Standing at the bow of the boat looking at Rong Lu's boat finally disappeared into the darkness, Rong Lu's dark back suddenly made Hong Yun'er feel a chill rising from her back, she couldn't help but look at Xiao Yungui beside her, only to see his face resolute, quiet watching the boat go away, somehow, Hong Yun'er felt that with him by his side, she couldn't say how steady she was in her heart.

The thread and thread gently stroked the thick old skin's big hand, Hong Yun'er felt the warmth of her palm, Su Shou gently leaned on Xiao Yungui's shoulder, and asked in a low voice: "Do you believe Si Xuan's words?" ”

Xiao Yungui looked at Hong Yun'er sideways in astonishment, and said with a faint smile: "Whether you say that I have a black belly, or that I have the heart of a villain, I told you before, the greater the power of a person, the greater his responsibility, and I am responsible for the lives of thousands of brothers and sisters under my hands, so my suspicion is very serious now, and I don't believe Lu Sixuan's words!" ”

Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said in surprise: "Then you still discussed with him for so long?" ”

Xiao Yungui smiled and said: "People come all the way to offer advice, you can't give someone a cold ass, not to mention that he is also our old acquaintance." Recently, after staying with Zuo Zongtang and Qianjiang for a long time, I found a truth, if you want to test what a person's purpose is, you might as well let him say more, as the saying goes, if you say too much, you will lose, I can see that Lu Sixuan's words just now have a draft, and he actually planned to borrow our hands to harm Shengbao early on. ”

Hong Yun'er frowned and said, "What? Didn't he really want to do it with us? ”

Xiao Yungui nodded and sighed lightly: "At least not now, the life of the Manchu nobles is very colorful, although they are royal slaves, but the Manchu nobles have more privileges, this kid is now the second generation of officials and the second generation of rich in this era." It's just that I suddenly changed from a poor boy to a rich boy, and I don't want to give up what I have. In layman's terms: Aren't you poor yet? ”

Hong Yun'er took a deep breath and sighed, "What should I do then?" Since you said that Sixuan's words are not credible, then we should go out of the team? ”

Xiao Yungui smiled slightly, gently hugged Hong Yun'er's fragrant shoulders and said: "In another hour, the spies sent by Tong Qiangsheng to the Jiangbei camp should also come back, we can corroborate it, if what is said is similar to what Lu Sixuan said about the deployment of troops, this battle can be fought." Even if there is no Lu Sixuan to offer advice, I will fight this battle, Shengbao brought the fresh Qing army to arrive, and this meeting gift of dismounting still has to be given. Otherwise, we will not be able to live when we go back to Tianjing, and the pressure on Guazhou is too great. ”

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On a lonely boat, Rong Lu held a lantern and looked at the little soldier who was desperately rocking, and the dim light shone on the face of the little soldier, but he saw that the little soldier's face was pale. His body trembled slightly. Rong Lu sneered slightly, leaned on the side of the boat and asked lightly, "What are you afraid of?" ”

That little soldier was just a pawn in the Qing army's Jiangbei Battalion Water Division. Somehow today. The officer of the water camp asked him to accompany a staff general to the boat at night, but he did not say what the boat was doing. Since the establishment of the camp in Jiangbei, the sailor and the land division often have to do business, the so-called trade is actually smuggled goods, and now the long hair occupies the Yangtze River, and the road of transportation and commerce is cut off. Many goods are smuggled into the Northland, which is a small and profitable business. Therefore, the sailor and the land division often cooperated, and the generals on both sides contributed money to the goods together, the sailor was responsible for receiving the goods by water, and the land division was responsible for land transshipment. If you have money, everyone will earn it together. It was this little soldier who returned that this Lu battalion general went to Jiangnan to connect with the merchants over there, but he didn't expect this general to go to see the long-haired rebel!

This little soldier still has a bit of eyesight, he even saw a man and a woman wrapped in a yellow turban The head of the thief personally sent the general on the boat, and before leaving, he also gave earnest instructions, as if he was an old acquaintance, surrounded by fierce red turban old hair, this little soldier seemed to know that he had seen something that should not be seen, and he was uneasy in his heart.

Hearing Rong Lu's question, the little soldier trembled, threw away the long oar in his hand, knelt in the stern of the boat with a puff and kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Adult Mingjian, the little one didn't see anything, didn't hear anything, you spare the villain." ”

Rong Lu smiled faintly and said, "What are you panicking about?" I didn't want to do anything to you at all, I am the Ronglu of the Guerjia clan in Manchuria, my Ama and my uncle died in the hands of Changmao, you go back and say that I had an affair with Changmao, will anyone believe it? ”

The little soldier secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, the master is a Manchurian, how can he be with Changmao, who specializes in killing Manchus?" No one will believe what I say. ”

Rong Lu snorted, looked up at the dark night sky, a crescent moon floated out of the clouds, he sighed lightly and said to himself: "I like the title of Ye very much, after knowing the identity of the Lord like you, the sea of people before and after the greeting is gone, the Lord feels comfortable, this feeling is so good, hehe." Alas, shake it quickly, you have to rush back to eat and drink, you want to drink the northwest wind on this river all night. ”

Lai Maosan immediately got up and shook the oar, and said with a smile in his mouth: "The lord's bearing is great, and he is worthy of being a noble man from the capital, a noble person like the lord who leads the troops outside is only afraid that it is more beautiful than those yellow belts in the capital." ”

Rong Lu smiled and said, "That's not it?" The sea of people in the capital has gone, and among the ten full people, at least four or five are idle yellow belts, and the rest are Manchu slaves who carry bird cages and play tea houses for them. It is really not uncommon for a Manchurian to be in the capital, there are many streets all over the street, but the Manchurian nobles who know the soldiers are rare in these years. ”

Lai Mao opened his mouth and said with a flattering smile: "At first glance, the master is a person who does great things, and his bearing is extraordinary, and he will definitely soar in the future, just like Lao Zhongtang, a very popular minister." ”

Rong Lu clapped his hands and smiled: "Accept your noble words, is Lai Maosan three?" Do you know why you are happy today? ”

Lai Maosan shook his head and signaled that he didn't know, Rong Lu said lightly: "Tonight, the master and the long-haired King of the West have made a big deal, and tomorrow the long-haired will come out to fight the Jiangbei camp, and discipline the lively Shengbao Sheng Daqin who can't eat and walk around." ”

The smile on Lai Maosan's face froze, Rong Lu didn't care about him, and continued to take care of himself: "Shengbao, this person is the Suwan Guerjia clan, hehe, the leader of the Guarjia clan, so majestic." As soon as he came to this big camp, he wanted to make it clear to the big guys, Chen Jinshou's mediocre talent is also a stumbling block in front of the master, the master will kill two birds with one stone this time, and in turn give Shengbao a dismount, and then get rid of Chen Jinshou's nasty flies, hehe, this Jiangbei camp will be the master in the future. ”

Lai Maosan was so frightened that his knees weakened, and he knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Lord spare your life, the villain has a three-year-old mother and eighty children, and I ask my subordinates to be merciful, but the villain didn't hear anything." ”

This Lai Maosan listened to Rong Lu's terrifying words, he is a veteran oilman, knowing that this kind of power struggle between generals and officials happens from time to time, if you are unlucky to see what you shouldn't see, and hear what you shouldn't hear, most of them will be killed, and in a panic, they began to beg for mercy again, but in a panic, they reversed the eighty-year-old mother and three-year-old child.

Rong Lu Haha laughed, walked over and helped Lai Mao San and said, "What are you panicking about?" I said that I am not afraid that you will reveal your secrets. Then I only heard a pop, but it was the sound of a sharp blade entering the flesh, Lai Mao San felt a sharp pain in his heart, and the strength in his body was rapidly lost, and he leaned softly on Rong Lu's shoulder, looking at Rong Lu with unbelievable eyes. Rong Lu still smiled slightly, and said in his ear: "Master is not afraid that you will reveal secrets, because dead people can't speak, if you want to complain, blame your superiors, because he picked you out with me." ”

Lai Maosan died in Rong Lu's arms like this, and Rong Lu did not pull out the sharp blade of his heart, because he knew that as soon as he pulled out the knife, the blood from his heart would spurt out. Rong Lu gently pushed the body down the river, looking at the dark river water to sweep Lai Maosan's body away, and finally disappeared without a trace, Rong Lu looked at the river and muttered: "Dust to dust, soil to earth, may you also cross to a good family." ”

Then Rong Lu himself rocked the oar back to the water camp in Jiangbei camp, where Cheng En and Zabu Donak were waiting, and when they saw Rong Lu coming back alone, the two stepped forward to ask the reason.

Rong Lu said lightly: "When I came back, I encountered a long-haired thief sentry boat, and the one who rocked the boat was shot into the water by a long-haired arrow, and I escaped alone." ”

Cheng En sighed, and Zabudonak said eagerly: "Who will care about the life and death of a small soldier, Brother Rong is fine, and at most he will give some funeral expenses to those vampires in the water camp." What did Master Wang say over there in Jiangnan? Our Jiangbei batch of cigarette paste is all good color. ”

Rong Lu shook his head and said: "Master Wang said, it's okay to trade other goods with us, he will never touch the cigarette cream, and the long hair side is very tight, but anyone who finds a Chinese businessman who smuggles tobacco paste will be killed and robbed of his house, and he doesn't dare to touch this thing." ”

Zabudonak said hatefully: "Damn the long-haired traitor, cut off the old man's financial route. ”

Cheng En said: "Don't worry, no one in Jiangnan dares to take the goods, Jiangbei has, it's a big deal to pay more taxes and tea money, let's just make a little less." ”

Rong Lu looked at the two of them and said, "When I came back, I saw the movement of the long-haired warship, and it seemed that there was a big move, let's go back and gather the soldiers and horses to prepare." ”

Zabudonakchi said: "Brother Rong, since you have discovered the enemy's situation, you should report it to Lord Shengbao." ”

Cheng En immediately gave Na Ke a burst chestnut, and scolded in his mouth: "What do you do to that birdman? He is now drinking and feasting, maybe he will smoke some cigarette paste later, swallow clouds and spit out a few puffs, and he is happy, will he listen to your bad news? Besides, he and his subordinates Tuo Ming'a and Dexing'a all look down on us old people in the camp, let him suffer a loss, let him know that the pot is iron, let's go and prepare. ”

Rong Lu nodded with a smile and said, "Brother Chengen is right, let's just keep ourselves, and we can't manage so much." After speaking, he left first, but Cheng En's nagging words came from his ears: "How many times have I told you, talk less and do more, who are you Brother Rong?" When did you go wrong with him? Just listen to him......"

Hearing this, Ronglu laughed, and laughed heartily. (To be continued......)