Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 375 Secret Base
Because, apart from controlling Wuyue Kingdom, the most costly purpose of the Maitreya Sect's big battle is to kill Ye Chen.If there is nothing to do, the next thing to do is to let Song and Wuyue completely break up, and form an alliance between Wuyue and Southern Tang to fight against Song.

In fact, in the eyes of Lou Yanming and Shangguan Bingyun, killing Ye Chen is even more important than controlling Wuyue Kingdom.

Ye Chen would never think that the Maitreya Cult's ultimate move against him was just that one time.Therefore, he must act cautiously.

As time went by, pedestrians gradually increased on the wet street. Under the cover of the crowd, Ye Chen lowered his head and walked silently among the people of foreign countries.

If ordinary spies of the Huaxia Weifu would follow the anti-stalking rules of the Huaxia Weifu Intelligence Department at this time, they should look for a cloth shop or something, then go through the back door, and go through a few turns before they can reach their destination.But Ye Chen didn't need to take this method. Firstly, with his perverted eyesight and Lian Jicheng lurking in the dark, he was confident that no one could keep up with him.The second is the same reason as before, the more twists and turns, the more people you will contact, and it will be easier to be discovered.

It's just that Ye Chen sneaked into the warehouse of a rouge shop very carefully on the way, stole some things, and made a simple disguise for himself.This is the disguise technique that Ye Chen learned from Hu Sanguang. He only learned superficially, but it is enough to hide it from the eyes of ordinary people.

This season, it was rainy in the south of the Yangtze River. Coincidentally, at this time, the sky in Hangzhou began to rain again. The rain was silent but invisible, effectively covering his whereabouts.

Near Jiaofang, Nancheng, Hangzhou, there is a civilian settlement called Wangjiadian.Dragons and snakes are mixed here, and people are chaotic, but the security has been pretty good these years, and the cost of living is cheap, so it has gradually become lively.Those small traders who didn't have much capital also began to muster up their courage, saved their spare money, and set up some shops on this street.Started a sitting business.

This place is no better than the main street in Hangzhou. The products sold here are all daily necessities, the prices are cheap, and the quality is naturally not very good.The sixth shop from the west is such an unusual place.The shop is an old shop, and the clerk is an old clerk, but the shopkeeper is a new shopkeeper who just transferred the shop to his hands more than 20 days ago.

This shop sells rice. The rice is Hangzhou rice shipped from outside the local city. Although the price is cheap, the taste is mediocre. Therefore, rich households with a little money would rather buy rice grown in Suzhou.

Fortunately, there are always the majority of people who have no spare money, so this rice shop that doesn't even have a signboard can survive.But I didn't dare to invite more people, except for a shopkeeper who was only in his forties and the helper and buddy, there was no one else.

It was not long after dawn, and it was raining again, so there were not many pedestrians in Wang's shop, and it seemed a bit empty at this time, but most of the time the rice shop's business had nothing to do with the weather.Whoever has no rice to eat will naturally come in rain or shine, so the middle-aged shopkeeper of the rice shop is not in a hurry.Instead, he moved a wooden chair and sat at the door of the shop, watching the rain outside the shop and the passers-by in a daze.

The reason why the guy in the store is called an old guy is because this guy has been working in the store for a long time, not because he is old, but in fact he is very young, a guy in his early twenties.

The old buddy recently discovered that the new shopkeeper is often in a daze at the door, or watching the pedestrians coming and going on the street.I wonder what the shopkeeper is looking at?

"Shopkeeper, I want to buy rice." A man stood at the door of the oil shop, blocking the already dim sky outside the shop.The shopkeeper glanced at him, waved his hand, and signaled him to go in by himself.

The man lifted off his rain hat, revealing an ordinary face with bright eyes, smiled, walked into the shop, and said to the yawning old man, "Man, I want to buy rice."

The old man smiled professionally and said, "What kind of rice do you want? In addition to the local rice in Hangzhou, our shop also has a new batch of long rice from Taizhou." The guy was respectful, but he was muttering in his heart Come on, the people who come to our store are of course buying rice, isn't this a nonsense?

The man said, "Give me five catties of Hangzhou rice."

The old man responded smoothly: "Okay." He quickly dug out five bowls from the rice vat behind him and put them on the scale, and then found that the guest's hands were empty, so he couldn't help but rubbed his head: "This guest, What do you pack the rice with?"

"Do you have a bag of rice here?"

"Yes, a bag of rice costs five Wen, and a bag of millet costs three Wen. Do you want the big one or the small one?" The man was very happy to make an extra deal. Two bags of rice.

After the man took the millet bag, he didn't speak, as if he was still thinking about something.

The old man asked curiously: "Guest officer! What else do you want?"

"Do you have Suzhou rice?"

"Is there any Suzhou rice?" The words were soft and not too loud, but the shopkeeper sitting outside the shop trembled slightly with his right hand propped on the armrest of the chair.

The clerk in the store said unhappily: "Our store doesn't have such good products as Suzhou rice. Who can afford Suzhou rice in this whole Wang's store?" Just as he was talking, the shopkeeper walked back to the counter in a leisurely manner, waving his hand to signal the clerk to leave , looked at the customer with a smile on his face, and explained: "Suzhou rice is too expensive to sell in Hangzhou, and few people who live in this Wang's shop will buy it. So the small shop has not yet entered Suzhou rice."

The man smiled and said, "I'm here at Wang's shop now, and I'll come here often to buy rice in the future, and I'll also sell Suzhou rice."

The old shopkeeper smiled more and more respectfully, and said, "Then tell me about the quantity, our store can order for customers."

The conversation reached a critical point, so the voices of the two of them became quieter, but that person must have a good memory, so he explained the following batch of Liuer Jinliang clearly and unambiguously: "I want to buy Thirty-one catties of authentic Suzhou rice."

The shopkeeper took out an abacus from under the counter, slapped it for a while, and then said with embarrassment, "The price is not small. Let's talk about how to deal with this merchant in the inner room!"

"That's fine too."

The old shopkeeper ordered the waiter to watch outside, and then led the guest into the back room. Only then did the waiter realize that the man was not here to buy Hangzhou rice, but Suzhou rice. He stuck out his tongue and thought to himself Fortunately, I didn't offend this big customer who sells Suzhou rice just now.

The person who bought Suzhou rice was naturally disguised by Ye Chen. He followed the shopkeeper into the back room, only to find that this place was completely different from the place he had imagined. The sky was clear and bright.

There was no tea, no greetings, the shopkeeper stared into Ye Chen's eyes, with a hint of prudence in his shrewd eyes, and said, "The guest is from the north?"

Ye Chen nodded.

The old shopkeeper made a gesture of invitation.Ye Chen sighed in his heart, thinking that the procedure Hu Sanguang and Xu Fangyi made was a bit cumbersome, so he had no choice but to report out another somewhat complicated code number that he had firmly remembered.

It wasn't until this time that the shopkeeper of the rice shop confirmed the identity of the other party, and he completely relaxed, and put a poisoned knife from his sleeve to his hand.Ye Chen understood that if the person who came was an expert spy from the Maitreya Sect or some people from Wuyue Kingdom, the shopkeeper would definitely kill him immediately, and if he lost, he would commit suicide directly.

Obviously, the shopkeeper had never been in Kaifeng, and his accent was from Jiangnan, so he was probably a member of the Intelligence Department's local development.Maybe he has seen the portrait of Ye Chen, but after all he has never seen the real person of Ye Chen. After Ye Chen changed his appearance, he did not recognize him.

The shopkeeper looked at Ye Chen, and said, "What is your lord's job in Huaxia Weifu?"

Ye Chen shook his head and said, "I think the current situation in Hangzhou City does not allow us to talk about it."

The shopkeeper gave a wry smile: "After hearing that Hangyuan was besieged early in the morning, Mr. Hu passed on the news that all our people had already dispersed except us who were watching. As for what Mr. Hu told them to do?" , the subordinates don’t know. Please give the order.”

The shopkeeper knew the importance and concealment of his stronghold, and if the person in front of him was not an official above the Fuzhong Ministry, it would be impossible for him to know his dark spot.Therefore, he said these words with extra care and respect.In fact, what he didn't know was that apart from Hu Sanguang, only Ye Chen knew about this stronghold.Therefore, as long as Ye Chen's order is transmitted to Hu Sanguang through the secret channel controlled by the shopkeeper, Hu Sanguang will understand that it is Ye Chen's order.

Ye Chen didn't think about revealing his real identity to the very important spy of the intelligence department in front of him, but said directly: "Contact Hu Sanguang as quickly as possible and let him come to see me."

The face of the shopkeeper changed slightly. Hu Sanguang is now the deputy envoy of the most important intelligence department among the seven divisions of the Huaxia Weifu. People, the chief envoy, Xu Fangyi, the intelligence division envoy, Li Junhao and Bai Canghai, the supervisor and assassination division envoys.And among these four, the only one who came to Wuyue Kingdom this time is the chief envoy.

After guessing Ye Chen's identity, the shopkeeper immediately knelt down on one knee, his voice trembling with excitement, and said respectfully: "Yes! My lord, my subordinates will contact Master Hu immediately."

Hu Sanguang came very quickly, his face was pale and tired, but he was full of energy. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down to Ye Chen and said with some fear: "This subordinate is late, please punish me."

Ye Chen knew why Hu Sanguang made such a grand ceremony, and was so terrified.

(End of this chapter)