The man who broke in was Shi Qian, and he got off the boat first earlier, because he was worried that he would walk with Gu Haotian and them, and if he was bumped into by the Zhao family, it would affect his next step. When he arrived in the city, he made an appointment with Zhao Jie through an informant to meet tomorrow night, so he went to the guest house to meet Gu Haotian as agreed, but he didn't expect to see Duan Jingzhu and Gu Haotian sitting together and chatting.

At this time, Qian and Duan Jingzhu can also be regarded as peers, they have heard of each other before, and some time ago, the two of them were doing business on the underworld in Jeju City, and they had an intersection, and it was also because of the same interests, and the two became brothers who talked about everything when they got along.

"Brother Shiqian, I haven't seen you for ten days, but where did you go to get rich." When Duan Jingzhu saw Shi Qian in, he hurriedly stood up to greet him.

"Recently, I have indeed made a windfall, and my brother may no longer have to worry about his livelihood in this life, but what my brother is doing here today." Shi Qian replied, and sat down by himself.

Duan Jingzhu sat down regardless of Shi Qian, and was very embarrassed for a while.

"Please forgive me, this is my brother's time, and he is also a reckless person."

Gu Haotian nodded, but he smiled silently.

Duan Jingzhu turned back to Shi Qian and said: "It's good to teach my brother to know, and it's also a chance that I met this official, who is talking about the sale of horses." ”

"This is really a great fate for our brothers, the day before yesterday, my brother made a windfall on this official, but I didn't expect you to do business with this official today." After Shi Qian finished speaking, he couldn't help laughing.

Bian Xiang and the others in the neighboring seats also laughed out loud, and Gu Haotian couldn't help but laugh, only confusing Duan Jingzhu alone.

"It's hard not to teach your brother, this is the ancient petty official known as the jade-faced Meng Wei." Shi Qian introduced.

"It's the little official of Gujiazhuang!" Duan Jingzhu was taken aback.

"It's not fake."

"It's really a shame to have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, it's really a blasphemy to the nobles." Duan Jingzhu hurriedly got up and bowed down, blindly making amends.

"You and I meet in the water, why are you presumptuous, but as the brothers of Shiqian said, it is all due to fate, and I am also happy in my heart."

Gu Haotian stepped forward to help him up, thinking in his heart that now he was like Song Jiang, and some people bowed their heads and worshipped. He turned around and introduced Bian Xiang and Xiao Rang. Everyone sat down at a table, and then asked the store to serve wine and food, and it was lively to push the cup and change the cup to eat for a while.

After the meal, Gu Haotian only called Zhu Fu and Xiao Rang, and listened to Shi Qian and Duan Jingzhu talk about the Zhao family. It's also simple to move the time, just make an appointment with Zhao Jie to meet tomorrow night, and wait for the orders here, and then see the opportunity to act.

And what Duan Jingzhu said was exactly what Gu Haotian was thinking in his heart. It turned out that the shop set up by the Zhao family in the livestock market was the last one Gu Haotian and they went to in the afternoon, but its role was not to do business, but only as the Zhao family's eyeliner, monitoring the trading of other shops in the market, and doing the business of bullying and dominating the market. The real horse trade is somewhere else, managed by Zhao Jie's nephew Zhao Cai, and only the acquaintance can buy one or two.

"In this way, the Zhao family's horse trading is not very good." Xiao Rang felt that the Zhao family's business did not seem to be very big.

"Hehe," Duan Jingzhu sneered twice, "Xiu Caixiu was deceived, but the Zhao family's real big deal is not in Jeju City, there is a mountain pass town twenty miles east of the city, the Zhao family has a manor there, and the Zhao family's horses are all raised there. ”

"It stands to reason that the horses of the Zhao family are also unknown, so they are bold." Gu Haotian was a little puzzled.

"The petty officials don't know, the Zhao family is vigilant, and the guests are like the petty officials in the afternoon, most of the time he doesn't do it, but his Zhao family has been buying and selling horses for more than ten years, and I don't know how many sellers he has accumulated, yamen, military, wealthy families, and mountain bandits, as long as there is no profiteering, he doesn't dare to do it."

"Then where is the Zhao family's manor located, and what joints do you have to pass through to get a horse, can Brother Duan know?"

"Hey, hey!" Duan Jingzhu sneered twice, "The Zhao family's manor can walk in even with my eyes closed, but I don't know what kind of joints it is, I usually only know that it was Zhao Jie and Zhao Cai." ”

Looking at Duan Jingzhu's confident appearance, Gu Haotian secretly thought, this guy seems to have come to that place to do some business.

"I want to explore the Zhao family's manor in Yamaguchi Town tomorrow, I wonder if Brother Duan can go with me?"

"What the petty officials use is the honor of the next, just tell them and never dare to say anything." Duan Jingzhu was full of promises.

Yamaguchi Town is located on the edge of the official road from Jeju to Rencheng, and it is also a prosperous market town, and the Zhao family manor is surrounded by a hill outside the town, after all, it is a place to raise horses, so there is some distance from the town, and there are no houses around.

That night, Gu Haotian, Bian Xiang, and Zhou Yunqing were led by Duan Jingzhu, going up the mountain from the back of the small mountain bag, and they arrived on the hillside of the manor. The side of the mountain is the horse farm, the horse farm is surrounded by a high wall, there are watchtowers all around, under the long horse shed on both sides of the wall, the shadows are full of horses, Gu Haotian visually inspected, no less than 100 horses, and a large black pressure house in front should be a place to live.

The precautions of the Zhao family manor are very close, and if you want to take it by force, you must not be able to. Fortunately, Gu Haotian had expected this layer for a long time, so he didn't think about it at all.

"Brother Duan, there are so many good horses that can only be hidden, I am really itchy, I don't know if I can go over and have a look." Zhou Yunqingan couldn't hold back, so he begged.

Gu Haotian also wondered, this horse farm was so tightly guarded, how did Duan Jingzhu usually have no business.

"Brother Yunqing come with me, and take a look at the means below."

Duan Jingzhu was very proud, and as he spoke, he took Zhou Yun and touched a corner door in the Qing Dynasty. When he got there, he heard the wild cat bark a few times, and someone opened the door and led him in.

It turned out that it was the cooperation of the thief, and Gu Haotian suddenly realized.

After a while, the two came back quietly, and Zhou Yunqing excitedly requested: "Senior brother, they are all good Hequ horses, and I have counted more than one hundred and fifty horses, and I will definitely get some for the cavalry." ”

"This is not the place to talk, let's go back first." After that, the four of them withdrew from the Zhao family manor.

Let's say that when Gu Haotian and his entourage visited the Zhao family's manor at night, Shi Qian also met with Zhao Jie, the Zhao family's housekeeper, in a teahouse. Zhao Jie is a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a round face and thin eyes, and he can't see any joy or anger.

"When you are a strong man, you can have an eyebrow for what you entrust." Zhao Jie asked unhurriedly.

"I am a trustworthy person, since I have accepted the trust of the housekeeper, I naturally try my best to do it, but the process is extremely thrilling, and I almost took my life, but it is not worth it for the five hundred taels of silver." Although the time change is exaggerated, it is also a bit true.

"There is such a thing, the wine shop is not the Longtan Tiger's Den." That Zhao Jie didn't seem to believe it.

"Although it is not enough, but it is almost the same, the ancient family regards this wine-making recipe as if it were their life, and hires many people from the rivers and lakes to guard it, and they are profitable."

"The winemaker brought it?" Zhao Jie is most concerned about this matter.

"I have brought it, otherwise I would have the face to sit opposite the butler and speak." Shi Qian is full of complacency.

"Where are the people, hurry up and bring them to meet me."

As soon as Zhao Jie heard that someone had brought him, he was impatient.

"Don't be anxious, isn't this price unsaid?"

"The price promised by the Zhao family will not be reversed, but who knows the true identity of that person." Zhao Jie is worthy of the old fox.

"I had already expected this floor, so when I brought people, I brought the new three boxes of more than ten bottles of 'fairy drunk'."

Shi Qian smiled smugly.

"'Immortal drunk' is something Zhao Steward naturally knows, even with the Zhao family's ability, he can't ask for a few bottles, this thing is a witness, it's always okay."

"In that case, we will meet here tomorrow night, and I will pay the remaining seven hundred and fifty taels of silver, and you will bring the wine." Zhao Jie heard that he had more than ten bottles of wine, and he believed most of it in his heart.

"Steward Zhao is not interesting enough, I didn't know much before, but now I understand it tightly, this wine-making talent is a treasure, if the Zhao family gets it, how many thousands of dollars a year, just a thousand taels of silver want to send me away." Shi Qian said jokingly.

"What do you think?"

"I don't want the silver, the Zhao family is a horse trader, and there is a brother on the road south of me who urgently needs a batch of good horses, so he will pay twenty good horses." The time moved out of the way.

"Horses can't, and the price may be negotiable." Zhao Jie replied in one bite.

"Then there is no need to talk about it, there must be no shortage of buyers for this winemaker." The move is about to go.

"When the strong man is a little restless, everything is easy to discuss, but many horses need to be accepted by the master of the family, and he cannot be the master of the house." Zhao Jie hurriedly called Shi Qian to stop.

"That being the case, I will hear you here tomorrow at this time." Shi Qian said goodbye.

It wasn't until the beginning of the Yin period that Gu Haotian and his entourage returned to the inn, but found that everyone was waiting without sleeping. Gu Haotian listened to Shi Qian's reply, and he was sure that the Zhao family would not give up the fat meat that reached his mouth. After thinking about it for a while, he wrote a letter to Ruan Xiaoqi, asking him to return to Liangshan immediately and hand it over to Mr. Yu Wen in the morning, and then instructed Shi Qian to wait until the golden rooster reported that everyone would go their separate ways.

The next night, when Qian met with Zhao Jie again, Zhao Jie took out an envelope from his arms and put it on the table.

"This is the token of the Zhao family's horse, and the strong man can bring people."

Shi Qian picked up the envelope and took out a document from it, but he didn't know a few big characters and couldn't see why.

The housekeeper smiled, I am a rude person and illiterate, not the heart of a villain, I need to find someone to check it, I can rest assured. But today, I also brought the three boxes of 'fairy drunk' and used them as collateral. ”

It is true that he is illiterate, but bringing back the documents is an important part of Gu Haotian's strategy.

"It doesn't matter, when will you hand it over." That Zhao Jie had an expression of "I know so", but he didn't seem to be careful at all when he relied on the documents to pick up the horse and leave.

"Tomorrow - the day after tomorrow, we will meet here the day after tomorrow." Shi Qian lowered his head and pondered for a while, and replied.

"How long."

"That person is not in Jeju City, and it will take some trouble to cover up and get it out of the city." Shi Qian smiled slyly.

Zhao Jie was helpless, so he had no choice but to respond. So they took what they needed and went away.