Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 115 Refugees (7)

In the back mountain of Daokouzhai, there is a cave, which seems to be a place to store sundries, but if you look closely, you will find traces of people living for a long time.

Walking inside, there are some old furniture covered with dust and spider silk, and some tree roots and branches are piled up on the other side, which looks disorganized and dilapidated.Going deeper, there is a black hole, as if leading to hell!
After the robbers and private soldiers from Daokou village left the village, thirty members of the dark river sneaked in and guarded near the entrance of the cave.After a while, the person in charge of sending the message to Daokouzhai came over, and it was the old man Shao Deng's confidant.He looked left and right, like a thief...

"Shh!"

A dagger with a cold light was placed on the neck of the messenger, and the owner of the dagger was Yang Duoyan.Yang Duoyan said softly: "Be honest..."

"what?"

"boom!"

The dishonesty messenger was just about to speak out, but was knocked out by Yang Duo's eyes.Yang Duoyan dragged the confidant back to a forest, and threw it at Yang Xin's feet.

Seeing that the messenger who sent the message was in a coma, a member of the Underworld grinned, took off his shoes, and put his foot close to his nose.

"Hah!" One of the messengers sneezed, and the person woke up. Looking around, he saw more than ten people staring at him.Yang Cheng, Yang Xin, Duan Hongchen, Poison Scorpion, Yang Duoyan, the five leaders of the dark river are all here, and almost all the members of the dark river are dispatched!
"Brother, tell me, what are you doing here?" The poisonous scorpion smiled coquettishly, walked up to the person who sent the message, and stuck out his tongue, about to lick his face.It was an extremely charming movement, but seeing a black line on the poisonous scorpion's tongue gradually grow larger, a finger-sized centipede crawled out, opening its fangs in a biting gesture.

The people present had a calm face when they left Duan Hongchen, while the expressions of the rest of the people in the dark river all changed slightly, what a poisonous scorpion!

People in the dark river are like this, let alone the little brother who delivered the letter, he crawled backwards with his hands a few times, and said with a look of horror: "You, you, don't mess around, I, I, I, I am Shao People at home..."

The poisonous scorpion chuckled, and the centipede disappeared, leaving only the dark lips of the poisonous scorpion. The lips opened and spit out a few words: "Sister is looking for the Shao family, tell me about the situation there..."

"No, I belong to the Shao family..."

"Oh, my sister wants to make out with you..." The poisonous scorpion smiled charmingly again.

"Gudu..." The messenger swallowed forcefully, swallowing the heart in his throat, and said, "I said, I said..."

"There are ten sub-caves in the cave, nine deaths and one life, from left to right, the seventh is life!"

"Walk for dozens of feet, and when you get inside, there will be a wall with 81 lamps on it. If you light one lamp in four directions, 36 lamps will be lit. A knife character will appear, and someone will come to pick it up. It's..."

"How many people are there?"

"Eighteen men, and countless women..."

"woman?"

"For them..."

"Enough!" The poisonous scorpion came back to his senses and understood the usefulness of women. There are troops hiding in a cave, but their "entertainment" must be guaranteed.The jealousy in the eyes of the poisonous scorpion flashed away, and the coquettishness regenerated, and he kissed the messenger forcefully, but the messenger couldn't struggle, so he had to let the poisonous scorpion do his best.

When everyone was amazed by the poisonous scorpion's hunger, they saw that the poisonous scorpion let go of the messenger, foaming at the mouth of the messenger, convulsing a few times, and within a dozen breaths, five or six centipedes came out from the top of the messenger's head, covered with brains. , Two spiders drilled out of the neck, the size of a fist, covered in blood...

Poisonous scorpions are full of poisonous insects!This is something that the people present realized, and there was a sound of swallowing saliva.

"Can you believe what he said?" The poisonous scorpion looked at Duan Hongchen, Duan Hongchen nodded expressionlessly, his eyes were deep as if he could see everything.

Seeing that Duan Hongchen nodded, Yang Cheng and Yang Xin's eyes lit up and he ordered: "Ten people are on guard outside, and the two of us will sneak in with ten people each, and act..."

According to the messenger's words, Yang Cheng and Yang Xin entered the cave cautiously, saw ten sub-caves first, and counted the seventh, Yang Duoyan entered first, after exploring for a while, it was indeed safe, and several people came in one after another.

Yang Duoyan ignited one lamp in four directions and one in all directions. With a click, 36 lamps lit up in an instant, and it turned out to be a big knife.Yang Cheng ordered everyone to lie in ambush. He didn't know what the signal of the word "knife" was, and it was better to be careful...

After a while, a person came out. He couldn't see his face clearly, and he was relatively short.

"Yo, who are you? It's not you who usually deliver the letter..."

"The former one is dead and can't come anymore..." Yang Duoyan said truthfully.

"Oh, all right, you come in..." Before the man finished speaking, he touched his neck with his hand, and saw that there was blood on his hand.Surprised, he swayed, fell down, and a spider crawled out quietly...Yang Duo curled his lips and said:
"Okay now, how do I get in?"

It means to ask the poisonous scorpion, now that the person leading the way is dead, how to get there later.

"Just follow the little girl..." Poison Scorpion said with an aggrieved face, looking very pitiful, but no one present felt that way.Killing people invisible, but still pretending to be pitiful?
——The poisonous scorpion was alone in front, followed by a centipede, and everyone followed the poisonous scorpion...

One day later, in the Shao family mansion:

In the dark room, there was a darker complexion.Several people from the Shao family who have the authority to contact the dark forces are here, and it is rare for Shao Jing to see that he is not lying down, supported by Shao Deng, and sitting by the side.Shao Jing's shriveled lips moved: "That is to say, it's all gone? The Shao family has kept a sharp knife for so long, and it's all gone before it sees blood?"

——Shao ​​Jing's tone sounded remorseful and self-deprecating.

"Could it be that someone leaked it?" Shao Denghuan looked at the people in the room, shook his head again, and denied what he said. The people present are all the old people of the Shao family, and their roots are buried in the Shao family. They would never do such a thing. things come.

"You said it was leaked, who can destroy them without leaving a trace?" Shao Jing asked.

The room was silent again.

"Withdraw the people from Daokouzhai, there can be no more losses..."

"Hey, is it really going to be reduced to fish?" Shao Deng said unwillingly.After withdrawing from Daokou Village, the Shao family had nothing to do next. It was tantamount to admitting defeat to Xu Qing, and then the price of food would drop accordingly, and there was nothing that could threaten and shake Xu Qing.

"It can only be discussed in the long run..."

In the west of Cangzhou, a group of businessmen led a team of horses into Cangzhou. Next to the main road, there are dense forests, and you can't see the inside if you are ten steps away.The leader of the caravan was nervous. The junction of the two states was not under the jurisdiction of the government, and accidents were most likely to happen.

Hundreds of people in Daokou Village held their breath and quietly laid an ambush. When they really planned to close the net, the village owner suddenly ordered to retreat.Everyone was puzzled, why didn't you take a bite of the meat when it reached your mouth?The village owner hastily said that the officers and soldiers forcibly left with their men on the way.

Not to mention that his subordinates didn't understand why, even he didn't understand why, but the people from above said that they must withdraw, and he had to obey.After all, without the backing of the people behind him, he, the village owner, would have long since died without a place to die.

The group of businessmen on the road didn't know that they had just escaped a fatal disaster.Leaving the forest area and arriving at a place where there are people, he breathed a sigh of relief and prancing his horse singing!Travel to Cangzhou City at high speed, dump all the goods you brought, and make a lot of money!

A few days later, there were more and more foreign caravans. Seeing that the market was gone, the local merchants in Cangzhou couldn't resist the pressure, and began to cut prices one after another, even lower than usual, just to grab back the market occupied by foreign businessmen. Only a few The price of grain stores is still high.

In the Governor's Mansion, Shao Deng greeted Xu Qing, and handed over a post, saying: "Xu Governor, my elder brother's birthday will be tomorrow, and I will invite Mr. Governor to honor you with a banquet..."

"Oh? Definitely, the government will go to celebrate the birthday in person..." Xu Qing also returned with a smile on his face.What outsiders saw was the harmony between the superior and the superior, but they didn't know that Xu Qing and Shao Deng had reached a temporary agreement between the governor and the aristocratic family.

First, the products of the family are not raising prices, but are priced according to market conditions.Clear out some vacant households, release some vassals, and pay part of the food tax.

Second, on the governor's side, we can no longer step up the cleanup of the vassals of the family and the vacant households in Cangzhou, and we must re-increase the taxation of foreign businessmen.

As the temporary head of the family, the Shao family can still believe what they say. Xu Qing also agrees very much, as long as it can weaken your strength. As for the agreement, hahaha... Have you met Uncle Sam?
In the end, Shao Deng took advantage of Shao Jing's birthday banquet to invite Xu Qing to "discuss specific matters", the kind that all the governors of Cangzhou came to.Xu Qing thought for a while, now the relationship between him and the aristocratic family is only a layer of skin, will it be dangerous to go?But he finally agreed, and he went in person. The power of the dark river and the fire gun made him feel that he could survive any danger...

——Not long after Shao Deng went out, the price of food in Cangzhou, the last persistence of the family, collapsed in an instant.First, the price of the Shao family's grain store fell back in an instant, and it was much lower than before the "Cold War".Several other grain stores were relieved to see the price of Shao's food drop, and the price of food also dropped.

The people in the city cheered and took all the money and exchanged it for food. There is a saying that "you have food in your hand, don't panic in your heart." The only hope of the people is nothing more than food and clothing.As for the things behind the high and low food prices, they will never know, and they can only say thank you to the sky.Of course, they did the same a few days ago, cursing at the sky.

The one thing about food prices seemed to have disappeared, and the discussions in the roadside restaurants changed to other things, all kinds of things.But there is one thing Xu Qing doesn't understand, that is, who is the person Huang Shimei said was the one who saw through Xu Qing's scheme?
It's a pity that all the clues also followed the guidance of public opinion, drifted to nowhere, and were completely buried in time, as if the mountains were covered by heavy snow.

One day, Xu Qingduan was sitting in the study, and suddenly felt that there was something strange next to him. When he suddenly turned around, he felt startled for a moment, as if he saw the eyes of a poisonous snake, slipping~~and disappearing...

(End of this chapter)