Chapter Seventy-Five: Stumbling Blocks (3)
When Li Qing heard the prestige, he saw that he was dry, as if a layer of skin was stretched on the skeleton, and the whole thing was a skeleton, Li Qing suddenly remembered that this person was the skeleton of the master of Daorentang who had received his favor and fled to another country after the Wangjiang Restaurant incident.
"You're a skeleton?" Li Qingchi asked.
"It's me! It's me! The skeleton was surprised and delighted, and jumped in front of Li Qing.
It's always a happy thing to meet an old friend in a foreign country, and Li Qing lightly punched him, lest he break his skeleton.
"Why don't you run farther away, aren't you afraid of being caught by the government?"
The skeleton smiled, revealing Sensen's white teeth, "Wanted is just a gust of wind, the government has long forgotten me, my mother is from Nanxi County, I grew up here, I am more suitable to come here." ”
Li Qing glanced at a group of pickers standing dumbly behind him and smiled, "What? Are gang bosses tired of doing it? Now he has become a porter. ”
The skeleton glanced at his subordinates, and only lowered his voice for a while: "Actually, I didn't change my career, I still continued with the original stubble, they are all my brothers, we were originally on the dock in Nanxi County, but the dock was controlled by military control for the past two months, and the brothers didn't have anything to eat, so they went to the official road to be a porter, earn a few hard-earned money, and then smear some oil by the way." ”
Li Qing couldn't help but say: "I want to smear some oil, and earn some hard-earned money by the way!" ”
The skeleton also laughed twice, and he suddenly remembered something again and said hurriedly: "I heard that Li Dongzhu called himself an official, could it be that Li Dongzhu is an official?" ”
Li Qing nodded: "I am now the chief bookkeeper of Yibin County." ”
The skeleton was overjoyed, the dock of Nanxi County was under military control, he wanted to take the brothers to the dock of Yibin County, but he was afraid of the Tang County lieutenant there, and he never dared to go, and now Li Qing is the chief secretary of Yibin County, so can he also get some light?
"Li Dongzhu, no! Lord Li, I want to ask you something. The skeleton invited Li Qing aside, nodded and said, "Can Lord Li tell the county lieutenant Tang County, let us also go to the Yibin County dock to eat." ”
Li Qing suddenly remembered something, so he asked quietly, "How many people are there under your command?" ”
"I have eighteen brethren under my command."
Li Qing nodded, and secretly thought: "To deal with Tang Sheng, you just need a group of people who can do dark things, it seems that God also wants to fulfill me, and actually sent them to me." ”
Thinking of this, Li Qing smiled and said: "It's rare to meet an old man in a foreign country, you come to my house tomorrow night, I have something to say to you." He took out another famous thorn and handed it over, patted the skeleton on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Male husband, when you make thousands of dollars and marry a peerless beauty, the opportunity is right in front of you, you have to seize it." ”
After saying that, he laughed, got into the carriage and walked away slowly, leaving a skeleton standing dumbfounded, recalling his words, "Male husband, make ten thousand dollars and marry a peerless beauty," the skeleton's eyes gradually lit up.
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Tang Sheng has been worried for the past two days, he has just received an urgent letter from Chengdu Emeitang, the leader of the Min Gang suddenly died, the Min Gang has already identified it as the hand of Emeitang, seeing that the storm that has not been encountered for decades is about to be set off, Emeitang immediately mobilized the gangs from all over the country to return to Chengdu to fight.
Tang Sheng was like a wild dog that had been beaten, his tail was drooping, his men were gone, there were only five or six people left, and he didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, and his plan to deal with Wang Changling and Li Qing was also put on hold, and he patrolled the streets every day to maintain social order.
He has another chance, that is, the annual imperial court examination is about to begin, and the county order of Yibin County is negligent in government affairs, and he will inevitably have to take the next exam, and he will be demoted or dismissed according to the Tang system, and the seat of the county order will be vacant at that time, Li Daofu has promised to recommend himself, Tang Sheng knows that this is his daughter's pillow wind blowing, hehe! You have the recommendation of the festival degree, Lao Tzu is recommended by the history of the state thorn, you have the guarantee of the king of Ning, Lao Tzu has Li Xiangguo to protect the lift, Lao Tzu wants to see whether Yibin County is surnamed Tang or surnamed Li.
His heart began to heat up again, he seemed to see himself sitting in the seat of the county commander giving orders, stepping on Li Qing with his left foot and Wang Changling with his right foot, the initial worries gradually dissipated, the sky was close to dusk, and the long yellow light of the sun's westward slope was revealed from the gap in the clouds, Tang Sheng was refreshed, and smiled at his subordinates: "I'm having a treat today, go to Minyi Building to have a drink first, and then go to Pinhualou to have fun, hehe!" Several of his subordinates were overjoyed, and they hugged Tang Sheng noisily and left.
The night is already very deep, the wharf in Yibin County is very quiet, the twilight is vast, the night is getting thicker and thicker, the moon is gradually rounding into the vast western sky of the sea of clouds, on the other side of the wharf neatly stacked the military products that have not yet been transported, a wide wooden board like a stiff skirt, the military products are tightly surrounded, more than a dozen soldiers who keep watch at night are divided into five groups, guarding all parts of the wharf, in the northwest corner, there are two soldiers guarding, the war has been going for more than a month, has not stopped, the soldiers patrol every day, night and night duty, there has never been any accident, Gradually, it began to become sluggish.
Suddenly, two black shadows rushed along the street corner, ten feet away from the military yard suddenly stopped, slowly poked their heads out of the darkness to observe the movement, for a long time, before beckoning backwards, a hundred steps away in the night There were more than a dozen black shadows, the movements were also agile, they were dressed in night clothes, their feet wore thick-soled soft shoes, they only made a rustling sound when they ran, they all stopped at the street corner, and a carriage quietly followed, the following thing was to solve the two guarding soldiers, but this was not up to them, A long black shadow appeared behind the two soldiers, extremely fast, as if a ghost, only to see a faint figure looming, but where the person is, but can not be seen, a group of black-clothed people on the corner of the street secretly spoke, this kind of skilled assassin is still the first time in his life.
The two soldiers on duty were dozing in one place, sometimes waking up and looking around, but they didn't know that the danger was quietly coming, the ghost didn't seem to want to kill the two soldiers, only approached slowly, suddenly the heads of the two soldiers hit each other heavily, and the two immediately fell to the ground like soft mud, more than a dozen people in black quickly approached, and they took out knives to cut the wooden planks and drilled in, and soon they drilled out with various weapons in their hands, and placed them on the car on the corner of the street, and the people immediately ran back, the movements were tense and quick, and it could be seen that this group of people had extremely rich experience in doing dark thingsAfter moving three times, people, cars, and weapons all disappeared into the vast night, and the last thing to leave was the ghost, and at the moment it disappeared, a small waist card was stuffed into a soldier's hand.
As soon as the morning dawned, there was an abnormal movement on the military wharf, and a large group of soldiers landed on the shore, and then the river was blocked, and the city gate was guarded by officers and soldiers, and a group of soldiers began to smash the door from house to house, and the door was smashed to the earth. Wang Changling and Li Qing were called to the barracks for questioning as magistrates.
"Someone stole ordnance last night, and a total of 641 weapons were missing, do you know what the consequences are?"
Lieutenant Guo Yidu, who was stationed in Yibin County, had a gloomy face, his eyes stared at them fiercely, the thieves did not steal food and cloth, but went to steal the weapons that had been numbered, so that he could not hide it, if he did not find the stolen weapons this time, this wartime dereliction of duty, I am afraid that his own head will not be guaranteed, he has been ordered by his superiors to recover the weapons within three days, otherwise the military law will be engaged.
"Wang Xiancheng, the consequences of this matter are very serious, especially in wartime, if you can't recover these weapons, not only me, I'm afraid even you can't get out of it, I hope you can cooperate, and we will end this matter together."
Wang Changling was annoyed by the army's trespassing on people's houses, and suddenly heard that it was a theft of weapons, and it was more than 600 pieces, he couldn't help but be stunned, and his mind quickly thought about all kinds of possibilities, if it was a few, it could also be regarded as a splash in some places, but hundreds of weapons were missing, this is by no means as simple as personal interest, to put it seriously, it can even be linked to the word 'rebellion', 'Is it done by bureaucrats?' Wang Changling suddenly flashed a thought, only they in Yibin County have this need, and these weapons are most likely stolen by those wingmen who live in the village at night.
"General Wu, maybe this has something to do with the wingmen."
"Wingman?" Captain Guo Yi was puzzled for a while.
"I thought it wasn't the work of the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats could buy weapons if they wanted them, and they couldn't steal the ordnance, but if it was verified, it was a crime of rebellion, and they shouldn't be so stupid." Li Qing saw that Wang Changling was pulling the matter away, so he hurriedly took over the topic.
"Then Master Li, what good ideas do you have?"
Li Qing pondered for a moment and said, "I wonder if the thief left any clues?" ”
A sentence reminded Lieutenant Guo Yidu, and he hurriedly took out the waist card that was left at the scene.
"This is the sign that the night watchman took from the gangster when he was fighting with the gangster, I looked at it for a long time, but I don't know what it is, you can refer to it in detail."
"It's a number plate, where do I think I've seen it?"
Captain Guo Yi was overjoyed, his eyes stared at Li Qing, and Li Qing handed the wooden card to Wang Changling again, but his brows were twisted into a line, as if he was falling into deep thought.
Wang Changling took it and looked closely, this is a one-inch size wooden sign, the whole body is pitch black, the front reads 'One Hundred and Sixty-Three' and the back is embossed with a big mountain, he stared at the mountain for a long time, and suddenly said: "This mountain seems to be Mount Emei." ”
"I remember!" Li Qing shouted loudly, "I saw this brand once by chance in Chengdu, it is the number plate of the Chengdu gangster Emeitang, the time is too long, I almost forget it, and I am reminded by Wang Xiancheng." ”
Lieutenant Guo Yi frowned and said, "The Chengdu gang came to Yibin County to steal ordnance. ”
Li Qing only glanced at Wang Changling lightly, without saying a word, Wang Changling suddenly understood, needless to say, this must have been done by Tang Sheng, only he has something to do with Emeitang in Yibin County, and in the past few days, his minions have disappeared inexplicably, and it must also have something to do with this matter.
He was a rectal man, and when he thought of the answer, he rushed out: "General Wu, please recall all the soldiers!" I know who did it. ”
"Who is it?"
Wang Changling whispered a few words in the ear of Captain Guo Yi, and Captain Guo Yi was extremely surprised when he heard it: "He is a dignified county lieutenant, can he be involved in the underworld?" ”
Wang Changling nodded and said: "This matter is true, I dare to use the position of county chief to guarantee." ”
"With Wang Xiancheng's uprightness, he will not lie, I believe it." Na Guo Yi Du Wei walked out of the tent and shouted murderously: "Someone! Come with me to search and arrest people. ”
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