Chapter 27: Preparation
Wang Zhen said: "I may get into some trouble in the future, so I want to use the method of cracking Baizi in exchange for Sun Dahu to let me hide in the house for a few days." ”
Sun Dahu said with a sad face: "Trouble? What's the trouble you're going to get into? I'm the one who is most afraid of trouble! ”
Wang Zhen explained: "Sun Dahu, please rest assured. The trouble I caused, first, not only would it not hurt nature, but it would also make people applaud; Second, I, the king, will never cause trouble to Sun Dahu. I fancy the isolation of Sun Dahu's mansion, and I don't necessarily want to hide in, I just want to buy insurance. ”
Sun Dahu looked at Wang Zhen suspiciously for a long time before he said, "Okay, I will promise you for the sake of cracking the law of Baizi." ”
Wang Qianxi said: "Thank you Sun Dahu!" Then I'll show you how to make the first twenty moves of black. ”
After hearing this, Sun Dahu's self-esteem was seriously damaged, and he said, "What? Twenty?! You don't believe me, do you? I didn't know you and promised to let you take refuge in my house, and you still don't believe me? ”
Wang Zhen soothed: "Sun Dahu, please calm your anger!" After finishing the next business, he will naturally demonstrate it to Sun Dahu. I can do things as fast as a month, or as slow as two months. ”
Sun Dahu was really a little angry, and said: "After all, you just don't believe me, you go outside and ask me what kind of person Sun Dahu is." ”
Wang Zhi explained sincerely: "Of course I know that Sun Dahu is a man of his word, otherwise I would not have come to Sun Dahu for help." It's just that this is really about my net worth and life, and I hope that Sun Dahu will forgive me for keeping a hand. Besides, with Sun Dahu's chess strength, wouldn't it be more enlightening to give you twenty moves first? Give some time, maybe Sun Dahu will crack it out by himself. Wouldn't that be more interesting, you say? ”
Sun Dahu had a feeling of being awakened by a word, and said happily: "Yes! Right! Twenty is twenty, and I'll study it myself. After demonstrating the first twenty moves of black chess, Wang Zhen left the Sun Mansion.
It was almost dusk, and Wang Zhen thought to himself: In the future, I will have to act alone, and it is better to have less contact with Ji Yaxuan. So I found an inn nearby to stay. The next day, after breakfast, Wang Zhen asked the shopkeeper about the location of the farmers' market, left the seven-star sword at the inn, and went to the farmers' market to buy herbs such as grass aconitum, mandala seeds, and Aracea; bought a hard bow, a hundred arrows; Twenty pounds and an inch long iron nails.
Back at the inn, Wang Zhen borrowed a stove and a medicine pot from the shopkeeper in the name of boiling medicine to cure diseases, and cooked herbs in the backyard of the inn. After the medicine was cooked, Wang Zhen took it back to his room, closed the doors and windows, soaked a hundred arrows, twenty catties of iron nails, his dagger and the seven-star sword in the potion, and air-dried. It turned out that Wang Zhen bought back the herbs for preparing anesthetics. Although he used to chop wood for a living, his father was a hunter, and when he was alive, he taught him how to shoot arrows, throwing knives, and how to prepare anesthetics for fighting tigers. Later, his parents died, and Wang Zhen was often bullied, excluded, and robbed of prey by his fellow hunters because of his young age, so he changed his career to chopping wood for a living. This kind of anesthetic is very strong, and the tiger will not move if it is hit by the anesthetic arrow. Wang Zhen knew that the plan was dangerous and that the people he was dealing with did not need to be above board with them, so he smeared all his weapons with anesthetic.
After Wang Zhen finished all this, it was already night, and after he washed the pot and returned it to the shopkeeper, he secretly ran to the manger and used a dagger to lightly cut a bloody wound on the left hind leg of a horse to try the effect, and the horse began to neigh in pain, and then quieted down, and the left hind leg bent weakly to lift up, supported by the remaining three legs. The neighing of the horses caused the horses in the entire manger to agitate, and the neighing came and went. Wang Zhen hurriedly climbed over the wall and went out, and then returned to the room from the front door of the inn. Wang Zheng thought to himself: The effect of anesthetic is not bad.
After breakfast the next day, Wang Zhen walked around the street to find a target. After a while, he found it. A northern homeless man squatted on the side of the road, holding a man and a woman and two children in his left and right hands, looking helplessly at the pedestrians on the street.
Wang Zhen stepped forward and said to the man, "Big brother, do you have a complete set of clean clothes?" I'll buy it from you for five taels of silver. ”
Five taels of silver can buy more than a dozen sets of new clothes, and you can buy enough rations for the man's family of three to eat for half a year.
The man was overjoyed, and said excitedly, "Yes! Yes! Wait, uncle! With trembling hands, he took out a set of clothes from his baggage.
Wang Zhen unfolded his clothes and checked them, compared his body again, and then paid five taels of silver to the man.
The man hurriedly bowed and thanked his children, and asked his children to thank him as well. The two children looked at Wang Zhen with innocent eyes and said timidly: "Thank you! ”
The king smiled at them, and took out twenty copper coins and gave them ten each.
Wang Zhen took the clothes back to the inn, found the shopkeeper, and said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, I met a friend on the road, and my friend invited me to stay at his house for a few days, and my luggage was left at the inn, please help me take care of it." ”
The shopkeeper said: "Guest officer, you can rest assured, the luggage is safe in the inn!" ”
So Wang Zhen paid the shopkeeper for seven days' room in advance, and then went to the kitchen to find some ashes before returning to his room. Wang Zhen put on the suit of clothes and took a picture of the bronze mirror, the clothes were a little shorter and had patches, and then put some ashes on his face, looking like a northern outcast.
Why did Wang Zhen do everything possible to get a set of northern clothes? Because the Eastern Jin Dynasty advocated "celebrities and gentlemen", everything followed the trend of celebrities, and at that time, most of the celebrities loved to take Wushi San, and Wushi Shi Shi needed to emit toxicity and internal heat after eating, so all of them wore wide robes and fluttered immortals. The common people followed suit and wore wide robes. Over time, the styles of clothing in the south and the north are very different, and they can be distinguished at a glance.
Wang Zhen smeared the ashes on his face to make it dirty, then wrapped a white towel around his head, and completed the disguise, and escaped a northern refugee. Wang Zhen opened the crack in the door, observed that there was no one outside, immediately flashed out of the room and locked the door, and then sneaked out of the inn.
The reason why Wang Zhen went to great lengths to dress up as a northern outcast, was because he planned to reconnoiter near the base camp of the Wudou Mi Sect. He had to familiarize himself with the roads and houses near the base camp of the Wudou Mi Sect, so that he knew everything and walked with his eyes closed, so as to prepare for retreat in the future.
If you want to understand the environment of that area, you have to walk around that area a lot. And the only people who often linger in a certain area go unnoticed and unsuspected.
For the next five or six days, Wang Zhen had been reconnoitring the area centered on the manor where the Wudou Mi Sect was located, and remembered that area clearly. In the name of Ma Guorong, a northern refugee, he rented a house not far from the manor of Wudou Mijiao.
On the seventh day, Wang Zhen went to the market specializing in buying and selling horses, selected a good horse, and rode the horse back and forth on the road from the vicinity of the Wudou Mijiao Manor to the Sun Mansion several times, and memorized the road by heart.
After knowing everything, Wang Zhen went to the shop that sold clothes to change back the clothes of the Jin Dynasty, rode back to the inn to settle the bill, retrieved all the things and put them on horseback, and rode back to the house rented in the name of Ma Guorong, a northern refugee, to drop off all his belongings.
Then he rode the horse to another nearby house of an old woman who lived alone, and fostered the horse in her house, and paid forage and wages of two taels of silver. The old woman was originally old and weak enough to make a living, but today she came with a generous patron who was naturally very attentive and took good care of the horses.