Zhao Jinyu walked out of a bus, wearing light sports and leisure clothes, carrying a backpack, and a drawing board. As he walked forward with the flow of people, he did not forget to look around curiously, and from time to time he took out his mobile phone to take pictures of the surroundings. scenery. www.しwxs. com
If someone didn't really know his details, they would only think that he was an artistic young man who had just come to this small water town in the south of the Yangtze River to travel and sketch.
He came here this time for convenience. He did not have any contact with the tour group or anyone else in the second/department. He came to this small town called Liuqiao alone.
Liuqiao is not a famous tourist attraction like Zhouzhuang or Wuzhen, which is well-known at home and abroad. In addition, it is winter and not the peak tourist season, so there are not many tourists here.
Zhao Jinyu walked around this small town, secretly compared it with the information he already had, and then found a family hotel on the outskirts of the town that looked pretty good and stayed. He specially chose a room on the top floor of the hotel, which was the fifth floor, with a very wide view.
He chose this hotel because it was not far from the Yang family martial arts gym, and his target Yang Tianyu came from this Yang family, and the graves of Yang Tianyu's parents and ancestors were not far from here.
After taking out the clothes and hanging them, he packed his luggage and saw that it was getting late. He didn't go out again, and he didn't even go down to eat dinner. Instead, he asked the waiter to bring it to him directly.
Of course, his purpose of coming here this time was not to travel or sketch, but under the guise of traveling, he came to meet Yang Tianyu, who knew the internal skills of Shaolin and had seriously injured Li Jie.
Zhao Jinyu was not unaware of the possible dangers involved in the secret operations of the military intelligence department. She was also aware of the concerns and worries of Chen Lihui and other members of the Chen family, otherwise Chen Lixuan would not have gone out of his way to see him that night. It's just that he is confident that with his physical abilities, there is no problem in protecting himself.
To be honest, he had no objection to participating in the mission of the Military/Intelligence Department 2. On the contrary, he felt vaguely excited.
Perhaps everyone, especially men, has a restless heart deep down, yearning for a challenging and exciting life, and he is no exception. He likes a leisurely and peaceful life, and he also enjoys a life full of ups and downs and challenges.
Early the next morning, Zhao Jinyu did not get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out for a run before dawn as usual. Instead, he waited until dawn and then went out for a jog for almost an hour, while taking in the surrounding environment again. Again.
When he returned to the hotel from exercising outside, it was already past eight o'clock. However, it was winter now and everyone got up late. There was only one waiter in the lobby on the first floor sitting idle at the front desk playing with his mobile phone.
When Zhao Jinyu checked into this hotel and paid for the accommodation, he had already paid for three meals a day. After he went back to the room to wash up, he did not go down immediately. Instead, he deliberately waited until nearly nine o'clock when he heard that other guests in the hotel had also started to get down. When he was having breakfast upstairs, he followed him downstairs.
During breakfast, Zhao Jinyu chose a corner seat to sit down. This position allowed him to easily observe the guests entering and exiting the door, and also allowed him to see the entire lobby on the first floor. Not many guests came down for breakfast, only about ten of them including himself.
There are two tables of residents sitting next to the big window. Sitting at a small table are two young men and women facing each other. They look like a couple. Sitting at the other table should be a family of three, a husband and wife. He was traveling with a little girl of five or six years old, probably on vacation.
There were two other young girls in fashionable clothes who looked up at Zhao Jinyu from time to time. They were talking quietly while eating breakfast. The last two men, like him, were alone, sitting quietly eating their breakfast.
While Zhao Jinyu was eating breakfast, he glanced at everyone present without any trace. He paused for a moment on the young couple and one of the men who was eating breakfast alone like him, and then turned away as if nothing had happened.
There was a couple sitting there eating breakfast alone with another man. In fact, even Zhao Jinyu couldn't see anything wrong with it, but he just had an inexplicable feeling, a feeling that could only be understood but not explained. They are not ordinary tourists.
He didn't know if these three people were sent by Li Jie of the Second Division, or by someone else. He couldn't even confirm whether they were friends or foes, but he didn't care about that. Even if they were really sent by Li Jie, he had no intention of contacting them. They were just Yang Tianyu. He didn't think he needed help from others.
This time, Zhao Jinyu not only thickened her eyebrows and changed her hair style, but also changed her skin color a little, making her not as fair as usual, but giving her a healthy skin color that belongs to a man.
It was this change that caused Zhao Jinyu's facial features to change from exquisite and even neutral beauty to a kind of handsomeness belonging to a man. Coupled with the change in speech and behavior, Zhao Jinyu looked like he was a few years older. Unless he is a very familiar person, it would be difficult to connect him with the original Zhao Jinyu.
After Zhao Jinyu finished his late breakfast in a leisurely manner, he went back to his room on the fifth floor, put on his clothes for going out, put his drawing board on his back, and went out to sketch.
Unlike those popular scenic spots that are always noisy with tourists, Liuqiao Town, a small water town in the south of the Yangtze River, lacks the hustle and bustle and gives people a leisurely and soothing feeling. It is easy to calm down unconsciously when you are in it. .
He was carrying a drawing board and looking around the town leisurely, seemingly looking for suitable sketching materials, and finally came to a small river not far from the Yang Family Martial Arts Hall.
Sitting on the steps by the river bank, not far to his right was a half-moon-shaped stone arch bridge. Directly opposite was a typical two-story Jiangnan water town style house full of ancient black tiles and white walls. This is already the edge of the town, and the buildings are not too dense. There is an open space next to the two-story building, and a little further away is the territory belonging to the Yang Family Martial Arts School.
Although he carried drawing tools with him, he remembered the purpose of coming here after all. He sat on the steps to calm down his emotions for a while, then opened the drawing board, clamped the paper, and prepared pencils, erasers and other sketching tools. He made preparations slowly, not forgetting his purpose while doing so.
Zhao Jinyu usually draws directly on rice paper, unlike many painters nowadays who have the habit of composing a picture in advance.
He does not have this habit of painting, which does not mean that he is not good at using charcoal or pencil sketches. Although he does not have a professional apprenticeship, he has studied for more than a year. It is no exaggeration to say that his sketches are quite good. .
He took a pencil and drew a few strokes on the paper, then raised his head and glanced at the other side. No matter who saw him, they would just think that he was really sketching against the black-tiled and white-walled residential house.
Zhao Jinyu was drawing while observing the situation at the Yang Family Martial Arts Hall not far away. Comparing the information he had learned before his own departure, he found no trace of Yang Tianyu yet.
If Li Jie's information was correct, he estimated that Yang Tianyu would definitely appear within today and tomorrow at the latest. It is a custom that has been passed down in the world for thousands of years. Worshiping ancestors can only be carried out in advance and cannot be postponed. Tomorrow is the winter solstice on December 22. If Yang Tianyu really comes back to worship his parents, tomorrow's winter solstice is his deadline.
But will Yang Tianyu really come back? Isn't he afraid that he will fall into the law, or is he very confident that his identity will not be exposed? Or maybe he relies on his strong martial arts skills, and even if his identity is discovered, he is confident that he can escape unscathed? Or maybe he, like me, would disguise himself so that others wouldn't notice?
Rural areas are different from cities. Most of the ashes of people after death are buried in the cemetery. The Yang family cemetery is not far from the Yang family's ancestral home and not far from where he is now. He could see clearly from where he was sitting by the small river. Although he couldn't see clearly because of the distance, he could still see clearly if someone was passing by.
When he first arrived in Liuqiao Town yesterday, he paid a special visit to the tombs of Yang Tianyu's parents. The tombstones were bare and there were no sacrifices, flowers or the like. This meant that no one had come here to pay homage in recent times. . Regardless of whether Yang Tianyu has returned to China, at least he has not been here yet.
He felt that there was no use in staying here like this, but he also understood that it was a last resort without more information.
Zhao Jinyu sat by the river for the whole morning, observing people entering and leaving the Yang Family Martial Arts School very carefully, but never found Yang Tianyu or anyone with special whereabouts.
He felt that he was a little too passive all the time. After much consideration, he decided to go directly to the Yang Family Martial Arts School to have a look. Maybe he would find something different.
He packed up his painting tools, picked up his backpack, and walked slowly to the stone arch bridge on the right, deciding to take a look at the other side of the river. After passing the half-moon-shaped stone arch bridge, I stood on the bridge and took a few photos before continuing forward.
Just as he was about to put away his phone, the phone beeped, indicating that a text message had come in. Zhao Jinyu clicked delete immediately after reading the text message. Thinking of the content of the text message, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. He had underestimated the capabilities of the intelligence/department.
Even if Yang Tianyu drives here directly from the Shanghai Airport, it will still take two or three hours. With the definite news, he feels that maybe he can do something else.
After knowing the exact information about the target person, Zhao Jinyu made up his mind. However, he did not go back to the hotel immediately and decided to go and have a look as planned.
Wandering outside the Yang Family Martial Arts Hall, he stood outside and looked curiously at a group of people practicing martial arts in the yard. Everyone is wearing the same style of Chinese training clothes, arranged in two rows in order of height, and their movements are uniform. If an outsider looks at it, it actually looks like the same thing. But for a master like Zhao Jinyu, this move is just a trick.
Hearing that Yang Tianyu came from an ancient martial arts family, he was originally looking forward to the Yang family's skills. But now that he saw the moves these people practiced, he was honestly very disappointed.
But when I think about it again, it feels normal. It is said that the Liuqiao Yang family is just a branch of the Yang family of the former martial arts family. Even among the direct branches of the Yang family, there are very few people who can actually pass down the skills of their ancestors, let alone Is it a side branch? Besides, even if there are people in the side branch who really pass down the skills of their ancestors, they cannot easily pass them on to others. For these people, they probably only need to learn some simple boxing and kicking skills.
However, it really surprised him that Yang Tianyu, who was a side branch and whose parents were both deceased, was able to use Shaolin internal skills that had never been spread to others.
Liuqiao Town is a tourist area, and people come here all year round. The Yang Family Martial Arts School recruits students all year round, and strangers often come here to watch. The large number of people inside has become accustomed to it.
When they saw Zhao Jinyu standing there, they didn't take it seriously. At most, some people took advantage of the occasional turning move and glanced at him casually to watch the excitement.
"If you're interested, you can come in and have a look." Zhao Jinyu was standing outside watching when a young girl came out of the next room, walked up to him and said to him with a smile.
Zhao Jinyu smiled shyly and asked, "Hello, I would like to ask, do you recruit short-term students here? And how are the fees charged?"
The young girl asked happily, "What, do you want to learn?"
"Having this idea, are you recruiting students during the winter vacation?"
"We're recruiting. We recruit students here all year round. We also recruit short-term courses during the winter and summer vacations. The tuition is not expensive. It depends on what you study and the length of time."
It has to be said that a young man who is handsome, elegant, humorous, and well-dressed is definitely very attractive to a young girl.
The two of them entered the lounge next to them and sat there for less than half an hour. Zhao Jinyu understood almost all the news about the Yang Family Martial Arts School. As long as the girl knew about it, he had basically figured it out by him inadvertently.
It's a pity that she didn't know much, and Zhao Jinyu didn't find out anything more in-depth, but it wasn't completely fruitless.
I learned from this girl’s mouth that the Yang family will unite to worship their ancestors on the day of the winter solstice every year. Unless there are some unavoidable reasons, the men of the Yang family will basically come back to participate, even if they are away as long as conditions permit. Will come back as soon as possible.
In the afternoon, when Zhao Jinyu was lying on the guardrail of the stone arch bridge, taking pictures with his mobile phone of a slowly rocking awning boat, he saw two people standing not far away. It was the same pair he had seen in the morning. The couple were hugging each other affectionately and asking passers-by to take photos of them.
While waiting for the awning boat to pass by, he thought for a moment, and then he didn't stay on the stone arch bridge anymore, but changed to another place.
He simply ran to the Yang Family Martial Arts School and walked around the two-story building with black tiles and white walls for a few times before finding a suitable place to sit down. He opened the picture folder and prepared to change the angle and continue painting this typical Jiangnan water town style building. of dwellings.
