Book 21 - Chapter 5 – Easy As A Pie (1/2)
Chapter 5 – Easy As A Pie
Kou Zhong was suddenly gripped with fear and trepidation After sending off Chen Changlin on his way, feeling restless, he returned to the big residence that he na Luo Qifei, he asked, “Do you have any news about Xu Ye?”
Noticing his unusual expression, Luo Qifei shook his head and said, “Where exactly did Xu Ye go? Subordinate can send our people tostood up and paced back and forth inside the study roohed and said, “He went to Baling Do you know Xiao Xian, that kid’s situation?”
Luo Qifei replied, “Presently, in the Great River area, in teryou, he is one to be reckoned After proclai hiwu, Panyu, and other area, plus he unceasingly recruit soldiers and buy horses His military power increases to about ht expanded so much that in the south, the two lakes [ie Hunan and Hubei] area, nobody dared tofrowning without saying anything, he could not help feeling concerned; he asked, “Is Shao Shuai worried about Xu Ye?”
His heart distracted, his thoughts in tur said, “I don’t knohat I’ else Ay! What newhis fa very familiar with the matter], Luo Qifei replied, “Currently the most notable is of course the war between Dou Jiande and Xu Yuanlang I just received the news that Xu Yuanlang’shis troops and generals are innumerable Apparently his days are nu’s territory, and Du Fuwei and Shen Faxing’s allied forces took Jiangdu, ill be trapped into unfavorable situation with eneer-eyes, Kou Zhong coht shades [fig downplay] he said, “Call Xuan Yong and Jiao Hongjin for hai within ten days; otherwise, our Shao Shuai Army will have to be disbanded”
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It was as if Xu Ziling’s entire body has gone numb; his face expressionless, he asked Chen Laomou, “Is there a way to preserve Su Jie’s body, so that it will not rot before arriving at Liangdu?”
Bu Tianzhi took the little Lingzhong, as just awake, fro inallythe way He wanted to speak, but nothing ca’s shoulders, and spoke with grief, “Xiao Ling, you rief, accept your fate Leave this matter to me, even for a year or a half, it shouldn’t be a problem I will immediately have someone buy copious amount of required medicine and spices We will only leave after I a personally lay Susu’s body on the carriage, and then taking Bu Tianzhi and Chen Lao care of Su Jie in here, don’t wait for du as planned If I don’t die, I will catch up with you”
Chen Laoures, just by listening to the tone of Xu Ziling’s voice, they knew that any advice would be useless; therefore, they had no choice but nodding their head in agree resisted his desire to look at little Lingzhong again Returning to the fishi+ng boat, he sailed away
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Jiao Hongjin said, “Presently, various cities in Donghai vicinity, Huairen, Langya, Liangcheng, Lanling, Muyang, have all surrendered to us Donghai’s land route is completely severed If it were other city, they would have abandoned their weapons and surrendered to us as well But Donghai County has always been relying mainly on maritime transportation, hence essentially the effect is quite low”
Kou Zhong turned to Xuan Yong, who has been frowning the whole tirave expression, Xuan Yong replied, “Supposing we are really launching blitzkrieg strategy, we can mobilize up to 8,000 h ourand support, we are still less than perfect So … hey!”
Jiao Hongjin interjected, “Li Ziyun is brave, Tong Shuwen is crafty, plus Donghai is Li Zitong’s base of operations In the last several years he continuously reinforces the city defense With our current strength, on’t be able to capture Donghai in a short period of ti that we can afford either Our top priority ought to be consolidating the result of war, and concentrating our resources to recruit and train the new troops”
Kou Zhong said, “The best training is the training on the battlefield;You can rest assured that I won’t be so stupid as to siege the city Our biggest shortcoht now is our weak troops, our foundation is not stable yet, our expansion is too fast But these are our strong points as well Li Ziyun is an egotisticalShuwen is a conceited ether, they are exactly our ideal enereat possibility”
Xuan Yong sighed and said, “Shao Shuai always capable of acco to Shao Shuai’s analysis, although the outcome is still unknown, you already raised our confidence”
Kou Zhong laughed caluess correctly, he , he really ought to adopt a wait-and-see attitude first, to see whether we really have any prospect before cohai are interdependent If Li Zitong cannot trust hi? At least Li Xingyuan’s close fahai, so that if he defected, Li Ziyun could kill his entire fa half a soul Therefore, this jin said, “I thought Shao Shuai trusted Li Xingyuan completely; turns out Shao Shuai already has plan in your heart, yet on the surface it did not show the least bit”
Kou Zhong spoke indifferently, “His biggest flaw is that he ca to here, back and forth ought to require at least three days? In time like this, where war could happen at anyto explain to Li Ziyun? Ha! How dare he treat hted, Luo Qifei said, “Since that’s the case, how are we going to handle this?”
Kou Zhong saer out of its lair”
Inwardly, he could not restrain Susu’s pure and beautiful, good and honest jade countenance fro was crouching in the darkness on the back of the roof, his eyes were fixed on the cavalcade just entering the city
Yun Yuzhen’s flagshi+p has just returned, and noas very likely that she was going to see Xiang Yushan, hence by following her Xu Ziling could find that despicable disciple who forgot favor and violated justice
It was the third watch of the night, the street was deserted with no one in sight, there was only the sound on the wheels grinding against the pave sound of the hooves, breaking the quietness of the late night in this big city along the Great River
Xu Ziling closed his eyes, while focusing all his attention to the sound of the wheels of two carriages on the street Very soon he was able to distinguish that the one in the rear had passengers on it, while the other was eh the difference of the sound was very subtle, it could not escape his, top quality martial art master’s ears
The reason he was suspicious was because he knew and understood very well how Xiang Yushan conducted hirant heart was entirely for his grand plan But if he could find Xiang Yushan easily by following these trails, it would not makeYushan and Yun Yuzhen know that their crafty scheh and stood exposed Now that he and Kou Zhong was not like General Lu Meng of Wu[1] of the former days, anybody who tied deep enmity with theht; how could Xiang Yushan be an exception?
But Xiang Yushan could be considered for that Xu and Kou, two boys would disregard everything in trying to find hiet Susu back from him, he setup an inescapable net, and deliberately left Susu, mother and child, inside the net as bait, so that all of a sudden he went fishi+ng for Xu Ziling It’s just that in this gained that Xu Ziling knew disguising skill, moreover, he already knew his despicable trick
One trick failed, another trick was setup
The new bait was Yun Yuzhen
Xu Ziling knew for sure that the one sitting in the carriage was Yun Yuzhen’s pretty e
Escorted by dozens of Baling Ar took a deep breath, but stayed crouching, motionless
By the time the sound of hoof beats and the wheels alusts of wind fro’s heart shi+vered, he focused his attention to look Two people appeared in the middle of the street, their shenfa was so swift that they looked like ghosts
The tall one carried a long sword at his back; his waist and back were as straight as a ramrod, approximately thirty years old, with delicate features, dressed in Confucian scholar’s attire, grew a moustache, his countenance ice-cold Even without introduction Xu Ziling knew this must be the new martial art master Xiao Xian invited to join his ranks, the ‘Plain-clothed Confucian Scholar’ Xie Fengge, an expert in Covering the Moon sword technique, whose ht shook the southern part of the country
The short one held long truncheon; thisHis body type was coe; he was a person of short stature, broad forehead and big ears, garlic-shaped nose, dense eyebrows and swarthy co the iaze was sharp and fierce, exuding aggressiveness from head to toes, definitely not someone to be provoked
In that instant, fro has already had accurate grasp the twoimportance/capacity]
Thislet out a cold snort and said, “This ti; I told you that that felloill not dare to coly bad behavior”
Xie Fengge se is here, wouldn’t he run with his tail between his legs as far away as possible?”
Zhu Zhong burst out laughing and said, “Licking ht want to save a bit of energy to wait upon that consider-hie disdainfully said, “Does he deserve it? Let’s go back!”
Zhu Zhong nodded and said, “If we don’t go back, do you want to stay here and continue drinking the northind? That kid really ood night sleep, and now I irl to warhter, the two men unleashed their footwork and swiftly went far away
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[1] General Lu Meng of the southern state of Wu was the ent study
After Xuan Yong and Luo Qifei left, Jiao Hongjin stayed alone He caarden While this Shao Shuai was looking up to gaze at the brilliantly star-studded night sky, Jiao Hongjian could not help asking, “Turns out froyuan’s deceit But at that tiht Shao Shuai gave your bare heart into his keeping, you just wanted to see if he could be co said, “If I could not deceive you, how could I deceive hi my horn; at that tiyuan must be a first-class liar; his words sincere, voice and features ell prepared His jin realize that he had overestimated him; stunned, he asked, “Then what makes Shao Shuai suddenly think that he has a probleht, for so with ; I was sure there was a proble that had happened these past couple of days, and only then did I realize the probleuy If we fell into his evil plan, ould not be spared”
Full of adjin said, “Shao Shuai is indeed not an ordinary person, hence you have this extraordinary ability”
Changing the topic, Kou Zhong asked, “Are you still seeing that beauty, Qiu Yue? She has a pretty good voice”