Chapter 710: The Secret of a Barrel of Tea

After making this plan, Shi Bin then issued a military order, ordering Zhou Xunliang to return to the Great Song Dynasty to send the Song people who committed crimes from all over the country, and arrange them to be handed over to various places. Just like dealing with the situation in the Hexi Corridor and Liaoning, many Song people took root at the address, and at the same time, they also sent a lot of high-quality cold weapons to them as guarantees. Shi Bin disguised himself as Li Chao's guards to reward or appease the villagers everywhere.

One day, Li Chao led the crowd to a small village, which was full of old people, women and children, and according to the village chief, Zhuangding had been arrested by the imperial court to serve as soldiers, with the purpose of resisting the Song army.

As he spoke, the village chief's eyes flickered, obviously telling a lie, and he felt very uncomfortable, most likely with evil thoughts. But what can a mere village chief do? While he was thinking about it, Shi Bin heard the village chief say that he invited the Song Army officer to drink good tea.

Li Chao is a cautious person, and when he heard that he was going to drink tea, he immediately became vigilant and immediately planned to leave. It's just that he was stopped by Shi Bin and motioned for him to stay and deal with the village chief. I don't know what Shi Bin wants to do, but Shi Bin ordered Li Chao to obey, so he agreed to come down and drink tea.

When the village chief left to prepare tea, and the entire courtyard was full of Song Jun inside and out, Li Chao asked: "Dashuai, what are you doing here, the village chief obviously has a ghost, we should leave this place as soon as possible to prevent accidents." ”

"I know the village chief has bad intentions, but he is obviously timid and afraid. At this time, he was mostly coerced by others, and I wanted to see who coerced him. Haven't you searched all around here, there are no handover troops, at most just a few defeated stragglers. If that's the case, maybe we can get something unexpected out of it. Shi Bin smiled.

"Something unexpected?" Li Chao said suspiciously. I don't think Shi Bin will talk nonsense, but I don't think Shi Bin is saying responsible things either. However, Li Chao was really curious about why the village chief would leave their group of invaders for tea, instead of hoping that they would leave early, so he ordered his subordinates to keep an eye on the village chief.

About a quarter of an hour later, the village chief came with a small barrel of tea. That tea was enough for Shi Bin and the twenty or so people to drink a pot each. This is naturally a very strange phenomenon, which makes everyone vigilant. Not to mention anything else, it is impossible to brew so much tea without prior preparation.

Although he was vigilant in his heart, Li Chao still had to act, and he wanted to praise the village chief for his ability, and he asked the village chief to take two sips in order to prevent being recruited. The village chief knew that the tea was fine, so he naturally drank it in a big gulp, which seemed very natural.

This made Shi Bin and the others puzzled, they prepared the tea first, but the tea sent was fine, what was wrong with this?

It's not good to ask the village chief to drink, but Shi Bin and Li Chao must not drink it, so Li Chao ordered an entourage to drink two sips. The attendant drank the same thing, and said that the tea tasted good, and had another taste. Since the tea is fine, there is something else wrong.

Not long after, one of Li Chao's guards walked up to Shi Bin and reported the news: a rope bridge was found not far behind the village leading to the top of the opposite mountain. As soon as he heard the news, Shi Bin immediately signaled Li Chao to stop talking to the village chief and drive him out.

Seeing that Shi Bin was suddenly very nervous, Li Chao didn't dare to be the slightest sloppy, and after driving the village chief out, he asked, "Dashuai, isn't it just a rope bridge, why are you so nervous?" Men reported no anomalies. ”

"Li Chao, how long have we been here since we entered the village?" Shi Bin asked.

"It should be a quarter of an hour."

"They've already prepared tea, right, can it be said that these people have already found out that we are coming here?" Shi Bin asked.

"That's true, otherwise it can't be explained. Because the tea can't stay for a long time, it will taste different if it is left for a long time. ”

"Then why are they preparing? Why do you want to get such a big bucket of tea out, and can't you just give it to a few of you who take the lead to drink? The guards drank a few scoops of clean cold water

All right. Shi Bin smiled weirdly.

"Dashuai is saying that all this has something to do with the rope bridge?"

"If I'm not bad, boiling water and boiling tea should be a signal. The more tea you boil, the more firewood you burn, and the more smoke wafts out. Shi Bin smiled again.

This time, Li Chao understood what Shi Bin meant, and when he found Shi Bin and his gang, the village chief had already begun to boil water, that is, to send a signal to the opposite mountain that the Song army was coming. The next tea making was to remind those soldiers to hurry up, because the Song army had already stayed to drink tea.

"So what do we do?" Li Chao asked.

"Leave, of course, but leave a few sentry here to see if my guess is correct. If it's correct, we should have one more way to get into the address. I believe that there is more than just this rope bridge. ”

After speaking, Shi Bin, the 'guard', got up and walked out of the house, and then Li Chao also came out. Realizing that he had mistaken his identity, Shi Bin had no choice but to immediately retreat and follow behind Li Chao.

Although someone left Shi Bin and his group, of course they would not continue to stay in this dangerous place, leaving behind the things to be sent and leaving quickly. After descending a hill to make sure that no one was following, Shi Bin sent two people to secretly return to the entrance of the village to secretly observe.

Before returning to the camp, as soon as he arrived at the gate of the camp, a soldier who stayed behind to observe secretly came to report: Soon after Shi Bin led the people to leave, dozens of sturdy addressers with weapons appeared in the village. The village chief was dragged to the entrance of the village by the gang of soldiers and beaten severely, mostly because Shi Bin and his group were not retained.

Hearing the news, Shi Bin said with a smile: "Interesting, the person who handed over the address is quite smart, and he really uses the smoke of boiling tea as a signal to connect." ”

"No matter how smart you are, it's still not as good as the big handsome, the big handsome saw through their carving insect skills after a little thought, what should we do next?" Li Chao said.

"Naturally, I went to visit that village again and visit the village chief. By the way, bring some gold sore medicine. If we're lucky, maybe he'll be our guide. ”

After preparing according to Shi Bin's instructions, Li Chao and the others set off again early the next morning, but this time they brought nearly 200 capable forces. Because they were in a hurry, Shi Bin and his party were all moving forward at full speed, and they arrived at the village at two o'clock in the afternoon.

The people in the village saw that Song Jun was going and returned, and this time there were more people and more elite, and they were all panicked and didn't know what to do. And Li Chao naturally ordered someone to take him to see the village chief, and the villagers did not dare to disobey, so they immediately took Li Chao to meet the village chief who was lying on the bed wailing.

This time, Shi Bin stood up and asked with a smile: "Village chief, what's the matter with your injuries?" Is it because I sent you a lot of supplies and beat you up? ”

Seeing that Li Chao took the initiative to retreat, the village chief understood that Shi Bin was the righteous god and was very difficult to mess with. So he said, "Sir, no, you guessed wrong. It was the old man who accidentally fell while walking. Isn't there a small slope at the entrance of the village? Old man, I slipped while walking, these are all abrasions. ”

"I see. We gave you a lot of food and clothing yesterday, why are you missing today? Shi Bin asked with a smile, "Those things are enough for you for half a month." ”

Seeing that he couldn't prevaricate, the village chief had no choice but to change his words, "My lord, the things you gave us were indeed stolen by bandits." Every year the bandits come and grab something, and if they don't give it, they kill people. I still have to thank the adults for sending things, otherwise we will most of us starve to death this year. ”

"Who kind of thief actually dares to rob my Da Song thing!" After hearing this, Shi Bin immediately 'glared angrily' and said, "Village chief! Where are the bandits, I'm going to exterminate them. If they don't teach them some lessons, they won't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has! ”

Seeing that Shi Bin was furious, the village chief lying on the bed was so frightened that he rolled out of bed, and repeatedly begged Shi Bin not to encircle and suppress. He also said that the 'bandits' were so cunning that they had no place to live, and it was difficult to catch them. If they anger the 'bandits', they will treat themselves with this

The village kills a chicken and a dog.

"Okay, then listen to the village chief, I won't go to suppress the bandits. But I don't know something, how did those bandits know that you have good things here, and why did they come here so coincidentally? It's actually us who walk on the front foot, and they come on the back foot? Shi Bin smiled meaningfully at the village chief.

When asked like this, the village chief was immediately speechless. I thought that the village chief would bow down and confess, but I didn't expect the village chief to come and 'tell the truth'.

"My lord, I think it's probably because the smoke from the time when the people were boiling tea for you alerted the bandits. Because we rarely burn firewood like this in our village, we only do it when we have visitors. ”

"It makes sense that the bigger and thicker the smoke, the more things to do, and it can confirm the visitors from the village. Guests come to be entertained, and the guests themselves are also to give gifts. There are indeed a lot of benefits to doing the math. If I were a bandit, I would have come. Shi Bin smiled and nodded, "But I still don't know something..."

"Your Excellency, please speak."

"I don't understand why you prepared the tea of our twenty or so people in less than a quarter of an hour, isn't it a little too fast? Is there any way you have here to get the water to boil quickly? If so, please tell me, and this official will be rewarded. ”

This question cannot be answered in any way. Because if it is said that it has been prepared for a long time, it is ill-intentioned. If it is said that the rest of it has not been drunk before, it is to despise the royal master. No amount of explanation will lead to good results. The village chief had no choice but to keep silent, hoping that Shi Bin would not ask about it again.

"Village Chief, if I'm not mistaken, you start boiling water as soon as you see us, and you will make tea when we arrive. I know that there is a rope bridge not far behind your village, which leads to the opposite mountain. Looking at that, fifteen people at a time shouldn't be a problem. ”

Seeing that Shi Bin mentioned the rope bridge, the village chief knew that everything was known by Shi Bin, and it was estimated that he even knew why he was beaten.

"Sir, it seems that you know everything, and you are right," said the village chief, dejectedly.

"Those people are supposed to be the Address Soldiers, my men said they beat you up and robbed you of what I gave you, right? I wonder if those people are stragglers or organized soldiers. How many rope bridges like this are there in your territory? What is your attitude towards us Song people? Shi Bin asked.

After looking down and thinking for a while, the village chief said, "Those soldiers are organized. When they could not defeat you, they scattered themselves everywhere and coerced the villages to attack you. Those who hate you will be fierce, and those we don't hate will only cooperate and not participate in the fighting. Such rope bridges are everywhere in the territory, just for the convenience of everyone to repair them. In fact, many people don't want to fight, they just want to live in peace, but the king's orders have to be obeyed. Anyone who dares to disobey will surely die. ”

Unexpectedly, rope bridges were everywhere, and he didn't expect that the addressee planned to fight guerrilla warfare, Shi Bin suddenly felt that things had become very tricky.

"Village chief, are you willing to be my staff officer, if you succeed, I will guarantee you a county order."

When the county order was such a great temptation for a small village chief, after a fierce ideological struggle, the village chief said: "Xiaomin Nguyen Xiong is willing!" I'm willing to be a lobbyist for adults, to convince those neutrals, and just ask them to keep their promises. ”

"Don't worry, Nguyen Hung. Even if you accidentally die in the process, I will let your son be the county magistrate. ”

With Shi Bin's promise, Ruan Xiong was determined to be a lobbyist for Shi Bin, and for a while, many wavering villages took refuge in the Great Song Dynasty. During this period, some villagers even told the Song army about the locations of the guerrilla army, so that they had almost nowhere to escape and were all wiped out.

The situation suddenly improved, and Shi Bin couldn't help but sigh that fortunately, he had attracted a lot of people at the address, otherwise the army at the address who was hiding in the shadows to fight guerrillas didn't know how much elite he would lose.