Outside the door, I hurriedly walked outside, and saw the county lieutenant Zhang Lin leading the officials into the county office, and Sun Yucai and Wang Stork also quickly stood up.

Wang Stork took two steps forward and asked Zhang Lin urgently: "County Lieutenant Zhang, you can find out the origin of the thief." ”

Zhang Lin is over fifty years old, with a thin and tall light appearance, unlike Sun Yucai and Wang Stork, he looks like a harmless private school gentleman.

He only handles some lawsuits and other cases on weekdays, and has little interest in fighting for power and profit.

In recent years, the people have repeatedly complained about the Wang family's bullying of good women, although Zhang Lin can't do anything, but he also feels disgusted with the Wang family from the bottom of his heart.

Seeing that Wang Stork asked him, he also suppressed his usual boredom, and said to Sun Yucai and Wang Stork:

"The county magistrate, the county lord, last night the official ordered to go out of the city to investigate the attack on the Wang family, and found 16 corpses in the Xiyuan Bridge eight miles east of the city, the deceased were all knife wounds, and most of the deceased's clothes and belongings were taken away by the thieves, and the thieves also used the blood of the deceased to leave a bloody book on the bridge railing."

Speaking of this, Zhang Lin paused, looked at Wang Stork but stopped talking.

When Wang Stork saw Zhang Lin looking at him, he knew in his heart that the content of the blood book must be bad for the Wang family, so he just sighed and didn't say anything.

Sun Yucai "coughed" and said to Zhang Linwenyan: "County Lieutenant Zhang, what words are written, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Zhang Lin nodded, and said without emotion:

"The Wang family is unkind, bullying men and women, vowing to destroy the Wang family, and never die."

After finishing speaking, he didn't look at Wang Stork, so he took the blood book printed on the white cloth from the hand of the servant, and turned around and handed it to Sun Yucai.

Sun Yucai glanced sideways at Wang Stork, who was staring at Zhang Lin to the point of trembling, opened the blood book and looked at it, and then asked Zhang Lin again: "County Lieutenant Zhang, can you find any traces of thieves." ”

Zhang Lin ignored Wang Stork's gaze, just shook his head at Sun Yucai and said: "When we found the body, there was no trace of the thief at the scene, but I waited for the east from Longde County to the east to the place of the incident, which means that the thief did not go west."

After arriving at the place of the incident, I also sent people to look for it, but it was snowing heavily, and the ruts and other traces on the road were mostly covered up, and there was no trace.

Moreover, according to the survivors, there were as many as forty or fifty thieves, and there were only more than forty officials accompanying me. ”

As soon as Zhang Lin's words fell, he heard a "poof", and the king stork sat on the futon as soon as his buttocks were paralyzed.

Zhang Lin looked at Wang Stork's embarrassed appearance, not feeling pitiful but feeling ridiculous, in the past few years, every time Zhang Lin found out that the Wang family had committed the matter of tyranting the field and overpowering the girl, in the end, it was always this Wang Stork who ordered the prisoner to be taken away, and after a few days, he passed through the city freely, so that the people did not know the truth, thinking that he and the Wang family were in collusion, pointing fingers at himself behind his back, and this county lieutenant did really a terrible thing.

So seeing the king stork at this moment made him feel a little happy.

Others don't know, but he knows that this Wang He and the Wang family have not done any evil deeds that have lost their conscience, and this Wang He alone has killed four tenant farmers with his own hands in three years, and the concubines in the family have more than ten rooms, and the maids don't know how much, which of them is not Wang He who robbed and grabbed by virtue of his power.

How many wives and wives have been separated and families ruined.

In his heart, Zhang Lin felt that these people were innocent, and those thieves were doing the right thing for heaven.

But as a county lieutenant, of course, he can't show the appearance of schadenfreude, so he has to look at his nose and nose and settle down.

But the Sun County Order couldn't be the same as Zhang Lin, he got up and walked to Wang Stork's side, comforted Wang Stork, and said:

"Wang Xiancheng, the deceased is gone, you mourn, I will order troops to chase the thief."

After that, he arranged for the officials to go to the Longde camp to transfer troops.

The six counties of Yuanzhou are to defend against the Rongdi army that invades around the pass, and each city usually has 35,000 standing soldiers.

Before the war, soldiers from all over the country came to garrison the passes, so during the war, there would be 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers in each city.

At this time, Sun Yucai dispatched 1,000 soldiers, and the soldiers were divided into three routes to the south, east, and west.

Because Wang Stork strongly requested to go to the Lihua military camp to investigate, Sun Yucai and Wang Stork led more than 300 soldiers to the west.

Zhang Lin led all the people and horses to the south to investigate, and the people and horses on the east road were handed over to Jiang Qiyu, a thousand people in the Longde camp.

By the time everyone was about to leave the city, it was already getting light, and the snow had finally stopped after four days.

The morning sun shines brightly on the white snowy field.

Sun Yucai and Wang Stork led three hundred soldiers all the way west under the eyes of the morning sun.

Four or five miles out of the city, Sun Yucai and others saw a group of people driving a vehicle in the distance towards the north, and Sun Yucai hurriedly ordered Tanma to go and inquire.

After a short time, Tanma turned back to the newspaper, saying that the twenty servants in the Lihua army were ordered to return north to the original state capital, Sun Yucai glanced at Wang Stork, and led the troops to meet the people's team.

Sun Yucai stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that there were still ten empty cars in the Minfu team, so he asked the Minfu about the reason for the empty cars.

After inquiry, it turned out that General Wang He had moved all the grain and grass last night, and the vehicle had no use, so after Wang He left, Liang Lihua asked Liang Qingshu to inform them that they would return to Yuanzhou with an empty car early this morning.

After hearing this, Sun Yucai glared at Wang Stork fiercely, but Wang Stork looked at these people in a trance at the moment, and did not notice Sun Yucai.

Suddenly, Wang Stork asked the people, "What happened to the Lihua military camp last night?" ”

Those people were just ordinary people, and where had they seen any great people, and when they heard a man on a horse asking them, they focused their eyes on Shi Chang.

The chief of the people immediately replied to the stork: "My lord, after the general set up camp yesterday afternoon, he suddenly ordered me to unload the grain and grass in the cart and move it to the front of the camp and hand it over to some people outside the camp.

Later, I was ordered to bring the empty grain truck back to the original state capital early this morning, and gave me a letter to hand over to the Senate after returning to the original state. ”

"Can you send troops out of the camp last night?" Wang Stork asked again.

"When the villain and his brothers carried the grain and grass last night, the sergeants lined up in front of the camp, and then the sergeants all returned to the camp, except for the occasional cry of the sergeant, and the little people did not know what was going on.

When I left the barracks early this morning, the sergeants were also ......"

Nashi trembled and told Wang Stork everything he knew.

But he didn't know that there were indeed dozens of soldiers in the camp in front of the camp last night.

The dwellings of these men were arranged in the deepest part of the col behind the rear camp, along with the food and grass of the whole army, hundreds of steps away from the front camp.

Last night, when they learned that they were going to return to Wonju early this morning, they slept soundly from the fatigue of the march for several days after relaxing, and when the soldiers of the front battalion returned to the camp, most of them did not even know about the sergeants of the rear battalion, how could these twenty people know about this.

"You must be lying, saying, don't tell the truth, be careful to let your head be different!" Wang Stork shouted hysterically.

Hearing that the adult's tone was not good, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down, kowtowed and said:

"The adult is angry, the villain's words are true, and there is also the fact that the hundred generals in the hall gave the villain a few taels of silver before leaving, and the villain has nothing to hide, my lord."

"Bastard, you don't open your eyes to see who Lao Tzu is, and you dare to lie to me."

After saying that, the king stork raised his horsewhip and whipped at the chief, but the man did not dare to resist, but kept screaming as his hand rose and fell, until the king stork's tired hand could not be raised.

Sun Yucai saw that Wang Stork had lost his mind, and of course he couldn't beat this man to death, so he hurriedly ordered the people to carry him away.

Fang Cai asked Minfu, and he had learned that Yu Lihua had already set off from the camp early in the morning and headed for Yuxiao Pass, and Sun Yucai knew that he would not be able to catch up at this time.

Besides, what can you do if you catch up with Lihua, the matter has come to this, it seems that Lihua did not send troops out of the camp, so the killing of Wang He must not be done by Lihua.

Moreover, the people also escorted the vehicles carrying grain and grass back to the original state capital, so even if Zhu Lihua killed people to recapture the grain and grass, what would they use to transport it.

The most important thing is that last night Lihua sent someone to the county government to report the official, and today I learned that Lihua wrote a letter to Jieyuan, which is obviously an angry child's move to complain to an adult, how dare such a person rob and kill the nobles.

So it's pointless to catch up with Lihua, but if you let Wang Stork, a madman, whip Lihua again, then Jieyuan will blame him, and Wang Stork will be protected by the Zhao family, and he will be miserable.

The more Sun Yucai thought about it, the more he felt that Wang Stork's guess was groundless, but he couldn't save Wang Stork's face, so he comforted Wang Stork with kind words and continued to search westward.

At the western foot of the Sumeru Mountains, there are countless small hills, some of which are covered with pine trees, and some of which are just covered by dewy rocks.

For more than 500 years, countless generations of mountain hunters have lived in this mountain range.

From north to south, there are seven dangerous passes in the Sumeru Mountains, including Mugao Pass, Mica Pass, Qixia Pass, Bitan Pass, Mishen Pass, Musashi Pass, and Yuxiao Pass, which stand on the mountain range and guard the only seven passages at both ends of the mountain range.

At this time, Lihua and his entourage traveled in the mountain road under Yuxiao Pass, from Niushou Mountain, where they were stationed yesterday, to Yuxiao Pass, there was only a distance of more than 40 miles, but these 40 miles were all mountain roads.

Four days of heavy snow have already turned the mountains white, and there is a thick layer of snow from the top to the bottom of the mountain.

At the end of the queue, the three of them were chatting about last night's story.

I only heard Wei Yuanqi panting and said: "The old thief also begged me to stay alive under the knife, first said to give me property, and then said to give me more than a dozen of his concubines, haha, if I agreed, I wouldn't have climbed this damn mountain road with you two bitter masters." ”

Liang Qingshu glanced at Wei Yuanqi and said: "If your big black face agrees to the old thief, it is estimated that you haven't even seen more than a dozen of his concubines, and this will already become a scene outside Longde City, called the "Snow Neutrality Pole". ”

Wei Yuanqi thought slightly, and said, "How do you understand this?" ”

Liang Qingshu pretended to be profound, and the scholar Wang He looked like he was trembling and touching his chin, as if he also had that three-foot hair, and said slowly:

"The head was cut off and tied to a bamboo pole in the snow, isn't it a snow pole?"

"Hahahaha", the three of them looked up and laughed.

At this time, Gao Yunce's face suddenly sank, and said to the two: "Last night, the hundred generals ordered me to go to Longde Mansion to sue the official, I felt too cowardly, so I despised the hundred generals, and now I think about it, it turns out that I am too stupid, and I am ashamed." ”

Wei Yuanqi and Liang Qingshu also bowed their heads and groaned when they heard this, why didn't they have a different heart for Lihua last night.

Gao Yunce was a little embarrassed when he saw that the two of them were silent because of themselves, so he opened his mouth and said to the two again:

"Two brothers, you don't have to be like this, I think Lord Baijiang originally counted you and me, otherwise if I knew about Lord Baijiang's plan in advance, maybe some things might not be able to be done properly."

When Wei Yuanqi and Liang Qingshu heard Gao Yunce say this, they also admired Zhu Lihua's wisdom and scheming, and he was able to get out of such a dead situation.

Liang Qingshu asked Wei Yuanqi again: "Brother Wei, last night you led the brothers in the former camp to kill the old thief, why did you only bring back this little bit of food." ”

Wei Yuanqi replied: "Last night, Lord Bai General asked me to lead the sergeants out of the camp and secretly ambush them next to an eight-hole bridge in the east of Longde City.

When I succeeded, I left a bloody letter to confuse the public, and ran south with the grain and grass I had stolen, until I ran into a rather large wood.

After going to the woods, find a hidden place to bury most of the grain and grass, cover it with mud and snow, and each person will carry some of the grain and grass back to the camp as soon as possible.

At that time, I thought that this plan was a bit hasty, and the bridge was easy to understand, maybe Lord Baijiang had been here, but where was the forest to the south, what if I couldn't find it, and how to return to the camp if I found it, these doubts made me hesitate.

But seeing that the hundred generals were quite sure when they told me, and I was thinking about revenge, I didn't think about it so much, so I took the order and left.

And guess what? ”

After that, he looked at Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu and listened attentively, and he felt like a storyteller in the Huahua Restaurant, and he suddenly felt funny.

Gao Yunce and Liang Qingshu heard him stop talking in a tricky way, and they all gave him a blank look.

Wei Yuanqi cleared his throat and continued: "Most of the soldiers in our army are natives of Longde, and at the beginning, I found that many of these soldiers were quite familiar with the road to the Bakong Bridge.

After arriving at the Bakong Bridge ambush, I told the soldiers that there was an order for a hundred generals to kill Wang He and others, and these soldiers were also quite excited, and after inquiry, they learned that the Wang family had offended a lot of people in Longde County, so everyone had no complaints about killing Wang He.

Moreover, Wang He snatched our army's rations in front of the army, so that those who had no enmity with the Wang family were all ready to rush out.

After successfully killing the old thief, we deliberately released a live mouth according to the order of the hundred generals, and robbed some of the dead body's belongings, and ran south with grain and grass, but we really found a forest, so we hid the grain and grass.

As I was about to return the way I came, several of the soldiers told me that there was a path left by the hunters outside the woods, and that they often took that road during their hunting, and that road led to the old Longtan, and along the edge of the Longtan to the camp of Niushou Mountain. ”

After speaking, he looked at Gao Yunce and Wei Yuanqi and said, "Do you say that Lord Baijiang is a stranger, who can pinch his fingers and tell the hexagram and predict the future?" ”

Gao Yunce listened to this, and he was also amazed in his heart, and he said to the two: "Lord Baijiang is the same as us, and he is not a stranger, but unlike us, Lord Baijiang is good at perceiving people's hearts and using people's feelings.

He is thoughtful, and every move he makes seems to be random, but in hindsight, he is indeed prepared.

For the hundred generals in the bar, maybe a few of us can only see the appearance, but we can't understand the hearts of the hundred generals. Maybe Lord Baijiang has made arrangements that we don't know about.

As for geography, I'm afraid that the hearts of the hundred generals are not just a small county of Longde. ”

After that, Gao Yunce suddenly fought a cold war, and the figure in his heart became blurred.

Decisive killing, ruthless and resolute, from beginning to end he has been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, where is this a clerk who has been a civil servant in the General Administration for five years, and he is clearly a newly born Shura.

"Give the order to go down and rest in place."

He sneezed, and when he saw that it was already noon, he ordered the soldiers to make repairs and make a fire.

Zhu Lihua also feels refreshed today, last night's incident is undoubtedly a gamble for him, the bet is won and everything is fine, and if the bet is lost, everything will be destroyed.

For Zhu Lihua, in fact, the only motive that made him want to kill was only what Wang He said to Wei Yuanqi: "What's your name?" ”

He knew that it would not be good to offend the powerful in these places, and killing a powerless person like Wei Yuanqi was tantamount to stepping on an ant to death.

How can his own people let him suffer a trace of grievances, and how can he be put in danger.

In fact, this was the first time that Lu Lihua had ordered a killing, and there was a trace of fear in his heart last night, but he couldn't let others see it.

As the main general, even if it is only the main general of a hundred people, he will never allow such a thing as failure.

Therefore, he didn't dare to lie on the couch until Wei Yuanqi returned last night.

The embankment of thousands of feet collapsed with the nest of ants. A hundred-foot room, burned with the smoke of the crevice.

Everyone thinks that Rong Di is the disaster of the country, but Zhu Lihua feels that if the Qin State dies in the future, moths like the Wang family will be the real culprit.

Of course, he, a hundred generals, may not think about these things at all, and it is not his turn to think about them. Therefore, Zhu Lihua laughed dumbly.

Liu He handed the prepared meal to Zhu Lihua, and smiled at him: "Lord Baijiang, the brothers all say that you can do great things with you, otherwise you won't even be able to eat." ”

After all, it was only a team of 100 people, and the soldiers who went out of the camp last night to retrieve grain and grass accounted for half of the whole army, and they couldn't hide it if they wanted to.

But the well-known benefit is that everyone admires the five-body casting.

The Qin people are very brave, and most of the disputes on weekdays are resolved by force, and Lihua slaughtered all the nobles who bullied him, and he also had a great appetite for these soldiers who were usually hunters.

And they all knew at the moment that the murder was blamed on the Liukou, which made them almost no worries, so no one bothered to think about the aftermath at all, but instinctively believed in their master.

Gao Yunce and the three of them privately instructed all the sergeants many times, this matter is related to everyone's net worth and life, don't talk nonsense to the outside world, it is best to rot this matter into your stomach after you arrive at Yuxiao Pass.

Yu Lihua was not too worried about this matter, because he felt that no one wanted to see his head drop.

After listening to Liu He's words, he smiled, and asked Liu He to find Gao, Wei, and Liang.

Several people discussed many matters after arriving at Yuxiao Pass, and after discussion, they ordered the soldiers to continue to advance.

Zhu Lihua demanded that the whole army must arrive at Yuxiao Pass before tonight.