A group of people in the teahouse are discussing the matter of exterminating the horse thief, some people have a positive attitude towards Li An's arrival, thinking that this can at least reflect the attitude of the imperial court, indicating that the imperial court still attaches great importance to Xiazhou, and some feel that it is not of great effect, the number of officers and soldiers in Xiazhou is too small, and it is not enough to cause enough deterrence to the fierce horse thief.

Li An laughed at the talk of these ordinary businessmen, and soon, he would use his strength to prove that the guesses of these businessmen were wrong, as long as he worked hard to find a way, he could always think of a way to eliminate the horse thief, and before that, Li An needed to play everywhere first, see more beautiful scenery in Xiazhou, and visit places of interest, and it was not in vain to come to such a trip.

The teahouse is a very good social occasion, the longer Ang Lee stays in the teahouse, the more he feels that this teahouse is very suspicious, because there are too many people here and too complicated, the bustling crowd is talking indiscriminately together, and a lot of information is spread unconsciously.

As for who is the eyeliner of the horse thief, Ang Lee can't judge for a while, such as the shopkeeper of the teahouse, Dr. Tea, and the businessmen who often come to drink tea, all of them may be the eyeliner of the horse thief, and anyone is suspicious.

Of course, there is more than one teahouse in Xiazhou City, there are many green houses and restaurants, there are many guests on these occasions, and there may be an eyeliner of a horse thief in each place, or in other words, there are eyeliner on these occasions, so as to explore all kinds of useful news in a more comprehensive way.

Just through the eyes and behavior, it is impossible to find out the eyeliner of the horse thief hidden in Xiazhou City, because as long as the person who makes the eyeliner, they all have two brushes, and not everything can easily find them, if they don't even have this ability, how else can they do the eyeliner.

At least, Ang Lee watched the teahouse for a while, but he never found the slightest suspicion, as if the teahouse in front of him did not have the eyeliner of a horse thief.

Whether there is an eyeliner in the teahouse, the best way is to quickly release a blockbuster news, or an urgent message that is crucial to the horse thief, once this news is released, the horse thief's eyeliner may not be so calm, and may immediately launch an action to transmit information, and then it will leak out of the horse's feet.

For example, Li An told everyone in the teahouse that Datang has a secret huge army, which is already on the way to Qiwu Mountain, or it will not take half a day's work, tens of thousands of troops will be unable to surround Qiwu Mountain, and not a single horse thief will be able to escape, so that once there is a horse thief's eyeliner in this teahouse, they will definitely be in a hurry to pass on the information, so that the horse thief can evacuate in advance, and Li An only needs to send someone to carefully observe nearby, and he can find someone who has abnormal behavior.

But today, Ang Lee only brought two guards, and no one was up to the task of tracking, so it was better to wait first, so as not to waste such a good plan in vain.

"Guest, let's order a little song!"

Two young ladies suddenly appeared in the teahouse, they came in without any hindrance, it seems that they should be regular customers of the teahouse, often come to sing songs to the guests, so that the tea doctor is familiar with them, naturally will not be driven away.

The people who came to the teahouse to drink tea were all a little money, and they could naturally afford to listen to the tracks, and soon one person appreciated a bunch of copper plates and ordered a tune at random.

As the euphemistic repertoire echoed through the teahouse, the atmosphere became somewhat quieter, and the people who were talking to it lowered their voices a little so as not to affect the wonderful repertoire.

Li An stared at the two little ladies lightly, and found that they were not very old, about fifteen or sixteen years old, one was holding the pipa and playing, and the other was holding the guzheng and standing quietly, it could be seen that the skills of the two of them were different, one was the pipa, the other was the guzheng, but the two would not be played at the same time, when one was playing, the other was standing next to it.

In this case, if someone orders the repertoire, the idle one will also play, but they can't play together, at least they must be separated by a large distance, for example, the one who plays the pipa is in the hall on the first floor, so the one who plays the guzheng can go to the private room on the second floor to play, so that the sound will not interfere with each other, and the playing effect can be better.

"Guest, this is a special snack in our shop, if you come to the palm of God, you can try it."

Dr. Tea brought new tea and handed over a few plates of side dishes.

When he first heard the name, Ang Lee thought it was a great dish, but when he looked at it, it was actually an inconspicuous chicken paw, but this chicken paw was much larger than the chicken paws in ordinary stores, and it was just a large chicken paw with more meat.

"A small chicken paw can give the name of the Divine Palm, you really have a level, let's talk about it! This chicken paw, no, if it comes to the palm of God, is there any saying for this? ”

Li An asked curiously.

Although this is a veritable chicken paw, it must at least have some connotation, otherwise I would be sorry for such a good name.

Since ancient times, many expensive dishes are not necessarily how delicious they are, but because they have a very domineering name, this domineering name adds too much brilliance to this dish, making this dish unique, making people feel tall and cultural connotations when they hear it, for example, Farewell My Concubine, is actually just a turtle and a pheasant, and it seems very connotative to give such a name, so that people who eat this dish feel that this is very good, and there is a plate of chicken paws, called Eighteen Palms of the Dragon, A plate of purple eggplant is called Zixia Shengong, a plate of tomatoes sprinkled with sugar is called volcanic snow, and the most awesome thing is a bowl of boiled water with a small piece of green onion leaves called a leaf boat.

The general domineering dish name is easily reminiscent of profiteers and deception, because many dishes are really too ordinary, both the ingredients and the technical difficulty are very ordinary, but there are a lot of fascinating names, which is indeed suspected of deception, after all, many people who see the menu for the first time can't know what a good dish is a leaf Bianzhou, and think there are a lot of delicious dishes? As a result, it was boiled water and a green onion leaf, which didn't make people dizzy.

Dr. Tea has naturally done his homework, and when he saw Li An asking such a question, he replied very calmly: "Guest officer, our Rulai Divine Palm is naturally different, you look at this head, it is more than three times larger than ordinary chicken feet, it is the best among the claws!" ”

Listening to Dr. Tea's words, Li An almost sprayed tea all over the place, this is too shameless, chicken paws should be as thin as possible, the thicker the chicken paws, the cheaper, at least in later generations, because the thick chicken paws are captive broilers, this kind of chicken chicken is unpalatable, and relatively cheap, the size of the chicken paws is also relatively large, and it is also very cheap in later generations, but in Xiazhou in the Tang Dynasty, perhaps few people engage in feed captivity, so this kind of fat broiler can be sold at a higher price, In particular, fat chicken paws are much more expensive than those of regular grass chickens.

Perhaps in the eyes of the common people of Datang, only the chicken feet of meat can eat meat, and the chicken feet of grass chicken are bones and chicken skin, there is no meat at all, and it is not delicious.

This is also closely related to the living standards of the ancient people, in the society of later generations, there are too many big fish and meat, and in the society of the Tang Dynasty, most of the people are still vegetarian-based, so meat is more precious, and the more fatty the meat, the more popular it is, maybe fat is beautiful also has this meaning!

In short, in Datang, the fat is the best, the fatter the better, the better it can be sold at a good price, in fact, in the special era of later generations, it is also the king of fat, at that time, when buying meat, you want to buy more fatty meat, and don't like to eat lean meat, maybe the same is true in Xiazhou City! The common people like to eat fat, the fat is expensive, and the common people like to eat thin, then the thin will become expensive, which is the eternal truth.

"If you come to the palm of God, you must taste it."

Li Ang tasted it, felt that it tasted good, and nodded very affirmatively.

"What's the situation with these two little ladies?"

Li An asked curiously.

He always felt that these two had an innate strong temperament, gentle as water on the surface, and a pitiful appearance of being bullied, but it didn't seem to be the case in their bones.

Dr. Tea was also idle, and replied: "The guest officer doesn't know, these two little ladies were originally the little ladies of a wealthy family, and they learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and various musical instruments since they were young, but unfortunately there was a sudden change in the family, and all the relatives died. ”

After saying that, there was a look of sympathy.

"There was a sudden change in the family, so it is, I don't know what happened?"

Li An asked curiously, anyway, if you are idle and bored, it is better to gossip a little, so that you can seem normal and ordinary, a very ordinary person.

"I heard that he was robbed by a horse thief, that is, a horse thief in Qiwu Mountain, his father was killed in a dispute with a horse thief, and the caravan's property was looted, this batch of property was borrowed by their family to buy, and it was not enough to pay for all the family's property, and the creditor came to the door every day, and almost all the family members were forced to die, and the two of them were left."

Dr. Tea spoke.

Li An sighed sympathetically and asked, "They are also from Xiazhou, so don't there be neighbors who are willing to help them?" ”

Dr. Tea shook his head and said softly: "It's not Xiazhou, I heard that it's people from Yinzhou in the east, their ancestors have lived in Yinzhou for generations, and it's the first time they have come to Xiazhou to do business, and they have fought for their lives, which is also unlucky." ”

Listening to Dr. Cha's words, Li An nodded thoughtfully, although what Dr. Tea said seemed to have some truth, but Li An always felt that the probability was too low, or that their family was too unlucky, the first time they came to Xiazhou to develop, they encountered a catastrophe, which was too unlucky, unlucky to be described in words.

In addition, one thing that makes Li An suspect is that these two sisters are from Yinzhou, not from Xiazhou, and their stories are also told from their own mouths, and they have occasionally been confirmed by merchants when they come to drink tea, but these businessmen who confirmed the identities of their sisters soon left Xiazhou, and no one stayed, most of the businessmen only knew that these two little ladies were poor people, and could not confirm their identities.

Every month, there are many businessmen from all over the country who come to Xiazhou to do business, some just come, some leave, bustling, who will remember a businessman who was robbed by horse thieves? In the same way, no one will remember the passing merchant who confirmed the identity of the two sisters, or rather, in the eyes of all the merchants, this pair of singing little ladies is just a pair of insignificant low-level people, they rarely pay attention to this pair of sisters, everyone is very busy, there is a lot to do.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that there must be a demon when things go wrong, and if too many coincidences are put together, there is a high probability that it is not a coincidence, but a man-made coincidence, that is, deliberately.

Of course, this is just a guess, and it is not completely certain that Ang Lee will not easily convict anyone until there is enough evidence.

But no matter what, Ang Lee was indeed suspicious of the two sisters, and always felt that they might not be what others looked like, or maybe they might be the eyes of the bandits.

Now that there is a seed of doubt, it is necessary to get things straight, and Ang Lee feels that he should take a good look at the two sisters to see what else is suspicious about them.

"Have you seen enough, your eyes are about to fall out."

Seeing that Li An had been staring at the two sisters and ignoring herself, Li Hanlu looked a little unhappy, and her brows furrowed slightly.

Li An smiled lightly and said, "These sisters are good-looking, they look good, you might as well take a look at them and see if there is anything wrong." ”

When Li Hanlu heard this, he looked at him suspiciously, he is now a man, it is normal to stare at a woman, no one will feel that there is any problem, and besides, Han is angry in the open air, as long as he dresses up well, he really can't see that it is a woman.

"Do you see what's coming?"

Ang Lee asked with a smile.

Li Hanlu continued to stare at the two little ladies, because the distance was relatively far, she couldn't see too many details, but Li Hanlu still saw the essence of the two of them.

"They seem to have practiced martial arts, but they shouldn't be very good."

Li Hanlu opened his mouth and said.

Li An looked around and whispered, "Do you think they will be the eyes and ears of horse thieves?" ”

"It's unlikely! Their whole family died at the hands of horse thieves, how could they be the eyes and ears of horse thieves? ”

Li Hanlu opened his mouth and said.

"Shhhh

Li An whispered.

Although he can't be very sure, Ang Lee feels that his feelings will not be wrong, other men are mostly old and coarse, and Ang Lee has read countless women, and he is too familiar with women, even if it is an abnormality of a hair, he can't escape Ang Lee's eyes.