Old man Xu smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's insignificant, it's insignificant." [ ] The dog is not a dignitary, nor is it suitable for a long-term public residence. And Xiaomin also heard that the dog was arrested and imprisoned for misconduct a few days ago. If Xiaomin said it at this time, it would be an opportunity to beg His Majesty for favoritism and extrajudicial mercy. This kind of thing is not what the people want, please don't ask your majesty any more. ”

Zuo Ying saw that this old man Xu was earnest, not like a hypocritical person pretending to excuse himself, so he just gave up. It's just that the more he played with the experience he just said and recalled the method and timing of his "bribe" of the thieves that day, the more I felt in my heart that this seemingly honest and ordinary person on the surface was not simple.

"Your Majesty," Mr. Xu said, "Your Majesty said that you have something to say to Xiaomin, what is the matter?" ”

Zuo Ying said while putting rice in her bowl: "Old Master Xu, when I was cooking just now, I found a big wooden barrel and a trolley in your backyard, what are they for?" ”

"Oh, that's for fried tofu. Xiaomin guards the house alone here, bored, and once sold fried tofu for a period of time, as a way to entertain himself. Mr. Xu began to smile and describe vividly: "At that time, I got up before dawn, boiled the hot oil soup with a good taste, and then put the fried tofu fried the night before and stirred it, boiled it, and then put it into a wooden barrel. As soon as the city gates opened, they were about to leave the city and sell them to farmers who were doing farm work in the fields. When I passed under the city gates, the hot oil was still squeaking and bubbling in the barrels. The taste was fragrant, spicy, salty and fresh, and it was really evocative. ”

Zuo Ying smiled and said, "Old Master Xu, if I let you make another pot now." Do you think it's okay? ”

Mr. Xu also seemed to be energetic, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said: "That method Xiaomin will not forget, but the current situation may not be able to buy all the materials for production." If His Majesty wants to taste it, Xiaomin will go to the market to see if there are any good materials. ”

"Not busy, not busy." Zuo Ying hurriedly grabbed Old Man Xu's arm, "Let's eat first, and then we'll talk about it after eating." ”

Ashina listened anxiously. Why did these two people talk about food for no reason? Just now the little girl said that she had something to discuss with them, with her tricks, he thought she thought of a good way to get out of the city, but now when she heard it, it seemed that she wanted to live here for a long time, and she planned to sell "fried tofu" to make a living! Although he was also a little moved by what Mr. Xu said, he really wanted to taste the taste of something called "fried tofu". But he still has a clear distinction between the more important and which is more important.

"Hey! You're not going out of town, are you? Ashina swallowed a mouthful of food indefinitely, and said angrily: "Do you want to nest here and wait for your reinforcements to recapture Ziyang City?" That's shameless! And maybe we'll be searched before reinforcements arrive! ”

Zuo Ying sandwiched a piece of meat into Ashina's endless bowl and said, "The fried tofu is ready, we can go out of the city." However, Mr. Xu. When you go out in a while, you'll have to buy one more thing. ”

Old man Xu nodded again and again, "Everything is in accordance with Your Majesty's orders." ”

Chapter 147: Some vegetable farmers who want to go to the city to catch the morning market, or small traders who want to leave the city early to peddle their goods in the village. A new notice was posted on the sign at the city gate, and everyone waiting for it came to take a closer look.

I saw that there were two portraits pasted on it, one was a young and heroic man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the other was a small and delicate woman with shaved cheeks and eyebrows. However, compared with modern photography technology, the degree of realism and restoration cannot be the same. As long as you change your face slightly, it is difficult to recognize it if you don't know the person in the portrait.

When the gates opened, a spear-wielding Six Dust Thieves set up a fence at the gate that could only allow one person to pass through. A thief stepped forward and announced loudly: "The city lord has an order, all men who pass must be undressed and examined, and the goods must be opened and inspected." If there is no follow. Immediately deal with the fugitives! ”

The other thieves shouted as they lined up and were inspected one by one.

The first to get out of town was a vendor pushing a cart with sacks of goods stacked on it.

The peddler was taken aside to strip and have his wounds examined, while his goods were unwound by the thieves. Because the mouth of the bag was tightly tied, several thieves didn't untie it for a while, and they were a little impatient.

"Get out of the way!" One of the thieves shouted at his companion. Then he lifted his spear and stabbed at the bags of goods. After a few strokes, several bags were pierced by spears one after another, and the red dried dates inside leaked out of the big hole that had been pierced and fell to the ground. If there are fugitives hiding in it, they must be stabbed into a hornet's nest at this time.

A few thieves laughed at it. The owner of the goods dared not speak out, and the other people who were waiting in line were all terrified.

The person behind looked at the miserable condition of the bags of dried dates, and then looked at the goods pushed on his wheelbarrow, and consciously untied the bag mouth for the thieves to check.

But those people probably thought that the method just now was relatively quick, and they didn't bother to look at it at all, and they stabbed it outside the bag regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one, as if they were satisfied with the contents of the bag spilled on the ground.

When the people behind saw this situation, they became uneasy, and some even left the waiting line, turned around and were about to leave, and simply did not leave the city.

However, before the man who turned around and left had time to take a few steps, he was surrounded by several thieves who were chasing after him, and he took him away as a suspect with his goods. In this way, the people in the team are even more dangerous and trembling.

The goods in boxes or bags had to be pierced, and the merchant's back box was poured out. The thieves were very strict and careful, and after a few quarters of an hour, they barely let four or five people leave with the already stabbed and tattered packages.

There are grandparents and grandchildren in the team, and the things they bring are different from others.

I saw that the grandson was a teenage girl, with a pair of buns on her head, dark skin, a dirty and old coarse cloth clothes, and a pair of straw sandals with a frayed head. Hang the oil-stained cloth strip of the two-wheeled cart in front of him around his neck to assist in the force, hold the handrails of the cart with both hands, and try to stabilize the body, and slowly move forward with the team. On the floor of the cart was a large wooden barrel covered with a copper lid, and some red spicy juice was spilled on the edge of the barrel.

An old man over the age of six followed the little girl and her cart with a cane, coughing twice from time to time, and the little girl asked in a low voice from time to time. It seems that they are grandparents and grandchildren who have a very good relationship.

Seeing that there were still two people who were in the turn of the ancestors and grandchildren, the old man greeted the thieves who were interrogating with a smile: "A few elders, the old man is inconvenient and slow, I'm afraid there will be a delay for a while, can you give a favor, let the old man test his injuries at this time?" ”

The thief soldier at the head glanced at the old man, who really looked old and frail, and was afraid that he would affect the progress behind him, so he raised his hand and said, "Come here!" ”

The old man hurriedly took broken steps, leaned on crutches, and headed towards the city wall.

After getting away from the crowd, the old man smiled and whispered to the leader: "Honorable elder, the old man is not going out of the city this time for trading, just because one of the old man's benefactors is making a meal today, and the benefactor's family wants to eat the old man's fried tofu, so the old man made a bucket in the dark and sent it to the benefactor's family today." If the test method like the one just now, the old man's bucket of fried tofu will be invalidated, and it will also disappoint the benefactor's expectations, which is really a pity. Can the elder be a favor, no matter how you check it, that is, don't puncture the wooden barrel containing the fried tofu? ”

As he spoke, the old man untied his coat, opened his placket as a cover, took out a few grains of silver from his waist, and stuffed them into the hands of the thief at the head of the leader.

The leader of the thieves glanced at the wooden barrel on the cart that the old man carried, and thought to himself, it was easy to deal with other things leaking out, but this soup and water were damaged, and it was indeed difficult to deal with the container.

He quietly accepted the broken silver and hid it on his waist, and then pretended not to appreciate it and said: "Don't talk nonsense, we treat everyone equally, and we can check how we want!" ”

The old man put on his clothes and returned to the line, just in time for his turn to check their cart.

The old man took the initiative to untie the copper lid on the wooden barrel, and a hot breath with a choking and spicy smell immediately gushed out, and people a few meters nearby could smell it.

"Old man, what's in it?" The thieves looked curiously into the large wooden barrel, and saw that it was filled with a large barrel of red oil, which was soaked in fried tofu, and it was steaming and bubbling. This thing, not to mention boiling hot, even if it wasn't boiling, the smell alone was enough to choke people with chili oil, and it was impossible to hide the fugitive inside. Moreover, although this large barrel is not small, you can see its height and width, and if you want to hide a person, your head must be exposed.

Look at the little girl with the cart, dressed in tatters and dirty, and very quick in her work, she doesn't look like a pampered prince and nobleman, how can she be a faint king in hiding?

So at this glance, the thieves have actually let go of their hearts, and they have the intention of letting them pass. But there was still a good thing, scooping up the barrel and about to poke it into the barrel, but it was stopped by the leader of the thieves with a shout. Then the grandfather and grandson pushed the cart and passed through the city gate.

The two ancestors and grandsons are indeed Mrs. Xu and Zuo Ying pretending. They were relieved when they pushed their carts far away from the city gates and came to a deserted wood. Only here can they be sure that even if the thieves feel that something is wrong now, it will definitely be too late to chase them.

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