The Yuanwang Township Restaurant was taken over by Cao Anqing, but because he wanted to use Su Qifan, he gave this restaurant to Su Qifan as a stronghold, and the shopkeeper of the restaurant was an old man who looked like he was in his fifties, but he didn't look like a restaurant shopkeeper, but like an old farmer who worked in the fields all year round, his skin was very dark, his face was wrinkled, and his face was full of weather.

It stands to reason that the store that has been open in Chang'an City for twenty or thirty years should not be blown by the wind and rained, how can people be so old.

When Han Zhaozhi stepped into the door, the shopkeeper had already greeted him politely, and when he laughed, he showed a mouth of yellow teeth, but the smile was not disgusting, but a little simple.

The shopkeeper seemed to have looked at the brocade clothes on Han Zhaozhi and Fang Bailu first, and the presence of brocade clothes proved that he was famous, so he immediately smiled more kindly, revealing the cunning of a small businessman.

"Two distinguished guests came early."

The shopkeeper said with a smiling face: "It's not enough to eat, so the store is not very prepared, I don't know what the two of you want to eat?" ”

"If there is anything you can do, you can serve three or five dishes at will, but the wine needs old wine."

Fang Bailu commanded, and chose a seat by the window to sit down.

The shopkeeper's face said: "There is a private room upstairs, quiet, do you want to go up to the two distinguished guests?" ”

"Not necessarily."

Fang Bailu glanced at the shopkeeper: "We will be in a hurry to get out of the city in a while, and the shopkeeper will be quicker in the back kitchen." ”

"Okay."

The shopkeeper answered and hurriedly went to the back kitchen.

In the back kitchen, Su Qifan looked at the shopkeeper: "Recognized?" ”

"I recognized it, it is Han Zhaozhi, and there is a thousand offices in the Tingwei Mansion called Fang Bailu, I have spent a lot of money to go to the Vientiane Grassland in Baixiaotang, I have seen the portrait, and I remember it well."

He asked Su Qifan: "Do you want to put something in the wine and food to put these two people down?" ”

"You underestimated Han Zhaozhi."

Su Qifan smiled and said: "Han Zhaozhi has been in charge of the Tingwei Mansion for more than 20 years, and there are not 1,000 or 800 people who want to kill in the past 20 years, and the number of people killed by him can't be counted, he is still alive and well, do you want to put down Han Zhaozhi with that little means?" To be honest, you are not on the same level as him, and there are hundreds of levels in between. ”

He waved his hand: "Serve well, let the chef be more fine, cook a few good dishes, don't treat us Lord Han badly." ”

After finishing speaking, he left the back kitchen with a smile on his lips.

Han Zhaozhi and Fang Bailu really seemed to be just here to eat, and the two of them talked about some very insignificant trivial things, after eating and drinking, they seemed to be very satisfied with the craftsmanship of the chef of Yuanwangxiang Restaurant, and took out an ingot of about ten taels of silver and put it on the table, beckoning the shopkeeper to come over, and the shopkeeper saw the silver and his eyes lit up, and he came over with a smile and asked, "The two distinguished guests have eaten?" If you are not satisfied with anything about the shop, please advise. ”

"The wine and food taste good, and there is no water in the wine."

Fang Bailu smiled and pushed the silver forward: "Reward you." ”

The shopkeeper's face nodded and thanked him, holding the silver in both hands and hurriedly bowed down: "Thank you, thank you, and invite two distinguished guests to come to our store more in the future, and the two will come again in the future, and they will be well entertained." ”

"Thank you for a comfortable meal."

Fang Bailu raised his finger and pointed at the shopkeeper's face: "How old is the shopkeeper?" Why are there so many wrinkles on the face? ”

"Alas......"

The shopkeeper said helplessly: "We are a small person in the market who lives hard, and it is normal to have many wrinkles on the face, the business in the store is average, and I am alone in buying vegetables and goods, and I am reluctant to hire a few more guys, so I am more tired." ”

"Really?"

Fang Bailu said: "I heard people say that there are many wrinkles on people's faces, and it has little to do with whether they are tired or not. ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "The distinguished guest said that it has nothing to do with whether you are tired or not, that is, it has something to do with age." ”

"Not really."

Fang Bailu said with a smile: "I heard that the more wrinkles a person has, the more things he has on his mind, and if a person is not old enough to have a wrinkled face and a face full of vicissitudes, then he has a lot of worries, and he can still get by when he looks at the shopkeeper, so he shouldn't have so many worries, right?" ”

"No, no."

The shopkeeper shook his head: "Although I work hard, my life is good, where can I have so many worries." ”

"There are many kinds of things on the mind."

Fang Bailu got up and walked to the door, went out and looked up at the signboard of Yuanwangxiang, and came back after a few glances, but closed the door when he came back.

"The shopkeeper's restaurant is called Yuanwangxiang, is it homesick?"

Fang Bailu looked back at the shopkeeper.

I didn't look at the shopkeeper's face, but looked at the arms, and when he asked this, the shopkeeper's shoulders were slightly shaky, and his left foot was slightly tiptoeed.

"I listen to your accent, but you're from Liaobei Dao?"

Fang Bailu asked again.

The shopkeeper's heart was nervous, and he replied with a smile: "It's from Liaobei Province, and the distinguished guest is really good ears." ”

"I don't just hear your accent."

Fang Bailu walked back to the seat just now and sat down: "I also heard a dagger screaming in your cuff, as if you couldn't help but roar, it was the sound made before the killing. ”

The shopkeeper retreated violently, his body turned back, and a few silver rays spilled out of his cuffs.

Fang Bailu stretched out his hand and picked up the chopsticks on the table, the chopsticks flicked back and forth in front of him, and with a few sounds, all the silver rays that flew in were removed.

The shopkeeper rushed to the back door, and the moment he opened the door, he flew back upside down, and there was an extra footprint on his chest, the footprint was very large and clear, he was kicked back by someone, and he fell to the ground heavily.

This kick is really outrageously heavy, it should have kicked and broken the ribs, the shopkeeper wanted to get up, his chest hurt very much, and he struggled to get up only to notice that there was a smiling Tingwei Mansion Qianban standing outside the back door, wearing an official uniform, the brocade clothes were very beautiful, and the horizontal knife was also very beautiful.

"No one is out the back door."

Nie Ye stepped in from the outside: "But I just saw someone on the third floor, which means that there are cats in this restaurant." ”

He waved his hand: "Check carefully." ”

Outside the back door, the captains of the brigade swarmed in.

Nie Ye walked in front of the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper looked painful, and the moment Nie Ye approached, the shopkeeper suddenly got up, and a dagger stabbed Nie Ye's lower abdomen from the cuffs, a snowy knife flashed, and the horizontal knife came out of the sheath, and the dagger was cut off with a bang.

Fang Bailu shrugged his shoulders: "Look, I'll just say I heard it." ”

The shopkeeper's violent blow is extremely fast and extremely ruthless, which shows that his martial arts are good, but just now this sneak attack was defeated without shame, Nie Ye's long knife out of the sheath is like a swimming dragon, the dagger is not a flying fish, and the flying fish meets the swimming dragon, there is no reason to be invincible.

The shopkeeper had to get up, and Nie Ye's long knife was three points, leaving three knife marks and shadows in the air.

The shopkeeper was stabbed in both shoulders and in the wrist of his right hand.

Han Zhaozhi got up and walked upstairs, and after turning around on the second floor, he went up to the third floor, there was a room with the door open, he looked around after entering the door, there was a teapot and a teacup on the table, the tea in the cup was still steaming, he walked over and picked up the teacup and sent it to his nose to smell it, frowning.

Putting down the teacup and looking at the other seat, there was also a teacup next to the seat, but it was half full, and I wiped it around the edge of the cup with my fingers, and raised my hand to see that there was no water in my fingers, so this cup of tea should not have been touched at all.

He took a few steps back and looked down at the two seats, the footprints on the wooden board of the guest seat were very shallow, the wooden board had just been wiped for a short time so it was very clean, and the footprints were very shallow, indicating that the soles of the shoes were not very dirty, and the people did not come by walking, and the footprints of the main seat were a little heavy, so the person sitting on the main seat did not live here, but came by walking.

"Send someone to the shops around and ask if anyone saw the carriage passing by not long ago, and in what direction."

Nie Ye lowered his head: "Yes, the person who was staring at the East Palace this morning replied that he didn't see anyone come out." ”

"There is a secret passage here, and the East Palace can naturally have it."

Han Zhaozhi asked, "Have you found the secret path?" ”

"I found it, I found a secret door outside the back kitchen, and after opening it, I found that it was a secret passage, but it was destroyed, it should have been a device before, and the dark passage of the device will be blocked when you touch it, and the smoke and dust have not dispersed, and the person has not been gone for a long time."

Han Zhaozhi nodded: "Bohai people." ”

He looked at the cup of tea again: "Bohai people will take this kind of thing as a treasure, Ning people will not drink a sip, the bitter cold over there is not good at planting tea trees, with a kind of other leaves instead, and it is not made by the method of roasting tea, it is sun, there is a very bitter taste after drying, it is said that there is a laxative effect, nothing to pass what ......"

He walked to the back window and looked out, and in the alley behind him, a figure disappeared in a flash.

"Very confident."

The corners of Han Zhaozhi's mouth hooked: "I went but I didn't go far, stay and take a look at the situation, I like such an opponent." ”

Su Qifan, who was hiding in the alley, changed his face, and let out a long breath, thinking that Han Zhaozhi was really an old fox, no...... The old fox is cunning enough, but it doesn't have the sharp fangs of Han Zhaozhi, it's a wolf, it's a tiger and a leopard.

He strode away, not daring to linger any longer.

And when Han Zhaozhi finished saying that, Nie Ye had already swept out of the back window of the third floor, and quickly entered the small alley in the distance with a light flutter, and came back soon after, shaking his head at Han Zhaozhi.

"Looks like I'm going to have to go to Baixiaotang again."

Han Zhaozhi said as he walked: "Li Baixiao seems to have forgotten his duty. ”

The person on the third floor showed up in the window, and immediately left after seeing Han Zhaozhi and Fang Bailu, so this person must know the two of them, and they are from Bohai...... This is where the fun begins.

"Seven or eight out of ten of the secret spies sent to Daning by the black warriors are Bohai people, and seven or eight out of ten have lived in Liaobei Province, so the accent is mostly from Liaobei Province, Yuanwangxiang Restaurant has been open for more than 20 years, this place will be a stronghold, he left in a hurry, he will definitely leave something, bring the shopkeeper back to Tingwei Mansion, Fang Bailu, you go to trial, Nie Ye, you stay and continue to investigate."

Han Zhaozhi stepped downstairs and beckoned, his carriage came from a distance, Han Zhaozhi squinted and rested after getting on the car and sitting down, this was his habit.

"Go to Baixiaotang."

Han Zhaozhi commanded.

He closed his eyes and recuperated, but his mood was not calm, how could the prince get together with the secret spies of the Bohai people?