One Three Two Cruel Negotiations
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"General Xiahou, a famous scholar outside the village, does he want to see you?"
"Scholar? How many people did he bring?"
"He was the only one, holding a bronze mirror and a string of wax meat in his hand..."
"Bronze mirror, wax meat? When you put him in, you must be a lobbyist for the officers and soldiers. Please prepare your brothers and follow my orders!"
"As for orders..."
After everything was arranged, the closed manor gate opened. Huangfu Zhai carried the flesh in his right hand and the bronze mirror in his left hand. He walked into the manor gate calmly with a look of calmness.
Huangfu Zhai's eyes swept away, but saw extremely cold faces everywhere, including thieves and Zhuangmin. Anyway, he looked at himself with his unwelcome expression.
Speeched all the way, Huangfu Zhai calmly came to the table prepared by Xiahou Qiong, glanced at Xiahou Qiong, then put the wax meat in his hand on the table, and then slowly sat down opposite him.
As soon as Huangfu Zhai sat down, Xiahou Qiong immediately asked gloomyly: "Sir, are you here to be a lobbyist for the officers and soldiers?"
"If you ask questions knowingly, save it. I don't have much time and don't want to waste more talk. The negotiations officially begin..."
Huangfu Zhai's "personality" opening remark immediately made Xiahou Qiong and the pseudo-Chang thieves around him stunned. He didn't expect that the scholar was direct and had no polite words, but his words also made everyone dislike him.
When he was young, Xiahou Qiong said, "I admire your courage, but if you want to be a lobbyist for those officers and soldiers, please come back. My Dachang soldiers will never surrender to the officers and soldiers..."
"How stupid are you to make you say such words?" Huangfu Zhai replied immediately, "There are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the village, and your troops are less than 2,000, and your morale, combat power and equipment are not proportional. Why do you say such ridiculous words? Resist, die, surrender, and live, do you still need choices and explanations?"
"Rareless!" Xiahou Qiong heard this, slapped the table with his palm and shouted violently, and the scars on his cheeks kept beating, "Sir, I wish you a man. I dare to come to our army alone to negotiate. I am more polite to you. Don't toast or not to eat a penalty!"
"What do you want to do?" Huangfu Zhai immediately responded, "Take these less than 2,000 remaining soldiers and continue to deal with tens of thousands of troops? How long do you think you can last?"
"Hmph..." Xiahou Qiong snorted coldly and said angrily, "How many of you officers and soldiers are good things? Even if we die, we will not surrender to you!"
"What makes you so confident with stupid courage?" Huangfu Zhai simply pulled out a cloth mirror from his arms and said while rubbing the bronze mirror, "Do you think the people of the entire manor support you, making you feel that you are the king's master full of pride? Can you hold on to the end at all costs?
I even think that the people of the manor will face the threat of death with you? If you think so, then sorry, I am very disappointed, because you have no essential changes compared to three years ago. The difference is that there is more hypocrisy, and the thieves are still the same group of thieves..."
Upon hearing this, Xiahou Qiong immediately stood up and slapped the table and shouted at Huangfu Zhai: "Stop talking! Don't say anything more! Believe it or not, I'll kill you now!"
Xiahou Qiong's anger did not make Huangfu Zhai's expression fluctuate even if there was a trace of fluctuation. He still wiped the bronze mirror in his hand casually and said calmly: "Angry is enough to show that you are guilty, and the roar is even more concealing the truth in your heart. Why don't you dare to face your true self? Thieves, such ugly words. Don't think that someone can change this fact by proclaiming emperor now. When the so-called dynasty is destroyed, you are still just thieves. What is recorded in history is still the fact that you have done many evil things, and there will be no change..."
“Hu~Hu~”
Xiahou Qiong was already blushed by Huangfu Zhai's anger, and kept panting. The cold eyes that looked at him became even colder...
"Do you have nothing to say?" Huangfu Zhai put down the mirror cloth and bronze mirror in his hand, looked at Xiahou Qiong with an angry expression, and continued, "Then let me tell you some reality and let you understand the situation well. There are only a hundred households in your manor, and there are only two thousand troops under your command. If the officers and soldiers outside surrounded him and did not attack, how much food do you think you have and how many days can you last?
According to my estimate, at most one day, you will have no food. What should you do? The officers and soldiers outside can surround you for ten days, a hundred days, or even a year. How should you survive? How should the people in the village survive?
What do you plan to do in an extremely hungry environment? What do you rely on for feeding? You must know that people can do everything in an extremely desperate environment. And I believe that many of you have also experienced that desperate environment. What? Do you want to experience it once?"
After saying that, Huangfu Zhai slowly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve, then pressed the sharp blade onto the waxy piece. With the blade gently stroked, a piece of fat slices of meat separated from the whole piece of meat, fell into Huangfu Zhai's hands, and slowly sent it to his mouth.
Many pseudo-Chang soldiers around him looked at Huangfu Zhai's actions and recalled what he said just now. They couldn't help but stare at each other, and their bodies couldn't help trembling. Several of them even covered their chests and forced their vomiting.
"You..." Huangfu Zhai calmly put the slices of flesh on his mouth, then opened his lips lightly and stuffed them into his mouth, "It's all a group of beasts..."
"Vomit~"
When Huangfu Zhai began to chew the meat in his mouth, the pseudo-chang soldiers around him could no longer help. When recalling those terrible years, their stomachs suddenly churned, and they all arched their bodies and started to vomit, spitting out all the food they had eaten at noon...
"No, I'm not a beast, I'm forced, no~"
"Oh my God, I don't want that, I really don't want that. God, forgive me..."
"Brother, please give me a knife. I don't want to live anymore. I'm so sinful..."
The soldiers around Xiahou Qiong were in chaos, some were frightened and crying, some were determined to die, some were kneeling to pray. In short, the momentum before disintegrated and collapsed under Huangfu Zhai's attack...
"You, you are the devil, you actually..."
Xiahou Qiong looked at the situation around him, then looked at Huangfu Zhai who was calm and indifferent, and pointed at him with a trembling voice in horror.
"Cruel? Is it ruthless?" Huangfu Zhai continued to cut off a piece of meat, put it quietly in his mouth and continued to chew for a while, without looking at Xiahou Qiong. "If these were not true, why were they so scared? I just helped them recall the memories they forcibly forgotten, and thus advised you not to repeat the same mistakes. Is there any problem?"
Xiahou Qiong sat back on his stool weakly and glanced around the chaos, but saw a pseudo-Chang soldier in a corner constantly patting the soldier who was vomiting.
"Class A, what's wrong with you? Talking? Why did it turn out like this?"
"Brother, I'm not a human being. Back then, I ate meat back then, and I ate it for four or five months..."
"I want to be meat? That's not a human...don't vomit..."
When the soldier heard what the Chief Arthur said, he was extremely frightened and couldn't help but vomit together...
The armor was covered in tears and his eyes were red and said to the soldier: "Brother, you won't look down on me, you can't help, you're hungry, you're really hungry. The child is only a few months old, and the girl cooks it into a pot of rotten meat. No, no, brother, you won't blame me, right? I was forced..."
"Get out of here, don't get close to me..."
"No, brother, you will understand me, right? Don't leave, I'm only vegetarian now..."
When the young soldier of pseudo-chang heard his Jia Chang's strange look when he described the years, he was so scared that he pushed him away and ran away. He never expected that the Lao Jia Chang, whom he respected, was actually a man-eating demon.
Many people in the manor finally recalled the inhuman memory. The people-busting team, hunting team, and food hunting officials, and the names of demons began to wander in their minds. Only then did they realize that the so-called "Dachang soldiers" in front of them were once a group of devils, people-eating devils...
Thinking of this, they couldn't help but get away from the thieves. Some of them hugged their children tightly in their arms, for fear that they would suddenly snatch the children away from eating them, which was completely different from the previous atmosphere of "military and civilians' family"...
Xiahou Qiong stared blankly at the sudden change of atmosphere around him. Unexpectedly, the scholar who was only thirty years old sat opposite him became like this because of a few words from the scholar who was only thirty years old. He knew that his last hope was shattered...
Huangfu Zhai began to gently wipe the bronze mirror in his hand, turning a blind eye to everything happening around him, and continued to say to Xiahou Qiong: "How is it? Are you still planning to continue to resist? In this case, what can you do to reverse the disadvantage?"
Xiahou Qiong suddenly fell into deep thought, and didn't expect Huangfu Zhai's words to come to his ears: "Do you still have time to think now? From the moment you start thinking, you are already questioning the correctness of your decision before, and doubting means that it is wrong. Since it is wrong, why should you continue to persist? Surrender, this is your only way out and it is also an opportunity to regain your life.
Moreover, in Jingtai or Heyuan, you have not really brought a happy and peaceful life to the people. Is Zhao Yuanji dead? Did you kill Lin Jinning? None of them, but the commander of this army outside is doing something you can't do. I believe that it won't take long before Lin Jinning's death will spread throughout the province. Do you think the people will still support you? Or do you want to take those two thousand people back to the hell that you didn't want to look back on in the past?"
"I..." Xiahou Qiong was speechless for a moment, and finally sighed and said, "I can surrender, but you must agree to my conditions..."
Huangfu Zhai immediately interrupted him: "I can't decide any requirements for you. If you have any conditions to wait for you to surrender, you will tell the commander of the army outside, "I am just a lobbyist. Since you have decided to surrender, my mission will be completed. Now open the village gate and all this will be freed..."
After saying that, Huangfu Zhai put away the table full of daggers, got up, picked up the bronze mirror and continued to wipe...
Xiahou Qiong looked up at Huangfu Zhai's figure and suddenly felt extremely tall, and she couldn't help but feel the urge to worship him.
Finally, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you dare to ask the sir to respect his surname?"
"I'm in Huangfu Zhai, there's not much time left. Open the door and surrender quickly. I don't want to waste my words anymore..."
Chapter completed!