In less than two hours, the sky was already bright, and when I looked around, there was a settlement about half a mile outside the west city gate, and forty or fifty houses formed a small bazaar around the two sides of the main road.

Shi Qian ordered a bowl of noodles at a breakfast restaurant in front of the courtyard and ate it slowly. At about the beginning of the day, I saw four carriages coming out of the courtyard in front of me, and headed west along the avenue. Shi Qian hurriedly settled the account and hired a carriage on the side of the road to follow. After walking for nearly two hours, the carriage in front turned into a small road next to it, and Shi Qian did not dare to follow, only to see those carriages enter a Zhuangzi in the distance.

"Shopkeeper, how long have you been doing business on this road?" Shi Qian let the carriage go on, but chatted with the man who was driving the carriage.

"It's not short, maybe five or six years."

"Why, can you know everything along the way?"

"I know a lot."

"I see that Zhuangzi is extraordinary, I don't know where it is?" Shi Qian asked, pointing to the place where the carriage had just entered.

"The guest officer asked the right person, that place is called Crouching Tiger Village, which is named after the hill behind the village that resembles a Crouching Tiger, but it is an official master's grange, and the small one has sent items a few times before he knows."

Looking at the time, the hill behind the Zhuangzi is indeed somewhat similar to the Crouching Tiger.

"It's lively in that village, so it's good to have time to take a look."

"The guest officer didn't know, but Zhuangzi didn't let outsiders in, and I only went to the warehouse to unload the goods and came out, and I was not allowed to stay in it for a moment."

Shi Qian saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he got off at a set in front of him and found an inn to rest. At about nine o'clock in the evening, Shi Qian took advantage of the night to touch the back mountain of the Zhuangzi, but found that this place was different from the last time in the Zhao family manor in Shankou Town, and there were several sentry posts on this mountain. He relied on his body to avoid the sentry, came to the back of the grange and dived in the dark, and found that the grange in front of him was four or five miles in circumference, backed by Crouching Tiger Mountain, and there was a small river in the distance. Shi Qian wanted to go into the village to explore, but he thought that this village was too big to find out anything in a few days, and it was inevitable that the family would be worried if he came out for too long this time, so it was better to go back and tell everyone before making plans.

When he moved to visit the City God's Temple for two nights and did not return, Gaojiazhuang was very uneasy, Sun An, Su Sheng, Ma Xian and others shouted to kill in, but they were suppressed by Wen Huanzhang, and they just sent more people to guard against it.

After two days of treatment, Gu Haotian's spirit has improved a lot, and after listening to Wen Huanzhang's report this night, he also felt that there should be nothing to do with his skills, and he will wait for another day to see.

Just when everyone was nervous, they rushed to the time of the night and returned to the village exhausted at dawn the next day. Gu Haotian and Wen Huanzhang listened to Shi Qian's report, and they both felt that this evil tiger gang was by no means an ordinary gang, and they needed to deal with it seriously.

Let's talk about the small set outside the West Gate, there is an old carriage for business recently, and the driver is a tall and thin man. At this moment he was parking the carriage in the shade of a tree, close to a man in his thirties on the side.

"Fifth brother, I just entered this industry, and I don't know the rules and hope to carry me."

"They are all brothers, there is nothing to say, if there is a deal coming, you only look at your brother's eyes, and you have money to earn." The fifth brother is obviously very familiar with the tall man, and he does not shirk the big package.

The two were chatting, but they saw a person who looked like a housekeeper coming out of the courtyard.

"The deal is coming." The fifth brother had sharp eyes, pulled the tall man and ran over.

"Master Wu, what do you have to do with a small service?"

"You guys are sharp-eyed, and you are cheap, there are two truckloads of things in it, and you will send them to Crouching Tiger Village." The two know each other very well.

"Who is he?" Just as the fifth brother and the tall man led the carriage into the courtyard, the Wu Ye pointed at the tall man and suddenly asked.

"His name is Duan Erlang, but he is my cousin, and he has recently taken refuge in me, and he is a real person." The fifth brother said it as soon as he spoke.

Then Wu Ye saw Duan Erlang's low eyebrows and pleasing appearance, so it was enough. After the loading was completed, escorted by a family member, the two carriages headed towards the Crouching Tiger Village.

It was not until the afternoon that I arrived at Crouching Tiger Village, and the carriage entered through the side door on the right, and there were two rows of more than 20 warehouses not far away. As soon as the carriage stopped, Duan Erlang suddenly had a stomachache and was in a hurry to go to the thatched house, and the storehouse steward saw that he didn't seem to be a fake, so he ordered a family member to take him over. The man led him to a hut by the back wall, pointed at it from a distance, and said, "That is where you went," and went back with his nose covered.

Duan Erlang is really Duan Jingzhu, he disguised himself in the village just to find out the truth, and now he can let it go. When he entered the hut, he saw a window in the back wall, and he did not care about the dirt, so he went out of the window, and there were several stacks of haystacks not far away, and he quickly went over and hid himself in them. The whole Zhuangzi happened to look at a rough idea.

I saw that Zhuangzi has two walls inside and outside, and a wall of about seven feet inside encircles a large mansion with five entrances in front and back, and there is a circle of passages inside the outer wall and outside the inner wall, and between the inner and outer passages, there are rows of neat houses, and from time to time there is a group of black-clothed men with guns and knives walking through the two passages. After only a brief glance, Duan Jingzhu returned to the warehouse, and at this time the goods had just been unloaded, so he went out of the village with the fifth brother after receiving the salary.

"This time, thanks to the fifth brother's care, I have a good income, and I have a few dollars and a little money to eat with the fifth brother." Duan Jingzhu grabbed a handful of copper coins from his pocket, which were twenty or thirty wen.

"How does this work?" The fifth brother excused himself once, and finally accepted it, and the two became closer after that.

"Fifth brother, you said that this Zhuangzi obviously has a river, but why do you use a horse-drawn carriage to transport goods, it is not connected to the county seat." Duan Jingzhu asked, pointing to the river not far away.

"Brother, I don't know what's going on, the fork of the river in Yuncheng County doesn't lead to the water, as long as the detour is passable, it's just far and near, if the things of these two cars take the waterway, won't it cost more money."

"It's still the fifth brother who has insight, and I also heard that there is a quadrangular car shop in the west of the city, why didn't this Steward Wu do business with them." Duan Jingzhu knew the relationship between the car dealer and the Evil Tiger Gang, and he was a little puzzled.

"Brother is confused again, the Quartet car dealers are all big deals, the four big cars that slipped a few days ago are the Quartet car dealers, like today's big deal, he can see it." The fifth brother sneered.

Duan Jingzhu remembered that Shi Qian had said that the four carts that transported the men in black that morning were supposed to be from the Quartet, and it seemed that they were also handing over some irrelevant things to outsiders to transport.

When the two rushed all the way back to the west gate of Yuncheng, it was already dark, Duan Jingzhu said goodbye to the fifth brother, hurried back to Gujiazhuang, and saw that Gu Haotian, Wen Huanzhang, Shi Qian and others were there, so they talked about what they saw today.

"This Crouching Tiger Village is really not an ordinary place." Wen Huanzhang sighed.

"It's the Longtan Tiger's Den, I also want to explore it." Shi Qian didn't take him seriously.

"Brother Jingzhu said that the river is connected to the water, and I will explore it tomorrow, and it will be useful then." Ruan Xiaoqi heard that there was a river connection, so he thought about his specialty.

"Crouching Tiger Village is completely different from the Zhuangzi we have encountered in the past, no matter how careful we are, the Shiqian brothers must not take it lightly, tomorrow after the little seven brothers go to explore the waterway, everyone will think about it carefully, and then set a proper strategy, no one can do it casually." Gu Haotian obviously felt that this Crouching Tiger Village was a hard stubble, if he was not sure, under the current situation, he would rather hand it over to the government than cause unnecessary casualties to his brother.

After that, several people discussed the sketch drawn by Duan Jing's residence, and initially decided to explore Crouching Tiger Village at night, only to wait for Ruan Xiaoqi to explore the waterway tomorrow before taking action.

The next evening, Ruan Xiaoqi and others found out that the waterway returned, the small river was really connected with the waterway, and it took more than two hours to take the waterway from Gujiazhuang to get there, so Gu Haotian decided to go to explore it tomorrow night.

At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Haotian took Shi Qian, Bian Xiang, Duan Jingzhu, Ji Sheng, Sun An, Ma Xun, and more than ten capable escorts to Crouching Tiger Village in two small boats under the guidance of Ruan Xiaoqi. The reason why he took away all the good hands, Gu Haotian was planning for the worst, in case he fell inside, everyone would storm in to save people, Shi Qian was a treasure now, Gu Haotian didn't want him to miss a little. Everyone didn't want Gu Haotian to go, but he said that after seven or eight days, his health was already good and insisted on going, and as for Bian Xiang, when he saw Gu Haotian going, he wanted to keep him at home.

The boat entered the water from Gujiazhuang and traveled a short distance south to the entrance of the small river. Gu Haotian thought in his heart that if the troops were transferred from Liangshan, it would take at least three hours, and this place along the river would have to find a transit place. The boat traveled in the river for about an hour, and Ruan Xiaoqi made a report, and it was not far ahead. Gu Haotian looked at the sky, about nine o'clock in the evening, so he ordered the boat to lean on the shore first, and several people discussed the details of the operation, so they let everyone rest first, only waiting for the second half of the night.

When the ugly time came, everyone got up and used some dry food, and then went to Crouching Tiger Village. In only half a pillar of incense, the manor was easy to reveal its hideous silhouette in the dark, but it really looked like a fierce crouching tiger. The boat docked at a secluded shore, and everyone swooped towards their respective positions according to the plan they had planned.

Gu Haotian, Bian Xiang, and Shi Qian, under the leadership of Duan Jingzhu, touched the outside of a courtyard wall.

"Inside is the place where I hid the haystack that day, the location is very remote, and there is no one to defend during the day, you should be careful." Duan Jingzhu said.

"If you can't do anything, you will withdraw according to the original negotiation route, and if there is a crisis, you will send a signal, and your brothers will answer." Gu Haotian commanded again.

Shi Qian responded, and only a few ups and downs approached the courtyard wall, only to see him take out a hook from his waist and put it on the wall, and he pulled the rope behind him, only a slight move, and then crossed into the courtyard wall, and disappeared into the darkness.