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Chapter 136: Fear of death is human nature

On the way to Jinhou Town, the heralds were a little uneasy. They were a little envious of their two companions who stayed in Tiprano City through the lottery.

Despite constant hints from his men, the herald captain rode up to Zhang Wei and asked with a smile, "Sir, are we really not going with the army? If Viscount Jin Hou rebels, won't we just be going to die? We can die, but you can't get hurt."

Zhang Wei laughed when he heard it. He stopped his horse. The team leader also stopped his horse quickly. Seeing this, everyone else also stopped.

Zhang Wei looked at the team leader and turned his horse around. Many people thought that Zhang Wei had returned, but Zhang Wei did not ride his horse back to Tiprano City.

"Brothers, to be honest, I don't want to involve you. However, I have the responsibility to go to Jinhou Town to check the situation. I think you know the reason. And you have to follow me. You know the reason. If I don't go, the blame will be mine, and you will be punished as well. When I was in the capital, I heard people say that I bribed you and that we are now in the same boat, deceiving His Majesty together. I really have no choice."

"Damn it, who said that!"

"Hammer is spreading rumors!"

……

The heralds began to curse each other.

"Brothers, brothers." Zhang Wei shouted loudly twice, and the heralds stopped and listened to Zhang Wei quietly.

"It's not that I don't want to lead the army to Jinhou Town, but I don't have military power, as you know. In this situation where I'm being slandered, if I ask His Majesty for military power, it will only lead to more rumors. I'm really helpless!"

The captain of the herald squad thought faster and shouted directly: "Brothers, I now suspect that Zhang Wei wants to take advantage of the unrest in the north to kill us. Let's take him back to Tiprano City and report this matter to His Majesty the King!"

The other heralds didn't react at first. They looked at each other, wondering if their captain had lost his mind.

"What are you standing there for? Someone come and take the horse. Let's go back to the city!" The team leader directly ordered the nearest messenger to dismount and take Zhang Wei's horse.

When the other heralds saw Zhang Wei remained silent, they realized what was going on. A more clever one dismounted first to help Zhang Wei lead the horse. He even boasted shamelessly, "Sir, I am the steadiest person leading the horse. You do your best."

The nearest herald was feeling rather regretful at this moment, regretting that he had just lost the opportunity to lead the horse for Zhang Wei.

When the Earl heard that Zhang Wei was taken back to the city by the herald and placed under house arrest, he was so scared that he wanted to see Zhang Wei to ask what was going on, but he couldn't see him at all.

Feeling caught in the middle, the Earl could only send troops to protect the place where Zhang Wei was under house arrest and wait for the king's decision.

A few days later, the herald sent by the king found the earl as soon as he entered the city and scolded him, saying that the earl was stupid and did not know how to send troops to escort Zhang Wei and the king's heralds. As a result, misunderstandings occurred between Zhang Wei and the king's heralds, leading to such a shameful incident!

The Earl was stunned by the scolding, but he did not dare to argue. Their lineage was the Duke of Lionheart's people. Now rumors about the Duke of Lionheart were flying everywhere, and the Duke himself was hiding away and refusing to see any visitors, making their lineage more and more depressed.

This messenger was actually an old friend of Zhang Wei. He was promoted because he had sent two caravans of gifts on behalf of Zhang Wei. The king sent him this time with a stronger intention of appeasing Zhang Wei.

After scolding the earl, the herald scolded the heralds who had imprisoned Zhang Wei in the street. At his reminder with a wink, the captain of the heralds stood up and argued with him, creating the illusion that Zhang Wei was very incompatible with the heralds.

Finally, the herald took out the king's handwritten edict, which suppressed the heralds and released Zhang Wei.

The herald conveyed the king's oral order to Zhang Wei in the street. The earl, officials, local troops, heralds and onlookers at the scene all pricked up their ears to watch the excitement.

"Zhang Wei! You started out as a centurion! And you were the runner-up in the brave trials. And yet, you were locked up by a dozen heralds. Are my heralds too strong, or are you so weak that you don't even have a chance to draw your sword!"

Everyone listened without saying a word. It seemed that the king was very angry. I wonder if it reminded the king of the Duke of Lionheart.

"Your previous master, the Duke of Lionheart, would be attacked even when he passed through his own territory. Now you follow me, but you still haven't gotten rid of your spinelessness. Is it that my northern territory specifically makes people spineless, or are the northerners of the kingdom no longer masculine?"

When everyone heard this, they looked at the people around them and thought to themselves that it was indeed related to the matter of the Duke of Lionheart.

"I asked you to inspect the northern part of the kingdom, not to be a punching bag. How can you work for me and share my worries unless I clearly define your authority in every detail? If you are really that stupid, then go back to being an adventurer and stop working for me!"

No one dared to say anything. The king seemed to be scolding Zhang Wei, but in fact he was granting Zhang Wei the power to act arbitrarily in the north. As long as the king did not say no, then whatever Zhang Wei did in the north was allowed.

In other words, Zhang Wei is now a knife in the king's hand, and the king can discard him at any time. But before being discarded, everyone has to touch their necks to avoid being cut before that.

"My lord, please forgive me." After conveying the king's oral order, the herald stepped forward to help Zhang Wei up, and apologized softly in Zhang Wei's ear, indicating that he was also acting on orders and it was not his own will.

"I understand, I understand." Zhang Wei also responded in a low voice.

This time, Zhang Wei, with the support of the king, led a team of knights and two centuries of men to Jinhou Town.

The Count cried and saw him off. He had already sent a team of knights and a century-man team to support Jinhou Town. With this move, Zhang Wei had taken away more than half of the troops in Tiprano City.

During the march, the deputy knight commander and the general found Zhang Wei and suggested whether they should send spies to explore the way and check the situation in Jinhou Town.

Zhang Wei directly rejected this proposal. He thought it was completely unnecessary because he did not believe that Viscount Jinhou had the courage to rebel.

The deputy knight commander and the general looked at each other and stopped trying to persuade him.

"General, how is it?" The two centurions asked hurriedly when the general returned to the team. Because the two of them were of the same rank, the count temporarily appointed a general to lead the troops. As for the others who were originally generals, the count was reluctant to send them out and kept them by his side to protect his safety.

The general shook his head, indicating that Zhang Wei did not listen to good advice.

"Damn it!" The centurion, who had a bad temper, cursed out loud.

The other more stable one thought for a moment and said, "After all, we can't afford to provoke them, and we can't hide from them, so we should put the high-powered ones in front, at least when we are attacked, we won't be defeated. If we really can't win, at least we can have fewer deaths."

The irritable centurion said nothing, which was considered as his tacit agreement with his comrade's suggestion.

The general nodded in agreement.

On the other side, the deputy knight commander, who also had a grim look on his face, returned to the team, gathered the knights, and asked his men to protect Zhang Wei. If any accident occurred, they should take Zhang Wei away as soon as possible.

"Sir, that shouldn't be the case. If he doesn't listen to advice, then let him suffer the consequences." A young man who had just been promoted to a knight did not understand the twists and turns involved.

"What do you know? He is going to die. How can we survive? Even the Earl has to act according to his wishes. Is your father more powerful than the Earl?" The Deputy Knight Commander would not have said these words if the Deputy Knight Commander had not seen that the young knight's father was a relative of his and his father had specially sent him gifts and asked him to take care of him.

"Then there's no need for us to run for our lives in such an exaggerated manner... We are knights after all, there is nothing to be afraid of." After being scolded, the young knight was still a little unconvinced. In addition, he was a relative of the deputy knight commander, so he expressed his thoughts.

After hearing this, the deputy knight commander shook his head helplessly and said, "If we were not relatives, I would have kicked you off your horse. Are you better than the knights of Lionheart Castle? When they entered the city of Tiprano, more than half of them were killed, and there was no news of further losses afterwards. They have been on the battlefield for many years, but they still ended up like that. How awesome do you think you are?"

After the deputy knight commander finished scolding, he continued to say to the other knights: "Everyone, pay attention! Obey orders and don't show off your strength!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

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The knights obeyed.

An older knight could hear that the deputy knight had mentioned his relationship with the young knights, and that he wanted them, the older ones, to take care of the young knights, so he took the initiative to ask the young knights to partner with him.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work. The rear guard defense is now in your hands." The deputy knight commander returned the favor by giving the safest rear guard to the older knights.

The other knights cursed the old fox in their hearts, and some regretted that they were slow to act.

However, no matter whether they were knights, soldiers or officers, they did not encounter the things that worried them. Instead, they arrived at Jinhou Town smoothly.

This has made many people have a new view of Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei didn't have so much thoughts to pay attention to what the army was thinking. He frowned and looked at the overcrowded Jinhou Town.

Not long after, Viscount Jinhou ran out after being notified by King Dedao's messenger. Now that Zhang Wei is no longer the same person he used to be, Viscount Jinhou naturally did not take the initiative to build a relationship with him.

"Sir, what's going on?" Zhang Wei dismounted and came to Viscount Jinhou and asked.

"Don't mention it. The situation is chaotic now. These are all villagers who came here for refuge. Some say that monsters plundered the village and kidnapped women. Others say that from the elderly to children, no matter male or female, young or old, none of them turned into zombies. Some are even more exaggerated and say that the robbers are human. Anyway, there are so many different opinions. Now no one is willing to go back to the village. They are all crowded in the town." Viscount Jinhou wanted to cry but had no tears. When he saw Zhang Wei, it was like seeing a savior.