If the Water Margin

Chapter 88 Secret

"Ximenqing also has today!" Wu Da said with some gloating. Wu Da knows that he and Ximen Qing are almost standing at the two extremes of men's best and worst in the eyes of others. What Wu Da is not good at is that Ximen Qing was born, so since he became the leader of the Chamber of Commerce, he has always been in trouble with Ximen Pharmacy.

This is not to vent anger on Wu Song about ginseng, but pure public revenge. Now Ximen Qing actually sent a distress signal. Wu Da's first reaction was to let it go, and it was not good for him to save him. Moreover, looking at Ximen Qing's bad luck, Wu Da felt unparalleled.

But Wu Da also reacted immediately and could not let Ximen Qing die. Today's situation is very complicated. Judging from the situation from Wu Song, Yanggu County has been facing a serious shortage of manpower. After dark, there may be a large number of hostile people entering the city, and we can deploy only one darts bureau. What's more, the people in the darts bureau are just mercenaries. Once they feel that the danger is greater than the benefits, they will immediately turn back to the water.

Ximenqing's power is weak, and now it must be fought for. Wuda understands the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold.

"Liu Lin, what do you think?" Wu Da knew that Liu was indeed extraordinary in formulating strategies. At this time, if he forced himself to show his ability, it would only make the situation more passive.

"When I return to the shopkeeper, I think the current situation may be difficult to control. Let's not talk about Ximenqing, I'm afraid our own safety will also be a problem." Liu Lin replied.

"Why do you say that? We have so many darts masters here, and there are only seven of them. How can we solve it?" Wu Da felt that the more than 30 darts in Guihua Building were enough to kill these seven people by numerical advantage.

"You don't know anything about the shopkeeper. Just now, when I went to the elegant room of Ximenqing, I first came to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger. I said that all the bodyguards in the bodyguard bureau are now drinking in Guihua Building. Ximenqing is a seller. He must know that the dartsmen usually don't like to drink together, but the message he conveyed to my news is only on the intention. The skimming of knowledge means that he believes that even the whole darts bureau can't compete with the seven people. When I just went in, I also observed it closely again. These seven people sat in almost the same posture, as if they were cast according to the mold. They must have been specially trained. The seven of them entered and retreated together and defeated the darts master in the store, which should be said to be easy. Liu Lin's tone was very anxious, which was felt by Wu Da.

"So from what you can see, what should we do now?" Wu Da listened to Liu Lin's analysis and also found the seriousness of the situation.

"According to the views of the villains, these people are invincible and can only make them retreat in the face of difficulties."

"Isn't this nonsense? I also know it's better not to fight, but how can they retreat when it's difficult? You have to say one, two, three." Wu Da felt that Liu Lin's words were too roundabout.

"Ximenqing should have mastered some plans for their actions today when he is with them. Now that he has sent a distress signal, we should rescue him, which constitutes an exchange of intelligence in his hands. We knew their plan in advance. As long as the key points are destroyed, these seven people and all the hostile forces in Yanggu County will have the illusion that they have been preempted by us and retreat. In this way, everything can be dragged until tomorrow, which is the best way to delay the army. By tomorrow day, maybe we can take back some of the initiative. Liu Lin said this very quickly. Obviously, this is what he has thought about for a long time.

Wu Da knew that what Liu Lin said before was entirely to lay the foundation for this paragraph. He was afraid that he would not agree to rescue Ximenqing, so he first clarified the seriousness of the situation and then explained how beneficial it was for him to rescue Ximenqing. Liu Lin can't help but take himself too lightly. How can Wu Da not distinguish priorities at such a critical moment?

"Even if you don't say so, I'm going to take a hand with Simon Qing. Although this boy is usually quite a thing, everyone is living in Yanggu County, and his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. Moreover, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, it is always good to save lives. Liu Lin, you don't have to pay attention to the strategy of talking and say whatever you think. It's going to be dark soon. We all know the danger of this night. Time can't be delayed. Wu Da said with a rare serious look.

"To be honest, the villain has been thinking about how to save Ximen Qing. When I just entered the door, I smelled a strong smell of urine. Liu Lin frowned and said.

"The smell of urine, you mean, someone is peeing in our elegant room? Guihua Building is not without huts. These people are really. Wu muttered, but suddenly his mind moved: "Ximen Qing and the seven people seem to have gone upstairs and haven't come down this afternoon. Since the seven people are together, there is no reason for them to pee in the elegant room. It must be Ximen Qing who pee. They have begun to control the freedom of Ximenqing, and they can't even go to the toilet. Perhaps this is also the result of Ximenqing's attempt to urinate. If he can escape for his life in this way, he will definitely not ask us for help. No one will be the first choice to hand over fate to others. As Wu Da spoke, he gently tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers.

"Shopkeeper Gao Jian, I think so too." Liu Lin's words are rare in a sincere and recon terms, which makes Wu Da very useful.

Wu Da continued: "That is to say, the rescue method of asking the clerk to call Ximen Qing directly is impossible to succeed. Even if the reason is reasonable, they will find all kinds of reasons to prevaricate. Even if there is no reason that can't refuse, I'm afraid the seven people will come out with them. In this way, the significance of this kind of rescue is lost. If you fight hard, you can't beat it according to what you just said. It's really not easy to do. As Wu Da said, he thought that he finally understood the difficulty of what Liu Lin had just said. It was really not easy to save a person guarded by seven people in his restaurant.

"Why don't you ask Dutou about this? Maybe he will have something to do." Liu Lin suggested.

"No." Wu Dayi waved his hand and said, "He has a lot of things, so don't give him any more trouble. Besides, my brother can only play some. He can't win seven alone and doesn't solve the fundamental problem. Wu Da meditated for a while: "Liu Lin, when you went in just now, you saw whether the seven people had drunk or not. Can we give them some sweat medicine or something?" Wuda remembered that he often listened to his husband's story when he was in Qinghe County. At that time, he often said that there were black shops that put sweat medicine in the wine. No matter what kind of hero he was, he would also be troubled.

"I'm afraid not. Although the seven people also have wine glasses in front of them, they are getting closer and closer to dark now. They have taken action and don't think they will drink again. Ten thousand steps back and saying that even if they drink, they will let Ximen Qing drink first. After making sure that it is correct, they will drink it by themselves. Liu Lin shook his head while denying Wu Da's suggestion.

"This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either. It seems that Ximen Qing is dead." Wu Da was at a loss and was extremely decadent.

"That's not necessarily the shopkeeper." Liu Lin's eyes turned back and forth, and then said slowly, "I remember a person who may be able to save our crisis."

"Who?" Wu Da thought about the people he knew, and basically no one was more shrewd than Liu Lin.

"A clerk in our Guihua Building is named Zhang Shu." Liu Lin's tone of speech was extremely determined.

"Zhang Shu? Why didn't I know there was such a guy in Guihua Tower? But then again, it seems that Guihua Building doesn't have a man whose name I know. Wu Da laughed at himself and said that he usually didn't look at the roster of personnel, so he naturally didn't know.

"This is what everyone told me before. He said that Zhang Shu is capable and cautious in every move. Since he was a temporary shopkeeper, he told me to pay Zhang Shu more. Now his wages are the highest among the staff. I think we can find him and see if there is anything he can do. After Liu Lin finished speaking, the toes of one foot began to shift. This was obviously a move to turn around immediately, just waiting for Wu Da's order. Wu Da is bowing his head and meditating, so the details of this toes are clear.

In fact, Wuhan University felt very disappointed with Liu Lin's suggestion, but now there is nothing we can do. We can only go to the hospital in a hurry. If Zhang Shu in Liu Lin's mouth has nothing to do, Ximen Siquan can only blow the lamp and draw wax. I just hope I don't follow in his footsteps.

"Go find him, hurry up." After saying this, Wu Da looked at Liu Lin's figure as he turned around and walked away, and he leaned against the back of the chair tiredly.

Liu Lin's action was very fast. In less than half a cup of tea, Wu Da had already seen Liu Lin walking towards him, followed by a man who looked like a man. I thought it was Zhang Shu. Wu Da was curious about Zhang Shu and stared carefully. After this observation, he found that Zhang Shu did have some way.

His walking habits are very special, such as the pillar he has just turned. Originally, a simple left turn is enough, but Zhang Shu will habitually take a step forward to the right and then turn left before turning. This will make the visual dead corners caused by turning no longer exist. Of course, Wu Daben didn't understand this, but one day after winter, he saw Wu Song walking with the same action and asked, and Wu Song gave him such an answer. Afterwards, Wu Da also specially recalled that Wu Song did not have this habit of walking before he was tied up in the past. This boy may not learn this saying from anyone, and then went to show off in front of his brother.

Liu Lin and Zhang Shu walked quickly and arrived in front of Wu Da for a moment.

"Shopkeeper." Liu Lin spoke very little, just a bow.

Another person who called me the shopkeeper but not the owner, a trace of anger flashed in Wu Da's heart. But the current situation does not allow time to talk about these trivial matters.

"Zhang Shu, my brother said that you are not simple and have some extraordinary skills. That's why Guihualou has given you the most wages among your staff for a long time. Do you know this? Wu Da just knew that Zhang Shu got the most wages, but before asking someone to do something, he had to show his kindness, or it was really not easy to open his mouth.

"Yes, Meng Du's wrong love, and I can't thank you enough." Zhang Shu replied.

It seems that this boy is very clear and doesn't thank me at all. Wu Da thought an unhungry.

"Tonight, my martial arts family is in some trouble. If we don't handle it well, my brother and I will have a lot of bad luck. Now I'm looking for you to help me with things. Zhang Shu, I don't know if you can help?" Since this man opened his mouth to talk about Wu Song, Wu Da emphasized that this was the dilemma of the Wu family. Wu Song is the Wu family. Of course, Wu Da is also the Wu family.

"The shopkeeper said that the little one will go through fire and water, and he will die." Zhang Shu still has few words, but his attitude is resolute. However, Wu Da, a person who is not happy with words, really doubts whether he can save Simon Qing.

"There are eight people in the elegant room upstairs, seven of whom should be specially trained warriors. Seven of them guard the other person, who is guarded by Ximen Qing, the owner of the West Gate Pharmacy on West Street. Ximenqing is the key to the Wu family crisis. Now I just want to ask you if there is any good way to save him. Wu Da omitted unimportant details and introduced the main situation to Zhang Shu.

"You don't have to think about conventional means. I have already thought about it with the shopkeeper. They are very alert, and the guards of Ximenqing are very strict, and now the comparison of strength between the two sides does not allow us to solve it by force. Liu Lin made a supplementary explanation.

Zhang Shu stood silently, staring closely at Zhang Shu's slightly trembling tip of his nose. He knew that Zhang Shu was almost his last hope.

Finally, the silent Zhang Shu said, "Which room are the eight of them?"

"The second one from the north." Liu Lin answered.

Wu Da really doesn't know what this has to do with which Yajian. Every elegant pattern in Guihua Building is similar. There is no such thing as which elegant room is good to save people and which is not good to save people.

"The second one in the north." Zhang Shu muttered in a low voice: "I remember that the second elegant room in the north, downstairs, is the storage room in the kitchen, right?" Zhang Shu looked at Liu Lin and Wu Da with questioning eyes.

Wu Da thought about it and couldn't be sure whether it was so, so he could only look at Liu Lin.

Liu Lin thought about it carefully, and then said, "It's really the storage room in the kitchen. I calculated the location. You remember it right. The storage room in the kitchen used to be an elegant room in the Osmanthus Building. Later, because of the poor location, no one wanted to go, so it was used as a storage room. The location basically overlaps with the upstairs.

"Then I have a way. I want to ask, how much time is left to rescue this person?" Zhang Shu asked.

Wu Da looked at the sky outside. The sun should have just set, and it will be dark soon. They should wait until the night is thicker, but they won't wait until dinner. You still have half an hour at most. Within half an hour, you must do it.

"I don't have time to linger. I need to go to the storage room in the kitchen immediately and explain it to you two when I get there." Without waiting for Wu Da to nod, Zhang Shu turned to the kitchen.

Wu Da was not in the mood to complain. He took a look at Liu Lin. The two nodded together and followed Zhang Shu. Wu Da's body was short, and his legs were not as long as Liu Lin and Zhang Shu's. He simply trotted behind them. When he arrived in the storage room, he was already out of breath.

But Zhang Shu stood on a table and gently stroked the roof of the storage room with his hand.

"Zhang Shu, I think you think you have thought too much. The roof of the first floor of our Guihua Building, that is, the ground on the second floor, is made of century-old wood sawed into wooden boards to carry the keel. I can probably guess what you think. You want to smash the floor of the elegant room upstairs and let them fall into the storage room to rescue them. It is impossible for you to break this century-old giant tree. If you use something like sawing, the people upstairs will hear it immediately. In addition, how do you think this ceiling should be sawed? Even if everything succeeds, it should be easy for them to fall from the upstairs and grasp the situation in an instant with the skills of the seven people. Liu Lin shook his head dejectedly, and there was a look of despair in his eyes.

Wu Da stood there for a long time. He felt that Liu Lin's conjecture was too crazy. How could a rational person have this rescue idea? He stared at Zhang Shu and waited for Zhang Shu's reply.

Zhang Shu did not answer, but continued to carefully check the roof of the storage room. From time to time, he gently tapped with his fingers. The sound was so soft that Wu Da stood at the door of the storage room and could not hear it. I really didn't know what Zhang Shu was doing.

With a sw of sw, Zhang Shu jumped lightly from the table and landed with almost no sound. I just checked the roof. If I remember correctly, the floor of the elegant room upstairs, that is, on this huge piece of wood, is just a blanket.

"Yes, but you can't break this piece of wood." Liu Lin insisted on his own view and shook his head.

"Liu Account Room, I want to get rid of one thing from you. Can you find a way to tell the person we want to rescue and sit in his chair and stay motionless. In addition, you'd better help me determine where he is sitting in this room. Also, you have to say a few words loudly upstairs. I want to see how much the soundproofing of these two rooms can be. These things must be done quickly and must be completed within a quarter of an hour. Zhang Shu pinched his nose: "I'll do the rest."

Liu Lin left quickly with a doubtful expression. And Wu Da stood beside him in a daze.

"Zhang Shu, are you sure?" Wu Da asked.

More than 70%. Shopkeeper, we have no other way but to take a try. Zhang Shu's words are sincere.

Zhang Shu didn't say much about his certainty, which gave Wu Da some confidence. In his experience, people who bow too slowly are often unreliable.

"What do I need to prepare?" Wuhan University knows that Zhang Shu needs tools to do everything.

"I want a ruler, some white ash, woodworking drills, sledgehammers, some gunpowder, a long fuse for firecrackers, and some sawdust. We should have these things in our hotel. Please prepare quickly. Before Liu's account comes back, you should get ready. Zhang Shu also became the leader, and there were some orders for Wu Da's tone.