Chapter 20 Be careful everywhere

The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and there is still thick smoke in the sky. The row of thatched huts is burning and crackling,

Ma Sheng closed his eyes and waited to die. At this moment, he was already in despair,

Shi Qian jumped up and took the knife from Zuoning's hand and handed it to Gao Yu: "Kill fart, if we Mr. Gao didn't want to help you, you would have died a long time ago."

Gao Yu scolded, "There are no rules."

Zoning hurriedly said, "I will discipline the bad people. Don't be angry." Shi Qian made a grimace and hid behind Zoning and said, "Sir, in fact, you all know that all four of them have violated taboos. If you want to recruit them, they are also willing to follow you. Why do you have to work for the empress dowager's old goblin?"

Gao Yu looked at the silent people: "Let's get out of here first."

Ma Sheng sat feebly against the trunk of the carriage. Shi Qian drove the carriage. Hu Tieling went forward and turned back again and said, "Dami, there are several families in front of me. I think it's better to rest there tonight."

In the barren mountains and wild mountains, it is good to have a place to avoid the wind and cold. Gao Yu and others came to him and found that the so-called almost five or six families. Zuoning came forward to call the door, and there was no word inside. Hu Tieling said angrily, "At least I'm an officer and soldier, and there is no reason not to open the door." Just as he was about to go forward and smash the door, Gao Yu said, "Huh, it's probably because we look at the officers and soldiers who refused to open it."

Another company smashed the door and heard it shouting, "Come on, come on." An old voice, and then the dilapidated courtyard door opened, and an old man stood in the door: "Sold officials, you are."

Gao Yu said, "We pass by here. It's getting late. I want to find a place to stay. Do you have any free houses? Just avoid the wind and cold."

The old man looked at Gao Yu and said, "Look at my house, which is small, old and dilapidated. How can it accommodate you people and carriages and horses?"

He pointed to the opposite side and said, "The family has moved away for a long time. Although the house is also dilapidated, it is enough for several people to rest there for one night."

Gao Yu smiled and said, "Thank you very much." After saying that, he took out a little silver in his arms and said, "Please come with us. In case someone can say hello, and help us boil some water and make some porridge or something."

The old man took the silver and immediately became much more enthusiastic. He led the way to the opposite house. The door of the house was empty. The old man pushed open the door of the yard, and the yard was full of branches and weeds: "This yard is empty. We all piled up firewood here. It's just right. The grass can feed the horses, and the firewood can make a fire. You wait. I'll find something and get buttons for you. It's food."

Several people in Gao Yu entered the room. There was a table and a few chairs in the main room. Although it was a little dilapidated, it could barely be used. The east-west wing rooms seemed to be bedrooms, and there were beds in the room. Several people could sleep if they were crowded.

The old man took a rag, a broom, and simply cleaned it. Ma Sheng lay down ** and didn't say a word with his eyes open. The rest of the people helped to boil water. Hu Tieling fed the horse in the yard and said, "Eat quickly. Your brother Sheng is in a bad mood. If you have time to comfort him."

Wei Ming Chengsi walked to Hu Tieling: "Lao San, you also heard Shi Qian's words just now. What do you think?"

"I've thought about it. I think Gao Dami is a good person. The scholar dies for a confidant. We can't work for the empress dowager for nothing."

Wei Ming Chengsi said, "I don't know how you feel. Anyway, I think that we are doomed to die sooner or later in our lives. Anyway, I don't have any relatives. If I have a chance to escape, there may be a way to live."

"Escape, hum, now there are four of us, more than 20 people from the Liang army outside, where do you think you can escape?"

Zoning came out of the room: "Have you two finished your work? Honey asked us to talk."

"Wait a minute." Wei Mingchengsi grabbed Zuoning and said, "Big boss, you said that Gao Dami is so close to the Empress Dowager. Can he trust her?"

Zoning glanced at him: "There is a mountain stream in front and a tiger in the back. Do you jump?"

Hu Tieling said, "Jump, jump down and talk about it."

Three people entered the room one after another. Shi Qian lifted the candlestick and came out. Suddenly, it was much brighter than before. The four people sat down around the table. The old man came in with the kettle: "The water is ready. You drink it first, and the porridge will be ready later."

"It's a thank you." Gao Yu said a few words politely to the old man,

Gao Yu saw that everyone was all here. In addition to Ma Sheng, who was still in a daze in the room, he said, "Guys, Shi Qian's words just now are also from my heart."

Zoning waved his hand to stop Gao Yu's words: "Dami, we're just acting on orders. Don't say anything." His eyes stared at Gao Yu and shook his head gently,

Shi Qian was curious: "Why don't you say it? What I just did is the truth."

Hu Tieling suddenly shook his hand, tied it up for Shi Qian, and stuffed it into his mouth with a piece of cloth: "You boy talk too much",

Gao Yu frowned slightly. These three people's tacit understanding is abnormal,

"The porridge is coming."

The old man came in with a pot of hot rice porridge. While serving the porridge for the four people, he said, "Several officials, eat it slowly." The first bowl of porridge was handed to Gao Yu. He walked around to Zoning. When he served the third bowl, he just stood beside Hu Tieling and Wei Mingchengsi. Between them, Hu Tieling and Wei Mingchengsi stood up at the same time and grabbed the old man with one arm. Wei Ming Chengsi pressed the old man's head in the hot porridge bowl.

"Woo-woo-woo." The old man struggled, but he didn't have the strength of Ming Chengsi. Ming Chengsi let go. The old man raised his head and shouted hot porridge,

This change was too sudden. Gao Yu stood up and said, "What's going on?"

Hu Tieling took advantage of Zuoning's kung fu to replace him, turned around and untied the time, and then tied the old man tightly.

Shi Qian took out the cloth in his mouth: "What's wrong with you?" He sat down and was about to eat porridge. Zoning grabbed the bowl and threw it on the ground: "Don't drink it, it's poisonous."

Gao Yu suddenly realized: "I knew it earlier."

Hu Tieling kicked the person with a hot face on the ground: "I didn't know until I entered the house, otherwise I wouldn't have talked so much to the second brother."

"You are too careless." Zoning said and put the porridge pot in front of the man and sighed, "Os it, break it yourself."

The old man suddenly stopped howling. He looked at Zoning, and then lowered his head and drank porridge like a dog. After a few bites, he stopped drinking it. The porridge water flowed down his mouth with foam. His face became ferocious and rolled on the ground. Then he straightened up and died.

"My mother, this porridge is so powerful." Shi Qianjing was stunned. Even if he saw Gao Yu with a lot of knowledge, he couldn't help sweating coldly: Fortunately, these people, or their lives would have been gone long ago,

He quickly stood up and saluted like Zoning: "Thank you for saving my life."

Zoning hurriedly supported Gao Yu and said, "Gao Dami, don't thank me. I don't trust you after seeing you."

"Son of you, what kind of task you are carrying out this time is definitely not for a salt merchant, right?"

Now that Zoning, Zoning did not want to hide it. It was quite difficult for the Empress Dowager to win Yongle City first, so on the one hand, she sent Gao Yu to persuade salt merchants to raise funds for sponsorship, and on the other hand, it was necessary to eliminate salt merchants on a large scale. Whether the salt merchants paid or not, they also had to eliminate the salt merchants with private salt on the border of the Xia and Song Dynasties.

Gao Yu said, "It's too vicious. Then why did this man come to kill us?"

"This person should go back to his life independently and pass through here. He probably wants to see who sent us by the way. If there is any news, he can go back and tell the Empress Dowager, but he overheard the dialogue between the second and the third, so he wants to kill us and ask for credit."

Gao Yu couldn't help but wonder: "Then how did you find out that he had a question?"

Zoning said, "Dami, but when the old man opened the door with us, he didn't turn on the light when he came out of the room. He didn't look at all surprised when he opened the door. Just now, I looked everywhere while he was boiling water. There was no one here. What did he doing here?"

Hu Tieling untied the rope on the dead and touched him again: "I found it." He took out a waist card and handed it to Wang, and took off his own. One side was engraved with the word "inspection token" and the other side was engraved with the word "Liang",

There is no need to say anything. Several people found a place to bury the dead body. When they returned to the room, Hu Tieling whispered to Zoning and said, "Since we came out with you all the way, we have done nothing but to bury people."

Zoning said, "I can't say that. I also accepted an apprentice."

"That's right, what do you think of your apprentice's proposal?"

Zoning shook his head: "It's difficult. After all, Da Mi was sent by the Empress Dowager..."

"But I'm not from the Empress Dowager." Gao Yu appeared at the door,

"Da Mi, you haven't slept yet." The two turned over and sat up,

"Get up, I have something to say."

Several people sat around the table. Gao Yu said, "I originally came to help Xixia. I wanted to file the spirit of the Song Dynasty with the help of Yongle City, but the Empress Dowager did not listen to dissuasion. She made trade and wanted to harm the innocent. Therefore, I decided not to help Xixia anymore."

"I shouldn't have helped." Hu Tieling said,

"Several of you, if you want, follow me in the future. Let's also have a mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finch, and take Yongle City as our base."

"With me." Ma Sheng punched him on the table,

Zoning said, "We are willing to follow to the death, but we are not enough people."

Gao Yu raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "Isn't the Empress Dowager going to eliminate the Salt Gang? Then we will save the Salt Gang. Not to mention more, there should be dozens of big and small leaders, and there should be three or five hundred people with them."

" Just a few of us." Hu Tieling said, "We have to deal with more than a dozen masters of Liang's army."

Gao Yu shook his head: "We are a group of people. Although there are more than a dozen of them, they are all one person. Now we have to rush to Yanzhou immediately. The more people the leader of the Salt Gang survives, the greater the chance we have."

Zuoning patted the table and said, "Anyway, it's dead. In the future, the four of us will follow Gao Dami. No, follow Mr. Gao."

"Good." Four people said in unison,

Shi Qian rubbed his sleepy eyes and stood at the door: "You woke up the young master in the middle of the night."

Wei Mingcheng went over and put Shi Qian on his shoulder: "Call Uncle Second, or I'll kill you." Everyone laughed,