Wang Huaiqing drowsily took out his pocket watch from the seam of his coat, squinted at the time, and saw that it was already past eleven o'clock. www Then he looked at the situation in each box in the banquet hall, although there were still some guests there.
They were chatting and having a drink, but the elderly gentry and officials had already quietly left the table.
He glanced to the side and saw that Yuan Su, Wang Li and Tong, who had been accompanying him before, had disappeared at some point. However, his head was burning with alcohol at this moment, and he was too lazy to think about anything for a while.
, I just feel so tired that I can hardly open my eyes. It’s time to take a break.
"Everyone, it's getting late. It's time to disperse? Ah? It's time to disperse." Wang Huaiqing said to the guests who were still present while yawning.
At this time, the door of the banquet hall was pushed open, and Yuan Su staggered in, holding a jar of unopened wine in his hand. He happened to hear Wang Huaiqing's words when he entered, so he quickly walked back to the wine table.
In front of him, Dui smiled and said: "Mr. Wang, I just went out to get the wine and you are going to leave? It's rare to be happy today, so naturally I have to enjoy it to the end. Come on, come on, I have already ordered the kitchen to add more food, let's sit down
Come down and drink."
Wang Huaiqing quickly stopped and said in a declining tone: "Mr. Yuan, you are too polite. We have a long time to come. I have already had a lot of fun today. If I drink any more, I will be unconscious."
Yuan Su smiled and said: "Master Wang has a lot of energy, how can he say he is drunk? Come on, come on, I will drink again later."
Wang Huaiqing was really afraid of Yuan Su's attentiveness, so he continued to say: "Tomorrow, I'll drink tomorrow. I'm really tired today. Let's go, let's go." As he said this, he staggered around.
Walked outside the house.
Yuan Su put down the wine jar in his hand and followed up to help Wang Huaiqing. The other guests finally gave up when they saw the two hosts. They all hurriedly got up and left as if they had received an amnesty. They continued eating and drinking from seven o'clock to eleven o'clock.
, this is really not an easy thing, no matter how interested you are, you will have exhausted it long ago.
After leaving the main banquet hall, two officers from the patrol battalion who were still awake hurriedly greeted them. Wang Huaiqing was in a daze and did not pay attention to the situation of his subordinates. Until he walked out of the main gate of Tingfeng Xiaozhu, he realized that the soldiers guarding outside were not
Staggering around or sleeping at the desk, only a dozen or so people can still stand.
"Hey...what's going on? Where are the others?" Wang Huaiqing asked.
"Come back, sir, the others are in the yard, drinking...drunk." An officer replied tremblingly.
"His grandma, what did I tell you before?" Wang Huaiqing reprimanded feebly. He was too sleepy now. Not only did he not have the mind to lose his temper, he also had no energy to lose his temper.
"Master Wang, forget it," Yuan Su, who had been supporting Wang Huaiqing, said consolingly, "Brothers have been here all afternoon, and we just had a few drinks. It doesn't matter, it's all trivial. I will send someone to deal with it later.
They have all been sent to the barracks in the north to be settled properly. For now, it is better to send Mr. Wang to the Consultative Bureau Hall to rest."
"That's all, I'll settle the score with these bastards tomorrow." Wang Huaiqing waved his hand and said, without thinking much, he just let Yuan Su help him get into a carriage.
On the way to the Consultative Bureau Hall, Wang Huaiqing had already fallen asleep. After arriving at the hall, Yuan Su ordered the attendants of the hall to send Wang Huaiqing to a room that had been arranged to rest. As for the officers of the patrol camp and those who followed him,
The personal guards who came with him naturally followed Wang Huaiqing into the guild hall.
After taking care of everything here, Yuan Su got back on the carriage and returned to Tingfeng Xiaozhu. Sitting in the carriage compartment, he had recovered from his previous drunken state, and a cold face could be vaguely seen in the darkness.
When he returned to Tingfeng Xiaozhu again, Sun Lianzhong had already arrived here with two teams from the first battalion of the security regiment. The soldiers of the security regiment were following the order and first sent the soldiers from the patrol battalion in front of the hotel to the north of the city.
Although the soldiers were extremely drunk, only a few were truly unconscious. The rest could barely walk. They were greeted by soldiers from the security regiment and helped in twos and threes as they headed north.
Chen Wenian and Guo Wenyuan stood behind the threshold of the main gate, talking quietly to Sun Lianzhong himself. After they saw Yuan Su's carriage approaching, they hurriedly came forward to greet him.
Yuan Su got off the carriage and asked directly: "How is the arrangement going?"
Chen Wennian nodded sternly and said, "Everything has been arranged."
Sun Lianzhong also added: "The brothers in the first battalion are collecting their guns. These guys are drinking like a puddle of mud. Not to mention that they can't hold the guns, they can't even use their own legs."
Yuan Su nodded slightly and said, "Very good, everything went smoothly. Now we just have to wait for the results from Lao Zhao."
After a pause, Chen Wennian asked seriously: "Zi Jing, since we have taken this step, there is no turning back, so you must be sure to explain clearly to the superiors."
Yuan Su pretended to be calm and said: "Brother Gongtai, don't worry, as long as no one is killed tonight, I still have some confidence that I can handle this matter. After Wang Huaiqing gets out, there will be no one to send in the short term.
We can handle it."
Chen Wennian took a deep breath and said, "I hope it will be as you said."
After waiting for a while, Yuan Su took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and said as if talking to himself: "It's past midnight, and Lao Zhao should be arriving in Changli soon."
At one o'clock in the morning, at the south gate of Changli County, most of the soldiers on night watch were either hiding in the corner and taking a nap, or going directly back to their barracks to sleep. Only seven or eight people were still on duty on the entire city tower.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came from the official road in the distance, accompanied by the shouts of horsemen one after another in the darkness.
The soldiers on the city tower managed to cheer up, and everyone gathered near the battlements, looking ahead intently.
"It's so late, where did he come from?"
While everyone was wondering, the sound of horse hoofbeats was getting closer and closer. Through the light of the fire on the tower, one could vaguely see that fifty or sixty horsemen were galloping towards us. After a while, even the clothes of the horsemen were gone.
I could barely see clearly, and it seemed that they were the new military uniforms that had just been issued to the patrol battalion.
"Could it be that Lord Wang sent someone back overnight?"
"It's so late, could something happen in Luanzhou?"
The cavalry gradually slowed down, and before they could get closer to the city gate, the leader had already started shouting.
"Open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly!"
The night patrol soldiers on the city tower were at a loss for a while, and some people hurriedly ran down the tower to wake up others. After a while, all the soldiers in the patrol battalion stationed at the south city gate woke up. An officer on duty was wearing a
He put on his clothes and rushed to the top of the city tower. When more and more people rushed up to the city tower, the group of cavalry had just arrived and stopped in front of the city gate.
"Who is under the city?" The officer on duty came to the battlements, bent over and looked down.
"Fuck you, I'm Sun Desheng. Hurry up and open the city gate, something big has happened!" A knight from the city came up and answered to the top of the city tower, cursing.