#339 - Du Chang

The next day, at dawn.

At Mao time (5-7 am), several carriages were already parked in front of the Longmen Inn, and Wei Changtian and the others, who were eating breakfast, could set off back to Fengyuan at any time.

However, as it was still half an hour before Chen time (7-9 am), Wei Changtian was not in a hurry to leave, but was waiting to see if that young bandit from yesterday would bring him any surprises.

"Master, what time did you come back last night?"

Taking a bite of the baked cake and a sip of hot porridge, Wei Changtian casually asked, "What did that man ask you to do?"

"He didn't do anything."

Old Zhangtou replied with some confusion, "After we arrived at Xiyang Prefecture, he just asked me to enter an inn alone, and then quietly sent me back."

"..."

Using Old Zhangtou as bait to lure those assassins out to gather information, so as to trace their whereabouts in reverse?

That's it?

Wei Changtian curled his lips, feeling somewhat disappointed.

He originally thought that young bandit would have some brilliant plan, but in the end, it was just this.

As expected, not everyone can have a mind like Chu Xianping.

"Understood."

Nodding, he stopped thinking about this question.

Wei Changtian tilted his head back and drank all the white porridge in the bowl, then looked at Li Wutong eating with great interest.

The latter was originally eating heartily, but after being stared at by him, she immediately felt as if her throat had suddenly shrunk a lot, and she had to swallow each mouthful of porridge several times before it could completely enter her stomach.

"You, what are you looking at!"

After勉强 drinking a little more than half a bowl of porridge, Li Wutong finally couldn't stand Wei Changtian's gaze, put down the bowl and scolded softly, "Shameless!"

"Hehe."

Wei Changtian didn't feel embarrassed, smiled, moved his gaze away, and turned to look at Agou.

However, the little girl was not as thin-skinned as Li Wutong, not only was she not embarrassed, but she ate even more, as if intentionally showing Wei Changtian her appetite.

"Agou, eat less."

After watching for a while, Wei Changtian worriedly advised, "With your appetite, be careful of getting too fat in the future and not being able to marry."

"Huh?"

Agou was stunned, then blinked her eyes and asked, "Eldest Brother, is what you said true?"

"Of course it's true."

"Oh."

Agou nodded and replied seriously, "Then I don't want to marry."

"? ? ?"

Good fellow, shouldn't you be saying "Then I won't eat anymore"?

Wei Changtian smiled dumbly, deliberately teasing, "But if girls don't marry when they grow up, they will be eaten by monsters."

"Senior Brother, you're lying."

Obviously, Agou was not so easily fooled, and immediately retorted in the face of Wei Changtian's "threat", "Sister Wutong hasn't married, and she hasn't been eaten by monsters either."

"..."

Li Wutong's hand holding the bowl suddenly shook.

Wei Changtian glanced at her, didn't speak, but Agou asked curiously at this time, "Eldest Brother, have you taken a wife?"

"I have."

Agou excitedly asked, "How many did you take?"

"Um..."

Several faces floated in Wei Changtian's mind.

Lu Jingyao, Xu Qingwan, Yang Liushi, if you don't count Qiuyun and Yuan'er...

"Three."

"Wow! Eldest Brother, you actually took so many wives!"

Agou was immediately full of admiration when she heard this, "Amazing!"

"Hey, the capable ones do more work."

Wei Changtian waved his hand and casually made another joke. Although Agou didn't understand, Old Zhangtou and Li Wutong next to her understood the meaning.

In an instant, the expressions of the two became very unsightly.

Especially Li Wutong, who was so angry that she accidentally choked on the porridge.

"Cough!"

"Cough cough cough!"

"Huh? Princess, are you alright?"

Wei Changtian looked at Li Wutong's slightly flushed face and joked, "Just eat properly, don't always think about messy things."

"You!"

Li Wutong endured the discomfort in her throat, widened her eyes and struggled:

"This, This Princess doesn't need you to care!!!"

Half an hour later.

The "full and satisfied" group boarded the carriages, preparing to go to the Yizhuang (mortuary) in Xiyang Prefecture first, take Wang Qian's ashes, and then return directly to Fengyuan.

"Princess."

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a guard respectfully asked, "Can we set off now?"

"Ask him!"

Li Wutong turned her head away angrily and stopped talking, and the guards habitually turned their attention to Wei Changtian.

"Young Master Wei..."

"What time is it now?"

"Reporting to Young Master, it just passed Chen time."

"Okay."

Nodding, he looked into the distance again.

Wei Changtian was just about to order to set off, but he heard a faint sound of horseshoes in his ear at this time.

This is...

Narrowing his eyes, looking at the dust that suddenly appeared at the end of his vision, he temporarily held back the second half of his sentence.

Soon, dozens of government officials reined in their horses and stopped not far away, and the leader was the young bandit from yesterday.

"Whoosh!!"

He jumped off his horse, walked to the carriage in two steps, and then knelt down on one knee without hesitation, shouting loudly, "Young Master Wei, I was fortunate not to disgrace my mission!"

Huh?

He actually found out the whereabouts of those assassins?

Wei Changtian was stunned, slowly lifted the small curtain on the car window, and was just about to speak.

But in the next moment, his pupils suddenly dilated slightly.

"Thump!"

"Thump thump!"

More than a dozen burly men who were tightly **** were escorted to the carriage by the government officials, and then all of them were forcibly pressed to the ground.

Overnight, only fifty people were used.

Not only did they find out the whereabouts of these assassins, but they even captured them all alive.

"..."

The surprised look on his face gradually faded, Wei Changtian looked at the young man who was still kneeling on one knee, and slowly asked:

"What's your name?"

"Reporting to Young Master!"

The young man raised his head, and there was a look of fanaticism in his eyes.

"My name is Du Chang!"

At noon, several carriages finally slowly left the Longmen Inn and headed towards Xiyang Prefecture City.

Because Du Chang "unexpectedly" captured the group of assassins, everyone delayed some time to simply interrogate these people.

Wei Changtian already knew that they were sent by Pei Dajun, so after confirming that they did not know Bai Youheng, he ordered all of them to be killed.

At this time, one must not be soft-hearted.

What's more, it can be regarded as revenge for Wang Qian.

At dusk, the group arrived at Xiyang Prefecture, took out Wang Qian's ashes from the Yizhuang, ate something casually in the city, and then continued westward to return to Fengyuan.

This time, Wei Changtian left Fengyuan for eight days, which was shorter than expected, and everything went quite smoothly.

Not only did he safely pick up Old Zhangtou and Agou, but he also had an "unexpected gain" and gained a capable general.

Since Du Chang had never appeared in the original book, Wei Changtian was not as relieved about him as he was about Chu Xianping, and prepared to let him eat a puppet pill when he had the opportunity in the future.

But if "loyalty" is not taken into account, Du Chang does have abilities no less than Chu Xianping.

However, his style of doing things seems to be different from that of Chu Xianping.

Although the latter is very decisive and rational in his actions, if there are multiple solutions to a problem, then Chu Xianping will most likely choose the most "righteous" one.

But Du Chang will definitely choose the simplest one.

And in most cases, "simple" means "unscrupulous".