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On the fifteenth day of the first month,

Shangyuan Festival.

Breakfast is steamed buns, porridge, flatbread, and a pot of boiled eggs.

Without meat, Qin Ming and the others ate tastelessly, but as guests at other people's homes, the guests are as they please, and they can't complain.

It's not that Xu Guanzhong is stingy, it's just that he, as a normal person, how can he know the thoughts of a group of carnivores.

However, Zhu Long and Wu Yong ate very fragrantly, fragrant millet porridge, warm and comfortable when they drank it!

After eating, the servant took away the dishes and chopsticks, and Zhu Long said with anticipation: "Mr. Xu, are you really not going to the Daimyo Mansion with us?" ”

Xu Guanzhong smiled slightly apologetically and said, "My mother has difficulty moving, and I am deeply disturbed by the drag on my journey with you. Our mother and son will leave again in the afternoon and enter the city before dark! ”

"That's it! Let's take our leave! ”

Zhu Long and the others said goodbye and left, and the six of them walked on foot, and the war horses and weapons were fostered on Xu Guanzhongzhuang.

When they arrived at the city gate, they found that there were far more soldiers guarding the gate today than usual, and the checks were also strict.

A few people stopped outside the door, full of doubts in their hearts, they didn't go in immediately, you look at me, I look at you, and a thought came to mind - could it be that Yan Qing sued the official, and the official army was under martial law to arrest us?

Now even Zhu Long is not sure in his heart, although Yan Qing is a good man who stresses righteousness, but now his position is different, he is Lu Junyi's domestic servant, and righteousness is only for Lu Junyi, not for a group of strangers who have fought.

After some discussion, several people decided not to enter the city for the time being, and found out what was going on first.

In order not to attract the attention of the soldiers of the city, they retreated a little further away, out of sight of the soldiers.

"I'll go and inquire!" Wu Yong said, after all, in this group of people, he looks the most like a good person, if he doesn't go, who will?

He stopped a vendor who had just come out of the city, sang a song, and asked politely: "Big brother, I am tired of asking, why is the investigation so strict when you enter the city today?" But is something going on in the city? ”

The vendor stopped and said with a smile, "Sir is a foreigner, right?" In order to maintain order, martial law will be strengthened every year during the Midyear Festival to prevent thieves from mixing in the city. ”

"I see—thank you!" Wu Yong thanked him.

Several people suddenly relaxed, it turned out to be a false alarm!

Zhu Long smiled: "It doesn't seem to be coming for us, let's go in!" ”

Wu Yong suggested: "Lord, let's go in separately, going into the city together will attract attention!" ”

Zhu Long glanced at his subordinates, all of them were tall and burly strong men, and occasionally one walked on the street, pedestrians had to take a second look, not to mention so many walking together.

"The military advisor is thoughtful, let's go into the city separately!"

Zhu Long took Wu Yong's suggestion and said, "Those who go in first, greet the two brothers Wu Song and Jiao Ting, who are waiting for us behind the city gate, if there is no abnormality, go directly to the Binyue Inn." If you don't see them, get out of the city! ”

"Yes!" Everyone scattered, pretending not to know each other, and under the gaze of the soldiers at the city gate, they entered the city smoothly.

Zhu Long and Wu Yong together, and finally entered the city.

Wu Yong is a scholar who teaches and dresses up, and together with him, he can play a good role as a cover, which makes Zhu Long very envious and decides to buy a set of scholar clothes.

Sure enough, they saw Jiao Ting, who was dressed as a housekeeper, but they didn't see Wu Song.

Maybe Wu Song is the "darker" one!

"Young Master Long, Wu Xuexue, you two are here, and the master has sent me to pick you up!" Jiao Ting greeted him warmly.

Wu Yong smiled: "Are you all right here?" ”

"Thank you, well, all is well! You can rest assured! ”

"Okay, let's go!"

On the way, Zhu Long passed by a tailor shop, stopped, looked at the door plaque, and walked in.

"Do you buy cloth or make clothes?" Greeted by the owner warmly.

"Make clothes!" Zhu Long said briefly.

The boss showed a sincere smile on his face, he likes this kind of guest, he doesn't ask anything, he directly says what he needs, as long as the price is right, this kind of guest can be quickly concluded.

If such a deal can't be done, it's definitely the boss's fault.

"Look at it, we have a lot of good fabrics here, including Shu brocade in Sichuan and silk in the south of the Yangtze River......"

The boss's enthusiastic introduction was interrupted by Zhu Long, he took out a silver ingot of ten taels from his arms, put it on the counter, and asked, "Two scholarly robes and two square scarves, can they be done before today?" ”

"This ...... Time is a bit tight! ”

The boss looked at Zhu Long in embarrassment, and then greedily looked at the silver on the counter, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" I will do it before the time comes! I'll give you a measurement! ”

"What a majestic figure the guest has!" The boss sighed while measuring.

"After it is done, send it to the Binyue Inn on Taiping Street in the east of the city!"

Before leaving, Wu Yong reminded the boss: "Otherwise, ......"

"Lao Tzu burned down your shop!" The ugly Jiao Ting's eyes widened, and the boss was startled, and he didn't dare to say anything.

The three of them were walking on the road, and they found that there were quite a few soldiers in the city, fully armed, patrolling back and forth, and Wu Yong couldn't help but worry.

When they came to the inn, everyone else had already arrived first, only Wu Song was not there.

Zhu Long was about to ask, when a figure flashed at the door, and a head wearing an iron hoop and long hair came in.

It was Wu Song.

He didn't dress up as a head for a long time, because it was inconvenient to wear armor, but he didn't expect to wear it again for disguise.

"My subordinates were afraid that they would use it, so when I set off, I took it with me, but I didn't expect it to be used!" Wu Song explained with a smile.

"Be prepared, Brother Wu Song did a good job!"

Zhu Long gave a thumbs up, looked at Jiao Ting dressed up as a servant of the family, and looked at Qin Ming, Shi Wengong and others in short suits, this is the gap in experience in the rivers and lakes.

"We're all going to have to change our outfits!" Zhu Long thought for a while.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Don't worry, my lord, just leave this matter to me!" ”

"Okay, the two brothers, Wu Song and Jiao Ting, go out with me for a walk and come back in a while."

"My lord, it suddenly occurred to me that last time we released thousands of prisoners from the Daimyo Mansion back, they were among these officers and soldiers, if they recognized you, the consequences would be unimaginable!"

Everyone's faces suddenly changed!

"It shouldn't be in the way, last time the Daimyo's Mansion sent all cavalry, and these people who maintained order should be soldiers, don't worry too much!"

After Zhu Long finished speaking, he couldn't be persuaded anymore, and went out with Wu Song and Jiao Ting.

Before the lantern festival starts at night, the streets are bustling.

The three of them walked for a while and found that there were too many officers and soldiers on the street.

In order to avoid accidents, the three of them entered a tavern, went up to the second floor, picked a table near the window, and asked for two pots of wine and a few local specialties of the Daimyo's Mansion.

"The lord took a huge risk to come to the Daimyo's mansion, not just to see the lantern festival, right?" Wu Song lowered his voice and expressed the doubts in his heart.

Zhu Long glanced at him and Jiao Ting, and said with a smile: "Indeed, I want to pull Lu Junyi into Zhujiazhuang, but the family is so rich, it is impossible to give up such a big family business and risk killing your head to rebel with us!" ”

"Can't the military advisor think of a way?"

Zhu Long smiled, "There are many ways to do it, but there are troubles!" ”

In the original work, Wu Yong and Song Jiang did use many despicable means to force people into the mountain, such as Qin Ming, Xu Ning, Zhu Tong, Lu Junyi, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian, Li Ying......

For a while, it was quite effective, but the resentment was buried in the bottom of my heart, and sooner or later I would deviate from morality.

Before Song Jiang was poisoned, he also knew that Li Kui was the only one who was willing to rebel for him.

Wu Yong came to Song Jiang's grave to commit suicide, is he really in loyalty?

More likely is the fear of retaliation!

This is the real reason why Zhu Long refused to use Wu to frame and persecute Lu Junyi with conspiracy and trickery.

In the original work, Song Jiangwu used the feelings that they didn't care at all, and these "brothers" who were forcibly pulled into the gang were confident that they could suppress them forever.

From this point of view, Wu's methods are indeed not clever.

If it was Zhu Long, even if he used shady means to force these people to go up the mountain, he would only use it secretly, and he would never put it on the surface, let alone let these people know.

This kind of difficulty is too high, and Wu Yong and he can't think of it for a while.

Fortunately, Zhu Long has a greater harvest from this trip - Xu Guanzhong, so he is not so urgent for Lu Junyi.

Zhu Long asked Jiao Ting to take him to the vicinity of Lu Junyi's house for a walk, and there was a faint concern in his heart, and he decided to go back and discuss with Wu Yong in secret to see if he could come up with a way.

If it really doesn't work, go back first.

The three of them returned to the inn, and as soon as they entered the gate, they were all suddenly stunned, Bian Xiang became a farmer, and Qin Ming wore an old battle robe and became a court officer.

These two people are acting in their true colors, just be yourself.

Shi Wengong is like Jiao Ting, dressed up as a nurse, but he is so-so.

However, Lu Fang was wearing a scholarly robe, which was slightly wide, his eyes were cold, and his every move was strong and powerful, but he didn't look like a scholar.

Zhu Long couldn't help laughing, Wu Yong held a scholarly robe, and said with a smile: "The tailor sent the clothes just now, and one of them was given to Brother Lu Fang." ”

While talking, he helped Zhu Long change into a robe, put on a scarf, and then clapped his hands and praised: "The lord is really a jade tree in the wind, this time I go out, I don't know how many women's hearts will be hooked!" ”

"Like, too much!"

"The lord really has the temperament of a scholar!"

"It's like a different person."

……

Everyone judged each other, which made Zhu Long a little depressed, how could he be a group of sycophants under him.

Could it be that I am usually too stupid and like to listen to others sing praises of virtue?

"Shopkeeper, bring the mirror!" Zhu Long didn't want to wear the emperor's new clothes.

"Here comes the guest officer!"

The shopkeeper came out with a bronze mirror, Zhu Long looked at it, he was sloppy, and almost wronged these loyal and upright subordinates, he did not study in vain in his nine-year compulsory education, and he was really a little elegant.

Zhu Long waved his hand with a smile, let the shopkeeper go down, and said to the others with a smile: "You can go out for a walk, the two of you go together, take care of each other, and after the lanterns disperse, go back to the Binyue Inn!" ”

"Wait!" Wu Yong took out four short arrows from the package and said, "This is a signal arrow developed by Wei Dingguo, in case of an emergency, throw it into the sky, and the other brothers will rush to help!" ”

"Lao Wei also made such a good thing, I don't know if it works!" Qin Ming took one with a smile, hooked his shoulders with Bian Xiang, and walked together.

Zhu Long guessed that they were not looking at the lanterns, but going to talk to Hu Ji about their lives.

In fact, he also wanted to shout: Take me with you!

But the majesty of the lord cannot be abandoned!

Next time I go to Tokyo, Lao Tzu will talk to Master Li, and I won't take the two of you with me at that time, hum!

Lu Fang looked at Zhu Long with blank eyes, and Zhu Long waved his hand: "You go to see the lights, you don't have to follow me today!" ”

"Yes!" Lu Fang held a signal arrow in his arms and walked with his master Shi Wengong.

"You two come with us!" Zhu Long said to Wu Song and Jiao Ting.

You can't do it without two masters around you, Sun Ce is a role model.

"Yes!" The two stayed in the lobby, and Zhu Long and Wu Yong came to the room on the second floor and closed the door tightly.

Zhu Long lowered his voice and said, "Military advisor, I inquired about Lu Junyi's wife and housekeeper Li Jianyi's private affairs, and wanted to plot to kill Lu Junyi. Do you think this can be used? ”

Wu Yong looked at Zhu Long in amazement, in such a short period of time, he was able to inquire about such a secret news, could it be that Zhu Long had already laid out the Daimyo's Mansion and set up a secret guard camp here?

But how could he not know that he was in charge of the Dark Guard Battalion?

According to Zhu Long's consistent style, these things will not be hidden from him!

"Lord, is this accurate?" Wu asked cautiously.

"The message is absolutely reliable!" Zhu Long said with great certainty.

Wu glanced at Zhu Long with a complicated mood, he thought he had seen through Zhu Long, but he didn't expect him to hide deeply!

Looking at Zhu Long, who had big sleeves in his robe and deep bearing, he had to admit that he had a dominant atmosphere.

"This ......"

Wu Yong hesitated, if he wanted to calculate Lu Junyi, he had to stay in the Daimyo's Mansion and slowly use his scheme.

This means that he has to leave the power core of Zhujiazhuang for the time being.

If before, it was nothing, but now there is Xu Guanzhong!

He was worried that Xu Guanzhong would take advantage of the situation and later take advantage of the situation and steal his position as a confidential military advisor?

Judging from Zhu Long's attitude towards Xu Guanzhong, he values this person very much.

And Zhu Long's vision of seeing people is still relatively accurate. The people he values will not be far behind!

However, if he did not accept this task, he would have given up an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and he would leave a bad impression on Zhu Long as being greedy for power and abolishing public service.

Besides, competing with Xu Guanzhong in the future must also be based on merit, how can I give up the current great credit!

"Rest assured, my subordinates will live up to expectations!" Wu Yong resolutely took over the task.

"Good! But the military advisor should pay attention to proportion, and don't let Lu Junyi know that you are the driving force behind the scenes, lest he resents Zhujiazhuang! ”

Zhu Long advised: "If you can't do anything, don't force it!" Even if you can't recruit him, avoid becoming an enemy! ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "My subordinates understand! If not, it would be easy for his subordinates to force him to join the gang! ”

"I'm the one who embarrassed the military advisor!" Zhu Long also smiled, pulling people into the gang is indeed Wu's housekeeping skill.