Chapter 290, Joints
"What are they doing here?" Tang Lang pondered for a long time, and finally thought that the most likely thing was that the rest of the hunting team had already begun to act, and Dark Flame had already noticed it, so he sent more troops to strictly inspect the border.
"I have to quickly infiltrate the Dark Flame Imperial Capital, otherwise the investigation will become stricter and more difficult!" Tang Lang muttered to himself, waited until the cavalry was far away, carefully checked his belongings again, and after thinking about it, he smeared his face with mud, and then raised the game in his hand and walked towards the Chifang City Gate.
"Stop!" The dark flame guard at the city gate saw that although Tang Lang was covered in mud, dirty and smelly, but he was carrying a hunting fork and a bow and arrows behind him, he still stopped him and interrogated: "Where did you come from, this hunter, and what are you doing in the city?"
Tang Lang recalled the information provided by Cha Hongtu, and replied with his mouth open: "This official, I am a hunter in the front of Erpan Mountain, and I caught some game on the mountain today, and I want to exchange money in the city to buy some salt and grain!"
The guard also had an understanding of the nearby terrain, walked over to carefully inspect the prey in Tang Lang's hand, and found that the wounds and blood stains were very fresh, and there was nothing abnormal, so he waved his hand and said: "Hurry into the city! Remember, if you want to change game, go to the north of the city, don't wander around the city, leave quickly after selling things, and don't spend the night in the city!"
Tang Lang pretended to be bold and stepped forward to talk: "Official, I have been to Chifang City before, and I have never heard of the rule that outsiders are not allowed to stay overnight, why are there more rules today?"
"That is, I kindly remind you, you still don't believe it! Anyway, you are not allowed to spend the night in the city, if you don't believe it, you can try the taste of staying in the city prison for a few days! Recently, some thieves have appeared out of nowhere and are causing chaos in some cities, and the adults have announced a curfew and strictly investigated ......"
"Silence, don't talk nonsense!" Another guard came over and reminded the previous guard not to talk too much, and said to Tang Lang: "There is a lot of nonsense, if you want to enter the city, hurry up, otherwise I will drive you away now!"
Tang Lang didn't dare to make any extraneous branches, and disappeared from the city gate with a puff of smoke, and did not go directly to Zuo Xiaowei's secret stronghold, but walked towards the north of the city in the direction pointed by the guard, and really found a wine shop to exchange pheasants and hares for silver coins.
"I'm a little hungry! Find a place to eat a bowl of noodles!" Tang Lang deliberately stood on the street and spoke loudly, causing passers-by to look sideways.
He found a random roadside stall on the side of the road, sighed and ate a large bowl of noodles, and then slowly walked towards the end of the street, and when he reached the turnaround, he dodged into a deserted alley, changed his outfit and appeared on the other side of the street.
According to the information provided by Zha Hongtu, Tang Lang walked through the streets and alleys, and finally came to the door of an inconspicuous inn in the south of the city, but the gate was open but no one received him.
He raised his leg and crossed the threshold, and a guy suddenly appeared beside him, and asked with a smile, "This guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?"
"Nonsense, don't live in the store, what am I going to do in the inn! Open your best guest room here, the uncle has money!" Tang Lang changed the cautious image of Orion just now, and his expression was extremely flamboyant.
"Our best room here is the Tianzi No. 1 room! But there are already guests, how about giving you the Tianzi No. 2 room?" the guy's expression remained unchanged, and he still patiently introduced.
"Room No. 2! If you want to live, you can live in Room No. 1!" Tang Lang's face changed, and he was about to lose his temper.
The guy hurriedly persuaded: "Guest officer, or you can live in the No. 1 room of the earth!"
"There is room No. 1, don't you say it earlier!I want this No. 1 room!" Tang Lang swaggered towards the inn, and the man hurriedly ran up a few steps, led the way in front, and brought him into the room.
In fact, the conversation between him and his buddy just now was the joint code of this stronghold.
Before Tang Lang entered the room, a secret door opened by the cabinet in the room, and a middle-aged man dressed as a shopkeeper entered the room, and when he saw Tang Lang, he complained: "What are you doing? The wind is so tight that you have to come to the door, what if it is exposed?"
Tang Lang replied: "I don't know what Your Excellency is called, I'm Tang Lang, Boss Cha asked me to come to you, saying that you will help me sneak into the imperial capital!"
The middle-aged man was even more angry: "Boss Cha can't waste the manpower here! Everyone in this inn has spent years to clear their identities, I don't know how much effort it takes! Now I want to give you an identity to go to the imperial city, what if something goes wrong!"
Tang Lang didn't expect to cause trouble to the other party before, and when he didn't know how to explain, the middle-aged man continued: "Forget it, anyway, Boss Cha doesn't cherish it, what do I care! The less you know about the things here, the better, and you don't need to know my identity!"
The middle-aged man took out a set of clothes and a mask, as well as a few pieces of letterhead, which were densely packed with small characters, and an identity nameplate, all of which were placed on the table: "This is your new identity, I will give you makeup first, and early tomorrow morning, you will set off with a caravan in the city and go to the imperial capital to buy goods, the specific things are all on paper, now write down all the information!"
Tang Lang has the assistance of the system, scans and records all the contents on the paper, and the middle-aged man randomly checks a few places, and after there is no problem, he quickly burns all the letter paper, and brings the mask to Tang Lang, pinching and mending it on his face, and finally said with satisfaction: "With this mask, even acquaintances can't detect it, but you remember, don't take off the mask at any time!"
"And ......" The middle-aged man explained the details of entering the imperial capital one by one, although he was extremely reluctant to cooperate with Tang Lang, but everything was arranged very properly, which still made Tang Lang very grateful, and thanked him: "This big brother, if you have the opportunity to see you again in the future, you must make an appointment with Boss Cha and invite you to drink!"
The middle-aged man was not hypocritical, waved his hand and said: "Drink or something, most of them don't have a chance! I wish you a smooth trip, don't get into trouble, and go home safely!"
After finishing speaking, he knocked lightly on the secret door a few times, and a person who was very similar to Tang Lang's original dress appeared in the room: "You start exchanging identities now, he will stay here for one night, you go to the account room now to withdraw the spars needed for this purchase, and then go back to the room to rest!"
Tang Lang didn't expect the other party to be so rigorous, and everything was clearly written on the letter just now, so he immediately nodded and agreed, and left from the secret door behind the middle-aged man, and the secret passage here actually led to the kitchen, and finally jumped out of the ground from under a cauldron.
Several cooks around turned a blind eye to the two, and the middle-aged man turned around and left without saying a word, Tang Lang went to the account room first to go to a hundred spars as instructed, and then found his room, lying on the bed and closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.
"It's extremely dangerous to go to the imperial capital, the shopkeeper has arranged it so properly, I must not do anything bad! My current identity is the purchase of the inn, named Zhang Shan, the people of Chifang City, three years ago to work in the inn, and was promoted by the shopkeeper to become a buyer, this time I went to the imperial capital to buy ......."
He couldn't help but meditate on the information of his new identity in his heart, and he must know it all in his chest, and he didn't rest for a moment until late at night.
Early the next morning, Tang Lang got up early in the morning, simply freshened up and waited at the door of the inn, and it didn't take long for a caravan of dozens of people to pass through the gate of the inn, led by a stout man, who shouted loudly when he saw Tang Lang: "Zhang Shan, hurry up, the road is not peaceful these days, we have to leave early!"
Tang Lang learned through the materials that the other party's name was Suo Huamao, who was the leader of the guards of this caravan, and he had dealt with him several times, so he hurriedly greeted him, walked into the team, and asked casually: "Why is it suddenly not peaceful? We won't encounter any trouble on this trip!"
Suo Huamao waved his hand impatiently and said: "Don't say anything discouraged! With Lao Tzu and the brothers guarding, what trouble can there be! It's just that the official messenger interrogates more strictly, you kid is clumsy, try not to speak, in case you annoy the official, I can't save you!"
Tang Lang thought to himself: Just don't talk less, so as not to show flaws, nodded and said to him: "Suotou, then I will follow the team behind, you are looking for me if there is something!"
The caravan soon arrived at the city gate, and the guards here were very familiar with the caravan, and they did not strictly patrol it, but just said a few casual words to Suo Huamao and let them out of the city. Once out of the city, everyone either got on their horses or rode in their cars, speeding up and heading southwest.
Tang Lang's incarnated Zhang Shan did not have a prominent position in the caravan, only assigned to a position at the back of a carriage, sitting on the seat and pretending to close his eyes to recuperate, listening to the conversations of the rest of the caravan while squinting his eyes and looking around at the scene along the way.
Sure enough, several caravan members talked in a whisper, and they were full of contempt for Tianqing and the other countries between their words, and even Tianlan was disdainful, and Tang Lang was even more determined to make a move against the rear of the dark flame.
After six or seven days of hurried like this, Tang Lang followed the Chamber of Commerce and finally came to the location of the Dark Flame Imperial Capital, and after one by one identity checks, the group was finally allowed to enter the Imperial Capital.
As soon as he entered the city gate, Suo Huamao asked the caravan to find a relatively empty place to stop: "We will stay in the imperial capital for three days, and you will each arrange your own procurement tasks as soon as possible, and you will not wait for the obscurity!"
Almost half of the people in the Chamber of Commerce were buyers like Tang Lang, and they suddenly dispersed, and Tang Lang didn't dare to delay, so he randomly picked a street with many shops and walked forward slowly.
It seems that he is looking at the goods sold in the shop, but in fact, he is looking for the joint stronghold in the imperial capital according to the arrangement of the middle-aged man in the secret stronghold of Chifang City.
The area of the Dark Flame Imperial Capital was only a lot larger than that of the Tianlan Imperial Capital, and Tang Lang couldn't walk too hastily, until the sun was about to set, before he came to the door of a workshop that made all kinds of wine utensils.
"Huzhen Fang! this is it!" Tang Lang glanced up at the plaque of the workshop, and then went up and tapped it lightly on the door.
"Shopkeeper, is the wine jug ordered last month ready, I'm here to receive it!"