Chapter 176: Entering the City to Catch Spies
Chapter 176: Entering the City to Catch Spies
"Master Jun, the villain came to pick up shells, could it be that he committed some royal law!!"
The fisherman who was knocked down by the iron ding who came down was there shouting in tears, and the iron ding would be polite to him, and he would come up with a few kicks. Although the fisherman who hit him almost got angry, he was still shouting there:
"There were still people from our village yesterday, why?"
Shandong's folk customs have always been fierce, so it is not uncommon not to be afraid of officers and soldiers, and the recruits who are running there stop to watch when they see their instructor suddenly catch a fisherman. Jiang Feng, who followed behind, looked at this, and suddenly became angry, and ordered at Tie Ding, who had not yet dismounted:
"Pump these bastards hard for me, run for an extra hour today, what are you doing in a daze, go!!"
Tie Ding, who stopped there and was about to help, was scolded by Jiang Feng for splitting his head and covering his face, and he couldn't refute it, so he turned around and pulled the recruits who stopped with a whip, and after crying for a while, the recruits ran to the front with a shout, and now there are a few Tie Ding and Zhang Liang left on the beach, as well as Jiang Feng and the Yang surnamed Orion who followed behind.
Jiang Feng bent down to look at the fishermen who were still complaining there, and said coldly:
"You're a fisherman, do you know I've never seen anyone scavenger pull up their trouser legs, they're bare-bottomed!"
As soon as this sentence was said, the person who was still crying suddenly froze, and then his body suddenly slammed forward, but the strength of the iron Ding was really not small, three or four people held it firmly, and after making such an action, they were dragged back, Zhang Liang also squatted down and punched him on the temple, and the 'fisherman' suddenly fainted.
In modern times, when the tide is low in Jiaozhou Bay, there are women wearing waterproof leather cushions and dragging wooden planks to the mudflats and beaches to pick up seafood, but this work is just a good life now. In the pre-liberation period, it was said that they went to the sea with bare buttocks, and only men went to the sea, for the simple reason that there were no extra pants at home.
At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the life of the fishermen may not be as good as later, the guards around him reminded him, but Jiang Feng also remembered it, and saw that those fishermen were busy in the waist-deep sea water with bare buttocks on weekdays, when he sent Xia Cuiyu down the mountain, Xia Cuiyu saw that these people retracted back into the carriage with a red face, and did not get angry, at that time he also specially asked the people of the Xia family, it turned out that the people along the coast are basically like this, it seems to be a joke, but it is actually a cruel topic of poverty, Some people even wear a pair of pants in rotation, where they are willing to soak in the seawater.
The recruits below continued to teach the iron soldiers to practice, Jiang Feng and the remaining few people took the "fishermen" up the mountain, and when they were halfway there, Jiang Feng smiled and turned back to the hunter and said:
"If you hadn't reminded me, you would have almost let go of this bastard, are you called Yang Shishi, what do you call Lao Zhao?"
That Yang Shishi was the hunter who stood behind Jiang Feng as a guard, it was he who noticed the fisherman who was peeping on the side with his trouser legs, and when he heard Jiang Feng ask, he hurriedly bowed down and replied:
"It's the villain's cousin."
Jiang Feng patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said in a low voice:
"Let's be with Tie Ding from now on."
Although the money earned by the hunters surnamed Yang is far more than the ordinary level of hunters in the world, it is still far inferior to the iron dings, but the identity of the hunters has always been unclear, and it looks more like a help than a subordinate. Even if he wanted to give them the same amount of silver as Tie Ding, even Zhao Xiucai stopped him, saying that he didn't have that name.
But these are the hunters of the Yang family who say that the hunters look more like archers, such a useful force is not in their control, Jiang Feng is indeed unwilling, this time more than a dozen hunters of the Yang family followed down the mountain to kill and repel the attack of the bandits, and they were born and died together, and both sides felt that it was time to determine the name.
Hearing that together with those iron dings, Yang Shishi suddenly understood that he had been completely accepted by the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain, and he naturally took a lot of silver, the key was that he had been wandering outside for a long time, and finally found a force that could be trusted, but he also had a heart, Yang Shishi then asked:
"My lord, then our Yang family is more than two dozen men who can draw bows and shoot arrows."
Jiang Feng laughed and said:
"All together, all together, go to Lao Zhao to write a document, and from now on I will be a member of my Jiang family!"
Unlike Liu Shisan, who hesitated, these hunters of the Yang family knew what Jiang Feng had done in Jingshi and Yantai Mountain Qianhu, and with such a person, they would definitely not suffer a loss if they ate fragrant and spicy food, Hearing Jiang Feng's attitude, Yang Shi happily kowtowed a few heads on the ground, and Zhang Liang and Tie Ding around him coaxed for a while, anyway, they were already familiar, and this could be regarded as mutual happiness.
When the fisherman was brought up the mountain, a group of people found out that it was more embarrassing, no one would torture the name of the torture or anything like that, they had always killed people happily, and they had no experience in torture or anything like that. So the only way to do this was to drag him to a secluded place and think of a way.
Unexpectedly, I happened to meet Liu Shisan, who was idle here, on the school field, followed by a few entourages from Weishan Island, watching Jiang Feng and them drag a person up. Liu 13 is also the leader of the Green Forest forces, naturally he knows the rules, I don't know why, Liu 13 always has the feeling of treating Yantai Mountain as a green forest cottage. smiled and said hello to Jiang Feng, and when he passed by, he subconsciously looked back at the fisherman who was dragged on the ground.
Still a young man, not so calm, Liu Shisan still exclaimed, this time Jiang Feng and Zhang Liang both looked back at him, Liu Shisan laughed a few times, and hurriedly said:
"When people from various mountains come here, they lead the team, as if they are following a person named Hong, and they all call him Lord Hong, Lord Hong's ......."
The "fisherman" who was being dragged had already slowly woken up, and just when he heard Liu Shisan's words, he desperately raised his head under Tie Ding's arm, and struggled to look up. happened to have a face-to-face with Liu Shisan, and scolded viciously:
"Wolf-hearted thing, you don't ......"
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Liang on the side was a hand knife, and he knocked him unconscious again. Looking at the spy who had already passed out, Jiang Feng suddenly asked Tie Ding on the side:
"If the fast horse arrives here from Qingzhou, how long will it take?"
This sudden question confused the people around him, but Liu Shisan answered the question:
"If the two horses rotate without rest, they can go from Dengzhou to Qingzhou in a day and a half."
Jiang Feng lowered his head and thought for a while, laughed a few times, and continued to ask:
"Thirteen, the people under your command know this surnamed Hong and the people around him."
Liu Shisan looked back at a few of his relatives, one of them nodded, he immediately turned around and answered Jiang Feng's question affirmatively, Jiang Feng immediately turned back to Zhang Liang and said:
"You bring all the iron men on the mountain, let the thirteen people take you into the city, if the person surnamed Hong enters and leaves the yamen, you just come back as soon as possible, if they are not in the yamen and are secretive, you will arrest them for me!"
Zhang Liang agreed there, and he had already summoned the people around him to ride down the mountain together, but Liu Shisan was a little confused, and Jiang Feng explained lightly there:
"Since Qingzhou and Dengzhou have been coming and going for such a long time, it must not be a spy who pretends to be a fisherman to come here to peep, he must have a stronghold in Dengzhou's capital city."
After Liu Shisan heard this, he looked at Jiang Feng's attitude that was no longer that kind of politeness, but a little strange, nodded and arranged for his subordinates to follow Zhang Liang's horse team, and then walked towards the resting place. Whispering to himself:
"Each of these things should be thought of as well.....
Zhang Liang took sixty or seventy people wearing cloth clothes into the city in the afternoon, Yantai Mountain thousand households in the city is already a place to stay, that is, Xia Cuiyu opened the "Jade Building", this restaurant is now the best place in Dengzhou City, whether it is public or private, if it is not held here, it is not a little grandiose.
Naturally, this has also become the most well-informed place in the entire Fucheng, and the entourage of Liu Shisan roughly described the appearance of the person known as "Lord Hong". turned out to be a very coincidental thing, but the Xia family noticed the existence of this person.
The reason is that two people came to the restaurant to eat, and when talking about the food, there was such a sentence, "Although it is not as good as the palace, it is not bad." “
As a result, the Xia family has been paying attention to the movements of the guests in the restaurant, but they found that these people are also resident in a nearby inn, and there are fast horses to Qingzhou in about five days on average.
When he came to the inn, it took almost no effort, that is, two taels of silver, to ask the account office above the inn counter to tell what room the other party lived in and how many people there were—there were twelve people in total, and one person rode out of the city today, and one bought a short coat and went out in the early morning.
Because of the recent battle at the foot of Yantai Mountain near Dengzhou Mansion, as well as the inexplicable rout, almost no merchants lived in the inn, so the group of "Lord Hong" claimed to be merchants who bought seafood, which was quite eye-catching. Because they are the only ones who live in the hotel.
When the bookkeeper was still laughing, he was lightly knocked unconscious by Zhang Liang, and dozens of iron men quickly rushed into the rest of the inn, and less than ten people and the shopkeeper were knocked unconscious and piled up in the counter.
Half an hour later, six or seven carts transporting the military rations of the Yantai Thousand Households went out before the gate of the Dengzhou Mansion was closed, and the soldiers guarding the door were full of flattering smiles, and they did not check, firstly, Zhang Liang gave them the benefit of five taels of silver, and secondly, the Dengzhou Mansion was rumored that the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain were all man-eating monsters, and they did not dare to offend!