A knife in love

Chapter 966

Li Qiufeng recalled how he met Yu Fan, and thought to himself, on the way from Luoyang to Xiuwu County that day, Japanese pirates intercepted and killed Yu Fan, and he saw it with his own eyes. friend.Although there was a smudge between the two of them a few days ago, at that time they just thought that Yu Fan was keen on fame and did not suspect that he had other plans.At this time, when he thought about the past events carefully, he realized that Yu Fan had a deep plan and was cautious in doing things. In terms of resourcefulness, he was not under discipline.

He paced around the room a few times, feeling a little undecided for a while.It stands to reason that since he already knew that Yu Fan was secretly colluding with the Japanese pirates, he would naturally capture or kill him and cut off the Japanese pirates' eyesight.But this person's evil deeds have not been revealed, and he hastily killed people, which is somewhat unreasonable.If it is reported to the official, with Yu Fan's wise plan, he will definitely have a backup, and he is definitely not his opponent when it comes to verbal disputes in the courtroom.What's more, I am just a grassroots person, and I suddenly fell out with the county magistrate, whether it is the tolerance arrester in the yamen, or the people of Xiuwu County, I am afraid that they will not let me go.When the Japanese pirates take the opportunity to sneak attack, it will be a catastrophe.

While Li Qiufeng was thinking, he only heard footsteps outside the door, and it was the old servant who brought lunch.Li Qiufeng was very surprised to see that Miao Zhu did not come with him, so he asked the old servant about Miao Zhu's whereabouts.The old servant took out the food and wine from the food box and put them on the table, and said to Li Qiufeng: "This year's Lantern Festival has been advanced by half a month, and the yamen ordered that the lanterns should be hung up within three days. From early morning until now, outside People kept sending lanterns to the temple. Master Zhu led people to work in the front yard, and he didn't even have time to eat, so naturally he couldn't come to deliver the meal himself, so he had to ask the villain to come."

Seeing that the old servant was five or sixty years old, with gray hair and wrinkled face, Li Qiufeng couldn't bear it, and said: "Old man, there is no need to prepare meals for me in the future, I can find a tavern outside the temple by myself. There are so many troubles these days, I am very sorry."

The old servant was startled, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, you can't do this. If you are not satisfied with the food and drink, just tell the villain."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the four dishes that had just been placed on the table, and then said: "This white-cut chicken dish was made by Wang Laoliu of Wang Ji himself. Poor. This roasted pork with bamboo shoots is the signature dish of Guo’s restaurant in the south of the city. It’s just a southern dish, and we northerners may not be used to it. It’s a villain. I think your old man is used to northern dishes, so I want to change it for you It’s a change of taste, but I don’t know how to make the uncle unhappy. There is also this..."

Hearing this, Li Qiufeng knew that the old servant would be wrong, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "Old man, you misunderstood me. I really didn't mean to blame you. I really don't want to cause you and brother Miaozhu any more trouble."

It's just that he explained repeatedly, but the old servant repeatedly said that the food he picked was not to Li Qiufeng's taste, which made him unhappy and made Li Qiufeng dumbfounded.After tossing about half a stick of incense, the old servant left in a hurry.Li Qiufeng sighed, thinking to himself that he had been delayed in Xiuwu County for more than a month and missed many things.Now it's the last moment, so I have to grit my teeth and hold on.As for the result, we had to resign ourselves to fate.

Because I had something on my mind, the meal was tasteless.Finally, Li Qiufeng simply pushed the bowl and chopsticks, stood up, and started pacing in the room again.He carefully calculated in his mind the various forces that could be used to fight against the Japanese pirates, but after all the calculations, there was always no chance of winning.Li Qiufeng thought to himself, originally thought that there was at least a [-]% chance of winning, but he did not expect that Yu Fan turned out to be an accomplice of the Japanese pirates.In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides are reversed.Moreover, Yu Fan's master and servant are in the city, and he is also an official of the magistrate's yamen.I'm afraid he already knew Ji Dingzhong's intentions clearly.In this way, once the two sides make a move, the Nie family will definitely suffer a crushing defeat.

Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng sighed.He didn't care about the life and death of the Nie family at first.And he knew that even if the Japanese pirates were defeated, Ji Dingzhong and Mrs. Nie would definitely attack the Lu, Zhao, and Du families, and it would inevitably be another bloody battle.However, the entanglement of these four families has nothing to do with me.As long as Huang Xu left Xiuwu County with Yuanjue, he would not care about how the internal strife among the four families would end.But no matter what, the first priority is to defeat the conspiracy of the Yagyu clan and the Japanese pirates, which forced him to join forces with Ji Dingzhong and others.Being caught in the midst of these major forces, it is naturally extremely difficult for him to have both ways and clever maneuvers.

While Li Qiufeng was thinking about it, he heard another sound of chaotic footsteps in the yard.A moment later, someone knocked lightly on the door.Li Qiufeng opened the door and saw that there were Wan Congyun and Bayuyan, followed by more than a dozen men.When the two saw Li Qiufeng, they immediately showed joy.Wan Congyun said first: "Commander Li, several groups of people came in from the south gate just now, and they were all taken to the abandoned house in the north of the city by Master Zhang of the yamen."

As soon as Wan Congyun's voice fell, Bayuyan continued: "Two groups of people came from the east of the city. It seems that there may be seven or eighty people. Master Zhang also sent people to pick them up in the city. The three big mansions where Pai used to live have settled down."

Li Qiufeng nodded and let the two into the room.Wan Congyun said: "Since he is the person received by Master Zhang of the yamen, there is nothing suspicious. However, Commander Li said that he will tell you everything, so the villain is still here."

Hearing Wan Congyun's words, Bayuyan naturally refused to lag behind, and said to Li Qiufeng: "The villain sees that these people have swords hanging on their bodies. I'm afraid it's not good, so I came here to report to Commander Li."

Li Qiufeng said: "Thank you for your hard work, and came here specially. These people are Master Zhang's guests, presumably they are going to watch the lanterns in the city. We inquire about them to protect Master Zhang's guests, there is nothing wrong .”

Wan Congyun and Bayuyan nodded after hearing this.Li Qiufeng went on to say: "Both of you are influential figures in Xiuwu County, and the law and order on this Lantern Festival depends on you two. Since the Yamen asked me to lead the righteous people in the city, we must be ordered to investigate the city's people on the Lantern Festival. Everywhere, in case there are traitors who take the opportunity to commit crimes. I would like to ask the two brothers, how many people can you gather by then?"

After hearing what Li Qiufeng said, Wan Congyun and Bayuyan made some calculations in their hearts.This time, the two of them didn't rush to talk, they both wanted to hear the number of people reported by the other party, so the room suddenly fell silent.

Seeing that Wan Congyun and Bayuyan stopped talking, Li Qiufeng was quite surprised.After a while, Wan Congyun said: "There are more than 70 people under the villain's family. However, on the Lantern Festival, some people have to take care of their wives and children at home, and some people have to help their parents set up stalls to sell goods. If you can get together 40 people, you can get together." Not bad."

After listening to Wan Congyun's words, Bayuyan continued, "The villain's apprentices are similar to Brother Wan's. On the day of the Lantern Festival, there are three or forty people waiting for orders."

In fact, both of them laid an ambush against Li Qiufeng.Every year during the Lantern Festival, Xiuwu County is extremely lively, and some treacherous people often fish in troubled waters at this time and take the opportunity to commit crimes.Therefore, some shops and stores in the city will invite people to help look after the homes.Wan Congyun, Mei Dali and Bayuyan are well-known martial arts masters in Xiuwu County, and each has a hundred and ten disciples under his command.Therefore, before and after the Lantern Festival, some merchants will spend money to ask the apprentices of the three to help.Wan Congyun and the other three received a lot of benefits from it.This year's Lantern Festival has been brought forward by half a month, and the merchants are a little caught off guard, and the price of hiring someone to look after the home is also much higher.In just one day and one night, the three of them received dozens of posts asking their apprentices to help.Wan Congyun and others roughly calculated that this year's Lantern Festival could earn at least 30 taels of silver, and they were extremely happy.Just now I heard Li Qiufeng ask how many people can be dispatched, Wan Congyun and Bayuyan wanted to keep some more people to go out to make money for themselves, so they only reported 40 people, and the rest reasoned that they had something to do at home, in case Li Qiufeng asked.

Li Qiufeng thought to himself, these two people can bring out 40 people each, and Mei Dali is probably not much different.There are more than 100 apprentices of the three of them together. Naturally, these people cannot be relied on to fight against the assassins and Japanese pirates of the Liusheng clan, but these people grew up in Xiuwu County, and they are very familiar with the situation in the city.At that time, they can lead the way for the various martial arts sects, and deal with the Japanese pirates in the city, but it also saves a lot of energy.

(End of this chapter)