Chang Yu's twenty-odd cavalrymen seemed to be sweeping in from a distance with murderous intent, causing a sudden panic around the rest house. They thought that the thieves were coming to rob them, but they thought that these thieves were really brave. You must know that there were officers and soldiers nearby to suppress the attack.
What a gangster...
Before they had time to think about it, the merchants and travelers were in a panic. Some of them were about to run away. Some of them hurriedly organized the gang, and the bodyguards were ready to steal the guys to protect themselves.
Just when everyone was panicking, the gangsters arrived, but without even looking at them, they went straight to one of the tea sheds and surrounded them. With their swords unsheathed and arrows cocked, the people in the tea sheds were suddenly startled and shivering in cold sweats.
They were at a loss, while the people around him secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that they were not thieves, but rather had some personal grudges.
The six or seven suspicious people were also in the tea shed at this time, with the same panic on their faces. Chang Yu also felt suspicious after looking carefully. First of all, the look and temperament of these people did not look like ordinary people who did not want to steal goods. What's more,
They don't have the goods at all.
"Who are you waiting for?" Chang Yu pulled out his blue bird sword and pointed at those people: "Think about it before you speak. If you say anything false, your heads will fall to the ground!"
"Good man, good man, we are just selling goods..." Before he finished speaking, Tu Yuan whipped him: "Fuck you, where are the goods?"
The man who spoke suddenly had a blood stain on his face, and he couldn't help but scream in pain, and the rest of the people didn't dare to speak casually.
"Search" Chang Yu snorted, and several of Tu Yuan's men jumped off their horses and moved forward with knives: "Abandon your weapons and get down!"
Those few people had no weapons in their hands. After hearing this, they looked at each other, then took out a few short knives from their arms and threw them out. Then they lay down on the ground obediently, and Tu Yuan's men moved forward to search them one by one.
Chang Yu frowned, he already felt that something was wrong. If they were really gangsters or Li Xingtian, these people would not be so obedient and just wait to be killed. Moreover, these guys are ordinary business travelers who use them for self-defense. Could it be a misunderstanding?
Already?
"Who are you waiting for?" Chang Yu asked again. The lying people looked at the one who was being whipped. Unexpectedly, the man said nothing: "Say". Tu Yuan shouted sharply, and several people trembled violently. One of them blurted out:
"Good man, we really make a living. We are horse dealers, selling horses from outside the customs..."
Forehead……
After half a cup of tea, Zheng Zhilong and his entourage rushed over and saw Chang Yu drinking tea in the tea shed. In the woods not far away, Tu Yuan was confirming the identities of the horse dealers.
"Young master, what happened?" Zheng Zhilong is a veteran of Jianghu. Although he doesn't know what happened, he knows that something has happened.
Chang Yu smiled bitterly: "Maybe he was too nervous."
After hearing this, Zheng Zhilong turned around and looked towards the woods for a while, and then he knew something in his heart. At this moment, Tu Yuan came over and said, "The shopkeeper is indeed a horse dealer... he's a horse from outside the customs."
The dealers have traveled so far, and they are so evil, so no wonder they don’t look like good people.”
"Okay, let's go and make amends to them..." Before Chang Yu could finish his words, Tu Yuan shouted: "I'm sorry, hey, it's all good if I didn't catch them and put them in jail."
"What's wrong?" Chang Yu raised his eyebrows.
"The horses they were selling included military horses. When I asked them where they came from, they said they had resold them from others. After being beaten, they still mumbled and said they didn't understand..."
Chang Yu glanced at Zheng Zhilong, and the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
The reselling of military supplies has happened in every dynasty and every generation, especially among the border troops. No matter how strict you investigate, you still can't completely stop it, and Chang Yu is not in the mood to care about it at this time: "In that case, give it to him."
Sir, please find out whether they came from Zhangjiakou or Shanhaiguan, and hold them accountable later.”
A false alarm made Chang Yu laugh and cry, but Tu Yuan did not dare to relax at all, because according to Chang Yu's speculation, Li Xingtian belonged to a special underground organization in the bandit army, specializing in secretly collecting intelligence to assassinate important members of the imperial court.
But this was just Chang Yu's speculation without any evidence to support it, because Li Xingtian remained tight-lipped and committed suicide directly, but Tu Yuan did not dare to relax even if he just speculated. After this false alarm, he became more cautious.
On the contrary, Chang Yu became more and more relaxed. He abandoned his carriage and rode on horseback, and even compared his distance with Zheng Zhilong. Sometimes he rode into the wilderness, bowed and hunted, and within a hundred steps, he fired an arrow without missing a beat.
appreciate.
"I heard that Shaodong's fists and kicks are very good. I don't know whether it's true or not, but when it comes to riding and shooting, there are few opponents even in the army. Shaodong's family are really strange people." On the way, Gu Youma whispered to Chang beside Zheng Zhilong.
Yu can be said to be full of praise.
Zheng Zhilong nodded after hearing this: "Being a strange man in the world, you can see the leopard through the pipe. His martial arts must be extraordinary, maybe not as good as those of his followers."
"If you weren't an eunuch, you would have a lot to do and your achievements would be limitless!" Gu Youma seemed to admire but also seemed to feel pity. Zheng Zhilong glanced at him and chuckled: "You are too small. If a person like him wants to succeed, what is his background and identity?"
It doesn't matter to him at all, as long as he is ambitious, he can do anything."
"Does the Lord think he is an ambitious person?"
Zheng Zhilong hummed: "Yes, and it's big!"
Gu Youma frowned: "Could it be that he wants to... Then the Lord is still... Isn't he afraid of being implicated... Or is the Lord also..."
Zheng Zhilong laughed loudly: "As I said just now, your layout is too small! What do you think his ambition is, the Ming Dynasty?" He shook his head: "A person's name means to carry wishes, and your name has
It's enough for Gu to have a horse. His name has Yu in it. What do you think his ambition is?"
"Uuchi Kyushu! What he wants is the whole world! The real world!"
Gu Youma couldn't help but tremble and was speechless for a while.
At sunset, we are on the bank of the Yellow River, dozens of miles across the Yellow River, and we will reach the city of Jinan.
The ferry is a big one, with teahouses, restaurants, inns, and even brothels everywhere, where various religions and religions live a lively and prosperous life, but the water is deep and muddy.
After careful consideration, Tu Yuan suggested that Chang Yu rest one night at the ferry and go to the city tomorrow. Chang Yu smiled and asked him why he made this decision. Tu Yuan thought about it and said that it was not safe to travel at night, and it was already late at night in Jinan.
The gate is also closed, and it is not safe to stay in the wilderness at night. Although there are people from all walks of life at this ferry crossing, it is not a peaceful life, but at most they are just ordinary business travelers, and they don't dare to mess with them.
"Very good, at least I can use my brain," Chang Yu said with a smile, but Tu Yuan grinned happily, feeling very proud that he could use his brain.
In fact, Chang Yu is not worried about safety. He who crawled out of the dead on the battlefield is almost immune to the fear of danger, and even has some yearning for it. The more danger there is, the more excited he will be. If there is accurate information that
If thieves wanted to attack him on the way, he would definitely travel all night to create opportunities for them.
The problem is that there is currently no intelligence to support that someone is planning an ambush, which makes him lose interest, and he does not want to stay in the wilderness overnight, because it is already summer, and there are many insects and mosquitoes in the wild.
People suffer.
Seeing Tu Yuan busy and tense all the way, Chang Yu really couldn't bear to let them sleep in the open at Feng Dinner, so he agreed to spend the night at the ferry, but he always had an indescribable feeling.