1o-5 espionage

Liu Ziguang is still busy every day, the imperial study, the military department, the south factory, the marquis' mansion, and the eldest princess are busy back and forth, after Yuan Chonghuan and Xu Zengshou went on the expedition, the emperor is left with the soldiers, in addition to accompanying the emperor to discuss the military situation every day, he also has to lead the staff generals of the military department to continue to plan the war in the north, the northern line is different from the western front, the 6 sea routes are very smooth, and the telegraph signal is stronger, Xu Zengshou can rely on the staff headquarters in the capital to fight this battle.

Xu Zengshou's chief of staff is Liu Ziguang, now he plans how to defeat the Manchu Qing every day on the map, and the work is not finished, and he will inevitably take it to his home to do, the study of the Marquis's Mansion is the best place, there is a small proportion of the northern terrain sand table, Shandong, Hebei, Jingshi, Guanwai, Goryeo, including the East China Sea, the Bohai Sea are all shown on the sand table, the terrain is different, there are rivers and rivers and cities, the mountains are made of mud, and they are planted with moss, lush, and the city is carefully carved with wood, brushed with blue-gray paint, There are also flags representing different camps on it, and the river and the sea are really filled with water, and there are several model warships representing the Beiyang Naval Division floating on the sea. In addition, maps of various scales and information on the deployment of enemy troops are placed on the shelves and can be accessed at any time.

Liu Ziguang was busy all day long, and he didn't have time to care about the ladies at home, but the ladies didn't have to bother him, Peng Jingrong was busy with the affairs of China Merchants all day long, Peng Jingwei and Liu Kitten slipped to Hongshan with panda Panpan to live, Zhao Wen was pregnant, and a group of children, officials, eunuchs, and palace maids were nervous or something, so he didn't need to interfere, he just had to deal with the things at hand every day, and then changed his clothes and went to Zeng Cheng to accompany his son. Zeng Cheng didn't worry about the maid nurse taking the child, she always had to coax it herself, she was tired and thin for a while, Liu Ziguang, who was a father, had no choice but to go into battle in person and coax the child at night.

After returning from the military department, Liu Ziguang has been circling the sand table in the study, and then spread out the paper to write and draw, and he didn't even eat dinner, and Han Xue'er heated the Hou Ye's meal several times, and brought it over again and again, but Liu Ziguang didn't even move the chopsticks.

"Master Hou, if you don't eat again, the eldest lady will punish the slave and maid." Han Xue'er said with some dissatisfaction that her identity is different from that of ordinary maids, but she has been to Hou Ye's bed, and sooner or later she will be upgraded to the role of an aunt, and it is because she often goes to Hou Ye's bed that she is favored by Hou Ye and is the only person who can enter the study.

Hearing Han Xue'er's complaint, Liu Ziguang didn't pay attention to it, but lowered his head and worked hard to write, threw the brush after writing the last few words, and laughed and said: "It's done, Xue'er came over and asked the master to hug him." ”

Han Xue'er's face was slightly red, knowing that the old man was going to be hairy again, but she still gently stepped forward and stood in front of Liu Ziguang, and Liu Ziguang dragged her into his arms.

was making trouble, Liu Ziguang made a cooing sound in his abdomen, he smiled, let go of Han Xue'er, walked to the coffee table and sat down to start eating, Han Xue'er was tidying up her scattered head, while peeking at what Liu Ziguang had just written, and only saw the top of her head at a glance: the strategy for dealing with Manchu Goryeo.

"Cher came over and poured wine." Liu Ziguang said suddenly, and Han Xue'er hurriedly responded: "It's here." He stepped forward to pick up the wine jug to help Liu Ziguang pour wine and serve him dinner.

After dinner, Liu Ziguang left the house, and he still had to accompany his son, and he would not come back all night. Han Xue'er cleaned up the dishes, chopsticks, and wine glasses and left, not touching anything else in the study.

Late at night, there was silence in the Zhenwu Marquis's Mansion, a slender and agile figure quietly approached the study, the marquis was heavily guarded, no one dared to trespass, so even the study room was just hidden, the figure was very familiar with the patrol guards, touched into the study, did not light the lamp, let alone make any noise, just came out after a while.

Early the next morning, Liu Ziguang came back with a yawn, it seems that he was pestered by Liu Qianqian all night and did not sleep well, he lay down and slept after returning home, until the people from the military department came to urge, Liu Ziguang, who was disturbed by the good dream, did not go to the military department, but asked people to hand over the things on the table in the study to the military department, and asked him to send a telegram to Wei Guogong. All this fell into Han Xue'er's eyes.

The subordinates of the Zhenwu Hou family are treated very well, the monthly money is enough for thirty taels of silver, and there is a day of vacation, Han Xueer, whose ancestral home is in Shandong, rarely uses his vacation, and always gives it to others every holiday, but this time he did not give in as modestly as usual, but took the initiative to find the housekeeper Liu Fu, saying that he wanted to go out to meet his fellow countrymen. Liu Fu naturally agreed, and kindly told Han Xue'er that she might as well play outside for a while and buy some rouge gouache or something.

Han Xue'er walked out of the Marquis's Mansion and came all the way to the bustling Confucius Temple, observing whether anyone was watching from time to time on the road, and finally confirmed that no one was following, and then walked into a silk village that had been open in Nanjing for more than ten years.

"Miss, do you want to buy silk?" The shopkeeper greeted him warmly.

"Yes, do you have any good Suzhou embroidery here?" Han Xueer replied.

"Su Xiu is surprised, only Miss Hang Xiu wants to take a look?"

"I want a pattern brocade of mandarin ducks playing in the water, do you have it?"

A faint glimmer of light flashed in the eyes of the shopkeeper, and he said with a smile: "Yes, this kind of brocade is precious, I don't know how much Miss can buy?" ”

Han Xue'er followed closely and said, "You can only decide after looking at the sample." ”

"Please wait, the little one will tell the shopkeeper." After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he picked up the curtain and entered the back of the shop, and it took him a long time to come out, and he opened the partition of the counter and said to Han Xue'er with a smile: "I've been waiting for a long time, the shopkeeper invites you to come in and talk." ”

Han Xue'er entered the backyard of the silk village, and a person was sitting in the patio with his back to her drinking tea, and when she heard someone coming, she didn't turn around, and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter with me in such a hurry?" Could it be that you've already done it? ”

Han Xue'er naturally knew what the man meant by what he said, and defended: "Assassinating that person will not work at all, whether it is with weapons or poison, it is completely useless to him, this person has strong martial arts and strong vigilance, all daily necessities are supplied by special channels, even the bath water at home is transported from Tangshan, all drinking water, vegetables, meat, and grain are exclusively supplied, and they will be inspected once when they enter the house, and they will be inspected once when they enter the kitchen, and they will be inspected once when they are cooked. That's a veteran of using poison, so there's no chance of drugged at all, and it's even more nonsense to assassinate with a weapon, not to mention that I'm a weak woman, even if Baturu comes, it won't help, so I don't need to say more about this. ”

The man listened to Han Xue'er's words, obviously a little dissatisfied, and said, "Are you here to emphasize difficulties?" Let me tell you, now there is only one of your men and horses left in Nanjing City, and the other brothers have lost their wind, and the Empress Dowager has a strict order to take Liu Ziguang's life, and you have not done anything to prevaricate and delay your action, have you forgotten how your father died? Have you forgotten the high hopes that the Empress Dowager gave you before leaving? Have you forgotten how Liu Ziguang humiliated our emperor and slaughtered our soldiers? ”

Han Xue'er was a little moved by what he said, her two big eyes were full of tears, and she said: "Bingbing has not forgotten, Bingbing lives in the world, and serving the enemy who killed his father every day is to take revenge!" But Bingbing also knows that there are more important things than revenge, and in the face of this matter, any hatred must be put aside for the time being. This is also the reason why I have been enduring humiliation and lying dormant in the Zhenwu Hou Mansion. ”

Hearing this, the man couldn't help but be shocked, and suddenly turned around, and it was a handsome young man, "Do you have the information on the movement of the Ming army?" The young man asked.

"Not only the transfer, but also the deployment of troops, the direction of the main attack, and the specific date of the move, I think, this information is far more important than someone's life." Han Xueer said.

"This is very true, if I get this information, I will win." The young man's emotions were a little excited, obviously he didn't expect Han Xue'er to bring such important information.

Han Xue'er lowered her voice and dictated to him what she saw last night, she didn't make any records, because any form of recording is not as safe as putting it in her head, the spies in the Manchu Military Aircraft Department have been trained to memorize so much, as long as you watch or listen to it once, you won't forget anything.

Han Xue'er only said it once, and the young man firmly remembered it, and he asked with some unease: "It should sound true, but how can you ensure that the Ming army will act according to this plan?" ”

Han Xue'er said: "Don't worry too much, this plan has been sent to the army by 'telegram', and it must have begun to be implemented, and our army will make corresponding deployments according to the intelligence, this plan is interlocking and extremely thorough, I don't know how much effort it took that person, I can conclude that this plan is true." ”

"Yes, I will arrange for the messenger to urgently go north to report this important information, if the response is appropriate, the Shandong Ming army will be suspended, but Bingbing, you can't leave for the time being, and you have to continue to lurk and carry out the assassination plan, you are not moving, no matter what the reason is, it is not right, and the above is very dissatisfied with you."

"Don't I want to kill? As I have just said, rash action can only make the Qing Dynasty lose the deepest hidden secret spy! How can you ever know my feelings, in the face of the enemy who killed my father, I can only bend my flattery, force my face to laugh, and toss and turn under him! And my fiancé is being tortured in the prison of Nanchang! Every time at this time, I think, where are the warriors of our Great Qing Kingdom? It depends on me, a weak woman, to be loyal with her body and tears! Do you understand how you feel? Can you understand it? ”

Han Xue'er suddenly became emotional, which made the young man a little stunned, he was silent for a while and said: "Bingbing, you are not fighting alone, our hearts are with you, you go back, hold on for a while, I will tell the above and arrange your affairs properly." You calm down, this is what you want to be a secret spy is, you can endure what ordinary people can't endure, and you can achieve great things that ordinary people can't do. Go back quickly, lest you become suspicious. ”

After a while, Han Xue'er walked out of the silk village with a three-foot brocade, walked around the nearby shops again, bought some odds and ends, and went back to the Marquis's Mansion.

There is a shoe repair stall at the door of the silk village, and he has been seriously repairing a spiked shoe worn on a rainy day, and his eyes have not looked into the silk village at all, and soon after Han Xue'er left, the guest who repaired the shoes came and asked, "Lao Chen, have my spikes been repaired?" ”

"Just right, a copper plate thank you." The cobbler, known as Lao Chen, handed the repaired spiked shoes to the guests, received a copper coin, and began to mend the shoes with his head bowed.