Chapter 43: The Escape (Part 10)
As the saying goes, dragons don't live with snakes, and those who can be neighbors with the county guard are not idle people, but the old man in charge of the house is the Meng family who has been a household servant, and Meng Lao Lang and Yang Gu have different factions, so they usually don't interact with each other. In the book: The gentleman broke off his friendship and did not speak ill of him, and the official eunuchs did not interact with each other as neighbors, which has already shown that the two sides are incompatible.
After the two came to the Meng family's side, they found that this was a narrow passage, it seems that the Meng family also built a wall on their side, and the Yang family also built a wall on their side, and sandwiched out this passage.
There was no one in the passage, but I could hear the noise of the street in the distance, and I walked along the passage to the end and saw a house.
There are a few very ordinary packages in the room, there is already some dust on the package, open the package and see, there are about two thousand taels of silver silver tickets, more than a dozen taels of scattered silver, customs clearance procedures and everything is available, and two sets of clothes, at a glance it is worn by ordinary people, and even there are razors and other things in the package, which are extremely well prepared.
The two men checked it, immediately changed into clothes, and then one of them picked up a package and walked out. At the end of the house there seemed to be no road, but there was a cellar, and when I jumped into the cellar, I found that there was a hole to climb into, and when I climbed to the end, I pushed open a barrel and climbed out, and I found that it was in a rather large cellar, and there were full barrels piled up everywhere. When both of them climbed out, it seemed that some mechanism had been touched, and a wooden plank suddenly slipped on the wall next to it. Inside, however, there was a handle, which had been brushed with red paint. It looks stark.
Next to the handle is a wooden sign that reads: Pull down and the passage will collapse.
The man in the lead decisively pulled down the handle. Then they turned and walked out, and there was the sound of dirt rolling down behind them, apparently the tunnel had been buried, which meant that they could never go back, only to move forward. Then the two continued to walk out, and they smelled a foul smell in their noses, and it turned out that there was a latrine next to it.
Further on, I saw a very crowded and lively kitchen next to it, with at least five or six cooks, dunzi. The hands are busy here, but the direction in which the two of them came out should have been designed, and almost all of these people have their backs to this side, even if they see and when they are guests who come to the back to go to the toilet, they will not pay attention.
The two of them continued to walk out of the city, and sure enough, they saw that this was a very prosperous restaurant, and the people came and went so well that it was not noisy and lively, and it was very crowded. The end is unaware of the ghosts. And at this time, the people are simple, often take the initiative to know money, and people who don't give money for dinner are estimated to only meet two or three times when they open a restaurant for a lifetime, so no one stops them.
But when I get out of the slump. Because there were too many people, a little er with soup hurriedly squeezed over, and was squeezed and shaken. And he sprinkled some of the soup he had served, and it was piping hot. Xiao Er screamed in pain, and knocked the soup to the ground with a miss. The steaming soup splashed everywhere, but it didn't get on the others, but the upper of the shoes of the people around him would inevitably be splashed to a few points.
This thing is also ordinary, it didn't cause too many waves, the two left the hotel and mixed in the crowd and walked forward slowly, but they also saw the blood stains left by the fierce battle last night on the street and some of the houses that were burned, and the person walking behind suddenly gritted his teeth in a low voice and said:
"Impossible, impossible, there must be an inner ghost, otherwise, our plan is seamless, how can it be recognized?"
The man walking in front suddenly lowered his voice and said sternly:
"Shut up, silence!"
The man in the back was about to speak, and his pupils contracted suddenly, because there was already a group of soldiers in armor in front of him, looking left and right, and his hands were pressed on the hilt of the sword, as if he had encountered something wrong, he would slash it with a knife and be heavily guarded.
At this time, the man walking behind instinctively flashed to the side, but the man walking in front dragged him to meet the group of soldiers, and said with a smile:
"This military master, do you know where the Dao Conscience Pawnshop is?"
The soldier at the head looked the two of them up and down, and asked:
"What are you going to do there?"
The man in front nodded and smiled:
"One of our brothers is from Wuzhuang, and he took his mother-in-law's silver hairpin there, saying that it was redeemed in sixty days, but now it is sixty-five days, let me go and help him ask if he can redeem it?"
When the soldier heard this, he pointed to the west and said:
"Over there, just walk a mile. ”
The man in front thanked him, and then walked in the direction pointed by the military man, until he turned the corner of the street, and then saw the man walking behind him let out a long sigh, and wiped his right hand on his pants, obviously all the palms were covered with cold sweat! Even if someone is following behind, there is nothing unusual to see.
Then the two of them prepared to go out of the city, although they encountered a lot of interrogations along the way, but they still had a thrilling pass, after they went out of the city, they were originally on the official road, and it didn't take long for them to suddenly deviate to the west road, and then entered a village.
Not long after the interval, I saw three or five small boats down the small river next to the village, these small boats have to sail out of two or three miles to enter the big river, the Xunyang River near here has an open water surface, there are many reeds, stretching for dozens of miles, once the boat drills in, it is difficult for the king of heaven to find out.
After about an hour or two, the small boats that had gone out came back, and after resting for a cup of tea, they saw four horses galloping out of the village, and they were just carrying two people on horseback!
It turned out that the few small boats that drove out before were just a suspicious tactic to test whether they were embellished, and these four horses at this time were the main ones. Once the boats do not return at the appointed time, or if they notice any unusual movement outside the village, the village authorities will activate and destroy all the evidence and people cleanly, ensuring that there is no trace left. Of course, this is the last killing, and it is not easy to establish such a place, so if it is not a last resort, this decision will not be made.
These two men galloped out of the city for two full hours, and in these two hours, they did not hesitate to throw away the two exhausted horses and galloped for more than one hundred and fifty miles, which can be said to have left the range of the county, and they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the horses under their crotch finally couldn't stand it, and the front hooves were soft and threw out of the stumbling with a long neigh, and after a few rolls, the mouth spit out white foam, and the four hooves continued to twitch, and it looked like they were dying of exhaustion, the person in front was okay, although the legs and feet were stiff, and when he landed, he could barely stand firmly, but the person behind him wanted to jump away when he fell, but unfortunately he didn't catch it, and he fell right all of a sudden, it can be said that his head was broken and bleeding, and the air towel he was wearing on his head fell out of the air。
At this time, you can see that the person who opened the road in front of him is about forty or so long, with a square face, lying silkworm eyebrows, and bright eyes, but the long beard on the chin sets off the person a little elegant, and naturally reveals a bit of bookish meaning, which is completely different from the flattering appearance of the previous soldier who asked for directions to the patrol army, and the young man behind looks similar to him, but the distance between the two eyebrows is very narrow, as if the eyebrows are twisted up at any time, it seems that the young man is also tired, and after falling to the ground, he can't care about the wound, but he is gasping violently on the ground with his eyes closed。
These two people are none other than Zhang Jinghong, a former Hanlin scholar, and his son Zhang Liguo.
Zhang Jinghong angered Liu Qu back then, and was labeled as never used, and he was only thirty-eight when he went to work, and he was very keen on fame, so it was very logical that he was accepted by Liu Jian, the king of Heng, because Zhang Jinghong was still in the household department Langzhong, although this position was not high, but it was to be assessed in the triennial Beijing inspection, so he was quite familiar with the officials in Nanzheng, and Liu Jian sent him out to contact and persuade people who were willing to submit to him.
Zhang Jinghong also knew that this was his only chance, he was very honest, and persuaded many officials for King Heng, this time in order to reassure Yang Gu, he did not hesitate to bring his son as a hostage, but they didn't expect that they thought that the assassination was nine out of ten actually missed, Li Hu's wife's Cui family had a deep potential, and to their surprise, it was at any cost to create a stand-in for Li Hu with the secret technique of the David Dynasty that survived in the family, and it was this stand-in that made their plan fall short.
Zhang Liguo gasped for a long time, and finally felt that the pain and tiredness were slightly better, so he slowly got up and gritted his teeth and said:
"This damned animal, if it hadn't been in a hurry, would have had to cramp and skin, and it lost its strength at both ends. ”
Hearing his son say this casually, Zhang Jinghong suddenly froze, and his body suddenly stiffened, but soon slowly relaxed, and said softly to his son:
"I know that you have always wanted to redeem that Chun'er in Wanhualou, and I won't stop you when I go back this time. (To be continued......)