Chapter 169 Act as a mercenary
Speaking of this, Shen Ruchao looked at Uncle Li, his eyes were red, and he sighed: "Since the siege of Cangzhou City, Master Lu and other enlightened gentry have done their best to defend the city, not only contributing money and efforts, but also mobilizing villagers everywhere to participate in regimental training and assist officers and soldiers in defending the city. Pretending to be villagers and mixing into the city, they attacked the Lu Mansion at night, those long hairs hated the Lu Mansion to the core, and actually killed more than 30 people in the Lu Mansion, and burned a huge Lu Mansion into a scorched earth, which is really heinous, and people and gods are angry! ”
"How did Shen Zhizhou know about this?" Uncle Li squinted his eyes at Shen Ruchao and asked seemingly casually.
"Uh, didn't the old fairy think that Ruchao couldn't catch the murderer of the Lufu Massacre, so he pressed all these crimes on that long hair?" What kind of character Shen Ruchao is, he can't taste the suspicion in Uncle Li's words, but he is not in a hurry, after laughing for a while, he said: "A few days ago, when the Green Battalion soldiers were fighting with Long Hair, they captured a Long Hair, and after some torture, the guy confessed that it was Chief Lin who sent people to attack Lu Mansion, the purpose was to use terrorist means to break the confidence of the people in Cangzhou City, in black and white, and the evidence was conclusive. ”
"Where is the hairy man?" Uncle Li looked at Shen Ruchao with burning eyes and asked.
"That guy was already injured, and he had been tortured a lot, and he was already dying." Shen Ruchao replied with some embarrassment.
"Hey, it's all dead and unproven, it's a pity." Uncle Li sighed and continued to ask, "That long hair can reveal Lu Ling'er's whereabouts?" ”
Uncle Li's question was what Yang Yi was most concerned about, and he couldn't help leaning in the direction of Shen Ruchao and listening attentively.
"Hey, don't hide it from the old fairy, Miss Ling'er also grew up like a tide, and she had already planned to be a righteous girl, but now the child suddenly disappeared, life and death are unknown, I am burned inside, my heart is like a knife, and I naturally asked that guy, but that guy didn't tell the slightest clue, but no, no!" Shen Ruchao wiped his tears with his sleeves, and his sad expression was by no means a scene.
"Pity my idiot......" Uncle Li looked at Yang Yi, whose face was like ashes and his body was shaking, and sighed.
"That's it, this is all the catastrophe in Lu Ling'er's life, and it is impossible to escape." Uncle Li sighed heavily, got up and looked at Shen Ruchao and said: "Lord Zhizhou, the old man is here, he is a lobbyist for Lin Fengxiang in name, and I want you to borrow the way to talk to him and let those long hairs go over, according to that Lin Fengxiang, you can not harass the people and keep the people of the city safe, what do you think?" ”
"The old fairy is discerning, the chief of the forest is a man of his word, a cruel temperament, this way over, I don't know how many lives have been harmed, how many cities have been damaged, he just saw that the officers and soldiers of Cangzhou City and the people are united, there is no surrender, will set up this poisonous plan, want to use the false way to destroy the way, break my city, like a tide of repeated emperor's favor, has already been life and death out of the way, only want to die to repay the king's kindness, how can he be willing to join the bandits?" Shen Ruchao listened to Uncle Li'er's words, his face turned red, his sword eyebrows were upside down, and some impassioned words erupted, which showed that he was determined to fight Lin Fengxiang's tens of thousands of troops to the end.
Seeing Shen Ruchao's bearded appearance, Uncle Li understood that it was useless to talk more, so he changed his words and said: "This real person naturally knows that Zhizhou is a brave and loyal liver who is willing to throw his head and spill his blood for the sake of the country, how can he be a lobbyist who puffs out his lips and shakes his tongue, but your army is thin, how can you withstand the long-haired charge in turn?" ”
"The old immortals, the ancient saying, the people's hearts are available, Cangzhou City has been fierce since ancient times, and it is a custom to practice martial arts and strengthen the body from generation to generation, and the long hair does not look at the number of people, the guns are sharp, but there is one, the most afraid of hand-to-hand combat, several times to attack the city, were repelled by the officers and soldiers in white-knuckle warfare, the Lin chieftain is also helpless, can only surround the city to the iron pass, but can not move forward!" Speaking of the battle with Lin Fengxiang's Taiping Army, Shen Ruchao's face shone with pride.
"This is, I think that at the beginning, those Eight Banners Iron Cavalry could sweep the 800,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the scimitar and hard bow in their hands, and the red-clothed cannons of the Ming Dynasty could not block the Jurchen iron hooves, but after entering the customs, the Eight Banners soldiers became increasingly corrupt and decadent, and lost their sharpness. I don't know if what Uncle Li said is true or not, but he bowed his hand to Shen Ruchao with a smile on his face to show his respect.
After gossiping for a while, Uncle Li pushed away Shen Ruchao's hard work, quit the state office, and found a two-story inn on the street to live.
When the shopkeeper saw that it was the living immortal Uncle Li, he was immediately overjoyed, and happily shouted out his family members and friends, knelt on the ground around Uncle Li, and then shouted at his wife to clean the room for Uncle Li and them in person, for fear of snubbing Uncle Li and making him unhappy.
After settling down, Uncle Li finally drove the shopkeeper who was waiting at the door downstairs, and then walked to Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's room, and saw Yang Yi sitting on the bed in despair, his eyes were dull, Wei Ergou was watching with a frown on the side, and he didn't know how to persuade him, so he sat opposite Yang Yi and said in a low voice: "Xiao Yi, you have been with your uncle for so long, you know your uncle's methods, just now, I shook a hexagram, Miss Ling'er's life is safe, but it is fire and water, the two daughters live together, their ambitions are not compatible, and the tycoon must be right, His repentance is death, in general, Miss Ling'er is a beneficiary of the river, and she has merit in taking the wood, and her deeds should be in the south, do you understand? ”
Wei Ergou looked at Uncle Li with his big mouth open, and said word by word: "Uncle, do you think I can understand?" No, lightning is disturbing enough, can you tell us what we can understand? ”
"Stupid, that means that Ling'er is likely to be alive, but her whereabouts are weird, and the six hexagrams can only detect that she is roughly in the south......" Li Shu'er had just said halfway through, Yang Yi was like grasping a life-saving straw, and his eyes were full of hope and looked at Li Shu'er and shouted: "Uncle, then let's go to the south to find Ling'er now, okay?" ”
"Idiot, the south is so big, where are you going to find it?" Uncle Li looked at Yang Yi and sighed with a wry smile: "To solve the bell, you still have to tie the bell, if you want to find out Ling'er's whereabouts, you have to find clues from these Taiping troops in front of you, understand?" ”
"You mean to let us help Shen Ruchao fight the Taiping Army? That Ruoxue hasn't been dipped in salt and pepper by Lin Fengxiang and eaten raw, no, no, I won't do it to death! Wei Ergou looked at Uncle Li and asked in some surprise.