eurekapd Chapter 88
Chapter 88
Chapter 88
Although the other measures were not specified, everyone understood that they referred to the behind-the-scenes actions that Du Erlang had mentioned earlier.
“Very well, knowing yourself and your enemy is the best way to do things. If you need manpower or other assistance, just send someone to let us know,” Du Erlang replied.
After leaving Du Ji's place, Xu Tian and his group arrived at the East Gate and walked along the road while searching for Ma Yuan and Chai Xiaowu.
After walking several hundred meters, they finally saw Ma Yuan sitting alone in a teahouse on the side of the street, drinking tea. Chai Xiaowu was nowhere to be seen.
The group walked over and sat down at the same table.
When Ma Yuan saw the group approaching, he said in a low voice, "Gentlemen, that fellow is staying at a small inn in the alley diagonally across from us."
"We currently see two people together, but we don't know if there are any more."
"These two have already gone out. Xiao Wu went with them, and I'm here watching over things." He said, pointing to the opposite side.
Xu Tian looked across the street; it was just an ordinary alley, nothing special.
The kind of small inns that Ma Yuan mentioned are quite common outside the city; they are usually run by local families who have extra rooms in their homes.
It was unregulated but very cheap, costing only ten or twenty coins a night, somewhat similar to the unlicensed private inns around train stations in later times.
Similarly, the government in that era turned a blind eye to this situation and didn't do much about it.
“Let’s wait here for a while. When they come back, Brother Anping can also confirm with his own eyes whether they are the same bandits from before.”
The group chatted and drank tea while waiting, but after about half an hour, no one showed up. Just as they were hesitating about whether to leave, Ma Yuan whispered, "He's back."
Xu Tian glanced over and saw two people walking towards him from a distance. One was tall and strong, and the other was shorter and thinner. They both looked to be in their twenties or thirties.
Upon closer inspection, the tall, strong man had a stubble beard and a mole on his chin, but that was all.
He couldn't tell if these two people were the same ones he'd seen by the river that night; the light had been too dim, and a long time had passed.
The two men were quite alert, glancing around frequently as they walked, but Ma Yuan had chosen a clever spot, so he wasn't worried about being spotted. The two men reached the alley entrance and turned inside.
“It’s that man,” Wang Anping said confidently, “the one with the mole on his chin.”
Once I was certain of this, I felt much calmer.
A moment later, Chai Xiaowu came over from the corner, finished a cup of tea, and said, "These two are definitely not decent people, they are very cunning. You will never guess who I met with these two."
"Who did you see? Could it be someone you know?" Xu Tian asked directly.
Seeing that it was Xu Tian who asked, Xiao Wu stopped being mysterious and said directly, "I saw that Mr. Zheng who was acting arrogantly in the shop a few days ago."
The group was all taken aback when they heard this.
"Are you sure?" Xu Tian pressed.
"Although he tried to hide it, I could still tell from his voice that it was him," Xiao Wu said confidently.
Things suddenly seemed to have gotten complicated again.
"Please tell me what happened in detail first."
"Yes." Xiao Wu carefully recounted what happened after he went out with the two people.
Previously, after the two went out, they did not walk together, but separated into one in front and one behind, with the slightly shorter and thinner one in front.