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Chapter 424 Chapter 404 Waiting with bated breath

Chapter 424 Chapter [-] Waiting with Hold Your Breath

When the rooster crowed three times and the sky was white with fish belly, the people in Zhuangzi had already started to move.

It is far from the prosperity of the south of the Wu Dynasty. In the Dulonggang area, the whole of life is nothing but life.There is not much entertainment. The villagers work in the fields, and the women in the village do knitting. During the slack of farming, they hang out with each other and gather in front of a certain house to enjoy the cool air. This is the daily life of the vast majority of farmers in the Wu Dynasty. Day after year, year after year.On the Dulonggang side, to say a little more, in order to protect Zhuangzi, it will organize the villagers to do battle training. Many times, the fierce folk customs are played out from these trainings.

The formation of places like Dulonggang and Wanjialing was originally similar to bandit villages.First, the gangs that ruled a place gathered, and then the number of people gradually increased, and the business was closer here, and a new order was gradually established. Instead of making money by looting and killing people, fishing and fishing would attract the attention of the government, but Start collecting protection fees and do some gray income business.Even if there will be wars with others, it is only because of the struggle for and protection of the territory. In Shandong, especially near Liangshan, these things are inevitable, and most of the villagers are still under the premise of a little peace. Now, back to farming.

Dulonggang has a unique terrain, and there are many workshops in the three villages, employing villagers to work.Although not as prosperous and professional as big cities, these small workshops can meet the self-sufficiency needs of 3 million people in Dulonggang on the one hand, and on the other hand, can produce output and communicate with the outside world. Get huge profits.For example, some salt and iron businesses that are strictly controlled by the government, in Dulonggang, they can stockpile and manage them by themselves. As long as they don't overdo it, they can still live comfortably.

The usual farming life, practicing martial arts to defend the village, plus various things to make money and do business, are three things that go hand in hand in Dulonggang.Of course, recently, due to the growth of Liangshan's momentum, Zhuangmin's training has become the most important thing. Up and down Dulonggang, everyone has become nervous. began to practice under the command of .

Hucheng walked across the bluestone road in front of him, and when he arrived at Deguchang, he saw his sister who was scolding Zhuang Min, she put one hand on her hips, raised her head with a smile, and said, "Come here and fight with me! "The one who quarreled with him was Liao Sibao, the son of the director of Zhuang Zhong. He and his sister and himself grew up together. It was not the first time for a similar quarrel.

The mouth was noisy, and of course the fight didn't start.This girl has been very good at martial arts since she was a child, and now she is taller than the average man. She has two sun and moon swords behind her back, and her swordsmanship is fierce.Liao Sibao wouldn't fight her. In fact, Sibao was mostly interested in his own girl. Sanniang was beautiful, and it was somewhat interesting to beat a child who grew up, but it was useless to beat her.

In several villages, among the young people, Zhu Biao from Zhujiazhuang was able to push Sanniang slightly. After Sanniang was betrothed to Zhu Biao, everyone had nothing to say.

"Okay, Bao Si, don't quarrel with her, take everyone to practice. Sanniang, you are too, you know how to quarrel early in the morning..."

As an elder brother, Hu Cheng persuaded him in the past, and Shuang Fang gave him face.It is common for people in the village to bicker and quarrel. If they are married, men and women will be unscrupulous in all kinds of dirty words. The girl has not been married yet. This is good, and everyone will not quarrel too much.After this little farce was over, the younger sister and the elder brother walked aside, raised their chin and asked, "Who is that over there? That... the business man?"

Following her gaze, on the side of the valley, a few people were doing simple exercises, not from their own village.The young man in the middle, dressed in a dress so beautiful that it was almost showing off, was also looking over here, with his hands on his hips, his buttocks twisted, twisting his body like noodles, looking a little vicious, and then he waved his hand towards him. While saying hello, Hu Cheng then also bowed his hands.

"Yeah, the Lei Feng and Young Master Lei who came here the day before yesterday came to discuss business."

"What is he doing, strange? I heard that he knows martial arts?"

"He means that he can. The guards around him are not bad, but he seems to be just a guy who has been practicing with his master for a few years, a big family in the capital. What do you say... There is a nickname called Hun Yuan. The thunderbolt hand, I guess he has practiced a few palms... When he came over, he said that he was very interested in the war going on here, and he also said that he wanted to follow along..."

"These sons in the city, do you think this place is fun? I'll give him a hand." The young woman named Hu Sanniang squinted and looked over there, "However, at this time, will it be the Liangshan faction? Where did he come? Why did he put him in the village..."

"This should not be the case." Hu Cheng shook his head, "I confirmed with the people in the government yesterday that the young master of Lei's family has a background. The day before yesterday, I spent more than 6000 taels of silver at Zhu's house, all of which were for shopping. Place an order. His family asked him to run business, but he is most interested in fighting. Although this kid is not good at martial arts, and he is a bit muddled when it comes to fighting, he is very good at business because of his family background. When talking about Lijiazhuang, Li Shishu was full of praise."

The three villagers in Dulonggang are headed by Zhujiazhuang, because Zhu Chaofeng has the most overall view, but when it comes to doing business, Li Ying, the owner of Lijiazhuang, is quite powerful.This newcomer Lei Feng, Mr. Lei, has convinced Zhu Chaofeng and Li Ying successively in business. Yesterday afternoon, he was invited to Hujiazhuang again, and Hu Taigong asked him how to improve several workshops. New methods have been used in many places, and this young man is indeed quite convincing when it comes to business matters.

"It's just that when he talks about business, he will talk about martial arts and war, and talk about what should we do when Liangshan comes over. It's really bad, and it's a mess, I really want to beat him, because Uncle Li Shi Said he was a genius in business, let us learn from it, I held back. I don't know how that kid Zhu Biao saved his hands when he was at Zhujiazhuang."

Among the three brothers of Zhujiazhuang, Zhu Biao has the highest kung fu. Although he is his future brother-in-law, Hu Cheng and others all know that he is arrogant and hot-tempered.

After saying a few words about this, Zhuangzhong's armed forces and business are two separate forces, after all, Hu Sanniang didn't pay much attention to this and changed the subject.Then he talked about Liangshan. Although the atmosphere was a little tense at the moment, to say that they would really call, at least for young people like Hucheng and Hu Sanniang, it seemed a bit far away.They have grown up here since they were young, and they have also participated in hundreds of people's fighting, but Liangshan made it clear that the strength of tens of thousands of people tried their best to fight, and it was really a war.

"Instructor Luan Tingyu Luan from Zhu's family came back these days, and I heard that he thought there might be a war."

"Our Zhuangzi's terrain is good, and there are many people. These bandits really dare to call, see if I don't cut dozens of their heads with the sun and the moon!"

"Just be careful. Zengtou City was beaten really badly last year, but we in Dulonggang are not vegetarians. If he really wants to fight, they will know the stakes."

The brothers and sisters said this, but they ignored the rich son and others over there.At the other end, Ning Yi, Wang Shanyue, Su Wenyu, the Qi brothers and others were also talking while stretching their muscles.

"Brother Lei, you said...you are interested in a girl, that is Hu Sanniang? She looks really tall..."

Ning Yi is starting to play Tai Chi slowly: "I'm also a little disappointed, it's pretty pretty, but she looks like a village girl..."

The plain-faced Wang Shanyue sat on the wooden stake beside him. He actually looked a little prettier than Hu Sanniang, looking at him and punching: "This girl Hu is highly skilled in martial arts, and she ranks first on Dulonggang. The third son, Zhu Biao, who has been betrothed to Zhujiazhuang, you almost got into a fight the day before yesterday... I want to remind you that this son Zhu has the true biography of the teacher Luan, and he can walk through the hands of the teacher Luan. If you are interested in this Hu girl, you have to think twice."

Scholars and scribes often boasted of their romance, and Wang Shanyue's family background was seen a lot, and it was at this time that he opened his mouth to warn.Ning Yi nodded while punching: "I know, it is estimated that the martial arts of Lin Chong's group are not too different, that is...about the level of Fang Shuchang and the others, the three Qi brothers, can they beat them? ?"

Qi Xinyi said: "Between the equals... If Fang Shuchang is the case, we may be even worse... In short, it's hard to win, maybe we can hold on to the undefeated."

"Oh, then the king should be very powerful, right?" The leader of the wolf thieves, Wuyi Gaoqiang, came and went like a rumor. Ning Yi had heard of it. No matter what, it seemed that he would be on a par with Lin Chongzhan, but he asked. After that, Wang Shanyue said, "My martial arts skills are not high, you misunderstood." He paused, "Since I was young, I was weak, and I always get twice the result with half the effort. I really fight, let alone Zhu Biao, Hu Sanniang, even Zhu Long, Hucheng and the others, I may not be an opponent..."

"Ah?" Ning Yi was stunned for a while, and then shrugged indifferently, "But it's okay, I'm just curious. After reading it, it's nothing."

"Why are you curious?"

"Secret." Ning Yi laughed.Although he didn't know much about the affairs of Liangshan of the Water Margin, of course he had heard of the name Hu Sanniang. It is said that she is skilled in martial arts, beautiful and tragic. When he saw Zhujiazhuang, he wanted to come and have a look.It's just that I've seen it at this time, but I think it's just the daughter of an ordinary village chief. She looks good, she is more confident than ordinary women, and she is not too rude.But really speaking, it is like a taller Guo Fu.

It seems that Hu Sanniang, who has not been raped by that wretched dwarf and whose whole family is still alive, is a little less charming...

This is just a small pastime on the way to business, and Ning Yi will not take it too seriously.In his opinion, the timing of this visit is not bad. Information from the government, underworld, etc. shows that Liangshan has made preparations for Dingshuibo at the end of the first battle, and the war may break out at the end of this month. .

After staying in Dulonggang for two days, Ning Yi also went to Wanjialing, and also met the owner of Wanjialing Ji's family on the grounds of "talking about business". Compared with Dulonggang, it is probably only about [-]% of the strength of Dulonggang.After this simple meeting, Ning Yi returned to Dulonggang, and asked Qi Xinhan to follow Su Wenyu to Jeju City to contact the government to spread some simple rumors.

Wang Shanyue followed all the way, but she didn't quite understand what Ning Yi was going to do.The rumors he let the government release were simply "Song Jiang wants to negotiate with the government to recruit security", and there are not too many operations and arrangements. The rumors released in this way have extremely low credibility. Compared with the Secret Investigation Division, The efficiency of the government in this area of ​​Liangshan is astonishingly poor, and even if the whole world spreads rumors, it is impossible to shake it into Liangshan.

On the other hand, the means and plans of Ning Yi, Dulonggang and Wanjialing to negotiate business are extremely reliable.Ning Yi basically came up with a smuggling plan that runs through the Shandong area. Dulonggang and Wanjialing are an important part of it. If they can ensure the smooth flow of the road, and then combine with the capital merchants, they can get a lot of profits. Even some commodities can be processed in Dulonggang and Wanjialing.This plan can even be vaguely extended to the north. If the Luliang Mountain is opened up, it can also cross the border into and out of the Liao Kingdom, and make huge profits from the operation of salt, iron, tea and other things.

Wang Shanyue's family background, whether some things are feasible or not, can be seen after a little thought.A few days later, he had some doubts whether Ning Yi really came here to do business.When he was staying in the inn in Dulonggang, he also asked directly.

"If you have the heart to deal with Liangshan, you should gather all the forces around, Dulonggang, Wanjialing, and even the large and small stockades around, you can unite now. You have prepared your official identity certificate. Why are you only talking about business these days? , let's not talk about dealing with Liangshan? When we really fight, we won't have this chance..."

In the past few days, in addition to walking around Dulonggang and Wanjialing, Wang Shanyue basically told Ning Yi the information of heroes from all walks of life on Liangshan. Ning Yi, who was arranging information while eating peanuts, also clapped his hands.

"It's not that time. Brother Wang also knows that although Dulonggang is clean, they don't like the government. In other words, everyone knows what kind of virtue the government is. Wu Ruiying had opened with Liangshan before. It was very embarrassing to lose in the war. Concubine Kang and Prime Minister Qin both told me when we came here that it is not impossible to force them to send troops, but at most it is to gather 2 people and fight once. It is the best state, with 2 people in Wuruiying, plus 4 in Dulonggang and Wanjialing... Even if you get a total of [-] people, it is meaningless if you don’t want to contribute.”

"According to Brother Ning's calculation, Wu Ruiying will definitely take his life. Dulonggang and Wanjialing may be beaten to the extreme, but it doesn't make much sense. , even if you try your best, you can't take Liangshan. Instead of letting them be defeated by each other, wouldn't it be better if you can build your momentum and maintain the current situation?"

"I don't want to be deadlocked, I want to break up Liangshan." Ning Yi shook his head, looked at Wang Shanyue, and then clicked on a small map next to him, "Wanjialing and Dulonggang are not destroyed immediately. That’s alright, these two places are their own homes, and they will definitely help in defense, as long as they come and go, I can keep them for ten days or half a month.”

"Ten days... half a month?" Wang Shanyue frowned, "Can you turn the situation around?"

"Maybe it can destroy Liangshan." Ning Yi smiled, "There are no other big forces around, it is definitely necessary to take advantage of the situation, I don't have time to wait for them to attack Jeju, so for now, this should be the only chance. Of course... I'm not too sure about it, let's see the walk."

Wang Shanyue thought for a while over there, Wanjialing and Dulonggang were the places where Zhuangmin lived, so he would definitely be able to keep it for a while.But... Liangshan has now swelled to more than [-] people to [-] people. With their dozen or forty people at most, it will take ten days and a half months to reverse the situation and destroy Liangshan?What the hell is this guy thinking...

"Then... what are we going to do next?"

"Actually it's nothing." Ning Yi closed his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head, "The rumors over Wen Yu's side have been released, and your people should be coming soon, and now...that is, waiting for the fight, and the only one who wants to Guaranteed to…”

He smiled: "When the fight starts, we have to be in Zhuangzi..."

Wang Shanyue thought for a while: "Then I'll wait and see."

After getting up and going out, he shook his head. The wolf thieves roamed this place, and the good and the bad were afraid, but for Liangshan, he was helpless.And this matter and this person in front of him really made him feel a kind of strange and inexplicable incomprehensible.

In just six or seven days, it's hard to tell exactly how this person feels.When facing outsiders, he looked a bit chaotic, but he did calm down the scene in a certain way, and when everyone was alone, he kept sorting out the Liangshan information that he said on his side and compared it with the information he had before. and revisions, arrange what others should do, race against time and be meticulous.He seems to be younger than himself, but the impression he gave at that time was an indescribable sense of oppression. He had seen such an aura in his grandfather and teacher.On my side... I can see that he is doing things seriously, but I can't see what he is thinking.

When the information from the capital came, saying that someone would be in charge of Liangshan affairs in the future, he once thought about how the other party would deal with the matter.For example, mobilizing the power of the government and the army, and connecting the forces near Shuibo, the matter is bound to be trivial and difficult, and the situation is huge, but it still needs to be resolved, and it will definitely last a long time.But what happened at the moment had never appeared in any of his speculations.

He did arrange things that required the cooperation of the government and the army, and he used the people around him, because after staying here for a while, it was possible to really make the army and the government move, and even arranged the follow-up if things couldn't be done. .But these are not the center of his plan, and he does not seem to want to force the army and the government to deal with Liangshan excessively.But in just seven days, only forty people could be used, and he was ready to face Liangshan directly.

After the war, if he stayed in Zhuangzi and Liangshan broke Dulonggang, he would not have the chance to escape.

It is estimated that it will only be three or five days, and there may be a war to start. Next, it seems that there is only waiting.For a time, Wang Shanyue was a little suspicious, whether she should make a decision at this time that might accompany her life here, although the letter from the teacher did make herself fully cooperate with this person's actions...

He thought about this and was slightly puzzled, but he didn't know that not long after he left the room, a shadow walked in the darkness outside and knocked on the window of Ning Yi's room.

On May 23, the night was as black as ink.Looking from the back to the front, there are only five days away from the battle that is not difficult to guess, and there seems to be no suspense...

(End of this chapter)