At this time, Taoist Fu was lying on the counter. Looking in from the outside, it seemed as if he was discussing the price with the shopkeeper in a low voice. That was perfectly normal, but in fact the content of the conversation was shocking.
"What's your nickname?"
"Sun Gouzi."
"Gouzi, do you know who I am?"
"have no idea."
"I am your father!"
"Dad? Are you my dad? Dad!! I'm sorry for you. I shouldn't have left home back then, causing you to starve to death (fifty words omitted here)."
"Gouzi, daddy wants you to tell me something now. After you tell me, I will ensure your prosperity and wealth, and you can become a high official tomorrow!"
"Really dad!"
"Really! But you can't lie."
"Okay, Dad, tell me!"
"Where is the Taoist priest you captured?"
"Taoist priest? I don't know."
"Think carefully, you must have arrested some people recently."
"Oh! I remembered it. When Xiao Deng was eating yesterday, he complained that he had to go to Zhuangzi to deliver food to people in the past few days. When he came back, he only ate cold wotou, which should be delivered to the arresters and guards. "
"How many meals does Xiao Deng have to deliver each time?"
"I saw that Mrs. Sun in the kitchen was busy all morning preparing meals, and Xiao Deng even had to drive a car to deliver meals to at least ten people."
"Where is Zhuangzi?"
"Guojiazhuang outside the city."
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Next, Taoist Fu asked a few more questions, then winked at the people around him, then put away the Boshan stove and left. Before leaving, he stuffed a ball of lint-like stuff under the shopkeeper's nose. , let him inhale the antidote.
Immediately, the shopkeeper felt that his nose was numb when he inhaled. After more than ten seconds, his nose began to itch. By this time, Taoist Fu and his party had already walked out of the door and disappeared into the crowd.
Immediately afterwards, the shopkeeper sneezed several times, and the confusion in his eyes quickly faded away, and then he suddenly froze, frowned and thought hard, and said to himself:
"It's weird, it's really weird! How do I remember that someone came in and wanted to sell a Boshan stove? I can still make a fortune from it, how can I remember that person?"
The shopkeeper was in a daze for a while:
"No, I still remember seeing my father and calling me by my nickname. It seems that I have to go to bed early at night. It would be bad if I took a nap on the counter in the middle of the day. It would be bad if my boss saw me. .”
***
an hour later,
Fang Linyan and Taoist Fu stood outside Guojiazhuang outside the city.
Fang Linyan was not surprised by the tricks that Taoist Fu and the others came up with. Religion at this time was inherently related to blindness and psychedelic drugs.
In particular, the Taiping Dao people were able to gather hundreds of thousands or millions of believers and deal a fatal blow to the Eastern Han Dynasty. How could they do this without the corresponding deception and the ability to confuse people?
When Fang Linyan saw Guojiazhuang, he frowned.
At this time, the chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty had lasted for more than thirty years. The wars and killings had already left deep traces on the world. Therefore, as long as there were villages in the wild and there were still people living there, they all had villagers.
Walls, river protection and other defensive equipment, as well as tall watchtowers are also necessary.
There are people watching from above at all times. Once they notice a large group of people approaching in the distance, they will immediately bang the bangle nearby, and then the farmers working near the village will have to quickly flee into the village to seek shelter.
Therefore, Guojiazhuang is certainly no exception. Otherwise, their village would have been completely wiped out by natural and man-made disasters long ago.
This is also the fundamental reason why Gan Gui detained the captured Zhang Guo here. In terms of safety factor, this place is even several times safer and more reliable than the county town!
At this time, the second generation of officials are definitely not the group that always makes wild remarks and cheats on their parents like crazy.
They have the experience passed down by their fathers and the connections left behind by their fathers. They can learn better than most people and have more adequate nutrition. More importantly, there are cruel and troubled times that are constantly attacking them.
Tempering!
Therefore, it is impossible to expect Gan Gui to make some stupid mistakes. Others think he is mediocre because they can’t help but compare him to his parents! This reference is too strong, and of course the people being compared will feel that he is mediocre.
despair
After looking at Guojiazhuang from a distance, Taoist Fu's face became a little ugly, because the watchtower in the village was three feet high, and there were as many as four arrow towers. The people patrolling above were full of energy, Kong Wu
powerful.
The people working outside Zhuangzi are all young adults, which means that they can also help defend Zhuangzi when he is attacked. Moreover, they are still the kind of spontaneous defense to protect their homeland, and their combat effectiveness and morale will be significantly higher.
cut.
"It's a bit difficult."
Before Taoist Fu could speak, a black-faced Taoist from behind had already taken the lead and said:
"What's so difficult? It's simply impossible! This Zhuangzi requires at least two to three hundred regular troops to rush in! And we have to let the children build some siege weapons first, and spend a few hundred taels of silver before attacking."
The Taoist priest Fang Linyan didn't pay attention before. He only knew that he was called "Brother Liu" when he was a Taoist priest. He was usually taciturn, but when he spoke at this time, he was completely on point. This shows that he must have had stories before he became a monk.
people.
Of course, there is another possibility. The Taoist priest is just a disguise for his identity, and his true identity is actually a general within Hanzhong?
However, in Fang Linyan's view, it is not that difficult to break the current situation. He dealt with the Taoist priest simply:
"I want to know one thing. How important is the captured Zhang Guozhang? Please note that the importance I say is not to us, but to the Jinfan thief in front of us."
Taoist Fu was stunned and said:
"It should be very high! Otherwise, why go to such trouble to lock people up in a place like this?"
The black-faced Taoist priest Lao Liu said simply:
"Very high. The reason why Gan Gui is not here now is that after getting the secret message from Zhang Guozhen, he quickly went directly to see Wu Jun's senior officials. He will definitely tell his subordinates before leaving that he must keep Zhang Guozhen.
human life."
Fang Linyan said:
"If that's the case, it would be easy. You see, it's almost dinner time now."
***
An hour and a half later,
An ox cart drove slowly, entered the village, and stopped at the entrance of a large courtyard.
The driver of the bullock cart is called Xiao Deng. He is an old man of five or six years, and he is a bit timid. He has been delivering meals in the past few days.
I don’t know what happened, but Xiao Deng was late for a long time today. All the people guarding the prisoners in this big yard were very hungry. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were putting their hearts on their backs. They could smell the farmers making fire next to them.
The smell of cooking made the nest more and more irritating.
After the oxcart arrived late, the guards immediately rushed forward with curses, and then went straight to get their own meals. When they opened the food box, they saw that there were only a few wrinkled woofou and only vegetables.
pickle.
This group of people could be left to guard the prisoners because they were all Gan Gui's confidants. They usually had plenty of food and drink, and had plenty of food and meat. When they saw this, they immediately got angry and cursed. I felt that Xiao Deng was such a bastard.
Dan lost his conscience and withheld his meal money.
However, at this time, Xiao Deng seemed to be in a daze, confused, and spoke incorrectly, which of course made them even more suspicious, and they started searching in the car.
Suddenly, a man named Zhou Heizi who got on the cart twitched his nose and smelled the intoxicating aroma of wine. He immediately started shouting, and a group of people immediately searched the cart.
As a result, I was suddenly surprised to find that there were three jars of good wine hidden in the forage behind the oxcart. The seal of one of the jars was broken, so the wine was fragrant. There was also a package of hand-shredded chicken wrapped in lotus leaves and a package of tofu.
Dry + fried peanuts should be prepared as a snack.
This group of people's mouths were full of laughter, and they immediately rushed forward to drink and eat chicken. Xiao Deng, who was in a daze, panicked when he saw this and shouted:
"Don't mess around, I don't know where this wine comes from."
A group of people were very hungry at this time, drinking wine and eating smoked chicken. It was a very happy time, not to mention a dozen big men sharing a chicken, it was really fast and slow. Hearing Xiao Deng's words, he immediately sneered.
road:
"Oh! Let's not mess around, you were the one who messed up first!"
"Yes, you don't know where this wine comes from, but I know, grandpa, that you bastard deducted our food expenses to buy it."
"Haha, if Brother Zhou hadn't had the foresight to take precautions, now it would be our turn to eat steamed buns and pickles. Why don't you go back and enjoy some of the damn good wine?"
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Xiao Deng said sharply:
"I really don't know where this wine comes from!"
Lao Zhou smiled disdainfully, spit out a chicken bone, then grabbed a chicken butt domineeringly, and then said disdainfully:
"Yeah, yeah, you really don't know where it came from, why did it fall from the sky? Why the hell didn't I encounter such a good thing, and a few more jars of good wine came out for no reason?"
While laughing at Xiao Deng, this group of people began to move the wine and meat into the house and started eating and drinking.
No one paid attention to Xiao Deng. At this time, Xiao Deng's eyes became a little dazed again and he stood there numbly. At the same time, he covered his chest and looked a little painful and nauseated.
When the villagers saw the situation here, they didn't care much and all took a detour.
This is because Gan Gui is able to set up a stronghold in Zhuangzi because he has an interest entanglement with the owner of the village. He beats and scolds ordinary villagers and makes bad remarks - this is also to prevent certain secrets from being seen by outsiders -
Therefore, it is common for villagers to avoid them like plague gods.
