Chapter 43: The Spy

An Yi took Meng Qi to the barracks, asked Lin Muzhi to bring the new homeless people to a clearing behind the school grounds, and then whispered a few words to Lin Muzhi, and then walked to the front of the group and stood still.

Those soldiers stared at An Yi and Lin Muzhi with wide eyes, and they didn't know why they were brought together alone.

Lin Muzhi on the side cleared his throat and introduced to these people in a loud voice: "This is our regimental training envoy Lord An Yi, and now I invite Lord An to give you a lecture." ”

An Yi stepped forward with a smile on his face, pressed his hands on the dozen or so soldiers who were applauding, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said to them: "You all came here from Jiangning Village to hide from bandits, even if you are just to eat, since you are here, it is my brother Anyi, I have no other meaning, I just want to understand each other with you." ”

He looked at the soldiers who were looking at each other, and these people had different expressions, and no one answered for a while. An Yi added: "After everyone has registered with General Lin, you can go to the camp warehouse to advance this month's salary, and then you can return to the team." ”

Hearing that there was such a good thing as receiving food and salary first, several soldiers had their eyes shining, and they rushed to Lin Muzhi to register, and then followed the sergeant who led the way to the camp with a smile. But there were still seven or eight soldiers left, standing there with their heads bowed and not responding, looking a little overwhelmed.

An Yi sneered, and said in a deep voice to a few of them: "So, the rest of you are not interested in my food?" ”

Two of the soldiers raised their eyes to look at An Yi's gloomy face, and then walked towards Lin Muzhi stubbornly.

"Which household are you two from in Jiangning Village?" Lin Muzhi held his carved dragon golden ring broadsword and asked in a rough voice,

"I am. . . It is the west end of Jiangning Village, Uncle Wang's family, called Ergouzi. The soldier's voice was visibly weak.

An Yi glanced at Meng Qi next to him, and Meng Qi instructed to step forward quickly to take a look, then pointed at the soldier and shouted: "You are clearly lying, the west end of Jiangning Village is a granary, I used to go often, how can there be an Uncle Wang!" ”

The soldier was already very weak-hearted, and when Meng Qi asked him like this, he was even more stunned, and his voice trembled a little: "That... I... I misremember, it's... It's the east end of the village...."

The sergeant next to him saw that the situation was not right, glanced at the sergeants on both sides, and after confirming that their eyes were focused on their companion who was being questioned, he rushed out with a single arrow step towards the woods at the foot of the mountain outside the camp.

"Stop!"

The sergeant closest to him reacted quickly, and immediately pulled out the crotch knife and threw it at the soldier who was running outward, but he was still a step too late, and the steel knife was slammed into the ground.

The soldier was in ecstasy when he saw this, the woods at the foot of the mountain were only a hundred paces away from him, and when he entered the woods, with the dozens of them and no cavalry, where could he catch himself?

"Whoosh!"

Before the soldier could be happy for a moment, he heard a breaking wind, and he soon saw a small arrow drawn out of his chest, bringing a growing red, and then his legs lost strength and fell to the ground, and his eyes gradually lost their lustre.

An Yi put down the short crossbow that had no arrows on the crossbow bed, and looked coldly at these humanes in front of him,

"Is there anyone else who is also from Uncle Wang's family in the west of the village?"

The two sergeants dragged the soldier's body back and threw it in front of the men standing in the middle of the clearing. Looking at the corpse with a bloody hole in his chest, many people's hands had begun to tremble slightly.

This is a crossbow bolt and a dead body, and finally someone couldn't bear the pressure, so he knelt on the ground, crying and grabbing the ground: "My lord, spare my life!" My lord, we are not outcasts, spare your lives! ”

This cry became the last straw that overwhelmed the psychological defense of the others present, and they all knelt on the ground one by one, begging for mercy from An Yi.

Lin Muzhi looked at them, then pointed the big knife in his hand forward, and shouted: "Shut up Lao Tzu!" Say it one by one! ”

One of the soldiers at the head hurriedly said: "If you go back to the adults, the younger ones are all members of the sect under the Jingyun Daoist of the Wugu Sect, and it was the Jingyun Daoist who asked us to pretend to be the homeless people of Jiangning Village to find out the news. ”

An Yi listened to his words, frowned and said, "So, the bandits in Jiangning Village are what your Wugu Sect is for?" ”

The sect member waved his hand again and again: "My lord, Jiangning Village was attacked by bandits, but it doesn't matter to us, we just went to Jiangning Village to collect regular grain, and then we received a secret order from the Jingyun Daoist to come to Songling Village, and the bandits happened, we really don't know anything else." ”

"Does Jiangning Village pay you regular food on time?"

The sect members shook their heads and responded, "No, the patriarch of this Jiangning Village, like Songling Village, is unwilling to pay the regular grain to the sect, so he arranged for us to collect it." ”

"In addition to these two villages, how many of them have not paid their regular rations?" An Yi pondered for a while, and asked the sect members,

"I only know that there is a Shuangliu Village, and other places are not under the jurisdiction of Jingyun Dao Chief, so we don't know."

It seems that these sect members who pretend to be homeless people are only doing things below, so they know this, and they don't know anything about the bandits in Jiangning Village, could it be that this matter has nothing to do with the Wugu Sect at all? I would never believe it, but I don't know what to do at the moment.

He asked Lin Muzhi to send someone to take care of all of them, leaving only the sect leader who was the leader, and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Back to the adult, the little Sun Hu, a native of Shuangliu County."

An Yi nodded, then pointed to Jin Mingyin, who was holding a firearm under the eaves opposite, and said to Sun Hu: "I want you to do me a favor, I'll let you go if you do a good job, if you mess me up, I'll let him shoot you in the head." ”

Frightened, Sun Hu hurriedly responded: "My lord, spare my life!" Don't say one, it's a hundred, and the villain agrees. ”

An Yi asked, "How do you usually contact that Dao Master?" ”

"I haven't been in touch, it's all when something happens, Jingyun Dao Leader sent someone to contact us."

Unexpectedly, the secrecy work of the Five Grain Sect was done quite well, and An Yi continued: "Okay, I will keep you in the barracks, if someone contacts you, you must report to General Lin in time, if you let me know that you don't report it, you know the consequences." ”

Sun Hu nodded, he looked at the corners of An Yi's mouth smiling at him, but he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and he shivered.

An Yi turned his head and asked Lin Muzhi: "Brother Lin, apart from these displaced people, have any other villagers come to join the army in the past two days?" ”

Lin Muzhi shook his head when he heard this, "I won't tell you, there is no one." ”

Meng Qi on the side interjected: "Adult, the villain thinks that this is all expected, there are few people in Songlin Village, and the family points to a few inches of thin fields to live, if the man joins the army again, and no one takes care of the dealer in the field, then it is really going to starve the family to death." ”

An Yi thought for a while, and said to them: "In this way, tomorrow morning, call all the brothers to the school grounds, and take out part of our grain from the warehouse and carry it to the school grounds, and I will go to Zhou Shibiao and ask him to gather all the villagers as well." When the time comes, Meng Qi, you take Sun Hu to hide in the house, let's have a big stick in one hand and honey in the other. ”

Although Lin Muzhi and Meng Qi didn't fully understand what An Yi meant, An Yi told them with his eyes that they only needed to do it, and they would know tomorrow morning.

After arranging these three people, they turned around and went to find Zhou Shibiao........

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night

Shu Wangfu

Back garden

At night, the back garden of the Shu Wangfu has lost its daytime brilliance, and the colorful flowers are also covered by the night. There are two black shadows standing under the old banyan tree in the southwest corner of the back garden, a man and a woman on closer inspection, the male is tall and strong, and the female looks thin and small.

"Have you remembered everything I told you?"

The woman bowed and answered, "Remember, remember." ”

The man repeatedly told her, "This Shu Wangfu is no better than ordinary people, you can't make a mistake at all, once you expose your feet, not only are you guilty of stealing your family and exterminating the clan, but even our general altar will be implicated!" ”

The woman nodded again and again, "The disciple has written it down, that.... Hall Master, after the disciple has done this, will he be able to raise the disciple's Fa level? The disciple is still waiting to get more money for his mother's medicine. ”

The man chuckled lightly twice, as if he was brushing his beard and said, "Don't worry, if you do this thing openly, let alone say that it is the law level, even the deputy hall master you can also do it." ”

After hearing his words, the woman looked very excited, "Really? That's great! ”.

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The man was obviously a little dissatisfied with the woman's reaction, and said angrily: "Be quiet! I told you, this is the palace, you must always be restrained, pay attention to the rules, I have ugly words ahead, you are going to mess up this errand for me, you don't want to stay in my Zimu Hall. ”

The woman bowed in obedience,

"Alright, you can now come with me to the young lady. See me again in the future, do you want to know what to call? ”

"Yes, I know, I want to call Steward Zhou."

The man nodded, walked out of the dark shadow with the woman, leaned forward slightly, with a natural smile on his face, came to the door of a house, knocked with his fingers, and whispered inside: "Miss, have you stopped?" I'm Steward Zhou, and I'm sending you a maid. ”

A gentle female voice came out of the room,

"Steward Zhou, please come in."

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Steward Zhou pushed the door with the woman, and made a deep gesture towards Gao Yingshu, who was sitting in front of the bookcase, holding the scroll, and then pointed to the woman on the side, and said respectfully: "Miss, this is the newly bought maid in the house, Ling'er, this girl is clever, from now on, she will be your personal maid." ”

As he spoke, Steward Zhou secretly pulled Ling'er's sleeve, Ling'er hurriedly raised her head, and said to Gao Ying timidly: "Hello Miss, Ling'er will be your maid in the future, if you have any needs, just tell Ling'er." ”

Gao Yingshu was holding the scroll in his left hand, and his right hand was inadvertently holding the bun in his ear, and he was fascinated by it, so he replied casually: "Well, I know, you go down." ”

"Yes~"

Steward Zhou bowed down and took Ling'er out of the room.

"Don.... Steward Zhou, did she agree? ”

Walking out of the door, Ling'er asked Steward Zhou, she was really interested in this errand.

Steward Zhou glanced at her, seemed to be a little dissatisfied with her almost wrong name, and said: "Yes, her former maid is called Ning'er, and she has a deep relationship with her, so I named you Ling'er, and you and Ning'er look a little similar, so for Miss Gao, there will be a strong sense of identity, and it will also cause her a lot of memories, you have to grasp it carefully, and when I look back, I have time, I am telling you about Miss Gao's various habits, you must remember it for me, and the most important thing is to gain her trust." ”

"I understand, Steward Zhou, I will definitely do what you say."

Steward Zhou said impatiently, "Okay, you can go back and rest first." ”

Ling'er agreed, and turned to leave.

Steward Zhou looked at Ling'er's back, sighed and said, "I don't know what the top is thinking, just because he looks a little similar, he sent me such a visionless person, alas!" Unlucky. ”