On the night of the second day after the assassination failed, Wei Da and his group of 22 people returned to Shaomu Mountain City to meet Chen Qun: "Family master, my subordinates have failed to complete the task!" Please punish the head of the house! ”

Chen Qun hurriedly helped up Wei Da, who was kneeling and bowing, and said to the people behind Wei Da: "Brothers, please get up, you didn't do anything wrong, the wrong person is me, it was I who caused so many brothers to lose their lives in vain!" ”

Wei Da lowered his head and clenched his fists and said, "Family master, you can punish your subordinates!" The subordinates are incompetent! Failed to complete the task assigned by the head of the house! The subordinates are ashamed of the head of the family! ”

Wei Da said and bowed to Chen Qun again, and Chen Qun said with a straight face: "Stand up!" Do you understand? Whoever kneels down again will immediately get out of the Chen family. ”

Hearing this, all the guards got up one by one and looked at the angry Chen Qun.

Seeing this, Chen Qun smiled and said, "That's right!" Isn't it just a mission failure? What's the matter? Besides, the reason for the defeat was me, and it was me who misestimated the combat power of the Yulin Army and the defense of the palace. This failure is a painful lesson for us, we can only succeed by learning from it, and those who can come back alive are all good, what is there to feel guilty about? ”

Hearing this, Wei Da hugged his fists and said: "Family master, please give your subordinates another chance, your subordinates will lurk in Luoyang City in the future, and no longer go to the palace to assassinate the ten permanent servants, but go to their homes to assassinate." ”

Chen Qun waved his hand when he heard this: "No! If it was certain before, at least whoever we were the first to assassinate would have died, but now it's inconvenient to act, and we'll talk about it later. You go down and rest first, there will be nothing to do tonight, and tomorrow morning we will practice martial arts together." ”

"Subordinates retire!" Seeing this, Wei Da and the others looked at each other, and then bowed to Chen Qun and saluted with fists, and then turned to leave.

After Wei Da and the others left, Chen Qun contacted Huangfu Song: "Uncle, I sent someone to assassinate the Ten Standing Servants and failed, you deal with Zhang and let them go first, and I will ask someone to send you five hundred gold." ”

Hearing this, Huangfu Song frowned and said: "No, Changwen, you heard my uncle say that we can't be enemies, so I don't believe that Your Majesty will be unfair to me because of the slanderous words of Zhang Rang and others." ”

Chen Qun looked at Huangfu Song with a righteous face and nodded: "Okay, uncle, in fact, this bit of gold is nothing to me now." ”

Huangfu Song smiled when he heard this: "It's nothing to you, but it's a lot of wealth to others, what are you doing with gold?" Okay, if it's okay, hang up, and my uncle will think about countermeasures. ”

Chen Qun nodded: "Then uncle, take care!" Hang up. ”

After Chen Qun hung up, he thought that it was not appropriate to take action against Zhang Rang and others recently, so he decided to talk about it later.

The time came silently to the beginning of July, and Chen Qun felt a lot more relieved when he thought that the states would soon send back last month's profits, and he still had 2,000 gold on him, however, the variables soon came.

On the morning of July 5, Chen Qun was practicing martial arts with Wei Da and others in the mountain city, when he suddenly heard an urgent shout from afar: "The head of the family! Head of the house! Oh no! Something is wrong! ”

Chen Qun stopped practicing martial arts when he heard this, and then frowned when the people came close and said, "Why are you so flustered?" ”

The person who came hugged his fist and saluted Chen Qun: "Family master, something is wrong!" In the Chen Ji Restaurant in the territory of Sili, except for those in Luoyang City, the remaining five restaurants were all attacked by strongmen last night, and the guards who stayed behind in the restaurant were all killed, and the restaurant was also burned to the ground. ”

Chen Qun was shocked when he heard this: "What? And what about the other brothers besides the guards? ”

The person who came hugged his fist at Chen Qun and said: "Go home, the others escaped because they went back to the local Chen Mansion to rest, and the restaurants in each of the six counties lost twenty guards. ”

After speaking, the person who came looked at Chen Qun with a sad expression.

Hearing this, Chen Qun frowned and said, "I know, you go down to rest first." ”

"The head of the family, the thirteenth housekeeper also asked his subordinates to bring a message to you, he is worried that Chen Ji Restaurant in other states and counties will also be attacked by this gang of strongmen, you better inform everyone as soon as possible to prepare for it." After the person finished speaking, he bowed to Chen Qun and turned to leave.

"The head of the family, my subordinates think that the top priority is to protect the safety of Luoyang Restaurant and other state and county restaurants first! Prevent thieves from sneaking up on them again. Wei Da hugged Chen Qun with his fist.

Chen Qun nodded: "You are very right in your analysis!" Fourteenth, you and Fifteenth Speed go to Jizhou to inform Guan 12 and Wei Er, and ask them to ask my four righteous brothers for help, try to protect the safety of restaurants in Jizhou counties, and consider shrinking manpower if there is not enough manpower, so as to protect Yecheng and several important county towns. ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Wei 14 and Wei 15 clasped Chen Qun and saluted and quickly ran away.

Chen Qun thought for a while and then said: "Sixteen, you and the seventeenth and eighteenth immediately rushed to Luoyang with three hundred Chen Jiawei, and cooperated with Luoyang's brothers to protect the Luoyang Restaurant, but it can't affect the business of the restaurant." ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Wei 16 and the other three saluted Chen Qun with a fist and turned to leave.

Chen Qun continued: "Nineteen, twentieth, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, the five of you took five hundred Chen Jiawei to Xuzhou quickly, and cooperated with Guan 18 and Wei Ba to protect the whole of Xuzhou's Xiapicheng Restaurant, and the other counties obeyed Wei Ba's arrangement. If we recruit enough Danyang guards, we can consider dividing the troops, otherwise we must not be greedy, and give priority to the thoroughness of guarding Picheng and Danyang County City Restaurant. ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Wei 19 and the other five people hugged their fists and saluted Chen Qun and quickly left.

Chen Qun thought for a while and frowned, "The rest of the people quickly go and pass on the news that my master and others will come to my house to discuss matters." ”

"Yes!" Wei Da and other five male guards left one after another after receiving the order, and Hua Da and other seven female guards went home with Chen Qun.

After the failure of the assassination of the Ten Standing Attendants, Chen Qun integrated the numbers of the guards, the male guards were from the 14th platoon to the 27th of the guards, and the female guards were from the Hua Da Pai to the 7th of the Guards, and the rest of the numbers were all revoked.

Not long after Chen Qun returned home, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Chen Dao, Pang De, and Xu Shu came one after another.

Chen Qun frowned and said after the five of them arrived: "Everyone, something happened to Chen Ji Restaurant. ”

"What's going on?" Xu Shu frowned when he heard this, and everyone looked at Chen Qun together.

Chen Qun frowned and said: "Last night, a strong force suddenly attacked the restaurants in the other five county cities in Sili except for the Luoyang City Restaurant, and all the restaurant guards who were attacked were killed, and the restaurant was also burned to ashes, with heavy losses!" ”

Xu Shu frowned when he heard this: "Changwen, could it be that the restaurants in these five counties were burned down at the same time?" ”

Chen Qun nodded: "It should be, otherwise if a restaurant is attacked, other restaurants will always receive the news, and it is impossible to lose so much." ”

Xu Shu frowned when he heard this: "Changwen, if this is the case, it will be dangerous!" This shows that the sneak attack was a premeditated attack by the enemy against our Chen Kee Restaurant, so it is likely that restaurants in other states and counties were also attacked last night! Now it depends on how strong the enemy is and how many restaurants can attack us at the same time. ”

Zhao Yun continued: "Yuan Zhi, it's not a matter for us to wait like this, at least we have to rush to various states and counties immediately to take a look, if there are surviving restaurants, we can protect them." ”

Xu Shu nodded: "At present, we can only deal with it in this way, but I still have a worry, in case the enemy did not attack all our restaurants at the same time, but only chose the restaurants in these counties of Sili to guess their intentions, but we sent all the manpower out, and then the enemy concentrated manpower to attack Shaomuro Mountain City, then we will be passive." ”

Chen Qun thought for a while and frowned: "The enemy attacked all our restaurants at the same time, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it, many of our restaurants are located in remote states and counties, and the restaurants are guarded by guards, if the enemy wants to succeed, how many people do they have to send?" We want to ensure success if we have at least three times as many guards.

And each of our restaurants has at least ten guards to guard, which means that the enemy has to send at least 30,000 men to ensure the success of the sneak attack on each restaurant, plus the long distance, how long does the enemy have to make arrangements? This is obviously not realistic. I don't believe the enemy can ruin all our previous arrangements in one night. ”

Xu Shu shook his head when he heard this: "Changwen, don't underestimate the enemy's strength, now we can only try to make up for it, you say, what should we do?" ”

Chen Qun thought for a while and said: "Jizhou, Xuzhou and Sili have already sent people over, there should be no more major problems, now we are not far away, just go to the neighboring states and counties to see the situation."

I took 500 Chen Kar-wai to Yanzhou, Uncle Zhi took 500 Chen Kar-wai to Yuzhou, Ling Ming took 500 Chen Kar-wai to Bingzhou, Master Huang took 500 Chen Kar-wai to Jingzhou, and Master Zhao took 500 Chen Kar-wai to Qingzhou. Senior brother, you left to protect the mountain city, do you have any objections? ”

Xu Shu frowned when he heard this: "There is no need to send someone to Yuzhou, let Shu Zhi go to Yangzhou to have a look, he is familiar with that side, Xuande and the three of them are in Yuzhou now, you can send someone over to ask Xuande for help." ”

Chen Qun nodded when he heard this: "Okay!" Then the uncle went to Yangzhou. Wei Da, you and the 24th, 25th, 26th, and 274 people went to Yuzhou, and everyone acted quickly. By the way, if the restaurants in the county town are destroyed, everyone can ensure that the restaurants in each state and state city are open, and the restaurants in other county towns will be talked about later. ”

"Farewell!" Everyone said goodbye to Chen Qun one after another.

"Changwen, you wait." Xu Shu saw that Chen Qun was also leaving, so he hurriedly stopped him.

Hearing this, Chen Qun turned to look at Xu Shu: "Senior brother, are you still in trouble?" ”

Xu Shu nodded: "Changwen!" I estimate that things are more serious than you think, you must be prepared to bear the mind, you can rest assured that there are Zhao Cheng and 20,000 Danyangwei, no one wants to set foot on Shaomu Mountain. ”

Hearing this, Chen Qun looked at Xu Shu with frowns: "Senior brother, are you guessing the mastermind behind this conspiracy?" ”

The reason why Chen Qun asked like this was because he felt that Xu Shu stopped him and said all nonsense, which did not conform to Xu Shu's previous style, and Xu Shu, as one of the top sages in the world, must have thought of something, and felt that it was inconvenient to say that he would be so prevaricating.

Xu Shu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no!" Now that there are no clues, how can I possibly know the master behind this conspiracy? Watch out on your way! ”

Hearing this, Chen Qun looked Xu Shu up and down, and then hugged his fists and said, "Farewell, senior brother, the family will be handed over to you." ”

After Chen Qun left, Xu Shu looked at Chen Qun's back and muttered, "Why is this thing so similar to Senior Brother Jia's handwriting?" Why did Senior Brother Jia do this? Does he have such a big hatred for Changwen? And the beggar gang can't have so many secret hands, if the beggar gang has a big move, it is impossible to escape the eyes of my brotherhood, what is going on? ”

Chen Qun didn't know Xu Shu's thoughts, if he knew that the person Xu Shu suspected was Jia Xu, he would definitely immediately take someone to Luoyang to arrest Jia Xu back for interrogation, but fortunately Xu Shu didn't say his guess, otherwise, there would inevitably be a big scuffle in the area of the broken temple in the west of Luoyang City.