The teahouse in the county is built near the river, from the teahouse to stand on the street to see clearly, the whole Qingning County Street is a street with the river, the two sides of the street are planted with redbud trees, a purple flower blooms between the green leaves of the branches, bringing a little warmth to the deep winter season of this southern December.

Such a scene suddenly looked like an illusion of being on the street of his hometown, and Du Xiaomeng couldn't help but stand in place and was stunned.

Yue Yunze, who was walking in front, noticed that Du Xiaomeng hadn't followed, and when he looked back, he saw her standing with a surprised expression.

"Xiao'er, what's wrong?"

Yue Yunze's words brought Du Xiaomeng back to his senses. She rubbed her eyes, and then looked around the street in front of her seriously. Although this is very similar to the riverside street in my hometown, the uneven stone slabs on the ground, the low wooden stake guardrail by the river, and the brick houses with tiled roofs that can be seen on the street, all of which clearly show that this god-like street is just a strange street in another time and space.

With such a cognition, Du Xiaomeng was a little disappointed, but those little losses were quickly squeezed out by a happy mood. It was an absolute surprise to unexpectedly see the scenery of home in an unfamiliar place.

Seeing that Du Xiaomeng didn't answer his words, and his expression was a little strange, Yue Yunze turned around and walked up to her, stretched out his hand and shook it twice in front of her eyes, and asked again suspiciously: "Xiao'er, what's wrong?" ”

Du Xiaomeng raised his eyes to meet his questioning gaze, and secretly thought about it in his heart, feeling that in the current situation, a vague answer could match his identity of unknown origin. So, with a slightly confused expression, she replied, "I seem to have been to this place before, so familiar." ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as her words came out, Yue Yunze's face changed significantly, but he quickly stabilized his emotions again, smiled casually and asked, "Xiao'er has been here before?" ”

Noticing the change in Yue Yunze's expression, Du Xiaomeng maintained a confused expression and lowered his head, as if he was trying to recall something. The moment he lowered his head, Du Xiaomeng secretly thought about what was hidden behind Yue Yunze's subtle change in expression. I quickly replayed the scene after I met him in my mind, and remembered Yue Yunze, who always showed a calm appearance, every time he caught obvious expression fluctuations on his face before, it seemed that it was basically related to his mother, could it be the same this time?

Thinking of this, Du Xiaomeng raised his head to look at Yue Yunze with an uncertain expression, touched his head and continued to fool around: "Strange, it's obviously the first time I've been here, but I don't know why I just feel that this place is very familiar, so familiar that it's as if I've walked on this street many times before." ”

A trace of fluctuation passed through Yue Yunze's dark eyes. He lowered his eyes and gathered the cloak on his body, and when he raised his eyes again, he was already indifferent. He looked at Du Xiaomeng and said calmly: "People have similarities and things are the same, and the scenery in this world is the same." Laugh, let's go. ”

With that, he turned and walked forward. None of the Qingning County King guards, who were standing on both sides of the road and were responsible for expelling the idlers, stepped forward to intercept them, but just stood in place and watched Yue Yunze and the others walk through the empty street.

Du Xiaomeng was silent and walked forward behind Yue Yunze, still secretly thinking about the relationship between this Qingning Street and him, but he didn't expect to hear Yue Yunze who was walking in front of him after only a while: "It's here." ”

Arrived? Du Xiaomeng stopped and looked forward, a richly decorated façade, covering a wide area of the house appeared in front of him, directly above the house hung a very atmospheric rectangular plaque, red background, with gold paint written "Yue's Tea House" several vigorous and powerful words.

Du Xiaomeng looked back again, it turned out that Yue's Tea House was only a hundred meters away from the teahouse in Najunzhong, and it was still within the range of the guards lined up by the king of Qingning County on both sides of the street. This tea house faces the river, standing at the door, you can have a glimpse of the sparkling and flowing tree shadows, and the location is exactly the middle of the street, which is definitely a luxury version of the street gold shop in modern times!

Yue Yunze stepped on the bluestone steps, made a gesture of please to the tea house that opened the gate, and said, "This is my tea house, please come in." ”

Du Xiaomeng walked up the steps quickly, and before she could go in, she could smell the faint fragrance of tea coming from the store, and when she stepped into the store, she was immediately shocked by the momentum of the store.

I saw a dozen or so men wearing white hats, yellow clothes, and blue aprons running out from different corners of the store, neatly lined up in three rows in the wide front hall, bending down in unison and shouting in unison: "Childe, good morning!" ”

Yue Yunze walked up from behind, looked around, and asked, "What about Mr. Zhao?" ”

One of the guys replied, "Hui Gongzi, Mr. Zhao is upstairs to greet guests." ”

Yue Yunze waved his hand and said, "You all go and get busy." ”

Then he turned back to Du Xiaomeng and said, "Xiao'er, let's go upstairs and sit for a while." ”

"Okay." Du Xiaomeng looked around curiously as she followed Yue Yunze. The tea house is divided into two floors, the front part of the lower floor is used as a hall, and the back part is placed in the shape of "Hui" with several floors of black wooden shelves, each wooden frame is neatly placed on a number of large white porcelain jars, each jar is glued with red paper with the name of the tea. After a cursory glance, I felt that there were at least more than a hundred tea cans in this tea house.

Follow Yue Yunze up the stairs covered with red blankets to the second floor, an open hall with several sets of carved tea tables and chairs and a brocade carpet, and Mr. Zhao is sitting against the wall facing the stairs. He saw Yue Yunze coming up, just stood up and called "Childe", but when he saw Du Xiaomeng turn out from behind Yue Yunze, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised on his face. Although he was a little surprised that Du Xiaomeng appeared here, Mr. Zhao quickly put away his surprised look, smiled slightly, and nodded to Du Xiaomeng as a greeting.

In addition to Mr. Zhao, there were two other people sitting at the tea table against the wall, with their backs to the stairs. One of the people in cyan clothes stood up, turned around and arched his hand to Yue Yunze to greet him: "Hello Gongzi Yue." ”

Seeing the face of the man in green clothes, Du Xiaomeng's heart involuntarily beat faster. What day is it? How can you meet so many unexpected people and things in one day? Just now, I unexpectedly met the top leader of Qingning County in the teahouse, and now when I came to the teahouse, I unexpectedly met my old acquaintance, Brother Jin. Isn't Brother Jin the gold medal soldier in the Zhan family's army who has followed Zhan Qi for many years? Zhan Qidu has not yet come to Qingning County to take office, how could Brother Jin, who is a member of the Zhan family's army, appear in Qingning County?

She hadn't revealed the doubts in her heart, and then the moment the person sitting next to Brother Jin stood up and turned around, her heartbeat accelerated a few beats, and her doubts became a little worse. The person sitting with Brother Jin was a young man in black with a white complexion, moles at the corners of his eyes, and a look in his eyes, his highly recognizable face looked a little familiar, he should have seen him somewhere before, but for a while he couldn't remember when and where he had seen him.

Hearing Yue Yunze say to Brother Jin with a smile, "Didn't we send someone to send tea to the barracks?" Why do you have to bother Jin Ye to come to the tea house in person today? ”

Brother Jin laughed twice and said loudly, "Son-in-law, I'm not here to buy tea." It's just that today I took advantage of some spare time to take the new battalion leaders out for a walk, so that he could recognize the place, but I didn't expect to meet the county king as soon as I arrived here, so Mr. Zhao invited us to come in and taste tea. As he spoke, he poked the young man standing beside him, "Xiaodong, this is the son-in-law of the tea house." ”

The black-clothed young man who was called Xiaodong respectfully bowed his hand: "Good father-in-law!" ”

The voice of the young man in black was clear and powerful, and when he heard his voice, Du Xiaomeng instantly remembered such a person. Isn't this young man in black the one who followed Shangguan Hong in the previous palace coup incident, and later escorted her back to the capital to Yu Tianjun? What's his name? By the way, he seems to be surnamed Lei.

From Brother Jin's words just now, I learned that the young man in black was a recruit who had just entered the camp. But his previous identity was Shangguan Hong's subordinate, and judging from the plot of Shangguan Hong's entrustment to him at that time, he should be a close subordinate who was deeply trusted by Shangguan Hong, a subordinate who was a rebel, how could he come to Qingning County and become a recruit in the barracks?

Yue Yunze and Brother Jin exchanged a few words of greeting, and then beckoned Du Xiaomeng to sit at another tea table, and as soon as they sat down, a guy came up to pour hot tea for them and put a few exquisite refreshments on the table. Du Xiaomeng pretended to be very curious and glanced at Brother Jin and them, but saw that their gaze also happened to sweep towards her body inadvertently. She smiled politely at them, then withdrew her gaze to the refreshments, tasting the refreshments as if she were in high spirits, but in her heart she was quietly thinking.

After taking a sip of hot tea, a flash of inspiration flashed in my head. She remembered that it was mentioned in "The Biography of General Qi Yang" that it was the Qingning County guard who reported to the court after discovering the evidence of Zhan Qi's collaboration with the enemy, and according to the book, the Qingning County guard was surnamed "Lei".

Connecting all kinds of fragments together, Du Xiaomeng came up with some clues.

After experiencing such a big thing as a palace coup, as a subordinate of Shangguan Hong's cronies, he was able to appear in Qingning County safe and sound, and he could also go out shopping and drink tea with Brother Jin openly, the biggest possibility is: The real identity of this young man surnamed Lei is an Infernal Affairs, and he is the person who Yu Tianzheng placed next to Shangguan Hong. Moreover, it is very likely that he is the new guard general of Qingning County who was personally appointed by Yu Tianzheng and has been in office for many days but does not give any face to the king of Qingning County!

If his inference is correct, the young man surnamed Lei is a close confidant of Yu Tianzheng, then does he have a good ally? However, after seeing the acting styles of the two high-level double agents, Qiu Sha and Shangguan Hong, Du Xiaomeng felt that he had to be cautious, even if the young man surnamed Lei was really the new guard of Qingning County appointed by Yu Tianzheng, he could not reveal all the information he had to him without being sure whether he could be trusted 100%.