Chapter Forty-Six: The Cow, the Ghost, the Snake, and the God

Early in the morning, it rained lightly, the humid air dissipated a lot of the heat in the past few days, the residents of Cishan Town or umbrellas or wore clothes to walk on the stone road, the stone road in the rain looked exceptionally clean, several children in Cishan Town were playing and laughing against the drizzle. Naturally, the locals will not be in a bad mood because of the rain, looking at the drizzle and sullen only those who stay in Cishan Town from other places to traders, in such weather it is not impossible to climb over the mountains outside the town, but who is not willing to rush in the rain, no one knows whether there will be mudslides in the mountains.

"Shopkeeper, these groups of guests in our inn don't look good," the shopkeeper of the cyclamen Ermaotou muttered quietly to the old and dizzy shopkeeper Hu Qingshan while wiping the table. The cyclamen in Cishan is the largest inn in the area, and traders from the north and south like to stop here, but the guests who stay in the cyclamen for several days in a row look at the strange Guli, which makes the timid and shrewd shopkeeper Ermaotou very worried.

"They spend money to live in the hotel, and we only run an inn, I'm an old man who is about to die, you are a stupid boy whose hair hasn't grown yet, plus those stupid women in the back kitchen, we cyclamen can't afford to provoke people like that, remember?" Hu Qingshan gave Mao Tou a shudder as if warning, and when he turned his head and inadvertently looked at the young man who was coming down the stairs, Hu Qingshan's dim old eyes full of suddenly flashed a glimmer of essence.

"Maotou, take the money and go to the corner to buy a pack of iron broad beans and come back, it is raining lightly today, it is the most suitable for a drink" Hu Qingshan slowly took out a crumpled banknote from the drawer and handed it to Maotou, Maotou, who took the banknote, hurriedly went out with an umbrella, but Maotou didn't notice that there were several strange symbols on the banknote in his hand.

"Where are you going, guest? It's raining outside" The young man who was going down the stairs was walking outside the store, and Hu Qingshan, who had been napping on the counter, suddenly asked, and the young man looked back at Hu Qingshan in some surprise.

"I thought the shopkeeper was asleep, thank you for the reminder, I just don't know when the rain will stop? I'll go to the backyard and see what we're going to do," the young man said a few words to the shopkeeper, and walked around to the backyard of the cyclamen. The young men who entered the backyard of the cyclamen were left for passing caravans to place their horses, mules and goods, and the young men who entered the backyard went directly to the row of stables at the west end, where he brought a dozen mules and horses tied to them and boxes of goods.

"Head, can't we live in this Cishan Town all the time?" The young man untied his coat and wiped the rain from his face, and he asked about the mute man who was carrying the fodder to feed the horses. The mute was left in the stable by the young man to take care of the mules and horses to take care of the goods, including the shopkeeper Hu, no one would have thought that this unkempt mute would actually be the real person in charge of this caravan, and this person was also Zhao Zhi's old acquaintance - Jia Yun.

Jia Yun was from Chongqing, only to receive a notice from the military station, their action team in Chongqing captured a traitor who was bribed by the Japanese, from the traitor's mouth, learned from the traitor's mouth that the Japanese spies lurking in Chongqing have signs of resurgence, and this group of latent Japanese spies has listed Zhao Zhi as a target, Jia Yun had to divide the troops halfway, half of the action team members continued to rush to Zhao Zhi's side to protect him secretly, and the remaining half of the action team members were taken by Jia Yun to pretend to be a caravan to Cishan Town to wait, and Jia Yun who carefully studied the map judged, The only possibility for the Japanese to sneak attack Zhao Zhi was Cishan Town, so he was waiting for the Japanese spies to send him to the door.

After some planning, Jia Yun opened his mind, he was not good at scene work, he disguised himself as a strange soldier to take care of mules and horses, and his shrewd and clever Lin Zhong became the shopkeeper of the caravan. It was Jia Yun's idea to stay in cyclamen, as a caravan from Chongqing that specialized in tobacco business, it was naturally not short of money, such a caravan that specialized in selling tobacco and soil for a living, had their own rules in accommodation and food, and people with knives and blood would not be stingy with themselves.

Cishan Town is a mixed place, and Jia Yun doesn't want to spend all his energy dealing with the voyeurs hiding in the shadows before the mission even begins. "Monkey, how many times have I said it, you are now the shopkeeper, I'm just a dumb person, don't keep talking to me if you have something to do, take care of the brothers, don't let them cause trouble" Jia Yun, who was adding beans to the mule and horse, reprimanded Lin Zhong in a low voice. There are other caravansera's mules and horses in the backyard, and if someone comes out of nowhere, they will find that Jia Yun's mute is a fake.

"Okay, okay, I know" Lin Zhong rolled his eyes helplessly, what his captain said was very right, but he was too cautious. Lin Zhong and Jia Yun whispered a few words in the backyard, then put on their robes and reflexively went back to the front hall, the brothers who had just woken up upstairs were sitting in the lobby eating breakfast, and when they saw Lin Zhong coming back, they got up and gave him a seat.

"Monkey, there is something wrong with the two tables of guys sitting on our right, look at their waists" Mao Shilong, who was at the table with Lin Zhong, muttered in a low voice with the help of grasping the pancakes. Lin Zhong was slightly stunned, and unintentionally glanced at the two tables sitting on their right. Like Lin Zhong and them, those people were also dressed as vendors, and there was no problem with their faces, Lin Zhong's eyes moved from their faces to their waists, and sure enough, as Mao Shilong said, Lin Zhong found that at least half of the people at the two tables were carrying things around their waists, not short knives and daggers should be pistols.

"I'll go to explore the wind, don't move yet" Lin Zhong took the cigarette and match from Mao Shilong's hand, and walked towards the two tables of people, his face with a hint of coldness was already full of smiles at this time. "Hello bosses, junior brother Lin Zhong, the robe brother Luo of Chongqing Chaotianmen Wharf is my master, I don't know what kind of wealth your boss made?" Lin Zhong dragged a bench and sat down, regardless of whether the other party wanted it or not, he first dispersed the cigarette in his hand.

Lin Zhong had dealt with Brother Pao in Chongqing a few times, but he only knew a little about the black words, but the Brother Pao named Luo Dasheng he just talked about was indeed a person, and almost all the smoke and soil emitted from the Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing passed through his hands. The reason why Lin Zhong wanted to bring up Luo Dasheng's name was actually to show that he was also a smoker who sold tobacco and soil, as long as these people were long-term traders who traveled to and from Yunnan, Guichuan, they should know what Luo Dasheng meant.

"It turned out to be the little boss, the brother's surname is Shui, just with a group of brothers to do some medicinal materials and fur business, the name of Boss Luo, I have also heard of it in the next, but the threshold of the robe brother is too high, and the brother can't enter the mountain gate" and Lin Zhong took an empty teacup with a beard across a seat, poured tea with the method of three nods of the phoenix, and handed it to Lin Zhong with both hands. Lin Zhong was slightly stunned, the other party's method of pouring tea is also exquisite, Phoenix San nodded and served tea with both hands, this is to show that the other party is not the identity of Brother Pao, and this also shows that he will not conflict with himself, is this really just a group of vendors?

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, rely on your parents and friends at home" Lin Zhong stretched out his right hand, slightly bent his index finger, ring finger, and little thumb, and used his thumb and middle finger to untie the teacup handed over by the other party, supported the bottom of the teacup with his left hand, and drank the tea dry with his neck up. Lin Zhong's technique of receiving tea and drinking tea is the technique of a serious robe brother, a glimmer of light flashed in his bearded eyes, Lin Zhong didn't know when he was drinking tea, when he was probing the details of the other party, people were also observing their gang. Lin Zhong and his party are all strong young men, and no matter standing, standing, sitting, or walking, they all have the aura of a soldier on their bodies, which is why Jia Yun has to disguise himself as a mute.

After a few words of greeting, seeing that there was nothing suspicious about the other party, Lin Zhong returned to his seat and ate breakfast casually. The news from the military commander only said that the Japanese spies regarded Zhao Zhi as their target, but they did not say that the Japanese would attack Zhao Zhi on the way into Chongqing.

"Shopkeeper, are there any empty rooms here?" A few men in robes came in from outside, and the first person was talking to the sleepy shopkeeper, but his eyes were looking at the people sitting in the hall eating. There are 7.8 people in this group, looking at their costumes, they are also like vendors, it is too common for such people to appear in Cishan Town at such a season, and the people eating in the hall just glanced at it, and they rushed their own things, only Lin Zhong and the bearded face were a little stiff.

"Pay attention to these people, Mao Shilong, you go and inform the captain to be careful" Lin Zhong took a piece of scrambled eggs with chopsticks, and commanded a few words in a low voice, seeing that everyone was a little puzzled, he lowered his voice and said, "You all pay attention to what those people are wearing on their feet?" Everyone followed Lin Zhong's line of sight and saw that the people who were talking to the shopkeeper Hu were wearing leather boots with a lot of water on their feet, but their leather boots were not riding boots like Lin Zhong's them, but authentic high-top military boots with laces, and the people who wore this kind of military boots had something to do with the army.

"Look at their walking posture again," those people were following the shopkeeper upstairs, just leaving their backs to Lin Zhong, and they were seen clearly. In Lin Zhong's memory, only the Japanese who ride horses all the year round and kneel and sit since childhood will also be Luo Quanleg, plus the military boots worn by these people, Lin Zhong and they are ten percent sure that these guys are Japanese.

"Don't move, wait for the captain's instructions" Lin Zhong grabbed the brother who was just about to stand up next to him, and inadvertently found that the bearded gang also paid attention to this group of Japanese, Lin Zhong decided to watch the show, because he suddenly found that the bearded gang was also a bad person, and their target was likely to be this group of Japanese.