Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 516: When did it become yours? [Thank you! Goodbye! I owe you 40k more]

In Beizhou City,

In front of the large warehouse where money, weapons and other supplies are stored,
Zhang Fangyan, the prince of the Duke of England, dressed in gorgeous armor, stopped his horse at the gate, and next to him was General Zheng Jun, Zheng Xiao's brother.

Zheng Jun turned his head to look at General Gan, who was talking to the captains under the Zhang and Zheng families not far from the warehouse, and a flash of contempt passed through his eyes.

"Da Lang, look at this mark!"

Zhang Fangyan, sitting on horseback, stroked the arrow hole on the gate and said.

Zheng Jun turned around and looked at where Zhang Fangyan pointed, and said, "Hmm! The arrow is deeply nailed into the door, and it will become a leverage point for climbing up."

As he spoke, Zheng Jun pointed to the distance from the gate, where there was a dark pool of blood, and continued, "I heard that Jing'er and his men carried the bandit leader on a long spear, placed it on a carriage, and came directly to the warehouse."

Zhang Fangyan looked up at the heavy door of the warehouse and chuckled, "These two guys are really fearless! They dare to attack here with just a dozen people."

Zheng Jun smiled and said, "They came here only after they had captured the thief and the leader. Otherwise, why would the commander surnamed Du turn over a new leaf and rebel in front of the battlefield?"

Zhang Fangyan nodded: "Du Qinxia helped Jing Ge'er and his men to seize the warehouse, thus preventing the military supplies inside from being damaged. This can be considered as a meritorious service to atone for his crime."

After a moment's silence, Zhang Fangyan said, "Da Lang, if it weren't for Jing Ge'er, our military supplies would have been burned. I don't know how miserable our future would have been!"

Zheng Jun: "Brother Shi is right!"

After saying that, Zheng Jun glanced at General Gan who was not far away and said, "I see, he wouldn't want to send a concubine to one of my lieutenants, would he?"

Hearing this, Zhang Fangyan raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.

The Gan family is able to command an army of over ten thousand people and has some background in Bianliang.

But ever since General Gan married his current wife, he developed a hobby of giving away beautiful concubines and female musicians.

Moreover, the better the person, the better the concubine. For those with good status and high position, the concubine they will receive will be the daughter of the Gan family or the relatives of the lady.

For ordinary captains, the girls they sent were bought from brothels.

Zhang Fangyan, Zheng Jun and others all understood the purpose of doing so, which was nothing more than winning over people's hearts and expanding influence.

The effect was not very good, but it was not without effect. Many lieutenants and colonels had a good impression of General Gan, who was "compassionate to his subordinates."

At this time,

An official from the warehouse came over, accompanied by a skilled lieutenant.

After bowing in front of Zhang Fangyan, he said, "General, the various military supplies in the warehouse have been counted again! They have been verified to be correct, and the details are here!"

Zhang Fangyan nodded, and after the personal soldiers beside him took the detailed list, he said to the lieutenant beside the clerk, "Tell the men guarding this place to be alert, and there will be a generous reward later! But, if there is any mistake."

"Your humble servants, please come to me with your heads!"

"Ok!"

After that, Zhang Fangyan said to Zheng Jun, "Da Lang, Jing Ge'er and the others should have entered the city by now. Let's go and talk to him."

In front of Beizhou government office,
The ground, which had been washed with hot and cold water several times, became much wet and cleaner.

at the door,
Many soldiers from the Great Zhou gathered there.

Huang Qingyue, Zheng Xiao and the brother from the Yi family in Zhending were standing together and talking.
I heard them say, "Yesterday, bandits took advantage of the chaos to escape from the city, and Jing'er chased them out."

Xu Zaijing, Gu Tingye and others dismounted and stood aside, talking to a middle-aged general in his forties who was wearing armor and led a part of the Guangrui Army to Beizhou.

The middle-aged general said, "Wu Lang, is it true as Er Lang said? Your maternal grandfather's surname is Sun and your maternal grandmother's surname is Gu?"

Xu Zaijing nodded repeatedly.

The middle-aged general looked thoughtful: "Hiss, my husband's family name is Sun. Let me think about it."

As he spoke, he tapped his other four fingers with his thumb.

After a while, Gu Tingye said, "Uncle, do you remember?"

The middle-aged general ignored Gu Tingye, but his thumb stopped between his ring fingers, and he said uncertainly: "Wulang, was your grandmother's ancestor a concubine's?"

Xu Zaijing smiled and nodded.

“That’s right.”

Then, this middle-aged military general, who was born in the Gu family and was quite familiar with the family tree, began to sort out the relationships for Gu Tingye. Gu Tingye felt dizzy and nodded continuously after listening to him.

At this time,

There was the sound of horse hooves in the distance.

Zhang Fangyan, Zheng Jun and others came over on horseback.

"Meet the general."

Seeing Zhang Fangyan, everyone at the door bowed and saluted.

"Ok!"

Zhang Fangyan dismounted and came to Xu Zaijing and the others. He patted Xu Zaijing's shoulders and Gu Tingye's with both hands, looked at the two with satisfaction, and said:

"Wu Lang, Er Lang, don't blame me for rushing you! It's because His Majesty is anxious to see you. The military order in the capital is urgent, and you, the heroes, must return to the capital as soon as possible. Otherwise, we will drink with you all night."

Zhang Fangyan looked back as he spoke, and Zheng Jun, General Gan and others behind him nodded.

"When the school is closed in December, you must set aside time to come to my house for a banquet!" Zhang Fangyan continued.

Xu Zaijing and Gu Tingye smiled and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, let's go while it's still early!"

Zhang Fangyan patted their shoulders again.

On the way out of the city,
He Guan looked around and asked in confusion, "Wu Lang, where are Chief Zhao and Mr. Gao?"

Xu Zaijing said, "Brother He, they have something to do and will not return to Bianjing for the time being."

He Guan nodded: "It's time to be more busy. Something terrible almost happened!"

Turn around,

It is already the first day of December.

Xu Zaijing and others have already set out for Beijing for more than a day.

Late afternoon (after 1:00 p.m.)

Qizhou,

Imperial City Prison

The prison was dark and cold.

刑房
The winter sun shone in through the small window, forming a beam of light.

The beam of light also made the dust and steam floating in the prison visible.

Under the beam of light,
A man sits on a chair.

His body and face were covered with various scars.
The fingers on the chair handles were deformed, and the legs under the chair hung limply.

In the light, the man grinned, his mouth full of blood, but without a single tooth.

"Hehe. No matter how hard Mr. Jia racked his brains, he would never have thought that the former Prime Minister of Baigao State was actually from the Imperial City Department. Ha! Haha, how ridiculous!"

"No wonder. Ahem Baigao was destroyed so quickly! Really, I know your identity. No matter what you say, I will die. So, why should I say it?"

Looking at the man in front of him, Zhao Taifeng, who was standing beside him, had no emotion in his eyes and said, "I didn't expect to meet someone I knew in Xingqing Prefecture in Qizhou. It shows that we have a deep connection."

"Tsk!" The man on the chair spat out a mouthful of blood foam with disdain.

Zhao Taifeng continued, "That's good. We can save a lot of nonsense! I keep my word and I'm honest. You should know that!"

The man looked up at Zhao Taifeng and nodded: "The Minister of the Chuihuan Division said he would not kill, so he would not kill. I know that."

Zhao Taifeng: "Yes. As long as you tell me why there are so few spies in the garrison and the Buddha Decoration Platform near Qizhou, I will give you a quick death and let your wife and children go."

The man on the chair was stunned for a moment, then said in a panic: "I, I, I say!"

Zhao Taifeng waved his hand and interrupted, "Wait a moment! Listen to me and I'll explain it to you!"

Man: "Huh?"

Zhao Taifeng: "The wife and children I mentioned are not from Qizhou City, but the family of three in Xianzhongfang, Xijin Prefecture. Oh, and there is also an old woman!"

"Wow!"

On the chair, the severely tortured man struggled violently, and regardless of his injured leg, he stood up and looked at Zhao Taifeng with fierce eyes as if he wanted to eat him.

Zhao Taifeng remained calm and said, "Can you tell me now?"

After staring at each other for two breaths,
"Snapped"

The man sat dejectedly on the chair and said, "If you want me to tell you, you can tell me first, how did you know about this." Zhao Taifeng shook his head: "You are not qualified to ask this."

The man took two breaths and said, "At first we received a secret order from Xijin Prefecture, asking us to move the stakes quickly. Later we received a secret order to cause chaos in Qizhou, burning houses and killing people."

"After completing our mission, we were going to withdraw to Northern Liao, but before we left, they asked us to ambush and kill the group of people returning to Beijing from Beizhou."

"The secret order said that the Beizhou incident was a failure, and the bad guys would be happy and relaxed when they returned to the capital, and would be careless, so they ordered us to find an opportunity to ambush and kill them."

Zhao Taifeng's tone remained calm: "How do you know when they left Beizhou?"

"I don't know, we just have to wait along the way." The man said and spat out blood again.

"How to ambush and kill?"

The man looked at Zhao Taifeng in confusion and said, "Of course, if we can poison him, we will. If we don't have the chance, we will find an opportunity to ambush and kill him with a powerful crossbow."

"On the way back to the capital, those people who have made great contributions to the Great Zhou would not wear armor all the way, right?" As he spoke, the man smiled, as if he saw that his conspiracy had succeeded.

"How to find them?" Zhao Taifeng continued to ask.

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The man shook his head: "I didn't leave Qizhou City, so they assumed that I had gone to paradise. How would I know how to find them?"

Zhao Taifeng turned and left the torture room.

Looking at Zhao Taifeng's back, the man rolled his eyes, glared at him, and shouted, "I know, yes."

Before he could finish his words, the clerk from the Imperial City Department of the Punishment Chamber came up.

After leaving the torture room, Zhao Taifeng suddenly quickened his pace.

After giving some instructions, several imperial city officials rode fast horses and rushed in different directions.

Standing in the yard, Zhao Taifeng looked at the sky and said to himself: "If Qizhou can send people, Damingfu and Chanzhou will probably send people too!"

under the setting sun,
Beside the official road,
"Whoosh~"

A sharp feather arrow shot out like lightning.

The rabbit that was running quickly in the distance was shot through the neck and fell to the ground. After a moment, hot steam from blood came out.

After a while,
The rumbling sound of horse hooves was heard, and the knight did not stop in front of the rabbit. He leaned forward and grabbed the rabbit.

Holding the bunny ears, Gu Tingye looked delighted and exhaled white air and shouted, "Brother Jing, we can have an extra meal tonight!"

As he spoke, Gu Tingye pulled out the feather arrow and hung the rabbit next to the pheasant behind the saddle.

Because Xu Zaijing and others had the emperor's order, they naturally could not return to the capital slowly.

At the same time, they returned home after having accomplished something, feeling happy.

The direction of travel is from north to south.

Not only was there no headwind that added resistance and chill to everyone, but there was also a tailwind that added assistance.

The north wind suddenly became stronger, and I wished it could be stronger.

Therefore, Xu Zaijing and others unknowingly sped up their speed along the way and had already arrived near the south of Changyuan County.

Looking at Gu Tingye riding his horse from not far away,

He Guan, who was beside Xu Zaijing, put the feather arrow back into the quiver skillfully, without any psychological fluctuations, and said calmly as if it was normal:
"Brother Jing, I think we should hurry up and enter Bianjing at night! Let the chef of Yanglou cook these wild game for us!"

Xu Zaijing looked at the sky and nodded, "That's fine!"

At this time,

"Xu~"

Gu Tingye rode back to the official road: "What are you two talking about?"

While He Guan was repeating what he had just said, Xu Zaijing looked at the three small donkeys with dark fur and saddles coming towards him in the distance.

Qingyun, who was following behind Xu Zaijing, said with a smile, "Sir, I didn't expect that we have such a good fate with those three. We can actually run into them when we return to the capital. I just wonder if they will ask us for a drink!"

Xu Zaijing smiled and nodded, with some confusion in his eyes, and said: "Qingyun, why are they heading towards Changyuan County at this time?"

Qingyun frowned and nodded: "Yes! Let's ask them when we get closer."

While talking,
Qingyun said again: "Eh? Sir, could it be that they recognized us? Today they actually had the courage to look up at us."

while walking,

Gradually seeing the appearance of the person coming, Xu Zaijing shook his head, and said in a self-deprecating tone: "It seems that we recognized the wrong person!"

Qingyun, who was standing behind them, nodded as he looked at the three men and three donkeys approaching, and said, "But these donkeys look the same to me!"

Gu Tingye laughed and said, "Qingyun, don't all donkeys look the same?"

Everyone around laughed.

Xu Zaijing also smiled and looked away from the saddle on the donkey's back.

Since they were not the people they had met and talked to before, Xu Zaijing and the others did not want to talk to them.

The three people and three donkeys coming from the opposite direction did not give way as before.
The group walked towards each other.

When we cross paths,
Qingyun kept looking sideways at the three people and three donkeys.

When the three men passed by Qingyun,
Qingyun looked from the donkey's rear end, and when he could see the situation on the other side of the donkey,
Qingyun's eyes narrowed suddenly, and when he turned around to talk to Xu Zaijing, he saw that his master had already pulled out the feather arrow in front of the saddle and was putting it on the bowstring.

"Brother Jing, what's wrong?" He Guan asked.

Gu Tingye also looked at Xu Zaijing with a puzzled look.

"drive!"

As they spoke, Xu Zaijing and Qingyun turned their horses around and galloped towards the three men and three donkeys.

Looking at the faces of Xu Zaijing and Qingyun,

He Guan and Gu Tingye looked at each other and followed.

"Stop!"

Qingyun shouted in a cold voice behind the three men and three donkeys.

Hearing this, the three people beside the three donkeys hurriedly stopped and looked at Qingyun behind them with panic.

Xu Zaijing had already ridden his horse down the official road and walked to their side.

"What do you do?"

Qingyun asked.

"Grandpa Junhao, we are from the county town, going to the surrounding villages to buy and sell dates."

One of them spoke with a frightened tone and trembling lips.

At this time, Gu Tingye and He Guan also rode their horses to block the other directions of the three people.

"Are you going to sell dates and bringing a gourd? Is there wine in it? It's too cold in the afternoon!" Qingyun continued to ask.

"Yes, yes! Good man, you want some wine?"

"Throw it over here, let me smell it!!"

"Hey, hey! Good man, just ask for wine, but don't kill us!"

As he spoke, the wine gourd was thrown over.

Qingyun uncorked the gourd and sniffed it, then glanced at the knot mark on the gourd and said, "This gourd looks really nice, where did you buy it?"

"I went back to my good grandfather's house and planted a few gourds. This one is the best looking, so I used it to store wine!"

Hearing this,

Xu Zaijing stood aside, smiled and shook his head, "How dare you say that!"

"Whoosh!"

"Dah!"

After four or five breaths,

The three donkeys were fine, but the three people beside them were hit by feather arrows.

Qingyun squatted beside the man who had just responded and was now lying on the ground, and said, "When did the fine gourd cultivated by Uncle Deng in the Marquis's Mansion become yours?"

Looking at the confused, shocked, and puzzled look in that person's eyes, Qing Yun sneered: "Come on, let's talk it over."

Ignoring the screams of the thief beside him, Xu Zaijing stood beside the donkey, touched the saddle on the donkey's back, and sighed.

(End of this chapter)