According to the road pointed out by the hotel guy, it took less than half an hour for me to come to the mouth of the alley, only to see the blue bricks and gray tiles, and the courtyard wall is towering.

Walking inside, there are three families side by side, each of which is a wide and bright gate, a red lantern with an electric light is hung high, a pair of stone lions stand left and right, there are horse stones next to it, and the horse pillar is tied to the horse, and the whole alley can be heard quietly with their own heartbeat.

Walking to the last house, looking at a three-word on the side of the door, my heart beat faster and faster, and when I was hesitating to knock on the door, the door creaked open, and an eleven or twelve-year-old boy came out of it, looked at me and said, "The master is really accurate, come in." ”

After saying that, I turned around and walked inside, I followed him into the gate, bypassing the shadow wall, behind is a huge courtyard, planted with all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, in addition to the rich fragrance of flowers, there is also a faint smell of herbs, a few older children in the yard are sweeping the floor, seeing me come in, just raised his eyes to look, lowered his head and continued to busy himself, without the slightest curiosity.

Passing through the courtyard, passing through the second gate, it is a relatively small courtyard again, the courtyard digs out a pool, all kinds of carp swim around in the pool, the lotus flowers bloom in it, the stone slab of white marble paves the road, and leads directly to the main hall.

The door of the main hall is wide open, and there is a picture of Lao Tzu out of the customs on the wall opposite the room, and the black wooden boards on both sides are engraved with the gilded couplets of "this goes to the letter for eight hundred miles, and the holy scriptures are five thousand words today", and there is an enamel table clock in the middle of the long case below the portrait, and a pair of bean blue vases are placed on both sides.

The child who led the way bowed to the old man, didn't say a word, turned his head and left, but the old man ignored him and stared straight at me.

All this is completely different from what I imagined, I thought that this number three must be the Longtan Tiger's Den, but after coming in, there was neither a sword nor a sword, and I was taken to an old man by a child to watch, which made me a little overwhelmed.

I was about to ask about the second master, but the old man opened his mouth first and said, "Sit."

I hesitantly sat down on a chair on the side, and the child who led the way came in with a tray, served tea in turn, and stood beside the old man in a proper manner.

"You are Zhang Xiaofeng?" ”

I nodded.

"Let me see your back." ”

I was stunned, what kind of request is this? It's not a bathhouse, how can you let people take off their clothes as soon as you enter the house?

The old man saw my thoughts and said, "The surname Cui has lived here for these days, but he has not eaten or drunk mine, and I am thinking about whether it is useful to keep it." ”

As soon as I heard this, my hand involuntarily touched my waist, listening to the confidence and spirit of this old man's words, he should be a practitioner, but if I use a gun at this distance, I am confident that I will open a hole in his head.

The old man took a sip of tea slowly with the tea bowl, I took the opportunity to pull out the gun, the bullet had already been loaded, aimed at the old man and pulled the trigger, at the last moment, the hand of the child next to him flashed, the gun was shot out, the moment he got out of his hand, the gun also rang out, the bullet hit Lao Tzu out of the map, only two or three fingers away from the old man's head.

The old man was unmoved, put down the tea bowl leisurely, and said to the child: "How many times have I told you, everything is good, or is the speed a little slower, have you been lazy again in practice recently?" ”

The child said shyly, "Master, my grandson doesn't dare to be lazy." ”

The old man was still continuing his education, and I was left to the side, standing dumbfounded, not knowing what to do next, drawing the knife? What's the use? A kid shoots faster than I do, and the two shots I use with a knife are not enough to see.

Thinking wildly, the old man turned his head to me and said, "Can you take off your clothes now?" ”

After hesitating for a long time, I asked, "After reading the back, you can release people, right?" ”

"Do you think you have room to negotiate here?" ”

I had no choice but to untie the knife, take off my shirt, turn around with both hands on my shoulders and rush my back towards the old man, and after the time of a cigarette, the old man said, "Okay, put it on." ”

I quickly put on my clothes, picked up my knife, and turned around to find that the child was gone.

The old man squinted and asked, "What is your mission this time?" ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately became angry, I thought that it was some kind of worldly master, it turned out to be a traitor, I hated the traitor the most, I couldn't help but want to open my mouth and scold: "You old immortal, good Chinese are not appropriate, when his mother is a Japanese dog, come, Lao Tzu stands here, if you don't kill me today, my mother will kill you." As he spoke, he drew his sword and rushed forward.

I raised the knife to the old man, and when I was about to chop down, I suddenly slapped me in the face, and even the person flew out directly with the knife, lay on the ground and rolled twice, and only stopped when I hit the pillar, sat up and saw the Venus in front of me, struggled to stand up, felt something in my mouth, smacked on the ground, and spit out a back molar.

The old man quietly continued to pick up the tea bowl and blow the tea, I kept recalling the process just now in my mind, but I didn't see the old man get up and make a move, how did this slap come about?

Then the child came out of the inner hall with a square box, and the old man nodded at him, and he walked up to me and placed the box on the table beside him.

I looked at it and scolded: "Don't come to this set, grandpa I don't eat, let alone give this money, no matter how much, grandpa and I are not rare." ”

The old man sighed and nodded at the child, who opened the box and let me see it myself.

I looked in curiously, and sat down on the ground, hiding back with my hands and feet. Inside the box is a human head.

The child looked at me with a smile and said, "Don't be afraid, it's not surnamed Cui" said and took out the head and put it on the table, I heard him say that it was not the second master, so I stood up with help and looked at the head carefully, only to see that this person had golden hair, white and tender face was fluffy, looked like a minority, and was very familiar.

I watched it for a long time and suddenly remembered, quickly rummaged around my body, and finally found a photo in my breast pocket, trembling and put it next to the human head to compare, sure enough, it was him, the German named Leo, the target of this mission.

I didn't know what to say with my mouth open, but when the child saw that I understood, he put the head in the box and took it down, and I asked the old man, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Cooperation. ”

"How can you cooperate even after you kill everyone?" ”

"You have been betrayed, if I hadn't rescued you, you would have been killed by this Leo." ”

"Save us? What about the second master? ”

"You are still useful to me now, I will not kill him for the time being." ”

"Who are you?" ”

"Regardless of who I am, don't you want to know what your mission is all about?" ”

Hearing this, I realized that this old man knew a lot more than I did, and that the second master was fine, so I decided to calm down and listen to what he had to say.

I sat back in my chair, took the bowl and drank it down, took out my cigarette, lit it tremblingly, took a deep breath, felt better, turned to him and asked, "What do you know?" And why should I believe you? ”

"Why? Is this head enough for you and the knife you are carrying? ”

I nodded to myself, indeed, it was enough that he was free to come and go to the base, and knew everything about us and our mission.

He continued: "Your mission this time is to go to Tsokang to find this Leo and bring something back from him, right? ”

I nodded.

"Actually, this Leo also received an order, that is, to do everything possible to put you two to death. ”

I opened my mouth to ask who gave Leo's order, but the old man reached out to stop me and continued, "The same person who gave Leo the order and who gave it to you. ”

"Six? I blurted out in exclamation.

He nodded and said, "Leo actually really has something to give to Six, but the thing has been sent away before you arrived in Xialin Town, as for the reason why Six wants to kill you, remember 31108721?" ”

I was shocked, I had never told anyone about this set of numbers, how could he know? Unless he is.

The old man saw through my thoughts, shook his head and said, "You guessed wrong, I'm not, the reason why I know is because Zeng Weiguo reported to No. 6 that you have two notes, right?" ”

I remembered the telegram that Zeng Rourou showed me when I set off, and sure enough, Zeng Weiguo had long known about numbers, and the second master and I were the bait, and Leo was the fish that ate the bait, I asked him: "Do you know who 31108721 is?" ”

"I don't know, but I think Zeng Weiguo and No. 6 must know who he is, and this person is in your base, otherwise how would they put you two so far away from Cuokang and then do it?" ”

"And what exactly are you kidnapping us for?" "Since he knows more than I know, and he can come in and out of the base freely, the purpose of coming to us is not as simple as a lack of people to practice.

"I'm going to act with you"

After hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned, and my heart said that this old man is sick, right? Leo's head has just been visited, now tell me to act together, where to act? I don't even know where I'm going now, where to take him?

I looked at him with a puzzled expression, and the old man put down the tea bowl and said, "The specific task will wait for my people to come back tomorrow and tell you, you live here for the time being, and the reward I give you is to let you leave the base alive and be transferred to other troops to become ordinary soldiers, how about it?" ”

This sentence was definitely a joke before I came here, but now, it is very tempting for me, and after seeing so many bloody things, I know that the second master can no longer be his mountain king, and I can no longer be my trot, and the only fate of leaving the base is death.

Then he beckoned to me, motioned for me to come over, leaned down, and whispered in his ear another offer that I simply could not refuse.

"As long as you agree, I can answer all the questions in your mind. ”

I stared at him with big eyes and surprise, he smiled slightly and walked to the inner hall with his hands behind his back, shouting as he walked: "Xiao Shunzi, arrange for him to live in a room with that fat man." ”

I hurriedly asked, "Your old name?" ”

"Old man Li Ruhai! ”