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Chapter 271
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"Head, the head of Zhang Haogu's little dog!" Yuan Chongyu's voice was so cold that it made people feel goosebumps all over his body, "If the two big shopkeepers take this gift to Dajinhan , then I can assure you that not only will you be taken in by the Dajin Kingdom, but you will also become the guests of the Dajin Palace, where you will be honored, rich, and powerful, with high officials and generous salaries, all at your fingertips."

"The head of Zhang Xiaogou?" The faces of the Li family brothers turned pale.Li Jiabin tremblingly said: "Shopkeeper Yuan, don't make jokes, Zhang Haogu's little dog is the incumbent Xuanda governor, killing him is tantamount to treason, and it is a serious crime to exterminate the nine clans! Besides, you just now As I said, the thousands of fellow boatmen in our hands are not enough to fill his army's teeth, so even if our brothers dare to kill him, how can we possibly kill him?"

"Is there any difference between the two big shopkeepers, beheading and confiscating the family and exterminating the nine clans?" Yuan Chongyu said slowly: "If you don't take this risk, then it goes without saying that the heads of your two brothers will fall. If your family is lucky enough to be exiled into the army, if you are unlucky, your children and grandchildren will still be killed and die worse than you, and your beautiful wife and concubines, daughters and granddaughters, if you are lucky, you can marry a poor man in a remote area , live a life of bitterness, if you are unlucky, you will be crushed by thousands of people, and you will wear countless green hats when you die. What is the difference between this and death? And your wealth is invincible. And all of them will fall into the hands of Wei Lao, Zhang Xiao and their lackeys, and let them enjoy the wealth that your generations of talents have worked hard for, are you willing?"

"So, now you only have to take a gamble!" Speaking of this, Yuan Chongyu slowed down his voice and said slowly: "Anyway, you are dead, so you might as well take a gamble. If you win, then you will have everything .”

Brothers Li Jiaguo and Li Jiabin were shaken naturally by Yuan Chongyu's words.Yuan Chongyu looked at his words, and said darkly: "As for how to kill Zhang Haogu's little dog, isn't there a huge opportunity in front of you right now? You also said just now that Zhang Haogu's little dog is just coming first. Well, his army won't arrive in Tongzhou until noon tomorrow. That is to say, tonight, around Zhang Haogu's little dog, there are at most a dozen or twenty personal guards to protect him. Spit, you can drown him!"

"Brother, Master Yuan's words make sense, let's fight!" Li Jiabin made up his mind and said to Li Jiaguo: "Both left and right are dead, so it's better to bet this one, if you can kill Zhang Haogu, the little dog, Then we are the great heroes of the Dajin Kingdom, we can get what we want, and we will have a chance to make a comeback in the future! Even if we can't kill him tonight, we still have a chance to escape."

The weather was so cold that dripping water turned to ice, but Li Jiaguo, the head of the Li family, was sweating in lines on his forehead. After hesitating for a long time, Li Jiaguo finally kicked over the brazier again, and shouted with a livid face: "Zhang Xiaogou won't let us Well, we have to take him to be buried with him too! Bet on it! Shopkeeper Yuan, tell me, what should we do specifically?"

Hearing this, Yuan Chongyu breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said in a low voice: "Since the two big shopkeepers, since you are determined to do something, first of all, you have to find out where Zhang Haogu, a little dog, is staying overnight. Then…………."

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At the same time, in Tongzhou City, after Young Master Zhang sent Yang Wan and Yang Aier back to the flower boat to stay for another night, he declined the kindness of Yang Wan and the old bustard to stay overnight, and led Zhang Shitou, Shi Kefa and Chen Jianhuang back to the previously reserved inn to rest .On the way, even an honest person like Shi Kefa was very dissatisfied with Young Master Zhang's incomprehensible style, and couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Brother Zhongzheng, this is not like your usual behavior, Miss Yang Wan is so shy to keep you , you also redeemed her body, the bustard respects you as the God of War of the Ming Dynasty, and agrees to keep you in the flower boat for the night, why are you so ignorant of style, insisting on going back to the inn to sleep?"

"Yes, young master, if you are afraid that we will disturb you and Miss Yang, we can sleep in the lower cabin." Zhang Shitou also smiled lewdly.Young Master Zhang replied with a smile: "In such a cold day, do you think I really want to spend the night with you big men? It's just that the time is not right, it's not the time yet."

"Why isn't it time? You reunited with Ms. Yang after a long absence, and you just redeemed her body. It's the right time to sweeten the sweetness. Why isn't it the time?" Shi Kefa woke up Zhang Da when he was about to show off his romanticism. master.Chen Jianhuang who was beside him suddenly patted his horse and caught up with him two steps, and said in a low voice: "Master Zhang, you have guessed again, as expected, someone is watching us secretly, and there are two people following us on foot twenty steps behind, do you want to be dismissed?" Send someone to kill them?"

"Don't pay attention to them, let them follow." Young Master Zhang commanded calmly and in a low voice.Chen Jianhuang agreed in a low voice, but Shi Kefa was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, who is following us?"

"Keep your voice down, don't let others hear you." Young Master Zhang sipped lowly, then sneered, "Who else could it be except from the Li family? I'm sure that the two brothers of the Li family are about to jump off the wall! Tonight, we only I'm afraid I won't even have time to sleep!"

"The dog jumps over the wall in a hurry?" Shi Kefa was even more surprised, and hurriedly said in a low voice: "Are they crazy? Mr. Zhang, you are an official of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of the Xuan Dynasty. If they dare to harm you, are you not afraid of harming the nine clans?"

"If I'm going to be ransacked tomorrow, I'll fight to the death." Young Master Zhang said calmly, "But don't worry too much. When I left the house just now, I asked Zhang Shitou to send someone back to the capital to meet Wu Liuqi. , Let him immediately lead the slave slaughter army stationed outside the city to rush to Tongzhou for reinforcements overnight, and if there is no accident, they can arrive before dawn."

"Then let's go back to the capital overnight." Shocked, Shi Kefa quickly suggested: "It's not that you are afraid of the Li family brothers, but the main thing is that you are a rich man, if you are accidentally injured by the desperate Li family brothers, Isn’t that too uneconomical?”

"It's a joke. I didn't escape the thousands of troops of the Tatars and Jiannu on the battlefield. This time I was scared away by two businessmen in Tongzhou City. Wouldn't it be a big joke if I couldn't spread it?" Young Master Zhang He sneered and said, "Besides, if I leave the city overnight, and the Li family brothers find out that something is wrong and run away overnight, then how can we catch them tomorrow? Only if I stay in Tongzhou city, the Li family brothers will not be in a hurry Run away, obediently stay here for us to catch."

"But there are less than 30 soldiers and guards protecting you. If the Li family brothers mobilize thousands of his men...?" Shi Kefa asked worriedly.Young Master Zhang interrupted Shi Kefa's warning in a low voice, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the thousands of family members of the Li family brothers can't hurt a single hair of my hair, just wait and see." He beckoned Zhang Shitou and Chen Jianhuang to the front, and whispered in their ears...

As soon as the clapper sounded for the second watch, Young Master Zhang and his party came to the Tongzhou Yuelai Inn, where the room had been booked in advance. After entering the gate of the inn, Young Master Zhang deliberately yelled loudly that they were tired, telling everyone to go to bed quickly, and to do business when they woke up tomorrow. Lead the slaves into the room to rest.The eyeliners sent by the brothers of the Li family saw and heard this situation, and hurriedly left one of them to follow, and the other rushed back to Li's mansion to report the news. The waiter of the shop, leading the horse, left the inn silently through the back door, let the waiter lead the way to the pier, and went back to rest on Yang Wan's flower boat for the night.

After being bribed by money, the waiter at the Yuelai Inn brought Young Master Zhang to the pier. Originally, according to Zhang Shitou and Chen Jianhuang's intention, he wanted to keep the waiter in order to prevent him from leaking out. The behavior of disturbing the people not only let the shop waiter go back, but also deliberately said in front of the shop waiter, "Don't be dumbfounded, hurry up and hide on Miss Yang Wan's flower boat, and don't show up in Tongzhou City until noon tomorrow." And after the shop waiter left, Shi Kefa immediately reminded: "Sir, you often say that anyone who can be bought with money is usually unreliable. If the shop waiter sells us, then we will be in trouble."

"Don't worry, I asked him to go back and report on purpose." Young Master Zhang said with a smile, "The brothers of the Li family want to kill me. If I don't kill them all over the nine clans, how can I be so angry?" Zhang Shitou called in front of him and whispered in his ear: "Immediately send someone to take my famous assassin to the official ship of Li Fengjie, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and say that I have prepared a banquet on Miss Yang Wan's flower boat, and I want to ask him to give it to me." Xue Tingqu——The old guy just offended me tonight, and he must be thinking about how to make an apology to me, I invite him, no matter how late he will definitely come."

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Let’s not talk about Young Master Zhang’s tense arrangement here, just say that the waiter in the inn who led the way happily returned to the inn with the 20 taels of silver rewarded by Young Master Zhang. The family brothers and Yuan Chongyu personally led three or four hundred servants, and suddenly surrounded the Yuelai Inn with countless torches. They wanted to search every room and check every guest under the pretext that their house had been stolen.The Li family brothers were very wealthy in Tongzhou, the owner of the inn didn't dare to offend, he just nodded and bowed and begged the Li family brothers not to ruin the reputation of his inn, and guaranteed that there would be no thieves in his inn.But the red-eyed Li family couldn't help but give him a few slaps and kicked him aside, and shouted with a wave of his hand: "Go in and search, and bring everyone out. If you find the thief who stole my house, cut it down immediately. We'll take care of what happens!"

"Come out, come out to me!" Amidst the shouts, Ding of Li's family, who was used to rampaging in Tongzhou City, rushed into the inn like a wolf and a tiger, smashing and kicking the door, dragging all the guests to the inn. The Li family brothers were allowed to identify them in person in the compound. During the period, there was a lot of commotion, men called women and cried, needless to say, even the people in Tongzhou who were in the neighborhood were alarmed, and one after another came out of the house to watch the commotion.But the brothers of the Li family struggled for more than half an hour and searched the Yuelai Inn inside and out, but they did not find the slightest sign of Young Master Zhang, and even the few attendants around Young Master Zhang disappeared. It was only at this moment that the Li family brothers thought of asking the inn's waiter about the whereabouts of Young Master Zhang.As a result, the waiter who led Mr. Zhang and his party out of the store by the back door was quickly exposed by his companions, and the Li family brothers were arrested for interrogation.

"Say, where did that little boy on the white horse go?" Li Jiaguo directly tortured the waiter's neck with a knife.The waiter in the shop was so frightened that he trembled all over, and he confessed honestly without asking a few words: "They left through the back door as soon as they entered the inn, and asked me to show them the way. It’s not like he won’t show up in the city until noon tomorrow.”

"Damn, the golden cicada has escaped its shell!" Li Jiaguo was so angry that he almost jumped up, and quickly shouted with a knife: "Go to the pier and find the flower boat of that bitch Yang Wan." Yuan Chongyu hurriedly reminded: "The shopkeeper, beware of him If you want to escape by boat, you have to prepare the boat and block him on the canal." Li Jiaguo nodded, and quickly sent Li Jiabin to organize the fleet, while he and Yuan Chongyu led more than 400 servants to rush to the pier.

Fighting all the way to the pier against the wind and snow, it was half past three o'clock, and there was only one and a half hours left before the Maoshi city gate opened, and the time left for the Li family brothers was getting less and less, but the Li family brothers felt Fortunately, Yang Wan's flower boat was still docked at the pier, and did not pull anchor overnight, and even the water gate beside the pier in the city was not opened.For the sake of caution, the Li family brothers did not act impulsively this time under Yuan Chongyu's suggestion, but sent a few people to test it out first. When several members of the Li family tried to get close to the flower boat, the official guard on the flower boat immediately shouted: " What are you doing? There are noble people staying here, don't come near, get out!"

Roaring, the people on the flower boat even pulled out their knives to show that their words were true.After Jia Ding reported back to Brother Li Jiaguo, Brother Li Jiaguo and Yuan Chongyu were overjoyed. They rushed to command Jia Ding to rush onto the flower boat and ordered to kill all the people on board, leaving no one behind!At the same time, the Li Jiaguo brothers sent their confidantes to lead the boats to surround the flower boats, and the torches illuminated the river brightly to prevent the flower boats from escaping or the people on board jumping into the water to escape.In order to cheer up his servants, Li Jiaguo also asked people to bring two large boxes of silver, and shouted at the servants: "Brothers, here is your chance to make a fortune! Some rebels pretended to be court officials and hid them on this flower boat. The people on the boat also hid rebels on purpose, and killed them on board. When I saw one, I killed the other, and brought back the head to receive the reward! My lord, I will give you the reward on behalf of the imperial court. One head, 30 taels of silver! In the future, the imperial court will reward you again. The reward is all yours!"

"Kill!" Under the heavy reward, the servants of the Li family and the Li family's business brandished their weapons and charged like chicken blood, scrambling to kill Yang Wan's flower boat. The gong sounded the alarm, and more than [-] officials rushed out of the lower cabin and lined up on the deck to meet the enemy.There are also officials roaring loudly, "Rebellion, rebellion, do you know? There are two governors of Ming Dynasty on this boat, what are you going to do? Do you want to rebel?!"

"Brothers! It's a rebel pretending to be an official of the imperial court. Don't pay attention to him, kill him!" A general of Li's family raised his knife and shouted. Rushing on the flower boat to kill people and grab merit, the officials on board were forced to raise their swords to meet the enemy, and took advantage of the favorable location to fight with Li's family Ding ping-pong-pong, and the fight was in full swing.Li Fengjie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who was invited by Young Master Zhang to drink and stay on the flower boat, got under the bed, crying and screaming while shaking all over his body, "What happened? What happened? In Tongzhou City, Why are there so many rebels under the Son of Heaven?"

"Where's Zhang Xiantai? Where's Zhang Xiantai's people?" It was only at this moment that Li Fengjie's soldiers were surprised to find that all the young master Zhang and young master Zhang's soldiers who were still on the flower boat had disappeared, even Yang Wan and Yang Ai'er. Those two delicate little beauties also disappeared.But Li's servants rushed too fiercely, and Li Fengjie's soldiers didn't have time to think too much, so they could only guard the ship's side and hack back and forth to prevent the enemy from boarding the ship.Fortunately, Li Fengjie's soldiers are all elites selected on the battlefield to suppress the bandits, and their fighting power is much higher than that of Li's servants. Big, Li Fengjie's soldiers, who only had more than [-] people, also lost sight of the other. They could defend the east but not the west. At the same time, as the servants of Li's family continued to rush to the deck, Li Fengjie's servants also began to gradually suffer casualties.

"Elder Master, Second Master, the rebels on the ship are too powerful, dozens of brothers have died." Li's family will fly to report.The Li Jiaguo brothers were both nervous and relieved - since the people on board were so powerful, they must be Young Master Zhang's personal followers.Yuan Chongyu leaned close to Li Jiaguo's ear and whispered: "Boss, if it doesn't work, set it on fire, and burn Zhang Haogu's little dog. If he is burned to death on the boat, it will also be an honor for the Kingdom of Jin." Got the Kishiki!"

"Brilliant plan!" Li Jiaguo was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "Prepare torches and tung oil, set fire to the boat, and then set our boat on fire, surround it and burn it!"

"Set it on fire! Set it on fire!" Following Li Jiaguo's order, the family members of Li's family moved together, throwing flaming torches, rockets and shooting them on the bow of the ship, as well as buckets and pots of tung oil. Throw it on the bow to help the flame burn—tung oil is an important coating for waterproofing ships, and of course you need as much as you want on the Tongzhou Wharf.At the same time, several cargo ships belonging to the Li family were also on fire, surrounding Yang Wanhua's boat from all directions, and countless flames also rose from Yang Wanhua's boat quickly.Li Fengjie's soldiers, the boatman, and the old bustard on the flower boat were so frightened that they screamed and jumped into the icy canal water to escape. Li Fengjie, who was already scared to pee his crotch, was carried out of the cabin by the captain of the soldiers and jumped into the water Fleeing for his life, Ding of Li's family also jumped into the river under the order of Li Jiaguo's brothers, grabbed and killed him, and continued to fight with Li Fengjie's soldiers. It was intense again.

"Burn! Burn well! Burn wonderfully! Burn the little dog to death!" Seeing that Yang Wan's flower boat was completely engulfed in flames, the Li family brothers and Yuan Chongyu danced with joy and laughed like crazy.Li Jiaguo yelled at the servants around him again: "Come over, arrest everyone who jumps into the river. Anyone who resists will be killed, and no one will be let go! Hurry up, the sooner the better!" The rest of the Li family brothers The family members of the Ding family agreed together, lighting torches to help arrest everyone on the flower boat who jumped into the river and escaped. Only the Li family brothers and Yuan Chongyu stayed in place to supervise the battle.

"Hurry up! Hurry up! It's almost dawn!" As time passed, more and more people were caught by Li's servants, but Young Master Zhang still didn't show up, and the head hadn't been obtained yet. The Li brothers inevitably became anxious again.But at this moment, the treacherous and cunning Yuan Chongyu suddenly discovered that among the heads sent up by the servants of Li's family, some of them looked very familiar—it seemed that they were the heads of Li Fengjie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi who he had brought to Li's house.After discovering this, Yuan Chongyu's face turned pale, and the corners of his eyes began to look around. After a moment of nervous thinking, taking advantage of Li Jiaguo's opportunity to monitor the battle ahead, Yuan Chongyu quietly touched Li Jiabin's back and pulled out the shoe box hidden in it. Suddenly, he covered Li Jiabin's mouth from behind with the dagger in his hand, and stabbed the dagger hard into Li Jiabin's back...

(End of this chapter)