"Can!"
"Send someone to pick me up tonight!"
Zhang Bao nodded.
In Zhang Bao's view, Han Yutao's banquet was either a denouement or a Hongmen banquet.
No matter what, Zhang Bao has to go.
Han Yutao did not expect Zhang Bao to agree so simply. He was overjoyed and quickly stood up to leave.
Watching Han Yutao walk out, Zhang Bao waved and called someone over.
"Follow him and see where he goes."
The man nodded and quickly followed out.
It didn't take long for the man to come back.
"Zuihonglou and Pingyang Warehouse?"
"I understand, help me find Ah Shan."
Zhang Bao heard the two places the man mentioned and called Ah Shan. Naturally, he didn't know much about these places as Ah Shan did.
"Zuihonglou? That's a brothel. This Pingyang Warehouse is a place where goods are sold. We are familiar with it."
"I went there to find work before."
Ah Shan said to Zhang Bao.
"Who are the shopkeepers behind these?"
Zhang Bao asked again.
"I don't know."
"It's not something we can access."
"But I heard that he has something to do with the county magistrate. They are all very powerful in our Pingyang County."
Ah Shan scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.
"So that's it."
Zhang Bao nodded.
According to Zhang Bao's estimation, the shopkeeper of Zuihonglou and Pingyang Warehouse should be the person who accompanied Han Yutao to dinner with him that day.
And if Han Yutao wanted to dig out the bottom with himself, there would definitely be no other people present. There was no need.
But Han Yutao came out of his place and went directly to two other places, obviously to inform those two people.
Then don’t think about it tonight.
It must be the Hongmen Banquet.
Zhang Bao became a little curious.
With his current status, he is the boss behind all these things. Even the emperor is in his hands. How dare they attack him without considering whether the consequences are something they can bear?
Logically speaking, I didn't discover anything serious.
At most, they pretended to be county magistrates, or secretly evacuated from the palace, but these things were meaningless at all.
wrong!
There must be something going on here!
"Ah Shan, did anything strange happen when you were in Pingyang County before?"
"Or something unusual."
Zhang Bao asked Ashan.
"Come to think of it, it's true."
"In recent years, some mountain ghosts have come to our Pingyang County in the mountains, and they specialize in eating male dolls."
"Many people's male dolls have been lost. The county magistrate once led people to search for them in the mountains and forests, but they were not found."
"Later on, the matter fell into disuse."
"But recently I heard that there seems to be still some places."
Ah Shan said to Zhang Bao.
"A man-eating mountain ghost?"
"Is it because of this reason that people in Pingyang County don't go into the mountains very much, so the price of this wild animal is good?"
"Even wild animals are abundant?"
Zhang Bao asked Ashan.
Zhang Bao was a little confused before.
Whether it's a wild boar or a mountain wolf, they are all animals from the mountains. How could they jump to a place where people live?
And the prices of these game meats are indeed outrageous.
"That's right."
"I heard that when this mountain ghost first came out, all the hunters we met in the mountain were also eaten."
"After that, for a period of time, the hunters didn't dare to go up the mountain. After a few years, it gradually got better, and we dared to go in."
"But I didn't see it during the time I was in the mountain. I was very scared at the beginning, but then I didn't care anymore."
"Being eaten is better than starving to death alive."
Ah Shan said to Zhang Bao.
"So that's it. Then I understand some things."
"Does your county magistrate often stay in the county house recently? Or does he go out occasionally?"
Zhang Bao asked Ashan.
"How can ordinary people like us know about the county magistrate?"
"But when I just escaped from the county government, I noticed that the county magistrate might have appeared in a village."
"At that time, I had been hiding in the mountains for hunting. Everything else was easy to talk about, but I couldn't get this salt. Fortunately, here in Dongzhou, every household is not short of salt, so I thought about taking some game to the village to exchange for some. Salt back.”
"As soon as I was about to go down the mountain, I saw a carriage from a distance. I didn't dare to act rashly at that time. Those who can ride in the carriage are all powerful people."
"When that person came down, I thought I was wrong. It seemed to be our County Magistrate Han, but I didn't dare to look more at that time and ran away quickly."
"So, I'm not sure..."
Ah Shan said hesitantly.
"oh?"
"Where is that village?"
Zhang Bao asked Ashan.
"Just outside the county capital, about twenty miles southeast, I don't know what it's called. It's a very small village."
Ah Shan said to Zhang Bao.
"okay, I get it."
"Let's do this first!"
Zhang Bao waved to Ah Shan, and Ah Shan walked out.
After Ah Shan said this, Zhang Bao made a bold guess.
As for whether it is true, we can only send someone out to check it out.
"come!"
Zhang Bao said to the outside.
Several people walked in quickly.
Zhang Bao whispered a few words to them, and they nodded and walked out separately.
…
In the evening, before it got dark, Han Yutao's carriage had already arrived at Zhang Bao's door.
Zhang Bao got on the carriage alone and walked towards Han Yutao.
Lao He and Xixue were left in the house with some unfinished thoughts.
"Girl Xixue, did you understand what this boy just said about Liu Bang and Xiang Yu?"
"What are these?"
"Who killed whom in the end?"
"How can Liu Bang, that despicable villain, compare to the heroic overlord Xiang Yu?"
"Does this mean you will become the emperor in the end?"
Lao He asked Xixue with a question mark on his face.
After learning that Zhang Bao was attending the banquet alone tonight, Lao He and Xixue tried their best to stop him.
By now, they have all figured out that this Han Yutao is probably not a good person. He always gives gifts or invites him to dinner, which always makes him feel ill-intentioned.
Zhang Bao then moved out the section of the Hongmen Banquet, intending to appease these two people.
But they still greatly underestimated their desire for a story, and forced Zhang Bao to tell the story from Liu Bang being a small gangster to the establishment of the Han Dynasty.
But he completely forgot about the idea of stopping him from going to the banquet.
…
The carriage swayed all the way and stopped in front of a restaurant.
Zhang Bao smiled slightly, already knowing that the banquet was held here.
Without hesitation, he climbed up the stairs and walked in.
