Chapter 8: Outwitting the Imps

Early the next morning, Xu Changqing got up and gave Uncle Hong and Uncle Guang a note, asking them to take people out, buy all the things on the note, and pay attention to secrecy.

"This ......"

Uncle Hong and Uncle Guang were speechless for a moment.

Just look at these complicated things on the note, and they will understand that this cannot be done without one hundred and eighty taels of silver.

There are some fishing nets, harpoons or something, isn't this, does the young master want to go fishing and be a fisherman?

But seeing Xu Changqing's cold face, Uncle Hong and Uncle Guang could only swallow the words back into their stomachs and hurriedly do it.

After sending away Uncle Hong and Uncle Guang, the old man Li Changyou came in with a fart, and was busy kneeling and kowtowing to Xu Changqing: "Adults are healthy, adults are auspicious, little old man and adult, please be safe, I wish you happiness like the East China Sea......"

This guy is obviously much better than yesterday, and he runs the train with his mouth full.

It wasn't until a slight smile appeared on the corner of Xu Changqing's mouth that Li Changyou relaxed a little, and said busily: "My lord, little old man, I inquired about a.... Top Secret Message. ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly looked at Xu Changqing's face.

Seeing that Xu Changqing seemed to be very interested, this guy couldn't help but be more energetic, and he hurriedly came over, and whispered in Xu Changqing's ear: "My lord, there are really people in this city who dare to sell war horses, and they are the people under the command of Wu Dashuai who are sitting in Ningyuan, but their asking price is a bit high......

Li Changyou said, his face was slightly panicked.

"Oh? What price? ”

Xu Changqing flicked his fingers unhurriedly.

Li Changyou hurriedly said respectfully: "My lord, let's not talk about the war horses, just a little crippled old horse, they will ask for eighty taels and one horses." and the slightly better one, it costs one hundred and twenty taels. As for the war horse, I'm afraid the worst one will cost two hundred taels ......."

In the end, Li Changyou lost his confidence.

After all, this kind of price, even if the young master in front of him is rich, I am afraid it is by no means easy to afford.

Xu Changqing's brows suddenly furrowed slightly.

Although he had long expected that money could make ghosts grind, and in this Ningyuan City, silver would definitely be able to solve many problems, but he didn't expect that Wu Sangui and Wu Dashuai's gang of disciples could have such a black heart!

Why don't you rob these dogs?

However, soon Xu Changqing also came back to his senses.

In Santunying, my hometown, a good horse costs fifty or sixty, or even seventy or eighty taels of silver, not to mention Ningyuan City at this time.

If Wu Sangui is not black, then he is not Wu Sangui either.

After all, his Wu Dashuai's family business is not many times bigger than his Xu Changqing, and how many mouths do you have to raise?

As expected, even if there is a way, this kind of price is by no means affordable at this time.

Looking at Li Changyou, who was sincerely afraid, Xu Changqing smiled: "Lao Li, you did a good job in this matter, go ahead, breakfast is ready over there." ”

"Huh?"

Li Chang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Okay!" Thank you, sir! ”

As he spoke, he rushed to breakfast over there like an old dog.

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After a brief breakfast, Wen Yan encouraged Li Changyou, gave him a small benefit, and sent him away, Xu Changqing had already changed into a bright red uniform, took Zhao Zengjin and Ergou, and came to the supervision camp near the official hall.

At this time, it was not yet seven o'clock, but in the direction of the official hall, Hong Chengchou had already gone out with more than 100 personal guards, and Xu Changqing could just see the tail.

Lao Hong is thrifty and dedicated, which is a bit okay.

But on the side of the Governor's Battalion, except for a few soldiers on duty outside the camp gate, most of them have not gotten up yet, and they are very quiet.

At this time, Xu Changqing's 'notoriety' had already spread in this group of Qin army-based supervision camps, Seeing the dark and strong Xu Changqing coming, it was almost needless to say that the guards knew Xu Changqing's identity, and immediately showed a sense of disgust.

Xu Changqing was speechless, and said with a smile: "Brothers, I am looking for Lord Liu Lang, I have inquired before, and Lord Liu does not seem to be on duty today." ”

As he spoke, Xu Changqing quietly stuffed a few taels of silver to a few soldiers on duty.

The soldiers on duty saw that Xu Changqing was quite sensible, and their faces were slightly soothed.

The chief flag officer with a horse face smiled and said: "Master Xu, Lord Liu Lang's residence is not far from the left, but Lord Liu should not have gotten up yet, Master Xu, you have to take it easy." ”

Xu Changqing smiled, thanked the horse-faced general flag, and walked into the camp with Zhao Zengjin and Ergou quickly.

After all, it is the supervising battalion of Hong Chengchou's personal guard.

The equipment and facilities in this camp are much better than Bai Guangen's Jizhen Army, especially in the stables, the sturdy war horses made Xu Changqing drool.

It's a pity that even if he is nominally a person from the Biao Camp, Xu Changqing understands that these things are definitely not something he can get at this time.

Xu Changqing quickly adjusted his mentality and came outside Liu Lang's residence.

Liu Lang is the general manager of a thousand households, a thousand households, although the official position is not too big, but he is Hong Chengchou's confidant, and he is also the leader arranged by Hong Chengchou to Xu Changqing, and he can be regarded as Xu Changqing's direct boss at this time.

Seeing that Liu Lang hadn't gotten up at this time, Ergou was a little unhappy and said: "This turtle son's, the sun has sunburned his buttocks, why can't he afford it, is it a pig?" ”

Zhao Zengjin was afraid that Liu Lang would hear this, so he hurriedly glared at Ergou.

Ergou also came back to his senses and subconsciously covered his mouth.

Zhao Zengjin whispered: "Young Master, are we waiting here?" There's a tree over there, so let's wait in the shade under the tree. ”

"Wait?"

Xu Changqing suddenly smiled, cleared his throat, gathered his full energy, and said word by word: "Xu Changqing, the general of the lowly superintendent battalion, meet Liu Lang and Liu Qian!" ”

In this early morning barracks, Xu Changqing's voice was like thunder, bursting word by word.

Fortunately, Liu Lang's privileges are not small, this courtyard is very spacious, and there are not many tents around, otherwise, Xu Changqing's voice would really be hated by this group of Qin troops.

But the others were not guilty, and in the house, Liu Lang, who had been tossing with several of Wu Sangui's henchmen for half the night last night, was about to be scared away.

Suddenly I almost jumped out of bed in panic.

After a while, I found that it was Xu Changqing, a black boy in the yard, who couldn't help but hate the itch of his teeth for a while.

I just wanted to scold a few words, but suddenly found that yesterday with a few. Zi tossed too hard, and now he only felt a sore back and a sore back, so he was busy taking a breath and calming down, and then he said: "What is the noise, Lord Ben heard it!" Xu Changqing, what are you doing here early in the morning? ”

Xu Changqing said unhurriedly: "Back to Lord Liu's words, there are important military affairs to report to Lord Liu!" ”

"I'm @#¥%!"

Liu Lang couldn't wait to kill Xu Changqing alive for a while!

This grandson, this is looking for excitement!

But Xu Changqing was majestic and calm, so that people couldn't find fault, Liu Lang didn't dare to mess around for a while, so he could only grit his teeth and say: "You wait, Master Ben will come out immediately." ”

As he spoke, he picked up his clothes and quickly put them on.

After a while, Liu Lang came to the door a little vainly, and locked Xu Changqing ruthlessly: "Lord Xu, what military affairs do you have?" If you dare to lie about the military situation, Lao Tzu can't spare you! ”

Liu Lang's anger almost erupted from his face.

Xu Changqing did not wave, and said respectfully and respectfully: "Back to Lord Liu, when I first entered the superintendent camp, I was defenseless, and I felt ashamed of the cultivation of his old man." I heard that the Tartar sentry spies are very rampant, and they are even often active outside my Ningyuan City, so I decided to immediately lead my subordinates to go on the expedition, strive to capture a few more Tartar heads, and obtain information to repay Hongdu's kindness! ”

"Huh?"

Liu Lang's brows suddenly furrowed, and the whole person suddenly sobered up a lot.

This black boy actually wants to go on the expedition?

But, this guy doesn't even have a single horsehair, so he goes out with a ball?

What the hell is going on?

Liu Lang glanced at Xu Changqing suspiciously: "Xu Changqing, you don't even have a horse, what do you use to go on the expedition?" ”

Saying that, Liu Lang suddenly sneered: "Could it be, you kid is scared and wants to run away with your people and become a deserter, right?!" ”

Xu Changqing sneered slightly, and said with a straight figure: "Lord Liu, it is true that there are no horses at this time, but I want to snatch a few horses from the Tartars!"

As for being a deserter?

Lord Liu, my father was an official to Liaodong and a general, martyred on the battlefield, our Xu family received the grace of the Ming Dynasty, and the ancestors followed Emperor Taizu Gao to fight the world, hehe, you say that I Xu Changqing wants to be a deserter?

Let's go and find justice in front of Hongdu now! ”

With that, Xu Changqing turned around and was about to leave.

"Huh?"

Liu Lang was stunned for a moment, and his face turned a little green.

How could such a big hat be carried on his small shoulders?

Hurriedly stepped forward to stop Xu Changqing with a smile, "Brother Xu, Brother Xu, brother, I made a slip of the tongue for a while, don't take it to heart." Of course, it's no problem for you to go on the expedition, but I have to tell you about the matter, brother, we are here to supervise the standard camp, the expenses are huge, and there are a lot of sentinels who go out, if you want to ask for war horses from me, I'm afraid it will be difficult. Not to mention ten days and a half months, I am afraid it will be difficult to have results in one or two months. ”

Liu Lang knew that he had said the wrong thing, and Xu Changqing was by no means a good stubble, and his tone and posture instantly lowered a lot, but the kind of grandiose rejection in it was also overflowing.

Xu Changqing had expected this, nodded and said, "I understand Lord Liu and understand the difficulties of the governors. However, he also asked Lord Liu to allocate some grain, grass, weapons and the like to the lowly position, otherwise, the lowly position could only ask the governor for it. ”

"Well...... this"

Liu Lang frowned slightly, and after a moment, he smiled and said, "This is natural." That's okay, Brother Xu, you wait a minute, brother, I'll change my clothes and take you to pick it up right away. ”

Seeing Liu Lang quickly enter the house and close the door, the corners of Xu Changqing's mouth couldn't help but curl.

The reason why he chose the profession of 'not collecting at night' even if he fought for his life was that Xu Changqing was for this initiative and mobility.

After all, you will go out to perform tasks at any time, and you don't need to be confined to a certain place, and you have great initiative and flexibility.

Otherwise, he has been shackled in Ningyuan City, and when the reinforcements from other nine sides of the country arrive, the big war will also begin, and he will take a bird feather to make meritorious service and change the overall situation?

Of course, the reason why he came here to do this is that Xu Changqing also understood Liu Lang's thoughts.

Weapons, baggage, etc., the Ming army is very well prepared, and it is difficult for Liu Lang to find a reason to stick his neck, no wonder it is still a war horse!

That being the case, Xu Changqing will not let go of this opportunity to obtain sophisticated Daming equipment!

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When Xu Changqing returned to the station, Uncle Guang and Uncle Hong also bought back things.

As soon as he saw Xu Changqing go out for a while, he actually brought back more than a dozen pairs of good bows, hundreds of various feather arrows, as well as a few pairs of good armor and all kinds of cotton armor, sabers, flying spears, etc., and the jaws of both of them suddenly fell to the ground.

Uncle Guang hurriedly said, "Young master, you, where did you get these treasures from?" ”

Xu Changqing smiled, but did not speak, leaving the opportunity to Zhao Zengjin and Ergou.

Zhao Zengjin and Ergou were already comfortable and didn't know how to express it, so they immediately told everyone how Xu Changqing outwitted Liu Lang and made Liu Lang, the grandson of Liu Lang, have to be soft.

Soon, there was an incomparably comfortable laughter in the room, and the cheers of "Young Master Mighty" and "Young Master Cow" resounded throughout the room.

Looking at the excited and cheerful faces, Xu Changqing only felt refreshed, and the 48,000 pores on his body were extremely comfortable.

This real first step has finally begun!