XVIII. Seedlings
Xiao Shilang spat and cursed in a low voice.
"Fourth brother, are you still thinking about the hatred of the tenth brother?" The water thief next to him handed over the wine gourd.
"Can you forget, in the past ten days, as long as you close your eyes, Lao Shi will come, crying and asking me to avenge him...... Xiang'an Yu family, Xiang'an Yu family! Xiao Shilang gritted his teeth: "After finishing the work in hand, I have to go to Xiang'an, if I don't let the Yu family exterminate the clan, I can't sleep peacefully every night!" ”
"The brothers are all like this, half of the manpower has been lost, but they are all our own brothers!" The water thief shot a fierce light in his eyes: "According to the surnames of the brothers, you don't need to wait for the work in your hands to be busy, just go to do a vote, and then either go to Gu San Mazi or go to Huo Mountain Thief, they are all happy and happy." ”
"Stupid, a pirate or a Huo mountain thief, where can we compare to being happy now, and the government is keeping an eye on it!" Xiao Shilang snorted: "That's why I'm going to find Song Baoyi, and I took their line, so that the brothers can have a long life in the future." ”
"Then Song Baoyi is just a salt lord, that is, he has a little face in Yangzhou City, where can he care about our Chaohu!"
"If you say you're stupid, you're stupid, do you think there's no one behind Song Baoyi?" Speaking of this, Xiao Shilang was reluctant to talk any further, an anxiety churned in his heart, he stood up and kicked the water thief up: "Go and see if Lu Laojiu is back, let him go to Xiang'an to inquire about the news, and he should come back at this time!" ”
The Song Baoyi in their mouths is a salt lord in Lianghuai, but others only know that he is a salt lord, but they don't know that this Song Baoyi has a fellow knowledge of the guard behind him, if it is not for the protection of officers and soldiers, how can Song Baoyi be so arrogant!
In this world, officials and bandits and thieves are indistinguishable from each other.
"Fourth brother, fourth brother, Lao Jiu is back!" Not long after the water thief left, he ran back again: "Fuck the thief, fourth brother, you are worried here, but that guy poured a belly of yellow soup horse urine!" ”
Known as Lu Laojiu is Xiao Shilang's cronies, his surname is good wine, Xiao Shilang knows his problem, but now is not the time to care: "What, what news did you hear?" ”
"Fourth brother, there is no movement in Xiang'an, the Yu family has been busy receiving a sour Ding Xiucai surnamed Fang from Tongcheng a few days ago, and now Xiucai is gone, Yu Juren went to Yangzhou, it is said that he is looking for people to buy some slaves, Yu Yiqin is busy leading people to clean up the pond, and I don't know what to do, the thief in the third room, or every day in the house, but now he is not only playing the group of little rabbit cubs, the entire Yu family, a total of thirty-four people are in his hands."
Although his face was flushed from drinking, the news of Lu Laojiu's inquiry was not discounted, and the anxiety in Xiao Shilang's heart calmed down a little: "What about Wuwei Prefecture, Shilang and they were all sent to Wuwei Prefecture." ”
"There was no movement, I stole the first achievement of the tenth brother from the city overnight and buried it outside the city, and there was no reaction in the city." Lu Laojiu didn't care about the authenticity.
"You...... You've stolen the first performance of your tenth brother! Xiao Shilang's face changed, surprised and delighted.
"Yes, I will be buried outside the city, and when the wind passes, I will lead the fourth brother to move the first achievement of the tenth brother to the auspicious land." Lu Laojiu burped and said with a sneer: "Because things are going well, the younger brother drank some wine, and the fourth brother is not to blame." ”
"No wonder, no wonder, you have already made a great contribution, since there is no movement in the official government, then we can act according to the agreement with Song Baoyi." Xiao Shiro was overjoyed.
Collusion with the smuggled salt lord to break out of a way, the worst can also take the money from selling smuggled salt back to his hometown to be a rich man, this is a major event related to the second half of Xiao Shilang's life, as for the revenge of Xiao Shilang, he already has a plan in his heart, some of the salt barons are outlaws who are rampant, he is now a little short of manpower, and he can also borrow some manpower from Song Baoyi when the time comes.
"Lao Jiu has worked hard this time, stay at home and guard, dog, go and contact Song Baoyi's people and tell him that he can do something!"
The dog snorted, pounced triumphantly, and soon disappeared into Chaohu Lake in a small boat.
Xiao Shilang's hanging heart relaxed, and he beckoned Lu Laojiu to sit down: "Lao Jiu, have you inquired about the details of the tenth brother's miss?" ”
The news that Xiao Shilang got before was vague, either boasting that the Yu family was strong in martial arts, or that Yu Yiqin and Yu Guozhen were demons who sprinkled beans into soldiers, but the news he got from the government was that he was an inspector with archers and hunters who killed all the water thieves. Xiao Shilang doesn't believe in any of this, but it's always good that Yu Guozhen, the kid in the third room of the Yu family, has a close relationship with this matter.
Lu Laojiu told him the news he heard, he got it from those young people's families in Xiang'an Town, and it was naturally more real than the news that others got, Xiao Shilang's face changed slightly after hearing it: That little animal is so cunning!
"Is that little boy of the Yu family really only fifteen years old?"
"Sixteen years old, seventeen by the end of the year."
"This little mongrel can't stay, I will definitely say that those salt lords, let them help me, kill the whole family of the little mongrel, and chop him into meat sauce to feed the dogs......" Xiao Shilang didn't want to admit it, but he had to agree in his heart, Yu Guozhen was indeed resourceful and brave and good at fighting, and most importantly, he was only sixteen years old!
Yu Guozhen himself, who was being remembered by Xiao Shilang, got up from the muddy water at this time: "Go on, go on!" ”
Since he is ready to attack the water thieves, it is indispensable to strengthen the training in the water, Xiang'an's teenagers all grow up on the water's edge, and swimming is not a problem, but being able to swim is not the same as being able to fight in the water, Yu Guozhen himself is not very good at this, so he can only explore and practice.
He also didn't expect the practice of the past few days to be effective, it was nothing more than better to prepare than not to prepare.
After half an afternoon of training, the teenagers were like clay figures, everyone jumped into the river to take a bath, Ye Wuya smiled and pushed Luo Jiuhe: "Jiuhe, you are good today, the little official praised you twice." ”
Luo Jiuhe glanced at him, and he didn't know if this guy's words were really praise or to laugh at him, his performance was quite a failure when he attacked the thief that day, and he became a laughing stock afterwards, and he felt uncomfortable these days.
Gao Erzhu watched from the side and snorted: "Not convinced? Jiuhe, when the petty officials recruited people, some people said that your surname is soft, and it is okay to be a scholar, but it is really not qualified to be a housekeeper, at that time, I said to the petty officials, you are clever and smart, so that the petty officials accepted you, but how did you behave! ”
Speaking of this, Gao Erzhu was also a little angry: "I'm telling you, we will soon have new work to do, if you are still like that, don't blame me for not helping you speak, you better go back to the town!" ”
Luo Jiuhe's body shook and lowered his head, Ye Wuya said to him, he was unconvinced by the boss in his heart, but when Gao Erzhu said him, he didn't dare to talk back.
"Brother Erzhu, won't you, the petty officials really want to fire some people?" Ye Wuya heard Gao Erzhu's words, and asked in a low voice.
"Haven't you heard, the fifth master went to Yangzhou, and was going to go north along the canal there to buy a group of domestic servants in Shandong, which has a similar relationship with me, not like you." Gao Erzhu mentioned that he was in the Yu family, not only was he not ashamed of being a domestic servant, but he was a little proud: "When dozens or hundreds of people come, if you don't behave well, you will have to go home and eat old rice." ”
"That's not going to happen!" Luo Jiuhe and Ye Wuya spoke in unison this time.
What kind of life did they live in the town, half of the eldest child ate bad Lao Tzu, and ate fried fish, pig's trotter pounds, and braised pork at Yu's house for two months, and let them go back to live a second meal of porridge, don't think about it!
What's more, these days, they have found a certain dignity, originally the adults in the town saw them, the first alarm was whether they were going to take the sheep and steal chickens and dogs, so the most common is to greet with a broomstick, but now it is different, when they occasionally go back to the town, which acquaintance greets them unceremoniously, thinking of a way to ask them if the Yu family still wants to recruit people!
"Don't want to be laid off? Then work harder, I just said, recently, but there is something to do! "The second pillar god of the high school is mysterious and secret.
Yu Guozhen heard their conversation a little farther away and smiled, Gao Erzhu still has some means, however, Yu Guozhen feels that the most suitable job for him is not what he is doing now, and when he has a little more people in his hands, he will let Erzhu do more important things.
After washing off the mud and sand on his body, he climbed ashore, and then saw Xiaolian rushing up with a dry towel: "Little official, just let them flutter, why don't you follow them!" ”
Xiaolian has been nagging like this every day for the past few days, Yu Guozhen opened his arms, and the girl got into his armpits and carefully wiped the water stains on his body. This is a very small thing, but Xiaolian seems to regard it as an extremely important job, and she is attentive when wiping it, and she doesn't blink with a pair of big eyes, and she doesn't even notice that Yu Guozhen is looking at her.
"These things, the petty officials have to do it themselves every time, so what do you have to do with the big pillars and two pillars, and the petty officials too, never listen to people's advice......"
Nagging to wipe the water stains on Yu Guozhen's body, Xiaolian raised her face, met Yu Guozhen's gaze, and stopped complaining, and the little girl's cheeks flew red: "Little official!" ”
"Ah, haha......" Yu Guozhen snorted and took his gaze back from where he shouldn't have looked, summer has come, so even Xiaolian's clothes are less.
I saw the refreshing scenery just now, although she still looks very immature on a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, Yu Guozhen is still in a much happier mood.
At this moment, he saw the second uncle running over on a mule, Yu Guozhen changed his original idea of going to tease his maid, and the second uncle should be here to do business.
"Guozhen, it's all ready, a total of fifty mouths and thirty roots." Yu Yiqin arrived in front of him and made a gesture with a little excitement.
The so-called fifty mouths are only 50 steel knives, and 30 are 30 spear heads. Although the government turns a blind eye to the people's weapons, after all, this is the people's failure to hold officials accountable, so Yu Yiqin said it a little vaguely.
"Great, so I can start getting ready to go." Yu Guozhen was also excited, with a weapon, he didn't need to take the young man to kill the enemy with a gun with firewood!
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