Volume A Section 30 Ambition, speculation
"Ahead is the East Water Gate." Wang Chaozuo is as stable as a dog on the surface, but he is still a little worried in his heart.
This area is already under the control of the White Lotus Sect, and after entering the city this time, the White Lotus Sect and the three groups of people on their own side quickly reached an agreement, but only in some aspects.
Their own idea is very simple, that is, to make a demonstration, asking the tax superintendent to reduce the past taxes, and not to ask for sky-high prices without standards, so that there are fewer and fewer merchants, and the business of merchants is getting lighter and lighter, and so many people who rely on merchants to eat inside and outside Linqing City will not be able to live.
Although I know that this is a risk, but what can I do when I am desperate?
But the involvement of the White Lotus Sect made Wang Chaozuo and them panic.
They didn't know how these people broke in, and they didn't even greet them at all before, and it wasn't until a moment before entering the city that they learned the news from some people, but they no longer had the strength to control the situation, and they could only watch as those White Lotus Sectists swept into the city like a flood.
Now the situation has been controlled by the other party, and Wang Chaozuo doesn't know what to do.
But now he actually has a bit of backbone in his heart, and this backbone was actually brought by the young man next to him, Wang Chaozuo didn't know if he was blinded by lard and would believe this guy's words.
"Wang Chuantou, where are you going?" The sound coming from the side alley startled Wang Chaozuo.
Under the torches, several figures came out of the alley, and the first one was even more cold-eyed, looking for something like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.
Seeing that the other party's smiling gaze fell on the person behind him, Wang Chaozuo only felt a burst of sweat gushing out of his back, and only after he settled down did he say in a rambling voice: "It turned out to be Gao Chuantou, Wang Mou never agreed to join you, why is it so late that Gao Chuantou hasn't rested?" ”
"I can't sleep, come out for a walk, Wang Chuantou hasn't answered Gao's words yet." Gao Yingchen glanced at the three children behind Wang Chaozuo, all of whom were only twelve or thirteen years old, but what were they doing at Dongshuimen with a few children at such a late hour?
"Oh, I'm sick again, and I won't let my nephew call me." Wang Chaozuo cheered up, this Gao Yingchen is from Caozhou, it's better, if it's Li Guoyong's person, it will be troublesome.
"Oh, what, Gao Chuantou is a pitiful person, you want to go back? I'm afraid it won't be quiet tonight. Gao Yingchen's eyes were like thorns, and he never left the three Feng Ziying behind him.
Zuo Liangyu and Wang Pei'an are okay, that Feng Ziying obviously doesn't look like a poor family, although she has changed her clothes, she can't hide the eyes of Gao Yingchen, who has been wandering the rivers and lakes for a long time, this should be the child of a big family, isn't this guy trying to be a favor and want to let people out of the city?
"Don't dare, Gao really wants to go back and have a look, and he also said hello to Mr. Li." Wang Chaozuo is not afraid of being exposed to lies, he has already arranged for someone to report to Li Guoyong when he sends Feng Ziying and the three of them over, and when Li Guoyong knows that he has already left the city, he will also go back under a pretense, but he is not afraid.
These White Lotus sect people don't say that they are the White Lotus Sect, but they say that they are the Eastern Mahayana Sect, and after a while, they say that they are the Luo Sect, what is the head of the head of the Sutra of the head of the palm, the name of the whole is complicated, then Li Guoyong has already pleaded himself into the religion several times, and vaguely revealed that even the Jinan Mansion and the political envoy have people into the religion, but I don't know if it is true or not.
"Hehe, that Gao Chuantou has to go early and return early." Although Gao Yingchen was suspicious, he couldn't find a suitable reason to make things difficult for the other party, and he had some kind of thought, and he had no intention of investigating the other party.
"Thank you Gao Chuantou for your memory, someone knows." Wang Chaozuo shook his hand lightly and walked straight.
Feng Ziying followed, he already felt that the young man opposite was suspicious of him, but listening to the accent, the other party didn't look like an authentic Linqing accent, more like a Lunan accent, and Wang Chaochen didn't seem to be too afraid of the other party, so he just pretended to be cowering and followed behind Wang Chaozuo.
"Pass the head, let's keep up?" Gao Yingchen stood still, watched Wang Chaozuo and the three of them disappear on the side of the road next to the East Water Gate, and thoughtfully: "Let people ask where Gao Chuantou's family lives." ”
"Huh?" The entourage behind him was surprised, "Don't you have to follow?" ”
"Hmph, this is someone else's territory, why should we worry? It's just that this Wang Chuantou is a little interesting. Gao Yingchen's eyes grew cold.
This courtier also has some identity and prestige in Linqing City, especially in the group of weavers and weavers, as soon as he called the other party Chuantou in the afternoon, it caused fierce resistance from the other party, and refused to accept this title, but although he also opposed it tonight, it was not so intense, this is definitely not a few hours to change his temperament, but the other party is unwilling to dispute and entangle with himself on this issue, and the other party is worried about something.
What to worry about? Of course, it was the children behind him, and it seemed that he was going to send that child out of the city to hide.
Gao Yingchen has been looking ahead with his hands behind his back, this is an opportunity, and he will have to touch the bottom of the other party in the future.
Wang Chaozuo didn't know that he had inadvertently revealed his flaws, and at this time he hated to speed up immediately, but he couldn't help but pretend to be ordinary, but now he didn't dare to let Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu go into the water directly, and he had to come back in a circle, and then find a suitable place next to the East Water Gate.
"Feng Gongzi, remember what you said." Wang Chaozuo's face was complicated, looking at the other party, at this time he could only pin his hopes on the other party.
"Uncle Wang, although Feng is young, he also knows the truth that people can't stand without faith, as long as you follow what Feng said, there will naturally be a way for you to live at that time." Feng Ziying also said coldly: "It's just that in the past few days, don't go with the same stream, it's forgivable to do evil in heaven, and you can't live if you do it yourself." ”
After finishing speaking, Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu changed into short clothes for playing in the water, and quietly entered the water, and Zuo Liangyu also specially found a paulownia wooden board in case of emergency.
The canal water on a summer night was still very cold, and she shuddered as soon as she got out of the water, but soon Feng Ziying got used to it.
In his previous life, he was a strong swimmer, and even came out of the warm swimming pool an hour before he was shuanggui, which is also one of the few good habits he has developed, smoking, drinking, tea, and women, too much of his energy is consumed, so even if he likes to swim very much, it has not helped him get rid of the predicament of the three highs.
Launching from the East Water Gate to the east, there is a sentry post above the Water Gate, but this is already the second half of the night, and it is only necessary to deploy defenses on the city wall and on the shore, but it is not necessary to help those people dare to come in, so the precautions are not strict, and Wang Chaozuo also went to the head of the city wall in time to attract the attention of the sentry post on the city wall.
When they heard Wang Chaozuo's laughter on the city wall, Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu, who had been lurking at the water's edge, surged hard and stabbed several times in a row, swimming out of a hundred and ten meters in one go, which could be regarded as truly out of danger.
"You mean that Chaozuo is suspicious?" Xu Hongru, a green-shirted Confucian under the lamp, put down the volume of "Sighing for the World" in his hand, raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Yes, the chief master, that dynasty is very secretive, and one of the children who followed him is not an ordinary person, but like a child of an official eunuch and gentry, and it is suspected that he is going to send that child to hide somewhere or out of the city." Gao Yingchen bowed and said. "That's all?"
Gao Yingchen said that he had another suspicion, and Xu Hongru, a green-robed Confucian student, nodded.
"Ying Chen, your judgment should be right, this dynasty is afraid that he has a different heart and is looking for a way back for himself." The blue-robed Confucian Xu Hongru rubbed his chin, and said word by word, but Li Guoyong has already taken some precautions against us, and if I want to intervene again, I am afraid that he will wonder if we want to do something in it. ”
"Do you need to tell the Sect Venerable?"
"At this time, the sect wants to make great use of Li Guoyong, if there is no conclusive basis for such words, I am afraid it is better not to mention them again, otherwise it will only be in vain." Xu Hongru shook his head, his eyes flickering, "Okay, I'll take the opportunity to remind Li Guoyong, as for whether he is willing to believe it or not, it's hard to say." ”
"What about us?" Gao Yingchen's heart tightened.
"We also have to make some preparations, don't really wait for anything to come to the end but I don't have any preparations, I was not optimistic about such a show, but the sect and the eldest prince have to come so suddenly, and Li Guo blindly welcomes this stupid thing, it is good to have something happening, and let them have a long heart, don't think that the court is really a group of Lu Li, there are still some characters inside."
Xu Hongru put down his hand, regained his previous indifference, got up with his hands behind his back and paced around, "Our people are ready to leave as soon as possible, and they can be regarded as having seen the mobilization power here, and they can make up for it one by one against our side in the future." ”