"Three watches in the middle of the night, what are you talking about?" No. 17 lifted the corner of the quilt and got in, "Go to bed early, you have to get up early tomorrow." ”

The woman was a little unhappy, and she grabbed the corner of the quilt, "And how long are you going to let them stay in our house?" Our family is not a wealthy family, there are three more mouths, how to calculate the expenses of a day? ”

No. 17 was pulled off the quilt, a little annoyed, "Although our family is not rich, we can afford three more mouths, don't make trouble unreasonably...... Go to sleep. ”

The woman obviously didn't mean to drink, she suddenly lowered her voice and said: "Don't hide it from me, the officers and soldiers outside have not been arrested until now, and the neighbors say that the gangsters happen to be three people...... Don't bring the water to your home. ”

When No. 17 heard the urgency, he turned over and sat up, covered the woman's mouth, and said sharply: "You don't want to die...... Don't dare to talk nonsense. Know that the partition wall has ears. ”

The woman struggled quickly, broke free from her husband's hand covering her mouth, and said angrily, "Do you still know the life of a family? If you really want to know, you can take people away quickly. ”

No. 17 said angrily: "You are a woman, you know a fart." ”

"If you don't drive people away, I'll ...... I'm going to tell the truth, it's better than being searched by officers and soldiers, and the whole family is implicated. ”

When Seventeen heard this, he was furious, "You talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I divorced you?!" ”

The woman was stunned, and when she saw that her husband was really angry, she immediately laughed and said, "I'm just talking about it casually...... I'm not doing it for the good of our family, am I? Besides, you are still implicated in this matter, how can I go to the whistleblower? All you have to do is send them away...... It's better to have an early life, isn't it? ”

No. 17 glared at his wife, and the woman hurriedly pulled her pants over to cover her husband, and said with a smile: "It's late at night, go to bed early, don't wake up the dog." ”

No. 17 sighed softly, no longer entangled with his wife, he slowly lay down, thinking, it will be a matter of one day, as long as someone is sent to send the letter tomorrow, at the latest tomorrow evening, the reinforcements will be able to rush to Yushan, and at that time, it will be difficult to keep the three princes.

Thinking of this, Seventeen felt a little more relaxed and rolled over and fell asleep.

……。

The time has just passed, and the time has just passed.

Yushan County Yanei.

Li Dingbang paced back and forth, looking anxious.

"Who the hell is this?" Li Dingbang shouted vigorously, "No matter who General Ben is, he must be caught before noon today...... This place is too close to Shangrao City, if my father hears the wind...... You, and you, all have to fall to the ground! ”

Yushan County Ling Liu Yuan said with a bitter face: "The young general is angry...... As you can see, the group of three is riding towards the south gate, and it is said that with the speed of the horse, it should have been out of the city a long time ago....... ”

"Fart! General Ben's entourage drove their horses thirty miles away, and they didn't see them, can they become birds and fly? It must still be in the city, maybe right under your nose and eye. ”

"But the yamen is understaffed, although the city gate has been closed, and only the entrance can not be ...... It's a huge city, I'm afraid it's too late overnight. ”

"General Ben doesn't care about this, he only knows that if these three people escape, the ordnance matter will be completely exposed."

Liu Yuan said helplessly, "But if these three people are really hiding in the city, they must be hiding in ordinary people's homes or in little-traveled corners, disturbing the people in the middle of the night...... For fear of causing public resentment, if the three princes know, not only will the matter be exposed, but it will also be difficult for the lower officials to quit it. ”

Li Dingbang was stunned for a moment, and then fell silent, he knew that this matter really couldn't be made a big fuss.

At this time, the pot-bellied rich businessman suddenly spoke: "Instead of waiting to die, it is better to fight to the death...... Lives are more important than the sin of disturbing the people, right? ”

Liu Yuanhuo turned around and said, "Presumptuous! You don't want to bewitch the young general! ”

The rich merchant smiled and said: "The young general is wise and powerful, whether he is bewitching or not, he must know it in his heart...... However, Liu County's dozens of officials in his hands did not contribute to the work, leading me and other subordinates to wander around the city, and its meaning is self-evident. ”

"You...... Nonsense! Liu Yuan hurriedly waved his body to Li Dingbang and said, "The young general should not believe what this person said, the subordinate officials are loyal to the young general, and there is no second heart...... A few of them, although they are recommended by local gentry, can listen to their accents, very similar to from Jiang, maybe they are spies and maybe they ....... ”

Li Dingbang's face changed, and he shouted: "What's the noise? Now it's the right thing to catch those three first! ”

The rich merchant laughed and said, "Actually, there is a way to go down, but it's just ......." ”

"You say."

"The three of them fled to the south gate at that time, and they should have been hiding in the south city...... We don't have enough manpower now, but we can still do it by gathering everyone together to search Nancheng. As long as some people are assigned to guard the street entrance, the rest of the people will be able to search out one by one along the street. ”

Liu Yuan hurriedly said: "What if you don't stay in Nancheng?" ”

"That's okay, search the south city, and then search the east city."

"Why not the West City and the North City?" Li Dingbang asked.

"They said that they came from Yingtianfu, and Yingtianfu is north of Yushan, and it is unlikely that they will escape back." The wealthy merchant explained in an orderly manner, "And to the west is Shangrao City, knowing the identity of the young general, it is not a wise man to kill himself." Only in the east and south directions can you cross the border into the Zhejiang border, so as to avoid the pursuit of the major general...... Yes, in the next thought, either south is east. ”

Liu Yuan hurriedly said: "But there are more than 100 people under your command, and they are not arrested by the government, how can they enforce the law on behalf of the county?" Moreover, who is responsible for such a large-scale search and arrest, if it causes a large number of civilian casualties? ”

The rich businessman smiled slightly, ignored Liu Yuan, and just set his eyes on Li Dingbang.

Li Dingbang was embarrassed.

He even regretted a little, he shouldn't have learned from the merchants of Hangzhou Mansion to buy in order to sell more silver.

This would not have happened if the ordnance had been sold privately to any of these merchants.

As for the identities of these merchants who wanted to bid for ordnance, Li Dingbang had no interest in knowing, as long as the silver was real, nothing else mattered.

Over the years, the family followed his father and wandered, fought on the battlefield, first against the Ming, and then Lianming, six years ago from the north of the Zhili defeated retreat to Huguang Road, the mother died of illness, four years ago the loyal battalion in Huguang and the Qing army in the war, the loyal battalion was defeated, the younger brother died in the chaos of the army, it can be said that the family is ruined.

After being reorganized by Wu Zheng, more than 100,000 people in the loyalty camp were reduced to 20,000 people, and countless colleagues and siblings were forced to go to eastern Zhejiang, saying that they were settled, but in fact, the Northern Expeditionary Army from eastern Zhejiang looked down on the old department of the loyalty battalion in their hearts, so that some people in the old department continued to return to Guangxin and Raozhou to ask their father to take them in.

They are all brothers who crawled from the bloody rain together, and they are all suffering brothers who dragged their families with their mouths, how could they bear to abandon them?

But it's not dozens or hundreds, it's tens of thousands of mouths.