Chapter 16: Xiangyang Gathering Dragons (6)

On the roof, Zhu Wenyu quietly pulled Tang Yun's clothes, and the two stood up silently, stepping on the roof tiles and leaving, and the "New Five Tigers" of Julong Mountain in the hall still continued to drink unconsciously.

"This matter is really a bit famous, this Mr. Dai and Mr. Gong don't know what the origin is, how would they know that Zheng Fengming was passing by Xiangyang, and how would they know that this corrupt official brought a large amount of gold and silver with him? I heard these people say that Mr. Gong's martial arts are extremely high, and he can solve Zheng Fengming and them alone, why did he find Julong Mountain? It seems that there is something wrong with this Mr. Dai and Mr. Gong. When he arrived in a secluded and uninhabited place, Zhu Wenyu whispered to Tang Yun.

"yes, I just don't know who they are. Now they're probably down the mountain, and they can't find it. ”

"This kind of person has extremely high martial arts, it's not easy to follow, and he will be discovered if he is not careful, I want to think about it...... There is, go, go down the mountain. Zhu Wenyu thought for a while, waved his hand, and then used light skills to go down the mountain, and Tang Yun hurriedly followed.

Back in Baokang Town, the desert was still waiting for news in the inn, and when he saw Zhu Tang and the others jumping in from the window, he hurriedly stood up and said, "How are you going?" ”

"It's really famous." Zhu Wenyu didn't have time to change out of his night clothes, stood at the table and picked up the teapot and poured it into his mouth, even pouring tea without it. Tang Yun went to his house to change clothes.

"How?"

"Eagle, let me ask you something first, if I want to know where a certain person has gone, if I draw a portrait of him, and ask your beggars to keep an eye on his whereabouts and report, can you find out the news?"

"It's easy, just give the portrait to the helmsman of the various rudders, and unless he stays in the house and doesn't come out, he will definitely be seen by the beggars. It's just that this kind of thing is difficult to hide from people, and everyone knows that the beggar gang is looking for him. Desert didn't hesitate.

"No matter what, just follow it for a month, he has to go back to his lair this month, right?" Zhu Wenyu said with a smile.

"Who?" The desert is still inexplicable.

Zhu Wenyu told the conversation he heard on Julong Mountain and the desert in its original form.

"Do you want to check the details of Mr. Dai and Mr. Gong?" The desert is abrupt.

"Exactly, now it seems that this Julongshan is also an ordinary strongman, but this Mr. Dai and Mr. Gong are extremely suspicious, they don't know where they come from, and they rob money like this, obviously they are just here for money. What's even more strange is that I don't think Mr. Dai seems to know martial arts, at most he is a fourth- or fifth-rate character, but there is such a master as Mr. Gong's guard, this Mr. Dai's origin is very suspicious, and whether it has anything to do with the Tianyi League, at least it is so sneaky that it is really suspicious, and I can't help but make it clear. ”

"Brother Zhu thinks this Mr. Dai will be a person in the Tianyi Alliance?" Desert asked

"I can't say anything about this, but I always feel a little related. Besides, this kind of unscrupulous accumulation of wealth is very similar to the murder cases we have seen in the past, and I cannot doubt it. ”

"Well, Brother Zhu has a point, but what about the portrait?"

"I'll draw now." Zhu Wenyu stood up with a pout, and walked towards the door of the room.

"What is Brother Zhu going to do?" The desert is busy.

"Looking for Xiao Er to ask for pen and ink." Zhu Wenyu didn't understand why the desert was blocking him.

"Look at your ......," Desert pointed at Zhu Wenyu.

Zhu Wenyu looked down and smiled dumbly, he was still wearing a night suit and didn't change it, so he called Xiao Er in, and he didn't have to report himself as a thief?

"What about this thief from Julong Mountain?" Zhu Wenyu painted a portrait on the table, Tang Yun had already changed his clothes and came over, asked a few words, figured out Zhu Wenyu's plan, and asked.

"This gang of bandits, for the sake of harming the township, should have killed them." Zhu Wenyu said without raising his head while painting.

"These people have been entrenched in Julong Mountain for many years, and there are only a few errand soldiers in Baokang County who can arrest them quickly, and they can't help them at all." The desert is on the side.

"Hehe, I know what you're going to say, Eagle, don't you just want me to transfer the army in the name of the Qincha? This is easy, tomorrow we will go back to Xiangyang, find the officers and soldiers stationed in Xiangyang to send troops to suppress this Julong Mountain. Zhu Wenyu said with a smile.

The desert smiled and said nothing, obviously guessed by Zhu Wenyu.

On the second day, the three of them hurried back to Xiangyang, and as soon as they arrived at the home of Gao Wei, the helmsman of Xiangyang, the desert took a portrait of Mr. Dai and Mr. Gong painted by Zhu Wenyu to discuss with Zhou Yuan, the "Iron Beggars and Dragons". After listening to what Zhu Wenyu said, Zhou Yuan looked at the portrait again, and without saying much, he called Gao Wei and ordered him to find someone to copy thirty or fifty samples of the portraits, and ordered Yan Feihong to send the beggar gang rudder to all parts of the Central Plains with a flying pigeon, and ordered him to inquire about the whereabouts of these two people within a month.

Then, Zhu Wenyu and Tang Yun swaggered to find the Xiangyang Prefect's Yamen, and in this case, it was inconvenient for Desert and Gao Wei to show up, so they just asked a beggar to help the disciple lead the way and lead Zhu Tang and the others forward. Under the gold medal of Qincha, as usual, there were a bunch of official articles such as kowtowing and serving tea, and then called Ouyang Hong, the chief soldier of Xiangyang, to the prefect's yamen, and ordered him to lead the troops to suppress the bandits in Julong Mountain, so as to appease the place and reassure the people. That Ouyang Hong also took the order, and actually transferred 8,000 officers and troops, and headed towards the Julong Mountain. That Julong Mountain is entrenched, the old and young are all counted in the total number of thousands of people, the Ming military horses are well-trained, even the world has been taken from the hands of the Mongols, only after more than ten years, although the soldiers are changed, the generals are still there, naturally they can fight well, but two days of work, the bandits on Julong Mountain will be swept away, the "New Five Tigers" in the big "down the mountain tiger" Wang Xu, the three masters of the "Xiaotian Tiger" slaughtered, died in the chaos of the army, the four masters of the "landing tiger" Fu Jianghong was beaten down in the abyss of the mountains behind Julong Mountain, the bones are gone, the second master "drill the tiger" Liu Fei and the five masters of the "Piercing Forest Tiger" Xue Meng were captured alive, and asked after the autumn, Ouyang Hong naturally reported to the imperial court to ask for a reward, but it was under the command of Lord Zhu Wenyu of Qincha, Lord Zhu was wise in command, and there were soldiers who bravely sacrificed their lives to wipe out the bandits in Julong Mountain, appeasement of the place, in fact, when Ouyang Hong led the troops to attack Julong Mountain, Zhu Wenyu had already left Xiangyang City, how could there be any "command" thing, since Ouyang Hong did not dare to swallow the war merits alone, he had to send Lord Qincha a head merit, this is a common practice in the officialdom, this" Commander "head merit to Shangfeng, not only do not lose their own military exploits, but also can greatly win over the boss, if there is an accident, there is also a person with a high waist and a hard pole to top, can not fall on his head, this Ouyang Hong is also a bit enlightened as an official, this is a later story for the time being.

However, he said that Zhu Wenyu wrote another letter, briefly talking about what happened after Dan Ling's ambush, and said that he would go to the capital and hand it over to Yan Feihong, and ask him to let the beggar help his disciples to send them to the Nangong family in Rizhao, Shandong, and hand it over to Nangong Ling, so that Nangong Ling could go to the capital to meet.

On the second day when Zhu Wenyu arrived at the Yamen of the Xiangyang Prefect, Li Jianchang, the prefect of Xiangyang, went to visit the Gaowei Mansion, this Gaowei was a squire in Xiangyang, and did not disclose the name of the helmsman of the Xiangyang Gang Helmsman, for the convenience of doing things, this Gaowei was familiar with Xiangyang City up and down, and both black and white sold his face, so the Lord Zhu Wenyu lived in his mansion to make this Gaowei's limelight stronger, and they all knew that this Gaowei could have a relationship with the red people around the emperor, and everyone was energetic. That Li Jianchang rarely came to this Galway Mansion in the past, even if he came, he swaggered straight into the house, and the prefect came to the humble house tent wall to drive brightly, but this time he actually got off the sedan chair at the door of the mansion and presented his name to meet him, and the days of this Galway in Xiangyang can be said to be very beautiful.

After staying in Xiangyang Gaowei Mansion for three or four days, officials from Zaoyang, Fancheng, Yicheng and other counties and towns under the jurisdiction of Xiangyang Prefecture also came to worship, and all kinds of officials were sent to them.

It just so happened that the beggar gang Jingzhou branch had a flying pigeon to send a message that there had been a beggar disciple in Jingzhou City who had seen the person named Mr. Dai, but they had not seen what Mr. Gong was called. Zhu Wenyu thought for a while: "It's so fast", but in a few days, Mr. Dai has arrived in Jingzhou City, and he must be in a hurry, and Zhu Wenyu is ready to set off immediately.

Because the desert was responsible for the liaison between Zhu Wenyu and the beggar gang, Zhou Yuan, the deputy gang leader "Iron Beggars Divine Dragon", ordered the desert to go to the capital with Zhu Wenyu. Quietly asked Gao Wei to prepare three horses, and before the sun came out one morning, he set off on horseback, Zhu Wenyu was really frightened by those visiting local officials, and just wanted to avoid it earlier. It didn't matter if he left, there were three or four officials guarding in front of Gao Wei Mansion that day, and Ren Gao Wei personally went out to explain to those officials how to explain that Lord Qin Cha had left and did not believe it, so he actually kept watch for a day, until the sun went down and still did not see Lord Qin Cha Zhu to meet him, so he reluctantly went back.

Three people and three riders, first went south along the official road, went straight to Jingzhou, went down to Yicheng, passed Jingmen, and on the third day, they arrived at Jingzhou.

The name of Jingzhou originates from "Shangshu • Yu Gong": "Jing and Hengyang Wei Jingzhou", one of the ancient nine continents, belonged to Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the Jingzhou Thorn History Department in the fifth year of Yuanfeng. During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu divided Jingzhou, which was the most fiercely contested strategic place, and the legendary "Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou" and "Guan Yun lost Jingzhou with great care", all of which referred to this, and Jingzhou returned to Wu after that. Tang, set up the Jingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, to Germany after the Jingnan Festival envoy. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Jingzhou Mansion was set up, which was under the control of the Huguangbu Political Division.

Zhu Wenyu and the other three had no intention of visiting the ancient city of Jingzhou, and found the beggar to help Jingzhou rudder, and asked the beggar disciple who had seen Mr. Dai, and the disciple said that he had seen Mr. Dai go to the dock to rent a boat, but he didn't know where he was going to rent a boat, and he didn't see any masked Mr. Gong next to Mr. Dai.

Zhu Wenyu thought about this reasonably, they left Julong Mountain, what is Mr. Gong's tall and thin man is naturally impossible to walk with his face masked, the image painted by Zhu Wenyu is just the appearance of Mr. Gong masked, and he doesn't know what he looks like when he takes off his face towel, so he naturally can't trace his whereabouts. However, it is impossible for Mr. Gong to be too far away from that Mr. Dai, and he is probably just secretly escorting, after all, that Mr. Dai is carrying a huge sum of 140,000 taels of silver, and anyone will be careful and careful.