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Gai decided to divide his troops into two routes, one led by Xing Mazi, Lei Shen, Tie Guan Li, etc., and prepared to attack Tongjiazhai. On the other hand, it was himself, and he rode alone to go to the "banquet" of Master Tong's house.

"What are these words?" Tie Guan Li first disagreed, "Let you go to the Hongmen banquet by yourself, you think we are all afraid of death." ”

Gai shook his head and smiled: "That's not what I mean, the person who went to the banquet is not preparing for a war, the surname Tong must want to kill us all, with you outside, he doesn't dare to do anything to me." ”

After discussing for a while, everyone followed the plan, leaving Dong Laozhuan and others to treat the wounded in Sanhu Village, clean up the aftermath, and the rest of the people took two prisoners Tong Guang and Tong Liang, and under the leadership of Zhang Xiaoliu, went straight to Tongjiazhai.

According to Tong Guang's description, Gai Jiangtou and Xing Mazi and others analyzed the terrain of Tongjiazhai, Tongjiazhai also has a wall, which is higher than Sanhu Village, and there is a self-defense regiment in the village, with more than 20 guns of various kinds, if you want to attack hard, there will be casualties. Especially in Master Tong's house, the compound is built in the middle of the village, the terrain is dangerous, the courtyard wall is tall, and there are more than 20 people guarding the courtyard. Therefore, outwitting is the best policy.

When approaching Tongjiazhai, there were a few drops of blood on the rocks on the side of the road, which attracted everyone's attention, Tie Guan Li said: "This must have been left by that strange man, he was injured, this half-human and half-beast guy must have been sent from Tongjiazhai." ”

"He's a half-man, half-beast," said Gai, heading his head, "and this thing is fierce, and not afraid of falling, almost like an animal." ”

Along the way the mountain road twists and turns, the terrain is complicated, cover the head to pay attention to it, three households to Tongjiazhai, the distance is close, but it is troublesome to walk, the mountain shape is high and low, there are messy groves and rocky cliffs everywhere, if there is an ambush. It was very dangerous, he reminded everyone to look at the six roads, beware of falling for Master Tong's tricks, but he went all the way to Tong Jiahan. There was no ambush.

A little wild cat "suddenly" came out of the side of the road, Ah Hu's eyes were fast, and he chased after him with flying steps, and Li Mei shouted: "That's a wild cat." You can't catch up. ”

Ah Hu's father smiled: "Maybe, he can catch it." ”

It's strange to say, Ah Hu chased while screaming at the wild cat a few times, the wild cat actually stopped, squatted on a roadside rock, twisted his head to look at Ah Hu, Ah Hu slowed down, walked over gently, and said something that no one could understand. One hand gestured, and the other hand took out the leftover buns from a morning at the Welcome Teahouse from his pocket, and shook them twice at the wild cat, whose eyes followed the buns up and down, and meowed in his mouth.

Ah Hu walked over, stroked the wild cat's smooth back, picked it up, and fed the bun into the wild cat's mouth.

Li Mei could see it, "Wow, little Ahu." You can catch cats, no wonder your name is Ah Hu. You and the cat are a family. ”

"I can catch anything but cats." Ah Hu said proudly.

Everyone next to him also thought it was quite strange, and Ah Hu's father explained: "This child has been playing in the mountains since he was a child. I don't know where I learned these skills to catch small animals, often catch some cats, dogs, monkeys or something, according to his own words, his words can be understood by small animals, and I don't know if it's true or false. ”

"It's not true, the little animal just understands."

Outside the wall. Everyone hid behind the stone wall on the side of the road, looked at Tongjiazhai, the door of the village was wide open, everything was fine, and there were two gray-haired old men, sitting at the gate of the village smoking and chatting, a peaceful scene, Xing Mazi said suspiciously: "Now the weather is cold, when it is warm at noon, come out to bask in the sun and chat, it is normal, now it is almost dark, the mountain wind is biting, these two old men are really not afraid of the cold, sitting and chatting and frozen, this matter is suspicious." ”

"They have already arranged a trap, these two old men must be making a fake, just like in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang sat at the head of the city and played the piano." Thor said.

"Alright, I'm going in, you guys do what you do." Gai said, walked out from behind the rock, tidied up the cotton robe on his body, and walked towards the gate of the village.

Outside the gate of the wall, a few small trees that have lost their leaves, swaying with the cold wind, there is no shadow of a sentry inside or outside the door, there are a few big stones at the door, two old men sit on it while chatting, while quietly looking around, cover his head swaggered, walked over, he did not see the ambush, but felt that there were eyes staring at him everywhere.

When he walked to the door, he looked in a few times, but there was no figure inside, so he bowed to the two old men and smiled: "Two old brothers, where is Master Tong's house going?" ”

"You walk all the way down this alley and you see the tallest house, that's it." One of the old men stood up and pointed enthusiastically.

"Thank you."

Inside the walled gate, is a narrow passage, both sides are the high walls of the stone base, the passage is not only narrow, but also tortuous, the high walls on both sides are repaired smooth, it is extremely difficult to climb, it can be seen that this is a defensive facility deliberately cultivated, if someone attacks, even if you enter the walled gate, it will be easy to be injured by the people and horses on the high wall on both sides, the head of the cover is secretly surprised, if you take a large group of people to attack the village, you don't need to enter the house of Master Tong, you can be wiped out here. Tie Guan Li's "killing the Quartet when you enter the village" is simply impossible.

Looking up, Gai noticed that there was a faint abnormal movement on the wall, he knew that there must be a heavy ambush around, I don't know how many people were hidden on the high wall, he was glad that there was no one to enter the village together, if he broke into it rashly, let alone attack, it was too late to defend.

Walking through this tortuous passage, a piece of water suddenly opened up in front of him, entering an empty field, throwing two stone stones in the corner, like a threshing floor, at this time in winter, the field is bare, empty, at first glance out of the passage, cover the head felt a little dizzy, discerning the sunset in the west, this corrected the sense of direction, but he was surprised to find that after the empty field, several rows of houses, not in a row, but very scattered, originally the houses in the mountains, most of them were built according to the mountain, scattered and scattered, but this Tong family village, But it is quite distinctive, the street presents a kind of scattering shape, one by one, like the sun, from the empty field irregularly dispersed into the distance, the street in any direction, which is easy to make outsiders lost, although Tong Guang confessed which street, which lane, but to look for it, but completely confused.

Look carefully, the front of the house, the back of the stone wall passage, all are mottled with monuments, it seems that there are more than a few decades or even a hundred years, cover the head can not help but marvel, this ancient village, must have built such a defensive shape from ancient times, in order to resist foreign invasion, he observed in several directions, found that the layout of the street houses in the village, roughly in the shape of the gossip, he just walked over the passage into the village, according to the direction of the gossip, is exactly the "Kun" hexagram through the vertical line.

"What a clever stockade, a genius builder." Gai looked at it from the bottom of his heart.

From the intersection in front, two people walked over, went straight to the head of the cover, and the front one asked, "Excuse me, are you from Sanhu Village?" ”

"Yes, didn't you say that Master Tong invited us?"

"Yes, but what about the others?" The two men looked behind their heads, but behind him, there was not a single figure in the passage. Gai shook his head and laughed, "They have something to do, come back a little later, let me come first, let's go, where is Master Tong's house?" Take me there. ”

The two people looked a little unhappy, with the cover handle, into an alley, the cover head while walking, while carefully observing, sure enough, as he expected, every street into the corner, around the corner, quickly lost, and the houses everywhere are seven high and eight low, it is difficult to find the two old men said "high houses". Some alleys look like dead ends, but there are caves in the past. He said in his heart: "Fortunately, I came first, if everyone comes in together, even if you break through the 'Kun' hexagram channel, you will definitely get lost inside." ”

Twists and turns, going around and around, finally arrived at the front of a compound, sure enough, the foundation of this courtyard is higher, but it is not much higher than other houses, the courtyard is made of large stones, wide gatehouse, high steps, flagpoles are planted in front of the door, and ordinary rich masters' houses, it is no different.

Entering the courtyard, bypassing a thick shadow wall, the cover head found that there was something wrong with the courtyard, although the courtyard was spacious, but compared to the situation observed from the outside, it was not very consistent, it seemed narrower, he took a closer look, the reason was the courtyard wall, a rough estimate, the courtyard wall of the stone barrier was several meters thick, he knew that there may be a sandwich wall or a secret passage inside, which could deal with the attackers, and with the remnant sun, there seemed to be a shadow flashing on the wall, and the cover head said: As expected, there are many organs here, and it has already been ambushed.

"Please come into the living room."

In the living room, it was very large, and he sat on a chair with a big head, and there was tea on the table, and he drank it when he picked it up. The two men who led the way said to him, "You wait." And he walked out.

In the living room of Nuoda, there was only one person left, and he drank a cup of tea, the tea was an authentic Longjing, and it tasted good, and the head knew that he was alone in the tiger's den in Longtan at this time, and if the people of the Tong family wanted to arrest him, they didn't need to poison the tea.

After staying for a while, bored, he got up to admire the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, at this time, the door curtain was raised, Tong Ce walked in, and greeted with a smile: "You are here, disrespectful and disrespectful, why didn't Leader Li come." ”

Gai scolded him secretly in his heart, and said lukewarmly: "Didn't Leader Li come?" I thought he was here a long time ago. ”

"It's funny," Tong Ce grinned, "Why didn't the other heroes and heroes in your village come over together?" ”

"They'll come in a minute, I'm idle, so I'll come first."

The two of them are well aware of each other's bad intentions, but they chatted without a word, testing each other, Tong Ce was very tactful, and said: "I have something to do, I will come over to accompany the guests in a while, you still urge other friends, come over quickly, let's have a banquet." ”

"Don't rush, they will be here in a while, if you are in a hurry, you can start the banquet first, let's have two drinks with my brothers, and we don't need to be accompanied by Master Tong."

"Hehe, let's wait a while."

The two chatted back and forth, knowing that the other party did not have a word of truth, and they both felt very bored with each other. After a while, the sky darkened, and a subordinate entered the house, lit candles, and outside the window, the night soon enveloped the mountain village. (To be continued.) )