Shortly after Li Yanqing broke through the blockade, he came to Zengtou City, which is a large town between Zhongdu County and Xucheng County and belongs to Xucheng County.

Last year, a great war broke out here. The Zeng family, a wealthy family that controlled Zengtou City, was defeated and destroyed by the Liangshan army. Although the Liangshan army withdrew from Zengtou City, it has since become the sphere of influence of Liangshan and one of the three towns controlled by the Liangshan army. Inns, restaurants, brothels and quality warehouses in the towns. Guanpu shops were formerly the Zeng family's property, but now they have become Liangshan's assets.

Li Yanqing entered Zengtou City at dusk. He and Luan Tingyu made an appointment to meet here. Li Yanqing did not dare to be careless. This place is different from Zhongdu County. Zhongdu County is at least the territory of the government. Liangshan is just a little bit in the county, but this place is completely the territory of Liangshan. All the shops have the background of Liangshan, and even half of the children of the family are in Liangshan.

He might fall here if he is not careful. Li Yanqing put his sword across the saddle. His long-term running made his hearing and vision more sharp than half of them, and he reacted very quickly. He felt that someone was peeping at him behind every door and window. After all, riding such a strong horse in Zengtou City was a provocation to Liangshan itself.

"Here!"

Li Yanqing suddenly heard a familiar and low voice from the depths of an alley. He was overjoyed and immediately turned over and got off the horse, led the horse into the alley. When he walked to the bottom of the alley, he saw a faint voice, and Luan Tingyu's thin face was revealed in the crack of the door.

Li Yanqing led his horse into the yard. The house was not big, there was only one small courtyard and three adobe houses. Luan Tingyu closed the door and smiled and said, "I have been waiting for you to come!"

"Senior brother knows I'm coming?"

Luan Tingyu nodded, "The news of your killing Liu Gao has reached Zengtou City. A pigeon letter was sent in front of him, asking Liangshan here to intercept a black-faced man riding a white horse."

"But I didn't see the interceptor!"

"I have killed the person in charge of collecting the pigeon letter. This pigeon letter is in my hands, so they certainly don't know."

Li Yanqing suddenly realized that since Luan Tingyu knew so clearly, he of course solved it for him.

Li Yanqing looked at the house again. He felt that the house was dilapidated and he might collapse in a while. Why did Luan Tingyu live here?

Luan Tingyu moved out of the house. He understood Li Yanqing's doubts and smiled and said, "I have lived here for a year. This is my house. I bought it for twenty cents five years ago. Behind it is the woods. If there is any abnormality, you can evacuate immediately. Don't worry!

"How could my senior brother live here for a year?"

"It's a long story, sit down and have a tea!"

Li Yanqing sat down, Luan Tingyu poured him a bowl of tea and said lightly: "Five years ago, I took Yang Jian's business and escorted him to Yunzhou. Later, I fell ill and recuperated here for a year. At the same time, I taught the martial arts of the Zeng family's children. Later, I met my senior brother Lin Chong, and was invited by him to live in Liangshan for several months."

"Senior brother has gone to Liangshan?" Li Yanqing asked curiously.

"Do you find it strange?"

"It's a bit strange. So how can senior brother leave Liangshan? Song Jiang is willing to release others?"

"I went to Liangshan and had nothing to do with Song Jiang. I lived in Chao Gai's big village. At that time, they were negotiating the merger. Everyone disagreed with the merger with Song Jiang. However, Chao Gai was determined to do big things, so everyone had to reluctantly agree, but there were still many people left. I left Liangshan and returned to the capital shortly after the merger."

Yang Jian spent most of his time in his mansion garden. The mansion covers an area of ​​200 acres and is located in the southeast of Xucheng County. It is an extremely exquisite and elegant garden with rockery and lake water, green water, and various pavilions and towers.

At this time, in the inner hall, Yang Jian was drinking tea while discussing with his confidant adviser Du Gongcai about preparing the birthday gift for the emperor. The emperor's birthday was the tenth day of the tenth month. On that day, all prefectures in the world would send the birthday gift to the capital, and Yang Jian was of course no exception.

In the past two years, he has actually collected a lot of precious jade. He is going to take out some of it to the emperor, but it seems that there is too little jade to send, so he and Du Gongcai discussed adding something else.

"The official family likes strange stones in flowers and trees. I think we can make a fuss about this. The things are sophisticated but not many. The Tai Stone obtained by the Taifu last year is a very good birthday gift, and no one in the world can compare with it!"

Last autumn, someone found a strange stone weighing a thousand pounds at the foot of Mount Tai. Its appearance was exactly the same as Mount Tai. The local magistrate presented it to Yang Jian, which made Yang Jian love it and named it Dai Stone.

This is Yang Jian’s most cherished item, and he really couldn’t bear to give it to the emperor.

Du Gongcai carefully reminded: "Now is a critical moment to determine the main manager of the inner city. What is a stone?"

A sentence reminded Yang Jian that Liang Shicheng was the first to take over the position of the chief supervisor of the Great Inner, and later he took over. Seven years ago, when he went out to establish the Xicheng Office, the position of the chief supervisor of the Great Inner was always vacant, and the affairs of the palace were taken over by two deputy chief supervisors. At the beginning of the year, news came out of the palace that the chief supervisor of the Great Inner was to be reappointed, which undoubtedly made Yang Jian nervous.

Whether it was Liang Shicheng's confidant Li Yan or his confidant Zhao Zhang, it was a matter of life and death that was related to who would eventually hold the power of the palace. He fought with Liang Shicheng for twenty years and finally it was time to decide the victory or defeat.

Yang Jian nodded, "You are right. Compared with the great power in the palace, this Dai stone is indeed nothing."

At this moment, a guard rushed to the hall to report: "Report to the Taifu, urgent news came from the dock warehouse, and the Liangshan army was about to attack the warehouse!"
Chapter completed!