Yan Liang walked around the town and asked several shops, but none of them could rent horses.

And the rhetoric of these stores is extremely consistent: the situation is special now, for the customers who are not familiar with the store, they only sell and do not borrow, and they only collect cash for sales, and do not accept other items as collateral.

Yan Liang didn't have so much money at the moment, so he had to give up.

At that moment, an old man in a straw hat mysteriously pulled him aside.

"Housheng, I heard you're looking for a horse?"

"What, uncle, do you have a horse?"

The old man smiled: "What about the horse, I don't have the old man, but the old man has a cow and I don't know if you want to live in the future." ”

Yan Liang shook his head when he heard this: "Forget it, uncle, why bother to make fun of me." ”

"Where are you looking for horses?"

"Look at the North City. ”

The old man nodded, with an expression that was indeed so.

"Wangbei City is only a day's journey from here, and you can walk there with your legs, but you are in a hurry to find a horse, I'm afraid it's a bit urgent, right?"

"There are indeed some urgent matters below, so I will not accompany you. ”

Yan Liang excused himself to leave, but was stopped by the old man.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave, I'll tell you the truth, a radius of hundreds of miles, all the horses add up, and it's not easy to use my cow!"

"How?"

"No matter how fast you ride a horse, you won't be able to enter before you reach Wangbei City. ”

The old man looked unfathomable again.

"You're not a local, are you? You should know what's going on lately, and if you don't believe it, you can give it a try and see if you'll walk in on your own or if they'll take you in." ”

Yan Liang frowned, but he was a little curious about this old man's ability.

"Then what do you think, uncle?"

"Since I have come to you, I have my doorway. ”

......

When Li Xiaokuan found Yan Liang again, he found an old man beside him, picking up an ox cart.

Yan Liang just glanced at Li Xiaokuan coldly and didn't pay much attention to it.

"I figured it out. Li Xiaokuan approached and said softly.

"South or north?"

Yan Liang asked.

"First to the south, then to the north. ”

Li Xiaokuan replied.

After that, Yan Liang didn't say anything more.

The old man packed up the ox cart, looked up and saw Li Xiaokuan, and asked Yan Liang.

"Two people?"

Yan Liang nodded.

"That's going to have to be paid three times. ”

After getting Yan Liang's consent, the old man beckoned them to come over,

"You two lie down, and I'll cover you with a board so that no one can see that there's anyone inside. ”

But Yan Liang did not leave for a long time.

"What, I'm afraid that the old man will sell you two?"

Yan Liang nodded, threw out three silver dollar coins and said, "Swear." ”

"Okay, okay, you're not here, so we don't care about you. You have to have time to go to the town to inquire, they all know what kind of person Lao Xu is. ”

As he spoke, the old man put away the three silver dollars and put them on his chest.

"I promise Da Niu hereby swears that I will accept three silver dollars from people and send them safely into Wangbei City, and if they violate it, they will be punished by heaven and earth. ”

After speaking, a silver light lit up from the three silver dollar coins and submerged into Xu Da Niu's body.

"Okay, get in the car, get in the car!"

Yan Liang nodded, and lay down in the ox cart with Li Xiaokuan.

After lying down, the old man lifted a wooden plank, covered the two of them, and piled bundles of fresh grass on it.

The grass covered the ox cart tightly, and the old man checked it and knocked on the body.

"I've left a little hole in the board below, so I'll make up there when I can't catch my breath, try not to make a sound, and I'll be there soon. ”

Then Li Xiaokuan felt a vibration in the body, and it should be time to set off.

......

Speechless all the way.

Li Xiaokuan lay on the swaying wooden plank, closed his eyes and kept trying to hit the closed meridian with the inhaled clear air, but it never worked.

He knew that the more times like this, the more he couldn't give up, but this feeling of knowing that the treasure was inside but not being able to unlock it was too hard.

The smell of fresh grass fills the throat and nose, and it is refreshing.

Outside, cowbells jingled, the sound of hooves stomping on the ground accompanied by the shouting of the old man, and the occasional sound of water could be heard.

Li Xiaokuan fell asleep unconsciously.

When he woke up in a daze, he found that the board had been opened, Yan Liang was standing aside, and Xu Daniu was shaking himself gently.

"Oh, you kid is awake. ”

When Xu Daniu saw Li Xiaokuan wake up, he immediately complained with a bitter face.

"You slept soundly, you don't know, when you entered the city to check just now, your snoring scared the old man, fortunately it was windy, and the soldiers guarding the city didn't care, otherwise the old man was afraid that he would have to ......kill the two of you."

Li Xiaokuan scratched his head a little embarrassed, jumped out of the car, and walked to Yan Liang's side.

"Arrived so soon?"

Yan Liang smiled and quipped: "Indeed, it's just a matter of sleep." ”

Li Xiaokuan was a little sluggish when he saw Yan Liang smile other than a sneer for the first time, but Yan Liang's face immediately sank again.

"Look at what, let's go. ”

"Oooh oh. ”

......

Looking at the northern city, the northernmost city of the Chu State.

It used to be the most prosperous trading city in Chu State, because it was directly bordered by Qin State, and there was frequent trade between them.

And the goods of the Qin State flowed into the Chu State, which was also a necessary way.

However, since the fall of the Qin State, Wangbei City has not been prosperous again, but the skeleton remains, and the construction inside is still one of the best compared with other cities in the Chu State.

"Keep up, don't look around. ”

Yan Liang led Li Xiaokuan to turn around and shuttle between the buildings.

Li Xiaokuan boasts that his memory is not bad, but after this flash, he is also a little unclear about the direction.

The two of them crossed the smoke alley, then folded out of the willow alley, and finally climbed a building much higher than the surrounding buildings.

"Wow......"

Follow the wooden ladder and go up one by one to the top.

The top floor was originally in the style of a storage room, but Yan Liang moved one of the wooden planks on the door wall, and it suddenly opened up.

Li Xiaokuan stretched out his head to look inside, and a corridor led straight to the end, and there were countless large and small rooms on both sides of the corridor.

There was a small door in the innermost, and Yan Liang walked over and knocked on the door with a special interlude.

After knocking for a few more breaths, the small door pushed open a gap, Yan Liang signaled to Li Xiaokuan to enter sideways, and Li Xiaokuan followed.

When I entered the small door, there was actually a secret passage inside.

Behind the small door stood a strong man with a sledgehammer, the strong man glanced at Li Xiaokuan with some suspicion, but didn't say anything, just nodded to Yan Liang and followed behind them.

Li Xiaokuan followed Yan Liang through the dark passage, and when he came to the end, he found that it was actually a dead end.

I saw Yan Liang digging up the bricks on the ground one by one, revealing a barbed wire fence buried underneath, and after taking out the barbed wire, he kicked off the wooden plank below and jumped down.

Li Xiaokuan did the same.

After jumping, Li Xiaokuan found himself in a dimly lit room, not big, very low, and smelly.

The strong man re-installed the barbed wire fence and put the bricks back in place one by one, while Yan Liang raised his hand to reinstall the plank.

After confirming that there was no trace, Yan Liang said, "Let's go, let's go and meet the people who have arrived first." ”

When he went out, Li Xiaokuan found himself on the top floor of a bustling restaurant.

Standing next to the railing and looking down, the figures are like beans, coming and going, in an endless stream.

At first, Li Xiaokuan always felt that the stronghold that Yan Liang was going to should be very hidden, but now it seems that this should be the legendary "big hidden in the city".

Just when Li Xiaokuan was in a hurry, Yan Liang found two sets of somewhat delicate robes out of nowhere and threw one to him.

"Hurry up and put it on, you remember, from now on, my name is Wei Jingnian, a salt merchant from Xishu, my ancestral home is Laohu Village, Dayan County, your name is Wei Liu, my distant cousin, my ancestral home is Changjing Village, Dayan County. ”

Li Xiaokuan thought silently in his heart, nodded, and quickly put on his clothes, but he didn't take off his coat, just draped it outside.

The robes were a little tight, but bearable.

When he finished dressing, Yan Liang handed him another piece of paper and a mask of masks.

"It's identification and a mask, you put it away, and you're free to move around the city then. ”

"Wei Liu did have someone before, but no one in this city has seen anyone except those who are close to me, so you can rest assured, if you are questioned by soldiers, you can say generously. ”

"Is there anyone?"

Li Xiaokuan was a little puzzled, so didn't he preempt the identity of others.

"I died the other day. ”

Yan Liang explained lightly, and Li Xiaokuan lowered his head when he heard this.

"There are some things you have to know sooner or later, although we have changed our identities over the years, but we still have constant gatherings and activities, a few days ago I organized a homecoming battle to assassinate a minister of Chu who occupied my Great Qin City, but unfortunately the news leaked, I can come back and count me lucky. ”

"So I don't plan to let you show up at this meeting for the time being, you wait for me here first, and I'll settle the score. I'll take you to meet the rest of the Feather Army later. ”

Li Xiaokuan obediently agreed.