Baoying is located at the junction of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu, set up as Dongyang County in the Qin period, changed its name to Baoying County in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and promoted to Baoying Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty, leading a state, which is the transportation important place connecting the south and north of the Yangtze River.

These merchants come from all over the world, exchanging news from all over the world, wanting to know the world's major events, and go to Baoying's teahouse restaurant to hear it, which is the main reason why the beggars set up rudder in Baoying.

Sun Buer took Yang Kang to Baoying and lived directly in Cheng's house.

In the Song Dynasty, the pawnshop was called the Changsheng Warehouse, and the mortgaged items not only included gold, silver and jewelry, but also slaves, livestock, and other living things.

Changshengku's loan time limit is short, the interest rate is high, and the price of the collateral is arbitrarily lowered, and if the loan is not repaid when it is due, the collateral will be confiscated.

To make a living, you not only need to have a good relationship with the local government, but also to use force to ensure your own safety, otherwise you will lose a lot of money if the valuables received from the warehouse are stolen.

This is the reason why the Cheng family and the Quanzhen Sect are involved.

Once these people become believers, they will not only donate a large amount of money, but also use their influence to promote the Quanzhen Church, and what the Quanzhen Church wants to do is to use force to ensure the safety of their families.

It's a win-win cooperation model.

Yang Kang finally met the legendary Miss Cheng here, and it looked like she was indeed a little beauty, but Miss Cheng was more shy, and she began to blush before she could speak, and only called "Senior Brother" in a low voice and stopped talking, making Yang Kang wonder if his charm had declined recently.

It was a shy little girl, and he came to a conclusion.

Originally, Yang Kang wanted to take the opportunity to point out the martial arts of this junior sister with his own fingers, but after meeting him, the eldest lady hid in the boudoir and refused to come out again, which made him feel a little lost.

At this time, Miss Cheng, who was hiding in the boudoir, was thinking that Senior Brother A was more beautiful than herself, and she was really faceless.

Regarding the origin of this "Senior Brother", the main issue is Yang Kang's identity, he can't be called Wanyan Kang in the Jiangnan realm, let alone Yang Kang, no one has called him by this name until now, but he thinks it's his name.

Qiu Chuji called him "Akang" when he introduced, which was inherited from Bao Xiqiao, adding the word "A" in front of the name to indicate that intimacy is a characteristic of the southern dialect, Bao Xiqiao is a native of Hangzhou, and he has been called like this since he was a child, and the so-called Wu Nong's soft language is like this.

Sun Buer used this name when introducing Yang Kang, so many people thought that this good-looking Taoist boy was surnamed Ah and called Ah Kang.

Yang Kang didn't know this, he was busy looking for the secret marks left by Hou Tonghai and Sha Tongtian.

In this era of poor information transmission, the transmission of information mainly relies on fast horses and carrier pigeons, but there are not many organizations that have the conditions to raise horses and carrier pigeons, which requires a lot of expenses, and if you want to transmit less important information, secret notes have become the first choice of gangs.

First of all, there must be a set of password-like secret words, which can only be known by the people of their own organization, and then the place where the secret mark is left, generally choosing the landmark buildings of a certain area.

For example, the largest temple, Taoist temple or restaurant in a city is also left on the outer wall of the government, which requires great courage.

If you are in the middle of nowhere, find the most conspicuous tree, peel off the bark, and paint on it.

Therefore, when traveling in this era, you will always find people on ancient trees or on the outer walls of temples to leave traces of carvings, it cannot be said that these people are not civilized and polite, they are actually conveying important information.

For example, if so-and-so visits here, the date is also marked below, which is extremely important information, and people who are interested will know that this person has been here during this time.

The secret memory of the Yellow River Gang is usually left on the pillar in front of the largest restaurant in the city or on the first table when entering the door, and the three curves are engraved on it, which is the symbol of the Yellow River Gang, which means that the Yellow River has nine bends and eighteen bends.

Underneath the three bends will leave a message indicating the direction in which he will go or recounting what happened in coded words, of course, with clarity and conciseness.

If you go to an ancient restaurant and study the notches on the table, you will find many strange gangs and organizations, as long as you study them thoroughly, you will become a professional in cryptography.

All the way from Kaifeng, Yang Kang found a few secret marks of the Yellow River Gang according to the method explained by Sha Tongtian, but when he came to the largest restaurant in Baoying, he found nothing, there were some engravings on the pillar in front of the restaurant, he studied for a long time, and did not find useful information, all of which were small advertisements.

Not only Yang Kang was puzzled, but Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu were also puzzled, they tracked all the way and broke the clues in Baoying, which shows that Hou Tonghai may have been discovered, or he may have been mishappier.

Sha Tongtian was concerned about the safety of his junior brothers, and visited the rudder of the beggar gang in Baoying at night, and had a fierce fight with the people in the beggar gang, although he injured several beggar gang disciples, he was bitten by Li Sheng's poisonous snake and fled in a hurry.

At this time, the beggar gang conference has ended, Lu Youjiao committed suicide and apologized and was stopped by Hong Qigong, Lu Youjiao is honest and reckless, but Hong Qigong values his loyalty, righteousness and martyrdom, and is not afraid of death, so he demoted him to a bag of disciples, and started from the lowest level of beggars again to sharpen his character.

As for the whereabouts of the three children, it is not suitable to go north before Jiangbei has calmed down, Hong Qigong asked about their wishes, Guo Jing remembered his mother's entrustment, so he wanted to go back to Niujia Village to worship his father, Hong Qigong asked Lu Youjiao to escort the three children to Lin'an Mansion.

As for Hou Tonghai, he was locked up in the rudder of the Beggar Gang in Baoying, and the secret marks he left behind were erased by the disciples of the Beggar Gang.

Yang Kang's search was unsuccessful, so he had to return to Cheng's house, and waited until Sun Buer finished dealing with Baoying's affairs and went to Lin'an Mansion together to enjoy the beautiful scenery of West Lake.

Outside Baoying City, Sha Tongtian, who had cleared the snake venom, was discussing the next countermeasures with Peng Lianhu, and the clues in Baoying had been broken, and the beggar gang couldn't afford to provoke it, and the matter was not done, how to have the face to return to Kaifeng.

At this time, the four ghosts of the Yellow River came back to report, it is said that two days ago someone saw an old beggar with three children leaving Baoying, walking in the direction of Lin'an, to be able to hear the news near the city gate or because the little girl in it is lively and cute, which is memorable.

As soon as the two of them are combined, no matter whether the news is true or not, catch up and take a look, as long as they can save the little princess, it will be a great achievement.

As for the junior brother Hou Tonghai, if he is still alive, he can only find the seniors of the rivers and lakes to come forward and make peace with the beggar gang, if he is dead, then this Liangzi is settled, and he will want to take revenge in the future.