Chapter 120: Finding out the news
Liu Quan and Yang moved around from Jimancheng, but they had no clue. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I was eating at a restaurant this day, and I occasionally heard the boss chatting with acquaintances and bragging, saying that he had connections in the prefect's yamen, and it was easy to ask someone to do things.
As soon as Liu Quan heard it, he went over to get close, lied that he wanted to entrust someone to do something, asked him to help connect people in the prefect's yamen, and promised to give ten taels of silver after the matter was completed.
The restaurant owner actually didn't know the people in the Yamen, but when he saw the two fat sheep not slaughtered, he couldn't help them, so he found his nephew who was idle in the Yamen and pretended to be the Yamen secretary.
Liu Quanxin thought it was true, and set up a good banquet at the restaurant, and invited Yang Youji to this "book office", and the restaurant owner accompanied him.
During the banquet, Liu Quan toasted frequently, and when the alcoholic anhydride was hot, he knocked on the side to inquire about the situation of the dispatch. The "book office" is just a helper, and he does some extortion and extortion with the yamen on weekdays, and when it comes to anecdotes in the yamen, the two of them are convinced that he is a member of the yamen, but when it comes to such a major event as sending troops to fight, how can he know, just talk about him left and right.
Seeing that all the dishes on the table were finished, and the wine was hot and hot, the "bookstore" ate very happily, but he didn't want to have some dry goods. The more Liu Quan looked at it, the more wrong it became, and he glanced at Yang Youji, and the two of them pushed out Gong and left the table one after another.
When he came to the secluded place of the thatched house, Liu Quan frowned and said: "This bookstore is very strict-mouthed, and he doesn't reveal any news after three rounds of drinking, so I have to think of a way." ”
"If he still fools us, after the banquet is over, we will follow him and stop him in a secluded corner." Yang Youji raised the knife in his hand, "Invite him to drink and eat food, don't say it, invite him to eat plate knife noodles and see if you don't say it!" ”
The "bookstore" and the restaurant owner had a very good meal, and at the end the boss did not forget to remind Liu Quan that if he wanted to do something, he would give the silver first. Liu Quan thought about it, and still gave the "book office" ten taels of silver.
After the dismissal, the boss said that he was going to send the "book office", and asked Liu Quan to come back in a few days to ask for news, Liu Quan pretended to agree, and then quietly followed behind with Yang Youji and someone.
When they arrived at a dark and secluded place, the boss said impatiently: "Good nephew, the fat sheep has also been slaughtered, take out the silver and divide it!" ”
"Don't worry, uncle, let's discuss how to divide it first. You see this can't be done without me, shouldn't I be a little bit more divided? His nephew said slowly, gritting his teeth.
The boss was anxious when he heard this: "What do you mean you can't do without you?" The solution is what I think, see that you are my own nephew, or I can find someone to pretend to be! ”
"Uncle, what you said is wrong. You just find someone, does he know what is going on in the yamen? As soon as you open your mouth, the filling will be revealed. ”
Liu Quan and Yang Youji understood as soon as they heard that they had been fooled, and this so-called "book office" was not a person from the prefect's yamen at all.
Yang Youji walked out of the darkness, slowly pulled out the knife, and put it on the neck of the "bookstore", and the uncle and nephew who were arguing about the uneven distribution of the spoils did not notice him, until the knife was on the neck, and they did not realize that something was wrong.
"Shuban" felt the chill on his neck, and he didn't dare to move, he could act as a helper for the officials, and he had also seen the world in a fight, and he reacted quickly, knowing that the best choice at this time was to stand still obediently. His uncle had never seen such a formation, and he gasped and prepared to open his mouth to shout.
At this time, Liu Quan and several other secretly hidden guards walked out and surrounded the uncle and nephew. The boss is not a fool, hurry up and shut up, no one may come to shouting this night, but as soon as he shouts, he will lose money in front of him, or look at the situation and then make a calculation.
Yang Youji said coldly: "You can take ten taels of silver, and I can give you another ten taels." But tonight you must let me know what I want to know, or else the twenty taels of silver will be the money for your uncle and nephew, and you will take the money to Hades!" ”
The "bookstore" has been mixed between black and white for many years, and when he heard this, he knew that he was not joking, he felt the murderous intention revealed between the lines of Yang Youji's words, and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Uncle spare his life, the little one is just a helper in the yamen, it was my uncle who asked me to pretend to be, it's none of my business!" ”
The boss was anxious when he heard it, "If there is a benefit, the fart will come upside down, and as soon as there is something, it will all be pushed to me......"
Yang Youji didn't listen to the words of the two of them to pass the buck to each other at all, and pressed the knife down a little, cutting the skin: "I'll only say it once, think about what you can do, I'll do it dozens of times!" ”
"Uncle, I'm really not from the Yamen, how can I know!"
"One ......"
Seeing that these people were unreasonable, the boss hurriedly urged his nephew: "You quickly take out the silver and return it to others......
"Two ......"
"Uncle, you are stupid, people don't want to ask for this bit of silver......"
"Three ......"
"Uncle, don't count so fast, let me think about it......"
"Four ......"
The head of the "book office" was a little insufficient, and he racked his brains to think of any way to get rid of this plague god, but where could he think of it in a hurry.
"Five ......"
"Six ......"
"Seven ......"
"Uncle, wait, it seems that you have a little clue, you count slowly and let me think about it......"
"Eight ......"
"Uncle you, what do I think if you count so fast!" The "book office" finally collapsed and began to speak violently.
Yang Youji couldn't hear his foul words at all, continued to count, and then pressed the knife down a little more.
"Nine ......"
"I thought about it, I'll take you to find Master Lu, who is on an errand in the signing room, he is responsible for transcribing the official documents of the prefect's yamen, you should know!" The "bookstore" figured it out at the last moment, and said this sentence in one breath as quickly as possible in his life, for fear that he would split up if he said it too late.
Yang Youji withdrew the knife a little bit and said, "Lead the way ahead!" ”
After walking before the ghost gate was closed, the "bookstore" was sweating profusely, his body was weak, and if the knife hadn't left his neck, he would have to sit on the ground on the spot.
Under the leadership of this "secretary office", Yang Youji and his party found the house of the scribe surnamed Lu, and the "book office" called the door.
As soon as the door opened, the scribe surnamed Lu had just poked his head out, and a steel knife was on his neck......
Inside Hujiazhuang.
Xia Nan frowned when he heard the news that Liu Quan and Yang Youji had brought back. The two had no way, and accidentally bumped into a scribe of the prefect's yamen and learned that there was a sentence in the official document of the yamen...... The people of Lin Gaoli are in trouble, and now they will send 10,000 troops to suppress the ......".
10,000 troops! This number is far beyond everyone's mental capacity. There are really so many people, if you push them directly, you can bulldoze the horse, and a few hundred people on your side are not enough to see.
Xia Nan was not sure how high the gold content of this news was, he felt that it was impossible to raise 10,000 troops in Qiongzhou, but how many there were, I really didn't know how much it was. He asked the people, "What do you think?" ”