Seeing that three days later is the birthday of Emperor Li Qianshun of the Xia Kingdom, and the sky is beautiful, the wind and snow for many days have completely stopped, and the warm sun is shining in winter, which makes the people in Xingqing Mansion in the summer capital all go out of their homes like a festival, go to the street to enter the market, and purchase their favorite goods.

To talk about the most dense flow of people in the past two days, when the West Market, there is a dazzling variety of goods, from the country's livestock skins, cheese products to the horses and ironware of the Liao Kingdom, and even the silk cloth and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, almost everything, whether it is a rich nobleman with a strong family property, or an ordinary Dousheng small people, you can buy what you are interested in in the West Market.

Therefore, when the market opens in the afternoon, the pedestrians here can already be described as shoulder to shoulder, and Sun Tu has a feeling of returning to Bianjing with the popularity of people. Although the prosperity of this place is far from being comparable to Tokyo's Xiangguoji Temple or several major markets, it is still lively enough.

However, Sun Tu didn't really want to buy any local goods when he entered the West Market this time, but had another purpose - to find the secret spy of the Song Kingdom hidden in Xingzhou City!

Although it is impossible for the three kingdoms of Song, Liaoxia and Xia to fight each other for many years on the surface, the battle in the secret has never stopped. Among them, the secret spies of the Xia people are the most terrifying, and they have caused turmoil in the Song and Liao countries several times, especially the incident in Youzhou City, which almost overthrew the Nanjing regime of the Liao State.

Compared with the audacity of the Western Xia spies, the Song secret spies in the Xia capital were much more low-key, and their more responsibilities were only to find out the various strategies of the Western Xia against the Song through some clues, and to transmit the news back as soon as possible before the enemy might use troops against the Song.

What's more, these secret spies are very deeply hidden, that is, Sun Tu has been looking for many days in Xingzhou, and only found some clues yesterday, and learned that they are in the West Market, so they will enter the West Market today. Of course, this is also related to the fact that Sun Tu could not really act alone until these two days, before he either followed the fine seal to walk around, or needed a guide to follow, and only in the last two days did he take leave, and he came out alone in the name of being familiar with the streets and markets in the city, so he dared to contact the secret spy of the Song State in secret.

But even so, Sun Tu was quickly followed after walking out of the door of his residence. Although the identity of the stalker is unknown for the time being, he will not give them another chance this time due to his ulterior motives. Coupled with the dense crowd of pedestrians on the streets today, he only used a few tricks to shake off the eyeliners, and by the time he entered the West Market, he was convinced that no one could know his whereabouts.

Following the noisy crowd to the depths of the market, and after seeing a lot of goods from the north and south, Sun Tu's eyes finally fixed on the earthen wall in front of an ironware shop on the side hand. There was a scribbled and inconspicuous graffiti carved into the wall at this time, and if the average person saw it, he would only think that it was some mischievous child who had scratched it with a stone. But this is completely different in Sun Tu's eyes, because the seemingly ordinary graffiti is the contact mark of the Great Song Dynasty's secret spy Suifeng organization, and the ironware shop in front of him is exactly where the Song secret spy stronghold is located!

Who would have thought that the Song people, who had always strictly controlled the iron tools in foreign trade and refused to send out any iron tools, would let the secret spies lurk in the capital of Western Xia as iron merchants?

Sun Tu glanced around again, and after making sure that no one was following and peeking at him, he walked straight into the shop.

Because the Song people banned the circulation of iron tools, and their own technology was not too good, the price of iron tools in the Xia Kingdom has always been high. The swarthy ironware has no decorative role in addition to practicality, so the business of this shop looks really light, even if the West Market is full of people today, almost every shop is overcrowded, but there are almost no people in the ironware shop, only a strong man is half-lying on the counter dozing, seeing Sun Tu come in, he just glanced at him lazily.

Sun Tu's gaze only swept over the hoes, sickles and other goods leaning against the wall, and then he stepped forward and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to ask you to help create an object." ”

"Oh, I wonder what the guest officer wants to build? Are there any requirements? Seeing that it was indeed a guest who came to the door, this person cheered up and asked with a smile.

"A horse, an iron horse. An iron horse three feet seven inches tall and four feet long! Sun Tu said a somewhat strange statement. The shopkeeper, who was still smiling, quickly narrowed his eyes after hearing this series of strange statements, but replied: "This is not cheap, you have to pay the same amount of gold to offset it." ”

"I don't have gold, but I have a penny, a big money that is missing!" As Sun Tu spoke, he took out a coin from his sleeve and pushed it down the counter to the other party. The shopkeeper only glanced at the money, and then laughed: "The guest is still invited to speak later, and your request must be explained to our blacksmith here." As he spoke, he shouted to the courtyard separated by a thick curtain: "Xiao Wu, come out and help me watch it, there are distinguished guests here today." ”

When another young man came out to replace him and came out of the counter, the strong man led Sun Tu into the courtyard at the back of the store. Different from the desertion in front, the backyard is in full swing, several stoves are thriving, and a few big men are sweating and beating a piece of utensils at this time, and the sound is endless.

Sun Tu and the man passed past the blacksmiths, but none of them stopped to look at him, and their footsteps did not stop, and soon they entered a room that looked like an account room. It wasn't until after closing the door that this one looked at Sun Tu with vigilant eyes: "You are from the east?" Did you come with Li Shilang? Do I have a certificate? ”

"I didn't come with Li Shilang's envoy, but I am indeed a Song person!" Sun Tu looked at the other party calmly, he knew that the Li Shilang in the other party's mouth was the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty who sent Xia Guo to congratulate Li Qianshun on his birthday, and Li Qing, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites: "As for the certificate, isn't that money enough to prove my identity?" ”

The coin he pushed over just now doesn't look ordinary, and it is even missing a dime, but it is a key token of the Great Song Dynasty secret spy organization. With this thing, coupled with the incision that sounded completely illogical just now, it was possible to make the Great Song spy in another country believe that he was his own identity. And that coin is even more ordinary, so even if someone searches for it, they won't notice anything unusual.

This set of cuts and tokens to contact Suifeng was taught to Sun Tu by Tong Guan when he was in Nanjing City that day, in order to naturally let him contact Suifeng's secret spies in the local area and get the defense map. It's just that Tong Guan couldn't have imagined that after Sun Tu came to Western Xia, he actually used this set of means to get involved with the secret spies here.

But the person in front of him frowned at this time: "You...... It's not my one who follows the wind, is it? We had other preparations before, as long as I was a man in the wind, I would prove it at this time! ”

"Huh?" Sun Tu was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't imagine that there were other tokens different from the secret spies of the Liao State here, so he could only admit at this time: "This set of mine was originally used to contact the secret spies planted in the Liao State, and they don't have such a statement." But because of the stakes, I can only take the liberty of asking you to help me. ”

"Who the hell are you? What do you want to do here? After hearing this, the other party's face became even more solemn, and his eyes stared at Sun Tu and asked.

"My name is Sun Tu, the official is in the capital of soldiers and horses on Jingdong East Road, and this time I also came to the Xia Kingdom by coincidence. But I have already gained the trust of the important ministers of the Xia Kingdom, so I want to take this opportunity to make some noise here, so that the Western Xia will be in chaos, so that my Great Song Dynasty will not have to be distracted in the past few years! Sun Tu simply said his intention: "But it is difficult for me to do it alone, so I thought of asking for your help." ”

"Sun Tu ......" The strong man recited the name: "I seem to have heard of your name, are you very famous in the Great Song Kingdom?" ”

"This ...... But it has nothing to do with what we're going to talk about. I just want to ask you, are you willing to risk a big vote with me in Xingzhou City? Sun Tu only cared about the other party's attitude and continued to ask.

"Do you know my duties and rules of conduct?" The strong man didn't rush to answer the question, but changed the subject. After seeing Sun Tu shaking his head, he replied by himself: "My name with the wind comes from the sentence 'sneaking into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently', I wait to lurk in other countries except to inquire about the news, and rarely take action, because only in this way can we ensure everyone's safety, and at the same time, we can be nailed here for a long time to obtain more valuable information." Do you understand what I mean? ”

"I know that Liao's secret spies can obtain that border defense map by decades of infiltration, and what you are seeking is not small." Sun Tu nodded in understanding, but then the conversation changed again: "But things also have priorities, if taking a risk can make Da Song get more benefits, or even better than letting you lurk here safely for decades, are you willing to take risks with me?" Don't worry, I won't let you take any risks without some certainty! ”

The strong man's face immediately showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while, he hesitated a little: "But our duty has always been to collect news in the dark, so it is disobedient......

"The general will not be subject to the fate of the monarch abroad, not to mention that the situation in other countries is changing rapidly. This is a great opportunity for you to make immortal contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, are you really willing to miss it in vain? Sun Tu looked at him with a solemn face and asked, "Of course, if you really don't dare to take risks, I won't force it!" I'm not here today. ”

"You don't have to provoke me, since I came here abandoning my family and surname, I have already put life and death out of the way. Tell me, what the hell do you want to do here! "This one is still a little moved in the end, after all, if it weren't for his love for Da Song, how could he come here to lurk?

But Rao had a certain amount of psychological preparation, and after Sun Tu said his purpose, he still frightened this person's face changed, and he almost shouted: "You...... What a daring! ”