Chapter 8 Lonely Night Jackdaw II
"Alas~" Jiang Jingzhong suddenly sighed, revealing an unconcealable disappointment in his tone, "But in the past seven years, your pride has become less and less, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that this seat will really be unable to help killing you one day." ”
Jiang Jingzhong said this sentence lightly, and with one hand gently folded off a bright flower in the tent, this flower that I don't know where it came from, but in Jiang Jingzhong's hands, it slowly withered and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Li Yonghua said in fear: "Chitose-sama, my subordinates will definitely practice martial arts diligently in the future, and they will never disappoint Chitose-sama again." ”
Jiang Jingzhong shook his head and sighed: "Yonghua, since you joined Dongchang, although your skills have become more and more profound, the growth rate is not as much as when you were in the rivers and lakes, yes or no?"
Li Yonghua has not slackened for a day since joining the East Factory, and has been practicing martial arts diligently in order to defeat Jiang Jingzhong one day, but as he stays in the East Factory for a long time and understands Jiang Jingzhong's terribleness, his own growth will become more and more slow.
At this time, Jiang Jingzhong broke his mind, and he didn't dare to hide it: "Chitose Lord candles shine thousands of miles, but his subordinates have a strong sense of powerlessness." ”
Jiang Jingzhong pinched his fingers, and the withered flower became a handful of cold incense powder, scattered.
Unhurriedly, he walked to Li Yonghua, who was kneeling on the ground, and whispered: "If you want to go further, then you must first turn yourself from a dog back to a wolf......"
After speaking, Jiang Jingzhong patted Li Yonghua's shoulder meaningfully.
Li Yonghua felt the cold air coming from Jiang Jingzhong's palm, and he couldn't help but want to resist it, but he was afraid of angering Jiang Jingzhong, but fortunately, the cold air in Jiang Jingzhong's hand was collected as soon as he started.
At this time, Li Yonghua thought about what Jiang Jingzhong said before, and slowly realized the meaning of these words, why the gap between himself and Jiang Jingzhong has become wider and wider in recent years, to put it bluntly, it is because of his defeat at Jiang Jingzhong's hands that year, and the fear of Jiang Jingzhong caused by this knot has continued to grow in seven years, gradually eroding his Li Yonghua's arrogance and self-confidence back then.
Once a person who practices martial arts has doubts about himself, it will be difficult to concentrate, and the growth of martial arts will inevitably slow down day by day, or even retreat instead of advancing.
When Jiang Jingzhong said this, he suddenly changed his words and smiled: "Okay, Yonghua, you don't have too much pressure." ”
Although Jiang Jingzhong said this, Li Yonghua didn't dare to think so in his heart, he knew that if he really became worthless, or if Jiang Jingzhong lost interest and patience, then the Chitose Lord in front of him would never hesitate in the slightest when he got rid of him.
Seven years ago, the belief that Jiang Jingzhong would be defeated was unconsciously activated.
Jiang Jingzhong saw that Li Yonghua's eyes had changed, and nodded secretly, for Jiang Jingzhong, he would rather raise a dog with a suspicious heart and be able to do things, than a dog that is loyal and can't do things.
He doesn't need his subordinates to love him wholeheartedly, because the so-called loyalty will only make people sluggish in comfort, he will not fully trust anyone he thinks he is, he only needs the absolute fear and fear of his subordinates.
"Okay, Yonghua tell me how much you know about that good man. Jiang Jingzhong slowly sat back in his chair and said leisurely.
Li Yonghua said: "Back to the prince, this Liangmen is also known as the 'Liang' Gate, and the people in the rivers and lakes also call him a thief's den, and the disciples of the Liangmen are all over the north and south of the river are clever snitches, but although there are many Liangmen disciples, the real core disciples are very rare, and there have long been rumors in the rivers and lakes that the Liangmen is a single lineage, although it cannot be believed, it is almost the same. ”
When Li Yonghua said this, he couldn't help but look up at Jiang Jingzhong.
Jiang Jingzhong lowered his head and tasted a sip of tea, as if absent-mindedly, and said, "Go on." ”
Li Yonghua continued: "The time of the establishment of the Liangmen faction is unknown, but it has been passed down to this day for hundreds of years, and it is rumored that there was a generation of Liangmen masters who were slashed by the guards of the Great Inner and died in the treasure house of the Taizu of this dynasty. ”
Jiang Jingzhong said curiously: "Oh, I don't know what kind of test this section is. ”
Li Yonghua said: "These disciples of the good sect are bold and reckless, and the test of taking over the head of the sect is said to be to steal one of the treasures from the treasure house of the Great Interior, and it cannot be discovered by the imperial court. ”
Jiang Jingzhong smiled: "Oh, this test is quite interesting, is that Jin Yuliang also the master of the good sect?"
Li Yonghua said respectfully: "Hui Yu, Jin Yuliang is the master of the good door at this time, because of his light skills, he is very good at stealing, stealing the four seas is like exploring the bag, and is called the God of Golden Wealth by the people on the rivers and lakes, according to legend, Jin Yuliang sneaked into the treasure house when he was young, and dropped a treasure in the treasure house, but which treasure was stolen by Jin Yuliang and changed the pillars, and has not been found so far, which shows the high level of this person's forgery technique. ”
Jiang Jingzhong said leisurely: "Interesting~Interesting~~"
Li Yonghua continued: "There is also a young man named Zhang Yide in the Liangmen, who is the personal disciple of Jin Yuliang, the master of the Liangmen. ”
Jiang Jingzhong said: "In addition to this Yide, does Jin Yuliang have any other personal disciples?"
Li Yonghua shook his head and said: "Except for the fake Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, I haven't heard that Jin Yuliang, the master of the Liangmen, has other personal disciples. ”
Jiang Jingzhong said lightly: "In this way, the female snitch you caught Yonghua is just an ordinary disciple in a good sect." ”
Li Yonghua said: "My lord Mingjian, looking at that woman's skills, she should just be an ordinary disciple of the good sect. ”
Jiang Jingzhong said: "An ordinary disciple of a good sect, but he broke into the marching camp with 5,000 soldiers and horses late at night, interesting~haha~ It's really interesting." ”
"Okay Yonghua, you go and interrogate the woman and see if you can get some interesting information, if there is nothing special, just deal with her, I don't have extra rations here for the captives. ”
Li Yonghua bowed his head and said, "My subordinates understand." ”
Jiang Jingzhong waved his hand and signaled that Li Yonghua could retreat.
When Li Yonghua withdrew from the camp, Jiang Jingzhong showed a thoughtful look.
When Li Yonghua withdrew from Jiang Jingzhong's tent, sweat soaked the placket of his back, and Jiang Jingzhong, the official of Dongchang Factory, was moody, and these words to Li Yonghua today seemed to have no connection at all, but in fact they were mysterious.
Jiang Jingzhong knew from the beginning that Li Yonghua joined the East Factory with a bad heart, but he was too confident to take him for his own use.
It was Li Yonghua's original intention that he knew later, but for the sake of his loyalty behind him, he was spared.
Or maybe Jiang Jingzhong is really as he said, just because the original Li Yonghua is a little similar to the former Jiang Jingzhong himself.
No one knows the truth of the facts, and Li Yonghua will not be stupid enough to do something unwise when his strength is not enough.
Today's conversation seems to be Jiang Jingzhong helping Li Yonghua untie the knot, and it seems to be warning from the side, maybe both, but this is exactly Jiang Jingzhong's cleverness.
Only if everyone can't guess his thoughts, then he will never expose his weaknesses.
Li Yonghua took a deep breath, the cold night breeze followed his breath and entered his chest, and his own shadow flashed in front of him seven years ago.
Li Yonghua shook his head vigorously, put aside some complicated and unrealistic ideas, and was about to interrogate the female thief who had just been captured.
"Hey, who should I be, isn't this our Lord Li, tonight Li Daxia showed his skills and took down the snooping thief in one fell swoop, it is really a great achievement, is the adult here to receive the reward?" A thin figure suddenly appeared in front of Li Yonghua, although his mouth was congratulatory, but anyone could hear the banter tone.
Li Yonghua looked up and saw that the person who came was the wandering soul Sang Jian, who was as famous as himself and the four masters of the East Factory, this Sang Jian was the one with the highest light skills under Jiang Jingzhong, and he had always been responsible for spying on Jiang Jingzhong, and it could also be said that he was the closest to Jiang Jingzhong.
Li Yonghua said coldly: "Master Sang, don't you rest so late?"
Sang Jian pretended to complain: "How can Sang have such a good life as Master Li, there are so many factory guards who can be mobilized, and if something happens, it can be solved with a single mouth, Sang is alone, and he can't be idle if he breaks his leg every day." ”
Li Yonghua sneered: "Lord Sang is joking, the shadow under your command is no less than the factory guard under Li, Lord Chitose is in the tent, and Li still has a task to accompany him." ”
After finishing speaking, he ignored the wandering soul Sang Jian, and went straight to interrogate the captured female snitch.
Wandering soul Sang Jian looked at the figure of Li Yonghua who was far away and sneered.
Jiang Jingzhong, the director of Dongchang Factory, commanded four masters: Li Yonghua, Mo Yuan, Feng Shaoting, and Sang Jian.
Among them, Li Yonghua, Mo Yuan, and Feng Shaoting all have military positions, and each of them has a large number of factory guards waiting for dispatch, but Sang Jian's responsibilities are the most special different from the three of them.
At that time, in the Ming Dynasty, the Jinyiwei was responsible for supervising the foreign ministers, and the Dongchang was responsible for supervising the Jinyiwei and the internal and external courtiers, and the shadow in the Dongchang was the agency used by Jiang Jingzhong to supervise the Dongchang.
To put it bluntly, Sang Jian's daily task is to report to Jiang Jingzhong if there is anything abnormal in the East Factory, although nominally the official positions are not as good as Li Yonghua, Mo Yuan, and Feng Shaoting, but in fact, they are monitored all the time.
Therefore, the relationship between the other three and Sang Jian is not harmonious.
Li Yonghua first inspected the entire camp and checked that there were no mistakes in the defense of various places, and then walked to a tent on the edge of the camp.
The tent looked no different from other tents, except that there was a guard from the East Factory at each of the four corners of the tent, and two guards from the East Factory standing guard at the main entrance.
Seeing Li Yonghua coming, the two factory guards at the main gate hurriedly saluted, and then opened the cloth door of the tent.
There was no special decoration in the tent, and it was full of miscellaneous items on all sides, apparently it was originally a warehouse for storing marching goods, but now it was temporarily used as a prison by Li Yonghua.
In the middle of the tent was a sturdy cross pillar, on which a delicate woman in black looked hatefully at Li Yonghua, who was walking step by step, this woman had long purple hair, and her masked face was torn off when she was caught, and her beautiful face was unreservedly exposed to the firelight.
Next to the woman stood a guard in charge of her Dongchang factory, but she didn't see any torture tools other than that, obviously she didn't get orders from Jiang Jingzhong or Li Yonghua, and no one dared to torture them easily.
Li Yonghua said to the guard who was guarding: "It's none of your business here, you can go out first." ”
The factory guard knew that this was Li Yonghua to be interrogated alone, and replied respectfully, "Yes, Lord Li." And he walked out of his tent.
After the factory guard left, Li Yonghua spoke: "Who are you, what is your plan to sneak into the marching camp late at night?"
The woman said disdainfully: "Dog officer, don't talk nonsense, since my aunt and grandmother have fallen into your hands today, then if you want to kill or chop, you will listen to it." ”
Li Yonghua frowned, and said coldly: "Girl, you don't know what kind of place this is." ”
The woman snorted: "It's just a camp for a group of eunuchs, my aunt and grandmother have known about it for a long time, isn't it very strange?" ”
Li Yonghua's pupils shrank and said: "Since the girl knows that this is the marching camp of Dongchang, then she should also know the price to pay for breaking here at night." ”
The woman said freely: "The head is out of the bowl, I want to scare your aunt and grandmother, you are still tender." ”
Li Yonghua praised coldly: "I didn't expect the girl to be young, but she looked down on life and death." ”
The woman said proudly: "What's the matter, you have the ability to kill your aunt with one sword, if your aunt frowns, it will be raised by your mother." This sentence is obviously an unceremonious insult to Li Yonghua.
But Li Yonghua obviously still has some bearing, and he is not angry, but he said coldly: "The girl is really admirable when she is young and sees through life and death, but the girl will not think that death is the most painful, there are one hundred and eight kinds of punishments in the Dongchang Yamen: ear resting, nose picking, lip sewing, cramps...... Although there is no way to be so complete in this marching camp, it is still possible to make up sixty or seventy kinds for the girl to see, not to mention ......"
After the woman heard more than 100 kinds of punishments in Li Yonghua's mouth, the previous calmness on her face was gone, and she couldn't help but ask, "What's more?"
Li Yonghua said lightly: "What's more, although there are many ministers in this marching camp, there are still more than 4,000 men with strong blood, and they are as beautiful as girls......
Li Yonghua didn't finish his words, but the woman who was tied up obviously understood what the few words he didn't say were, her face was bloodless, and her silver teeth were about to say angrily: "You are shameless!!"
Li Yonghua said calmly: "The road is a girl, you choose it yourself, from the moment you set foot in the Dongchang camp, you should think about your own fate, if you are willing to cooperate obediently, Li can guarantee to give you a decent death." ”
When the woman heard him call himself 'Li', she suddenly remembered that the Dongchang factory guard also called him Master Li, and when she saw his snow-white eyebrows, her heart moved, as if she remembered something, and blurted out: "You are Li Yonghua?"
Li Yonghua was stunned for a moment and asked, "Does the girl know you?"
The woman said disdainfully: "You are not worthy of your aunt and grandmother, but your aunt and grandmother I have heard of you from the master, you were originally the number one person in the rivers and lakes, but then I don't know why I joined the East Factory, the rivers and lakes are rumored that you are greedy for glory and wealth to join the eagle dog, but the master said at the time that you must have something to suffer, today I saw that the rumors in the rivers and lakes are true, you are just a despicable and shameless villain." ”
Li Yonghua sighed secretly, when he joined Dongchang, he did have a different purpose, everyone in the rivers and lakes scolded him at the beginning, but he didn't expect that only the master of the girl in front of him saw his distress, and asked the girl: "Who is your master?"
The woman said proudly: "You don't deserve to know my master's name, Li Yonghua, if you are still a man, and you still have a little bit of courtesy, righteousness, shame and conscience, I will give your aunt and grandmother a good time." ”
Li Yonghua said calmly: "Even if the girl doesn't say it, can you guess who the girl's master is?"
The tied woman pursed her mouth, obviously not believing that Li Yonghua had this ability.
Li Yonghua continued: "The girl's martial arts are mediocre but not bad, and there are not many martial arts sects like this in the rivers and lakes. ”
The woman obviously didn't like it when she heard Li Yonghua say that her martial arts were mediocre, and she didn't like it until she heard the second half of the light skills, but she didn't frown a little, but she was obviously not satisfied with this not bad evaluation.
I heard Li Yonghua follow and said: "There are not many sects like this that focus on light martial arts, body skills, and light fists and feet, and Liangmen is one of them, not to mention that the cloud exploration hand and snow treading skill made by the girl tonight are all martial arts of Liangmen, which can't deceive people." ”
The woman's expression obviously showed a touch of unnaturalness, and she forced herself to calm down: "What you say is what it is, my aunt is too lazy to tell you." ”
But Li Yonghua was obviously not prepared to let her go like this, and pressed step by step: "Since the girl is from a good family, she just kept saying that she is a master, as far as I know, although there are many disciples in the good sect who have been trained by the master, but they cannot be regarded as the disciples of the master, only the personal disciples of the head of the good family can be called the master of the master." ”
When the woman heard this, the smile on her face was completely gone.
Li Yonghua paused, and then continued: "Then it is very obvious, the girl's master is the current master of the Liangmen who is known as the Golden God of Wealth, and the girl should naturally be the personal disciple of the Golden Gate Master, but it is rumored that the personal disciple of the Golden Gate Master is only a fake Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, and I have never heard that the Golden Gate Master has a second disciple......"