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"You don't need to say anything, you don't need to say anything. I, I know what you think in your heart, don't say it, never say it... You, take care!" Di Xue turned around and ran away in the snow. His figure was so thin and feeble.Ouyang and Xia He stayed there without moving.

Seeing the staggering figure of the young lady, Xia He shouted anxiously and chased after her.

"Me!..." Ouyang stretched out his arms to grab at the void, but realized that it was futile, and couldn't help but feel a sour feeling in his heart.He couldn't help asking himself, did he really integrate into Datang?

Ouyang looked lonely, and led Lao Hei to walk the streets. The houses on both sides were already covered with door gods and Spring Festival couplets.Looking at their simple smiling faces, Ouyang couldn't help realizing: small people have the happiness of small people, rich people have the enjoyment of rich people, and high-ranking officials have the worries of high-ranking officials. Even the high-ranking Li Shimin is afraid that he is worried every day.In this life, how to live is the most wonderful thing. It doesn't matter what parents say, what relatives and friends say doesn't matter, only when you get your own approval in your heart, that is really wonderful.

His original purpose of coming to Datang was to find his wife and children. He firmly believed that she and his son were somewhere in this world. He was looking forward to the day when he would reunite with his wife and children.He couldn't let go, and more often he felt like a puppet, being pulled by a few lines whose ends could not be seen, posing one after another on stage.But the last barrier in my heart is like pouring gold and iron, and I can't break it no matter what.

Lao Hei seemed to feel the master's depression, and then arched the horse's head on Ouyang's body, hoping to make the master happy.

Ouyang's heart warmed, he patted Lao Hei lightly, and said as if chatting: "Ou Hei, what do you think I should do? It's so difficult!".He talked to Lao Hei from time to time along the way, and Lao Hei neighed from time to time, as if communicating with him, watching the eldest daughter and daughter-in-law on the street giggling with their mouths covered.

Unknowingly, this group of people walked to the back door of the courtyard of the restaurant. Ouyang opened the door and saw that everyone in the courtyard was very busy.

Seeing it, Qilang held the half-sized urn in his arms and shouted in a muffled voice: "Eighth brother, are you back? How is the matter going?" This voice attracted everyone's attention.

Ouyang looked at the eyes of his brothers, nodded and led the horse in, and said, "It's kind of a clue, but it's up to us to fight for it!"

Ge Ye threw down the broom in his hand, ran over and looked at Old Hei up and down, and said, "Isn't this your Old Hei? Didn't he run away when he met a wolf? Why, this bastard has an 'Old Horse Knows the Way'" ? You ran back by yourself?"

Ouyang nodded, and pointed to the scar on Lao Hei's back: "It's too bad, no wonder it's there. Let's not talk about it, let's talk about our business."

Everyone gathered around, either squatting or standing, waiting for him to speak.

Ouyang put away his thoughts of missing Di Xue, and put his hands into his sleeves: "We will take action tomorrow night, and the target is an anti-Tang force, which is in our Jinyang City. The governor's intention will be resolved within an hour." , try to collect useful information and arrest relevant important people, the governor wants to see the effectiveness of our brothers' special forces..."

"What? Tomorrow's night? It's New Year's Eve! Every family is eating dumplings for the New Year, but we have to go to do bird missions in a cold haha? The governor is too cruel, why don't you let us celebrate the New Year? When Wu Lang heard that he felt blocked, he muttered and complained.

Ge Ye lowered his eyes and thought carefully, and patted Goro on the shoulder: "Brother, think about it carefully, everyone is unwilling to go out at thirty, what does the opponent think?"

"This... hey? Seems to make sense, isn't this 'covering up by surprise'!?" Goro suddenly realized, and patted himself on the head twice.

"One hour, the time is a bit short... Eighth brother, we brothers only heard you say 'special forces', and haven't practiced it yet, what should we do?" Zhao Danyang was worried, One sentence pointed out everyone's worries.

In fact, this is also the most uncertain part of Ouyang's heart. At that time in the governor's mansion, he could only bite the bullet and agree to it without the slightest hesitation or delay, otherwise his wish to join the war as a 'special force' with his brothers would be defeated.He groaned silently, but he saw that everyone was nervous. Could it be that even the eighth brother can't help?

Ouyang thought for a moment, and suddenly realized that he himself is the expert authority of the 'special forces' in Datang, and he is the only expert.As long as you don't deviate from the essence of the special forces, don't care too much about the details.What this mission should reflect is nothing more than the characteristics of quick action, quick response, and strong combat effectiveness. For the gang of brothers in front of us, it is really not difficult.

Everyone saw that his brows and eyes gradually stretched, as if he had gained something.They all breathed a sigh of relief.

Ouyang raised his head and saw seven pairs of eyes staring at him. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Brothers, I'm not a big girl, why are you staring at me so hard? Come on, let's read the text first." He pulled the chair beside him, unfolded and arranged the materials given by the governor in his arms.

Not much information, a total of three pages.Everyone bent down and looked carefully.

"South Street? Yishenglan Restaurant?... 21 people?! Here, why do you have so many people in a restaurant? Planting seedlings!" Goro glanced at it, thinking that the scale of his family's Guiyunsuan is not small , there are only 8 people inside and outside, this Yishenglan actually has so many people crowded in a restaurant, it is really "good service".

"Tsk tsk, it's still two floors with a backyard."

"All the shopkeepers in the store are young and strong?"

Ouyang quickly browsed through three pages of information while listening to everyone expressing emotion.Although he has never been to this foreign restaurant, a three-dimensional picture has already been formed in his mind: the main entrance of the restaurant is facing the main street, and the backyard is mixed with residential buildings, which needs to be controlled to prevent escape and hurt people; There are five rooms in the hospital, which need high-level surveillance and sniper killing; 21 young and strong people, all of whom have combat effectiveness, need to use some strategies to lead to concentrated shooting to avoid unnecessary casualties... A piece of information flashed through my mind in sequence like a computer input , already had a preliminary plan in his mind.

It's just that the eight brothers don't have the equipment at hand, but they have to think about it.

While he was worrying, he suddenly heard the "slapping" sound of being slapped on the back door. Ouyang received the information and shouted: "Who is it?"

"Cough, owner of Guiyun Tower, open the door quickly, the New Year's goods you ordered are here, it's freezing outside!" Ouyang was puzzled when he heard this, why did his restaurant order New Year's goods?He raised his eyes to look at everyone, but everyone shook their heads and didn't know.

"Ouyang Dong's family, you're the one to open the door! It's still cold in the twelfth lunar month, and we have to go home for the New Year after delivering the goods—" The person outside the door shouted again.

This voice...Liu Yuxuan?

"What is this old boy doing here pretending to be a ghost? It's a New Year's Eve to disturb people's cleanliness." Ge Ye could not help laughing and scolding when he heard the person coming.

What Ge Ye said confirmed Ouyang's guess more and more. He shouted across the yard: "Come on, come on, why did you send it so late? Seeing that it's getting old, and you're too smudged when you do things—"

While talking, he went to unbolt the door, only to see Liu Yuxuan was wearing a dirty black jacket, behind him was a horse-drawn truck that was piled up, but was tightly covered by a big blue tarpaulin.There were two hard-working men guarding the side of the car.

Liu Yuxuan continued to shout: "Master Ouyang, this is the New Year's gift from my 'Shiji' firm. You should bring it in and count it for settlement, so we can go home!" After finishing speaking, he winked at Ouyang.

As soon as Ouyang heard the word 'Shiji', he knew that the governor sent something, but he didn't know what it was. "Come on, quickly get the car in to unload the goods, and be careful that I will deduct your money later." Ouyang also pretended to accept the goods, opened the back door wide, led the carriage in and locked the back door tightly.

"I said Brother Liu, what kind of acting are you doing?" Ouyang walked up to Liu Yuxuan with a smile, and punched Liu Yuxuan on the shoulder.

Liu Yuxuan looked bitter: "Don't mention it, the governor suddenly thought that you don't even have any armor and weapons here, so why are you going to fight people with kitchen knives? Send me in disguise, afraid that those people have wide-eyed eyes. In Jinyang City, I went in and out of three stores before being transferred to you, and I was almost exhausted."

When Ouyang heard this, he couldn't help but feel very happy, this is really sleepy, someone sent a pillow, it was very timely!

The crowd lifted the oilcloth, eight pieces of infantry armor and eight pieces of leather armor were placed on the upper layer, and several hard bows, a dozen pots of arrows, and some long knives and short spears were listed on the lower layer.

"It's all, it's all! Brother Liu, thank the governor for me, this is an urgent need!" Ouyang looked at it and thanked him with his hands.

Liu Yuxuan said with a nonchalant expression: "What's the point, I wanted to pick out some scale armor for you, but I don't think this is a battle on the battlefield. It's too troublesome to wear that. It's better to pick up some lightweight ones. Be careful tomorrow. I have something important to do, so I’m taking my leave!” After saying that, he quickly unloaded his things with everyone, and after saying goodbye, he led the carriage away.

Ouyang took a few steps and said with a smile: "Everything is ready, I only owe the east wind! Third brother, you come with me, go to the South Street to find out the reality of the Yishenglan restaurant, and attract the east wind. How about it?"

Ge Ye smiled, greeted his brother, and walked out with a hook on Ouyang's shoulder.

The two walked out the back door and walked slowly all the way from North Street, observing the pavilions and houses on the two streets and the distribution of routes.

Ge Ye raised his right shoulder to Ouyang and asked: "Eighth brother, today is a young year, they may have closed their doors early, we can only hang around outside when we go."

"Third brother, don't worry, Shanren has his own plan!" Ouyang continued to walk forward with a confident look.

"Stinky fart..." Ge Ye murmured a few times, but in his heart he admired the intelligence of the eighth younger brother. At least in his opinion, nothing has troubled the kid in front of him. Brothers want to work hard together, I can't help but yearn for it.

The two stopped and walked for less than half an hour, and they had already reached the main road of South Street. This broad main street was no longer crowded with people in the past, only a few sparse people rushed forward with arms folded and necks folded.Not far from the two of them, a two-story small building with unique decoration and very foreign characteristics attracted their attention.

I saw that the outer wall at the main entrance was painted with light blue, the main entrance and the top of the window were half-moon shaped, the building had no hanging feet, and the roof was raised.

The two of them stared and saw that there were two kinds of characters written on the big banner beside the gate, and the three big Chinese characters were particularly eye-catching, "Yi Shenglan"!

"Eighth brother, it's up to you!"

Ouyang smiled, but led Ge Ye into an alley corner...

Note 1: The earliest oilcloth umbrellas in China were made of cotton cloth, and then a layer of cooked tung oil was brushed on the cotton cloth. The cooked tung oil can dry quickly and prevent rain