Chapter 1658 What Are You Doing Standing Behind Me Stealthily?

Leng Yi was trapped in the city for nearly half a month, and was finally rescued by Fu Zihan. After finding Lu Yi, Leng Yi wanted Lu Yi to leave the city and run to the garrison camp for him. He needed to mobilize troops and integrate them to fight the rebels head-on.

But Lu Yi left the city and told him when he came back that a group of eunuchs came to the camp, called the military supervisors, holding the imperial edict, and had controlled all the military officers above the rank of deputy general in the camp.

The garrison camp is not Leng Yi's private army, but the court army, which is deployed by the imperial power and bound by the imperial edict. Of course, if Leng Yi appeared in person, he would still have the power to dispatch troops with his identity as the garrison marshal and the military token.

But as early as after being knocked unconscious, the military token he carried with him disappeared, and now, Leng Yi was trapped in the city and could not show up in the military camp in person. At this time, the tens of thousands of troops in the suburbs became a mirage in the desert, which could be seen but not used.

While waiting for the Liao army to rescue him, Leng Yi couldn't just sit there and wait for death. He needed to leave the city and retrieve the military token. He was captured in Fu Mansion, and the military token was very likely still in Fu Mansion, but now Fu Mansion was deserted, and the rebels' headquarters had become the governor's office.

If he wanted to break into the governor's office, it was simply unrealistic for him alone, so Leng Yi came up with a plan to sneak into the governor's office in a roundabout way.

The governor of Qingzhou was a second-rank official. The risk of sneaking into such an important governor's office was also very huge. In order to find the military token, Leng Yi had to take the risk, but the premise was that he needed some helpers.

Not only helpers, but also weapons.

A small shop called Xianghe Pawn Shop in the city was backed by the famous underground forces in Qingzhou. The so-called underground forces were also called black forces, and that pawn shop was not an ordinary pawn shop, it was a black goods exchange.

The reason why Fu Zihan was arranged by Leng Yi to go to Xianghe Pawn Shop was to buy a large number of weapons and horses when the exchange opened on the third day of each month.

Qingzhou is now under the control of the rebels, and the sale of weapons and horses is strictly monitored and controlled. Leng Yi needs these things and can only rely on black market transactions.

The next day, the sky was windy and cloudy.

Fu Zihan disguised himself, put on a fake beard, changed into an inconspicuous cloth, disguised as a hunchback, and tremblingly entered the Xianghe Pawn Shop.

The pawn shop is very small, with only a six-foot-high pawn table. Behind the table sat the court official. When the court official saw the people outside the table, he raised his eyelids and asked, "What are you pawning?"

Fu Zihan took out a gold hairpin from his sleeve, wrapped it with a light blue cloth strip and stuffed it in.

Chaofeng twisted the hairpin and said, "Three taels."

Fu Zihan said in a low voice, "Okay."

Chaofeng took three taels of silver, wrote a simple pawn ticket, and handed it back to him along with the light blue cloth strip.

But Fu Zihan only took the silver and the pawn ticket, and stuffed the cloth strip back.

After receiving the signal, Chaofeng understood, coughed, walked out of the pawn table, walked outside, looked at the people outside the street, and made sure there was no suspicious person, then said to Fu Zihan, "This way."

Chaofeng took Fu Zihan into the back hall, and after being taken away by another group of tall and strong men, they returned to the front of the store.

Just at this time, a father and son came in from outside the shop.

Chaofeng glanced at them and said, "What are you pawning?"

Among the father and son, the pale-faced "son" who seemed to be in poor health took out a jade pendant from his sleeve, wrapped it with a light blue cloth strip, and reluctantly handed it to the high pawn table.

The court official looked at the cloth strip and raised his eyebrows, thinking that there were quite a few customers today.

He casually named a price, and the father and son agreed.

After writing the pawn ticket and taking the silver, the court official handed out all three items as before, and the result was the same as before, the cloth strip was stuffed back.

The court official also took the unfamiliar father and son into the back hall.

After entering the back hall, the father and son, who had been supporting each other, changed their expressions.

There were two big men leading them in front. Wei Chou pulled the corner of Zhong Ziyu's clothes and asked in a low voice: "What should we do? What should we do now?"

Wei Chou and Zhong Ziyu left the compound early this morning and walked around the twelve shops listed by Yue Dansheng yesterday. Near the afternoon, Wei Chou thought that the task was completed and he could go back, but Zhong Ziyu didn't know what was wrong and insisted on coming to this Xianghe Pawn Shop to take a look.

Wei Chou knew what he meant. They had agreed last night that Yue Dansheng would come to the pawnshop today after visiting the north of the city. Zhong Ziyu wanted to try his luck here and wait for Yue Dansheng.

Wei Chou was annoyed, but he couldn't do anything about Zhong Ziyu. He gritted his teeth in anger and accompanied him. Who knew that he happened to meet a hunchbacked man entering the shop. They saw him at the door. The man took the gold hairpin to pawn and stuffed it with a cloth strip. His movements were very ceremonial. He turned around and was taken to the inner hall. Wei Chou felt that there was something wrong. Before he could say anything, Zhong Ziyu had torn open a corner of his robe, wrapped a jade pendant, and walked in.

Wei Chou was so scared that he hurried to catch up, and then there was the next scene.

On impulse, Zhong Ziyu didn't have a gold hairpin, so he used a cloth strip to wrap the jade pendant. Who knew that the key clue seemed to be not the gold hairpin, but the cloth strip. After receiving the cloth strip, Chao Feng also took them into the inner hall.

Wei Chou was really panicking now. What the hell was this place? Why were there so many armed patrolling strong men? Was it a den of thieves?

Zhong Ziyu had been involved in all kinds of things in his early years, and he also knew about black market exchanges. So after looking at it for a while, he concluded that this should also be a black market exchange.

The hunchbacked man was standing in a corner of the hall, hunched over, talking to a wretched gangster.

Wei Chou looked at the patrolling men coming and going, and then looked at the sharp blades in their hands, and murmured to Zhong Ziyu in fear: "I left in a hurry, I didn't bring medicine, what if a fight breaks out later? I'm so weak, I can't beat them..."

Zhong Ziyu didn't want to listen to him, but he also knew that they had accidentally entered the black market, and it was impossible to return the same way, but they, as outsiders, didn't know what the rules of the black market in Qingzhou Prefecture were.

Zhong Ziyu hesitated, and once again cast his eyes on the hunchbacked man. They had imitated him to enter the black market before, and they did what the hunchbacked man did, and they should not be exposed.

Thinking of this, Zhong Ziyu dragged the trembling Wei Chou and walked behind the hunchbacked man.

Fu Zihan, who was bargaining with the sleazy thugs and discussing buying people: "?"

Fu Zihan looked at the father and son who suddenly appeared and blocked him. He was stunned for a moment, and his heart tightened. He thought, could it be that he was exposed, exposed, and recognized?

He didn't dare to act rashly, just glanced at the father and son, and then tentatively pulled the thugs away from the father and son.

As a result, they just took half a step, and the father and son followed closely behind.

The little thug also felt something was wrong. He looked at the father and son with a probing look, and then said to Fu Zihan vigilantly: "I'm going to the toilet."

Who can come to the black market to do business without hiding their heads and showing their tails? The little thug obviously felt the danger, so he pretended to urinate and escaped.

Fu Zihan had an ugly expression. Although there were many human traffickers in the black market, most of them sold women and children. What they wanted to buy were young and strong men. Looking around the entire black market, only the gangster just now had the goods. He started to bargain, and the father and son behind him suddenly scared the seller away.

Fu Zihan suppressed his anger, still not sure if he was exposed. Before leaving today, Brother Leng clearly praised him, saying that he was disguised so well that even he couldn't recognize him. Fu Zihan didn't think Leng Yi would lie.

Touching his beard, Fu Zihan turned around and stared coldly at the father and son, and decided to ask clearly: "What's wrong with you two?" At the same time, he also saw the way out. If the other party really came to arrest him, he would overturn the shelf next to him, and then take advantage of the chaos and flee to the east gate as soon as possible.

Fu Zihan had a complete plan in mind and was relatively calm, but on the other side, Wei Chou was not calm. He looked at Zhong Ziyu in a panic, his eyes full of "What should I do? What should I do if he finds us!"

Zhong Ziyu was smart. After thinking for a moment, he said ambiguously: "Buy things."

Fu Zihan frowned: "I'm not a seller."

Zhong Ziyu hesitantly turned his eyes to the direction where the gangster had just left.

Fu Zihan exhaled and confirmed that the other party was also here to buy people, not to recognize him. The heavy stone in his heart was put down, but then he rebuked unhappily: "I'm afraid that brother will not come back. If you want to buy people, you can just say it directly. What are you doing standing behind me secretly?"

It turned out that he was buying people.

Zhong Ziyu silently grasped another clue, and then said very politely: "I'm waiting in line."

Fu Zihan: "???"