Zhu Liuhu acted as a peddler, and every day, he carried a load and walked around the streets and alleys, or scattered around the crowd, hiding in the streets and alleys not far from the Mu Family Palace to observe the movements.

His pseudonym was Zhu Liu, with an ordinary face and low-key behavior. He took a load and went out early and came back late. When he met his neighbors, he greeted him with a smile and grabbed a handful of fruity and candy beans for the children. The women asked him to buy needles and threads, but he didn't want to pay. The neighbors all said that he was a loyal and kind person from the countryside who wanted to save his wife. Who would have thought that he was a thief in the green forest who used to kill without blinking?

He fell into the alley near the palace. After a moment, half a year passed, and he did not notice anything unusual. Only one thing caught his attention.

He had long heard of the news that the Mu family had built the royal tomb in Rudi. Since there was no abnormality in the city, out of caution and to give the governor a explanation that would make him satisfied, he planned to leave Yuecheng and set out to Rudi to find out what happened.

After making a decision, he came back early that day and distributed all the remaining fruit and beans to the children running towards him. He carried the empty load into the house, closed the door, took a few sips of cold water, and then lay on the bed that was temporarily built with a broken door panel. When he closed his eyes, he heard a few knocks from the door.

The knock on the door was soft and familiar.

The man's heart hopped slightly, he immediately opened his eyes, went downstairs and opened the door.

There was a young woman in a coarse blue skirt standing outside the door. She was twenty-five or six years old, with fair skin and gentle eyebrows. She held a large thick porcelain bowl that was steaming in her hand. When she saw Zhu Liuhu open the door and showed up, she smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, I will roll noodles to eat tonight. I have made too many of them. I will also serve you a bowl."

The young woman was a widow who lived diagonally opposite the door, named Hua Niang. She said she had fled to the famine and came here. She had all died. She usually made a living by washing clothes and embroidery for people. She lived in and out of the room and went out every day, and often met her. The woman also bought needles and threads from him. After a while, she got to know her. After knowing that he was single, she often gave him some food he made or sewed clothes for him.

"Eat while it's hot. It won't be delicious if it's battered." The woman saw him looking at him and kept urging him.

Zhu Liuhu finally came to his senses, responded, held his hands over, placed them on the small table next to the wall, sat down, lowered his head and started eating.

Hua Niang didn't leave immediately. The man stood at the door, looked at the empty load parked in the corner of the house and a luggage on the table, and said, "Brother Zhu, do you have any clothes to wash? Take it for me. I will do the laundry for someone tonight and wash yours too."

Zhu Liuhu shook his head.

The woman nodded: "Then you eat slowly. After finishing the meal, just put the bowls and chopsticks. I'll wait and collect them." After that, she turned around and went.

Zhu Liuhu then raised his head and watched her walk into the door diagonally opposite. The door closed and her figure disappeared.

He stopped the chopsticks in his hand.

After following the Jiedushi for many years, I remember that I either licked blood from a knife or ran around. When I walked to this day, it seemed that life in the humble alley in only half a year was the most stable.

I don’t know when it started, but I came back with a load in the evening. When the young woman who lived diagonally opposite the door came to knock on the door and brought her the hot rice and hot dishes she had cooked tonight, it became a vague expectation in his heart every day.

After leaving, no woman would make him hot noodle soup, and no woman would sew and wash clothes for him.

Thinking that this was the last time I ate it in the evening, the man couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

But there is no way. He is not the peddler named Zhu Liu. He has his own things to do.

He lowered his head, finished his noodles, drank the last bite of soup, scooped water and washed the dishes and chopsticks by himself, waited for her to come and took it. After waiting for a long time, she still didn't see her coming. Then he got up and walked to the load, lifted the lid, took out the few handfuls of silk threads that he had left during the day and the hanging money he had saved in the days he had served as a peddler, took it together with the bowls and chopsticks, and walked diagonally to the door.

Zhu Liuhu walked to Hua Niang's house and heard a slight moaning sound from the room, which sounded very painful.

Zhu Liuhu was shocked and immediately pushed the door open.

The door was closed and he pushed it open.

An oil lamp on the table and the dim lights illuminate a small and simple house. There were some unwashed clothes on the ground outside, and the groans came from the inner room.

Zhu Liuhu called out to her, put down what was in his hand, and walked in quickly. He saw Hua Niang lying wet on the ground, with only a foot wash basin next to it, and the water in the basin spilled out, and the ground was messy.

"Brother Zhu... I accidentally fell down just now, and my legs were probably broken..."

Hua Niang looked painful, raised her face and said to him with tears in her eyes.

...

The next day, when Mu Fulan received a message from Hua Niang, she was teaching Xier to practice calligraphy in the room.

The sun shone in from the flower window, the air was filled with the faint fragrance of flowers in spring, and the sound of birds singing in my ears. Mu Fulan asked the maid to accompany Xier first, come out by herself, and unfold the letter she just received.

Hua Niang is indeed a widow, and her husband died in her early years, but her real identity is the teacher in the palace, who is alert and capable. After taking the matter before, she left the palace to settle down and monitored Zhu Liuhu.

Hua Niang said in the letter that she saw Zhu Liuhu clearing the cargo and packing her bags last night, and suspected that Zhu Liuhu was going to leave the city. Because she didn't know whether he was going to leave Changsha or to continue spying in another place, she asked the plan to keep the person behind first.

What should we do next? Wait for the Lord of the House to show us.

Zhu Liuhu is the eyes and ears left by Xie Changgeng.

But this person could not move. Moving Zhu Liuhu was like alerting the snake, telling Xie Changgeng to be on guard against him. With Xie Changgeng's suspicion, if he was concerned and really staring at him, he might not have anything to hide from him.

The mines and military-armored buildings in Rudi Mountain, such a large stall cannot always be a secret. Sooner or later, it will be known.

The key point is that before Changsha completes its military expansion, it is necessary to not let him or Queen Liu discover it.

This secret is the top priority.

Compared to this matter, everything else is secondary now.

Zhu Liuhu is a living person, and since Xie Changgen left him, he must be no ordinary person. Instead of risking him leaving Yuecheng to spy on Rudi, it is better to trip him under his nose and eliminate any possibility of being discovered.

Mu Fulan replied, asking her to try her best to continue to keep the person in Yuecheng. She also reminded her to be careful. At present, she just needs to keep the person in custody. She doesn't have to keep him too close to her on weekdays, so as not to be noticed by him.

After sending the letter out, Mu Fulan remembered Yuan Handing again.

It has been a while since she came back. According to Yuan Handing's journey, if everything goes well, he should be able to go back soon.

Zhao Xitai, the prince of the King of Qi, heard of Yaoweng's name as a miracle doctor, came here to seek medical treatment. The group had arrived outside the city and was about to arrive.
Chapter completed!