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Chapter 76 Chapter Three

Five or six soldiers escorted Wusong to the front of the viewing hall.Guan Ying shouted that in addition to the Xingyan, he ordered a hundred killing sticks to be fired.A group of people came up to hold Wu Song down. Wu Song said: "Don't you all make a fuss; if you want to fight, you will fight. If I dodge a stick, I am not a tiger fighter! I don't count if I have fought before, and I will fight again! If I scream, I am not a tiger. A good man from Gu County!" How proud!At the age of twenty-six, Wu Song has accomplished two major events, two events that are enough to make him famous all over the world and for future generations: one is to kill a tiger, and the other is to kill his wife.Therefore, he publicized these two things everywhere, even on such occasions, and kept claiming to praise himself as a "good man" and "good man".

As we said before, Wu Song is a person with special self-appreciation, even a little narcissistic.Narcissistic people are often so paranoid that they forget the environment and their true situation.At this moment, Wu Song had forgotten that this one-hundred-kill stick would be fatal in a serious fight. However, he didn't want to die. So what does he want? He wants self-respect and shows his prestige. Therefore, he turned others' "killing stick" against him into his own "showing stick" against others. People watching from both sides laughed and said, "This idiot is going to kill him! Let's see how he survives!"

To kill is to court death.It's just that they don't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, how dark and cruel the prison camp is, and how life and death are. "If you want to beat me, beat me with poison, don't be humane, beat me is not happy!" It's just some people are crazy.He also knows that there is a "humanity stick".In fact, with such a stick, the life and death of the prisoner depends entirely on the lightness of the hand of the batterer.He is so insolent and provocative, if he picks out the fire to beat someone, one stick after another, beat to death, no matter what kind of tiger-fighting hero you are, or a wife-killing hero, you will immediately become a pile of rotten meat.

However, what is interesting is that instead of being angry, those people "all laughed." This smile has several meanings. 1. Laugh at you as a fool—I have never seen such a fool. 2. Laughing at you madly - I have never seen such a crazy one. 3. Laughing that you don't know the master's tricks - wait and see. 4. Laughing that you don’t know that the time of death has come—it’s nice to have you. 5. Still smiling contemptuously—do you think that if you can defeat a tiger, you can defeat our big stick? 6. Of course, it doesn't rule out that they think Wu Song is really cute like this.His words and deeds at this moment are very similar to another character that everyone is very familiar with and favorite: Monkey King.Wu Song is the flesh and blood of his father and mother, can he withstand the ruthless beating and death stick?

Just when the soldiers picked up their sticks and yelled that they were about to start fighting, they saw a fair-skinned man of twenty-four or five years old, with a white handkerchief wrapped around his head and a bandage wrapped around his right hand, to manage the camp. Mr. Ying whispered a few words in his ear, and the attitude of the officer in charge changed immediately: "Wu Song, the new prisoner, did you get sick on the way?" In the story of Lin Chong, we already know: this is the unspoken rule: whoever spends money or has any favors, presumes that he has not recovered from his illness on the way to the prison camp, and he can avoid this hundred killing power first. Great, call it "send and hit".Guan Ying's words at this time were obviously a reminder to Wu Song to use this rule to temporarily avoid the beating.

However, to our surprise, Wu Song didn't appreciate it.Wu Song said: "I have never been harmed on the road! You can eat wine! You can eat meat! You can eat food! You can walk on the road!" Not only did he say that he was not sick, but he also gave four evidences in one breath, as if he was afraid that he would not be able to prove that he was not sick. Look at his voice when he speaks, it looks more and more like that rogue monkey head. However, the strange thing is that Guan Ying seems determined to be considerate to him today, saying: "This guy got sick on the way and came here, I'll let him look good, and send him this killing stick."

The soldiers with sticks on both sides also saw Guan Ying's thoughts, so they said to Wu Song in a low voice: "You are sick quickly. This is the general who is going to kill you, and you will just push Zeng to harm you." Ordinarily, at this point, you, Wu Song, have to be given face by others, you have to have face, right?Others are considerate of you and accept you, so you have to give others a step to accept you, right?Besides, this step has been prepared for you by others, as long as you nod your head in approval. However, Wu Song seems to be determined to ask for it today.Wu Songdao: "No harm! No harm! It's knocked out! I don't want to keep this 'send the stick'! Sending it is a huge debt, when will it be paid!"

People on both sides laughed. This Wu Song, originally wanted to give him a killing stick today, to kill his prestige, so that he would be more honest in the future.Instead, he turned this occasion into his own performance arena. Instead, he was here to promote himself, to promote his own name, to show his ability, to display his own score, and to establish his own prestige.Moreover, the acting was so passionate that others couldn't hold back. Guan Ying also laughed and said, "I think you have a fever and never sweated, so you speak wildly. Don't listen to him, and lock him up in the single room."

Under normal circumstances, in order to make money, but also to kill chickens for the monkeys to show off, as an example to others, the management of the prison camp, for the prisoners who do not respect the money, this hundred-killing stick, it is conditional to beat, there is no condition Conditions must also be created.Only in this way can all the prisoners in the prison camp be in danger and panic all day long, and cultivate a "good prison atmosphere" that is dedicated to pleasing the assignment and managing the camp. Today, however, the situation is completely reversed: yes, no fighting if there are conditions, and no fighting if conditions are not created.

Or this management has experience.Wu Song didn't give him any reason not to fight, but he just found a reason from this completely unnatural behavior: how could anyone want to be beaten?He must have been mad with fever. That being the case, according to the regulations, you can post and type. Wu Song inexplicably avoided a beating that seemed inevitable.This is very strange.Why did Guan Ying take such care of him?Wu Song scolded the messenger, and the messenger left in a rage. Was there a plot to kill Wu Song? Three or four soldiers led Wu Songyi to the single room.All the prisoners also felt that it was really incomprehensible, and they all came to ask: "Don't you have any letters to get acquainted with Guanying?" Wu Song said: "No."

All the prisoners said: "If you don't have time, it's not a good intention to send this stick. It will definitely come to finish you at night." I see! Wu Songdao: "Or how to end me?" The prisoners said: "At night, he will bring you two bowls of dry yellow barn rice to eat, and take you to the dungeon while you are full, tie up the ropes, roll you up with Gao Jian, stuff your seven orifices, and put your head down Standing on the wall, it will kill you in half a shift, this is called a 'pot hanging'." Wu Songdao: "How else will you arrange me?" The crowd said: "Another thing is that you are tied up, but a cloth bag containing a bag of yellow sand will be pressed on you in the future, and you will die without a single shift. This is called a 'homesand bag'." Everyone said it was over, and saw a soldier enter with a box and asked, "Is that the new Wudu head?" Wu Song replied: "I am! What can I say?" The man replied: "Guan Ying asked to deliver snacks here." Say it and come! When Wu Song looked at it, it didn't look like it. It wasn't some hard-to-eat dry yellow barn rice, but a large bowl of wine, a plate of meat, a plate of noodles, and a large bowl of soup.Wu Song pondered: "Dare you eat these snacks with me and then deal with me? I'm going to eat them, but I don't care about them!" Wu Song drank the wine in one gulp, ate all the meat and noodles, sat in the room thinking, and said with a sneer, "Look how he will deal with me!" In the evening, that person brought dinner again, which was even richer.When Wu Song saw it, he thought to himself: "After eating this meal, I will definitely come and end me. Let him alone! Even if he dies, he will be a full ghost! If you have to eat, don't worry about it!" The man waited for Wu Song to eat, and cleaned up The dishes are back. Not long after, that man and another man came again, one carrying a bathtub and the other carrying a large bucket of hot water, to wait on Wu Song to take a bath.Wu Song thought: "Don't wait for me to take a bath to start? I'm not afraid of him either! And just wash up!" Wu Song jumped into the bathtub, and the two stood aside, handing clothes and towels, helping to wipe the water, and putting on their clothes.Then one poured the bath water, and the other hung up the gauze curtain in the future, spread the rattan mat (mat), put a cool pillow, asked Wu Song to rest, and went back. Wu Song closed the door, tied it, put his head down and fell asleep—nothing happened all night.
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