The situation that Ren Tianjing was most worried about came true. He was not afraid of the red-crowned leopards rushing in or even coming out in full force. What he was afraid of was the opponent's strong defense, because the trump card in his hand was the most lacking of time.
Although he didn't want He Nan to feel that he was incompetent, Ren Tianjing was not a person who liked to ignore objective facts. That civil and military support was the decisive factor in victory. If Ren Tianjing could really kill them without leaving them How could a red-crowned leopard hide around every day looking for opportunities? Maybe Xiaoshan won’t lose it either.
Of course, Wei Kui is mainly responsible for the "strong" part of the reinforcement. Compared with a military strategist, what Ren Tianjing needs is an unparalleled general who can tear apart the entire defense line alone. However, based on the current situation, It seems that he has to ask Wei Kui if he has enough experience in siege.
But no matter what, Ren Tianjing doesn't want anyone to look down on him, no matter who it is - he has experienced too many looks at him in the past twenty years, and the opportunity to turn around is right in front of him. …
"Our county magistrate asked me to go up to the mountain and ask, is it time for you to be "filial" this month? "The young policeman who came to deliver the message for the county magistrate had an arrogant look on his face. He put his left hand on the handle of the knife at his waist and looked at people with a straight nose.
"This...of course I have to show my respect." This little catcher looked very unfamiliar, but since he had the county magistrate's handwriting, he must be a close confidant, maybe a relative of the county magistrate's nephew, Dan Dingbao certainly didn't dare to neglect.
Although the ordinary police officer can be killed with just one slap, after all, he is an official and he is a thief. How long he can be prosperous depends on others, so even if there is resentment in his heart, it is not the time to vent it out: " I don’t blame you for reminding me, brother, we have already been prepared to show our filial piety to Magistrate Yang - but recently we ran into some trouble, so we never had time to go down the mountain... Can you give me a little more time?"
"Trouble? What trouble?" The young detective rolled his eyes and suddenly showed a hint of greed: "You should tell me and let me hear it. Maybe we adults can settle it for you! But..."
"Do I need to pay more?"
"You have to pay more."
The two blurted out the words at the same time, but their tone was different, but after being stunned for a moment, they laughed tacitly.
"So, this extra bit..." The red-crowned leopard's fingers were curled in the bright red hair. He usually covered half of his face with his hands to reveal his expressions that shouldn't appear.
The young detective's left hand is still holding the handle of the knife, but the thumb and index finger of his right hand have been rubbed together, making no attempt to hide his intention: "Of course I want to give it to my uncle... No, Magistrate Yang. But brother, you also You can't let me, the messenger, go to waste, can you?" After saying that, the young agent patted the side of the red-crowned leopard's arm as if to indicate it. It sounded as if the young agent let it slip, but in fact he was taking it. His relationship with the county magistrate came to reassure the red-crowned leopard.
"Don't worry, I won't let you suffer." Seeing the hesitant look in Red-crowned Leopard's eyes, the young catcher continued: "It won't take long for me to become the youngest catcher in Xiaoshan County. Whenever you have my share, you will have your share."
Regarding this promise, Red-Crowned Leopard basically regarded him as a fart to add to the trouble. He did not disbelieve the guarantee made by the young agent, but he seriously doubted that with the other party's attitude of not knowing how to restrain himself, he would not be able to restrain himself in a few years. He has to trick his uncle to death together, and maybe he will be implicated as well.
The red-crowned leopard stood up and gave the young catcher a hand: "It doesn't matter whether you suffer or not, but brother, how are you going to take the things back?"
The detective shook his official robe, and showed no concern for the red-crowned leopard's problem. He only had a calculating and eager attitude: "Give my uncle a box, and the rest of the box will be divided among us as thieves... myself You don’t have to pack the portion you take alone for me, I can just carry it on my body, so you can just send two or three people to escort the car.”
After hearing the arrangement of the young detective, the red-crowned leopard almost laughed angrily. If anyone else dared to talk to him like this, he would have slapped him to death, but the same sentence still applies - the people do not fight with the officials. , so we can only let this young boy act mischievously here, but the red-crowned leopard can only accompany the smiling face behind, and in the end he can only obey
This young detective arranged it.
"Brother, who will be responsible for escorting the car? Do you need to pick one yourself?" While he was loading the car, the red-crested leopard leader was about one and a half steps ahead of the captain, inspecting some of the soldiers in the village.
The young detective has already got the money in his arms, and it seems that he doesn't care about who will escort the car - even if these two boxes of things are lost, there is no need to replace them himself. Besides, all the gangsters in Xiaoshan are now listening to the whistle of the red-crested leopard. , who would dare to rob his car without any foresight? So he said lightly: "Brother Bao, this matter is entirely up to you, and I won't interfere in it. However, I suggest that you find two people who are familiar with the county government and are smart - don't let my uncle do it at that time." It was leaked in front of them."
This makes sense. The young catcher doesn't want others to know that he has plucked feathers from the wild geese, and the red-crowned leopard must safely hand over this month's tribute to the county magistrate - he doesn't want this to attract any attention. The related party messed up the matter, causing me to have to pay a lot of money - you know, the bandit business seems to be a profit-free business, but the result of one failure may be your life. Once you get in, every money can be said to be earned with your brains. …
"Why did it take so long to come back?" From the village to the county seat, the journey back and forth would only take a day and a half, but these two people doubled the time.
The two people looked at each other, and in the end they still didn't dare to lie, or they explained in a tactful way: "Didn't the eldest brother ask us to give the county magistrate a letter before he left? Let's take this letter." We were sent there together with Xiao Jing, but before leaving the next day, the policeman came to us again and asked us to stay one more day to wait for them to come up with an idea..."
The content of the letter was naturally the "trouble" that Red-crested Leopard asked the county magistrate to solve for him. It seems that the man named Yang is not unreliable. At least he used his own money to do things - this is what Red-crested Leopard thought in his mind. With.
"Then since you are back, have you also brought back Magistrate Yang's ideas?" Red-crowned Leopard asked, but the next two minions' replies made him feel uneasy, and even wanted to I have no idea what the meaning of this behavior is.
The extra day the two of them waited was indeed not in vain, but what they were asked to bring back for exchange was unusual - the young detective actually returned a box of silver intact to them, but there was only one box of silver. Just a box.
To say that he has accepted both gifts, Red-Crowned Leopard has a good idea. Yang is short-handed and soft-spoken. No matter how hard he can sell it, the money will definitely be worth it. It’s worth it; if two boxes of silver are all returned, it means that I can’t help you, and it may even mean that Magistrate Yang can’t afford to offend He Nan. After the red-crested leopard understood this meaning, he continued It takes a long time to lock the mountain gate, but at least there is an idea.
But the evil is evil. What is the operation of taking half and returning half?
Thinking of this, Red-Crowned Leopard quickly asked: "You two didn't ask, what is the meaning of returning this portion? At least you have to tell who returned it?"
The minions were also frightened: "We wanted to ask, but the policeman told us not to ask questions that we shouldn't and just bring the things back... He said you would know what it meant."
"I said... Could it be that Yang returned all the two boxes of money, but you stole one box and then came back to lie to me? If I found out... I would have to cut you alive to satisfy your hatred. !" The red-crested leopard suddenly realized another possibility and picked up a wrist-breaking knife in his hand.
"Brother! Calm down your anger! Don't be impulsive!" When the two saw the red-crowned leopard furious, they immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "How dare we! And if we really had the guts, we could just run away with two boxes of money. Isn’t it okay if we don’t come back again? It’s okay if you call us stupid, but don’t doubt that we are so stupid!”
Hearing this, Red-Crowned Leopard almost lost his temper and said angrily: "What are you two idiots doing in the county town?"
Originally, he didn't want to inquire about so many details, he just wanted to vent his emotions, but the two generals, Heng Ha, were also stunned by the scolding, and mumbled: "Then the big brother, the policeman, invited us to visit the brothel for two days, and so did the two of us. It’s hard to refuse such kindness..."
"Get out! Get out of here!"
"The red-crowned leopard roared and threw the coffee table in front of it towards the two of them. The two living treasures also rolled and crawled out of the boss's room.
So, what exactly does this operation of receiving half and withdrawing half mean, and should the red-crowned leopard "understand it by himself"?
The answer is very simple, but difficult to guess, it is "nothing interesting".
A question that even the questioner himself doesn’t know why he asked it, and all reasonable or approximately reasonable answers are meaningless, just like Ren Tianjing, who decided to send back half of the silver, didn’t delve into the consequences of his behavior. It’s the same kind of “hint” it brings to the red-crowned leopard.
Ren Tianjing only knew that doing this would cause the red-crowned leopard to think wildly, and the more wildly he fancied, the farther away he would be from the truth. The returned box of silver was like a sudden chaos in front of the two armies. It was like a circus to add to the entertainment, singing and dancing on the tense battlefield, which was out of place.
Different from the faction like Qi Jun who likes to carefully plan the overall situation, and also different from Guan Lingxiao's intricate web-like links, Ren Tianjing and He Nan hit it off on the road of "improvisation", and they are also better at unobtrusive details. Take the unexpected.
Ren Tianjing's original intention was to let Mr. Chen play the role of a policeman to deliver information to the brothers on the mountain, so that they could act as internal agents at the right time. However, the red-crested leopard was indeed very suspicious and followed the policeman almost step by step, even if the other party The performance was very sincere, and in the end Mr. Chen was a little scared for fear of being found out, so he didn't ask Ren Tianjing's accomplices to follow him down the mountain by name.
I thought it would take a while to figure out the next step, but after seeing something carried by the men escorting him down the mountain, Ren Tianjing had a sudden idea.
Indeed, the act of returning just one box can be said to be almost meaningless, and at best it is just confusing, but the real secret is the cart responsible for escorting the stolen goods.
Because the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to walk, in order to prevent goods from falling and being lost and improve transportation efficiency, the transportation tools in the cottage use "box"-style carts instead of flatbed trucks, and the goods are placed in buckets. rather than piled on the board.
That is to say, taking advantage of Heng Ha Erjiang's time to spend the day and night, Ren Tianjing found a brother who knew carpentry to add a "mezzanine" to the bottom of the truck body.
The angle of this mezzanine is very small and the space is very narrow. It is absolutely impossible to hide an adult in it, but if you want to hide a child curled up in a ball...if you don't mind being panicked along the way, you can barely do it. It relies on "stuffing".
If you want to ask, is Second General Heng Ha so confused that he doesn’t even know that the car has been tampered with and that there is a person hidden inside? Then I can only answer you, if you are a person who is responsible for delivering goods between the black and white lanes, and you happily spent two nights eating, drinking, whoring and gambling without having to pay for it, you were told something inexplicable. In addition, when you are likely to be questioned by the boss after returning home, will you have the leisure to keep staring at the inside of the carriage?
But there is one thing that Ren Tianjing must sincerely thank them for, and that is that these two people are quite loyal to the red-crowned leopard - if the two people suddenly realize that they can secretly divide the box of money, whether it is the brothers Whether he hides the money and dumps the car in a random ravine, or pushes himself to collect the money and run away, Ren Tianjing has to fall into this variable.
This move may not be subtle, it can even be said to be very weird, but while the red-crowned leopard was still scratching his red head and thinking "What should I know?", Ren Tianjing was already leaning against him under his nose. His sudden flash of imagination, his courage to face death, and his unusual bones... came up with a story of "hiding the truth from the sky".
No wonder He Nan admires Ren Tianjing very much. The two brothers are even the same in "putting people into a claustrophobic space to make a difference."
That night, Ren Tianjing squirmed in the narrow cage, using the dagger hidden in his arms to slowly pry open the nails that made the mezzanine without making a sound, and finally left the warehouse cautiously.
A large piece of skin fell off his head due to the jolt, and there were bruises on his arms, but now was not the time to moan and scream in pain. He didn't do it because he succeeded
Excited to be back, it's too early to cheer for yourself.
This is a general's talent, quite calm, but Ren Tianjing is not complacent about it - it is not the talent he brought from his mother's womb, but the experience accumulated from the strange eyes of others. If he can He would rather not have this experience, after all, he cannot laugh after every performance.
Maybe if there was a chance, he and Gongsun Nu should really meet.
At the right moment of the hour, everything is silent, and a fire breaks out at the mountain gate.
