Two hundred and seventieth chapters evil will be rewarded II
[Shijie Village Chaojiazhuang]
Everyone had a peaceful sleep that day. When they got up early the next morning, Chao Gai came to see Shi Jin. Wu Yong happened to be there too, so the three of them boiled a pot of tea and sat down to talk and taste it.
"Brother, I have already let the three heroes of the Ruan family out. This matter of one hundred thousand official silver must have reached the ears of that old guy Zang Hanzhong. As long as he has an idea, we can..." With that said Zhiduoxing Wu Yong clenched his five fingers tightly, as if he had already squeezed the old ghost Zang Hanzhong tightly in his palm.
Shi Jin nodded after hearing this and said: "Zang Hanzhong loves money as much as his life. He has recently fought with us and lost so much property. I think he will never be willing to decline like this. Not to mention that he doesn't have it now." After learning about the source of money in the gambling house, I heard that in order to redeem his prodigal son Zang Ao, he even sold hundreds of acres of land. He was almost bankrupt this time. For him, this one hundred thousand official silver cannot be used. It’s not a huge temptation. I think he will most likely jump over the wall, take a risky move, pretend to be a bandit, and rob the official’s silver along the way.”
Chao Gai agreed after hearing this, and said: "Now, the Zang family has almost exhausted all its resources. It really has nothing to show for itself. The only one who can go straight now is the banker No. 100. Now he can still Use it, wait a few days when the reward money comes, and that's when Zang Hanzhong gets a headache. He can't get the reward money, and it's hard to say that those dealers with the spirit of the market have demolished all his dealers. Now, even if Zang Hanzhong doesn't dare to take advantage of the money, but his son will do it secretly. Now, as long as we are sure that they are going to take action, the rest will be much easier to handle."
When Shi Jin heard this, he took over and said: "This is easy. The reason why we were able to blame the Zang family for the last hunting trip was to make him unable to tell the story of his suffering. The contribution of one person cannot be buried."
When Chao Gai heard this, he immediately nodded and said: "Yes, yes, right, now Qin Dong is working as an internal agent in the Zang family, which really allows us to take advantage. Last time, thanks to his report, he informed us of the Zang family's conspiracy, and the killer was ambushing us." Location, otherwise we wouldn’t have succeeded so easily,”
"Right now, we have to rely on Qin Dong's intelligence. It would be great if we could contact Qin Dong now," Wu Yong said.
Shi Jin paused and said seriously: "Everything is on my shoulders. The Zang family's business is in trouble and the family is also very depressed. Qin Dong has a hobby. He usually hangs out in teahouses on West Street." At this point, Shi Jin looked at the scene outside and said: "It's time to rush at this time. I'll go to the teahouse and I guess he will be there."
Chao Gai and Wu Yong said hello, and Shi Jin immediately changed his clothes and ordered a fast horse to go.
[Yuncheng County West Street Tea House]
There were a lot fewer vendors on both sides of the West Street. Ever since Shi Jin gave instructions to Shi Qian and asked him to clarify the hostile relationship between the group of people and Liang Shan, a small-scale fight took place here as expected. , but also injured more than a dozen lives. In fact, Shi Jin already knew about it the night before Magistrate Wu told Chao Gai at the banquet, and Shi Qian had already told Chao Gai about it in the evening. What happened was explained clearly.
On that day, Shi Qian followed Shi Jin's wishes and handed two letters specifying his intentions to each other's hands without anyone noticing. The original intention was to alert the mysterious organization to avoid being secretly manipulated by the Liangshan group. Killed him, but he didn't expect that in fact, the mysterious organization was more powerful. No matter that Yuncheng County was Liangshan's territory, as soon as he received the letter, he immediately made arrangements. It's amazing to say that, The group was divided into several groups, and they had strong opinions among themselves and no one wanted to obey anyone. Except for the old man and the middle-aged man who looked majestic, it was really hard to tell who was the leader of the group. However, Once the organization made any arrangements, they didn't see any actions, but everyone knew it. At that time, it seemed to Shi Qian that they were connected with each other, and it was what the people here were thinking. No need to speak, the people over there seemed to understand each other.
However, according to Shi Qian later, the reason why they conveyed the news at such an almost terrifying speed was because they had a specially trained sparrow. As long as the people here wrote the letters to be conveyed in small letters, paper, and then tie it to the sparrow's leg. Then, open the cage and let the sparrow out. They will naturally fly to the designated place in the shortest time. There are people on each side who are responsible for receiving sparrow intelligence. They will send the intelligence After collecting it, according to Shi Qian's saying, after feeding the sparrow with a red rice grain, the sparrow flew back to its original place like a sensible person.
Everyone in Liangshan watched the mysterious organization meet in a fixed teahouse every day. In fact, it was deliberately staged by the mysterious organization for others to see. Representatives of all parties said that what they discussed there were only content that was innocuous to the overall situation, and the actual actions were taken. Instructions and confidential discussions were all exchanged through the Sparrow Intelligence Bank. In those days, the mysterious organization used such a message transmission method to deceive all the people in Liangshan, and the people in Liangshan scattered around were also because of This was a big loss. After all, people relied on two legs to transmit messages. No matter in terms of confidentiality, concealment or transmission speed, they were far from the opponents of those sparrows.
And before everyone in Liangshan had completely passed on the news, the mysterious organization had already gathered in various departments, and they turned around and stared at every move of the people around them as quickly as possible. If they saw something fishy, they would remember it in their hearts. , the last act suddenly broke out, killing Liangshan's secret sentry troops by surprise. In addition to West Street, there were several fights, but West Street was the most brutal place of fighting.
In the eyes of the government, all this was naturally a vicious fight between unscrupulous people due to the conflict of business interests. In addition, it happened that the Zang and Chao families were fighting to the death at a critical point. Master Wu was extremely worried. It was his own power that affected the final change along with the power of the two major families. He also wanted to make the most of the "fisherman's profit" in this flood. If his own interests were not harmed, he had no time to divert his attention. He did not care about disputes over other people's interests, so he did not go to court to investigate the case the next day. Instead, he still took Wei Dutou and a large number of servants to go hunting in Shijie Village. Lei was actually sent to investigate the case. Heng and Zhu Tong had less than five troops, including themselves. To be honest, they couldn't even find out if they were flattering. They saw that their parents and officials above had such a people-oriented attitude, so naturally they had The handling attitude of "the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked" simply goes through the motions, naming it a conflict of interest, and a group fight between unruly people is considered to be closed. However, in fact, it is a conflagration between two organizations with their own power.
After this tough battle, according to Shi Qian, Liangshan suffered heavy losses. Almost all the secret sentries in Yuncheng County were caught, either dead or injured. In the end, those who were able to escape back to Liangshan unharmed Almost very few.
Now, Shi Jin is riding a horse on the road of West Street, and he can still see dark red blood stains in the gaps between some stone slabs. Although those traces that have not been washed away are just the tip of the iceberg, they are enough to see that Shi Jin looked at the brutal sun, and suddenly felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. This feeling was very subtle, so subtle that it seemed as if he was just one step away from the prophet, but it was just such a vague shadow. , Shi Jin wanted to think more clearly, but he couldn't make any breakthrough. Just when Shi Jin was thinking, he unknowingly arrived at the West Street Teahouse.
Shi Jin handed the reins to the waiter, who naturally led him to the back of the teahouse to keep an eye on him, while he walked straight in with a leisurely attitude. The teahouse was not big, with two floors of duplex buildings. Go up the stairs behind the main hall, the 'pier', and you will find a place that is more open than the ground floor, with windows on two sides and seven or eight square tables inside.
Because of the incident that day, there were fewer people on the street, but more people came to the teahouse. After all, this was a good topic after dinner. Several people gathered around and talked, each talking about what he had experienced that day. See, express your feelings. If you meet an insider and reveal some little inside information, it will make these idlers even more excited. In this noisy teahouse, Shi Jin walked around several crowded circles. He came to a square table by the window, bowed very formally, and said: "This teahouse is not a big place, I wonder if I can borrow a seat here,"
The man sitting on the square table was wearing a bamboo hat. He gently put down the tea cup that was brought to his mouth. He raised the brim of his hat slightly, and a pair of smiling eyes cut through the brim of the hat and fell on Shi Jin's face. The bamboo hat fell on Shi Jin's face. Then a voice that seemed emotionless and unhappy came: "Sit down,"
That person is Qin Dong.
Shi Jin ordered a pot of tea, and while drinking it, he observed the people around him. Seeing that no one in particular was watching, he felt relieved, picked up the tea cup, covered his mouth, and lowered his head. He said solemnly: "Now there are 100,000 pieces of silver to be sent to the prefect above. Do you know this news? Has Zang Hanzhong heard about it?"
Qin Dong lowered his head and the bamboo hat naturally covered his face. Qin Dong lowered his voice and said in a weak voice that only Shi Jin could hear: "Everyone in the Zang family knows it, and Zang Hanzhong also knows it."
"Thanks to your help the past few times, I was able to do things smoothly. This time I have to trouble my brother a little bit,"
"Brother, if you say it doesn't matter, I will naturally do it, little brother."
Shi Jin took a sip of tea and continued: "If you encourage the Zang family to be interested in this hundred thousand silver, then you are done."
Qin Dong was silent and asked in a low voice: "What can I do?"
"Go to Zang Ao and persuade him. As long as Zang Ao is tempted, the Zang family will take action. At that time, we can completely overthrow the Zang family. At that time, we brothers will be together, how can we not be happy?"
Qin Dong stopped talking, took the last sip of tea, put down the cup and saucer, counted the money, got up and left.
On Qin Dong's table, the words "tea" were left, which fell into Shi Jin's eyes.