Chapter 653: Plausible and Witty

When Hu Liang couldn't sleep over and over, .

After they got on the boat from Huliang, they began to follow all the way, by land, along the river, the boat was going downstream, and when the weather was good, they would also raise the sails, which was not only easy, but also fast.

But the person they follow is riding a horse, and the person can go a long time without eating, or eat and drink on horseback, and if the riding skills are good enough, sleeping on horseback is not a problem.

But as horses are concerned, they can't bear it, and sleeping standing up and driving are two different things, and after a day of running with the boat, the horses only rest for more than half an hour.

At night, it was evident that the horses could not bear it, and the small procession of seven men, ostensibly merchants, with horses and carriages, was covered with something inconspicuous to outsiders, and was covered with cloth.

When the half moon climbed high, finally a horse could not stand it anymore, and when it was not very fast, but without much rest, it fell down foaming at the mouth, and after a 'boom', it could not get up again.

"No, we can't continue to follow, otherwise the horse will die of exhaustion, and we won't think about it." A man who was still riding on horseback just now was lying on the ground at this time, which was much warmer than the capital, not only the weeds showed two inches above the river embankment, but also the nearby trees had sprouted.

The man who spoke happened to be lying on top of the grass, pressing the grass to a great extent, panting, and wondering if he was tired from riding a horse or if he had just been fallen.

"Third brother, it's a sunny day today, it's better for you to get up quickly, so as not to catch a cold, the eighth brother is really, after he got on the ship, he tried to find a way to inquire about the news, and then passed it on to us, until now, I saw him playing with others on the deck, but no news came back, I really don't know what he thinks."

The other said to the man lying on the grass.

The lying man propped up his upper body with his arms, looked at the fleet that was still speeding downstream, and said, "Fifth brother, I think the eighth brother has his own difficulties, didn't he already tell us before he got on the boat?"

Saying that once he has no way to deliver the news, it means that he is not in a good situation, let's be careful, careful, and careful, it is best that the people who follow can rotate the two, don't be targeted, and at the same time don't send telegrams, wait a minute, see if the eighth brother will not send us a message tomorrow, if this is the case, it means that the eighth brother is very dangerous. ”

"Wait, wait, I want to wait, the question is whether the people who sent us are still willing to wait, and when the time comes, we won't be able to complete our mission, and we should be punished when we go back."

The one who was called the fifth brother by the person who was lying down before was not very happy, and seeing that he couldn't catch up, he had to grit his teeth and squeeze the words out of his mouth word by word.

Another person also followed his words and said: "What the fifth brother said is that the eighth brother is not smart enough to do things well, maybe he really forgot, we should send the news back as soon as possible."

Sometimes, the more you feel that it is dangerous, the safer it is, and if you don't spread the news and delay the matter, you and I can't afford to be guilty, and I am in favor of sending a telegram. ”

"What about the others?" A man who didn't speak asked, glancing at the remaining six.

"I'm for it, I'm against it, and I agree with ......." The other six spoke in disagreement.

In the end, there were three in favor of the telegram and three against it, and everything fell to the person who questioned him.

The man paused and said: "Well, in this case, I am also in favor of sending a telegram, the eighth brother is cowardly, saying that the telegram we send is easy for people to intercept, after all, it is the news transmission method of the Tang Dynasty, and people will inevitably strengthen the prevention and review of every telegram."

In the current situation, there is a possibility that we will be exposed, but I don't think it is possible at all, we sent a telegram, and instead of using the kind of words that are very obvious at a glance, we specifically conveyed the prices of various local grains and meat and other products to other places.

Can the people they are responsible for reviewing still have to make a bad judgment about what we are behind every time against the prices we send out? ”

"I agree with the eldest brother's proposal, sending a report, it's better than not being able to keep up with the other party's speed now, whether the eighth brother has encountered a problem, or he forgot to contact us, we must report the matter truthfully."

The fifth old man who spoke just now spoke out in support.

The third brother looked at the second brother, saw that the second brother looked indispensable, sighed, and said: "Four votes to three votes, since this is the case, let's find a place to send a report." ”

The second child, who didn't speak, spoke up at this moment, and proposed: "If we send a telegram, we should go and buy more goods first, so that people can see that we are real businessmen, not spies." ”

With the decision, the seven people also paid attention to the fact that the people who were still walking along the road at night, knocking on the surnames of the roadside people, especially in places like small shops, spent a little more than usual to buy the things that people cultivated and planted, so that the goods in the convoy were a little richer.

Then, without waiting for dawn, immediately find the nearest place where you can send a telegram, usually the place where you can send a telegram is twelve hours without rest, unless you encounter a special situation, otherwise if others have something urgent, it is likely that you will not be able to deliver the news in time.

When the telegram sounded, the seven people could no longer see the fleet of Xiaobei and the others who were heading south along the canal.

******

Those seven people did not rest, but sent a telegram, which caused Zhang Xiaobao to not be able to rest well.

Seeing that it was the middle of the night, Zhang Xiaobao, who was sleeping soundly with Wang Juan in his arms, was woken up by the movement outside the cabin, and opened the cabin door with a random set of clothes, and saw the people in the inner courtyard standing at the door waiting, looking a little anxious.

"Little boy, I have found Hu Liang's accomplices, they sent a report on the price of vegetables to Jiangzhou just half an hour ago this evening, you see."

The inner courtyard spoke and handed the information to Zhang Xiaobao.

Taking it and taking a look, the corners of Zhang Xiaobao's mouth showed a disdainful smile, nodded to the people in the inner courtyard, and said: "Continue to star, dare to play this trick with us, it's really too much to underestimate us, wait for them to continue to send telegrams, you collect it, compare it a few more times, and try to crack the key algorithm." ”

"Yes." The inner courtyard agreed, turned and trotted away.

"Xiaobao, what's wrong? Did they use cipher? Wang Juan also woke up, rubbed his eyes and asked.

"Yes, report the price of vegetables to other places, the idea is good, but it is more stupid, you say that the rice in which place can be sold for seven cents a catty, which is clearly a set of high numbers corresponding to the code.

Now it's okay, the people in Jiangzhou keep up, don't even think about running, even if we can't crack it, we can also follow the vine and find the other party's secret code. ”

Zhang Xiaobao shook the telegram in his hand twice and said to Wang Juan.

Wang Juan listened and lay down again, and muttered: "Don't worry, it's impossible for Jiangzhou to send a price report to the other party tonight, and there are still a few hours of time to arrange, even if the other party finds out that the situation is wrong from the telegram, there is no chance to run away, go to sleep." ”

******

Xiao Bei naturally got the information, and after listening to the analysis of the person in charge of the matter in the inner court, Xiao Bei slept well with the information.

When it was dawn the next day, when Hu Liang was about to freshen up and go to dinner again, yesterday's inner courtyard who led the way came over with a piece of information in his hand and said to Hu Liang: "Hu Gongzi, we received a telegram from someone else last night, oh, it was intercepted.

We hadn't noticed the quotation for vegetables, fruits, and grains at first, but the price of rice was too expensive, and the price of rice was more than three times the normal price.

Some of us joked that the man who sent the telegram had a problem with his head, and where could he find such expensive rice within a thousand miles north and south of the river? If you don't believe me, wouldn't it be interesting to take a look? ”

As he spoke, the inner court handed over the telegram.

Hu Liang didn't wait to read the content of the telegram, only listened to the words of the inner courtyard, and for a moment it was as if he had been hit by a thunderbolt from a sunny day, and the cold pores on his body were all opened, and he felt that the upper and lower parts were cold inside and out.

Mu Ran took the telegram, looked at the contents on it, Hu Liang exhaled softly, his eyes slowly closed, and after a long while, he opened it again and asked, "How did you find out?" ”

"We have a special group of people who are responsible for figuring out encryption and decryption, and the means you use are so simple, we don't have the same effort as you do to deliver the message, we directly pass a group of numbers or letters, and then restore it.

Say, what was the content of the telegram sent by the five of them? I believe you know that no matter who receives the telegram in Jiangzhou, they will not be able to escape our surveillance, and we will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions, and we will be satisfied, and you will still be able to see your family. ”

The inner courtyard explained slightly, looked at Hu Liang's expression, and asked.

Hu Liang nodded in frustration and asked, "You promise to let me go?" So that I can still live a normal life? ”

"As long as your answer is useful to us, nothing is impossible." The inner court made an uncertain guarantee.

"Okay, I said, what is written above is that they found out that my operation failed, and told the people in Jiangzhou not to act rashly, it is best to endure for a while, and when Xiaobei passes, do not make any reaction, hide in the dark, and do not be exposed.

But I estimate that the people of Jiangzhou may not completely listen to the words of the five of them, and they will still send dead soldiers to assassinate Xiaobei, instead of showing no traces, and I can't guess the rest, unless you can come up with new information, I can help analyze it. ”

Hu Liang looked like he had lost his fighting spirit, and after speaking, he squatted there, his eyes looking at the tiny gap between the wood on the deck, and he was stunned.

The inner courtyard nodded and said to him: "Okay, I will report it truthfully, as long as you sincerely repent, there will still be a new life." ”

After speaking, this inner courtyard left, and several other people were responsible for 'protecting' Hu Liang from any 'danger'.

The inner courtyard that got the information found Xiaobei and the others again, shook his head and said: "He still didn't tell the truth, I said that there were five of them in the accomplice, so he followed my words, it seems that the management of this organization is very strict, even if you find the other party's person who receives information in Jiangzhou, you can't find their roots."

Also, I judged that they didn't know that we were going to Jiangzhou, and if there was an ambush, it was probably in Hangzhou, otherwise Hu Liang would not have emphasized the Jiangzhou assassination, and he got the information from the maid in our inner courtyard yesterday and the night before yesterday. ”

Xiaobei's nine children looked at each other, and nodded at the same time very tacitly, and Xiaobei said: "It's fun, it seems that Hu Liang is not an ordinary person, tell my brother and sister, let's speed up and don't give each other too much time to react." ”

After this incident, the speed of Xiaobei's fleet suddenly accelerated, and Hu Liang could no longer hear any useful news from the words of the maid next door, and as a result, he lost sleep again on the third night of the ship.

******

Three days passed as the wind blew and the clouds moved, sometimes fast and sometimes slowly.

Jiangzhou was really as analyzed, the person who received the information did not immediately contact other people, it was a woman, to be precise, an old woman.

She had two houses of her own, and a small yard where seeds had just been planted, and the telegram was sent to her, with a sentence added for her to pass on to her son.

However, the intelligence officers of the Zhang and Wang families were unable to find out her true identity, let alone her son, the only thing recorded was the household registration in the local government, and she was also surnamed Hu.

She has three sons, Hu Da, Hu Er and Hu San, but the household registration does not record anything in her family, so it is difficult to figure out whether her son exists or not, and where.

For three days, the old woman surnamed Hu lived a very regular life, and in the morning when the sky was about to dawn, she would get up and go outside to shake a bucket of water from the well to freshen up, then go outside to eat a bowl of noodles in the soup cake restaurant, and then walk slowly by a small local river.

At noon, she went to another restaurant to eat a bowl of wontons, continued to walk by the river in the afternoon, and in the evening, she found a random food stall on the side of the street, bought two steamed buns, and returned home to eat the pickles she made herself.

In this way, there was no change, and the watchmen never saw her visited, and she never spoke much to anyone, and the only time she could hear her talk was when she was walking by the river, and when she was tired of walking, she sat there against a big tree, muttering inaudible words as she looked at the flowing river.

The news quickly reached Zhang Xiaobao's ship.

After Li Longji saw it, he was confused and asked, "Xiaobao, are you staring at the wrong person?" ”

Zhang Xiaobao chuckled lightly and replied: "If she is not like this, then it is possible to be wrong, she is too regular, but not normal, juanjuan, familiar or not?" ”

"Familiar." Wang Juan heard Zhang Xiaobao ask, nodded and said, "Order, send someone to keep an eye on the tree for me, and go to see it quietly at night, but don't make any noise, and keep all the surrounding houses on my watch." ”