Lu Ming

Chapter 690 Returning to the North (fifteen)
"Good you. Huogui!"

Master Wu's anger only lasted for two seconds.

Hungry and cold body can not hold the virtual fire.Two seconds later, Young Master Wu, who wanted to say something, suddenly realized the current situation, sighed, and turned back to the pyre with his eyes blank.

Huogui is plain looking, but has a pair of shrewd eyes.Seeing the young master lying flat, he smiled knowingly. He bent down and put the scattered jars, baskets and burdens on the ground: "Young Master, let's have something to eat. If you didn't greet me well, I'm hungry after thinking about it."

"Ok?"

Young Master Wu, who was lying back, is now refreshed.He sat up quickly, stretched out his hand and took out a grain of grain from the basket and swallowed it.As a result, no two mouths choked, and he quickly picked up the water tank on the ground and filled it with gas before swallowing the dry food.

Huo Gui was not hurried here, he found a pile of hay and sat down: "Young master, eat slowly, don't be in a hurry."

"Humph!"

While chewing the food brought by others, Young Master Wu showed no appreciation: "Seller seeking glory, treacherous person!"

"Ha ha."

Huo Gui was not angry at all, and replied lightly: "I'm afraid the seller can't talk about it. It's all about its own."

Master Wu stopped his mouth when he heard the words, and began to dig into the dry food.Just now, he was also angry for a while, and couldn't help but spit out a word.This meeting Huo Gui had a victorious attitude. He knew that if he provokes the other party again, if he didn't do it right, he would be killed.

Huo Gui actually doesn't care about the attitude of this rich boy.He and Wu Fazheng have never dealt with each other twice, and there is no friendship at all.

He came to visit, mainly shopkeeper Wu.Although Huo Gui went to the Yixinlong to lurk with organizational tasks from the very beginning, Manager Wu has been treating him well for a long time, and this is considered a personal friendship.

So without violating the principle, Huogui came with dry food in advance.You know, according to the rules, after you get the meat ticket, you must starve hard for at least two or three days to exhaust your energy and energy, and then the kidnappers will give you drinking water.

At this moment, with a few slight coughs, Shopkeeper Wu woke up.Seeing that the shopkeeper woke up, Wu Fazheng hurriedly lifted the water bottle and took two sips of water first.

After two mouthfuls of water, Shopkeeper Wu suddenly became refreshed, and took a few more mouthfuls of the water jug ​​himself.

In just a few sips of water, although no one spoke in the room, Manager Wu had already seen the scene clearly.

Unlike Wu Fazheng.In the eyes of people like Shopkeeper Wu who deal with daily affairs, they are not so hostile to Huogui.

In other words, in the opinion of Shopkeeper Wu, this time it was mainly a public feud between Yi Xinlong and a few bandits.

The bandit gang spent a lot of thought and perseverance in burying this nail, and even if they didn't take in this person, the bandit gang would definitely find a way to send someone again.

In the final analysis, the fence is still not fastened.As for the fire, it's just an ordinary bandit.Shopkeeper Wu, who has seen too much deceit in the world, has hatred for Huo Gui, but no additional hatred.

After drinking the water and wiping his mouth, the shopkeeper Wu thanked him calmly: "Thank you Brother Huo for the water."

Huo Gui, who was upgraded to a brother, faced some ridicule with a faint smile on his face. He didn't care, but reached out his hand and handed it over with a nest: "The shopkeeper's got something to eat."

Young Master Wu, who reads the book of sages, is not hypocritical, and shopkeeper Wu is even less hypocritical.

Probably because he felt that he was still a little far from satisfying his conscience, Huo Gui revealed a few words of relief at this time: "Last night, the two kings settled their positions, and several leaders of Yi Xinlong followed Guangyi to help them. Don't panic. , with me, I will not suffer."

When Huo Gui said this, Manager Wu immediately understood what happened next: they would be escorted by the Guangyi Gang to their own stronghold, and then there was a long wait.When the merchants hand over the redemption silver to the Guangyi helpers through the middleman, when will they be able to get out of trouble.

The above operations are all ordinary processes, as expected by the shopkeeper Wu.However, he did not expect that in the end, the people of the firm would be separated into two groups according to class.

After understanding it, Shopkeeper Wu stopped chewing, raised his head and asked, "If you say that, are you guys going to stay in Taihang Mountain for the New Year?"

"Of course."

Huo Gui dropped a word of his book bag, then shook off a floral leather bag on the ground, and confessed a little as if he made a contribution: "The softness is gone, but most of the rest are still there."

In the bag that was shaken open, there was a pile of scattered objects.

These are the personal belongings of Master Wu and Shopkeeper Wu, including personal seals, pen and ink, paper, and books, all of which are inconspicuous.Those that seem to be valuable, such as lighters and leather boots, have long been looted.

"Ugh"

Shopkeeper Wu sighed: "I have a heart."

At this time, Huo Gui finally felt that his merits and virtues were perfect and his conscience was no longer in arrears, so he picked up a few manuscripts with a smile, and while flipping through them, he added unconsciously: "The two of you are afraid that you will spend a few days in the kiln. It’s also good to relieve boredom.”

"Humph."

Just now, Young Master Wu, who just took the time to nibble on two nest heads, really doesn't want to see Er Wuzi's ugly face.While reclining on the pyre, he murmured in a leisurely voice, "I turned the book without any ink on my chest, and took it down carefully."

"I said, young master, you look like this all the time, and you are still acting like a stinky air?"

Huo Gui was really annoyed by Young Master Wu's behavior: "I've been underestimating me from beginning to end."

As he spoke, Huo Gui shook out a manuscript, coughed twice to clear his throat, and recited: "The No. [-] Cotton Spinning Factory in Shanghai covers an area of ​​[-] mu. The power of the envoy, the utmost ingenuity and ingenuity. This workshop has more than [-] spindles, more than [-] young and strong weavers, and produces [-] pieces of thick and thin grey cloth per month, which is the foundation of the country.”

Thinking of this, Huo Gui quietly shut his mouth.

Young Master Wu, who was lying on the pyre, resisted and did not turn his head.

In fact he had opened his mouth in surprise.He never imagined that Huo Gui, a vulgar boy, could read and write. If Young Master Wu had crossed over, he would have asked: Are the configuration of bandits so high-end these days?Is there such a volume?
What Young Master Wu didn't know was that Huo Gui, whose face was covered by the manuscript, also had his eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost.

He glanced down a few times, and then switched to another document.On the other sheet, the first few lines are written: the captain is twenty-zhang hanging zero, iron bone and wooden armor, with three hundred Jianyong.It is equipped with more than [-] cannons of generals, and there are golden cracks in the caves within three miles.The ship uses coal fire to push water vigorously, and it can fly hundreds of miles a day, and it is called the Fujian number.

"Cough cough."

Suddenly, there was a loud coughing sound in the room.The next moment, the blushing Huo Gui bent down, put away the bag, clutched his chest, and hurriedly walked outside: "I'll leave the bag in the afternoon and I'll put it away for the two of you first, so as not to be robbed again."

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In the afternoon, the village entrance.

Guangguang Gang, the head of the family, led the brothers and said goodbye to the heroes in Taihang.

"Good brother, take care of the way, we will meet again after the year!"

"It's time to go to the appointment! It's just that I have a hard time thinking about things after the new year. I hope my brother will plan carefully!"

"Don't worry, this time I will do my best, and I will not teach my brothers to be disappointed!"

"I'm just looking forward to joining forces with my brother again! Haha, after we understand everything, let's go to Tianjin for a flower errand!"

"Haha, I must have a meeting with my brother Tianjin!"

After the scene was explained clearly, Ha Liu gave an order, and dozens of elite riders from Guangyi Gang beat their horses and whips, turned their direction, and guarded the carriages in the middle, and started from this point.

Compared with the initial size of the Yixinlong team, the horse team formed by the Guangyi Gang this time has only five carriages, which is much smaller.

Five vehicles, four of which were loaded with the final screened fine cargo.In the remaining one, there were three people, including Manager Wu, Young Master Wu, and the guard nicknamed the monk.

In the previous battle of Wuhuodun, the caravan suffered heavy casualties.The last big explosion caused the captain of the guard Wu Qian, who was standing above the city gate, and the guard Dumb to be killed on the spot.

In this way, including the guard monks, only three high-level people in the caravan can be transported away with the car.The rest of the guys were sold to Taihang Gang at a discount.

After the team set off, they did not move along the Taihang Mountains, but went straight to the official road, all the way east.

Since it is a full ride, the journey is very fast.The three of the shopkeeper Wu also accidentally got the special car treatment. However, the doors and windows of the carriage were tightly sealed with tarpaulins, so the passengers only knew the general direction of the convoy and could not determine the specific coordinates.

From Yi County to the east, about 150 miles is Yongqing.After the horse team spent a day and night in Yongqing, they diverted to the north.Finally, on the evening of the second day, the horse team came to the gate of a large farm between Gu'an and Langfang.

This location, which has been close to the suburbs of Beijing in later generations, is a speculative area that can seize the opportunity to stir up a wave of housing prices.

In the seventeenth century, it was just a farm. In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the land around Langfang was occupied by the farms and villages of the imperial relatives, and there were no homesteaders in the suburbs of Beijing.

Shortly after Yu Ha Liu personally approached to negotiate, the door of the village was wide open, and the belly manager Xue, with dozens of equally sturdy guards, ushered the Guangyi Gang into the manor.

There are dozens of Zhuangzi who "protect the village", and it is not an ordinary farm.This industry is specially used to receive the Guangyi Gang, and then trade and sell the stolen goods.Its owner was Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, who was then the deputy general of Jingying.

Compared with the honorable tycoons like Duke Dingguo Chengguo, Xue Lian can only be regarded as second-rate among honorable military officials.

The reason why Ha Liu had previously received orders to sell stolen goods here is because Xue Lian loves money, the lower limit is low, and he doesn't care about means for money.The second is because Xue Lian is in charge of some troops and horses in the Beijing camp, and his subordinates have a little bit of strength, which is stronger than most of the shorts.Therefore, Beijing Railway Station needs to win over this person in preparation for the critical moment.

When entering Zhuangzi, the first and foremost thing is to inspect the goods.

The servants in the manor opened the goods on the carriage one by one.

Not long after, the pot-bellied steward couldn't help laughing after inspecting the goods.

"Pick up carefully, there are stamps inside."

"Don't worry, you are all familiar, you can't go wrong."

In this way, a short-lived sale of stolen goods was completed.According to the previous procedure, this batch of goods stamped with Yixinlong's stamp will first be cleaned, repacked and packed by the servants in the manor.

After that, the guards in the manor will escort the goods to the capital, and use the Xue family's business channels to sell the goods and make huge profits.

This series of operations has nothing to do with the Ha Gang master who has clearly delivered.The leader of the Ha gang had already received a stack of banknotes from Manager Xue, and the two had already cleared the accounts.

At this point, the leader of the Ha gang finally ended the whole process of "doing business".The relaxed Guangyi helpers were immediately arranged to several courtyards within Zhuangzi.

These courtyards are fixedly used to receive the gang master and his subordinates, and everyone is familiar with the internal and external conditions.After entering the station, the cavalry who were tired from the journey hurriedly took some food and drinks and then rested.

The subordinates rest, does not mean that the leader can rest.After patrolling around, arranging the posts, and checking the detention of the meat ticket, Ha Liu looked up at the bright moon hanging in the sky, yawned, and returned to his courtyard to wash his face with a bucket of cold well water. Feeling refreshed, I returned to the main room.

In the main room, five people were already waiting for him.

These five people were the red-faced second master Tu Erye, the round-faced young accountant surnamed Li, the two cavalry squad leaders, and the ordinary-looking Huo Gui.

After Ha Liu entered the room, he first stretched out his hand, indicating that everyone does not need to stand up and salute.Then he sat down on the chair and said with a smile, "I know everyone is tired, so let's stick to it, finish the meeting first, and get a good night's sleep tomorrow."

Seeing that everyone had no objection, the next moment, Ha Liu cleared his throat and said sternly: "I announce that the temporary meeting of the [-]st Special Service Squadron of Flying Tiger Battalion has begun. The host, the squadron leader Ha Liu, the recorder, the communication staff officer Li Junji. Participate in the meeting. People, Tu Rong, Qian X, Sun X, and the Tianjin station commissioner, Huo Gui."

After announcing the opening remarks, Ha Liudi said to the round-faced accountant: "The first item, Xiao Li, let's evaluate the completion of this task code-named 'Broken Ribs'."

Lee Joon-gi, who controls the field radio station and is in charge of sending and receiving reports, is the No. [-] person in the Secret Service Squadron prescribed by Shangfeng.

Hearing the name, you can tell that this is definitely a die-hard refugee youth who was trained by Chuanzhong. He is an elite of the empire. He is in charge of the financial and supervision rights of the special squadron. He has the shadow of the army instructor of later generations.

Hearing that he was asked to report, Lee Jun-ki responded, took out a small book from the inner pocket of his jacket, and began to read: "The three objectives of this mission, according to my assessment, are first to eliminate all the horse guards. 100% completion rate of one goal.”

When Ha Liu heard this, he nodded: "Well, the Ma Jie Department is called the Ma Bandit, but it is actually a spy from the north. This time, it was finally brought over and killed, and it was considered a disaster."

Staff Officer Li and the other captains finished their conclusions, and then continued to read: "The second target, the Yixinlong Caravan, has a 90.00% evaluation completion rate in view of the fact that the key person, Mute, was killed in the bomb."

"The third goal of the Taihang Gang. According to the current situation, Gu Ming will most likely lead people down the mountain after the year. I am optimistic about reaching the final goal."

"Well, in general, the progress of this mission is still good."

At this time, Ha Liu changed his image of the bandit boss, and tried his best to use the "Mandarin" he learned from the Flying Tiger Camp to preside over the meeting: "I'm going back to Tianjin to report on my work soon, and I'll look at the old picture after the year, and Staff Li is yours. "

The deputy captain of the Secret Service, whose real name is Tu Rong, nodded repeatedly when he heard the sound: "Don't worry, I promise to complete the mission."

After thinking about it, Ha Liu was still uneasy, and once again warned: "Don't worry about Gu Ming, as long as you detect the Taihang brigade coming down the mountain, send a telegram to Tianjin immediately to guide the brigade to 'lead the sheep'."

Having said that, Ha Liu looked at the night sky in the south with a worried expression: "It is said that the fortress that the commander sent to go to Nanyang to set up a flag and set up a brand was surrounded by the native king, and the two fights were brutal."

"There will be no more shortage of people."

(End of this chapter)