The White-haired Queen

Chapter 32: Fighting for Supplies

The three parties have completed their layout and a network has been spread.

The next morning, Xu Shengli, who had received the order, went to the West Market early. After everyone disguised themselves, they took their positions.

The capital city, under the feet of the emperor, has a pretty good law and order, except that the order is a little chaotic occasionally, but there has never been any major disturbance, so Concubine Pang Taishu only sent a dozen people and five carts of supplies, with three or three or four people responsible for one cart of supplies, and the palace maid Hong'er was in charge.

The only people who came out of the palace were eunuchs and palace maids. These people had good eyesight, but they lacked the ability to perceive crises.

As a market, Xishi has many stalls, vendors, and people coming and going.

There are vendors carrying shoulder poles walking through the streets, jugglers shouting their wares on the spot, and open-air tea markets... With so many people, the order is inevitably a bit chaotic.

Hong'er asked everyone to check the supplies as usual and put them in order, with the larger ones at the bottom and the smaller ones at the top. If the items were relatively large, they would be tied up with ropes.

When everything was settled and they were about to leave the warehouse, a group of people approached them quietly, and then each of them snapped their fingers, and these eunuchs and palace maids became weak and fainted.

Xu Shengli put these eunuchs and palace maids together, then checked the supplies on the car and found no special markings.

Then he waved his right hand, and everyone pushed the supplies out of the warehouse, ran straight to the palace, and handed them directly to Xier, the personal maid of Concubine Zhang.

Everything happened quietly and smoothly.

An hour later, the eunuchs and palace maids woke up. Hong'er panicked and immediately rushed to the Shangshu Mansion to tell them what had happened.

Minister Pang gnashed his teeth in anger and smashed the teacup in his hand. Then he said to Hong'er, "Since you are out, you can't return empty-handed. I just asked my wife to prepare three carts of supplies. They are still in our warehouse. You can take my token and go get them first. Then bring a group of servants from the mansion. This time, we must ensure the safety of the supplies."

Hong'er took the token tremblingly.

Minister Pang continued, "Also, remind Consort Pang to keep an eye on Consort Zhang. If she makes any moves, come out and let me know."

After the first operation was so successful, Xu Shengli divided his troops into small groups and set up an ambush near Shangshu Pang's warehouse.

Hong'er, accompanied by a dozen palace maids, eunuchs and servants, walked towards the warehouse in a mighty procession.

Seeing such momentum, Xu Shengli realized it would be extremely difficult to rob the supplies without hurting anyone.

We should use stillness to counteract each other. We can only lie in ambush and wait and see.

About half an hour later, Hong'er led about twenty people and walked towards the palace with supplies.

Watching their backs as they left, Xu Shengli asked someone to walk around the warehouse to see how many people were still left.

The warehouse had a heavy iron door and high walls. After walking around outside, they didn't see anyone.

Just when Xu Shengli was at a loss, he noticed a big tree next to the warehouse, and he asked someone to secretly climb the tree to overlook the warehouse.

After about an incense stick of time, the person came back and reported, "There are still three people in the warehouse, playing cards. There are still a lot of supplies inside. But when I was in the tree, I saw some soldiers patrolling 300 meters away."

Xu Shengli then sent another person to inspect the area 300 to 500 meters ahead. After a while, the person reported back, "Those people all look like martial artists. They should be the regent's men."

Xu Shengli waved his finger, and they all moved closer to him. Xu Shengli asked in a low voice: "Do you have any good ideas right now?"

Someone said: "We can pretend to be the servants of Minister Pang, pull the grain out of the warehouse, and then escort the supplies as if nothing happened, and we should be safe."

Someone echoed, "Yes, just like the previous vote, it was completed quietly."

Xu Shengli asked: "Can you ensure that they don't recognize our faces?"

Someone said, "We are only six new guys here, let's do three cars, that should be absolutely safe."

Xu Shengli said: "Okay, let's do it this way."

One of them jumped from the tree into the yard and scattered the sleeping pills. The three people playing cards fell down dizzy. Then he opened the big iron door of the warehouse, and everyone successfully took away three more cars.

Gongsun Yi lay in ambush outside Prime Minister Zhang's warehouse for the entire morning. During the shift change at noon, he let one of his new recruits, Xiao Hu, sneak in.

Autumn heat, autumn heat. The autumn sun is still quite hot. When the weather is hot, people tend to feel sleepy. Xiao Hu kindly calls on everyone to gamble together to stimulate their nerves. Everyone is excited.

At the beginning, Zhang's servants pushed each other and no one dared to gamble. Xiao Hu suggested to everyone, "Let's play a simple game, comparing the size of the dice, which will not affect our work. What a good thing."

After that, he took out the dice and bowl and started throwing them. When everyone heard the sound of the dice spinning in the bowl, they felt itchy.

Someone agreed, "Yes, as long as we lock the warehouse door, we can have a try and it won't affect anything." After that, they started placing bets.

When everyone saw some people starting to place bets, they gathered around.

We agreed to gamble once, but ended up playing one bet after another. After about 10 minutes, Xiao Hu said, "It's a bit hot. I'll go get everyone a pot of cold tea and continue playing."

After a while, Xiao Hu came over with a pot of tea and said attentively, "It's autumn now, and it's still a little hot. Let's have a bowl each and drink some tea, and then we can continue playing."

Some people say: "Newcomers are sensible."

Someone said, "It's hot, and it's hot when we're all together, let's drink some tea and continue."

When Xiao Hu heard this, he quickly poured tea and handed it to the man, and everyone drank it all in one gulp.

"Twelve o'clock, twelve o'clock..."

"Big, big..."

"Little, little..."

"Why am I so unlucky? I lost today... I just don't believe it. Let's play again..."

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

A group of people collapsed to the ground and fainted.

Xiao Hu immediately opened the door of the warehouse. There were a lot of supplies in the warehouse, but there were only eight trucks, so they loaded eight trucks and left.

An hour later, Prime Minister Zhang received news that eight cars had been stolen from the warehouse. He was so angry that he had been busy all day, but in the end, all his work was basically in vain.

Immediately let Butler Zhang go to the warehouse and severely punish those people. Give them a beating and have their salaries deducted. If it happens again, their heads will be chopped off.

Minister Pang was just fuming over the loss of five and then three carts of supplies, but Gongsun Yi's eight carts of supplies immediately made him smile.

In this round, Minister Pang managed to pull back the game and the two ended up in a draw.

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