Chapter 15: The Exiles (7)

In the mountain behind Daokou Village, there is a cave, which seems to be a place to store sundries, but if you look closely, you will find traces of someone's long-term life.

Walking inside, there are piles of old furniture covered with dust and spider silk, and on the other side there are piles of tree roots and branches, which look disorganized and tattered. Further down, the black hole is like a gateway to hell!

After the bandits of Daokou Village left the village, thirty members of the Dark River quietly lurked in and stood near the entrance of the cave. After a while, the person in charge of delivering the message to Daokou Village came over, and it was the cronie of the old man Shao Deng. He looked left and right, like a thief......

"Huh!"

A cold dagger was placed on the neck of the messenger, and the owner of the dagger was none other than Yang Duoyan. Yang Duoyan said softly: "Be honest......"

"Huh?"

"Bang!"

The messenger was dishonest, and just wanted to speak out, but was knocked out by Yang Duoyan. Yang Duoyan dragged the cronie back to a forest, threw it, and reached Yang Xin's feet.

Seeing that the messenger was unconscious, one of the members of the Dark River grinned, took off his shoes, and put his foot next to his nose.

"Hello!" One of the messengers sneezed out, and the person also woke up, and looked around, only to see more than a dozen people staring at him. Yang Cheng, Yang Xin, Broken Hongchen, Poisonous Scorpion, Yang Duoyan, the five Dark River Heads are all here, Dark River, almost all of them are dispatched!

"Little brother, say, what are you doing here?" The poisonous scorpion laughed, and walked up to the messenger with a boneless "dangling", sticking out his tongue, and was about to lick his face. It was an extremely charming action, but when I saw a black line on the tongue of the poisonous scorpion gradually getting bigger, a centipede the size of a finger crawled out and opened its poisonous fangs to bite people.

The people present had a calm face, and the faces of the rest of the people in the dark river changed slightly, what a poisonous scorpion!

The people of the dark river are like this, not to mention the little brother who delivered the letter, he crawled back a few times with his hands, and said with a frightened face: "You, you, don't mess around, I, I, I, I am a member of the Shao family......"

The poisonous scorpion sneered, and the centipede disappeared, leaving only the dark lips of the poisonous scorpion, which opened and spit out a few words: "Sister is looking for the Shao family, tell me about the situation there......"

"No, I'm the ...... of the Shao family"

"Oh, my sister wants to make out with you......" The scorpion chuckled again.

"Goo-to-......" The messenger swallowed a mouthful of saliva, swallowed the heart that reached his throat, and said, "I said I said ......."

"There are ten sub-caves in the cave, nine deaths and one life, from left to right, and the seventh is life!"

"Walk dozens of feet, when you get inside, there will be a wall, there are 9981 lamps on it, and if you light 81 lamps horizontally and vertically, you can light 36 bright lights, and a knife word will appear, so someone will ......come to pick it up."

"How many people are there?"

"Eighteen men, and women are unknown......"

"Women?"

"Offering for their ......"

"Enough!" The poisonous scorpion came back to his senses and understood the usefulness of women, and that there were armies hidden in a cave, but it was necessary to ensure their "entertainment". The jealousy in the scorpion's eyes flashed, and he regenerated his charm and kissed the messenger, who struggled and had to let the scorpion do it.

When everyone was amazed that the poisonous scorpion was hungry, they saw that the poisonous scorpion let go of the messenger, and the messenger foamed at the mouth, convulsed a few times, and after a dozen breaths, five or six centipedes came out of the top of the messenger's head, full of *, and two spiders drilled out of the neck, the size of a fist, covered with blood......

Poisonous scorpions, poisonous insects! This is something that those present realize, and there is a sound of swallowing.

"Can you believe what he says?" The poisonous scorpion looked at Broken Hongchen, and Broken Hongchen nodded expressionlessly, his eyes were deep and if he could perceive everything.

Seeing that Duan Hongchen nodded, Yang Cheng Yang Xin's eyes lit up and ordered: "Ten people are out to sentry, and the two of us will sneak in with ten people each, and the action will be ......."

According to the words of the messenger, Yang Cheng Yang Xin cautiously entered the cave, first saw ten sub-caves, counted the seventh, Yang Duoyan took the lead in entering, and after exploring, it was really safe, and a few mermaids followed.

Yang Duoyan lit the horizontal and vertical eighty-one lamps alone, and in an instant, thirty-six bright lights lit up at once, and sure enough, there was a big knife word. Yang Cheng ordered everyone to ambush, he didn't know what the signal of this knife word was, or should he be careful......

After a while, a person came out, unable to see his face clearly, and he was relatively short.

"Yo, who are you? It's not you who usually send letters......"

"The one before is dead, and he can't come......" Yang Duoyan said truthfully.

"Oh, okay, you come in......" The man didn't finish speaking, he touched his neck with his hand, and when he looked at it, there was blood on his hand. With a look of surprise, he shook and fell, and a spider quietly crawled out...... Yang Duoyan pursed his lips and said:

"Okay now, how do you get in?"

It means to ask the poisonous scorpion, now that the person who led the way is dead, how to go later.

"Just follow the little girl......" The poisonous scorpion said with a look of grievance, looking pitiful, but none of the people present felt that way. Killing people invisibly, and pretending to be pitiful?

- The poisonous scorpion is in front alone, followed by a centipede, and everyone follows the poisonous scorpion......

A day later, in the Shao family's mansion:

In the dimly lit room, there was an even darker complexion. Several people in the Shao family who have access to the dark forces are here, and Shao Jing is rare to see that he is not lying down, and is supported by Shao Deng and sits aside. Shao Jing's shriveled lips moved: "In other words, it's all gone?" The Shao family has raised a sharp blade for so long, and before it saw blood, it was all gone? ”

- Shao Jing's tone sounded self-reproachful and self-deprecating.

"Could it be that someone leaked it?" Shao Denghuan looked at the people in the room, shook his head again, and denied what he said, the people present are all old people of the Shao family, and their roots are buried in the Shao family, and they will never do such a thing.

"You say it's leaked, and who can destroy them without leaving a trace?" Shao Jing asked.

The room was silent again.

"Withdraw the people from Daokou Village, there can be no more losses......"

"Well, is it really going to be reduced to fish?" Shao Deng said unwillingly. Withdrawing from Daokou Village, the Shao family will have no way to make a move, which is equivalent to admitting defeat to Xu Qing, and then the price of grain will also fall, and there will be nothing that can threaten and shake Xu Qing.

"I can only think about it in the long run......"

In the west of Cangzhou, a group of businessmen pulled a team of horses into Cangzhou, next to the road, dense forests, ten steps away, you can't see the inside. The leader of the caravan was nervous, and this kind of border between the two states was not under the jurisdiction of the government, and it was most likely to cause accidents.

Hundreds of people in Daokou Village quietly ambushed, and when they really planned to close the net, the owner of the village suddenly ordered a retreat. Everyone was puzzled, why didn't they take a bite of the meat in their mouths? The owner of the village hurriedly threw down a sentence, and the officers and soldiers forcibly left with their men on the way here.

Don't say that his subordinates don't know why, even he doesn't know why, but the people above say that he must withdraw, and he must obey. After all, without the support of the people behind him, he, the owner of the village, would have been a place to die without a place to be buried.

The group of merchants on the road did not know that they had just escaped death. Leaving the forest area and arriving at a populated place, I breathed a sigh of relief and sang on the prancing horse! Speed to Cangzhou City, dump all the goods you carry, and make a lot of money!

In a few days, there were more and more caravans from outside, and the local merchants in Cangzhou saw that the market was gone, and they couldn't resist the pressure, so they began to reduce their prices one after another, falling to a lower price than usual, just to grab back the market occupied by foreign merchants, and only a few grain stores still maintained high prices.

In the Assassin's Mansion, Shao Dengfeng greeted Xu Qing and handed over a post, saying: "Xu Assassin's History, on the birthday of the next eldest brother tomorrow, I will invite Lord Assassin Shi to appreciate the light......"

"Oh? Definitely, the government will go to celebrate the birthday in person......" Xu Qing also returned with a smile. What outsiders saw was the harmony between the superiors and subordinates, but they didn't know that Xu Qing and Shao Deng had reached a temporary agreement between the history and the family at the time of the Zhu Xiang.

First, the Maison's goods are not in high prices, but are priced according to market conditions. Liquidate some empty households, release some vassals, and pay part of the grain tax.

Second, on the side of the assassin history, we can no longer step up the clean-up of the vassals of the family and the empty households in Cangzhou, and we must re-increase the government and taxes on foreign businessmen.

As the temporary head of the clan, the Shao family can still believe what he said, and Xu Qing agrees very much, as long as it can weaken your strength, as for the agreement, hahaha...... Have you ever met Uncle Sam?

In the end, Shao Deng took advantage of Shao Jing's birthday banquet to invite Xu Qing to "discuss specific matters", the kind of assassination history from all over Cangzhou. Xu Qing thought about it, now that his relationship with the family is only a layer of skin that has not been broken, will it be dangerous to go? But he finally agreed, and he went in person, Dark River and Fire. The power of the gun made him feel like he could survive any danger......

- Not long after Shao Deng went out, the price of grain in Cangzhou, the last insistence of the family, collapsed in an instant. First of all, the price of the Shao family's grain stack fell back all at once, and it was much lower than before the "Cold War". Several other grain stores were relieved to see that the Shao family's grain price had dropped, and the grain price also dropped.

The people in the city cheered, took all the money, all the exchange for food, there is a saying that "there is food in the hand, there is no panic in the heart", the only hope of the people is nothing more than worry-free food and clothing, food and clothing. As for what is behind the high and low food prices, they will never know, they can only say thank you to God. Of course, the other day, they did the same, cursing at the sky.

The one thing about the price of food seems to have disappeared, and the discussion in the roadside restaurant has become something else, varied. But there is one more thing Xu Qing doesn't understand, that is, who is the person who Huang Shimei said saw through Xu Qing's plan?

It's a pity that all the clues also follow the guidance of public opinion, and I don't know where they drifted to, and they were completely buried in time, as if the mountains were covered by heavy snow.

One day, Xu Qingduan was sitting in the study, and suddenly felt that there was something strange next to him, and suddenly turned around, only to feel frightened for a moment, as if he saw the eyes of a poisonous snake, and disappeared~~ again......