Chapter 350 Delicate
Xu Ziling lowered his voice and said, "I have to follow Lao Ba closely today, because Tuli is likely to pick him when he places an order."

Shen Mu nodded and said, "That's it, well, be careful."

After entering the imperial city, the general guarding the gate took him to the Shangshu Mansion, and after waiting for a while, someone led him to the hall, and he was astonished when he entered the door.

I saw Wang Shichong sitting high in the main seat at the southern end of the hall, with more than ten seats evenly distributed on both sides, all filled with people.

In the six seats on the right, Shen Mu knew the "beautiful Hu Ji" Ling Longjiao, Kefeng Daoren, and "Iron Hand" Chen Changlin. The one on Wang Shichong's right was Ouyang Xiyi, and Lang Feng and Song Mengqiu were in the last seat.

The six people on the other side were all meeting for the first time, and the last two looked like Wang Shichong, so it seemed that they were his sons.

Shen Mu didn't expect to encounter such a battle suddenly, Wang Shichong stood up and said with a big smile: "You came just in time, we are discussing big plans. Come! Sit down and have a cup of hot tea before we talk."

Everyone clasped their fists to him as a salute, only the frosty beard girl Linglongjiao gave him a slight nod, which was regarded as a greeting.

Ouyang Xiyi seemed to have a special affection for Shen Mu, and waved his hand: "No extra seats, come and sit with the old man!"

An attendant added a grand master's chair next to the senior master, let Shen Mu sit down, and offered tea.

After some commotion, Wang Shichong introduced to Shen Mu the first two men wearing general uniforms on the left. One was Zhang Zhenzhou, and the other was Yang Gongqing. They were the generals Wang Shichong relied on as his left and right arm. Their status was comparable to that of Lang Feng and Song Mengqiu. To be tall, he has been stationed in foreign defenses, fighting for Wang Shichong and the rebels from all sides.

Shen Mu knew that this was Wang Shichong's real team, so he paid special attention to those two.

Zhang Zhenzhou is tall and tall, with a thin face that looks shrewd and confident, with a calm and composed demeanor, rarely smiling, and his high forehead is slightly raised, as if there is infinite wisdom in him.At the age of 35 or six, he seems to be a meticulous person.

Yang Gongqing was a little older, with a medium build, always had a gentle smile on his face, and his slender eyes made Shen Mu feel that he was a very sophisticated person.He has a high-pitched voice, and speaks slowly, giving people a sense of discontinuity.

The last two are Wang Xuanying and Wang Xuanshu, the eldest son and the second son of Wang Shichong. The former has scars on his face, his speech is a bit rough and reckless, and his eyes have a kind of viciousness. He was already a little fat, which made Shen Mu guess that he was a person who indulged in sex, otherwise such a situation would not have happened at such a twenty-year-old age. It seems that even if Wang Shichong passed him on personally, he would not be able to achieve anything.

On the contrary, Naidi has a strong body, a radiant face, and a heroic spirit. Although he is not as tall as Shen Mu, he is still tall and tall, but his childishness has not been eliminated, and he still needs some experience to be able to stand on his own.

The other two are Wang Honglie and Wang Xingben, both belong to Wang Shichong's relatives, and they are not extraordinary people just by their appearance.

Half of the eight core figures of Wang Shichong's army here are people who are related to Wang Shichong. Except for Wang Xuanshu who looks a little like, the rest are not talents. Such appointment of private individuals should have a certain impact on the morale of the army.

After drinking tea, Wang Shichong said to Shen Mu with a smile: "I am very happy to see the little brother come back safe and sound."

Shen Mu cursed secretly in his heart, and said with a smile: "What exactly happened to alarm Lord Shang Shu and everyone here to discuss big plans?"

Wang Shichong said: "Chao Gongcuo has just arrived here, we are going to strike first, and we must wipe out the entire army of the Nanhai faction and never turn over."

Shen Mu said in amazement: "Absolutely not!"

Including Wang Shichong, everyone was stunned.

Wang Shichong wondered: "Why is it absolutely impossible?"

Shen Mu sighed and said: "The only thing we have to do now is to show the enemy weakness. The more Li Mi underestimates the enemy, the more he looks down on us, the more ideal it will be."

Ouyang Xiyi, who was only a few blocks away from him, said puzzled: "The battlefield is still the battlefield. Dealing with Chao Gongcuo is a decisive battle in the world. Otherwise, if he and the Dugu Clan are allowed to join forces to assassinate Brother Shichong, everyone will be troubled." We are worried all day long, do we need to do other things?"

Most people in the hall nodded in agreement.

Only Daoist Na Kefeng raised the dust in his hand, smiled and said: "Brother Kou must have a unique opinion, why don't you tell me."

Shen Mu said calmly: "First of all, I want to know how is the situation on Li Mi's side?"

Wang Shichong said by name: "Zhenzhou! It's up to you to tell about Li Mi's situation!"

Zhang Zhenzhou said: "Since we started to build a bridge and set up warehouses in Yanshi, Li Mi began to mobilize grain, grass, troops and horses, and ordered the general Bing Yuanzhen to lead the army to Luokou, Cheng Zhijie to Jinyongcheng, Shan Xiong to keep Heyang, and it seemed that he wanted to To advance to Yanshi, but it could be that Li Mi wanted to use the Yellow River as a barrier in the south, defend Taihang in the north, and connect Liyang in the east, and put the defense in the offense, so I did not dare to send troops to advance."

Just listening to his words, Shen Mu knew that he was a strategic strategist, and he thought that it was no luck that Wang Shichong was able to defend Luoyang, the core of the Central Plains.

Shen Mu confidently said: "If Master Shang Shu can pretend to be stabbed and injured, Bao Bao and Li Mi will attack immediately, then our chance has come."

Wang Shichong said with a look of embarrassment: "Now we are still afraid that we will not be able to take precautions. If we deliberately give people a chance, if one is bad, it will be self-defeating if we suffer a big loss."

Zhang Zhenzhou didn't know if he was scared by Li Mi, so he interjected, "Li Mi is invincible in all battles. Even though Tongshan's vitality was seriously injured in the first battle, but his strength is still there. Why are Kou brothers so sure that they can defeat Li Mi?"

Shen Mu knew that Wang Shichong, a selfish person, would never take such a big risk if he didn't first strengthen everyone's confidence in winning, so he said in a sonorous tone: "Go to the army to plan, and Sun Tzu also knows the enemy's art of war." My lords should be aware of my details. Zhai Rang’s daughter has always been in touch with me. Through her relationship, Li Mi can’t hide it from me even if she sneezes. As long as Li Mizhong plans to send troops, we will lure the enemy and attack , Ambush tactics puncture the myth of his invincibility."

After a pause, he continued: "I have contacted Liu Heida, the chief general of King Dou Jiande of Xia, and asked him to bluff to help. So as long as Lord Shang Shu is willing to take this risk, it is no wonder that Li Mi is not up to the trick."

People were moved by it.

Wang Shichong cheered up and said, "Can I meet Zhai Jiao's people?"

Shen Mu patted his chest and said, "It's okay to see Zhai Jiao, so let's just do it today!"

So far, Wang Shichong has no doubts.

But Yang Gongqing said: "However, the arrangement for the assassination must be carefully planned to ensure that nothing goes wrong. After we meet Miss Zhai, we will discuss it in the long term. What do you think, Master Shangshu?"

Wang Shichong took the case and said, "That's it."

Shen Mu's heart was filled with joy, thinking that Li Mi's visit today will surely make it difficult for you to escape from this catastrophe.

According to the previous agreement with Xu Ziling, when Shen Mu rushed to the Luodi opposite Luoyang Bridge, Xu Ziling had already been waiting for him for half an hour.

He jumped into the boat, and Xu Ziling immediately oared out.

Shen Mu looked back and said: "I have used many methods to get rid of those who want to track me, hey! Where did you steal this boat from?"

Xu Ziling said with a smile: "It was originally stolen, but it turned out to be the result of trading a piece of gold. With it instead of transportation, no one would want to follow us."

Shen Mu took the bamboo hat and coir raincoat he handed over, and said happily: "You are well prepared, where did Lao Ba go?"

At this moment, a person flew in from the shore.

The two were taken aback, who dared to be so bold and openly deal with their four hands with two fists?

Even if it was Zhu Yuyan who came here, he had to think twice before attacking them with a boat on such a vast river.

After looking more clearly, it turned out that the person who came was actually Song Shidao who Song Yuzhi said had returned to the south. Because of the bamboo hat on his head, he couldn't recognize him for a while.

The passionate seed fell in the heart of the boat with the wind and rain, and he said happily: "It was really hard to find you, and I was afraid that I would be seen contacting you, so I followed Xiao Zhong all the way from the imperial city to this place, so I dared to meet you."

Shen Mu smiled wryly, "Your tracking skills are really good."

Xu Ziling asked in surprise, "Didn't Second Young Master go back to the south?"

After Song Shidao let out a breath, he seemed to be sorting out the information in his mind, and after a while he said slowly: "Five days ago, Shangguan Long rode out of the city alone, and he came back at dusk. Behind him was a car with a low curtain, The dusty carriage, four people traveling with the carriage, including two women, were all covered with veils, hiding and shrinking. The carriage finally arrived at a yard in Yongtongfang next to Yishui in the southeast corner of the city. Shangguanlong arrived at the next day I left in the morning."

Xu Ziling moved the oars and steered the boat, and said in a deep voice: "We must find Ba Fenghan immediately, I'm sure that the house Shen Luoyan mentioned is definitely not Qu Ao, but the 'Nanhai Immortal' Chao Gongcuo. guy."

Shen Mu suddenly heard that although he was confused, he knew that Song Shidao had indirectly exposed a conspiracy of Shen Luoyan.

Not long after, when the boat reached the shore, Shen Mu and the three were driving a carriage, but they didn't want to meet Tuoba Han on the road, poked his head out of the carriage, winked and said, "Where did you go, Ba boy? You haven't come up yet! "

Ba Fenghan immediately put aside the sadness of parting, laughed and got into the carriage, only to realize that besides Shen Mu and Xu Ziling, there was Song Shidao, no wonder the carriage and driver were all available.

As soon as Ba Fenghan got into the carriage, he snorted angrily, "Shen Luoyan is too cunning, if I didn't like killing women, I would definitely use her to test the sword and sacrifice the flag."

Shen Mu knew that Ba Fenghan had been tricked by Shen Luoyan, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "The struggle with Li Mi is never going to happen, she will feel better sooner or later."

Song Shidao was aware of the whole matter, and suggested: "Why don't you release the matter of Shen Luoyan's assassination of Duguba, so as to damage the relationship between Dugufeng and Li Mi, at least Shen Luoyan will be too tired to spend a lot of time talking."

Shen Mu smiled and said: "You must not, otherwise my tricks will not work! Now my tricks are to maximize the ambitions of others and completely destroy my own prestige. Even if Chao Gong is wrong, we must respect him well, and don't let him go." Half a hair on him."

Ba Fenghan was well aware of his tricks and tricks, so he didn't have the time to worry about it, so he turned to Master Song and said, "Is there a way for Second Young Master to find out where Qu Ao is hiding?"

Song Shidao nodded and said: "This is easy. Xiao Zhang who is driving is a member of the Green Snake Gang here. I have done a little favor to their gang leader En. As long as I say a word, and they are within their ability, they will be obliged. Luoyang Few of them can hide things from a group of local snakes."

Shen Mu lowered his voice and said: "They are the deadly enemies of the Luoyang Gang. We brought down Shangguan Long and made the Luoyang Gang fall into disarray without a leader, which is equivalent to indirectly helping them a lot. I don’t know how grateful I am.”

Xu Ziling glanced out the window and said, "The rain has stopped!"

Xiao Zhang, who was driving, shouted, "The four masters are here!"

The four of them got off the car outside the gate of the workshop. After observing the situation, they climbed onto the tiled surface, and after running through a few houses, the target yard appeared in front of them in a short while, with only an alley in between.

Take a look, you know something is wrong.

In the open space in front of the house, although there is a carriage parked, there are no horses pulling the carriage.

The doors and windows of this house with three entrances and two courtyards connected by two patios are closed, and there is no sign of being inhabited.

Shen Mu said dejectedly: "Oops! We scare away all the temptresses, men and women."

Song Shidao was surprisingly calm, and said in a low voice: "Let's go into the house and have a look, maybe we will find something."

Ba Fenghan sighed: "I think it's a waste of effort. The Yingui Sect is always known for its secretive whereabouts. How could they leave any clues to follow, otherwise people would have chased them to their lair."

Song Shidao shook his head and said, "This trip is different. I'm almost sure that they changed places in a hurry after Guanlong's identity was exposed the night before, in order to avoid being found on this line. This is a kind of careful driving. The measure of the annual ship, but it is easy to be ignored. With this kind of mentality, it is inevitable that there will be negligence. Then we have a way to find out."

The three of them were all moved, and they suddenly looked at Song Shidao, the second young master, with admiration.

Song Shi said "Come on" and jumped into the yard first.

The layout of the hall was exquisite, and there were decorations such as paintings and calligraphy hanging on the walls, but as Ba Fenghan expected, everything was clean, except for household utensils, nothing was left behind.

Song Shidao refused to let go of any inch.When the three of them lost interest, he picked up some tea leaves from the ground, put them under his nose and sniffed them, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, these should be yellow buds with uniform straight and yellow color." Green in the middle, delicate as a hair, and shaped like a duck tongue, it is the best tea."

The three of them were dumbfounded when they heard this, thinking that only a son of a noble family like him could tell so many truths with a piece of tea.

Xu Ziling frowned and said, "Even if you know what kind of tea it is, what effect can it have?"

Shen Mu interjected, "In my opinion, the demon girls of the Yin Gui Sect don't bring tea with them. It should be Shangguan Long who prepared to honor them."

Song Shidao said happily: "This possibility is very high. There are several tea shops in Tianjie, and three of them sell yellow bud tea, but only Shanjingju sells the first-class yellow bud leaves produced by Jingangtai. I and them The boss has been getting along quite well these days, so it is easy to find out whether Shangguan Long is only fond of this tea. If so, we will have one more clue."

All three of them were convinced.

Tea has a tea addiction. I am used to drinking a certain kind of tea. Although I will change the taste from time to time, it will not change all at once.Shangguan Long should be recovering from his injuries, if he happened to send someone to buy tea, they would have a chance.

Song Shidao inspected again, and after finding nothing new, he walked inward.

The three of them regarded him as a god because of his "investigation" skills, and hurriedly chased after him.

Song Shidao entered one of the bedrooms, the bed curtains were drooping, and the bedding inside was messy. As expected, he not only left in a hurry, but also left in the middle of the night.If it is during the day, all bedding should be tidy.

When the three of them observed carefully like Song Shidao, he lifted the curtain and sat on the edge of the bed, picked up the quilt pillow and sniffed with godly.

The three looked up to him and waited patiently for him to speak.

Seeing the three people staring at him, Song Shidao put down the quilt and said with a smile: "It's really not a big deal. It's just that I have always been in a family that pays attention to life, and it just so happens that the people of the Yingui Sect are also very particular about this aspect. That’s why I thought I could see something from it.”

Ba Fenghan said with emotion: "Second Young Master's words are very useful. All along, people in Jianghu thought that the Yin Gui faction hid in the deep mountains and poor valleys, but now it seems that it is more likely to hide their lair in the bustling metropolis It is unexpected. Otherwise, I would never be so particular about everything.”

Shen Mu also asked modestly: "What kind of attention is it?"

Song Shidao replied: "The sleeping tent and quilt have been scented with ordinary spices, but the pillow carries another kind of fragrance, which should come from the spice that the woman herself likes to use."

Xu Ziling said: "Since we have the two clues of tea and spices, what should we do next?"

Song Shidao said: "Let's talk about it after looking at other places! But Brother Ba is right, they won't keep things that can be taken away."

The car drove out and headed towards Tianjie.

When they arrived at Tianjie, Song Shidao slipped out of the car, while Xiao Zhang drove into a side street and waited.

The four of Shen Mu were sitting on the second floor of a building by the river. Outside the window, they could see the unloading of goods on the pier, and not far to the left were the three suspicious ships.

Downstairs is a shop specializing in salt goods, which is owned by the Green Snake Gang.In fact, most of the big and small gangs in Luoyang are engaged in water transport business.

(End of this chapter)

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