Mu Qinghe first asked, "If you have heard of my Water Gang, you must know very well, what kind of business is my Water Gang mainly engaged in?"

Without waiting for everyone to answer, Mu Qinghe replied by himself: "My Yushui Gang has always been making a living on the waterways that run from east to west, north and south, and earning some small fortune on the waterways. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Speaking of this, Mu Qinghe arched his hand at Li Yan and the others, and said, "My Yushui Gang has always been law-abiding. Therefore, in addition to the support of friends on the rivers and lakes, it has also won the trust of the government along the road of various water systems. In addition to sailing for all kinds of merchants and merchants of the people, when the government has an urgent need, if our Imperial Water Gang is dispatched, I will also go to serve. ”

You Guanliu frowned lightly and said, "Qinghe, to make a long story short, don't delay the banquet of your distinguished guests. ”

When Mu Qinghe heard this, he hurriedly and respectfully responded with a "yes", and then said to everyone: "This time, the northerners knocked on the side and besieged Taiyuan. Due to the shortage of money and grain in Taiyuan City, the imperial court mobilized money and grain from all over the hinterland of the Central Plains and transported it to Taiyuan to relieve the siege. In order to transport these money and grain to the Taiyuan front line as soon as possible, in addition to the imperial court's own strength, the imperial court also urgently recruited civilian transportation forces to assist in the transfer of these money and grain. ”

Liu Yunfeng and his entourage, especially Liu Yunfeng, Tie Zhu, Dugu Han, Zhang Ming, Zhu Jian, and Zhu Yan, heard that Mu Qinghe actually mentioned the siege of Taiyuan by the northerners, and they each glanced at each other, and their hearts sank slightly.

Everyone understands in their hearts that since they have deducted this big hat first, today's matter is definitely not trivial.

While everyone's minds were spinning their thoughts, Mu Qinghe continued: "My Imperial Water Gang is also among the imperial court's requisition. Although most of my Yushui Gang are some bitter people who walk on the waterway, they are all rough people, but when the national disaster is at hand, it is incumbent on us to have this opportunity to serve the country. These words were impassioned and righteous.

When Li Yan and the others heard this, they all praised: "Good!"

After Cai Zhuo praised it, he interjected and asked, "Deputy Gang Leader Mu, this is a good thing for the country and the people!

Mu Qinghe's face turned pale, and he replied, "My lord, Mingjian." There has indeed been some change in this matter. ”

Cai Zhuo then asked, "Oh, what happened?"

Mu Qinghe showed a sad look on his face and replied: "This is also the misfortune of this gang, and it is even more to blame for the negligence of discipline in Xia Ping. This time, there was a group of scum in the gang, intending to conspire with our gang to help transport military money and food to the Taiyuan front. ”

Speaking of this, Mu Qinghe bowed to You Guanliu again and said, "The subordinates are not doing their work effectively, and please help the master to punish them." ”

You Guanliu waved his hand and said, "Qinghe, it's none of your business." Let's get down to business first. ”

Mu Qinghe pleaded guilty to You Guanliu here, but Cai Zhuo was already indignant and scolded angrily: "There is such a scum?!

As soon as Cai Zhuo's scolding fell, Li Yan asked, "Deputy Gang Leader Mu, have you ever held these people?"

Mu Qinghe bowed his hand to Li Yan, and replied: "Thanks to the alertness of the brothers in the gang, they found it in time. We've already taken them all. ”

After answering Li Yan's question, Mu Qinghe arched his hand at Liu Yunfeng again, and said, "This matter is originally a family matter in my help, and you shouldn't be bothered." It's just that there are brothers in the gang who said that among the people who were captured, there were suspected people from Qingyun Village, so they took the liberty of asking Liu Daxia and others to come over and recognize them, so as not to hurt the people in Guizhai by mistake and hurt the harmony. ”

When Liu Yunfeng and the others heard this, their hearts sank again, and they said in their hearts: "The play meat is here!"

Wu Jidong, who had never spoken, said: "Deputy Gang Leader Mu, since this is the case, please bring someone up." This official will take a look to see if he is a person from my Qingyun Army. ”

When Mu Qinghe heard this, he seemed to suddenly realize, and said apologetically to Wu Jidong: "I am confused! I am confused! I forgot that now Qingyunzhai has been returned to the imperial court, and it is all under the command of Lord Wu." As he spoke, he bowed his hand to Wu Jidong again and again.

Wu Jidong arched his hand expressionlessly and said, "It's okay." Please help Leader Mu bring people up. ”

The two of them are singing and harmonizing here, you are going back and forth hotly, and the eyes of Tie Zhu and others over there have already been fires.

You Guanliu, who had been observing Liu Yunfeng and the others, saw this, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

Mu Qinghe glanced at You Guanliu, saw You Guanliu nodded, turned his head and instructed Ding Sheng, "Master Ding, bring people up." Ding Sheng bowed and answered "yes", got up and left.

It's just that no one saw it, and the moment he lowered his head, Ding Sheng's eyes showed the indescribable taste before.

After a while, Ding Sheng returned to the hall and said to You Guanliu and Mu Qinghe: "Gang leader, deputy gang leader, people have been brought." ”

You Guanliu snorted and asked, "Where are the people? Why don't you bring them in?"

Ding Sheng replied: "Helper, there are many people, and many people are injured. Brought into the hall, the subordinates were worried about some inconvenience. People are in the courtyard. ”

You Guanliu frowned, and when his eyes looked at Mu Qinghe, Mu Qinghe immediately walked in front of Wu Jidong, arched his hand, and said, "Lord Wu, can you please move outside the hall to recognize?"

Wu Jidong nodded, stood up, and walked towards the door with Mu Qinghe.

Wu Jidong was together, and Li Yan and the others also stood up immediately and said, "It's about the money and food of the front-line army, I'll go and see it later." With that, he took Cai Zhuo and the others and walked out.

On this side, You Guanliu was just about to speak, Liu Yunfeng and the others also stood up and said, "Since the matter involves Qingyun Village, Liu Mou will take a look from now on." With that, he walked towards the door.

As soon as Liu Yunfeng moved, everyone here also got up one after another, followed him, and walked out together.

You Guanliu saw that everyone had walked out, and his eyes were matched with the remaining members of the Water Gang in the hall, and he also got up and went out with everyone. There were smiles in the eyes of several people.

Only the black-robed man with a stiff face was still sitting on the chair, motionless. The handsome young man behind the black-robed man stood behind the black-robed man in an orderly manner.

When everyone came to the courtyard, they saw several rows in the courtyard, densely packed, kneeling on the ground. Around him, there was a circle of men with swords in hand, staring at the kneeling people on the ground.

Everyone's eyes swept roughly, and the total number of these kneeling people on the ground was probably not less than a hundred. All those who knelt on the ground were gagged with rags. Everyone's face and body had blood stains.

Sun Dinghong's eyes swept over the kneeling appearance of these people, and said in a low voice: "The tendons are broken." ”

Before Sun Dinghong spoke, Liu Yunfeng, Tie Zhu and Dugu Han were already full of anger.

The three of them recognized that the person kneeling in the middle of the first row was the helmsman of the Jizhou branch of Qingyunzhai, Hu Chengnian.

And at a glance, Liu Yunfeng and Tie Zhu could also recognize that, except for Hu Chengnian, many of the kneeling people were brothers they had seen in various branches. Although there are few people Dugu Han recognizes, he can also recognize that a few people are the brothers of Qingyunzhai.

Hearing Sun Dinghong's words, Liu Yunfeng's face became even paler. And Tie Zhu and Dugu Han both clenched their teeth, and they were about to have a seizure.

On the other side, Li Yan, Cai Zhuo and others have been secretly observing the reactions of Liu Yunfeng and others.

Seeing that Liu Yunfeng's face was pale, and Tie Zhu and Dugu Han were also on the verge of going berserk, Li Yan and the others were secretly proud in their hearts. Because they know that the hundred and ten people who are kneeling on the ground are indeed from Qingyunzhai.

However, these people are not scum who are plotting for the money and food of the imperial court as Mu Qinghe said, but after being arrested by Qin Mu's envoys in other places, they were specially sent here to do this good show by the Yushui Gang.

The reason why these people were caught was because of Wu Jidong.

Some of these people, such as Hu Chengnian, were arrested the night after Qingyun's order.

Wu Jidong has long had the intention of betraying the village. In order to show his loyalty to Qin Mu, Wu Jidong had already reported all the news he knew about Qingyun Village, including the distribution of people inside and outside the village, to Qin Mu.

This time, as soon as the Qingyun Order came out, the manpower arranged by Qin Mu immediately began to arrest the Qingyun Zhai people distributed outside Qingyun Village according to the information presented by Wu Jidong.

Hu Chengnian had long been under the surveillance of the people arranged by Qin Mu. As soon as the Qingyun Order came out, Hu Chengnian was directly captured by Qin Mu's people before he left. There are not a few Qingyunzhai people who were captured on the night and the next day of Qingyun's order.

As for the other people kneeling here, in the past two days, Qin Mu's people were captured according to the portrait and approximate location given by Wu Jidong, according to the shape of the map.

According to Qin Mu's original intention, after capturing these people in Qingyun Village, if they could not be persuaded to surrender, they would all be secretly executed after being tortured and squeezing out the value of these people.

A few days ago, Mr. Fan offered a suggestion, saying that he could use these people to put on a good show. When Qin Mu heard this, he felt that this plan was very good, so he asked Mr. Fan to start working on this matter.

The Yushui Gang is making hard-earned money on the waterway, but in fact, they secretly collude with the officials and people along the waterway, and I don't know how many shady things they have done. And Qin Mu has power, among these officials, I don't know how many are his protégés.

Most of the benefits obtained by the Yushui Gang were given to these officials. And these officials, in turn, dedicated most of the benefits they had received from the Yushui Gang and various other channels to Qin Mu.

The Yushui Gang is deeply involved with the government, and it has long been unable to extricate itself. This time, Mr. Fan made a plan, so he chose the Yushui Gang as a singer.

You Guanliu came because he knew that it was impossible to disobey Qin Mu's wishes, so he could only cooperate with Mr. Fan's arrangement.

Second, after Li Yan and others learned the news of Mr. Fan, Wu Jidong informed Mr. Fan of the fact that Qingyunzhai secretly intercepted thousands of stone black grains from the Yushui Gang three years ago.

It was a big deal to cut off thousands of stones of grain back then. Wu Jidong, as the fourth leader of Qingyun Village, knows the situation very clearly.

After Mr. Fan informed You Guanliu of the news, You Guanliu heard the details and knew that this matter was indeed done by Qingyunzhai, and he was immediately furious, and personally led the two deputy gang leaders and the three Dharma protectors, and immediately rushed here to arrange.

After arriving here, he greeted the black-robed man invited by Mr. Fan, and only called this person the new guest of the Yushui Gang.

And the reason why You Guanliu and the others came so quickly was that after Qingyun ordered it, You Guanliu saw that Qingyun Village had changed, and he had already set off from Hongzhou, and at the same time ordered the two deputy gang leaders and the three Dharma protectors to come here, and they already had the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob in their hearts.

This time, the strategy is also simple.

After detaining these 100 people here, just wait to attract Liu Yunfeng and others, and You Guanliu will let Liu Yunfeng and others recognize them.

If Liu Yunfeng and the others did not admit that these people were from Qingyunzhai, You Guanliu would have ganged these people in front of Liu Yunfeng and others. Afterwards, it was spread again, saying that Liu Yunfeng and others saw that the old people of Qingyunzhai were in trouble and did not save them. First, it can ruin the chivalrous name of Liu Yunfeng and others, and second, it can also chill the hearts of other Qingyunzhai people and even heroes in the world.

If Liu Yunfeng and the others admit that these people are from Qingyunzhai, and the hat of a plot for military funds is buttoned down, Mr. Fan, You Guanliu and others will naturally have other back-up moves to deal with Liu Yunfeng and his party.

This strategy can be described as seamless.

First of all, with Li Yan and others together, You Guanliu and others don't have to worry about Liu Yunfeng and others not coming at all. Even if Liu Yunfeng really refused, Li Yan and the others would definitely try to "pass by" here, so that Liu Yunfeng and the others would "discover" about it.

Secondly, with Liu Yunfeng's reputation and everyone's understanding of Liu Yunfeng and others, You Guanliu and others are ten percent sure that Liu Yunfeng will recognize these people from Qingyunzhai. Once you recognize it, you can continue to sing the next play.

This matter can be said to be a conspiracy, but it is also a conspiracy that Liu Yunfeng and others had to be led away by You Guanliu and others.

At this time, not only Li Yan and others saw the faces of Liu Yunfeng, Tie Zhu and Dugu Han, but You Guanliu and others were also secretly observing Liu Yunfeng and his party.

Seeing that Liu Yunfeng's face was pale, and Tie Zhu and Dugu Han were clenched again, You Guanliu and the others also knew that this plan had worked.

However, if the play is to be performed well, what should be said has to be continued. If you should sing, you have to keep singing.