Seeing Li Xia leave when he said he would leave, Qiao Risheng became anxious without hesitation.

"Please go slowly, brothers!" Qiao Risheng said hurriedly.

Li Xia turned around, and Duan Peng and the other two stopped.

A terrifying cold light appeared in Li Xia's eyes again, and he said in a deep voice: "What, Commander Qiao thinks we brothers have taken too much? Do you want to get it back?"

"No, no, I have no intention."

Qiao Risheng shook his hands and said hurriedly: "What is a small amount of money? If a few brothers are not well-off, I will give you 100 taels of gold."

This is Qiao Risheng's amazingness.

This dog's greed for money is really greedy for money, and lust is also really lustful, but he is never stingy with his brothers, so the five great Vajras and the bandits below are devoted to him.

"Hundred taels of gold?" Li Xia said with a stern look, "Commander Qiao is so bold."

Speaking of this, Li Xia said again: "But forget it, because I know that if I take these 100 taels of gold, I'm afraid I'll have to return my life to Commander Qiao."

"Brother is so serious." Qiao Risheng said with a sigh, "I just want to make friends with a few brothers."

"Commander Qiao, we are already friends." Li Xiayang Yang had a big bag of money in his hand and said with a smile, "I am welcome today and I will wait for you to go to Tianjin another day. I will definitely get rewards..."

"Are you from Tianjin?" Qiao Risheng's heart moved again when he heard this.

When he was a horse bandit, he went to Tianjin to rob and kidnap money and got money.

So don’t be too familiar with Tianjin, and invisibly, I have a good impression of Li Xia and the other four from Tianjin.

Li Xia did not admit it or deny it, and bowed with fists and said, "Commander Qiao, see you in the world."

After saying that, Li Xia took Duan Peng, Lin Han, Feng Xiang and the other two to leave the gambling hall without looking back.

Watching Li Xia and the other four go out to walk away, Kong Huan said with a dark face: "Brother, do you want to summon brothers to chase after them and make these foreigners?"

“What to do?”

Qiao Risheng said angrily: "Do you know how much they weigh?"

Kong Huan disagreed and said, "No matter how powerful they are, there are only four people. Could it be that they can still go to heaven?"

"You know what's the matter!" Qiao Risheng scolded and ordered Zhong Zhenyue, "Old Zhong, send a few smart brothers to follow these foreigners in turn to see where they are. Remember, don't act rashly."

"Yes." Zhong Zhenyue agreed, turned around and arranged for people to follow him.

...

Outside the street.

Duan Peng kept looking behind him from the corner of his eyes.

Li Xia smiled and said, "Stop looking, there are two people who are following, one is buying cigarettes in front of the cigarette stand, and the other is following us in a rickshaw."

Duan Peng asked curiously: "Tou Li, how did you see it?"

Li Xia patiently taught the technique of counter-stalking: "In fact, there is no special secret, it is to pay attention to observation, especially some inconspicuous details."

"For example, that rickshaw driver."

"He is a buyer to make money, right?"

"As long as there is a customer, he has no reason to make money without making money, right?"

"But have you noticed that the rickshaw driver had rejected two guests just now. What does this mean? This shows that he is not pulling the rickshaw to make money at all."

"If something goes wrong, there will be a demon, so he is following."

"That's so simple." Duan Peng said again, "Where is the one in front of the cigarette stall?"

"That's a little harder." Li Xia said, "Have you paid attention to his right nail?"

"No." Duan Peng said, "It's okay, why should I observe his right nail?"

Li Xia said: "If you want to join the secret front, you can't let go of any details in your field of vision."

After a pause, Li Xia said again: "When the man bought cigarettes, he used his right hand to hand over money and receive cigarettes. It can be seen that he is not a left-handed, but his right nails are all normal."

Duan Peng looked at his nails and asked, "Is there any problem with the normal color of the nail?"

Li Xia smiled slightly and said, "Look at mouse's right nails."

Duan Peng pulled Feng Xianghe's right hand and saw that Feng Xianghe's index finger and middle finger's nails had been smoked yellowish-brown because of the long-term cigarette clipping.

Li Xia said: "Now do you know what's wrong?"

Duan Peng said: "I understand, that guy doesn't smoke, at least he doesn't smoke often, so it's abnormal to buy cigarettes at the cigarette stand. If they follow us together, that's suspicious."

Lin Han said: "Tao Li, do you want to find a place to make them?"

"Forget it." Li Xia said, "I don't think they have any malice, so let them follow."

At this time, Feng Xianghe asked, "Old Li, I see that Qiao Risheng clearly had the intention of recruiting him just now. We just took the opportunity to join his team. Why did you refuse?"

Li Xia said: "Four good players like us suddenly appeared in a small place like Yingxian. It is very suspicious. If Qiao Risheng recruits us and joins it casually, it would be strange if he doesn't doubt it! Besides, if Qiao Risheng only recruits us once, we join happily. Wouldn't it seem that we are losing prices?"

Feng Xianghe said: "But our mission..."

"Don't worry." Li Xia said, "There are opportunities."

Qiao Risheng has sent someone to follow him, but he is still afraid that there will be no chance?

...

Heyuan County Town.

Fang Dengying, the Chief of the Military Control Commission, walked into the Chief of Staff's office and reported to Fang Ligong: "Chief of Staff, the stock of the Military Control Commission is less than three days' time!"

"There are only three days left for food rations?"

Fang Ligong said: "What's wrong with you? Why don't you care?"

"Chief of Staff, I have saved as much as possible." Fang Dengying said with a bitter face, "Now, brothers can only eat two meals a day and one more meal a day. If I save more, I can only eat all the food."

Fang Ligong was speechless because what he asked his brothers to eat at least one meal a day was Chu Yunfei's forced request, and there was no room for bargaining.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Fang Dengying said again: "Chief of Staff, when will the supplies from the Chief of Staff be delivered?"

"It should be soon, but it may not be delivered in three days." Fang Ligong said, "In this way, you should pay some money from me to buy some Xiaomi from the market, and at least support it for a while."

After saying that, Fang Ligong got up and took out a stack of legal coins from the cabinet and handed them to Fang Dengying.

Fang Dengying counted the legal currency and shook his head and said, "Chief of Staff, this little money is only enough to buy 500 kilograms of millet. This is a drop in the bucket for more than 9,000 brothers in our entire brigade."

"What?" Fang Ligong was stunned, "I'm so excited when the rice price has risen?"

Fang Dengying said: "The price of rice has not increased, but it is still five cents per catty. The legal currency has fallen again."

After a pause, Fang Dengying said again: "Five years ago, you could buy two big cows with one hundred fiat coins. Last year, you could buy a pig with one hundred fiat coins. By the time of this year, you could only buy one chicken with one hundred fiat coins."

"Damn!" Fang Ligong couldn't help but swear, "How could this happen?"

Fang Dengying said: "What's so strange about this? The National Government is making a frantically printing money."

After saying that, he raised the thick stack of legal currency in his hand and said, "Chief of Staff, this little money is really not enough."

Fang Ligong had no choice but to take out the other two stacks of fiat currency in the cabinet. After thinking about it, he handed over a silver dollar to Fang Dengying, and reminded him: "Don't buy new rice, try to buy the Chen rice from previous years."

"I understand." Fang Dengying took the money and left happily.

Fang Ligong continued to formulate his combat plan to deal with the possible "Eighth Route Army besieged the city".

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Fang Dengying, the Chief of Military Control Commission, returned to the General Staff with a hurried and white face, and reported: "Chief of Staff, I'm in trouble now, I'm in a big trouble!"

"What happened?"

Fang Ligong frowned and said, "Speak slowly, the sky will not fall."

Fang Dengying took a breath and said with a dark face: "Chief of Staff, I just took people to search all the grain shops in the county. Even the grain shops in Dagu Town and Lijia Town sent people to ask about it quickly, but found that almost all the grain shops had no grain, and the few grain shops that still had grain were left with only a few grain stores."

"What did you say?" Fang Ligong said in shock, "How could this happen?"

"I don't know either." Fang Dengying said with a confused look on his face, "Actually, our Heyuan County is a large grain-producing county in Shanxi. The harvest of autumn grain last year was also good, and it was impossible to lack food. However, the grain stores in the county town and Dagu Town, Lijia Town have no food, at least the bulk of the food is gone, and we are going to lose food!"

Fang Ligong said in a deep voice: "Is there no food left?"

"Nothing is gone." Fang Dengying nodded, "Millet, wheat, flour, sweet potato, potato, and corn are gone, and there is no need to mention rice. You can't buy a single grain."

"This is not simple." Fang Ligong said in a deep voice.

"I'll report to the hike immediately, don't rush to buy it."

After sending Fang Dengying away, Fang Ligong hurriedly came to report to Chu Yunfei.

As a result, he found that Chu Yunfei was not there. When he asked the guard, he realized that Chu Yunfei had taken Liang Shiyin out to hunt early in the morning. Fang Ligong was so anxious that he jumped straight into his feet.

Fang Ligong and several guards went straight to Heiyun Mountain to find Chu Yunfei.

As I walked and asked, I finally found Chu Yunfei in the depths of Heiyun Mountain.

"Brigit, how can you come to Heiyun Mountain to hunt?" Fang Ligong said, "This is the defense zone of the New Second Regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"Brother Li Gong, you're too worried." Chu Yunfei carried a Galand rifle on his shoulder and said with a smile, "Don't think that our only brigade and the Eighth Route Army are now tense, but they are far from being completely broken up, so Kong Jie won't attack me, let alone it's not that easy to want my Chu Yunfei's life."
To be continued...