Just when Cen Qigongzi met with Huang Zhiting and Gao Shishi, Gao Zhang also entered Siming Mansion with more than a dozen Gao family members.

To be precise, Gao Zhang followed Cen Qigongzi into Siming Mansion - he came all the way and happened to find the Sicheng wolf soldiers, because Cen Qigongzi only went to Siming Mansion to visit this time, and the imperial court officials and soldiers had already collected troops and returned to Liuzhou, so the wolf soldiers under Cen Qigongzi did not make wartime deployments, that is, they did not send sentry spies, but just ran all the way to Siming Mansion.

This is convenient for Gao Zhang's tailgating, he had already guessed that since Cen Qigongzi's team was going south, he could only go to Siming Mansion, after all, he could find out that the master was walking with the "Tusi Woman", and Cen Qigongzi had no reason not to know, so he didn't even have to find a way, and just followed Cen Qigongzi's team south.

After Cen Qigongzi arrived at Siming Mansion, the large team stopped outside Haiyuan City, and only brought more than 20 family members into the city, because he himself was an important figure in the Da Tusi family, and according to the rules, the accompanying guards were left outside the city, and the Huang family's wolf soldiers did not stop him, and directly let him into the city.

After Gao Zhang observed outside the city for a while, he also swaggered into the city, he had in his hand the Guangxi Procuratorate that Gao Shishi had already issued, unless the Huang family rebelled, it was impossible to be stopped - the patrol sent someone to your city according to the imperial history, maybe it was to inspect whether you would rebel, and you still dare to stop it?

Therefore, the effect of this pass defense is excellent, although the Huang wolf soldiers are illiterate, but the small colonel guarding the city recognizes the customs defense pattern issued by the patrol inspection institute, so Gao Zhang was able to enter the city smoothly.

After entering the city, Gao Zhang instructed everyone to find a place to settle down first and then plan to follow. A family member asked, "Don't we need to inquire about the whereabouts of the master first?" ”

Gao Zhang said with a smile: "Judging from the situation that day, it should be a female toast who walked with the master, since the master entered the city at this time, he naturally went to the Yamen of the Tu Governor's Mansion, and we can't enter now, so why bother with this effort?" It's better to settle down first, and then wait for the opportunity to get in touch with the master. ”

All the families praised the goodness, so they first went to find a place to settle.

Tuohaiyuan City is a relatively prosperous city of blessing, although the city is not big, but there are a lot of inns, Gao Zhang quickly found an inn, but it is not called Yuelai, nor is it called Tongfu, it is called South Keju.

Gao Zhang's group is actually too conspicuous, because except for Gao Zhang himself, the rest of them are dressed exactly the same, and they are all the brown shorts "standard" by the Gao family. That's not all, what's more obvious is that they are all fully armed, in addition to the Yanling knife, Zhemu bow, two pots of arrows, and even carry a bird gun - that is actually the Longqing two-style musket, outsiders are still used to calling it a bird gun.

In addition to this, each person carried pellet sacs, powder sacs, sundries sacs, iron kettles, dry food bags, etc., so to speak, and this group of people could be pulled out at any time to march and go to battle.

Fortunately, the shopkeeper in the South Hakka seems to have seen the armed family more than once, although the equipment of Gao Zhang and the others is too good, but the innkeeper may be confident enough in the deterrent power of the wolf soldiers in the city, and he is still relatively calm in the face of Gao Zhang and others, politely asked Gao Zhang and others about their needs, and talked with him about the price, and quickly led them to the backyard.

The inn of Nankeju is one of the big inns in Haiyuan City, but in fact, their inn is usually mainly used to receive Annan merchants, so Gao Zhang and the others felt a little noisy as soon as they entered the backyard.

There are three small buildings in the backyard, one on each of the south, north, and west, and together with the inn restaurant that opens to the east, it just forms a courtyard. Most of the people living in the courtyard were Annam merchants, and although they always spoke in Chinese, they couldn't understand a word.

In fact, most of the languages in Southeast Asia are greatly influenced by Indian culture, and their speech is more Indian-style, but Annam is an exception, because it is split from China and heavily influenced by Han culture, so before French colonial rule, there was no severe de-sinicization of Vietnamese and Middle Chinese.

Gao Zhang fully demonstrated the heroism of the Gao family when they went out to perform tasks, and more than ten people chartered the entire second floor of the north building, but the price was not high, four taels of silver in three days, Gao Zhang, who was accustomed to the price of the Beijing division, thought it was very cheap, and agreed without saying a word.

The arrogance and heavily armed appearance of their group attracted the attention of the Annam merchants in the inn, and many of them privately speculated about their origins.

Gao Zhang didn't understand their words, and he didn't bother to care about them, and besides, they were already tired all the way, so a group of people gathered in Gao Zhang's own guest room to discuss the next arrangements.

During the period, a shopkeeper came, who came to do cleaning, Gao Zhang was going to send him out and tell him to come back later, but who knew that this little boy turned out to be an Annan person, and he couldn't understand what Gao Zhang was saying, Gao Zhang didn't bother to pay attention to him when he saw this, and the group began to discuss how to rescue the master.

After all, it is a provincial patrol, although he left a hidden poem before ordering the officers and troops to withdraw their troops, but after all, his whereabouts are a mystery, and Liuzhou and even Guilin must not be at ease. Three or five days may be able to endure it, but ten days and half a month is a bit difficult to say, if there is no follow-up for a month, Jiang Xin and the others, the deputy envoy of the guard, will definitely not be able to sit still, and no one can guarantee what accidents will happen at that time.

Therefore, although Gao Zhang was not very anxious about what would happen to Gao Shishi, he was anxious to ask him to officially report his whereabouts to Liuzhou and Guilin, and give a reassurance to the ants on the hot pot.

The result of Gao Zhang's discussion is also very simple, in a nutshell, it is to wait for the rabbit. They felt that the reason why their lord didn't take the initiative to identify himself now must be that he wanted to take this opportunity to inspect Siming Mansion, and in this case, the lord would definitely find a way to come out of the mansion.

In this way, as long as you stay outside the palace gate, you will be able to meet the lord sooner or later, and the lord can walk with the female toast all the way, presumably as an important guest, then it is impossible to go out of the palace through the back door, so as long as you guard the main gate and the two side doors.

After Gao Zhang's discussion was finished, it happened that Xiao Er had also finished cleaning, Xiao Er nodded and gestured, Gao Zhang waved his hand and asked him to find the shopkeeper to restore his life, and then began to arrange for the guards to take turns.

However, after the little two left, they didn't go to "find the shopkeeper to get back to life", but sneaked into a guest room in the south building.

There were three guests in the guest room, all dressed as Annanese, and one of them was an old man sitting cross-legged on the futon in the back room, his eyes closed as if he was chanting scriptures, and he didn't react at all when Xiao Er came in.

The other two were fat and thin, neither of them was very tall, and their eyes showed shrewdness, and at first glance they were no different from those big merchants and hawkers who traveled from south to north.

It's just that when Xiao Er came in, the demeanor of these two people immediately became serious.

The thin man asked, "Do you know who it is?" Is it someone sent by Liuzhou officials to investigate Siming Mansion? ”

The little second smiled all over his face: "Commander Fan, these people are the family members of the Guangxi Patrol Imperial History, and it seems that they are here to save the Gao Patrol." ”

The thin man known as "Commander Fan" was stunned for a moment: "Save Gao Xunpress? The Huang family ate the bear's heart and leopard gall and arrested the Guangxi patrol? It's impossible! ”

Where did the little second know this, but he provided another piece of information, saying: "I don't know if the Huang family caught Gao Xun and pressed the little one, but this morning, when the eldest lady of the Huang family returned to Haiyuan City, she came back with a Han scholar...... It's just, it's just that the person shouldn't look like Guangxi Patrol. ”

"Commander Fan" asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

Xiao Er said triumphantly: "That scholar is too young, and he won't be more than twenty years old at most, how can it be a provincial patrol?" ”

Who knew what he said, the thin man and the fat man immediately glanced at each other, and the fat man, who had not spoken, snorted coldly: "You stupid, it is really just like what the Ming people said, 'You have eyes but don't know Mount Tai'." Hmph, this official sees that the scholar is the Ming people's Guangxi patrol according to the imperial history of the Ming people, that is, the six champions of the Ming people, the best in the world! ”