Moth

The water gate seems to be quite simple to say, and a few words can give a general outline of the whole outline, but in fact, behind almost every word of those words is a long series of overwhelming procedures.In other words, behind almost every word is a lot of sweat and money.

Let me talk about building materials first.

Lu Hanzhang sharply pointed out the root cause of the dam collapses every time: the source of building materials was not correct, and it would be strange to build something good.Han Liu Changzhou outside the door followed the order and posted a notice to expand the scope of material selection to the greatest extent. All the templates sent were handed over to Lu Hanzhang for review.The old boss, Su Yu, became Lu Hanzhang's stalker completely, but he didn't show any resentment, he still had a coffin face and a wooden look.

In the end, after picking and choosing, I selected the material of a merchant in Taicang Mansion, which is adjacent to Taihe Mansion.

Let's talk about drawing.

The pictures drawn by Lu Hanzhang were hardly understood by the five big and three rough men in the project.Su Yu can understand it, but this person is basically an information terminator. He can't explain it in plain language when he understands it himself. He is a typical person who cooks dumplings in a teapot.Lu Hanzhang's original intention was to leave after drawing the drawings, and to be a shopkeeper.In the end, I was forced to have no choice but to break apart those strange symbols, imprints, and numbers bit by bit and tell them.

In the end, he was going crazy, so he could only jump into the shallow water to direct.

Fortunately, the upstream flood gate has not yet been completed, and the Xuanhe Estuary is stepping on the juncture of late autumn and turning into autumn, and the flow has been cut off as promised.The water at the outlet of the Xuanhe Estuary will not reach the calf, and it is still convenient to walk back and forth.

At first Lu Hanzhang couldn't stand the water, because he thought that the dogs and cats of the nearby residents must be urinating in it, and that the people upstream might pour some swill, feces, etc. into it, so he stood on the bank and shouted. Shout command.After shouting like this for a few days, his voice became hoarse in spite of himself.

He had no choice but to ignore the dislike, so he simply took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and stepped deep into the mud that he despised as a cesspool.Sometimes the gown is wet and sticks to the calf before it can be tucked up.Later, he became numb, but every time he returned to Hengmen to take a bath, he wanted to rub off a few layers of skin.

Liu Changzhou is a typical white-eyed wolf. He doesn't know how to love others. When he sees that Lu Hanzhang is particularly conscientious and provocative, he knows that he has chosen the right person.So he was very relieved to hand over all the major tasks of Xuanhukou to him, and pushed Zheng Xuange to Lu Hanzhang, and began to handle all matters of the Jiangnan General Army with full authority, only occasionally to check on the progress.

Du Heng, who is a master of abacus, handles all the accounts of the Taihe Mansion, and the salaries of the general soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River can be distributed on time almost every time, and everything in the entire barracks is in good order.

There is also an unexpected surprise, that is, due to the purchase of materials at Xuanhekou, the number of merchants in Qinghe County has increased dramatically, and the market is so prosperous that there is no one before or after. Several branches have been opened in succession.

In short, everything is moving forward steadily.

In this way, the two sides are busy, time flies by, and the Lunar New Year is just around the corner.

Liu Changzhou, who was stingy and stingy, had a rare conscience and found out that he invited all the people to the yamen, and even invited a well-known Suqin son to present music.

Lu Hanzhang's broken body gradually began to improve in the day-to-day running around.He put on a fox fur cloak before going out. After taking over the work for half a year, he finally had a chance to make himself look a little more human. It was a tearful thing to say.

He used an extraordinarily simple hairpin to tie up his long hair, wrapped it tightly in a cloak, and was about to go out when Xie Qingyun exclaimed from behind him: "Boss, you have white hair!" A hand pinched a strand of silver-white hair and handed it to his eyes.

He paused and stared at the hair for a while, really not understanding how he could have such a thing.Then he glanced at Xie Qingyun, and said leisurely: "Why are you standing there, pull it out for me."

At the same time, I wished I could drag that master out and beat him to death with a stick.

The snow in the south of the Yangtze River has a unique kind of gentleness, and it falls down in a fluttering manner. When it snows, there must be no wind. The surrounding scenery stands quietly in a piece of silver, and it is soft and pleasing everywhere. appearance.

He held an umbrella and walked all the way to the yamen, listening to the sound of thin snow particles hitting the umbrella surface, his expression was calm, his eyelashes were drooping, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he was absent-minded. When did Lian Liu Changzhou stop the way? I don't know, but I bumped into Liu Changzhou's side arms.

Liu Changzhou knew in his heart that among all the people he appointed, Lu Hanzhang was the most important one.He was in charge of the Jiangnan General Soldier with one hand, and this man stood behind him, supporting such a large project as the entire Xuanhekou with one hand.His subordinates were in charge of the [-] soldiers recruited by Lu Hanzhang one after another. Lu Hanzhang had no power in his hands, and he was also in charge of nearly [-] soldiers coming and going.

So among all the people, he valued Lu Hanzhang very much, and had the most contacts with him in private.

He stretched out his hand in front of Lu Hanzhang's eyes, snapped his fingers, and said with a smile, "Boss, you're back to your senses."

In the past six months, he often saw Lu Hanzhang as unkempt as a low-level farmer. Today, when he saw him dressed neatly, his eyes lit up instantly, and he felt that this person seemed more attractive than before.

The snow-white fur collar around the neckline of the man fits around the beautiful curve of the neck, lining the thin chin with a layer of flirtatious beauty, and the smooth black hair is set off by a silver-white hairpin like splashed ink , the whole person seems to have walked out of the painting.And his black hair almost reached his ankles, and his whole person had a taste that could only be seen from a distance but not played with.

He blew a hooligan whistle, and joked inappropriately: "Idle people have long hair, and lazy people have long nails. Just by looking at your hair, you can tell how much leisure you have taken in your busy schedule."

It's okay if Liu Changzhou didn't say anything. As soon as he said it, Lu Hanzhang immediately thought of that white hair.

The white breath from the man in front of him dissipated in an instant, he squinted his eyes and chatted with him with a smile, clearly he was the same rascal when he first met, his willow-like eyes were slanted up, the more he looked at him, the more he wanted to be beaten.

He frowned and stared at this man for a while, then unexpectedly pinched his side of the waist fiercely, and silently paid homage to the premature hair, which made Liu Changzhou baffled.

Lu Hanzhang felt bad for himself, so he wanted others to have a hard time with him.He said in a particularly disturbing way: "Just now, I just wanted to let the master know how long Lu's nails have grown, so that the master can know how lazy Lu is."

Liu Changzhou raised his hands in surrender: "...that's fine, I'm wrong, it's okay, be careful."

Jin Dou, with another thick layer of fur on his body, rushed out, squatted on the ground on his hind legs very obediently, wagged his tail very meanly, and swept the snow under his buttocks out of a fan-shaped Space, looking at Lu Hanzhang with anticipation in both eyes.

Lu Hanzhang snorted disdainfully, and after a while, a crimson spider crawled out of his big white collar.He lifted Xiaohong's leg in disgust, put it on Jin Dou's nose, and explained the reason why Xiaohong became more sweet and sour: "I washed it with hot water. Take a bath, and after washing it becomes this virtue."

Liu Changzhou: "..."

For Lu Hanzhang, he still feels a little bit sorry for himself.Every time he went to Xuanhe Estuary to check the progress, nine times out of ten, Lu Hanzhang stepped in the water with bare feet.Once when there was hail in the sky, he was such a respectable person, with a broken bamboo hat on his head and a torn tarpaulin ripped from some melon shed on his body. .Such a person who should have been immersed in the wind, flowers, snow and moon, was dragged onto this shabby boat by him, and he couldn't find anything to repay him, because he didn't know what Lu Hanzhang valued at all.

So this kind of regret gradually turned into a kind of permission and acquiescence to this person's presumptuous and sharp words in front of him-he was more and more tolerant of him.

He touched his nose and said with a sneer, "Is it cold? Do you want to drink?"

Lu Hanzhang answered the two questions with care like gold: "It's cold, don't drink."

Liu Changzhou, who grew up in the north and was still wearing unlined clothes, smiled unkindly: "Nonsense, it's obviously the cold that forces you."

In the front yard, the sound of the zither and the voice of the courtesan could be heard at the right time.

"It turns out that the colorful flowers are blooming all over the place, like this, they endow the ruined wells and ruins; when there is a beautiful day, no matter what the sky is, whoever's courtyard will be a pleasure..."

A huge question floated in Liu Changzhou's mind—this Mr. Suqin, could it be that he has no brains, or something about singing during the New Year's Eve.

The two ridiculed each other, and just as they stepped out of the corner of the courtyard, Liu Changzhou's ears moved, and he suddenly heard a "boom" sound of strings breaking, and then he saw a snow-white thing in the corner of his eyes, reflecting the snow light, wrapped in The momentum of thunder and lightning flew over.He subconsciously hugged Lu Hanzhang, who was walking one step ahead, and turned around neatly. At the same time, he pulled out the hairpin from Lu Hanzhang's head with one hand, and shot it out in the direction where the hidden weapon came.

Two muffled hums sounded one after the other.

Because Lu Hanzhang was walking in front of him, he turned the corner of the courtyard first, and he only had time to turn the person halfway, and the hidden weapon deeply pierced Lu Hanzhang's right forearm.

In the yard, Fang Bingbi had already placed the sword on the neck of Mr. Suqin, who had a silver hairpin stuck in his heart, and said quickly, "Master, I was dropped! His mother is not from this group!" Said After that, he put his fingers to his lips and blew a very sharp whistle, and then several low-key dressed people jumped down from the eaves in all directions.

The singing girls of unknown origin in the courtyard pulled off their veils one after another, and the fan in their hands instantly became a murder weapon.A group of masked men in black jumped in at the right time from the outer edge of the wall, and it seemed that they had come prepared.There were nearly 20 of them in a group, some of them went straight to Liu Changzhou and Lu Hanzhang with a clear goal, and some of them were well-trained wielding swords to restrain the people who stayed in the yard.

But even though they were well-trained, it was still obvious that this group of people were thrown out to die by the mastermind behind the scenes—they couldn't help beating them too much.

Du Heng jumped up from his seat with a howl of "Oh my god", and lifted up the short table in front of him without too much hesitation, relying on his own strength, he swung it relentlessly. It was so fierce that no one could get close to it for a while.This sissy has never seen an assassination before, just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, she yelled regardless of the occasion: "Aren't assassins made up from story books! They are actually alive!"

Liu Changzhou: "..." He was very puzzled, why his subordinates were full of flawed people, and almost none of them had both civil and military skills.

He himself didn't usually pick any weapons, so he picked up the bunch of garlic hanging in the corridor, and struck at it with no skill.The bunch of garlic was stupefied by him with the style of "moon surging river", extremely domineeringly split a two-finger-wide bloodstain on the face of the last assassin who was close, and then the garlic bunch crackled and rolled to the ground.

The garlic skins fluttered down leisurely, filling the heads of the two of them. Liu Changzhou made a joke: "Master Zhang has saved the garlic skins all winter, probably to give you a snowfall."

He kicked away the veritable scarred face, and asked in confusion: "Hey, who, Su Yuren? Didn't come with you?"

Lu Hanzhang was not without common sense. He held the arm near the wound tightly with his left hand, frowned, and said bluntly: "Then who? Let me say, master, is this a grand banquet for me?" He said Just about to say, "Su Yu left Xuanhekou one step before me, and didn't go with me", Su Yu said that Cao Cao Cao Cao had arrived and appeared in the field of vision.

Compared with Lu Hanzhang, Su Yu was obviously much more embarrassed.

Half of his entire face was covered in blood, which was extremely ferocious. There was a large amount of blood dripping on the snow-white winter clothes, and the whole person was in a state of disorientation. The man staggered over and said intermittently: "There are assassins, assassins, assassins, I met at the gate of the yamen."

Liu Changzhou blew his whistle, and the people who turned over from the eaves gathered in groups and carried Su Yu away who was still in a daze.

He helped Lu Hanzhang lean against the nearby corridor, sealed his acupuncture points like lightning, and tore off the sleeve of his arm. He saw that the flesh near the wound was still normal-colored human flesh, and there was nothing there. When it got dark, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The cold snow light illuminated the corridor brightly, and he could clearly see that the hidden weapon was a thin piece of white blade about two fingers wide.

He nonchalantly said inappropriately: "Huan Hongmen Banquet, have you ever seen me repay grievances with virtue like this, which bitch just pinched me?" Then he quickly grabbed the white blade with his right hand and pulled it out, "What have you offended recently?" person?"

Lu Hanzhang sneered as if he heard some joke: "Me? Offended someone? I only offended you when I grew up."

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden howl like a slaughtered pig in the yard. The sound was so sharp that it almost pierced the eardrums. It was Du Heng who heard it.

The reason is that Fang Bingbi didn't care about the surrounding quails who had never seen a large-scale bleeding scene, and made a knife on each corpse.

Zheng Xuange also asked in a daze: "No life left?"

With lingering fears in his heart, Du Heng rubbed behind Fang Bingbi step by step to seek protection, slapped his swollen face and pretended to be a fat man, and explained blindly: "What kind of life! The assassin in the story either had his tongue cut off, or bit his tongue and committed suicide, or Take the poison beforehand! The assassin is more moral than you, isn't it?!"

Fang Bingbi was too lazy to explain so much, so he nodded in agreement: "Yes, that's exactly what he said."

The courtyard was littered with dead bodies, and the glaring bloodstains were particularly glaring in the plain white snow.Fortunately, except for Lu Hanzhang and Su Yu, the rest of the people were almost fine.

Lu Hanzhang and Su Yu.

Liu Changzhou was sensitively aware of something unusual—these two men were both consul generals at Shuimenguan in Xuanhekou.He quickly thought of the possible reason. Was it the tricks sent by the gang in the county?He called Du Heng over and asked, "What is the size of the major gangs now?"

Du Heng rubbed his face, and said while counting: "The biggest You Gang...is about 50 people now, and the number of Dalu Gang is about the same. I don't know if there are any new ones. But there are still a few people left. The little gang is almost gone."

Liu Changzhou squinted his eyes habitually, and began to tap his fingertips back and forth on his legs, thinking that logically, the transfer volume of the guild in autumn and winter was very small. They are people who have been laid off by several major gangs, and they have a very righteous way. There is no reason to be hated on such things as well water not violating river water.If we talk about the most likely reason, it should be that this group of people is trying their best to prevent the completion of the Water Gate Gate. After all, once the Water Gate Gate is completed, the transfer of goods upstream and downstream will almost no longer require these gangs who set prices on the ground.

Such an explanation seemed to make sense, but he always felt something was wrong.Because at the beginning of planning to establish Water Gate, he had already considered the outlet of several major gangs that depended on Xuanhekou for food.He once hinted that Du Heng had quietly spread the news in his old wine and meat circles: After the completion of the Shuimenguan, the Yamen will set up a gatekeeper organization, and the gatekeepers will first consider choosing among the leaders of the major gangs, and the salary will be favorable.

In other words, the yamen has already lowered its posture very low, and there should be a limit for these gangs to push their noses and face their faces.

He went to the back room to get the gauze with a brow full of doubts, and seeing Su Yu who had been bandaged fainted on the couch, he felt his pulse symbolically on his wrist, intending to express his thoughtfulness and concern from his superiors, And this probe went wrong.

Su Yu's pulse was steady and strong, and he didn't seem to have lost a lot of blood at all.

He appeared too suddenly just now, and Lu Hanzhang was still injured, so he didn't have time to think carefully.Looking back now, I feel that many places were too coincidental.

Su Yu was the last one to arrive, and he was a frail scholar, how could he escape with half his life?Those assassins in ambush should have a greater chance of killing Su Yu with one blow.

He backed out quietly, and while bandaging Lu Hanzhang, he asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Is it okay for Xiao Su to follow you, and he didn't make any big mistakes, right?"

The corner of Lu Hanzhang's mouth raised a cold arc, beckoning his ears to come closer, and whispered through gritted teeth: "If you have the ability, you can continue to pretend, isn't Xiao Su the eyeliner you put on me? He has to come over even if I draw a new blueprint." See if I have changed."

Liu Changzhou was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head solemnly, and said solemnly, "No, I didn't put eyeliner on."