Chapter 12: The Cunning One Geng Someone
The sun is blue and blue, and the goshawks pass by the clouds and let out a long roar. Below, among the mountains, the farmer works in a mu of fields. Occasionally, he stands up and wipes away the sweat from his face, scolds the children running around by the fields, and in his eyes, four people walk in front and behind the road from the mansion.
Three of them looked familiar. The first two were Mr. Liu's confidant, and the next one was whispering to a young man who was seventeen or eighteen years old and dark-skinned. You can often see such a scene, but you don't care too much. You bent down and continue to pull out weeds and throw them away from the ridges of the field, so that your children can pick them up and pile them up one by one.
Four figures coming from the other side of the road were watching the two Liu family guards walking in front blinking at Geng Qing, winking, and speaking in a low voice.
“…When will that share be given to me?”
"Don't worry, when you arrive in the town later, I will change hands with them and take out some for you first. If it is not enough, then make up for it."
"OK."
There was nodding in understanding, and his pace accelerated a little. When he walked forward to talk to the two guards, Geng Qing followed behind without saying anything. He looked at the three backs quietly, thinking quickly how to turn to the county town later, otherwise he would go back like this and be beaten to death by the villagers who knew about it.
Soon, when they returned to the town, they were chatting and joking all the way, asking the two guards to his house to have a cup of tea before going to Gengjia Village. The two of them naturally did not dare. Although they were Mr. Liu, they were at least considered as the figures of Niu Jiaji. How could they come to the door to have tea? After refusing, they urged Geng Qing to lead the way.
"There is still a long way to go. It's better to let the young man take the burden first. How about changing hands when he is tired in the middle?" Geng Qing looked at the bag on the shoulder of a ward, as if he was worried that the sixty taels would be taken away by him. The two wards probably understood this mentality of never seeing the world. They smiled at each other and gave the bag to the young man. Anyway, they had to follow along the way, and were afraid that a thin mountain man would run away.
"Geng Qing."
On the other side, Li Zheng saw him get the bag. According to what the two had discussed quietly just now, he called him. Geng Qing accused the two guards on the other side: "You two are waiting for a while, Li Zheng may have something to do to find a small one, and go back."
"Go and go, hurry up!"
The two of them knew that Wang Li was getting close to their master, so they naturally didn't think much about it. Then they saw the young man trotting into the house.
In the room, Geng Qing grabbed two ingots of silver from the bag, with ten pieces of it, and grabbed it without any trace and stuffed it into his sleeve.
There was a compliment in his eyes: "Yes, afterwards, you thought of having a free time at Mr. Liu's house, and I'll plead for you. Go, hurry back to the village and make the matter come true."
"I thank you for helping me, so I'll say goodbye first."
Two guards who had been waiting outside for a while, were about to go over to urge him, but saw the young man rushing out with a bag. Before he could speak, he started talking first, his tone was a little quick.
"The two have been waiting for a long time. They just entered the house. They were telling me that it was still early to go to the city to buy some good rouge powder."
"This..." The two guards were in a dilemma. It was a job to send Geng Qing back to Gengjia Village all the way, but Li Zheng had a good relationship with Mr. Liu, and in many cases, he had to ask this Li Zheng to have some relationship. If the two offended someone, even if they were close friends, they would not be able to afford to be guilty.
Seeing that the two of them were hesitant, Geng Qing quickly struck while the iron was hot, took out the remaining dozen pieces from his belt, and stuffed them into their hands.
"It's still early now, and it's enough to go back and forth. Even if it's too late to go back to Mr. Liu, they will be the two who are loyal and not careless at all... Besides..."
The long sounds that were drawn out of the last two characters were like a confusing voice: "What's more, no one else knows it."
The two of them hesitated for a moment, looked at each other and took the copper coins they had. They followed Geng Qing to Feihu County first. They dared to agree, and naturally they were not afraid of the other party escaping.
Looking at Geng Qing walking in front of him, he rubbed the copper coins in his belt.
"If he dares to run away, the Golden Knife Gang and the Master in the city will have a friendship. If he asks them to help search, are he afraid that he will run out of the city?"
"They are all heroes in the world, and only those who can run away will be ghosts."
"We have done two things in a day, and we have shown our faces in front of the master, haha!"
Geng Qing vaguely listened to the words coming from behind. He had thought about the relationship between the Golden Dao Gang and the rich man Liu before. How could the wealthy family not get involved in this relationship? Otherwise, how could they gather wealth without being taken away?
As soon as noon, the three of them arrived in Feihu County, and they were still coming and going as they had been before. There were fewer vendors weaving mats and footwear, which seemed a little bleak. However, there were a lot of constables patrolling along the street. There were under the small flag of the Golden Knife Gang hanging on the street. People in the Jianghu holding swords were squatting nearby, silent, or vigilantly staring at the figures entering and leaving the city gates.
Geng Qing vaguely felt that it should be related to the previous assassin, and then he thought of the female assassin, whether he was still lurking in the dark and waiting for the opportunity.
‘It would be great if I could meet it again. It was so enviable.’
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" "The man in front stopped and turned around and let me compare and draw the shape!"
Far away, the street ahead was full of chaos. With a few loud shouts, four or five Green Forest people holding weapons caused a riot. The short and fat man wearing a one-eyed blindfold grabbed one person, broke the other's face over, compared it with several portraits in his hand one by one, and then kicked the man to the ground and spit out a mouthful of saliva.
"I don't look like it, so why are you shaking in front of me? I'll delay my reward!"
On this side, Geng Qing looked at him curiously for a while, and the two guards next to him poked him in the waist: "Hurry up and buy the rouge you are looking for, and you will go back to your village!"
"Know, know."
Geng Qing smiled and nodded repeatedly. Yu Guangli, the golden sword in front of him helped the tourists come over. He turned around and suddenly pointed to a shop next to him.
"Look, isn't that?!"
The two guards looked in the direction they pointed, but before they could see what was written on the plaque, one of them was hit by the stall next to them with a 'Ouch', and the other hurriedly helped them. Geng Qing took two steps back and pointed at the two people who were smashing on the stall and shouted.
"Catch the assassin! The assassin who assassinated the county lieutenant the day before yesterday is here!" "It's the two of them there!"
The two guards were stunned. The people passing by the city were staring at the two of them tightly. In less than two breaths, they turned around and ran away, shouting.
"Where is the assassin?!"
The golden knife, who heard the word "assassin" in the distance, helped the Jianghu people rush here with a knife like chicken blood. Someone nearby hurriedly raised his finger to the two guards in the stall, who were stunned.
"It's them!"
Seeing a group of vicious and vicious big men surrounding the rivers and lakes, the two guards came to their senses and their hair stood up. They were so scared that their blood faded from their faces and waved their hands quickly.
"No...he's talking nonsense, we're not!"
"No? That head is stretched over!"
The man in the martial arts world holding the portrait pulled the two of them in front of him without saying a word. After comparing the portrait, he found that it was not like a person. He cursed his mother: "Is it not an assassin, why are you calling out!?"
He asked his subordinates to press them on the ground, punched and kicked them, and then turned to the next street.
Ouch...Ouch...Hello...
The two of them had a bruised nose and swollen face. They struggled from the ground with their waists. They were moaning with their mouths. When they remembered Geng Qing, there was no other shadow over there. They realized that they had been fooled. They couldn't care about the pain all over their bodies and cursed angrily: "This cunning thing!"
Immediately, they limped and supported each other along the street to search for each other.
And Fang Street, which is not far away.
Amid the bustling noise, the cunning man Geng Qing walked on the bustling street with a bag, asking about the location of the county government office from others, then speeding up and following the guided address, he found the location of the county government office.
The yamen runner holding a stick of water and fire at the door naturally refused to let him in, and waved his hand to drive him away: "Leave quickly, no lawsuits are allowed in the yamen."
"This eldest brother, I am from Gengjia Village, Niujiaji. I want to see the county magistrate if I have something to do."
Two officers at the door looked up and down at him in a shabby coarse linen, "You?"
Just as he was about to laugh out loud, he drove the people with a stick, Geng Qing quickly opened the bag, revealing a gap, and a snow-white flashed out in the sky, reflecting into the eyes of the two yamen runners.
"Can you enter now?"
The two of them didn't say anything, put away their sticks, waved their other hand quietly inside, and turned their heads to look in other directions of the street, as if they didn't see the young man swaying in from them.
Chapter completed!