Chapter 200: Gluttony
In order to end the topic of women as soon as possible, Tang Anshu handed over a cup of tea: "What's the matter?" ”
An Wanghai drank a cup of tea, and then told the story again, and also said his analysis.
Tang Anshu's face was full of sadness after hearing this: "The Japanese came out halfway, and this matter is troublesome." ”
"Isn't that a problem? It seems that Zhang Dashuai deliberately kept his distance from the Japanese, otherwise the Japanese would not have come to me to test me. An Wanghai pinched the teacup and said, "I came to Yongcheng this time, saying that I was a special envoy, but in fact I only have the authority to negotiate arms sales, after Mr. Guo Songling's failure to raise troops, I am also in danger, and now I am a fart in the army, just a comprador with chicken feathers as an arrow, but Zhang Dashuai gave me enough face, and declared that I was a special envoy, and I only waved a few chicken feathers in Yongcheng, but I recruited the Japanese. ”
Tang Anshu asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
An Wanghai looked at Tang Anshu: "I've thought about it, the original plan remains the same, I still have to follow my steps, the Japanese are a trap, Li Songming knows it, so I want to win over Li Songming, but the Japanese still have to meet and win Li Songming's trust." ”
Tang Anshu pondered for a moment: "However, what Li Songming needs now is 150,000, do you have it?" ”
An Wanghai shook his head and said: "No, although I have a way, but it is too late, Jiang Boqi's idea to Li Songming is that he should not go to Fu Guodong and Sun San to borrow it, Jiang Boqi's words should be from the bottom of his heart, after all, I know what the truth of the matter is, and he is afraid that he will eventually be swallowed up by Zhang Fuzhi." ”
Tang Anshu shook his head: "It is difficult for Fu Guodong to raise troops now, and it is impossible to come up with 150,000." ”
An Wanghai said: "Then Sun San, right?" ”
Tang Anshu still shook his head: "Sun San can't do it either, he is just a small warlord after all, the current situation is mainly for self-preservation, I have a way to get this money." ”
An Wanghai was surprised: "You? ”
Tang Anshu said: "Don't forget Yexin's identity, she is now a paper bodhisattva, and the paper bodhisattva has found the treasure of Shuiling Jian, 150,000 is just a drop in the bucket, but since the 150,000 is out, we can't help him in vain." ”
An Wanghai said: "Isn't this nonsense? Why did you help him Li Songming for nothing? ”
Tang Anshu said: "So, we have to find a partner of Li Songming, so the question is, who should be this partner?" You and I certainly can't. ”
An Wanghai pondered carefully: "Yexin can't do it, she is a pirate, Qiu Yishan and Qiu Gubo can't do it, and the trench can't be considered." ”
Tang Anshu approached An Wanghai: "I have an excellent candidate." ”
An Wanghai asked, "Who?" ”
Tang Anshu said: "Le Zhengxian! ”
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Le Zhengxian in the inn had not taken any action for several days, because he really didn't understand why Hu Shen wanted to let him go?
Obviously caught yourself, why don't you quickly and neatly solve yourself? Do you want to strictly prohibit Zhang Dingfeng from hurting himself? Why is that?
Yan Zhenguo and Xue Huichuan, who followed Le Zhengxian, have also been idle these days.
The three people who lived in the same room almost didn't talk much, which made Yan Zhenguo and Xue Huichuan so uncomfortable that they wanted to beat each other to relieve their boredom.
It was another late night, Le Zhengxian sat on the window with a glass of wine, looking outside, not knowing what to do next, his original plan was to return to Yongcheng, kill Hu Shen, and then return to his roots, return to his hometown, and guard the tomb of the Qu family.
Le Zhengxian, who was in a daze, was hit by a stone, he looked down and found Qiu Gubo standing with his waist crossed in the darkness downstairs, Qiu Gubo beckoned to him, and put a finger to his mouth.
Le Zhengxian turned his head to look at Yan Zhenguo and Xue Huichuan who were lying on the bed, jumped downstairs, and landed firmly in front of Qiu Gubo.
Qiu Gubo took a step back: "Are you okay?" Just jumped off? I can't kill you. ”
Le Zhengxian asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Qiu Gubo said: "An Shu has something to do with you. ”
Le Zhengxian was stunned: "He's back?" ”
Qiu Gubo felt strange: "The whole Yongcheng knows that he is back, don't you know?" What have you been doing these days? ”
Le Zhengxian didn't want to explain: "Where is Anshu?" ”
Qiu Gubo said: "Let's go, follow me." ”
Qiu Gubo took Le Zhengxian through the alley, walked for a long time, and after making sure that no one was following, he led Qiu Gubo into a wooden house.
After entering the house, Le Zhengxian saw Tang Anshu who was sitting there waiting for a long time, but he didn't know that An Wanghai was hiding in the corner of the house.
This is an agreement between An Wanghai and Tang Anshu, after all, he doesn't trust anyone, he needs a conversation between Tang Anshu and Le Zhengxian to determine this person's psychological state, even if he has a deep hatred with Hu Shen.
Le Zhengxian sat down and asked, "When did you come back?" ”
Tang Anshu asked, "Have you encountered anything in the past few days?" Even I don't know, and besides, your face is full of doubts. ”
Le Zhengxian had no choice but to tell him how he went to Zhang's Mansion, how he was captured, and how he was let go by Hu Shen.
Tang Anshu was very puzzled when he heard this, and An Wanghai in the dark was even more puzzled, why didn't Hu Shen kill him? Why do you want to keep people with whom you have a blood feud? It was impossible for him not to know that Le Zhengxian would not stop if he didn't kill him.
Tang Anshu was worried that An Wanghai would not agree to Le Zhengxian becoming a partner because of this, but An Wanghai did not give him a signal at this time, so Tang Anshu told him all about his plan, but concealed An Wanghai's existence, and did not explain that Ye Yunzhi was An Wanghai.
Of course, these are all agreements that An Wanghai made with him in advance.
After listening to this, Le Zhengxian asked, "Why me?" ”
Tang Anshu said: "It must be you, others are not qualified, your net worth is more innocent than the rest of us, you are not an earthly appearance, and you used to be a person with a dark ear." ”
Le Zhengxian hesitated for a while and said, "Okay, I agree, but my current identity is an adjutant under Sun San, do you understand what I mean?" ”
Tang Anshu shook his head: "You have to abandon this identity, the reason why I am looking for you is because of the relative independence of your identity." ”
Le Zhengxian explained: "I have borrowed troops from Sun San, this is my agreement with him. ”
Tang Anshu couldn't make up his mind, so he had to say: "Then I'll think about it and I'll reply to you in the next two days." ”
Le Zhengxian nodded, and when he got up and was about to leave, Tang Anshu directly took out the wordless heavenly book: "Zhengxian, you used to be a person with a dark ear, and you know more than us, you can help me see what this book is about." ”
Le Zhengxian didn't know that it was Huoling Jian, and An Wanghai in the corner didn't know that Tang Anshu was carrying this book, and he handed it to Le Zhengxian without consulting him, so he just frowned secretly and held his breath to peek.
Le Zhengxian took the book and looked at it, and found that there was not a word on it, he got close and sniffed it, rubbed the cover and paper of the book, and finally took the book and roasted it slightly on the lamp, and then got closer and smelled it.
Qiu Gubo, who was standing at the door and had been silent, couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?" ”
Le Zhengxian put down the book and said, "This is a gluttonous book, where did you get it?" Most people don't know the gluttonous book, only the chaser knows the value of this thing, and I heard that in the underworld, the gluttonous book can be exchanged for anything you want. ”
Qiu Gubo asked, "Change?" What about selling? ”
Le Zhengxian said: "The reason why I want to exchange it is because the gluttonous book is priceless. ”
Tang Anshu picked up the gluttonous book: "I haven't heard of this thing." ”
Le Zhengxian explained: "It's normal not to know, I didn't know before, I also learned about the existence of gluttonous books from a friend who chased goods, the origin of this kind of thing is said to be in the Tang Dynasty, specially used by scouts, but at that time it was just a piece of paper, not a book." ”
Tang Anshu was puzzled: "Used by scouts?" ”
Le Zhengxian continued to explain: "Scouts to probe information, to pass on the information is very dangerous, some content must be written down, but this way even before being captured by the enemy, you swallow the stomach, can not digest so fast, the enemy will open the stomach of the waiter directly from the stomach to take out the undigested paper, so, there are secret craftsmen invented gluttonous paper, as long as you eat it, you can quickly digest it, but it is not easy to preserve, and later this method was passed to the people, and some folk secret craftsmen improved it and made it into a gluttonous book, also known as 'food book'. ”
Qiu Gubo nodded and said, "So, this thing can be eaten?" ”
Le Zhengxian shook his head: "It used to be edible, but now you definitely can't eat this book in your hands, think about it, can you eat something that hasn't been bad for thousands of years?" Moreover, later in the different ways, gluttonous books are used to record some confidential matters, but before they are unlocked, no one knows what is recorded on it, which is the same as gambling stones, when you find the original stone, you don't know whether there is beautiful jade in it, and when those merchants find a gluttonous book, they don't know what is specifically recorded in it, maybe it is some kind of martial arts cheats, maybe it is a treasure map, maybe it is a shocking secret. ”
Tang Anshu asked: "How to untie it?" ”
Le Zhengxian said: "The method of steaming." ”
Qiu Gubo immediately said: "You mean, throw this book into the pot to boil or steam, and the words will appear on it?" ”
Le Zhengxian nodded: "The way is right, but there is still a lack of details, each type of gluttonous book or steamed or boiled, and different ingredients must be put into the country, without these ingredients, the words on it will not appear." ”
Qiu Gubo was stunned for a while: "You mean, you don't know what ingredients are used?" ”
Le Zhengxian said: "But I can find someone to help, to find the friend I just mentioned." ”
Tang Anshu hurriedly asked, "Who?" ”
Le Zhengxian said: "Xing Boqiu." ”
An Wanghai, who was secretly in the dark, was also stunned when he heard the words "Xing Boqiu", because he knew that Xing Boqiu was a well-known cargo chaser.
And Xing Boqiu's master, it is rumored that Tang Yuanhua, who is known as the eight-armed Arhat in the Boxers, and there are rumors on the rivers and lakes that this Tang Yuanhua is Hu Shen, who is the appearance of the earth, because both of them are nicknamed the eight-armed Arhat.
(Xing Boqiu's story is recorded in the seventh book of "Killing the Army", the second book of the different culture series)
Tang Anshu didn't know about Xing Boqiu, and he didn't know that this person actually had a shocking secret, but at this time, he was eager to unlock the secret recorded in the gluttonous book in his hand.
Tang Anshu then said: "If you can contact Xing Boqiu, ask him for advice as soon as possible, don't delay." ”
Le Zhengxian got up and said, "I'll send him a telegram early tomorrow morning, and I'll notify you as soon as there is news." ”