Chapter 16 Tracking
It was almost dusk, and the carriage of Shuangxiong and Lei Buji left Liuzhuang again and went east.
Although they had already told the villagers that they were not liars and the villagers seemed to have believed it, because of the previous episode, they would definitely refuse to let them spend the night in the inn in this village.
After all, there are only three of them, and there are at least dozens or even hundreds of people in this village who have been deceived. Who can tell whether there will be some unwilling villagers coming to attack or cause trouble at night?
In short, as long as they stay in this village, it is impossible for the three of them to sleep peacefully.
Therefore, the three of them simply asked the inn shopkeeper and villagers about the information about the two scammers before, and then turned around and set off again on the grounds of "going to chase the scammers immediately."
Anyway, it was not too late at this time. They were walking now and running along the road faster. They should be able to arrive at the next station shortly after dark.
In this way, their carriages went east until the sunset was setting, and the dusk was gathering, and the horse could not help but slow down.
As the sky was getting darker, Lei Buji hung a lantern on the front of the car, picked up a pole and continued on the way.
I walked in the night after lights for about half an hour, and finally the inn arrived.
Fortunately, the business in the inn today was not very good, and there were still many empty rooms. The three of them asked to open the door and said they wanted three rooms, the shopkeeper's attitude became enthusiastic.
The guy asked them into the store and closed the door again. Before the teapot was brought up, Lei Buji's stomach was already screaming.
Buqi has worked hard today. After driving for a day, I didn’t stop and had a good meal. I just ate some dry food with my two elder brothers. Now that he has sat down, he hopes to have a hot mouthful, so it’s better to bring some soup.
This guy has good eyesight. When he brought the tea, he looked at the three of them and asked, "Three, our chefs are sleeping late... Do you guys want it..."
Sun Yixie was very adept. Before the other party finished speaking, he had already taken out some silver and stuffed it into the other party's hand: "Little brother, look at Zhang Luo. If there is any remaining money, you can keep it. Just think we have invited you to drink."
The guy looked down at the amount of silver in his palm and immediately became happy: "Hey, hey! Okay, you guys are waiting, I'll go and ask the kitchen to prepare wine and food!" After that, he ran to the kitchen as if he was flying.
When he walked away, Huang Donglai suddenly smiled: "Brother Sun, why are you so generous today? You don't look like you."
"Ha..." Sun Yixie said, "You are asking knowingly."
Lei Buji is not as good as their tacit understanding, nor is he so smart to guess what they are saying, so he asked, "Brother, what are you talking about?"
"Hey~ don't worry, you'll know right away." Sun Yixie was even shut up now.
After a while, when the shop's staff started serving them, Lei Buji understood that the money was indeed not for nothing.
Before Lei Buji could pick up the chopsticks, Sun Yixie grabbed the shop clerk and inquired about the two scammers.
Although they are just shopkeepers, this official office clerk is no better than the waiter in an ordinary private inn. They have a staffing, and strictly speaking, it is under the control of the army. What they hate most on weekdays is the so-called big men in the world who play with them - what kind of people in the world? In their opinion, aren't they ordinary people? Why are they crazy? They dare to show off and make trouble here and let the officers and soldiers come to suppress you in minutes.
Therefore, Sun Yixie, the "common people", is also very sensible and is directly "silver to open the way."
There are few people in this world who cannot match money.
As the saying goes, the guy has a short hand. If he gets these "tips", he will answer a few questions, right?
So Sun Yixie struck while the iron was hot and asked everything he wanted to ask clearly. Unfortunately... After asking around, he asked a lot of useful information, but this guy really didn't know about the whereabouts of the two scammers.
Obviously, the fake Sun Yixie and the fake Huang Donglai had never stayed in this inn before.
This is true. This inn is too close to Liuzhuang. The two liars escaped overnight and would not stop just by escaping from one village or two miles away. At least they also got the next big county town and could only feel a little at ease. Because there are many people in the county town, it is convenient to sell stolen goods. Unlike this inn, there are only a few people. The two of them knocked on the door and moved in in the middle of the night with a lot of gold, silver and soft softness on their backs. Even if no one reported to the official, they would definitely be remembered by the friend.
After not finding out about the scammer, Sun Yixi and the others had to give up. The three of them had enough food and drink, so they went back to their rooms to sleep. Tomorrow morning, they would continue to rush to chase the two guys.
When someone sees this, they may ask, how do they know they are going east to chase?
This is not what the villagers told them about, but Huang Donglai used to infer to himself through investigation.
After all, the villagers had limited abilities, but Huang Donglai was different. When he heard that the two liars were riding horses, he immediately thought of going to the stable to take a look. Sure enough... as soon as he went, he found two sets of traces that were obviously different from normal horse hoof prints.
Wrap the horse's hooves in cloth and let the horse walk slowly can indeed eliminate the sound of horse's hooves to a certain extent. However, when both of them were carrying heavy luggage, walking in this way would undoubtedly leave two rows of deep and irregularly shaped horse's hooves; Huang Donglai... just followed these two sets of hooves and found out that the false Shuangxie ran away from the east entrance of the village.
Just now, they left Liuzhuang and were walking on the main road, Huang Donglai deliberately sat with Lei Buji outside the car for a while, tracking the two rows of abnormal horse hoof marks along the way, trying to confirm whether the two liars had turned off the main road. As a result, shortly after leaving the village, he found that the two sets of hoof marks stopped somewhere, and then turned into two rows of deeper and newer hoof marks, gradually blending with other normal horse hoof marks on the main road.
From this we can see that the two fakes untied the cloth on the horse's hooves shortly after leaving the village, and then rode the horse to the east.
There are two options to come out from the east of Liuzhuang: one is to walk along the path and turn into a forest. Yes, it is the forest where Sun and Huang encountered the black shop. From there, they passed through the forest and passed through the water, and then passed a village. They walked along the north bank of the Ying River for half a day to reach Zhoukou.
The second is to walk along the official road. In terms of straight-line distance, it is a little further than the above, but the destination is the same in the end... it is still Zhoukou.
Therefore, if nothing unexpected happens, the next stop for the two liars must be Zhoukou.
According to the rules of the scammers in the world, after success, they either sell the stolen goods, divide the stolen goods, and then take a break, and wait until the money is almost done before preparing for the next "buy and sale"; or they strike while the iron is hot, and use the gold, silver and wealth defrauded from the previous transaction as the cost of their next fraud, and then have a bigger vote.
Of course, this refers to the rules between gangs that engage in large-scale fraud, and there is another way to use women to cheat, called "eagle releases" or "close-fits-up". The variant is the "fairy jump" we are familiar with today... For example, because it is a "sudden attack", half-fraud, half-filter and half-robbery, the money you can get is very limited every time you commit a crime, so there is no such rule. Usually, you are cheating one vote and changing places, and one order after another will basically not stop.
Get back to the point...
Early the next morning, Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji had all rested, and the horses who were pulling the cart had already eaten and drunk enough, and the group embarked on the journey of "chasing and cheating".
They are also quite anxious about this matter. Although the two fakes are just cheating on people, they have to leave it alone. It is impossible to guarantee that they will do something about robbing men and women and killing people and robbing people one day, and then they will be considered to be Shuangxie's head, which is so frustrating.
So, their carriage walked faster that day, and they took dozens of miles in just half a day.
However, they are faster, and there are faster than them.
Just as noon was approaching, the official road suddenly became dusty and hooves roared... In a blink of an eye, a group of men riding strong horses, about 14 or 15 people, arrived from behind Sun Yixi and the others.
But the man in the leader had a white face and a long beard, a blue cloak, and a five-ring sword on his back. And the men behind him were all with tiger backs and bears, with a fierce face, and they were obviously not good people.
When these people were still a distance away from Sun Yixi and the others, the white-faced man in charge saw the trident behind the carriage at a glance.
If you want to talk about Brother Sun's unique weapon, it is really "unique". At least among the more famous people in the world, he is the only one in this family, so people will think of him when they see this. Previously, in Liuzhuang, the waiter in the inn changed his face because he saw the trident behind the carriage...
There is no doubt that the two people who pretended to be Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai also made fake weapons together. It can even be said that the fake trident is the key prop for them pretending to be Double Xie.
"Ah!" The white-faced man looked at him for a few seconds. After confirming that he had not taken a look, he immediately screamed and continued to shout, "Don't leave the person in front! Stop for me!"
In fact, he couldn't hear clearly his roar.
Not to mention that the road is already open and easy to disperse, just saying that the messy sound of horse hooves on his side is enough to drown out the words in his words.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai in front of him were only vaguely hearing the sound of hooves behind him, but they didn't hear any words clearly, so they naturally ignored them.
When the white-faced man saw that he had finished roaring, he felt like he was not roaring, and his heart was burning even higher as if he had poured oil. He immediately beat a horse and whipped it, and led his brothers to chase after him.
No matter how fast the carriage was, it was not as fast as the horse. In less than a minute, the group chased after him, stopped the carriage, and surrounded it.
Lei Buji looked at the appearance of these people and thought to himself: Come on, this is definitely here to find fault again. After hitting Luoyang, we were basically intercepted and surrounded every day. I was almost used to it. Looking at the expression of the person in charge, the expression of the person in charge was red, and it was obviously infuriated. It seems that I really have a fight to beat him this time.
"Don't let grandpa do it in the car, get out by yourself!" The white-faced man was not polite, and after stopping the car, he shouted loudly.
When he shouted, Sun Yixie and Huang Dongzhi couldn't continue to shrink in the carriage. After all, this is the carriage of the carriage, not the carriage of the armored carriage. It is not safe to huddle inside...
"What are you doing? I want to rob you in broad daylight?" Huang Donglai got off the car and asked the other party.
"Robbery?" The white-faced man heard this, gritted his teeth and repeated the two words. Then he flirted with his beard, turned over from the horse, and snorted coldly, "Hmph! Who robs who?"
After he dismounted, he stood there. Sun Huanglei and the other two looked him up and down and found that this person was indeed very handsome.
In addition to being handsome and long beard over the throat, this white-faced man was also seven feet tall, with a thin waist, wide-back fan, a fan face, and a weapon on his back and calluses on his tiger's mouth. Anyone could tell that he was a trainee.
"Oh? If you surround me like this, can we still rob you?" Huang Donglai asked back.
"Stop pretending to be garlic for me!" The white-faced man shouted angrily, "Is it Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai?"
As soon as he asked this question, Sun and Huang looked at each other and understood... Eighty-mostly the two fakes were committed by the evil ones, so they came to them.
"Brother, I think you are also from Dao'er. Shouldn't you tell me your name before asking someone's name?" Sun Yixie took the conversation at this time and tried it in a singular manner.
The white-faced man sneered and continued, "Okay, let you die today!" He paused and slapped his chest, "There are distant mountains and roads, and the eagle is hard to reach... I am the master of Mei Chiyang, the fifth ring sword in Eagle City, and you can remember it for me!"
In his words, there is not only a self-introduction. The two sentences at the beginning are the incisions of "13 roads", indicating that he is the word "earth" in "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang", and is considered to be the second-level force in the green forest road on land.
Sun Yixie naturally understood the slander. He continued calmly: "Oh~ It turns out that it is Master Mei, I have been lying for a long time..." In fact, he heard it for the first time, but this is not important. "Since he is a hero on the Green Forest Road, not a bandit on the roadside, then it's easy to say..." He paused for a moment and said again, "In the next half of a second, these two are my brother Huang Donglai, Lei Buji... I wonder what happened to the Master Mei stop us so aggressively today?"
"What's the matter?" Mei Chiyang's mouth twitched, "Ha...you still have to pretend to be garlic now?"
Huang Donglai knew that even if Brother Sun replied a few more words, he would probably be talking nonsense. I don’t know how long it will take for the other party to get to the point.
Chapter completed!