Chapter 44

Wei Qing followed Cao Lu's gaze, only to see that what he was looking at was a large standing cabinet placed close to the back wall, probably used to store clothes and bedding and other objects, but he couldn't see anything abnormal for a while, he frowned slightly, and looked at Cao Lu with a somewhat puzzled look, in order to ask what was wrong.

Cao Lu took two steps forward, touched the wall behind the cabinet with his hand, and said with a smile: "The glutinous rice pulp of the bricks has not dried yet, this wall was newly built after being demolished, I guess there must be something else behind this cabinet." Xiao Qinchuan didn't say much, he moved the cabinet away with the first two clicks, and as Cao Lu expected, a big hole suddenly appeared on the back wall, leading straight to the house next door.

"These guys are really cunning rabbits, causing us to wait outside for a long time", Wei Qing waved his hand to beckon Xiao Qinchuan and Cao Lu to follow, and got into it first with a sword in his hand, "We have made such a big move here by moving boxes and cabinets, even if someone is left on the other side, it is estimated that they have run away at this time, let's hurry over and take a look, maybe the other party left any clues in a hurry I don't know."

After the three of them came to the next room through the hole, there was no one at all, and after searching, they didn't find any useful clues, they followed hard all day, but at this time they broke their eyeliner, which was a waste of time. The three of them had no choice but to hold back their disappointment and go to Qin Hui's house to discuss again.

After listening to the description of the three of them, Qin Hui did not have the slightest look of disappointment or anger, but said with relief: "Guo Jing did not let the four henchmen who were secretly discussed in the Four Saints Temple last night show up, but found another person to handle the recruitment of troops, which just shows that our night visit to the enemy's nest has disrupted their original deployment, and the more people the other party temporarily finds to participate in their plan, the easier it is to show flaws in the chaos, we don't have to worry, as long as we keep an eye on it a little more, maybe we can find out tomorrow."

Wei Qing pondered for a moment and said: " I think tomorrow is not as good as the soldiers divided into three ways, by my junior brother to the Four Sages to watch, to see who Guo Jing has been in contact with in the view, Brother Xiao continued to find a recruiter on the street to follow his whereabouts, but I went all over the city to find the person Guo Jing called him Ah Er, last night Guo Jing finally specially mentioned that Ah Er, saying that he is responsible for the most important joints, as long as he can find out, even if it is choking the other party's seven inches, I met with that Ah Er, remember his appearance, he was injured by Senior Brother Cao and left a scar on his forehead, as long as I can touch it, I will be able to recognize it”。 After hearing this, Xiao Qinchuan also agreed with Wei Qing's arrangement, and in the end, Qin Hui decided tomorrow's actions like this.

On the second day, the three of them went their separate ways, Wei Qing walked around the city, from time to time describing Ah Er's appearance to the vendors who set up stalls on the road, asking if he had ever seen this man with a wound on his forehead, but after asking many people, he did not know Ah Er's whereabouts. At noon, Wei Qing unconsciously walked to the vicinity of Chengbei Street, he walked through the streets and alleys all morning, at this time his stomach was already rumbling with hunger, so he found a stall selling pasta on the side of the street and sat down, and bought two steamed buns to fill his stomach. He just picked up the steamed bun and didn't put it in his mouth, but suddenly heard a burst of unscrupulous laughter between men and women, only to see a thin man with a ruffian face hugging a bewitching woman with heavy makeup, and walked out of a green building on the side of the street with a proud laugh, the thin man's behavior was very obscene, and he didn't care about the eyes of everyone on the street, so he openly said some obscene market slang with the prostitute, and did not forget to reach out and pinch the prostitute's ass when he was leaving.

Wei Qing shook his head and didn't bother to look at such a senseless person, and continued to bury his head in nibbling on the steamed bun in his hand, but he heard a guest at the next table pointing to the back of the thin man and saying: "Hey, isn't that the monkey? When did this kid make his fortune, he stole the money from this family on weekdays, and today he actually has spare money to visit the kiln."

The owner of the noodle stall threw the noodles in his hand down the pot, and took over the conversation with a disdainful chuckle: "It's not just that Guo Shenxian recruited Liujia soldiers, and I don't know what is good about this kid from the Lai family, he was greedy for reward money yesterday morning and applied for fundraising, and in the afternoon he was promoted to be the head of the guard of Xuanhua Gate, and he was rewarded with a sum of money, and his subordinates also received a hundred Liujia soldiers, this guy is used to having money in and out with his left hand and right hand, no, he is still rehearsing what Liujia formation is in the morning, but he actually took advantage of this time during the lunch break to come to meet Sister Yao."

The guest next door asked curiously: "Rokko soldiers, everyone in this city is rumored to be invulnerable, but is it true?"

The boss glanced around, covered his mouth and replied in a low voice: "I don't know about other people, this one hundred and sixteen armor soldiers under Lai Monkey are actually some ruffians who mix with him on weekdays, I think it is enough to rely on them to guard the Xuanhua Gate, but it is said that Guo Shenxian has strong mana, and it is not easy to say that he may be able to cast spells to protect them."

Wei Qing's heart moved when he heard this, and vaguely remembered that last night Guo Jing asked Ah Er to choose a few obedient people to use his wealth, he hurriedly swallowed the steamed buns in two mouthfuls, got up and chased after the thin man who was called Lai Monkey. Lai Hou'er hummed a small tune triumphantly along the way, shook his head and walked on the street, not noticing Wei Qing who was following behind, and really went straight to Xuanhua Gate.

When they arrived at the Xuanhua Gate, there were about 100 people gathered in the city gate hole, and this group of people did not wear armor, and even the jacket was not the unified system of the official army, but a cloth gown was covered with the clothes they were wearing, and the front and back of the gown were painted with cinnabar in the middle of a rune that I didn't know. As soon as the group saw Lai Monkey entering the doorway, they all stood up and said hello.

Wei Qing quietly leaned against the city wall and approached the doorway, only to hear Lai Monkey say loudly: "Brothers, are you all resting, let's hurry up and practice the Liujia formation, and finish the work early after the practice."

The rest of the people immediately cried out in bitterness, and someone shouted loudly: "Brother Lai, you are happy enough at noon, the brothers have not yet raised enough spirits, tomorrow when we fight with the Fanren, our group is only responsible for guarding the city gate, and we don't have to go out of the city to fight hard, why do you have the strength to practice the formation."

Someone next to him immediately echoed in loudly: "That's it, didn't the commander say, our group only needs to close the door when shouting to close the door, and open the door when shouting to open the door to get a reward, and the matter of practicing the formation is still left to the fools who want to go out of the city."

Lai Hou'er listened to the fact that everyone was reluctant to practice, so he softened his tone a little and said: "It's just that the things that the commander explains, you still have to practice, otherwise I won't be able to do it."

Everyone seemed to have room to turn around in his tone, so they said with persuasion: "After the commander brought us here yesterday, he never came to check the situation of the drill, which is clearly regarded as a cronie of Brother Lai, and he trusts you from the bottom of his heart, you just need to repay him and say that everyone is practicing very hard, and he can know whether we have practiced or not, maybe he will be happy to hear it and reward you with some silver, and you can go to the soft incense courtyard to find a good girl in the evening."

Wei Qing only heard Lai Monkey pat his thigh and said: "Well, since everyone said so, I will cover up the drill in the command office, but you can't forget to admit my feelings, when you are asked to open and close the door tomorrow, don't all push back and refuse to contribute."

Everyone applauded when they heard this, and immediately stated that they would rely on the monkey in the future, and would never pull the belt in front of their boss. Lai Hou'er explained a few more words about the scene, and then left the hundred Liujia soldiers to continue to rest in the doorway, and walked out by himself. Wei Qing listened to Lai Hou'er's words, and guessed that he should go to the commander in charge to report the exercise, thinking that this commander might be Guo Jing's cronies, so he still followed behind him.

After leaving Xuanhuamen, Lai Hou'er did not immediately go to the commander to report, but wandered around the city again, taking some silver from a few roadside shops, and then swaggered to the west of the city until near evening, and burrowed into an unknown remote alley.

Wei Qing opened the alley from a distance, only to see that the alley was a straight dead alley, at the end of the alley there was really a person waiting for Lai Monkey, the alley was not deep, Wei Qing was afraid that the other party would find out and expose his whereabouts, he didn't dare to go in and get close to the listener, he could only see Lai Monkey in the distance Lai Monkey'er was extremely humble to that person, with a face trying his best to please him, the figure of the person waiting for him in the alley was very strange, with a head on his neck that was half as big as ordinary people, but below the head was no different from ordinary people. The big-headed man looked arrogant, and he didn't think much of Lai Monkey'er's stammering, Lai Monkey nodded and said for a while, and the big-headed man walked out of the alley and left after a few words. Wei Qing thought that the relationship between this big-headed man and Guo Jing must be closer than that of Lai Monkey, and if he went down the vine, he might have an unexpected joy, so he abandoned Lai Monkey and followed the big-headed man instead.

After the big-headed man came out of the alley, he walked from the west to the south around the inner city wall, and then suddenly turned back to the Shangtu Bridge in the west, stopped in the middle of the bridge and looked around, as if he was looking to see if anyone was following him, Wei Qing immediately hid vigilantly in a shop in front of the bridge, pretending to select goods, and secretly glanced at the movements of the big-headed man. The big-headed man looked at it for a while and didn't find anything abnormal, then walked down the bridge and jumped onto a canopy boat, and went down the Bianhe River in the direction of Dongshuimen.

The canopy boat was moving extremely fast, and Wei Qing saw that if he continued to follow at the normal pace, he would lose it, and he couldn't find the boatman to follow him from the water in a hurry, so he could only let go of his pace and trot on the shore, but the big man seemed to relax his guard a little and didn't notice the situation on the shore.