The old soldier was shocked. If this was spread to the ears of the law team, he would be severely punished. The old soldier frowned and said: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say these things randomly.

Ah! I really don’t have that, so please don’t embarrass me, an old soldier.” The words revealed the meaning of a veteran, hoping that Inspector Si Baihu in front of him would not embarrass himself for the sake of the soldiers.

Seeing that there was nothing he could do, Ye Chen took out another piece of broken silver and stuffed it into the old soldier's hand, and said with a smile: "You misunderstood, I just want to ask for a few drinks, that's all!"

Seeing that no one from the two tables next door was paying attention, the old soldier said, "Let's wait until the people at these two tables go upstairs!"

Ye Chen got the answer he wanted to hear and then went back. The table in the official post was larger, a square table, and it was not a problem to sit two grown men on one side. Therefore, six people sat on the table and enjoyed the hot meal. Zou Hu ate

After eating and laughing, Ye Chen didn't know why and asked: "What good things are you thinking of?"

Zou Hu said with a satisfied look on his face: "This is a typical soldier's big pot dish. I haven't eaten it for a long time. It's so delicious!"

Ye Chen was in a daze, recalling that they had been following him for almost a year. Time passed by so quickly, and it seemed that he had almost forgotten the nameless boy who once walked out of the nameless town. He felt a lot of emotion.

After Ye Chen wolfed down the food for a while, he notified Chen Bing, several others, and the brothers who were on sentry duty outside to take turns to have some hot food, while he went out on guard duty one by one.

At the door of the inn, Ye Chen, who was leaning on the doorpost, looked up at the sky. He kept recalling his experiences in the past few months in his mind. Ordinary people may not encounter so many things in their lifetime. At first, he saved Lin Yanyan by coincidence.

He replaced the Black Snake Gang and took this opportunity to enter Huangfu Leng's field of vision and established the Anjiang Society. Not only did he destroy Zhao Qingming's Qinglong Gang, he also accidentally took over the underground black market that Anli's spy Yan Er had worked hard to run.

Several shops are also open and lively. Along the way, I have tasted the ups and downs. I have experienced the joys and sorrows of life and death brothers, been exposed to the hazy and ambiguous emotions, felt the suffocation on the edge of life and death, and also tasted the pleasure brought by power.

But now he still feels that he is not on the path he should be on.

Ye Chen, who was in a daze, was brought back from his thoughts by the collision of the cigarette rod and the sole of his shoes. He turned around and found the old soldier looking at him with a smile, and couldn't help but smile at each other.

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"Young man, what are you thinking about? Living comfortably is the most important thing in life!" The old warrior took a deep puff of his cigarette. Looking at the iron cigarette rod, Ye Chen asked: "Dad, this thing

It's so choking, how could you inhale it?"

The old soldier said with a smile: "When we were fighting on the border, there were dead people everywhere, and the weather was cold. I would think blindly when there was no work to do. Later, I don't know who started to imitate those foreign countries and started doing this.

At first, there was no such cut tobacco, so the brothers picked up dry leaves on the ground. Later, they started smoking and couldn't live without it. Later, when conditions improved, they could afford to buy authentic cut tobacco, but there were only a few brothers left.

I'll be next."

Seeing the old soldier smoking one after another, Ye Chen suddenly remembered something, which was also discovered by the others while monitoring Sun Dacheng.

"Dad, I want to ask you something." Ye Chen said.

The old soldier raised his eyelids slightly and smiled: "You ask, as long as it is about what happened to us, there is basically nothing that I don't know."

"There is a kind of ball paste. If you put a little bit on the cigarette rod and light it, the person who smokes it will immediately become drunk and dreamy, and the words in his mouth will be unimaginable good things."

The old soldier raised his head and looked at the young man in confusion, and asked thoughtfully: "Where did you see this thing?"

Ye Chen smiled and did not answer him, but continued to ask the old soldier about the origin of this thing.

"A few years ago, a group of businessmen who claimed to be from the Yesang Kingdom came to China to trade. There were many rare items stolen. You can't imagine how magical the items they brought were. The most eye-catching one was a thing called a smoke ball.

.I still remember that no one dared to buy it at that time, but I couldn’t bear to have it given away. Anyone who likes to take two puffs is welcome. Later, I heard that people who have smoked this cigarette ball are always clamoring to smoke it. It seems that they are addicted. But the little one

The things were too expensive, and most people couldn't afford them. Since then, I haven't heard anything about this cigarette ball. It's probably because it was too expensive and no one bought it. As time went by, no one sold it."

"I guess it's not that no one sells it. It should be banned by the government. The government never promotes things that harm the people." Ye Chen explained.

The old soldier nodded thoughtfully, turned to look at the inn hall, seemed puzzled, and said: "It's strange, the people at the two tables have already ordered two dishes and haven't eaten yet. They are sitting here in a daze.

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Ye Chen didn't pay much attention to this at first, but when he turned to look at the two tables, he suddenly had an ominous premonition. Four or five gentlemen ordered two dishes and only moved their chopsticks occasionally, more like...

Someone is waiting for someone, and from time to time there are people staring at the table of delegation members who are eating.

As usual, fifty soldiers are stationed in every five official posts to prevent urgent military information from being maliciously intercepted by enemy spies. Ye Chen looked away and began to think about the next arrangements. These people were obviously not ordinary people who could live in official posts.

The people in Yi were all related to court affairs, but for some reason, Ye Chen always felt that something was wrong, and couldn't think of it for a while.

"Dad, who are these people?"

The old soldier glanced at Ye Chen and said, "I told you when you came here, don't ask around when you shouldn't, even if Qin Xiaoqin comes."

Ye Chen nodded and walked back to the second floor of the inn, but did not enter the room. Instead, he stayed on the corridor overlooking the entire hall. Soon Ye Chen discovered something was wrong. Some of the diners downstairs began to look up to the second floor from time to time.

He seemed to be wary of something.

Ye Chen turned to Mei beside him and whispered: "Find an opportunity to enter their room and see if there is anything wrong."

One table of diners quickly returned to their room under the signal of a middle-aged man, while the other table of diners ordered two more dishes.

After a stick of incense, Mei quietly came to Ye Chen's side and reported in a low voice: "The people at the table downstairs didn't even have their luggage in the room, and there was no abnormality, just like the behavior of the frontier army. The other table didn't even have any luggage.

Before I could get in, the people had already gone back."

Ye Chen thought to himself that he might be overthinking it, but the man on horseback in the afternoon was indeed suspicious, especially the eyes that met his eyes, which gave Ye Chen a slightly sinister look.

"They probably just arrived. There are no traces of movement on the teacup on the table in the room or on the quilt on the bed." Mei said casually.

Ye Chen didn't pay attention at first, but when he turned around and entered the grocery room, he suddenly thought of what the old soldier said accidentally. One group of people came in with a heavy box, and the other group only brought a few baggage.
Chapter completed!