It was night, the cold wind was like a knife, and the moonlight was like water.

A group of men came down from the back hill of Wuthering Heights, tall or short, fat or thin, dressed in black and pants, with black scarves on their faces, and a pair of eyes leaking outside.

Everyone bowed their heads and cautiously came to the base of the wall to form a circle.

A thin young man lowered his voice and said, "Now that I take over the command, I hope you will cooperate well." As he spoke, he took out a stack of drawings from his arms and continued: "The retreat plan and precautions have been agreed upon in the afternoon, so I won't repeat them here, everyone knows in their hearts, and now arrange the exploration route." ”

The man in black took out a stack of drawings from his bosom and opened it, glanced at the group of men beside him and said in a low voice: "Gao Gaofei, you are in charge of the area on the left side of the martial arts training ground." ”

Two men in the crowd clasped their fists and whispered, "Yes!" He took the drawing and turned away.

The man in black pulled out another drawing and said, "Duxing Zhu Yiqun, you are in charge of the area on the right side of the martial arts training ground." ”

The two men in black took the drawings and hugged their fists and said, "Yes, captain!" ”

The man in black looked at the remaining three people around him: "Brother Yu Meng and Brother Yuan Hou are good at kung fu, so they will go to the back of the martial arts training ground to investigate; It must be the sleeping place of the high-ranking people of the bandits, so you two should be careful. ”

The two took the drawings and said, "Yes!" ”

In the blink of an eye, there were two men in black left in the field, and they were intoxicated by Liu Ren. Intoxicated doesn't know martial arts, and this task is extremely dangerous, so everyone discussed and asked Liu Ren to stay and take care of Intoxication's safety.

Liu Ren watched everyone leave, and his heart itched unbearably and said softly: "Captain, there are only two of us left now, why don't we go and investigate?" ”

Intoxicated thinking that since he had already descended the cliff, how could he hide to the side and watch the group of men take risks, and be careful himself, it should not be noticed, so he pointed to the faintly lit house in front of him and said, "Okay, just go anywhere." ”

So the two of them found a low fence and cooperated with each other to climb in. They crept to the back of the chamber and peered through the crack in the window; I saw four men standing or sitting in the room, discussing something.

The middle-aged man in the brocade dress at the top is tall and thin, with high cheekbones, and a thin face, which seems to be covered with only a layer of flesh; A pair of triangular eyes. His eyebrows were short and thick, and the tips of his eyebrows drooped, like a figure of eight, and like two hanging knives. He took out a letter from his arms, handed it to the young man on his left and said, "This is a letter sent by Steward Jia of Guo Mansion, everyone take a look." ”

Intoxicated and nervous, as they feared, Steward Jia really colluded with the Wuthering Heights bandits, but fortunately, his side reacted in time and sent troops in advance.

Liu Ren looked at the intoxication, his eyes were shining, and he secretly said in his heart: "Captain, they are really powerful, this kind of thing can actually be guessed; Steward Jia is really daring, and he actually colluded with the bandits; Fortunately, the opportunity was quick and the troops were dispatched in advance, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

The young man's face was full of flesh, and a pair of fierce triangular eyes glowed fiercely from time to time; He gently pushed open the letter handed over and said, "I can't read, just write to Brother Chang and Mr. Baimu, and the eldest brother will tell me." ”

The middle-aged man glared at the man fiercely and said, "I don't listen to what I said many times, read more books in my spare time, and I will know that I am dancing with knives and guns all day long, and tossing around women blindly." With that, the letter turned to the hand of the burly man on his right.

Liu Ren whispered to Intoxicated Ear: "That black-faced man is Chang Yuchun, and his kung fu is very good, and even Tang Bantou is not his opponent; The weak middle-aged scholar, the thief called him Mr. Baimuro, I heard that he was the military advisor of Wuthering Heights; The middle-aged man and the young man beside him are the well-known Dazhai master general conscience and his brother general reality. ”

Intoxicated nodded and said in a low voice, "How are they?" ”

The rumors in the rivers and lakes will be insidious and cunning, and the benefits will be cruel and reckless; The other two people have not seen the circulation, so they do not know." Liu Ren lowered his head slightly and thought for a while.

Intoxicated nodded, continuing to listen to the conversation inside.

"Since he doesn't know how to read, I'll tell him, read the letter first." The middle-aged man will have a conscience.

"Steward Jia said in the letter, let us leave the Guo family and his party, if we agree to the request, Steward Jia will give 100,000 taels of silver and 5,000 catties of pig iron." The middle-aged man said.

Jiang was overjoyed, rubbing his hands back and forth, and the fat on his face trembled up and down for a while, and smiled: "Okay, big brother, we have money now, so many iron weapons, how many swords can we fight; I really didn't expect that this Guo family is really a big fish. ”

Chang Yuchun read the letter quickly, his face changed, he snorted heavily in his nose, and handed it to Li Baiyu's hand.

Li Baishu roughly looked at the appearance in the letter, and said with a short beard on the wisp of the chin in his right hand: "The meaning of the letter is vague, I don't know what the master of Dazhai has planned." ”

"Such a valuable gift is not as simple as leaving it behind; I don't want to play the trick of killing people with a knife. The lord of Dazhai pondered for a while.

Chang Yuchun slapped his palm on the table, and the teacup on the top jumped wildly: "What a housekeeper Jia, what a bad slave!" ”

Li Baimu sighed and said: "People's hearts are unpredictable, and raising a dog hurts the master." ”

The fierce light flashed in Jiang's eyes and said: "No matter what he is, as long as the price is right, what does it matter if he takes off the head of the Guo family?" ”

"That Guo Zixing, who is chivalrous, sells illicit salt all year round, and accumulates tens of thousands of family wealth; There are countless guards under his subordinates, and things are very tricky. Pacing his conscience back and forth, he frowned.

Jiang Hui said: "Big brother, I'm afraid of what he does, our cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is impregnable; They come one to kill one, come two to kill a pair. ”

Chang Yuchun hesitated in his conscience, and seemed to be moved by Steward Jia's gift list, and wanted to change the decision he had discussed, got up and stood up and said: "According to the original agreement, the Guo family will take money to ransom people; The big boss has sent someone to the Guo family's courtyard to ask for ransom, but he must not go back on his word and laugh at the rivers and lakes. ”

Listening to Chang Yuchun's words, he hurriedly said: "We are thieves, interests first, killing people and goods is common sense, what do you care about the morality of those rivers and lakes?" ”

Chang Yuchun glared at the general next to him, glanced at the general's conscience, and said: "The owner of the village, other cottage people are prosperous, and there are countless heroes from all walks of life who come to vote; Look at our cottage, it has always been the same as the original manpower; It's just because our cottage is notorious and prohibitive. ”

Jiang Hui said angrily: "Chang Yuchun, pay attention to your words; How can you have the right to dictate to the decisions of the big bosses. Besides, when the agreement was reached with Guo Zixing, the Guo family paid 10,000 taels of silver and 2,000 catties of pig iron; Compared with Steward Jia, one is in the sky and the other is on the ground, why do you want to throw watermelons and pick up sesame seeds. ”

Chang Yuchun stood up and said: "Although we are thieves, we must do things above board; Since an agreement was reached to ask for ransom, it is reasonable to talk about the wealth and release the person. ”

Intoxicated listening to Chang Yuchun's words, I couldn't help but admire him very much; I thought to myself: "Sure enough, he is a historical celebrity, and he has his own bottom line in doing things." ”

"Presumptuous, often in spring, I have endured you for a long time, your attitude, is there still my eldest brother in your eyes, I am the second master." He slapped the table and said angrily. "What is the use of fame for a man who dies for wealth, and for a bird to die, for food is not to be eaten, nor to be clothed; If you want to feel aggrieved, you can take your people away, without you, Wuthering Heights is still Wuthering Heights! ”

The conscience did not stop the two from arguing, and slowly drank the tea in his hand with a cold face.

"The two village owners said a few words, and they haven't made a decision yet, so they dissipated their anger and sat down to discuss slowly." The look of disappointment on Li Bairoom's face flashed, and he really couldn't stand it anymore and got up to persuade.

"Discuss a fart, the eldest brother's decision is my decision, he said kill it, he said let it go." The benefits were sideways, and Li Bairoom glanced at him and said coldly.

Li Baimu looked at it embarrassedly; The two of them looked at each other, smiled, and returned to their chairs and sat down.

Chang Yuchun's face was pale, he hugged his fist to everyone, and walked out of the door with a cold snort.

Intoxicated looked at Chang Yuchun, who was leaving angrily, nodded to Liu Ren beside him, and said softly, "You go over and have a look." ”

Liu Ren looked at him with some embarrassment and said, "That captain, I stayed to protect you, how can I leave?" ”

Intoxicated said: "Come along, that Chang Yuchun may go to the place where Master Guo is being held, I will wait for you here, and I won't go." ”

Liu Ren thought for a while, nodded, took out a small paper bag from his arms and stuffed it into Zhang Xiaogang's hand and said, "This is the sweat medicine that day when the medicine turned over you, remember to hold your breath when using it, and pay attention to it." After saying that, he turned around and was about to follow.

Intoxicated and grabbed him and said, "How was I calculated by you at that time?" ”

Liu Ren laughed softly: "I have sweat medicine hidden in my hand, and when I saluted you with my fist, I slapped my fist, and the medicine powder flew out." ”

Intoxicated and shocked, a good move is silent; At that time, Liu Ren took a step forward and clenched his fist, very close to his nose, as if with a faint smell, he didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now he can't help but sigh when he thinks about it, this Liu Ren makes poison clever, which makes people unguardable. When we meet in the future, we have to stay away, so as not to accidentally fall into his way. With all this in mind, he continued to look through the crack in the window.

With a black conscience on his face, his eyes were grim, his face was purple, he was angry, Li Baimu looked at him with eye level, and his face was calm. The three people in the room did not speak, and the scene was quiet and depressing for a while.

After a long time, Xu couldn't stand the atmosphere in the field, and said, "You go on, I'll go back to sleep first." With that, he got up and left.

Looking at the effect of leaving, Li Baimuro got up and hugged his fists and said: "Master Dazhai, this matter involves a wide range of things, it is not appropriate to make a decision early, you should think more about it, and retire first." ”。

He got up with his conscience and smiled: "What Mr. said is very true, I will think about it carefully, Mr. go slowly." Looking at the backs of the two departing, he fell into deep thought.

Intoxicated, Li Baishu is a weak scholar, although he has a furrow in his chest, he is limited by the position of a military advisor; That will have a different effect, as the second village master, the big village owner is his eldest brother, and he can do whatever he wants in this thief's den; Go down with him and have a look, and I can't say that I will find anything good. So I made up my mind and went with the effect.