As soon as night fell, the entire Lianshan County almost fell into absolute darkness, for the people here, lighting the lamp at night is also to ask for lamp oil, which is also expensive, so it is better to go to bed early. And you can save a dinner, which can save a lot of expenses in a year.

In Lianshan County, the lights are still lit at night, and they are definitely people with very good family backgrounds. Ruan Cishan's home, not far from the county government, is a two-entry blue brick house that is rare in the county seat, even if it is the county government, it is also dilapidated, far inferior to his house.

After all, the county government is an official government, and the county order will not spend money to repair the house in the official, and if he has money, he will definitely move back to his own house, but Ruan Cishan has settled here.

Generally speaking, the county orders here are changing like a marquee, but everyone who arrives here has tried their best to transfer them away as soon as possible, but his county has become an iron-clad camp, and he can't go up, and he doesn't want to leave.

In fact, this time the county order of Lianshan County went to the mansion to run the door, and all the harvest of this year was brought with him, and he just wanted to be satisfied with the chief, so that he could leave this place as soon as possible.

When Shi Jin followed Ruan Cishan into the door, the first person in the room was roasting this Lianshan specialty Coptis chinensis on top of the brazier, and the room was filled with a fragrance.

"Coming back?" The man raised his head, and his face was full of pimples, which made people involuntarily feel a chill. "Just baked, would you like to taste some?"

Shi Jin waved his hand again and again, thanking Bumin.

"Coptis chinensis is roasted and eaten like this, it smells fragrant, but it tastes really bitter!" Ruan Cishan walked up to the man with some uneasiness and sat down.

"It's good to be bitter, it's good to be bitter! Refresh your mind! The man smiled, and ate the freshly baked coptis in a few bites, "Sit, Shi Jin, you sit too!" Come on, everyone roast together, drink wine, this coptis is wine, and it has a different taste. ”

Compared with the calmness of that person, Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan were completely out of state, looking out of the door from time to time, so that they didn't even realize that the coptis in their hands was baked.

"There's nothing to worry about." The man smiled, "Everything is well arranged, and the performance of the two of you is perfect. By the way, Shi Jin, when you left, did Ding Taiyi sleep? ”

"Sleep!" Shi Jin said: "After all, he is old, and his body is still unbearable after such a long journey, and it is more difficult than us, and when I left, he was already asleep." ”

"Life is hard!" The man raised the roasted coptis in his hand and sighed, "If you sleep, don't wake up." ”

Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan both lowered their heads.

"By the way, Shi Jin, I heard Xie Kun talk about you, you are a capable person, Xiang Zhen is also eager to seek talent now, why can't you be tolerated? I want to send you far away to Xiangxi to be a liaison officer? ”

Shi Jin smiled bitterly: "General Gao, I am General Xiang Zhengxiang's subordinate." At the earliest, when Xiang Zhen was in power, I naturally couldn't get any benefits. Later, when Xiang Zhen was unlucky, the third child of the Xiang family finally had a bright day, but my style of doing things was not liked by him, although there was a serious messenger, but it was only on the edge of the circle, and then later, Xiang Boss re-ascended, people like me were not implicated and cleaned up together, but gave a way to live, which is already a blessing. ”

Gao Xiangsheng nodded: "It's also reasonable, in your opinion, it's really bad luck, sometimes with the wrong person, no matter how good your skills are, you can't show them." But don't worry, now that you've joined us, as long as you can show your talent, then a bright future is just around the corner. ”

"General Gao, my family now?"

"Don't worry, your family should already be at sea at this time." Gao Xiangsheng handed the roasted coptis in his hand to Shi Jin: "When they get off the boat, they have already arrived in a completely new world. We'll arrange for them, and then you can go and meet them up for a good rest, and in that time, you can think about what you're going to do next. Are you following me in this business? Or in the army? Or do you want to go to a local position? If you are in our industry, I can arrange for you, if you join the army, you still need to go through the assessment of the army, and if you enter politics, you also need to go through the assessment of the personnel department. ”

Shi Jin thought for a while and said, "After waiting for my family, I still want to join the army." When I used to be in Lingnan, what I did the most was to suppress bandits, and I still have a lot of experience in mountain warfare. ”

"Then your chances are still very good. Because the next thing we Datang has to do is to fight in the mountains, write down your resume to me, and I will hand it to the military department, I think they will like people with experience in mountain operations. Gao Xiangsheng smiled and said, "Ruan Xiancheng, what about you?" Your family is almost out of Lianshan County at this time, although rest assured, with our people to arrange cover, they will arrive at the place safely. ”

"I don't want to be an official anymore!" Ruan Cishan shook his head and said: "I don't hide it from General Gao, I also have a lot of family backgrounds with these people, but I am also contaminated with a lot of officialdom vices, if I still go to be an official in the north, I am afraid that the habits I have developed over the years will send me to the point of no return, so it is better to say goodbye to officialdom." I've heard that the north is very tolerant of merchants, and I want to do business. ”

"Whatever you want, it's up to you." Gao Xiangsheng stood up and walked to the window, "The fast horse in the backyard is ready, Ruan Cishan, when you leave later, this fire will be lit by yourself, after all, it is the home you have lived in for decades, and a fire is broken with the past." ”

Ruan Cishan nodded.

Time passed slowly in the torment of the two.

Finally, a small pile of coptis on the ground was eaten, the wine in the pot was drunk, and the sound of the three watchmen and the eternal emotionless voice of the husband came from the city.

Gao Xiangsheng stood up, walked to the courtyard with his hands behind his back, where, picking up more than a dozen fast horses, and with Gao Xiangsheng and the three of them came out, from the side room on the other side, several people with black scarves and masks also walked out, standing silently in the courtyard.

"I've added some gadgets to the dynamite!" Gao Xiangsheng suddenly turned his head and looked at the two of them with a smile: "Ding Taiyi is measuring the degree of the square after all, let's let him go brighter." ”

As soon as Gao Xiangsheng's words fell, a loud thunderbolt suddenly came, and the entire Lianshan County seemed to tremble.

Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan both had a big change in their faces.

They had never experienced such a scene before, and if they hadn't known in advance that this was the hands and feet of the high elephant, they were afraid that they would really think that the earth dragon had turned over.

Countless flowers bloomed in the night sky, and they were fireworks one after another, rushing into the night sky with the sound of explosions, and their peerless smoke bloomed in the air for a moment.

Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan stared blankly at the night sky.

No wonder Gao Xiangsheng said that he wanted Ding Taiyi to be more lively, such a scene was really lively.

"It's time for us to go!" Gao Xiangsheng said lightly: "Two hundred catties of explosives, the entire post station should be overturned, but I'm afraid that Ding Taiyi won't even be able to find a little scum afterwards." ”

Seeing Gao Xiangsheng turn over and get on the horse, Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan didn't dare to slack off, they hurriedly got on the horse, and followed closely behind Gao Xiangsheng, and when the fireworks in the night sky gradually faded away, their figures also disappeared into the darkness.

The entire Lianshan County was in chaos, and countless people rushed out of their houses shouting and screaming, scurrying around the streets, thinking that the earth dragon had turned over.

And the center of the explosion this time, the original Lianshan County Post Station no longer exists, and the house where Ding Taiyi lived was only a big pit, and even the houses of the post station were all shaken down.

Ding Taiyi's personal soldiers, who had set up a military tent around the post station, turned dizzy one by one, some fell to the ground groaning in pain, and some had blood in their mouths and noses.

But there are still many people, although they are covered with dust and standing in a mess, but they are unharmed. But at this moment, their expressions were so shocked, so they couldn't believe what they saw.

Ding Taiyi, their festival commander, is gone.

No one believes that in such a scenario, Ding Taiyi still has any possibility of survival.

Gao Xiangsheng orchestrated the attack.

After learning that Ding Taiyi was about to return, and the person accompanying him was Shi Jin, who was rebelled by Xie Kun, Gao Xiangsheng immediately began to act.

After fully mobilizing the local spy resources in Guangzhou, Gao Xiangsheng rushed to Lianshan County first, found Ruan Cishan, and without much effort, he successfully persuaded this county man, who had stayed in Lianshan County for most of his life, to lay a trap in the post station.

And Shi Jin's task along the way is to control the speed and ensure that Ding Taiyi can stay at the Lianshan County Post Station at a certain point in time.

Then with a bang, Ding Taiyi was gone.

Gao Xiangsheng didn't want Ding Taiyi to return to Xiangxi to preside over the overall situation, compared to Ding Sheng, Ding Taiyi is too mature, he has rich experience in dealing with these multi-ethnic relationships, and Ding Taiyi still has incense with many big tribes in Xiangxi, if such a person returns to Xiangxi, it will inevitably bring a lot of difficulties to the next Xiangxi battle of the Tang Army.

Since there is a great opportunity, of course I have to give him a ride.

The goal was achieved, Gao Xiangsheng did not stop, took Shi Jin, Ruan Cishan and his party, and went straight to Fujian, after arriving in Fujian, someone else took over Shi Jin and Ruan Cishan, and Gao Xiangsheng disappeared without a trace.

This was the last stop of Gao Xiangsheng's trip, and he was sure that Wang Yikun was in Fujian, and he was in Zhangzhou.