Chapter 491 Cheng Jin shrugged his shoulders and said: "The price is not a problem, as long as I like it."
As he spoke, he asked, "Is there a better silk?"
The shopkeeper nodded again and again, and responded: "Yes, yes, yes, as long as the general doesn't care about the price, even if it is the top silk, our silk village also has stock."
Does the general want to see it now?"
"Of course."
Cheng Jin raised his head and said.
"The general will have to wait a while, and the villain will go to the back to fetch it, and come back immediately."
As he spoke, the shopkeeper went downstairs.
After he left, Gao Mucheng looked at Cheng Jin and asked in a low voice, "General, do you see that there is something abnormal here?"
Cheng Jin shook his head slightly, looked around left and right, and said, "This is an ordinary silk village, nothing out of the ordinary." ” Gao Mucheng rolled his eyes and said, "When the shopkeeper comes back, I'll test him again." ” Cheng Jin raised his eyebrows and looked at Gao Mucheng in confusion, not knowing how he planned to do the temptation, but Cheng Jin didn't ask more.
After a short time, the shopkeeper returned, followed by a well-dressed middle-aged man and two young men dressed as subordinates.
The middle-aged man was the shopkeeper of the Silk Village, and he also knew Gao Mucheng, after coming to the second floor, his face was full of smiles, he stepped forward quickly, bowed to the ground, and said: "I don't know if General Gao is coming, I am not far away" As he spoke, he looked at Cheng Jin and asked, "I don't know who this adult is" Without waiting for Cheng Jin to answer, Gao Mucheng had already introduced on his behalf: "My brother's surname is Cheng, he is a person next to the king, and he is also a prominent official, so don't be lazy with the shopkeeper." ” "The villain doesn't dare, the villain doesn't dare" The shopkeeper gave his hand again and again, nodding and bowing again.
Gao Mucheng smiled, waved his hand and said, "The shopkeeper will sit with my brother, and I'll pick out a few pieces of silk." ” "Good, good, good, although General Gao chooses, there is a suitable one, and the small shop will be sold to General Gao at the capital, ah, and this Lord Cheng."
"Haha" Gao Mucheng laughed and praised: "I am still the shopkeeper who can be a man" As he spoke, he walked to the counter and said to the shopkeeper: "Little brother help me introduce it, that one is good and cheap." ” The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "General Gao, don't worry, the villain will definitely help the general choose the best quality and cheapest." ” "That's very good."
Gao Mucheng responded, and then asked casually: "Have you heard about the assassination of the king last night?"
The shopkeeper's heart tightened, and he subconsciously looked at the master, nodded and said: "Of course the villain has heard about such a big thing, I don't know if the assassin has been caught."
Gao Mucheng waved his hand and said, "Not yet, let the assassin run away."
After a pause, he pointed to a piece of silk and praised, "This one is good, smooth and beautiful." ” "In General Gao's eyes, there are many guest officers who like this, but the price is also a little expensive."
The shopkeeper said with a sad face.
"Forget it, my monthly income is far less than that of my brother."
As he spoke, he glanced at Cheng Jin, and then asked, "By the way, you have been patronized by a spiritual cultivator in your store recently."
The shopkeeper didn't even think about it, and blurted out: "No."
Gao Mucheng's hand fiddling with the silk was obviously stiff, and then he smiled and asked, "You are not a spiritual cultivator, and you don't know how to perceive, how do you know that there must be no spiritual cultivator among the customers?"
"This" shopkeeper didn't expect that his casual reply was caught by Gao Mucheng, he didn't know how to answer, he kept paying attention to the shopkeeper on their side frowned, stepped forward, slapped the back of the shopkeeper's head, and reprimanded: "I don't understand anything, what nonsense" Saying, he smiled apologetically at Gao Mucheng again, and said: "General Gao, the young man is not very sensible, if there is a gaffe, I hope General Gao is not strange." ” Gao Mucheng looked up and smiled, and said, "I just asked casually."
If you find anyone suspicious, you must report it to the county capital as soon as possible, understand?"
"Yes, yes, yes, the villain must pay close attention."
At this time, Cheng Jin also came over, selected a few high-quality silks, and after paying the silver, he and Gao Mucheng left.
When the two of them got out of the silk village, they walked some distance, and then they made eye contact with each other and went into a small alley by the side of the road.
Cheng Jin took out the broken silver found in the silk village, and compared it with the broken silver that Gao Mucheng picked up earlier, it was exactly the same.
He didn't express his position immediately, but asked Gao Mucheng: "General Gao, how do you feel?"
Gao Mucheng said: "On the surface, it seems that there is no problem with the silk village, but I always feel that something is wrong. ” "Yes, I feel that way, too."
Cheng Jin muttered: "Perhaps, this is your intuition, you said that the boss of the silk village is called."
"Called Meng Ping'an" "Do you live in the county town?"
"Yes, just east of the city."
"Tonight, go search for it, verify it by the way, and see if your intuition is wrong."
Cheng Jin looked at the broken silver in his hand and said quietly.
Gao Mucheng said with a sad face: "General Cheng, Old Man Meng has a good relationship with the county head, once he sends troops to search, I am afraid that he will alarm the other party early and make him prepared, and the county head may not agree." ” "Hmph" Cheng Jin sneered and said, "Just a county head, how can you allow him to spoil me and other major matters, I will seconded the brothers of the army directly under General Wu." ” "That's the best."
Gao Mucheng put his mind at ease, with the direct army dispatched, there would be no resistance from Wang Song, and besides, the direct army was much stronger than the county army, and it was more certain that the direct army would come forward.
There was nothing to say at night, and when the time came, Cheng Jin took 20,000 soldiers directly under the army, led by Gao Mucheng, and went straight to Meng Ping'an's mansion.
Meng Ping'an is a well-known rich man in Changdu and even in the entire Zeping County, his family is big, and his mansion is surprisingly large, even if the county capital is compared, it looks dwarfed.
However, no matter how big the Meng family's house is, it can't withstand the encirclement of 20,000 troops.
After 20,000 soldiers of the directly subordinate army rushed to the Meng family's mansion, they immediately surrounded the house with three layers inside and three layers outside.
There was such a sudden commotion outside, and it was impossible for the people inside to be unaware, and soon, a family member opened the door of the house and looked at it.
When the family saw the crowd of soldiers outside, he was so frightened that his face was like earth, he didn't say a word, closed the door of the house, turned around and ran inside, and reported to Meng Ping'an.
Cheng Jin and Gao Mucheng could see it clearly, the former sneered, shouted left and right, and said: "Go knock on the door, if no one answers, smash the door of the house directly open for me."
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The sergeant directly under the "obey" stepped forward to receive the order, strode forward, raised his fist, and smashed the door of the house, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Open the door, open the door and don't open the door again, we are going to smash the door."
After knocking for a while, no one came to open the door, and the sergeant under his command was furious, scolding and muttering: "Damn, toast and don't eat and drink" As he spoke, he beckoned to his companions around him: "Slam the door" As he shouted, a dozen or so strong men of the Wind Army immediately came over with hammers.
The hammer is a wooden stake on the top, and a wooden stake is hung below, when used, people pull the wooden stake below, and use thrust and inertia to produce impact force, which is similar to the principle of the thunderbolt car that breaks through the city gate, but it is lighter and can be carried by manpower.
Under the powerful impact of the hammer, the door of the house quickly became crumbling, and at this moment, someone inside shouted: "Stop, stop, stop" Hearing someone shouting, the wind sergeants in front of the door grabbed the wooden stake one after another, stopped the impact, and then, the door of the house was opened, and a large group of family members and nurses ran out from inside, the leader of which was an old man, who looked sixty miles away, and his beard was white, but he was very well maintained, and his face was full of red light, and he could not see even a wrinkle on his face.
Seeing this old man, Gao Mucheng's eyes lit up, and he whispered to Cheng Jin beside him: "General Cheng, that old man is Meng Ping'an." ” Cheng Jin didn't respond, just looked the old man up and down with a cold and gloomy gaze, and nodded slowly at the same time.
The old man was obviously a person who had seen the world, and after he came out, he saw so many soldiers outside, and there was no trace of nervousness on his face, and he arched his hand to the surroundings calmly, and asked: "Old Meng Ping'an, I don't know what you have to do when you come to visit late at night."
"We're searching for the Assassins," one of the Wind Troopers captains replied in a cold voice.
"Where did the assassin come from the assassin's old man's house, there must be a misunderstanding among them," the old man smiled at the captain of the wind soldier and said, "What's more, the old man's house has been searched several times, if there is an assassin in his house, it will not have been found out long ago."
"Are you wordy or not, do you have assassins, don't you say it, get out of the way" The captain of the wind soldiers was not polite at all, and waved his hand vigorously to push the old man out sideways, if it weren't for the fact that the surrounding family members were fast enough to hold the old man in time, he would have to fall to the ground on the spot.
"Bold" The old man's face turned red with anger, and he said angrily: "The old man has a deep friendship with the county head, you wait until something happens in the old man's family, once the county head knows, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat and go around."
Without waiting for the surrounding wind soldiers to answer, Cheng Jin in the back had already laughed on his back, urged the horse to step forward, grabbed the reins of the war horse in front of the old man, stared down at the old man for a while, and said: "Do you think that if you get acquainted with the county head, it will be equivalent to giving you a gold medal for avoiding death Today, even if you move out of the Heavenly King Lao Tzu, we will search for it correctly" As he spoke, he waved his hand to the wind soldiers around him.
The wind soldiers did as they were told, and the people rushed forward.
Seeing this, the old man immediately spread his arms and stopped the soldiers of the wind, and then raised his head and said to Cheng Jin in a trembling voice: "This general should not deceive people too much, if he insists on searching the old mansion, he will find the county chief, or take the county chief's edict":