At this time, Taoist Fu was lying on the counter, looking in from the outside, as if he was negotiating the price with the shopkeeper in a low voice, that was perfectly normal, but the content of the conversation was actually surprising.

"What's your nickname?"

"Grandson."

"Dog, do you know who I am?"

"do not know."

"I am your father!"

"Father? Are you my father? Daddy!! I'm sorry for you, I shouldn't have left home back then, and caused you to starve to death (here fifty crosses are omitted)."

"Goofy, daddy wants you to tell me something now. After you tell me, I will protect your prosperity and wealth, and you will be able to become a high-ranking official tomorrow!"

"Really? Daddy!"

"Really! But you can't lie."

"Okay, Dad, tell me!"

"Where is the Taoist priest you captured back locked up?"

"Taoist? I don't know."

"Think about it, you should have arrested some people recently."

"Oh! I remembered that Xiao Deng complained during dinner yesterday that he had to go to Zhuangzi to deliver food to others in the past few days. When he came back, he only ate cold corn buns. It should be food for the arrestees and guards. "

"How much food does Xiao Deng send each time?"

"I see Aunt Sun in the back kitchen has to work all morning when preparing meals, and Xiao Deng even has to drive a car to deliver meals. There are at least ten people."

"Where is Zhuangzi?"

"Guojiazhuang outside the city."

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Then Taoist Fu asked a few more questions, then winked at the people around him, put away the Boshan furnace and left, and before he left, he stuffed something like lint under the shopkeeper's nose , let him inhale the antidote.

Immediately, the shopkeeper felt his nose numb when he inhaled, and after more than ten seconds, his nose began to itch.At this time, Taoist Fu and his party had already left the door and disappeared into the crowd.

Immediately afterwards, the shopkeeper sneezed several times, and the confusion in his eyes quickly faded away. Then he froze for a moment, frowned and thought hard, and said to himself:

"Strange, really weird! How do I remember that someone came in and wanted to sell Boshan furnace? I can still make some money from it, man?"

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 will go to bed early at night. I am napping on the counter in broad daylight. It will not be so good if my boss sees it. .”

***
an hour later,
Fang Linyan and Taoist Fu stood outside Guojiazhuang outside the city,

Fang Linyan was not surprised by Taoist Fu's tricks. Religion at this time was inseparable from blindness and psychedelic drugs.

Especially the people of Taiping Dao, who can gather hundreds of thousands or millions of believers, dealt a fatal blow to the Eastern Han Dynasty, without the corresponding tricks and the ability to confuse people, can they do this?
Fang Linyan frowned when he saw Guojiazhuang.

At this time, the chaos at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty had lasted for more than 30 years, and the wars and killings had already left deep marks on the world. Therefore, as long as it is in a village in the wild and there are still people living there, it has a village wall. Defensive equipment such as protecting the Zhuang River, as well as tall watchtowers are also necessary.

There are people watching from above at any time, and once they find a large group of people approaching in the distance, they will immediately knock on the clapper next to it, and then the farmers working near the Zhuangzi have to quickly flee into the Zhuangzi to seek shelter.

Therefore, Guojiazhuang is no exception, otherwise, their village would have been completely wiped out by natural and man-made disasters.

This is also the fundamental reason why Gan Gui imprisoned the captured Zhang Guo here. In terms of safety factor, this place is even several times safer and more reliable than the county town!
The second generation of officials at this time is definitely not the group who talk nonsense at every turn and go crazy.

They have the experience taught by their parents, the connections left by their parents, they can study better than most people, and they can take in more adequate nutrition. Refining!

Therefore, it is impossible to expect Gan Gui to make some low-level mistakes. Others think he is mediocre because they can't help but compare him with his parents!If the reference is too strong, the person being compared will of course feel hopeless
After looking at Guojiazhuang from a distance, Taoist Fu's face was a little ugly, because the watchtower in Zhuangzi was three feet high, and there were as many as four arrow towers. The patrolling people on it were full of energy, Kong Wu powerful.

The people who work outside Zhuangzi are all young and middle-aged, which means that they can also help defend Zhuangzi when he is attacked, and 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 behind him took the lead and said:

"What's so difficult, it's simply impossible! This Zhuangzi needs at least two or three hundred regular troops to rush in! Moreover, the children must first make some siege tools, and sprinkle hundreds of taels of silver before the attack."

This Taoist priest Fang Linyan didn't pay attention before. He only knew that Taoist priest Fu called him "Brother Liu" and was usually taciturn. people.

Of course, there is another possibility that the Taoist priest is just a cover-up of his identity. His real identity is actually a general in Hanzhong?
However, in Fang Linyan's view, it is not that difficult to break the current situation. He dealt with the Taoist simply:
"I want to know one thing. How important is Zhang Guozhang who was captured? Please note that the importance I said is not for us, but for the Jinfan thief in front of us."

Taoist Fu was stunned and said:
"It should be very high! Otherwise, why go to such lengths to lock people up in such a place?"

Old Liu, a black-faced Taoist priest, said simply:

"Very high, the reason why Gan Gui is not here now is that after getting the secret letter from the real Zhang Guozhen, he went directly to see Wu Jun's senior management. Before he left, he will definitely explain to his subordinates that Zhang Guozhen must be kept. human life."

Fang Linyan said:

"If that's the case, it's actually easy. You see, it's almost time for lunch now."

***
an hour and a half later,

A bullock cart came unsteadily, entered the village, and then stopped at the gate of a large courtyard.

The driver of the ox cart is called Xiao Deng. He has been an old man for five or six years, and he is a little cowardly and timid. He has been delivering meals these days.

I don’t know what’s going on, but Xiao Deng was late for a long time today, and all the people guarding the prisoners in this big yard are very hungry. The smell of cooking is getting more and more hot.

After the ox cart arrived late, the gang of guards rushed up immediately, cursing, and then directly took their own food. When they opened the food box, they found that there were really only a few crumpled buns. pickle.

This group of people can be left to guard the prisoners. They are all Gan Gui's confidants. They usually have enough food and drink, and they are full of big fish and meat.He felt that Xiao Deng, a bastard, had broken his conscience and withheld his food money.

But at this time, Xiao Deng still looked a little dazed, confused, and said something wrong, which naturally made them more suspicious, and they started to search in the car.

Suddenly, a man named Zhou Heizi who got into the car twitched his nose, smelled an intoxicating aroma of wine, and immediately yelled, so a group of people immediately searched the bullock cart to the bottom.

As a result, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were actually three jars of good wine hidden in the fodder behind the ox cart, one of which was broken, so the wine was fragrant, and there was also a package of shredded chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, and a package of tofu. Dry + fried peanuts should be a prepared appetizer.

The mouths of this group of people were about to flow out of their mouths, and they immediately rushed up to drink and eat chicken.Seeing this, Xiao Deng, who was in a daze, suddenly panicked and shouted:

"Don't mess around, I don't know where this wine comes from."

A group of people are hungry at this time, drinking good wine and eating smoked chicken, it is a very delicious time, not to mention that a dozen big men share a chicken, it is really fast and slow.Hearing Xiao Deng's words, he sneered and said:
"Oh! Let's not mess around, it was you who fucked up first!"

"Yeah, you don't know where this wine came from, but I do know, Grandpa, that you bastard stole our food expenses to buy it."

"Hehe, if Big Brother Zhou hadn't had the foresight to defend against it, now it's our turn to eat corn bread and pickles. You take a few jars of good wine back and enjoy it slowly."

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Little Deng said sharply:
"I really don't know where this wine came from!"

Lao Zhou smiled contemptuously, spat out a chicken bone with a "puchi", then grabbed a chicken butt domineeringly, and then said disdainfully:
"Yeah, yeah, you really don't know where it came from, it fell from the world? How the hell didn't I come across such a good thing, a few 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 began to eat and drink.

No one paid attention to Xiao Deng, and Xiao Deng's eyes became a little dazed again at this time, and he stood there numbly, and at the same time he was holding his chest with a painful and disgusting look.

The villagers didn't care much when they saw the situation here, and they all took a detour.

This is because Gan Gui was able to set up a stronghold in Zhuangzi because he had an interest dispute with the owner of the village. He beat or scolded ordinary villagers and made a bad voice—this was also because some secrets could not be seen by outsiders— So it is common for the villagers to avoid them like plague gods when they see them.