Chapter 830: Fishing with a Line
Although Tokyo Bianliang is known as the city that never sleeps, in fact, it is not as lively as the day all night, especially after the third watch, when the sky is not yet light, the whole city will still fall into a short period of tranquility. Because at this time, those people who were looking for pleasure had either gone home, or stayed directly in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and it was almost difficult to find anyone on the street except for the night patrol soldiers and husbands.
However, after the fourth watch, although the sky was not bright, some people still went out early. On the day of the meeting, there will be a lot of people and cars on the streets, but on other days, only the small traders who are busy making a living and have to open their doors early to do business will be so industrious.
Guan Laoshi, a tofu shop in the west of the city, is one of them, and every day before dawn, he pushes his cart along the empty and quiet streets to all parts of the city, and delivers his handmade tofu to every customer. It is precisely because of this diligent and down-to-earth style, coupled with his skills in making tofu that he is really good, although he has only been in Tokyo for two or three years, Guan's Tofu Workshop has also gained some fame in the city, and the business is naturally passable.
But even so, Guan Laoshi still did not change his original intention, and delivered the goods to the door early every day. Especially the frequent customers in the south of the city, he values it the most, and almost all of them can deliver tofu to the guests at dawn on the fifth watch.
Today is also ordinary, Guan Laoshi walked quickly through the streets and alleys, and soon came to the south of the city. After hand-delivering a few portions of tofu to the hotel guy who had just opened the door panel, and chatting with him casually, he quickly hit the road again, and finally turned into a deeper alley.
The alley was a bit deserted, and there weren't any houses in it. However, it was not surprising to those watching from the sidelines, because Guan Laoshi would push a cart into it every day, and those who knew him knew that he had sent tofu to the water temple deep in the alley. The act of giving tofu to the family can't be found out in itself.
Today's action was no different from the past, and he still delivered the tofu to the back door of the nunnery at about the same time, and handed it to an old nun who had been waiting there for a long time. After collecting the money, he walked back again. But when he came to a bamboo forest not far from the nunnery, he stopped a little unexpectedly, and his eyes swept around, and after making sure that there was no problem, he lowered his head and dived into it.
After a while, he walked back again. If someone really saw this scene, they would only think that he ran into the bamboo forest to relieve himself because of his internal urgency, and no one would take it to heart. But only Guan honestly knew that when he came out again, he already had an extremely valuable box attached to his chest.
After coming to the Song capital for three years and four months, he worked hard to find opportunities, to successfully send many materials back to Liao, and then to lure the crossbow master of the Bow and Crossbow Academy to take the bait and get the bow and crossbow from his hands, he really spent too much effort and took too many risks. Unexpectedly, everything went wrong a few days ago, and the batch of bows and crossbows that should have been sent out safely were directly intercepted by the forbidden army, which made his years of hard work almost in vain.
Fortunately, he didn't give up, and after some urgent changes, he got a more detailed crossbow atlas from the crossbow master. As long as he sends it out of Tokyo, then he will really make a great contribution to Daliao, and it is not in vain that he has been lurking in Tokyo for several years and has worked hard several times.
At this moment, the originally slightly humble and rickety body suddenly straightened up, and even more essence flashed in his eyes. At this time, where does Guan Laoshi still have the appearance of being an honest person? But this kind of edge is only fleeting, and he knows that it is not time to be happy yet, and the next thing is to wait for the things to be handed over to those people, and then wait for them to leave Tokyo safely, then the real time is worth being happy.
His pace suddenly quickened, and he continued to push the cart out, through the alleys, and continued along the street as he had done hundreds of times before, and even delivered the tofu to every household with it, and there was nothing unusual at all.
It wasn't until after noon that a cart of tofu was delivered before the return trip. At this time, there were more and more pedestrians on the street, so even if people kept following from behind, Guan Honest didn't feel anything unusual.
And on the side of the street about twenty steps away from him, several men were staring at his slow back with some anxiety, and looked at Sun Tu, who was confident: "General, don't we do it yet?" I've been following him for a long time, and there are more people on the street...... "After the first few misses, they are really worried that the other party will repeat their old tricks and get rid of their own tracking."
Guan Laoshi would not have thought that after he turned into the alley, all his actions were under the gaze of many eyes hidden inside and outside the bamboo forest, these people were all good soldiers in the army who fought with Sun Tu in Jiangnan in Shandong, and they were first-class in terms of skill and eyesight.
However, when he got the box from the bamboo forest, Sun Tu was not busy taking people. Because he knows very well that you can only catch big fish if you put a long line. This is just a Liao State spy, but there must be a lot of hidden spies in Tokyo, and only by following him can we completely find their foothold and wipe out all of them.
Therefore, Sun Tu issued a strict order early on, this time he could only follow and not move. At least until they gave the order, everyone had to follow him from a distance to see where he would go.
As for the worries of his subordinates, Sun Tu smiled disapprenously: "He pushed such a big car, the goal should not be too obvious." Not to mention that he would never have imagined that he had been exposed by us, even if he was aware of it, it would be impossible to easily get rid of the eyeliner we had laid along the way. As long as you keep up, you can take down these spies today. As he spoke, he followed with a movement of his footsteps.
Guan Laoshi really didn't find out that he was being followed, just because this time Sun Tu used a much more clever tracking method than before. He divided his men into arrays, and each group followed him crosswise, some behind him, some in front of him, and some staring at him from the other end of the street a whole street. In this way, no matter how vigilant you are, you will never imagine that you are being targeted to death in all directions, just like the fish in the net, it is difficult to have a chance to escape.
As for Sun Tu himself, he was far behind, controlling everything through a series of eyes and gestures. Only these veterans of the Shandong Army can let him command like a finger, if he changes the forbidden army that is still in practice and does not have the slightest tacit understanding, only this way has been full of mistakes and omissions, either lost people, or has already been noticed by the other party, so he has to forcibly take people.
When the license was not issued, Guan Laoshi returned to the west of the city. And when he stepped into a street, Sun Tu, who was following from afar, had a strange look on his face. Because he has some memories of this road, the front is the far gate, which is the place where he took advantage of the situation to intercept the batch of bows and crossbows. Immediately, he turned his gaze and saw that the cloth of Guan's Tofu Workshop was swaying in the wind not far away......
I see, it turns out that everything I have done with people is carried out under the nose of the other party. This guy hides deep enough, and he is bold enough to stand in front of him all the time. But it doesn't matter anymore, the most important thing is where the other spies besides him are.
Then, he noticed that Guan Laoshi did not go straight to his shop, but turned around and walked towards a small hotel diagonally opposite. Looking at this posture, it seems that he has a very good relationship with the hotel, and the shopkeeper over there saw him coming, and immediately greeted him with a smile, and quickly prepared wine and food for him, it seems that there is no problem with everything.
But Sun Tu still keenly caught some other things in the middle - when Guan Laoshi entered the door to greet him, he first glanced at his buddy imperceptibly, and nodded slightly. In addition, the shopkeeper actually glanced at the guy for a moment, and only after the other party lowered his gaze did he greet Guan Honest with a smile and then prepare the wine and food for him......
Although the movements in these eyes and expressions were extremely small, they still did not escape Sun Tu's gaze, and they also made him quickly make a judgment that these people were Liao spies. It turns out that the person I want to find has always been in front of me, and this is the big hidden in the city!
Thinking of this, he suddenly made a gesture, it was time to take someone.
At this time in the store, I don't know when, the box has fallen into the hands of the shopkeeper, I saw that his hand turned over, the scroll inside has been gently taken out by him, and then pulled, the contents of it appeared. But the moment he saw the content on it, his originally smug expression quickly disappeared - there was no imaginary bow and crossbow production details on the scroll, only an inkblot sentence: I caught you!
"Oh no, I've been tricked!" He let out a low roar, quickly raised his head, and then saw more than a dozen men running quickly with knives in front of the store, which frightened all the people on the street screaming and fleeing in both directions.
Guan Laoshi just put a chopstick noodle into his mouth and chewed it at this time, as soon as he heard this movement, he saw the people rushing over outside the store, he was also shocked, without any hesitation, his hand turned over, and he lifted the wooden table in front of him, and hit the door, and at the same time shrank his body, and retreated to the rear. It was the back door of the hotel, and it was also the way out he had set for himself early on.
The shopkeeper's reaction was not much slower than his, and when he pressed the counter with one hand, the person had already swept out like a harrier, and at the same time, the abacus that had been held in his hand had shot out, and the people who rushed into the door from the top of the table.
Now, they know very well that their identities have been revealed, so they only think about being able to escape from arrest, but they don't dare to think about hiding anything at all. But the guy was standing there stunned at this time, as if he was stunned by everything in front of him......