Chapter 288: Life and Death
Watching chess without saying a word, seeing Guo Yuanzhen and the seventy-eighty-year-old monk playing chess so attentively, Xue Shao sat quietly on the side, silent, as if he didn't exist.
Anyway, there is time, and the more leisurely he is here, the more anxious Li Xiantong will become, and even the egg hurts. So Xue Shao was very idle and watched chess quietly.
After a long time, a plate was settled. Guo Yuanzhen patted his thigh and repented, "What a careless move, you lost everything!" What a master! β
"The donor has won the prize!" The old monk smiled, and hurriedly saluted Xue Shao again, "Your lord is here, and the old man is rude!" β
"The master has good eyesight, even if we are all donors, but he is your lord!" Guo Yuanzhen smiled and said, "Xue Gongzi, if you add a little more sesame oil money, I won't be able to see it." β
Xue Shao shook his head with a smile, "I'm penniless now, you give me a cushion first!" β
"Okay." Guo Yuanzhen was generous, and sprinkled a few silver cakes in one handful, "Master, this is the sesame oil money added by this Xue Gongzi, you have collected it!" β
Xue Shao looked at these silver cakes and looked at them as familiar, wasn't it the prostitution money he gave him before? β¦β¦ This guy uses prostitution money to offer fragrant oil, and he is not afraid of desecrating Buddhism!
"Thank you, Lord!" The old monk accepted the money and obediently retreated.
Guo Yuanzhen looked at Xue Shao and smiled stupidly.
The reunion of brothers after the catastrophe is something that cannot be expressed in words.
"Laugh ass!" Xue Shao sat down, took a light breath, and said, "How's the harvest?" β
"Okay." Guo Yuanzhen said with a smile, "The Three Knife Brigade will never return empty-handed. β
"Less nonsense, get to the point, be detailed!"
Guo Yuanzhen said: "After receiving your secret order, we have been lurking in the city, closely watching and monitoring several important people. As soon as you and the old general Li Jinxing entered the city and attracted the vast majority of their attention, it was our best chance to do it. This team is right, right? β
Xue Shao smiled, "You don't put gold on your face, when you were caught prostituting, why didn't you react smartly?" Trapped in the hands of so many brothers in each other's hands, you are embarrassed to brag! β
"Ahem! β¦β¦ The old horse also stumbled! At that time, it was originally the most defenseless time for men! Guo Yuanzhen laughed wryly for a while, and said: "This beheading operation, which is divided into four groups and started at the same time, will definitely catch the other party off guard." Even if there are three misses, and only one succeeds, then we will win a big victory! β
"Which four goals?"
Guo Yuanzhen sold Guan Zi mysteriously, "There are three mothers-in-law first!" Guess who they are? β
Xue Shao smiled, "It's nothing more than Li Xiantong's divorced ex-wife, Wei Juyuan's daughter is Li Xiantong's current wife, and the maid who was the first to run out to report the murder of Li Chongyi!" β
"Oh, it's boring, I can't hide it from you at all!" Guo Yuanzhen smiled, "How about it, these three mothers-in-law are all very useful, right?" β
Xue Shao smiled and nodded, "What about people?" β
"Of course not here." Guo Yuanzhen said, "I still understand this rule, and I can't give the enemy a chance to kill us." β
"The old man is also locked up?" Xue Shao frowned and asked.
"Boss, don't look down on me too much, am I really so bottomless and unconscious?" Guo Yuanzhen seemed to be a little angry, and said, "Kidnapping the feudal officials, that's going to cut off the head!" β
Xue Shao laughed, "So you played with the lights and hid the old man in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion?" β
"It's so boring!" Guo Yuanzhen slapped his leg and scolded, "Can't you give me a chance to create suspense and show off my wisdom?" β
Xue Shaoha laughed, "Just kidding, although we are brothers, I taught you all the little things you know." Don't even try to hide it from me! β
"So, you must have diverted Li Xiantong's attention and made him go on a frenzied search in Taiyuan City?" Guo Yuanzhen laughed hehehe, laughing badly.
"Of course. If there is no tacit understanding at all, how can you call it a brother? Xue Shao said with a smile, "I deliberately called the old general Li Jinxing and the two hundred guards to leave the Dadu Governor's Mansion together to come to the Yige Pavilion for a drink." Li Xiantong immediately sent someone to keep an eye on him, trying to find his grandfather by following me. β
"Ha Luha, but they don't know what to do, the brigade commander of our Three Knife Brigade is like a loach that has gone down to a paddy field, and his kung fu to escape is definitely the best in the world!" Guo Yuanzhen said with a smile, "In this world, it is estimated that the only one who can keep an eye on you is your own shadow!" β
"Are you cursing or boasting?" Xue Shao scolded back angrily, and sighed loudly in his heart.
When fleeing from Taiyuan, Xue Shao left code messages everywhere, instructing Guo Yuanzhen and others to wait for an opportunity to carry out a "beheading operation".
Will it be successful? No one knows what to do.
But Xue Shao had confidence in Guo Yuanzhen and the brothers of the Three Knife Brigade. This kind of trust comes from the deep feelings of getting along day and night and being born and dying, and also from the recognition of their abilities.
To trust oneself is to trust oneself!
Xue Shao firmly believes that the more critical the time, the more Guo Yuanzhen, Guo An and every brother of the Three Swords Brigade will not let him down.
As it turned out, not only did there be no disappointment, but there was also a surprise!
At that time, Xue Shao hurriedly planned a beheading operation, and the target was only Li Chongyi. Looking back carefully, he felt that Wei Juyuan's daughter "maybe" be of great use. So, Xue Shao gave another order to let Wu Ming and Yuenu carry out this task.
But Guo Yuanzhen had already thought of it with Xue Shao, and without Xue Shao's orders, he had already done things to the level of one hundred and twenty points - not only arrested Wei's daughter, but also arrested Li Xiantong's ex-wife and important witness Xiao Ya together!
What is it called?
Tacit understanding!
At that time, Xue Shao decided to use the beheading operation to capture Li Chongyi alive, but in fact, it was also a decision made in desperation. As for the crime of "kidnapping the feudal officials", in that kind of life and death time, you can't have too many scruples.
Like every successful coup d'Γ©tat in history, if the coup d'Γ©tat had looked forward to the future and the gains and losses, then there would have been no Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and there would have been no Zhenguan rule.
Xue Shao has never forgotten that he is a soldier who "strives for results". Having calm in the face of major events is the calmness and calmness pursued by Confucianism, and it is usually very good to show off; But if you really want to execute a major event and turn the tide, what you need is the courage of a soldier, the ruthlessness of a fighter, and the decisiveness of a hero!
As for after the fact?
It is always the winner who has the right to speak!
At this point, Guo Yuanzhen's understanding and consciousness are obviously consistent with Xue Shao. Otherwise, he would not have been so "bold" to carry out the decapitation operation, and he would have "beheaded" so many heads back!
This is still - tacit understanding!
"One more important thing, have you done it?" Xue Shao asked Guo Yuanzhen.
"What else do you need to say?" Guo Yuanzhen said with a smile, "If we don't do that thing, we will be chaotic ministers and thieves!" β
Xue Shao smiled, "I really didn't hurt you in vain!" β
"......" Guo Yuanzhen pouted speechlessly, "You, the commander of the devil brigade, when did you hurt us?" The only time we were invited to prostitution once, we were disappointed! β
Xue Shaoha's big smile!
That's what brothers!
This is called tacit understanding!
Without such a tacit understanding, how dare I, Xue Shao, boldly trust Guo Yuanzhen and the brothers of the Three Swords Brigade? How dare you say that Li Jinxing led his troops to break through the pass and go straight to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion without knowing the success or failure of the beheading operation?
Just like when facing the enemy on the battlefield in a bloody battle, the robe and the brothers are used to support each other in life and death!
"Go, take me to the three women!"
"You're not trying to sacrifice Hue to convince them to testify for you, are you?" Guo Yuanzhen laughed strangely, "Those three chicks, one is a twenty-eight girl who dreams of a beautiful man at the beginning of her love, one is a poor resentful woman who has just been abandoned by the negative heart, and the other is a typical coquettish girl!" ββThe famous Lantian Gongzi personally went out, and he must have been caught! β
"Less nonsense, let's go!"
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Li Xiantong finally realized the mood of Xue Shao when he fled Taiyuan City.
Embarrassment, anxiety, helplessness and anger were intertwined in his heart, so that Li Xiantong did not close his eyes for a moment after the fierce battle yesterday. He has been desperately looking for people, looking for Xue Shao, who disappeared halfway, looking for his kidnapped grandfather, and looking for those mercenaries who sneaked away.
The first two have not been heard from, but those mercenaries who have quietly slipped away, Li Xiantong, have found them. But it's better not to find it - they defected and took refuge in Li Jinxing.
Li Jinxing's prestige in the army is like thunder. After listening to Xue Shao's statement in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the sergeants began to make a small calculation in their hearts - the soldiers are proud of the horse leather shroud that died on the battlefield, but if they are executed on suspicion of rebellion, and even cause trouble to their families, it is not worth it! Seeing that Li Xiantong's ship is about to sink, do we still have to die with him? It's better to hurry up and take refuge in Li Jinxing and go back to his old job!
Li Xiantong was angry, but he had nothing to say. Because he knew in his heart that after all, these people were not robes who were born and died with him, but just a group of thugs who paid for money. If they are willing to come for "profit", they will also go because of "harm".
To talk to them about "righteousness" would be self-inflicted humiliation.
Early in the morning, Li Xiantong, who had been sleepless all night, sat down in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion early, waiting to see how Xue Shao and Li Jinxing would make a move today.
But from early morning to noon, there was still no one to be seen. The person who sent Lu to inquire reported that Li Jinxing and the sergeants were still coming to the Yige Pavilion to drink, eat, listen to music, and enjoy themselves. It's just that Xue Shaoqi is missing.
Li Xiantong's lungs were about to explode, and he couldn't wait to dig up the ancestral graves of Xue Shao's ancestors for the eighteenth generation. But it's okay, now the initiative is firmly in the hands of the other party, and he can only be - wait!
He picked up a bowl of porridge and just took the first sip, when the big drum in front of the yamen of the Governor's Mansion was beaten.
The heartstring in Li Xiantong's heart was already extremely tight, and when he heard this strange sound, his emotions were shaken, and his hands were hot and red as soon as he sprinkled hot porridge.
"How can this be reasonable, come to sue at this time?" Li Xiantong said angrily, "Bomb away, let him come back another day!" β
The henchman sergeant ran to bombard people, and immediately ran back again, panicking: "Join the army, then ...... The person who beats the drum, his subordinates dare not bang! β
"It's just Diao Min, what's not to dare?"
"Because, that's ...... It's the two wives of Li who joined the army, beating the drum together! β
Li Xiantong suddenly jumped up as if he had been struck by lightning, "My wife, are you still two?" β
The sergeant replied with a panicked expression: "It's your newly married Mrs. Wei and the newly divorced Mrs. Lu, as well as Li Jinxing, Xue Shao and Wei Yuanzhong, who have called a lot of people to come and watch outside the yamen!" β
Li Xiantong heard a bang in his head, and stood on the spot!