Late Tang

The night came quickly, and Song Wei and the others felt that they had too little time to prepare.But Wang Jingwu felt that the darkness was very slow today. He had already sharpened his weapons and was waiting for the night to fall, but he waited for the night to fall when he was a little anxious.

Wang Jingwu's house is very large, and it is the house where the Wang family lived for generations.It is not so much a house, but a small castle is more suitable.The entire family of the Wang family lives here, and dozens of branches and hundreds of people live in this large Wang family mansion next to each other.Wang Jingwu's Mansion of Soldiers and Horses actually refers to an old house to the east of the whole mansion.

However, although the house is old, it has been beautifully repaired. The whole house is made of blue bricks for the walls and green tiles for the roof.The vermilion lacquer gate, with halberds in front of the gate, the only thing Wang Jingwu regrets is that there are six big banners missing in front of the gate.The Wang family has controlled Qingzhou Yabing for many years, and has held many positions as commander in chief, but they have never really taken the position of commander in chief in Ziqing Town.

On the street in front of the mansion, there has been an endless stream of vehicles and horses.The curtains of the carriages were lifted, and all the people who came out were prominent figures in Qingzhou City.But now it's just getting dark, and none of the people who come here are big figures.Most of them were merchants who were so excited that they couldn't believe it when they received the invitation.Although these merchants are very rich, some even have billions of dollars, but merchants are only merchants after all. In the eyes of big men like Wang Jingwu, they are just insignificant figures.But today, a big man like Wang Jingwu actually invited them to the big wedding banquet for the birth of his son-in-law, which made those businessmen feel proud.

On the side of the gate, the steward of the mansion has already brought dozens of servants to lay out the old case, prepared pens and ink, and is mercilessly accepting gifts.Wang Jingwu's son's wedding banquet was not so delicious.Whoever is lucky enough to come here is not presented with boxes of all kinds of rare and precious things. Without thousands of gifts, it is impossible to take them out at all.The palace selected a few servants with the loudest voices, who were standing behind the steward of receiving presents, and would yell loudly every time they received a gift list.

It was very busy outside, but Wang Jingwu was a little restless at this time, and his eyelids kept twitching.In the end, he simply walked to the backyard alone, took out the double-edged battle ax that he had inherited from his family, and started sharpening it on the millstone.This tomahawk has been passed down for many years, and it is said to have a history of a hundred years.It was the weapon of an ancestor of the Wang family a hundred years ago.It is said that the Wang family was not developed at that time, and it was just a small family.That ancestor was a blacksmith. Later, during the Anshi Rebellion, he joined the army with the battle ax he made.Because of his bravery and outstanding performance, he finally became a team leader.

From then on, the children of the Wang family joined the army from generation to generation, and took over the ax one by one.By the time Wang Jingwu took over the ax from his father, the Wang family was already a Qingzhou dental general who was attacked by father and son.

While sharpening the axe, Wang Jingwu thought of his father's regrets when he was dying.From his generation, the Wang family has controlled Qingzhou Yabing for three generations.There have been several times when the Wang family had the opportunity to seize the position of Jiedushi.But both his grandfather and his father were cautious enough to miss that opportunity.Before his death, his father told Wang Jingwu that if there is such an opportunity again, don't miss it.

When the blades on both sides of the tomahawk were sharp enough to shave the beard on his face, Wang Jingwu finally calmed down, and he became more determined to do this time.He knew that this was his last chance, Song Wei was no more handsome than those before, if he didn't do it, the Wang family might never have the chance to win the handsome position again.

The sky was completely dark, and the palace was decorated with lanterns and festoons, as bright as day.Countless guests came with heavy gifts, and there was a flood of cars and horses in front of the Wang family's gate.General Wang Jing put the sharpened battle ax back into the gold inlaid wooden box made of golden nanmu, personally sent him to the ancestral hall of his family, and enshrined it in front of his father's tablet.

Coming out of the ancestral hall, there are left and right wing rooms in front, and the doors of the wing rooms are tightly closed at this time.But Wang Jingwu knew that at this moment, there were a total of [-] swordsmen ambushing inside, all of them were his elite servants.It's a pity that Liu Xun and Li Jing haven't come back yet, it's not as good as today's occasion, with that kid around, it must make him feel more at ease.

He went back to his room to take a shower and change his clothes, and changed into a set of scarlet round-neck official robes, with a hard-footed headband on his head.Waiting for the maid to help him get dressed, looking at himself in the bronze mirror, Wang Jingwu thought in his heart that the scarlet robe would be worn to the end after all, after tonight, maybe he should change into the purple robe.

Went to his wife's west courtyard, his wife was wearing a handkerchief on her head, and she was watching several women bathing his newborn son.The little guy was fat and white, kicking around in the water, splashing a splash of water. The 14-year-old and 12-year-old pro daughters also stood aside and looked at their younger brother.But the eldest son is not there, there is no place for him here.When his wife and daughter came up to greet him, Wang Jingwu waved his hand and looked at his son with smiles in his eyes.

Touching his son's delicate skin with his hands, Wang Jingwu said softly: "I have already thought of a name for you. Your concubine brother is called Shiyue, and you are called Shifan, Wang Shifan. Son, just now your father handed down the ax handed down to you by the society. It's finished, our Wang family is finally going to win the commander-in-chief position. You kid will grow up soon, and when I get old, the position of the commander-in-chief of the Pinglu Army will be yours."

The butler outside came to report: "General, the guests are almost here, and the general will start the banquet."

"Have Song Wei and the others arrived?"

"Here we are. Song Wei, Cui Yunqing, Kang Chenghui, and the supervisor Zhang Wanrong are all here. They are about to enter the mansion right now, but they have brought a lot of gifts, and there are dozens of them from each family." With a smile on his face, when he received the gift just now, the people from those families also gave him a lot of money.

"Since Song Wei is here, let me go and greet you." Wang Jingwu said, after tonight, Song Wei and the others won't have any prestige, let them enjoy the feeling of being handsome again, starting tomorrow, The handsome guy in this section is himself.

In front of the gate of the palace, Li Jing followed Song Wei, and the remaining [-] soldiers from the special warfare capital were placed by Li Jing next to Cui Yunqing and other officials in Jieshuai's mansion to act as servants.With these two hundred special warfare soldiers around, Li Jing's heart was much more at ease.However, when entering the mansion, there was still a small problem.

Dingtou, the gatekeeper of the palace, actually refused to let Zhao Jiang and others enter.

"What are you going to do? Are cats and dogs allowed to go in here? Your master can go in, but you can't go in."Li Jing frowned, of course these people couldn't stay outside, otherwise, the plan would have failed.

After thinking about it, Li Jing thought about it, walked over and just kicked that guy's head over.After kicking him over, Li Jing acted arrogantly on purpose, pointed at the servant and said, "Kill you dead, it's a reward for the commander to come, and you dare to embarrass the brothers under the commander. What do you mean, what do you mean, huh?"

At this time, many servants rushed over with guns and sticks when they saw this.Li Jing was even more afraid of chaos, so he gave Zhao Jiang and others a wink, and Zhao Jiang and others rushed over immediately, and directly raised their hands at the servants of the palace.

At the gate, Li Jing made a move, but of course the other party refused to show weakness, and immediately the two sides fought into a ball, punching and kicking.Countless guests were amazed to watch, no one in Qingzhou knew that Song Dashuai and Wang Yajiang were at odds with each other.But everyone didn't expect that the people on both sides usually fight a lot, but if they fight on such an occasion today, isn't this deliberately smashing the field.

Over there, Wang Jingwu just came out to greet Song Wei, but immediately heard a commotion in front of the mansion, and asked what happened, but the servants reported that the servants of several high-ranking officials in the Shuai Mansion had fought with the servants in the mansion.Wang Jingwu was so angry that his face turned blue, and even fought at any time.Even if it's a big thing, can't you just bear it, wait a while, when the time comes, why can't you get it back?

Song Wei pretended to be surprised when he heard this, and came to the gate together with Wang Jingwu.At this time, Li Jing and the others were already in a mess. In order to avoid arousing suspicion, Li Jing and the others also left room for their actions, and only acted at the level of ordinary servants.Dozens and hundreds of people on both sides brawled, and the scene was very spectacular.

Wang Jingwu yelled several times before controlling the scene.

"What's going on?" Wang Jingwu asked with a dark face, but his eyes were fixed on the boy's head.

Without waiting for the servant to speak, Li Jing stood up first, helped the slightly crooked head, and said loudly: "What is going on, a group of dog slaves from your Wang family, I will follow the commander to give you gifts to celebrate, but you The dog servants are still uttering vicious words, deliberately embarrassing people, dogs see people as inferior. It is this kind of dog servants who beat up, today our commander-in-chief will teach Wang Ya a lesson for these dog servants who don't know the upper and lower ranks."

"Wang Cai, you are really embarrassing my Wang family. You actually made such a joke, and you will go to collect twenty sticks by yourself in a while. Now tell me clearly, what is going on?" Wang Jingwu asked the servant.The servant was full of grievances. He didn't know what happened before, so he was chased by a group of servants from the commander's mansion and beat him. .

"My surname is Wang, you don't need to come out and put on a show. The matter is very simple. We came here with the commander-in-chief to show you face. Everyone even gave you a gift to follow, but they didn't let us enter the mansion. What's the matter? .Is it true that the money we give out is not money, only the gifts from merchants are money. If there is such a rule, then you return the money sent by our brothers, and we will not care about you Palace."

Zhao Jiang also booed and shouted: "**** is just a Yajiang, I only came here to save you, and you are still looking down on others. Damn, when did the Yajiang's mansion actually ride on the head of the commander-in-chief's mansion?" Shit. I only heard that Ziqing Town is the biggest Jieshuai, but I have never heard that Yajiang is bigger than Jieshuai."

Li Jing and Li Jing sang and drank, Wang Jingwu's face turned livid, and now almost all the respectable people in Qingzhou have arrived.When they said this, Wang Jingwu felt that his face was lost.He wanted to explode in his heart, at this time, his confidants whispered in his ear: "General, don't be angry with them, bear with it for a while. Since these thousand-sword killers are rushing to reincarnate, why not let them in. After a while When you do it, just kill them all." Seeing that Wang Jingwu was still a little hesitant, he said again: "The left and right are just a group of soldiers and ruffians, even if there are more people, they still won't kill them all at once."

Wang Jingwu held back his anger, first saluted Song Wei, and accompanied him.Then asked: "This brother is so strange, why haven't I seen him before."

Li Jing squinted at the sky, and said with a sneer: "This is Song Yusong Sanlang, nephew of the Marshal. He just came from Chang'an, the capital city. You haven't seen anything unusual."

The corner of Wang Jingwu's mouth twitched, and he said with a forced smile: "So it's the nephew of the commander-in-chief, so he's from his own family. Just now, the servants from the lower levels didn't wink at him. How offended. Please, Mr. Song, since these brothers from the commander-in-chief's mansion came to join us Let's have a feast together, please!"

Li Jing snorted coldly, with his nostrils upturned, deliberately pretending to be arrogant and followed Song Wei in. The guards at the door saw that Li Jing and the others were carrying soldiers and horses, and asked them to disarm.Li Jing pretended to be furious: "My knife was made by the most famous Master Yuwen in Chang'an. A horizontal knife is worth a thousand guan. If you keep it and lose it, can you afford it? Can you afford it?"

Zhao Jiang also immediately yelled: "I am the commander-in-chief's personal soldier. I have to protect the commander-in-chief anytime and anywhere. How can I hand over the knife to you? When fighting against Pang Xun's rebels, when fighting Nanzhao people desperately , They haven't untied Lao Tzu's knife, what are you guys, you want to use Lao Tzu's knife. Come on, is it not enough for you to relax your muscles and bones just now, then let's fight another [-] rounds. If you have the ability , you should show some real kung fu and untie my saber yourself."

"Enough!" Wang Jingwu was so angry that smoke almost came out of his nostrils, "It's a happy day today, what are you arguing about. Wang Cai, let them carry weapons." Song Wei and others pretended to criticize Li Jing, and then went in After that, Li Jing and the others entered immediately.

The Wang family's banquet was very luxurious. Because there were too many guests, the Wang family divided the banquet into several halls.According to the different identities of the people, they are arranged in different halls.For example, Wang Jingwu arranged Song Wei and other civil and military officials from Jieshuai's mansion and Qingzhou in the main hall.Although Li Jing and his group had quarreled for a long time, they finally sneaked in, but in the end they were also arranged in the front yard dozens of steps away from the main hall.It is true that the Wang family did not prepare seats for other people in advance. When people like Li Jing came in, they had to temporarily arrange a yard and set up a long table, which was regarded as entertainment.

After entering the courtyard, many maids from the Wang family came over to serve wine but no food. Seeing that the food was served, Li Jing waved those maids away.Those maids were also unwilling to serve Li Jing, a group of lowly soldiers, and left happily.After everyone left, Li Jing yelled loudly to eat and drink, but at the same time, she looked around the yard.After sizing it up, Li Jing couldn't help being pleasantly surprised. This place is less than thirty steps away from the main hall, and he can rush into the main hall in just one breath.What's more important is that there is no one else in the small courtyard they stayed in except them.

"Get ready guys, as soon as there is a noise such as throwing a cup in the hall, we will rush in immediately. Pay attention to two points, the brothers in the first team are responsible for protecting the commander, Cui Sima, Zhang Jianjun and others. The second team My brother caught Wang Jingwu as soon as possible, remember, it is best to capture him alive. But if there is no chance, he can die, just don’t let him escape!”

"understand!"

(To be continued)