Ningyuan City is not a city due south and north, but slightly biased to the northwest; The road from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan comes from the northeast along the coast, and turns west on the north bank of a small river south of Ningyuan City; After walking out of about 10 miles, it arrived at the south gate of Ningyuan City, and then turned southwest to reach Shanhaiguan.

The wharf of Ningyuan City was built at the mouth of the small river - seven years before the Apocalypse, Ningyuan's materials were hoarded on Juehua Island, which was more than ten miles away from the mainland in the south. Since then, the foreign materials have been changed to the mouth of the small river to get off the boat, and then transferred into Ningyuan City.

At this moment, the "Golden Phoenix" was the first and the three lucky boats behind it were lined up along the north bank of the river, carrying grain bags with nets and putting them on the wharf -- Chu Fan's ships were too tall and the wooden plank road at the wharf was too low, so they could only transport grain down in this way.

On the wharf, Chu Fan was holding the document issued by the Yamen of Dengzhou Bingbei Road, and was checking the numbers with a small official in charge of Ningqian Bingbei Road.

Doudou and his personal guards stood in a half-circle seemingly casually, vigilantly looking at the husbands and servants who shouted the trumpet and carried the food packs, although they were not wearing armor, they were all wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket, carrying a long Lumi gun on their backs, waist knives and grenades hanging from their waists, and each of them had a crossbow; A little farther away, Zhu Zi was directing the three squads of the armor sentry, who were also wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, to disembark one after another.

After checking the numbers, Chu Fan smiled at the little official and asked, "Don't dare to ask this little brother, do you know Master Sun next to Yuan Dashuai?" As he spoke, his sleeves flicked, and a silver horn weighing two coins fell into the palm of the little official.

The little official slapped his silver horn and returned with a smile that he couldn't see his teeth, "Lord Sun? Isn't it Sun Chuyang, Lord Sun? ”

Chu Fan hurriedly nodded and said, "Exactly!" I wonder if he's in the city? ”

The little official shook his head and said, "I really don't know about this." I'm afraid I'll have to ask Ambassador Cang. ”

Chu Fan let out an "oh" and continued to ask, "May I ask where Ambassador Cang is?" ”

The little official pointed to a large temporary warehouse on the opposite side of the northwest-facing avenue that was surrounded by wooden planks and covered with a straw cover, "Our ambassador is in the bookstore at the end of the warehouse on weekdays, so he must be there today." ”

Chu Fan looked in the direction of his finger, but saw that the bookstore was far away from the other end of the warehouse. More than a mile from here, there was a brick courtyard, right on the edge of the avenue; Further southwest along the avenue, about a mile and a half away, is a slightly raised hill, beyond the small hill, you can just see a trace of the eaves of the city tower of Ningyuan City.

After Chu Fan said a word of annoyance to the little official, he turned around and walked towards the office - he was going to find the ambassador of Nacang and ask him about his senior brother's whereabouts.

With Doudou and them, they walked for about ten minutes. Chu Fan finally came to the courtyard where Ambassador Nacang was, he asked Doudou and them to wait outside the courtyard, and he stepped into the courtyard gate.

Ambassador Cang happened to be there, and Chu Fan had just exchanged a few words with him, when he heard the courtyard door slammed open, Doudou broke in, and shouted loudly, "Childe is not good." The rebels are coming! ”

Chu Fan's heart tightened, and he rushed out of the door with an arrow step. When I looked at the small hill, I felt that the blood all over my body was congealed!

I saw that the hills were full of people, waving all kinds of weapons and rushing all over the mountains!

And behind the hills, there is a steady stream of human heads, pouring out layer by layer!

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At the same time, Ushijima.

In the depression at the foot of the foot of the northern slope of the South Mountain. In a lonely wooden house, Ling Ming was sitting on a small horse, taking a bowl of rice from the hand of a Japanese woman kneeling on the ground, and devouring the three dishes on the small table in front of him.

Needless to say, the woman of the Japanese country is the pigeon trainer sent by Tadashi Abe. His name is Ah Dou.

When Chu Fan left this Ah Dou on Niudao that day, he repeatedly instructed Ling Ming to keep an eye on her and not let her pass any news to the Flower Pavilion.

Needless to say, Ling Ming knew the intention of this Abe Zhongben to send someone, so he was wary of this Ah Dou in every possible way - not to mention that he had someone build this wooden house in the bare depression, he assigned a trustworthy female worker to "accompany" him during the day, and he slept in the outer room of the wooden house by himself at night.

Who knew that after going back and forth, the two of them actually got along - Ling Ming had been to Nagasaki, he could understand some Japanese language, and he could stumble and say a few sentences, and the task of communicating with Ah Dou fell on him; Japanese women are proud to be able to have sex with tall Chinese men, and Ah Dou is naturally vulgar, and it didn't take long for him to "recommend himself to the pillow".

Good is good, Ling Ming can tighten the strings even more - although no matter how you look at Ah Dou, she can't get along with the beauty in the "Beauty Scheme", but Ling Ming is still doubly careful, and on the surface, he and the woman are talking to me and me, but secretly they are watching more closely.

After a month passed like this, Ah Dou probably figured out that he planned to follow Ling Ming with all his heart, so he explained all the tasks that Abe Tadashi had given to the three of them before coming on the pillow.

Sure enough, as Chu Fan expected, the purpose of these three pigeon training girls was to roll cigarettes for the fairy grass and the recipe for the black powder!

Although they don't know kanji, what Abe Tadashi asked them to do is to pay more attention to the goods in and out of Ushijima, especially the goods entering Ushijima, and look for clues in them; Of course, the letters that passed through their hands had to be transcribed one by one and sent to the Hanamakan at the same time.

Ah Dou told Ling Ming that after he came to Niudao, there were people by his side almost all the time, let alone inspecting the goods in Niudao, and he couldn't even transcribe letters!

However, she also confessed to Ling Ming, although she couldn't do it, Cheng Shanwei's companion didn't pull down a single one, and all the transcripts were sent to the Flower Pavilion through her.

In the end, she assured Ling Ming that she had changed her past mistakes and promised to live with Ling Ming wholeheartedly in the future, and would never have anything to do with the Flower Pavilion again.

She was saying, but Ling Ming was snickering in his heart, not only proud of his strict defense, but also impressed by the magical password of the son - the letter was full of numbers, it was strange to see that he Abe Zhong didn't catch the blind!

However, for the sake of insurance, on the one hand, Ling Ming wrote the details of the pigeon training girl into a secret letter to report to Gongzi, and on the other hand, he asked Ah Dou to remain silent and continue to transfer the letter transcribed by Cheng Shanwei's pigeon training girl to the Flower Pavilion.

After observing Ah Dou for a while, Ling Ming was a little convinced that she was sincere to herself: in order to avoid suspicion, this Ah Dou would never go out if she didn't go out; On weekdays, I worked hard to learn Chinese when I had nothing to do, and now I can have a weird tone for daily conversations; What's even more rare is to take the initiative to ask Ling Ming to choose three from the female workers, teach them the method of raising pigeons and training pigeons, according to her, once these three apprentices are out of the school, she will no longer touch the carrier pigeons, and serve Ling Ming with peace of mind.

Looking at the woman's lowered eyelids at this moment, Ling Ming couldn't help but sigh in his heart: God is pitiful, I hope this Ah Dou is sincere, he is not confused when he is old, and he should find a new woman and continue the Ling family's incense.

"Tom~~!"

Just as he was thinking about it, a low cannon sound came from the north, Ling Ming was startled, threw down his rice bowl and rushed out of the door, and ran into a brother left behind in the north fort, sweating profusely, and shouting.

"Ling Tou'er! Pirate! Pirates are coming! (To be continued.) )