Chapter Seventy-Two: Latent
In less than two quarters of an hour, the township soldiers had already learned the song "My Motherland" very well, and under the leadership of Cheng Yuehai and others, they sang songs and leisurely lined up to return to the camp.
Lin Feng glanced at the crowd gathered at the dock to watch the bustle, and went back to the city directly with the wind and clouds.
"This song is so good, I learned it all when I listened to it!"
"It's catchy, it's really worthy of Lord Lin's masterpiece." The crowd of onlookers sighed as they slowly dispersed.
"Friends are here and there is good wine...... Black boy, let's go, it's time to fish. A stout fisherman struck a swarthy young man on the head and pushed him towards the river.
The young man looked at the distant backs of the villagers, muttered in a low voice, picked up the fishing nets on the ground, and followed behind the middle-aged man.
"Yo, old golden head, why are you leaving the ship so late today?" A soldier on duty at the pier greets the fisherman in front.
"Alas, it's this stinky boy who has to watch those mud-legged villagers sing, and he has lost time. General Zhang, is it your turn to be on duty today? The old golden man laughed and untied the cable of a small boat.
"How many times have you been told, I'm just an ordinary soldier, don't shout any generals! By the way, thank you for the big fish you gave two days ago! The soldier on duty smiled and waved his hand and walked forward.
The father and son neatly propped up the wooden oars on the shore, and the boat left the river leisurely and headed for the center of the river. Behind them, a slightly larger merchant ship passed through the inspection of the dock soldiers and slowly left the dock.
The merchant ship did not stop all the way, overtook the fishing father and son boat, rowed across the middle of the river, and stopped directly at the improvised pier on the opposite bank. The two young men paid for the boat, passed the inspection of the Houzhou soldiers, and walked towards the shore.
Looking back and seeing that the Houzhou soldiers behind him had no time to take care of them, the young man in front of him whistled in a low voice, two wrong steps, the person had hidden into a big tree, stretched out his hands, sent the young man behind him to the fork, jumped up lightly, and climbed the tree like an ape.
The two young men were Li Yuanqing, the head of the Northern Intelligence Division, who was disguised as businessmen, and Chen Xiangrong, a member of the team.
The two waited quietly among the leaves for half an hour, and the father and son appeared in sight.
"It's coming! Master Li, you are really clever, there is really a problem with this father and son! Chen Xiangrong couldn't help but praise in a low voice.
"Actually, it's very simple, I've inquired, the fishermen at our Shouzhou Wharf are fixed all year round, only this father and son only appeared nearly two months ago, which is very consistent with the arrival of Lord Lin. They don't pay much attention to fishing, but they are very keen on things inside and outside Shouzhou. Based on this, it is very likely that they are spies in the north! Li Yuanqing replied in a low voice, watching the two get closer and closer, and made a gesture of silence.
When the father and son walked over with the fishing basket, Li Yuanqing and Chen Xiangrong jumped down from the tree and quietly followed.
As the two expected, after the fisherman father and son walked across the embankment, they looked around left and right and turned into the patrol barracks on the right side of the bank.
"Brother Xiang Rong, it seems that we have to divide the work. Wait a minute, I'll follow the messenger in the army, you follow the fake father and son, and then find an inn in the town and wait for me. Please remember to leave markers along the way. On a big tree, Li Yuanqing tried his best to observe the situation in the patrol station through the leaves, and at the same time discussed with Chen Xiangrong in a low voice.
After a while, the old golden leader led his fake son out of the barracks, put the fishing basket behind the railing of the patrol station, and walked along the road to the north to Linhuai Town, which was not far away.
Chen Xiangrong signaled to Li Yuanqing, and the person disappeared into the grass and followed from afar.
Without waiting long, a fast horse rushed out of the patrol station and rushed towards Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) in the northwest.
Towards evening, Li Yuanqing followed the fast horse back to the vicinity of the patrol station again, turned to the northbound road, and found a small inn following the hidden marks at the corners of the wall and the roots of the trees.
Gently knocked on the door of the No. 3 room of Dizi, and Li Yuanqing really saw Chen Xiangrong, who was waiting anxiously.
Li Yuanqing first picked up the herbal tea on the table and poured it violently, before wiping his mouth and saying, "Brother Xiang Rong, don't worry. Let's not leave tonight, rent a small house in the neighborhood and build a long-term retreat. ”
Li Yuanqing drank the tea to his heart's content, erased a lot of the tiredness of chasing the galloping horse for a while, and first talked about his tracking results in the afternoon. He followed the galloping horse to Yingzhou, thirty miles away, and watched the messenger soldier walk into the Yingzhou military camp, and waited for a long time, but there was no movement, so he had to follow the messenger back.
Chen Xiangrong told all his actions in the past few days. The fake father and son first went to the restaurant in the town to have a meal, and then with a little wine, they found a brothel to hang around, Fang Caizhe went back to the patrol station, took the fishing basket and went back to the river.
"What's the name of the prostitute they like?" Li Yuanqing asked.
"The big one likes one called Cui Hong, and the small one likes Cui Yan. The two of them followed two prostitutes in the same room, how could it be that they were real father and son! Chen Xiangrong replied.
"They didn't go anywhere else?" Li Yuanqing continued to ask.
"Nope!" Chen Xiangrong hurriedly replied, and then said with some embarrassment, "Team Leader Li, I followed them to eat with them today and visited the brothel, which cost five hundred and thirty-one yuan. ”
"Brother Xiang Rong, let's come out, remember to call me by a fake name at all times, and call me Wang Qing. In addition, as for the matter of money, adults have long said that as long as it is a reasonable expense, there is no problem! Li Yuanqing patted Chen Xiangrong's shoulder and explained softly, "Let's go, let's have dinner, and then rent a house first, and then go to the meeting Cuihong and Cuiyan!" ”
After dinner, the two rented a quiet farmhouse on the corner of the street where they could observe most of the town, walked into the brothel in the middle of the street again, pretended to be a high-roller, ordered a lot of food and drink, and directly lit Cuihong and Cuiyan.
Soon after, two women dressed in fancy clothes and wearing heavy makeup walked in, and the bustard who accompanied them introduced that the older one was Cui Hong, and the younger one was Cui Yan.
Li Yuanqing threw out more than a dozen Wenhou Zhou copper coins to the bustard, signaling her to quit.
Seeing that the person came to make a generous move, Cuihong's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly snuggled up to Li Yuanqing's side, and snorted coquettishly: "This uncle, what a heroic hero, Cuihong must serve the uncle well!" Cui Yan also sat on Chen Xiangrong's side and leaned directly on him, the honest Chen Xiangrong quickly got up and walked to the door to guard it.
Seeing Chen Xiangrong's movements, Cui Hong and Cui Yan both stopped and looked at him with puzzled faces.
Li Yuanqing coughed lightly, attracting the attention of the two, and slowly took out two pieces of money from the burden with his right hand and put them on the table, and then with both hands, he broke a porcelain bowl into several pieces and threw them on the table, and then picked up the small wine glasses on the table, and then crushed them one by one.
Li Yuanqing slowly raised his head, stared at the two suspicious women in front of him with sharp eyes, and said softly: "There are two ways, one is that we will pinch you to death now, but we can just pay some money to the bustard, and we can even slap our butts and leave; One is that the money is left to you, and you can continue to pay according to your performance in the future, as long as you get out the old golden head, a pair of fake fathers and sons, and all the information about the contacts behind them! Take your pick! ”
The two women were already frightened, and in the reminder of Li Yuanqing patting the table, they raised their heads in shock, their eyes hesitated slightly, and they all stared at the two pieces of money, and they nodded desperately.