The Anzhou army defeated the imperial court's Zhengnan army at the mouth of the two rivers, and arrived at the Anzhou Prefecture Zhi'an Land on the second day, and the city was full of joy.

In the mansion of Xiyang County, Liu Caiyun, the chief treasurer, boarded a four-wheeled carriage and then left the mansion and drove towards a certain place in the city under the escort of more than ten riders.

Yesterday she received a message from Wang Yue, a businessman of Chen Guo, who had something important to discuss and pay for the glass mirror, and the two sides were scheduled to meet at the place designated by Liu Caiyun this morning.

Liu Caiyun felt that things were a little tricky, and the other party had a problem, but he had to take risks to meet.

Lang Zhu Yu Wenwen once quoted the words of a philosopher surnamed Ma in the extreme west: If capital has 50 percent profits, it will take risks, if it has 100 percent profits, it will dare to trample on all the laws of the world, and if it has 300 percent profits, it will dare to commit any crimes, and even risk being hanged.

As soon as the glass mirror changed hands, it was 100% profitable, and it was a businessman who wanted to grab the production process of the glass mirror, and the reason why it was calm now was because she Liu's shopkeeper, Xiyang County, was the second son of Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, so all the wealthy businessmen endured it until now.

Seeing that the glass mirror has made countless amounts of money in half a year, it seems that the big businessmen can't help but start doing it anymore.

As for how Wang Yue returned to Jiankang alive after taking the goods from Anzhou after taking the goods, it was his business, for Liu Caiyun, he and Hu Sanzi and Zhang Yiman were not arrested.

Wang Yue uncharacteristically dragged on for nearly two months before making an appointment to meet, which shows that things have changed in the middle, either Wang Yue's owner has a mind, or another wealthy businessman has a mind, and even the Wang Yue who made an appointment with her today is still doubtful.

According to the practice of the previous few months, Wang Yue should have gone to the Xiyang County Mansion to trade, but this time, because Lang Lord Yuwen Wen was outside with troops, it was inconvenient for people to come to the door, so he could only choose a place outside the mansion to meet.

"I hope nothing goes wrong." Liu Caiyun muttered worriedly.

The carriage turned a corner from the bustling main road into a street, and after walking about seventy or eighty paces, fishing nets were suddenly thrown from both sides of the road, and the guards were trapped in the nets, unable to move, and a group of masked men rushed out of the roadside house, shooting the guards with crossbow arrows and rushing towards the carriage.

They were so close that they drew daggers and stabbed them at the guards' mounts, the horses were in pain, and they were restless and threw off their masters on their backs, and the groom who was driving was slashed and ripped off, and the two masked men rushed to the side of the carriage, one left and one right, and pulled the door to open it, but the door did not move.

The masked man who followed up was not ambiguous, and he took it upon himself to split the door with an axe and was about to get in and arrest them, but a white mist hit their faces and made them roll all over the ground.

The guards who were caged in the fishing nets and were hit by arrows drew their short knives and cut the fishing nets, got up from the ground and slashed at the masked people who attacked them.

A burly masked man led several of his men to continue to rush towards the carriage, but was shot to the ground by the archers who suddenly appeared inside, and the rest of the people turned around and wanted to run, but he shot them in the knee with a series of arrows, dragging their legs and not running far, and they were all pressed to the ground by the guards.

The guards didn't know what they had practiced, and in three or two strokes, they tied their hands and gagged their mouths and threw them at the following wagons, and in a matter of moments, the masked men who attacked the convoy were all beaten and packed by the wagons, whether they were alive or dead.

"What's going on!"

When a group of soldiers patrolling the city heard the news, they rushed along the street, and the general at the head saw that they were in a mess and shouted loudly, and there was bloodshed in broad daylight in Lucheng, which made his face gloomy.

The archer who shot down the masked man with a series of arrows stepped forward and showed his waist card: "Zhang Dingfa, the head of the guards in the Lower Xiyang County Mansion, was attacked in the carriage of the Fangcai Mansion, so the scene is ugly." ”

The general saw that it was the Xiyang County Mansion that the carriage was attacked, and his face turned pale in shock, and hurriedly shushed the cold and asked for warmth, Xiyang County Gongyu Wenwen is the second son of the chief manager Yu Wenliang, and his status is noble on the ground in An, Xiang, and Huangzhou.

"Leader Zhang, what about the casualties in this house? There would have been hundreds of brothers here to catch the fanatics who attacked the convoy! ”

Zhang Dingfa looked back at his own guards behind him, only to see them nodding to him, and then smiled and 'explained' to the city patrol generals, saying that there were some goods on the car, and the goods did not hurt anyone, but the murderer who attacked the carriage was afraid that he had some festivals with the county mansion, so he wanted to lock it up and wait for the lord of Lang to come back to deal with it.

"The brothers are sweating profusely all the way, and they invite the brothers to drink." Zhang Dingfa smiled and stuffed a string of money into the general's hand.

The man took the money without a trace, and the smile on his face became stronger and stronger, and the governor's mansion had already said hello, and when he encountered this situation, he let the other party dispose of the assassins, whether it was attacking the outgoing or attacking the mansion, all of them were handled by the Xiyang County Mansion.

Of course, if the other party asks the government for help, then he will be caught in prison and tortured strictly, if the other party tosses it himself, then it will be regarded as invisible, what the other party says is what it is, and if nothing happened, then everyone will treat it as if nothing happened.

After sending away the officers and soldiers patrolling the city, Zhang Dingfa beckoned a guard to approach: "How are the casualties?" ”

"Back to the leader, the rabbit cubs are all tailed!"

"This arrow is stuck like a hedgehog, are you really okay?" Zhang Dingfa laughed and scolded, and then walked towards the carriage, "Is it okay for Zhang Laoliu, who was driving the car, to be slashed just now?" ”

"It's okay, Brother Zhang, the armor on this body is strong!" The coachman, who had been cut down by the attack, stood up again, and a large hole was cut in the chest of his clothes, revealing the swarthy armor.

More than a dozen guards rode their horses from the other side of the street and stopped in front of Zhang Dingfa: "Leader, no one has run away from the ambush on the street here!" ”

"Very well, let's take people away!"

Liu Caiyun got down from the carriage that had been attacked earlier, walked to Zhang Dingfa's side, looked at the carriages loaded with assassins, frowned, and asked, "Will there be other fish that have slipped through the net?" ”。

Zhang Dingfa patted his wife's shoulder and looked at her and smiled slightly: "Don't worry, you can't run away!" ”……

In the Xiyang County Mansion, the gate was closed, and the atmosphere in the mansion was tense, and the guards were patrolling around with their swords in their hands.

In the backyard room, the Duchess of Xiyang County, Wei Chi Chifan, was wearing a loose dress and was lying on the recliner with a big belly knitting a small sweater, while Yang Lihua in the side room was sitting on the side combing the accounts in the house, and Cuiyun and Anu were waiting for the two ladies on the side.

A nurse sat behind the two ladies with a baby boy in her arms, coaxing in a low voice, surrounded by several maids, the baby boy was Yang Lihua's eldest son born to Yu Wenwen in early June, and the nickname Quege Ge.

That day, Yuwenwen had a son, and his brain became a mess with a smile, although his son's official name did not need to be taken immediately, but a nickname must be wanted, but the seemingly simple nickname stumped him.

In this era, it is popular to use Buddhist or Taoist terms for children to give nicknames, and Yu Wenwen is more familiar with Taoist terms than 'common' Qi refining, foundation building, knotting, Yuan Infant, Huashen, Mahayana or something, and the Buddhist nouns are completely ignorant.

Because there was a magpie falling in the mansion when he was born, he took the word 'magpie' according to the magpie's good news, and as for the nickname that is also very popular nowadays, with the word 'slave', he still didn't use it, but used 'brother', so he held back for a long time and finally thought of a nickname: Brother Magpie.

Outside the courtyard, Lin Youdi and several domestic servants were guarding the door with knives and guns, and Fu Youcai, the deputy head of the guard, was also wearing armor and followed the housekeeper Li Sanjiu through Lin Youdi and others into the backyard to report the news to his wife Wei Chi, Zhang Dingfa and Liu Caiyun also followed one after another.

"Is Shopkeeper Liu injured? What were the casualties of the guards? After putting down his sweater, Yu Chi Chifan turned his head and asked, Yang Lihua also put down the account book and looked at the backbone in front of him.

"Mrs. Hui, the slave family is safe and sound." Liu Caiyun smiled faintly.

"Madame Hui, the guards have been prepared for a long time, so although they were injured, no one died." Zhang Dingfa thought about it after speaking, and added: "Those assassins are all wiped out, along with their eyes and ears, next"

"Leader Zhang, you and Deputy Leader Fu will handle the rest of the matter, so there is no need to disturb Madame." The housekeeper Li Sanjiu interrupted Zhang Dingfa with his words, and the next thing was 'unsightly', he knew that Lord Lang didn't want his wife to participate in this kind of thing.

Li Sanjiu still echoed the sentence in his mind: "The shady thing is Sanjiu, you just accompany your father-in-law to go there, and there is no need for Mrs. to have too much contact." ”

"Steward Li is right, the next matter will be handled by Leader Zhang and Fu Youcai, and after the results are obtained, they will leave a bottom at Sanjiu, and the specific matters will be dealt with when the county prince returns." Wei Chi Chifan did not hesitate to make a decision directly, she thought that the child who was about to come to the world did not have the heart to ask about such a disgraceful thing.

Previously, Zhang Dingfa and Li Sanjiu came to report that someone was eyeing their family, and it seemed that they were going to set a trap to catch Liu Caiyun, which made Wei Chi Chi very worried, and her husband was leading the troops outside, as the hostess, she had a heavy burden on her, and she had to make a decision immediately about this kind of serious threat to her own fundamentals.

If the other party really wants to arrest Liu Caiyun, the purpose is very simple: to ask about the production process of the glass mirror. For his family's biggest source of income, Wei Chi Chifan knows that the stakes are high, so he must deal with it properly.

Of course, it is also possible to trade sincerely, but whether it is or not, it must be solved, the so-called "only a thousand days to catch a thief and no thousand days to prevent thieves." "The people who covet the glass mirror craft are not only a family and two families, but they can't prevent it, so she summoned the backbone of the house to discuss the countermeasures and decided to lure the snake out of the hole.

The specific planning and operation command are in charge of Zhang Dingfa, the head of the mansion guards and the former boss of the horse bandits, and the bait to lure the snake is his wife Liu Caiyun.

In order to prevent the other party from attacking the 'nest' at the west end, Zhang Dingfa specially strengthened the defense of the mansion, and Li Sanjiu, as the housekeeper, personally sat in charge and urged the servants, also to avoid the news from spreading indiscriminately and making the people in the mansion panic.

Lin Youdi led the subordinates of the 'Machining Department' to be stubborn and stubborn in the backyard, for fear of someone fishing in troubled waters and attacking the female dependents in the backyard, it is said that the private possession of armor is a complicity, but in the Anzhou territory, the governor Yu Wenliang's son's house placed armor, who dares to be verbose.

Wei Chi Chi saw that the backbone had already put things in order, and he was relieved, and during the period when her husband was not in the mansion, she had nothing to worry about with these people to help her, and seeing that the date of childbirth was getting closer and closer, she decided to delegate power.

"From tomorrow onwards, all the money and grain accounts in the house will be temporarily in charge of Mrs. Fang, and all other rules will remain the same."

"Steward Li, prepare a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone immediately, and send someone to the county prince as soon as I finish writing the letter."