Delong

Chapter 96 The Golden Cone Walk (7)

"Young Master Zhou, sit here."

That Chen Ling suddenly jumped up from his seat, grabbed the opponent's hands and pushed him down in his seat, and instantly turned around, but Zhou Xingfan had no strength to resist. "I just said it looks familiar. We met each other at the public banquet in Xuzhou the year before last. At that time, you were still a teenager...how did Mr. Zhou come here to play tricks on me, Xiao Chen?"

Zhou Xingfan, who was still holding a copybook in his hand, was at a loss for a moment, hesitated to speak, and could only look at Zhang Xing.

And Zhang Xing was very interested to see Chen Ling, who was suddenly full of smiling faces under the lights, and he actually felt admiration-not only because of his thick skin, but the key point was that until now, he still couldn't grasp the reason to conclude that this Ying Yang Is Lang Jiang really stupid or is he too shrewd to pretend to be ignorant.

It can only be said that the more impeccable the other party is, the more Zhang Xing leans towards the latter from a personal perspective.

"General Chen, can you please hold the maid back?" Zhang Xing thought about it, and then said seriously... There is no way, no matter how difficult it is, everything has to be done.

Then Chen Ling turned around, with a smile that was not a smile: "It's women in the countryside who are rough, does Zhang Baishou not like this?"

"That's what it means." Zhang Xing smiled and admitted.

General Chen got stuck again, but had no choice but to nod and let the maidservants go down.

As soon as the maidservants left, Zhang Xing spoke slowly in the seat, and his words were clear: "Next Zhang Xing, Bai Shou, the second patrol team of Jing'an Terrace, Bai Yousi, the patrol inspector directly under my family, is now the Ministry of Industry. The eldest daughter of Bai Hengqiu, the governor of the province under the leadership of Shangshu... Bai Xunjian was ordered to transport some grain from Jiangdong to the Luokou warehouse. Now he has passed Guyang and is heading along the Huan River, but there is no information from all parties along the way. They all clearly recalled that they only said that Yongcheng and Linhuan would be disturbed by a large group of bandits, so I was sent here to deliver this copybook... I just want to ask General Chen to send troops to Huanshui for protection."

After listening carefully, General Chen pondered for a moment, but waved one hand on his hips and the other proudly said, "This matter is simple, let alone a person like Bai Xunjian, even with Mr. Zhou's face here, I can't pretend to be deaf." Dumb...the copybook is no longer needed, how can there be a saying that Bai Xunjian and Mr. Zhou give gifts to people like me?"

Qin Er and the others were overjoyed, and Zhou Xingfan looked at Zhang Xing in surprise after being stunned for a moment.

Zhang Xing was also stunned for a moment, but immediately asked seriously: "May I ask when General Chen will send troops? Where will he send troops? How many people are going to send troops?"

Chen Ling looked at Zhang Xing, paused again for a moment, then hesitated for a while, and took it seriously: "You can send two groups of people, one hundred fine armor, to the river ahead and wait for the convoy of the white inspection fleet to meet, and the fleet must be protected. No worries."

Zhang Xing smiled instead of anger.

But Zhou Xingfan was stunned for a moment before he realized: "Don't you even give us a team of three?"

"Young Master Zhou." Although Chen Ling was expressionless and tall and standing there, he actually showed a cautious attitude in his words. "It's a violation of military law to transfer more than one troop without permission... After you are a general, don't you understand this truth?"

Zhang Xing simply laughed out loud, then glanced at the parcels on the ground, but suddenly his tone became serious: "100 people are not enough!"

"No more than 100 people." Chen Ling also turned around and acted proudly.

"At least one thousand, preferably three thousand." Zhang Xing did not back down.

"Your Excellency, don't be joking." Chen Ling also didn't give in half a step. "Without the Nanya transfer order, it is impossible to send out more than a hundred soldiers without authorization."

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Zhang Xing didn't say anything else. He just begged to retreat, saying that Chen Ling would not be polite if he said that he would talk about it tomorrow, and everyone felt a little unhappy.Of course, the copybooks and belongings were also taken back. As for Mr. Zhou's name, it was still useful. The group immediately occupied the side hall and the attached wing room on the first floor of the main building, and the treatment was even better.

After driving away the maidservant who was ordered to come over to warm her feet, several scouts hurriedly gathered in the side hall to continue discussing countermeasures.

"This person is not slippery, he doesn't eat hard and soft, he is like a loach!" Qin Bao first listened to the surrounding movement, and then opened his mouth after making sure that no one was eavesdropping. As soon as he opened his mouth, he shook his head again and again.

"That's also a loach coiled on Longgang." Zhang Xing sighed in response. "To put it bluntly, in the past ten days, on both sides of the Huan River, this person has the biggest and possibly the only weapon to break the situation."

"Is that why you can be confident?" Mr. Zhou asked with embarrassment... He originally thought that he would be very valuable to his father's old department, but the other party didn't even want to give him a team.

"We have to be clear in our hearts." Zhang Xing thought for a while, and decided to spread the matter out. "It's because we have something to ask for from others, and it's because they have nothing to fear... For some things, we can only say that we are doing our best."

"What should I do if I try my best?" Qin Er seemed to muster up the courage to ask.

"What can we do?" Zhang Xing continued to ask seriously. "He is clearly a shrewd person, so he will find out our whereabouts in the afternoon, and he will know the purpose of our trip early on. Maybe even when we just arrived, he will immediately know our whereabouts, and then deliberately delay... But we came here in a hurry , I'm new here, I don't know anything... So the next step is nothing more than finding out the details and temperament of this person, and then increasing the size layer by layer, making him softer and harder. Force him, let him send troops with all his strength."

Everyone could only nod their heads.

Up to this point, Zhang Xing hesitated for a while, but mentioned one more thing: "I guess, the biggest variable is the reply from the court... To be honest, if I am Chen Ling, I am not willing to deal with it in a different place." Send troops privately, because once you send troops privately, you will have to bear the loss of military resources and casualties, and the Bai family and Zhou family will be out of reach; but once you have a letter from the court as a foundation, you will naturally be happy to sell favors."

"But what if the imperial court is not clear about the situation and doesn't give a clear reply asking him to send troops?" Qin Bao couldn't help but continue to ask.

"This is the worst situation we have to be prepared to deal with." Zhang Xing yawned and calmed down. "Find out the details of this person... Let this person know that if the court ruins him, he will go to the Siya Office, and we will destroy him now... In short, whether it is soft or hard, when it really comes, we will We must offer him an offer that he cannot refuse. Of course, judging from the current attitude of this person, if it is really like that, I am afraid that there will be more tough ones... We also need to make more preparations from the hard place , starting tomorrow, we have to work hard."

Everyone finally became slightly awe-inspiring.

After a night of silence, the next morning, Zhang Xing just greeted that General Chen, and then scattered away with the accompanying patrols... Some people wandered around in the barracks, and some went to Chengfu County on the other side of the water, Some people went to find the legendary metasequoia forest, and some people rode their horses back to make traffic... In short, everyone went straight away, and several bags of treasures such as Wang Zuojun's copybooks were thrown away carelessly. There, no one cares.

As for Zhang Xing himself, he took Mr. Zhou as a trail talisman and walked around the military village for a few times.

Frankly speaking, the order in the army village and the appearance of the core troops are very good, which also made this Jingan Taichung Town Fusi Baishou realize once again that General Chen is really pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Some things cannot be faked.

In this way, for three days in a row, the Jinyi Patrollers didn't ask unnecessary words, and didn't force General Chen to send troops. They just looked around for information, and General Chen was as steady as Mount Tai, not moving at all.

Finally, on the fourth day, Zhang Xing reckoned that there should be a reply from the court within a day or two, and Bai Yousi's fleet also came and went several times on fast horses, saying that they were about to arrive in the territory of Qiao County. No longer hesitate.

At noon that day, Zhang Xing sent Qin Bao to take the two of them to the metasequoia forest. He and Zhou Xingfan were still wandering around in the military camp, but at noon, he suddenly brought Mr. Zhou out of Longgang together, and was arrested early. He pointed to the metasequoia forest.

Zhang Xing already knew it before he got there and saw it from a distance. At least Chen Ling didn't talk nonsense about this forest that night.

It turned out that not far from the north gate of Longgangzhai, there was a intersection between the northwest and the southeast. To the north of the intersection, there stood an open Metasequoia forest of about ten acres.The metasequoia trees are tall and straight, neat and tidy, like a canopy on the top, but clear and solemn below. Even though it is winter, it makes people feel relaxed and happy. They don't know how grand the scenery is in spring, summer and autumn, let alone whose masterpiece it is.

It is just conceivable that this forest is naturally a signpost, and it is also a natural resting place.

In addition, this place is next to the military stronghold, and the place is already a thoroughfare in all directions, so it is natural that there will be markets along the crossroads.

The so-called metasequoia forest refers more to the crossroads market in front of this forest.

In fact, when Zhang Xing came here on horseback, he saw dozens of shops on the street along the way, and except for the forest in the north, there were winding buildings behind the other three sides, and there must have been hidden prostitutes, gambling halls, inns and the like. .

It is indeed a prosperous place.

And in such a situation, looking back at Longgang Village, which is visible in the distance, I don’t know whether the village was established because of the market at the crossroads, or the market was stabilized because of the military village, but everyone knows that the two It must be connected from the root.

"Third brother."

Qin Bao came to meet him, he bowed his hands under the horse, then pointed back and laughed. "In the past few days, I have made it clear that this metasequoia forest is a famous wild market. It is a mixture of black and white. It is quite famous in Huaibei, and Chen Ling was born in the Jianghuai area. His family has been involved in business all year round. There were also three or five storefront businesses here early on, and they did all kinds of business. This year, he was ordered to come here and move the station here. It is strange that the seventeen or eight best stores at the crossroads belong to him alone. …The rest will not return to his family, and we must pay him regular money.”

"This one too?"

Zhang Xing immediately pointed his horsewhip and pointed to the largest and best restaurant in his sight. This restaurant is located just north of the crossroads, backed by a metasequoia forest. There are six doors open at the same time, and the building has three floors. Gao also added a small wind pavilion, and there is also a deep place for accommodation at the back.

"Of course." Qin Bao laughed and was speechless. "This is Qingfeng Building."

"That's good." As he said, Zhang Xing was meticulous, put the money on the Huang Puma and fastened it, and then put on the posture of an official, holding a knife and standing in front of the store, he didn't think it was cold. Come and shout right at the door. "Where is the owner of the wine?"

The people inside had already seen the shape, and even had an impression of Qin Bao and the others, and immediately came out to greet them with smiles: "Several officials, please take a seat inside! There is a stove in the wind pavilion on the fourth floor, and it is not cold at all."

Zhang Xing immediately shook his head: "Our four or five brothers like to drink cold wine and enjoy the cold wind. Just move a table and put five stools at this intersection... and then serve some signature hot dishes and a pot of good wine."

The shopkeeper heard the wrong way up and down, but he didn't dare to say a word, and immediately moved the table out, and then hurriedly served the food and wine.

After the food and drink were finished, Zhang Xing picked up a glass of wine, took a sip, immediately threw the glass on the ground, and then burst into flames in front of many people at the intersection: "It's winter, you actually give me cold wine? Chen Linghao The boldness, is it because you want to make my imperial envoy who audits the accounts sick?!"

The shopkeeper was already in a daze and didn't know what to say.

And Zhang Xing was also unceremonious, pointing to Qin Bao: "Qin Er, smash this store quickly, but there is a drop of wine left, you have colluded with the criminal Chen Ling!"

Qin Bao couldn't help laughing out loud, then he quickly covered his mouth, poised his face again, flashed his embroidered knives with the other two patrol riders who were familiar with the road, broke into the shop, and then used his zhenqi to clear the place inside the shop. Dozens of altars of good wine were crushed and leaked out.

Turning out the door, he didn't stop for a moment, and then directly broke into the gambling house next to him, this time he even beat people up.

And Zhang Xing had already led Xiao Zhou to find the prostitution restaurant behind, chopped off the hand that looked at the restaurant with a knife, and then led the panicked kiln sisters to the street, and then sat there, letting the people in the restaurant take the chicken. The duck and fish meat was taken out and served as noodles for these women in public, and then the manager of the gambling shop with a bruised nose and a swollen face came out to give these women "interest" for the Chinese New Year.

After the money was distributed, the banquet was halfway through, and the entire street was closed, and then watched through the window a few Jinyi riders smashing down General Chen's properties.

And at this moment, Qin Bao suddenly came over with a strange expression: "Third Brother..."

"What?" Zhang Xing, who was sitting there with his legs crossed, was puzzled for a moment. "Is it over?"

"It's early...I saw a horse." Qin Bao's expression became more and more strange. "That day you asked me to lead you to Zuo You."

Zhang Xing thought about it for a while, and then he remembered who Zuo You was, but he also found it interesting: "Invite him here...just say that I want to treat him to a drink."

Qin Bao turned around immediately, but stopped again. It turned out that not far away, Zuo You dressed as a Taoist had appeared in the distance, bowing his hands to salute from afar.

Zhang Xing didn't bother to play tricks, so he asked from afar, "Zuoyou, which family do you belong to?"

Zuo You smiled wryly, and bowed from a distance: "Just walking around, every family eats and eats...General Chen is always generous here...I made Zhang Sanlang laugh, and I invite Mr. Zhang Sanlang to have a lot. "

Zhang Xing thought for a while, then waved with a smile: "Then why not continue to do business with me? Let me ask you, do you have any news about Jishan and Dangshan?"

PS: There are still three days before the Chinese New Year, and I will continue to wish everyone a happy New Year.

(End of this chapter)