When the Tianjia caravan crossed the Xilong River, it was already dark, and it was dark early in the northwest winter, and if the tents were not set up as soon as possible, the biting cold wind at night would blow people stiff.

In this transaction at the end of the year, the Tian family only sent a deacon, and Tian Fangjun returned to Taiyuan Mansion as early as a month ago with a few pocket watches, as well as light materials such as rare umbrellas in the mainland; He and Tian Guanglin had a dispute over the business of the Madao checkpoint, so they could only go back to the family and let the patriarch decide.

Even the guards sent by Tian Guanglin secretly went to Madao Stone Fort, and Tian Fangjun knew that he must have wanted to capture Ximen Xiaoye secretly, but now the shadows of those guards are not visible, Tian Guanglin is not in a hurry, he is still in a hurry.

On the surface of the Xilong River, layers of jade vines, after the emerald green broken leaves fall off, revealing dense branches of different thicknesses, staggered covering the mudflats in the north and south of the river bank; In winter, when the river dries up, you can see the slender branches frozen in the ice under the thick ice above the gap in the middle of the river, which is less than a foot in the middle of the river.

The jade vine has not spread across the river yet, but the large area of rattan grass on the south side of the riverbank, why did it come from, Qin Shi and the knife couldn't think of it, but if Xiao Ye stood here and looked around, he could detect it, and the merchants who came and went must have a thoughtful guy in it.

At the very least, the Tian family caravan is a big suspect, and the things used in the handlamp can only be processed from the black fruit core.

The Tian family caravan rested on the south bank of the river for one night, and when it was dawn the next day, the deacons and the guards suddenly found that a circle of men and horses had been gathered outside the camp, and the swords were sheathed and arrows wound; More than 30 Jinyi guards who came from Laoyangkou Hoarding Fort cautiously surrounded the camp of the Tian family's caravan and were not in a hurry to rush up.

No matter what the deacon of the Tian family said, these brocade guards just didn't answer, as long as they didn't escape from the camp, they wouldn't easily offend the Tian family.

By noon on the day, a large group of horses from the Gravel Fort had arrived to support the Jinyi Guard, and more than 200 sergeants armed with weapons, under the leadership of the Jinyi Guard, broke into the camp in all directions; However, those four strong men who looked angry with evil faces couldn't find them no matter how much they searched.

Under a dirt bag more than four miles away from the Tianjia camp, Qin Shi put down the telescope in his hand, took out a silver ticket of ten taels with a convincing face, and slapped it in the hand of the knife, "Here you go, you guy, your eyes are very tight,"

put away the silver ticket, and squeezed out a smile on his face as hard as a dead man, but it looked more ugly than crying, "Little trick, the person who can follow me behind him, no matter how tightly he hides, unless he is a mile away, if it weren't for the fact that the Lord of the Hundred Households didn't let him shoot at will, those two grandsons would have been pinched to death directly last night,"

"Yes, you guards are powerful, let's go quickly, I missed the adult's business, it's not you who is unlucky, I have to hurry home to rest," Qin Shi hurriedly waved his hand, carried his backpack and beckoned his subordinates, got up and lowered his head and ran towards the forest to the east.

"Rest a fart, aren't you just thinking about this little concubine, the blue-eyed beads scare you to death at night," the knife muttered, leading the two brothers to follow.

was discovered by the Jinyi guard, they couldn't go on the road casually during the day, they could only rush at night, and someone had to cover them.

Just when Qin Shi and the others were sneaking to the gravel castle, Xiao Ye took Sun Xiaoming and hurriedly entered the mill, and after the guards outside cleared the field and blocked the gate, under the leadership of Kang Hongyuan, the three of them got into the tunnel.

Kang Hongyuan took more than 20 craftsmen, together with their families, to eat and live in the mill compound, without the permission of the guards guarding the courtyard gate, maybe they can only live in the compound until they are old in this life; But if other craftsmen want to join the compound, it will be difficult, and Xiao Ye will not allow too many people.

Isolated from the world, but there is no shortage of supplies, and even each family has a piece of wine and meat every month, children go to private schools to study, and when they grow up, they can work in the mill to get paid, this kind of day is unbearable, but Kang Hongyuan is so satisfied that they can sleep and smile.

The light pillar of the hand lamp illuminated the hall under their feet, sitting on the narrow carriage, the dwarf pony who pulled the cart was familiar with the way to the tower, and after walking in the cave for an hour, Xiao Ye they arrived at the underground hall under the Shiguan Tun Mountain.

This big corner has become a temporary material storage point, where all kinds of materials picked up from the mountain will be loaded into horse-drawn carts and pulled back to the Madao Stone Fort.

After getting out of the carriage, the iron pipe above his head hissed and the cool breeze blew, and he continued to walk forward, up a gentle slope in a large arc, followed by another downhill.

This downhill, Xiao Ye doesn't remember it, Kang Hongyuan behind him is already the second time he has seen it, and he is also quite puzzled.

The pillar of light shone forward, and Xiao Ye saw it from a distance, probably under the A-shaped stone fort, the familiar cave was gone, revealing an earthy yellow gate under the light, which was regular in all directions, and was two people high.

"Huhu, my lord, it's this door, I don't know when it was there, I haven't been here before," Kang Hongyuan, who was beside Xiao Ye, pointed to the door and said; Although he, like the craftsmen under him, had enjoyed Xiao Ye's primary powerful potion, he couldn't stand his age, and he followed Xiao Ye's brisk steps for hundreds of steps, and he was still a little out of breath.

Xiao Ye, who didn't receive the prompt, was very surprised by the big iron gate in front of him, took a few steps forward, reached out and touched the door, and smashed a few more punches, confirming that the whole door was an iron guy.

Before he could find the mechanism to open the door, a blue light emanated from above the door, which not only shone on Xiao Ye's body, but also covered Kang Hongyuan and Sun Xiaoming behind him in a strange light.

brush, the iron door opened silently, and the sudden movement of retracting into the ground made the three people dare not step at will for a while in the open hole.

Fortunately, Xiao Ye was quite bold, hesitated for a moment with a handlamp, and strode into the iron gate; The two people behind him turned white, but they also followed closely, not disappointing Xiao Ye.

After entering the iron gate, Xiao Ye looked up and down, left and right, and found that this was no longer the crude tunnel, but rather a small room, all of which were made of iron.

The room between the two of them was very deep, empty on the left and right, and there were two deep ruts on the ground, which were not illuminated by hand lamps, and some light could be vaguely seen on the walls.

After instinctively walking inside for a dozen steps, the light pillar of the hand lamp shone on the wall, and Xiao Ye saw that the wall at the end opened silently again, and the wall slowly retreated to the ground.

This time, it was still a large room made of iron, and the ruts on the ground were connected to the outside; He couldn't care about this inconspicuous rut mark.

In the large room, which is almost one zhang high and more than ten zhang long and wide, all kinds of materials are neatly stacked, and when I step forward to check carefully, it is the batch of goods that Xiao Ye set the day before yesterday.

However, in the innermost part of this big house, Xiao Ye patted and patted on the wall, but at the end, the small basement could no longer be found.

Touching the cold iron wall, Xiao Ye seemed to understand that the stone mill that sank into the ground might be difficult to see, unless, unless he whimsically attracted seawater, but he didn't dare to think about that kind of thing.

An hour later, the three of them walked out of the room and returned to the cave, Xiao Ye took a few steps and stopped, "Xiao Ming, you go to the door and stand,"

"Oh," Sun Xiaoming, who was confused, retreated in a daze, and just walked to the iron door, a hazy blue light swept by, and the iron door opened silently again.

Sun Xiaoming returned to Xiao Ye's side, and Kang Hongyuan was thoughtful about Xiao Ye's next time, shouting and running to the iron gate, and he could also let the iron door open.

"In the future, no one else will be able to enter without the two of you leading the way," Xiao Ye nodded with satisfaction, and the three of them entered the house and went down the gentle slope against the iron box.

The next matter of transporting goods, Kang Hongyuan will take the craftsmen to do it the day after tomorrow, and Xiao Ye doesn't have to worry about it.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, except for the necessary sentinels, most of the others have returned to their respective homes, and those who cannot return home stay in the military house to chat, waiting for the meat pieces stewed in the big pot in the room to cook.

In order to let the big guy have a good year, Xiao Ye even asked Tian Fangjun to invite a troupe, and set up a stage in Madao Stone Castle, with gongs and drums beating lively; He paid a lot of money for this.

After dinner, the stage in the cowhide tent was about to start, so every family and those sergeants talked about singing all day long, and they went to wait outside the big tent next to the land temple early.

This kind of big drama for seven or eight consecutive days is the temple fair in Gansu Town, which can be compared, as for the gravel castle, Xiao Ye has never seen the troupe before.

Eagle Claw Fort, the Galen Tribe, the West Wedge Hebu, and even Bailong Lake have all received notices from the heralds, and fifty people have been selected from all over the country to come to Madao Stone Fort to watch the play for the New Year, and they are still rushing over one after another.

The troupe of more than 20 people, with Wang Ziliang sending people to watch, even if there are irrelevant people in it, Xiao Ye doesn't believe that he can provoke flowers in the castle; The black room in Talon Castle, he had to keep filling it with raw materials.

Speaking of knives and Qin stones, the four of them took a detour and slipped into Huang Fugui's shop, and under Huang Fugui's enthusiastic service, they lay in the wing room in the backyard of the shop after a tasteless first day of junior high school, just in time for the shop to go to Gujia Village to deliver goods on the third day.

Gujia Village is twenty miles southwest of Gansu Town, and the approach road must be walked around the mountain road in the mountain beam, and there should be no one on the road at this time.

The four people who took advantage of the darkness to find the gravel fort waited for the carriage of the Huang family's shop halfway down, and Huang Fugui, who followed the coachman, greeted them and got into the mountain road early in the morning. On this delivery, Huang Fugui would not accompany him, but he had to take Xiao Ye's subordinates with him on the way, he was afraid that he would be yelled at by the big-mouthed guys, so he could only wrap his leather jacket and work hard.

Huang Fugui followed the Huang family caravan to buy goods at the Madao checkpoint, Wang Dali would not give him any discounts, but if he took someone to run alone, any goods sent by Madao Stone Fort would be discounted by more than one percent in private, and the number of times was more, and he knew the Tao inside.

But he has already played black and black with the knife once, and if he wants not to be known by others, he can only pinch his nose and secretly do private work for Xiao Ye; Fortunately, there is a large amount of remuneration every time, and Huang Fugui is used to doing it.

Xiao Ye had already done it unconsciously to lay a nail on the Huang family, and he also had another source of information, so as not to be blinded by Tian Fangjun.

Four strong men dressed up followed Huang Fugui to Gujia Village and unloaded the grain behind the Huang family's shop; After dinner, Qin Shi was thinking about leaving, and the knife ran into the backyard of the shop in a hurry.

"Stone, get up, get up," lifted the cotton curtain and rushed into the room, pulled up the Qin stone on the fire kang with a knife, and shouted in a low voice, "Stone, there is a good thing,"

In the warm quilt, Qin Shi was suddenly pulled up, and he didn't give the knife a good face, but seeing his happy appearance, Qin Shi decided to listen to it first, and now he can't do the knife in wrestling and gladiatorial fights.

"Oh, let's talk about it, what good thing can make you, a big celebrity in front of a hundred households, happy and like this," Qin Shishi said with a strange mouth, and the knife rarely didn't care, but rubbed his hands and turned around on the ground twice, and then he high-fived, raised his butt and sat on the edge of the kang.

"Stone, Renhetang Doctor Liu Yi, with his two daughters in Gujia Village, his wife is from Gujia Village, and she should spend the New Year in her mother's house," Speaking of this, Dao Zi raised his eyes to see Qin Shi's blank appearance, and couldn't help but be angry in his heart.

"You'll take care of your hunter team, oh no, now it's a thousand people, and you won't get sick if you feel like a thousand households, right," he stabbed Qin Shi, the knife no longer interrupted, and directly said his thoughts.

"Let's have a doctor in Li Langzhong there, his ability is to see a headache and brain fever, how can he have the ability of Doctor Liu, he has seen bone injuries for his wife," Seeing Qin Shi, he understood a little, and the knife lowered his voice.

"Liu Yi's wife, Gu, is a good midwife, much better than the midwife in our castle, I heard about her outside just now," At this point, Qin Shiteng jumped up and picked up his leather boots under the kang.

Tian Xiuxiu saw that it was time after the Chinese New Year, and several old wives and mothers in the craftsman household, although they all had experience in delivering babies, but this was the first child of Xiao Ye of the Ximen family, not to mention that he was nervous, and the military households and craftsmen under him were staring at it.

"What, what," the knife hurriedly blocked Qin Shi, "They didn't go back to Gansu Town until the fourth year of junior high school, and there is still time,"

The knife was too strong, and Qin Shi was pressed on the edge of the kang, "Then what do you say we should do, I thought I would leave tonight,"

"This, it's not easy to do, you have to find Huang Fugui to think about it," the knife thought about it, but he still couldn't make up his mind, if he forcibly tied up Liu Yi's family, it would be difficult for the hundred households to make a difference, if this doctor didn't work hard, he couldn't force him to bow his head.

The two found Huang Fugui, and when they inquired about Liu Yi's maiden family, they learned that Gujia Village had a population of more than 500 people, and it turned out to be a big family, no wonder this place was called Gujia Village.

Gujia Village is surrounded by hills, there are not many grain fields, but it is a good place to grow cold-tolerant medicinal materials such as hemp, most of the families in the village live by planting medicinal materials, and it is also the only medicinal village under the jurisdiction of the Gansu town government.

The village has a unique advantage, so there are several famous doctors, but they have their own medical centers in other places, and this time the knife was not encountered, otherwise he might have taken a few more families to Madao Stone Fort.

"Renhetang has a good reputation, and he has a comfortable life in Gansu Town, and he will not give up his family business to follow you, and it is difficult to say how much money he spends," Huang Fugui shook his head very quickly after understanding the meaning of the knife, he didn't think that these two soldiers had any other good way than to be forcibly tied.

Seeing that Daozi and Qin Shishi's face turned black, Huang Fugui couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp, and thought about it carefully, "Last year, the nephew of the county magistrate of Gansu Town wanted to marry Liu Yi's eldest daughter as a concubine, but he refused because he was still young, and it is difficult to say that this is the end of the New Year,"

"If that kid who likes to eat, drink/prostitute/gamble doesn't give up, it is estimated that after fifteen, he will change to the door to propose marriage, and he Liu Yi is hiding here, probably as a last resort," Huang Fugui's words made the two men who were at a loss suddenly smile.

"Let's go, let's go to Gansu Town tonight, and go to this nephew of the Huihui County Commander's family," the two soldiers took their bags, greeted the brothers in the next room, and went straight to Gansu Town overnight.

Huang Fugui didn't expect that his casual words would cause a monstrous chaos in Gansu Town.