The process of "going up the mountain", or "entering the cave" was extremely smooth. Although Chef Fan's shop in Jiagu Market was open in an arrogant manner, one could guess at a glance that it was a road, and he originally wanted to use this road, but this cook
It was indeed a bit too thorough, but it made Zhang Xing and Qin Bao secretly alert.
However, along the way, I gradually relaxed my vigilance.
Without him, although the terrain along the way is dangerous, and there are obvious facilities such as fences and suspension bridges, almost everyone seen along the way is decadent. It is not that there are no capable people, but they are all coming and going in a hurry, and no one pays attention to these things.
It can be seen that the gathering of a large number of bandits in a short period of time caused some kind of low-intensity humanitarian disaster to occur in this area, thereby destroying part of the order here to a certain extent... This is very important to Zhang Xing and Qin Baolai, who have the purpose of fishing in troubled waters.
That said, of course it's huge good news.
But at the same time, a ridiculous fact is that although the serious Yang Shen Rebellion occurred at the beginning of this year and the huge loss of the Second Expedition to Dongyi, these did not significantly destroy the nearby government order, nor did they cause the autumn harvest grain shortage.
In other words, dozens of miles away from this den of thieves, there is a scene of peace and prosperity... The prosperity of the metasequoia forest is vividly visible, and the fleet moving slowly on the Huan River is also filled with food, money, silk and treasures.
Thinking about it this way, it seems to further prove the superiority of the rule of the Wei Dynasty.
However, not to mention Zhang Xing, even Qin Bao knew where these people came from. They were victims of military disasters during Yang Shen's rebellion, and then lost their property because of the imperial court's unwillingness to provide relief.
They were driven over and gathered here.
"Master Cao is kind-hearted and can't bear to see the poor around him." Zhang Xing walked all the way into the Immortal Cave and finally couldn't help but tell a joke... "So he asked the servants to drive away the poor. In the end, the poor were kicked out of the house.
I went to the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city and became a beggar..."
Qin Bao, who was carrying a big iron gun, obviously understood, but he lowered his head and said nothing.
I don't know if Chef Fan understood the meaning, but he obviously snorted twice.
"That person is Boss Zhang." After walking around for a few more times, he turned to a location and saw an open cave in the distance. There was a sky cave in the middle where the sun shined directly. There was a large stone slab surrounding it, and twenty or thirty people were sitting there.
A strong man, Chef Fan pointed at the leader from a distance. "With ten righteous cultivations... I also have seven or eight practitioners and four to five hundred idle men... I've said it first, if you cause trouble, it's best to wait for me.
If you go away and hold me by force, I may not be able to help you."
Zhang Xing stopped for a moment, squinted his eyes, and saw that the leader was tall, with a leopard skin spread on his seat. He had a prominent position. He was eating wine, but he turned back to look at him:
"Chef Fan, what is your cultivation level?"
"Me? I once had a foundation when I was young, and then I checked two or three pulses, and then I felt that it was hard and useless, so I changed my profession and became a cook." Chef Fan replied dully in front of him, and then asked another question.
."Master Zhang, what do you mean by asking this? Do you think I am trying to catch you?"
"Fifty taels of silver. I'll stop for you, Mr. Wu, who is informal, to stop Boss Zhang's confidants for me." Zhang Xing spoke casually. "Fifty taels of silver in half an hour, there is no better business in the world..."
Chef Fan was startled in front of him and immediately turned back.
"Why don't you ask the great master to come and stand for a quarter of an hour?" Without waiting for the other party to come back and see him, Zhang Xing immediately pushed the other party from behind. "If you don't stop the person, won't you gain weight in vain?
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Chef Fan stamped his feet in front and actually continued to move forward, while Zhang Xing only followed behind with his knife in hand.
"Boss Zhang." After walking a few steps and approaching the Tiandong, Chef Fan immediately walked up and called. "How are you eating recently?"
"Why are Da Fan here? You are asking, who is eating well these days?" The so-called boss Zhang asked, holding a wine glass. "We are all working hard day by day. When boss Zhou leads everyone to make a fortune, who else can
Eat well...Who are these two people? Are they new here? Did you tell me my rules?"
"Tell me." The fat cook approached and shouted. "I have brought two horses, and I am willing to donate one to the boss..."
Even though Zhang Xing and Qin Er had been mentally prepared and had other ideas, they couldn't help but look at each other and cursed secretly in their hearts.
Of course, it's just a curse in my heart.
"I've met Boss Zhang!" As Zhang Xing pouted, Qin Bao first greeted him with his hands in hand, his native accent authentic and full of energy. "Qin Er of Dengzhou Prefecture has come to serve!"
"I've met Boss Zhang." The echo of Qin Bao's greetings had not yet disappeared in the cave, and Zhang Xingfu handed over his hand again. "Zhang San from the North, the old road of Xu Dalang in Caozhou, come to surrender!"
After hearing this, the boss Zhang was startled for a moment, and then he laughed: "Okay! Okay! Okay! The two brothers are so generous and strong, and they know their origins... Now that we have arrived at the Immortal Cave, they are naturally my brothers...
… Come all over, come all over, let’s eat and drink together! Da Fan won’t entertain us anymore!”
Qin Bao and Zhang Xing looked at each other again, speechless to the extreme. Is this the thief chief who commands seven practitioners and hundreds of men?
I don’t expect to be as brilliant as Du Pozhen and Chen Ling, nor am I expected to be as capable as Qian Tang and Li Qingchen, but this form is really hard to accept... How come his origins are innocent? Have you seen Xu Dalang in Caozhou?
Is that possible if I give you a horse?
If you want to talk about pretending... in Mangdangshan's situation, two new members were suddenly brought in by an acquaintance. Who was he pretending to?
This person is most likely to be such a naughty person, but he is Chef Fan, who has been wandering around the market in Jiagu all year round, and is a truly shrewd person.
When he came to the front, Qin Bao put down his iron gun from a distance, and then the three of them honestly moved a stone and added a seat at the end of the table, which attracted a round of applause.
Then, first Chef Fan muttered a few nonsense words, and then Qin Bao spoke openly about his origin, family background, and cultivation, including his apprenticeship in the county under Dengzhou.
Zhang Xing took the opportunity to watch with cold eyes. He had already seen clearly that after Qin Bao laid out these approximate origins one by one, his matching local accent immediately made most of the people at the scene relax. But the two people from the East Territory,
He even started to take the initiative to make out.
Moreover, after Qin Bao suppressed one and said that he was a cultivator of seven righteous meridians, the boss Zhang became obviously uncomfortable. This was a good sign. Not only was this guy jealous, but he was afraid that he had no room for anyone.
amount.
Of course, some emotions are natural, but if you have to have these emotions as a boss, isn't it just asking for death?
After Qin Bao finished speaking, the atmosphere gradually improved. Although the boss Zhang was uncomfortable, he still sat still and only looked at Zhang Xing with his eyes, preparing to see this person's background again.
Zhang Xing simply drank a glass of wine and handed it to him: "Zhang Xing, the third in the family... was born in the north, joined the army in his early years, and escaped during the Second Conquest of Dongyi."
At this point, the boss Zhang became more and more uncomfortable, but the other person in the seat instead held up his hand: "Which army are the three brothers Zhang from?"
"The vanguard of the middle force of the Fifth Army on the North Road." Zhang Xing proudly handed over his hand.
"All the brothers in the Fifth Army are very skilled. They are not comparable to those of Xuzhou Army on the South Road." The man was surprised when he heard this and immediately gave a thumbs up. "It's just that the North Road is so difficult. It is said that not all of them died."
How can the three Zhang brothers escape?"
Zhang Xing could see clearly that the man said this. Although Boss Zhang had no words, he was almost on pins and needles. However, he just pretended not to see it and continued:
"There are always a few who slip through the net. Several of my brothers who escaped have settled down in Dengzhou. Only I escaped to the village of Qin Erlang's family and was taken in by him, so I survived... and then I went to surrender.
Xu Dalang, who was very famous in Caozhou, stayed for a few days and met a rumor at Xu Dalang Village, so he actually became a public servant in Jing'antai."
As soon as these words were spoken, the table suddenly became quiet, and even Chef Fan was stunned on the spot.
Zhang Xing just pretended not to know, but he slowly lowered the embroidered knife in his waist and put it in front of his eyes: "Brothers, look at this, this is proof... No one dares to fake the standard sword of Jing'antai."
No one responded.
But Zhang Xing laughed again and took back the knife: "Brothers, you can take in someone who has been a soldier, but you can't take in someone who is a street cleaner in Jing'antai? Besides, I am a street cleaner in Xiapi, but I am actually following you.
Zuo Sanye took care of the business on Huanshui, and he no longer does it..."
"Brother, you scared us to death." Everyone felt relieved after hearing this, and the expert with a military background shook his head repeatedly. "I just said that your behavior looks like a soldier, but there is something else..."
"It's just that Brother Zhang, if you can make a fortune with Mr. Zuo in Xiapi, you can stay there for a long time. Why leave your tiger skin and come to us?" It was at this time that Boss Zhang finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Zhang Xing shook his head repeatedly, then stood up and raised his hands seriously: "Because I want to make a fortune!"
"Think too much!" Boss Zhang quickly waved his hand. "It's so poor here."
After saying that, the boss quickly picked up a spoon and knocked on the stone slab in front of him, and it made a clanging sound.
Zhang Xing smiled again: "Boss, I came up from Huanshui River and saw that the fleet was empty and real. I came here because I wanted to make a fortune."
Everyone became more and more enlightened, and Boss Zhang finally said: "I knew that they were all here for the extravagant fortune in a few days. Even the caretaker himself was thinking about it... It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of stones in the fleet.
There are tens of thousands of coins and silk, right?"
"No." Zhang Xing still stood where he was, but he shook his head again and again. When everyone was surprised, he smiled calmly and said, "The food is not that much, about hundreds of thousands of dan, but the money and silk are more than...about one million.
All the same."
Under the Heavenly Cave in the Immortal Cave, it was quiet for the first time.
"Brother, don't be kidding..." Someone was breathing heavily.
"What do I want to do to fool my brothers?" Zhang Xing raised his hand to this man without hesitation. "If there are only tens of thousands of guan, and there are a group of masters from Jing'antai guarding them, and they are only put in a few boats, we can't even touch them. When I arrived, I only got a bunch of grain, how can I be made to give up the profit of Pi Jing Street Tiger and come here to make a fortune?"
The man nodded quickly.
Zhang Xingfu looked at Boss Zhang again and continued to hand over his hands: "Boss, I came here with a huge secret this time... I want to dedicate a huge fortune to Boss!"
Boss Zhang was startled for a moment, then waved his hand repeatedly.
Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: "Why is the boss waving his hand?"
"How can I enjoy such wealth?" The boss Zhang continued to wave his hand.
"Then we should let the brothers finish speaking according to the rules." Zhang Xing was speechless for a moment. "The boss will make the decision...otherwise if you don't say anything else, who knows if the other brothers here want it?"
As soon as he said this, Boss Zhang continued to argue. The soldier, two people from the Eastern Region, and a cook Fan shouted together. Boss Zhang had no choice but to wave his hand: "Just tell me."
"That's right." Zhang Xing handed over his hands. "Have you ever thought about it? Why is it that the autumn grain has just been escorted, and now it is coming again to transport grain, and it is also escorted by the elite Jinyi dogs from Jingantai, the eastern capital?"
Of course you don't know, but without delay, Boss Zhang sighed: "Didn't Boss Lou say that the seven counties in Jiangdong are short of food and they need to make up for it as soon as possible?"
Zhang Xing and Qin Bao were both startled. The latter didn't mention it, but the former immediately nodded: "Yes! But this time the two fleets met together, and people who are not from Jingantai don't know the inside story... On the one hand, they are making up for it. Food, on the other hand, Jingantai was ordered to go south to coerce the eight major families in the south of the Yangtze River, and asked the eight major families to contribute gold, silver, and silk to be sent to the Eastern Capital for the current saint to repair the golden pillars! In other words, the food was not that much, but the money was more than expected. many!"
Everyone became more and more surprised, but suddenly they started talking among themselves, but they could obviously vaguely agree on each other, so the more they talked, the more they talked.
Only Boss Zhang was even more unhappy. He just slapped the stone slab to make everyone quiet down, and then wanted to speak.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xing took the lead and continued to speak loudly: "If it was just like this, I wouldn't come... But Boss Zhang, the current situation is that the Jinyi patrol officer who escorts the ship has such a big name, and she doesn't deserve it either." We knew that someone here wanted to do business, but we secretly separated the millions of gold and silk from the food, and planned to use the fleet as bait to secretly take away Bai Wanguan's gold and silk on land..."
Hearing this, Mr. Zhang wanted to speak. Unexpectedly, the shouting around the stone slab had already started again, so he had to come back to make a decision.
After the filming, the boss Zhang finally came and asked: "If that's the case, why are you here?"
"Because my brother knows the land route they took privately, and also knows the approximate date." Zhang Xing responded sincerely, taking advantage of the situation, he turned out of his seat, came to one side, and walked directly in front of the other party. "This is the only one. Important news, I gave up my status as a public servant to honor my boss... As long as we rob this wealth, our brothers will be rich and rich that we will never be able to spend in ten lifetimes!"
There was a buzz around the slate table for an unknown number of times, and Boss Zhang finally got angry and yelled: "Shut up, please!"
As soon as these words were said, the silence became quiet, and quite a few people became impatient and angry, but they didn't want to show off on the spot, so they just turned aside.
"Brother Zhang." The elder Zhang took a deep breath and spoke seriously. "You can't argue whether this news is true or false..."
"I even threw away my livelihood as a public servant, why does the boss doubt me?" Zhang Xing immediately made a show of it, but then threw his sword to the ground in front of everyone, and walked up to question with his hands empty. "Doesn't this chill the heart of a hero?
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"It's not that I doubt you." Boss Zhang saw that the other party came up empty-handed and thought that the other party was a stickler, so he had no choice but to explain. "It's because your business is too big. Whether it's true or false, or whether it's related to profit, I can't bear it.
You think this is good, my cave is too small to accommodate you, so I will send you to Boss Zhou...he is in charge."
Zhang Xing only waited for the other party to finish speaking, and then sneered: "So, the boss has no responsibility, and he still wants to earn a horse from our brother for nothing?"
Just as Boss Zhang was about to reply, Zhang Xing suddenly stepped forward and took advantage of the other person's seat to hold his hands.
Of course, everyone present was surprised, and several people wanted to get up to check.
But at this moment, Qin Bao suddenly stood up and swept away the pots in front of him, splashing many people. Then he pointed at Mr. Zhang who was holding his hand opposite and yelled: "You, you...
We have been unhappy for a long time... Brother Zhang and I have a cultivation level of seven and nine. When you heard this, you not only did not praise us, but only let us brothers sit at the bottom. Is this reasonable?
Now you want to lie to our horse?! Who is the boss with such behavior? How can you be the owner of the Immortal Cave?"
After saying that, he turned back to get the iron gun.
The people present were all Jianghu people. Seeing that the situation was not going well, they got out of the way. Several of them wanted to get weapons. Chef Fan quickly got up, ran over and hugged two of them, and then turned back to persuade Qin Bao:
"Qin Erlang has something to say. Although Boss Zhang has no courage, don't get angry over it!"
Moreover, Zhang Xing had already stepped forward to use the Ice Qi to hold Boss Zhang's hand... Boss Zhang was frightened and angry, and did not dare to neglect. Regardless of Qin Erlang's scolding, he quickly started the Qi Sea Competition.
Zhenqi, but for some reason, even though I am still a cultivator of the ten righteous meridians, I can't suppress the opponent. Instead, I feel that the ice zhenqi in the opponent's hands is in constant waves, coming in a steady stream, as unfathomable as lakes, seas, and rivers.
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But he was actually at a disadvantage.
The twenty or thirty people present were in a chaotic mess. When they turned around, they saw Qin Bao wielding a big iron gun unstoppably, but he was only intimidating the few with weapons; on the other hand, he saw Boss Zhang and the boss Zhang.
The three competed with each other for Qi, but each seemed to be struggling... Many people also had a hint of hesitation.
At the same time, Chef Fan had abandoned the two of them and hugged the other two, still urging him: "Don't fight, don't fight. It's just a matter between Zhang Laoshan and Zhang Laosan. Let's not rely on it."
Your life is in vain."
Qin Bao took this opportunity, danced with a big iron gun, suddenly strode over, and stabbed a man in the road who wanted to pretend to come to the rescue with a gun to the heart, then slapped him on the big stone slab, then took it out and grabbed it, and walked quickly
He rushed towards Zhang Xing with a gun, but did not help him. He just stood aside Zhang Xing and looked at him with a high expression.
Chef Fan took the opportunity to drop the people in his hands, but no one dared to move.
Almost everyone was fixedly watching the infuriating competition between the two people next to the leopard skin.
Gradually, the boss Zhang gradually lost his temper and turned pale. However, he could only speak regardless of luck and the flow, but his voice was hoarse.
Everyone heard clearly and was asking: "Where are all my confidants? Why didn't they come to save me?"
When Zhang Xing heard this, he noticed that the opponent's hands were gradually losing his true energy. He finally sighed, but he calmly took out a hand, grabbed the opponent's hair, and then used his full energy to slap it hard on the stone slab.
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With just one click, the master of the Immortal Cave's entire head was glued to the board.
Then, feeling the heat, Zhang Xing calmly pulled away, picked up his knife in public under the nervous gaze of dozens of strong men, then turned around and slowly cut off the opponent's head, and then picked up the dough that had already been battered.
The leader of a regiment calmly asked:
"Everyone, this person is immoral and wants to prevent my brothers from getting rich. Now I, Zhang San, Qin Er, and Fan Liu, are fighting each other in public. I wonder who has any dissatisfaction? If not, let me Zhang San.
Third Master will be the boss of the Immortal Cave, Qin Erlang will be the second leader, and Fan Liulang will be the third leader... The rest of the people will only sit according to their cultivation, regardless of their relative status... Is it good? Doable? Is there anyone dissatisfied?"
Everyone was silent for a while, and there was a slight commotion, but the Xuzhou soldier suddenly stepped forward and bowed down, calling himself the big leader. The rest of the people bowed down one after another, regardless of the blood stains on the stone slabs.
After careful calculation, it turned out that Zhang San from outside could easily seize the foundation of the Immortal Cave in just one meal.
PS: Happy New Year everyone! Happy New Year to everyone! I apologize to everyone for being late! Good night everyone!