When Ye Feng led the horse into Xi'an City, it was already dark.

He had stolen the horse from a farming family.

He really can't help it.

When he arrived at the village and town at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, he remembered that he was penniless, and he couldn't even afford to pay for food, so where could he still have money to buy a horse?

The legendary fairy-like Zhang Sanfeng real person, but he looked dressed in tatters, and he was poorer than himself, did he want to ask him to borrow silver?

However, Seventh Uncle Mo Qizhong was in danger and needed rescue urgently, and immediately rushed to Xi'an City, which was Ye Feng's only clue about Wenlan Gongzi and his party.

This clue must not be broken!

Therefore, after thinking about it, there was really no way, and Ye Feng had no choice but to become a horse thief.

However, he left an IOU, stating that he temporarily owed his master ten taels of silver and that he would return it as soon as he had the money.

Ten taels of silver is enough to buy a very good horse in the market, and a bad horse in a peasant house like the present one can be bought with ten or eight horses.

Under the IOU, he also deliberately left the contact information of his righteous brother Xia in the capital, as long as the horse owner arrived in the capital and took the IOU to find Xia, the righteous brother would inevitably pay double the compensation.

In terms of his relationship with his brother-in-law, there is no problem in this matter, and Ye Feng has this confidence.

However, he also knew very well that for the sake of only ten taels of silver, he would go all the way to the capital, but he was afraid that the entanglement spent on this journey would be much more than the arrears.

There is probably no stupid person in the world who will go all the way to the capital to ask for debts for these ten taels of silver.

And the horse he stole was usually doing some heavy work at the owner's house, and he was not a good horse.

But it is extremely obedient and docile, Ye Feng has been anxious to whip the horse all the way, but this horse has no temper at all, just desperately trying to run, and now it is so tired that it is a little foaming at the mouth and exhausted.

In the heart of almost every horse, there is a dream of a thousand miles of horses, just waiting for the arrival of the Bole who can find it.

Ye Feng looked at the horse's tiredness, reached out and touched the whip marks on its body, and couldn't help but feel a trace of guilt in his heart.

The horse did not hold a grudge against Ye Feng, but instead stretched out his tongue and licked Ye Feng's palm, as if thanking him for helping him get out of the farmhouse and gallop the world to realize his dream of becoming a thousand-mile horse.

Ye Feng touched the horse's head, turned his head and looked back at the busy and crowded Xi'an City on the street, and was secretly worried in his heart.

In this huge Xi'an City, how can he find the whereabouts of Prince Wenlan and his party?

For Xi'an City, Ye Feng is no stranger.

This is the place where he first met Tang Da of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, as well as Lei Zhuoyun of the Great Thunder Gate.

It was from here that they caught up with Huashan in order to track down the man in gray, which led to the series of thrilling stories that followed.

Now that he has returned to Xi'an City again, the towering Big Wild Goose Pagoda is still standing, but there is no Tang Da and Lei Zhuoyun by his side, and he has to find a way to face all these problems.

Thinking of Tang Da, Ye Feng suddenly thought of one thing.

The Tang Gate in Shuzhong has a vast force, and there are rudder piles in various places, when it was in Huashan, Tang Da once sent Tang Yu to Xi'an City to move reinforcements. Therefore, in this Xi'an city, there must be a stronghold of the Tang Gate in Shuzhong.

Ye Feng had nothing to do at this time, so he could only rush to the doctor, and now he could only turn to the people of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong to help him find the whereabouts of Prince Wenlan and his party.

But how to contact the people of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong?

Ye Feng remembered that when he was in Lanzhou City, Tang Rou once saw a mark similar to a child's graffiti on the corner of the street.

After seeing this mark, Tang Rou immediately left, as if she was in a hurry to see her

What people. Later, Ye Feng learned that the old lady of the Tang Gate in Shuzhong had come to Lanzhou City at that time.

In this way, the graffiti-like mark may be a code used by the Tang Sect in Shuzhong to communicate with each other.

Fortunately, he vaguely remembered this mark.

So he mustered up his courage, drew the same mark on the corner of the wall on the side of the street from memory, and then led the horse to hide quietly and observe.

There were people coming and going on the street, everyone was in a hurry, no one seemed to notice the graffiti in the corner, and after waiting for a long time and there was no movement, Ye Feng began to be a little discouraged.

Could it be that the mark in my memory is wrong?

Just when Ye Feng felt a little discouraged, a big man who looked like a woodcutter carrying two loads of firewood walked over.

He was dressed in very ordinary cloth clothes, shouting and selling dry firewood all the way, walking in the crowd, and he was an extremely ordinary and inconspicuous kind of person.

But as he walked down the street and caught a glimpse of the sign painted in the corner, his shouting suddenly stopped.

Ye Feng noticed that his whole body was shocked, and then an expression of extreme surprise of disbelief appeared on his face.

He stood in the middle of the street for a long time, until the pedestrians behind him thought that he was blocking the road with two loads of firewood from the boss, and urged him repeatedly, and he came to his senses.

Immediately, I saw him throw the two loads of firewood on his shoulders to the side of the street, ignore it again, turn around and leave in a hurry.

Ye Feng's heart moved, this woodcutter must have something to do with the Tang Sect in Shuzhong.

So he took the horse and followed the woodcutter at a distance.

The woodcutter was in a hurry, and he was a little flustered, and he could see that his mind was very confused, and he didn't even notice that someone was following him.

The woodcutter walked all the way to the door of a restaurant.

This restaurant is framed with a splendid golden wall, and at a glance you know that it is expensive, and it must be a place where celebrities and wealthy businessmen gather in Xi'an.

In front of the restaurant stood a chubby middle-aged man, wearing a handmade satin coat, bright colors, wearing a huge jade wrench on his hand, and his whole body looked extremely rich.

At this moment, he is in front of the restaurant, with a smile on his face, bowing to the guests who come in and out, ushering in and sending them off, greeting each other politely, and knowing at a glance that he must be the boss of the restaurant and the other role.

When the woodcutter arrived at the door of the restaurant, he walked straight to him.

When the chubby shopkeeper saw the woodcutter, he was stunned, and his whole body froze there.

The woodcutter walked to the fat shopkeeper's side in a few steps, whispered a few words to him in his ear, and the fat shopkeeper's face also showed a look of disbelief, and looked at the woodcutter with suspicion.

The woodcutter nodded affirmatively, and the fat shopkeeper immediately turned around and followed the woodcutter out, as for the restaurant behind him, which was full of guests, it seemed to have nothing to do with him, and abandoned it.

Ye Feng laughed secretly in his heart and continued to follow behind them silently.

The two of them looked quite flustered, and they didn't have time to care if anyone was following them, so they just hurried all the way.

Along the way, they went to meet a number of people, including blind men who set up fortune tellers on the streets, coolies who carried rice and goods in the rice shop, and sergeants who patrolled the streets.

When these people saw them, they all looked surprised without exception, but once they heard the whispers of the two of them, their faces changed drastically, and they looked terrified, and immediately left what they were doing and hurriedly followed them.

The group hurried to a secluded alley in the city of Xi'an.

At this moment, it is dark, and the houses in the alleys are closed, and the lights are blind.

They came to a storefront and stopped.

The door of the store is long closed, outside the door

On the wall, there is a faded and worn signboard with the word "tofu" on it, indicating that this should be a tofu shop.

Everyone stood silently in front of the shop, and the woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper stepped forward and gently knocked on the door three times, and after a while, they knocked four times.

After a while, a somewhat old voice suddenly came from the door of the store: "Come in!"

The woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper looked at each other with a sign of hesitation, but then they pushed open the door and dodged in.

The others still stood in front of the store, without saying a word.

There was a dim oil lamp in the hall, and in the dim light, there was an old man with gray hair who was leaning over, bending over to fiddle with a piece of tofu in the water in the pool in front of him.

He held the tofu in one hand and a knife in the other, concentrating, as if he hadn't noticed the two people walking into the store at all.

And the woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper walked behind the old man, also held their breath, silently looked at the old man's back, and did not dare to come out, as if they were afraid of disturbing him.

Suddenly, the old man's hand holding the knife moved, and he swung it a few times at an almost indiscernible speed.

Then, his hand holding the tofu shook lightly in the water, and the whole piece of tofu suddenly dispersed.

The piece of tofu was not broken, but spread out into countless hair-thin filaments, which spread out in the water and were barely recognizable to the naked eye.

It's so fast, it's accurate!

It was only then that the old man breathed a long sigh of relief, straightened up, and turned to face the two people behind him who were standing with their heads bowed.

His eyes glanced at the two people, and said in a very stern tone: "According to the rules, you are never allowed to contact each other privately until you receive an order, let alone come to see me without permission, don't you remember?"

The woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper seemed to be extremely afraid of the old man in front of them, and when he asked sharply, they couldn't help but shrink their necks and hang their heads lower.

After a while, the woodcutter had the courage to reply in a low voice: "The subordinates naturally remember the rules, but what the subordinates saw today is too amazing, so I have to take the risk to contact and come to see the hall master." ”

The old man, known as the "Hall Master", snorted, frowned, and said impatiently: "You are here to tell me, what is the discovery that is worth your fuss about, daring to break the rules without permission!"

The woodcutter took a few steps forward and whispered to the old man, whose face immediately showed that look of disbelief, and asked, "What? Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

The woodcutter had a look of affirmation on his face: "The subordinates will never be mistaken, otherwise how would they dare to break the rules and risk death to come to see the hall master." ”

The old man still couldn't believe it, and muttered: "So, so she arrived in Xi'an City?"

But then, he shook his head abruptly and denied his thoughts: "Impossible, she will definitely not appear here at this time! There must be some reason for this, or it is a major conspiracy of the enemy!"

The woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper glanced at each other, and looked at the old man muttering with some fear.

The old man pondered and asked, "You two, did you come alone?"

The woodcutter replied: "Since it is impossible to determine whether it is true or false, in order to prevent a sudden change, my subordinates have notified the leaders of each team in accordance with the procedures for dealing with sudden emergencies, and now they are all waiting for instructions at the door." ”

The old man's face suddenly changed: "No, this must be the enemy's conspiracy, trying to wipe us out!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the woodcutter and the fat shopkeeper changed greatly, and they looked at the old man with some horror.

At this time, the old man's eyes suddenly looked at the roof, and he scolded sharply: "What kind of person?

His eyes swelled with a fierce look, and it seemed that he had found the traces of the enemy!