Chapter 237 Its better to use her than to guard against her
The second command is very simple.
The troops were divided into two groups, and according to the operation at Dahuaishu Village, they collected the grain from the other two villages belonging to the Zhao family.
Zhang Rang, Meng Yun and Wang Long made a decision after summarizing the situation.
Zhang Rang and Liu Hai formed a team and took people to a village together.
Meng Yun and Tang Shi formed a second team and went to another Zhuangzi.
As for Wang Lung, he took his two brothers and stayed at Dahuaishu Village to guard the grain depot.
Everyone must be back before dark at night.
Everyone quickly reached a consensus and everyone went according to the plan.
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Four o'clock in the evening, Zhao's martial arts gym, backyard courtyard.
At the table under the tree in the courtyard, Huang An and Xiao Wufen sat on both sides.
Chen Yu was sleeping soundly in the pavilion outside the courtyard.
As for Luo Feiyao, he disappeared again.
Xiao Wu came to the Zhao Family Martial Arts School as agreed.
The two of them sat opposite each other, and some hot dishes were placed on the table.
Huang An specially asked the kitchen to make this, just to entertain Xiao Wu.
The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, mainly Huang An was asking and Xiao Wu was answering.
Asked about business, life, health, and about Xiao Wu’s wife and Mrs. Yu’s pregnancy.
As the chat progressed, Xiao Wu gradually relaxed his mind.
Although Huang An has always respected him, Xiao Wu always remembers his identity and Huang An's kindness. He has never asked for repayment or even thought about it.
He respects Huang An from the bottom of his heart and treats him like a brother and a father.
After Huang An inquired about Xiao Wu's current situation, he smiled with satisfaction.
"Xiao Wu, I see that your life is much more chic than mine."
Xiao Wu chuckled and did not refute. He felt that his current life would not be changed even if it were given to him by a god.
This year is his happiest year.
Although my hand was almost broken, it was a blessing in disguise. As luck would have it, I had a pharmacy, which gave me the capital to live in the future.
Thanks to the care of Huang An and his family, he will not be bullied by the people in the city.
He is even more lucky to have married a wife who is considerate and treats him extremely well. She is now pregnant.
His life was indeed very good.
"Brother Huang, what do you want from me?"
However, Xiao Wu is not stupid. He knows that Huang An will not call Liu Zi for no reason, and even made a special trip to let him come to the martial arts hall today.
When Huang An heard Xiao Wu take the initiative to ask, he hesitated for a moment, and asked directly without being verbose:
"I want you to do me a favor!"
When Xiao Wu heard this, he was stunned.
help?
How can I help Brother Huang?
Although he was confused, he didn't ask anything and agreed immediately.
"Brother Huang, that's your order."
Huang An nodded and then gave detailed instructions.
"You do this first...and then...finally...I guarantee your safety. Do you understand?"
Xiao Wu nodded, "I understand, I understand!"
However, a look of embarrassment gradually appeared on his face.
Huang An said it directly without waiting to ask.
"Brother Huang, can you pick up my mother-in-law? I'm afraid no one will take care of her at night."
After Xiao Wu finished speaking, a shy expression appeared on his face.
In this era, boys are generally favored over girls, and there are a lot of men who don't care about their wives getting pregnant.
Even a few days before giving birth, the majority of women go to work in the fields and do housework.
Xiaowu's reaction of loving his wife is quite different.
He is a bit thin-skinned and is actually afraid that Huang An will laugh at him.
When Huang An heard this, he looked at Xiao Wu's red face again, laughed, and said: "It was my negligence, my negligence! I will send someone to go with you and pick up the younger brothers and sisters together. You guys will be here for the next few days.
Let’s live in the martial arts school.”
Xiao Liu heard this and quickly thanked him.
The two talked for a few more words, and finally Huang An called his two brothers and ordered them to follow Xiao Wu to pick up the person.
He personally sent Xiao Wu out of the hospital and almost to the entrance of the martial arts school before he came back.
Looking up at the sky, it seemed like a storm was coming.
In this summer, things change so fast that it’s hard to guard against.
Huang An quickly urged his men to move back the food, furniture and other items left in the open air.
He urged the kitchen to start earlier, and then returned to the small courtyard.
At about five o'clock, not long after dinner was started in the kitchen, Zhang Yi and three others who went to rescue people at the Li's Iron Factory outside the city came back.
Following them back was Jian Tong's entire family.
Upon closer inspection, there were more than twenty people.
The female relatives among them ranged from sixty to eleven or twelve years old. It was obvious that they had been bullied, and their expressions were dull and their eyes were dim.
The men's clothes were torn, there were bruises all over their bodies, their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen, and they had obviously been beaten.
However, Huang An could still see something different in them.
Although the older man of the Jian family looked flustered, his gestures and words of gratitude were not something a poor peasant could pretend to do.
Even if it is a torn piece of clothing, the material is still good depending on the pieces.
Sure enough, a guy who can practice martial arts will definitely have good family conditions.
When Jian Tong heard the commotion, he staggered out without even wearing shoes, shirtless, and cried out to his family.
He knelt down and thanked Huang An again.
After experiencing life and death, and being surrounded by dangers, Jian Tong was deeply grateful to Huang An.
Someone arranged for two empty courtyards, and Jian Tong's family lived directly in the Zhao Family Martial Arts Hall.
They dare not leave here until the Li family is completely eradicated.
It won't cost much to open a few more mouths. They can just stay in the martial arts studio to help, so it's not like they're freeloading.
Time passed slowly, it was half past six in the evening.
The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the black clouds seemed to be falling from the sky.
Huang An and the others had just finished packing the things left outside when a heavy downpour began.
In a very short time, the sky was completely dark.
Until it is so dark that ordinary people cannot see clearly within five meters of the surrounding area.
In the small courtyard, Huang An chuckled.
"Fortunately, I asked the kitchen to prepare dinner earlier, otherwise I would be hungry today and go deliver gifts to the Li family."
After drinking two more cups of tea, he took out the map Zhang Yi and the others gave him in the morning and looked at it carefully. Only then did Huang An feel relieved.
This heavy rain came at the perfect time.
At this time, the time came to eight o'clock in the evening.
It was pitch black outside and raining heavily.
At this point, everyone has rested, and the probability of being discovered is extremely low!
After entering the house, Huang An put on a human skin mask, took out a black cloth raincoat, then went out and melted directly into the darkness.
With the Wanjie Garbage Dump here, it would be extremely convenient to frame and eradicate the Li family.
Saltpeter, the original black gunpowder, is the gift Huang An prepared for the Li family.
His way of thinking and doing things has always been like this.
If we want to eradicate the Li family in an honest and fair manner, it is necessary to find evidence.
However, checking the evidence is too troublesome and may be a futile effort.
If the crime is not serious, there is no use in finding out.
Most of the evidence, in fact, cannot kill the entire Li family with one blow.
Since the Li family cannot be completely eradicated, it means that this road is unworkable and the variables are too great.
In this case, it is better to do the opposite.
Create your own conclusive evidence.
The evidence does not need to be real, and the evidence chain does not need to be perfect. The evidence only needs to be gimmicky and sensitive enough.
Rules, especially the rigid Ming laws, can be exploited and used as tools to kill people.
After all, in the Ming Dynasty, evidence was not the most important thing, rights were.
As long as the power is strong enough, the evidence can be easily found.
Since the Li family can secretly make armor and raise green skins and bandits outside the city, it makes sense that they want to study firearms and prepare gunpowder.
What Huang An prepared for the Li family was gunpowder!
He wanted to prove to Luo Feiyao and in front of everyone in the three hundred households under the Firearms Department that the Li family secretly researched and manufactured gunpowder.
With the map provided by Zhang Yi and the others, Huang An went to the area where the Li family was today to investigate in person. Under the cover of heavy rain and darkness, Huang An's trip went extremely smoothly.
After arriving at the Li family's living area, Huang An climbed over the wall and entered the Li family's mansion, and then went straight to the Li family's backyard shown on the map.
There are many cellars in the backyard, and all kinds of things are stored in them, including grain, shelf-stable sweet potatoes and potatoes, and wine.
They were marked on the map, and Huang An had already planned them. He went straight to the three selected ones.
Of these three cellars, two are for storing vegetables and one is for storing grain.
But they all have one thing in common, that is, no one usually comes.
Because the evidence is obvious, there are no recent footprints on the ground inside the cellar or on the dirt at the cellar door.
Stuff the black powder materials that have been prepared in the Wanjie garbage dump, as well as some finished black powder, into it.
Even in order to increase the credibility on the surface and temporarily confuse Luo Feiyao, the only uncertain factor, he specially prepared some simple tools needed to produce gunpowder.
Luo Feiyao has always been by his side. She has a special status, so Huang An can't help but take her existence into consideration.
It is better to guard against her than to use her.
The Ming Dynasty law strictly prohibits private individuals from holding firearms and researching gunpowder. Once discovered, they can be executed directly without interrogation.
What he needs to do is very simple, that is, before Luo Feiyao comes to his senses, realizes that things are very strange, and prepares to carefully search for evidence, he can finalize the matter and eradicate the Li family.
Even if Luo Feiyao noticed the anomaly afterwards and wanted to pursue the case, the evidence had been destroyed.
Li's family members are all dead, what else can she find out?
Finally, Huang An put on the seven pairs of dry shoes of different styles that he had prepared and stomped on the cellar floor, imitating the signs that people often came in and out of the cellar and that work was done in it.
To disguise, you have to pretend to be a little bit like you.
Huang An even controlled the depth and size of the footprints when stepping on them.
After everything was done, Huang An patted his butt, put on his raincoat again, and disappeared into the night.
The heavy rain tonight really helped Huang An.
He didn't even have to spend time to erase the traces of his existence, the heavy rain helped him wash away the evidence.
By the time he returned to the martial arts gym in the east of the city from Li's house in the south of the city, it was not yet ten o'clock in the evening.
It was raining heavily tonight, and the brothers who were guarding were all sleeping in their respective courtyards. They knew nothing about Huang An's actions.
After removing his disguise and raincoat, Huang An disappeared in a flash.
After practicing martial arts and washing up, Huang An returned to the house, then lay on the bed and took the time to practice.
In four hours, that is, before four o'clock in the morning, he needs to reach the city lord's mansion in the center of the city. Presumably, the senior sisters and others are already ready.
I don’t know when this rain will stop.
It would be nice if it could be smaller or stopped completely by then.
In his true thoughts, Huang An quickly fell asleep.
But not long after he fell asleep, bursts of shrill cries woke up most of the people in the martial arts hall.
Outside the house, the heavy rain stopped at some point, making the crying and begging for mercy even more obvious.