"Shaodong's house, Shaodong's house," Qin Dong came over quickly and stopped Zang Ao who was about to go out.
When Zang Ao saw that his capable general was coming over in such a hurry, he thought something big had happened again. His face suddenly darkened and he said, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Qin Dong quickly waved his hand and said: "No, no, there is a life-saving and life-saving news."
"Oh, life-saving and life-saving news," Zang Ao didn't quite understand what he heard, so he asked Qin Dong, "What's the news? Please tell me quickly."
Qin Dong lay in Zang Ao's ear and whispered: "Tomorrow, Mr. Wu will have a batch of official silver to be delivered to the prefect, including one hundred thousand coins."
"One hundred thousand official silver..." Zang Ao secretly turned around in his heart and whispered: "What do you mean?"
Qin Dong raised his face and looked at Zang Ao, smiling without saying a word.
Zang Ao patted Qin Dong on the shoulder and said, "Come on, come with me." With that, Zang Ao took Qin Dong straight to his father Zang Hanzhong's room.
At this time, Zang Hanzhong was sitting in front of the desk with his hands intertwined, sitting on the Taishi chair in a daze quietly. Zang Ao knocked on the door and took Qin Dong inside, and stood in front of his father.
"What's the matter?" Hearing Zang Hanzhong's tone, he was obviously exhausted and looked like he was declining in his old age.
However, at this moment, Zang Ao looked at Zang Hanzhong, his eyes slightly shining with excitement, and said: "Dad, just now Feiqin found out important news,"
Zang Hanzhong saw his son's excited look, so he raised his eyes to Qin Dong, then turned his gaze to Zang Ao's face, and asked slowly: "What news did you find out?"
"Heaven will never destroy Zang, Dad, Feiqin just inquired and found out that Wu Guan is going to escort one hundred thousand silver coins to the prefect tomorrow. You don't know this," Zang Ao said and looked at it very proudly. Qin Dong glanced at him.
Zang Hanzhong did not express his position. He still had a lonely look on his face. He rolled his eyes slowly, and then he slowly spoke and said unhurriedly: "I have heard about it."
"Ah," Zang Ao didn't believe it. How could he be the last to know about this news? Zang Ao approached his father and said, "Dad, you know why you didn't tell me earlier. This is a great opportunity. "Whether our family can turn over or not depends entirely on it,"
"What opportunity?" Zang Hanzhong said with an indescribable helplessness and sarcasm in his tone, "I can only think about it now."
"Dad, what's wrong with you? Opportunities come and go in a blink of an eye. If you keep cutting off, you will be disturbed." I see, you don't need to hesitate this time, just start. I'll bring more tomorrow The men and horses were robbed by him on the way, isn't it done?" As he said this, Zang Ao became more and more excited.
Zang Hanzhong frowned and had some thoughts in his mind, but what followed in his mind was the serious consequences of being vigilant. Zang Hanzhong shook his head slightly in contradiction and said: "These... these... these are all... It's Guanyin. If you suffer such a calamity, then our father and son will no longer be members of the Communist Party of China, but will become bandits. By then..."
Seeing that his father was starting to think about those things, Zang Ao couldn't help but hurriedly replied: "What's wrong with the official silver? They were all stolen from our house. If you snatch them back immediately, this is called returning the property to its original owner." What kind of bandit is not a bandit? According to what you say, he, Wu Gouguan, is the real bandit who brings harm to the whole township."
"Well, now you say that, but others don't say that. After all, he is the county magistrate. Whoever he says is a bandit is a bandit. When the time comes, the Chao family will get involved again, which will cause trouble for us. Distinguish,”
"We sent masked men to kill all the officers and soldiers escorting the car on the spot, robbed the money and then came back. We used the money to seal the mouths of the brothers. They killed people and divided their bodies. They are like grasshoppers on the same rope as us. , who dares to reveal a word, when the time comes, God knows and the earth knows that you know and I know, besides, who else knows," Qin Dong saw that the opportunity was good, and immediately added words of jealousy.
Zang Hanzhong lowered his head, thought for a moment, shook his hand slightly, and said: "No... no... no, we can't take this risk easily again. Have you ever thought about it, if this thing fails? It’s even worse. We have committed the crime of beheading. When the time comes, all the members of the family will be executed, and the Zang family will be completely destroyed.”
"Hey, dad, how can you think like this? We won't take risks, we will compromise, but what can we do in the end? Look at the Chao family's methods in these rounds, they are all laid out step by step. It's not just a simple fight back, it's a dangerous trick to silence us. What are they going to do? Isn't it just to kill all our Zang family? They won't let it go. Our land is gone and our money is gone. If the bankers If we break up again, then we will really lose both our lives and our wealth. Dad, the ancestral legacy that the Zang family has worked so hard for cannot be ruined like this. Rather than just sit back and wait for death, I think it would be better to kill him and take a gamble."
Zang Hanzhong pursed his lips tightly, and his sharp eyes like eagle eyes returned to their original glory. In that way, it seemed that he had made the greatest determination and all the decisions were in his mouth, but now he still There is a layer of hesitant damping behind the group that is not broken through.
Zang Ao was a little eager to know the answer, so he leaned closer to Zang Hanzhong and said, "Dad, how about it? This is the last chance, Dad."
Zang Hanzhong looked at Zang Ao and Qin Dong, took a deep breath and nodded fiercely.
A smile appeared on Zang Ao's face, but Zang Hanzhong said: "Feiqiao, you go down now and select seventy or eighty capable swordsmen." After he said this, he suddenly added: "Remember, Now, don’t let the news leak out, don’t tell them what you are going to do first,”
Qin Dong knew that Zang Hanzhong was deliberately sending him away, because what the father and son were going to talk about next was the specific matter of robbing the bank car. Of course he had to avoid it if it was such a sensitive matter. So, Zang Ao clasped his fists in response and closed the door. I quickly went to choose a swordsman.
As soon as Qin Dong left, Zang's father and son were the only two people left in the room. Zang Ao immediately came to his father's side. Zang Hanzhong also took out a silk map of Yuncheng County from the desk and spread it carefully. On the desk, Zang Hanzhong said quietly: "This is the map of Yuncheng County. You see, the government office has to transport official silver from here to the government office. It is inevitable to take this route. Let's analyze it step by step. , This is Huangshigang. Although it is sparsely populated, there is no place around to hide these 70 or 80 people, so we can't do anything here."
Zang Ao pointed to a place and said: "Dad, this Feilong Forest can be used to attack. There are not many people and there are woods where you can hide. It is the best place."
Zang Hanzhong stared at the place pointed by Zang Ao's fingertips, looked at it again and again, thought for a moment, and finally shook his head and said: "Although this place can hide you, it is not easy to do anything. The yamen's head catchers are not vegetarians. We rely on the large number of people, but after all, it is not a foolproof plan. We need a good location to have a better chance of winning. Besides, the dense forest here is 20 steps away from the roadside, waiting for you to kill it. Come on, the government has been prepared for a long time, but if it doesn’t work, you have to kill them by surprise."
Zang Ao knew that his father had suffered big losses at the hands of Chao Gai a few times before and was now becoming more cautious. And this matter indeed requires a complete plan to do it. There cannot be any mistakes, otherwise something will happen. That would really be a disaster like what his father said, a catastrophe, so Zang Ao didn't say anything anymore, but just looked at the map quietly, waiting for his father to analyze the reason.
Zang Hanzhong stared at the map carefully with his sharp old eyes. He pointed at a place with his hand and drew a circle with a circle on it. He thought about this place over and over again and calculated the situation of this place. Zang Hanzhong thought for a while and then said leisurely: "If you want to start, the only place is here."
Zang Ao looked over and saw that this place was called Baishawu.
"Baishawu, this place is far away from Yuncheng County and sparsely populated. On both sides of the official road, there are unexpected earthen mounds with meadows on them, where servants can be hidden. Wait...let me think about it..." Zang Hanzhong thought carefully for a moment, and then said slowly: "The way we're going to do it, you lead your men to ambush in the weed forests on both sides of the soil. When people from the government come, shoot a volley of arrows and kill them." He was caught off guard, and most of the people were killed or injured. Even if there were still people who could escape the rain of arrows, if you let people swoop down from both sides, this overwhelming force would definitely not allow the officials to fight back. Yes, yes, yes, that’s it,”
Zang Hanzhong raised his head and looked at Zang Ao with greedy eyes, smiled sadly, and said: "That's the only thing I can think of for you. There are so many things left. I can’t help you anymore…”
Zang Ao held Zang Hanzhong's old hand tightly and said: "Dad, this is enough. The rest is up to you. This time our Zang family is saved. When we get the money, Wu Gou The official will not be able to explain to his superiors. When the time comes, we will spend some money and the prefect's money to feed the master and take the opportunity to tell him what he is wrong about. This official Wu Gou's career is almost over. When the new official takes office, he will have to make up for these things. Silver, at that time, in addition to the common people, there was only one big family like Chao Gai who could be attacked. The heavy burden that fell on Chao Gai's shoulders must be enough for him to bear. We only need to wait for Chao Gai to bear it. When Gai left a flaw, he took the opportunity to fight back and destroyed him in one fell swoop," Zang Ao said and suddenly felt hope in his heart.
Zang Hanzhong did not speak, but fell silent at this moment, because this was destined to be another sleepless night.
"Dad, last time I sent them out to do things, they were not very efficient in doing things. This time I will personally take charge, and it will definitely go smoothly," Zang Ao said, "I'll go down and prepare first."
Zang Hanzhong glanced at his son's back, stretched out his hand to grab him, but slowly put it down. It wasn't until he saw Zang Ao's figure disappearing outside the door that he sighed. In fact, in his There was always an indescribable ominous premonition in his heart. He didn't want his son to do it himself. However, if he thought about it more carefully, if something happened, he could still find the Zang family by following the clues. He couldn't hide, so it would be better to let him Maybe my son will be more thoughtful if he goes there in person.
[Shijie Village Chaojiazhuang]
Just when the Zang family couldn't sleep all night, Chao Gai's room was brightly lit. Shi Jin, Wu Yong, the three Ruan brothers, and Chao Gai gathered around the map on the table and were talking about opening accounts in the gambling house. Later, when the business was going well, the boy came to report that there was a customer at the back door.
Everyone knew that Qin Dong must be here, so they quickly invited him in.
Sure enough, the person who came was Qin Dong. This time he had no time to take off his bamboo hat and said, "I have already completed everything Brother Shi told me. Zang Hanzhong and Zang Ao have selected more than seventy swordsmen. Now, they are all led by Zang Ao, but Zang Han is so cunning that he has not told us where to take action until now."
Shi Jin patted Qin Dong on the shoulder and said: "Well, if you can convince them to change their minds, that's the first step. We will take care of the rest. You must be extremely careful. The Zang family is almost at its end." , we must be on guard against him trapping the beast in a fight, be careful with yourself at all times, and don’t get angry when the last fight comes,”
Qin Dong responded with clasped fists.
Shi Jin hugged Qin Dong's strong shoulders with both hands and said, "It's been a while since I left Huayin County. When things are done here, I still need you to do me a big favor."
Qin Dong is a smart man, and Shi Jin will not easily mention such a sensitive word as "Huayin County" here. This mention must be related to it, and joining Shi Jin's gang is something Qin Dong has not yet done in prison. I had a wish when I came out. After hearing it, I couldn't be more excited, so I said: "Brother, just tell me,"
"I need you to go back to Huayin County. Are you still willing to join us now?"
"What the eldest brother said, when did the younger brother not want to,"
"That's good. Once things here are over, you can go back to Huayin County. Firstly, you can bring a message for me. Secondly, you can also be a leader and be with me at any time," Shi Jin said. Qin Dong immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you very much, brother."
"Get up quickly and get this thing done right now. Don't be rash and be cautious," Shi Jin just warned. Knowing that Qin Dong wouldn't stay for a long time, he quickly sent Qin Dong out through the back door.
When he came back, Wu Yong had spread out the map and placed it on the table. Shi Jin, Chao Gai and Wu Yong gathered around, looking at the map and pondering it.
Wu Yong seemed to have an idea. He moved his hand around Yuncheng County, pointed directly to a place, and said: "Look, this is called Baishawu. This is the only way to the state capital. But it is far away from Yuncheng County and sparsely populated. Moreover, there are meadows all around. If people can hide here, if I were them, I would choose here." After saying that, he looked up at Shi Jin. , waiting for Shi Jin to come up with an idea.
Shi Jin looked along the direction of Yuncheng County to the prefecture capital. He felt that Wu Yong's analysis was that he was a foreigner after all, and he was not familiar with the terrain here. So, he turned to Chao Gai and said: " Only Brother Chao knows about this place, so he still needs to make an idea."
After hearing this, Chao Gai nodded and said, "I see that Wu Xuexue's analysis is correct. This is a good place for robbery."