Chapter 185 Good Luck

Waves of neighing of war horses came from outside the tent.

Li Hu buttoned up his robe and walked out of the back tent yawning, saying, “Bring a basin of water.”

Wang Daniu lay on the ground and blew the charcoal fire in the brazier, and the charcoal fire burned red.

Wang Daniu placed the charcoal fire in front of the low table and walked out.

Li Hu looked out along the gap opened by Wang Daniu. Wow, the fog is so thick!

It’s raining and foggy. If the White Tiger Hall Master still can’t escape, then he deserves to die.

Wang Daniu came in with water for washing face and placed it on the low table.

Li Hu: “The people from the Imperial Household Department are probably coming soon. Tell the kitchen to prepare meals for two people.”

“Yes.” Wang Daniu turned and walked out.

Li Hu walked to the low table, picked up the face towel in the basin, and slowly began to wash his face.

Soon, the voice of the guards came from outside: “General, the eunuch from the Imperial Household Department has arrived.”

Li Hu put the face towel in the copper basin and rubbed it slowly. It took a long time to wring it dry. Then he shook it open and wiped his face slowly. “Please come in.”

The curtain was raised, and the red-robed eunuch from the Imperial Household Department hurried in.

Seeing Li Hu still washing up, the eunuch was stunned for a moment, but he still walked over and looked at Li Hu: “I heard that General Li withdrew the scouts around Yishan in the first half of the night?”

Li Hu then put the face towel back into the copper basin, straightened his robe, and said, “The rain is too heavy, it’s useless to stay there.”

The chief eunuch was startled again and asked, “What if the White Tiger Hall Master is not dead but ran away?”

Li Hu glanced at him, slowly walked to the chair and sat down, and said casually: “If you want to run away, then run away.”

The eunuch’s face twitched, and he immediately became confused. It was only one night, how could his attitude change so much? There was something wrong!

At this time, Wang Daniu came in again.

Wang Daniu: “General, breakfast is ready.”

Li Hu: “Then bring it in.” He smiled at the chief eunuch and said: “I asked the kitchen to prepare breakfast for two people. Let’s eat while we talk.”

Wang Daniu quickly packed up the low table, got some water and went out.

“Please spare my life.” The chief eunuch walked to the low table on the left and sat down.

Two personal soldiers came in, each holding a tray in their hands. They placed a bowl of clear soup with vegetable leaves floating in it and a few meat patties on the low table in front of Li Hu and the chief eunuch.

The eunuch was stunned when he saw Li Hu started eating. He could only pick up the bowl of soup and took a sip, then picked up a meat pie and started eating it in small bites.

Wang Daniu walked in at this time, looked at Li Hu who was drinking soup and eating meat pie with big mouthfuls, and then looked at the eunuch who was having difficulty eating. He smiled in his heart, thinking that the eunuch would probably never come at this time again.

Li Hu spoke: “Now people outside don’t know what happened here. I thought about it and decided to spread the news that we have captured the leader of the Azure Dragon Hall and the leader of the White Tiger Hall and put them in a prison car and sent them to Beijing. We will take this opportunity to wipe out the White Lotus Sect in Shandong.” As he said that, he picked up another meat pie and started eating.

The eunuch put down the meat pie he had taken a few bites of and looked at Li Hu: “Is this okay?”

Li Hu: “With the Qinglong Hall Master here, I’m not afraid that they won’t believe me.”

The chief eunuch thought for a moment and then asked, “Who will escort him?”

Li Hu: “What do you think?”

The chief eunuch asked tentatively, “Is General Li’s men protecting us in secret?”

Li Hu finished the meat pie in his hand, drank the remaining half bowl of soup, and said, “The White Lotus Sect members are not fools. If we go there, they will not come.” After that, he took the handkerchief handed to him by Wang Daniu and wiped his mouth.

The chief eunuch looked miserable: “But we don’t have enough manpower.” Li Hu wiped his hands and continued: “You can ask the local government to cooperate. There is a patrol camp in Ziyang, the capital of Yanzhou Prefecture.” At this point, he smiled and said, “The new prefect of Yanzhou, Zhou Kui, is the uncle of the second prince and a royal relative. It is impossible for him not to give this face to your Silijian. At worst, I will suffer a little loss and I don’t want this credit. You can share it. How about it?”

After he said this, the chief eunuch and Wang Daniu looked at him with suspicion.

Li Hu: “To be honest, the target of the cavalry of the Ruishi Battalion is not the White Lotus Sect, but the 20,000 grain transport soldiers of the grain transport office. Do you understand?”

The eunuch was startled and replied in a low voice: “Yes.”

At this moment, the voice of the personal guard came from outside: “General, Wang Yaozu from the sentry camp is here.”

Li Hu: “I will not get involved in this matter. If you are undecided, you can ask for permission.”

“Got it. Thank you for your care.” The eunuch stood up and walked out quickly.

Li Hu said to Wang Daniu again, “Send it for me.”

“Yes.” Wang Daniu followed him out.

Then, Wang Yaozu, who had a name, walked in, bowed to Li Hu, and whispered, “General, the White Tiger Hall Master fled to the Jiangsu direction with a few of his confidants.”

Li Hu nodded.

Wang Yaozu: “Bai Hongzhi went to a nearby village and lived in a courtyard that was suspected to be a White Lotus stronghold. It seems that he planned to recuperate there.”

Li Hu understood that this kid had guessed it and knew that he would not touch him for the time being, so he was so unscrupulous.

Li Hu slowly stood up and turned to go into the back tent. Then he came out with a handwritten warrant and said to Wang Yaozu, “From now on, you are the commander of the sentry camp.”

“Your humble servant.” Wang Yaozu swallowed his saliva, “I am willing to die for the general.” Then he knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Hu: “From now on, the entire sentry camp will be handed over to you for management.”

Wang Yaozu kowtowed again and said, “General, the sentry camp belongs to you. How dare I take charge of it? I will definitely keep an eye on it for you.”

Li Hu looked at him and said, “Get up.”

“Yes.” Wang Yaozu kowtowed again, took the warrant with both hands, and then stood up.

Li Hu: “Spread the news and say that the government troops have captured the Azure Dragon Hall Master and the White Tiger Hall Master alive.”

Wang Yaozu responded loudly, “Yes.” He bowed and walked out.

Lin Daiyu was also having breakfast at this time. Four plates of exquisite home-cooked dishes were placed on the square table in the dining room. Two overlapping small steamers were emitting steam. From the first steamer, one could see six small dumplings of different shapes and colors. The white ones were made of refined flour, the yellow ones were made of glutinous millet, and the black ones were made of fine buckwheat. There were both fine and coarse grains, meat and vegetarian fillings, and a variety of delicacies that were both delicious and healthy.

Lin Daiyu swallowed the porridge in her mouth, picked up the chopsticks and broke a white flour steamed bun with vegetarian filling. She decisively picked up another white steamed bun, took a bite, and found it was indeed with meat filling. She started to eat it happily.

Zijuan, who was working silently nearby, saw this and said softly, “Girl, you can’t just eat meat.”

Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes at her and said, “I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve lost weight. Look at me.” As she spoke, she raised her left hand and shook it. Two crystal clear jade bracelets jingled and jingled, which looked very beautiful against her fair and tender little hand.

Zijuan smiled bitterly and shook her head. Lin Daiyu was indeed very busy recently, but she also ate a lot.

At this moment, Nanny Wang came in with a letter and bowed slightly to Lin Daiyu: “Miss, this is a letter from Second Madam Lian of Rongguo Mansion.”

Lin Daiyu put down her chopsticks, took the letter, tore it open and read it, slightly startled, then shook her head. Her worries came true, the news of Jia Yuanchun’s pregnancy spread, Rongguo Mansion also knew about it, and Mrs. Wang felt that she had become more confident, so she sent Zhou Rui’s wife to the account office to withdraw money in the name of sending money to Fengzao Palace.

Mrs. Wang’s companion was dealt with, and now Lady Jia’s people are in charge of the accounting office. Without Lady Jia, Mrs. Zhou would naturally not get any money, and Mrs. Wang asked for five thousand taels of silver.

This was exactly what Mrs. Wang wanted. Taking advantage of this incident, she used Jia Yuanchun’s name to not only replace the accountant with her confidant, but also took back the treasury.

Lin Daiyu shook her head and kept saying that it was all for the good of the Empress in the palace. It was such a blessing to have such a mother!

(End of this chapter)