Shopkeeper Wang explained: "Secretary Zhang is a civil servant named Zhang Wenhe, and he is also an aide to the governor."
"You are the cousin of Mrs. Xu Tongsan and Xu Ji's shopkeeper. How come you don't know anything?" Cao Guang looked suspicious.
Shopkeeper Wang smiled bitterly and said: "The governor has more than just one concubine, my cousin, and my cousin is not favored. Shopkeeper Xu Ji like me has no status in the governor's heart. And Zhang Wenhe is the governor's most trusted staff member. What's the point? All secret matters are also left to him."
Cao Guang heard from the other party's words that Zhang Wenhe was the key figure in Xu Ji's grassland. As for the shopkeeper Xu Ji in front of him, Xu Tong did not take him seriously.
However, if you think about it, if you were really a valued person, you wouldn't be sent to the grasslands to make deals with Beili.
Seeing that he couldn't find anything useful, Cao Guang waved his hand and said, "Give him a good time."
The two soldiers of the Tiger Flag on the side picked up Shopkeeper Wang and walked away.
Shopkeeper Wang shouted: "I have told you everything I know. Please let me go! Please, I promise not to say anything when I go back, let alone reveal your identity."
It's a pity that Cao Guang never looked at him again from beginning to end.
Soon, a scream was heard in the distance, and at the same time, Shopkeeper Wang's begging for mercy completely disappeared.
After the two Tiger Flag soldiers returned, one of them said to Cao Guang: "Captain, we've dealt with it."
Cao Guang nodded, and then looked at the remaining captured survivors.
Among these people were the guys who came to the grassland with Xu Ji's motorcade, and the guards Xu Ji invited from Fubiao Camp.
The faces of some of the waiters were pale, their bodies were trembling, and some even had their crotches wet, and an unpleasant smell wafted out.
The remaining two convoy guards wearing worn cotton armor, although they were kneeling on the ground and their expressions were not good-looking, compared with those guys, their performance was much better.
"As for you..." Cao Guang looked at the prisoners in front of him and said, "Let's deal with them all and leave them to our recruits for execution."
"Yes." The Tiger Flag soldier beside him agreed.
The two men took a prisoner, pulled him up from the ground, and took him away.
One of the guards of Xu Ji's motorcade shouted loudly: "You broke your promise. You promised to let us leave, but now you want to kill us. You simply don't keep your word."
Hearing this, Cao Guang looked at the person who spoke, narrowed his eyes slightly, and sneered: "We are bandits, don't you think it's ridiculous that you promise credit to bandits like us? Besides, I only tell you You have a quarter of an hour to think about it, and I gave you a quarter of an hour, but you yourself didn’t seize the opportunity.”
The guard Xu Ji choked on his words.
Cao Guang waved his hand to the Tiger Flag soldiers on the side and said, "Take them all away!"
Several prisoners were taken to a distance and executed.
Ma Lin returned to Cao Guang and said, "Captain, Xu Ji's matter has almost been resolved. There are no survivors left. Should we go back?"
Cao Guang nodded and said, "Notify me and go back to Daliang Mountain."
"It's easy for us to go back, but what about Xu Ji's large trucks and goods?" Ma Lin pointed to the large trucks on the side and said, "These large trucks just left Datong not long ago. Many people have seen them. Let's just do this." Take it back, and when the news reaches the governor's office, Xu Tong will definitely send soldiers and horses from the Fubiao Battalion to surround us, and with these carts dragging us down, we can only take the main road and cannot return to Daliang Mountain by the small road."
"Don't worry." Cao Guang said with a smile, "The Military and Political Department has made arrangements. We just need to bring these things back to Xinping Fort. When we get to Xinping Fort, someone will naturally take over."
"Since the Military and Political Department has already made arrangements, I can rest assured." Marin put aside his worries and said immediately, "I will notify a few team captains and prepare to hit the road."
Not long after, Xu Ji’s team was back on the road.
However, this time we are not going to Qingcheng, but returning to Xinpingbao.
Shortly after the convoy left, a figure climbed up from behind a grassy patch of dirt a few hundred steps away from the convoy.
After spending more than a day, Cao Guang returned to Xinpingbao with Xu Ji's cart.
A long line of carts stopped outside the gate of Xinpingbao.
A soldier guarding the city looked at the cart in front of him and then at the guards guarding the convoy, frowning deeply.
Another soldier on the side bumped the other man with his elbow and asked: "What are you looking at? You are so absorbed in it that I saw you staring at it for a long time."
The soldier frowned and said, "Do you think this convoy looks familiar?"
"Do they look familiar?" Another person looked around at the convoy outside the city gate and said immediately, "They are all big trucks pulling goods. They don't all look the same. It's normal for them to look familiar."
"Something's wrong." The soldier shook his head slightly and said, "You keep an eye here while I look for the head."
With that said, he left the other person behind and ran towards the city gate upstairs.
When he came to the city gate tower, he walked up to a city gate official who was wearing a sword and whispered: "Boss, there is something wrong with the convoy below."
"What's wrong?" The city gate officer came to the edge of the female wall and looked at the motorcade below.
The soldier said: "Boss, do you still remember Xu Ji's motorcade? Look at the motorcade at the city gate, it looks like Xu Ji's motorcade that came out of our Xinping Fort before."
The city gate official said disapprovingly, "They are all large carts carrying goods, and they all look the same. Maybe you saw them wrong."
The soldier said: "I am absolutely certain that it is the convoy that Xu Ji left the border with, but the people in the convoy have been changed, and this convoy is coming back from the grassland. Xu Ji's convoy just went there not long ago. grassland."
The city gate officer narrowed his eyes, looked serious, and said, "You mean Xu Ji's convoy was robbed and then taken back to Xinpingbao."
"I have a small suspicion." The soldier nodded.
The city gate official hesitated for a moment while looking at the motorcade below the city, and then said to the soldier: "Hurry up and go to the General's Mansion, tell the people in the General's Mansion your suspicions, and ask the General's Mansion to send someone over."
"Yes, little one, let's go right away." After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the bottom of the city tower.
"Wait a minute." The city gate officer suddenly shouted.
The soldier who was about to leave stopped, turned around, and said, "Sir, do you have any other orders?"
"There's no need to go." The city gate official said, looking down at the female wall.
"Ah!" The soldier was stunned.
The city gate official continued: "This is a matter about the Tiger Flag, let's not get involved."
The soldier looked puzzled. He walked to the female wall and glanced down, only to see the shopkeeper of Tiger Flag's shop in Xinpingbao standing at the city gate, talking to the steward of the motorcade at the city gate.
The city gate officer patted the soldier on the shoulder and said, "Whether the convoy below is Xu Ji's or not, as long as it has anything to do with the tiger-character flag, we'd better leave it alone."
"I understand, little one." The soldier nodded vigorously.
