"If you are a soldier, you will naturally worry about military salaries, Lord Wu only needs to tell General Song that you will only take 30% of the property obtained by the bandits, and the rest will be provided to General Song to support the army."

"Sancheng!" Wu Xianling thought that he had misheard and was dumbfounded. The confiscation of the seized materials has to go through the hands of his county order, and when the time comes, he has the final say on how much he wants to keep and what he wants to keep, and now the other party only gives him thirty percent, which is really beyond his expectations.

Xu Binye's face also changed, and he hurriedly said: "Ning Zhangtang, this bandit is also going to use all the power of the government office, if only three percent of the public is confiscated, I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's hard to explain to the court..."

"Xu Binye, why did you forget?" Ning Zhangtang said with a smile: "The main forces of this bandit suppression are me Ning Lutang and General Song!" Of course, Wu Xianling is a person in the court, you can choose to hand over the materials to the court, or..."Ning Zhangtang approached the two of them and said word by word: "Choose, choose, keep, give, self, yourself!" ”

Privately withholding and confiscating materials is a felony, and he can't afford it! Wu Xian Ling sweated densely on his forehead, swallowed his saliva, and said, "This... This is a bully... O sin! ”

"It's okay, Lord County, you think about it slowly, I can wait!" Then he turned to the side, as if talking to himself, and said slowly: "I just don't know what year and month Lord Wu will have to wait until this poor country to be promoted?" Even if you are transferred to a more prosperous county, you have to do something. ”

Wu Xianling's heart was extremely conflicted, and his face was extremely ugly. This shouldn't be, I'm afraid of offending Ninglutang, and there will be no external worship in the future; If this is answered, if you are caught by someone with a heart, you will only be afraid of your life in the future...

Ning Zhangtang looked at Wu County Ling like a leper dog who was both afraid of death and greedy, and said: "Wu County Ling's worries are also understandable, after all, the career is not easy, people's hearts are unpredictable, and it is right to think more about everything." These banner owners have already taken it into account, and when the matter is completed, they will ask General Song to write a letter of thanks for you, thanking you for using all the materials you have suppressed as military salaries, and you will have no worries with this letter of thanks! In the same way, I will give another 200 pieces of cloth as an honorarium. ”

Wu Xianling and Xu Binye glanced at each other.

Ning Zhangtang saw that the scare was almost over, and said to Wu Xianling with a smile: "Now if you want to gain a foothold in the court, you don't want to have merit but no fault." It's just that bandits are rampant in this ten thousand counties, how can Lord Wu be without fault? If Lord Wu has suppressed the bandits and does not use the funding of the imperial court, it will be a great achievement, and it is expected that he will be promoted at that time, and he will be able to raise his prestige among his colleagues. ”

Wu Xianling, who said what he said, had no idea, so he could only look at Xu Binye like a helper.

Xu Binye groaned. Now that everything has been said about this, and the benefits have been given, and the risks have been solved, so that the adults of the family have nothing to lose, but they may take less than they thought at the beginning. If you can make friends with General Song through this crackdown, and you can also ask the court for credit, which is not a bad thing. There's just one more thing.... Thinking of this, he raised his head and turned to Ning Zhangtang: "Ning Zhangtang is very thoughtful, this is easy to say, but there is one more thing that you must agree." ”

"What?"

"Leave all the captured bandits to us."

"Oh, why is that?" Do you raise those people to farm for you? Ning Zhangtang was a little puzzled.

"Yes, yes, Ning Zhangtang, you have to promise me this." Wu Xianling wiped the sweat on his head as if he had come to life, and hurriedly echoed and said.

"That's the case, recently the imperial court issued a document urging the mercenary again, my ten thousand counties are not small, but the population is not large, so I have to use the bandits from this captive to make up the number." Xu Binye smiled and said truthfully.

"Oh, it's easy to say, it's easy to say" Ning Zhangtang said with a smile, and at the same time, his eyes rolled as if he remembered something, and said: "In this way, you take the male one, and I will take the female one, and I also have to give the flag lord his life." "I almost forgot, this time it was because of the two little girls.

"That's nature." Xu Binye nodded hurriedly, this Ninglutang is what this does, these little girls don't want to run!

"Haha, since we have reached an agreement, come, let's have a drink, I wish you all the best!" Ning Zhangtang laughed and stood up with his wine glass, and the rest of the people also stood up and clinked glasses for today's consummation.

After drinking a cup, everyone sat down, and Ning Zhangtang asked Wu County Order again: "About this Falling Grass Ridge, does Lord Wu have a topographic map?" ”

Wu Xianling said a little proudly: "There is a topographic map, but the terrain of Luocaoling is complex, and the map is not detailed. But don't worry, Ning Zhangtang, I've been prepared this morning, and there will definitely be a living topographic map sent to my door tomorrow! ”

Ning Zhangtang was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood, raised his glass again and said, "Lord Wu is really a clever plan!" Then you send someone to deliver a letter to General Song tomorrow morning, and as soon as your living map arrives, we will prepare to attack the mountain!" ”

"Good!" Everyone raised their glasses again...

Early the next morning, before the fog in the forest had lifted, seven or eight people came down the hill searching for something. These people are all wearing the clothes of local people, each holding a machete in their hands, with a rope tied around their waists, completely looking like a woodcutter who went into the mountains to chop wood. But these people were not in a hurry to chop wood, but only carried slender branches and flicked on the ground, as if they were looking for something. At this time, one of them seemed to have noticed something, learned a bird call and beckoned to the others, and the others immediately surrounded them. The man who beckoned pointed to the ground and said to one of them, "Li Zhutou, look..."

I saw two white lines on the ground winding forward, exactly the width of a horse in the middle.

"Xu Binye is so scheming! This white face was not clear in the daytime, but it became clear when it was wet with this dew. Li Zhutou exclaimed.

It turned out that after discovering the suspected bandit yesterday, Xu Binye sent someone to keep an eye on it, and when the person went out of the city, he quietly tied a bag of white noodles with holes at both ends under his bag. These catchers quickly searched for these white noodles early in the morning. Seeing the traces on the ground, Li Zhutou began to assign tasks: "Lao Xia, you take a team to a slightly higher place over there to stare to see if anyone is coming, pay attention to concealment!" ”

"Yes!" This Lao Xia is the catcher who was called "head" in the inn yesterday, he is the head of the team, Lao Xia waved his hand and said: "The team comes with me!" Then several people quickly ran towards another place.

Li Zhutou said to the rest of the people: "Continue to look along this white surface, pay attention to the movements be light!" ”

"Yes," the few men replied in low voices.

When the sky was still bright, Aunt Zhang woke up Meng Yuchu and Mei Sheng, and told them to send the face wash to Mrs. After all, today is the day of Mrs. Day's big day, and this face wash should be sent before the sun rises, because the face wash is to be splashed out after all, if the sun comes out and then poured out, it means that this happy event is going to be "sprinkled", which is very unlucky.

Mrs. because of the stimulation yesterday, a night frightened and scared did not sleep well, this will be sleeping in a daze, heard someone in the "madam, madam" call, in the dream thought that it was in her own home, the maid came to call her mother, so vaguely shouted "mother", turned over and fell asleep.

The two girls stood in front of the kang, looking at the lady who couldn't wake up, and they didn't know what to do.

"Sister, Madame seems to have said something just now, did you hear clearly?" Meng Yuchu looked at Mei Sheng.

"I didn't hear it clearly," Mei Sheng shook his head blankly, and said half-guessingly, half-thinking, "Do you want the two of us to go out first?" ”

Seeing that his wife was sleepy like this, he also wanted to sleep a little longer.

"Why don't we go and prepare Madame's wedding dress first, and it's not too late to wash it when Madame wakes up." Meng Yu Chusheng proposed.

"Well, it's okay" The two discussed, put down the washing water, prepared the wedding dress and the bead crown together, and then went to the room to find Aunt Zhang.

At this time, Aunt Zhang was wrapping flat food, rolling out small dough into thin slices, and then wrapping the filling. This stuffing is mixed with wild vegetables and wild boar meat collected in the mountains a day in advance, and Aunt Zhang said that this wild vegetable can cure diseases and prolong life, and the taste of this wild boar is even more different.

At this time, Aunt Zhang was smiling and chanting while wrapping flat food, while talking to the little guys who were in the hands: "This flat food can only be eaten during the New Year's holiday, today's lady is married, this first meal must eat flat food, this is called happy events from the beginning, good things keep coming!"

While he was talking, he looked up and saw two little girls coming in, so he asked with a smile: "Have you washed your face after serving Madame?" ”

"Madame... Madame hasn't woken up yet. Mei Sheng said softly.

"Huh? What the? Aunt Zhang stood up in surprise and looked out, the day was almost dawn, and the sun came out.

"Oh, my two eldest ladies! Why don't you wake up Madame? On the morning of this wedding, you must wash your face before the sun rises, and if you can't see the sun with the washing water, won't you two explain it? Aunt Zhang patted the flour on her hand and walked out.

The two little girls who had done something wrong hurriedly lowered their heads and ran out with them.