The self-reversal of the cannon fodder fat wife

Yinuo was busy with farm affairs, and Teng Ke, along with Zhou Tian and Liu Yong, were busy dealing with the previous riots in Temple Street.

Zhou Tian and Liu Yong began to investigate the whereabouts of those hooligans since they came out of the provincial government office that day. Based on the clues provided by Captain Huang, they knew that these people often went to the gambling houses in narrow alleys to gamble at night and rarely appeared during the day.

Since the two men were from the military camp, they seldom appeared in the public eye. When others saw them, they did not know their identities, which greatly facilitated their actions.

That night, they sat in a wonton shop at the entrance of a narrow alley, pretending to drink tea and eat wontons. They waited there for an hour, but no one in the portraits showed up. The two wondered if they were too obvious and aroused suspicion.

So they moved to a more secluded corner, hid there, and observed secretly, but they waited for more than an hour and still no one showed up. At this time, they realized that these people might be afraid of being caught and had found a place to hide.

In order to find out the hiding places of several people, Zhou Tian and Liu Yong applied for funds from the governor Lu and prepared to start gambling at public expense.

Last night, when they were secretly observing the Narrow Alley Casino, they noticed a man. This man was a porter at the dock. He worked as a temporary worker at the dock during the day, helping cargo ships to load cargo ashore. After work at night, he liked to go to the Narrow Alley Casino to gamble for an hour.

This gambling house in a narrow alley is guarded in front and behind. If a stranger enters rashly, he will be targeted. If he is suspected of being a member of the government or the military camp, they may directly drag him away and kill him without giving him any chance to explain.

So if the two of them wanted to get in, they had to find a way to get someone they knew to take them.

This porter Liu Yuan is the best breakthrough point, because he has a legitimate job and only gambles for fun. Unlike those gamblers who are at the end of their rope, he is naturally not as vigilant and is easy to approach.

So the two men gave two copper coins each to a few little beggars and asked them to snatch Liu Yuan's breakfast and purse on his way to work.

The little beggars were very smart. After taking the money, they followed Liu Yuan secretly until he came to an empty back alley, then they rushed over openly. The first beggar snatched the cake from his hand. While he was still stunned, the second beggar rushed over and snatched the purse from his waist.

"Money robbery, money robbery!" he exclaimed.

The little beggars behind him ran over and pushed him to the ground while he was not on guard. He fell down unexpectedly, and before he could come to his senses, all the little beggars ran away.

He was a man and would definitely not sit on the ground and cry like the rich man. He immediately wanted to stand up and chase after him.

Just then, Zhou Tian ran over and helped him up.

Liu Yong ran after the little beggar, shouting as he ran.

"You want to run away after stealing the money? No way!"

Zhou Tian pretended to be kind and pulled Liu Yuan up, holding his hand and saying with a smile.

"Hey brother, are you okay?"

"This back alley is sparsely populated, so be careful with your money when you pass by!"

"Don't worry, my brother is very powerful and will definitely help you get it back."

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Liu Yong came back with Liu Yuan's purse.

After a conversation, Liu Yuan learned that the two brothers were from Gujia Village and worked as farmhands at the small dock. Like himself, they liked to go to the gambling house after get off work to gamble, but they usually went to the gambling house in Kuanxiangzi.

The two brothers suggested that their acquaintance was fate. They had been losing recently and were looking to change games, so they asked Liu Yuan if he could take them to the gambling house in the narrow alley to have some fun.

Liu Yuan didn't think too much about it. It was normal to change places to gamble. It was just to change his luck! He readily agreed.

Under his guidance, the two entered the narrow alley smoothly. Although they were questioned a few times at the beginning, they were still allowed to pass. After they entered, they did not look around, but followed behind Liu Yuan, played with him, and said intentionally or unintentionally that the narrow alley gambling house was much more fun than the wide alley gambling house, and talked about how they had been to the wide alley gambling house before.

The people who were secretly watching the two of them relaxed their vigilance after hearing these words. On the second day, they continued to watch them, but not as closely. On the third day, the two brothers had become familiar with each other, and the gambling house no longer sent anyone to follow them.

They came with Liu Yuan every time and only played for an hour. They played together on the first day and played separately on the second day, but they still left together when they behaved very regularly. The thugs in the gambling house were familiar with them and would greet them when they entered. Everyone treated them as part of the gamblers.

In the first three days, they actually spent money to gamble. They won and lost, but overall they won money. On the one hand, it allowed the people in the gambling house to relax their vigilance against them, and on the other hand, they could listen more to those people's conversations to see if they could filter out any useful information.

During these three days, they found that many gamblers were unemployed vagrants. They came to gamble at night, never went to work, and slept at home. Most of these unemployed vagrants were rich young men with countless money at home, which they could squander.

There are also a few farmers and only a few elderly people. Most of them are young and middle-aged people. Most of these people curry favor with rich and powerful men and get rewards from them, so that they have money to support themselves and continue gambling.

After three days of hearsay, Zhou Tian and his friends learned that among the troublemakers there was a leader named Goudanzi. He used to be a lackey of Li Wen, the youngest son of Li Yuanwai, and often helped Li Wen do shameful things.

Li Wen hadn't seen them for two consecutive days, and on the third day he started asking people in the gambling house. As he was asking, Liu Yong and Zhou Tian, ​​who were both good at martial arts, heard him and deliberately approached him to eavesdrop on his conversation with others.

Sure enough, from their conversation, I heard that the three troublemakers were all from Gaojia Village, Gui County, next to Pengcheng. They had no fixed place to live in Pengcheng. After following Li Wen, Li Wen arranged a house for them to live in the back alley of a narrow alley. They were not in that house for the past few days, and their clothes were not there either. It was obvious that they had left.

Zhou Tian and Liu Yong heard this useful news on the fourth day. They looked at each other, met quietly, and left the gambling house with Liu Yuan at a certain time. They also told Liu Yuan privately that they had been losing money in the past few days and planned to move to another place and find him again in a few days.

They did not block the retreat route, but instead rushed to Gaojia Village in Gui County to investigate the next day.