Detective in the Red Chamber

Only then did the news of the previous communication and the secret talk with today's back alleys come into being.

The book is back to normal.

But after the meeting between Zhang Xiucai and Feng Xin, he teased a few words face to face, and waited for the accomplice outside to respond to give a safe signal, then he took Feng Xin out of the alley and got into a carriage that smelled like sheep. .

Feng Xin covered his nose and said in a muffled voice, "I don't know what's the matter with me, why don't you explain it clearly in the alley?"

After a pause, he said anxiously: "Let's say it first, if you want to harm Master Sun, I can't help you at all!"

Zhang Xiucai also covered her nose and said with a smile: "Master Feng Xiang is really loyal."

"Fart's loyalty!"

Feng Xin sneered, and said, "I cherish my life, do you understand?! If Mr. Sun is really easy to deal with, how many people can your White Lotus Sect pay for? I'm afraid I just got murderous here, and his more than a hundred Jin's strange sword has already been chopped off!"

As he said that, Feng Xin suddenly showed a look of surprise on his face, and he ignored Zhang Cong. He stretched out his hand and opened a corner of the car curtain, peeped out for a while, and then cried out: "Isn't this the way out of the city?!"

"That's right, it's the way out of the city."

With great difficulty, Zhang Cong took out a set of fluffy clothes from under his buttocks, and said with a smile, "Please trouble Feng Xiang, please put on this set of clothes first."

"What do you guys want to do?"

Feng Xin refused to reach out to pick it up, but moved his body vigilantly outside, and said in a stern voice: "I can warn you, if I stay outside for a long time, it will be difficult to explain when I go back to the posthouse!"

Obviously, the people from the White Lotus Sect hadn't revealed the specific plan to him before.

Seeing that he refused to pick up those clothes, Zhang Cong was not in a hurry. He took out another set of fatter and wider ones, and tried his best to put them on himself.

Seeing that the fat man refused to say anything clearly, Feng Xin frowned and looked at him. After thinking about it for a while, his eyes suddenly widened: "You are wearing a Mongolian costume?"

"Of course."

Zhang Cong took the time to smile at him: "If you want to get in and out of Jianzhou City right now, it's naturally most convenient to pretend to be a Mongolian."

"What a joke! Just pretending to be like this, you want to hide from those tartars"

Feng Xin was about to say a few words of cynicism, but the carriage stopped suddenly, and it was only after a while that it started on the road again.

Feeling that there seemed to be something strange outside the car, Feng Xin subconsciously raised the curtain again, and saw that the driver in front had changed to a genuine Mongolian!

Not only that, there were six or seven more Mongolian cavalrymen with bows and knives in front, back, left, and right of the carriage.

Seeing this, Feng Xin couldn't help but blurted out: "The Mongols who were sent to death outside the city before were encouraged by you."

"Shh!"

Zhang Xiucai hurriedly made a silent gesture, then pointed to the outside and whispered: "The one outside may understand what we Han people say."

As he spoke, he handed over the Mongolian suit again, and signaled Feng Xin to put it on quickly.

Feng Xin hesitated for a moment, but in the end he didn't dare to disobey him, so he put on the sheepskin jacket and wide felt hat with a sullen head.

After tidying up together, he asked, "Brother Zhang, I don't know what the Holy Cult wants me to do?"

Zhang Cong refused to open his mouth, and said that he would make a decision after leaving the city.

There was no other way, so Feng Xin had no choice but to keep silent nervously.

There was nothing to say along the way, because it was a serious Mongol who led the way, and the relationship between Waci and Houjin was at the most sensitive time, so the group of people barely received any checks, and they easily left Jianzhou City.

But when he arrived outside Jianzhou City, Zhang Congming was relieved, and he no longer avoided answering Feng Xin's question.

First briefly described the plan, then patted the chest of the D cup, and assured: "Master Feng Xiang can rest assured, as soon as Xingcheng's soldiers and horses move, I will order people to go to the capital to pick up your family. With this opportunity to escape, the Feng family will be able to reunite with the whole family in the northwest."

"If something goes wrong with me."

Feng Xin sneered: "I'm afraid you are going to send an order to the capital to take the lives of my whole family?"

Zhang Cong smiled slightly: "It is expected that Master Feng Xiang will not let me down."

Feng Xin sneered a few more times, and then lifted the curtain to look out, only to see that the carriage had been replaced by a group of people, each carrying long and short weapons, and full of reckless aura. He is the elite of the White Lotus Sect.

"It seems that I have to obey."

Feng Xin sighed, but Zhang Cong next to him didn't say a word, obviously acquiescing to his statement.

The two fell silent again. Feng Xin seemed aggrieved, and kept looking at the situation outside without looking at Zhang Cong through the curtain.

Zhang Cong didn't care about him, since Feng Xin left without saying goodbye, the surname Sun would probably only suspect that something happened to him, and he would never find him outside the city so quickly.

"Stop, stop!"

At this moment, Feng Xin suddenly yelled: "I'm really uncomfortable holding back, I need to get out of the car and turn on the water!"

Hearing this, the driver had no choice but to turn around and ask for instructions: "Mr. Zhang, look."

Before Zhang Cong could open his mouth, Feng Xin said angrily, "I'm peeing in the middle of the road. You guys are just staring at me. Are you afraid that I might run away?"

Zhang Cong was still a little vigilant at first, but after hearing this, he couldn't refuse Feng Xin's request, so he pointed his head and said, "Stop for a while, let Master Feng Xiang help us clean the wheels."

This was knocked to death, preventing Feng Xin from leaving the carriage.

There was a burst of laughter outside, but Feng Xin was not annoyed, he got out of the car, and under the eyes of everyone staring at him, he turned his back and aimed at the wheel, and while unfastening his belt, he asked loudly: "Mr. Zhang, why don't you come down and relax together? "

"No need."

Zhang Cong refused at first, but then felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

"That's right, you are a big figure in the Holy Cult, so naturally shoot arrows with us little ones, hurry up!"

Suddenly, Feng Xin yelled at the top of his voice, and then he slumped down and got under the car!

not good!

Zhang Cong finally realized at this time, Feng Xin was so close, why did he shout loudly?

From the looks of it now, Feng Xin was clearly shouting for others!

But even if he reacted at this time, it was already too late, and he saw dozens of figures jumping up in the snow not far away, shooting with bows and crossbows in their hands!

Immediately afterwards, there was another big man, Ang Zang, rushing forward with a giant sword in his hand, but who else could it be if it wasn't Sun Shaozong?

Chapter 948

This wave of random arrow raids caught the Bailian Cult bandit by surprise, coupled with Sun Shaozong's first charge, the battle came to an end almost in an instant.

When Feng Xin and Zhang Cong got out of the car respectively, the dozen or so Jurchens who followed Sun Shaozong had already started to clean the battlefield.

"grown ups!"

Feng Xin beamed and reported, "This bandit leader is nicknamed Zhang Xiucai, and he seems to have quite a status in the White Lotus Sect! He was just on his way."

"How did you know we were taking him out of town?"

Before Feng Xin finished speaking, Zhang Xiucai stared at Sun Shaozong in a daze and asked, "It's clear that even Feng Xin didn't know our plan from the beginning to the end!"

Right now, he naturally understood that Feng Xin was just planning.

Especially after leaving the city, he lifted the curtains to look as if he was in a daze, but he was actually observing the side of the road for signs, so as to wait for an opportunity to lure the Bailian rebels into the ambush circle.

But this time, using Feng Xin as an opportunity to stir up disputes between the two countries, even within the White Lotus Sect, only a few people knew about it.

And Feng Xin just heard about it on the road.

Then why did Sun Shaozong lie in ambush outside the city early?

Is there a spy around me, or is it that the legendary three-eyed god really has the ability to predict?

"It's just a simple inference."

Sun Shaozong leaned on Frostmourne, and said indifferently: "You risked being discovered and invited Feng Xin outside, there are nothing more than two choices, one is to give him some kind of mission, let him come back again. to the embassy."

"The other is to take him away and make a mark on him. In the latter case, there are three possibilities: hide him in the city; kill him and blame the Jurchen; take him out of the city and deal with it separately. "

"Considering that once Feng Xin disappears, the Jurchens will definitely find your Bailian teacher in order to remove the suspicion, and I am quite famous in investigating cases, so the probability of the first two possibilities is extremely low."

"That is to say, after Feng Xin goes out for an appointment, the most likely thing will happen, one is to return to the post station with a mission, and the other is to be taken out of the city by you."

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong spread his hands: "After confirming these two points, setting up an ambush on the only way outside the city should be a logical approach, right?"

Zhang Cong fell silent.

Indeed, after Sun Shaozong's analysis, it seemed that it was not difficult to predict that he and others would leave the city with Feng Xin.

in this case

The biggest problem was indeed Feng Xin!

Zhang Cong subconsciously turned his gaze to Feng Xin, and sighed quietly: "I thought Feng Xiangzhu should be more cautious anyway for the life of the whole family, but I didn't think that I was showing my feet."

Feng Xin was stunned for a while before he understood what he meant. He obviously didn't believe that he would risk his life to expose his relationship with the White Lotus Sect, but believed that he had accidentally exposed his flaws.

Feng Xin's old face suddenly swelled like a pig's liver, and Zhang Cong was slapped twice anyway, the corners of Zhang Cong's mouth cracked and blood dripped, and then he cursed at the top of his throat: "You fat man who killed a thousand knives, what happened?" Up to now, you still dare to accuse me of slandering me! I was born as a member of the imperial court, and died as a ghost of the imperial court! Just you clowns who want to coerce me into becoming a traitor?! Pooh!"

He spat with righteousness on his face, but the more impassioned he was, the more it seemed that he had been told what was on his mind.

In fact, a few days ago, although he was very troubled in his heart, he never thought about telling Xu Furen and Sun Shaozong about this matter.

However, when Sun Shaozong took the initiative to come to the door that day and reminded him to pay attention to the infiltration of the White Lotus Sect, Feng Xin inevitably showed some strangeness because he had a ghost in his heart.

If it was someone else, maybe they might not be able to see the flaws.

But what kind of vision does Sun Shaozong have?

He also said that he was most familiar with Feng Xin, but apart from his wives and concubines, Feng Xin could be said to be the person he had spent the longest time with after time travelling, so he made a few indirect remarks at first, and then asked straight-forward questions.

Feng Xin was already in awe of him, so after this question, naturally he couldn't hold back anymore, and he made a good move like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

The book is back to normal.

However, after successfully capturing Zhang Cong and others, Sun Shaozong did not lead the team back to Jianzhou City, but sent the Jurchens back to the city to report the news, while interrogating several Bailian rebels on the spot.

In the evening, several guards from the mission came out of the city quietly, and together with Feng Xin, escorted the two bandits of the White Lotus Sect who had submitted their certificates to Xingcheng.

After they arrived in Xingcheng, Brother Cheap would follow Sun Shaozong's instructions in the letter, pretending to go to war, and take the soldiers out of the city for training.

And the two surrendered White Lotus Sect bandits will follow Zhang Cong's original plan to contact the congregants in Xingcheng, falsely claiming that Feng Xin has completely joined the White Lotus Sect and must protect his family in the capital and travel to the northwest in time. transfer.

If it goes well, the imperial court can follow this line and wipe out the White Lotus Sect forces in the capital and outside the pass.

On the other hand, Sun Shaozong escorted Zhang Cong back to the city, while continuing to press for all kinds of inside stories about the White Lotus Sect, while trying to force Houjin to hand over Deputy Leader Xue and others on the pretext that the White Lotus Sect was trying to provoke the relationship between the two parties.

In fact, from the mouths of the few Bailian rebels who surrendered, he had already learned about the whereabouts of the White Lotus Sect in the city. What he did was just to force Houjin to break with the White Lotus Sect completely.

Originally, according to Sun Shaozong and Xu Furen's inference, in order to gain a strategic respite, the Jurchen would probably choose to abandon the car to protect the handsome.

Although the Jurchens would not take the initiative to sell out the White Lotus Sect, but since the White Lotus Sect was caught in the tail and indeed tried to sabotage the peace talks between the two parties, it is no wonder that they are disregarding feelings.

The initial development was indeed similar to what the two speculated.

Although for more than ten days in a row, the Jurchens have been making excuses, saying that they have never had any contact with the White Lotus Sect, and even denying that there are leaders of the White Lotus Sect in the city.

But in private, Sun Shaozong found out from A Lin Qitu that Deputy Hierarch Xue and others had been detained, and they were only waiting to be exchanged with Da Zhou as bargaining chips at the right time.

For this reason, Xu Furen and Sun Shaozong also made a special calculation to see if there is any benefit that is not costly, and they can promise it to the Jurchen with empty teeth.

Who would have thought that on the fourth day of February, Jurchen's attitude would suddenly change. First, her tone became inexplicably tough, and then she refused to call Xu Furen into the inner city to discuss matters for several days.

Even Alin Qitu, who has always been close to Sun Shaozong, has not been heard from for more than ten days.

Could it be that something went wrong with Feng Xin?

The soldiers and horses of Xingcheng made fakes come true, did they really attack the tribe of the Jurchens?

But it shouldn't be? !

For the sake of safety, the accompanying officers and soldiers had already received orders from Sun Shaozong, and would not obey Feng Xin's orders, and even had to be wary of him.

Therefore, even if Feng Xin's situation is imminent and repeated, it is impossible to do this deceitful deed.

Then where did the variable come from?

Sun Shaozong and Xu Furen speculated in every possible way in the posthouse, but they couldn't figure it out. Due to the situation, they even made the worst plan: if there was any disharmony, they would directly kill a bloody road from Jianzhou City.

Fortunately, on February [-]th, the Jurchens finally revealed the answer: the main force of the Southeast Fleet of the Great Zhou had just destroyed the pirate lair in Kyushu, Japan a month ago.

From the bandit leader Su Cheng, Chen Erhu, and Maeda Boguang, nearly a thousand people were killed or injured, more than 2000 were captured, and countless people fled in all directions.

On the 23rd of the first lunar month, the Southeast Fleet was stationed in Haikou, Inju, North Korea with the prestige of a great victory, and killed most of the captured pirates.

A few days later, with the cooperation of the pro-China leading party, a cleansing operation was officially launched throughout the North Korean officialdom.

At the same time, the Southeast Fleet sent out some soldiers and small ships, and took over the defense command of the Yalu River from North Korea.

The fourth day of February.