The night wind was bitter and the frost was thick to the bone, and a bowl of water could freeze into ice lumps on the windowsill in the house, and the half-thick porcelain bowl could be blown open by the crack in the width of the needle's nose. The master who didn't live long put the remaining half of the bucket of water in the yard, and when he got up in the morning, he could only see a piece of chopping wood - the wire of the hoop bucket was frozen to half an inch long, where could the bucket still be clamped?

In such weather, those who got into the dung heap to hide from the wind on the street could be frozen into lying down, not to mention the leopard and Han Liangpin who were lying on the roof for half a night?

Pulling out his numb fingers from the gloves with rabbit fur, Xiang Youbao reached out and took out two black pills from the pouch on his waist, threw one into his mouth first, and then handed the remaining pill to Han Liangpin, who was lying beside him: "Master Han, this is something I touched from my main gate of the fire, and I can withstand the cold air of this night after eating it, can you try it?"

Listening to Xiang Youbao's slightly shivering voice, Han Liangpin shook his head slightly: "Xiang Ye has received this intention, but tonight this big drama has just started the gong, and now you have to rely on external objects to keep out the cold, and when you really can't stand it in the middle of the night, I'm afraid there will be no things to rely on!"

is not reluctant to Han Liangpin, Xiang Youbao put the black pill back into his bag, and looked at Han Liangpin lying beside him very curiously: "Master Han, I have a lot of questions for you here, I see that you are not much more dressed than me, but you can't see the cold appearance at all?" Are you relying on the kung fu handed down by Ah Punye, or is there some side doorway?"

Listening to the lower and lower screams coming from the backyard of the Ju Society, Han Liangpin didn't hide it, and said to Xiang Youbao very happily: "Xiangye, in fact, it's not unusual for this door to be opened. You don't see me wearing as much as you do. But I have two clothes on me, inside and outside, and the inside is a leather sleeve, and when I wear it, I have to drill through the opening in my waist; There are two pairs of shoes inside and outside, a pair of soft shoes made of lamb's wool inside, and soft leather boots for the aisle on the outside. If you tie an extra belt around your waist to cover the wind, even if it is cold, the two hot breaths in your heart and stomach will not dissipate! ”

Look at the appearance of the leopard who suddenly realized. Han Liangpin simply poured a bamboo tube like beans and said clearly: "Xiangye, when you saw me lying on this roof, my arms and legs never rested steadily, and they were always twisting and shaking?"

Without waiting for Han Liangpin to say more, Xiang Youbao had already snatched the conversation: "Master Han, I am thinking about the number of ways you can move your arms and legs. It is to let the blood flow smoothly, so that the heat on the hands and feet can not be dissipated? If you really want to start with someone immediately, then your hands and feet will be three points more active than others?"

Slightly stunned, Han Liangpin turned his head to look at Xiang Youbao lying beside him: "Originally, I only knew that Xiangye, you had two strokes on hand, but I didn't expect you to have such a delicate heart?" Xiangye, I also ask you here. How can you be so sure that the pigeons in the Chrysanthemum Society are just a cover?"

Very sly, he bared his teeth and was happy, and the leopard stared at the figure that stumbled in the alley in the direction of the Jushe shop, and suppressed his voice and laughed lowly: "Master Han, it's not worth it if I talk about it." Think about it, in the pigeon building in the backyard of the Jushe, the one that takes out the wings every day is not the ** pigeon that can't fly far at all, or the night pigeon that can only fly out seven or eight hundred miles a day. You receive a note from your master every seven days. Converted into half of the day, the pigeon had to fly for three days and four nights that night. Then according to such calculations, your master must not be saved by these guys from the Ju Society?"

With round eyes, Han Liangpin shouted in surprise: "Just by virtue of this, Xiangye, you dare to say"

Stretched out his hand and patted Han Liangpin on the shoulder, as if he didn't see Han Liangpin's surprised appearance at all, but said to himself: "As for the trick in my Huozheng Gate, he was also a sneaker master in Sijiu City back then, so he went out of the mouth to avoid trouble." Over the years, I have really met a lot of friends outside the mouth, and I understand a little bit of the doorway. After you go to the main gate of my fire to do this. The trickster in the main gate of my fire was not idle, and sprinkled dozens of flying leaves on the ground's eyeliner with friends from all walks of life outside the mouth who were resting in the Sijiu City, and scanned all the way to hear what secret kilns could hide people and hoard goods within a hundred miles outside the city."

Still with his eyes open, Han Liangpin interrupted Xiang Youbao's words a little nervously: "That trick in your door, how did he know about the hidden kiln of the Tibetans and hoarders in the Ju Society." It's a hundred miles around Sijiu City?"

looked at Han Liangpin in surprise, but suddenly realized in a moment, Xiang Youbao shook his head helplessly: "Master Han, dare to love your master is the only meal he eats in his life, and he can't look down on someone to help him at all?" In terms of business scenes, rivers and lakes, and the rules of the army, it has always been that the kiln is no more than 100 miles, and the aid is not nearly 30, has your master not told you this carefully?"

Nodding stunnedly, Han Liangpin didn't care about his timidity, but said to Xiang Youbao seriously: "Xiangye, do you advise?"

didn't dare to answer Han Liangpin's words of begging for his own advice, Xiang Youbao moved his arm with great effort, and arched his hand towards Han Liangpin sideways: "Master Han, if you don't dislike me, I have a leopard and climb high, let's just talk about it, and the word advice, that is absolutely unaffordable."

Seeing Han Liangpin's busy nodding appearance, Xiang Youbao lay on the roof again, and whispered to Han Liangpin about the number of rules and roads that this kiln is only a hundred miles away and cannot be nearly thirty.

On the northern borders, whether merchants, bandits, or soldiers, any large number of men and horses marched, and in one day they ran wildly, and the left was only eighty miles away. If you rush forward regardless of it, the damage to the mule and horse's foot strength is still secondary, and it is even more difficult to support it in manpower. It's not good to make a mistake and can't find a suitable place to camp in the territory, and in the middle of the night, it is attacked by the enemy again, and the people are sleepy and tired, and they have lost three points before the battle!

Therefore, the distance between the two kilns is rarely more than 100 miles, but all the merchants, bandits, and soldiers who can camp in advance, prepare for the night, hoard goods, and supply the kiln mouth.

And some know that the road is dangerous. But the merchants, bandits, soldiers, etc., who had to walk on the road, the distance between the two groups of men and horses would not be less than thirty miles.

It was too close, firstly, because it was afraid that it would leak the rumors of reinforcements behind him, and secondly, he was also afraid that the opponent would be overwhelmed, so he simply took the reinforcements behind him.

It's too far apart. There is really a mistake and two mistakes, when the reinforcements behind are in a hurry, I am afraid that the front team has been annihilated by the enemy, and I am even more afraid that they will be stopped and intercepted on the way to help, and the rescue will not be successful, but it will harm itself!

Although Jushe is not a serious businessman at all. But after all, both openly and secretly have to walk some black and white goods towards Sijiu City, and the secret kiln set up outside the city naturally has to be arranged according to this rule. Since there is a ready-made secret kiln, it is naturally easy to hide one or two meat tickets in such a place, so why bother to set up another kiln for no reason?

Listening to the leopard and counting the reasons, Han Liangpin nodded frequently when he heard it. But I still have doubts in my heart. It just so happened that at the moment when Han Liangpin was a little unstable in his mind, seven or eight high-headed horses with straw and thick cloth wrapped in their hooves had already asked a few well-dressed Jushe guys to pull them out of the hustle and bustle next to the shop of Jushe.

Stretched out his hand and pointed at the guys from the Chrysanthemum Society who were leading the tall horses, and there was a little more confidence in Xiang Youbao's voice: "Have you seen it?" Just staring at you, the Ju Society guys rushed back from the village outside the city, and it was less than a cigarette roll, and these guys from the Ju Society had already taken out this posture + master who was going out of the city. We're all here now, waiting for them outside the city gate?"

Looking at a few Jushe guys who were leading the horses and piling up towards the city gate, Han Liangpin nodded slightly: "Listen to you!"

At the feet of the Son of Heaven and in the city of Forty-Nine, the curfew and night patrol are continuous all year round. In the year and month of the Qing Dynasty, after the dusk drum sounded at three o'clock on the first watch, until the morning bell rang at three o'clock on the fifth watch, the fence was immediately erected at the intersection of the street, not to mention that the city gate was closed tightly! In addition to sickness, childbirth, death and bereavement, the idlers who were still hanging on the street were caught with forty boards. After the second, third, and fourth watches, ten more boards will be added, and they will be beaten on the street, and they will only be owed!

Although it is now the year of the Republic of China, there is still a rule of night patrol in Sijiu City. The patrol police walking on the street are really merciless when they catch people who make loud noises, disturb people's households, abuse the lights, and do not return for a long time, and have red and white water and fire sticks in their hands. If you hug your head and cover the top, you have to open it to eat meat.

Because of such rules, although the drunken tricks of the Jushe who led the horses walked fast under their feet one by one, no one dared to gallop horses at night in Sijiu City. If you meet those patrolmen patrolling the streets with their hands behind their backs, you will have to step forward and put on a good look, so that you can continue to hurry along the road towards the city gate.

On the contrary, he came to the Leopard of Sijiu City for many days, leading Han Liangpin to rush along the alleys that turned around in some twists, and the black city wall near the city gate was already in sight, which was really much faster than the guys in the Jushe who were leading the horses to hurry.

Looking up and down at the swarthy and towering city wall, Han Liangpin was really unambiguous, and reached out to find a circle of leather ropes and a few twisted iron branches from the family bag pinned to his waist, and twisted out an anchor hook to climb the city in three or two clicks, and then turned his head and whispered to Xiang Youbao: "Xiangye, I'll go up and take a look at the wind first, and ask you to take care of the scene for me below?"

Towards Han Liangpin, who was eager to try, he bared his teeth and was happy, but Xiang Youbao reached out and took out a few pieces of ocean from his arms and shook them towards Han Liangpin: "Master Han, do you know that sentence - money can make ghosts grind?"

Without waiting for Han Liangpin to promise himself, Xiang Youbao had already swayed those pieces of ocean in his palm, and shouted at a slightly lit grass shed under the city wall with a slight fire at the base of the city wall: "Men who look at Dao'er, there is a business to the door, will it open today?"

As soon as the words fell, from the grass shed that was slightly lit with firelight, there was already an oily and smooth voice: "The weather is cold, the night is deeper, at this time, you want to make a big deal and make a windfall?"

With the sound of the oily tone, from the pitch-black alley near the root of the city wall, a few black shadows with short knives and knives in their hands quietly came out, and surrounded Xiang Youbao and Han Liangpin with ease.

With a slight wave of his hand, Xiang Youbao stopped Han Liangpin's move of reaching out to touch his belongings from his waist, but instead whispered to the grass shed under the city wall: "Seek profit and make the poor rich, but the left is just to find a meal according to the rules of the scene, and it is convenient for you to reward it?"

Hehe smiled strangely, and the person staying in the grass shed still had that oily and smooth voice: "Is it really a person who understands the rules?" Is it a good person, is it a good deal? Is it a single out, a double in?"

Throwing a few pieces of ocean in his hand to the ground, Xiang Youbao responded in a steady voice: "Thank you, two people alone, empty-handed borrowing!"

Seeing that Xiang Youbao threw the ocean to the ground, and surrounded the several figures of Xiang Youbao and Han Liangpin, a thin figure with a small handbag in his hand stepped forward, neatly picked up a few pieces of the ocean that Xiang Youbao threw on the ground and checked them one by one, and then turned his head and whistled lightly towards the grass shed.

At the beginning of the whistle, the oily and smooth voice in the grass shed suddenly sounded lazily: "Cut the cake!"

Slightly arching his hand towards the grass shed, Xiang Youbao gently dragged Han Liangpin, who hadn't figured out what was going on, turned his head and strode towards the city gate. And the black shadows that surrounded the leopard and Han Liangpin also disappeared into the dark alley again like ghosts.

Walking quickly beside Xiang Youbao, Han Liangpin asked Xiang Youbao in a low voice in confusion: "Xiangye, what kind of road is this?"

There was wind under his feet, and the leopard walked very fast, and he didn't delay responding to Han Liangpin's question: "In these city gates inside and outside the city, the military police and tax collectors who guard the gates are all taking advantage of the night to quietly let people in. After a long time, I slowly made up a rule. As long as it is a character who wants to go out of the city at night, looking for a straw shed near the city gate to spend money to buy an incision to enter and exit the city gate, it will naturally be unimpeded. Han Ye, we are afraid that we will have to spend a lot of energy for a while, it is good to be able to accumulate a little spirit at this time, we have to spend this money! ”

With a little hesitation, Han Liangpin took a few steps, but he whispered to Xiang Youbao again: "Xiangye, we originally talked about it, but I just asked you in the main gate of the fire to help me find a place for my master." But now after this face out of the city, I'm afraid that I really can't leave you to guide you, there is a sentence I have to say in the head! If you want to get my master out of the hands of the people in the Ju Society, I'm afraid that I will inevitably have to see blood, and if I don't make trouble, I will have to put a few lives in it! You"

Looking at the shadowy lights at the city gate, Xiang You's leopard head smiled and said without looking back, "Master Han, what do you want to say?"

"Xiangye, if this matter gets involved and puts some troublesome things on the main gate of the fire, then I really can't help you, and I don't respect all the gentlemen in the main gate!"

"Master Han, you are righteous and open-minded, I shouldn't hide it from you here anymore - just before I made an appointment with you about the bullfighting scene, I wanted to make those tricks in the Ju Society kill me! This matter today, not only did you save your master, but there is also a story about me repaying the report+ Master, do you want to feel that this person with my surname is still successful, and we will take care of these two things side by side tonight?"

"Xiangye, I won't say anything on the side, the surname Han has recognized you as a friend! Don't say, side by side! ”