"Wozi, what do you mean by that?"

Seeing Chen Zilong say this cruel sentence, Li Xiao hurriedly asked him the reason, and Chen Zilong lowered his voice and said his thoughts. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiao laughed and said: "Wozi, you can figure it out, okay, as long as you can get food, I will let the personnel of the Security Department fully cooperate with you." ”

Chen Zilong smiled and arched his hand: "Master Li, you can just take a look." ”

Three days later, on an early morning with autumn rain.

In the late autumn in the north, once it rains, the weather is cold day by day, and the sparse autumn rain is like an empty curtain covering the world, connecting the light gray sky and the dark gray earth, so that the already bleak autumn and winter turn is even more lonely and vast.

This kind of weather always makes people feel depressed.

And the home is by the Beiluan River, with 10,000 acres of fertile land, the mood at this time is even more depressed.

In the extremely wide and luxurious Gu family's mansion, a very exquisitely cleaned up, but everywhere exuding a rich atmosphere, Gu Zhidao, who had not seen it all night, pushed away the concubine's white and greasy and attractive arm, sighed, lifted the red peony pattern sprinkled with gold silk thick quilt, and half-sat up from the bed.

Gu Zhidao is in his fifties, with a fair complexion, a fat face that is extremely well maintained, and he looks like a standard squire rich man, but three sparse mouse whiskers, which makes him look quite mean.

He half-sat up from the bed, with a sad face.

The little concubine murmured, snuggled up like silk, and whispered about what he was doing in such a cold day.

Gu Zhidao didn't care about her, he looked at not far away, on the long table made of pear flowers and wood, in a grid of elegant objects with many treasures inlaid with gold patterns, those exquisite and gorgeous golden pots, mutton fat jade Ruyi and other mascot objects. It's just that the sorrow on his face is getting heavier and heavier.

The concubine straightened up and also half-sat up from the bed, her high white chest, as if about to jump out of the tight belly pocket at any moment, exuding an addictive sweet fragrance. Seeing that Gu Zhizhi ignored her, she became more and more talking.

What the concubine didn't expect was that Gu Zhizhi's face showed a look of boredom and pushed her away.

Before the concubine could complain, Gu Zhizhi's cold words came from her ears.

"Wait for the squire Wang in the east, I will come over with the squires of Zhaoyuan County, you don't sleep, hurry up and wait for the lord and I will get up."

The concubine's eyes were red, but she didn't dare to cry, so she had to get up, first put on herself, and then come over to help Gu Zhidao get up and get dressed.

Under the service of the concubine, Gu Zhidao wore a dark brown arabesque tuancholy dark pattern Hangzhou forging robe, wore a pair of black felt wool boots, and at the same time pulled his hair in a bun, inserted a Hanyu straight hairpin, and then put on a black gauze scarf.

After dressing, I first cleaned my face with a plain towel of Hangzhou yarn, and then used tooth wood made of star fruit trees, dipped in decoction water with willow branches, locust branches, mulberry branches, ginger powder, Tianqi fine spice and other things to boil the toothpaste, and brushed my teeth carefully in front of the bronze mirror.

After washing, Gu Zidao paced into the side room, and a small servant brought him breakfast, the main dish was a plate of fried sea cucumber with green onions, a small bowl of braised shark's fin, and some side dishes such as garlic sauce steamed bread and kohlrabi, Gu Zhidao looked at it roughly, his face did not show a particularly appetizing look, he hurriedly ate a few bites, and he didn't know what it tasted like, so he asked people to gargle with a copper bowl, and then got up and wore a lake silk cotton-bottom robe sprinkled with gold in the five bats to hold longevity and wealth, and walked slowly into the living room.

Gu Zhidao only sat in the living room for a while, and then a housekeeper came to report that Wang Shengtong, another big landlord in Hedong, was bringing some familiar landlords in the Beiluan River area and Zhaoyuan County to discuss matters together.

Gu Zhidao hurriedly asked the housekeeper to invite everyone into the living room, and then sat down to watch the tea.

Wang Shengtong, who has a bitter gourd face and crooked eyebrows, looks like he is in his forties, and as soon as this person sits down, he immediately screams in a thick voice: "Alas, Brother Gu, the situation is so urgent now, although your tea is good, Wang really can't eat it." ”

Gu Zhidao blew the tea foam, his eyebrows twitched, and he said softly: "Brother Wang, your house was robbed by bandits yesterday, and the foolish brother knows about it. No, now call everyone here, just to discuss and see how to deal with this matter? ”

Wang Shengtong listened to Gu Zhidao's words calmly, but his face was full of anger, he put the teacup on the side of the table, and sighed: "This gang of bandits from Jinyingling, I don't know if it's his mother's confusion, this protection fee, Wang has never paid less every year, and yesterday a group of people came to the stabbing ground, reporting the name of the bandit leader Scarhead, saying that it was the expansion of the team on the mountain and the need to borrow food." Hmph, is that borrowing food, then it's just going to be robbed. Grandma's, a warehouse full of more than 1,000 stone rice grains, was robbed by such a guy who killed a thousand knives! ”

Wang Shengtong gritted his teeth with a look of regret.

"Has such a thief ever killed him?" A landowner asked with concern.

"No one was killed, but a few family members were injured, and the empty granary was also set on fire by these people. You don't know, the bandit leader who led the team left a cruel sentence before leaving, saying that he would borrow these grains first, and ask Lao Tzu to prepare 10,000 taels of silver, and they would want it in a few days. If you don't give it, you'll kill my whole family!" ”

After Wang Shengtong finished speaking, he sat down dejectedly, looking at a loss.

"Alas, could it be your family Brother Wang Xian, in our Zhaoyuan County, many of them have been robbed by bandits. Fortunately, he only grabbed grain and rice, but did not hurt anyone, but it was very lucky. A rich man with half-white hair pounded his knees and sighed.

After the rich man finished speaking, nearly ten people immediately echoed him, saying that his house had also been robbed, but fortunately, the bandits only robbed food and did not kill people. However, they also said one after another that those bandits would ask them to prepare a large amount of silver taels to eliminate disasters in a few days, and if they didn't give it, then the whole family would not be left behind, and all of them would be killed.

Gu Zhidao listened to everyone speak word by word, his face turned pale unconsciously, and in the cold weather, his clenched hands were already full of juice.

Gu Zhidao didn't tell everyone that yesterday, a large number of people also came to his family's granary, and they also reported the name of the Golden Winged Ridge Scarhead, and after coming to his own granary, he immediately started to rob without saying a word.

At that time, his housekeeper was counting the grains in the granary, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately explained loudly to these bandits that this was the granary of Gu's family, and told them that Gu's son Gu Tai was a staff member under Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, and asked them not to rob the wrong territory.

Unexpectedly, after the butler's warning words, these bandits listened to it, but they didn't take it seriously, and the leader slapped him twice unceremoniously. Then he shouted angrily and ordered, first grab the grain, and then burn the warehouse.

Seeing that the momentum was not right, the housekeeper hurriedly changed his tone and begged these bandits loudly that this grain could be moved away, but it was good not to burn the warehouse, so that the gang of bandits finally gave up the idea of burning the warehouse.

It's just that this warehouse full of nearly 2,000 stones of wheat was put on a cart by these people and quietly transported away.

When the housekeeper reported to Gu Zhidao with a crying voice that the granary had been robbed, Gu Zhidao was almost dizzy.

Goddamn scarhead, Lao Tzu paid the protection fee, and he still had to rob me of my food, you still don't talk about morality!

Soon, Gu Zhidao quickly understood that there were still many landlords robbed in the Beiluan River, and even in the entire boundary of Zhaoyuan County, and the methods were almost the same, first grabbing grain, and then threatening to come and cancel the disaster silver in a few days, otherwise the whole family would be killed.

Feeling that the situation was serious, Gu Zhidao hurriedly sent a group of small servants to Zhaoyuan County to inform the landlords who were familiar with each other, and urgently came to his home tomorrow to discuss countermeasures.

"Why don't we report to the police quickly?" A rich man suggested.

"Alas, the report is very useful!" Immediately, the person shook his head and sighed: "This group of 700 bandits on the Golden Wing Ridge has been entrenched on the Golden Wing Mountain for nearly three years, and the government is helpless against it. We're reporting to the government now, it's not a fart. ”

"Can we only raise money and wait for the bandits to come and get it?" Someone said with a sad face.

"It's not a good idea either." Someone else came out to object: "If they can do the first year of junior high school, they can do fifteen, and we can give them the silver to eliminate disasters so easily, I am sure that such bandits must know the taste of eating marrow, and in the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to stop the matter of grabbing grain and silver." ”

"That's right, although the big guy still has two dollars on him, he can't stand the **** exploitation of this gang of bandits, the bandits are endlessly greedy, your silver and food are always limited, how can you plug this big mouth." Someone followed.

By this time, there was an atmosphere of panic.

The faces of the rich men were full of fear, anxiety, and resentment.

"What should I do, Brother Gu, you are the most authoritative person among us, you can give everyone an idea, what should I do in this situation." Wang Shengtong asked with a sad face.

Gu Zhidao's face was tense, his brows were furrowed, but his fingers twisted his beard quickly and urgently.

Alas, the government can't help it, what can I do.

"Or, please ask Brother Gu's noble son Gu Tai to help and report the banditry situation of Jinyinling to Lord Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, and ask Lord Liu to send troops to suppress the bandits." Seeing that Gu Zhidao was silent, the old rich man said tentatively.

Gu Zhidao sighed, waved his hand and said: "It's difficult, those soldiers and horses of the chief soldier are far away in Jinan, and it is difficult to quench their thirst." Moreover, the officials and soldiers did not care about the suppression of bandits, believing that this was a matter of success and failure, and because of the long distance, they were even more reluctant to come. I'm afraid that if I wait to ask for it, I'll just put a hot face on my cold ass. ”

There was a sudden awkward silence in the room.

A voice suddenly sounded softly: "Everyone, there is a true Buddha worship in front of us, why bother to go far and beg others!" Why don't we go to Master Li, the commander of Chifengwei, and ask him to send troops to suppress the bandits, isn't it very good? ”

"Then this Lord Chifengwei Li, the soldiers under his command are powerful? Can you beat the bandits of Golden Winged Ridge who can't be exterminated for three years? Someone immediately asked.

"Why not!" The rich man said with a look of urgency: "That Chifengwei commanded Li Xiao, I heard that it is a Liaodong clan, since he came to Shandong, he first exterminated the bandits who squatted in Dog Mountain, and then went to Shanxian County to annihilate the rogues who invaded Shandong. Isn't such a capable person the best candidate to eliminate this bandit in Goldenfin Mountain? ”

"When you say that, I remember. Some time ago, this Lord Li made great contributions in Xuanfu Town, killing hundreds of Tartars, and then he was promoted to the commander of Chifengwei. If Master Li can send troops to suppress the bandits, it will be the best. A rich man had a look of sudden realization.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became warm.

As if a savior had been discovered, people quickly came to an agreement.

That is, go to Chifeng City as soon as possible, report the situation of the bandits to Li Xiao, the commander of Chifengwei, and ask him to send troops to destroy the bandits.

Among these people, especially the big landlord Wang Shengtong, he was eager to leave here immediately and personally went to Chifeng City to ask Li Xiao to send troops to destroy the bandits.

Seeing the enthusiastic appearance of the crowd, Gu Zhizhi's face showed an unspeakable anger.

There is a reason why Gu Zhidao deliberately kept his distance and indifference to Li Xiao.

Gu Tai, his son who was a staff member under Liu Zeqing's account, once told him that he wanted him not to get too close to Li Xiao, the commander of the Chifengwei.

He told Gu Zhidao that this Li Xiao was the sworn enemy of Liu Ze, the general soldier of Shandong, and sooner or later, he would die in Liu Zeqing's black hands. If he has too close relations with him, he is afraid that when Li Xiao dies, Liu Zeqing will be angry with him, and disaster will come.

Gu Tai also told him that Li Xiao, since he became the commander of the guard, was completely fooling around according to his own set. Below the other guards, there are thousands of households, hundreds of households, and the like, but this Commander Li is completely different, what kind of commercial department, industrial department and other vain heads that have never been heard of, it can be seen that this person, although he has the name of martial arts, but he has no economic resources. This Li Xiao was only promoted to the position of commander by luck for a while, but if he messes around like this, it is estimated that it will be difficult to work for a long time in this position of commander.

Gu Tai concluded, such a person, there are officials to squeeze the system, and he himself is unrealistically messing around, such a person, I am afraid that after staying for more than half a year, he will leave obediently. Therefore, as the Gu family, who has the most land and the most abundant property in the original Zhaoyuan County, although it has now been drawn to the boundary of Chifengwei, there is really no need to get too close to Li Xiao, who will step down soon.

Thinking of this, Gu Zhidao let out a long sigh.

To be honest, in his heart, he still agrees with his son's statement.

It's just that at such a critical juncture now, apart from this Li Xiao, who doesn't seem to be able to stay for a few days, who else can solve this urgent banditry.

Even if Li Xiao gets out of the way tomorrow, he can only beg him today.

A bitter taste permeated Gu Dao's heart.

What the future holds, who can say for sure, let's get past the current hurdle first.

"Since you have no objections, then Gu also agrees, I will go to Chifeng City now, please command Lord Li to send troops." Gu Zhidao coughed twice pretendedly, and then said calmly.

More than an hour later, a group of landlords in a sedan chair braved the cold autumn rain and rushed to Chifeng City.

After Gu Zhidao and the others explained their intentions, they were invited into the living room by Li Xiao.

"Squires, come to my Red Phoenix City in the rain, but you don't know what to do?" Li Xiao and Chen Zilong on the side glanced at each other tacitly, and then said to everyone with a smile.

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