A knight rode his horse through the alley outside the misty Xuanwu Gate, and finally stopped in front of a tall mansion. After confirming the plaque on the mansion door, he got off his horse, tied the reins to the horse-tying stone that was as tall as a person, and then
He took off his raincoat and put it on the back of his horse. He walked up the steps carrying a heavy baggage and knocked on the door knocker.
A gap opened in the side door, and the monkey's funny face squeezed out, looked at the knight and muttered: "Who is coming?"
The knight took off the hat he was wearing and held it in his hands: "My dear, Tang Yan, I have come to discuss some business matters with your house this time."
The monkey looked at the baggage in Tang Yan's hand and said with a smile: "That's right. I have three heads. I insist on getting them. Come in and talk." As he spoke, he opened the side door and invited Tang Yan to come in.
Tang Yan did not enter the mansion, but followed the monkey to a house next to the concierge. This place was originally a place where the generals drank tea and chatted. Recently, the mansion was not at peace, and the eldest young master returned to the mansion with his family.
, the second young master issued another death order. For the safety of the family, the generals no longer had the time to drink tea and chat, so this room was vacated.
"Autumn is about to come, and the weather will turn cooler after this rain. Since we are all men who lick blood with their swords, forget about tea, it is better to drink wine to warm up."
The monkey plucked off his wine gourd and handed it to the man who came in. The monkey considered anyone who could hunt down Yun's enemies to be a good person.
Tang Yan didn't refuse. After taking it, he took a big sip. Unaccustomed to Yun's strong wine, he choked and coughed several times and finally suppressed the strength of the wine. He raised his thumb and said, "It's so strong."
liquor!"
Monkey didn't have time to discuss the quality of the wine with him. He rubbed his hands and stared at the package Tang Yan put on the low table and said: "Open it and take a look. As long as you prove your identity, I will give you three hundred guan of money with both hands. No matter you want to befriend me, it's fine."
, it doesn’t matter if it’s silver or copper coins, three hundred guan can crush a person to death.”
Tang Yan opened the package. Inside were three human heads wrapped in oil paper. The monkey took off the oil paper on the heads, grabbed the hair on the heads, and arranged the three heads neatly on the table.
Then he pointed to the head on the far left and said, "Where did you catch this Xixia man?"
Tang Yan smiled and said: "Mianchi!"
The monkey cupped his hands in admiration and said: "Iron kites can also hunt and kill tin raccoons. Brother Tang is indeed a good man. Yunwen admires him very much."
Tang Yan stood up and returned the greeting: "Brother Yun is ridiculous. In order to capture the thief Xi Li, Tang used brothers from the Nine Mountains and Seventeen Villages, and finally exhausted the thief with his own life, and then narrowly captured him."
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To be honest, Brother Yun, eleven brothers were killed in the battle at Mianchi Chailong Village, and nine were injured."
The monkey raised his thumb and said: "What a man! The reward of 100 guan given by my second young master could not be used on this guy. After returning home, the eldest young master laughed at my second young master for being too stingy and gave away the reward from Iron Kitten.
It has increased five times, and the reward for Xili's head is now five hundred coins. I wonder if Brother Tang is still satisfied with this price?"
Tang Yan heard what the monkey said and quickly raised his hands and said: "Brother Yun Gaoyi, Tang thanked the Marquis for the reward on behalf of the brothers from the Nine Mountains and Seventeenth Village!"
The monkey smiled and said: "The brothers from the Nine Mountains and Seventeenth Village are actually from our Jingxi Army. If one family does not speak the same language, the only ones who can do anything now are our brothers from the Jingxi Army."
As he spoke, he fixed his eyes on the head in the middle and said with some waning interest: "I always don't like to see the heads of us Song people being cut off, but if the heads of these bastards are not cut off, it will cause harm to everyone.
It goes without saying that the Western Xia civil servant Zuo Dashan paid two hundred guan for his head as a reward for the bloody battle."
Tang Yan was a little disappointed, but he immediately picked up the last woman's head and said: "Sai Guanyin Wang Miao, the third leader of the White Lotus Society!"
The monkey mentioned the head that had no color left and said with a smile: "Brothers from the Nine Mountains and Seventeen Villages can kill Xili and I'm not surprised that they can kill Zuo Dashan, but I'm afraid if they want to kill the third leader of the White Lotus Society
Is it still a little difficult?"
Tang Yan said with a smile: "Brother Yun has indeed seen thousands of miles, but this head is not exchanged for money, but was entrusted by others and sent to the house specially."
Monkey himself is the foreign affairs manager of the Yun family, specializing in dealing with these private matters, so he is very familiar with the dark corners of the army and the tricks of the Jianghu people.
The Nine Mountains and Seventeen Villages are actually local armed organizations. They are not an army in the strict sense. The basic force of the Nine Mountains and Seventeen Villages is the local regiment training. On weekdays, these people are responsible for patrolling the countryside to protect the environment and the people. They are responsible for the local security of the Song Dynasty.
The main maintainer of .
However, these people have changed their minds a long time ago. Most of the people who can serve as regiment training envoys are local squires, so regiment training has become a representative of the interests of local squires. Semi-officials and semi-citizens are rampant in the countryside and do all kinds of evil. Half of the local rebels in the Song Dynasty
The reason is because of these people.
They have a wide network of contacts, not only doing business with the government, but also with bandits, and often get both sides. This time, Tang Yan may have come to the Yun family to act as a lobbyist.
Monkey simply doesn't believe that those local team trainers can kill Iron Kites like Xi Li. Monkey has seen the ferociousness of Iron Kites with his own eyes. How can the local team training's combination of collapse at the first touch be able to stop Sandang Sanjue in the army?
The unstoppable iron kite!
Eleven people were killed and nine injured in the battle? When did local regiments become so brave and skillful in fighting? Even if the Forbidden Army did not have gunpowder weapons, it would be impossible to kill a veteran with only such a few casualties.
Fighting iron kite.
Faced with tigers, the number of sheep does not matter...
"Since the White Lotus Society accepted the Xixia people's request to come to the capital to assassinate my second young master, he should understand that just one Wang Miao's head is not enough."
The monkey looked at Tang Yan with a smile. There was an 80% chance that Tie Yao, Xi Li and Zuo Dashan would die in the hands of the White Lotus Society.
Tang Yan saluted sincerely: "The leader of the White Lotus Society, Miao Yue Zhenren, asked me to express my deepest apologies to Mr. Hou. Wang Miao arranged for someone to assassinate the second son of the Yun Mansion in the capital. The White Lotus Society did not know about it, but Miao Yue Zhenren knew it.
After this incident, he was greatly shocked. He led the masters of the guild from Yongzhou to Tokyo overnight, and finally intercepted Wang Miao in Mianchi County who was about to defect from the White Lotus Hui. He fought with the Xixia people in Xixia Mountain for ten days.
More than enough.
After paying a heavy price, Wang Miao was captured and Xili was killed, but the Xixia envoy Han Huang had escaped Yiluo and Miaoyue Zhenren under the tight protection of the other two iron kites and forty-six Xixia guards.
My subordinates were so badly injured that they were unable to capture and kill them, so they had no choice but to return bitterly."
How could the monkey not understand the excuse for Bai Lianhui in Tang Yan's words? He smiled and asked him to sit down for a while and serve tea, and then went straight to the back hall.
Lao Liao was sitting behind a tall table and was calculating some accounts. When he saw the monkey coming in from the door, he put down the brush in his hand and asked: "This man brought three heads? Xixia people? Real or fake?"
of?"
The monkey jumped up and sat down on the high table specially made by Lao Liao. He took Lao Liao's brush and dipped it in the ink before writing on the table. Lao Liao's legs and feet were not suitable, especially in the rain.
The weather was sour and itchy, so all he could do at this time was to raise the table and chairs and put an iron stove underneath for baking. Only in this way could his injured leg feel better.
Lao Liao grabbed the brush and said angrily: "I want to ask you something, are you deaf?"
The monkey chuckled and said: "The three heads are all real, and they belong to important people. According to the drawings provided by Hua Niang and others, one is an iron kite and a tin raccoon, and the other is the chief secretary of the Xixia State Household Department.
Dashan, and the other one is Wang Miao from the White Lotus Society."
Lao Liao was stunned for a moment and said, "Do you think it's possible?"
The monkey said nonchalantly: "It's possible. They sent us three real human heads. I didn't see anything wrong."
Old Liao said thoughtfully: "I would believe it if they sent the head of a Xixia soldier, but I wouldn't believe it if they sent the head of an iron kite or a fierce female bandit.
Don't tell me that you don't know what Lang Lige is, and don't tell me that you don't know how Maitreya taught the witch Liu Wenjing.
Who is Mr. Hou? When he personally led the team to capture Liu Wenjing, he suffered heavy injuries. After Liang Ji and Peng Jiu came back, they basically didn't have a few good pieces of meat on their bodies.
There must be something wrong here!"
The monkey raised his thumb high and kept dangling it under Lao Liao's nose. He said with a salivating smile: "As expected of our housekeeper, he can tell at a glance that there is something wrong with him. He is not here to receive reward money.
, came to work as a lobbyist for the people of the White Lotus Society.
They said that Wang Miao did it out of selfish motives when he accepted the assassination mission of the Second Young Master, and it was definitely not the idea of the White Lotus Society. As soon as the big boss Miao Yue Zhenren heard that Wang Miao had done this in Tokyo, he ran from Yongzhou to Tokyo overnight.
, finally intercepted Wang Miao at Xikiao Mountain in Mianchi, and finally paid a heavy price and killed Xi Li, Wang Miao and Zuo Dashan.
The head was sent here to plead guilty, and I hope our family can let Bai Lianhui go!"
Old Liao sneered and said, "Who is Wang Miao, and who is that Miao Yue Zhenren? The lives of both of them combined are not as important as a hair of the second young master. The assassination on Fanlou,
If the second young master hadn't made thorough preparations, someone might have succeeded. By then, I, the great butler, would have no shame in living in this world.
Trying to exchange a few worthless heads for the Yun family's forgiveness is simply a joke."
Lao Liao picked up his pen and recorded a few entries in the account book, then took out two gold-rimmed handouts from the drawer and threw them to the monkey and said, "Go ahead and settle the account!"
The monkey chuckled, picked up Jiaozi, kissed it on the mouth, and then went to find Tang Yan leisurely. (To be continued)