Chapter Seventy-Seven: Failure to Steal Secrets

In these three days, Azule, Liyuan and Yi Qingzhuo also made more careful preparations. From Ah Hai, he obtained a detailed map of the buildings of the Engineer's Mansion, as well as the locations and patrol routes of the guards, and personally tried to hide in one of several possible locations of the Engineer's Mansion. Azule had been drinking tea in the teahouse opposite the mortal stream for the first three days, waiting for the arrival of the two caravans, intending to estimate the strength of the two caravans. According to the information revealed by Ah Hai Ye first, Yi Qingzhuo selected the rockery and big trees in the two adjacent courtyards of Chenfanjian as possible locations for eavesdropping.

Three days later, two caravans arrived one after another.

However, the trend of events is not in the direction of the situation that has been estimated by one's own side. The two pretended caravans did not meet in advance at all, and Azule and Yi Qingzhuo found nothing, the only thing they were fortunate about was that they were not discovered by the other party.

On the night of the third day, four or five people from each of the two caravans went to the Engineer's Mansion, and one person from each of the two caravans led the way, and the routes were slightly different. Azule and Yi Qingzhuo were not far behind the two caravans, and they had been hiding in the Engineer's Mansion since early afternoon.

The first reason is that it is impossible to confirm the place of the three-party negotiation, and it is necessary to check several possible places again to make sure that you know it by heart; the second reason is to constantly avoid the guards patrolling around, fortunately, there is a time and route for the escorts to patrol first, which is relatively easier. It wasn't until nightfall that Ah Hai also used the code agreed by the two parties to inform the exact place of the secret meeting between the three parties. He didn't immediately go to the place where the secret was discussed, because he knew that the place of the secret discussion would inevitably go through several detailed and in-depth inspections, and it would be safest and safest to sneak in after the inspection.

Azule and Yi Qingzhuo saw the two teams enter the engineer's mansion through the two side doors respectively, Yi Qingzhuo originally wanted to sneak in with Azule to pick up the distance, but was directly denied by Azule. But Azule thinks that the three-party secret agreement is so careful, and two of them live next door but do not discuss it in advance, either because the content of the secret agreement is unusual or insignificant, or the three parties have reached a preliminary agreement before, and this time it is just a meeting to finalize. Azule sensitively believes that irrelevance and extraordinariness can be ruled out, and the latter case is the most likely.

Yi Qingzhuo didn't understand it at first, but judging from the actions of the two caravans, he had to think that it was very likely to be the latter of Azule's guesses, that is to say, the three parties would not necessarily discuss in detail this time, but only meet to finalize, in other words, even if he gave his side a chance, it may not be useful to let the three of them observe the secret discussion.

Azul had a bold backup plan beforehand, and after thinking about it, he decided to take precautions and be more fully prepared. Azul arranged for Yi Qingzhuo to be picked up outside the engineer's mansion, and decided to implement a backup plan.

Lurking on the roof of the tripartite secret meeting place from afar, which had been carefully inspected in advance and heavily guarded on all sides, the people in the Engineer's Mansion obviously did not expect that someone had actually passed through the encirclement and entered the key part.

It was very clear from the roof that three of the four people sent by the Shuntianzhou side were known by themselves, including Li Haoran, Li Canghai and Zhang Shou, and the other person was very faceless, but his bearing and face were somewhat similar to Ziche Yunfei. The people of the Kestrel Branch of the Tiansha Sect have always been in cahoots with Che Yunfei, the lord of Kestrel City, but this time Li Haoran obviously did not come on behalf of the Tiansha Sect, if he represented the Tiansha Sect, firstly, the level of an incense master was not enough, and secondly, it was not equal to the identity of the engineer. Li Yuan didn't know another person on the side of Shuntianzhou, but considering his status as an equal to the engineer and Xi Zeguo, this person was at least an important person in Kestrel City, and Li Haoran seemed to have great respect for him, although he didn't follow behind this person, he was always half a step behind;

There were five people from Nishizawa, three of them were slender and long, with big hands and big feet, and they were obviously all people who begged for a living on the water; the other had a white face, and had changed to a scholar's dress at this time, so he should be the one who gave advice among the five; and the other was calm and steady, with a face as heavy as water, and a tall body, but not angry and arrogant, and it seemed that he should be the leader of this group.

But I saw that there were already three people waiting in the hall, the person sitting tall was very fat, with a fat face and ears, full of smiles, and was of medium height; one person on the left and one on the right, one carrying a knife, and one shaking a fan, it was obvious that he was one man of literature and one of martial arts. From Ah Hai Yexian's intelligence, it was learned that the fat man was the master of the engineer, the third person in the Northern Barbarian Grassland, second only to the Wu Xiang, who was in charge of the Gongcheng and the supervision of all kinds of weapons and tools for the Heavenly Khan. Among them, Dun Wenqing came from Nanmu, was familiar with the customs and people of the Central Plains, and was also erudite, and he consciously cherished talents but did not meet them, so he took refuge in the engineer because of jealousy and hatred; Kang Li was one of the few enemies of 100 people on the grassland, and the 100 enemies in the army were easily able to take up the position of commander of a thousand people, but he was at ease as the head of the guard of the family and nursing home, and there must be an imperceptible secret behind it.

Two groups of people walked into the hall one left and one right, and the engineer did not get up to greet him, which was not rude, but he was too fat and difficult to move, so the engineer just bowed his hand slightly, but he was full of smiles.

The two groups of people in Kestrel City and Xize Country also gave in to each other, but they were only formal, and the three parties all bowed their hands and sat down separately.

The engineer spoke first: "Thorn Temur welcomes the arrival of the two very much, and I am fat, otherwise I must have welcomed the two from afar." ”

"Master Engineer is very polite, you and I all know that this secret discussion is very important, so it is better not to be extravagant. The leader of the Kestrel City side said.

"Hahaha, that's true, I believe that the city lord of Ziche is also like us, coming in disguise. The leader of the Nishizawa side said, and directly named the leader of the Kestrel City side.

If you hear it from afar, since this person is called the city lord of Ziche, not Ziche Yunfei, it must be Ziche Yunfei's younger brother and the city lord Ziche Yunhao who is stationed in Goshawk City.

"King Ning is also cautious, I am the same as all three parties, and I should deal with it calmly and low-key. The engineer nodded slightly, obviously very much in agreement with the performance of the two parties.

Far away, King Ning of this Xize country has never heard of it.

"We have taken a great risk in the secret discussion between the three parties, and to put it mildly, even if we have not reached any agreement, the parties concerned can guess our intentions from the actions of the three of us. Therefore, our secret discussions need to be resolved quickly, and as little as possible by the least known about them. Master Gongshi and King Ning, what do you think?" said Ziche Yunhao.

"Okay! I also very much agree, so whether the two of you can agree to the negotiation situation, anyway, I have already made a great concession in Ye Xingping. King Ning said in the mouth of the engineer.

"The basic situation is about the same, and we are willing to reach an agreement. The engineer replied dryly.

"In that case, we are willing to reach an agreement. Ziche Yunfei also replied dryly.

"Yes!" replied King Ning.

Then the three of them laughed, and the other people in the entourage also laughed knowingly, it seems that this agreement is within the acceptable range of everyone.

Seeing that the three parties easily reached an agreement, Liyuan, who was on the roof at the moment, was dumbfounded, and the three parties didn't say anything, so how could they reach an agreement directly. Far from giving up, I want to see what the three parties will discuss in the future, but the three parties in the house have already begun to drink and swear, and they see that a secret discussion is about to end.

Away from afar, he quietly hid his figure, planning to go back in a hurry, looking for Azule and discussing countermeasures with Yi Qingzhuo.