Yang Zhi and Zhu Wu were standing on the second floor of an inn not far away, looking at the small courtyard covered by Chao from the window, the two had been watching for a day; Sifin was sitting alone at the table in the room drinking wine and eating meat, Sifin was now brightly dressed, and Zhu Wu dressed him as a rich merchant from the Western Regions. Zhu Wu naturally became a coachman, and Yang Zhi looked like a family member, wearing a beard, and along the way, no matter where he went, no one cared about a bearded subordinate at all.

It was Zhu Wu who delivered the message to the government, because Wu Yong was different from Wen Bohu, Wu Yong was a real master of the rivers and lakes, and Chao Gai's jewelry business was dealing with all aspects, Yin Jian finally couldn't bear the doubt in his heart and invited Wu Yong to the prefect's yamen as a guest. Yin Jian is not a mischievous person, and he did not put Wu Yong in prison, but he did not plan to let Wu Yong leave. What Yin Jian brought to Ruan Jin was to ask Chao Gai for a favor and find Yang Zhi.

In this way, even Ruan Jin could not leave Mengzhou for the time being, so he had to send someone to deliver a letter to Chao Gai, Yang Zhi and others followed the messenger to Puyang, more than 500 miles of road, the carriage followed the delivery mule cart, and ran there in one day; Zhu Wu could see that Yang Zhi's interest was not actually in the Birth Gang, but more in Chao Gai and a few other people.

Zhu Wu could only secretly say that it was a pity, how could he think of following Yang Zhi, but from any angle, Yang Zhi is a thousand-mile horse after all, from the realization to the present, Yang Zhi has taken every step very steadily; As a big boss, Sifin played a very successful role, every time he ordered food and wine, he was almost the best in the hotel, and he always had to buy some mutton sauce and meat to take with him when he decided to stay at the guest house at night.

In Sifin's own words, he had suffered too much before, and now that he has money, he wants to compensate himself; Zhu Wu asked Yang Zhi: "What are you going to do?"

Yang Zhi estimated and said: "The person who came is called Sun Sheng, the prince of Yunlong, and I have been to Chen Luan's library with me, his arrival should be the news of the birth gang, but Liang Zimei has been delayed for so long, it is very unexpected, there should be something delayed, and the departure time has to be delayed." We didn't know the route of transportation, so we could only follow behind Chao Gai and others, secretly grab twenty or thirty thousand yuan, and make a fortune in a muffled voice. ”

Zhu Wu said in disbelief, "Aren't you going to explore the path with the four-fin master?"

Yang Zhi shook his head and said: "Chao Gai and Gongsun Sheng are masters themselves, Chao Gai's subordinates don't know any capable people, it's not worth exploring the way, in case they are discovered, even if they retreat, they will be startled." In the future, if Chao Gai loses the Birth Gang, he will definitely suspect us, and if he doesn't move now, he can pretend to be a person from the Plum Blossom Gate or the Gale Dart Bureau when the time comes. According to my opinion, Chao Gai will definitely not dare to rob blatantly, he must be outwitted, this is our chance. ”

Yang Zhi's caution is rare in Zhu Wu's life, Zhu Wu has had contact with Song Jiang through Li Li and Shi Jin, Song Jiang is already a cautious person, Yang Zhi seems to be more cautious than Song Jiang. Zhu Wu believes that relying on his own and Yang Zhi's minds, peeking in the dark, he will definitely find an opportunity, and then rely on Yang Zhi and the skills of the four fins to grab the goods, and Yang Zhi is not greedy, as long as he is twenty or thirty thousand, there is no problem of not being able to transport it after grabbing.

After waiting for two days, a few people came to Chaogai's mansion one after another, and finally went out of the city one after another, Yang Zhi and Sifin tracked separately, and found that the manpower was distributed in Nanle County, Yang Zhida heard that the Wuhua Camp was in Nanle County, and the northwest twenty miles of the Wuhua Camp was Huangnigang. Yang Zhi and others specially went to take a look at the terrain, the Wuhua camp is in the Phoenix Mountain, south of the Shuhe River, and the northwest direction is all mound hills, Huangnigang is actually a part of Hongshiling, Hongshiling is from north to south, Huangnigang is a branch vein extending from the ridge.

In addition to the farmers who farm, nearly half of the households in the Wuhua Camp area are actually craftsmen, and the town is very lively, with many tea shops and wine shops, and there are langzhong people who treat people on the streets; there are juggling artists in the rivers and lakes; there are fortune tellers who cheat to eat and drink; and there are folk craftsmen who set up sheds and cut paper. There are also many porters, carrying a flat pole to wander the streets, waiting for those guests who come to buy dates from other places to arrange work, the dates here are not as good as Qingzhou dates, but they come out early, and sweet.

Yang Zhi and others lived in Sang Village, the inn is next door to the only small hotel in the village, one side is a decorative loess wall painted with I don't know what age of ancient paintings, painting the scene of hunting, three hunters are galloping, animals are running around. The guy at the hotel said that almost all of the people in the village are surnamed Yuan, and they are all descendants of the Xianbei Tuoba clan.

The man said vividly: "That pit is the shelter of our village, and in the year of the great drought, you can see the roots of the ancient mulberry tree, just like the pillar stone foundation in the palace, glowing with a faint green light, faintly with Venus in it, there is a hole embedded in the root of the mulberry tree, the hole is four or five inches wide, and the overflowing spring water is sweet, and it takes ten days and half a month after the rain to fill the pit again." ”

Yang Zhi understood as soon as he heard that this was an underground river, just like sometimes an underground river in the desert, often under tens or even hundreds of meters of soil, due to the low terrain, when the surrounding area generated pressure, it would press the groundwater to a relatively shallow place. Yang Zhi pretended to be a subordinate, looked at the four fins and asked, "Is that hole very deep?"

The man saw that some people were interested, and said proudly: "Some people have used ropes to tie the mallet lead ball to probe several times, and they have reached dozens of feet, but they still have not reached the bottom; ”

The golden frog is not uncommon in later generations, not only in Africa, South and North America, but also in India, and is a type of toad that is only good at swimming and not good at land jumping, perhaps in the special environment of caves. Yang Zhi is interested in the mulberry root, which is so old that it is almost as old as a stone, isn't it the same as the cypress, weathered into stone? It is estimated that the mulberry tree does not have the kind of oil of the cypress, but it is more like it is developing in the direction of dead wood fossils, and Venus should be adsorbed on the roots of the tree with some kind of mineral.

This is the spiritual pillar of Sang Village, Yang Zhi is not bold enough to be strong, but he decided to write it down in his diary and use it as a material for chatting after tea and dinner in the future. Sifin is now playing the role of the big boss, and some words are naturally asked by him, and Sifin asks: "Are there any old objects in the village?"