Between the dirt road and the low houses, Lao Wu walked in front in a gray cloth shirt, and Chen Ji lowered his hat and followed him behind.

Old Wu was very alert. Every time he walked two streets, he would look for an alley without a man. He waited for a while until he confirmed that no one was following him, and then he bowed his head and rushed forward.

At this time, the long bell rings in Guyuan City ring again.

Old Wu stopped in a long street and looked up. Chen Ji also stopped. All the pedestrians on the street stopped and looked in the direction where the bell sounded.

The bells in Guyuan are different from the melodiousness of the temple.

The heavy bell broke through the mist of the morning, as if the black clouds were surging from the top of the head, making people breathless.

Everyone was waiting for the bell to stop, but the bell kept slow.

It was not until after thirty-six sounds that the lingering sound rolled away towards the edge of the city.

A pedestrian whispered: "Thirty-six long bells, curfew will begin tonight, and alcohol will be prohibited."

"There has been no curfew for six years in Guyuan."

Lao Wu stood on the street and was stunned for a long time. He did not come to his senses until a border soldier patrolled him, and he flashed into the cultural relics shop on the street, pretending to pick up a bronze ware and look at it.

After the border soldiers passed by, he left the shop and rushed back.

Chen Ji looked at the street corner from afar, thinking to himself that what Lao Wu did was indeed contrary to the border army, and even his colleagues could not recognize each other. He didn't know how many people there were like Lao Wu in the border army, these people

What exactly do you want to do?

He followed Lao Wu and walked a few more streets, turned a corner, and suddenly lost the other party's trace.

People were queuing up on the street to receive porridge, but there was no Lao Wu in the queue. The long street could be seen at a glance, but the other party seemed to have evaporated from the world.

Chen Ji's eyes turned and swept over the plaques of shops. Old Wu must have entered a shop along the street... Was the other party hiding in it after discovering himself, or was there the other party's destination in these shops?

etc.

His eyes paused: on the plaque on a street shop, there were four gold-plated characters "Yang Ji Fur" written.

Chen Ji grabbed a passerby, handed out two copper coins and asked, "I'll ask, is this Duohun Street in Luoshifang?"

Passers-by looked at him in surprise and put the copper coins into their sleeves: "Yes, this is Duohun Street in Luoshifang, what's wrong?"

"It's okay," Chen Ji let go and let the passers-by leave.

He stared at the gold-burning plaque, and his heart was heavy. Xiao Wu once said that the young man from the Nanluofang Liuli Shop and the shopkeeper of Yangji Fur on Duohun Street in Luoshifang were all spies in Jingchao.

Chen Ji slowly retreated, hid in the crowd and lined up to get the porridge, and slowly approached Yang Ji fur.

He swept under the brim of his hat and saw Lao Wu whispering to the shopkeeper in front of the counter.

From the perspective of Chen Ji, you can only see Lao Wu's back wearing a gray cloth shirt and the shopkeeper's brows are locked. The other party seems to be arguing with Lao Wu.

At this moment, the old man in line behind Chen Ji patted his shoulder and kindly reminded him: "Young man, why didn't you bring a bowl? The military man said that he had to bring his own bowl to get the porridge, and he would not give it to him without the bowl.

”

Chen Ji said in his heart, it’s broken!

He suddenly turned to see the main hall of Yang Ji Fur's shop. Old Wu ran to the backyard of the shop without looking back.

There is no slight drag on the slightest.

Chen Ji rushed towards Yang Ji's fur shop, and the shopkeeper pulled out a short knife from under the counter, jumped out of the counter and stabbed him fiercely.

The next moment, Chen Ji took off his hat on his head and threw it at the shopkeeper. The hat rotated rapidly in the air, like a scimitar that was deshewn.

The hat flew closer and closer, blocking the view between the shopkeeper and Chen Ji.

The shopkeeper subconsciously raised his hand and waved the hat away. The hat was shattered and flew away. Chen Ji had already come to the front and slashed his hand bone and the gap between the radius of his hand.

The shopkeeper felt his wrist numb, forcing him to let go of his palms.

The short knife fell to the ground, and was steadily caught by a thin hand in the air, nailed between the third and fourth ribs of his chest and abdomen.

It was done in one go without any pause.

The shopkeeper sucked the cold air in winter and made a "hoho" sound, leaning against the counter and slowly sat towards the ground. He turned his head in disbelief, but Chen Ji didn't look at him more and had already chased him to the backyard.

...

...

Old Wu climbed up onto the roof and jumped and rolled between the bungalows and dirt houses.

He looked back and looked behind him. There was no one behind him, but he did not dare to pause at all. He could sense that the person chasing him was already very close.

Very close.

Old Wu turned around and inquire, and a figure flashed through the alley behind him.

The studded houses seemed to be covered with golden weeds on the plains, and there was a tiger running among the weeds, with no breath or steps.

You can only occasionally glimpse the flashing brown marks of it in the gaps between the weeds, until it comes close, you will realize that all the struggles you have made are in vain.

Old Wu jumped over an alley, and he saw someone flashing in the alley below. It’s not good!

"Down!"

Chen Ji stepped on the wall and leveraged his strength, and rushed into the air with all his might.

Old Wu twisted his whip legs in the air and kicked Chen Ji's head. Chen Ji raised his arm, whipped the whip legs with his elbow, hugged Old Wu's calves and took him with him.

Fall towards the ground together.

With a thud, the two of them fell heavily to the ground, stirring up dust in the sky.

A flash of sword light suddenly appeared in the dust, and Lao Wu pulled out a short knife from his boots and stabbed Chen Ji who was holding his legs.

Chen Ji turned his cheek to avoid the blade, let go of Lao Wu's calves with both hands, held his wrist and cut it behind him, pressed him tightly on the ground, pressing Lao Wu's cheeks into the dust.

Chen Ji looked around the alley silently and confirmed that no one was attracted by the sound of fighting just now. Then he leaned over and asked, "Do you do these things to avenge King Jing?"

Old Wu gasped and said, "I don't understand what you are saying."

Chen Ji relaxed a little, cut Lao Wu's hand and said in a slow voice: "I have a relationship with Zhu Yunxi, the prince of Prince Jing's mansion. I can become a disciple of Mr. Wang thanks to King Jing's recommendation. If you are to avenge King Jing, I can

Help you.”

Old Wu raised his head and spit the dirt he had eaten on the ground with his spit, and he turned his mind: "Avenge King Jing? I have never seen King Jing before, where can I avenge him? Boy doesn't need to cheat me, since it has fallen into your hands

, if you want to kill or cut, you will be all right."

Chen Ji thought for a moment, and slowly let go of Lao Wu's hands, leaned against the wall and said slowly: "Your Bianjun sent a cotton hand cage before the New Year is still exchanged for me."

Lao Wu was puzzled: "What do you mean to exchange for it?"

Chen Ji thought about it and said, "The Chen family is making a deal with King Jing. As long as King Jing is willing to recommend me to Mr. Wang's place, they will allocate this money to the border army."

Old Wu sat up with his hands on the ground and stopped running: "Would you like to avenge King Jing?"

Chen Ji did not answer this question, but suddenly asked: "You burned the granary, what are you going to do next?"

Old Wu rubbed his wrist and sneered: "Young Master Chen, do you think I will tell you the plan with just a few words? I won't run away because I know I can't run away, which does not mean I believe you."

Chen Ji said calmly: "You are joining Jing Chao to siege Guyuan City. Do you want to lead Jing Chao into the pass and destroy Ning Chao? But in this way, many people will die because of you."

Old Wu sneered: "It's my business? When have they cared about our lives and death? Who has calculated how many people can survive in the years?"

As he said that, Old Wu moved his body, leaned against the earth wall opposite Chenji, and raised his head and said, "I am the border army that joined the sixth year of Jianing. I am the infantryman and then the scout. I fought seven battles. It was very difficult.

I just got a bunch of vine armor to wear. At that time, I was a little disgusted. Old Zhou promised me that when I was promoted to a general, I would wear iron armor to wear. But later when I was promoted to a general, I realized that the mother named Zhou was the one who was named Zhou.

A liar, there are only two pairs of iron armor left in Guyuan, one of which he wears and the other that General Hu wears."

Chen Ji didn't know what Lao Wu said about this, was he going to delay time and wait for the reinforcements, or had other plans?

Old Wu changed his comfortable posture and continued: "One stone of grain was taken from Yuzhou, and when Jiangnan was taken back to the court, he only had 90% left. He was escorted to Guyuan and passed by Luocheng, Yuncheng, Weinan, Tongchuan, and Qingyang. The collusion between officials and merchants along the way.

Join forces to replace the new rice and new wheat with millet, wheat and corn that have accumulated over the years. When it comes to our hands, the grains will grow hair. If it weren't for the guidance of the border army, they would have operated the border military town into merchants' exchanges.

On the ground, my soldiers from the border don’t know what to eat.”

Chen Ji asked calmly: "Who is the master?"

Old Wu smiled without answering, and continued to say to himself: "You said, we eat corn and wheat with hairy every day, what's the point of keeping this Guyuan?"

Chen Ji said in confusion: "Since King Jing is taking care of him, why can the food be replaced quietly?"

Old Wu laughed: "King Jing is also unable to turn things around. Thousands of people deceive superiors and subordinates, and he is not a god."

Chen Ji was even more confused: "Aren't the border army from the Jin Party? Mr. Hu didn't care? He had to let people survive."

Old Wu sneered: "The border army is in the ministry, and in the eyes of the pavilion, the masters are just their bargaining chips. Guyuan has not lost it for hundreds of years, so naturally there is no need to worry. Don't they know the situation of the border army? Just pretend to be unable to see it.

.”

Chen Ji did not study history in depth. He only knew that the border army problem has always been a catalyst for the demise of the dynasty. The border army problem is not the border army, but the system corruption and the crisis of the treasury.

This has been the case in all dynasties, and the Ning Dynasty will no exception.

He stared at Lao Wu and asked, "So you want to hand over Guyuan to Jing Chao?"

Lao Wu didn't say anything, and didn't know what he was thinking.

After a long time, he grabbed a handful of loess from the ground and sighed: "But even so, we must continue to guard. The Chen family, you guessed wrongly, you guessed wrongly. I advise you not to continue to investigate.
To be continued...