EBE Chapter 377: The Black Wind Society Assassins
Chapter 377: The Black Wind Society Assassins
The old emperor snorted at the generals: "You are the devils! Look carefully, I am alive! From now on, I am the foster father of Prince Jing. If any of you leak this information, don't blame me... Gah!"
The old emperor made a gesture of wiping his neck, and the generals understood what he meant and nodded hurriedly.
Jun Mo touched the bridge of his nose and said to them, "The situation has forced us to be alert in the future. Don't tell anyone what you see here!"
"Yes! We will follow the prince's orders!" The generals agreed in unison.
Even though the confused soldiers behind them didn't understand what was happening, they still responded in unison: "We will follow the prince's orders!"
Later, as assassins from the Black Wind Society from all over the country entered Yinshan County one after another, Yinshan County gradually became lively.
Influenced by Yu Jiuer, many people also developed a sense of business. When they saw that there were more and more people in the county, they immediately booked shops on both sides of the street with the county magistrate and started doing business.
For a time, shops that had been neglected for several years suddenly became popular.
That day, Yu Jiuer heard Lu Xiu say, "Princess, this morning I heard the Emperor asking Concubine Duan to borrow some money."
"Why does he need money when he has food and drink and a lot of people to serve him? He's not going to do anything weird again, is he?" Yu Jiuer immediately became alert. The old emperor has been much more well-behaved recently, making her forget for a moment that there is such a time bomb in the mansion.
Green Sleeves continued to report: "I heard he wants to sell the shop!"
"He's running a shop? Is he out of his mind?"
Green Sleeve replied seriously, "I heard from Eunuch Cao that the Emperor has learned a lot from Concubine Duan in cooking recently. I guess the Emperor wants to use the shop to sell vegetables!"
"Puff!" The tea in Yu Jiuer's mouth sprayed out, "He, he sells vegetables? Would a proud emperor like him condescend to sell vegetables? I thought he only grew vegetables to please his mother!"
Green Sleeves shook her head: "I don't think so. The Emperor wants to dig into the ground hundreds of times every day just to see how tall the seedlings he planted have grown. He also waters and fertilizes them himself, never asking anyone else to do it! I think he is really addicted to growing vegetables!"
"Oh! That's really easy to get! I was thinking that I should find a way to cure the old man's arrogance when I have time. I didn't expect that he has learned to adapt to the local customs. No wonder I have been so quiet recently? It turns out that his mind has changed. That's great!"
Yu Jiuer laughed happily, "Hahaha, selling vegetables? The old emperor who once made the Great Dong Dynasty tremble with just a cough while sitting on the throne has actually become a vegetable farmer?"
She was looking forward to the scene where the old emperor would sell vegetables in the shop and occasionally meet soldiers who would come to buy vegetables and show their support.
Her small county finally has some popularity!
Jun Mo's soldiers are regular troops with strict discipline. Even when walking on the streets, they are polite to the people.
The killers of the Black Wind Society were quite ruffians, but Yu Jiuer managed them well and no one dared to bully the common people. Sometimes they were even caught by the common people to do hard labor.
In the past, no one would have dared to think that the common people would employ the Black Wind Society as assassins.
It was because once, Yu Jiuer cleverly asked the Black Wind Society assassins: "Do you feel like you are home when you come to Yinshan County?"
The Black Wind Society branch leaders who didn't understand what was going on at the time all said: "Wherever the leader is is our home, and the villagers are so warm and welcoming, they are our relatives!"
Yu Jiuer asked again: "If your relatives ask you for help, will you help them?"
"It should be so!" The killers of the Black Wind Society were honest and upright. They never thought that their leader would set a trap for them.
Then, the villagers became very rude and treated the killers like their own sons, asking them to help repair the roof today and to help carry manure to the fields tomorrow.
What's even more outrageous is that when people catch them on the street, they will enthusiastically take them home for dinner. However, if you think it's just for dinner, you are wrong.
After dinner, they would chop wood, carry water, and do hard labor. It seemed that after the killers from the Black Wind Society came to Yinshan County, the people in the county consciously left the physical work to them.
You are really not shy at all!
Once, Princess Qingyang found the right opportunity to expose Yu Jiuer's shortcomings and playfully said to the assassins, "Your Chief Yu said that the war in the Western Regions hasn't started yet. You are idle anyway, so you can come to the county to help out and earn a living. It's killing two birds with one stone. She asked the villagers to help you more!"
"Then I really have to thank you!" Wang Badan, who had just carried a few jars of water, looked aggrieved.
Rulai Fu said with a sad face: "Can't you show some mercy? Don't force us to never come to the county town again! At most, we can just hunt in the forest to make a living!"
"That's right, don't go too far!" Another Black Wind Society killer raised his hand and sniffed the stench all over his body, "Today I helped your farm carry dozens of loads of manure to the fields. Is this what a human should do? Woo woo..."
Wang Meng kept bowing and kowtowed: "Don't worry! Can't I kill a chicken for you to eat?"
There is a shortage of manpower for spring plowing, and he is counting on these killers who have too much strength to do the hard labor!
The killer immediately perked up after hearing this: "I want to eat roast chicken!"
"I want boiled chicken too!"
The days of being wasted by the people continued like this. The killers from the Black Wind Society who said they would never come to the county town again, healed their wounds in a few days and forgot the pain. They still came to the people's homes to eat and complained while eating:
"The chief leader is really a fool. He sent a few cooks to the palace to cook for us. Is the food they cooked edible? We still have to eat at the homes of ordinary people to get by!"
When Yu Jiuer heard the people relaying the killers' complaints to her, she covered her mouth and laughed secretly, saying to Lu Xiu:
"This is called recycling and unity between the military and civilians! Who told them to be so aloof? We asked them to come to the farm to help first, but they all looked down on us. Isn't this the case? Aren't they still coming by themselves? They are asking for trouble!"
In a blink of an eye, another month passed. The Black Wind Society had organized 28,000 people, and a total of 21,000 people came, which was more than Yu Jiuer had expected. Each of these people was a master, adding hope of victory to the war to attack the Western Regions.
Recently, all the Western Region soldiers in the forest have been wiped out by the Black Wind Society killers.
The anxious crowd finally received good news from the coastal areas of the Western Regions.
The soldiers of the five princes will go out to sea one after another.
The opportunity that has been waited for two months has finally arrived. The coastal war is about to break out, and everyone is nervous and excited!
On the day he received the news, Jun Mo was busy recruiting soldiers.
As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, Prince Jing's voice sounded intimidatingly: "The Yulin Army has 25,000 people, the Black Wind Society assassins have 21,000 people, and the Xiguan Camp has 12,000 people. Adding up, the total is 58,000 people. With so many people attacking the coastal area of the Western Region, are you confident?"
As the drums sounded, the three armies shouted in unison: "Yes! Yes! Yes!"