Bright Spring

Yang Sheng thought about it for a while, and then said: "The manager should ask the details."

The woman finally said it out: "We are all from Dali, and so is my mother's family. Brother Yang said that a friend of the business gang will help you match."

Yang Sheng said again: "I'll ask."

The woman tidied up the house and started cooking lunch again.Yang Sheng was about to go to the stables after lunch. He did not forget to leave a bowl of food and asked the woman to bring it back to Wang Xiaoniang, and asked the woman to close the courtyard door before leaving.

She stood by the rear window for a long time in the bedroom where she lived before putting the cold food into a food box and taking it away.

Walking out from the small courtyard of the Yang family, there is a street with many banyan trees planted on both sides.The woman walked quickly along the street with a food box. When she got to the largest banyan tree, she saw a woman burning incense candles under the tree.

There was always incense ash under that big banyan tree, she had noticed it a long time ago, but she didn't know what kind of god that tree was regarded by the people nearby.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 2 Eleven: Agu Temple

/p>The woman who was burning incense under the big banyan tree stood up with a basket and began to walk south.And the woman who came out of Yang Sheng's house was also walking south with a food box. The woman looked sideways slightly calmly, and glanced at the woman burning incense.

When we got to the south corner of Rongshu Street, the woman turned to the west, and the woman carrying the basket went east on the road without looking back.The woman looked back and breathed a sigh of relief.

There is a shop at the intersection of the brick and stone street, with flags and banners hanging outside the door, with the word "rice" floating on it.The woman walked westward, and a young and strong man in short clothes came out of the rice shop, carrying a cloth bag and walking in front of her.

The woman stopped, squatted on the side of the road and opened the food box, pretending to tidy up her things.When he stood up, he saw that the short-clothed man was continuing to walk forward, gradually walking away.

She then turned around and walked towards the east. Originally, she was going to take the east road just now, but she felt that the woman burning incense was a bit strange, so she deliberately walked in the opposite direction.

The woman was very careful, but found that no one was following her, so she walked forward.

The vicinity of Mu's Mansion is a relatively affluent place in Yunnan Fucheng. There are many people on the street in the afternoon. The woman didn't look around, but every time she came to an intersection, she turned a corner and stood by the wall for a while, pretending to wait for someone, and watching for a while. There are no signs of suspiciousness in the person.

Walking all the way to the south gate of Fucheng, she looked at it several times, and gradually she felt relieved.Perhaps because she has followed others before, she is always worried about being followed.

Soon the woman came to the south gate, and there was a group of soldiers in solid armor standing at the gate, but they didn't pay any attention to the woman's intentions.

According to the law, the people of Daming could not leave their hometown for a hundred miles casually; the farmers were not allowed to leave the land for one mile under the supervision of the head of the village and the head of the village.If people want to leave their hometowns, they need guides issued by the county government so that they can pass through various passes and city gates.But the law is one thing, and the reality of the land is quite another.

Most of the people who go out with guides are scholars, and they are familiar with the government; other kinds of people have almost no guides, or there are refugees, traffickers, pawns, illegal | of.In a city with a large population, the government simply doesn't have that many manpower, and they can't manage it, and don't want to manage it... It's no good.Generally, there are only two situations in which people will be stopped at the gate of the city: one is that they are carrying goods and have to pay money;

So the woman walked out of the city gate silently, continued to walk south along the road, and arrived at Liuba Village in the southern suburbs not long after.

She went straight to Agu Temple, and walked into the temple from under the plaque of "Jiezhu Songming", and saw a scribe in robes looking around.

It's not unusual that some literati often come to visit this temple.The woman brought out the food in the food box, put it on the altar, bowed three times, and left with the empty food box.

She walked to a white-walled tile-roofed house, knocked on the door, and said, "I'm back."

Soon the door opened and the woman walked in.

...In a courtyard on Rongshu Street next to Mu's Mansion, Zhu Gaoxu and several people were sitting or standing, waiting in the main room.

Last night, Zhu Gaoxu came with the Quanyong team of the garrison. He first divided the spies into many small teams, each with four people.

This morning, when Zhu Gaoxu saw the woman entering the courtyard diagonally opposite, he first notified everyone: the target woman's appearance, figure, age and other characteristics.Then, according to the neighborhood map of Yunnan Fucheng, he preset people and horses at each intersection in the city.

The woman burning incense was the family member of one of the spies, and besides that, there were four other people guarding both ends of Banyan Tree Street.

As soon as the woman went out, Zhu Gaoxu immediately sent someone to inform the teams: the color of the woman's clothes, and the food box she was carrying.

... At that time, the target woman chose to go south, and the woman burning incense followed.At the south end of Banyan Street, the woman turned west again; the spy from the rice shop at the intersection followed, replaced the woman burning incense, and took over the target.

At that time, apart from the banyan tree street where the woman came from, spies were deployed at the end of the street in the other three directions, and they were the people of the second team.

The Mipu spy followed to the middle of the street, but the woman turned around halfway; the Mipu spy let go of his target and continued walking.But when the woman returned to the south entrance of Banyan Street, there was another spy waiting there to take over the target.

Because Zhu Gaoxu's preset manpower was spread out geometrically from the vicinity of the stronghold, the manpower was very dense; so the woman couldn't get rid of the spy at the beginning.

Then the woman went east to the end of the street, and waited for the spies there to take over.The spy followed him all the time, and when he found his own person appeared, he changed people again.

If no one takes over after following three streets, or if the woman notices, today's task will be cancelled, so as not to startle the enemy.Then everyone has to wait for the next opportunity.

Or the two spies were rewarded before, which encouraged the army, and everyone worked hard today.The spy successfully followed the woman to the south gate, and the generals at the south gate immediately sent people to the nearby Liuba Village and other places; one of the teams happened to meet the woman in Liuba Village, and the tracking ended at this time up.

...Zhu Gaoxu is still waiting at the stronghold on Banyan Street.

At this moment, a young general in scribe robes walked in quickly with a small cloth bag and knelt down on one knee.Zhu Gaoxu and the others immediately turned their heads, their eyes all focused on the young general's face.

The general clasped his fists and said in a deep voice: "Report to the lord, the woman went out from the south gate, went to Liuba Village, and entered a house with white walls plastered with lime. The general brought this thing back." He presented the cloth bag up.

Liu Ying next to Zhu Gaoxu stepped forward to take it, put it on the square wooden table and opened it, it turned out to be a big thick bowl with food in it.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced sideways and asked, "Why did you bring this thing back?"

The general replied: "When the woman arrived at Liuba Village, she first went to the Agu Temple and offered this bowl of rice on the altar. The general pretended to come out of the temple and told the brother who was hiding behind the statue to continue squatting. When someone came to fetch it, he took the bowl back."

"Find out and check." Zhu Gaoxu said.

After he finished speaking, he asked the general, "Did that woman find you on the way?"

The general said: "Returning to the prince, it should be safe, so the woman went straight to the 'thief's den' in Liuba village. There are very few outsiders in Liuba village. The last general is afraid that the villagers will become suspicious. I came back first, leaving only one sergeant hiding in the fishing shed outside the village to watch."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded.

At this time, Wang Bin said with a smile: "My lord, this method is a bit troublesome, but it really works. I will admire it in the end!"

"It's good for you to understand." Zhu Gaoxu recalled, "If you want to talk to those who are on guard, one or two people can't do it, you will definitely be discovered! Although the people who followed Wang Bin from Liyuan last time were cunning, they were also discovered by Wang Bin. Is it right? We have to go to such trouble, otherwise we will startle the snake if we are found out. This may not be successful, luck is good today, we didn’t lose track.”

Chapter 2 Rhododendron Like Blood

/p>There may be letters and notes hidden in the bowl of food.At least Zhu Gaoxu guessed so.

But Liu Ying and others squeezed almost every grain of rice and every dish, but still got nothing.The guards even knocked the bowl into pieces, only to find that it was just a rough bowl.

Zhu Gaoxu paced back and forth in the main room, his expression cloudy and uncertain.

The looming clues seemed to be testing his patience and mocking his mind, which made Zhu Gaoxu a little angry.We must dig out the forces hidden in the shadows!

Wang Bin cupped his fists and said cautiously: "As long as the prince orders, the brothers will go to Liuba Village to arrest all the gangsters, and then torture them to extract a confession!"

Zhu Gaoxu was noncommittal, raised his head and said: "This woman's whereabouts are strange, if she is a spy, there may be a big force behind her. Otherwise, how dare she stare at the king and the people of the Mu family?

If no one is caught alive, and the person is forced to death; or if no useful thing is obtained from her mouth, this clue will be broken.In the future, if we want to dig out the clues of that force again, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack. "

Wang Bin said: "What the prince said is true."

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a while, he was thinking about how to send someone to monitor without letting the woman find out.

"Liuba Village..." Zhu Gaoxu mused, "If it's easy to do in the city, if a stranger comes to a village suddenly, the locals may become suspicious."