After Yang Zhi finished paying, he took the wooden box packed by the boss, and was about to leave, when he suddenly found that someone was peeping in the distance, Yang Zhi didn't know if it was for himself, so he walked back along the ditch. Originally, the sword corridor in the royal street could also be used for trading, but since the beginning of the Zhenghe period, the government erected two red and black fences, and built two royal ditches with bricks and stones outside the red fence, and the ditches are raised with lotus flowers, and trees such as peaches, plums, pears, and apricots are planted on the bank, and it is now the season of prosperity.

Yang Zhi pretended not to know anything, looked at the scenery, and turned to West Street at the Zhou Bridge, and walked into the fruit wholesale market. People come and go in the market, many vendors carry baskets and baskets to pour some fruits to sell on the street, and some cheap people come to buy, Yang Zhi is a little conspicuous carrying a wooden box.

Yang Zhi didn't care, he took this road because the fruit market was in all directions, and if that person was following him, he would have to come in, so as not to walk through the opposite door. Yang Zhi went out from the west side door, walked into the Liang family's bead shop in three or two steps, there were no customers in the store, the guy greeted him, Yang Zhi motioned for himself to take a look, and stood behind the window carved with a pine crane pattern, pretending to admire the bracelet hanging on a high place, but his eyes were aimed out of the window.

The waiting time was a bit long, and even the guy in the bead shop felt a little surprised, could it be that his shopkeeper had lost his eyes, and the bracelet hanging on the two decorative trees had treasures, but Yang Zhi stood still, and the guy didn't come to check, and he was a little anxious. Yang Zhi was not in a hurry, but he was full of curiosity and expectation, until a kind old man slowly turned the corner of the street and hesitantly looked at the Duting Station opposite; Yang Zhi was sure that the other party was following him, this old man pretended to be a prisoner, and went to the prison to take a picture with him, the incense Taoist of the Egret Palace.

The old man obviously knew very well that Yang Zhi would not go in, shook his head with a smile, and walked towards the Liang family's shop, Yang Zhi did not want to affect the business of the bead shop, and strode out of the store, and the two met on the side of the street.

The old man looked at Yang Zhi and said, "My skills have grown a lot." ”

Yang Zhi put down the box, and Shi Li said, "I've seen Uncle Shi." ”

The old man was stunned, let out a long breath and said, "Since you recognize who I am, let's go to the Chunlai teahouse in front and sit down." ”

Chunlai Teahouse is in the front of the five shops, in the middle of the Huaiyang Paper Painting Shop, Xu Po Melon House, Chengxi Hu Cake, Lao Xia Li Shop, Yang Zhi nodded, followed the old man over, one after the other into the teahouse, and sat down in the private room inside. The private room was not large, it could accommodate up to five or six people, a rectangular pine table with seats for three people inside, two seats by the doorway, and a wooden square bench by the wall.

Yang Zhi put the wooden box on the square bench, sat down with the old man, ordered a pot of Longjing and two snacks, Dr. Tea set up the refreshments, poured two cups of tea, knew that the two didn't want to be disturbed, and when they withdrew, they put down the curtain at the door of the private room. Yang Zhi got up and asked again, "I don't know what Uncle Shi is called?"

The old man said lightly: "We met in the Egret Palace, so you can call me Egret." Yang Zhi, can you show me the Dragon Bird Knife. ”

Another one who wants to see the knife, Yang Zhi untied the knife and handed it to the black heron, the black heron looked very carefully, from the handle of the knife to the scabbard, inside and out, and finally returned the knife to Yang Zhi, and said melancholy: "Seeing things and thinking about people, when I saw this knife, I remembered the time when I was with your father in Western Xia." ”

If Yang Zhi hadn't seen the cold light in the eyes of the heron in prison, he might have been moved by the heron, but now, Yang Zhi could only cooperate on the surface, put away the knife, and said earnestly: "Since Uncle Shi has come to Bianliang, I don't know if I have a place to live, otherwise I will live in a cold house, and the little nephew is now in the business of selling horses, and he has not been at home for many years, and the house is empty." ”

"No, I've been back for five years. The black heron was not sure of Yang Zhi's attitude towards himself, picked up the teacup and said: "Actually, this year, I have appeared by your side a few times, but you didn't recognize me, listen to the people around you and Dr. Xie said, you are afraid of amnesia, I have been worried, now it's okay, we finally recognize each other." I live at No. 105 Zaozi Lane, and I have time to come and see me, a lonely old man. ”

Yang Zhi said: "Uncle Shi rest assured, the little nephew will not forget." It's just that the little nephew doesn't understand something, Uncle Shi wants to see the little nephew, he can apply directly to the prison, why do you want to get into the prison and kill someone?"

A cold light flashed in the black heron's eyes again, and he said coldly: "It's because I want to perform the soul chasing technique on you, but it's a pity that Yang Jie is there, so I will fail." ”

Soul chasing, Yang Zhi had read hundreds of martial arts novels before crossing, and it was estimated that it was a kind of hypnotism, which could not be distinguished according to the science of the Song Dynasty. Yang Zhi asked the heron tentatively: "Does Uncle Shi want to know something, or do you want me to do something?"

Yang Zhi didn't get angry, and let the black heron take a look: "I want to ask something out of your mouth, you are strong in martial arts, in fact, before you were imprisoned, I didn't succeed in attacking you twice when you were drunk, so I wanted to try it when you were weak, but unfortunately God didn't fulfill people's wishes." ”

"Uncle Shi killed someone because of this, if I call to catch it now, I may be able to get a few rewards. Yang Zhi smiled inexplicably and said, "But I don't want to do this, I just want to know, Uncle Shi, why did you come back, what do you want to know?"

The black heron's face suddenly turned blue, and he could see that he was trying to restrain his emotions, and after a while, he whispered: "This is to ask your father, when our five brothers found the Qingkeng in Western Xia, which is the iron mine where the Qizi Armor is made, it is heavily guarded, and we can only draw a figure to come back." But we found a silver mine along the way, which was originally a lifetime of wealth, but your father told Wang Hou about it, and it turned out that we were asked to go with a large army, and we encountered an ambush by the Tanguts on the way, and the whole army was wiped out, and only your father and I escaped. Wang Hou stepped forward to make a hard cap, and we quit the army without guilt. ”

Yang Zhi pondered for a moment and asked, "Did you discover the anomaly five years ago?"

"It's not me, it's Wang Hou. The Egret's mood was not stable: "He sent someone to deliver a letter to me, and after recovering Hehuang, he found that the Xixia people had not mined silver in that area until now, but Tong Guan and Gao Yu knew about it, and the strange thing is that the road map that your father and Wang Hou handed over back then is gone." ”