After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn weather is becoming more and more pleasant.

For the boundary of Lingzhou, the more than one month before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival is a rare period of time with the least rain and the most sunny days in a year, and almost every day is a good weather in autumn.

The sky was as blue as a wash.

However, the temperature is also gradually decreasing.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, when I walked to the street, most of the pedestrians I saw were already wearing two or three layers of clothes, and in the morning and evening, those old people who were afraid of the cold had even put on jackets.

In the morning, Zhou Ang walked slowly to Sogo Fang alone.

He deliberately cleaned up before going out today, wearing a moon-white plain dress, a silk belt around his waist, and a small crown on his head, dressed like a scholar from a wealthy family, giving people the feeling that it seems that the family should be quite rich, but he is a scholar, so he deliberately dresses up plainly, pays attention to a bit of elegance, but the style of the whole body is clearly shown, and the family must still be quite rich.

In short, it can't be like a mixed yamen.

He first stopped by the shop he had bought and had a general look at the business of the shop, and then turned to the northwest corner of Sogo Place. There is an old Guo blacksmith shop there.

I think that when he first entered the county Zhu Yamen, Zhou Ang once went there to see the sword, and then naturally he didn't take care of other people's business, but even he didn't expect that the shopkeeper of the old Guo blacksmith shop was actually one of the informants of the county Zhu Yamen. The last time Fang Jun took him to look at it from a distance, he was still surprised.

Because in Zhou Ang's place, there was no memory of the blacksmith shopkeeper at all, so it was obvious that he was not an outstanding person—let alone a black-and-white character.

And the main task of his visit today is to first get a preliminary look at the bottom of this blacksmith shop.

According to the situation introduced by Fang Jun, the main informant on the side of the county Zhu Yamen is basically unified under Du Yi's management, and the shopkeeper of this blacksmith shop, as an informant, is also a half-black and half-white informant, so he should naturally be regarded as one of the key figures in the downline, and he is also within the scope of Du Yi's management.

It is said that Zhou Ang has something to find this person, and through Du Yi is the best and easiest way.

But...... The logic in this is obviously not the case.

Because this person is obviously not completely under the orders of the county Zhu Yamen.

He is not a mere informant.

In other words, while providing news and clues to the county Zhu Yamen, he also ate some of the "goods" of the county Zhu Yamen, and at the same time sold them to underground cultivators—among them, it is likely that the latter is his main business.

Because one thing Zhou Ang can be sure of is that the underground trade fair that he observed through the "vision" of the mirror that night, the county Zhu Yamen, including Gao Jing and Du Yi, was completely unaware of it.

According to the logical analysis, as an official cultivator, and a figure in charge, they should be able to guess that Lingzhou City should be the same as other places, there will definitely be underground cultivators, and there will also be gatherings and trade fairs between underground cultivators.

And presumably they have also tried to investigate this kind of underground trade fair, but the result is obvious, although it should not be difficult for them to guess that since the shopkeeper of this blacksmith shop is a figure who wanders on the edge of black and white, he must have contact and contact with those underground forces, but in the end, they returned in vain.

What does this mean?

This shows that underground trade fairs like this, convened and organized by "Mr. Big", have strict confidentiality measures, strict access systems, and strict management systems.

It is these things that make the official investigation of them only stop at characters like the shopkeeper of this old Guo blacksmith shop, and cannot really touch their interior.

This reasoning made Zhou Ang understand at once: it is really not easy for him to join such underground gatherings and transactions.

So, he decided to do both:

On the one hand, we started by investigating the identity of "Mr. Big" in the real world and tried to find the root of this party, and on the other hand, we tried to find the entry rules of the underground trade fair from an informant like the shopkeeper of this blacksmith shop, and finally opened its entrance.

When he arrived at Lao Guo's blacksmith shop, Zhou Ang stepped in, and soon a group of people came forward to ask.

After all, this blacksmith shop is for the people, so the swords and swords needed by the warriors only account for a small part of the goods displayed in the store, and more are kitchen knives, iron pots, plowshares, shovels, livestock halt, door and window lotus leaves, and even car nails, horseshoes and the like - people generally believe that in addition to businesses such as casinos and brothels, the most profitable business in the world is a crude medicine shop, and the other is a blacksmith shop, just look at what they sell, which almost represents almost all civilian-level heavy industry in this era.

Zhou Ang pretended to look for a while, only to find the place where the sword was placed, paced over, and the man greeted him and asked, "This is the first time the guest officer has come, what do you need?"

"Huh, I'll just take a look!"

As he spoke, he took off a long sword with a more ornate scabbard, pulled it open and looked at it, flicked it very layman, and rubbed his thumb against the blade of the sword—the man immediately said: "Be careful, although the guest officer has never opened the blade, it is still sharp in the end! Be careful, be careful!"

Zhou Ang glanced at him, folded the sword, hung it back, and asked, "Where are you shopkeepers?"

The guy just wanted to reply, but his head suddenly poked out of the back door, only glanced at it, and he had already walked out quickly, and said with a smile: "Who am I, this young master is invited...... Are you still looking at the sword?"

Zhou Ang was surprised, "Do you recognize me?"

Seeing the shopkeeper come out in person, the guy had already taken the initiative to step aside, but when he saw the shopkeeper smiling kindly, he approached and said, "No, you have been here once in April and May, right? I remember that you just looked at a few swords at that time." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the wall, and actually went over to take out a sword, held it in his hand, handed it over, and said with a smile: "If I remember correctly, you liked this sword at the time." ”

I'll go!

Zhou Ang's heart was shocked all of a sudden.

I can clearly remember the last time I came, and I still remember that I saw this sword, this is obviously not the kind of routine of the merchant who lies and pretends to be familiar in order to close the distance, this guy obviously really remembers himself - four months ago, he was in a hurry, and in the end he still left without buying anything, he still remembers!

Sitting on the ground like them, who open a shop, I don't know how many customers come and go every day, even if they go to the blacksmith shop to buy swords, there may not be too many people, but it has been more than a hundred days since they couldn't stand it!

This memory is really a bit scary.

Don't look at the silence on your face, but Zhou Ang subconsciously gasped in his heart.

Before he went out, he deliberately put together this current outfit, and when he arrived in the store, he pretended to look around, which was originally a bit of a performance, and came over to preliminarily set the situation, but it didn't work out, let alone the next set, he was recognized as soon as he came in - a lot of lines were scrapped!

At this time, Zhou Ang had no choice but to take the sword, pull it open and take a look, and then pretended to look at the scabbard, with a look of sudden realization, "That's right, that......'s right! What a memory!"

The shopkeeper still smiled kindly, his eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles, and he was still humble when he spoke, but he just said: "The guest officer has a good reputation! We eat this meal, if you can't even remember the guest officer who has come, how can you be the shopkeeper?" After a pause, he asked with a smile: "You came here today, or do you want to look at the sword?"

It's embarrassing, the prepared lines are useless!

But at this time, Zhou Ang suddenly had an idea, and returned the sword to the shopkeeper, but he took off the dagger "Taoyao" from his waist, and said with a smile: "No, I won't look at it today, and I won't buy it, I just want to ask an expert to help me look at something......" As he spoke, he handed the dagger over and said with a smile: "You can take a look at it, see how this thing is." ”

"Yo ......"

The shopkeeper was surprised first, and then he was still smiling, but he didn't accept anything, smiled and stretched out his hand to refuse, and said: "Young master, the things you bring with you are naturally excellent......! Hehe...... Forgive me, forgive me!"

Zhou Ang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I thought too much, I picked it up!" You can take a look, estimate the price, if it is appropriate, I will sell it to you!"

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then smiled and refused, and said, "This...... Hehe, you know, we are a shop that sells ironware, but what about us, we don't accept ...... Hehe, if you have to sell it, we can't say that we will take it back like scrap metal...... That's disrespectful to you, isn't it? So I still don't look at it, you still take it back, take it back!"

"Oh......"

Zhou Ang stretched his tone, saying that he was helpless to take back "Taoyao".

I didn't feel it at all when I came last time, but this time in this short contact, although the shopkeeper is smiling quite kindly, it is really very likely to be a smiling tiger.

It's a bit tricky.

However, Zhou Ang was not ready to reveal his identity, and he didn't want to startle the snake, so now all the prepared lines have been abolished, and he came up with an idea to sell "Taoyao", but the other party didn't accept it at all, and there was really no other way to think for a while, so he stopped entanglement, took back the things happily, and made a helpless gesture, turned around and prepared to leave.

But when he turned around and walked out, the shopkeeper chased after him for a few steps, but suddenly said: "By the way, the guest officer......" Zhou Ang turned around, he smiled and said: "I also suddenly remembered that the master behind us is a man who likes blades, and you also know that he is a blacksmith, maybe he is more interested in 'good work', and we don't know what he can see from it......"

"Hehe, if you really want to sell this thing, why don't I call our master over and let him show you if he wants it?"

"Oh, yes!"

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