Poor Family

  Chapter 713 Horn Chill

  Seeing Li Gang's gloomy expression, Li Yanqing knew that he was having a hard time, so he smiled slightly and stopped talking.

   At this time, Li Gang got up and went to have a rest in the distance, Mo Jun said in a low voice: "Li Shilang seems to want to persuade Fu Yin to deal with Tong Guan!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "The last time Tong Guan cut off a piece of Gao Qi's body, he took advantage of Bao Yanzhai and Cao's family. To be honest, I was very annoyed, but I confessed to this matter." Do you know why, sir?"

  Mo Jun pondered for a while and said: "The Fu Yin must be afraid of children!"

   "You can say so!"

Li Yanqing sighed slightly, "How can a person be tough in everything when he is in the officialdom? If he should admit defeat, he will admit defeat. The key is that Tong Guan's goal in that matter was not me. At most, it made me feel uncomfortable. Fighting against him regardless of the consequences, it would be polite to say that it is irrational, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is stupid."

   "Then forget it? This is not your character!" Mo Jun laughed.

  Li Yanqing sneered, "Whoever said this matter is fine, I just said that I will admit defeat now, there is no need to spoil the plan for a moment of pride."

Li Yanqing's big plan refers to the fact that he stayed in the capital. If he had a fight with Tong Guan'er over the matter of the boat and the Cao family, even if his anger was relieved for a while, he would probably be transferred away from the capital. At this critical moment , the best way is to keep a low profile.

Mo Jun nodded, "You are right, you have to be measured in everything, you have to know how to advance and retreat, and you can't just act recklessly. That would be really reckless. Although it is said that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, it seems that the grievance between you and Tong Guan is not too late." What a deep hatred."

   "Hmph!" Li Yanqing snorted coldly, "I may not be this one, what about Lin's death!"

  Mo Jun shivered suddenly, it turned out that Li Yanqing had never forgotten that incident!

Li Yanqing and his party arrived in the capital at dusk. As soon as they arrived at Fengqiu Gate, they saw a troop of cavalry galloping out of the city gate. The speed was extremely fast. With a jump, the horses stopped one after another.

  A man came out head-on. He was wearing armor. He was in his early thirties.

Li Yanqing immediately recognized this person. It was Tong Yansi, Tong Guan's nephew, who was the real murderer of Zhong Lin's death. It was only later that Li Yanqing found out the truth about Zhong Lin's death through Zhang Yun, the exiled former governor of Kaifeng. Zhang Yun was responsible for the Tong family and almost died in Lingnan, but the Tong family didn't care about him, as if he was a dead dog. Zhang Yun hated him so much that he revealed the truth to the subordinates sent by Li Yanqing .

Although there is no evidence to overthrow Tong Guan, at least Li Yanqing confirmed his guess that it was Tong Yansi who played tricks at the city gate that caused Zhong Lin to be arrested and sent to Kaifeng Mansion, where he died tragically in the Kaifeng Mansion Prison , brought great sorrow to Zhong Shuai for losing his son in old age, this hatred Li Yanqing has always kept in his heart.

  But at this time, there was no hatred on his face, but he cupped his hands and smiled and said, "So it's General Tong, where are you going in such a hurry?"

  Tong Yansi also returned the gift with a faint smile: "Go to the Tongjia Manor in Renqiu County!"

   "I see, General Boy, please!"

  Li Yanqing ordered his subordinates to step aside, Tong Yansi bowed his hand to Li Yanqing, and led his subordinates to gallop away.

But contrary to Li Yanqing's expectations, Tong Guan's subordinates are not only twenty or so people, there are at least dozens of double donkey carts following behind, and all of them are empty. Let the manor transport wealth!

  Watching the convoy go away, Li Yanqing suddenly recruited two personal soldiers, whispered something to them, the two men nodded, and chased after them.

  At this time, Li Gang whispered: "Master Li suspects that the Tong family will also transport treasure by water?"

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "How many things can be transported by more than thirty donkey carts? There is no need for Tong Yansi to dispatch it himself. I suspect that these donkey carts are only for short-distance transportation, such as transporting the things in the manor to the riverside." .”

   "But now the river is frozen, how can he transport by water?"

   “It’s not necessary to go. It’s convenient to dig out the ice and sink the boat into the bottom of the river.”

   After a pause, Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Of course, I'm just guessing, and the Tong Guan matter has nothing to do with me, let's go to the city!"

  Li Gang obviously felt that Li Yanqing was not sincere. He glanced at Li Yanqing suspiciously, and without asking any further questions, everyone rushed into the capital immediately.

Just after dawn, two soldiers sent by Li Yanqing to follow Tong Yansi returned to the Cao Mansion. They were quickly led to the small courtyard where Li Yanqing lived. My brother is back!"

   "Come in!" Li Yanqing's vague voice came from the yard.

  Two soldiers walked into the yard quickly, but saw Li Yanqing was brushing his teeth with green salt by the well, they stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Report to Governor, we have found out the situation!"

  Li Yanqing rinsed his mouth, then said calmly: "Follow me to the study!"

  He wiped the corners of his mouth clean, turned around and walked towards the temporary study next to him. The Ma brothers quickly followed in. Li Yanqing sat down and asked, "Tell me! What's going on?"

   "Reporting to Fu Yin, the Tong family was indeed transshipping important items last night, and there were hundreds of large boxes."

   "Tell me in detail, where was it transshipped, and where did it go?"

An elderly soldier said: "Tong's Manor is located on the north bank of the Wuzhang River. Ten miles to the east of the manor, there is a small tributary of the Wuzhang River, which is covered by reeds. We found more than a dozen cargo ships moored in the small river, and more than 20 vehicles. The donkey cart transported the big boxes out of the manor, carried them onto the boat and locked them in the cabin, and then sank the whole boat into the bottom of the river, where Tong Yansi stayed overnight."

Sure enough, he guessed it right, Li Yanqing sneered in his heart, Tong Guan actually hid more than 30 broken boats, of course Li Yanqing would not want to catch this little pigtail, when Tong Guan caught Bao Yanzhai and Cao's little Braid, isn't Bao Yanzhai's fleet and the Cao family's wealth nothing to do? In the end, it was just an excuse to seize power, and Zhao Ji didn't necessarily take his imperial decree to heart.

  Thinking of this, Li Yanqing asked again: "In just one night, the ice on the small river was cut open?"

   "Reporting to Fu Yin, the ice on the small river is very thin, and they smashed it open in a few strokes."

"how come?"

  Li Yanqing was startled, he saw the Yellow River was frozen yesterday, and the distance is only more than a hundred miles, how could there be two environments? Could it be that there is a hot spring in the small river?

   "How is the Wuzhang River frozen?" Li Yanqing asked again.

   "The Wuzhang River has frozen solid, but that small river is strange. We suspect that it is due to the mud at the bottom of the river, which is relatively warm." The leading soldier explained.

It is estimated that this small river is indeed a bit abnormal, so the Tong family hid the boats there, but it doesn't matter whether the river is frozen or not. Li Yanqing is more concerned about the dozens of sunken boats, and Tong Yansi needs to supervise them personally. It can be seen that the things in the box are very important. It is very likely to be yellow and white goods or jewelry and emerald jade. Of course, it cannot be calligraphy and painting, and those things cannot enter water.

   "Is the box heavy?"

   "It's very heavy, about four feet square, and it takes six people to lift it onto the boat."

Li Yanqing's heart quickly started to move. This is an opportunity. Since Tong Guan is so generous, he would be a little sorry for Tong Guan's kindness if he didn't want it. Li Yanqing walked around with his hands behind his back, and finally made a decision to let Yan Qing and the others came to do this.

  Li Yanqing immediately wrote an eagle letter, and directly arranged for the letter to be sent to Daming Mansion.

Li Yanqing originally wanted Yan Qing and his men to hide in Zhending Mansion and Yanshan Mansion, and if there was any trouble in the Jin soldiers, they would immediately send an eagle letter to the capital, but now there is no need for it. The Song Army built it two months ago. With the beacon tower, it was built from the Song-Jin border of Hedong and Hebei three roads all the way to the capital. This thing is much faster than Yingxin.

  It was already noon when Tong Yansi returned to the capital, and he stayed up all night. Although he was extremely tired, he still managed to summon his energy to see his uncle Tongguan.

   "Is everything put away?" Tong Guan took a sip of tea, and revealed his orange peel-like face from behind the large table.

   "It's all arranged, and the confidant guards transported, boarded, and sunk the ship. Those coachmen are locked in the manor and don't know anything."

  Tong Guan nodded in satisfaction, and said again: "You must be wondering why you didn't send this batch of wealth to the south!"

   "If the child dare not, the child will do as the father tells him."

  Tong Guan smiled reluctantly, and finally sighed: "Once the Jin soldiers come, I'm afraid the capital will be lost, and the world will be in chaos. The cunning rabbit still has three caves. Our wealth can't just be released to the south!"

   "Father, is the capital really unstoppable?" Tong Yansi asked worriedly.

Tong Guan shook his head, "My heart is like a mirror. Even Xixia's iron kite cavalry was defeated by the golden cavalry. What's more, our Song army is already rotten and collapsed in one battle. How can such an army be able to defeat tigers and wolves?" Jinbing, the Jinbing must go south, the capital will definitely not be able to defend, we can only go south."

   "When will the golden soldiers come?"

   "Hurry up! The Yellow River has frozen, and the day when the golden soldiers will come is not far away."

  As soon as Tong Guan finished speaking, there was a sudden commotion outside, and a servant shouted in horror at the door: "Master, the beacon fire! The northern beacon fire is lit!"

"ah!"

  Tong Guanteng stood up, dumbfounded all of a sudden.

  (end of this chapter)