Chapter 28 The First Battle
Wei Shuisheng changed into a long shirt, Li Xiaoqi and Li Zonggui also changed into clean clothes, the three of them went out of the foot shop, turned a few streets, and then turned a corner, they could already see the black-background signboard of the Liuye Er Tea House in front, Li Xiaoqi slowed down, and gently pulled Wei Shuisheng's placket, Wei Shuisheng stopped, looked down at Li Xiaoqi who was a little pale, was unexpectedly stunned, and hurriedly reached out to grab Li Xiaoyi's hand, Li Xiaoyi's hand was cold and wet, Wei Shuisheng suddenly surged up from the bottom of his heart that long-lost softness and pity, The tears in her nose were almost falling, and she hurriedly pulled Li Xiaoqi to the corner of the street, and comforted her softly: "Don't be afraid, there is Brother Shuisheng, don't be afraid, sister, it's okay." ”
Li Xiaoqi swallowed his saliva and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I'm not afraid, it's okay, I'm just the first time, I'm a little nervous, and I'm not afraid, Brother Shui should be careful later, don't let people see that something is wrong." ”
"Xiao Mi also knows that he is scared? I thought you didn't know what it was to be afraid. Li Zonggui laughed at Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi glanced at him, pulled out his hand from Wei Shuisheng's hand, pulled the placket, calmed down, and smiled and signaled to Wei Shuisheng: "Master Lin, let's go." ”
Wei Shuisheng raised his hand to straighten Li Xiaomi's sideburns, nodded with a smile, and took Li Xiaoqi all the way to the Liuye Teahouse.
The three of them entered the teahouse one after the other, Li Xiaoqi followed Wei Shuisheng closely, turned his head curiously and looked around, the teahouse was not big, and there were seven or eight tables, and there were several landscape paintings on the wall that I didn't know who painted, and there were tall flower stands in the corners on both sides, and there were plum bonsai on them, although they were not as good as the tea houses of the Taiping Mansion, but in this small and remote Zhengcheng, it was also a good place, Wei Shui's business looked around calmly and leisurely, and he didn't wait for Dr. Tea to come over, and went straight to a recessed window to sit, Dr. Tea followed, and Wei Shuisheng asked for two bowls of Qibao tea.
Li Zonggui looked around as if he was looking for someone, stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, hesitantly walked to a few people dressed as dart masters and sat down, and greeted Dr. Tea with a smile: "I made an appointment with someone to meet here, and I will ask for tea when he comes." ”
Dr. Tea readily agreed, and came over with a cup of tea: "The guest officer will drink a cup of tea first, don't be in a hurry, just wait slowly." Li Zonggui hurriedly took the cup, thanked him repeatedly, sat down solemnly, and drank the tea in the cup little by little.
Before he finished drinking a cup of tea, Li Zonggui suddenly stood up, looked out of the door in surprise, and ran out with his feet raised. Li Xiaoqi looked at Wei Shuisheng in amazement, Wei Shuisheng slowly put down the tea bowl in his hand, frowned lightly and said, "I almost forgot, I even got a boot shop." Li Xiaoqi nodded hurriedly, Wei Shuisheng beckoned Dr. Tea to settle the bill, and took Li Xiaoqi out of the Liuye Er Tea Workshop, and walked from another street to the direction of the foot shop.
As soon as he turned a street, Li Zonggui flashed out of the shop next to the street with a smile on his face, followed the two of them, returned to the foot shop one after the other, and entered the store, Li Zonggui squeezed his eyes and said with a smile: "Hurry back, the road is tight, it's still in time, it's all right." ”
Wei Shuisheng and Li Xiaoqi didn't ask much, they went to the counter and said a word, took their luggage, and went straight to the big car shop to get a wheelbarrow, Li Xiaoqi sat down, and the two of them pushed the cart and strode out of the city, and rushed back to the West Mountain of the Beacon.
After walking out of the city for a while, seeing that there were no other pedestrians around, Li Zonggui laughed excitedly: "Do you know what I heard? It's really the Bodhisattva who blesses us, and they are talking about this trip, and one asks, 'This year's New Year's gift, is it really not for Leader Sun?' The other said, 'What to send?' We don't go on a few trips a year from him, how can Zheng Cheng still have a big business in this battle? Even if there is one or two trips, just go to the West Mountain, where is it bad? Besides, my junior brother is now stationed in Zhengcheng with soldiers, send a send! Li Zongguixue's painting is colorful.
Li Xiaoyi's eyes widened when he heard this, and he exclaimed: "I'll just say, such a remote road under the West Mountain of the Beacon, how could that stupid guy of Tiemu rob the dart master, it turns out that it is not a coincidence." ”
"But no, listen to that, last time they tried to go to the West Mountain of the Beacon for the first time, this dart line to the New Year's gift to the leader of Sun Da, let a few of them give points, this dart, they didn't plan to go to the East Mountain at all, Xiao Mi is busy in vain." Li Zonggui laughed, Li Xiaoqi exhaled a long breath and sighed: "It's really unpredictable, there is such a thing, such a coincidental thing, it seems that we fell into the grass This thing is right, God has arranged it for us, it is to let us fall into the grass to rob and do this business!" ”
Wei Shuisheng looked at Li Xiaoqi and shook his head with a smile, Li Xiaoqi jumped down from the wheelbarrow, pointed to the land temple not far away and said, "I'm going there to kowtow!" On the way to come, I made a wish, and asked the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land to bless us with a smooth trip, but I didn't expect it to be so effective! I have to go, thank the land father-in-law and the land mother-in-law! ”
Li Zonggui and Wei Shuisheng looked at each other, so they had to smile and follow Li Xiaoqi into the Land Temple, followed the pious Li Xiaoqi and kowtowed a few times, watched Li Xiaoqi put his hands together, closed his eyes and prayed, before coming out together, and hurried back to the mountain.
Li Zongliang discussed until midnight for a few nights, and early the next morning, Li Zonggui took Zhang Gouzi and Jiang Shuncai to Zhengcheng again. More than a dozen Zhuanghu mountain bandits were issued with a hardwood stick more than one person long, three in a group of three, under the strict supervision of Li Erhuai, practicing the exercises, three wrapped around one, not asking for much better, but hoping to be able to wrap for a while, and it could be delayed for half an hour.
Li Zongliang and Wei Shuisheng took Li Xiaoqi to look at all parts of the mountain, looking for the most suitable ambush location, and Sister Zhang also became nervous, although I don't know how big a business Li Zongliang and they are, but no matter how big the business is, it is the first time it has opened, and the first three robberies have long been directly counted by Sister Zhang.
It was also a day later, Li Zonggui took Zhang Gouzi and Jiang Shuncai back to the mountain in the middle of the night, the new Zhizhou has entered the government, the former Zhizhou Qian Wenxuan and his party of more than a dozen big cars, have been packed up, set off early tomorrow morning back to Xinyang Mansion, calculate the itinerary, to the west of the Bijia Mountain, almost around noon.
Li Xiaoqi didn't fall asleep all night, she escaped from the Taiping Mansion last time, she didn't feel anything on Li Zongliang's back, she still fell asleep, but this time, listening to Li Zongliang's long breathing, she lay on the bed, but she didn't feel sleepy at all, tomorrow, it will be a vicious fight, maybe there will be deaths, maybe those dart masters, maybe these Zhuanghu people on the mountain who are actually very responsible, big brother, they must be fine, they are so good at kung fu, they are not nervous at all, they are all asleep, they are all asleep, they are definitely fine, they have all killed people, they have killed a lot of people, they came out of Lijia Village, they were killed, Brother Guizi said, their clothes are soaked with blood, they feel that they are fine, they must be fine, the mountain god land blesses, if this trip is safe, they will kill pigs and sheep Thank you!
Li Xiaoqi thought about it all night, and it was almost dawn, but she fell asleep in a daze.
Li Xiaoqi was woken up by Wei Shuisheng, it was already the beginning, Li Xiaoqi hurriedly got up and washed up, he couldn't eat, he barely drank half a bowl of porridge, his nervous face was tense and stiff, but with a bit of fierceness, Zhang Gouzi and Jiang Shuncai looked at Li Xiaoqi timidly, and cautiously followed her down the mountain, today's big business, the three of them, take on a heavy responsibility, but what to do, Xiao Mi knows, Zhang Gouzi and Jiang Shuncai only know that everything is under the orders of the fifth master.
The three of them crouched behind a large rock dozens of paces away from the rugged mountain road at the bottom of the mountain, and held their breath as they watched from a distance a string of seven or eight bright and brand-new tung oil palm-covered four-wheeled vehicles, and six or seven brand-new and sturdy Taiping cars, escorted by a dozen or so dart masters with knives and guns and extremely relaxed and casual expressions, unhurriedly approaching this side.
Jiang Shuncai swallowed his saliva, gently poked Zhang Gouzi, and motioned him to look at the dozen or so neat new cars and the sturdy dart master next to the car, Zhang Gouzi blinked his eyes and swallowed his saliva heavily, Li Xiaoqi did not look back, but reprimanded in a low voice as if he had eyes behind his back: "What's there to be nervous about?!" Such a small business! Wait a while, follow me, listen to the instructions clearly, and don't go half a point wrong! Do you hear that? ”
"Hmm!" Jiang Shuncai and Zhang Gouzi hurriedly replied, the convoy was getting closer and closer, the three of them didn't dare to speak anymore, Li Xiaoyi's nails clenched at the bluestone in front of him, and he looked at the convoy that came leisurely nervously.
The first few cars are the cars of the girl's mother-in-law, the middle is about the vehicles of Lord Qian and his family, and the back of the few Taiping cars all use four mules.
The convoy was still walking unhurriedly, passing in front of the three of them, Li Xiaoqi stared at the penultimate car, and watched the four mules walk in front of him with a snort, and his heart suddenly lifted.
Zhang Tiemu shouted loudly in front, jumped out of the stealth place, held a stick and rushed towards the most luxurious car in the middle, and the nine mountain bandits behind followed with a loud howl, jumping out with a stick, in groups of three or three, following Zhang Tiemu, and covering the car to kill the past.
Several dart masters are well-trained, not panicked, each performing their duties, commanding the porters and servants to stabilize the mule cart, four or five dart masters who meet the enemy drew their knives and guns, and met Zhang Tiemu and others, only a few faces, the long wooden stick in the hands of Zhang Tiemu and others was cut in half, Zhang Tiemu stomped his feet and shouted: "Damn, it's the hard stubble of the previous child, run!" Run! ”
Several people also shouted wildly: "Run, the hard stubble is here again!" While shouting and scattering to flee everywhere, a few dart masters did not chase, pointing to the embarrassed backs of Zhang Tiemu and others, laughing forward and backwards, and several dart masters who were originally very nervous on the side of the convoy also relaxed, carrying knives and guns, gathered in one place to point and tell the joke last time, Qian Wenxuan lifted the curtain of the car, looked at the bandits who were screaming and fleeing in the distance, frowned and was about to speak, and suddenly there were a few screams from behind.