Because of Hua Rong's ventilated message, Wang Ying and others walked the trail to the Li family crossing overnight, and they really escaped.

Liu Neng, who had been defeated last night, was annoyed and angry, and lit fireworks early the next morning to inform the front-line officers and soldiers to start an attack.

But by the time he arrived at Wang Ying's camp with hundreds of soldiers, the camp had long been empty, only the bonfires that had not been extinguished for a long time and the traces of camping showed that there had been people living here.

Liu Neng realized that there was a hidden trail leading to the Li family crossing on the road map, and Hua Rong probably escaped with the fugitives overnight.

He hurriedly led people to chase him down the path, but it was too late.

After a non-stop journey all night, Song Jiang and the others came to the Lijia Road Crossing early, and left on the big boat sent by Liangshan.

Hearing that Song Jiang, Hua Rong and other heroes came to defect, Chao Gai, the deputy owner of the village, excitedly brought all the brothers out to greet him, and set up a banquet for several days to celebrate.

If it weren't for Zeng Hao, the owner of the village, they would definitely re-rank Song Jiang and the others.

……

Zeng Hao followed the merchant ships all the way to Tokyo, but if he wanted to enter the city, he had to go through strict inspections.

Zeng Hao knew that once he was recognized by the inspecting soldiers, he was likely to be killed in prison by Cheng Laiguang before he saw Zhao Shiyu.

He was pondering how to enter the city when he saw a group of merchants carrying wine preparing to enter the city.

The wine merchant carried four carts, each with a large barrel of wine one man high.

Seeing these four wine barrels, Zeng Hao's eyes lit up, he could completely hide in the wine barrels and mix in!

He immediately approached the person in charge of the wine merchant and politely discussed the matter with him.

The person in charge also politely told him to get out.

"Although my wine is not an expensive wine, but such a large barrel will cost at least dozens of dollars, so you can hide it in it, can I still sell this wine? Something is wrong! ”

Zeng Hao didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out a gold bar: "This is enough to buy your barrel of wine, right?" ”

Gold, regardless of the dynasty, is hard currency.

As soon as the gold bars came out, the speed of the person in charge's face change even made him sigh when he saw the Sichuan drama's face change, and immediately helped Zeng Hao hide in the penultimate wine barrel.

The person in charge scooped half of the wine from the barrel, let Zeng Hao curl up inside, face up, and then took a layer of cover and put it in the middle of the barrel to block it, and put the wine on top of it.

As long as the soldiers at the city gate don't check carefully, they can basically get through the customs in a fool's way, and Zeng Hao will not be drowned in the barrel.

Zeng Hao was stuffy in the barrel and didn't know how long it had been, but he felt that he was about to faint.

There was a little space between the covers for him to breathe, but he didn't breathe much air.

And his current posture is extremely awkward, and after a long time, his whole body feels sore.

Just when Zeng Hao was about to hold on, the car finally stopped, and the cover plate above his head was lifted.

Zeng Hao immediately took a greedy gulp of air, and then stood up from the barrel with the help of the person in charge.

After standing up and resting on the side for a while, Zeng Hao took a look at his surroundings.

He was now in a courtyard with a row of slightly dated houses at the back.

Zeng Hao asked the person in charge if he could let him live here temporarily.

It is impossible for him to stay in a hotel with his current status.

Hearing Zeng Hao's words, the person in charge put away his smiling expression, and said in a cold voice: "Hero, you have to sneak in even when you enter the city, presumably the story on your body is not simple, right?" Didn't I keep you here to make trouble for myself? ”

Zeng Hao took out another piece of broken gold.

The person in charge suddenly returned to his smiling expression: "Those of us who have been running the rivers and lakes all year round should help each other, and if one side is in trouble, all sides will support...... You wait, I'll go and clean up a room for you now. ”

Zeng Hao: "......"

It didn't take long for the person in charge to clean up a clean room for Zeng Hao, and also called Zeng Hao wine and food.

Zeng Hao invited the person in charge to stay and eat together, and asked him some questions by the way.

"Boss Duan, I want to find someone, but when I first come to Tokyo, I don't know where to start, you have been doing business in Tokyo for so long, you must have a lot of connections, can you help me?" Zeng Hao poured Duan Ming full of wine and asked.

Duan Ming was the person in charge, a chubby middle-aged man with a round face and small eyes.

Hearing Zeng Hao's flattering words later, Duan Ming picked up the wine glass and said with a smug face: "You're really right, I Duan Ming don't have much else, just a lot of friends!" With our friendship, whoever you want to find, there are very few people who can make it impossible for me to find. ”

Our friendship? It should be your friendship with my money.

After Zeng Hao finished complaining in his heart, he said: "It's a woman, her name is Pan Jinlian, and she currently lives in the palace......"

"Poof!!"

Duan Ming directly squirted out all the wine he had just drunk, and then looked at Zeng Hao, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly and asked, "You, where did you say she lives?" ”

"Imperial Palace, she is by Emperor Linying's side...... Handmaid. ”

Zeng Hao didn't dare to say that he was looking for Emperor Linying directly, he was afraid of scaring Duan Ming, so he said that he was looking for Pan Jinlian instead.

Anyway, the relationship between Pan Jinlian and Zhao Shiyu is very good, and finding her is equivalent to finding Zhao Shiyu.

"I'm guessing there's something wrong with you." Duan Ming pointed at Zeng Hao, "What do you think I can do?" Someone who can help you find the palace?! ”

"She's just a maid in the palace......"

"Whether it's a maidservant or something else, as long as it's related to the palace, it can't be something that a small merchant like us can find." Duan Ming smiled bitterly.

Although the business environment of the Song Dynasty was more relaxed than that of other dynasties, the status of Shinong, industry and commerce, and merchants did not improve much.

Scholars, in particular, looked down on businessmen the most, regardless of how big their business was.

In the Song Dynasty, the scholars and doctors were the mainstream, and they looked down on businessmen, which was equivalent to the mainstream looking down on businessmen.

"Is there no way?" Zeng Hao asked unwillingly.

Duan Ming thought for a moment and said, "Although it is impossible for me to help you find that Pan Jinlian, the palace maids and guards in the palace are all resting. As far as I know, when it's time to take a break, this group of people often goes to the food streets in the west of the city...... You can try your luck there and see if you can find it. ”

In other dynasties, it is impossible for the palace maid to have a holiday, and it is likely that she can only stay in the palace for the rest of her life, so there is a poem "The white-headed palace maid is here, sitting idle and talking about Xuanzong".

However, the Song Dynasty is very special, the Song Dynasty gave officials a lot of holidays, which is in the forefront of so many dynasties, and even the palace maids rarely have holidays, although there are not many, but compared to the palace maids of other dynasties, it is much better.

"May I ask Boss Duan, when do those palace maids usually rest?" Zeng Hao asked again.

"The holidays they take are not fixed, and sometimes they change as the situation develops...... Let me count the days...... You're lucky that tomorrow is their day off. ”