Being grounded on the first day after returning to the capital was naturally an extremely depressing thing.

There are still many things that have not been done, what happened to Xie Junyan's injuries? The history manuscript of Lingzong was lost, was Li Muge implicated? Even the whereabouts of Shen Wushuang and Shen Wansan have become a mystery.

I had to pin my hopes on Chen Qingyang and Xie Wenliang, the two of them were handling cases in Hejian Mansion, and I don't know how the investigation went.

For the next few days, we did not go out of the door, did not step out of the second door, and lived within six gates. Lu Zhongyuan didn't worry about us, he was afraid that we would run around, and he specially sent an official messenger to watch us. The official surnamed Qian Mingqian, Zhang Youqian said that he owed money, this benevolent brother is in his thirties, good at drinking and gambling.

The three of them had nothing to do in the six doors, so they roasted the fire around the fire.

With the intentional cooperation of the two of us, on the first day, Qian Qian won more than ten in a row and earned thousands of taels of silver, smiling happily. You must know that working on an errand in the six gates, a head catcher like Qian Qian, a year's money, counting oil and water, is only a hundred taels of silver, and after we lost so much money to him in one go, we asked if we could go out for a walk.

It was not difficult for the two of us to slip out of the six doors, but without Qian Qian's cover, it was easy to be discovered by Lu Zhongyuan. So, if you want to get out, you have to buy the money.

But when Qian Qian heard this, he immediately stopped doing it, and said how can this be done, the big shopkeeper asked me to look at you, you are gone, what should I do? Besides, I haven't won enough money for you.

I said in my heart that you are toasting, not eating and drinking.

The day before, I tasted the sweetness, and the next day Qian Qian came over with confidence, saying that we had to win all the money in our hands, and this time we would not only play, but also play big.

I said that money catches heads, small gambling is pleasant, big gambling hurts the body, and big gambling hurts feelings. Let's almost ten taels of silver a handful, and that's about the same.

Qian Qian won too easily yesterday, and he was quite confident in his card skills, and said in his mouth, don't you dare to do it?

Zhang Youqian said that he is still afraid of you, and today he will win all your wife, milk powder money, and coffin book!

Qian Qian slapped the table and said that he had the guts, let's play a bloody battle to the end today, whoever says the end first, who is the grandson!

I said in my heart that I stole the heirs of the Holy Gate, and if I don't win all your underwear today, I won't be surnamed Su!

Two hours later, Qian Qian was only wearing a pair of shorts, trembling in the room, grandpa, ancestor, can you stop playing?

I dialed the abacus and said, "Qian Catcher, I did a rough calculation, and you lost a total of 13,730 taels today." We are all colleagues, let's erase the odds, and then round them up, a total of 14,000 taels, take the money.

Qian Qian has already lost his eyes, where is the money, saying that the two of you are a partner, I say that there is no evidence, what is the evidence?

Qian Qian hung his head and said that I had no money.

Zhang Youqian smiled, what I am waiting for is your words, from today onwards, when we report our whereabouts to the big shopkeeper, you should know what to do, right? Of course, don't be embarrassed, even if we are active, we will not leave the capital.

Zhang Youqian picked up a pen and paper, wrote an IOU, and asked Qian Qian to sign and sign it. After buying off the money, as long as Lu Zhong is far away, we can sneak out.

The two of them have been trapped for several days, and they have already been bored with birds, and as soon as they get out of the cage today and return to nature, they are ready to go to Chongwenmen to visit Hu Zongxian.

Since the Tongwei case, although Hu Zongxian has not been convicted of capital crimes, he has been given a crown prince and a young guarantee, which is equivalent to house arrest in the capital in disguise.

Generally speaking, the crown prince is an enviable position, and it will be a high honor for the prince.

Ironically, although Emperor Ming is forty or fifty years old, he has not yet established a prince, so it is a little intriguing that this prince is less sealed.

Hu Zongxian's mansion is in the northeast corner of Chongwenmen, it is a courtyard with two entrances, and the house is not as good as the Su mansion I rented before.

Not to mention the second-grade officials, they are ordinary Beijing officials of the fourth and fifth grades, and there is a long queue of people visiting the house every day.

There are many birds in front of Hufu, only three or two wild cats.

There were no guards in the house, only three old servants. I saw that on the second floor outside the door, there were several embroidered spring knives drinking tea on them, and I could see every move in the courtyard of Hufu.

Zhang Youqian and I stepped forward and knocked on the door, handed over the name, and said: We had some friendship with Lord Hu in Jinling back then, and today we returned to Beijing to visit Lord Hu, and asked my eldest brother to report it.

As he spoke, he handed over a letter of Laisee.

When the porter heard this, he thought that we had come to Beijing from other provinces to cling to the powerful and wanted to seek an errand with Hu Zongxian, which was very common in the capital. He looked at the red envelope and asked, outsiders?

I nodded, forget it.

The porter waved his hand and said that you may have come to the wrong place, and the current Lord Hu is not the Lord Hu of the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If you want to make a living in the capital, you should think of another way.

He deliberately raised his voice so that the people on the opposite floor could hear it.

This porter is also out of good intentions, and now Hu Zongxian is wearing a guilty body, and there are brocade guards watching secretly, and anyone who has dealings with him may cause death.

I don't know the reason for this, but I still insist, the concierge has no choice, so I have to say, today Mr. Hu went to Chongwen Menxi Morning Market to buy vegetables.

What do I say?

The porter said, "Otherwise, there's not even an old mother here, so why don't he go buy groceries by himself?"

The two of us said goodbye and went to the West Morning Market to rush over.

When I arrived at the vegetable market, I heard someone beating gongs and drums, which should be the way to run the rivers and lakes, and in the field, there was a stone with a sword inserted on it, and half of the sword body was into the stone.

A familiar voice shouted: "Come and see, come and see, King Arthur, the sword in the stone! For only ten taels of silver, you may be able to obtain this sword in the same style as King Arthur."

Zhang Youqian said happily, he didn't expect that there would be more and more liars in recent years. I stopped, stood aside, stared at the man, and smiled.

Zhang Youqian asked, do you know them?

I nodded and said, "My fifth senior brother and first senior brother."

I haven't seen each other for more than a year, and I didn't expect that the two of them would also come to the capital, and they also came here to sell tricks.

The fifth senior brother struck the gong and said, as long as you pull out the sword, this sword in the stone will belong to you, and the person who gets this sword is the chosen one!

The first senior brother followed, yes, not only that, in order to cooperate with this peerless sword, we also give, and, as long as you learn these four sets of swordsmanship, it is enough to crisscross the rivers and lakes for twenty years and fight all over the world invincible. Let you have a sword in your hand, invincible!

There were two people dressed as warriors next to him and asked, ten taels of silver at a time?

The first senior brother said, ten taels of silver is just a deposit, if you can't pull it out, this silver will be returned to you a lot, if you pull it out, this ten taels of silver will be regarded as our brother to ask for a lottery.

The two "Jianghu people" were moved when they heard this, and they couldn't pull it out anyway and didn't want money, so they might as well try, so they paid ten taels of silver and said, I'll try it!

A person stepped forward, came to the boulder, stretched out his hand to try the sword, the sword was inserted in the crack of the stone without moving, so he sank into the dantian, held the hilt of the sword in both arms, roared, and leaked his strength.

Bang!

The sword was drawn, and the whole stone was shattered into powder. The first senior brother said in amazement, Your Excellency is so good at kung fu, you are really the chosen son!

That man was extremely surprised by the power of the sword in his hand, but he didn't know that Senior Brother Fang sent an internal force over.

The fifth senior brother hurriedly handed him a package and said, these are the matching four sword books, what is this hero called?

The young man said, under the surname Zhan Tianyou, can this sword really make me invincible in the world?

The fifth senior brother nodded very sincerely, as long as you are diligent in practicing these four sets of swordsmanship, especially the third set, one day, you will find Xiao Hua.

The young man departed joyfully, and the crowd dispersed.

The first senior brother weighed the silver in his hand, and said, go, change the sword, and go to the next place.

I shouted, First Senior Brother, Fifth Senior Brother!

When the two of them heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, came up and hugged me, and said loudly, It turned out to be Xiao Susu......

I coughed dryly and said, two senior brothers, now that I am also the head of the six doors Tsing Yi, can you call me by my full name, Su is still there.

The first senior brother said, okay, little Susu.

The fifth senior brother said, okay, the little one is here.

I was speechless, but I couldn't get angry, these two names were the names they shouted from childhood to adulthood, although they were used to it before, but now they are no longer what they used to be.

That feeling is as if you have become famous, a friend you haven't seen for many years, and suddenly calls you Liu Zhuangshi at a banquet.

Zhang Youqian laughed, almost unable to straighten his waist, Xiao Susu, Xiao Zai. I said with a cold face, isn't it funny? As I spoke, I spilled a ray of true qi out of my body, as if I could attack at any time.

Zhang Youqian hurriedly shook his head, ran a few steps in a row, and said please allow me to laugh a few more times.

I didn't bother to pay attention to him, so I turned to the two of them and said, why are the first senior brothers and the fifth senior brother here, what about the master, his old man has also come to the capital?

The first senior brother said, this time I came with the fifth child, but I didn't know that you also came to the capital. As for why, he pointed to the vegetable market, and the master asked the two of us to secretly protect Hu Zongxian's old man.

I think it's strange, I remember the first time I met Hu Zongxian, he said that he had some friendship with my master, and he tried his best to invite me to join the military.

This time Hu Zongxian was in trouble, my master directly sent two senior brothers to secretly protect him, which shows that the friendship between them is not ordinary.

I asked again, what about Master and the other four senior brothers?

The fifth senior brother said: The senior brother and the second senior brother went to Jiangnan, and the master asked them to go to Tongshan Temple, as if to find some kind of ashes relic.

I asked, "Heavenly Relic?"

On that day in Tongshan Temple, Master Nianci once said the origin of this day's relics. It was originally the treasure of Tongshan Temple, and later was stolen by the apprentice of the old man of heaven after the creation of the Great Empty Temple, and it was stolen not long ago, and the Tongshan Temple was suspected, and even suffered several disasters.

Later, I went to Haining, and I didn't continue to pay attention to the whereabouts of the absolute relics on this day, but I didn't expect that the senior brother and the second senior brother also went to Jiangnan for the sake of the heavenly relics.

I asked again, what about Master and the other senior brothers?

The first senior brother said that the master and his old man took the fourth junior brother and the sixth junior brother to the East China Sea, saying that they were going to hunt for treasures.

I wondered, treasure hunting?

The first senior brother said, I can't tell you clearly, it seems that I am looking for something called the Soul Gathering Coffin, which sounds quite mysterious.

I didn't have time to think about it when I was interrupted by a quarrel.

Not far away, Hu Zongxian, who was wearing a linen green coat, was already full of gray hair, and he had long lost the spirit that he had been in the top position for a long time, just like an ordinary old man.

He argued with the meat vendor and said, you are so unreasonable, I obviously paid a pound of meat, how can you say that I didn't pay?

The peddler looked disgusted, and said that everyone came to comment on the reasoning, what kind of person is I, Liu San, who has been selling meat in this area for more than ten years, and has never been short of catties or two, Tong Suo is not bullied, but you are an old man, don't buy meat if you can't afford it.

This kind of philistine villain, who is used to being arrogant at the entrance of the morning market on weekdays, probably heard that Hu Zongxian was a foreigner and wanted to blackmail him.

Hu Zongxian was a little excited, and he was about to arrest Liu San, but Liu San picked up the meat knife and was about to do it.

I shouted, stop!

Liu San was stunned when he heard this, and saw me and Zhang Youqian, today we are wearing a six-door fast hunting suit, that Liu San is mixed in the capital, of course he recognized it, and hurriedly trotted for a while, and came over and said, two poor people, this person doesn't give money to buy meat, and asks the adult to call the shots.

After that, he said in a low voice, Shuntian Mansion Yin's brother-in-law is my second uncle, this foreigner is a fat sheep, the jade pendant on his waist is not cheap, get us five or five points, how

I sighed and asked, it's just a pound of meat, what does it have to do with that jade pendant?

Liu San said in a low voice, if the two officials were original, I would be ready to touch the porcelain, but since the official master is here, this matter will be easier to handle, if he refuses to hand over the jade pendant, he will say that he colluded with Jiang Yang thieves and brought him to the official prison to hear the news.

I smiled and said, you know the doorway very well. Liu San said in a low voice, the small ones are the people in the eight halls outside the Sihe Hall, and they are also half of the people in the rivers and lakes.

I sighed and said that it is good to sell meat honestly, and I have to make a living that harms others and myself.

Liu San wondered, what do you mean?

I said I'll try my best.

Zhang Youqian and I came to Hu Zongxian, and before we could give a salute, Hu Zongxian shook his head with a wry smile, and said, two little friends, Jiangnan is goodbye, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I can't imagine that my spirit is better than in the past.

I said that if it weren't for Lord Hu, the two million people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would probably still be living in dire straits, and I would have thanked Lord Hu for the people in Jiangnan.

But I was a little dissatisfied in my heart, the commander who led the battle against the Japanese in Jiangnan was put on a hat by someone, which was really the first big joke of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu San felt that something was wrong, so he leaned over and asked, "Master, what happened just now......

I patted my head and said I almost forgot. So he said to Hu Zongxian, the jade pendant on the waist of the adult, I want to borrow it.

Hu Zongxian was not ambiguous, took off the jade pendant, and handed it to me.

Liu San's eyes were a little hot, this is a high-grade Hetian jade, and it can be sold for at least eight hundred taels of silver in Panjiayuan.

This piece of jade pendant is round on the outside and square on the inside, the size of a palm, crystal clear, it is indeed the best in the jade, on the jade pendant, there are four big characters carved: General Zhenguo.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu rewarded four jade pendants to the Chang family, the Xu family, the Hu family, and the Lan family in recognition of the meritorious heroes.

Three years ago, Taizhou was victorious, and Emperor Zhu Runze of the Ming Dynasty was happy and rewarded Hu Zongxian with this jade pendant.

I shook the jade pendant in front of Liu San, and said, Emperor Taizu's imperial system, the jade pendant given by the Holy Emperor today is worth eight hundred taels in your eyes?

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