At eight o'clock the next morning, Zheng slowly woke up.

Leaning on the head of the bed, he had just lit a cigarette for himself, when he heard a light footstep outside the door, and then, Lianxin pushed open the door and walked in, "Lang, you are awake, Steward Zhang has been waiting outside for an hour." ”

Zheng was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes, he came so early, why didn't you come to tell me." ”

Lian Xinyan smiled and said: "Lang, I originally wanted to inform you, but the manager of that chapter insisted that I should not disturb your sleep, and he said that he would wait until you woke up and then inform you." ”

Hearing this, Zheng couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "This Zhang Sihai, it's really well-intentioned, it's really embarrassing for him, go, invite him into the living room to serve tea, I'll meet him later." ”

After quickly getting dressed, Zheng went out of the room and saw Zhang Sihai who had been waiting for a long time in the reception.

When Zhang Sihai saw Zheng come out, he immediately stood up respectfully and saluted him.

After exchanging a few words with him, Zheng left the residence together and looked for the stonemason surnamed Zhang.

Under the guidance of Zhang Sihai, the two of them walked through the alleys in the cottage, and along the way, they met many bandits and family members in the cottage, and after those people saw the alliance leader, they all greeted Zheng Shi with respectful expressions, and Zheng also smiled and nodded to them in return.

In the innermost village of the cottage, after finding the wooden house of the stonemason, the two stepped into the wooden house of the stonemason one after the other.

At this time, Zhang Mason happened to be at home and had not gone out, and when he saw that the person who came to visit his house was the leader of the alliance, he was suddenly nervous and excited, and he couldn't even speak.

Seeing this, Zheng couldn't help but secretly shake his head and smile bitterly, at the moment he tried to smile and put on an extremely easy-going and pro-people appearance, stepped forward and patted Zhang Mason's shoulder, signaling that he didn't have to be so nervous and restrained, just be casual,

Seeing this, the stonemason became even more nervous, but in addition to being nervous, he was more flattered.

After a while, Zhang Mason's nervous and excited mood slowly eased a lot, at this time, he moved two chairs with trembling hands and handed them to Zheng's buttocks, before Zheng sat down, he used the old linen shirt, wiped and wiped on the chair, wiped and wiped, for fear that his dirty old chair would stain the noble white robe of the alliance leader,

After Zheng sat down, he didn't talk nonsense, and explained his intention straight to the point, asking Zhang Stonemason to take them to the place where they picked up the seal.

After Zhang Stonemason learned of Zheng's intention, he nodded again and again and agreed, and then he led Zheng and Zhang Sihai to walk towards the place where he picked up the seal that day.

Before leaving, Zheng took out a gold ingot and gave it to Zhang Stonemason, but where did the Zhang Stonemason dare to accept it, he waved his hand again and again.

In the end, in desperation, Zheng had no choice but to keep a straight face, exerted the majesty of his alliance leader, and forced Zhang Stonemason to accept the gold ingot.

Under the leadership of Zhang Stonemason, the three of them came to the meadow of a river beach behind the cottage.

At this time, Zhang stonemason pointed to a slightly raised ruin in front of him, and said that he saw the seal there that day.

Zheng looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that from the center of the meadow, there was a small dirt slope with a circle of nearly hundreds of square meters, and the dirt slope was full of scattered stones and broken masonry, and it was vaguely possible to find that it was originally the remains of an ancient building.

At this time, Zhang Stonemason told them that this was once the location of the palace of the Dragon City, and under these ruins was the palace of the Black Water Country, which had been buried for thousands of years.

Hearing this, Zheng's spirits perked up, and he immediately quickened his pace and walked towards the pile of ruins.

When the three of them came to the ruins of what had once been the palace, they searched around the ruins, and found that it was a pile of ruins in addition to a pile of ruins.

At this time, Zheng suddenly turned his head and asked Zhang Sihaidao: "By the way, I remember that you didn't say before that this deserted palace had been dug up and patronized by many mountain bandit predecessors, and if this is the case, then there will definitely be an entrance here that was dug up by them back then, do you know where this entrance is." ”

Zhang Sihai shook his head awkwardly and said, "This...... I don't know if it's small, and it's also hearsay, but even if there is an entrance, it is estimated that after so many years of ups and downs, it has been blocked by mud and sand. ”

Hearing this, Zheng shook his head in disappointment, sighed and said, "Hey, I see, but I ran for nothing." ”

Zhang Sihai finally had a chance to behave in front of the alliance leader, where would he let it go so easily, thought about it for a while, and hurriedly said: "Alliance leader, although I don't know where the entrance is, but some old people from the original Black Dragon Village, they must know where the entrance to the palace is, otherwise, I'll go find them to take a look." ”

Seeing that things were still turning around, Zheng's eyes lit up at the moment, and he said, "Okay, just do it, then there will be Lao Zhang in charge." ”

When Zhang Sihai heard this, he said: "Alliance leader, the little one will go and invite them over now, and the little one will retire." ”

Zheng nodded, waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, come over as early as possible." ”

Seeing that after Zhang Sihai left, Zheng was idle, so he wandered around near the ruins and watched, and at the same time, he also lit more cigarettes with himself.

At this time, the stonemason saw that Zheng was smoking, and suddenly he was very curious, but because of the identity and majesty of the alliance leader, he didn't dare to go up and ask, so he had to hide and watch secretly, while watching him use his nose hard to sniff the smoke in the air.

After inhaling the smell of tobacco in the air, the stonemason's eyes couldn't help but light up with envy,

It turns out that this Zhang stonemason is also an old smoking gun, and on weekdays, he also smokes a few puffs from time to time with a dry smoking gun, and he can be regarded as a fellow Taoist.

At this time, when Zheng turned around, he found his abnormal performance, and suddenly understood that the stonemason in front of him must be the same as himself, a cloud addict.

After learning this, Zheng suddenly felt that he had found a soulmate, and he was overjoyed.

When he came to Zhang Shimason, he smiled and said, "Brother Zhang also smokes." ”

Zhang Shimason smiled awkwardly, nodded silently, but his eyes were always staring at the cigarette roll of Zheng's hand, obviously full of curiosity and greed for the hibiscus king,

At that moment, Zheng gave him all the half-pack of Furong King he carried, and then demonstrated it himself, and taught him how to smoke.

Zhang Stonemason took a cigarette, took a deep breath as if he was learning to learn, and suddenly, his eyes were closed with an intoxicated expression, and he couldn't help but admire: "Good tobacco is really a rare thing, my old Zhang has never smoked any mellow tobacco in his life, and today is really a blessing for the leader of the alliance." ”

Zheng smiled, was in a good mood, and said: "Brother Zhang, if you like to smoke in the future, just come to me directly, I promise to take care of you, haha...... It's really a bosom friend in a foreign country, a bosom friend in a foreign country......"

People are a strange thing, even if they are withdrawn and indifferent, as long as they find the same person, it is easy to close the distance, so the first pair of good friends in Black Dragon Valley were born.

After the two smoked a few cigarettes together in a row, finally, Zhang Sihai led a gray-haired old man over,

Zheng looked at the old man, his face was old, his face was full of wrinkles, and he was at least eighty years old, but this old man walked with vigorous steps, and he should have practiced Gangqi, otherwise, where would an ordinary old man have such a good spirit,

Under the guidance of this senior backbone-level old mountain bandit, they found the entrance to the palace that was dug up by the mountain bandits' predecessors, but this entrance was already a piece of mud and sand, and they couldn't see it at all, it turned out to be a hole more than one person high.