The red rope tied outside the Linjiang Restaurant in Lingbao Town is the meeting code set by Xu Ling and the scalded man.

For two days in a row, Xu Ling went to the restaurant to check, and the red rope was still hanging outside the window. It's just that there are not many boats on the dock today, and there is a discussion from the people at the next table: "Have you heard?" Early this morning, Wei Xuanfu took his men and horses to the river to suppress bandits! ”

When Xu Ling went again on the third day, the red rope was gone, and he knocked on the door of the private room on the east side of the second floor, and the familiar voice of the scalding man came from inside.

"Come in."

Xu Ling pushed the door in, there was a charcoal stove in the private room, wine and dishes were placed on the table, the scalded man sat there and drank in a dull manner, and when he saw Xu Ling coming, he looked him up and down.

"Hesitation? Do you want to do something for someone? ”

Xu Ling smiled, walked across from him and sat down, snatched the wine jug, and poured himself wine, "Your arm is injured?" Then don't drink. ”

The scalded man instantly squinted his eyes, and his already ugly triangular eyes were even more terrifying.

"For the New Year, can I find you to catch up with the past?"

"When did you get old?"

"Lao Wu, you are really a noble person who forgets things, people often say that adversity sees the truth, I will give you a piece of cake, you save me in fire and water, the two of us, we have already had that brotherhood, and now you say this, it is really chilling."

The scald man sneered twice, "Who is Lao Wu?" ”

"Aren't you nameless?"

Scald man: "......"

He picked up the wine glass in his right hand, drank it all, and put down the wine glass with a "snap", but his eyes never left Xu Ling's face.

The scalded man is extremely ugly, and a pair of eyes are also smaller due to the tightening of the surrounding skin, looking directly at people, which really makes people feel chilled.

Xu Ling didn't scare him, and drank calmly.

The scalded man smiled: "You are so strange, sometimes the girls don't look like a man, sometimes they look like a man." ”

Xu Ling slandered in his heart, secretly thinking that this ugly thing was quite accurate to see people.

"I didn't come to you this time to let you scold me, but to discuss something important with you." Xu Ling interrupted his gaze and directly said the news he had inquired about, "The Wei family found Xuanfu to arrest you, it seems that you didn't catch it, but it's not easy for you to win, right?" ”

The scalded man's left arm was placed under the table, and he didn't move, but he was afraid that he saw his Xu someone's signal, and hurriedly came to ask for help after the fight.

"It's just a propaganda envoy, what can you do with someone??"

"Hmph, you're a dead duck with a hard mouth! Let me ask you, the silver you robbed from the county government before, as well as the spices you robbed the Wei family, can be exchanged for food and weapons? ”

"I'm afraid I don't have this opportunity at all!"

Xu Ling knew that the scalded man and his men were hiding on a small desert island jutting out of the water in the center of the river, where there was a reef nearby, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But no matter how good the terrain is, people can starve to death and burn the men and their party without fighting, and they have no money and no food, how can they fight?

"I'm not here today to say something cool to you, I want to cooperate with you, you give me the silver and spices, and I'll exchange it for food, not only food, but also armor and weapons, but after the deed, you have to help me do something."

The scald man still looked at Xu Ling, but he didn't agree to it at the first time, as if he was speculating about his intentions.

Why would Xu Ling, a timid person like a mouse, want to help him?

"Don't think that I have any thoughts about harming you, we're just using each other!"

The scalding man didn't say that it was an impulsive move to rob the prison and kill the officer, but I was afraid that he thought of the next step or two, but he couldn't think of a further way.

Although the Yong Dynasty is no longer good, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the scalded man wants to go against the government, one has no money, two people, and three land, what does he rebel with?

It's like a joke!

Xu Ling also figured out these places after the scald man found him.

How desperate do you have to go before you think of letting him help launder money and buy food?

It was precisely because he saw that the scalded man was strong and dry, that Xu Ling dragged it out again and again.

It's just that now he is short of people and money, so he has the idea of scalding men.

Xu Ling analyzed the current situation for the scalded man, and talked about his plans after the incident.

Xu Ling plans to "whitewash" the scalding man for the time being, and find him a serious career to do. If it is changed to Xuanfu before the drying, I am afraid that the scalding man will not be happy at all. But Xu Ling heard that Wei Wufang's face was not good when he came back with troops yesterday, but he was afraid that he didn't please him.

If you want Xu Ling to say, the Xuanfu envoy is still too anxious, and he only thinks about attacking hard, even if he changes his strategy, he is afraid that he will be able to kill a few fewer soldiers. However, the information between the two sides is not equal, and it is estimated that Wei Wufang does not know how empty the granary of the scalding man is.

It was they who fought with the clam that Xu Ling, the fisherman who set the mountain on fire, could persuade the man to burn him.

Scalding man: "A certain person can only kill people, but he can't do anything good!" ”

Xu Ling sneered: "What you do is a bad thing!" ”

He burned the man in his ear and told him some of his plans.

After a few moments, the scalded man looked up, his face uncertain.

Looking at Xu Ling's eyes, it was like looking at some kind of ghost.

When he was in prison, he could see that Xu Ling had a good brain, but he was stupid.

I didn't expect Xu Ling to be bad, even worse than him!

Xu Ling smiled: "What do you think of my idea?" ”

"The bottom of the kettle is drawn, and the mind is vicious."

"That's it, the brothers who follow you are all trying to eat, right? You said that in this world, who doesn't want to eat with a mouthful of food, give others a mouthful of food, others call you brother, take care of others for a lifetime, and others have to call you father. If you are gone, others will not have enough to eat, so someone will do everything possible to protect you, instead of wanting you to die. ”

Xu Ling sat next to the scalded man with a smile, grabbed his neck and said, "Brother Wu, drink!" ”

The scalded man silently picked up his glass and drank it all.

After a whole day's work, Xu Ling brainwashed the scalded man one by one, persuading him to leave the range of Lingbao Town for the time being, and then make a comeback after the Xuanfu envoy left.

It's just that after returning to Lingbao Town, the scalded man can change his identity, and he is no longer the Jiang bandit that everyone shouts and beats.

It's not that the scalding man is not impressed, but why does he believe Xu Ling?

"What if you lie to so-and-so?"

"Lao Wu, don't worry, I'm just a businessman bent on profit, I don't want much, you want the right to live, I want to support the interests of the family, neither of us can leave the other, what am I lying to you for?"

No matter how much the scalding man hesitated, under Xu Ling's persuasion, he gradually relaxed his mind.

What's more, he is already desperate, but he is afraid that when Wei Wufang attacks the mountain again, the family wealth he has accumulated with great difficulty will be gone.

In desperation, the scalded man had no choice but to promise Xu Ling to leave Lingbao Town with him and go elsewhere.