The rise of the prince

Chapter 148 Under the Calm
In the night, the surface of the river is calm, only the lights flickering in the distance, and in the darkness, only the sound of slight waves hitting the cabin can be heard.

There was a chill in the air, and cold was the worst enemy of warm blood, in every sense of the word.

Five official ships docked outside the Kaiyuan Mansion in the dark. The Sankeshu Gorge here is the last pass of the waterway. After passing through this gorge and going upstream from the river, they will arrive at the Kaiyuan Mansion. Someone set up a tent at the desk. Fire, but after all, it is in the wild and near the riverside, the humidity is heavy, and it is still cold at night.

"Damn it, Boss, why don't they let us in." San Heizi, who was wearing an officer's uniform, complained.

The big man in the lead cut off a large piece of pork that was scorched black on the outside and still oozing blood when he cut it, and chewed it with the tip of the knife: "What the hell? You can only enter Beijing, that is, the second year of junior high school, and you can enter the day after tomorrow."

"Then let the brothers wait here by the river? It's the cold winter." Just as San Heizi was about to complain, he was slapped hard on the back of the head by the leader, making him dizzy all at once.

"You fucking son of a bitch, you really think of yourself as an officer! Have you forgotten what we are here for?" the leader reprimanded.

Only then did San Heizi resentfully say: "Didn't I work as an officer and soldier for a few days, and I forgot about the delicious food and drink? In fact, I think so. It's pretty good to be an officer and soldier."

The man in the lead continued to chew the half-baked pork, and people kept approaching in the night. After all, it was cold and there was only one pile of the biggest fire. .

After eating almost, the leading man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the flickering fire light, and then said: "The official in charge of the capital is not an idiot, the thief is very smart, he only asked me to bring a hundred people in , the other brothers sent two guanqes each to go back to Suzhou by themselves, and the official who came this morning told me about this."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and someone lifted two large boxes from the boat, put them on the sand, and immediately sank into them. He opened the lid with the knife in his hand, and everyone could see clearly by the flickering firelight that it was full of boxes. There are two large boxes full of copper coins, at least thousands of guan!

"Who wants to go to Beijing with Lao Tzu now?" the leading man asked with a knife in his hand. The fire light reflected on the knife, and the reflected light was chilling. It was this knife that cut off the heads of their old brothers and six sons only a few days ago.

The flames were jumping on the ground, and everyone's expressions were changing under the light of the fire, but no one made a sound, and the atmosphere suddenly became serious. No one dared to look into each other's eyes, nor did they dare to look at the face of the leader. His fingers were trembling, not knowing whether it was cold or frightened.

The surroundings became quiet, the leader did not speak, no one knew his expression, but he could vaguely see his bearded cheeks shaking rapidly from the corner of the eye, obviously it was the calm before the storm.
Unexpectedly, the final storm did not wait, and the leader finally just sat down on the cold sand, put down the knife in his hand, and sighed: "You bastards, if you see money, you don't want it." I must be thinking that even if I get angry, if I kill some unlucky ghost, others can go back with money, right?"

Everyone looked around at each other cautiously and said nothing, apparently that was what they thought.

The leading man stood up angrily, kicked heavily on the box next to him, and cursed: "That's why I said you pustule, and you are using your own life to try your luck? Thinking that you will die tonight. One, is it not me who is lucky enough to die?
It's like this now, and it used to be the same. How many people those dog officials want to kill and arrest, they also think that they will die anyway. "

The leader became more and more angry as he talked: "Why don't you idiots understand? If one out of ten people dies, you just bet on your luck, and if one hundred dies, ten dies, one thousand dies one hundred, and one hundred thousand dies." Ten thousand? You also want to bet?
It's not the same reason!Stand there with a wooden stake to see if it will be struck by lightning? "

"Fang Shenggong loves you idiots and cowards! You think I want to kill six sons, brothers who have been around for more than ten years. He is a fucking scumbag, or I will kill him if I say Shenggong!" The leader, a big man, said. He actually cried.

While weeping, he scolded: "Fang Shenggong is right, either those dogs are ruthless when they become officials, or you dogs are always cowardly and unbelievable!
They killed people and robbed women in the name of fighting chaos in Suzhou before, and today they say that on a shitty day, they can throw hundreds of us on the riverside to freeze, and it's okay to freeze to death.Waiting until tomorrow to kill you, to rob your wife, you can also ask for all kinds of bullshit reasons! "

The more the man spoke, the more excited he became: "Fang Shenggong said, don't dare to fight back now, it will be too late when you become the unlucky one, when things happen to you! It's too late! It's too late, do you understand?"

"You cowards don't dare to do anything, I will go alone!" The leader said as he pulled out the knife in the sand: "I can let the world remember a certain eight lifetimes by myself!"

Everyone sitting around slowly raised their heads, with shame on their faces, and then stood up one by one: "Boss, I'll go with you."

"I am coming too!"

"And me!"

"It counts as one."

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San Heizi also stood up and overturned the two boxes full of copper coins with a strong push, and the copper coins fell into the raging dark river with a crackling sound: "I'll do it too, I won't go back when I come here!"

"That's right, I don't even think about going back!" Everyone echoed, and the chill on Jiang'an was dispelled for a while.

The palace was full of excitement. Qiu'er was bewitched by Li Ye and tried to drink a small glass of distilled wine. As a result, her face was flushed and she was so dizzy that she almost fell asleep. But the little girl was very stubborn and insisted on not going there To sleep, Li Ye had to let her lie on his lap, which was a little more comfortable.

On the other side, Yan Kun also came. Yan Yan, Gu Feng, and Wei Chaoren were about the same age as him. The four old guys got together to talk about the past and drink and talk very lively, not to mention that Yan Cui also went to Guanbei with King Xiao back then. of.

Ji Chunsheng, Yan Shen, Wei Xingping, and Li Ye gathered together to fight and gamble. Yue'er and Wei Yubai gathered together and didn't know what to say in a low voice. After all, they are daughters' family, so they must have their private words.

The servants in the outer courtyard were also very lively, and Li Ye specially ordered the kitchen to keep cooking, and to add more after eating, just like the simple banquets in the countryside, the whole palace was very lively, the outer courtyard was noisy, and so was the inner hall.

Everyone is waiting for the arrival of the new year. As long as the bell of Foyin Temple on the other side of the river rings, it means that the new year has arrived. Thousands of lights in Beijing are waiting for this moment. Li Ye probably estimated that at this time It's just like eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and it's still some time before midnight.

As far as Li Ye is concerned, if he gets serious about throwing wine punches, it will be difficult for Wei Xingping and the others to win, because psychology is what he is best at, but after a few drinks, the reaction slows down and the brain starts to numb, and it will not exist. , there is only one standard for everything, and that is "Master is happy".

The more they played, the more they got more excited, and the more they drank, the more lively they were.

At this moment, the servant hurried in and whispered in his ear, "Someone is coming from the palace".At first Li Ye didn't hear clearly, he was already half drunk, but after the servant repeated it many times, he began to understand slowly, and he began to feel unhappy.
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