When the prisoners entered the city, all the officers at all levels were put in the county jail, and under Guo Fengrong's personal examination and preliminary trial, they were held in different cells. More than 100 households are held in solitary confinement in other cells. There are a lot of shackles and shackles in the prison, and Guo Fengrong has people locked up all of them to prevent changes.

Yu Lan, her mother and others helped Lang Zhong deal with the wounded, wash and bandage the wounds, or wipe the blood stains on the wounded and wash their clothes. The small county town immediately became busy.

The people in the city had been worried, but now seeing a large number of captives being taken into the city naturally greatly relieved their nervousness, and many big girls and little daughters-in-law quietly put away their scissors and other sharp objects, and began to talk and laugh together, talking about the war that was still going on outside the city.

When the news of the war in the early stage came to Tian Lie's house, the boys threw down their books excitedly, gathered together to chatter and laugh, and some even ran to the entrance of the street to watch the movement, Tian Lie sighed lightly, and his flat face finally became a little happy, and he no longer paid attention to the forgetfulness and noise of the children in the hall.

He even hoped that the boys who watched at the gate or in the streets would bring him more and better news.

The subordinate who returned from watching from the street knew what the old man was thinking, added a cup of tea to Tian Lie, presented it respectfully, and said in a low voice: "The old man is relieved, the small ones who see the official and military prisoners who have entered the city are afraid that there are more than a thousand people, and listening to the sound of killing outside the city, it should be the Shuntian army that has gained power." As long as this battle is won and the official army is defeated and retreats, there will be no slaughter of the city! ”

"The outcome is undecided at the moment, and we don't know yet." Tian Lie took a sip of tea and said lightly.

As for the rich man's house in the city, Huangpi's eyes widened in disbelief, and he asked in a loud voice, "How is it possible?" How can it be? You can't be mistaken, right? ”

A thin man on the opposite side covered his face aggrievedly and whispered: "The little boy is careful, and after looking and looking, those who were escorted into the city are really the soldiers of the Meng family." The style of their clothes and armor is very familiar in Yidu City, and the people who send rice, grain, vegetables and vegetables to the camp every day are the relatives of the villain, and they will never be wrong. ”

This person just told Pan Tou and Huangpi what he saw on the street, but Huangpi didn't believe it at all, and directly gave him two Wuzhishan, which made his cheeks swollen and his words unclear from his stuttering

"Forget it, what the stick said should be true." Pan Tou spat out his phlegm and looked up at the sky in the distance, where tens of thousands of horses were fighting under the blue sky and white clouds, I don't know what kind of spectacular scene it was.

The stick is the person who came to report the news, and got its name because of its slender body.

"How is this possible! There are more than 10,000 men and horses in the official army, as well as the elite Tang Wuwei from Beijing, and there are fire and artillery teams! Even if a group of wild boars run in the field, they will not be easily captured by a thousand people," Huang Piwu didn't believe it.

"This war has been fought for an hour, and it can be seen that the official army is attacking the city? It seems that this Tang Wuwei is not an immortal, so let's think about how to get out of the city in the future. "Pan Tou and the others were ordered to enter the city to spy on them, and the effect of spreading rumors seems to have little impact on this war, and if they can return safely, I don't know what Yidu City will do with them.

Yellowskin was deflated and sat on the ground. It's not that he doesn't believe in the stick's words, he just expects a miracle to happen. "This war is not over yet, the officers and troops will definitely win!" Huangpi blinked, unwillingly.

Out of the hall came a rich man, white and fat, more than forty years old, who was the owner of this house. He listened worriedly to the sound of fighting outside the city and the noise on the street, and whispered: "Masters, the limelight is not good now, it is better to take advantage of the ease of going out of the city now, and hurry back to the north." ”

Pan Tou glanced at him, and said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, just go back like this, how to deal with the above, I will always do something brilliant, so that the people in Yidu will value it." ”

"Hey, what else is there to do? If the official army is defeated, I'm afraid that I will be punished by the higher authorities when I go back! The people in the Intelligence Department are not vegetarians! Huang Pihou said fearfully, remembering the tragic situation of being recruited and reprimanded by the Intelligence Department, he had palpitations.

Having lost everything in the quarry, the two of them rushed back to Yidu City overnight, and respectively reported what happened to the master's family, and the punishment of a board was indispensable. Just as the main family wanted to kick the two out of the house separately, fortunately, they were found out by a member of the intelligence department who came to visit.

In order to better investigate the movements of Linqu City, and learned that these two people were from Linqu City, this subordinate simply took back the two of them, informed the boss, recruited the two on the spot, and after a brief training, sent them back to Linqu to inquire about the news.

Pan Tou, Huangpi has nowhere to go, the life of the lost dog is not easy, and the prestige of the Intelligence Department is inviolable, so he has to become the lowest spy among them. However, because the two of them are familiar with the contacts and geography inside and outside Linqu City, they have really made some contributions to this investigation. But in the event of a defeat in Yidu, these newcomers will inevitably become scapegoats.

Pan Tou was unwilling, so he thought of finding something else.

"If the officers and soldiers win, we will have no merit and hard work, and we will not have to worry about food and clothing in the future. If you fail, you will not be able to escape the responsibility of going back like this, so you have to make some merits. ”

Huangpi and the stick came to their senses, and came over and asked, "Brother Zhichang, I'll listen to you." After speaking, he turned his head and glared at the rich man, who saw the yellow white eyes, looked at the sky, and said, "This day is really poisonous, and go back to the house to change clothes." He said that he was going to move away.

Pan Tou laughed, pulled his hand and said, "Why should Wei Yuanwai avoid it, brothers don't treat you as an outsider!" You may have to worry about it! ”

He vigorously took the hand of this Wei Yuanwai and went into the house together, and the yellow skin and the stick followed behind in confusion.

"I know that the gentry such as Wei Yuanwai were harmed by Liu Thief, and often cherish the righteousness of serving the court, you and I are loyal to each other, why do you need to see each other?" Pan Tou looked back and glanced at Huang Pi.

Huang Pi understood and said with a smile: "It's a certain bad mouth, I don't know the loyalty of outsiders, I should fight, I should fight!" As he spoke, he slapped himself twice.

Wei Yuanwai would not bother with him, and Qu Yi refused a few times.

After this Liu thief entered the city, he measured the acres of land, apportioned the grain, and even entered the house to search, Sona, a few days ago, those who were under the names of Liu Zhengfeng, Liu Qi and other people even took a fancy to several of his beautiful concubines and beautiful maids.

Pity yourself for several generations of more than 1,000 acres of fertile land outside the city, half of which is hidden in the name of tidal flats and wasteland, and most of them have been checked out one by one, and they have been directly made into official fields.

As for the hundreds of horses and cattle raised in the granges outside the city, most of them were confiscated or ransomed and distributed to the peasant households; Most of the tens of thousands of stone rice grains accumulated in the village over the years were confiscated by Liu Qi and others, and they didn't even give a single silver! Poor Wei Yuanwai used to be the top few big families in the city, but now he is a mermaid.

The original hundreds of slave households in the family directly got rid of it, not only divided their own land, cattle and sheep, but also received their own rice grain and land, and happily built houses outside the city with those Qianshou who defected to the thieves, cultivated the land, and became the owner of the land!

And the loss of shops in the city is also amazing, Liu Qi and others have extorted a lot of real money, of course, these accounts have to be counted on Zhilong's head in the end, after all, it was he who made the payment proposal first! As for Liu Qi and others' blackmail, in the eyes of Wei Yuanwai, it is secondary.

These days have suffered great changes, the mother-in-law in the family is looking for death and life all day long, and several concubines are also in panic, Wei Yuanwai had to secretly send a box of gold and silver and a few maidservants to Liu Qi and Qin Zhanshan, and the Shuntian army stopped continuing to harass.

Wei Yuanwai hates Liu Zhengfeng, hates Liu Qi, and hates Zhilong even more! I heard that it was the thief's notice of peace and security. After entering the city, most of what the thieves did was his idea.

In Wei Yuanwai's opinion, many big families in and outside the city have been poisoned by the thief army, and there are really few people who dare to fight the thief to the death like him, this bloody person is really too few, no wonder thieves are raging everywhere!

When Pan and the others secretly came to explain their intention and stayed overnight, Wei Yuanwai agreed without thinking.

Back in the hall, covering the door, Huang Pi stared at a pair of goldfish eyes and asked, "What is my brother's plan, and tell me carefully." ”

Pan Tou rubbed the mustache on the side of his mouth, and said slowly: "Even if the thief army wins this time, a certain thief army is not monolithic. ”

"Oh, who does my brother think is the easiest?" The stick couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, it's the most greedy for money, and it's easy for a good beauty to start!" Pan Tou replied without thinking.

A clean house in the city, in the back room, the incense burner is full of smoke, and a few pillars of incense are emitting a faint sandalwood. A delicate jade Guanyin was placed in the center behind the incense burner, Guanyin lowered her eyebrows, and looked at a slightly rounded middle-aged woman below.

The woman's face was fair, and she had been praying in a low voice since this morning.

A servant girl hurried in from the outside, without even knocking at the door. She pushed open the door, lifted her dress, and stepped forward. When he entered the inner room, he saw that the woman was still praying with her back to her, and she bowed and said, "Madam, I learned from the street just now that they have won a battle and are continuing to fight against the officers and soldiers." Now there are so many prisoners of officers and soldiers on the streets that I can't count them! ”

She couldn't tell the difference between the righteous army and the Han army, anyway, it was the official army from Yidu.

"Really? Come on! The woman's brow was immediately so surprised that she stopped praying.

The servant girl did not know much about the fighting, but kept looking in the streets, and saw the brigade being taken prisoner by the officers and soldiers who had been brought into the city, and heard the messenger's announcement in the streets of the city. Although there was only a little information, the woman was so happy that she folded her hands and turned to bow to the statue of Guanyin.

"Save the suffering and save the Guanyin Bodhisattva, bless my lord Jiren Tianxiang, return safely! The concubine body is an ominous person, may chant the scriptures in the morning and evening, pray sincerely, if there is any suffering, the sword and axe will be added, and the concubine body is willing to bear it with all her strength! The woman muttered with a solemn face.

After the woman was humiliated in prison, she was bent on death, but Mingxiong was relieved sooner or later, Guo Fengrong and Ming Shijie were guarding with a few maidservants day and night, for fear that she would suddenly not be able to think about it, and all the sharp things in the house were carefully collected by Mingxiong and others, but the woman's mental condition still worried Mingxiong.

Later, Mrs. Ming received a letter from Yu Zhilong, in which there were only a few words: The gentleman is self-purifying and does not avoid dirt and dust; There is filth in the world, lining my fragrance; A hundred years of cultivation, cherish it carefully!

This Mrs. Ming gradually let go of the thought of death after many comforts, but the war was approaching, and she became more and more worried about her husband's safety. Ming Xiong did not hesitate to completely join the Jing'an army for his wife, and now it seems that the risk is extremely high, Mrs. Ming burns incense and prays every morning, noon and evening, and prays for the Bodhisattva to bless Ming Xiong's safety. Today, when the war started, Mrs. Ming had been praying sincerely indoors, and now she heard that there was hope for victory, and her heart was much more stable.

"The woman's relief is that I have been looking around the street, although some wounded soldiers of the Jing'an Army have been carried into the city, I have never heard any news of the old man's accident. The old man and the hero of the world will surely turn evil into good fortune and return safely! ”

This little maid was a clever person, so Mrs. Ming specially ordered her to inquire in the street.

With a little peace of mind, she took the refreshments offered by the maidservant and reluctantly ate some, and Mrs. Ming continued to pray prayed in front of the Guanyin statue.