Chapter 13: Peers
Zhao Junsheng landed lightly on the grass under the wall, and the Yao Mansion at night was not very quiet, the lights were bright, and there were maids walking around from time to time.
He made a rough observation, this mansion is only afraid of an area of no less than 20 acres, pavilions, flower beds, attics, lotus ponds everything, in this Suiyang City, he Yao Desheng and a businessman's house is so magnificent, it is really worthy of someone to support it, you must know that in the Northern Wei Dynasty, rich is not an uncle, no matter how rich it is, it is just the fat in the bowl of the powerful.
"Hey, why do the maids in the back hall move around a lot?" Zhao Junsheng found that the location of the back hall was full of people moving around frequently, and the sound was louder than elsewhere, so he chose to walk and shuttle in the dark, carefully avoiding the people in the house.
Sneaking to the corner of a corridor, he was about to quickly pass through the flower garden, but a young family came next to him, his heart moved, hiding behind the pillar and waiting for this family to walk by, he immediately dodged out and cut the other party's neck with a knife, the other party's eyes rolled and fainted, he dragged this family to the dark place to pick off the person's family clothes and put them on, tore off a piece of cloth from the hem of the clothes to cover his face, and hid the person and then approached the back hall.
He quietly came to the back hall under a big tree not far from the door, and found that the back hall was bright, faintly sitting a few richly dressed people, there were two saber guards standing guard in front of the door, it seemed that they were not from this Yao Mansion, there were several red lanterns under the eaves, the light was very bright, and it was almost impossible to approach head-on without being discovered.
At this time, a majestic wind blew, and Zhao Junsheng, who was squatting under the tree, seemed to hear a slight sound of his clothes being blown off, and his heart sank, there was another person hiding nearby? Could it be the man in black who infiltrated Yao's Mansion earlier?
He immediately turned his head to look around, but found nothing, then he seemed to realize something, and couldn't help but look up at the tree slightly, and couldn't help exclaiming in his heart: "I'll wipe it!" I've met my peers! ”
There was a man in black hidden in the tree above his head, but he didn't even notice it in advance, and the man in black on the tree didn't seem to notice that there was already a person squatting under the tree.
He held his breath and quietly retreated, and quickly left the Yao Mansion after getting away from the big tree.
After a while, he came to Yao Desheng's shop in the city outside the Hengtong Cloth Village, looked left and right, there was no one around, and then he took down the flag in front of the shop and held it in his hand, and took out a fire fold from his arms, pulled out the cap and blew it, the fire fold came out of a cluster of small flames, and came to the flag, the flag quickly burned, emitting a pungent smell, he pierced the window paper next to the shop with one hand, and quickly threw the burning flag into the window, and in a moment, a large amount of fabric on the shop burned, Seeing this, Zhao Junsheng quickly left, and returned to Yaofu the same way.
Coming to the side of the house where the back hall was located, he ran a few steps quickly, stepped on the wall with his feet like a phantom a few times, and his body jumped up to the beam under the eaves, and then hung an upside-down golden hook, his body swung a few times, grabbed the eaves with both hands, and the whole person went up to the roof again.
He tiptoed to the roof of the back hall, and when he looked up, it was pitch black on the tree in front of the back hall, but he felt that the man in black should still be there.
Zhao Junsheng lay on the roof, gently uncovered a tile, revealing a roof hole, and saw four people sitting in the back hall, two men and two years, all middle-aged, one of whom was Yao Desheng.
I only heard Yao Desheng say: "Brother-in-law, you have been sitting in this position for three years, and you should move up, if you need to take care of it, the little brother still has some assets here, you just have to open your mouth as much as you want!" ”
The middle-aged woman sitting next to Yao Desheng smiled and said: "That's right, brother-in-law, we are all a family, the higher your official position, we will also benefit, if you have the opportunity, you must not let it go, even if we go bankrupt!" ”
"Brother-in-law?" Zhao Junsheng on the roof was moved when he heard this, could it be the county Chengliu Fulin? It seems that apart from this person, Yao Desheng has no other brother-in-law who is an official, right? Wait, what the hell is the man in black hiding in the tree here for? Are you here to kill Yao Desheng or Liu Fulin? Or is there some other intention? Shouldn't this Uncle Liu Fulin and Yao Desheng have too bad character, besides me, there are other people who want to kill them?
The middle-aged man sitting on the throne was quite official, he heard his wife, brother and wife say this, and he didn't treat them as outsiders, he took a sip of tea and said: "That said, if there is a chance, who doesn't want to climb up?" But officialdom is a radish and a pit! However······ I received news that the army of the Western Expedition is still on the way, but the emperor seems to have returned to Pingcheng first! During the emperor's expedition to the west, Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty seemed to be restless, and successively increased troops in Xuzhou in the east and Xuzhou, and now there are rumors in the court that the emperor intends to tour south, and it is very likely that he will come to Suiyang to scare Liu Song. It would be nice if I could make some credit for receiving the emperor. By the way, you should also settle down during this time, don't try to rob other people's property, suppress other merchants, don't make trouble for me during the emperor's southern tour, if it spoils my good deeds, I can't spare you! Also, you all shut up and don't talk nonsense! ”
This news made Zhao Junsheng on the roof also stunned, he knew that the current emperor was Daowu Emperor Tuoba Tao, who seemed to be only twenty years old this year, and the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty at this time was in Pingcheng, which was Datong, Shanxi in later generations.
Is the news that the emperor wants to tour the south true? If this news is true, then there are a lot of business opportunities here. It is impossible for the emperor to tour the south alone, and the entourage is tens of thousands, or at least tens of thousands, and it is impossible for these people to eat, drink, and Lazar to carry with him, and they must be purchased from the local government.
Liu Fulin's wife, Liu Yao, said in a reproachful tone: "Don't use your tone to talk to my younger brothers and sisters, they are all people who know the severity, how can they mess around?" ”
Yao Desheng hurriedly said: "Brother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely close my mouth like a bottle, and I will definitely not cause trouble for my brother-in-law during this time!" It's just that brother-in-law, is this news you said true? If the news is true, then there is an article to do for us, and if it works well, it will not only allow you to show your face in front of the emperor, brother-in-law, but also make us make a lot of money! ”
Liu Fulin also had to admit that this brother-in-law's business acumen was very sharp, he nodded and said: "Well, the news came from my mentor, with my mentor's status in the court, the news he came out, not to say ten percent, eighty percent will come true!" ”
At this time, there was a commotion outside, these voices were so noisy that several people in the hall could not speak, just when Liu Fulin was very unhappy, a little guy with a black and gray face panted and ran in and knelt on the ground and cried: "Master Qiyu, the big thing is not good, our cloth village is on fire, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger, but the merchants and people around the store are hiding far away, unwilling to help extinguish the fire······
"What? Is the cloth village on fire? How could it suddenly catch fire? Bastard, what are you doing in Buzhuang, you don't know if it's on fire? Yao De jumped up in anger and scolded angrily.
"And these neighboring merchants and people are so indifferent, they don't help to put out the fire when the cloth village is on fire, it's abominable, it's really hateful, when this matter is over, I Yao Desheng must make them look good!"
Liu Fulin couldn't stand it anymore, got up and shouted: "Enough, what's the use of getting angry at this time?" Why don't you organize people to put out the fire? The women all stayed, gathered all the men in the house, took pots, buckets, bowls and other tools and hurried to the cloth village! ”
"Yes, yes, I'll go!" Yao Desheng hurriedly agreed, rushed out like a fire burning his eyebrows, and shouted: "Come on, quickly gather all the family members to go to Buzhuang with me to put out the fire."
"I'll go and see it too, you women won't go, stay at home and wait for news!" Liu Fulin said and walked outside.
As soon as he walked out of the door, a man in black flew from the big tree not far in front of the door, and instantly rushed to Yao Desheng's side in front, a bright sword was pulled out by the man in black, the cold light flashed, Yao Desheng's neck rushed out of a bloody arrow, Yao Desheng covered his neck in horror, but still couldn't cover the wound, blood kept coming out, he shouted in fear: "Help, help······"