"Don't stop, keep walking." Tang Cheng, who was riding a horse past the door of the Liufu Tavern, suddenly whispered, beckoning Niu Laogui, who was also riding a horse and following behind him, not to dismount. When Tang Cheng was about to dismount just now, he happened to meet the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper who walked out of the tavern, Tang Cheng had already learned the appearance of the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper from Niu Laogui, so although it was just a lightning glimpse, Tang Cheng could already be sure that the old man who was walking out of the tavern was the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper of the tavern.

What made Tang Cheng suddenly change his mind was the sixth uncle's faintly shining eyes, people with such eyes, Tang Cheng had only seen them in those gang leaders in Beiping and Shanghai, and a tavern shopkeeper with a slightly staggering footsteps had such a pair of eyes, which had to make Tang Cheng change his mind of walking into the tavern to find out. "Did you notice the tavernkeeper's look just now?" It wasn't until he turned the corner that Tang Cheng turned around and looked at Niu Laogui, who had an inquiring face.

Niu Laogui may be good at fighting, but he has nothing to pay attention to the eyes of a tavern shopkeeper, obviously a little embarrassed for him, for Tang Cheng's question, Niu Laogui can only shake his head a little blankly. "I've only seen that kind of look on a few people, how can a tavern shopkeeper in a small county town have such a look? So this sixth uncle is definitely not simple, we have to change our plan. Tang Cheng's tone was tinged with a hint of eagerness, Niu Laogui could hear that after being idle for a long time, Tang Cheng's adventurous spirit in his bones began to show signs of emerging again.

Just a look, Tang Cheng was not sure that the shopkeeper of this tavern was the target he was looking for, but in line with the principle of being careful, Tang Cheng did not make a noise but took Niu Lao Guijing back to the cyclamen. "Kuroko, you and your people don't have to go to the garrison to help train in the afternoon, we may need your help tonight." Heizi is a bandit, although he can't fly the eaves and walk the wall like those high-rollers in the story, but this ability to steal chickens and dogs is much better than Niu Laogui and them, Tang Cheng plans to ask Heizi and them to touch the bottom of the Leofoo Tavern at night.

"Stone, you go find your friends and see if there are any suspicious strangers in the city." Liu Shishi, who happened to come down from upstairs, was caught by Tang Cheng, Liu Shishi obviously didn't know what Tang Cheng wanted him to do, and he was staring at Niu Laogui with big eyes. Tang Cheng didn't explain anything to Li Shishi too much, just simply sorted out his things, and rode to Huang's house.

It was Tang Cheng's idea to search for Japanese spies in the county seat who might have stored zài, and Tang Cheng's unsuccessful return last night and the Lukfook Tavern locked this morning, Tang Cheng wanted to report these situations to Commander Huang, in order to obtain Commander Huang's support and assistance. "And what do you want to do?" After listening to Tang Cheng's narration, Captain Huang, who was pacing in the hall with his hands behind his back, had an expressionless face, and like Tang Cheng, he couldn't determine that there must be something wrong with this tavern shopkeeper, but if this tavern shopkeeper was a spy of the Japanese army, then Macheng would be in danger.

Captain Huang, who had his back to Tang Cheng, showed a bitter expression, originally thought that spending money to buy the position of head of the garrison regiment would be able to glorify his ancestors and leave some inheritance for his descendants, but he didn't expect that this wave after wave of things would cost him a lot of energy. Before this, he was just a landlord who lived by collecting rent, and he was a squire to put it mildly, but now he was in charge of more than 500 lives, and he also wanted to keep one side safe, but he really didn't have the ability. "What do you want me to do?" Commander Huang, who seemed to have made up his mind suddenly, turned to look at Tang Cheng, and the tone and content of his questions had changed significantly.

"First of all, I just suspect that there is something wrong with the tavern keeper, and we are not sure yet, and it may cause unnecessary trouble or alarm his accomplices." Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and handed it to Captain Huang first, and then took one in his mouth and lit it with a match, "A few of my subordinates are bandits who have been reorganized around Mengcheng, although their skills are not as good as those heroes in the rivers and lakes, but it is no problem to stare over the wall, I want to ask them to go to that Lukfook Tavern tonight to find out." ”

"There are a few good skills in my family, or I'll help you a few more." Head Huang obviously agrees with this approach of not startling the snake. The Liufu Tavern has not been open in Macheng for a day or two, the shopkeeper Sixth Uncle just likes to drink a little, and there is nothing else disgusting, if such a person is really a spy of the Japanese army, Commander Huang doesn't know if he will order all the faces of Macheng to be arrested in prison, so in Captain Huang's heart, he is a little looking forward to Tang Cheng's failure.

After communicating with Commander Huang, Tang Cheng returned to Cyclamen and continued to read Xie Bo's notebook, while Lao Dongbei and the others went to the barracks to train the soldiers of the garrison regiment as usual, and they looked the same as usual. As the night faded into time, the sunspots, who had rested in the cyclamen's room for a whole afternoon, were ready to go, but Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the hall and piling up the sand table, had not yet given an order, and they could only wait patiently.

Waiting for Liu Shishi to come back with the old Northeast who was full of wine, Tang Cheng put down the tools in his hand and began to wash his hands, "In the tavern as usual, the shopkeeper is still inquiring about the garrison and us, I think this deflated calf thing is not a good thing, Lao Tzu didn't say a word, just drinking." The drunken old northeaster, who was walking and staggering, entered the cyclamen, and immediately returned to normal, and when he spoke to Tang Cheng, he was no longer vague, and there was no sign of drunkenness at all.

Of course, Liu Shishi and Lao Dongbei were sent by Tang Cheng to fight the front station, and Lao Dongbei would go to Liufu to drink before coming back to the cyclamen these days, and if he suddenly didn't go, it might arouse the suspicion of the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper. Liu Shishi, who made his temperament jump, was as quiet as usual, the difficulty was not an ordinary fight, but fortunately, there was Lao Northeast, a guy who seemed to be big and grinning but was as delicate as silk, watching from the side, and the two of them did not show their feet in the Luofoo Tavern, at least Lao Northeast thought so.

"Okay, you go and take it, remember, don't make a move if you don't find anything suspicious." Kuroko and the others were finally allowed to set off, and they were dressed in black and disappeared into the night after a few arrows out of the gate of the cyclamen. In order to ensure that his actions would not be revealed, Tang Cheng would personally command a team of the Huang family to patrol near the Lukfook Tavern tonight, and once the sunspots found an abnormality in the tavern, Tang Cheng would rush over to support them.

"Fusheng, pack up your things and get ready to close." Seeing off the last two drinkers in the tavern, Uncle Liu, dressed in a coarse cloth short coat, calculated today's income while the new young man cleaned up the cups and saucers on the table. Kuroko, who was lying on the roof of the tavern's backyard, looked through the window with a telescope, and although the light was dim, Kuroko could only use the telescope to get a rough idea, but he still didn't let go of every detail he saw.

The tavern finally closed the door and closed the board, and the young man who didn't like to talk much came into the backyard with an oil lamp in one hand and an account book in the other, but the sixth uncle, the tavern shopkeeper who was suspected by Tang Cheng, followed the young man with two empty hands. Kuroko and his three men suddenly held their breath, because the two people in the courtyard suddenly stopped, standing in the middle of the courtyard. The shopkeeper began to speak, although the sunspot on the roof was not very far away from them, but the two of them were not talking very loudly, so the sunspot could only be sure that they were talking, but he could not hear what they were talking at all.

After ten minutes, the two people who had been standing in the middle of the courtyard and talking in a low voice separated and walked in the direction of non-stop, the young man with the oil lamp extinguished the oil lamp and squatted under the wall facing the street in the courtyard, while the sixth uncle of the shopkeeper, who had been stared at by the sunspot, went behind the pyre on the other side of the courtyard. Kuroko was lying motionless on the roof, one of his men had already been ambushed on the other side of the pyre, and as long as they could get out of here safely, Kuroko would get what he wanted from that man's mouth.

It took more than ten minutes for the shopkeeper to reappear after running to the tavern behind the pyre, and the young man who was sitting under the wall re-lit the oil lamp and followed the shopkeeper into the house. The sunspot on the roof was no longer interested in uncovering the tiles to find out what the two people in the room were doing, as long as he figured out what the tavern keeper was doing behind the pyre, his errand was over. After lying quietly for more than an hour, it was estimated that the people in the room were already asleep, and the Kuroko and the others lightly got down from the roof and climbed over the wall to leave the Leofoo Tavern.

"Eat something first, everyone should be hungry." Back in the cyclamen, Kuroko and the others were greeted not by the expected questions, but by several large bowls of meat noodles. In many cases, Tang Cheng treats the people in the cyclamen equally, but he visits Jiujin in recuperation several times a day and treats Liu Shishi in peace, and he has already explained the meaning of the word "intimacy" for the sunspots, so Tang Cheng wants to make some changes and make some remedies, so that the 15-person team will not have a crack because of his unintentional actions.

"You guessed right, there was something wrong with the shopkeeper of the tavern, and Erniu watched the old fellow burrow into a hole in the ground behind the pyre. Erniu didn't dare to go in and check it out, but the old guy could stay in the cave for a quarter of an hour, and as long as he copied the hole in the tavern, we would all be able to figure out everything. Kuroko was indeed hungry, and while swallowing the meat noodles, he also vaguely informed Tang Cheng of the situation detected tonight.

Tang Cheng played the role of a listener very well, and while Kuroko and his three men narrated, Tang Cheng just wrote and drew on the paper without interrupting them. "Look, I'm drawing it right." When the four of them didn't speak, Tang Cheng handed Kuroko a sketch of the tavern backyard drawn according to their narrative, and since coming to Macheng, Tang Cheng has become more and more fond of building sand tables and sketches before acting, both of which can give him a kind of confidence to see the whole picture.