A few hundred feet away in the forest behind them, someone let out a soft sigh.
Ever since these foreign merchants left Jinyu Pavilion, they had been ordered to follow these people.
Fanbang was just Fanbang. He had no alertness at all. Carrying treasures worth hundreds of thousands of taels, he just walked on the road with such swagger. All the way out of the city, the road he took became more and more remote. He was simply following them.
Think about the people behind you.
There is simply no place more suitable for doing things than in the barren mountains and ridges, killing people, seizing treasures, destroying corpses and destroying traces.
After they walk a little further and reach a more remote place, they can take action.
Suddenly someone whispered: "Why are they not moving?"
"They put their stuff down."
"No, they seem to have discovered us!"
The leader was stunned when he heard this, but then he slapped one person on the head and said, "Why panic? There are only five of them. Even if they discover us, what will happen?"
"Do it!"
Twenty figures rushed out of the forest and came quickly in the direction of the five people.
One of the men carefully put aside the bag he was carrying and said, "Brothers, please rest for a while and leave all these people to me."
Someone next to him gritted his teeth and said, "Don't be like this. Second brother just broke into the Tianbang. Everyone treats me as a soft persimmon. I was challenged eighteen times in three days. I can't let go of this sullen feeling. It's really hard to calm down."
ah……"
On the opposite side, twenty people who took out black cloths to cover their faces were surprised to find that not only did the five people not run away, but two of them actually came towards them...
"kill!"
The leader whispered something and unsheathed his sword.
A quarter of an hour later, twenty people all had bruises and swollen noses and faces. All their clothes were stripped down to only a piece of crotch cloth, and they were tied to a tree with their backhands. Their faces were extremely pale, and their expressions were frightened and desperate...
"Spare, spare my life..."
They watched helplessly as several Banbang men even tore off their crotch cloths. As if they had thought of something, sweat was pouring down their foreheads.
"You don't speak morally!" One of the Fanbang men looked at them, stumblingly said a few words, and patted the long knife in his hand, which made everyone tremble.
…
"Brother, why didn't you kill them just now?" In the forest, a slightly younger man quickly stepped forward and asked.
The man shook his head and said: "Twenty lives, the government will definitely investigate to the end. If anything is found then, wouldn't it cause trouble for the alliance leader?
Don’t worry, after losing such a big face, these people will definitely not be too public about it.”
"It's an advantage for them."
The sound of conversation became quieter, and the sound of footsteps gradually became distant.
I don't know how long it took before a sound came from another mountain forest.
Two figures walked into the forest, and they could be vaguely distinguished as a man and a woman.
"Sanlang, don't be impatient..."
There seemed to be the sound of people taking off their clothes, followed by the woman's worried voice: "Sanlang, you won't be seen by others here, right?"
"No." The man's breathing was a little heavy.
"Well, okay then." The woman whispered, and her voice began to grow louder.
"You two, can you please wait a moment?"
From somewhere behind the two of them, a voice suddenly came.
The woman's face instantly turned pale, she turned her head and glanced, and the next moment she heard a scream.
"——"
"Two, two, don't run away!"
"return!"
"Please help us, and we will be rewarded generously in the future!"
…
"Twenty servants of the Cui family were stripped naked and tied up in the woods outside the city. They were discovered by the woodcutter after a night?"
Li Yi rubbed his eyebrows, looked at Miss Liu Er, and asked: "Is the person you arranged reliable?"
Miss Liu Er waved her hand, and the servants of the Li family carried several large boxes into the room and then left respectfully.
As soon as she swept her sleeves, the lid of a box opened automatically, and various pearls, gems, and jade articles were piled randomly inside, making the whole room much brighter.
"Okay, let's do it!" Li Yi patted the table and said.
Liumeng, meeting hall.
"Have you all remembered your goals?" Lu Luo sat at the top and whispered.
"Remember, Chuzhou, Jinyu Pavilion!"
"Qing'an Mansion, Jinyu Pavilion!"
"Qingzhou, Jinyu Pavilion!"
…
After more than ten people below responded, not long after, everyone walked out of the meeting hall, and carriages drove out of the venue. Behind each carriage, there were more than ten people accompanying them, and gradually disappeared in all directions.
On the road.
…
In the past two days, from the dignitaries to the people, the hot topic of discussion was naturally Liuli.
Goulan has always known how to follow the trend of the public, and the stories spread in Goulan have also kept pace with the times. In the past few days, several legends about Liuli have been widely circulated among the people.
For example, in the "Journey to the West" mentioned before, Monk Sha was once the general of the Heavenly Palace, but he was demoted to Heaven because he broke a glass cup belonging to the Queen Mother. It can be seen that even in the Heavenly Palace, Liuli is very important.
precious……
For another example, if you collect seven glass balls of different colors, you can summon a divine dragon...
There is also a legend that colored glaze is the remaining sky-patching stone used by Nuwa to patch the sky...
It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that Medicine Master Lazuli Light Tathagata made a vow when he was practicing the Bodhisattva path, that his body would be as clear inside and outside as glazed glass, pure and flawless; and that with the merits and virtues of this flame net, he would save all living beings from illness and suffering...
Of course, the powerful rarely go to Goulan to listen to that kind of thing. What they care about is the glass charity sale that the Wang family will hold in Furong Garden tomorrow.
The main residence of the Cui family in Beijing.
Twenty people all knelt on the ground, their heads lowered, and their faces turned pale.
The man surnamed Cui shouted sternly: "Twenty of you can't beat five of them?"
The leader yesterday did not dare to say that the other party only sent two people. He buried his head very low and said: "Second Master, we didn't know that every one of those foreign merchants is a master!"
The face of the man named Cui was extremely gloomy. If the glass was not genuine and they did not lose money in this transaction, how could these people still be alive?
"I underestimated those foreign merchants..." He looked at the group of people kneeling on the ground and said coldly: "Go and receive the punishment yourself!"
Outside the city of Kyoto, in a manor, two men in purple stood at the front, followed by dozens of people in blue and yellow. Everyone knelt on the ground and shouted: "Welcome the empress!"
The middle-aged Taoist nun slowly floated down from the sky and walked into the courtyard. A man in purple pulled off the red cloth covering something in the courtyard, pointed to a towering white jade statue below and said: "My Lady, this is
I sent a skilled stonemason and spent three months carving it out. It will definitely be able to..."
The middle-aged Taoist nun glanced at him and asked, "I heard that many temples in Kyoto have glazed Buddha statues?"
The man in purple was stunned and said: "Back to the empress, this is indeed the case. My subordinates also thought that if they could build a glazed statue for the empress, I am afraid it would attract countless believers. However, except for Hanshan Temple from Fanbang,
In addition to a glazed Guanyin statue obtained from a businessman, and a glazed statue given to the eldest princess by the uncle of Chang'an County, several others came from the palace and are beyond our reach...
My subordinates have also sent people to look for foreign merchants, but have found nothing so far. However, the Luochuan Wang family will hold a glass charity sale in Furong Garden tomorrow, and our people will also participate, and we will definitely be able to find enough glass to make a statue of the empress!"
"Uncle Chang'an County?" The Taoist nun frowned.
"Yes, Chang'an County Bo Li Yi." The man in purple nodded and said.
