Chapter 552: The Convergence of Parties
"Lord Meng, brothers of Jinyiwei, the clothes are here, you can change them, wet clothes are easy to get sick."
"Where did the clothes come from?"
"The old clothes of the steward and the men, you will put them on first, and then change them after the wet clothes are dried." Liang Song explained.
"Well, Xiaochao, distribute the clothes, and everyone change into clean clothes." Meng Yan commanded.
"Yes, sir!"
Meng Yan also changed into a gray robe, and his wet hair was casually tied up with a rope.
He looked like a farmer who had just returned from working in the field.
"Master Meng, the rain is so heavy, we can't catch up even if we want to?"
"Chase, you don't even know where people are, you have to bump around like a headless fly, it's better to rest here for a night, and wait for the rain to stop tomorrow!" Meng Yan scolded.
"Master Meng taught me a lesson."
"Everyone has not eaten, and if they have not eaten, they will order the steward to bring up the wine and rice, and eat!" Meng Yan ordered.
"Yes!"
"It's eaten, eaten!"
Da Da ......
Coarse tea and light rice, Meng Yan eats very sweet, this is a green and pollution-free food, and it may not be eaten if you want to eat it in later generations.
But halfway through the meal, there was a faint sound of horses' hooves in the wind and rain.
Not only Meng Yan heard it, but Guo Xiaochao, Liang Song and other people with sensitive ears and alertness heard it.
It was stormy outside, and in such a small market town, suddenly a group of knights came, listening to the sound of horses' hooves, and they galloped all the way, as if they were hurrying over.
The sound of horses' hooves stopped abruptly. Apparently stopped.
At this time, such a group of knights suddenly came, which was enough to make people a little vigilant, because it was very unusual.
At least there is no need for ordinary business travelers to travel overnight in such stormy weather, and they all arrived at Shilipu by coincidence.
"Your Excellency. Hee's gone! Guo Xiaochao suddenly gently pushed Meng Yan with his arm and whispered.
Meng Yan turned his gaze slightly sideways and looked towards the table where Xining was eating, and sure enough, Xining and his two little eunuchs were missing.
"I heard the sound of horses' hooves just now, and he left quietly, so I asked Wang Dong to follow." Guo Xiaochao said.
"Don't startle the snake." Meng Yan nodded.
A team of knights of unknown origin, Xi Ning's quietly left the table, is there any connection here?
The purpose of this bait released by himself was to lure out the East Factory, but now there seems to be no movement from the East Factory.
Could it be that Dongchang doesn't plan to find Mrs. Tang's mother and son. They don't want what is in the hands of Mrs. Tang's mother and son?
No, never, Dongchang knows better than anyone that once what Mrs. Tang has in her hands is made public, what a heavy consequence it will have for Wang Zhenyi's family.
Liang Song made meritorious contributions, even if he caught Mrs. Tang's mother and son, he didn't have to hand it over to himself in the end, so. This is by no means the result that Dongchang wants.
Wang Zhen would never want Mrs. Tang's mother and son to fall into his hands.
Then Liang Song and others are guilty of meritorious service under the guise of using their own strength to find Mrs. Tang's mother and son. Then the people from the East Factory came forward to rob it.
That's the best way to kill two birds with one stone!
The people of Dongchang will never come forward to rob them as they are, so they must disguise, which is the key to this plan.
Meng Yan hopes that through Guò's inside line under Liang Song, he will help Dongchang find a suitable identity disguise.
But obviously, so far, there has been no plan about the East Factory from the inside, and Liang Song himself also looks like he wants to make meritorious contributions.
That's a little weird.
However, a team of knights of unknown origin suddenly came to Shilipu. The situation is looking confusing.
Who are these people, which force do they belong to, and will they be the hidden power of Dongchang?
The people who were transferred from the outside, the people in the capital did not dare to move, for fear of being discovered by the Jinyi guard. It is not impossible to transfer people from outside.
"My lord, Mr. Cai passed on the news from the Public Opinion Division." Just when Meng Yan was puzzled, Yang Hong ran over and whispered in Meng Yan's ear.
"Oh, who gave you this news?"
"Just now I went to the thatched house to go to the toilet, and suddenly a paper ball was thrown in, I picked it up, looked at it, was startled, and hurried to tell the adults."
"It seems that there are secret agents planted by our Public Opinion Department in this inn." Meng Yan sighed, Aunt Sai's Public Opinion Department is simply omnipresent.
Cai Jin received his own flying pigeon message, he had already joined Liang Song, and could not contact him directly, so as not to be discovered by Liang Song and Xining, but in case of emergency, he could only go to the Public Opinion Department for help.
The power of the Public Opinion Department is really strong, and it is really powerful that secret agents are also placed in this small post shop.
Meng Yan didn't expect that Dongchang didn't use his own people this time, but actually made a deal with Hu Sanniang, and let Hu Sanniang take the fire for him!
If he hadn't placed Lin Tianxing to go to Luomei Villa in advance, he really wouldn't have discovered their plan.
It was Lin Tianxing who found out that there was an abnormality in the people and horses of Black Tiger Mountain in Luomei Villa, and sent a message to Cai Jin, Cai Jin hurriedly asked Fan Xiping to go to the Hongyun Inn, only to find out that Hu Sanniang actually asked Wu Yougen to pretend to be sitting in front of the window and deceived his subordinates, but Hu Sanniang himself and Hu Niu had already left the Hongyun Inn with a disguise and disappeared!
As soon as the two were combined, Meng Yan could basically conclude that Hu Sanniang had reached a certain cooperation agreement with Dongchang, and they were also Mrs. Chongtang's mother and son.
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, Dongchang asked Hu Sanniang to help track down Guo Song and Shi Biao's loss of customs defense and secret letters, but this possibility is very small, if he is Wang Zhen, he will never make such a decision.
First, Wang Zhen doesn't trust Heihushan and Hu Sanniang at all, to put it bluntly, Wang Zhen looks down on these people in Heihushan, just a group of grass cowards, and it will be a great favor to give them a little benefit and let them do things for themselves.
Second, Hu Sanniang is not familiar with the green forest underworld in the pass, she went to check, it is difficult to see the effect in a short time, and it will make the people below unconvinced.
For these two reasons, Wang Zhen will not choose Hu Sanniang, but Mrs. Tang's mother and son are different, first of all, the risk factor for Wang Zhen is not high, mainly Guo Jing, and Hu Sanniang caught Mrs. Tang's mother and son, and she had to hand it over to Dongchang, she didn't have much choice.
Moreover, Mrs. Tang's mother and son are of little use to Hu Sanniang, even if she gets those evidence from Mrs. Tang's mother and son, she will not dare to use this to threaten Dongchang.
At the same time, offend Dongchang and Jinyiwei, unless Heihushan doesn't want to mix in the pass, and don't want the Demon King Kong to come out of the edict alive.
To confirm this suspicion, it is simple.
Because Lin Tianxing found a reason to leave Luomei Villa, he came out with Hu Sanniang's subordinates.
If Lin Tianxing also arrived at Shilipu, it would prove that the knights who entered Shilipu just now were Hu Sanniang and his party from Black Tiger Mountain.
Lin Tianxing shouldn't know that he had also arrived at Shilipu, and Meng Yan didn't know Lin Tianxing's specific location, how to contact him?
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and Meng Yan's brows were getting tighter and tighter, how to contact Lin Tianxing?
"My lord, haven't slept yet?" Guo Xiaochao knocked on the door and came in.
"Can't sleep, what about you, little super brother?" Meng Yan raised his head and asked with a wry smile.
"Me too, I asked the Guan Yi for a pot of wine, and half a catty of braised pork, let's have a drink?" Guo Xiaochao raised the thing in his hand.
"I remember that Brother Chao never drank?"
"One time, another time."
"Figured it out?" Meng Yan was a little surprised, Guo Xiaochao was a stubborn donkey, it was not easy for him to figure it out.
"It's a good wine, spicy and spicy, like a fire burning."
"This wine is called sweet potato roast, and ordinary people love to drink this, it's cheap, only ten cents a catty." Guo Xiaochao explained with a smile.
"Brother Xiaochao, I may know who that mysterious team of knights from the town is just now?"
"It's from Dongchang?"
"No, it's Hu Sanniang and her men, Tianxing may have followed, but he doesn't know I'm here, and I don't know where he is now." Meng Yan Road.
"Then hurry up and contact Xiao Linzi!"
"I also want to, but I don't know where he is, it's raining so heavily outside, and the road is slippery after dark, so if it alarms Xining, Liang Song and others, it will be troublesome." Meng Yan Road.
"How did Hu Sanniang bring someone to Shilipu?"
"Do you remember when I received Mr. Cai's flying pigeon biography in the afternoon?"
"Oh, I understand, Hu Sanniang is doing things for Dongchang, this is really unexpected." Guo Xiaochao said.
"Didn't Dongchang also use the Demon King Kong to test whether Jiao Hong was hidden in the mansion by me, this is not strange, but it is such a secret thing, Dongchang actually let an outsider get involved, which is a little strange." Meng Yan Road.
"Dongchang is just using Hu Sanniang, and it is estimated that he will not tell the truth to Hu Sanniang." Guo Xiaochao analyzed.
"Well, that's possible."
"Dongchang was cleaned up by the adults Cao Jixiang father and son, it turned out that the people of the Cao family were hit, and after Gao Rang came to power, he naturally would not use the people of the Cao family, so the vitality of the Dongchang was greatly damaged, not to mention, and there was a shortage of manpower."
"Brother Xiaochao reminded me, it seems that Gao Rang has not completely mastered the East Factory, although Cao Jixiang has fallen, but Cao has been operating in the East Factory for many years, and he is Wang Zhen's right and left hand, Cao is squeezed out, so he will naturally be passive and slack off."
"We can't contact Xiao Linzi, will Xiao Linzi also want to contact us?"
"I'm afraid that he won't know our plan, so he rashly contacts me, and it will be troublesome for Liang Song and Xining to see through it."
"Liang Song doesn't have to worry, although this person has some experience in the rivers and lakes, but his wisdom is limited, but it is that Xining, this person has a cold temperament, I'm afraid it is not easy to deal with."
Who is Xining, it has long been written very clearly in the history books, of course Meng Yan knows that a shameless person who defected to the enemy and committed treason, of course, maybe he has long been a spy of the enemy, but he has not been discovered.
"Lord Meng, Lord Meng, it's not good, my father-in-law has a wheezing attack......
"What?" Meng Yan and Guo Xiaochao were both surprised, although this Xining was thin, she didn't look like a person with a chronic illness?
How can you suddenly have a wheezing attack? (To be continued......)