"You will conclude that you will definitely gain something when you come out today."

Searching all the way along the trail found, Yu Tong asked Qiu Shaohu.

"Because it's daytime and it's raining." Qiu Shaohu paused, seeing that the other party was still puzzled, and explained: "After all, the sight during the day is better than the dark sky, and there will not be too many people going out on rainy days. ”

Qiu Shaohu said as he saw another fork in the road, so he said to Yutong: "Next, you continue to lead the way." ”

One person and one dog, the two just alternately walk in front. The place where you can smell the smell is the rain pupil to lead the way, and if you lose the trace of the other party, you will change Qiu Shaohu to continue to explore with the star map. The combination of two pairs is indeed extremely efficient. Before they knew it, they had searched a very large area and began to feel that they were getting closer and closer to each other.

"What the hell is this ability of yours? I've never seen it, and I haven't even stopped listening to it. Seeing Qiu Shaohu once again attract the starlight, showing the scene of the past, Yu Tong said: "I seem to have seen a secret of yours, and I have to wonder if I will be killed by you after this incident." ”

"It's not going to happen, it's too troublesome." Qiu Shaohu was joking expressionlessly, and said indifferently: "I have a way to directly erase part of your memory, that is not much simpler." ”

"Then you might as well kill me." Rain Hitomi said.

Qiu Shaohu just said a joke-like thing casually, and he didn't take it seriously, but he didn't expect the other party's reply to almost startle him.

"Losing what you remembered, forgetting what you had experienced, being confused, as if everything didn't exist, don't you think, this is something more painful than death?" Yu Tong said: "At least death, it's still clear." ”

"Wait a minute......" Qiu Shaohu suddenly stopped her, and both of them stopped in front of a fork in the road.

There are more people in front of me than before. Although the rain had not stopped, the voices of people on all sides had already become noisy, and the voices could still be heard clearly from a long distance.

It's like a small port, with a small river next to the bridge and a wharf densely packed with small boats. The water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the Ze country is densely packed, the boat is a commonly used tool, even if the twelve city gates into Beijing, there are also four land routes, eight waterways, the water network is dense, it can be seen.

Most of the boats moored here are ferry boats that take inland rivers, the bottom of the boat is small and shallow, and it can wade into the shallows, but it can carry a large amount of goods, and it is the most commonly used boat for people who come and go.

"Be quiet, don't speak." Qiu Shaohu seemed to have discovered something, and asked Yu Tong not to communicate with him anymore and continue to pretend to be his pet.

"When this is over, I will definitely take you on a dog leash and let you be my pet!" Yu Tong hated and hated, but still listened to Qiu Shaohu's words and obediently followed him.

Most of the people who come and go to the dock are porters and baggy workers, and even if it rains, they have to complete their work as usual.

Among them, a young and strong porter attracted Qiu Shaohu's attention.

He looked no different from ordinary people. After finishing his work and getting off work, he went to a nearby wine shop and made a pot of soju. Then he took the beaten wine, went to the small shop next to him, asked for two pieces of bread and a bowl of vegetables, and ate them slowly.

His actions and habits are completely indistinguishable from those of an ordinary porter.

But Qiu Shaohu stared at him tightly and didn't leave for a moment.

"What's wrong with him?" Seeing that there was no one around, Yu Hitomi asked.

"He's a porter on a boat, but he's covered in dirt." Qiu Shaohu said: "People who are often on the boat often come into contact with water, even if their clothes are dirty, they are rubbed like oil, and the whole clothes are dyed. But his clothes, however, were more like those of peasants in the fields, stained with mud that had been washed off, but had been sticking to his body. ”

"Maybe he's just a farmer, after all, recently, there have been a lot of troubles among homeless people outside the capital." Yutong's words were a little ridiculous.

"Look, there's got to be something wrong with him." Qiu Shaohu didn't want to argue about these inconsequential things, and said.

After a while, the young porter, having finished eating, left the place as usual.

Qiu Shaohu and Yu Tong immediately followed, and this time they deliberately opened a certain distance, after all, Yu Tong with a keen sense of smell is not afraid of losing it.

Along the river, all the way forward, the buildings on both sides gradually grew taller, sheltering the falling raindrops. Kangjing's white jade bridge folds layer upon head, forming a three-dimensional labyrinth that surrounds it.

They had been walking on the bottom bank of the river, and a boat on the riverside suddenly went up the river and broke the waves.

The porter waited there, and the boat soon stopped beside him, and a man disembarked from the boat, along with him, and led a horse, and handed it to the porter. Then the other party returned to the boat and left quickly in the boat.

That horse can be seen at a glance to be a good horse, the whole body is blue and there is not even a single miscellaneous hair, the limbs are slender, the body is smooth, and the horse's head is as angular as a brick. Even in the north, if it weren't for the desert Beiguanying, or the Langguo Luzhou Department, it would be difficult to find this good horse in other places.

"It seems that the rumors are true." Qiu Shaohu said.

"What?" Yu Hitomi was puzzled.

"There has long been gossip in the capital that horse dealers use boats to secretly transport good horses to the city, and then send them to a specific place by a special person, and then find someone to sell the horses, and they can earn a hundred taels of silver inside and out. It's just that there are many passes in the capital, and most of them are chasing after the wind and shadows on this matter, and there is no real evidence, so no one has to check the specific situation. In addition, many officials colluded with businessmen to enrich their own pockets, and they did not know how much profit they had made from it. Qiu Shaohu said: "In this way, I understand where the soil on his body came from." ”

"But what's the use of us following him?" Yu Tong said: "We are looking for the True Pond Sect, not the horse dealer." ”

"The more mixed the place, the easier it is to hide the three religions and nine streams. The dock is a place where people from all walks of life come together, and anyone can find it. We have been following the traces of the Shinike Sect, and when we happened to be in the vicinity, we met this person, and there must be something related to it. "Qiu Shaohu said;" Follow him all the time to see where he ends up. He was leading the horse, and it was impossible for him to wander around the neighborhood all the time, he must have sent the horse to a place. ”

The two of them planned like this and continued to follow the porter.

The other party was very cautious, and after receiving the horse, he kept going around and around, as if deliberately trying to get rid of the person who might be following him.

But of course, he didn't expect that it would be Qiu Shaohu and Yutong who would follow, so after seeing that there was no one behind, he relaxed his heart, and after walking around a street corner, he was relieved to lead the horse forward.

The surrounding land gradually flattened, and there was grass beside it, and at a glance, it looked like a racecourse.

At the end of the view, a whole manor-like building appeared in front of me. Its area is quite large, and it occupies as much as 50 acres of land.

From the manor, there were faint bursts of sheep crowing, and the sound of "bleating" was particularly noisy and harsh.

"Yu Ranch, if you say that the smuggled horses are hidden here, it is normal." Qiu Shaohu suddenly realized.

The capital of Zhaoguo itself is in the northern Wudu City, close to the boundary between mountains and grasslands, and there are many plains, and the residents like to eat mutton. After the imperial court crossed to the south, this atmosphere was also brought over with the habits of the officials of the DPRK and China. However, the climate in the south of the Yangtze River is not suitable for raising sheep in large pastures like in the north. Therefore, the official contracted this business to merchants near the capital, and established countless pastures to raise sheep for the ministers of the court and the big families in the city. Since then, Kang Jing has eaten mutton, and it has also become a trend.

Raising horses, like raising sheep, is an animal and requires a lot of forage. So it's not too appropriate to hide smuggled horses here. Moreover, Dan Fan Ranch is said to be set up by private businessmen, but the fact is that behind every ranch, there is a certain official background. In other words, they must have known about the smuggling of horses. If the imperial court follows this clue, it will definitely be able to find out many things.

It seems that today, a terrible thing has really been broken.

"Look, that man!" Yu Tong suddenly reminded him.

When Qiu Shaohu heard this, the porter moved the horse to the back door, and a person walked out of it, took the horse, and then the porter turned around and left, and the other led the horse inside.

The distance here was too far, and Qiu Shaohu couldn't see it clearly, so he took out a clairvoyant mirror and looked at it directly.

Then I saw that on the other party's body, there was also the belt of the "only true god", and even the belt of the horse he led was the same ribbon.

"In the pasture, in the place where the sheep are raised, there are horses, and it seems that there are other things hidden." Qiu Shaohu and Yu Tong glanced at each other, and they didn't know what they thought of each other.

……

"Dad, is this the case?" Looking at a warehouse near the city gate, Cheng went to the first place and said, "We've been looking for a few days, don't find the wrong place." ”

"That's it, there can be mistakes." Cheng Tingdong lit the cigarette pouch and took a deep puff next to his mouth, exhaling the smoke.

Cheng Fuxian said while hiding from the cigarette his father spit out, "Then what should I do this time?" Let's take the token of the Sima family and go directly to deceive them? ”

In front of the warehouse, there are many guards, and they look heavily guarded, and it doesn't look like they can be approached casually.

"It's not that simple, we have to probe their tone first, we can't be so direct."

"Then why don't we go up together this time, don't be like the Qinglou before, you wait below, I will suffer and suffer, it's too unfair." Cheng Fuxian complained.

"Stinky boy, still have a grudge against your father!" Cheng Tingdong scolded, directly knocked his son on the head with a cigarette pouch, and said, "You watch this time and see how I did it." ”

Cheng Tingdong didn't talk nonsense, and walked directly forward while smoking a cigarette pouch.

The guards quickly spotted him and said directly, "Who is it?" What are you doing here? ”

"Take a look, come here and walk around at will," Cheng Tingdong pretended to be careless, and said: "Your camp is full of loopholes, could it be that in the past, General Lu took you to train the army, and he also taught you this?" ”

The other party's face immediately changed.

Cheng Tingdong had already investigated that these guards, many of whom had returned from the north, were also subordinates of General Lu Chengzhao when they were in the north in the past. For Lu Chengzhao's famous name, it has long been like thunder.

Therefore, for these people, mentioning the name of "Lu Chengzhao", who has become a legend in the army, can often have a special effect.