stolen and eaten by someone, but it turned out that they were harmed by that animal!

My lord, you must do good deeds so that you can save the people of Limin near us!

For so many days, we were so scared that we dared not go out, for fear of being buried in the belly of a snake! "

After hearing this, Duan Wuji quickly said: "We are here this time to get rid of it. If the snake is not removed, we will not leave."

An old man in his seventies came over, looked at Duan Wuji and said, "My lord, this cockscomb snake crows like a rooster in the middle of the night, but it is actually hunting.

When other animals heard the rooster crowing, wouldn't they run over to eat the rooster? Once the fox heard the sound, they would be eaten by it instantly.

After the giant snake got used to eating people, the reason why it didn't want to hunt other prey was that it was human meat, which was so delicious!

Compared with those foxes and rabbits, this human is bigger and easier to hunt!

After all, which four-legged animal doesn't run special!This human being is different, it runs slower, and it is easier to succeed!

If this snake is not removed, it will eat up the people in this village sooner or later!
My lord, please do me a favor and save us! "

Duan Wuji listened and nodded.

"Old man, don't worry, if we don't remove this thing, we will never go back. I think you should go back. How to get rid of this snake is up to us."

Duan Wuji looked at those young mountain people and said, "Let's go, you guys lead us to see that snake path!"

Duan Wuji said to the arresters: "Pull out a few of your sabers and give them some self-defense. Once we are looking at the snake path, if it happens to come out, it will be very dangerous. It's very dangerous, if you don't even have a guy in your hand, it's almost the same as waiting to die!"

Duan Wuji said: "Those arresters immediately pulled out seven or eight waist knives and handed them over."

These mountain people got their weapons, and their courage suddenly became stronger again.

Duan Wuji said to the prefect of Quzhou and the others: "You go back to the village, it will be safer there, we will go to the village to find you after we finish the survey.

When the time comes, let's discuss it in detail! "

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu jumped off their horses, and said to the guards: "You take our horses to the village too, we will come as soon as we go!"

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji pulled out his saber abruptly, Tieniu thought for a while and took off his carved bow from the horse, and took off the quiver and hung it on his waist. Tie Niu took out an arrow and put it on the bowstring, and then followed the mountain folks to the small bamboo forest in the west!
This small bamboo forest is not very far away from them, it is about a hundred feet away, these people cautiously ran straight to that bamboo forest.

When they got to the bamboo forest, a few mountain people bravely led them in. After walking fourteen or five feet in, they saw a snake path with a width of four or five feet. Headed into the distance.

Those villagers pointed with their fingers.

"My lord, have you seen it? The winding road in front of you is where the snake crawled out. Look at how scary it is!"

Duan Wuji looked at it and said: "Hmm! This snake is indeed not small, it must be three sizes bigger than that big urn!
If it wasn't so thick, it wouldn't have crawled out of such a wide snake path!

A normal snake crawls forward, and the snake path it crawls out of is five or six times wider than its body. Judging from this estimate, this long worm is indeed about to mature!
You guys go back, if you go any further, it will indeed be dangerous enough for you guys! "

"Second adults, why, don't you go back with us?"

Tie Niu shook his head.

"Let's not go back now, let's go inside and have a look again! Let me tell you, if others are afraid of this stinky long bug, we brothers have a way to deal with it, and we brothers don't take it seriously !
Hurry up and go out, we two brothers will be relieved when you go out!

If that snake appears now, to be honest, the two of us really have no ability to protect you! "

Those mountain people heard this, and went back without saying a word.

Seeing them all go out, the two brothers were completely relieved.

(End of this chapter)