"What are you doing when you take people back to the cottage?" Lin Wenbiao was puzzled, "There has never been such a rule in the cottage. Unless it's a meat ticket, otherwise you won't bet unrelated people on the mountain. ”

Zhang Jianping, Wu Laosan, Wang Sidao, Wang Zhankui and other porter leaders also frowned, and couldn't think of a reason, originally they thought that they would be able to get Wei Bao's salary of 1 tael of silver per person by turning around the empty basket, and this time they made a lot of money, but now they have no such thoughts at all, and they are very worried about the safety of the detained group of porters.

"Let's go into the house, there are still some hours before the second wave of the road I planned for the night, and then add it up!" Wei Bao was also worried about the lives of the porters, but he was not particularly worried, after all, it was a hired person, not the original person under him. If you want to make money, you have to take risks. What Wei Bao is most afraid of now is that these people will no longer act according to their plans!

When everyone heard Wei Bao say this, they had to go to the inn first.

Lin Wenbiao suddenly figured out that this must be the death order of Wu Dagongzi, so that Zhentianbei must catch or kill Wei Gongzi, and the people of Zhentianbei will do this, and softly told Wei Gongzi his thoughts.

Wei Bao nodded and said softly: "I guessed the same way, Wu Sanfeng must have given an order to Zhentian North!" As long as you know this, you don't have to say anything about what is expected. ”

"Yes, Childe." Lin Wenbiao hurriedly arched his hand and said softly. secretly admired Wei Gongzi's calm bearing.

Although Wei Bao had just finished eating for more than an hour, he still enthusiastically ordered a table of wine and food to entertain a few foot masters, and asked his subordinates to buy more cakes and vegetables, so that the remaining group of foot men could eat and drink to their heart's content.

The scene was in place, and Wei Bao didn't ask them again if they were willing to act according to their original plan at night.

"It is estimated that the handmaidens guessed the intentions of the son, and seeing that the porters did not take the lead, they couldn't say why they did this? I detained the people, and waited for those of us who took the lead to negotiate with them. Zhang Jianping wiped his mouth and said.

"The dreadlocks have quite a brain." Liu Chunshi muttered.

"Locks have brains, none of them are bad, although they may have been forced by livelihood before, but after making locks, all I thought was ways to harm people." Fan Tou echoed.

Lin Wenbiao listened to everyone's discussions, his face was red and white, he lowered his head and didn't speak, he didn't do any bad things before, he was a lock, he could even give up his life, what is the scourge of people?

"Let's all rest early." Although it was only nine o'clock at night, Wei Bao had already stood up, people in this era have gone to bed early, whether these porters will act according to his plan at night or not, it is time to rest.

"Childe, although he said that he made a promise, but promised Childe to go with the goods, a few of us agreed, and now the locks are holding people and not letting them back, and the other brothers are afraid." Zhang Jianping hesitated, but still said the words of resignation, these words were secretly discussed by several porter leaders just now.

Wu Laosan, Wang Sidao and Wang Zhankui heard Zhang Jianping say this, worried that Wei Bao would get angry, and looked at Wei Bao together.

Wei Bao was a little stunned, but it was only slight, he was already mentally prepared, and said indifferently: "Since this is the case, I can't blame you, I can only lead someone to break in early tomorrow morning." ”

Zhang Jianping, Wu Laosan and others were very embarrassed when they saw that Wei Bao didn't say a word of blame, sighed, and apologized repeatedly, but it seemed that they had done something sorry for Wei Bao, and they all said that they couldn't take money from Wei Bao this time.

"Don't, the money still has to be given, I like to do things clearly, the 20 porters who were detained on the road during the day, each of them have one or two pieces of silver, and not a penny less!" Wei Bao said decisively: "Otherwise, if this matter spreads, who will I become?" ”

Wei Bao said and asked Liu Chunshi to pay the silver, he put some loose silver taels in Liu Chunshi's place, originally this kind of thing was handed over to Fan Xiaolin, but Fan Xiaolin did not accompany him this time.

Liu Chunshi promised to pay, but a group of foot masters insisted on not being accepted, and Fan also came forward to persuade him, and several people didn't figure it out for two or three minutes.

"Take it!" Wei Bao said resolutely, "Don't collect this money for yourself, you must use it on those detained porters!" ”

The meaning of Wei Bao's words is very clear, even if those porters are killed by the locks, they must give the money to their families!

Several foot masters even claimed to be.

"Let's continue to ship according to Wei Gongzi's plan at night, right?" Zhang Jianping opened his mouth and said: "Wei Gongzi has paid such a big price, and our brother has been detained again, if we don't continue to take the goods, how can we see the people of the Silk Gang?" ”

Wu Laosan, Wang Sidao, Wang Zhankui and others heard Zhang Jianping say this, and even echoed it, all in favor of continuing to sell goods, saying that no matter what, they should know what happened to the detained person now.

"We have a clear conscience in doing things, the porter is the one who pulls the goods, no matter what the guests ask us to send! If the locks kill people, it's because they don't pay attention to the rules of the rivers and lakes! In the evening, all four of us went, still with 10 people each! "Wang Zhankui is young and vigorous.

"I'll go with Lao Zhang and Lao Wu, you stay!" Wang Sidao said resolutely: "Do you want our grandfather to die on this road this time?" ”

"Zhan Kui, yes, listen to your father, don't go." Zhang Jianping also said.

"Dad, let me go, or you stay." Wang Zhankui said.

"Are you a biaozi? Your father's loess is half buried, what are you afraid of? Let you stay, stay, what so much nonsense? "Running outside in the wind and rain all the year round, Wang Sidao saw his son's mouth, and immediately glared.

"Zhan Kui, listen to your father, you stay." Wei Bao saw that everyone was willing to act according to the original plan again at night, and his mood was a little more relaxed, and he followed the persuasion.

Wang Zhankui could only agree, I don't know why, although Wei Bao is much younger than him, such a young son-in-law, but Wang Zhankui feels that he is very close to Wei Bao, and admires Wei Bao for being able to take charge of things independently at such a young age, take charge alone, and serve the public, and a large group of people under his command listen to him. So as soon as Wei Bao helped persuade him, Wang Zhankui agreed.

Wei Bao saw that everything was decided, and a small turmoil temporarily subsided, and said with relief: "Master Zhang, Master Wu, Master Wang, you go over at night, be tough, what Zhan Kui said just now is good, the porter is the goods, whoever you help with the goods is the goods, you take advantage of it!" I don't think Silks will kill so many of you. If it really spreads, these handmaidens are really angry and resentful in this area! ”

"I think so too, Childe, you should rest earlier, what our master said, a mouthful of spit and a nail, or do it as previously discussed!" Zhang Jianping said: "Lao Wu, if you don't go tonight, Lao Wang and I will each bring a group of people over, and you will go with Wei Gongzi tomorrow morning according to the original plan!" Zhan Kui, you just stay at this inn and wait for news, and wait for us to come back and meet!" ”

"That's fine!" Wu Laosan nodded immediately.

"Good!" Wei Bao saw that the blood of several people seemed to have recovered again, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said to Liu Chunshi: "We will pay all the 50 taels of silver now!" ”

Several foot masters saw that Wei Bao was paying so easily, and the matter was settled, and everyone rested separately.

Wei Bao slept very soundly at night, and Wei Bao's entourage arranged for two people to change shifts at two hours and take turns to be on duty at night.

Zhang Jianping and Wang Sidao set off on time with a group of porters according to the discussion.

At this point, it was Peng Mingbo and Gao Du's turn to be on duty, and the two of them shrank in the corner of the wall to avoid the wind and stand guard, bending their necks to watch the porters go on the road.

"Childe tosses back and forth like this, just to let the silks run back and forth? Are the dreadlocks so stupid? Gao Du asked.

Peng Mingbo shook his head, "It's not good to say, but since Childe has ordered it so, there should be a reason for Childe." ”

After the two of them said this, they both closed their mouths, and the whirring cold wind made it impossible to speak.

Zhang Jianping and Wang Sidao each took 10 porters, and each walked a road when they left Haiyang Town, and the two of them discussed it before, Zhang Jianping took the avenue, and Wang Sidao took the trail.

From Haiyang Town to Funingwei is actually almost a three-hour journey, but the walk at night is slower than during the day, and it takes four hours to four and a half hours at night.

This area is the range of the handmaiden haunt, although Zhang Jianping and Wang Sidao already know the location of the handmaiden card sentry in detail, they are still worried, and a group of porters also seem to be walking on the ghost gate.

When it was almost the end of the day, Zhang Jianping took his group of people to the sentry post of the Silk Gang, Zhang Jianping lit a dry tobacco in the wind, took a few puffs violently, did a fierce ideological struggle, hesitated whether to continue to move forward, and all the porters under his command persuaded him to turn back, Zhang Jianping said that he took the silver, and he had to die according to the instructions of the owner.

After walking about a stick of incense, I saw a person standing in the snow on the side of the road, wearing an animal skin jacket, a long knife and a short knife hanging from his waist, and a hard bow on his back.

Zhang Jianping sighed in his heart, he didn't walk this road a few times, generally around Shanhaiguan, this piece of business was monopolized by the Wu family, they couldn't climb the relationship between the Wu family, even if the Wu family's warehouse was too busy, they had never looked for his foot, so he hadn't experienced such a thing, he couldn't help but be very nervous, and hurriedly stepped forward to report the incision: "The mountains and rivers have friendship." ”

The other party snorted: "You stinky foot, who has a relationship with you?" Tell a number, which foot dart line? Who does the delivery for? Is there anyone in charge? ”

"In Xia Zhang Jianping, the little foot line in Shanhaiguan will help Wei Gongzi deliver goods." Zhang Jianping replied truthfully: "We came over a group of brothers during the day, I don't know how they are now?" ”

"Wow! You stinky feet are dying? Stopped the two of you, do you dare to come over? Don't want to die? After saying that, the lock whistled and pulled out the long knife at his waist, and the whistle was particularly sharp and loud in the cold night of this snowy day.

It turned out that there was a shack hidden a hundred paces behind the lock, covered by snow, inconspicuous, and the two accomplices of the locks heard the whistle, and went out of the shack together, and came down with bows and arrows.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Jianping was afraid, but he was also calm: "Brother, we are porters, porters pull goods, it is justified, you want tolls, we will give them according to the rules, what are you doing here?" ”

"Do what?" The lock snorted, "Others can pass, but you can't help Wei Bao pull the goods, our boss has already said hello!" ”

As he spoke, the two accomplices of the handmaidens came so quickly that they had already approached, still keeping their bows and arrows in front of the group of porters, and shouting loudly for the porters not to move.

"Don't move, don't move." Zhang Jian'an calmed his subordinates, knowing that if he was scared and ran away, the archery of the silk was not a joke, and none of them wanted to run away with such a small number of people. Although they are all a little skillful, they know how many pounds and taels they have, and in front of the bandits, they can't take it out to play, especially if they don't have a ruthless handkerchief.

"I tied up all the people around me, and I tied them tightly! Do what we say and you'll be fine! If you don't do what we say, don't want to live. Tsukiko said as he took the rope from his back and threw it over.

Zhang Jianping and others had to tie up each other according to the instructions of the locks.

"Uncle, let me ask if the brothers we came over before are all right?" Zhang Jianping asked.

"It's okay! It's all taken to the cottage, okay! Tsukiko replied.

Zhang Jianping was a little relieved, "Let's transport a cargo, what are you taking us to the cottage for?" "Secretly pondering, you don't want to pull them into the gang and go to be a handmaiden together, right? He knew that this possibility was extremely small, there was really no shortage of manpower in the dreadlocks, there were only more than 60 people in the old forest, that was because these people were enough, and they were not the big dreadlocks outside the gates, and the Yongping Mansion was just acting as the minions of the gentry. In the eyes of the poor, the Silkworm Gang is even a good place.

"Don't talk nonsense!" The handmaiden shouted, seeing that a group of people had tied up each other, a person came up, and tied Zhang Jianping, who was not tied in the end, to tie it strongly, and then checked whether everyone's ropes were tied up one by one, and then put masks on everyone!

"One by one, follow along!" While driving people away, a handmaiden looked at the basket behind the back of a group of porters, and when he saw that there was nothing left, he couldn't help but scold angrily: "Why didn't you pull anything, it was that Wei Bao deliberately entertained us!" I think he's tired of it! ”

The other two scarlets scolded a few words, and then discussed.

"Do you want to notify the boss now?"

"Naturally! Didn't Hou San say it during the day? All pull back to the cottage, and if someone comes again, immediately notify the cottage to send someone. ”

"Okay, it's right to be notified, if you don't notify it, you will be punished, then I will release the pigeons."

"Well, let's put it!"

A gray carrier pigeon flew into the air in the cold night of this snowy day and flew behind the mountain.

Zhang Jianping and others were caught, so they could only be temporarily sent to a shack not far away to be detained.

On the other side, Wang Sidao encountered the same situation, and a group of people were also caught.

Wang Sidao is more bloody than Zhang Jianping, he originally wanted to resist, but after thinking about it, he still committed it, thinking that they were porters, even if the Silk Gang had a grudge against Wei Bao, they would not kill them.

By the time the old Lin Zizizi helped the cottage receive the news from the sentry flying pigeon, the sky was already numb and bright at this time.

Yesterday at noon, they received such news once, the big boss Zhentianbei immediately sent the second master Chang Wuye and the new third master Hou San, who replaced the position of Tan Madman, to bring a team of people to go, and got a group of empty-handed porters, and waited for a while and couldn't wait for Wei Bao to bring someone over, so Hou San discussed with the second master and the fifth master, and the two of them simply brought all the porters back to the cottage.

The cottage of the old Lin Zi Gang is also an hour's journey from the position of the sentry, and it takes two hours to go back and forth, and on this cold day, I waited outside for an hour or two, and it took four or five hours to toss back and forth.

I didn't expect it to come out again now, it was still early at this time, but the sentry who received the news did not dare to slack off, and hurried to inform the big boss.

Zhentianbei drank until late at night yesterday, and had just slept for less than two hours, when he was woken up and couldn't help but be angry: "So early, what about the funeral!?" ”

"The little one doesn't dare, if you go back to the big boss, it's a message from the mountain, and there is a rabbit card." Shui Ziyu reports. (A rabbit refers to a caravan of goods.) ）

The silkworms were mostly illiterate, and when they delivered the news, they could only report whether it was a caravan or an officer, and then report the number, which was indicated by a worm tied to the pigeon's feet.

Zhentianbei saw that there were 10 people again, and said strangely: "It won't be the same thing as yesterday during the day, right?" This Wei Bao is really good at tricks! ”

The handmaiden who reported didn't dare to answer, and stood beside him with his hands down in a proper manner.

"You go and find the second and third masters!" Zhentianbei said impatiently.

"Yes, big boss." The sentry agreed and hurried down.

Yesterday, Zhentianbei was to comfort the second master, the fifth master and the third master, the third master, and the two people ran around for four or five hours on a snowy day, and only drank with the two people a little late, and now they are going to call the two people to get up, and they feel a little guilty in their hearts. It is these things that the silk son does, there is nothing to feel guilty about, the most important thing is to return empty-handed, which is very unlucky for the silk button, otherwise the silk will definitely gain something every time he goes out, and he will eat and drink a lot of celebration wine when he comes back, and he can also share the property.

When Chang Wuye and Hou San came over, Zhentianbei had already received the news from the second pigeon, one pigeon was sent back by the sentry on the main road, and the other pigeon was sent back by the sentry on the small road, the two messages were the same, like twins.

Zhentianbei briefly explained the situation.

Hou San took the lead in complaining: "The big boss, shouldn't it be the kid surnamed Wei who is messing around with us again?" I must have hired a few porters to get past us empty-handed! He's getting impatient! Let me take the people directly to the Golden Mountain and make that kid done! ”

"Don't come nonsense! Jinshanli is not far from Shanhaiguan, and there are also a group of officers and soldiers in Haiyang Town, who run there to kill people directly, and if they don't get it right, they won't be able to come back, and since he dares to argue with Wu Dagongzi, will he be prepared? Otherwise, how would Madman Tan suffer a loss? Chang Wuye immediately stopped.

Zhentianbei heard the three words of Tan Madman, and his heart was desolate, Tan Madman has been in the Locks Gang for more than ten years, and finally got into the position of the third master, for Zhentianbei, he has always regarded Tan Madman as a caring brother, otherwise he would not report Tan Madman.

The reason why he ignored Madman Tan after Madman Tan was injured, so that Madman Tan's two close subordinates couldn't see it, and took Madman Tan down the mountain to treat his injuries at great risk, it was all because: On the one hand, Madman Tan's injury was too serious, and Zhentianbei and everyone felt that even if Madman Tan was cured, Madman Tan was almost a waste! It's useless to keep it. What's more, because Madman Tan originally had a disagreement with the second master Chang Wuye, and now Madman Tan is gone, just letting Chang Wuye's junior brother Hou San take the position, so half of the reason for Zhentianbei is that Chang Wuye and Hou San are forced to be so cold-blooded and ruthless to Madman Tan.

Therefore, now that Zhentianbei heard the name of Madman Tan, his heart was cold, but he didn't ask Madman Tan about the situation again, it is estimated that Madman Tan has died outside.

"The second brother is right, you can't do it casually! In this area, we have the final say, and after Haiyang Town, it will be dangerous! Zhentianbei stretched his throat and said, "I can only work hard for the two brothers to go down the mountain for a run." ”

"It's a mess!" Hou San said angrily: "Big boss, we have already detained a group of people, and those porters actually dare to help Wei Bao take the goods empty-handed, this is deliberately tricking us!" I can just slaughter all the porters on the spot, and I don't need to bring them back! Bring it back and kill it, and it will dirty our place. ”

"Who said they were going to be killed? After catching Wei Bao, let people take them out of the mountain and release them, what is the footman doing? And there is no silver, and if it spreads out, it will ruin the reputation of my old forest! "Shaking the sky and saying coldly. He asked Hou San to be the third master, which was passive, completely for the sake of the face of the second master Chang Wuye, Chang Wuye is the old brother who has followed him for the longest time, this Hou San has been in the cottage for seven or eight years, but Zhentianbei has always disliked Hou San.

"Kill people when you see them, as long as they have something to do with Wei Bao, so we don't have to run back and forth all the time? Big boss! Hou San ignored Zhentianbei's cold expression, and was not afraid of Zhentianbei, and continued: "If you do this, no matter how many porters Wei Bao finds to carry the goods empty-handed, let's kill them all, and see what else he can do?" He wants to fish in troubled waters and steal the goods! ”

Seeing that Hou San actually dared to talk to himself in this tone, Zhentianbei was even more displeased, and said coldly: "If you want to go, I will go myself!" How about you stay and guard the cottage? ”

"The third! Stop it! Let's go! The second master saw that Zhentianbei was angry, and hurriedly pulled Hou San down.

Hou San muttered as he walked: "Sometimes the big boss is the benevolence of women, and this can't be done!" ”

Chang Wuye glared at Hou San, but Hou San didn't dare to say any more.

Zhentianbei watched the two people come out of the tiger hall, and angrily slapped the armrest of the big chair covered in tiger skin, and snorted.