My plan was a great success in the end, and after more than a month of fighting with the Iron Cliff Fort, the lord of the Iron Cliff Fort, Li Hongtai, finally bowed his head and sued for peace.

Gan Sheng pretended to be a big-tailed wolf at this time, and after asking for a considerable bribe as usual, he agreed to reach an armistice agreement with Iron Cliff Fort, and asked Li Hongtai to write a note and take it back to the king of Yama.

In addition, according to the agreement, Iron Cliff Fort took the lead in paying a batch of high-quality weapons as tribute, and undertook the military expenses of the army after the night tour, and our food and grass for the return trip were also replenished.

As for me, in addition to praising me greatly in front of everyone, Gan Sheng also privately gave me a piece of top-grade refined iron and a piece of top-grade secret copper as rewards. Iron is unusually hard, making it suitable for weaponry. The secret copper is soft and tough, easy to break and not easy to break, and the weight is lighter than ordinary hard metal, which is the best material for making soft armor and chain mail.

If it's someone else's thing, it's fine, but whether it's Gan Sheng's or Li Hongtai's, as long as I earn good things from them, I don't feel sorry at all!

After reaching an agreement, all the more than 1,000 ghost slaves we had captured before were returned to Iron Cliff Fort, leaving only the ghost slave who provided me with a lot of information, and I took them all the way back to the underworld.

I asked Wang Qi to come forward, bribed Niu Tou's subordinates out of my own pocket, and arranged for the ghost slave to be inserted into the team on Huangquan Road. At this point, it finally put down its shelf and thanked me so much. But for me, it's just a promise that should have been kept.

Later, I took the time to ask for leave and went to Zuoqiu City, found Brother Tie and asked him to use that piece of fine iron to build a halberd head of a crescent halberd, and use that piece of top-grade secret copper to tailor a pair of high-grade soft armor for himself. I will wear the soft armor with me after that, and the crescent halberd will be given to Liu Han.

The quality of Liu Han's original crescent halberd is also excellent, but after all, it can't be compared with this new halberd made of the best fine iron. Although she was disgusted when she got the new halberd, she finally accepted it happily.

We've known each other for so long, and we've rolled the sheets so many times, and it's the first time she's willing to accept my gift. I can't help but feel proud that maybe this is a good start to the transformation of our relationship!

Speaking of the night tour of the rear army, it did not take a single soldier to achieve the desired results, which made Gan Sheng receive a very high reward when he met the king of Yama, and was rewarded with a large number of treasures. After returning, there were even rumors in the army that Gan Sheng had become a strong contender for the next Yin Shuai. But Gan Sheng still lowered his posture and tried his best to please the marshal of the night tour, and did not dare to act in a high-profile manner.

Perhaps, this is what a "smart person" does!

When I returned to the underworld, I lived a stable life for about half a year. I relied on the Yinsijian Yellow Spring Water that Cai Yi helped me get, and drank the Yellow Spring Soup every day, and my skills grew rapidly, and it was estimated that it would not be long before my cultivation could break through to the fourth level again.

However, Wang Song still came to me from time to time and dragged me to fry yin to honor my superiors. One day, he asked me to stir up a few more "high-end" dishes today. I couldn't refuse, so I had no choice but to accept it. But high-end dishes require high-end ingredients, so I made a list of ingredients and handed them to Wang Song to procure.

This time, Wang Song asked for obviously more dishes and portions, about enough for seven or eight people to eat, and he also found a firehead and said that he was giving me a hand. I was a little puzzled, so I asked him if there were any other guests coming.

But Wang Song said mysteriously: "Don't ask yet, you'll know when the time comes!" ”

It wasn't a difficult task for me to set up such a small table, and it took me two hours to get it done. Among them, there are still only two yin dishes: stewed pork ribs with stone lotus root and cold fried fat sausage, and then I made a few other yang dishes to supplement them.

Wang Song was disgusted by the poor wine in the army, so he even went to buy a jar of dream death liquid. This kind of reception, besides, no distinguished guests are coming, I really don't even believe in ghosts!

The banquet was placed in the canteen of the barracks, and Gan Sheng sent someone to clean out a warehouse to be used as a private room, and personally instructed the renovation work. He deliberately asked people to change high-end tables and chairs, spread carved tablecloths, and even moved a screen to improve the style, the original messy warehouse suddenly turned into an elegant private room, and I don't know who to invite to dinner, so grand?

After all the dishes were served, Gan Sheng tried them one by one, and then expressed his satisfaction. He sent Wang Song out to greet the guests, but he sat down and waited for someone. I don't know who he wants to invite, I always feel that I am in the way of staying here, and I was about to leave after frying, but I was stopped by Gan Sheng.

He said: "Since you are here, let's stay and make up the number of people, and it will be more lively." ”

I had no choice but to say yes, and then I sat with him and waited for the guest to come. When it was about to arrive, Wang Song finally led a person in, and it turned out to be the marshal of the night tour!

It turns out that Gan Sheng wants to invite him! But since you are inviting your boss to dinner, why do you want to be so mysterious?

After the night tour came, he first looked at the layout in the private room, and then looked at the dishes, obviously very satisfied, so he casually praised Gan Sheng. Gan Sheng looked flattered on the surface, but secretly showed a smug look. This sycophant is in place again!

But after Marshal Yeyou sat down, he just chatted with Gan Sheng for a few words, and he didn't mean to move his chopsticks to start the banquet. And Wang Song ran out again to welcome the guests, it seems that the night tour is not the "protagonist" of this secret banquet.

A few minutes later, Wang Song brought another person in. As soon as I looked, hey, it turned out to be the marshal of the day tour!

The two marshals of the Yin Army, day tour and night tour, rarely appear at the same time in front of outsiders. The two of them are even separated from the military camps under their respective jurisdictions, you are in charge of your day tour barracks, and I am in charge of my night tour barracks, there is a clear distinction. When receiving tasks and going out of tasks, they are also clearly distinguished, and the day and night armies generally do not mix troops, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation of having multiple orders and restricting each other.

It was the first time I had met the Marshal of the Japanese Tour up close. Although his military rank is very high, his appearance and temperament are really difficult to make people feel awe. It was an ugly Humpty Dumpty, bald, fat face, with a round belly and a pair of small short legs underneath. If it weren't for the slightly tight marshal's uniform on his body, I'm afraid that the fat on his body would have collapsed and look even more ugly.

When I thought that such a dirty-looking guy had been coveting the beautiful Yin General Lu Lian, I couldn't help but cry out for Lu Lian: such a lump of cow dung, even standing with her is a blasphemy!

However, at the same time, I was still a little surprised that the relationship between the night tour and the day tour was so good, and I was willing to go to great lengths to let Gan Sheng get such a table of banquets to entertain him. Haven't there been rumors of discord between the two Yin Shuai before?

Sure enough, it's not that simple. After the Marshal Riyou came, everyone just continued to chat and say a few polite words, but there was still no intention of opening the table.

After another quarter of an hour, Wang Song brought in a person for the third time. It was an elegant middle-aged man, dressed in a robe and cloak, and I didn't even know him.

As soon as the day tour, night tour and Gan Sheng saw the comer, they all got up and bowed and said, "I've been waiting for Judge Lu for a long time, please take a seat!" ”

Oh! It turned out that he was the judge of the Prefecture Investigation Division: Lu Zhidao!

"You don't have to be so polite, everyone sit, all sit!" Lu Zhidao didn't seem to have a big shelf, and after returning the salute, he beckoned everyone to sit down together.

Later, Lu Zhidao and day tours and night tours made concessions to each other, and they were unwilling to sit in the first place. But this is a military camp, only Lu Zhidao is an outsider, and this banquet was specially arranged for him, so in the end, he naturally insisted on inviting him to sit in the chief. The day tour and night tour sat on the left and right, and Gan Sheng, Wang Song and I also sat at the bottom in turn.

The guest of honor was seated, and the table officially opened. Lu Zhidao first took a few chopsticks and tasted them, and casually praised them: "Well, this dish is fried well!" There is actually a yin meal, did you invite the master of the drunken life building or the dream death building to come over? It's too expensive! ”

"Back to the judge, these dishes are all personally handled by this Captain Zhai under my account. He was originally a well-known chef in Zuoqiu City, but he later joined the Yin Army and changed his career. Gan Sheng hurriedly made an introduction for me. Not only did he call me a "well-known chef", but he also praised me for my clever plan in the attack on Iron Cliff Fort, saying that I had done a great job.

"Wow!" Lu Zhidao said to me with a smile, "In addition to being good at fighting and having clever plans, Captain Zhai can also cook, what a genius!" ”

"A wizard indeed, an all-rounder!" The two marshals of the day tour and the night tour also praised each other.

Being praised by so many leaders in person at once, this time it was my turn to really feel flattered, and I hurriedly thanked them one by one and was humble.

But eating and drinking was obviously not the focus of Lu Zhidao's sneak here to meet with the day tour and night tour, and then they shifted their attention to the topics they cared about, and they didn't seem to care that there were three observers present, and only regarded us as henchmen who would not leak secrets.

Although what they said was false and true, true or false, even if people who didn't know the inside story heard it, they probably couldn't figure out what to do. But as I listened, I could still hear some reasons.

As long as there is officialdom, there will inevitably be power struggles, and the party will fight against different parties and deceive themselves, and the prefecture will certainly not be exempt from vulgarity. The four divisions, the Yin army, the bull head and horse face, the black and white impermanence, and even Meng Po, as long as they are the prefecture officials who have power in their hands, they will inevitably be trapped in it. Lu Zhidao obviously deliberately wanted to win over day and night tours to stand up for some of his political goals.

But because this kind of dinner is a private meeting and cannot be made public, I dare not blatantly go to the drunken building or the dream building to drink and talk. The night tour simply turned to the east, held a banquet in the barracks of the Yin army, and brought Gan Sheng as a companion. And Gan Sheng knew that I would fry yin food, and pulled me to add vegetables, so I was able to add to the last table to hear these high-level insiders!