Chapter 16 Tragic

"Wang Wu, your mother is dead."

The man called Wang Wu was carrying a bundle of firewood that he had just cut from the outskirts of the city.

This bundle of firewood could be sold to a wealthy family for 100 coins.

Now the area around the capital has suffered from floods, and the price of food has soared.

The prices of items in the capital have changed every day, and this 100 coins can't even support a strong man!

Wang Wu also has an elderly mother at home.

After hearing what his neighbor said, Wang Wu was stunned, and immediately dropped the bundle of firewood in his hand and ran home.

There were many people gathered in front of the dilapidated house.

These were Wang Wu's neighbors.

An aunt saw Wang Wu coming back and hurriedly called out: "Wang Wu, Wang Wu is back!!"

"Everyone, what's going on? My mother..."

Wang Wu remembered that when he went out early in the morning, his mother was still alive at home.

"It's nothing, Auntie Wang just fainted from hunger. She needs to eat something, otherwise her body will collapse."

An old man in a shabby gown came out tremblingly carrying a medicine box.

This old man is a doctor who treats illnesses nearby.

Seeing what the other party said, Wang Wu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but immediately smiled bitterly.

Recuperation costs money.

Wang Wu's family is so poor that even mice are unwilling to visit.

Walking on the street, Wang Wu felt very heavy.

Fortunately, he has a good reputation among the neighbors, and he is willing to help anyone who has problems, so the neighbors gathered some money and paid the consultation fee.

When Wang Wu returned to the place where he had just dropped the firewood, he saw that even the carrying pole was taken away by some dirty guy.

Wang Wu was so angry that he cursed and sat down on the street after cursing, with a miserable expression.

"Have you heard? Wucheng Bingmasi is recruiting people, and they are paying one tael of money for every ten days!"

One tael of money is equivalent to one thousand coins, and can also be exchanged for one tael of silver.

One tael of money? !

Wang Wu, who heard the whispers from passers-by, stood up immediately, hesitated for a moment and walked towards Wucheng Bingmasi.

Just as the rumors said.

This Wucheng Bingmasi is indeed recruiting people.

Wang Wu was selected for his strength gained from years of hard work.

These selected men were thrown into the training ground of Wucheng Bingmasi.

Before Wang Wu understood what was happening, he saw a fat military officer standing on the martial arts stage.

Hiss!

Wang Wu's eyes were full of awe.

Such a big official, Wang Wu and other low-level people, rarely see it in their lifetime.

Gradually, Wang Wu noticed that there were more people in the training ground, as many as five or six hundred.

Then the military officer asked people to bring out a pile of leather armor, swords and guns.

Let the people present choose.

Wang Wu stood in the front row and was lucky enough to be assigned a big knife and leather armor.

However, when he got the things, Wang Wu was dumbfounded.

This leather armor was full of insect bites, and even the fixing rope was broken.

And this rusty big knife made people doubt whether it could be used to kill chickens.

Naturally.

The weapons and armors distributed to everyone present were almost the same.

After the distribution, Wang Wu just learned that he was already a soldier of Wucheng Bingmasi.

"This is the reward money. Follow this captain to Wuyou Cave tomorrow to encircle and suppress underground thieves!"

The fat military officer who called himself the captain said, asked his men to bring a box of copper coins, and left directly.

On the other hand, everyone in the parade ground looked at each other.

As people from the capital, they naturally heard of the name of Wuyou Cave.

Hearing that they would have to fight with those desperate criminals in this outfit, some people refused to do it.

After all, there is a life to get money, but there is no place to spend it!

Under the crowd's encouragement, more than a hundred men ran away.

Wang Wu also wanted to run, but he couldn't bear to part with the copper coins in the box.

Because everyone could get a reward of one tael for settling down!

Wang Wu took the money he got and bought a lot of food and some meat to go home.

After paying back the money to his neighbor, Wang Wu served his mother to eat.

Wang Wu swallowed the meat in big mouthfuls to prepare for the fight tomorrow.

That night, Wang Wu slept well.

At least he didn't wake up from hunger in the middle of the night.

Early in the morning, Wang Wu reported to the Wucheng Bingmasi.

After seeing the many soldiers who had gathered, Wang Wu felt a little more courageous.

This time, there were as many as two thousand soldiers going to encircle Wuyou Cave!

At noon, the captain in a fancy armor just got on the horse with the help of the servant.

"Let's go!"

Now thinking back, even if Wang Wu starved to death, he didn't want to come to the underground of Wuyou Cave!

It was pitch dark in the underground of the Wuyou Cave, which was connected in all directions.

In addition, the terrain was narrow, and some places could only be entered by one person bending over.

And the underground was full of filth, and one would step on it if one was not careful.

Of course, this was not the most fatal place.

The soldiers of the Wucheng Bingma Division entered the underground in a mighty procession.

The leading captain retreated before entering, handed over the command to a captain of the Wucheng Bingma Division, and ran away.

Wang Wu knew the captain.

He usually patrolled at the city gate and extorted a few ingots of silver from the merchants from time to time.

Under the leadership of the captain, the group had just walked forward in the Wuyou Cave for half an hour, and the team of two thousand people was reduced by half.

None of the so-called bandits were seen.

This made Wang Wu feel relieved.

However!

Those people wearing brown cloth shorts rushed out from the corner with short knives in hand, cutting off the remaining thousand people from the middle.

Even this group of people were wearing armor and holding crossbows!

Seven or eight people around Wang Wu fell down in one encounter.

As for the captain, his head was cut off by a rat from Wuyou Cave.

Wang Wu noticed that the other party was looking at him, and he smiled with a ferocious expression.

Wang Wu fainted on the spot, and it was unknown how long it took for him to wake up.

After waking up, he saw that the ground was full of broken corpses and flesh, and the smell of blood rushed straight to Wang Wu's head.

Wang Wu, who didn't know why he survived, ran out like crazy.

He was really lucky. He didn't meet anyone from Wuyou Cave along the way and ran back to the ground.

The disheveled and dishevelled Wang Wu was almost arrested as a madman.

Soon, through the mouths of surviving soldiers like Wang Wu, what happened underground quickly spread in the capital.

Of the two thousand soldiers who went down to the cave, only a few came back alive!

While Wuyou Cave added to its evil reputation, countless impeachment memorials were sent to the emperor.

Pah!

Li Zhao, whose memorial was torn to pieces, had a face that made it hard to tell whether he was happy or angry.

"Issue an order to arrest Zhang Maoxing, the commander of the Wucheng Bingma Division, and order the Ministry of Justice to investigate his failure to suppress the bandits and embezzle military funds!"

It can be seen that Li Zhao must be in a bad mood at this time.

Once these charges are confirmed, Zhang Maoxing will most likely lose his life.

"And the four captains of the Wucheng Bingma Division, all of them will be fined and dismissed, and demoted to commoners!"

Li Zhao suddenly looked at Shangguan Wan'er and said meaningfully: "Wan'er, what do you think about letting Lin Chen go to the Wucheng Bingma Division as a commander?"

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