"We must first find out how Hou Jian controlled those county soldiers, so that we can destroy them. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will win a hundred battles. If those county soldiers have given up, we will have to fight hard to break the siege of Chengdu!" Su
Ren Zai Wen Dang took action.
Wen Dang nodded: "That makes sense. I wonder where Zi Heng is going to start? Now that the army is outside the city, things are a bit urgent!"
Changshi nodded quickly: "Yes! Hou Jian may lead his troops to attack at any time. With our current defense alone, I'm afraid we won't be able to last for a few hours."
"There's no need to worry. Logically speaking, Hou Jian won't attack the city tonight, so we still have one night, so we have to make full use of it!"
"Okay! Just give the orders to Zi Heng. From now on, all officials in Chengdu will be dispatched by Zi Heng!" Wen Dang took a deep breath and looked at the large circle of officials at all levels in Shu County.
Su Ren stood up and bowed to everyone: "The situation is urgent, so I got bold!"
"First of all, please ask the prefect and other officials to go to the big houses in the city immediately and persuade them to arm their servants and send them to guard the city!"
Wen Dang nodded in agreement.
Su Ren looked at Thief Cao and Hu Cao again: "Please two gentlemen, please lead some people to inspect various places in the city to guard against those who want to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble. The soldiers are outside. From now on, Chengdu will implement a curfew. Anyone who is still wandering outside in the middle of the night
, arrest them first, and if any suspicious persons are found, they will be executed on the spot!"
Thief Cao and Hu Cao looked at Wen Dang. Wen Dang nodded, and they quickly agreed.
"Jin Cao and Cang Cao led people to take good care of the treasury and granary. These two places are very important. If these two places are not lost, it should not be a big problem if we stick to it for two months! Please rest assured, teacher, I will express my position on behalf of the Sichuan Chamber of Commerce and will never be disrespectful.
The prices of items are high, as long as we don’t mess up, we will have a chance to compete with Hou Jian!"
"Okay! Did you hear what Zi Heng said? If there is nothing else, let's go get busy!" Wen Dang made a concluding speech, and everyone hurried out and started busy.
The senior officials of Shu County had no meaning for Su Ren's arrangements, and they all went to implement them. Leng Jun came to Su Ren's side and said, "Are you a bit too much today? If this doesn't happen, the blame will be on you alone."
"I can't care much anymore!" Su Ren's face was full of thoughts: "Speaking of which, Hou Jian's siege is mostly for us. Even if someone gossips, it can only be like this. Let's go to Meng Mansion and have a look. I hope we can figure it out from there.
How did Hou Jian control the county soldiers!"
Chengdu was full of tension at night. Groups of servants from various families who came to support them hurriedly ran to the tower with weapons in hand. Although there was little morale, the advantage was that there were more people. As long as everyone gathered together, fear would naturally disappear.
It will be a little less.
The thief Cao and his men beat the gong and loudly told the people hiding in the house not to come out if nothing happened, otherwise they would be treated as people with evil intentions. There were also sounds from the treasury and granary, and the city of Chengdu was plunged into an atmosphere of imminent war.
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At the entrance of Meng Mansion, two huge white lanterns illuminated the door brightly. On top of the door, a huge white flower showed that the family was holding a funeral. There was no servant guarding the door, and the courtyard door was also wide open. Four waists
The caravan guards with their swords hanging were sitting on the threshold chatting. When they saw Su Ren coming from a distance, the leader quickly gave an order and came towards Su Ren.
"Is there nothing wrong?"
The leading guard saluted Su Ren and Leng Jun: "It's okay. We killed several people. The Meng family is very honest now!"
Huang Shisan hurriedly came out of the door and saluted Su Ren: "Why are you here, sir? But you want to deal with these bastards of the Meng family?"
Entering the yard, you immediately see the mourning hall in the lobby. Meng Ji's coffin is facing the gate. The paper horses around it are lifelike, with golden boys and beautiful girls, horses with light fur, and even a gorgeous palace. In addition to these colorful paper horses
, everything else was pitch black, with pitch black coffins, pitch black clothes, and only a dim yellow oil lamp was on in the pitch black lobby. Everyone in the Meng Mansion, both the master and the servants, were trapped inside, with more than a dozen guard stations.
Surveillance all around.
"Go and bring Meng Bi out and find a house. I want to ask him a few questions!" Su Ren didn't want to see any mourning hall, let alone enter that unlucky place.
Huang Shisan agreed and took people in to find Meng Bi.
Leng Jun frowned: "Na Mengbi has become mute, how can you ask?"
Su Ren gave Leng Jun a look of disdain: "Who said a mute can't ask questions? If you can't speak, you can still write!"
"Oh!" Leng Jun smiled awkwardly. The two of them entered Meng Ji's study under the leadership of a guard.
Meng Bi looked more like a walking corpse. He sat down when he was asked to sit down and drank tea when asked to drink tea. His face was expressionless and his eyes were staring straight ahead. Su Ren lay in front of Meng Bi and looked at it for a long time, confirming that Meng Bi
After his eyes couldn't even blink, he stood up.
"I asked you to come and ask you something. As long as you tell me, I guarantee that no one in your Meng family will die again!" Su Ren sat down again, shook his clothes, crossed his legs, and picked up the tea bowl.
The Mengji family's Taishi chair is the finest Taishi chair. Su Ren only made ten of these chairs in total, all of which are made of fine sandalwood. These ten Taishi chairs were spliced according to the natural grain of the sandalwood and painted several times with varnish.
, if you don’t look carefully, you can’t even see the gaps between the mortise and tenon joints on the chair. It looks like it grew naturally and is integrated.
This kind of chair is comfortable to sit on. It is neither too big nor too small. It just wraps up the whole body. You can reach out and touch the smooth armrests. If you lean back slightly, the curvature of the back of the chair will be exactly in line with the spine, without any effort from the body.
Meng Bi said nothing, with the same expression, looking at Su Ren with both eyes. Leng Jun sent the prepared bamboo slips and writing brush to Meng Bi, but Meng Bi did not move.
"Haha! It's okay if you don't tell me, I won't embarrass you!" Su Ren smiled and winked at Huang Shisan.
Huang Shisan grabbed Meng Bi's collar, carried Meng Bi and walked out the door. Meng Liu, who was dressed in mourning clothes, knelt down in the yard tremblingly, her hair was disheveled, she was no longer as glamorous as before, and she was crying.
He looked at the group of guards around him and when he saw Meng Bi came out, he quickly shouted: "Bier, save me!"
Huang Shisan placed Meng Bi in front of the door, pulled out the long sword from his waist, and strode towards the Meng Liu family with a fierce look on his face, which frightened the Meng Liu family and quickly backed away. There were guards all around, and they moved a
The middle-aged ladies with no strength in their hands gathered around the middle, watching Huang Shisan attack Meng Liu with expressionless faces.
"Bier! Save me, save my mother!" Mrs. Meng Liu kicked her feet on the ground, trying to avoid Huang Shisan's entanglement: "Don't come here, don't come here! Bi'er, save me!"
Su Ren appeared behind Meng Bi, put a hand gently on Meng Bi's shoulder, and lay next to Meng Bi's ear: "Do you understand? If you don't tell me, I will let you watch the Meng family.
People die in front of you one by one. Seeing their pain and howling, you have to look at it. They all died because of you. Your body will be stained by your mother, your grandmother, your aunt, your sister, and even
The blood of those two vicious dogs in your backyard. When I finish killing them, I won't kill you, and I won't let you die. You will see their shadows every day when you close your eyes. You know what it feels like.
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Meng Bi's eyes opened wider and wider, looking at his mother, he clenched his fists, gritted his teeth hard, and blood flowed from his mouth.
"I'll give you another chance!"
Su Ren sent the bamboo slips and pen and ink to Meng Bi again. Meng Bi closed his eyes in pain, looked at Su Ren, muttered a few words, and then looked at Huang Shisan and Meng Liu.
Su Ren smiled slightly: "That's right! Lao Huang, stop!"
Leng Jun has been following Su Ren. What Su Ren said just now made him shudder.
Taking advantage of Meng Bi's opportunity to write, Leng Jun pulled Su Ren aside: "Is what you just said true?"
"What's true?"
"If you want to kill the entire Meng family!"
Su Ren stared at Leng Jun for a long time: "What do you think?"
Leng Jun shook his head: "It's hard to say. I find that I don't understand you more and more. Although you have never killed anyone with your own hands, your hands have long been stained red with human blood!"
"People in the arena involuntarily!"
Su Ren put down this sentence and read the confession written by Meng Bi.
Outside the city of Chengdu, piles of bonfires illuminated the entire city wall. Some were set up by county soldiers and some were set up by guards guarding the city. Everyone knew that the city would not be attacked at night, but they still felt uneasy. Click.
After setting up piles of bonfires and seeing people outside and inside the city, they felt more at ease.
Hou Jian and Hou Si sat beside the largest bonfire, drinking and talking.
Hou Jiandao: "They have already made their attitude clear by killing the people we sent to shout out the message. They will not talk to us! Are they really going to attack the city tomorrow?"
Hou Si sighed: "It's not that easy. Didn't the master notice that there were more and more people on the city? Most of them are servants of wealthy families in the city, and Su Ren is not idle!"
"I regret it now!"
Hou Si knew what Hou Jian meant by these words. If he hadn't been coerced by the Liu family, Hou Jian would not be in this situation today. However, there is no regret medicine in this world. It is too late to say such words at this time.
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"It's better..."
Hou Si quickly signaled Hou Jian to shut up with his eyes, and looked around. There was no movement in the darkness. The crackling wood was burning vigorously, and the flames were rising one by one. They had just finished dinner, and there was no sound in the air.
The scent of corn was still there. He stood up and walked towards the pile of firewood. He reached out and picked up two firewood. He looked around and felt that the firewood in his right hand was a bit thick, so he threw it away and picked another one that came to hand.
"Bang!" Meng Wei was caught off guard, and Hou Si hit his head hard with the firewood in his hand. Blood flowed down his forehead, and his entire facial features were distorted. Looking at the tall and thin Hou Si in the night, Meng Wei could only
He raised his fingers and pointed, but couldn't say a single word.
"I thought I should get rid of this guy a long time ago, now it's better!" Hou Jian glanced at it and didn't feel surprised. He threw the bloody firewood that Hou Si had thrown on the ground into the bonfire, and then took the photo.
Clapping: "Let's go, it's getting late!" (To be continued)