Chapter 167: Tracking
"It's really strange, why did you choose Taiyuan, I don't remember what plot in Tianlong Babu was unfolded in Taiyuan. "Taiyuan is seven or eight hundred miles away from Shaomu Mountain, although the little red horse can't do it for thousands of miles a day, there are still hundreds of miles a day, compared to the average horse a day forty or fifty miles is already very fast, in the evening of the sixth day, Wang Lie has seen the city wall of Taiyuan.
Wang Lie is not an impulsive and arrogant person, although he came alone, but he has been dressed up since he set off, or Liu Fusheng helped him to change his appearance, after the end he couldn't recognize himself in the mirror, Liu Fusheng's self-taught ability is also a stunt, because this time there is also a risk, he did not bring Liu Fusheng and Zhang Dazhu, but let them stay in the Shaolin Mountain to practice martial arts, now he has appeared in Taiyuan with such a face that no one can recognize, it is estimated that the other party will not think of it, he will have time to investigate secretly, otherwise Tang Hai They are still in the hands of the other party, and they are also tied up and not good to do。
After paying the entrance fee, Wang Lie pretended to be a merchant and entered Taiyuan City, Taiyuan Mansion is a big city, there are no less than tens of thousands of people coming in and out every day, Wang Lie is not conspicuous at all when he enters the city in the crowd, and in order to play a businessman who is not very ambitious, he even dyed the coat color of the little red horse a little darker, otherwise the blood-red coat color is an extraordinary horse at a glance, not something that ordinary people can have.
In order not to attract attention, Wang Lie found a first-class inn to live in, and set the little red horse properly, he sneaked out of the inn, came to the tavern where it was easiest to find out the news, found a place by the window, ordered a pot of wine and a few side dishes, and looked at the flow of people on the street, but his ears were pricked up to listen to the chatter of the guests in the tavern.
"Have you heard the news, someone is going to compete in our Taiyuan Mansion. Wang Lie sifted through layers and finally heard a useful message.
"It's the thing about that Anonymous who posted notices everywhere to challenge that person named Wang Lie, right?"
"Yes, that's it, it's really strange that there are a lot of them every year, and the challenge is not to go to the war book. In this way, the key is that the person challenging is still a little-known person. ”
"That is, that Wang Lie is a person in that place, since he wants to be famous. Wouldn't it be better to challenge the old man Fang of our Taiyuan Mansion, the old man Fang is famous in the rivers and lakes. ”
Those people were discussing enthusiastically, but the words they said were of no use to Wang Lie at all, he definitely wouldn't be angry because a few idlers belittled him, but they didn't say any useful news for a long time, which made Wang Lie very annoyed. He looked up. Suddenly, I found a very interesting thing.
Just four or five tables across from him, there was a man wearing a hood who was also pricking up his ears to listen to the conversation of the guests at the table discussing the martial arts competition, although he was very well disguised, but Wang Lie still saw his slightly trembling ears, he was still a fellow practitioner, could it be a member of the Murong family? He couldn't see the person's face clearly, and he couldn't see the figure when he was sitting, but since he was eavesdropping like this, he must have something to do with it, and he would follow him later.
Now that there is a goal. Wang Lie didn't bother to listen to the boring conversation of those idlers, and stared at the person opposite with a little thought, and then began to eat and drink, running around for many days.
Wang Lie didn't wait long to see the man stand up and walk out, he was hunched over, as if he was a hunchback, the hair exposed under the hood was a little gray, and the brim of the hat was pressed very low. I still can't see my face clearly, and I limp when I walk.
"Boss, settle the bill!" Wang Lie dropped a piece of silver on the table and walked out of the tavern after the man.
The hunchbacked man left the tavern and turned to the right. Entering the lively street, there is no curfew in Taiyuan, at this time the night market has just begun, there are no more people and no less, and small traders have just set up their stalls, enthusiastically soliciting customers. Hunchback stop-and-go. From time to time, I stopped at a stall to ask for a few words, and I also bought some small things and put them in my arms.
Wang Lie didn't dare to follow too closely, if he didn't have a fixed mind, he would only think that this was an ordinary person who came to shop, maybe buy some small things to go home to tease the child, but since Wang Lie had found the clue, it was obvious that there was something wrong with his current work, obviously he was trying to see if there was anyone behind him, Wang Lie followed him far away through most of Taiyuan Mansion, and suddenly the person turned into a small alley without warning, Wang Lie was too far away, and he lost his trace in front of him all of a sudden.
"Not good!" Wang Lie said secretly, unfolded his footwork, came to the mouth of the alley in three or two steps, turned around and looked, only to see an alley more than 100 meters long, where there were still people empty.
Wang Lie ran into the alley, secretly annoyed, he had been careful to be found by him, but he still didn't expect this corner to be gone, the sound in his ears was the sound of the small traders in the distance, and he couldn't hear the movement of the hunchback, Wang Lie unfolded the "Ling Bo micro step", two breaths came to the other end of the alley, it was a wide main road, there was a small river on the side of the main road, leading to the moat outside the city, and there were not a few people walking on the road, but where there was a hunchback shadow.
"No, just now in such a short time, it is impossible for him to cross this more than 100-meter alley, with my light skills, it also takes two breaths to pass through the guò alley, just now I found out that it is not right that I came to the mouth of the alley, it is only this time, it makes no sense that his light skills are better than mine!" Wang Lie patted his forehead and thought, and went back into the alley, and began to look for traces little by little.
Step by step, he carefully examined the traces on the ground, and it was not until a few steps away that he came in that Wang Lie found that there were almost undetectable footprints on the wall, which were left by a light skill master on the wall.
"That's true!" Wang Lie smiled slightly, and rose into the air without hesitation, and in the next moment, he had already appeared on the wall, and when he looked up, he began to scold his mother in his heart.
Behind the high wall, it was not the other party's nest he thought, it turned out to be the backyard of the county government, and at a glance, there were a few uniformed officials drinking wine there in the pavilion.
Before being discovered, Wang Lie had already climbed down the wall, with his light skills, a few ordinary officials could not find him at all, and returned to the alley, Wang Lie was a little depressed, he didn't think that the people of the Murong family had the ability to collude with the government of the Great Song Dynasty to detain people in the county government, if they had that ability, they would not have gone to the place of Western Xia to make trouble. If it wasn't collusion with the government, then it should be that this person was just a person who used the county government to get rid of possible tracking, or he was not a member of the Murong family at all, no matter which possibility it was, now that he has lost it, what should I do.
Wang Lie's brain turned, imagining what he should do if he wanted to get rid of tracking like this, he could turn around casually when he entered the county government, and then choose a direction to slip out, if he didn't see it with his own eyes, it was really hard to say which direction he chose in all directions, if he wanted to check the traces carefully, he had to go deep into the county office, those officials were not good at martial arts, but their eyes were not blind, and it was impossible to watch themselves check there.
Wang Lie was thinking about how not to be discovered by those officials to search for traces, suddenly there was a gust of wind overhead, he was thinking too intently, he didn't even notice that someone was approaching, his feet slipped, the whole person had moved out a few feet, both hands were one, about to block the possible attack, looked up, two words popped up in his heart, "I'll go!"
I saw the hunchbacked man descending from the sky, he had just turned over the wall and saw Wang Lie below, and he was also surprised, but the momentum of the fall was irreversible, and he couldn't hide back in the wall, gritted his teeth, took out a dagger and stabbed at Wang Lie in the air, and hit Wang Lie fiercely, straight into Wang Lie's eyes......
Wang Lie was overjoyed in his heart, he didn't expect this person to return the same way, it was really a mountain and a poor water, and there was no way out, and the willows and flowers were bright and another village, seeing the dagger stabbing him, he had already reached out his hand, his arm was extended, and he entered the white blade empty-handed.
Although there is no one in this alley for the time being, someone may pass by at any time, and there is only a wall between it and the county government. (To be continued.) )