() The north wind blows whistlingly, but it basically does not affect the col of a mountain east of the capital. This col is not visible from the outside, is leeward, and is not easy to find, so it has become a gathering place for horse thieves in this area.
The one who occupies this place now is the more famous "Zie Po Tian" horse thieves gang in this area. They dare to do business under the emperor's feet. They are so courageous that they are nicknamed "Zie Po Tian" by their colleagues.
At its peak, this gang of horse thieves had about forty or fifty people. They were ruthless and ruthless. If they didn't rob something they were unsure of, they wouldn't leave any survivors alive. However, the number of robberies wasn't many, so several encirclement and suppression campaigns by the local government were unsuccessful.
There is no trace of them.
Later, because they grabbed someone they couldn't mess with, they paid a lot of money to set up a trap to lure them, and finally surrounded them. However, they broke through the Beijing camp defense area where they assisted in the arrest, leaving only a dozen corpses.
After that, this group of horse thieves could no longer be caught. It was like they had turned into dogs. They had very sharp noses and disappeared when they were in danger. They would come out again when there was no danger. The government could no longer do anything to them.
The "Breaking the Sky" horse thieves gang is currently drinking wine and eating meat in their den in the mountain col, while cursing the Tatars. It is precisely because the Tatars have been wreaking havoc in the past few months, which has seriously affected their business.
I was used to spending a lot of money, and suddenly my income was gone, and I felt very strapped. Of course, I was very unhappy.
This group of horse thieves was very careful. Even in such a cold weather, there was no wind at the top of the mountain.
The man was curled up and counting the time for his changing of the guard when he suddenly noticed a carriage approaching in the distance. Since it was too far away, he couldn't see the situation clearly, so he didn't call the police.
After a while, I finally saw clearly that there was only a carriage and two knights. I quickly turned around to a nearby depression, threw a stone that I had prepared long ago, and after a while, I heard
There was a crisp iron sound "ding" below.
Then he continued to stare into the distance, and when he got closer, he finally saw clearly. There was a red and white flag on the carriage. He spat out and cursed: "It's freezing cold, that bastard
It's okay to come here to disturb you."
After he finished cursing, he turned around and threw two stones in succession to the alcove, then ignored the approaching carriage.
The people at the mountain col also scolded each other. Isn't it funny to be surprised? Most people ignored it and continued to drink and eat meat. Only one horse thief came out of the house under the command of the leader and rode out of the col.
After the horse thief got closer to the carriage, he saw clearly the face of a thin knight following the carriage. He was startled and quickly stepped forward with a charming smile: "What kind of wind brought you here?"
This person was Liang Biao. He did not respond to the horse thief, but just ordered: "Go and inform Mo Da that I have arrived and I have something to explain. Let him go to the meeting hall."
Then he went to a lonely large house in the col by familiar means, got off his horse, and went in by himself. The carriage and another knight were guarding outside.
As a burst of footsteps came closer and closer, the door of the conference hall was quickly pushed open, and a voice came in with the sound of the door opening, with a hint of affection and flattery: "Brother Liang has something to say.
You can just call our third brother in the capital, but Brother Liang should come in person."
Liang Biao looked at the man in front of him who was about the same height as him and said: "The stakes are very important this time. You need to kill someone. There is a bounty of eight thousand, and there are four thousand outside. You can count it yourself. The old rule is that after the thing is done,
Pay the other half." Good guy, you open and close your mouth and steal two thousand taels of silver.
When Mo Da heard this, he felt sleepy on his pillow. When he was worried about money, the deal came to his door.
However, the reward money is much higher than usual, and the idea should be more difficult, but there is no job in the world that I don't dare to take.
"No problem, it's just that Brother Liang needs to explain the specific situation in detail." Mo Da still does things well.
"The other party has a title. The newly named Earl of Zhongxing has brought two people from Dongchang to Tongzhou. I want you to kill them on their way back to the capital. The Earl of Zhongxing must die!"
Mo Dacai doesn't care what official the other party is. Even the emperor dares to stroke the tiger's beard. There are only three people in the other party, so they can't catch him easily.
"When will you return to the capital?" Mo Da continued to ask.
"He will definitely come back before the twenty-ninth day. You have to wait on the road. I will go with you this time to confirm that he will die."
Mo Da was a little dissatisfied. How could he doubt the ability and credibility of "Potian"? But although he didn't know the saying that customers are God, he still knew that Liang Biao couldn't offend him. He agreed immediately and immediately went to arrange a group of people.
Brothers set off to avoid the idea of ​​returning to the capital before they arrived.
Mo Da appointed twenty-six brothers, one with two horses, and went to do business with Liang Biao.
Twenty-eight people are enough to deal with three people.
On the morning of December 28, the second year of Chongzhen, everyone in the Yan family, including the three guests, got up early.
After breakfast, we packed up and got ready to set off.
In fact, there was nothing to pack. Yan Yingyuan only wanted to show off to Lu Xiangsheng, so he brought his own bow, arrows and spear. After all, his things were handy. There was nothing else, except that he still needed a horse. He already had a horse.
Yes, it was later confiscated by the government.
This matter is not a problem at all for Gu Baichuan. His identity is better than that of Zhong Jinwei's earl. He went directly to Yang Guodong in Tongzhou Military Camp to borrow a good horse for Yan Yingyuan to ride. As for when to return it, it depends on whether he can still remember it.
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After everything was packed up, it was already 3:30 (8:30 in the morning), so I stopped talking and got ready to set off.
Without thinking, Archi weighed a baggage and gave it to Zhong Jinwei. As Zhong Jinwei took it over, he thought: Are they shortbread, big cakes, sesame cakes, and Wudalang cakes for the road? Didn't my brother-in-law have a package of dry food?
After holding it in his hand, he squeezed it and realized that he had missed it. It seemed to be a book, quite thick. Zhong Jinwei looked at Archie in surprise.
Archi knew what question Zhong Jinwei wanted to ask him next, so he said directly: "Master, the book inside is "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms". My family bought it yesterday and spent the whole night annotating it with the punctuation marks taught by Master.
Master, you can take a look at it if you have nothing to do. However, there is not enough time, so I only marked more than half of the points." Archie felt a little regretful.
No wonder Archie didn't greet him in the morning. He thought he was sad about the breakup, but he didn't think he was taking the time to mark "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Zhong Jinwei looked at Archie with red eyes but a smile on his face. He couldn't help but feel moved, and promised Archie: "I will take a good look at it. I will mark out the unfinished pieces and pass them on to my son for later viewing."
If you can really mark everything, then it will not be difficult to segment ancient articles.
Archi blushed slightly after hearing this, and gently said to Zhong Jinwei: "Master, take care!"
Zhong Jinwei nodded, tied the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to his chest, and then patted the book on his chest with his right hand: "In my heart."
Archie understood that Zhong Jinwei's story of keeping it in his heart actually meant that he kept this friendship in his heart. When he got excited, he whispered in a voice that Zhong Jinwei could hear: "I love you!"
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he really wanted to kiss Archie. Unfortunately, there were people around him and he didn't dare to be so deviant, so he had to kiss Archie quickly with his mouth.
No matter how reluctant he was to leave, the time to set off would eventually come. Zhong Jinwei said goodbye to his mother-in-law, screwed up his nephew's little face, got on his horse, looked at Archie one last time, and set off.
Among these people, Zhong Jinwei took nothing with him. He held the reins with both hands and led the horse ahead.
Gu Baichuan and Wang Peng wore Dongchang's special knives on their waists. They held the reins in their right hands and the handles of the knives in their left hands, and followed Zhong Jinwei easily.
Yan Yingyuan hung a quiver on his back, a hard bow slung across his body, a long spear on the saddle, and an ordinary waist knife on his left waist. Like Gu Baichuan and Wang Peng, he held the reins in his right hand and the waist knife in his left hand, easily driving
The horse followed at the end. With Yan Yingyuan's slender figure and his upper body standing erect on the horse, he looked the most handsome.
When I walked out of the alley, the neighbors cheered from behind: "The great man of the Yan family is mighty..."
Yan Yingyuan did not look back after hearing this, but secretly said in his heart: "We must earn some merit!"
After leaving the south gate of Tongzhou, the cold wind was even more biting. However, the four people in this group were all strong-blooded people, but they were not afraid of the freezing weather.
There was no one on the official road, so Zhong Jinwei took advantage of it. He started to learn to ride a fast horse again. Riding a horse slowly and galloping is not interesting, but running can make people's blood boil and give them pleasure.