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  Chapter 31 Scroll A is ambitious and unpredictable

   "Dongshuimen is ahead." Wang Chaozuo was as steady as a dog on the surface, but he was still a little worried in his heart.

   This area is already controlled by the White Lotus Sect. After entering the city this time, the White Lotus Sect and the three groups of its own people quickly reached an agreement, but only in certain aspects.

My side's idea is very simple, it is a demonstration, to ask the tax supervisor to reduce the previous tax, and not to ask for prices without standards, so that there will be fewer and fewer merchants, and the business of merchants will become more and more sluggish. There are so many people in Linqing city and outside the city People who rely on the comings and goings of merchants to eat can't live.

  Although I know that this act is risky, what can I do when I have nowhere to go?

   But the involvement of the White Lotus Sect made Wang Chaozuo and the others panic.

They didn't know how this group of people broke in, and they didn't even greet them before. They didn't get the news from some people until the moment before entering the city, but they no longer had the power to control the situation. He could only watch helplessly as those White Lotus disciples swept into the city like a flood.

   Now the situation has been controlled by the opponent, and Wang Chaozuo doesn't know what to do.

  But now he actually has some backbone in his heart, and this backbone was brought by the young man next to him. Wang Chaozuo didn't know if he was blinded by lard and would believe this guy's big words.

   "Where is Wang Chuantou going?" The voice from the side alley surprised Wang Chaozuo.

  Under the torch, several figures emerged from the side alley, and the first one had cold eyes, looking for something like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter.

Seeing the other party's half-smiling gaze on the person behind him, Wang Chaozuo felt a burst of sweat pouring down his back, and he calmed down before he said, "So it's Gao Chuantou, Wang has never agreed to join you." , why is it so late that Gao Chuantou hasn't rested yet?"

"Can't sleep, come out for a walk, Wang Chuantou hasn't answered Gao's words yet." Gao Yingchen glanced at the three children behind Wang Chaozuo, all of whom were only twelve or thirteen years old, but it was so late What are you doing at Dongshuimen with a few children?

"Oh, my wife is sick again, so my nephew is not allowed to call me." Wang Chaozuo cheered up, this Gao Yingchen came from Caozhou, it was better, if it was Li Guoyong, he would be in trouble .

   "Oh, why, Wang Chuantou is a sympathetic person, do you want to go back? I'm afraid it will not be quiet tonight." Gao Yingchen's eyes were piercing, and he never left Feng Ziying and the three behind him.

Zuo Liangyu and Wang Pei'an were fine, but Feng Ziying obviously didn't look like a poor family. Although she changed her clothes, she couldn't hide it from the eyes of Gao Yingchen, who had been wandering in the rivers and lakes for a long time. This should be a child of a rich family. Favor, want to let people out of the city?

"Don't dare, Mr. Wang really wants to go back and take a look, and he has already greeted Mr. Li." Wang Chaozuo is not afraid of being exposed, and he has arranged for someone to go to Li Guoyong when he sends Feng Ziying and the others over. After reporting, when Li Guoyong found out, this side had already left the city, and he pretended to go back, but he was not afraid.

These people from the White Lotus Sect don't say they are the White Lotus Sect, but they say they are the Eastern Mahayana Sect, and after a while they say they are the Luo Sect. He has urged himself to join the religion several times, and vaguely revealed that even people in the Jinan government and the chief envoy have joined the religion, but I don't know if it is true or not.

   "Hehe, then Wang Chuantou should leave early and return early." Although Gao Yingchen was suspicious, he couldn't find a suitable reason to make things difficult for the other party.

   "Thank you Gao Chuantou for your concern, someone knows." Wang Chaozuo waved his hand lightly and walked straight.

Feng Ziying followed closely behind. He already felt that the young man on the opposite side was suspicious of himself and the others, but the accent of the other party did not seem to be an authentic Linqing accent, but more like a Lunan accent, and Wang Chaozuo didn't seem too afraid The other party, so he just pretended to be timid and followed Wang Chaozuo.

   "Chuantou, shall we follow?" Gao Yingchen stood still, watching Wang Chaozuo and the three of them disappear on the roadside next to Dongshuimen, thoughtfully: "Someone ask, where Wang Chuantou lives."

   "Huh?" The follower behind him was surprised, "Don't you need to follow?"

   "Hmph, this is someone else's territory, why should we worry about it? It's just that Wang Chuantou is interesting." Gao Yingchen's eyes turned cold.

This Wang Chaozuo has some status and prestige in Linqing City, especially among the weavers and weavers near the left, when he called him Chuantou in the afternoon, it caused fierce resistance from the other party, and he absolutely refused to accept this. Tonight, although he also objected to it, it was not so intense. It was definitely not that he could change his temper in a few hours, but that the other party was unwilling to quarrel with him on this issue. What was the other party worried about? .

worry about what? Of course, it was the children behind him, and it seemed that he was going to send the children out of the city to take refuge.

   Gao Yingchen kept staring forward with his hands behind his back, this was an opportunity, and he would have to get a good feel for the other party's bottom in the future.

Wang Chaozuo didn't know that he had exposed his flaws inadvertently. At this time, he wished he could speed up immediately, but he couldn't help but pretend to be normal, but now he didn't dare to let Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu go into the water. I have to go around and come back, and then find a suitable place next to the East Water Gate.

   "Mr. Feng, remember what you said." Wang Chaozuo looked at the other party with a complicated expression on his face. At this moment, he could only pin his hopes on the other party.

"Uncle Wang, although Feng is young, he also knows the truth that no one can stand without faith. As long as you follow Feng's words, you will naturally have a way out." Feng Ziying also said coldly: "It's just these few days. But don't go with the same people, for the evil done by the sky is still forgiven, but you can't live if you do the evil yourself."

  After speaking, Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu changed into the water jackets and quietly entered the water. Zuo Liangyu also specially found a paulownia board for emergency needs.

  The water in the canal on a summer night was still very cool, and I shivered when I stepped into the water, but Feng Ziying soon got used to it.

In his previous life, he was a good swimmer. He even swam in a warm water swimming pool for two hours a day before his accident. This is one of the few good habits he has developed. Smoking, drinking, tea, and women consume too much of his energy. , so even if he likes swimming very much, it can't help him get rid of the predicament of three highs.

Going east from the east water gate, there is a checkpoint above the water gate, but it is already the middle of the night, and you only need to deploy defenses on the city wall and on the shore, not in case those people from the Liang gang dare to come in, so the defense is not strict, and Wang Chaozuo He also went to the top of the city wall at the right time to attract the attention of the checkpoints on the city wall.

When they heard Wang Chaozuo's laughter on the top of the city wall, Feng Ziying and Zuo Liangyu, who had been lurking at the water's edge, swam with all their strength and swam a hundred meters away in one breath. in danger.

   "Are you saying that the dynasty is suspicious?" Xu Hongru, a Confucian scholar in green shirt under the lamp, put down the volume of "The Classic of Sighing the World's Inaction" in his hand and raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, the master of scriptures, that Wang Chaozuo has a mysterious appearance, and one of the children following him is not like ordinary people, but looks like a son of an official and gentry. I suspect that he is going to send the child to hide somewhere or go out of the city." Gao Yingchen He bowed and saluted. "That's all?"

  Gao Yingchen said another point of doubt, Xu Hongru, a green-robed scholar, nodded.

"Respondent, your judgment should be correct. I am afraid that Wang Chaozuo has a different heart and is looking for a way out for himself." Xu Hongru, a Confucian scholar in green robes, rubbed his chin and said word by word: "It's just Li Guoyong. Some have guarded against us, and if I want to intervene again, I'm afraid he will wonder if we want to do something in it."

   "Does it need to be reported to the priest?"

"At this time, the Master wants to make great use of Li Guoyong. If there is no conclusive basis for such words, it is best not to mention them again, otherwise it will only be in vain." Xu Hongru shook his head, his eyes flickering, " Forget it, I'll find an opportunity to remind Li Guoyong, as to whether he will believe it or not, it's hard to say."

   "What about us?" Gao Yingchen's heart tightened.

"We also have to make some preparations, don't really wait for something to happen but I have no preparations. I was not optimistic about such an event, but the teacher and the eldest son insisted on coming like this, and Li Guoyong is such an idiot. Blindly flattering, even if something happens, it will make them feel good, don't think that the imperial court is really a bunch of Luli, there are still some characters inside."

Xu Hongru put down his hands, regained his previous indifference, stood up and paced around with his hands behind his back, "Our people prepare to leave as soon as possible, it can be regarded as seeing the power of mobilization here, and we can make up for it one by one in the future. "

  (end of this chapter)