Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Li Shimin was not worried about anything happening to Shi Xiu and Shi Qian. After all, they were the two people who had demonstrated their undercover abilities in the original work.

"Brothers, pay attention to safety." Li Shimin looked at Shi Qian and Shi Xiu with steady eyes: "If things don't work out, you should retreat."

"Thank you for your concern, brother." Shi Xiu and Shi Qian nodded with emotion.

"If you go now, you must be careful of them. It is better to wait until the fifth watch before going to investigate."

Li Shimin's words received a response from everyone. Considering that this was indeed the case, Shi Qian discussed with Shi Xiu and decided to go to Zhujiazhuang at the fifth watch.

Resting in the camp that night, Zhujiazhuang also discovered Liangshan's whereabouts, but he didn't know what was true here and was trying his best to find out.

The only thing we fight in a war is messages. If we don’t know the situation on the other side, we can’t just dive in head-first, right?
It was dawn the next morning, and Shi Xiu and his wife got up and hit the road.

Shi Qian was more professional, so he didn't need to take the usual route. He said goodbye to Shi Xiu, then picked up the load of firewood and walked to Zhujiazhuang.

After traveling less than twenty miles, the path was so winding and complicated that it was difficult to distinguish the surroundings. The trees were dense and it was difficult to identify the road. For a moment, he didn’t know how to go in, so Shi Xiu put down his load of firewood and leaned on Rest aside.

"Brother Stone, Brother Stone."

Shi Qian's voice sounded from behind.

Shi Xiu turned around and looked around, but couldn't find where Shi Qian was.

"look up."

Shi Qian's voice was concise and to the point.

Shi Xiu raised his head and found Shi Qian sitting in the canopy of the tree.

"Why did you stop?" Shi Qian asked quietly.

"I saw that the path was complicated and difficult to recognize. I don't know where I came from the day before yesterday. It was dark, and they were all familiar with the road, so they couldn't see carefully." Shi Xiu answered honestly.

Shi Qian smiled and said, "Don't worry about the straightness of his path, just take the main road."

After hearing Shi Qian's words, Shi Xiu thought it made sense.

Even if his path is complicated, he can still follow the main path.

When he saw Shi Qian disappear into the jungle, he picked up firewood and walked towards the main road. After walking forward for a while, he saw a village in front of him and several wine and meat shops.

Shi Xiu carried firewood and walked to a hotel to rest. When I looked up, I saw a simple knife and a gun stuck in front of the door in the store. Everyone was wearing a yellow vest with a big "blessing" written on it. The same is true for people who come and go.

When Shi Xiu saw him, he looked at an old man, sang a song, bowed and said: "My father-in-law, what is the custom here? Why do you put swords and guns at the door?"

The old man said: "Where did you come as a guest? I don't know, so I had to leave quickly."

Shi Xiu scratched his head and said: "The villain is a client of a date seller in Shandong. He lost his capital and cannot return to his hometown, so he carries firewood here to sell it. I don't know the local customs and geography here."

"Guests, please leave quickly and take shelter elsewhere. Sooner or later there will be a big fight here."

The old man persuaded, beating his chest and stamping his feet.

Shi Xiu pretended to be puzzled and asked: "Why is there such a big fight in such a good village place?"

The old man sighed and said: "Guest, you really don't know? Then I will tell you: my place is called Zhujiazhuang, and the village is Zhu Chaofeng Yali. Now after listening to Liang Zhongshu's words, I want to go to Liangshan Bozhong They fought and captured the 'Little Taizong' and the 'Tota King'. Now that people knew about it, they led their troops and horses at the entrance of the village to fight. However, they were afraid of the busy roads in my village and did not dare to come in. They are now stationed outside. "

"Yesterday, Zhujiazhuang sent down an order from the higher-ups. Every household asked us to be strong and ready. When an order comes, we must prepare some weapons to respond."

After listening to the old man's words, Shi Xiu already had some thoughts in his heart.

The people in Zhujiazhuang are not stupid either. Knowing that the people from Liangshanbo are coming, they must be prepared. Now just asking for this is no different from nonsense, so Shi Xiu plans to ask for some core information. He continued to ask: "My father-in-law, how many families in this village dare to hunt down the Liangshan bandits?"

When Shi Xiu asked about the number of people in the village, a trace of arrogance flashed on the old man's face: "In my Zhujia Village, there are only 10,000 or 20,000 people, and there are two villages in the east and west to support them: the east village calls Li Yingli Daguanren who is the flying eagle; the west village calls Li Daguan. There was a daughter in Hutai Gongzhuang, called Hu Sanniang, whose nickname was Yi Zhangqing, and she was very good at martial arts. "

Shi Xiu slapped his thigh and said with a smile: "No wonder the Zhu family dares to boast about fighting with Liang Shanbo. If we have to wait for this time, I am afraid that Liang Shanbo will come and fight!"

"Seeing that you are also a foreigner and don't know the current rules of Zhujiazhuang." The old man glanced at Shi Xiu and sighed: "If there is anyone who doesn't know the way to the village, he must be caught in the village and questioned carefully. If I accidentally get lost, I will be caught and eaten, and I need someone to protect me."

After that, the old man hummed and sighed again: "What a Zhujiazhuang, it's all a winding road: it's easy to get in, but you can't get out!"

After Shi Xiu heard this, he immediately pinched his thigh, squeezed out some tears, turned over and knelt on the ground: "Grandpa, please have mercy on me! The villain is a person who has lost his capital and cannot return home. If he sells it, When Chai goes out, he encounters a fight and cannot escape, but it is not miserable! If he cannot escape, he is caught as a Liangshan bandit, which is even more miserable!"

"Grandpa, how pitiful are you to see this villain! I would rather give this load of firewood to grandpa just to show you the way out with the villain!"

The old man saw Shi Xiu's performance that was comparable to an Oscar-winning performance, and for a moment he actually believed it.

He sighed and said in a pitiful tone: "How can I want your firewood? I must know that you are also a pitiful person, so I will just buy it from you. Come in and treat you to some wine and food."

Shi Xiu knelt on the ground again, thanked the old man, and walked into the house with the old man carrying firewood.

The old man sifted out two bowls of wine, put on a bowl of rice cakes and Shi Xiu and ate them. Shi Xiu thanked him again: "Grandpa, please show me the way out!"

"I will teach you, when you walk from the village, you can turn as long as there are poplar trees. It doesn't matter how wide or narrow the road is, but turning with poplar trees is a way to live. Without those trees, it is a dead end."

"If there are other trees turning around, it's not a way out. If you go the wrong way, you'll go left and right and you won't be able to get out."

"Moreover, there are bamboo sticks and iron caltrops buried in the ground in the dead end. If you make a mistake and step on the flying sticks, you will definitely be caught. Where are you going?"

Shi Xiu knelt down and thanked the old man again, and asked: "Grandpa, your surname is Gao?"

The old man said: "Everyone in this village has the surname Zhu, but I am the only one with the surname Zhongli, and I live here."

After the old man finished speaking, Shi Xiu already had a plan in mind. He immediately cupped his fists and saluted: "You have eaten your fill, little man. Grandpa is so kind and kind. I will definitely be richly rewarded in the future."

After hearing Shi Xiu's words, the old man couldn't help but sigh.

"Speak of repayment. If you take the wrong path in the future, you will repay me if you don't tell me."

"Grandpa, don't worry. If the villain takes it, it will have nothing to do with grandpa." Shi Xiu cupped his fists and saluted before walking out of the hotel.

According to the old man's account, Shi Xiu was tossing and turning, but halfway through, he heard the sound of gongs and drums banging behind him.

Not long after, someone rushed over carrying a gong. Shi Xiu was startled, and his hands pinched the Pu Dao. As a result, the group of people saw him and did not arrest him. Instead, they left a few people behind and followed Shi Xiu slowly without arresting him. People just follow. Shi Xiu felt nervous and didn't know what these people meant. After walking around a bend with several poplar trees, I saw an old locust tree. Shi Xiu instinctively wanted to turn around. When he turned around like this, those men touched the handle of the knife. As a result, Shi Xiu suddenly remembered that it was not the poplar tree that could not turn, so he turned back.

When the men saw it, they also relaxed.

After moving around like this several times, Shi Xiu finally left Zhujiazhuang.

Those men turned back to the village when Shi Xiu passed the last old willow tree.

Shi Xiu also knew that these people were just looking to see if he was an acquaintance in the village. If he dares to make a mistake, he will definitely be caught.

When he returned, Shi Qian was already sitting in the tent.

"How did you go so fast?" Shi Xiu was surprised.

Shi Qian laughed and said, "Not only did I go quickly, I also found the brief location of Zhujiazhuang."

After that, Shi Qian took out a detailed defense map of Zhujiazhuang from his arms, with the locations of the Zhujiazhuang leaders also marked on it.

"But the road is also winding. I didn't check it for a moment and almost got caught."

"What's going on?" Shi Xiu asked quickly.

Shi Qian laughed loudly and said, "When I came to a dead end, I stepped on it, and a pile of caltrops burst out, which almost turned me into a hedgehog. If my body skills were not good enough, you would not have seen me."

"So it turns out that the one they were calling for arrest when I walked halfway was you, the one they were arresting?" Shi Xiu pointed at Shi Qian in astonishment.

"Hahahahaha..." Everyone in the big tent was laughing after hearing Shi Xiu's words.

Shi Qian laughed so hard that he was out of breath, pointed at Shi Xiu and said nothing for a long time.

Shi Xiu became anxious, pointed at Shi Qian and cursed: "Damn, if I hadn't found out how to walk, I would have caught you. You don't know how fast you ran. There were several big men following me naked. If I just walked, One wrong step and they will definitely capture you on the spot!”

"It sounds very scary." Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "If there were a few big men following me, I would have been so scared that I would have turned over and jumped into the water!"

"Since Brother Shi Xiu has found out how to enter the village, it should be a great achievement!" Li Shimin said with final words: "The first contribution this time should belong to brothers Shi Qian and Brother Shi Xiu!"

Neither of them had any objections and thanked him sincerely.

After all, Shi Xiu only found out how to enter the village correctly, and Shi Qian only found a defense map, which can be regarded as a 50-50 success. The most important thing is that the children of Jianghu have a bold temper and don't care about many trivial things at all.

"In that case, let's do it like this." Li Shimin twirled his beard and said with a smile: "At midnight tonight, come with me!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Wu Yong couldn't help shaking his feather fan and asked: "Brother, why is it the third watch?"

"Oh." Li Shimin replied with a smile: "Students must not know something. If I go to attack at dawn, I am afraid that Zhujiazhuang will be on guard. If I go at midnight, I will scare him and make him exhausted. , do this a few times to temper their spirit."

"Brother, what a great idea!" Wu Yong looked at Li Shimin in surprise. He really didn't expect that Old Li could come up with such a... sinister plan.

To be honest, Li Shimin has always appeared in front of everyone with a righteous image, but no one would think that he could also master some tricks.

But he didn't expect that before he could fight, Zhujiazhuang came over first.

Not long after, I heard shouting for a fight outside.

When everyone hurriedly dressed up and stepped forward to look, they saw a group of cavalry on the opposite side, surrounded by a young warrior, sitting on a snow-white horse, fully clad with bows and arrows, holding a silver spear in his hand, looking a bit like a young general in white robes. .

Next to him is a female general, riding a green-maned horse with two sun and moon swords, leading three to five hundred bankers to support Zhu Biao.

"Brother, this is Zhu Biao." Shi Xiu introduced beside Li Shimin: "The female general next to him is Hu Sanniang from Hujiazhuang, and she has been engaged to Zhu Biao for a long time."

"Zhu Biao?" Li Shimin was stunned and looked back at Li Qing.

It took him a while to realize that this was Zhujiazhuang, and it was obviously Zhu Biao.

I saw Zhu Biao riding his horse forward, pointing his silver gun at Li Shimin and saying, "That Liangshanpo thief is Wu, but is that the leader of the thief, Li Erfeng?"

"Young Master has good eyesight." Li Shimin wasn't angry either. After all, so many people had scolded him over the years, and Zhu Biao wasn't even on the list.

After receiving such a polite response from Li Shimin, Zhu Biao was obviously choked up.

I had prepared some dirty words in advance, but I couldn't scold him. After all, the other party was very polite. If he is rude first, it will appear that Zhujiazhuang is uneducated.

"I didn't expect you, a thief, to know etiquette!" Zhu Biao snorted coldly, which was a neither soft nor hard reply.

"Dare I ask Mr. Zhu Biao in person?" Li Shimin asked again.

"Since you know my name, how can you invade my territory!" Zhu Biao held his head high, looking like a proud rooster.

"Don't you, Zhujiazhuang, want to flatten my Shuibo Liangshan Mountain?" Li Shimin was happy, "If you don't come now, I'll bother you to take it far away!"

Li Qing twitched the corner of his mouth, "Brother Li, are you so good at using Dou Jiande's lines?"

"How dare you be such a thief! How dare you talk here!" Zhu Biao was immediately angry at Li Shimin's strange annoyance. "You guys haven't surrendered quickly. Er Shui Po has only been open for half a year. How can it rival our Zhujiazhuang for dozens of people?" The banker who has been struggling for years will be spared some pain if he can surrender early!"

"Whether it's painful or not, you have to fight it first to know." Li Shimin sat leisurely on the horse: "If I ask Mr. Shaolang to surrender, will you accept it?"

After Li Shimin choked like this, and with his sweetheart right beside him, Zhu Biao became even more angry.

He turned his head and said to Hu Sanniang: "Sanniang! Let's see if I catch this thief!"

Hu Sanniang didn't speak, but looked straight at Li Shimin, her big watery eyes unblinking.

Seeing Hu Sanniang's expression, Zhu Biao immediately lost his guard.

If the anger just now was staged, now he is really angry.

"Thief! Come and die!"

Zhu Biao patted his horse and rushed straight towards Li Shimin.

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