Shu Blossoms

Chapter 497 Fighting
Can Xiao Yucheng alone be able to turn the tide?
This is the confidant and said again: "I also found out that this gentleman has been in contact with Xiulizhuang these two days, and how many people have seen them in Shiye!"

"Speak in detail!" Yang Zongzhou said hastily.

He listened to his confidant, thought for a moment, and immediately ordered: "Quickly, take someone to check the whereabouts of this Xiulizhuang in the past two days, and where are the people who have been in contact with him and what they have done. Find out and come back to me immediately, hurry up!"

When the confidant was going out, someone just ran over in a hurry, and he left without stopping, only to hear a word, "That gentleman in the study."

It was probably reminded by Yang Zongzhou later, his voice was much quieter, "That gentleman is gone!"

"It's gone?" Yang Zongzhou was surprised, then rushed back to the study, and asked the servants guarding outside, "Did you see the person inside come out?"

The servants shook their heads, "My lord, I have been guarding here and never left. Since you left, no one has come out."

Yang Zongzhou immediately went back to the study, but there was no sign of Xiao Yucheng. He worriedly searched the study, but he couldn't find anyone, so he sat down in a daze. I took a closer look at the food and found that no one had touched it.

He sighed, took the food case by hand, and started to eat. Since he heard that the city defense camp closed the city without authorization early in the morning, he went to the city defense camp angrily, but was told that Tan Chen was not at the house, saying that he found out He rushed to investigate the traces of the thieves, and he chased them all the way, but they said that Tan Chen had gone to the military camp, and he chased him to the military camp again, but he didn't see anyone in the end.

Yang Zongzhou knew that Tan Chen was avoiding him, he had to go back to his house after a whole morning of tossing, and he was too hungry to hold on for half a day.

Halfway through the meal, the confidant who went out to inquire about the news came back again.He put down his chopsticks and walked into the hall to listen to his confidant's report: "My lord, my subordinates have found out a strange thing. The people from Xiulizhuang went to the weaving and embroidery workshop to collect the snow satin and plain brocade, but someone saw them nearby. There were many bags of things in front of a house, which looked like food. The subordinates followed the line and checked back. Xiulizhuang's carriage left the city that afternoon and said it was for our wife and girls. The embroidered clothes were robbed by a group of thieves in the Meiling area, but they sent those clothes to the wife and the girl at noon that afternoon, so what did they get robbed of?"

"Of course there are other things, is there any more?" Yang Zongzhou asked again, and his confidant replied: "The people below came back to report that when they went to inquire about the gang of thieves, they saw Tan Chen leading people to search in the first generation of Meiling. , seems to be looking for some kind of thief!"

"So Tan Chen is really not in the city, but he must not be catching some thieves. When did his city defense camp do thieves!" Yang Zongzhou sneered, and suddenly heard movement behind him, he and his confidant hurriedly turned around to look, but Xiao Yucheng, who had disappeared, was sitting where he was just now, using the chopsticks he had used, and eating with great taste.

"Where did you come from?" Yang Zongzhou was dumbfounded, Xiao Yucheng said calmly: "I was too tired just now, so I found a place to take a nap."

Yang Zongzhou swallowed, hesitated for a moment and still didn't say that he used it. He just smiled coquettishly, and then said calmly, "Tan Chen took the city defense battalion to Meiling, saying that he wanted to catch thieves. Isn't the general in a hurry?"

Xiao Yucheng looked up at him from the food table more indifferently, "So. Governor Yang is ready to send you out of the city?"

Yang Zong choked on Zhou Yi, and said helplessly: "You have also seen the arrogance of the city defense battalion, how easy is it to take you out as a living person?"

Xiao Yucheng was thinking while eating, and said casually, "Since the city defense battalion is already so arrogant, I don't care about the Lord Sheriff, is the Lord Sheriff going to be patient?"

"I can't bear it, so what can I do?" Yang Zongzhou subconsciously asked back, Xiao Yucheng didn't say a word, he got up and went out after eating all the food in the food table, "Today is the time to tell them who is in charge of Hongdu!"

At the south gate of Hongdu, Yang Zongzhou looked at the people who were about to fight outside, and thought of Xiao Yucheng's idea before, "Find some smart people and irritate the city defense battalions who guard the city. As long as they attack first, threaten For the safety of the Sheriff, Sheriff Yang can justifiably detain them and take over the city gate!"

When Yang Junshou and his party reached the city gate, they were stopped. The soldier guarding the city did not dare to stop the sheriff's carriage, so he rushed to call the guard who was on duty today.

Seeing that it was the car of Sheriff Yang again, the guard thought that he had gone out of the city angrily this morning to look for the battalion leader, and thought that he would not give up this time. Lord Yingtou is very busy today, why do you have to run after him?"

The leader of the county guard's mansion is still the confidant who inquired about the news before. He is indeed a smart person. He only needs to mention a little bit by Yang Zongzhou to understand the meaning. He immediately caught the loophole in the guard's words and asked: "In the In the official book of the Shangshutai, the head of the battalion is still the subordinate of our Lord Sheriff, and you said that our Lord Sheriff chased after his ass? Do you really think that the Lord Sheriff dare not take you?"

The guard was just the fastest at the moment just now, and didn't think much about it, but now he was caught by someone, and he was angry for a while, so he couldn't help but took a step forward with his saber in hand, and said coldly: "You fool."

Yang Zongzhou's confidant interrupted him, and raised his voice: "Hearing what you mean, Mr. Yingshou is indeed out of the city? Didn't you say that he went to catch thieves? Could it be that he went out of the city to catch thieves?"

When the guard was getting angry, he didn't realize the meaning of his confidant's words, and nodded subconsciously, "Of course, the commander-in-chief of the camp is out of the city on official business, so how can he have time to chat with the governor!"

"Since the thieves are outside the city, why did your city defense battalion seal the city of Hongdu, preventing the people who returned home from entering the city, and preventing the people who worked hard from leaving the city? What's more arrogant is that the county guard has not only been searched, but now he is not allowed to leave the city. Now, it is possible that you are going to rebel!"

The confidant's last sentence was relatively soft, but the people nearby still heard it, and they all looked at the guard in surprise.

The guard's face was flushed with anger at this time, and he was even more afraid that he would say something shocking, so he raised his fist and hammered at Yang Zongzhou's confidant, and punched his confidant's face heavily, and the confidant was overwhelmed by this momentum. He stepped back a few steps, and the people around were in an uproar, but it was only for a moment. The subordinates brought by Yang Zongzhou had been warned before they came down, and they immediately reacted when they received the message, shouting, "You Anyone who dares to beat the sheriff, you are tired of your life."

After speaking, several people rushed up and fought with the people from the city defense battalion.

Seeing their boss being beaten, the other members of the city defense battalion naturally joined in, not to be outdone, and there was chaos at the gate of the city for a while.

(End of this chapter)