Chapter 222 The Devil Is High

At the beginning of the lantern, Changle Weiyang.

Although Xiangyang County is not as magnificent as Chang'an, its nightlife is the same.

Xiangzhou is a large port that runs through the north-south hub. There are many rich businessmen and pedestrians like crucian carp crossing the river, which also means a rolling source of money. Therefore, the commercial port in Xiangyang is extremely active, and the restaurants and inns are often full. The cup is fragrant and the food is not cold, and the famous dishes in the north and south can be found here. In Lefang Yingyuan, the place of fireworks and willows is the most dazzling.

The beautiful women in the south of the Yangtze River are different from the beauties in the north and Guannei. They have a small and exquisite taste of jasper. It seems that there is a smell of smoke on the surface of the Jianghan River, which is gentle and soft. It must not be an ordinary thing to find a woman who can make a "life" in Yinghan in Xiangyang City. Among ordinary people, there are also many good women who are "half-closed" and occasionally secretly pick up guests to make some money. For those men who are tired of wives and concubines at home and are tired of prostitutes, it is not a different kind of pleasure.

There are constantly travelers between the circulating rivers and ports, and the romantic affairs of Xiangyang are spread by word of mouth. Over the years, Xiangyang, a romantic place, has also become famous. It is like a pink pearl, exuding a bright spring, dotted with the Yangtze River Hanshui.

Pang Fei and Zhao Chong walked side by side on the famous Puhua long street in Xiangyang City, looking left and right with great interest. On both sides of the road are thousands of charming warbler whispers of prostitutes who are soliciting guests. I'm afraid they have eaten hundreds of charming eyes all the way. They are beautiful and delicious. They don't feel hungry without wine and food.

Pang Fei couldn't help laughing and said, "This place is really lively. I don't know how many men have lost all their family business here, and their bone marrow has withered."

Since he came, Zhao Chong was simply relieved. He smiled and said, "General Pang, is this good? But if there is a girl you like, shall we go in and have fun?"

"It's boring." Pang Fei shook his head repeatedly, "These women who have been tasted by thousands of people are no matter how charming they are. It's just like the mutton bone soup that has been boiled several times, and it can't smell the fishy smell.

Zhao Chong sneered and said, "Is it possible that General Pang prefers the kind of 'half-closed door'?"

"What does it mean to be half-closed?"

"It's... private prostitutes in private houses!" Zhao Chong said, "Many good women, some are married and widowed. In order to make some money, they secretly pick up some guests. This is one of the unique beauty of Xiangyang. The general doesn't know?

Pang Fei was greedy and said happily, "Is it really... a good woman?"

"That can still be fake!" Zhao Chong said affirmatively, "I'm a native of Xiangyang. Isn't it clear who is from the good family? Not to mention, I also prefer the half-closed door, hey hey! The place in Yingyuan is full of hypothetical and intoxicated. The woman there just regarded you as her husband's sweetheart. She picked up her trousers and threw money and didn't know you in a blink of an eye. When she went out, she felt guilty! Half-closed door is different. Even if you go, they may not be willing to pick you up. Even if I pick you up, I have to see if I'm happy to sleep with you. That depends on your ability. One is elegant and the other is a character, which has to be her appetite. If your subordinates don't know how to play chess, piano, calligraphy and painting, or if their mouths are as sweet as honey to make the woman happy, then you can't be in a hurry. If the overlord bows hard, he will also eat the king's law!"

"Is it so fun? Then you must go!" Pang Fei felt itchy when he was told. He rubbed his hands and said, "Do you know where there is a suitable half-closed door?" Don't be the kind of old widow who has seven or eight children. You have to be young and beautiful. It's better to be tall and plump and know some poetry and wine.

"Haha! General Pang deserves to be a character from Chang'an. He's tired of playing with everything. He has a good taste!" Zhao Chong frowned and smiled, "Don't mention it, I really have the most suitable half-closed door... Unfortunately, this woman's eyes are higher than the top, and ordinary men can't get into her eyes. I've never smelled it. She thinks I used to be a picky night fragrance. Don't you think it's annoying! ... Her husband drowned after only one year of her marriage. He was young and less than 20 years old. At the beginning, she was a famous beauty in Xiangyang City. The man who wanted to marry her could line up from here to Baguidu! It's not me bragging. Even if General Pang sees her, he will be shocked! That woman, tut, is charming and versatile, and her poetry and music are famous from far and near. Unfortunately, she became a widow at a young age. Isn't it lonely? I half closed the door. However, there are very few guests who can be picked up by her. Generally speaking, they are either handsome young people who are talented or well-known dignitaries. General Pang, do you want to go and have a look?

"What are you waiting for? Let's go!"

"Fake play is real, real play is fake... Since you come out to have fun together, you have to do it realisticly!" Pang Fei licked his lips and thought: From leaving Chang'an to now, I'm afraid I haven't close the woman's edge for a month or two. It suffothed me... It's a rare opportunity today!

The two of them walked very fast. They walked through the streets and alleys in Xiangyang City and stopped in front of a small courtyard.

"Oh, this family is quite elegant." Pang Fei couldn't help sighing.

"Of course. Can an ordinary person marry her?" Zhao Chong shook his head and said, "When she got married, Xiangyang was shocked. Because she was married to the only son of a famous local rich gentry, and her family is well-known! Unfortunately, this only son encountered a big storm when he went out on a boat, and it was gone.

"Stop talking nonsense, what's this woman's name?"

"Xu Liang's. We usually call her 'Flower Lady'. Zhao Chong said, "In the local custom of Xiangzhou, 'Flower Lady' is a beautiful woman who is beautiful and beautiful."

"Is there really such an evil door?" Pang Fei couldn't help curling his lips, "If you want to say that beautiful women are like clouds, no matter how many they are, they can't be more than the Imperial Palace, right? I've seen a lot. But I just want to see that this flower lady is a little beautiful!"

"General Pang, please!" Zhao Chong pointed to the door, "The door is closed. If you don't believe it, you can push it."

"Really?" Pang Fei came forward suspiciously and pushed a seemingly closed door with a little secret force, and the door really creaked open.

"That's true!"

"Go in, what are you waiting for?" Zhao Chong laughed.

"Aren't you coming in together?" Pang Fei asked.

"This kind of thing... Of course, you can only enter one at a time!" Zhao Chong shook his head with a smile, "When you go in, she will close the door tightly. When you want to pick up customers again, you will hide the door again.

"Well..." Pang Fei muttered in his heart and said, "Then what are you going to do?"

"Of course I'll stand here and wait for the general to come out!" Zhao Chong smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't go far. The flower lady never stays overnight. When you come out later, let's go to the inn to stay overnight and buy wine tomorrow morning. It's okay to go back.

"Well, wait a minute." Pang Fei was then released. He opened the door and walked in. He said to himself, "Longtan Tiger Cave is never afraid of it. Are you a widow?"

When I walked in, I only saw an exquisite two-story building. There was also a flowering in front of the building, and the rockery was quite elegant. Pang Fei couldn't help laughing and said: It's really much more interesting to find a romantic atmosphere in such a place than to visit a kiln!

Walking along the flower path towards the small building, I went downstairs and saw the light on the second floor and a string sounded. In the night sky, a clear female voice was heard from the top of her head: "The guests are far away, and there is no time to greet each other. Please forgive me."

"You don't have to be polite. I'm admiring her name. I'm here to ask for a glass of wine." Pang Fei came straight to the point.

At this time, the window on the second floor was pushed open, revealing the half of a woman's body.

Pang Fei took a look and suddenly became a little crazy.

"My mother, is there really such a beautiful and seductive little widow?" He couldn't help swallowing his saliva and scolding in his heart, " Bah, it's really promising! Where can a beauty be more beautiful than in the palace? ...Well, maybe I haven't touched a woman for a long time. This flower lady is really ecstatic!"

The woman on the second floor has apricot eyes and peach cheeks like gel, and the spring green onion-like jade fingers gently touched her cheeks with a smile on her face, revealing a unique water-like tenderness of a woman in the south of the Yangtze River. The feelings in the eyes are continuous, and there seems to be a Wang Qinghong circulating in the microwave. The well-proportioned and plump figure was dressed in red, and the chest was hollowed out. Showing the towering snow-white delicate breasts. At this moment, she was leaning forward slightly and looking downstairs. The deep cleavage seemed to be gently rippling, which hooked Pang Fei's heart.

"Lang Jun has a good face, and his accent doesn't look like Xiangyang people." The flower lady opened her red lips gently.

"The flower lady is really as wise as a torch and knowledgeable." Pang Fei smiled and said, "I'm Pang Fei, Chang'an Renshi."

"Oh, but a distinguished guest from Chang'an?" The flower lady looked slightly shocked and asked, "What's the matter with Lang Jun coming from afar? Do business, play, or look for relatives and friends?

"Neither." Pang Fei smiled.

"That's..." The flower lady frowned slightly, turned her head slightly, and asked with some playfulness and confusion.

Pang Fei couldn't help it. He was afraid that the flower lady would not let him go upstairs, so he blurted out, "To be honest, I'm here to be an official."

"To be an official?" The flower lady really looked slightly happy, "Do you dare to ask Langjun, what is your position?" ... Lang Jun, don't think that the slave family is nagging. The slave family never responds to the market hooligans who don't do business.

"It's okay to tell you." Pang Fei was generous and said with a smile, "I'm a martial artist, who has just taken the position of captain of Xiangzhou Military Mansion."

"Xiangzhou Guoyi? Then... the official is not small!" The flower lady obviously showed a trace of surprise, "Look at Lang Jun's kindness, he is not as old as a weak crown, and he is really a young and successful official - Lang Jun, please go upstairs!"

After saying that, the flower lady raised her hand, threw a string of things from upstairs and fell to the ground with a tinkling sound. It turned out to be a string of keys.

Pang Fei was overjoyed. He picked up the key and walked to the door of the small building. He saw a big copper lock hanging on the door. He couldn't help laughing in his heart and said: If it hadn't touched her, he really couldn't get on this small building! ...Tonight, it's cool. It's more than a hundred times more interesting than going to the kiln!

......

In the morning of the next day, after the horn in the barracks, the whole army gathered and began to practice early, and Qin Mubai presided over it in person.

From yesterday, after the cutting knife scars and killing people, the whole camp was purged, and no one dared to regard the military order as a child's play, which can be seen from the speed of all the soldiers' assembly. It is fast, quiet and neat, and there is no such a messy situation as yesterday. Everyone's face was full of nervous and serious expressions, which seemed quite serious.

Seeing this scene, Qin Mubai was secretly satisfied. It seems that Feng Scar didn't kill for nothing. This knife really stunned most people and also suppressed some evil spirits.

The whole camp began to practice, which was nothing more than ordinary events such as running, seesaw and archery. Qin Mubai is not responsible for the details one by one. He visited the school yard once. Naturally, these ordinary government soldiers can't be compared with the elite soldiers. It is more appropriate to use flower fists and embroidered legs or brute force. But there is nothing we can do now. They are just a group of ordinary soldiers.

Three poles a day, the morning training is over, it's time to have breakfast. Qin Mubai returned to the Chinese military tent and asked the people around him while eating breakfast, "Why hasn't Pang Fei come back yet?"

"I don't know! Maybe I bought wine and it's on the way!"

"Did Zhao Chong come back?"

"The Zuoying Water Army and the soldiers of the whole battalion trained together in the morning, and they didn't see Zhao Chong during the early training."

Qin Mubai paused for a moment and muttered, "When did Pang Fei procrastinate so much? It's not enough to buy a wine for one night.

"It may be back soon. General, wait a minute. If General Pang comes back, he will ask him to come to the general to have some Mao.

"Hmm."

It's been until noon, and there is still no figure of Pang Fei and Zhao Chong.

Qin Mubai's heart tightened and knew the bad thing. He secretly sent several hundred knights out of the camp to look in Xiangyang City. After half a day, he returned the news at night, saying that he had searched all over the city and found no trace of Pang Fei and Zhao Chong. At this time, the two still did not return to the barracks!

"General, what's wrong?" A hundred knights asked.

"Don't say anything, strictly observe the wind." Qin Mubai ordered, "It seems that something is a little strange. Is it possible that Du Chengyuan tampers and arrested these two people?"

"Will they encounter anything wrong?" Baiqi soldiers said worriedly, "If you kill Zhao Chong and kill him, it is very possible to hold General Pang again!"

Qin Mubai frowned and cried a little regretfully in his heart: careless, really careless! Xiangyang is Du Chengyuan's territory. In a large city, there may be his minions anytime and anywhere! In case Pang Fei and Zhao Chong really fall into his hands, they may be detained or silenced!

It's really a foot tall, and the devil is ten feet tall. This bastard is black-handed so soon!

"General, why don't we fight with him!" Baiqi said angrily, "It's really the opposite. How dare you attack General Pang!"

"If there is no evidence master, Du Chengyuan can die and not admit it. Isn't it unreasonable for us to make trouble?" Qin Mubai frowned and waved his hand, "Besides, it's not necessarily Du Chengyuan who caught Pang Fei. Think about it, why did Du Chengyuan catch Pang Fei?

Several hundred-rider generals present looked at each other and thought for a while. Some people said, "That's right. If I were Du Chengyuan, I would never commit a crime against the wind and catch Pang Fei at this time. If it is to avenge Feng Scar, it should also be directly targeted at the general. Catching Pang Fei will only scare us even more and put him in an unfavorable situation.

"Well said." Qin Mubai nodded sharply, "Then who else wants to catch Pang Fei?" Obviously, catching Pang Fei is not just to kill him, otherwise even Zhao Chong will not have disappeared together.

"Is the other party trying to blackmail us?" Some of the hundred-rider soldiers were surprised and said, "Now even Zhao Chong has disappeared. We have just finally made a counter-game plan, so we can only give it - what a profound plan of the other party! General, I thought that even if this matter was not done by Du Chengyuan, it had nothing to do with him! Otherwise, how can the other party know that we are using a counter-interferal plan against Zhao Chong? How can it be so coincidental that General Pang and Zhao Chong went out together and chose such a suitable time to start?

"Well said!" Qin Mubai slapped him and said, "It can be seen that the other party's origin is not small, and it is likely to be bigger than Du Chengyuan's table. From this, we infer that Du Chengyuan is not the most powerful role in Xiangzhou. There is still the upper hand on him, and he is just obeying orders and tip-in.

"Who would that be?" Everyone was surprised and said, "Is it... the one in the West River Trough - Lord Song Cao?"

"It's possible!" Qin Mubai took a deep breath, thought for a long time, and said, "Now it is basically ruled out that it is the possibility of Du Chengyuan who arrests people directly, but it is likely that he is the informer. And where Du Chengyuan is - let's call him an organization - in his organization, there are other leaders, that is, Song Caozhu, who can't see the end of the dragon. If he arrested Pang Fei and detained Zhao Chong, what was the purpose?

"General!" One of the hundred riders was surprised and said, "If it was the water ghost who arrested General Pang, they would be too bold to do it!" It must be a shocking benefit to let them take such a risk!"

"Selling grain?!!" These two words popped out of Qin Mubai's heart and patted himself on the head: Yes! Didn't I ask Zheng Anshun to talk about the business of 500,000 stone grain with the people of Zhengchang Grain? If the other party really has such a large batch of grain to sell out, how can it be hidden from the eyes of our army? If you want us to let go and hold Pang Fei as a hostage, it is a good strategy!

"General, what should we do now?" The soldiers asked eagerly.

"Don't be impatient." Qin Mubai waved his hand with a grim expression and said, "Now these are all our assumptions, and there is no evidence. Now we have to prepare for the worst, that is, Pang Fei and Zhao Chong have been killed, but this is unlikely. If so, it must be Du Chengyuan's black hand for revenge in anger, which is simple and clear. But if the other party just takes Pang Fei as a hostage, it is only the beginning. If this is possible, they will definitely contact me again. Because it's me who really makes the decision, not Pang Fei.

"General, listening to your tone, do you want to explore the tiger's den?" Everyone was surprised.

"You got it right." Qin Mubai gently picked the corners of his mouth, his face was cold, and said, "It seems that our opponent is a little more powerful than we think. If you don't enter the tiger's den, will you get the tiger? Remember to keep secrets and don't leak the news about the disappearance of Pang Fei and Zhao Chong. Later, I went to Xiangyang City alone. As expected, something will be found.

"General, this is too dangerous!" Everyone unanimously objected and said, "Why don't we have a few brothers go with you?"

"No, there are many people and miscellaneous eyes, but it is easy to make mistakes." Qin Mubai waved his hand resolutely, "If I am Song Caozhu, if I see so many people, I will either not contact me, or I will secretly get rid of you and contact me again."

"We are not afraid of Xiao Xiao Shui Gui! General, take us there!"

"Shut up, this is a military order!"

"Yes..."

It was getting late. Qin Mubai changed into a flat suit and was ready to leave the barracks secretly and go to Xiangyang and his party.

When I just walked to the door of the barracks, I heard someone arguing there.

"How many times do you want me to say it? The army has been banned, and no one is allowed to go in and out at will!"

"Do you want to get out of here?" A very thick voice shouted, "If you don't get out of here, I'm going to throw you away!" I made it clear that I was sent by the King of Wu to find General Qin! There is something important! You can't afford to delay!"

"If you dare to break into the barracks, we will dare to shoot with arrows!"

"Then try it! I'm going to tear up you watchdogs!" That voice roared like thunder.

"Yuwen Hongtai, you can't stop!" Qin Mubai shouted loudly and walked over.

The sergeants were shocked and hurriedly stood aside and saluted with their fists: "General, this man doesn't know that the password has no talisman and has to break into the barracks at night. He is stopped by the villain, and he has to hit people!"

"Oh, how dare you little monkeys sue me?" Yuwen Hongtai widened a pair of copper eyes and was about to hit it.

Qin Mubai suddenly stretched out his hand and supported Yuwen Hongtai's chest. As if holding a running angry horse with one palm, Yuwen Hongtai suddenly couldn't step forward.

The soldiers were stunned: "True magic power!"

Yuwen Hongtai was also stunned. He hurriedly put away his hot temper and took two steps back and giggled: "Third Brother Qin, I'm wrong, I'm wrong..."

"Brothers, continue to patrol the camp. You are right. You should be so strict with your post." Qin Mubai nodded and praised the sergeants, "Although this man is a good friend of mine, he is not allowed to let him in."

"Yes, General!" The sergeants bowed happily, formed a team, and still went to patrol the camp.

Yuwen Hongtai grinned and scratched his head and smiled: "Brother Qin, don't blame me. I'm really in a hurry, otherwise I won't break into the camp."

Qin Mubai wink at him: "Speak in another place."

The two of them strode forward and left the military camp to a small forest. Qin Mubai said, "Say it, what's the matter?"

"It's a big deal!" Yuwen Hongtai's copper bell stared and said nervously, "Your Highness, let me inform you... Zheng Anshun is missing!"

"What?"

"It's true. I dare not lie to you." Yuwen Hongtai was stunned.

"Nerd, you are still stunned!" Qin Mubai slapped him fiercely, "Take me to the Assassin's House!"