Late Tang

In Li Jing's general's tent in the first barracks on the left side of the Wendeng camp, Li Jing looked calm on the outside but looked fiery in his heart as he watched Xiao Shitou and Xigou and his fellow countrymen come in.After Wang Zhong called them, he turned around and went out of the tent again, and guarded the door of the tent with Lin Wu.

"Sit!" Li Jing got up and stepped forward, smiling and patting the eight little stones.The four of them, Li Jing and Lin Wei, had already discussed last night, and they chose to do it after Yu Yu's departure banquet today.After the four of them interrogated Zhang Daxin about Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing's travel last night, they obtained a lot of useful information.Zhang Daxin and Feng Liang have been friends for many years, and the Zhang family and the Feng family can be regarded as family friends. Zhang Daxin often goes to and from the Feng family, and he is no stranger to Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing.

Lin Wu just sneered and cut off a part of Zhang Daxin's tail finger, Zhang Daxin lost half of his temper, trembled with snot and tears, and said everything he knew. up.According to his confession, the assassination tonight was indeed confessed by Feng Liang.However, this matter was Feng Liang's own initiative, and Feng Yanqing did not get involved in it.According to what he said, Feng Yanqing seems to have gotten in touch with Song Du Yuhou recently, and it seems that Song Du Yuhou responded somewhat to Feng Yanqing's overtures.He saw with his own eyes in Feng Mansion yesterday that when Feng Liang was injured by Li Jing's arrow and carried back to the mansion, Feng Yanqing was extremely angry and even ordered to summon the servants of the mansion.But later, when all the family members arrived, Feng Liang received a letter and read it, but he smiled instead, and immediately told the assembled family members to disperse.

And when Li Jing and the others went to ask for the debt, it was Feng Yanqing who asked the housekeeper to pull out [-] bolts of silk from the treasury, and ordered Feng Liang to go to the door to say that.As for what was written in that mysterious letter, it actually caused Feng Yanqing's attitude to change so drastically?Zhang Daxin was not clear about it, he only remembered that the person who came to deliver the letter had been seen by the side of Songdu Yuhou, and he was from Songdu Yuhou.

The news made Li Jing and Lin Wei feel their scalps go numb.Although the specifics are still unclear, they all guessed a possibility, that is, Feng Yanqing may have already made contact with Song Wen, the confidant of Jiedushi.Perhaps it was precisely because Feng Yanqing had received some kind of promised support from Song Wen that his attitude changed so drastically, and why his nephew was injured by Li Jing, and after losing [-] pieces of silk, he even gave it as a gift. Ten carriages and twenty draft horses.This news made Li Jing cautious. Song Wen was not only the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the united army, but also the confidant of Song Wei, the envoy of Ziqingping Lu Jiedu.

Right now, with Cui Yunqing standing in the way, Li Jing could still face the Feng family calmly.But if the Feng family got on the Jiedu envoy Song Wen, then the governor of Dengzhou from the third rank would be nothing.Li Jing and the others didn't hesitate any longer, and completely strengthened their determination to get rid of Feng Yan's hesitating uncle and nephew first.Afterwards, Li Jing and the others asked Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing about their usual travel arrangements from Zhang Daxin's mouth, especially repeatedly asked about the guards around them.

Both Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing will attend Yu Jin's departure banquet tonight, and according to their usual practice, Feng Yanqing's uncle and nephew will each go there in a double-drawn carriage.At that time, they will be accompanied by twenty servants.The number of twenty accompanying servants only made Li Jing and the others take a breather, because according to Zhang Daxin, these twenty servants are all old servants of the Feng family, and the Feng family is usually very generous to these people. The Feng family is very loyal.These servants are not ordinary servants, but all Goguryeo people recruited from Liaodong by the caravan of Fengjia in the early years, and they are all mercenaries from brave nomadic fishing and hunting tribes.In Liaodong, they once gave their lives to the Khitan people, the Shiwei people, and the Silla, Bohai, and Kumoxi people.In short, this is a group of professional soldiers who are very experienced, fierce and savage, but very loyal to the Feng family.

Twenty such people, at least equal to the 50 members of the Feng family that Li Jing had met before.

"Little Shitou, Carpenter, Liu Gen, Dongzi, Xigouzi, tell me, how do I treat everyone on weekdays?"

"Brother usually treats us like his own brothers, so it goes without saying." Several young men from Wangli Village patted their chests in unison and said.When they first drew Ding, they were all very depressed.But along the way, Li Jing took good care of them, especially when they encountered bandits twice on the road, if it wasn't for Li Jing, everyone would have no idea whether they would live or not.And how can there be promotion and distribution of money later.

Especially Xiao Shitou and the others, they got hundreds of coins in total.Not to mention, they are still in front of the team leader and deputy team leader.Although the gang leader has no rank, it is a necessary stepping stone to the formal officialdom.The young people are simple and honest, Li Jing treats them well, they have long remembered it in their hearts.

"Well, if someone wants to kill me now, what will you do?" Li Jing was relieved and asked tentatively.

"Brother, is it because Feng Liang's dog is unwilling to lose money? I have long disliked him. When I find a chance, I will take my group to Feng's house and slaughter that **** first." He has been blacksmithing with his father all the time, so he is the strongest among them. Although his name is Xiaoshishi, he is tall and strong like a rock.He has always admired Li Jing the most, and he always listens to Li Jing's words.He is now the leader of the first team, and because he has also killed bandits, he has become more courageous.Now there are ten subordinates, and they all speak a lot harder.

"Feng Liang's uncle is Governor Deng Shi, and he is also the deputy training envoy of our Unity Battalion. Do you really dare to kill him?" Li Jing glared, looked directly at Xiao Shitou, and his tone increased a bit.

Little Shitou felt a little guilty when he was stared at by Li Jing, but in just one thought, he immediately blushed again, puffed up his chest and swore to the sky with his fingers: "If the surname Feng dares to harm brother, then I will be my enemy to him. My little Shitou's life was also saved by my elder brother, I didn't say anything, I will go to Feng's family to assassinate the surnamed Feng." As he said, he really lifted the horizontal knife at his waist and was about to leave the account.

"Come back!" Li Jing called back to Xiao Shitou, "Even if you want to do something, it's not like you. I just wanted to ask if you have the courage. If you have the heart, then it's fine. Next, you just need to listen to me Just order. Now let me ask you one more question. If something goes wrong in this matter, you will lose your head. If you don’t want to, I will never force you. You can leave now. However, remember to remember the sentence you heard here Don't say anything to anyone."

As soon as Li Jing finished speaking, Xiaoshi jumped up again, pulled out the horizontal knife and stuck it on the ground, his eyes widened like bull's eyes, and swept across the faces of each of Xigou and the others.

"Donkey ball, if any of you dare to walk out of this door today, you will step on Lao Tzu's knife and corpse first. Let's follow brother, he saved our lives. Now there is famine everywhere, but we still have white rice at home Eat, why is this? You have to rely on your conscience, and you can’t forget your roots. Don’t say helping brother to deal with the surname Feng, it’s going up the mountain of swords and down the sea of ​​​​fire. Whoever frowns, whoever was not raised by his parents.”

Originally, there was a young man named Wang Gui who was still a little hesitant in his heart, but when Xiao Shitou said such fierce but simple words, everyone couldn't help but blush.Wang Dong also jumped up and said: "I was not very close to Saburo before, but now, if anyone has a second heart, then ask me first."

At that moment, several people swore and swore that they were willing to follow Li Jing up the knife mountain and down the frying pan.Seeing this, Li Jing was excited.Soon Lin Wei came back with Zhang Hong by his side.As soon as Lin Wei came in, he first said that he had secretly talked with a few close brothers in private, and did not say anything specific, but those few people expressed their willingness to work with Lin Wei, especially when Lin Wei expressed this Each person can get [-] pieces of silk each time, and after the event is completed, he can get [-] pieces of silk. Lin Wei knows that even if he wants those people to assassinate the emperor, there is probably no problem.Fifty bolts of silk are equal to forty guan. Now when famines are beginning to appear everywhere in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, east and east due to the previous drought and locust plague, those united soldiers would dare to kill people, not to mention forty guan.They can still have food every day in Dengzhou, but their respective homes have almost run out of food for a long time.

Zhang Hong and Li Jing have experienced war bandits together before, and their relationship is still very close.It's just that Li Jing felt that Zhang Hong was just a frail scholar, and this assassination was not suitable for him. What's more, Li Jing always said that the officials were as slippery as oil. .Unexpectedly, Zhang Hong's eyesight is still very good. Li Jing and the others thought their actions were secretive, but Zhang Hong still noticed some strange actions of Wang Zhong, Lin Wei, and Lin Wu.In the end, he used words to swindle some information from a united soldier Wang Zhong had found, and finally approached Lin Wei on his own initiative.He looked for Lin Wei instead of Li Jing because he felt that Li Jing respected Lin Wei more.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Li Jing just asked Zhang Hong: "This is the job of tying your head to your trouser belt. Brother Zhang, is he really willing to do it together?"

At this time, Zhang Hong completely showed a decisiveness different from that of a literati who has repeatedly failed: "Sanlang is the general of Zuo Yidu, and I am Yuhou of Zuo Yidu. My job is to enforce military laws. Now that I have discovered Sanlang I have to report this illegal plan to the battalion, or I have to follow along. I have already buried half of my body in the ground. If it weren’t for Saburo, I would still be just a Sashi. , I’d still like to be with Saburo, maybe our luck this time will be as good as when we met the bandit last time.”

Li Jing patted Zhang Hong's arm heavily, this old boy is really not simple.

It's getting late, Li Jing looked at the sky, and said: "It's getting late, let's try again with the person we made an appointment with. If it's reliable, take it with you. I've already asked Tenth General Song that I will I want to take Zuo Yidu's brothers to help my teacher move and salute, he has already agreed that Zuo Yidu will follow me into the city today."

"Okay, Xiao Shitou, let's see if you can find some more reliable brothers. Remember, each person can only bring two people at most, if there are too many, you don't need it. Brother Zhang and I will go to prepare weapons and set off before noon. "