Mikuni convenience store

"Master Hanxing, Master Hanxing, if you hear me, please answer!"

Liao Hua's voice came from Zhuge Tian's intercom.

"what happened again?"

This has happened countless times this morning.

At first, they saw a particularly large bird, and then they said they saw it with a telescope, and it wouldn't be that big if they didn't use it.

After a while, he said that he saw Old Man Huang coming to eat for free.

A little later, he discovered that someone was urinating and defecating in public, so he told Zhuge Tian to take note of it and deduct his lunch later.

"There's something really wrong this time. It seems someone is following us."

Liao Hua's tone became much more serious.

"Stalking?"

"Yes, that man was walking back and forth about a mile outside the village. I know him well!"

"They just want to run into people who are leaving the village. It's like they just bump into you, and then they pull you aside to chat and get you to talk."

He said with a somewhat smug tone, "That's how I tricked people into following me."

"And I caught you the moment you entered my yard?"

"You..." Liao Hua was choked by Zhuge Tian and was speechless.

"Let me take a look." Zhuge Tian went up to the arrow tower and, according to Liao Hua's instructions, saw that there were indeed several people outside the village.

When he meets passers-by, he will go up to chat with them and look towards Wolong Village from time to time.

"Let's go and meet them and find out where they come from." Zhuge Tian said.

Liao Hua is a person who can't sit still.

Although life in Wolong Village was good, it always lacked a little excitement.

Hearing Zhuge Tian's words, he nodded excitedly, gave the walkie-talkie and telescope to the other sentries on the arrow tower, and then followed Zhuge Tian out of the village.

Sure enough, as soon as they left Wolong Village, a man walked towards them, as if they had met by chance.

"Two young men, are you from Wolong Village?"

The person who came spoke with an accent from around Deng County.

"Yes, this big brother is..." Zhuge Tian asked with a simple and harmless look.

"Haha, I'm from nearby Deng County, doing business with a merchant." He took out a piece of candy and handed it to the two of them. "I was just passing by here and noticed that Wolong Village seems to have a lot more people. I remember it was a wasteland half a year ago."

"Hmm." Zhuge Tian took the candy and put it in his mouth: "This candy is really sweet."

"We've only been here a short time. This was originally my son's farm. He's opened up a lot of fields since we arrived."

"That's great!" the visitor exclaimed. "In this world, you still need land to get by. If you travel a lot, you'll realize that nothing is more important than food."

"You have so many fields in Wolong Village, so it looks like there are quite a lot of people."

"Yes, there are more than 200 of us. It took a lot of effort to open up these fields."

Zhuge Tian licked the syrup off his fingers and wiped it on his pants. "Brother, is there anything else? If not, my brother and I will go into the city first."

"It's okay, it's okay. I happen to be planning to go back to Deng County too. How about we go together?"

"Okay!" Zhuge Tian nodded, and then the three of them walked towards Deng County together.

This man talked a lot along the way, telling us about his experiences traveling all over the country, and then asking about the situation in Wolong Village in some indirect ways.

Zhuge Tian was just like a young man who answered whatever was asked.

Only Liao Hua knew that it would be good if this guy told half the truth.

After entering the city, the man bowed and said, "I have some things to do today, so I'll take my leave now."

"Brother, just go and take care of your own business!"

After separating from that person, Zhuge Tian winked at Liao Hua.

"Follow."

The two pretended to look at those selling things on the street, but their eyes were always fixed on the man who started it.

The man just chatted with a vendor for a few words and then turned back and left the city.

Zhuge Tian and Liao Hua followed from a distance.

Leaving Deng County and heading north, Liao Hua whispered, "This road leads to Chenjia Wharf. It's the only road."

"A road?" Zhuge Tian nodded, then looked around, found a big tree and climbed up with nimbleness.

Liao Hua also followed him up, and then the two of them stared at the man through binoculars.

Sure enough, I watched him walk towards the dock and then get on a small boat.

"This... everyone is gone, and I don't know where his boat went!" Liao Hua was stunned. Didn't he lose the person?

"He's not the only one outside Wolong Village. I guess everyone else is leaving from here too. Let's just go to the dock and wait for him."

The two went to the pier, where there was a tavern.

Liao Hua took out a few large coins and asked for two bowls of low-quality rice wine, pretending to drink and chat with Zhuge Tian.

"When that man handed me the candy just now, I saw calluses on his palms. It must be from handling swords and guns so often. And his gait was steady when he walked. I think he's practiced."

"More than that!" Zhuge Tian said, "At least there's a life on his hands."

"It was okay when he looked at me. You're tall, so he probably felt you might be a threat to him. He looked at you a few times, often inadvertently looking at your vital parts, which meant he was ready to take your life at any time."

"Hmph, I took him down in three moves. Although he was wearing ordinary cloth clothes, when he started to wipe his sweat, I saw he was using a silk handkerchief. An ordinary merchant wouldn't be willing to use such a fine thing."

"It seems like the other party is quite powerful..." Liao Hua took a sip of wine and said, "It's really hard to drink. It's far worse than your wine."

"I probably know a few of the bandits around here, and judging from the guy's appearance, he doesn't look like a bandit."

Liao Hua pondered: "The rich man came to our place again... In the end, he left by water..."

He glared and said, "Could it be the Jinfan thief?"

"Jinfan thief?" Zhuge Tian certainly knew the origin of the Jinfan thief, but he didn't expect why he was targeted by the Jinfan thief.

"It really could be them!" Liao Hua thought Zhuge Tian didn't know about the Jinfan bandits, so he repeated what he knew: "They've always looked down on us bandits, but I don't know how they've set their sights on Wolong Village."

As the two were talking, they saw a few more people coming from the distance. They were all tall and strong.

Liao Hua glanced at Zhuge Tianshi and raised his wine bowl and shouted, "I... I'm not drunk. Two more... two more bowls."

After saying that, he slapped a few big coins and then fell on the table.

Zhuge Tian also lay down like him.

The bartender saw that the two men were drunk, and happily went over and collected a few large coins.

When the two of them wake up later, they will say that the wine has been served, and they probably don’t know it either.

At this time, those people also came to the tavern, each ordered a bowl of rice wine, looked at the two people who were already drunk with contempt, and started chatting while waiting for the boat.

A moment later, a small boat came to pick them up, and Zhuge Tian and Liao Hua raised their heads.

Although what they said were just idle chatter, it could be heard that they were indeed organized.

I'm afraid it's the Jinfan thieves that Liao Hua mentioned.