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Xiaofuzi's "Shuntiande" restaurant is a time-honored brand, during the Taiping period, prosperous for many years, although the business has been depressed in recent years, but the fame is still there, and it is one of the few in the city. On this morning, Xiaofuzi and He Yuan walked out of the restaurant and ran to No. 18 Longmen Hutong with large and small food boxes and vegetable baskets.

On the street, there was a scene of cold depression everywhere, Xiaofuzi said to He Yuan: "You see, it is said that it is the golden time for all the shops to do business, but the streets are all dead, so that Zhang Jingyao can't even get involved in the blackmail, and the people don't rebel, there is simply no way to live." ”

Sure enough, as Xiaofuzi said, nearly half of the shops on the side of the street are closed, and most of the doors are open, but there are beggars with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the streets are full of them. He Yuan nodded, "Zhang Jingyao oppresses the people, is insatiable, the people can't survive, as long as we call everyone up, we won't be able to get rid of him." ”

In the Lu family mansion, it was a busy scene, the housekeeper Lu Huai commanded the entourage of the family, busy arranging the banquet, when Xiaofuzi and He Yuan walked in, Lu Huai said suddenly: "Why did you come, it will be a mistake if it is too late." ”

He Yuan stepped forward with a smile and said: "Can't be mistaken, we are afraid of buying defective products, so we ran a little more, the messenger of the Lu Mansion, how dare we slack off." ”

Lu Huai snorted, turned around and led them into the house, He Yuan leaned up and asked, "Housekeeper, what kind of guests are you going to invite to the house today?" ”

"The person sent by the president ......" Lu Huai said half a sentence proudly, and suddenly stopped, "How do I know, don't be nosy." ”

After delivering the goods and settling the payment, Lu Huai urged the two to leave. He Yuan and Xiao Fuzi walked into the yard, turned a corner, and quietly walked to the backyard while the housekeeper Lu Huai was not paying attention, who knew that Lu Huai turned around and shouted: "Hey, Xiao Fuzi, where are you two going?" ”

He Yuan covered his stomach with his hands, frowned and said, "Steward Lu, I want to make a fuss about my stomach, and I have to go to the toilet." ”

"It's so lazy, there's a lot of and urine on the donkey."

He Yuan and Xiao Fuzi went to the latrine, stayed for a while, saw that no one was paying attention outside, and then quietly walked to the backyard, there were many rooms in the Lu Mansion, although Xiao Fuzi had been here a few times, but he didn't know where the house where they entertained the "VIPs" was, so he had to walk forward and observe. After passing through the courtyard, I didn't find any signs of "guests", only a few people were busy.

On the left side, a moon gate, revealing a garden view, autumn flowers and plants are flourishing, a piece of flowers and willow green from a distance, He Yuan walked over, looked into the garden, only to see a few figures, wandering on the path in the garden.

These people, two of them were wearing military uniforms, and the other few were wearing civilian clothes, they were admiring the flowers and plants and talking and laughing, He Yuan was overjoyed, he was afraid that those people would see him, so he quickly hid behind the wall of the Moon Gate.

One of the people in military uniforms, talked and laughed a few words, turned around, and turned his head to this side, although it was not close, but the morning sun shone past, and he could see it quite clearly, He Yuan couldn't help but be taken aback, this person's appearance was the guy who chased him in the medicine king outside the city.

"It turns out that those people are Lu Daya's VIPs." He Yuan quickly calculated in his heart, he retracted his head, signaled to Xiao Fuzi who was looking at the wind behind him, and the two quickly turned around and walked out. As soon as he turned to the front yard, unfortunately, he met the housekeeper Lu Huai, glared at the two of them and said, "Why haven't you left yet?" ”

He Yuan piled up a bitter face, "Housekeeper, my stomach just came out of the toilet and ran in, I pulled it twice in a while, is there any Langzhong in our house." ”

"No, let's get out." Lu Huai said impatiently.

The two of them walked out of the Lu Mansion, walked through two streets, and came to the King of Artifacts antique store.

According to He Yuan's plan, Hu Xuan had already come here to "work", and when he arrived here in the morning, Boss Cai was overjoyed, "Brother, you are here." ”

It turned out that in the past few months, Boss Cai pretended to be "Master Hu" to arbitrarily identify cultural relics, although he made money, but the owners of the collection have not seen the true face of "Master Hu" for a long time, they are all suspicious, Boss Cai is clever, after all, he can't convince the public, Hu Bolt came, undoubtedly made him relieved.

"Brother, hurry up and start work, I'll give you more money to start work." Boss Cai said anxiously: "Don't worry, I didn't mess up your name." ”

"That's not possible." Hu Xuan shook his head with a smile, "Who knows how many fakes you have identified in the past few months." ”

"Absolutely not."

Boss Cai hung a signboard at the door with the sign of "Famous Archaeologist Master Hu's Personal Appreciation". When He Yuan and Xiaofuzi came, Hu Xuan was buried in a pile of bottles and cans, holding a magnifying glass, busy identifying cultural relics. Seeing He Yuan coming, Hu Xuan glanced at the customers inside and outside the store, put down the magnifying glass, and let the two of them into a small room inside.

"Is there something wrong?" Hu Shuan asked.

He Yuan said: "Guess what, the group of guests from Lu Daya's Mansion are the ones we met on the road. It's also the people who are chasing us in the Yaowang Temple. ”

"No wonder," Hu Xuan nodded, "Even the inn has been arranged along the way, with good food, drink and hospitality, it turns out that it is someone sent by the president." However, by mistake, we were allowed to eat it. Speaking of this, I couldn't help but laugh.

He Yuan also smiled, "As soon as President Xu took office, he sent people to Hunan, and it seems that Zhang Jingyao is still a warlord who still values it very much. ”

Xiao Fuzi said with some puzzlement next to him: "I heard that Zhang Jingyao is building a large number of buildings in his hometown in Anhui, using the looted wealth to buy houses and land, and build the Overseer's Mansion. ”

Hu Xuan explained: "President Xu Shichang sent someone to come on business, of course, he has to come to Changsha, how can he chase him to his hometown? I guess that in the next few days, Zhang Jingyao will have to rush back to Changsha to meet these guests. ”

"That's right," He Yuan nodded, "Therefore, our intelligence network must be established as soon as possible, play a role, and closely monitor the enemy's movements." Tonight, there are a few progressive students who are going to meet at Professor Wan's house, and I suggest that we listen to them when you get off work from the antique shop. ”

"I'll go too," Xiaofuzi said with wide eyes.

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In the evening, Hu Shuan finished his work early, he went out of the antique shop, walked out into the street, and found the street empty, and some soldiers came and went, driving the pedestrians in the street. He wondered a little, is martial law going to be imposed again?

Sure enough, several soldiers on horseback ran along the street, shouting as they ran: "Martial law is imposed at night, soldiers and civilians, go back to their homes, and they are not allowed to move around at will." ”

In these years, people have become accustomed to martial law, Hu Shuo walked a few steps, avoided the soldiers, and came to the Shuntiande Restaurant where Xiao Fuzi worked, and it happened that Xiao Fuzi went out of the door and whispered to him: "Lao He just said that the evening assembly has been canceled, and the authorities are going to martial law again, so let you hurry back to the brick and tile factory outside the city, where there are old acquaintances waiting for you." ”

Old acquaintances? Hu Xuan was stunned for a moment, who would be waiting for him there? He said goodbye to Xiaofuzi and hurried out of the city.

The path leading to the brickyard had been trimmed by Shi Lock and others, and a mechanism had been set up, so that if a stranger wanted to break in through the grass, he would step into the trap, and Hu Bolt carefully bypassed the trap and followed the hidden path into the brickyard, where he saw a dim light reflected in the windows of the small house, and the sound of speech was heard.

Today's sentry is a girl named Xiaoyue, a student of the girls' middle school, who has always been the backbone of the cultural and academic mass movement launched by Professor Wan and others. She came out from behind the wall and said to Hu Shu, "Go quickly, it's all here." ”

Hu Xuan nodded, pushed open the door of the house, and sure enough, he found that the room was almost full, a few of them were regular customers, Da Jiang, Professor Wan, He Yuan and others were there, as well as a few young men and women from Hunan Industrial School and Girls' Middle School, and in the middle sat a tall middle-aged man, tall, magnificent, and full of spirit, who was talking to everyone about something, but it was Xiong Dadao.

"Old Bear," Hu Xuan cried out happily, and stepped forward to grab the hand of the bear's big knife.

Xiong Dadao nodded with a smile, let go to the side, and everyone squeezed out a gap to let Hu Shuan sit down, Hu Shuan asked excitedly: "I said that there was an old acquaintance here, but I didn't expect it to be you, Lao Du is okay?" Is your leg healed? ”

"Good," said the bear, "the leg has long been healed." Lao Du will come over in a few days. ”

Next to him, Da Jiang and a few young students were not happy, and shouted to Hu Xuan: "Don't interrupt Xiao Hu, let Brother Xiong continue to speak." ”

Only then did Hu Xuan realize that he was happy to patronize, interrupted Xiong Dadao's speech, and smiled apologetically: "Okay, you continue to speak." "Sit on your own.

Xiong Dadao said: "Don't worry, these things I talked about are also about to be listened to." As I mentioned earlier, I was in Hanyang and met a mountain monkey. ”

"Flying mountain monkeys?" Hu was taken aback.

"That's right," Xiong Dadao nodded, "That guy, since he took refuge in Mr. Yu, he has a backer, and he is even more insidious, from a bandit to an accomplice of a warlord, I know that keeping such a person is our scourge, it is better to get rid of him as soon as possible." ”

"That's right, that's right." Several students clenched their fists beside them.

So, I secretly followed him, this guy is now very angry, living in the house of the Zhang Mansion in Hankou, the Zhang Mansion is heavily guarded, it is not easy to start, I secretly waited for the opportunity, that night, he finally came out in the evening, ran to a restaurant, I saw that the time came, and I was ready to intercept him on the road, who knows, when I was about to start, several soldiers suddenly came, hugged him and welcomed him into the restaurant. I was secretly anxious, but I was unwilling to give up, so I followed them and entered the restaurant. ”