On the south bank of the Yellow River, there were a large number of wheat fields on the plains and green crop fields, three men in short clothes were rushing on the road with donkeys. Unexpectedly, a group of officials wearing tubes and soap boots came to drink them.

The official had only one green robe official riding a horse, and pointed at the three men with a whip and said, "What are you doing?"

"Wao!" A big man with a round belly grabbed the donkey and went forward to arch and said, "The grass-roots sell some rare goods and go back to the village to sell."

When the official heard that the man spoke in Kaifeng Mansion accent, he didn't even ask where they were, and said coldly: "Isn't the vendor a private salt?"

The big man with a round belly said with a look of horror: "How dare! How dare? Caomin and others are all responsible. They earn some hard money and never commit crimes."

"Search!" The green-robed official gave the order.

The big man and the big man in the belly quickly asked the officials to be gentle. The people took off the sacks on the donkey's back, pulled out the knife and cut the rope, untied the things inside, and looked at them for a while, and there were some food, fur and other things. A big man in the belly quickly said to him: "It's less than a pound, so we can't sell salt like this..."

"Get out! Get out!" said the green-robed official, "It's the one who is waiting for you who are not farming at home and runs around. They are the most likely to steal and catch offenders!"

The three men hurriedly carried the sack, led the donkey and left. They were tied with torn sack cloth on their hands, but the inspector didn't pay attention.

When they walked away, a man cursed and said, "Mom, if I had beaten that guy to death in those days!"

Another man looked at the towering city tower in the distance and said, "Li Dutou, Tokyo City is right in front. Should we enter the city?"

Li Dutou was the big man with a big belly, responding: "There are many officials and soldiers in Tokyo, and they are afraid of being exposed if they are accidentally afraid of being exposed. The people who practice archery have different hands on their left and right sides, and experienced old soldiers can recognize them. There are some streets and alleys in the suburbs of the city, and these places are mixed with fish and dragons. Let's find a house to live there first. According to the confession of prisoners provided by the Northern Han people, the place where the armor was built is in the southern suburbs."

"I have friends in the southern suburbs." said the person next to me.

Li Du said, "Don't contact anyone first. Let's be careful with our identity now, knowing people and not your heart."

The group came outside Tokyo. There were many city halls here. The government renovated and managed these places where they lived. The main streets in the north and south were quite neat, but the alleys inside the neighborhood were unsightly, and there were many broken houses. The three of them found a remote broken house and paid to rent it.

The next day, they rode a donkey to a market near the Bian River. The market was very prosperous and the houses were well built, but it looked more spacious and neat than the streets next to the Tokyo city wall. Li Dutou wandered around the dirt roads and alleys. This market only appeared in the past two years. It was mainly because there were many craftsmen in Zaojiafang by the Bian River. The craftsmen were rich, so all kinds of shops and vendors nearby came. Many craftsmen with family lived here because Zaojiafang was very noisy.

Li Du turned around and found that all kinds of houses were newly built, and the roads were all dirt roads. There were only some simple barriers around the town. There was a archway built at the entrance of the main road, and there was no gate.

As soon as they planned to buy some things in the town, they got a cart, and put the donkeys they brought to the cart. They then left the town with all kinds of items from the tea and pancake stall.

When he arrived at Zaojiafang, Li Dutou and others were also surprised. The scene was very grand. A wide waterway was dug out on the east side of the Bian River, leading the river water to a valley to the west, and then horizontally built the waterway and many gates. The river water poured down from above, like a waterfall. There were a circle of earthen walls on the valley, surrounded by a huge impact sound of "ding ding chuckling" inside, and it kept stopping. There were horse heads on the river channel that drew water, and various ships were coming and going.

The three of them touched the entrance of the workshop area along the road, and wanted to pretend to set up a tea stall to see the situation first.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they got there, they saw a tea stall there. The three of them looked at each other. It was morning, and there were no customers at the tea stall, and there were only a middle-aged man sitting there, looking at the donkey cart of Li Dutou and others with displeasure.

Li Dutou and others drove the donkey to the side of the road, then went up to sit down on the wooden bench, and said quietly: "Come three bowls of tea to quench your thirst."

The man responded, slowly scooped three bowls of tea and served them one by one. At this time, Li Dutou found that the stall owner's left sleeve was empty, as if he was disabled.

"Here, look over there." The stall owner smiled and raised his head to the entrance of the workshop wall. Li Dutou and others had already seen soldiers wearing armor and holding sharp weapons at the entrance of the village.

The stall owner smiled and said, "You want to set up a stall here? But no, how could you be a spy?"

When a few men and others heard the word spy, their faces changed slightly. Li Dutou smiled and said, "How come we look like spies like this? We are all from Tokyo City. I heard that it is easy to make money here, so I want to come and have a look."

The stall owner calmly said: "There is a town not far to the south. I want to go there for business. Look, where do you come from here except me?"

Li Dutou hurriedly asked, "Brother, how can you do business here?"

The stall owner pointed to his left arm: "I was working in the workshop. One day, I didn't pay much attention to it at night. The hammer weighing more than a thousand pounds fell on my hands! I almost lost my life, so I couldn't make a disability. Fortunately, the people from the Afang Office gave me money every month, and I couldn't do the work, so I allowed me to do some small business here. I was originally a craftsman inside, so I could naturally be here."

"It turns out that the eldest brother is a person who eats imperial grain, so he is disrespectful." Li Dutou bowed, "I don't know the eldest brother's surname?"

"Don't let your surname be Lu." The stall owner Lu smiled, "You guys should save some trouble, so don't get trapped. It's not that I don't let you grab business here, even if I want, the guard will drive you away."

Li Du's head touched his forehead: "We already know what's going on. Even if we don't respect people like Brother Lu for business, we still want to make friends."

"Ha!" The stall owner Lu smiled and took a breath, "I don't understand what brother means...I said."

Li Dutou said a little embarrassedly: "To be honest, our neighbors were planning to do some business in the market, but there were no acquaintances here. We didn't just get kicked out before we came here to take a look."

Stand owner Lu suddenly realized and nodded.

Li Dutou said, "We saw a wine shop in the market. After the stall owner Lu took it away, will you and my brothers go have a drink?"

After hearing this, the stall owner Lu looked happy and was indeed a good wine person, so he did not refuse.

So Li Dutou and others finished their tea and made an appointment to meet under the archway at the hour of You, so they left first.

When the hour of You, several people met, and the stall owner Lu brought the things home first and quickly drove out. Several people went straight to the wine shop and asked for wine and vegetables. After a few cups of wine, everyone quickly became familiar with each other. With wine to cheer up the fun of the four people on the table, they wanted to become sworn brothers immediately.

Li Dutou took the opportunity to make up and asked the stall owner Lu what he had done in the workshop before. The stall owner Lu patted his chest and said that he was a master craftsman. After being injured, he could not start work even if the workshop was missing. Finally, he found another master to work. Li Dutou was convinced and praised him for complimenting him, how good it would be if his brothers could go in to eat imperial grain.

Li Dutou continued to talk clichés, and from time to time he persuaded him to drink, he asked some questions, how did the workshop make? The stall owner Lu said it all the same, but he said that the superiors were not allowed to talk nonsense and did not want to say it in detail.

The stall owner Lu was drunk and the winery was about to close. Three people came out... and one person left the seat halfway. At this time, there was an extra carriage outside. Li Dutou and others helped the stall owner Lu, who could not walk, and took him home.

...The stall owner Lu didn't know how he went back. When he woke up, the sky outside was already lit up slightly. He wanted to turn over, but then he realized that his whole body was sore and painful, and there was a ball of cloth in his mouth!

He looked around and suddenly felt something was wrong. The room was broken and dirty, and it must be not at home. He widened his eyes and finally found the man who was dozing on a chair next to him.

When the man heard the noise, he opened his eyes and looked, got up and lifted a broken curtain, and shouted in a deep voice to the outside. After a while, the round-bellied man came in.

Li Dutou held a short knife in his hand. After sitting down, he gently scraped the blade with his left finger. His face was cold, and where was the polite smile of yesterday? His voice was cold: "Yesterday, you went back to the market from the workshop and went home to put the car home. My brother followed and knew where your home was. You have a son, who is so tall, looking like thirteen or fourteen years old, I'm right?"

Stand owner Lu widened his eyes.

Li Du said, "If you don't listen to me, I will get your son over and stab him to death in front of you. Do you understand?"

The stall owner Lu shook his head in horror, and nodded with a muffled "whimper".

Li Du's head pulled out the cloth from his mouth. The stall owner Lu immediately begged: "I have no grudges and no grudges with you, this is, this is..."

Li Du said, "Don't worry, I went up the peak and wanted to find a armor that could be made in the workshop. As long as you serve us, you will not only be fine, but also be prosperous and wealthy. Brother Li doesn't have to work on his own. Let's find craftsmen and teach them how to make armor. How?"

The stall owner Lu said with a regretful look on his face and said with a sad face: "I deserve to die! Just brag about it quickly, I really don't know... I'm just a choreographer in the workshop, how could a master move things under the hammer?"

After hearing this, Li Dutou looked angry and took a deep breath: "You have been in there for so long, and you have always been able to watch it?"
Chapter completed!