Chapter 119: The Bandits Reappear
On the wall, everyone held their swords and arrows tightly, waiting for news from the front. A battle was imminent.
In Suijin Town, in Jin Sanchong's courtyard, tattered cotton curtains blocked the light of the oil lamp, and the pungent smell of rough wine mixed with turbid air filled the room.
On the kang, Jin Sanchong was drinking with five men.
The thin "Sanchong daughter-in-law" lifted the curtain and entered the room. She lowered her head and brought a large plate of chicken to the table. She then bowed and retreated, as light as a shadow.
"Brother Sanzhong, you used to be a well-known figure. No one in town dared to disrespect you when you spoke. How did you become like this after not seeing you for two years? I'm really distressed."
A man in his mid-twenties sighed, feeling sorry for the decadent Jin Sanchong.
Jin Sanzhong sipped his wine and scolded with his drunken eyes, "Tang Xiang, don't look at me because I'm thin. I'm still a man now, but I'm just sick and can't recover for a while."
The man named Tang Xiang chuckled: "From now on, I will come to see you often, just like today. You will eat and drink as you please, and I will take good care of you."
Jin Sanchong's family was so poor that they couldn't even eat a drop of oil during the New Year. The chicken on the table was brought by Tang Xiang from Qili County.
Jin Sanzhong said gratefully, "Hey! Brother Tang is still the best. We are worthy of our life-long friendship."
Tang Xiang chuckled: "Of course, it's just that when I first went out, I was struggling to make ends meet. I only managed to survive until now because I remember the kindness that Brother Sanzhong had shown me back then."
After hearing such corny words, no one responded.
Jin Sanchong, however, was beaming with joy, and seemed to enjoy it very much.
Tang Xiang chatted for a while and then asked about Suijin Town: "How many people are there in the guards? Do those soldiers come to the town every day?"
Jin Sanzhong shook his head: "The people in the garrison don't contact us, I don't know how many people are stationed there.
The places where soldiers often go are the grocery store, the wine table of Xue Junhu, and the Song family outside the town.
Tang Xiang nodded, thoughtfully: "The Song family you're talking about is the military household that grows vegetables?"
When the Song family was mentioned, Jin Sanzhong's eyes, which had been hazy, suddenly brightened, flashing with a sinister light: "That's the house. Don't you know that there are monsters and ghosts in that house? Whoever goes there will be unlucky."
Tang Xiang looked at the red scar on the back of his neck, and remembered what he heard when he first arrived in the afternoon, and contempt suddenly appeared in his eyes.
In Qili County, he heard Min Gande's subordinate who had escaped say that there was something fishy about the female boss of Suijin Town. He saw with his own eyes that when Min Gande pinched the woman, her whole body convulsed and she died soon after.
Tang Xiang also personally found Min Gande's body and examined it. There were no injuries or marks, but it was strangely twisted, as if there was pain in the heart.
The man who beat Han Dasha to death had a piece of bone collapsed on his head, and his brain was exposed.
In his opinion, Min Gande had been suffering from heart disease, which would flare up whenever he drank too much in recent years.
In order to stop Han Ming, Min Gande endured the cold wind for a whole morning and could no longer bear it.
The woman surnamed Song just happened to encounter Min Gande when he was sick.
As for the white smoke, it must have been made up deliberately to avoid being accused of not saving people.
Tang Xiang had said something even more exaggerated than this.
Now that Jin Sanchong has also gone to the Song family, he can live a good life.
And Han Ming is even more lively and alive than before.
Jin Sanzhong didn't notice the looks from the people in the room, and continued to chatter about the things happening in Suijin Town. "I heard that Xue Junhan made only seven or eight taels of silver from selling vegetables these past few trips. You don't know that the Song family grows a lot of vegetables in their backyard. The beans and eggplants Xue Zhuang sold today are from that area."
Among the dishes that Xue Zhuang sent today, in addition to the usual cabbage and bok choy, there was also a handful of tender beans and five fat eggplants.
This is truly fresh merchandise. Tianxianglou offered a price of one tael of silver per pound, and also said they would take as many as they could get.
On this day alone, the garrison received eight taels of silver. Xue Zhuang was very happy and bought a lot of wine when he came back.
When Tang Xiang heard about beans and eggplants, the corners of his mouth curled up and he smiled. A few eggplants are nothing. If he wants to do something, he has to find someone who grows eggplants.
Besides, the Song family was a military household, and even the government didn't care about them. They could just tie them up, take them away and sell them at a high price.
At this moment, a sharp copper whistle suddenly sounded outside the town. Tang Xiang jumped off the kang, and the five people rushed out of the house in panic, but they froze in place as soon as they went out.
At this time, there was a blazing fire in the direction of Suijinwei Post, illuminating half the sky red, and voices of people shouting were heard in the night wind.
Soon the voices changed direction, and the night wind returned to calm.
The soldiers were not storming the town.
"What's going on?" someone asked in a trembling voice. The sound just now was the guards mobilizing troops, which scared him to death. He thought they were here to arrest him and his gang.
Tang Xiang was also shocked. When he saw only the whistle but no movement from the guard post, he realized it was a misunderstanding.
He had been in Suijin Town for five years and was familiar with the terrain here. At this moment, he began to think frantically: the direction the soldiers were heading should be the newly built wall. Could it be that the Di people were coming again?
No, five years ago, after the Di people succeeded, they fled deep into the Di Lu grassland with the money they earned from human trafficking.
Without someone to lead the way, they didn't dare to come here, not to mention that there was a soldier from the garrison here.
Tang Xiang stared at the sky in the courtyard for a few breaths. Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and shouted softly, "Listen up, brothers! It must be the group from Lao Shanlin who have come out again. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We can't wait and have to act first. Come inside and tell us in detail."
The five men went back into the house.
Jin Sanzhong saw the panicked expressions of the others and immediately became suspicious. His eyes widened as he asked, "What do you want to do here?"
"Brother Sanzhong, do you want to get rich?" Tang Xiang asked in a low voice.
"What do you mean? Explain it clearly." Jin Sanchong's drunkenness suddenly sobered up and he sat up straight. He vaguely knew what Tang Xiang was going to do. These people had done it five years ago.
Tang Xiang dragged out a large package from under the kang, untied the sheepskin wrapped around it, revealing several knives.
Today, he used the excuse of looking for his relatives and followed Xue Junhu, who was returning from selling vegetables, to Suijin Town to pay homage to his ancestors' graves.
Xue Zhuang was skeptical at first, but the two people who were selling vegetables with him testified for him.
It is said that Tang Xiang was originally from Suijin Town, but he went to Qili County to do business because he needed to earn money to support his family.
Now that it is the end of the year, it is appropriate to come back and pay respects to the graves.
After someone testified, Xue Zhuang's suspicions were naturally dispelled. Tang Xiang sent a few more things, and even the bag he brought was not opened.
Seeing the long sword at this time, Jin Sanchong had nothing to understand.
Tang Xiang pulled the sheepskin over and slowly wiped the blade, whispering, "Brother Sanzhong, to be honest, we brothers saw Xue Zhuang making money selling vegetables, and we also wanted to find some money to spend."
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(End of this chapter)
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