Chapter 13 No Death
After dragging the captive down and cleaning the big tent, Tang Ning did the same, interrogating more than a dozen robbers one after another. But the information they got from them was not the slightest different from what the first person said.
Even those who joined their cottage early were taken down the mountain by their four masters two days ago, and then wandered outside for two days, and finally came here.
Some of the captives were from other cottages, and the only thing they had done more than the previous ones was that they were taken to the meeting place by one of the leaders of their cottages, and then lingered for two days before coming here.
As for their leaders, most of them were hacked to death during the daytime fighting. Those who were not hacked to death, and the result of the interrogation was only that they received orders from the master.
Tang Ning did not believe in evil, and tried more than 30 people one after another. Halfway Cheng Yang was too old to stay up and went to sleep, leaving only Pei Xiantong and Zhang Jingming and others to accompany Tang Ning.
Until the time of the child, there was still no gain.
Tang Ning rubbed his aching temples, knowing very clearly that the driving force behind this matter must be Zhao Ren. He is the only one who would act so cautiously.
After his failure to usurp the throne in Nanshan, how many times he heard about his movements, this person was cautious and cautious.
Liu Ling is now full-time searching for the traces of this guy, but he still hasn't found Zhao Ren. He Yu's subordinates are not weaker than Wu Desi's ability to gather intelligence, but he only knows the approximate scope of Zhao Ren's activities.
Where his lair is, and who is around him, whether it is He Yu or Liu Ling, they don't know at all.
Judging from the confessions of these robbers, the instructors were very cautious. Aside from the location of their own cottage, Downing had no other information.
And it doesn't help to know where their cottage is, because Downing already knows about these places. After Han Zhizhou of Chuzhou sent people over to Tangning, he marked the approximate distribution location of the bandits in Chuzhou on the map and sent it to Tangning.
When the sergeants sent to other states in Huaidong returned, they also brought back maps such as those marked by Han Zhizhou. Therefore, Tang Ning now has a general understanding of the sub-areas of the bandits in the Huaidong states, and the information he wants to get is not this at all.
Seeing that Tang Ning was red-eyed and wanted to continue the interrogation, Pei Xiantong yawned, raised his head and rubbed his eyes.
But Zhang Jingming persuaded: "Mingyuan, forget it today." It seems that I can't ask anything if I continue to ask like this, so tomorrow I will let the soldiers interrogate them one by one, and if I get useful information, it will not be too late to react at that time. ”
After listening to this, Tang Ning felt that it made sense, and at the same time felt that he was a little superior. He sighed and said, "That's the only way, it's too late today, you two have worked hard, hurry up and rest." ”
Zhang Jingming breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and walked out of the big tent. Pei Xiantong was lying directly on her back on the ground, and she had already laid a mattress on the ground just now.
After lying down, he pulled the sheet from the side and put it on himself, closed his eyes and said, "Put out the candle, I'm going to sleep." ”
Tang Ning was amused, he walked up to Pei Xiantong, squatted down and said, "I said Pei Daochang, this is my big tent." ”
"What's wrong with your big tent, you can't give people a little sleep
Hawkers, it's really stingy......" Pei Xiantong replied with a stiff neck, then stretched out his hand to push Tang Ning away, urging: "Hurry up and put out the torches and candles, I want to sleep!" ”
Tang Ning was stunned, stared at Pei Xiantong for a long time, and finally scratched his head, but still ran to extinguish the torches and candles.
Then he stood in place and was stunned for a while, secretly scolded Pei Xiantong in his heart, and was ready to go out to Qi Fu's side to pay for the night.
Qi Fu had broken away from the Pingxia camp and was now the commander of Tang Ning's guards. Although the place is not big, he enjoys a single tent.
This is the case for most of the generals who have reached a certain level, and the battalion commander of the Shenqian can make it, but Zhu's Du Yuhou cannot.
When I arrived at the door of the tent, I heard a murmuring sound from inside. Tang Ning glanced at Lin Wei behind him, and Lin Wei also shook his head to say that he didn't know.
Tang Ning leaned over to the tent and listened attentively, and heard the following conversation.
"Oh, don't move. I sneaked down behind my master's back, and I'll have to go back at night later. ”
"It's all down, so don't go back. The black light is blinding, what if you walk at night and step on a stone and fall into a big ass? ”
"Then I'll leave at dawn? I must appear in the meditation tomorrow morning, otherwise Master will be angry, and I don't want Master to be angry. ”
"It's okay, won't I let my brother-in-law explain it to your master for you?"
"Alright then, let's go to sleep."
"Okay, let's sleep ......"
"Hmm...... Don't move......"
"I'll just see, just see."
"What's there to see, haven't you seen it before?"
"No ......"
"Oh, don't you just look at it? How do you ......"
"I'll touch it, I'll touch it."
As soon as Tang Ning heard this, he knew that this was Pei Xiantong's senior sister surnamed Xu who secretly ran down from the mountain to find Qi Fu.
When he came to Yinlingguan to see Qi Xianyu, he didn't see him, so he took Qi Fu to Qingtang. When he left, he found out that this Senior Sister Xu had a very improper relationship with Qi Fu.
Later, Qi Fu also followed Tang Ning back to Chuzhou, when Tang Ning mentioned the marriage of the two, Qi Fu had no opinion, but He Xiangu disagreed.
Senior Sister Xu didn't dare to disobey He Xiangu, so the matter was over.
Tang Ning thought that this matter was over, but he didn't expect that the two were still engaged in underground work.
He has no objection to this matter, Qi Xianyu wants to find a daughter-in-law for his younger brother is crazy, after she has a daughter, she hopes that Qi Fu can renew the incense to the old Qi family.
However, Qi Fu she found didn't agree, so Qi Xianyu almost put a knife on Qi Fu's neck to force him to agree.
Just thinking about this, the sound inside became very strange.
"Didn't you say just touch it? How did you...... Take it away, don't you...... If Master finds out, it's over! ”
"Raw rice is cooked and cooked, if your master doesn't agree, you have to agree!"
When Tang Ning heard this, he couldn't say it well, he was rushing for his life. He didn't dare to break in to stop it, so he was in a hurry, and said to Lin Wei outside: "The night is long, and I have no intention of sleeping." I thought I was the only one who couldn't sleep, but I didn't expect you to be able to sleep too, Brother Lin! ”
"Yes, I don't know why the general can't sleep?"
"Alas, it's not that the place where I slept was taken away, aren't you going to go to Ah Fu's side to live for the night?"
"I see, then the Lord will go in quickly."
"Let's wait a minute, I'm going to go first."
"It just so happens that my subordinates are going too, why don't you go?"
"Then let's go along." After Tang Ning finished speaking, he left with Lin Wei.
Not long after the two left, Qi Fu's head sneaked out of the tent. After looking around, Qi Fu came out, and then pulled Senior Sister Xu out, and the two sneakily slipped away from behind the tent.
Evaded the patrol soldiers on night duty along the way, secretly climbed out of the camp, and went straight to Yinling Mountain.
"Alright, I'll just go by myself." Senior Sister Xu's face was still a little red, and she didn't dare to look at Qi Fu, so she lowered her head and whispered.
"No, I'll send you back."
"Then wouldn't Lord Tang be angry when he found out that you weren't there?"
"Anyway, he's angry with me a lot, and it's not bad this time, just when I go back to replace the brother who kept vigil, and tomorrow he asked, and I said I'd go to the vigil."
"Ah Fu, you're so nice."
Qi Fu grinned, remembering his brother-in-law's previous interaction with his sister, so he reached out and pinched Senior Sister Xu's face and said, "Little fool......"
“……”
After Tang Ning came back, he found that Qi Fu was gone, so he comfortably lay down on the mattress that Qi Fu had laid, closed his eyes, and fell asleep after a while.
There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Tang Ning patted Qi Fu with dark circles under his eyes and said, "I worked hard for you last night." ”
Qi Fu naturally didn't know what Tang Ning meant by this sentence, so he grinned and smirked: "What is my brother-in-law doing so politely, it's really ......"
Tang Ning held back a smile and nodded, "Go and rest." With that, he returned to his big tent.
Pei Xiantong was folding the quilt, because the Zhenjiang army was beating gongs and drums in the morning during the war, just like the New Year, so even if Pei Xiantong wanted to sleep a little longer, he was made sleepless, and finally had to reluctantly get up and fold the quilt.
"Did Daoist Pei sleep well?"
"Not good!"
"Why not?"
Pei Xiantong stopped talking, and said after a while: "I was called up before I woke up." ”
"Then you go back to sleep."
Pei Xiantong stopped his movements, blinked his eyes and said, "Can I?" ”
"Of course you can, you are not a member of the Zhenjiang Army, you can do whatever you want, just don't violate the laws of the army, otherwise even I won't be able to protect you."
Pei Xiantong's face was happy, nodded and unfolded the mattress, lay down and went to sleep.