At the end of February, a group of fresh faces came to the town of Honghuai.

Listening to the inn's boss Zhang, these guests came from Donghai County, the person who took the lead is already old, looking at his face, he should be fifty or sixty years old, and he speaks politely, as if he came out of a rich and noble family, and the few people he brought with him are silent, basically five big and three rough men, even if they talk to them, they don't care about people, and there are three teenagers, all of whom are serious.

As soon as they arrived, the peace of the town seemed to suddenly begin to disintegrate silently.

I just hope that they can leave before they cause any trouble.

In fact, Wang Kun and Liu Yichen and his entourage just stopped in Honghuai Town, and only planned to rest here for a day or two, save their strength, and buy some dry food and people to eat on the road by the way, after all, from Honghuai Town, it is difficult to see larger villages and towns for nearly 100 miles along the way, and 100 miles away, it is Huaiyang, the richest place in the world.

This trip, Huaiyang is one of the places that must be visited, if you can lobby in Huaiyang and find one or two families who support you, then there will be a basic guarantee for future military spending.

Those five big and three rough men had eaten and drunk enough, so they went directly to the upstairs room to lie down, saying that they should sleep when they were full of food and drink, so that they could recover their strength the fastest.

Wang Kun didn't care about them, he only took a break in the room for a while, and then planned to go out for a walk, he had long heard that the atmosphere in Honghuai Town was very good, and the scenery in the town was also good.

As soon as he went out, he met Liu Yichen, Liu Cheng, and Liu Qin, who also planned to go out.

"Liu Gongzi is also going out for a walk?" Wang Kun asked with a smile.

Liu Yichen nodded, "The two of them haven't been to Honghuai Town yet, they said they were going out to have a look and buy a few Honghuai cakes to try." ”

As he spoke, Liu Yichen raised his head and looked at Wang Kun and asked, "Is the prince going too?" ”

"Yes, that's just us together, and I also want to try the red locust cake in this red locust town."

......

Before the time passed, the time did not come.

In the dusty wine shop in the corner of the town, there will hardly be any customers in the wine shop during this time, the drinkers will either have eaten the morning food to drink a small bowl of wine, or they will buy two steamed buns and bring them to the wine shop, and eat the steamed buns while drinking, as breakfast, and the more industrious, after drinking, immediately go to their own work, and the lazy people will find a shady place and sleep until the evening, which also saves dinner.

Lao Li appeared in the wine shop for the first time today, but he didn't come to drink.

He has been here since the wine shop opened in the morning, leaning against the wall like a dead man in the corner, not talking, not buying wine, just staring at the fat shopkeeper, staring at the fat shopkeeper to the point of hair, the fat shopkeeper also went to ask him, if he wanted to drink and had no money, he could pay on credit, but he just shook his head.

Now that the guests are gone, Lao Li simply came directly to the counter, he stood by the counter, his Adam's apple squirmed, but he couldn't make a sound, it seemed that he was hesitating about something.

The fat shopkeeper gave him a blank look, and said in his heart, didn't he just want to drink? This morning, Lao Tzu asked you if you drank it, and you still shook your head at Lao Tzu? Why are you still pretending to be shy here? You stare at me like that, do I owe you money, or do you owe me money? Thinking like this, the fat shopkeeper still went to get a bowl of wine, put it in front of Lao Li, and said angrily, "Drink, I'll invite you." ”

Lao Li rubbed his hands, but he didn't immediately grab the wine bowl, he looked up at the fat again

The shopkeeper glanced at it, got a roll of his eyes, and then lowered his head and drank the wine in one gulp.

"You're a good kid, huh?" The fat shopkeeper scolded, "Drinking is like drinking water, can't you drink slowly?" ”

The fat shopkeeper grabbed the wine bowl, but hit another bowl of wine, and at the same time took out a plate of peanuts from the counter, put it between the two, and was silent for a long time before he said, "Okay, Lao Li, if you have anything, you can say anything, if you borrow money, you will be exempted, I don't have spare money to borrow you." ”

Lao Li slowed down this time, but it was still much faster than before, he didn't answer, but drank by himself, and when the wine was finished, he wiped his mouth vigorously, brewed for a while, and finally said, "Brother Chen, you will close the wine shop first in the past few days, go back to your hometown, see your father, and come back after ten days and half a month." ”

The fat shopkeeper was stunned, "Why?" ”

"There is no why!" Lao Li suddenly yelled, his thin body, such a roar, actually calmed the fat shopkeeper, the fat shopkeeper looked at him with a ghostly expression, he didn't explain, but his voice suddenly became quieter again, "Brother Chen, even if I beg you, you close the wine shop for a few days, go back to see your father, and when you come back, the wine shop can also be opened." ”

The fat shopkeeper didn't know what the expression was on his face, he frowned, looking at the thin man in front of him, as if he had never known him.

"Alas," the fat shopkeeper suddenly patted Lao Li's shoulder and said, "Lao Li, if you encounter something or encounter any hurdles that you can't get over, you can tell me, I can help a little bit, as long as it's not a big deal to kill people and oversell goods, I can still lend you some money or something." ”

"Brother Chen, thank you, thank you very much," Lao Li reached out and patted the fat shopkeeper's hand on his shoulder, and said faintly, "But no, you just have to listen to me this time." ”

Saying that, Lao Li suddenly stood up straight, his body swayed, as if he was drunk, he walked to the door and grabbed the door frame, "Goodbye, Brother Chen." ”

The fat shopkeeper looked at the figure that disappeared at the door, looked at it for a long time, and finally sighed.

Closing the door and going home? It seems that it's time to close the door and go home to see my father and mother, and I should go back to do my filial piety.

When Lao Li went out, he returned to his usual appearance, he lowered his head, bent his waist, passed through several small puddles full of sewage, and went straight out of the town.

It's just that he didn't notice the people behind him.

After staying in the palace for a long time, Wang Kun has always had the habit of listening to the sounds around him, and many secrets in the palace were heard by him through the wall, so the word "ear" on the wall is very true. Along the way, Wang Kun was actually listening to the conversations of the surrounding townspeople, from the cabbage rising a few pennies, to what the old man Li next door did yesterday, whose son came back from other places, none of these news missed from his ears, as for Lao Li's roar just now, Wang Kun was even more concerned.

Why would he say "don't ask why"? Just let the owner of the liquor store close the door and go home, and come back in a few days?

His intuition told him that this matter must not be simple.

"Liu Gongzi," Wang Kun said suddenly, "can you help me keep up with that man and see where he goes?" ”

Liu Yichen raised his head, glanced at the man in the distance, and said lightly, "Got it, prince." ”

Saying that, he was about to move forward, but was stopped by Liu Qin, "Yichen, I'll go, you guys go to the town to have a good look, what's the situation."

I'll tell you when I get back. ”

Liu Yichen didn't answer, he did turn his head and glanced at Wang Kun, and when Wang Kun nodded, he agreed and said, "Go ahead, be careful." ”

Liu Qin nodded and trotted after him.

"Then let's go," Wang Kun turned his head to look at Liu Yichen, "Liu Gongzi, let's go buy some red locust cakes." ”

......

Lao Li went all the way out of the town, but he never noticed that there was a shadow not far behind him that had been following him, Liu Qin kept the distance between himself and Lao Li at about twenty steps, so that he would not be alarmed, nor would he miss some of his small movements.

Out of the town, after walking for about three miles, he finally saw a few houses, two or three newly built thatched houses, and the rest were old houses that were dilapidated and almost leaky, Lao Li went straight to an old hut fenced by a fence, and took off the dispensable "lock" casually, in fact, even if he did not lock the door, no thief would be willing to patronize such a dilapidated house like his.

Liu Qin didn't rush forward, he first observed the surrounding situation, and after making sure that no one would notice him, he stepped forward lightly, half-squatted under the rotten window, and quietly listened to the situation in the house. Originally, he wanted to pierce the window paper and observe the situation inside from the small hole, so as to be more careful, but when he got closer to the window, he found that the window paper on the window had already been torn clean, and if he rashly probed, he would only be discovered by the thin man in the house.

There was a sound of rummaging through the cabinets in the house, the man muttered something quietly, but Liu Qin couldn't really hear it, and after a while, the sound stopped, and Lao Li's voice also came from the house, "Found it!" ”

Then there was the sound of strips of cloth being torn.

What did you find? Liu Qin frowned.

Lao Li's footsteps suddenly came towards the door, Liu Qin quietly moved behind the wall, watched the man walk out of the room, and locked the door again.

"Lao Li, what are you going to do?" A neighbor happened to pass by the door.

Lao Li raised the hoe he held in his right hand, but hid his left hand behind him, and then squeezed out a smile and said, "Go up the mountain and dig some wild vegetables." ”

"Oh, is it? Pay attention to safety, I heard that a group of bandits have come to the mountains these days, you should be careful. ”

"Got it." Lao Li nodded, and when he saw the neighbor go away, he stuffed the red cloth strip into his arms and trotted up with a hoe.

"Go dig up wild vegetables...... Why bring strips of red cloth? Liu Qin frowned, besides, the red cloth strip should still look like it was still eighty percent new, and it was torn off directly from a complete piece of cloth, such a wasteful usage really didn't look like something that a poor man would do.

Red cloth strips, hoes.

Red Cloth Strips......

Liu Qin seemed to suddenly remember something, his face changed, and he was about to run back to the town, but after thinking about it, he stopped in place again.

It seems that the red turban thief is right, I heard that the red scarf thief will wrap a red cloth strip around his head or arm to make a difference, if that man really wants to vote for the red scarf thief, then Honghuai Town...... It's dangerous.

In fact, Liu Qin's approach is the most correct, no matter whether the man wants to vote for the red turban thief or not, follow up first, if not, then it is the best, if so, find out the number and location of the red turban thief, in order to make a better response.

Thinking so, Liu Qin quickened his pace and kept up with Lao Li.