It was almost dusk when Shuang Xie and Lei Buji's carriages left Liuzhuang again and headed east.
Although they have made it clear to the villagers that they are not liars, and the villagers seem to believe them, but because of the previous episode, you let them in this village again They absolutely refused to spend the night in the inn.
After all, there are only three of them, and there are dozens or even hundreds of people in the village who have been deceived. Who can tell whether there will be some unwilling villagers who come to sneak attack or do something at night? thing?
In short, as long as they stay in this village, it is impossible for the three of them to sleep peacefully.
Therefore, the three simply asked the innkeeper and the villagers about the two swindlers before, and then turned around and started again on the grounds that they "wanted to chase the swindlers immediately." Set off.
Anyway, it’s not too late now. If they go now and run faster along the road, they should be able to reach the next station shortly after dark.
In this way, their carriage went all the way east until the sun set and twilight closed, and the horse couldn't help but slow down.
Seeing the sky getting dark, Lei Buji hung a lantern on the front of the car, carried it on a pole, and continued on his way.
After walking at night for about half an hour, we finally arrived at the post house.
Fortunately, the business of this inn was not very good today, and there were still many vacant rooms. After the three people opened the door, when they said they wanted three rooms, the waiter's attitude became enthusiastic.
The waiter let them into the store and closed the door again. Before the teapot was served, Lei Buji's stomach was already growling.
Buji had a hard day today. After driving for a whole day, he did not stop to have a good meal. He just ate some dry food that he brought with him with his two elder brothers; now he has already sat down Next, I hope it will be hot, so it’s best to bring some soup and water.
This guy also has good eyesight. When he served the tea, he looked at the three of them and asked: "You three, our cook here slept late... Do you want... "
Sun Yixie was very wise. Before the other party could finish speaking, he had already taken out some money and stuffed it into his hand: "Second brother, look at Zhang Luo. You must have this money." You can keep the rest and let us treat you to a drink."
The waiter looked down at the amount of money in his hand and immediately said with joy, "Hey, hey! How about you? Wait a minute, I'm going to order the kitchen to prepare the food and wine!" After saying that, he ran to the kitchen like a fly.
As he walked away, Huang Donglai suddenly smiled: "Brother Sun, why are you so generous today? This is not like you."
"Ha..." Sun Yixie Said, "You are asking knowingly."
Lei Buji didn't have as good a tacit understanding as them, nor was he smart enough to guess what they were talking about, so he asked: "Brother, what are you talking about?" "What?"
"Hey~ don't worry, you'll know it soon." Sun Yixie was still at a loss.
After waiting for a while, when the waiter started to serve them food, Lei Buji understood that the money was indeed not given in vain.
Before Lei Buji picked up the chopsticks, Sun Yixie grabbed the shop assistant and asked about the two liars.
Although he is just a shop assistant, the waiter of this official station is no better than the waiter of an ordinary private inn. He has a staff and is strictly under the control of the army; What I hate is that there are so-called gangsters who are trying to show off with me - what kind of gangsters are they? In their eyes, aren't they just ordinary people? Why are they so crazy? If you dare to show off and cause trouble here, the officers and soldiers will come and suppress you in a minute.
So, Sun Yixie, a "common man", is also very sensible, and he just "makes the way with money".
There are very few people in this world who have trouble getting along with money.
As the saying goes, one has a short hand, so it’s not too much for the guy to get these "tips" and 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 got a lot of useful information, but only about that. This guy really doesn't know the whereabouts of the two liars.
Obviously, the fake Sun Yixie and the fake Huang Donglai had never stayed at this inn before.
That’s right. This inn is too close to Liuzhuang. The two swindlers fled overnight. They would not stop after escaping for only one country and two miles. They at least got the next big county seat. , only by sneaking into the city can you feel a little more at ease; because there are many people in the county town, it is easy to sell stolen goods, unlike this post house, where there are only a few people up and down. Two people carrying a large amount of gold and silver on their backs knocked on the door to check in in the middle of the night. Even if no one reports to the official, they will definitely be remembered by the staff.
Sun Yixie and the others had no choice but to give up without finding out the news about the liar. After the three of them had eaten and drank, they went back to their rooms to sleep. Tomorrow morning they would continue on their way to chase the two. Where's the goods?
Some people may ask when they see this, how do they know to go east to catch up?
The endorsement in the book here is not what the villagers told them, but what Huang Donglai deduced himself through previous investigations.
Those villagers had limited abilities after all, but Huang Donglai was different. As soon as he heard that the two crooks were riding away, he immediately thought of going to the stables to have a look. Sure enough...he found them as soon as he went there. The two sets of marks are obviously different from normal horse hoofprints.
Wrapping the horse's hooves in cloth and letting the horse walk slowly can indeed eliminate the sound of the horse's hooves to a certain extent. However, when both people on the horse are carrying heavy luggage, this will Riding a horse will undoubtedly leave two rows of deep and irregularly shaped hoof prints; Huang Donglai... followed these two sets of hoof prints and knew that the false Shuang Xie ran from the east entrance of the village.
Just now they left Liuzhuang, and when they were walking on the road, Huang Donglai sat with Lei Buji outside the carriage for a while, tracking the two rows of abnormal horse hoof marks all the way, trying to confirm which Did the two swindlers turn off the main road, only to end up missing after leaving the village?After a while, he found that the two sets of hoofprints stopped somewhere, and then turned into two rows of deeper and newer hoofprints, gradually blending in with other normal horse hoofprints on the road.
It can be seen from this that the two fakes untied the cloth from the horses' hooves shortly after leaving the village, and then beat the horses and headed east.
Coming out of the east side of Liuzhuang, you have two choices: first, walk along the path and turn into a forest. Yes, it is the forest where Sun and Huang met the black shop. Walk through the forest from there. Cross the water, pass a village, and walk 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 farther than the above method, but the final destination is the same... or Zhoukou.
Therefore, if nothing else happens, the next stop for the two scammers will be Zhoukou.
According to the rules of charlatans, after you succeed, you either sell and divide the stolen goods, and then rest for a while, waiting until the money is almost spent before preparing for the next "deal"; or you strike while the iron is hot and take advantage of it. The gold and silver property defrauded in a transaction will be used as the cost of his next deception, and then he will get a bigger one.
Of course, this refers to the rules among gangs that engage in large-scale fraud. There is another way to use women to defraud, called "hawking" or "personal Fuck", its variant is the "immortal jump" that we are familiar with today... Like that, because it is a "surprise attack", half deception, half blackmail and half robbery, the money you can get for each crime is very limited, so... Without this rule, they usually just cheat a ticket and change places, and they basically won’t stop after one order after another.
Back to business...
Early on the next morning, Sun Yixie, Huang Donglai and Lei Buji had all had a good rest, and the horse pulling the carriage had also eaten and drank enough. Then he embarked on the journey of "chasing fraud" again.
They are also quite anxious about this matter. Although it seems that the two impostors are just defrauding people and property, they should leave it alone to ensure that one day they will do something to rob men and dominate women. , the business of killing people and stealing goods will be blamed on Shuang Xie at that time, how aggrieved it would be.
So, their carriage moved faster that day, covering dozens of miles in just half a day.
Of course, they are fast, and there are others faster than them.
Just as noon was approaching, the dust suddenly flew up on the official road, and hoofbeats clacked... In a blink of an eye, there was a group of men riding powerful horses, about fourteen or five people, including Sun Yi. They came clapped behind them.
But I saw that the leader had a white face, a long beard, a green cloak, and a five-ring sword on his back; and the men on horseback behind him were all tiger-backed and fierce-looking. It's not a kind thing.
When this group of people was still some distance away from Sun Yixie and the others, the white-faced man leading them saw the trident behind the carriage.
As for Brother Sun's unique weapon, it is really "unique". At least among the more famous people in the world, he is the only one who uses this weapon.When I see this, I will think of him; in Liuzhuang before, the waiter at the inn also changed his expression 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. It can even be said that the fake trident was the key prop for them to pretend to be Shuangxie.
"Ah!" The white-faced man watched intently for a few seconds. After confirming that he had not mistakenly looked away, he immediately screamed and then shouted, "The people in front of you should not leave! Give me Stop!"
In fact, people couldn't hear him clearly at all.
Not to mention that the road is open and the sound is easily lost, but the messy sound of horse hooves on his side was enough to drown out the words in his words.
Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai in front could only vaguely hear someone shouting from the sound of hooves behind them, but they could not hear a single word clearly, so they naturally ignored them.
As soon as the white-faced man saw that he had finished yelling and not yelling, the fire in his heart burned even higher, as if he had poured oil on it. He immediately whipped his horse and whip and led a group of brothers in pursuit. Go up.
No matter how fast the carriage was, it could not be faster than the horse. In less than a minute, the group caught up with them, stopped the carriage, and surrounded them.
Lei Buji took one look at the appearance of this group of people and said to himself: Come on, this is definitely looking for trouble again. After we left Luoyang, we were intercepted and surrounded basically every day. I’m almost used to it. , looking at the expression of the leader, there was red in the white, and he was obviously angry. It seemed that I really had a fight this time.
"In the car, don't let grandpa do it, get out!" The white-faced man was not polite. After stopping the car, he shouted loudly.
When he shouted like this, it was impossible for Sun Yixie and Huang Dongrui to continue to huddle in the carriage. After all, this was the carriage of a carriage, not an armored vehicle. It would not be possible to huddle inside. Safety...
"What are you doing? Are you trying to rob someone in broad daylight?" Huang Donglai asked the other party as soon as he got out of the car.
“Robbery?” Hearing this, the white-faced man gritted his teeth and repeated the two words. Then he flicked his beard, stood up from his horse, and snorted coldly, “Huh! Who? Who are you trying to rob?"
After he dismounted, he stood there. Sun Huanglei and the others looked him up and down, and found that this man was indeed an extraordinary person.
In addition to a handsome face and a long beard that extends past his throat, this white-faced man is also about seven feet tall, has a slim waist, broad arms, and a fan-faced figure. With the weapons on his back and the calluses on his tiger's mouth, anyone could tell that he was a martial artist.
"Oh? If you surround us like this, can we still rob you?" Huang Donglai asked.
“Stop pretending to me!” the white-faced man shouted angrily, “Tell me, are you Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai?”
As soon as this question was asked, Sun and Huang They looked at each other and understood... It was probably those two impostors who caused the evil again., came to find them.
"Brother, I think you are also a Taoist. Before asking someone's name, shouldn't you tell me your own name first?" In turn, he tried a sentence.
The white-faced man sneered when he heard the words, and then said: "Okay, I will let you know it to death today!" He paused and patted his chest, "The land is far away, the mountains are dangerous, and it is difficult for a flying eagle to reach it... I am Yingcheng Wuhuan Dao Mei Chiyang, the head of Meijiazhai, please remember it for me!"
There is more than just self-introduction in his words, the first two sentences, It is the incision of "Thirteen Paths", which shows that he is the prefix of "earth" in "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang", and he can be regarded as the second-ranked force in the green forest path on land.
Sun Yixie naturally understood this slang, and he calmly continued: "Oh~ It turns out to be Master Mei, whom I have admired for a long time..." In fact, this was the first time he heard about it, but it didn't matter, "Since it is The heroes on the green forest road are not some roadside gangsters, so that's easy to say..." He paused for half a second and then said, "I'm Sun Yixie, these two are my brothers Huang Donglai and Lei Buji... I don't know. Why did Master Mei stop us so aggressively today?"
"What's the matter?" Mei Chiyang's mouth twitched, "Ah... you are still pretending to be stupid now?"
Huang Donglai knows that even if Brother Sun replies a few words next, he will probably be greeted with chatter, and he doesn’t know how long it will take for the other party to get to the point
Therefore, Brother Huang He simply interrupted and said clearly: "Master Mei, let me tell you this. At this moment, the three of us are also chasing a pair of fake 'Sun Yixie' and 'Huang Donglai'. As far as we know, these two liars Recently they are pretending to be us and cheating everywhere. As for how many places they have been and how many people they have deceived, currently we only know of one Liujiazhuang... I guess you are also a victim, or you are standing up for the victim. , so stop arguing with us there and get to the point quickly, don’t waste everyone’s time.”