Chapter 64: Action
In Li Jing's general's military tent in the barracks on the left side of the Wendeng camp, Li Jing was calm on the outside but hot in his heart as he watched the little stone and the fine dog and a few of their fellow villagers come in. After Wang Zhong called them over, he turned around and went out of the tent again, and stood guard at the door of the tent with Lin Wu.
"Sit!" Li Jing stepped forward and slapped the small stone with a smile. Li Jing and Lin Wei had already discussed it last night, so they chose to start after Yu Xuan's departure banquet today. Last night, after the four of them interrogated Zhang Daxin about the travel of Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing, they got a lot of useful information. Zhang Daxin and Feng Liang have been fox friends for many years, the Zhang family and the Feng family are also world friends, Zhang Daxin often goes in and out of the Feng family, and he is no stranger to Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing.
Lin Wu just sneered and cut off one of Zhang Daxin's tail fingers, Zhang Daxin didn't have half of his hardness, and with a handful of snot and tears, he poured beans into all the bamboo tubes he knew, and said everything he knew. According to his confession, tonight's assassination was indeed given to him by Feng Liang. However, this matter was Feng Liang's own initiative, and Feng Yanqing did not get involved. According to what he said, Feng Yanqing seems to have been in contact with Song Du Yu Hou recently, and it seems that Song Du Yu Hou has some response to Feng Yanqing's overtures. He saw with his own eyes in the Feng Mansion yesterday that when Feng Liang was carried back to the mansion by Li Jing's arrow wound, Feng Yanqing was extremely angry, and even ordered to summon the family members in the mansion. But later, when the family arrived, Feng Liang received a letter and read it, but he smiled instead, and then immediately asked the assembled family members to disperse.
And later, when Li Jing and the others went to ask for debts, Feng Yanqing asked the housekeeper to pull out 20,000 horses of silk from the treasury, and ordered Feng Liang to go to the door to say those words. As for what was written in that mysterious letter, it could make Feng Yanqing's attitude change so much? Zhang Daxin didn't know, he only remembered that the person who came to deliver the letter had seen him by the side of Song Du Yuhou, and it was Song Du Yuhou's person.
This news made Li Jing and Lin Wei feel a tingling in their scalps at that time. Although the details are not clear, they all guessed a possibility, that is, Feng Yanqing is very likely to have come into contact with Song Wen, the henchman of the Jiedu Envoy. It may be precisely because Feng Yanqing received Song Wen's commitment and support that his attitude changed so much, and it was also because his nephew was injured by Li Jing, and he also lost 20,000 silk horses, but he also gave ten carriages and twenty horses. This news made Li Jing can't help but be cautious, Song Wen is not only the Marquis of Yu, but his more important identity is the confidant of Song Wei, the envoy of Ziqing Pinglu Jiedu.
Now that Cui Yunqing is blocking it, Li Jing can still calmly face the Feng family. But if the Feng family catches up with Song Wen, then the Dengzhou assassination history from the third grade is nothing. Li Jing and the others did not hesitate anymore, and completely strengthened their determination to get rid of Feng Yan's hesitant uncle and nephew first. Subsequently, Li Jing asked Zhang Daxin about Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing's usual travel arrangements, especially the repeated questioning and testimony about the guards around them.
Feng Liang and Feng Yanqing will both attend Yu Xuan's departure banquet tonight, and according to their usual practice, Feng Yanqing's uncle and nephew will each go in a double-pulled carriage. At that time, they will be accompanied by twenty family members. The number of twenty entourage Ding just made Li Jing and them breathe a little breath, because according to Zhang Daxin, these twenty family members are all the old family members of the Feng family, and the Feng family is usually very generous to these people, and these people are also very loyal to the Feng family. These family members are not ordinary family members, but all of them are Goguryeo people recruited from Liaodong by the caravan of the feudal family in the early years, and they are all mercenaries from the brave nomadic fishing and hunting tribes. In Liaodong, they once gave their lives to the Khitans, the Murowei people, and the Silla people, the Bohai people, and the Kumoxi people. In short, this is a group of professional soldiers who are very experienced, fierce and savage, but they are very loyal to the Feng family.
Twenty such people, at least fifty people from the Feng family that Li Jing had seen before. "Little stone, carpenter, willow root, Dongzi, fine dog, you say, how do I treat everyone on weekdays?"
"Brother usually treats us like his own brothers, so I don't need to say." Several young men from Wang Li Village patted their chests in unison. When they first drew Ding, they were very depressed. But along the way, Li Jing took good care of them, especially when he encountered bandits twice on the road, if it wasn't for Li Jing, everyone would have no life now. And how can there be a later promotion, distribution of money.
Especially the small stones, a few of them, before and after added up to hundreds of dollars. Not to mention, they are still the captain and deputy leader. Although the captain has no rank, this is a necessary stepping stone to the official officialdom. Young people are simple, Li Jing is good to them, and they have long remembered it.
"Well, now what would you do if someone tried to kill me?" Li Jing was relieved in his heart and asked tentatively.
"Brother, is it that Feng Liang that dog is unwilling to lose money, I have already seen that he is not pleasing to the eye. When I found an opportunity, I took my group to the Feng family and slaughtered the dog first. "Because Xiao Shi has been following his father to strike iron, his strength is the greatest among several people, and although his name is Xiao Shi, he is as burly and stout as a rock. has always admired Li Jing the most, and he usually listens to Li Jing's words. He is now the leader of a team, and because he has also killed bandits, he is becoming more and more bold. Now there are ten subordinates, and they are much more hard-spoken.
"Feng Liang's uncle is the governor of Deng, and he is also the deputy envoy of our unity battalion, do you really dare to kill him?" Li Jing's eyes widened, looking directly at the small stone, and his tone also increased a little tone.
Xiao Shi was a little weak by Li Jing's glare, but just a thought, he immediately blushed again, straightened his chest and pointed his finger to the sky and swore to the sky: "If the surname Feng dares to harm my brother, then I will have a mortal enemy with him." My little stone's life was also saved by my brother at the beginning, so I won't say anything, I'll go to Feng's house to assassinate the surnamed Feng now. As he spoke, he really lifted the horizontal knife on his waist and was about to leave the account.
"Come back!" Li Jing called back Xiaoshi, "Even if you want to do it, it's not like you." I just wanted to ask you if you have the guts, and if you have the heart, that's fine. Now, all you have to do is listen to me. Now I ask you one more thing, if something goes wrong, you will lose your head, if you don't want to, I will never force it, and you can go now. However, remember not to say a word you hear here to anyone. ”
As soon as Li Jing's words fell, Xiao Shi jumped up again, pulled out the horizontal knife and stuck it on the ground, and a pair of eyes opened as wide as bull's eyes, sweeping over the faces of each of them.
"Donkey ball, if any of you dare to walk out of this door today, step on Lao Tzu's knife and corpse first. Let's follow my brother, his life was saved, and now there is famine everywhere, but we still have white rice to eat at home, why is this? We must be a man with a conscience, and we must not forget our roots. Not to mention helping my brother deal with the surname Feng together, it is to go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, whoever wants to frown will not be raised by his father's mother. ”
Originally, there was a descendant named Wang Gui who was still a little hesitant to play the drum in his heart, and when Xiaoshi said this fierce but simple words, everyone couldn't help but blush when they were said. Wang Dong also jumped up and said: "I used to be not very close to San Lang, but now, if anyone has a second heart, then ask me first." ”
At that moment, several people swore that they were willing to follow Li Jing to the knife mountain and the oil pot. Seeing this, Li Jing was excited. Soon Lin Wei walked back, and he also brought Zhang Hong with him. As soon as Lin Wei came in, he first said that he had secretly talked to a few close subordinate brothers in secret, and said something specific, but those people all expressed their willingness to follow Lin Wei, especially after Lin Wei said that each person could get twenty silks this time, and he could get thirty silks when the matter was successful, Lin Wei knew that even if he wanted those people to assassinate the emperor, it was estimated that there would be no problem. Fifty horses of silk is forty guan money, and at present, when the famine in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Hedong began to appear due to the previous drought and locust plague, those united soldiers dared to kill even four guan, let alone forty guan. They can still have food every day in Dengzhou, but their respective homes have almost run out of cooking.
Zhang Hong and Li Jing have experienced bandits together before, and their relationship is still very close. It's just that Li Jing thinks that Zhang Hong is just a weak scholar, and this assassination operation is not suitable for him, not to mention, he always says that officials are as smooth as oil, and Li Jing is not as attentive to Zhang Hong as Lin Wei and them, so he didn't look for him. Unexpectedly, Zhang Hong's eyesight is still very good, Li Jing and the others thought that their actions were secretive, but Zhang Hong still found a few strange movements of Wang Chong, Lin Wei, and Lin Wu. The most reluctant still used words to deceive some information from a unity soldier that Wang Chong had found, and the most reluctant took the initiative to find Lin Wei. He didn't look for Li Jing but Lin Wei because he felt that Li Jing respected Lin Wei more.
Sure enough, after Li Jing heard this, he just asked Zhang Hong: "This is the job of tying your head to the waistband of your trousers, is Brother Zhang really willing to do it together?" ”
At this time, Zhang Hong completely showed a decisiveness that was different from that of a repeatedly unsuccessful literati: "San Lang is the general of Zuo Yidu, and I am Yu Hou of Zuo Yidu." My job is to enforce military law, and now that I have discovered Saburo's illegal scheme, I will either report it to the battalion headquarters or have to follow along. I'm also a person who has half buried himself in the ground.,If it weren't for San Lang.,I'm still just a Zuo Shi now.,It's rare to get a few times in life.,Think about it.,I'm still willing to be with San Lang.,Maybe,This time our luck is as good as the last time we met the bandits.。 ”
Li Jing patted Zhang Hong's arm heavily, this old boy is really not simple.
It's not early, Li Jing looked at the sky, and said, "It's not early, let's test the person who made an appointment again." If it is reliable, bring it, I have already asked Song Shijiang, saying that I will take Zuo Yidu's brother to help the family teacher move the salute today, and he has agreed that Zuo Yidu will follow me into the city today. ”
"Okay, little stone, let's see if you can find a few more reliable brothers, remember, you can only bring two people at most, and if you have more, you don't want it. Brother Zhang and I went to prepare our weapons again and set off before noon. ”