Dozens of corpses were thrown into the mud pits on the roadside and buried. They were covered with a thick layer of soil and looked slightly raised.
Li Xin came to Captain Zhou Zhong and the Captain of the Cuirassiers and said: "Two captains, the matter here is almost settled. There are still things in the city, so I will go back first."
He came over to say goodbye to the two men.
Captain Zhou Zhong said: "If you need our help, just ask, we are all Tiger Flag people, no need to be polite."
"Yes, there is no need to see us outside." The captain of the cuirassiers echoed.
Li Xin clasped his fists towards the two of them and said with a smile: "Thank you to the two captains for your kindness. We can handle the rest by ourselves. Let's take our leave."
After saying that, he waved his hand, walked onto the road, and walked back to the city.
"Wait a minute." The captain of the cuirassiers behind him shouted and chased after him.
Li Xin retracted his steps and turned around.
"Don't go back on foot, ride back on horseback, and ride Feng Daer's horse." The captain of the cuirassiers said something, and then shouted to a cuirassier in the distance, "The horse that led us back on the road." Horse for Brother Lee.”
After hearing this, the cuirassiers in the distance ran to lead the ownerless Mongolian horse.
The horse was brought over, and the captain of the cuirassiers took the reins and handed them to Li Xin.
Li Xin looked at the horse in front of him, hesitated for a moment, and said: "We don't have many cavalrymen in the Tiger Flag, so you should keep this horse. One more war horse will also provide one more cavalryman in the future."
The captain of the cuirassiers laughed twice when he heard this, and immediately said: "What our Tiger Flag lacks is riders. There is no shortage of war horses. Moreover, this horse is spoiled. It can be used as livestock, but it will not be successful." War horse.”
As the captain of the cuirassiers, I often deal with war horses. Whether a horse is suitable for use as a war horse can be seen at a glance.
Captain Zhou Zhong came up from behind and said with a smile: "On the Xiangma, these cavalry are all jealous, so you can ride back with confidence, and this horse belongs to the Fan family. Even if you ride back, the Fan family No one will be suspicious."
Seeing that the two people had said this, Li Xin stopped refusing, reached out to take the reins, got on the horse, then gave a fist to the two people standing aside and said, "Goodbye."
The captain of the cuirassiers and the captain of Zhou Zhong raised their right hands across their chests and stood straight.
"Drive!" Li Xin flicked the reins and urged the horse to run.
Looking at Li Xin who was gradually walking away, Captain Zhou Zhong and the Captain of the Cuirassiers lowered their right arms across their chests.
Among them, the captain of the cuirassiers said to Captain Zhou Zhong beside him: "It is inconvenient for your musketeers to enter the city. My cavalry can definitely go into the city to help him. It is safer than him going into the city alone."
"Don't worry. The Foreign Intelligence Agency has been laying out the situation for so long. How could he be the only one in the city?" Captain Zhou Zhong raised his hand and patted the breastplate of the captain of the cavalry.
But as soon as his hand touched the breastplate on the opponent's body, he quickly retracted it, frowned and said: "Are you hot wearing such a thick breastplate? The battle is over, take it off! I'm hot for you." Panic."
"Fortunately, I wear them like this during training, and I'm used to it." The captain of the cavalry team replied, and then said to the cuirassier on the side, "Send the order, our people can take off their armor, and there will be no fighting for the time being. .”
As soon as the order was given, the surrounding cuirassiers eagerly took off their breastplates, fearing that their captain would change his mind if he was too late.
The captain of the Cuirassiers' face darkened when he saw this scene.
He had just finished telling others that their cuirassiers were accustomed to wearing cuirass for training. Unexpectedly, the cavalry under him were all in a hurry to take off their cuirass, which did not give him, the captain, any face.
Captain Zhou Zhong next to him slapped his thigh and laughed. Heyuan Book Bar
Li Xin, who rode back to the border fort on horseback, was much faster than when he left the city, and it didn't take long for him to return to the city.
After entering the city, he did not return to Fan's house immediately. Instead, he walked around a street in the city before rushing to Fan's house.
Nowadays, the Fan family has been suppressed by several surrounding governments, making it difficult to do business, and many stores have to be sold out. However, they are still the leading wealthy businessmen in Zhangjiakou. After several generations of expansion, the family's ancestral home occupies an entire street.
Although the street where the Fan family's ancestral home is located is not a main street, it is still sixty or seventy feet away. The entire street is paved with blue bricks. There is a drainage ditch on the side opposite the courtyard gate, which is specially used to drain water after rain.
When Li Xin returned to the street where the Fan family's ancestral home was, there were more than a dozen young men behind him.
Arriving at the side door, Li Xin grabbed the nose of the door and slapped it hard several times.
boom! boom! boom!
The wooden door made a dull sound.
Not long after, footsteps were heard from behind the door, and soon the sound of the door bolt being unbolted was heard.
squeak!
The wooden door was opened from the inside.
"Why are you back? Where is the steward?" The servant of the Fan family who opened the door had seen Li Xin and knew that he and steward Fan and others had left the city. Now seeing him coming back alone, he leaned out and took a look outside, wanting to Find Butler Fan.
However, he only saw a dozen men standing behind Li Xin, but they were not the people from Xikuoyuan who accompanied Butler Fan out of the city.
"Take the horse away. I have something urgent to see you." Li Xin handed the reins to the servants of the Fan family.
The servant of the Fan family took the reins, looked at the strange men outside the door, frowned and said, "Who are they? Why have I never seen them before?"
"These people came back with me from Zhuangzi outside the city." Li Xin explained, and then urged, "You take the horse to the stable and take care of it. I have something urgent to see the master, so I can't delay."
The servant of the Fan family said: "Master is in the study. He hasn't left since you left. He even had lunch in the study."
"Thank you." Li Xin patted the Fan family servant on the shoulder and walked inside.
A dozen men behind him followed closely and walked in from the side door one after another.
The servants of the Fan family hesitated for a while, but finally did not stop them, thinking that these people really had something important to do. After all, when Butler Fan left, he saw with his own eyes that many people from Xikuoyuan were taken away.
Fan Yongdou's study is no stranger to Li Xin. He visited it once not long ago.
However, the dozen or so men following him were extremely conspicuous. The servants and maids of the Fan family he met along the way all gave way, and some even ran to the backyard to deliver messages.
Li Xin ignored these servants and maids and led them quickly to Fan Yongdou's study.
For the sake of cleanliness, Fan Yongdou set up his study in a separate courtyard.
This courtyard not only has a study room, but also a counting room. Several accounting gentlemen of the Fan family usually work in the counting room.
The Fan family has a large business and many accounts, and each accounting takes a long time. The accountants of the Fan family are often busy from morning to night.
Nowadays, the Fan family does less business outside, and the accounting office is not as busy as before. However, because they have to cash out stores in various places and all accounts must be settled clearly, several accounting gentlemen are still busy in the accounting room.
