So Lin Fengjin is now very curious about what is stored in the "C" counter. He is at least sure now that the items there have a high probability of being more valuable than one hundred thousand taels of silver. And Lin Fengjin also happens to want it.
If you want to go to Xiangfan for a visit, you can naturally go there on the way.
The ship's hull shook slightly, and then there was a series of questioning and commanding voices, which were obviously intercepted. Lin Fengjin calmly placed the piece of cloth with the password on the candle, watching it slowly
It turned yellow, withered, burned, and finally turned into black ashes. Before long, many people seemed to have gathered outside, but despite the noise, no one could break in.
After a while, a guard came in from outside and reported:
"Master, Commander Li is outside. At the same time, members of the Feng family, including Feng, Chen Dabiao, and Fu Yidao, are all outside asking for a meeting."
Lin Fengjin waved his hand, pondered for a moment, and then said:
"Invite Commander Li to come in and tell me that I just accidentally fell into the water and I need to freshen up before going out to meet the guests."
***
So when Feng Yuanwai, Chen Dabiao, Fu Yidao and others entered this small cabin, what they saw was Li Hu sitting at the top with a serious look. This strong man, nicknamed General Li, really had a lot of power at this time.
He must have the demeanor of a "general", calm, dignified, not angry but powerful.
Lin Fengjin, on the other hand, was behind Li Hu, wrapped tightly in a fur coat. There were two or three pots of charcoal fire beside him. His gray hair looked wet, his face was a little pale, and he looked like he was dying at any time.
He might have sneezed loudly, but of course, he was holding a bowl of boiling ginger soup in his trembling hands. He totally looked like a frail young man.
The first person to speak was the representative of the Feng family, Feng Gandi. It is said that this man in his forties had successfully obtained a piece of paper with the help of his opened joints and the heads of hundreds of bandits, and became the local robber catcher, thus possessing
assumed an official status.
"Has that guy been caught?"
Li Hu said coldly:
"No."
The two words that Li Hu said forcefully almost made everyone choke and almost burped. Feng Gandi even raised his eyebrows and said angrily:
"waste......!"
"It seems that the place where that guy is hiding is also provided by trash like us." Lin Fengjin said in a harsh tone.
Then he didn't give the others a chance to speak, and then said: "Li Hu, I remember that the core of the machine beast is also priceless. We spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to get the information about that guy's hiding place. You have to give
Let me recover some of my losses."
Li Hu immediately said:
"My subordinates are incompetent. Although I consider myself good at killing people, I am really not good at snatching trophies."
Lin Fengjin's words immediately had the effect of rebelling against the general. Several people sitting on the chairs twisted their bodies unnaturally and looked ugly.
Because Lin Fengjin estimated that the machine master would definitely arrange counterattack measures on the machine slaves who were cut off, so he strictly prohibited Li Hu and the others from getting close to the battlefield, even the seemingly harmless wreckage.
Therefore, in fact, Li Hu and the others did not get the benefits of the machine beast. However, logically speaking, this cannot be justified at all, because they not only provided the other party's hiding place, but also participated in the third party.
They fought on the front line (the guards who saw them hiding at the back were all poisoned by madness and died), but in the end they didn't get anything! If this kind of thing is publicized, I'm afraid no one will dare to fight with this person in the future.
Several wealthy families whose reputations were ruined are now collaborating again.
In this situation where Lin Fengjin had the upper hand, the voices criticizing him for "letting go" the mechanic naturally became less justified. Unless local snakes like the Feng family could get the corpse mixed with the cold river water.
He picked up the sacks of blocks and stones and placed them in front of Lin Fengjin to directly refute his lies.
However, this kind of thing is probably still very difficult. But even so, Lin Fengjin can still plausibly ask the Feng family to prove one thing, that is, the corpse in the sack is part of the mechanic...
.
Although this kind of messy behavior is very disgusting, I have to admit that it is very effective, especially when Lin Fengjin is surrounded by dozens of vicious and well-trained men.
So in the end it was all settled, and the others could only hold their noses and accept the theory that the machine master had escaped. After Lin Fengjin received the compensation of 10,000 taels of silver, he stopped asking about the remains of the machine beast.
After being harassed by this machine master for a while, the caravan can be said to have suffered heavy casualties. If the previous harassment by the machine master Wan Qi was just a small incident, then his breaking into Wang Sanlang's monastery was a big move. After that, in Sihai
The poisonous gas self-explosion of the mechanism spider in the building was even more generous, causing thirty or forty people to kill each other, and those who survived became lunatics.
If we count them all together, the number of ordinary people who were accidentally killed was twenty or thirty, and the Feng family was also considered a local tyrant. They extorted thousands of taels of silver from the caravan as a "pension place", but all of it was their own.
After putting it away, the civilians who were "accidentally injured" actually lost a few pennies to their families.
A group of orphans and widows came to the door of Feng's house to cry. The Feng family actually used knives, killing and injuring seven or eight people, women, children, old and young. Not to mention that Lin Fengjin couldn't stand this kind of approach, even people like Wang Sanlang found it a bit strange.
Can't bear it.
However, at this time, the caravan itself had a big problem, and it had no time to take care of the poor people. If calculated carefully, even in the Sihai Tower, there were about ten guards from the Feng family, and the casualties of the entire caravan were
The number of people is also more than sixty!
For this era, even if the army's casualties exceed 30%, its morale will collapse, let alone the ragtag group of temporarily formed caravans?
Therefore, even with coercion and inducement and throwing silver bullets, most of the guards in the caravan refused to go any further. These old fritters also knew one thing very well, that is, no matter how much money they have, they still have their lives to spend it.
OK.
And even among the organizers of the caravan, the "relatives and friends" of the major families have to consider the heavy setback to the family after all the children and servants of these families are consumed here.
After all, even though the five countries are in a state of unity at this time, the situation of fighting for supremacy in troubled times has never changed. Bandits with secret support from hostile countries can be found everywhere in each country. For merchants who pay attention to circulation, a safe trade route is important.
Sex is definitely not inferior to the safety of arteries flowing with blood, and half of the safety of commercial roads depends on the ability of the local government, and the other half is based on the strength of one's own guards.
Therefore, on the other hand, the only ones who can still move forward are the Lin family. You must know that this time, the Lin family's guards had the fewest casualties, only three or five people, and the injuries were all minor.
hurt.
The most important thing is that the reward money each guard gets is almost equivalent to two or three years of savings. So even if we ignore their elite level after being trained hard by Li Hu, their morale is as high as ever.
In fact, Lin Fengjin has been dealing with the changes during this period as if he were playing chess. Ever since he agreed to join this caravan, that was his first move, and the most exciting move recently,
It is to use the valuable core of the mechanism beast to lure a large number of guards to die!
The direct consequence of this move was that the strength of the entire caravan was reduced by nearly one-fifth.
The indirect consequence of this move is that Lin Fengjin's proportion of the entire caravan's combat-ready personnel exceeds 60%. Just like the person with the most shares in a company, the person who speaks the most useful words is often the chairman.
Same. The rise and fall of this kind of power should also suddenly increase Lin Fengjin's "voice power" in the caravan.
Under this situation, Lin Fengjin had already calculated that those who wanted to move forward would first bribe Li Hu - and then they realized that this was a futile thing -
---He will definitely find me and then bid.
And this person should hold some secrets in his hands, such as what is the real purpose of this caravan, the real opponents and dangers they will face, and the true identity of the person who organized this caravan.
Purpose.
Although there is a saying that "if you know too much, you will be silenced", but Lin Fengjin is not willing to be treated as ignorant cannon fodder. The only outcome of such a thing is to be sacrificed in vain. And Lin Fengjin currently feels that he
The most lacking thing is information. If you have relevant information, then you should be able to find a way out of it, or even pull chestnuts from the fire!
***
The night was already quite late at this time, and Lin Fengjin was preparing to go to bed when suddenly there were three beeps on the window lattice outside the door, one long and two short, which was a coded signal that someone was visiting.
At this time, all the people guarding Lin Fengjin were all so-called domestic servants. The whole family had to rely on the Lin family to survive. Lin Fengjin put down the article he was reading and clicked on it.
Nodding, he stood up and stretched, preparing to welcome the unexpected guest.
The person who came did not exceed Lin Fengjin's judgment, it was Fu Yidao who had always been isolated from everyone. He still looked as if everyone owed him money, and his scalp was blue and miserable just after being shaved.
It still shines slightly under the candlelight, with towering cheekbones and sharp eyes that seem to pick out the bones of a person!
Lin Fengjin deliberately yawned and said lazily and impatiently:
"What do you want from me?"
Fu Yidao was silent for a while and said:
"What I want to say to you cannot be heard by others."
"It's really troublesome." Lin Fengjin muttered for a while, and said impatiently with a mixture of the arrogance of a playboy and the slick attitude of a businessman: "Hey, those outside should go farther away and go outside the yard."