After sending Feng Tang out of Sinan Mansion, Feng Tang asked to go back by himself, so Zhao Ran let him go and turned around to return to Yingtian.
After walking not far, Luo Niang asked, "Where is it?"
Soon I received the flying talisman from Luo Niang: "I almost forgot, I want to compete with you to see if I can defeat you with ten moves. Remember to tell me after the wedding banquet, I will wait for you in Chenshan."
Feng Tang replied: "What kind of wedding banquet? There's already a funeral!"
"Are you kidding me? What happened? Who died?"
"Who else could it be? Yu Zhiyuan! He jumped off the cliff!"
"No way, I just scolded him a few times...why is he so hard to think about it?"
"How many curses did you say?"
"I didn't curse a few words...just for a while..."
"How long will it take?"
"Just a moment, less than half an hour..."
"Now people are dead!"
"sorry......"
Feng Tang took a deep breath: "You are in Chenshan, right? I will go over now and have a fight as you wish!"
When Feng Tang rushed to Chenshan, Zhao Ran and Rong Niang had already left the boundary of Guizhou. They looked at the clouds outside the Lingbao Glazed Shuttle and the blue mountains and the earth for a while, and found that Rong Niang had been flying the talisman non-stop.
He was going back and forth, so he asked: "What are you busy with?"
Rong Niang said: "Find a channel to see if we can communicate with Tong Baimei."
Of course Zhao Ran knew what she meant by communication, and shook his head to stop him: "Don't talk to him. Such a person cannot communicate privately. If you do, he will publicize it and use it to prove your fault.
"
"or……"
"Not even possible!"
Rong Niang said: "Then what should I do? You can't let him talk nonsense and slander you at will. It will have a great impact on your reputation.
Zhao Ran also had a headache: "Think about it again."
Tong Baimei is old, has a high level of cultivation, and has outstanding military exploits. He has a reputation as a pavilion, but he often evades the constraints of the pavilion by claiming to be a registered disciple. He is the most troublesome type of person. This kind of person is like
Like a copper pea, it cannot be bitten, chewed or smashed, and because you do not make a big mistake of principle, you cannot hold your sore leg and roll around in the bowl, making it impossible for you to enjoy your meal.
It is really difficult to eat and chip your teeth if you are not careful.
Zhao Ran didn't have a good way to deal with this, he could only take it one step at a time, and use it as he saw it.
After returning to Yingtian, he continued to devote all his energy to the East China Sea strategy.
Throughout November, the battle between the inspection fleet and the pirate alliance was maintained on a long military transport line from Daleishan Island to Linbo Island, Songmao Island, and then to Luoye Island. But in September and October
Compared with last month, the scale of the pirate alliance's raids has been shrinking, from hundreds of warships to dozens or even a dozen, and the frequency has increased from a few times a month to more than ten or even dozens of times.
Faced with such a situation, the inspection fleet adopted two response methods.
One is to adopt an escort arrangement for all ships. All merchant ships that want to enter the East China Sea will be organized into a fleet together with container ships, and will be escorted out to sea by a convoy fleet. The size of the escort fleet is generally maintained at more than a hundred warships.
The second is to desperately organize warships to join the fleet. Once one is built on the slipway, one will be assembled. If three or five ships are gathered, they will be transported to Yuanjue Island, and the scale of the escort fleet will be continuously expanded.
During the month of repeated confrontations between the two sides, despite the extremely intensive frequency of attacks, there were fewer and fewer real naval battles, and the number of ships damaged in the battle gradually decreased to zero.
Chen Miianzhu had been following the pre-agreed flying talisman mark, asking the pirates about the progress through the transfer ship, waiting for the "big victory" mentioned by the leader of the Wutong Alliance, but he never received a definite answer. He was only told to wait patiently.
After December, there were fewer and fewer replies to Chen Miuzhu. He would often ask twice and three times before getting a reply: "Wait."
In mid-December, under the urging of Qianxun Taotong, who was "very concerned" and "very curious" about this matter, and "as a friend, I am bored and want to inquire about it", Chen Miuzhu flew the talisman again.
The transit ship sent back an obviously presumptuous reply: "Don't wait for news of a great victory. The alliance is already disbanded."
Chen Miuzhu asked: "Who is the shopkeeper?"
The other party replied: "Isn't it illegal for Boss Chen to ask this?"
Chen Miuzhu said: "Do we, the island owners' alliance, still have rules now?"
The other party replied: "Why not?"
Chen Miuzhu said: "Rules are based on a solid foundation. They are stable and not easily broken. Do you think our rules can be stable?"
The other party was silent for a long time and replied: "Who said this?"
"What Abbot Zhao said about Cockcrow Watching."
"Shopkeeper Qingshan is indeed right, you voted for Taoism? What conditions did they give you?"
Seeing this sentence, Chen Miuzhu sighed and spread his hands to Qianxun Taoist: "How do you answer this? We can't continue talking."
Qianxun Daotong raised his little neck and pondered hard for a long time, then said: "Ask him what conditions he wants."
Chen Miuzhu said: "This... is too direct. If you ask this question, it will easily break down the conversation, and you won't be able to get any information from him in the future. Besides, my family is still on Ling'ao Island.
just in case......"
Qianxun encouraged: "Try it. You didn't admit it, you just asked a question."
Chen Miuzhu thought for a while and took a deep breath: "Okay, then I can try it?"
"Try it!"
"If it were you, what conditions would you like?"
The time spent waiting for a reply was excruciating. After waiting in fear for a long time, I finally received a reply from the other party: "My surname is Shu, but my single name is Chi."
Instead of directly answering Chen Miuzhu's conditions for instigating rebellion, he answered his last question, and a sense of hesitation came over him.
Qianxun Taotong jumped up and raised his arms and cheered: "Old Chen, there is a way!"
Chen Miuzhu's hands were also shaking a little: "I have an impression of this person. She is the only child of the Shu family on the Chengyun Islands. She is a very young girl. What do you think you should answer?"
When it came to the last moment, these two people did not dare to talk nonsense, but time did not allow them to speculate over and over again. Qianxun Taotong suggested: "Go to the meeting hall quickly!"
The joint meeting was discussing the war in the council hall. They immediately stopped all topics and everyone brainstormed. Tang Yaozu from Xianling Palace was a professional in Sanqing Pavilion and had great experience in instigating rebellion. He immediately said: "Talk to her about other things?"
Chen Miuzhu asked: "What else are you talking about?"
Tang Yaozu urged: "You ask first, anything. For example, you ask a few people the Shu family may know, people you all know, and ask about their current situation."
Chen Miuzhu and Shu Chi chatted back and forth for several rounds, while Tang Yaozu kept writing down and whispering to Wei Chaozong from time to time.
As they talked, they talked about the current situation. Shu Chi was very pessimistic about whether he could survive in the future, because the leader of the Wutong Alliance said that the Taoist sect had drawn up a list, and all the shopkeepers participating in the alliance would be killed.
head.
Lu Yuanyuan interrupted: "Hurry up and explain to her that we have never said this and will never do it. Only the most serious crimes..."
Tang Yaozu quickly stopped: "No! Just tell her that you can seek asylum for her and keep her family safe."
Lu Yuanyuan was confused, Tang Yaozu said: "Don't explain, put some pressure on her."