Jiang Qing

The mountain road was muddy and sticky to the feet. Lao Zhang led more than [-] strong men in the village, and drove more than a dozen ox carts, walking up the mountain step by step.

Even though it was daytime, the sky was so gloomy that it was about to fall.The continuous and dense rain hit their shoulders and backs. Lao Zhang raised his head to look at the gate of the cottage, which was already close at hand, glanced at the ox cart guiltily, and secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Before approaching, the old Zhangtou waved his hand to stop the convoy behind, causing a commotion among the unknown men behind, but the old Zhangtou seemed to have never heard of it, he ignored the rain on his eyelashes rolling Falling, looking for the sentry post in the blurred vision.

Sure enough, hiding behind the sentry post was a Liannu, and the arrow with a cold light was pointing at them.The old Zhangtou led the people and stood quietly in the rain, waiting for the guard to look over their entire convoy.

Seeing the bow and crossbow with sharp eyes, the old Zhangtou knew that he had barely passed the first pass, so he gestured to the back, and a dozen bullock carts slowly moved again.

The gate of the village was half opened, and more than a dozen gangsters came out from behind the gate. They rushed forward, quickly searched the thirty or so strong men, and nodded towards the leader.

That guy glanced at the old Zhangtou who was nodding and bowing to him, without showing any accommodating look on his face, he pushed him aside, glanced at the tightly covered ox carts, and stabbed one of them casually. Take two swords.

The drawn sword was only stained with grass clippings, and a trail of rice was brought out, and fell into the mud along the sword tip.

The leader did not speak, but the old Zhangtou keenly caught the slight looseness between his brows, and after a while, he gestured towards the sentry post, and then the bandits who were searching for him moved aside and surrounded him My son's ox cart entered the village.

This stockade is built on the mountain, with a total of three floors, and each layer has an independent gate.

Lao Zhang headed into the bottom floor, where the guards were not too strict, and the residents were ordinary gangsters in the village.The upper floor is the residence of several prominent officials in the village. In the middle of the highest floor stands the Hall of Loyalty and Justice. The two sides of the hall imitate the palace system, with cornices and tiles. Lin Hu's solitary place in the backyard There is also a fashionable garden pattern in Pingdu.

The three-story cottage seems to be independent, but it is connected together by stone ladders. It is not a major event during the festival. In ordinary days, except for Lin Hu's cronies, ordinary people can't easily go up to the third floor, so the connected stone ladder is also called Make a ladder.

"Climbing the ladder" is a slang term for the minions on Weihu Mountain to increase their status.

The old Zhangtou was naturally not clear about these twists and turns. As usual, he only had time to glance at the stone tablet in the middle before being led to a side road.

The path behind the mountain is secluded and far away, usually few people visit it, and there are even fewer patrolling minions.Old Zhangtou took a few glances back by checking the number of ox carts, and found that only two or three bandits who had searched at the gate of the village were left behind them, and it seemed that they were going to follow them to the granary for a final count.

The granary is not far away, after turning two or three corners, it will arrive.There were only two guards at the gate of the granary. Seeing my family at the end of the line, they opened the granary without asking any more questions, and let Lao Zhangtou go in to unload the grain.

Among the people who came over, two were chatting with the guards at the door, and another one followed Lao Zhangtou inside.

The granary is not empty, there are rows of neatly stacked grains, even if Lao Zhangtou has been here many times, he can't help but stare.

There is no shortage of food in Weihu Mountain. These old grains are collected bit by bit from the people at the bottom of the mountain. After the annual flood season is over, when the food is scarce, Weihu Mountain will release a batch of food to unite the city. Together, the Huang family raised grain prices and made a small fortune.

The chiefs of the villages on the upper two floors eat new rice, so they don't hoard much. They just ask the people below to collect it from the village, and only some fashionable and good rice can get into their mouths.

The minion who came in followed closely, seeing that the rice on the bullock cart was about to be drained, the old Zhang Tou moved closer to him, took a bulging money bag and secretly handed it over.

Strict inspections were conducted in front of the gate of the village, and their boss was watching. These people couldn't easily accept the oil and water.Now it's a little more relaxed inside, and the minion weighed the purse, finally showing a little smile in his eyes.

"Heroes have worked hard, and this is just a drink money for idle business." Old Zhang lowered his voice, pouted his lips at the four people who were chatting outside, and said humbly, "Can you ask the heroes to speak for a while?"

That guy is not stupid, seeing old Zhangtou like this, he must be trying to get online with the two brothers guarding the warehouse through himself. walked out.

A few people at the door were chatting about which promising brother had recently climbed the ladder and went up to the second floor. When they saw Lao Zhangtou and another person coming out, they pretended that something happened, and their expressions suddenly changed.

Fortunately, the minion patted his chest unintentionally, hinting with the crisp sound of copper coins being struck, and these people knew the purpose of the old man's visit, and they all breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their hands and feet.

The old Zhangtou looked at the tall and thick men in front of him, made a look of fear, and performed a half-literate salute with a smile, which made them burst into laughter.

"Heroes, I don't know if there is any shortage of people under the head of the family. The old man has a nephew who is good at martial arts, but he lost his parents since he was young and has no hope. I want to ask the old man to help him and come to the mountain to join the head of the family. "

The minions who just took the money put their hands on the shoulders of old Zhangtou, and said to the brothers: "This old boy has a good idea. I think his cheap nephew can be in our university without even climbing the ladder." How about taking a look at how our brothers are doing under the leadership of the family, and sending people to our brothers to fight for a few years, it’s better than you farming the land underground, how about it?”

"Our granary is short of a young man with good skills, so he can hold the night shift. Why don't you send me here, so you have to meet him when you come to deliver rice."

People on both sides were joking half-truthfully, and they didn’t agree or disagree. They just kept laughing. The meaning behind the words implied that there were many people who wanted to enter Weihu Mountain these days, Lao Zhang There is nothing else in the head to indicate that this person is difficult to squeeze in.

The old man didn't know that they were asking for money in different ways, and he might not have the ability to accept it, so he simply laughed and dragged them for a while, and waited until the rice unloading people came out with their cars, and then went in again. Two people were asked to check the number.

Lao Zhang's face is still the same, but his heart is sweating, for fear of being seen something.Fortunately, after a while, the guy who counted the numbers came out and signaled them to leave.

The rain was heavier than before, and the traces of the ox carts were a little blurred. Old Zhang took a look at the much lighter cart marks, and knew in his mind: the person hiding on the ox cart was a gangster. went in.

He walked back behind the bullock cart, as if he was too old to lift his feet, shuffled from time to time, and inadvertently erased some of the cart marks on the ground.

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The granary is not a place worth guarding. There will be a little time when the two shifts are handed over. Taking advantage of this gap, Mei Shao and his party left the granary and turned to the back mountain by the way.

Mei Shao and Jian Shiliu sneaked into the cottage with five or six people each.

According to the shape of the three villages in Weihu Mountain, there is probably nothing important in the bottom village. For example, the armory that determines their lifeline must be on the upper two floors. Mei Shao wanted to touch the armory first. where.

The sky ladder built on the surface is impossible to walk on. Although the mountain in the back is dangerous, there are still many places that can be uneven, which can be used as a booster for climbing. Mei Shao wanted to use this natural mountain to climb up.

Looking at a green mountain top from a distance, it is a patch of weeds up to people's waists when approaching. After pushing away the weeds, several people climbed up the protruding stones under the cover of a wild bamboo forest.

The wet stones are very slippery, the protrusions are small, and it is difficult to hold them. You have to pay attention to the movement behind you. Mei Shao and the others have no time to be distracted, but there are also a lot of weeds on the mountain wall, crawling Just hit it on the face, shaking the water drops all over the face.

Seeing that there was a large group of weeds above his head, Mei Shao grabbed the stone on one side and reached for it with the other hand, trying to pull some out, but in vain.

Behind the group of weeds is not a solid mountain wall, but empty.

Mei Shao stretched out her hand to test it out, it seemed to be a hole, the hole was so deep that she couldn't reach her head.He scraped the grass away in twos and outs, and there was indeed a small hole behind him. The walls of the hole were regular, and it didn't look like any animal had dug it.

He stretched out his arm to measure the size of the hole, and it was just big enough for one person to climb in.

In the middle of such a desolate back mountain, there is a man-made hole, and Mei Shao can vaguely be sure that this must be intentional by the people on Weihu Mountain. Maybe this hole leads to the upper two floors, and it is the bottom layer. A way to steal things.

Thinking of this, he stopped the soldiers who were still climbing, and got in first.

The entrance of the cave was narrow, and Mei Shao could barely crawl forward in it. It was pitch black inside, and she couldn't see her fingers. In the darkness, her own breathing was silently amplified.Crawling in such a dark and depressing place will inevitably feel a little suffocating. Fortunately, there is no time for half a cup of tea, and the road ahead gradually opens up.

When Mei Shao was able to walk upright in the cave, they could no longer see the light from the cave entrance behind them.Unexpectedly, Mei Shao had no choice but to lead people forward in the dark. The further they walked, the more open the road was. This was far beyond the scale that Mei Shao thought was the small gangsters from Weihu Mountain secretly digging tunnels.

After walking for a while, there was a slight sound of wind blowing from both sides. Mei Shao took out the fire pocket in his arms and blew out a little light for a short time. Only then could he barely see that they had reached a fork in the road.

This secret passage accidentally discovered is more complicated than Mei Shao imagined, and it is no longer something that the low-level gangsters can dig out with effort.

An obvious answer was put in front of Mei Shao: Except for Lin Hu, no one could openly dig such a complicated secret passage in Weihu Mountain.

Since Lin Hu was involved, this secret passage would not be so simple. Is there anything in my own land that cannot be seen and needs to be transported through the secret passage, or is this just an escape passage dug by Lin Hu?

The torch in his hand was quickly extinguished, and Mei Shao stood at the fork in the road, caught in a dilemma of choice.

At this moment, a little light flashed on the road on the right, and then it turned into darkness, so fast that it almost made people feel that the flash of fire was an illusion, Mei Shao was not in a hurry to walk on that road to seek proof.In the darkness, even the slightest movement will be infinitely magnified, and after a while, Mei Shao heard light steps walking towards her, and there was more than one person who heard the sound of footsteps.

Even though Mei Shao tried her best to hold her breath, the footsteps stopped abruptly when she was five or six steps away from him.

In an instant, Mei Shao knew that the person opposite was also a master of martial arts, and he must have realized his existence before he stopped.

Before he had time to think about it, Mei Shao took out the fire bag that he had just used up and threw it to the left, then rushed to the right, and sure enough, he caught a piece of fabric in the dark.

"Hiss—" The sound of the cloth being torn was extremely ear-piercing in the darkness, and Mei Shao took advantage of the victory to pursue the moment he pulled back the clothes, but the opponent did not even have the slightest tendency to back away.

The people brought by both sides pulled out their weapons almost at the same time, but they only heard the sound of fists and kicks between the two, and none of them dared to do it arbitrarily.

Soon, Mei Shao and that person blindly fought several moves, the opponent was very strong, and the fist with the wind was about to land on Mei Shao's heart, but he tried to block it with his palm, but it was still so shocking that Mei Shao's mouth choked. numb.

After dismantling about ten moves, Mei Shao finally realized that something was wrong. This person's boxing moves are very familiar, very similar to military kung fu.

With the heart of proof, Mei Shao took a gamble on purpose, took a step back and lowered his waist, and sure enough, he dodged a punch in the face from the visitor. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Mei Shao stepped on the cave wall to borrow strength, Kankan on the right side skipped over his head, reached out neatly, wrapped his arms around his neck, and led the people back to his camp.

The people under him were still struggling, Mei Shao tightened his arms, and he immediately stopped moving with interest.

Mei Shao stretched out her other hand to grope around him, and finally found a waist card in her bosom, and it was still a valuable jade card.

"Which army camp?" Mei Shao didn't talk nonsense with him, and asked straight to the point.

"Master Fang of Cangzhou." The man hesitated for a while, then said Fang Min's name.

"Heh." Mei Shao sneered, touched the artery in his neck with his fingers, and pressed it threateningly, "You try to make up another one?"

The man was about to speak, and just uttered a word, when Mei Shao scratched his neck intentionally or unintentionally with his nails, he softened his voice, but the words he said were creepy.

"If you think about it clearly, I haven't shed human blood for a long time."

The author says:

The career line is rolling...