The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 436: Misinformation and Tracking

It was getting late when we returned to Green Willow Village, and the heavy snow still hadn't stopped. Zhao Tong ordered people to prepare the mutton.

In fact, this way of eating has been around since ancient times, but because of the different seasonings used, the taste is also very different.

At this time, the mutton shabu-shabu is also cut into small slices, but there is no dipping sauce. Instead, various herbs are added to the soup pot, and then the flavor is mixed thoroughly, and then it can be eaten directly.

Of course, you can also put some other things in the soup pot, but most of them are fresh and tender, not limited to meat and vegetables.

The charcoal fire was burning warmly in the room at the moment. There were only Xiao Min and Fu Jin on the table, and the big eagle was on the ground. It half-opened its beak and stared at the soup pot with its eyes wide open.

There was a slight gap above the window lattice, and the snowy light outside filtered in. Because of the wind and snow, there were no lanterns lit in the village, but at the moment it was white and hazy, and it was three points brighter than usual.

Zhao Tong picked the mutton with chopsticks and gave it to Da Diao. After Da Diao swallowed it, he still stared at the soup pot.

Zhao Tong shook his head and said: "You are a bird, you can't eat cooked food."

The big eagle was dissatisfied and called out "Xiaxia" twice.

Xiao Min pursed her lips and smiled and said: "I often fed it cooked food when I was in Beijing, and I never saw him sick."

Zhao Tong sighed: "You can tell how much it eats just by looking at its size. If you feed it full cooked food, how many slices of meat do you need to cook? Whether we want to eat it or not, it's up to us to serve it."

Fu Jin said: "It turns out that second brother had this idea..."

Zhao Tong let out a "hum" and started eating by himself. A few mouthfuls of mutton and a sip of wine made the big eagle jump on the ground in a hurry.

Xiao Min and Fu Jin had to take turns feeding it, but after a while it came close to Zhao Tao again and screamed "Xiaxia".

Zhao Tie looked at it, picked up the wine glass, and the eagle hurriedly opened its beak. Zhao Tie poured a glass of wine directly into its mouth. The eagle rolled its throat a few times and swallowed it all. Then he ran to the side excitedly and started spinning around, but nothing happened. After a while, he came over and called again.

Zhao Tao touched his chin, then stood up, grabbed the eagle's back at the base of its wings, lifted it up, walked to the door, opened it, and then kicked the eagle out...

On the couch, Zhao Tong lay with his head in his hands, Xiao Min rested on his chest, Zhao Tong said: "I seem to have seen that woman in black in the tea shop during the day, but I didn't see her face, so I can't remember who she is."

Xiao Min said quietly: "Is it because Erlang has seen so many women that he can't remember them?"

Zhao Tong said: "What does that have to do with that? I just feel that what you said, Thirteenth Mother, is reasonable. It should be that the woman saw me when she opened the store, and then turned around and left in a hurry."

Xiao Min thought: "Could it be an enemy?"

Zhao Tong thought for a while: "It doesn't look like that. If we talk about the big hatred, only the Mingjiao family is the only one. But the Mingjiao... not many people have really seen me, let alone women."

Xiao Min said: "I think the woman in black is tall and tall, and she is just as tall as me. Erlang, if you think about it carefully, how many of the women you have seen are so slender, won't you be able to remember them?"

Zhao Tong smiled when he heard this: "This is a good idea, but how high is it..."

He said, taking his hand back from behind his head and digging into the quilt.

"Ah, Erlang, what are you doing..." Xiao Min suddenly turned red with embarrassment.

"How high is the quantity?" Zhao Tong said righteously.

"No, no..."

Early the next morning, Zhao Tong stood in front of the door with his hands behind his hands and watched the snow. The big eagle was hiding in the monastery not far away, half-exposure of his head and secretly watching him.

Zhao Tong had already remembered who the woman in black was, it was Hu Sanniang. Although he didn't see the woman's appearance at the time, he was 100% sure that it was Hu Sanniang.

Because Xiao Min was right, there weren't many people this slim and tall. He just checked his impressions and was sure that it was Hu Sanniang.

Why is Hu Sanniang in Tokyo?
At that time, Song Jiang told him that Hu Sanniang had escaped with Lin Chong, and then Song Jiang sent many people to hunt her down, but later sent him a message saying that none of the people who hunted Lin Chong and Hu Sanniang had returned, and the two of them were missing.

Since he didn't come back, he must have been killed by two people. Since then, he has no news about them.

Zhao Tong looked puzzled. Lin Chong was not recruited that day. He should be worried about Gao Qiu's personal revenge. But shouldn't he fly far away? Why would he come to the dangerous place of Tokyo?

Or maybe Hu Sanniang and Lin Chong were not together and came to Tokyo alone?
But that's not right. Why did Hu Sanniang come to Tokyo on her own?
Zhao Tong was puzzled and walked forward with his hands behind his back.

There wasn't much work to do in the winter, so after the dealers cleared the snow on the road, they began to practice martial arts.

Ouyang Beiquan was the instructor and Luo Jinshui was correcting. After watching for a while, Zhao Tao ordered his horses to be prepared, and then went to Suiyulou alone.

When he arrived at Suiyu Tower, he immediately summoned everyone to discuss the matter, then drew several images of Hu Sanniang with his own hands, and asked people to search around the city. He especially told Zhu Xiaoyi to ask all his beggars to go out and look for Hu Sanniang.

Zhao Tong always felt something was wrong in his heart. This Hu Sanniang appeared for no reason. She was a monster when things were abnormal. The person who was least likely to appear in Tokyo appeared, and she appeared in a place like a plain tea shop. There was definitely something going on here!
Judging from the situation at that time, Hu Sanniang should have gone to buy hot drinks. This proves that Hu Sanniang must have lived in Tokyo for a while and was living well. Otherwise, how could she, a wild girl who grew up in a village and then ended up in Liangshan, know? A place like Red Fish Tea Shop?Are you going to buy it in the snow?This is obviously because he is addicted to drinking.

After sending the people out, Zhao Tong thought for a while, but still couldn't figure out the connection, so he returned to the palace first.

In the next few days, he kept waiting for news, but Hu Sanniang seemed to have completely disappeared, with no trace at all. Even though Zhu Xiaoyi's beggars traveled all over Tokyo, knocking on doors from door to door, pretending to ask for food, there was no trace. Hu Sanniang was not seen.

As the year drew to a close, more and more things happened, and Zhao Tong had no choice but to order another slow investigation, but he definitely did not give up on the matter. If he couldn't find it one day, he would continue to look for it.

This year's New Year was more lively than before, because there was a new baby in the house, so they celebrated with great fanfare.

General Lu also followed the instructions and played chess with Zhao Tong, but he didn't even get to the middle game. He was defeated and signed a contract of betrayal for a whole year.

More people came to Prince Qin's Mansion to give gifts than in previous years, and the gifts were more valuable.

Then came the Shangyuan Festival. After the Shangyuan Festival, Zhao Tong gave Zhang Zhenniang and Zhao Yuannu the outlines of two plays and asked them to write the plays according to them.

One of the plays is called "Taking Qinglong Mountain Outsmart", and the other play is called "Sea Kill".

"Taking Qinglong Mountain Outsmarted" tells the story of what happened during the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, when General Chen Qingzhi was stationed in Jianghuai.

At that time, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty, promoted Buddhism, but some people distorted Buddhist principles and used his name to rebel and revolt, which swept the south of the Yangtze River with great momentum.

Xiao Yan ordered Chen Qingzhi to put down the rebellion, and Chen Qingzhi led troops across the south and north of the Yangtze River, and finally forced the rebel army to Qinglong Mountain. Qinglong Mountain was extremely dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Finally, Chen Qingzhi used a cunning plan to break it and annihilated the rebel army in one fell swoop.

Later, he also wrote some plots in which Chen Qingzhi opened a warehouse to release grain to relieve the victims, and the people petitioned to erect a monument in Chen Qingzhi's memory.

"Sea Kill" is legendary, and it probably took place in the early years of the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story of Li Erlang, a young folk boy who has been burdened with family feuds since he was a child. , a legendary story about learning powerful martial arts and avenging his parents.

Because his enemy finally fled to the island, Li Erlang crossed the sea to pursue him, and finally broke through all the traps on the island and killed his enemy with his own hands, so he named it Haisha.

Zhang Zhenniang and Zhao Yuannu finished writing these two plays from the Shangyuan Festival to March [-]rd.

There were many parts that the two of them couldn't write at all, so Zhao Tao had to pick up the pen himself. Then rehearsals began in his own theater, and the bookstore also engraving and printing. In early April, the opera and the embroidered lyrics were published together.

As soon as the two major plays "Taking Qinglong Mountain by Outsmarting" and "Sea Kill" were staged, they immediately caused a sensation in Tokyo. The streets were almost deserted. The houses and trees outside the theater were all filled with people. Even people from further away came from Looking into the theater from above.

There were also many people buying books. At this time, many officials in the court knew that the theater was opened by Zhao Tao. They were too embarrassed to go and see it in person, so they bought a book of embroidered portraits and storybooks to read. It was indeed fascinating and addictive at first glance, but the individual None of them are stupid, and they can't tell. This outsmarting Qinglong Mountain is actually about the conquest of Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River. The so-called Qinglong Mountain is just a false name for Bangyuan Cave, and Chen Qingzhi is just comparing himself to Zhao Tao.

As for the sea killing, the story about the folk boy Li Erlang going to sea to kill his enemies to avenge his family is just a rewrite of Zhao Tan's pursuit of Fang La overseas, but the original story has been changed and the outline has been reshaped.

Although the book is fascinating and the play is good to watch, it has also attracted a lot of discussion. After all, this is not the first time that Zhao Tong has done this kind of thing of insinuating himself into the play. The two kings made a surprise attack on Luzhou City before. However, no one knew at the time that the theater belonged to Zhao Tong and that the script came from Zhao Tong's house.

But over the past two or three years, more or less people have known about it, and now they can’t help but start talking about it when they watch these two plays.

Zhao Kai was furious in the house at this time. He bought both books and even read them both, but the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He threw the book on the ground and roared: "What does he want to do? What does he want to do?" ? Famous masters and generals should not keep themselves in prison, and thousands of troops should avoid white robes. How can Chen Qingzhi be comparable to him in terms of literary skills and martial arts? How can he be comparable..."

Cai Jing was sitting on the leisure chair, listening to Cai Chi reading the Qinglong Mountain storybook to him. His two snow-white eyebrows kept trembling, and he muttered in a low voice: "A wolf's ambition, a wolf's ambition!"

In the study, Gao Qiu tore two volumes of storybooks into pieces, then grabbed the wine glass on the table and drank it all in one gulp...

Zhao Tong naturally doesn't care what other people think about "Taking Qinglong Mountain" and "Sea Kill". Recently, he has been going to the theater to watch these two plays almost every day, pondering over the things that are not exciting enough, and polishing and revising them.

That morning, when he was about to leave the house and go to the theater, Bai Ao suddenly came from Suiyulou to deliver a letter, and when he received it, it turned out to be a secret report from Huang Gu.

Since Huang Gu was sent to Hebei, although there are occasional letters sent back, they are mostly innocuous matters. What has entered Tian Hu's army, what is powerful among the heroes of Heshuo, what is Qiongying's admiration for him, Follow his advice... Zhao Tao doesn't care much about Tian Hu. Although Tian Hu occupies a favorable location, if there is a war in the future, he will be caught in the middle and it will be difficult to protect himself. He will either fall to one side or be destroyed. In short, it will not be successful.

The reason why he asked Huang Gu to go to Hebei was to give him a wife. He didn't want him to end up alone like the fake surname Dugu he had changed when he went to the Kingdom of Jin.

However, when he opened the letter and read it, Zhao Tong's face immediately turned ugly. Finally, he frowned and cursed: "You bastard, you didn't bring Qiong Ying back to get married, but you actually paid homage there and asked me to go to your home to report the news." , you don’t know how to write to Old Scholar Huang yourself, you really piss me off, piss me off to death.”

In the letter, Huang Gu said that he and Qiongying had already married at Tian Hu's house, and that his family had also been granted the official position of Prince Consort. However, he wanted to tell his family about this but did not dare, so he asked Zhao Tong to talk to Huang Shangyan.

Zhao Tong's face turned dark and dark. How could this be so easy to talk about? He didn't know Huang Shang's temper. He almost beat his eldest son half to death over the Huang Jue incident. Now the younger son is doing this again, alone in the house. They got married among thieves and bandits, and the one they married was Tian Hu's goddaughter. This was not bad, but it would be strange to kill him alive when he came back.

Bai Ao saw that Zhao Tong had a bad expression and asked in a low voice: "Sir, is it the host of the building, what's wrong?"

He naturally knew that the letter was from Huang Gu. He just heard Zhao Tong scolding him about getting married, and he couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

Zhao Tong snorted coldly: "Your landlord married a daughter-in-law outside."

Bai Ao was stunned and said: "The host used to say that he didn't have a woman in his heart and that he could be a master with his sword. Why do you still go back on your promise?"

Zhao Tong touched his chin when he heard this, looked at Bai Ao and said, "You don't think so too, do you? Seeing that none of your three brothers are married, weren't you deceived by your landlord's words?"

"Ah?" Bai Ao shook his head hurriedly: "No, no, how could the three of my subordinates believe such a thing? They just don't want to get married too early, and they definitely won't believe such nonsense."

Zhao Tong looked at him for a while and then said: "There is no need to go back to Suiyu Tower. Follow me to the theater."

Bai Ao said yes. Seeing Zhao Tong turn around and walk forward, he stretched out his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He cursed in his heart, "This poster who killed a thousand swords, we trust you so much, but it turned out that it was all a lie. Let our brother打 Practicing the swordsmanship to hit a bachelor, but he has been sneaked to march outside.

Zhao Tong got on the carriage, and Bai Ao and Zhou Chu drove straight to the theater together.

Naturally, when we got there, we couldn't look outside, so we went up to the side building, where Zhao Tong drank tea and looked at the stage.

There are three theater troupes in the theater, which have been maintained. Because the salary provided is very good, no one has asked to leave.

As for the play "Outsmarting Qinglong Mountain", there are more characters, more than half as many as the previous surprise attack on Luzhou City. As for "The Story of White Hair", it is even beyond the reach, so the three teams will perform together, and it will only be up to you to sing on the stage. I came on stage and it was dazzling and overwhelming.

After waiting for the first discount, Zhao Tong took a sip of tea and glanced at the crowd watching the theater.

There are performances in front of this stage. Because the reputation of the theater has been established, it is no longer free. The performance outside is worth one hundred copper coins to watch a play. After a while, the heat subsides, and then it drops to [-] or [-]. .

Zhao Tong looked at the crowd, thinking about how to tell Huang Shang about Huang Gu's marriage. Suddenly, he narrowed his eyes and stood up with a "thump".

He saw a tall black figure in the crowd. Although he was wearing a curtain hat, he recognized it at a glance as the woman he had seen in the tea shop during the heavy snowfall last year.

Hu Sanniang!Zhao Tong took a deep breath, it was really hard to find a place without any hard work, and it took no effort at all!

He turned around and walked downstairs. Bai Ao said from behind: "Young Master..."

Zhao Tong said in a deep voice: "The woman in the portrait that you were asked to look for last year is watching a play outside."

Bai Ao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then hurriedly followed.

Zhao Tong walked out of the building and went straight to the crowd. At this time, the next part of the show had not yet started. Many of the spectators who had finished the show were sitting on the ground to rest. Those who were still standing were those who cared about their clothes and neatness, but there were not many. After all, most of the spectators were watching after the show. Common people wear common clothes, not silk clothes, and they are not afraid of being stained with dirt and dust.

Zhao Tong had already spotted the woman in black. The woman was also standing, but she was looking around, as if she was wary of something. However, the next moment he saw Zhao Tong, his body trembled, he turned around and ran back.

Discovered?Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes slightly, stepped faster, and chased him out of the theater gate in a short while.

He looked at Hu Sanniang who was panicking in the distance. He didn't directly use his footwork to step forward to capture her, but leisurely fell behind her.

Hu Sanniang was extremely panicked at the moment. She heard from the vegetable farmer who delivered food to her door that there were two great plays recently that were very good, so she came over to take a look.

Ever since she saw Zhao Tao while buying drinks at the Red Fish Tea Shop last winter, she didn't dare to go out for several months, and she didn't dare to tell Lin Chong about it. Lin Chong didn't know that she had ever been to Tokyo, let alone that she had seen him. Been to Zhaotong.

In fact, she did not deliberately conceal the matter, but she heard that the original wife of the Zhang family was married to Zhao Tong. She was afraid that Lin Chong would hate Zhao Tong. If she mentioned that she had met him in Tokyo, she would be afraid that Lin Chong would be angry.

Hu Sanniang was still a little afraid to come out at first. She didn't know if Zhao Tao had seen her in the tea shop last winter or if he still remembered her. However, it was always better to be cautious. However, she hadn't stepped out of the courtyard for several months. I was so depressed that I couldn't stand it anymore, so I plucked up the courage, thinking that no one would be able to see my face if I put on my curtain hat, and then I cautiously came over to watch the show.

Unexpectedly, when the whole thing was over and she was taking a rest, she saw Zhao Tong coming straight towards her from a distance, and she was so frightened that she turned around and ran away.

She walked all the way to the west, not daring to look back. When she got close to her home, she suddenly remembered that if Zhao Tong was still following behind, wouldn't he be able to find a foothold?Then he gritted his teeth and continued running.

Zhao Tong didn't know what Hu Sanniang was thinking, but he had some idea of ​​falling behind to touch the opponent's footing. However, as he chased after him, he found that Hu Sanniang was already in a panic and couldn't choose the way out. He immediately knew that his plan had failed.

Hu Sanniang ran randomly and walked straight to a crowded place. However, the least prosperous part of the inner city of Tokyo was the west side, which was quiet and elegant. She wanted to rely on the flow of people to get rid of Zhao Tong, but it was impossible.

At this time, she ran across a small lake and walked through the woods next to the lake. She saw a hill in front of her, and she couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. This hill was a mountain of earth and rocks, piled up artificially. It was the leftover earth and rock waste from the construction of Genyue. It was brought here to set off the small lake, which can be regarded as a scene in Tokyo. There are no trees growing on it, only some weeds emerging from the cracks in the rocks.

The earth and rock mountain was not high and steep, but the distance between it and the left and right was quite long. Hu Sanniang bit her lip and ran up the mountain.

Zhao Tong looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he couldn't help but quicken his steps. He reached the bottom of the mountain in just a few breaths, then looked at the figure above and shouted: "Sister Men, stop!"

Men, Men Sanniang?Hu Sanniang was already halfway up the mountain and was stunned. What did the other party call her?Door Sanniang? !

She is really the most stupid woman in the world. Only now did she realize that the King of Qin in the Song Dynasty did not know her true identity. When she came to Tokyo to compete, she was registered as Men Sanniang.

Thinking of this, Hu Sanniang breathed a sigh of relief and stopped running. Instead, she stopped and turned around and said, "Who are you? How do you know my name?"

Looking at Hu Sanniang's poor cover-up, Zhao Tao couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, but he also sighed slightly. She was one of the unfortunate women in the world. The whole family was killed by Li Kui and Sister Gu, and was plotted and coerced by Song Jiang. Marry her to Wang Ying, although Lin Chong was saved by Hengdao in the end, but Lin Chong...

He asked Zhang Zhenniang about Lin Chong, and Zhang Zhenniang was very interested, but he also made a guess, and couldn't help but be speechless at the time.

At this moment, he looked at Hu Sanniang on the stone mountain and said, "Has Men Sanniang forgotten this king? At that time, the Liao people held a competition in Tokyo, and Men Sanniang came to sign up, and she had a chance encounter with this king!"

Hu Sanniang looked like she had suddenly realized something on the mountain, "It turned out to be His Highness the King of Qin. The girl thought she was some evil person, so she ran away in panic and asked His Highness to forgive me."

She said that she performed a blessing walk on the mountain, and then said: "I wonder why His Highness the King of Qin wants to find a common girl?"

Zhao Tong smiled: "I just saw it for a moment, and I felt emotional, and I chased her down without knowing it. I remember that Men Sanniang is not from Tokyo, how could she settle in the capital?"

At this time, Hu Sanniang thought that Zhao Tong didn't know her true identity, so she no longer felt nervous and said smoothly: "My family came to Tokyo to visit relatives. The relatives were very warm, so I stayed longer and stayed here."

Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes: "I thought Men Sanniang was married to Tokyo. Wouldn't that mean she would have to go back in the future?"

Hu Sanniang was shocked when she heard the words "married to Tokyo". She was originally afraid that Zhao Tong would find out her identity, and she also learned from Song Jiang that she was married to Lin Chong. Seeing that she was in Tokyo at the moment, she suspected that Lin Chong was also there. Will cause trouble for Lin Chong.

According to her opinion, neither Gao Qiu nor Zhao Yu would let Lin Chong go. Needless to say, Gao Qiu, but as for Zhao Yu, this was hard to say.

"No, no, the prince is overthinking." Hu Sanniang said hurriedly: "How could a girl from the mountain village of the slave family marry into a prosperous place in Tokyo? I'm afraid no one will like the slave family."

Zhao Tong nodded and said, "Sanniang Men, come down and talk."

Hu Sanniang hesitated for a few moments on the mountain, then walked down slowly, and then said: "Is there anything else, Your Majesty? If nothing happens, then I will go back to my relatives' house. If it is later, I may not be happy."

Zhao Tong shook his head and said, "If anything happens, and wherever Men Sanniang's relatives live, I might as well send you there."

When Hu Sanniang heard this, she was so frightened that she waved her hands hurriedly: "I would like to thank you, Your Majesty. Your relatives are from a small family. Your Majesty might be surprised if you go there, so you can just go on your own."

Zhao Tong said: "In that case, Men Sanniang, please do as you please. By the way, if Men Sanniang encounters any difficulties in the future, just come to me."

Hu Sanniang hurriedly saluted again: "I would like to thank the prince and take my leave."

After saying that, she turned around and walked due south. Zhao Tong stood still. When Hu Sanniang's figure gradually disappeared, he followed her without leaving a trace...

About an hour later, Zhao Tong followed Hu Sanniang around almost half a circle in the inner city of Tokyo and returned to Xicheng. Then he watched Hu Sanniang enter a rather spacious and elegant looking house from a distance.

Zhao Tong couldn't help but frowned when he saw this. Such a house was not something ordinary people could live in. Even an ordinary wealthy family couldn't afford it. How could Hu Sanniang live in such a place?
He watched from a distance for a long time and saw that no one was entering or leaving the house and it was very quiet. After thinking for a moment, he turned around and left quietly.

(End of this chapter)