They could only wander around the outskirts of the village, occasionally catching two unlucky eggs to perform the soul dementoring technique, and interrogating the specific location of the Zhou family.

After going around the village and town for most of the time, they finally found the Zhou family in the east of the city.

Of course, the face of this house is magnificent, the ebony door is as high as a zhang, and the bronze lion knocker is gilded. The four corners of the Zhou house are more than four feet high, and there are people standing on them to watch from afar.

The so-called corner tower is an attic built on the corner platform of the mansion, which is condescending for observation and defense.

Yan Saburo was looking for a dark place to find an opportunity to sneak in, when a local dog appeared out of nowhere, barking at the two of them.

Chitose frowned and gave it a murderous eye knife, and the seemingly tall and sturdy earth dog grabbed its tail and fled. However, in this way, the surrounding neighbors were also alarmed and went out to see.

The guards on the corner tower also looked here.

Now is an extraordinary period in Hongmo Village, and a little wind and grass can stir the sensitive nerves of the villagers.

Chitose saw that the situation was not good, and before the eyes of others swept over, he jumped into Zhou's house when he mentioned Yan Saburo.

This move couldn't help but be said, but after landing, she found that the boy's face was a little smelly.

Of course, she didn't care about such a trivial matter, she was in the dark, waiting for a long-term worker to pass by alone, and quietly put him down.

"Where's the lord's storehouse?"

The layout of the Zhou family is not complicated, the front is a place for hospitality, women and children live in the middle, and at the end there is a small garden and a barn for heavy land, and even a mule and horse shed.

Chitose can't steal without permission, but Tsubame Saburo doesn't have such taboos. His calculation was to find the needle in the storehouse, take it without telling him, and leave the money.

That's right, it's a forced buy and a strong sell.

At this moment, the Zhou family's warehouse is certainly not as heavily guarded as the warehouse of the Hengxi Chamber of Commerce. Its doorway was directly opposite the stable, and only a night watchman of fourteen or fifteen years old was napping on a chair by the door.

Chitose turned into smoke and went in to check, and Yan Saburo was waiting at the door.

At this moment, there was a sound of kicking horses' hooves not far away. Yan Saburo took the opportunity to hide in the backlight, and saw the groom leading a sturdy horse over, and kicked the young man who was keeping vigil: "Wake up, clean up, the master will change horses in a while." ”

This should have been his job, and it was directly pushed to the teenager. The latter rubbed his eyes and stood up, and while going to pull the reins, he asked, "Is the master back?"

When the old man entered the door, his face was black and he didn't say a word. "What do you say?"

The young man sighed and went to unload the harness: "If you want me to say, open the Flower God Pond to the county order, it will only take half a day, why make such a battle." ”

The groom let out a "shh

"It's been a year and a half, I've come with my uncle. ”

"The prosperity of Hongmo Village is all given by the god of flowers, and no one can disturb the god of flowers. If you let the master hear this, he will drive you out of the village on the spot. ”

Hearing this, Yan Saburo only felt that someone was gently patting him on the shoulder. He turned his head and saw that Chitose was already standing beside him.

"There are all kinds of miscellaneous items in the barn, except for no needle flowers, not a single one. She pursed her lips, "I'll feed that purchasing steward to the glass lamp when I go back!"

It was this guy who said that Zhou Dahu still had needle flowers in his hands, so they trekked through mountains and rivers to Hongmo Valley, and the result was ......

"What's next?"

Yan Saburo and her quietly slipped out more than ten zhang, found a corner where no one was around, and then whispered: "Find an insider to ask clearly." ”

"Insider?" at least not the groom and the night watchman in front of him.

The groom said that Master Zhou had just come back from negotiations. ”

It is indeed a good idea to ask the head of the family directly. A smile rose at the corner of Chitose's mouth: "Let's go." ”

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For the first time in two days, Zhou Dahu went home for the first time, and the whole family was waiting for him to eat.

Zhou Dahu is only forty-nine years old this year, and if he is well-maintained, he looks like he is in his early forties. But his face is not good now, his eyes are bloodshot, and the family is full of questions and dare not speak, and the meal is eaten quietly.

Or did Mrs. Wu, Zhou Dahu's mother-in-law, cough lightly, first broke two sentences, and then cut to the topic: "Before the sun set, I heard a bang, I heard that the officers and soldiers attacked Huashenchi and bombed us here?"

"Nonsense. Zhou Dahu shook his head, "Muramasa's nephew is crazy, and he got a rune paper from nowhere, the kind that will explode." In the afternoon, when the officers and soldiers stormed the Huashen Pond, he threw himself into the crowd and injured several people. ”

The family looked at each other, and the old lady Wu sighed: "What is the situation outside now, will the officers and soldiers attack strongly?"

"It's hard to say. Zhou Dahu had a calm face, "Mura Zheng and a few old men are usually arrogant, and they insist that the officers and soldiers dare not really attack and kill." I don't think so, the county order is also very tough, after all, it was his own accident. ”

Thinking of this, he was even more difficult to swallow, his eyes swept the table, and he found that there was one person missing: "What about Yi'er, didn't you say that you came back today?"

"I came back, but as soon as I got home, I was clamoring to buy a cat, and his grandmother took it out again. ”

Zhou Dahu didn't understand: "Cat, what cat?"

"Alas, he said that the cat he met on the road was beautiful and held by other children, and he had to have one. Mrs. Wu sighed, "I found someone to hold two cats for him to see, and he said that they were not white enough or beautiful enough." ”

Zhou Dahu sighed. There are too many bad things in the village, and he also asks casually, and he doesn't plan to care about it. However, Mrs. Wu opened the chatterbox, and she didn't plan to close it for a while: "You said that Yi'er is usually dignified, and there are many things to do with her." As soon as I got home today, I reached out to ask the cat to roll all over the ground, last time, oh, I said that it was a few days of heavy rain, she wanted to take Yi'er back to her dilapidated house that leaked on all sides, Yi'er came back to the wind and cold, and it took seven or eight days to be fine!"

The old lady's voice chattered, and Zhou Dahu couldn't bear to listen to two sentences: "Mother, Yi'er is also her grandson." "He doesn't know, his wife doesn't like children to always stick to Mrs. Wu, they eat tightly, and they have to complain when they have the opportunity.

Mrs. Wu heard his impatience, and saw that his face was full of exhaustion, so she had to reluctantly shut down.

When Zhou Dahu stood up and walked out three or four feet, he could still hear Mrs. Wu muttering: "Having a grandson, is it great? I have also had a grandson, if he hadn't worked too hard and had an accident......

He let out a long puff of cloudy air.

The officials and the people at the Huashen Pond were tense, and Zhou Dahu didn't have a chance to sleep at home, he was actually very sleepy.

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