Chapter 1. 44. Return home
For Shen Gui, no matter how happy he is, he can't compare to the arrival of Guo Yunsong and Tie Jia.
When the two left Beijing, Tiejia bought an old car in order to hide people's eyes. Therefore, it would have taken only ten days to travel from Fengjing City to Qingshan City, but they walked for more than 20 days. Along the way, Guo Yunsong lay with a sore back and a sore back, and the carpenter work of the iron armor was also very proficient.
On the night of the day they entered the city, several masked men in black took them away. From this day on, the whereabouts of Guo Yunsong and Tie Jia have never appeared under the noses of any force.
"I said, Lao Guo, who is this Fu Ye from our family? Why do you care so much about his life or death? β
Shen Gui, who looked lazy, was nesting half of his body in a circle chair at this time, eating the candied chestnuts that Guo Yunsong peeled for him, and asked casually.
Guo Yunsong was still smiling and peeling the chestnuts, and carefully removed each piece of inner skin very cleanly:
"Fu Ye used to be his grandfather's deputy general, and later his grandfather entered Beijing and became a prince, so he handed over the Zhongshan Road to him. At present, he is also unlucky with his grandfather, and he has to go to work and copy his family, not to mention, he is afraid of the lives of the family, and he is also worried about it at the moment. β
Shen Gui was a little thirsty when he ate, reached out and picked up the tea bowl, and drank it cleanly:
"Even if you are dismissed and raided, you don't want to let go of your life? As for doing things so desperately? β
"Actually, there's nothing strange about it. This is nothing more than wanting Zhongshan to return to the imperial court all the way. Although the three roads of Youbei are ostensibly a country, it is actually more accurate to say that it is a tribal alliance. This Dongyou all the way has always been the Prime Minister Li's family; And Zhongshan all the way, it has always been our Guo family. Now that the Guo family is in decline, he will clean it so thoroughly again, and then the entire Zhongshan will not be in his hands? β
Shen Gui nodded:
"So I get the idea. But if the emperor completely digests Zhongshan all the way, won't the balance of the original three divisions be broken? The Li family has been standing for so many years, why doesn't they even have this sense of smell? β
Guo Yunsong sighed:
"What he fought for was silver and grain. The grain output of the Dongyou family alone accounts for more than seventy percent of the total output of the three roads in Youbei. His Li family has been a big grain merchant for generations, and he has been the emperor of the soil in Dongyou for an unknown amount of time. For some reason, now the Li family has 30,000 Yan Family Flying Bear Army. A few years later, when Emperor Xuande completely swallowed Zhongshan Road, it was almost the day when his Li family completely controlled the Flying Bear Army. All wars, to put it bluntly, are just about attrition, and when it comes to attrition...... In the entire Youbei Third Road, no one can compare with the Li family. β
Shen Gui stood up, patted the chestnut skin on his clothes, and then tilted his head and drained the cup of tea. First, he took out the short sword Thunder Thunder that the ancient ring gave him back then, and whistled outside the house.
Guo Yunsong asked him with a questioning face:
"Why are you whistling?"
"Of course blowing the whistle is calling brother, don't you want me to save Fu Ye?"
"Isn't your brother fourteen?"
ββ¦β¦ I'd better find it myself. β
Guo Yunsong and Tie Jia, on the day they entered Qingshan City, were taken back to Shuangshan Village by Shen Gui with a few deaf brothers from the winter solstice. Today's Guo Yunsong has become an ordinary old farmer, who makes fun of Sun all day long, and there is no longer any heavy depression between his eyebrows, and even his appetite is much better.
In the Governor's Mansion of Qingshan City, Fu Ye and Pei Ya are in the process of handover.
"Where do you want to go?"
Pei Ya, the newly succeeded governor of Qingshan City and the former attendant of the Ministry of Rites, was asking Fu Ye with a concerned face at this moment.
"With Lao Pei Du worried, the criminal minister is now an ordinary person, so naturally he will return to his hometown with his family and regain the joy of the mountains and wilderness."
Fu Ye was born in Taibaiwei, and Taibaiwei was originally composed of bandits, hunters, blacksmiths, etc. on Zhongshan Road, and Guo Yunsong, who had the name of 'Taibai Flying Tiger', was originally also a hunter leader. Don't look at Fu Ye now being implicated by Guo Yunsong, and he ended up with a resignation. But deep down, he breathed a sigh of relief. Yes, all the protΓ©gΓ©s of the Guo family, since Guo Shuang was killed, have been waiting for the knife to fall. It wasn't until the last few days that the holy decree spread all over the three roads in Youbei that they fell asleep one after another.
Pei Ya nodded, and casually flipped through the fish scale atlas on the desk, the accounts inside and outside the palace, and other handover documents. With a modest and cautious expression on his face:
"Don't look at Pei, who was originally just an idle waiter, but he has long heard of Fu Du's name of both civil and military. The servants and helpers in the governor's palace, if Governor Fu has other arrangements, Pei should send silver to let them go; If there is no place to settle it, he is willing to keep all of it as a gift for Fu Du. As for these atlas accounts, I asked myself if I would be more clever than Brother Fu, so naturally I didn't need to look at them. β
His words seemed to have other meanings, but Fu Ye was already disheartened at this time, and he didn't think about it at all.
Pei Du trusted him so much, which really made Fu very grateful. I also asked Pei Du to be kind to the people along the Zhongshan Road after taking office, and Fu thanked him in advance. After saying that, he bowed deeply to Pei Ya, and left the Zhongshan Governor's Mansion, where he had lived for half his life.
Fu Yeqiren, like Qi Yanqi, was originally the son of Orion under Taibai Mountain. Now that he has been dismissed from his job, with his martial arts and ancestral hunting skills, it is not difficult to earn food and clothing for the whole family in Taibai Mountain. Fu Ye was like this, with his only son Fu Yi, who was over eighteen years old, and his wife Zhang, a family of three who walked out of the west gate of Qingshan City and embarked on the road back to his hometown Fushan County.
Of course, there are many people who send each other in secret.
Sixty Mile Pavilion is the only way for Qingshan City to Taibai Mountain. Surrounded by mountains on both sides and the terrain is cold, caravans raised funds to build a shamanic temple here. After being known by the great shaman Li Xuanyu, he made it rebuilt into a three-story tower pavilion for pedestrians and merchants to rest. This place is about 60 miles away from Qingshan City, so after the renovation was completed, the great shaman gave it the name 'Sixty Miles Pavilion'.
At this time, it was already dusk, and the three members of the Fu family on the way back to their hometown happened to be here. Fu Ye saw that the sky was about to darken, so he prepared to rest overnight in the empty pavilion. And everywhere in the mountains and forests around the Sixty Mile Pavilion, some people are overcrowded.
Shen Gui Fourteen and his entourage were on the top of the mountain on the west side of the pavilion at the moment, condescendingly observing the movements around the Sixty-Mile Pavilion. As soon as he saw the three members of the Fu family enter the pavilion, Shen Gui, who was covered in darkness, took off the covering cloth on his face, turned his head and said to Lao Bao:
"You tell Fourteen to take the three brothers of the Winter Solstice and pull out the hidden stakes on the opposite halfway up the mountain, and throw the corpses directly into the river behind the mountain, and then wait for someone halfway up the mountain, and slaughter one by one. If you see a torch lit on the side of the iron armor, you will rush directly to the pavilion. β
"Master, you take the remaining six Winter Solstice brothers, go to the north side of the pavilion to block the way, don't let a living thing go, it doesn't matter if you leave a living mouth or not."
"Iron armor, you are here, as long as you see an oil lamp on the top floor of the pavilion, you will light all the torches and pretend to ambush the army. After the fourteenth of them rushed into the pavilion, they blocked the entrance to the mountain. β
"Old bag...... Are you okay at your age? β
Bao Qin also took off the covering cloth, reached out and patted the dart bag on his waist:
"Why not? Every child on the winter solstice is taught by me. Apprentices are okay, but will the master be fine? β
"Well, I'll leave you a light job. You go to the south side of the pavilion and find a random tree to hide. If anyone is going to go back the way they came, it's your turn to show off your skills. β
Listening to Shen Guizai carefully arranging everyone's work, the old beggar Wu Chengfeng was a little unimpressed. He didn't change his night clothes, nor did he cover his mouth. Still dressed as a beggar, still carrying the bamboo pole in his hand, he pointed at Shen Gui:
"Let you do something, you can rush people to death. Just a few little cubs, maybe we can't kill one by one, and you still need to talk here? Wouldn't it be enough to rush down and kill them all? Why bother? β