Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 21 Zhengzhou
Li Jing believed that the people from Xiaomazhuang would not be the only ones sent by the Xu family, and the nearby villages probably also had them.

The people of the Xu family and the government are not fools, it is impossible for so many people in the Shen family and the carriage to disappear in the abandoned temple in Pony Village.

Then there are only two possibilities, one is to go into the mountains to escape, the west of Xiaomazhuang is the remnant of the Taihang Mountains, dozens of people go in and hide, and the gods are hard to find, but the mountain road is difficult, the carriage can't go very far, and so It is still a problem for many people to eat, so if the Shen family enters the mountain to hide, it will not take long to come out. As long as they guard the few roads out of the mountain, the Shen family will not be able to escape.

Another possibility is that the Shen family was robbed by bandits.There are many bandits and bandits in the mountains west of Pony Village. The Shen family is so big that the bandits shouldn't be able to find them. If they find out, they probably won't let them go.If it is robbed by bandits, someone will come out to sell the stolen goods.

At this time, carriages were not affordable for ordinary people, and the value of each horse was not low.The bandits would definitely not use the carriage if they robbed it, they would find someone to sell it.

As long as the eyeliner finds that someone is selling horses or carts in the mountains, the Xu family and the government can follow the clues to find the bandit's lair.

The Xu family didn't expect the officers and soldiers to wipe out these bandits. If they could, why wait until now?

The Xu family just wanted to find the bandit's lair, and just scare the bandit away.Few of the bandits were literate, so they probably wouldn't care about the Shen family's account books, and they probably wouldn't take this thing with them when they ran away.

Li Jinglue understood the intention of the Xu family and the government to cast eyeliner.

The officers and soldiers did not act for a long time because they did not know whether the Shen family hid in the mountains or were robbed by bandits, so they did not rush to send troops into the mountains.Because once the Shen family did not fall into the hands of the bandits, doing so would definitely alarm the Shen family, and it would be difficult to find the members of the Shen family in the future.

For the Xu family, catching bandits is not the goal, and it doesn't even matter if they can catch Li Jing and others who beat up the officials.

Since the Xu family didn't dare to act rashly, Li Jing naturally wouldn't disturb them.Just because his current manpower is far from enough to challenge the officers and soldiers, if he takes the initiative to trouble the officers and soldiers, it is purely self-inflicted.

It was already winter, and the wild animals on the mountain were fattening. Li Jing ordered the bandits to hunt some prey in the mountain, and then asked people to carry the prey down the mountain separately.

After setting a meeting point with everyone, Li Jing also set out on the road with his pack on his back.

Sure enough, this trick did not attract the attention of the eyeliners near Xiaomazhuang. The eyeliners only thought that this was a hunter who had entered the mountain.

After Li Jing and the others left Pony Village and met on the main road, they went straight to Weihui's Mansion. Weihui's Mansion was about [-] miles away from Pony Village, and they arrived at Weihui's Mansion in the afternoon.

The magistrate of Weihui Mansion is Master Xu's younger brother, so he had already heard the news.Li Jing didn't dare to be careless, and sent a few local bandits into the city to scout. Sure enough, there were a few officers and soldiers holding portraits at the city gate to check the people passing by.

Since they couldn't enter the city, they had no choice but to eat some dry food outside the city. Li Jing ordered the local bandits to change their clothes, bring silver taels, and rent more than [-] fast horses from a carriage and horse shop.

It's just that Li Jing overlooked one thing. Among these people, except for Li Jing and a few people from the Shen family who are fairly proficient in equestrian skills, the rest of them can barely ride on their horses without falling off.

Seeing that the bandits could not ride horses, Li Jing immediately decided that the 30-odd horses would not be returned. He wanted to use these horses to train the bandits on the mountain in riding skills, and to pass on information in the future.Thinking about it, Shen Zheng wouldn't care about such a small amount of money.

The crowd rode around the city and headed straight for Zhengzhou. Li Jing kept pointing out the bandits' riding skills along the way.This speed can be imagined, but it is faster than walking.

It is about 140 miles from Weihui Mansion to Zhengzhou, passing through Xinxiang.It was already dark when Li Jing and others arrived in Xinxiang, which was also under the rule of Weihui Mansion. Li Jing and others did not dare to enter the city, so they had to sleep in the wild.

Early the next morning, Li Jing woke up everyone and set off, but he didn't expect many people to be unable to mount their horses.

After Li Jing asked, he found out that these people, including Shen Zheng, almost all had blisters on their thighs, some of them were broken, and the pain was severe when they moved.

Li Jing was taken aback. These bandits didn't know how to ride horses. Li Jing didn't find it strange that his thighs were worn out, but Shen Zheng had been in business for many years.
But he forgot that Shen Zheng himself was not too young. He had been pampered and pampered all these years, and when he went out, he either took a sedan chair or a carriage. How could he ride a horse?

I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, but when I ride suddenly, it's no wonder that my thighs don't wear out.

Li Jing sighed, knowing that he was in a hurry, so he sent people into the city to hire a carriage for Shen Zheng.As for the rest of the people waiting for Li Jing, they ignored it. Who hasn't experienced such pain when they just started learning how to ride a horse?Just bear it for a few days.

This day the bandits walked more slowly because of their injuries, but they were much more stable on horseback than yesterday.

Because the heel of the leg was worn out, in order not to let the leg continue to rub and aggravate the pain, the gangsters could only clamp the saddle tightly with their legs, thinking that this is the essence of learning how to ride a horse.

After walking for another day, the people crossed the Yellow River and finally arrived in Zhengzhou in the evening. They rushed into the city before the city gate was closed.Since it was getting late and the guards at the city gate did not take a closer look, Li Jing and others entered the city very smoothly.

Shen Zheng brought Li Jing and others to a big house, which was the rice grain store run by the Shen family.

When Da Dong's family came back, the shopkeeper of the grain shop naturally came to greet him in person.

Shen Zheng exchanged pleasantries, and then asked the shopkeeper to arrange for the gangsters to eat and rest.Seeing that Li Jing and the others looked unfriendly, the shopkeeper didn't dare to ask any more questions, and asked someone to make arrangements immediately according to Shen Zheng's order.

Li Jing was about to take the gangsters to rest, but Shen Zheng said: "My nephew, go slowly, come with me."

Hearing this, Li Jingwen had no choice but to let the bandits go first, and turned around to come to Shen Zheng's side.

Shen Zheng brought Li Jing to the main hall to sit down, and the shopkeeper hurriedly ordered someone to bring tea.

"Nephew, let me introduce you. This is shopkeeper Wang. He grew up with me and is no different from my family." Shen Zheng pointed to the shopkeeper and said to Li Jing.

Li Jing hurriedly stood up, cupped his fists and said, "Hello, Shopkeeper Wang."

Seeing Li Jing get up, shopkeeper Wang hurriedly said: "Master, you can praise me. My father was rescued by the old master, and I was cultivated by the young master to be what I am today. My Wang family has been a servant of the Shen family for generations."

"Old Wang, why are you being polite to me? We both grew up together as children. We look like masters and servants, but we are no different from brothers. Don't be polite." Shen Zheng patted Old Wang, and then said: "Old Wang , this is my nephew Li Jing, a young hero with a bright future, if I am not here in the future, you will treat him as me."

Shopkeeper Wang glanced at Li Jing and said with a smile: "Young Master, I will naturally do what I have been told. Young Master Li, please give me more advice in the future."

As he spoke, he hugged Li Jing.

"Don't dare, don't dare, this is Uncle Shi showing love, shopkeeper Wang is being polite, please give me more advice in the future." Li Jing clasped his fists and said.

"Don't be polite, you two, Lao Wang, I'm hungry, so hurry up and ask someone to get something to eat." Shen Zheng said with a smile.

"It's already been arranged, young master, just wait for a while, and it will be ready soon." Shopkeeper Wang said with a smile.

"That's good, old Wang, don't stand up, sit down and drink tea, nephew, you drink tea too." Shen Zheng stretched out his hand and gestured.

Shopkeeper Wang sat down on Shen Zheng's seat in response, and suddenly leaned over to Shen Zheng's side, and said with a low laugh, "Master, he can't be our uncle, right?"

Shopkeeper Wang's voice was soft, but Li Jing's ears were extremely sensitive, but he could hear clearly.

"What nonsense?" Shen Zheng turned his head and glared at Shopkeeper Wang, then turned to look at Li Jing, took a sip from his teacup, and stopped talking.

In fact, Shen Zheng also changed the idea of ​​marrying his daughter to Li Jing during this time, but Li Jing's background is unknown and he doesn't have much strength now, so this idea just passed by.

Now listening to shopkeeper Wang's words, Shen Zheng's mind became alive again.

Shen Zheng has been in business for many years and is good at speculation. Supporting Li Jing is actually a kind of speculation.However, this kind of speculation is too risky.Of course, once Li Jing succeeds, the rewards will be huge.

But there is still a problem here. After Li Jing becomes a climate, will he turn his face and deny anyone?Shen Zheng was not sure about this.

It would be different if Li Jing married Shen Zheng's daughter. No matter how far Li Jing can develop in the future, no matter how many businessmen and rich people support him, he will never dump his father-in-law's family, let alone this father-in-law's family when he was still there. If he supported him when he was not rich, his reputation would be bad if he did so.

It's just that whether Li Jing can succeed, Shen Zheng is not sure at all, if not, then the Shen family will be completely ruined.

Li Jing's mind was actually similar to Shen Zheng's. Li Jing was worried that the Shen family would not support him, and he also thought about marriage.It's just that I'm not strong enough now, and I don't dare to speak harshly in front of the Shen family, so I don't dare to mention this matter rashly, besides, I'm still short of a leader.

It's nonsense if no one proposes marriage to this matter, but where can Li Jing find someone who is qualified enough to propose marriage to the Shen family.

Old man Chen is qualified to propose marriage to the Shen family, but if he tells old man about this, he will probably scare old man to death.What is the status of the Shen family, how could they marry their daughter to someone like the Chen family?

For the two of them, this is a matter of beating the wolf with a stick, both of them are worried, and both are afraid that the other party will not support them in the future.

Let's wait and see.

Both Shen Zheng and Li Jing wanted to procrastinate.

The shopkeeper Wang saw that his question seemed wrong, so he got up and said to see how the food was arranged, and hid behind.

The remaining two had their own minds, they all drank tea in muffled voices, neither of them spoke, the scene was rather deserted.

Luckily the food came right away.

When the wine glass is held up, speaking is much more convenient.

Shopkeeper Wang toasted the two of them with a glass of wine and said, "Master, I heard that our family offended the Xu family in our hometown. Master sold many properties?"

Shen Zheng nodded: "Well, the Xu family wanted to conspire against our family's property, and charged our family with being a gangster, and they are hunting us everywhere. By the way, Lao Wang, I heard that there are some shops in Zhengzhou city. Is it?"

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