Chapter 374: The Aftermath of Spies

The moon is dark and the wind is high, in an alley in the Chen capital. Lao Zhang, who sells wonton stews, put away his stall, carries his belongings on his shoulders, and walks towards his family's old house with staggering steps.

In spring, the temptation of a bowl of fragrant wonton stew is not as good as winter, and in the first two months, when I met pedestrians at night, Lao Zhang could make them unable to open their legs. They had to get a bowl of hot wontons stewed in front of his stall before they let them leave satisfied.

It's spring, and business is not as good as before. He simply lazy and went home early to sleep.

The wind in the spring night was not pleasant, Lao Zhang hurriedly pushed open the two dilapidated doors, only to hear a creak, the door was easily opened.

"No, I haven't taken out the key yet." Lao Zhang was stunned for a while, then laughed at himself and ignored the matter. When people are old, their memory is not as good as before, and that is a normal thing. Even if someone really took advantage of his absence to enter the house, there was nothing for the thief to steal.

In the room, there was only a table and a stove, and there was a small stool in the corner.

This is all Lao Zhang's belongings except for the wonton stew stall.

The candle is expensive, and it looks strange to light it, and it will cost Lao Zhang several meals to burn it in one night. Lao Zhang touched the darkness and carefully lit the oil lamp, he only took advantage of the faint light of the wick to wash his feet, and then he was reluctant to light the fire again.

"Who is it?" Lao Zhang raised his head suddenly, he was poor and single, and there was no one in the family. But another person appeared in the room, sitting on a small stool in the corner!

Lao Zhang's clay pot on the stool was put on the ground, and after feeling distressed about the only dish, he looked up and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be you, what are you doing here, we can't go back and forth." If it is discovered from above, it will be lost. ”

The guy sitting on the stool was dressed incompatible with Lao Zhang, wrapped in silk, wearing white jade around his waist, and wearing a jade Guanyin half the size of a palm around his neck. His figure is also completely different from Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang lifted a thin layer of clothes, and what he saw was a belly that was still deflated with skin and bones. The man had a round belly like a bucket, and a large mass of fat swayed as soon as he moved.

The guy on the stool was called Li Hu, and he sighed lightly: "You are hiding in this slum, and you don't know what is happening outside." My eyeliner hidden in the government office came out today, saying that more than a dozen families had died inexplicably. Listening to him say the address, I knew that all the piles of my Qingguo Ming had been pulled out. ”

"Thought I wanted to? I can be as fine as you, why should I suffer from it? Lao Zhang complained a few words, and then got down to business: "So what, every time those guys with bright piles are caught, they don't implicate a large number of people." We lived our days in peace. ”

"That year, there were only two of you and me left with the spies sent by Qingguo, and I was really worried about you, so I came to see how you were doing. You wolf-hearted thing, you stab me in and out of your words. ”

"Hmph, who called me unlucky, picked this bullshit identity."

Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk.

The knock on the door was particularly abrupt in the middle of the night, and a cold light flashed in Lao Zhang's eyes, and after glancing at Li Hu, he cautiously walked to the door. The door was very shabby, and when someone knocked on it, the sawdust fell thinly.

Lao Zhang pulled the doorknob, tore open the small crack that only allowed people to look, and said in his usual tone: "Which turtle grandson is it, and you don't let people sleep in the middle of the night?" ”

"Lao Zhang, it's me." The voice was deliberately lowered, but Lao Zhang still heard who it was. He nodded at Li Hu and opened the door.

The person who came was a middle-aged man with pockmarks crawling all over his face. It was this dark night, and I could see the potholes on his face in the moonlight. Lao Zhang pulled his sleeve, pulled him into the house, and scolded angrily: "Why did you come in the middle of the night." ”

"Also?" Wang Mazi took a look in the room, and Li Hu's huge body certainly entered his sight. He snorted coldly and said angrily: "Isn't this Li Hu, he is about to become a Li pig." ”

Li Hu didn't dare to be angry with a smile, he knew that in order to protect himself over the years, even if he was developed, he didn't want to give others a good life. This is what he owes, and it is not easy to return the favor when he is scolded.

Wang Mazi was a person from the Ming pile, and Li Hu asked with some surprise: "You didn't encounter anything?" ”

Wang Mazi's face changed: "If I hadn't encountered anything, how could I venture to knock on Lao Zhang's door in the middle of the night." The other night, a bunch of men in black poured into my house. If I hadn't slept deep and jumped out of the window, I'm afraid I would have been a corpse by this time. became a dead man who was hotly discussed in the city. ”

"It's good to get away with it." Lao Zhang's face was a little embarrassed, these two turtle bastards only thought of him at this juncture involving life and death, and they came to take refuge.

Li Hu patted the dust on his buttocks, the stool was very dirty, he took out two ingots of silver from the money bag on his waist and put them in the hands of the other two. Then he said: "Maybe this time the Chen Guoguan Mansion has already mastered our whereabouts, if it really comes to the time when we need to escape, it will be easy to do things with a little money in our pockets." ”

After a lot of things in the three-person room, of course you will not be polite at this time, so you will take the silver and put it in your pocket. Lao Zhang's face softened a little, extinguished the lamp oil on the table, and spoke in the dark: "It's better to be cautious, Li Hu hasn't been discovered yet, so don't come here in the future." As for Wang Mazi, you can only stay in the house in the future, you are not allowed to light the lights when it is dark, and you can't be seen by people at the window when it is dawn. ”

Li Hu nodded, but Wang Mazi was gloomy and did not speak. Staying in this dilapidated house for a whole day, and there was not even a light at night, Wang Mazi had already experienced such things, and he was still afraid when he heard it.

It's a pity that between life and death, he can't give up if he can't be afraid. He finally nodded.

"You say, will Chen Guoren already find us, just hide and ......" Li Hu couldn't help but say this before going out. He now has a lot of money, and he is thriving at the bottom of Chen Du, as long as he is not targeted by high-ranking officials and nobles, he will live a good life.

Lao Zhang didn't answer, but Wang Mazi replied in a rather unkind tone: "You think I brought people here?" ”

"I didn't say you brought it in."

"I think you recruited people when you declared that you were outside, don't covet a good life in Chen Guo. Our butts are not clean, as long as we poke your identity out, you don't want to leave any of your good days. ”、

"I see you ate gunpowder." 、

Lao Zhang didn't say anything with a calm face, everyone's expressions in the dark couldn't be seen clearly, and he could only tell what everyone was thinking by his tone. Now it's clear that everyone is angry. Together with himself.