Is this just a coincidence
The pelican picked up the lookout glass and looked at the approaching figures at close range - the two men were not his men, they looked like ordinary residents passing by. They were holding grain bags tightly in their hands. In all likelihood, they were from the grain shop. Came over.
The wild cats walked leisurely above the eaves, keeping pace with the pedestrians. What made the pelicans even more chilled was that they would glance at the two people from time to time. The so-called following was definitely not their imagination!
He looked around the bungalow again. This time, the pelican focused on the roof.
One...two...ten...hundreds...
He saw a strange scene that was difficult to understand: at some point, cats appeared on almost every house. Some of them were sitting on the ridges of the roofs, basking in the sun, and some were biting and fighting in groups. But as soon as these cats start to move, people are bound to be seen around them.
The pelican just felt creepy.
Everyone who showed up at the grain store was probably being secretly targeted.
And what was staring at them was not something else, but the inconspicuous wild cat in the city!
At this time, he saw his men returning to the bungalow.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, two pedestrians wearing bamboo hats appeared from nowhere and followed them into the bungalow.
The only thing the Pelican could do at this moment was to stare at the door of the room to see how many people could run out.
There were a total of six men who went to cause chaos, but the opponent only had two. It should have been a lot of running to chase and escape.
However, there was no movement in the alley, and even two streets away, he could feel the deathly silence over there in the hut.
Just when the Pelican was feeling tormented, the door opened.
The two passers-by in bamboo hats came out.
Their robes looked the same when they went in, and they looked the same when they came out, so clean that there wasn't even a trace of dust or blood on them.
This can only mean one thing.
The strength of those who came was so much greater than that of those people that the latter did not even have a chance to escape and were killed or subdued almost instantly. Considering that all of his subordinates are blood-licking people, there is no doubt about the identity of the visitor.
Fortunately, he was careful and managed to escape this disaster!
The pelican secretly felt lucky that he had left early. If it had been another quarter of an hour at night, he might have been spotted by a passing wild cat.
No matter how experienced he was, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have imagined that there would be such a watcher on the roof.
If you have no more subordinates, you can recruit them again.
Protecting yourself is the most important thing.
This is also the reason why he can sit on the throne.
Suddenly, a man in a bamboo hat raised the brim of his hat and glanced towards the teahouse.
The eyes of both sides collided!
The Pelican was so frightened that he almost threw the observation glass out of the window - on the other side of the lens, he vaguely saw the face of a woman.
The moment they retracted their heads, the two people also started running, and the direction was exactly where the tea house was!
He's been discovered!
How can this be
There is no trace of cats around at all!
Pelican turned around and saw Hu Kun wiping his forehead with a handkerchief.
"What are you doing?"
"I was walking a little too fast just now, and I was sweating a little." Hu Kun gave him a strange look, "Are you okay? What happened?"
"Where did you put the handkerchief?" Pelican suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Of course it's in the pocket—"
He didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and took a step forward to pull off the other party's pocket bag.
"Lord Tanshou, what do you mean?" Hu Kun suddenly frowned in displeasure.
Pelican had no time to talk to him. He opened his pocket, poured all the contents on the table, and picked out a sachet made of fine materials. "You carry this with you?"
"Is there any problem?" Hu Kun asked, "Which young man in Liuzhou does not have a sachet in his pocket? And it is different from the sachet used by women. It has a more elegant smell and you can hardly smell it if you are not close."
Pelican's heart sank to the bottom.
He was negligent.
Because it is light, he cannot detect it, but this may not be the case for the tracker! And the more unique the taste, the easier it is to become a clue!
"Sorry, I'm rude." Pelican handed the sachet back to the adopted son of the Hu family.
The moment the opponent stretched out his hand, he grabbed Hu Kun and pulled him, then stabbed the dagger into the opponent's chest with his backhand.
"Uh-" Hu Kun stared at him in disbelief and opened his mouth to speak, but what came out was a hissing sound.
"This is why Mr. Hu wants to keep his adopted son." Pelican said in his ear, "It is better for you to die than to fall into the hands of the Jinxia people."
Then he took off his coat and shoes without stopping and went straight to the tea room on the third floor.
"Sir, sir, you can't go in there!" Upon seeing this, the waiter quickly came up to stop him.
—In teahouses, basically every floor has a separate compartment for storing water tanks. These water tanks usually contain brewed herbal tea, or well water taken from downstairs, whether it is finished product or freshly brewed. , saving time on traveling back and forth. In order to ensure the cleanliness of the tea, only dedicated personnel in the store are allowed to enter the room to pick up the tea.
"Is this okay?" The pelican took out a piece of silver cake and threw it into the other person's arms.
The waiter's eyes immediately straightened, "Please..."
This amount of money is enough to replace all the tea in the room!
"You come in too and take off your clothes for me!"
"ah?"
Another piece of silver cake came at me, "Take it off!"
"Okay, okay... just follow this, little one!"
The pelican found a large tank containing well water, smashed a hole in the tank, and rinsed the whole body. After his body was washed away by the water, he put on the waiter's clothes and shoes as quickly as possible and ran downstairs.
The moment he approached the gate, the pelican's heart was in his throat!
He lowered his head, crossed the threshold of the teahouse, and walked towards the crowded street. Almost at the same time, from the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a man in a bamboo hat coming from another street.
When the two sides were closest, they were no more than twenty steps apart.
Fortunately, the two of them did not look here again in the end, but rushed directly to the teahouse.
The pelican didn't dare to stay any longer, blended into the crowd without looking back, and evacuated this dangerous place as quickly as possible.
…
At noon, the Jinxia Affairs Bureau received a telegram from Baihe City.
"Operation Lure the Snake has achieved initial results. The Baihe City Branch captured six perpetrators alive, and through interrogation, they successively obtained the whereabouts of other hidden footholds of the enemy. As of the time of the announcement, a total of 65 suspects were captured, seven of whom were locals. Refugees. More than twelve thousand taels of silver and four thousand catties of grain were collected."
"During the pursuit, one of the deceased was identified as the adopted son of Hu Shinan, the president of Liuzhou Grain Bank, and the perpetrator was a secret agent of the Privy Council. Based on the above information, it can be determined that this vicious increase in food prices was led by the Privy Council. Liuzhou and Gyeongju All grain merchants are involved."
"Currently the bandit leader is still at large."
"Evidence shows that the Privy Council's operation has lasted for at least two weeks, and most of the purchased grain has been burned, and only a very small amount of the remaining grain has been recovered. Considering that there are similar phenomena in other towns, the food gap throughout Shenzhou has become fact."