Chapter 50: The Contest
The man on horseback was the soldier Cao Linhu, and at this time he was armed with armor all over his body, looking so majestic.
Lin Hu jumped off the horse, hugged his fist at Gu Zhiqing and said, "Brother, are you okay, Lin Hu is a step too late."
"Brother Lin, I'm fine," Gu Zhiqing responded with a fist at him.
"I don't know where Brother Lin came from," Gu Zhiqing found that this time Lin Hu was not a Taicang sailor.
"From the county guard," Lin Hu said with a solemn expression.
"They're government soldiers?" Gu Zhiqing frowned slightly: "What about your Taicang soldiers."
Lin Hu smiled bitterly, "Don't mention it, the barracks are all messed up right now... The garrison has ordered that no soldier step out of the barracks is allowed."
As soon as these words came out, Gu Zhiqing was stunned.
"Mutiny?"
"What the hell is going on?"
Lin Hu hesitated for a moment, and then slowly explained: "I don't know the specific thing, I only know that there are dozens of soldiers with thousands of Taicang soldiers into the county guard mansion to search for evidence of rebellion, and finally they found a wooden box, which is full of so-called evidence of rebellion, so they want to take action against the county guard, fortunately, at the critical moment, Lord Assassin sent an army to suppress them, if it wasn't for the arrival of Lord Assassin's private army, I am afraid that the county guard mansion has already changed hands by others."
"So, they don't just deal with our Gu family? And the county watchman's house? Gu Zhiqing thought that those people were crazy, but he didn't expect them to be so crazy.
They even had to get involved in this conspiracy.
"Those people keep saying that the county guard is disobedient, and I think they are the real disobedient..."Lin Hu complained indignantly.
Gu Zhiqing stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "Right and wrong are at ease in people's hearts, I believe that the garrison will definitely be able to set things right."
Lin Hu also nodded in agreement and said, "Behind the county guard is Lord Assassin Shi, I don't believe that they dare to slander Lord Assassin Shi for disobedience?" ”
Although Gu Zhiqing said it with his mouth, he really didn't know the bottom in his heart.
Based on his knowledge of that mysterious organization, there must be a more powerful figure behind them than the history of the assassins.
Otherwise, the county keeper who would not have been oppressed has endured it for more than 20 years and has not dared to speak out.
Now that they are ready to make a move, it means that this delicate balance has been broken.
Then how can they give up?
However, Gu Zhiqing naturally wouldn't talk to Lin Hu about these things.
"Brother Lin Hu, if you don't dislike it, please go into the Gu family's old house for a while"
Lin Hu originally came to rescue Gu Zhiqing this time.
Now that the mission has been accomplished, he is not in a hurry to go back to his life.
followed Gu Zhiqing into the Gu family's old house.
At this time, the Gu family's old mansion was also panicked.
It wasn't that the Gu family's old mansion had also changed, but that many servants saw the soldiers rushing over one after another on the street.
They are all ordinary people, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, and they can't see any rebellion.
When Gu Zhiqing led this group of county soldiers into the courtyard.
Their horror is also extreme.
Gu Zhiqing immediately instructed the servants: "Don't stand stupidly, prepare a banquet immediately, and reward the county soldiers."
The servants came to their senses and immediately rushed into the backyard and began to get busy.
The Gu family's old mansion compound is very spacious, even if hundreds of county soldiers come in together, it is not crowded.
With stone tables and wooden chairs arranged, the courtyard of this huge old mansion was transformed into a banquet hall.
The county soldiers are also cheerful men, and they are not restrained, and when good wine and food are served, they begin to feast.
Lin Hu and Gu Zhiqing sat alone, and the two of them had a drink first, and then talked quietly.
"Brother Lin Hu, do you have any other tasks this time?"
The moment Lin Hu walked into the Gu family's old mansion, Gu Zhiqing realized that he had another purpose.
Lin Hu hesitated for a moment before replying, "It's Lord Duwei... This time, I came to Loucheng, half of which was to relieve your Gu family, and the other half was to help Lord Du Wei solve that matter."
"What's the matter?" Gu Zhiqing stared at Lin Hu curiously.
"Brother, it's better that you don't want to know about this," Lin Hu shook his head with a wry smile.
"I wouldn't want to know if I could"
Since Lin Hu said so, Gu Zhiqing no longer insisted.
So he changed his conversation and continued to talk to him about the military disaster of the Taicang sailors.
"So, those Taicang soldiers who rushed into the county guard mansion are all the soldiers who were red goods before?"
Lin Hu nodded and said, "They have long been on the master's side.... Usually I don't like them, but this time, I believe that the garrison will never let them go."
Gu Zhiqing also knew that even if the two sides had torn their faces, as the county guard, it would be easy for him to cut off these Taicang soldiers.
"So, in the future, Taicang will only have Brother Lin Hu as a soldier? Then I want to congratulate Brother Lin Hu on his promotion to the chief soldier Cao."
Lin Hu said: "At the moment, the Taicang soldiers are a mess, and Lao Tzu doesn't want to do anything about the chief soldier."
"It seems that it is difficult to calm down this war disaster for a while?" Gu Zhiqing also guessed from Lin Hu's expression that this time the two sides did not seem to be over.
Lin Hu said: "Although those soldiers were imprisoned by the county guard, their subordinates still control those Taicang soldiers, and there are also people who mobilize private soldiers, if it weren't for the assassin Shi Daren's soldiers, they would definitely attack the county guard's mansion."
Hearing this explanation, Gu Zhiqing also clearly knew the current pattern of Wu County.
Even if the assassin intervened, he still couldn't completely suppress the ambitions of those people.
Lin Hu didn't seem to be in much of a mood to drink, so he just took a few sips of wine and left with the group.
From Lin Hu's departure, Gu Zhiqing guessed that what he was going to do for Lord Duwei seemed to be tricky.
However, since Lin Hu deliberately concealed himself, Gu Zhiqing was not easy to ask.
After Lin Hu left, Gu Zhiqing quickly mobilized Fengming members to strengthen the defense of the entire Gu family's old mansion.
Especially around the concubine's bedroom in the backyard, almost all of them have been filled with Fengming members.
Now that the clue in the account room has been broken, if you want to track down or fish out the secret spy organization, there is only one clue about the concubine.
The concubine has been very quiet these days, and in addition to walking in the courtyard every day, she stays in her bedroom honestly.
Gu Zhiqing also observed the concubine and felt that although she was a secret spy, she was not like a real secret spy.
She doesn't seem to have undergone any special training in secret spies, and she doesn't know anything about reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.
If he hadn't known that she was a member of the secret spy organization, Gu Zhiqing would have wondered if he had made a mistake.
The concubine strode out of the house and stood under the camphor tree, looking at the koi in the rockery pool with a slight melancholy in her eyes.
"You must want to swim out into the mountains and rivers too, right? Pity... This little pond imprisons you..."