"Is it fun to blow people up?"

Zhou Quan's words made Duan Tong so shocked that he immediately fell to his knees again.

Seeing his restrained appearance, Zhou Quan smiled.

"I thought you would be denied quibbles...... Where did you get the gunpowder? ”

"Villain...... The villain configured it himself, and the villain has seen ...... in the mine."

By the time of the Great Song Dynasty, gunpowder had been gradually excavated, and in addition to the military, some mines also used it to open mines. However, the power of gunpowder was limited at this time, so it was used relatively rarely.

Zhou Quan took a turn in the Hu Hu's house, and knew that it was definitely not the so-called drought and thunder, because he was too familiar with the smell of sulfur inside.

"You have some skills, and you can make your own gunpowder...... Do you regret killing someone? ”

"No regrets!" Duan Tong raised his head abruptly and looked at Zhou Qian, this was the first time he had looked at Zhou Quan.

"Oh?"

"Hu Hu should be damned, he killed my sister...... No one in the Zhuangzi seeks justice for my sister, and the court will not seek justice for my sister, so I will seek justice myself! ”

Zhou Quan was taken aback by this kid's response, and he didn't expect that under his seemingly cowering and cowardly appearance, there was such a fierceness hidden. Zhou Quan was silent for a while, and then shook his head: "In this way, you yourself will become a criminal, and this matter will be known by the government, even if you are revenge, you must not assassinate the outcasts - you really have no remorse?" ”

"I only regret that I was late and didn't do it before my sister was killed!"

The matter of Sister Duan Tong is a tragedy, under the prosperity of this great Song Dynasty, how many similar tragedies are covered, and how much flesh and blood and hatred are buried, Zhou Quan can't figure it out, and he doesn't want to calculate it clearly.

"Kong Li should have guessed a few points, so he still wants to defend you, your aunt is a stupid woman, but she doesn't know anything. Do you know that I was ordered by Taishou to go to Mazhuang to investigate this case. ”

Duan Tong had already overheard it when he was in Mazhuang, he just didn't expect that Zhou Quan had already deduced the case at that time, and when he heard this, he lowered his head: "Yanei will escort me to Taishou, and I will do things alone!" ”

"You're so smart, why don't you know, I brought you back, so I wasn't ready to send you to Taishou!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

At this time, the imperial power is difficult to reach the countryside, and those rich families privately shelter the outlaws I don't know much, with Zhou Quan's identity, it is not surprising that just one piece of copper is to shelter ten or eight Jiangyang thieves. Zhou Quan said this, and gently patted the table with his hand: "What do you think?" ”

"Thank you, Yanai!"

Duan Tong had already guessed, but after hearing Zhou Quan's confirmation, he was still relieved.

The panic and anxiety of more than ten days are all gone at this moment.

"Yanai ......"

"Call me Dalang, I said, the inside of the yamen is called by outsiders."

"Yes, Da Lang, what can the villain do for Da Lang?" Duan Tong asked.

He is a smart person, but his external weakness hides his cleverness, otherwise he would not have been able to privately configure gunpowder to kill Hu Hu. Zhou Quan sheltered him, naturally he took a fancy to one of his skills, but he thought about it carefully, and he couldn't think of any skills worthy of Zhou Quan's attention.

"Configure gunpowder for me, I will give you a rough formula, you add or decrease your own improvements, I want the most powerful gunpowder with the smallest residue!" Zhou Quan said.

In fact, he will also configure gunpowder himself, after all, the formula of the formula of black powder is not a secret, but Zhou Quan spared his life, if he wants to improve the power of gunpowder and get it really usable, it needs to be tried and tested, and there will be great danger in this test process.

Originally, Zhou Quan wanted to put this matter on the agenda in a few years, but he didn't expect to pick up a "self-taught" kid in the countryside. Duan Tong only saw Zhou Quan's serious face, but he didn't know that Zhou Quan's heart had blossomed.

Duan Tong heard that he was asked to configure gunpowder, but he did not hesitate and immediately responded.

"Why do you want you to prepare gunpowder without asking me?" Zhou Quan saw that he deserved to be happy, but he was a little surprised in his heart.

"Since my sister left, today is the first time I am like a person, Da Lang protects me, and let me be like a person, my life is Da Lang's."

This kid is actually very shrewd, Zhou Quan laughed twice, made him stand up, and didn't say anything more.

Seeing that Zhou Quan was silent, Duan Tong stood there, not knowing whether to leave or stay. It didn't take long to see Wang Qinian running back: "Da Lang, recruited, they recruited!" ”

Wang Qinian was a little excited, after Zhou Quan woke up, he felt as if he had opened his mind, and when he concocted that cheap man, he came up with seven or eight methods in a short period of time. However, the man only endured the third kind, and he couldn't stand it, and finally recruited them all.

Seeing Duan Tong beside Zhou Quan, Wang Qinian did not say anything about the content of the confession, until Zhou Quan nodded, he continued: "These three people are from Dongpingla Cottage in Yunzhou, they have a relationship with that Hu Hu, this time I came to Diqiu because I heard that there was a shortage in the smelting pit and wanted to replace Xiang Jia. ”

"All the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods are coming." Hearing that it was coming for the smelting pit, Zhou Quan smiled.

Recently, there have been too many such people, both powerful families and rural heroes. But this is exactly what Zhou Quan wants, his father and son threw out the six smelting pits of the Xiang family, plus the cement kiln, the original intention was to attract the attention of others, so that those with ulterior motives would not find out his true intentions.

So, the bigger the momentum, the better.

"The three of them have the same confession?" Zhou Quan asked.

Wang Qinian said a little excitedly: "It's all the same here, Nala Cottage is located in Lashan, controlling the surrounding dozens of miles of land, there are many fields and forests, gathering more than two hundred mountain hunters, plus scattered mountain villages, five or six hundred men can be pulled out in the spare time." Today's village owner has a surname history, a single name and a crane character, there are several brothers, serving as a baozheng, and he is good at playing guns and sticks on weekdays, and he will also do some things without capital! ”

Zhou Quan is not surprised by this, although the so-called "hero" of Liangshan is fictional, but he now has a better understanding of the real Great Song Dynasty at this time, although Jingshi, Hangzhou and other places are rich and prosperous, but those places that are difficult for the imperial power to reach are still controlled by the squire.

These squires did not take the national law in their eyes, they all seemed to be the local overlords, and the Great Song Dynasty court was only in charge of collecting the imperial grain and national tax, as for other things, as long as they did not openly raise the banner to rebel, the court turned a blind eye.

They also said that some time ago, Shi He had sent a person named Shi Fengren to Diqiu, and they were the second batch to be sent after Shi Fengren's reply...... In addition to the three of them, there are more than ten people, all scattered in Sixiang. ”

When Zhou Quan heard the name "Shi Fengren", he vaguely felt a little familiar, and after a while, he remembered that Di Jiang had mentioned this person.

This guy had tried to get in touch with Ah Lian to inquire about his preferences from the kabuki, and in addition, he had been active in Diqiu all these days, and had a lot of dealings with the stewards of the various smelting pits.

"It's interesting, what did he send so many people to do, and he scattered to Sixiang, obviously wanting to hide, this Shi Zhai master has a ghost in his heart!" Zhou Quan was suddenly alert.

If it's just for the sake of smelting the pit, it makes sense to send Shi Fengren to the door, but to send guys who are obviously not good people such as cheap men are ulterior motives.

"Nothing else?" Zhou Quan asked again.

"It's just some minions, even if there is anything, they don't know, they came here to wait for news from Shi Fengren."

The key person is that Shi Fengren.

At this time, Shi Fengren was in the inn behind the drunken house of Diqiu Digong, and in front of him, a man dressed as a servant carefully handed over the wax pill.

Looking at the signature on the pill, it has not been damaged, proving that the pill has not fallen into the hands of others, Shi Fengren nodded and said, "It's hard work." ”

"Brother Jiulang laughed, whatever hard work there is along the way, I am used to it." The servant said with a smile.

Shi Fengren crushed the wax pill, took out the paper sealed in it, and looked at it with a candle: "There are twenty-nine people in total, scattered in various townships, and you can contact the heroes and heroes of each township at any time...... Not bad, not bad. ”

"I heard that Haizhou's Er Cao Cao is also coming, and Brother Lu also brought the people of the four village owners from Taihang, and there are really a lot of people recruited this time!" The servant-like humanity.

"Shh Shi Fengren glared at him dissatisfied.

Zhou Quan didn't expect that Lashanzhai was not targeting the smelting pit, but himself, and the root cause was still on Lu Jinyi!

In the battle to kill Jia Yi that night, Lu Jinyi lost a few brothers, he was a high-roller in the rivers and lakes, and the heaviest thing was this kind of righteousness, when the Zhou family was in the Beijing Division, he could not lead the team into the Beijing Division to retaliate, but when he came to Xuzhou out of the Beijing Division, Lu Jinyi thought that the opportunity had come!

"Er Cao Cao is a guy with black eyes who can only be silver, and he came from Haizhou...... Now people have arrived in Xuzhou, right? Shi Fengren muttered to himself, with a worried look on his face: "You hurry up and go to Xuzhou, ask if he has arrived, if he arrives, stop him in Xuzhou, don't let him come to Diqiu, recently Diqiu is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there are many dogs sniffing everywhere!" ”

"The little brother may not be able to stop him!"

"He's a good man on the water, and when he gets on land, he's not going to feel well, and you just have to say it's not right here, and he'll stop at once. This guy is just paying it back, his subordinates, who are used to stealing chickens and touching dogs, will definitely be exposed when they come here! Shi Fengren said.

The messenger laughed when he heard this: "Yes, what Brother Jiulang said is. ”

"Laughing at what?"

"Those people in our village are not honest, there are village owners and brothers in the village, they have to be honest, and now they are scattered to the townships to make friends, and my brother is not afraid of them causing trouble?"

"The people selected by the owner of the village, although there are cheap and good things, but most of them know the general situation, and the owner of the village said in the letter that they don't know about the Zhou Assembly, at most they only know how to come here to listen to orders, even if there is any accident, they are not afraid of leaking the news!"

When Shi Fengren said this, he was also a little anxious in his heart, sighed and said: "I'm afraid that there are many dreams at night, and the Taishou of Xuzhou doesn't know what he's doing recently, so he has set up cards everywhere...... Don't stay here too long, go back early! ”