The yellow-faced boy's expression remained unchanged. He reached out to take the note, opened it and looked at it for a few times, then rubbed it with both hands and threw it into the brazier next to it.
"The situation laid out by Yongli City, Wang and Feng have already fallen into the trap." The yellow-faced boy said calmly.
The three people in front of him were slightly moved when they heard this. Among them, the handsome young man was the first to lose his composure and raised his hands and said: "The Lord has a wonderful plan. Our Jinding Chamber of Commerce will control the business world of Yongli City and it is just around the corner!"
Before the yellow-faced boy could speak, the middle-aged scholar on the side smiled and said: "Lu Hongfei, you care so much about Yongli City, do you have a crush on a girl from some family?"
The well-dressed young man known as Lu Hongfei snorted and said with slight dissatisfaction: "Lu has never thought about personal matters since he returned to the Lord three years ago. His life has been entrusted to the Lord.
How can you have any private thoughts?"
The yellow-faced boy took a sip of ginger soup and said with a faint smile: "Zhou Wen is always fond of teasing. It's not the first time you've been teased by him. Why do you take it so seriously every time?"
Lu Hongfei's expression improved after hearing this, but he still glanced aside, not looking at the scholar with the feather fan.
At this time, the old man with white hair and droopy eyes sitting in the middle suddenly opened his eyelids and said: "The Wang and Feng families have nothing to fear, Yongli City will be within their grasp sooner or later.
, it’s just that when all the leaders and I are out this time, there will definitely be an emptiness within the Chamber of Commerce, which may give others an opportunity to take advantage of it!”
The yellow-faced boy smiled slightly and asked, "Mr. Weng is worried about the Lord of Changping City?"
The white-haired old man said calmly: "Wei Shaogong, the lord of Changping City, is extremely ambitious. He is not willing to be the lord of a city. Over the years, he has secretly raised a large number of soldiers and even got involved in the business world. If the emperor of the Liu family hadn't been there, he would have been the first to stir up trouble.
He is the one making waves! The foundation of our Jinding Chamber of Commerce is in Nanping City, and Nanping is not far from Changping. If Wei Shaogong knows that we are leaving, he will definitely take action!"
The yellow-faced boy nodded and said: "Everything that Mr. Weng analyzed makes sense. Although our Jinding Chamber of Commerce has risen strongly in recent years, the development time is too short and the foundation is somewhat shallow. Wei Shaogong has been sitting in one city for decades.
For a long time, the forces that have been secretly developed are not easy. It would be fine if I still sit in Nanping, but once the news of my absence in Nanping is leaked, this person will inevitably set a trap for our Chamber of Commerce in secret, and it will be impossible to guard against it!"
When Mr. Weng heard this, he couldn't help but raise his head and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Do you still want it?"
The yellow-faced boy smiled slightly and said: "Our chamber of commerce involves too many industries. Since we can't guard against it, it's better to take the initiative. I have sent people to secretly collect evidence that Wei Shaogong supports his troops and respects himself. I will launch an attack soon. Wei Shaogong will not be able to protect himself by then, so what?"
Will you have time to take care of us?"
Mr. Weng frowned when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Wei Shaogong is a bold and careful person, and rarely leaves clues when doing things. That's why we learned something fishy because of our mental arithmetic. I'm afraid that the evidence you collected
Isn’t that enough to convict?”
The yellow-faced boy nodded and said: "It's not enough to convict, but it's enough to make people suspicious!"
He paused, lowered his voice again, and said a shocking sentence: "Mr. Weng, you don't know something. My father is actually seriously ill and has no more than two years to live!"
"What!"
The faces of the three people in the field changed drastically. Even Mr. Weng, who had been half-squinting his eyes, now widened his eyes with an expression of disbelief.
"Is this true?"
The three of them asked almost in unison.
The yellow-faced boy nodded silently and said solemnly:
"I have an informant in the palace. This statement is absolutely true! My father has been in power for decades, and Long is very powerful. Now the battle for the throne is within the capital. As long as my father nods, that person will be the next Yue.
The Emperor of the Kingdom. We have no time to plan outside. The reason why we collect evidence of Wei Shaogong's rebellion is because we don't expect to defeat him. We just hope to stop him and buy time for our trip to the capital."
After listening to the words of the yellow-faced boy, the old man nodded with some regret and said: "Indeed, if our trip fails, we will naturally be doomed, and it will be useless to ask for Nanping's wealth! But if our trip succeeds,
, in the future, even a mere Wei Shaogong will not be looked down upon by us!"
Zhou Wen was also shaking his folding fan at this moment and sighed softly: "My lord didn't want to say much before. We thought that this trip was to prepare for a rainy day and plan in advance, but we didn't expect that this trip to the capital was actually a chess game.
The winner is the winner."
The yellow-faced boy smiled slightly and was about to say something else, but suddenly a scream came from outside the camp.
Everyone's expressions changed slightly. Lu Hongfei, a young man in well-dressed clothes, reacted the fastest. He grabbed the sword on the ground and jumped out of the tent.
Holding a long sword in his hand, he looked up and saw that the guards outside the tent were all standing ready at the moment. They formed a semi-arc formation to protect the tent and the merchants behind them. In the distance, there were figures in the bamboo forest.
Someone is watching in the dark.
"what happened?"
Lu Hongfei raised his eyebrows and shouted.
A guard dressed as a leader bowed forward and replied in a deep voice: "Lu Dutong, we seem to have been surrounded. Just now Xiao Li wanted to come forward to negotiate, but he was shot directly through the chest."
While the guard was talking, someone had already carried Xiao Li over. Lu Hongfei looked down and saw that the young guard's eyes were wide open, his mouth was bleeding, and there was actually a bloody severed hand stuck in his chest!
Lu Hongfei's pupils shrank, feeling a vague sense of crisis.
Even though there are ruthless mountain bandits in the world, I have never heard of anyone who likes to use severed limbs as hidden weapons. Moreover, this severed hand is so powerful that it actually penetrated Xiao Li's protective armor.
Somewhat appalling.
"Listen to my order, everyone is on alert, and protect the camp!"
After Lu Hongfei said this, he took out the long sword in his hand and shouted loudly: "Which brother is this from the forest? Can you show up to see me?"
"Jie Jie."
A sinister laugh came out, and someone was heard saying secretly: "Boy, you want to see me, but you are not qualified yet. You need to pass the test of my subordinates first!"
As soon as the man in the dark finished speaking, a bell rang, and then more than ten strong men in ragged clothes walked out of the bamboo forest.
Lu Hongfei's eyes just glanced, and his hair stood on end.
I saw that there was not a single piece of good flesh on these people's bodies. In some places, they were covered with pustules, and even poisonous insects were crawling in and out of their bodies. Some even had their heads tilted, hanging on their shoulders, but they could still walk freely, as if they were completely unconscious.
generally.
"What are these!"
Even though Lu Hongfei was arrogant and arrogant, the corners of his mouth could not help but become dry and his expression became nervous at this moment.