The groom was buying something and didn't notice the two of them peeping from a distance.
"What should I do? Do you still dare to live in the city?" the fat man asked.
"Don't worry, let's take a look before talking." Nanfeng waved his hand and said.
The barbarian spoke a dialect that the horseman could not understand. Bargaining was carried out by gestures. After a lot of gestures, the horseman took out the money and bought something that the barbarian was selling. Because he was too far away, what he could see was not very clear. , seemingly a piece of uncut jade.
The groom bought something and walked south along the street, looking around, very leisurely.
The two of them hung from a distance behind, and after a while of burning incense, the groom entered a tavern next to the street, ordered wine and meat, and ate and drank.
"Li Chaozong and the others are not in the city." Nanfeng said.
The fat man nodded, "If he were in the city, this guy wouldn't dare to be so presumptuous, drink so much, and face as red as a monkey's butt."
Hearing this, Nanfeng tilted his head and looked at the fat man.
"Look what I'm doing, what I said is wrong?" the fat man asked.
"You've become smarter." Nanfeng withdrew his gaze.
"I wasn't stupid to begin with, what should I do now?" the fat man asked.
"Don't worry, let me think about it." Nanfeng waved his hand.
The two of them were on the road opposite the wine shop. A passing barbarian saw the women's clothes in their bags, so they stopped and tried to exchange the tiger skins they had brought with them.
This was a good cover. The two pretended to bargain with the barbarians and spent time outside the wine shop.
The groom was very fond of wine and drank more than two kilograms of rice wine before he paid the bill and left, staggering eastward.
Nanfeng took the lead to follow, and Fatty packed up his things from behind and followed behind with his baggage.
"You can exchange this thing for two hundred taels of silver if you take it to Chang'an." Under the fat man's arm was a piece of tiger skin exchanged for gauze clothes. The tiger skin was very complete, with the tiger's head and tail still there, as well as the tiger's ears.
"This thing is rare. What are you selling it for? I'll keep it and make you a big coat. It will definitely keep you warm in the winter." Nanfeng stared at the horseman in front of him as he spoke.
The groom staggered and walked very slowly, and the two of them stopped and followed behind.
"Good idea, but this tiger skin is raw. You need to find a place to tan it, otherwise it will lose hair when it dries out." The fat man said.
Nanfeng's mind was not focused on this and he nodded perfunctorily without answering.
"What are you going to do if Li Chaozong and the others are not in the city?" the fat man asked in a low voice.
Nanfeng thought for a while and said, "This man is drunk like this. It is easy to catch him. It must not be difficult to find out Li Chaozong's whereabouts, but what should we do with him after extracting a confession? We can't kill him with one knife. If If we don't kill him, he will definitely tell Li Chaozong that we are also nearby, which would cause trouble for himself."
While the two were talking, the groom walked into an inn. This inn was very large, with the door facing west and a large courtyard inside.
The two of them walked past the inn door and took the opportunity to look inside the inn. The carriage Li Chaozong and others were riding in was parked in the corner of the yard, and the horses had been unloaded.
Nanfeng walked quickly, went around to the back door and peered through the crack in the door. He saw that the groom who had been drinking earlier was talking to another person in the yard. The two people had met before and were Li Chaozong's disciples. .
The man saw that the coachman was drunk and complaining, but the coachman didn't care. He sat down in a shady place to the north of the carriage and urged the man to have lunch.
The man gave the groom a few words, then left the backyard and went to the front hall.
"It's so tightly guarded, there must be something hidden in the carriage." The fat man said. Before the man left, he told the coachman to guard the carriage carefully and not allow anyone to approach.
"Wait a moment and find an opportunity to go in and take a look." The south wind changed its angle and observed the situation in the yard. There are guest rooms for people on the north, south and west sides of the yard. Due to the hot weather, most of the guest rooms have windows. All the doors and windows in the room were closed, and there were locks on the doors.
The groom drank too much and was very sleepy. He started to feel sleepy not long after sitting down. At first, he tried hard to keep his eyes open. After nodding his head several times, he finally couldn't bear the sleepiness and fell asleep against the north wall.
"Could it be a trap?" The fat man was worried that there was someone hiding in the carriage.
"No, if it's really a show, he can't act like this." Nanfeng took out the dagger and opened the door bolt of the back door. If it was night, in addition to the door bolt, there would also be a door stick, but during the day, there was only the door bolt, and the door was open. The latch opens the back door.
"Wait for me here." Nanfeng carried a baggage as a disguise and pushed the door open.
"Okay, be careful." The fat man looked around to look out for Nan Feng.
This is not the first time Nanfeng has stolen something. The most important thing about stealing is not to be afraid, to be generous and not to be timid.
After Nanfeng entered the door, he didn't look around. He walked straight to the carriage and lifted the curtain to look inside. The interior of the carriage was very spacious. There were two rows of bamboo seats in the north and south. If there were two people, it could accommodate up to eight people. If there were only a few people, two people could lie down. .
There are two black wooden boxes placed under the seats. The wooden boxes are two feet long and more than a foot high and wide. They have copper buckle handles on them.
Nanfeng didn't hesitate, dragged one out, picked it up and left.
The wooden box was much heavier than he thought, weighing sixty or seventy pounds.
When he came out of the back door, the fat man immediately took the wooden box, wrapped it in tiger skin, and carried it on his shoulders.
Nanfeng closed the courtyard door and used a dagger to push back the door bolt. This way, if someone discovered the theft, they would be the first to suspect the residents of the courtyard.
"What is so heavy?" the fat man asked in a low voice.
Nanfeng shook his head, "I don't know, I didn't open it."
"There seem to be two big, shaky things inside," the fat man said.
Nan Feng also had a similar feeling. When he was carrying the wooden box, he vaguely felt the contents of the wooden box swinging and rolling.
The two bought some dry food along the way, and after a short while, they left the city with the wooden box. After leaving the city, they did not dare to take the main road, so they chose a mountain path. When they got to a secluded place, the fat man put down the wooden box and said, "Carry the monster." You’re tired, look at what it is, throw it away if it’s no longer useful.”
The fat man took the tiger skin away. Nanfeng squatted down and tried to open the wooden box. However, this wooden box was different from ordinary wooden boxes. It was not closed up and down. It took him a long time to find a round shape slightly lower than the box body on the right side of the wooden box. Use the mortise and tenon and press hard, and the wooden box will split and unfold from the top.
"What is this?" The fat man looked at the contents of the wooden box in confusion.
There are two utensils in the wooden box, the same size, oblate shape, somewhat like a short-bellied wine jar, with a yellow metallic luster. There is a protrusion the size of a wine cup on the upper part, and a round wooden button is buckled on the upper part of the protrusion. build.
Carefully removing the wooden cover of one of them and seeing the fuse inside, Nanfeng immediately understood what these two artifacts were, "This should be something from the Momen. There is gunpowder in it. If you light the fuse, it will explode." Shoot and hurt people.”
"Let me see, let me see." The fat man came over and took a closer look.
"Don't look at it, this thing is more powerful than the Nine-turn Lotus." Nanfeng said.
"You made me carry such a dangerous thing for a long time." The fat man curled his lips.
"I didn't know it was this." Nanfeng said casually.
The fat man scratched his head in confusion, "Why did they bring this thing? To blow up the door to Fengming Mountain? That's not right. Those people at the foot of the mountain are not deaf. If they made such a big noise, even a fool would know that something happened on the mountain."
"This thing is probably not prepared for blowing up the door," Nanfeng pointed at the fuse inside the protrusion. "The fuse is hidden inside. After it is lit, cover it with a wooden cover. The fuse can continue to burn from the inside. If I hadn't You guessed it wrong, these two firearms should be able to explode underwater."
"They brought this thing here to deal with the fishmen in Luoxia Mountain?" Fatty guessed.
Nanfeng shook his head, "Probably not. Luoxia Mountain is by the sea. To get to Luoxia Mountain, you have to go south."
The fat man walked to a tree to relieve himself and let out water. "They must need this thing, otherwise no one would be watching."
"Yes, it should be used to deal with something underwater." Nanfeng said.
"Could it be the dragon-toothed silkworm?" Fatty also knew that the dragon-toothed silkworm could dive into the water.
"Probably not." Nanfeng shook his head. The five ancient wonder medicines correspond to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and their survival and reproduction have certain regional characteristics.
The fat man finished urinating and came back with his pants raised, "What should I do with these two things?"
"Bury it, you can't take it with you." Nanfeng said.
The fat man agreed and helped Nanfeng bury the wooden box nearby, and then set off again, heading west from the path to the peach blossom forest...