It must be said that Feng Qingchen's luck was extremely good. The remnants of the rebels that His Highness the King of Qing had never been able to find were actually bumped into by them.
"Ahead are the remnants of the Jiangnan rebels. Judging from their appearance, they probably don't know who we are." Zuo An came back soon and told Feng Qingchen the news he had discovered.
"You mean, they were blocking the road here, and then we unfortunately ran into it?" From high-end and atmospheric rebels to robbers, the transformation was too fast.
Zuo An nodded, then looked at the sky silently, waiting for Feng Qingchen to give the order.
Sweat... Feng Qingchen paused for a moment and said: "Let the people in front stop and don't go any further." Those are not ordinary robbers, but organized and disciplined troops. Fight against these people.
, they are the ones who suffer.
"It's better to scare a snake than to kill someone," Zuo An said coldly, but Feng Qingchen ignored him.
"Let someone send a message to Jiangnan and notify the Qing king as soon as possible to suppress the bandits." The work of suppressing bandits should be left to professionals. There are dozens of them and they will not join in the trouble.
"Let's go back and stay in the county seat for one more night." Feng Qingchen made it clear that he would not confront the opponent head-on.
With a small child, dozens of people were fighting with thousands of people, and she had to be confused to take a direct photo of him.
"What if... they realize something is wrong and run away?" Zuo An is very worried. These people are no longer soldiers, they are extremely vicious bandits who kill without blinking an eye.
If these people are allowed to run away, it will be ordinary people who suffer.
"How capable you are, how much responsibility you bear. We are no match for others, why should we rush forward and die?" Feng Qingchen hugged Feng Jin, got on the carriage first, asked the driver to turn the horse's head, and walked back.
Zuo An hesitated for a moment, but still followed: "Can you mobilize the government's troops?"
"What do you think?" After all, she has also taken on the title of Nine Emperors Uncle's woman. If she doesn't have this ability, why is she still messing around in Dongling?
"Aren't you afraid that these people are colluding with the government?" Zuo An thought for a while and asked again.
"I'm afraid, so I don't plan to mobilize the government's troops. Why don't I go back to the city and wait for the Qing King to bring his troops?" She wanted to be a hero, but this moment was obviously not the time to show off her bravery.
"Don't worry, these rebels don't know who we are, and naturally they don't know either. We already know his identity. They will just think that we are timid and fearful, and then wait here for the next fat sheep. Of course, the most important thing is
The soldiers and horses of the King of Qing are not far from here, and they can arrive in two days and one night at most. These people can't escape." Each of them was so kind that it was frightening. In such a comparison, she was completely selfish.
But she didn't want to be like this. She had to be responsible for the people around her. Xiao Fengjin was really not suitable for seeing too many bloody scenes at her age.
After Zuo An knew that Feng Qingchen had a plan, he stopped talking and stood by silently...
The rebels who were ambushing at the small mountain peak waited and waited but did not wait for Feng Qingchen and his party to leave. They sent people to investigate, but found that the people were missing.
"Looking at the marks left by the wheels, they must have gone back."
"Go back? Did they find out?" A shirtless man suddenly jumped out. He had a sinister face and violent eyes. He didn't look like a good person at first glance.
The person who inquired about the information nodded repeatedly: "They must have discovered us. There are two forks ahead. I see the traces of the carriage, heading towards the town. Boss, do you think they will go find someone from the government?"
"Those weaklings in the government? They can't even defeat those idiots before. I will be afraid of them." The person who spoke was not the leader of the rebels, but a bald man. Obviously, this person is the leader of this group of people. As for the leader of the rebels,
?Probably died in the dense forest.
"Brother is right." His subordinates all agreed, praising the bald man for his intelligence.
It turned out that they did not directly occupy the mountain and become kings. Instead, there was a bandit den on this road. This group of rebels came over, took away the original bandit, and replaced it.
The government is aware of the bandits on this road. They have sent people to attack them before, but they were unable to attack them for a long time and suffered heavy losses. The government has nothing to do with these people and can only turn a blind eye.
Therefore, the people in the government had no idea that these bandits had changed people, let alone that these people were the remnants of the rebels that the Qing king had been looking for.
After Feng Qingchen returned to town, he stayed at the inn where he had stayed before. The innkeeper's wife was surprised when she saw Feng Qingchen and his group, and turned around to find out the reason. Feng Qingchen explained with a smile, saying that the child was a little tired and cried all the way.
High, I'm afraid I'll be tired from the long journey.
After leaving this town, there was no town within a hundred miles, and she would have to stay out for at least three or four nights. She was worried that the child would be tired, so she had to go back first to refresh the child before heading on the road.
"Go and find out if the proprietress of the inn is colluding with the robbers." Feng Qingchen didn't reveal anything on his face, but as soon as he turned around, he ordered Xia Wan to check on the inn proprietress.
There's nothing I can do about it. Although the lady boss looks kind, she's really suspicious.
Although the proprietress was shrewd, Xia Wan's methods were even more sophisticated, and he allowed Xia Wan to figure out the inn's ins and outs in just a few seconds.
"Sure enough, the proprietress has colluded with the bandits in the mountains. The inn opened by the proprietress in the town is to facilitate the search for prey, so that she can know in advance which sheep are fat sheep. At the same time, she can also know the departure time of the guests, so that the robbers can ambush in advance. However,
...From their conversation, the robbers on the mountain have been around for several years. They only rob property and never kill people. In addition, the mountain is easy to defend, and the government has suffered big losses several times, so they don't care about them.
That's it." After Xia Wan finished speaking, he stood aside quietly.
Feng Qingchen frowned and said with a smile: "It seems that we have entered a den of thieves. Since the rebels have not colluded with the government, everything will be easy to handle. Take my token to the government and let the official take the people tomorrow.
This inn was confiscated."
Tomorrow night at the latest, the Qing King's men will arrive, and by then none of the rebels on the mountain will be able to leave.
"How do you know that there is something wrong with this landlady?" As soon as Xia Wan left, Zuo An came back, obviously having overheard their conversation just now.
Feng Qingchen did not answer Zuo An's question, but said, "You're back so soon?" Zuo An went to deliver a message to the King of Qing. There was no other way. Zuo An was the fastest, so he didn't know who to send to him.
"You haven't answered my question yet." Zuo An was confused, and Feng Qingchen had no choice but to explain: "It's very simple, the location and time of their ambush were so coincidental, as if they knew we must pass there. You have to know
There are two forks in that road. Since the robbers don't know our identities, how do they know which way we must take? Another point is that the landlady is too enthusiastic and loves to inquire about information."
"Just make up your mind...I think you didn't think of it before. Just like Uncle Nine Emperors, you are used to conspiracies in everything." What Feng Qingchen said has no basis at all. Everything is just her own.
Suppose, just after the results came out, she could speak categorically.
Feng Qingchen spread his hands innocently: "You have to ask me, how can I show my talents if I don't say something profound?"
Yes, Zuo An couldn't defeat Feng Qingchen anyway, and Zuo An was not willing to ask for trouble anymore. When he left, he took out a letter from his arms and threw it into Feng Qingchen's hand: "Here, a letter from Uncle Nine Emperors to you.