Chapter 20: A Thousand Miles of the Bright Moon (3)
Sikong sat alone on the boat, smiling and looking at Nangong Jun, who was standing on the bow of the boat, but tightly locked his brows, knowing that Nangong Jun's expression was not because he didn't trust his plan, but because he couldn't understand the strength of Yangdaomen's old enemy, he would inevitably have some worries. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But Sikong Gu knew better that no matter how much he persuaded at this time, it was useless, so he persuaded Zhang Wenwen in the boat yesterday, Zhang Wenwen was unknown about Xiao Langjun's safety, but he couldn't tell him the truth;
Sikong Gu began to adjust his attitude towards the Cao Gang from the moment Nangong Jun stepped into the Mingyue Tower the day before yesterday, and because of the change between the Bai Gang and Liu San, the connection between Sikong Gu and the Cao Gang is no longer so far away as "the deputy leader and brother of the Cao Gang".
Just as Sikong Gu was thinking about how to deal with the relationship with the Cao Gang next, a whistle came, Nangong Jun frowned when he heard this, rolled up his tongue and whistled in response, and three more whistles sounded, Nangong Juncai turned his head to Sikong Gu with a happy face: "Meng Yuan, what you expected is good, Brother Yang is really at the grave of the young gang leader." ”
It turned out that after Sikong Gu and Li Yan, Nangong Jun and others returned to the Cao Gang, they began to make manpower arrangements according to Sikong Gu's plan, Nangong Jun and Sikong Gu were in charge of performing a "prison robbery" drama at the Yamen, and Li Yan and the rest of the important backbones of the Cao Gang were separately looking for Yang Shuo's trace - although Sikong Gu thought that Yang Shuo could only go to Li Zhou's grave, some Cao Gang elders still sent people around to look for him without taking precautions.
The whistle just now, in Sikong Gu's thoughts, was probably the code used by the Cao Gang to deliver this news after finding Yang Shuo. In the opinion of Nangong Jun and others, if the Cao Gang lacks Yang Shuo's fighting power, then it may not be able to capture and kill Jin Zhicheng and his wife.
What's more, in the eyes of the veterans of the Cao Gang who don't believe in Sikong Gu, a yellow-haired boy, Sikong Gu's plan may not be able to be implemented so perfectly, and they even relied on their age three or four times older than Sikong Gu in the Cao Gang Helm Hall, pointing at Sikong Gu's nose and asking:
"Boy, how can you be sure that golden puppy (Jin Zhixin) will run away obediently?" someone asked about some details of Sikong Gu's already arrangements.
"What kind of attitude do you kid have! You don't have half of the upbringing!" Some people are simply dissatisfied with Sikong's lonely and humble attitude, and rely on the old to sell the old.
"Hmph! After missing Yu Cheng (Li Zhou's cousin), will you listen to the command of this yellow-haired boy who came from nowhere? If we lose the foundation we have created, how can you be worthy of the first helper (that is, Nangong Feilong)?" This kind of scolding should belong to the old ministers of the Nangong family in Sikong Gu's opinion, and he scolded it together with Li Yan and others.
In the end, if it weren't for Li Yanli's disapproval, Nangong Jun swore that Sikong Gu was trustworthy, thinking that the Cao Gang would have become a plate of loose sand before they set out on the expedition, and it was precisely because of this that Sikong Gu's original plan to hope that Yang Shuo would take over as the leader of the Cao Gang was shaken a little - what if Yang Shuo couldn't suppress them?
Of course, the most important thing for the Cao Gang at the moment is that these controversial voices will more or less affect the popularity of the Cao Gang, as long as there is a slight deviation between the reality and Sikong Gu's prediction, then the popularity of the people may be affected a little, and Nangong Jun should have more or less thought about this problem, so he was naturally happy that Sikong Gu was not bad.
Just as Sikong Gu was analyzing Nangong Jun's heart, Nangong Jun said happily: "Meng Yuan, Dexi is here!"
When Sikong Gu heard this, he turned his head, but saw Yang Shuo on a small boat looking at this side with his hands behind his back, and there was still a lot of harsh criticism in his eyes.
Sikong Gu didn't take this look to heart, and after confirming that Yang Shuo would gradually catch up with the two of them, he asked Nangong Jun, "How far is it from Yangdao Gate here?"
Although Nangong Jun didn't know why Sikong Gu asked this, he was very familiar with the waterways of Yangzhou City, and after a brief look, he said: "It's less than two miles." ”
"Let's stop and wait, and then the brothers will go in together. ”
Nangong Jun was very puzzled by this, but he immediately slowed down the rocking gang who was indignant about Sikong Gu, and saw that the distance between the fleet behind him and himself was gradually narrowing, until about a hundred small boats lined up in several long queues, he nodded to Sikong Gu and signaled that the gang behind him was basically together.
Sikong Gu didn't explain much, just looked up at the sun that was beginning to slowly sink westward, nodded and praised:
"I really didn't expect this Cao gang to travel so fast, and I thought they were all as slow and leisurely as my Mingyue Mansion father. "If you enter this Yangdao Gate one step earlier, I am afraid that the Jian'an Army has not arrived after the conflict starts, so the Cao Gang will have to withstand a lot of pressure, if the Nangong Hall Master and I generally want to be stable......"
Nangong Jun nodded and said approvingly: "It's still Meng Yuan who thinks about it." ”
So he turned his head and blew a long and three short whistles with his tongue, and after the three long and one short whistles came and went, Nangong Juncai turned his head and said to Sikong Gu: "Meng Yuan doesn't have to be so polite to me, I am your senior brother and friend, and I need Meng Yuan's help to get out of prison, so we don't have to be so respectful." I have called you Meng Yuan, you can call me Yixiu, what Nangong hall master, smelly and long, you are tired, I am annoyed to listen to it. ”
Although Sikong Gu slandered this Nangong Jun with an extremely rugged appearance, especially the pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes and messy subchin beard, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, but he made a sincere tone in his mouth:
"It's the little brother who is disrespectful and doesn't realize Brother Yixiu's heart. When he said that, he wanted to bow.
Nangong Jun didn't wait for Sikong Gu's back to bend before he had already pressed his left shoulder, and said heroically: "Brother Meng Yuan is still so polite, it is worthy of being taught by a master with Dexi, but in the future, don't drop any book bags in front of me Nangong, I don't know how to read." ”
"Yes, the little brother should keep it in mind. ”
Nangong Jun didn't notice that Sikong Gu was smiling secretly in his heart, but said that this young man and his senior brother were generally taught badly by that Phoenix Mountain hermit, and they looked like they were knowledgeable and reasonable, how could they have half of the heroism of the rivers and lakes? Yang Shuo has changed many scholarly habits with Li Zhou in the past few years, but in Nangong Jun's eyes, the only difference between this Sikong Gu and Yang Shuo is that he is not full of "Zi Yue" and "Theory".
Thinking of Yang Shuo's polite appearance at the beginning, and then looking at the bookish atmosphere of this old brother Meng Yuan, Nangong Jun had to smile bitterly: "Just remember." ”
After Sikong Gu heard Nangong Jun's response, he stopped speaking, just looked at the sun, and while looking at the sun, Sikong Gu slowly disappeared his smile and made a serious look. Nangong Junjian's lonely smile faded, and he stopped talking, and the two of them looked at the sun like this for a quarter of an hour.
"Let's go......"
Sikong Gu whispered, and the whistles between the fleets rose one after another, and the hundred small boats formed a ship formation, advancing without hurrying or slow.
Yangdaomen had already found that the Cao Gang's boat was blocked at the intersection of the water road, and from the moment they received the Cao Gang's movements, Jin Youde and his wife had a disagreement on fighting and fleeing. Jin Youde believes that Lu Song has not brought back the main warrant of Yangmen, and he cannot withdraw from Yangzhou, and the strength of the Cao Gang has been greatly reduced after losing Li Zhou, although Yang Shuo is rated ninth in the Who's Who, but Jin Youde believes that he and Lu Niyu will be able to defeat it together.
Lu Niyu had a group of doubts in her heart, but she couldn't tell the reason, she just felt that there were some hidden dangers in this Yangdaomen mansion, but when Jin Youde asked what kind of hidden danger it was, she couldn't explain it.
In the end, Jin Youde said, "Xin'er is still in the Yamen." So he crushed the last trace of this mother's persistence, stayed in Yangzhou City, and went to find a way to ask about the situation, and it was possible to rescue Jin Zhixin. Although Lu Niyu wanted to say to her husband, "It's more important for us to survive the sword", but that kind of flesh and blood affection beat it back when the words came to his lips a few times, and in the end, Lu Niyu still lost to his own emotions.
Of course, Mrs. Jin Youde didn't know that they had missed the last chance to escape, and the current disciples of the Yangdaomen were all in full array, but they didn't know that the Jian'an Army had sneaked into the north of the city, let alone that among the Cao Gang, there was a peerless master besides Yang Shuo.
Everyone in Yangdaomen maintained high morale, after all, they had already learned the news of Li Zhou's death in the morning, although Nangong Jun and others were acquitted, and Jin Zhixin was arrested as a prisoner, which made them very indignant, most of the disciples of Yangdaomen knew what the personality of this second young master Jin was on weekdays, saying that he could be decisive and brave when killing a chicken and a duck, but he was cautious about the matter of people's lives, and he was only afraid of hurting others, not to mention the abduction and murder.
Although Jin Zhicheng's martial arts talent is not high, he is righteous, attaches importance to righteousness and light wealth, and has eaten and lived with all the people under him since he was sixteen years old, but he has never complained. And Jin Zhixin is clever and intelligent, although the ghosts and spirits cause a lot of trouble on weekdays, but everyone knows that he has a good heart, but he also abides by morality on weekdays, and has not done anything more than half of the courtesy, the biggest crime is nothing more than beating Yang Gongzi in the west of the city to be bedridden, and Yang Gongzi flirting with girls in broad daylight Everyone also sees it.
In the eyes of the people in the Yangdao Sect, compared to the losers of other sects who eat and wait for death, and spend all day in Flower Street and Willow Lane, these two young masters in their own sect are simply like Bodhisattvas.
The Cao Gang crippled Da Shao for no reason, and the government didn't know why he thought that Er Shao was a traitor, although everyone didn't know that Jin Zhixin had been cut off, but they were already furious.
Now the Cao Gang is even more bullying the door to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, how can this make them calm down their inner anger? Although the door master and his wife closed the door and did not see everyone, but everyone under the leadership of the eldest disciple Xu Hanshan also had a calculation, and in the eyes of these Yangdaomen disciples, a battle between Yangdaomen and the Cao Gang was inevitable.
Finally, a voice as clear as water came from outside the door: "Brothers from the rivers and lakes of the Dao Gate, the Cao Gang is here to help today, and I hope you will see you!"
The disciple of the Yangdao Sect felt that his scabbard was moving, but he didn't know if it was someone trembling, or if the knife couldn't bear the loneliness?