Volume 2: The Beginning of the Foundation, Lu Gifts. Chapter 43: News from Taizhou, Night Exploration of the White Lotus Sect.
In the dead of night, although it is still the first month, the year is really not good, so there are no pedestrians on the street, only a few stray cats and dogs are still wandering in the alley.
Most of the rooms in Shen's house have also turned off the lights, and only Shen Wansan's room is still on.
He sat quietly at the table, his eyes motionless at the flickering candle flame, and his head was thinking about the next plan, which he had been preparing with Zhang Shicheng for two years. Today, they are waiting for news from Zhang Shicheng's side, and once the news is confirmed, then they will have a big action.
A knock on the door sounded, interrupting Shen Wansan's thoughts and stirring his heart. Although he was already very excited at this time, he was still very calm on the surface, he knew that he didn't need to wait too long now, it only took a few minutes, maybe in a few minutes, his life, Zhang Shicheng's life, and many people's lives would change because of this news.
Without letting Shen Wansan wait too long, Steward Liu walked in, followed by a burly man.
Steward Liu bowed his head and saluted and said, "Young Master Wansan, Zhang Shide, the captain of the ship, said that he had something important to see, and I was afraid that it would be delayed, so I brought him in." ”
Shen Feng said: "Got it, Uncle Liu, go and rest." ”
After Steward Liu went down, Shen Wansan closed the door, turned around and said:
"How are things prepared on Brother Zhang Shicheng's side?"
Zhang Shide said excitedly:
"Everything is in place, only the east wind is owed. According to reliable information, the Taizhou county magistrate is preparing to give a banquet to all the military and political officials in the county on the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is a great opportunity for us to start an incident. ”
Shen Wansan nodded and said:
"Well, if that's the case, that's great, but what about the rest?"
Shen Wansan motioned for Zhang Shide to sit down and said, and poured him a cup of tea. Zhang Shide sat down and took a big sip of tea and continued:
"In terms of weapons, according to your plan, when you sail in the past two years, when you go to a place on each line, you will find a familiar blacksmith to build some weapons, because there are not many of them, so they have not attracted the attention of the local government, and now the weapons are enough. The materials have also been hoarded, in a mountain near Taizhou, it is very hidden, and there are special personnel to guard it, so it must be foolproof. Just ......"
Speaking of this, Zhang Shide hesitated.
"Just what?" Shen Wansan saw that Zhang Shide wanted to speak and stopped, and hurriedly asked.
"In terms of manpower, we only have more than 300 people, while Taizhou has more than 3,000 officers and soldiers, which is ten times that of us. In addition, in terms of masters, the four of our brothers are all second-grade martial artists, only you are the first to enter the fourth-grade, and the general soldier of Taizhou is a fourth-grade peak martial artist named Cheng Ying. It is said that it is about to break through the five grades, and it stands to reason that this level should be able to sit in the position of tens of thousands of households, but because it is Han and too young, only in his early thirties, he only achieved the position of ten thousand households. But after all, the strength is there, and we have no choice. And several thousand households under him also have second-grade strength. So the risk is still very high. ”
After listening to this, Shen Wansan pondered for a moment, nodded and said:
"In fact, I and Brother Zhang Shicheng have studied these difficulties in the past few years, and there are indeed great difficulties, but we also have countermeasures, but we have not done it in practice, and I dare not say that it is foolproof, but I am confident that I can do my best, and I will not take the lives of more than 300 brothers as a joke."
Zhang Shide looked at Shen Wansan's eyes and saw confidence in his eyes. Over the years, they can be said to have watched Shen Wansan grow step by step, not only is his martial arts talent amazing, he has risen by two big grades in seven years, and he can also be said to be unique in business, the most important thing is that Shen Feng's mind is quite flexible, as long as he says that it can be solved, he has never made a mistake, so he said:
"Everyone believes in you and your eldest brother, that's why everyone gives us their lives, as long as you have a plan, then you can give it a go, none of these three hundred heroes will back down."
Shen Feng nodded and said with a smile:
"That's fine, don't worry. You go back and rest first, and we'll leave tomorrow." But before I do that, I have one more thing to do. ”
When the bright moon was in the sky, in a forest by the Gulou River, Shen Wansan held his breath, his eyes were firmly fixed on a fishing boat on the river, and there were two people standing on the fishing boat, holding torches, vigilantly watching the movement by the river.
The White Lotus Sect has always been a big problem for Shen Wansan, and now although the White Lotus Sect in Changzhou County does not dare to act blatantly due to the blows of the imperial court, if they are not dealt with before leaving, they will definitely have worries.
In the past few years, Shen Wansan discovered this branch of the White Lotus Sect in Changzhou County through the business in the village.
During an audit of the accounts, it was found that a group of people always bought vegetables and grains in large quantities every once in a while, and sometimes the purchase volume would be very large, so they would let the guys in the store drive the ox carts to the woods, and then let the people who delivered the vegetables go back, very careful.
After stepping on the spot many times, Shen Wansan had already determined that this was the branch of the White Lotus Sect, and the location was on a Jiangxin Island in the Gulou River. In addition, there are people dressed as fishermen patrolling the river day and night.
Shen Wansan didn't startle them, he kept spying on them, he knew that even if they were eliminated, there would be new people to take over this branch, and when the time came, not only would they be more vigilant, but it would not be so easy to find them again. But today he is going to make a move, cleanly solve this branch hall, and make time for the uprising, even if the White Lotus Sect wants to rebuild the branch altar, it will take a lot of time.
Seeing that the fishing boat had arrived in front of him, a silver light flashed under Shen Wansan's feet, and the next moment it appeared on the fishing boat, and the two river patrolmen just had some feelings, and before they could turn around, a hole the size of a fist had appeared on the chest of the two, and the area around the hole was scorched and blackened. He has now perfected the use of spiritual power and internal force, and the dragon spirit step is also extremely proficient, and there is no pressure to deal with this kind of enemy who has not even reached the martial arts, and the slightly more difficult thing is how to make them unable to make a sound at all, but it seems that the effect is not bad.
If he encounters those two captains of Luofeng Valley again now, Shen Wansan is absolutely confident that he will defeat them.
Pushing the two corpses into the river, Shen Wansan picked up the oars and rowed in the direction of Jiangxin Island. There was no further trouble along the way.
As I got closer and closer to Jiangxin Island, I vaguely saw a team of patrolling people, all holding torches in their hands.
Shen Wansan lowered his body, waited until the patrol passed, jumped onto the shore, in order to avoid encountering any mechanism, so he quietly followed behind the patrol, he was confident that with the strength of this group of people, he would definitely not find him.
Sure enough, the patrol team arrived at the gate of the stockade and did not feel anything unusual.
There was still some distance from the village, Shen Wansan stopped and hid his figure in the woods next to the path.
I only heard someone shouting on the wall of the stockade:
"Bamboo knife jade wall."
Someone in the patrol replied:
"Long sword red silk."
Then the bamboo door of the stockade creaked and was lowered.
Seeing all this, the corners of Shen Wansan's mouth hung an evil smile.