Dark Fairy

Chapter 244
"Zao Dao, this is the latest news."

While eating breakfast, the bodyguard handed an envelope delivered from the pier before dawn to Bailang's breakfast table.The envelope was not signed, but it was sealed with wax.

Bailang nodded, instead of going to get the envelope, he continued to have breakfast with his younger siblings, and then told them to be more serious in class.After this year, at the beginning of next year, there will be elections for admission to government schools.Generally, in addition to the recommendation letter, there are also basic virtues and academic assessments. He doesn't want the two children to relax too much and cause the boat to capsize in the gutter.

The two young ones have basically adapted to their new home, new status, and new life.I even got used to it, being protected by the swordsman from the knife shop wherever I go.They were also used to the awe and caution shown to them by both their masters and classmates in the school.

It's just that Bai Yan and Bai Yuankai have different views on the maids at home.

Bai Yan is kind-hearted, and also a child who has endured hardships, so she has empathy for the maids who also come from miserable backgrounds, and will always treat the maids around her with kindness.At the same time, he does not treat the other person as a tool to be manipulated at will, but as a person like himself.

Bai Yuankai is also kind-hearted, but he doesn't put himself in the same position as the maid.Do what you need to do, but you don't deliberately make things difficult for the other party.And Bai Yuankai was always full of curiosity when it came to his first close contact with a girl of the same age other than his sister.In my heart, there was a sign of a boy turning into a man, and it began to emerge slowly.

Wait until the two younger ones go to school.Bai Lang then picked up the envelope on the table and opened it.

"When was it delivered"

"It's not bright in the morning, so I came with the boat."

Sitting on an important road for water and land transportation, Bailang naturally knew how to obtain news from various places.Even if there is not the fastest official reporting network like the Yamen and the City Lord's Mansion, it is still possible to get all the news you want through the routes of boat gangs and carriages, but the timeliness will be slightly delayed.

Bailang quickly read the message in the envelope.The content is not long, but it also gives an overview of the situation south of Changshui in the past half month.

"This situation seems to be getting worse and worse!"

Changshui can't directly reach the vicinity of Pengshan, and even the tributaries can only disappear hundreds of miles away from Pengshan, and merge into various small water systems like fluff.

However, as an important waterway for sending supplies and troops to the south from the east and north, the Changshui line can still obtain a lot of general information about Pengshan with relative convenience.

These days, Bailang would receive such a message every half a month, which he asked the boat gang to collect with money, or he bought it directly from the boat gang.There are not a few forces doing the same thing as him.

More than a month ago, the situation in the south was still "the wind is jittery", but now it can be described as "the grass and trees are all soldiers".

Previously, the Bingfeng line from the south of Pengshan City to Pengshanguan had been designated as a highly alert war zone all year round.But now Bingfeng has clearly surpassed Pengshan City and spread towards the vast Tianfeng Plain behind it.

Small towns that were originally inconspicuous have now become important military towns, with tens of thousands of troops stationed inside, and various fortifications and forts being built around them.Judging from the posture, they are preparing to directly expand the defensive structure of Pengshan City's front line and tear the Tianfeng Plain to pieces. They want to turn the smooth road into a natural chasm.

Of course, no one can draw a conclusion as to what this idea is.It may become a joke, or it may become an important measure to resist Yunyan.

After all, the previous defeats in the national war also gave Hong Chao a lot of failure experience that can be used as a warning, avoiding many pitfalls.Therefore, Hong Chao's strategy now will naturally start from new aspects that have not been proposed before.

And it is not realistic to arm the entire Tianfeng Plain.As a result, there is not so much labor that can be deployed centrally.Secondly, there is not enough time.Therefore, we can only choose small cities that are important transportation hubs for targeted arming.

This is the most important news, and it also intuitively reflects Hong Chao's judgment on the situation, as well as the progress of the battle at Pengshan Pass.To put it bluntly, it has reached a precarious point.Even if news suddenly came tomorrow that Yunyan's barbarians had breached Pengshan Pass, it wouldn't be too sudden.After all, all signs are already preparing for this worst possibility.

After breakfast, as soon as Bailang arrived in Masheng Alley, he saw Yang Xiu had been waiting outside for a long time at the gate of the knife courtyard he had set up.Waiting outside the yard with Yang Xiu are Wang Bing and Zhang Wu.

"Come in and talk."

Since Bailang secured the seat of the sword shop, he changed many unwritten rules in the sword shop, most of which were related to etiquette.A lot of so-called rules where the ritual component is greater than the actual meaning have been removed, so that the communication between the upper and lower levels can be simpler and faster.Instead of repeatedly pulling yourself over and over again every time you meet.

So now the people under the sword shop can come to Bailang directly as long as they have a legitimate reason, regardless of whether they are red swords or waist swords.Bailang doesn't put on airs either, as long as he has time, he will find time to meet him.

After entering the courtyard, Wang Bing and Zhang Wu consciously went to the waiter to continue waiting, giving Yang Xiu the opportunity to talk first, even though they were the first to arrive today.

Entering the study, it is not spacious, but compact, and there will be an informal sense of intimacy.

"Zu Dao, the first plan to muddy the waters has been completed!" As soon as the door of the study room was closed, Yang Xiu couldn't wait to pour out all the results of last night's first real move against external forces in the industrial park. come out.

"According to your instructions, the Liao family has become the first target of suspicion. Coupled with the news that Zhou and Hou are actively selling their members, the gloomy atmosphere in the industrial park has been disrupted in one fell swoop. After these four external forces have taken their own hands You should not do it lightly until the thread in the thread is sorted out."

Bailang also smiled when he heard the words.He nodded and said, "So the good things the Liao family "did" have been exposed?"

"Yes, Zuo Dao. He has been questioned face to face. It is not known what the situation was at the scene, but it must have been very unpleasant. The faces of the four families were very bad when they came out. The Liao family was at the front, and the Liao family was at the back. The three families deliberately avoided them. The estrangement has already begun to emerge."

Bailang thought for a while, and decided: "We can't wait for them to figure things out before we move. We'll probably expose our flaws. We're going to fight a quick battle and catch them by surprise! Don't they want to sort out the ins and outs? Let's But they can’t let them get what they want. The second step of the plan can start tonight, and you should go there yourself. Continue to put the Liao family on top of your head.”

"Do you need to leave any survivors or holes this time?"

"No need! Don't leave any flaws or survivors alive. The cleaner the killing, the more the remaining two families will think of the Liao family. Let's see how these four families can respond in the end."

(End of this chapter)