Brocade tears

It's hard to find out exactly where Tong Butou's house is, mainly because the night is getting darker and the curfew time has passed.Daoist Luo only knew the approximate location of Tong Butou's house, which involved four or five roads, and there were hundreds of yards facing the street. Meng Kuang couldn't knock on every door to ask.She can only hold out hope that Tong Butou's reputation in the neighborhood will tell who Tong Butou is from the first house she knocks on.

The matter of knocking on the door was handed over to Daoist Luo. After all, Meng Kuang couldn't talk to outsiders, and Daoist Luo could use his family's name to act, which was cheap.Fortunately, the third house that Daoist Luo knocked on did know the exact location of Tong Butou's house:

"Oh, the Taoist priest is going to do it. Laotong's house is easy to find. Turn right at the intersection ahead, and go forward to the house on the right hand side of Wuhu. His family has a new funeral, and his wife left. Ling, you can recognize it at a glance." After that, the family closed the door impatiently, as if they were a bit jealous of the old Taoist Priest Luo.

This is such a coincidence, I didn't expect to bump into Tong's new funeral, Daoist Luo knocked on the door by mistake, and was regarded as a Taoist priest who practiced transcendence.

"Ah Qing, you go, I won't go. I'll wait for you under the rain shelter at the back of the street. Don't forget to eat and sleep when you ask for news. Know that Guo Dayou is indeed there. Wait for Lu Jingshi to come. You go back to Chengxian Street, and Guo Dayou will be watched by us outside. You are still injured, you have to rest at night, and you will come back tomorrow to take over from us and continue to watch."

Meng Kuang thought about it, and although he was a little worried, she was very tired after running around all day today. She didn't rest last night, and the strain on her body was still hurting intermittently. She really couldn't bear it, so she agreed.

So according to the previous agreement, she went to Tong Butou's house alone, and soon she followed the instructions to find this new funeral home.She observed the surrounding environment, explored the front door and the backyard, and found that the house of Tong Butou seemed to have made a special plan, sneaked in and had no place to hide, and there was not much space inside. If she really went in, Guo Dayou The level of vigilance is hard to guarantee that it will not be discovered.After thinking about it, Meng Kuang still chose to sneak into the right neighbor of Tong Butou's house. Tong Butou's house shared the same courtyard wall with this family, and this family just built a board room for stacking sundries beside the courtyard wall. , Meng Kuang could hide in the gap between the prefabricated house and the courtyard wall, and he could also climb up the wall relatively easily to spy on the situation in Tong's courtyard.

But when she came to this excellent surveillance point, she discovered something unusual.That is, there was no movement at Tong Butou's house, it seemed that there was no one at all.But just now Meng Kuang took a look at the front and back doors of Tong's house, and they were all bolted from the inside, which meant that there was definitely someone in the house.Then it can only prove one thing, that is, they hid, where Meng Kuang couldn't hear anything.

Could it be the cellar?Meng Kuang was suspicious, but she couldn't stay here to do useless work. She had to confirm that Guo Dayou was indeed here before proceeding with the next step.So she boldly turned over and jumped into the backyard of the child's house. Once she entered, she didn't move again, carefully observing the situation in the backyard.After finding nothing unusual, she carefully inspected the entire Tong's house.This Tong's family is not rich, and the house is shabby everywhere.The coffin was parked in the front hall, and paper money was still burning in the brazier. The side hall, the back bedroom, the kitchen, and the hut were all empty, except for a woodshed.After observing for a while, she really found something strange.Just in front of this firewood house, a layer of inconspicuous fine sand was spread, completely covering the ground in front of the firewood house door.And the doors of the firewood room are all covered with silver wires, which is obviously an alarm device.If there are really monitors or gangsters breaking in, a careless person will alarm the people in the firewood room.Even if someone finds the silver thread and cracks the alarm device, the fine sand in front of the door cannot be crossed in one step, and people will definitely leave footprints.

These few veterans showed unprecedented caution, even resorting to expert means.Many experts would be helpless to deal with this alarm device, but Meng Kuang was not so easy to deal with.She simply walked around the firewood house, rubbed against the distant courtyard wall, grasped the top of the hospital wall with both hands, kicked off the courtyard wall with both feet, and landed on the roof of the firewood house lightly without touching the ground.The roof of this firewood house is covered with tiles, and the clay under the tiles has disappeared under the long-term wind and rain. There was a rattling sound.Meng Kuang lifted his breath and lightened his body, keeping his footsteps to a minimum, trying not to make any noise, and slowly came to the center of the roof of the firewood house.She squatted down, quietly moved the tiles, opened a small gap, and stared into the interior.It was pitch black inside, and there was no one there. She could vaguely see a layer of animal skins on the floor of the firewood house, and she confirmed in her heart that there really was a cellar under the firewood house.

She began to dismantle the tiles lightly, and opened a hole that she could get into, and then leaned in bit by bit, keeping her hands on the edge of the beam under the tiles in the hole to prevent herself from falling completely. After leaning most of her body down into the firewood shed, she stopped moving, maintained this posture, and listened intently.She didn't plan to go down, because she knew that there might be an alarm waiting for her in the firewood house, it was too dark inside, even her night vision could not see clearly, and the ground below was not safe, so she couldn't rush down .

After listening quietly for a while, she heard movement. There was a "pop", like a slap.Then he heard a voice of urgent persuasion:

"Don't get excited, don't get excited, old boy, I know you've just experienced a new mourning, and it's the time when you feel the most painful, but it won't help if you take this anger on Guotou."

"You still call him Guo Tou. If he hadn't made a mistake in his judgment back then, how could so many of our brothers have been lost in the deserted snowy forest. I can lead him to sit here and listen to him talk for a long time. What he has done all these years has been considered as benevolent. This guy came just after my mother-in-law left, and now he wants me to die, is it intentional! "

"Old boy, old boy! Calm down and listen to me." The voice of persuasion became more and more difficult, "You have to know that Guo Tou has been planning for the dead brothers all these years, and the brothers have no way out now, Guo Toutou This is an indisputable fact. You have received money from Guo Tou all these years. Is it fake? Now Guo Tou has found the opportunity to take revenge, and the key points are all on the Meng Shisan gang Meng Shisan is hiding in the city with a few women, and if you want to lure them out, you have to be bait."

"Just let me be the bait?!" Tong Butou asked in disbelief.

"No..." The voice was a little eager, but he couldn't find the right words to explain because of his clumsy tongue.At this moment, Meng Kuang could tell that the speaker was Zhou Bayang.

At this time, Guo Dayou's voice finally sounded: "I was at fault for what happened back then, and I have been guilty all my life. You should blame me, old boy. But one yard counts for one yard. The order to go out is not my fault, but the superiors deliberately For this reason, but did not come to the rescue. Our whole team made bait and discarded sons. This is the real bait, other people’s swordfish. I went back to investigate later, and the heads of the brothers were all disfigured and shaved. Being an enemy army is full of military merit."

"So what? Who doesn't know that this is a good thing Li Chengliang did! This grandson is still alive and well all these years, being his overlord of Liaodong! How can you stand him? Even if he was dismissed last year, the actual controller of Liaodong is still him. Then Meng Shisan, can you really use him to deal with Li Chengliang? What's so great about him? Isn't he a low-ranking officer of the Jinyiwei who can fight? For your sake." Tong Butou became more and more annoyed, even more puzzled.

"His value does not lie in how many people he can kill on the battlefield. He is an excellent scout and assassin. If he can make good use of it, he can play an infinite role and change the entire court situation overnight." Guo Dayou said.

"What? You plan to use him to assassinate Li Chengliang?" Tong Bu paused, and finally asked in a low voice.

Guo Dayou didn't answer, but Meng Kuang, who was hanging upside down on the beam of the house, couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body.Guo Dayou is planning to assassinate Li Chengliang?This is just crazy.She suddenly remembered that Guo Dayou had been so close to Li Rusong, if Li Rusong knew that this man was plotting to kill his old father, how would he feel?

"Okay, old boy, you have to know that Guo Tou has been working for the dead brothers all these years, and he has never forgotten you for a moment. Right now, Guo Tou needs help. Are you going to help with this favor or not?" Zhou Bayang asked.

"Okay, for you, Guo Dayou, to be so courageous, I'll help you with this. Maybe before my old boy died, I could see Li Chengliang, an old boy, die before me. Just tell me, what are you going to do?" Do."

"Tomorrow you take your arresting team to the Gu residence of Gu Yanxiu, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, and you say that a thief has escaped into the Gu residence, and you want the Gu residence to cooperate in the arrest. You don't have to go in, if the Gu residence chases you, You don't have to resist, just leave. Lao Zhou and I will naturally do the next thing."

"It...is that simple?" Tong Butou was at a loss.

"It's that simple, but it's very important. Old boy, please help me, so that I can find Meng Shisan and others as soon as possible."

"Okay, although it's not a good thing to provoke Gu Yanxiu, I did it."

Hearing this, Meng Kuang didn't listen any longer. With the pull of his straight arms, he turned over and returned to the roof, and then carefully laid the tiles back bit by bit.As soon as she put the last tile in place, the door of the firewood room below rang with a "jingling" sound. After a while, the firewood room door was pushed open, and the three of Guo Dayou came out.Meng Kuang hurriedly lowered his body, sticking to the roof and not daring to move.

"Then let's put it this way, you will lead the team to Gu's residence before noon tomorrow. Lao Zhou and I have other things to do tomorrow." Guo Dayou seemed a little worried, and reminded again.

"What are you and Lao Zhou going to do?" Tong Butou asked.

"In order to open the way out of the city, Xunmeng Shisan should be combined with leaving the city. I hope this kid has a bright head and can think of going with me." Guo Dayou said, his answer did not explain clearly, but Meng Kuang did His intentions have been guessed.

Guo Dayou and Zhou Bayang did not stay overnight at Tong Butou's house, and they left after the discussion.Taking advantage of them saying goodbye at the door of the front yard, Meng Kuang immediately turned over from the roof of the firewood house and jumped out of the courtyard wall, leaving the children's house.She didn't leave in a hurry, and went around to the front yard gate, and saw Guo Dayou and Zhou Bayang had already left, heading east.She quietly followed, keeping a safe distance between the two of them, and followed them along the way while avoiding the officers and soldiers who were watching the night, while walking quickly.

The two of them were very vigilant, looking back frequently, and observing their surroundings extremely keenly, which made tracking more difficult.Meng Kuang often followed others when she was on a mission, but she had never been so strenuous that sweat broke out on her forehead.

About walking to the Fangshihui area outside the East Chang'an Gate, the two of them finally stopped at the back door of an inn called "Wan'an", knocked on the back door, someone opened the door for them, and they went in.Meng Kuang looked for an opportunity to climb up the courtyard wall of the inn again. There was a dog in the courtyard, and it was already alert at this time, standing up and showing vigilance, and it was about to bark.Meng Kuang took out a stone from his waist, threw it violently, and hit the dog's head directly, causing the dog to whimper and faint.Meng Kuang immediately jumped into the courtyard, listening to the movement, he judged that Guo Dayou and Zhou Bayang were living on the second floor of this inn, and the third room in Dongtou.She climbed up to the outer eaves of the second floor, crouched in the shadows and listened quietly to the movement in the room.

"Old Guo, I really don't understand what you are thinking. Why do you want to exchange these 20 taels of silver into copper coins and scatter them under the Chaoyang Gate?"

"On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the three east gates of the city - Chaoyang Gate, Taiping Gate, and Shence Gate must be opened, and a large number of city residents will go out of the city to visit Houhu and Zhongshan. Chaoyang Gate and Taiping Gate have deployed King Lu's troops. Anyone who leaves the city will be subject to inspection, and leaving the city must be very slow. People can't wait, so they will detour through the northernmost Shence Gate, or go south to Tongji Gate to leave the city. These two gates will also restrict the hands of King Lu.

Sealing the city gates of Nanjing City could not be done by relying on King Lu's brother-in-law Gu Yanxiu, a small Jinyiwei Qianhu. He did not have that much authority and authority to put pressure on the city guards of Nanjing City.Therefore, I speculate that King Lu is currently in Nanjing City, and he lives in the mansion of his brother-in-law Gu Yanxiu.It is a serious crime for the feudal king to leave the fief without authorization. He is traveling in secret this time, and he dare not say anything about it.So I asked the old boy to disturb Gu's mansion first, so that Lu Wang was afraid, and forced him to leave Gu's mansion and go out of the city.Then you help me create chaos at Chaoyang Gate with copper coins, and divert the attention of the pursuers to Chaoyang Gate, and I will follow King Lu out of the city later.At that time, King Lu would definitely go through the least congested gate. Tongji Gate is next to the Qinhuai River where the dragon boat races are held, so there must be many people there.At that time, King Lu is most likely to choose to go to Shence Gate, which is the northernmost and least crowded.

In this way, I will use Lu Wang as a road sign, so that Meng Shisan can know my intentions through the changes in the city, and judge the gate where I leave the city. At that time, we can meet at Shence Gate, and then borrow Lu Wang's chariot and horses The cover of the team followed him out of the city, and Lu Wangding never imagined that he himself became a tool to cover us out of the city. "

There was silence in the room for a while, and Zhou Bayang sighed: "Old Guo, your resourcefulness is really... oh...you were unable to reverse the situation back then, brothers are really in danger."

"Don't worry, Lao Zhou, all those involved in the events of that year will have to pay blood for this." Guo Dayou said softly.

The eyes of Meng Kuang who was eavesdropping outside the window flickered, he quickly jumped down to the second floor, climbed out of the courtyard wall and left quietly.