Poor Family

  Chapter 388 Get something for nothing

At dawn, the passenger boat left Liangshanbo and entered Jishui. At this time, the boatman moored the boat in a wilderness, entered the water, took out a boat from a hidden compartment at the bottom of the boat and wrapped it tightly with more than ten layers of oil paper. Inside is a bow and several rockets, and the bowstring and gunpowder tubes are tightly wrapped with pig bladders to ensure watertightness.

  The boatman handed the oiled paper bag to Li Yanqing, and after opening layer by layer to check it was correct, Li Yanqing handed the bow and arrow to Yang Liang.

   "Do you remember the address?"

   "Remember the humble job, Chengbei Shunfeng Inn!"

   "Go! Be careful along the way, if the situation is not good, you should go back to Bianjing first!"

   "I obey the order!" Yang Liang jumped ashore, then rushed to the distant woods, and quickly disappeared into the woods.

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Yanqing arrived in Xucheng County. Xucheng County is a large county with a population of about 200,000 and a circumference of more than 30 miles. Xucheng County has become the ruling center of the Liangshan Army. The gates of the city are full of Liangshan soldiers. The interrogation is very strict when entering the city.

   Zhou Wenyuan saw that the gatekeepers were all vicious, and he was very frightened. He couldn't help but suggested to Li Yanqing in a low voice: "Little proprietor, why don't we go into the city!"

  Li Yanqing shook his head, "If it comes, it will be safe, don't worry!"

  He walked quickly towards the city gate, but Zhou Wenyuan had no choice but to follow.

   "Stop, what are you doing!"

  A soldier stopped Li Yanqing and the two of them, and Li Yanqing saluted with fists in his hands, "Xiaosheng is a student of Yingtian Academy, and he passed by your land on his way to Mount Tai."

   "Is there any proof?"

   "Yes!" Li Yanqing took out a study tour book from Yingtianfu Academy and handed it to him.

  At this time, the city guard stepped forward and asked, "Who is it?"

   "Looks like a student from Yingtianfu. Passing by here, I have a certificate, but I can't read in a humble job"

  Zhou Wenyuan hurried forward and whispered: "Actually, I came to buy a house. I heard it's very cheap now."

  All laughed, "Students want to save face, buy a house, buy a house, and find an excuse to study abroad."

  Seeing that Li Yanqing and Zhou Wenyuan were not armed, he waved his hand, "Let them in!"

  Li Yanqing received the proof, clasped his fists in a salute, and walked squarely into the city with his hands behind his back. The soldiers all laughed, "It's so **** sour!"

   Behind Zhou Wenyuan and Li Yanqing, he said in astonishment: "I can't imagine that they didn't even search the body, and let us in!"

   "Didn't you see it? This is the so-called tight outside and loose inside."

  Li Yanqing said with a faint smile: "I just discovered that they don't pay attention to details at all, or they don't know how to interrogate people at all. They only look at people with weapons. Is this called interrogation?"

   "What details did they not pay attention to?" Zhou Wenyuan asked in puzzlement.

Li Yanqing spread his palms, "My hands have thick calluses on the tiger's mouth. This is the evidence left by using weapons or bows and arrows all the year round. I said I was a student, but they didn't look at my palms, not only Me, all the same, they don't look at the details, the man in front of us said he was a peddler, but he wore a pair of narrow-cut leather boots, this kind of boots look good, but walking is very tiring, how can a peddler who is running around wear these Kind of shoes?"

  Zhou Wenyuan nodded, "The little proprietor observed very carefully, and their interrogation was indeed rough."

The streets of the county town are very depressed, almost half of the shops are closed, and the words "resale or sale" are pasted on the doors, and the shops that are open are deserted except for some customers who sell daily necessities such as the rice shop. There are few people, but the business of restaurants or brothels is very good. Basically, the generals and soldiers of the Liangshan Army come to drink and have fun.

   "Little proprietor, that shop is good!"

Zhou Wenyuan pointed to a closed shop on the south side of the cross street and said: "The facade is very grand, and the signboard can be seen from several streets. This is the best effect. Such a good market is actually going to be resold. Do you want to buy it?" Shall we ask?"

  Li Yanqing looked at the sky, and it was getting late, so he shook his head, "Go to the inn first, let's talk tomorrow!"

  Shunfeng Inn is the largest inn in Xucheng County. It is very famous in Yunzhou. The number of foreign merchants in Yuncheng has dropped sharply. Many of the inns have closed. Although Shunfeng Inn has no customers, it is still struggling.

  So when Li Yanqing and Zhou Wenyuan came to invest in the store, the shopkeeper personally greeted the only two guests in the inn. He was very attentive and busy, and then asked the staff to run errands to buy two meals for Li Yanqing and the others.

After dinner, it was already dark, and the shopkeeper specially came to the room to tell them, "It's best not to go out at night, the taverns and brothels are full of their people, and they are drunk, and accidents are easy to happen. If you If you want to buy a house, I can help you get married for free, and there are many people who ask me to sell the house."

  Zhou Wenyuan quickly asked: "May I ask shopkeeper Wu, the store on the south side of the intersection in front seems to be a silk and satin store. Is that store for sale?"

The shopkeeper laughed, "Guan Zhou has good eyesight, the location of that shop is not so good, it was originally called 'Tiansi' silk and satin shop, it was the shop of Yang Xiancheng's father-in-law, after Yang Xiancheng was killed, his father-in-law also fled back to Qingzhou In my hometown, ask a fellow villager to help him sell it, if Zhou Guanren is interested, I will contact you tomorrow."

  At this time, Li Yanqing asked from the side: "Will the Liangshan Army come to investigate foreigners like us?"

"To tell you the truth, people from the Liangshan army will come to investigate every day, but you just need to tell them that they are here to buy a store, and it is best to simply buy the store they like, then they will generally ignore it. After five days, he will be suspected of being a spy of the officers and soldiers. One of my customers was taken away just like that, and his life and death are still unknown.

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  Li Yanqing also wanted to ask about the situation of entering and exiting the city. At this time, a clerk ran in and said, "Someone is looking for Li Guanren outside, it seems to be a soldier!"

  Li Yanqing was overjoyed immediately, "He's my friend, where is he?"

   "In the lobby!"

  Li Yanqing hurried to the lobby, and there stood a soldier of the Liangshan Army in armor, who was Luan Tingyu.

   "Senior brother is still there, I was worried that he had left along the way."

  Luan Tingyu smiled slightly: "My business here is over. I originally planned to leave, but I thought you would come, so I decided to wait until the end of the month. If you don't come by the end of the month, I will really leave."

   "Let's talk in the room!"

  Li Yanqing brought Luan Tingyu to his room, and asked, "Where's Yang Liang?"

   "The gate of the city has been closed, he can only stay in the foot shop outside the city for one night, and then enter the city tomorrow."

"I see!"

  Li Yanqing asked Luan Tingyu to sit down, poured him a bowl of hot tea, and said with a smile: "Since brother guessed that I'm coming, you should know the purpose of my trip!"

  Luan Tingyu smiled slightly, "Since you asked me to kill Hou Meng, how could there be no action in the follow-up. If I guessed correctly, the imperial court will start the fifth campaign to suppress the Liangshan Army, right?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, "It has been decided, the crown prince will be the commander-in-chief, and Zhong Shidao will be the deputy commander. I will also participate in it and be in charge of intelligence!"

Luan Tingyu took out a handwritten booklet from his arms and handed it to Li Yanqing, "This is the information on the Liangshan Army that I have deliberately collected over the past month. It involves various aspects. I think it is very practical. I originally wanted to sell it to Fang La at a high price, but now I have changed my mind. , give it to you!"

  Li Yanqing was very pleasantly surprised. Although he hoped to get some information from his senior brother, he did not expect that his senior brother had already prepared it for him. He took the booklet and gave a deep bow, "Senior brother has such a great favor, how can I repay it?"

Luan Tingyu shook his head, "I don't want anything in return from you. The money I've earned over the years won't be spent in several lifetimes. If I want to be an official, someone will immediately arrange for me to be a county magistrate. The reason why I'm willing to help you is because I owe you money." You are a favor, if it weren't for you, the master would never recognize me as an apprentice, that would be a regret in my life, you are my junior, it's as simple as that!"

Li Yanqing was moved in his heart, Luan Tingyu is not a cold-blooded killer, he still hides an emotion deep in his heart, he always has a deep respect and love for his master like a father, it is this respect and love that makes him willing to fight again and again Help yourself.

  Luan Tingyu never procrastinates when doing things. After completing the task, he got up and said, "Okay, I'm leaving. We'll see you later!"

   "Brother, do you want to go back to the barracks?"

  Luan Tingyu shook his head, "I won't go to the barracks anymore, I'll go directly to Hangzhou to pay Fang La a job and receive the other half of my salary."

   "Then what are your plans for the future, brother?"

   "I plan to go back to my hometown in Hejian Mansion and enjoy myself for a year or two. When I get bored, I will come out and find something to do. Brother, take care!"

After finishing speaking, Luan Tingyu jumped out of the window, but in the blink of an eye, Luan Tingyu appeared at the window again, took out three folded papers and handed them to Li Yanqing, "I almost forgot, this is a soft whip method, you That Younger Sister Qing'er's whipping skills are very good, but unfortunately she is a little slower, this will make her whipping skills a lot better."

"I am leaving!"

  Li Yanqing took the stack of papers and looked out of the window. Luan Tingyu had disappeared without a trace.

  Li Yanqing sighed lowly, sat back under the lamp, and carefully read the information booklet Luan Tingyu left for him.

  (end of this chapter)