The Bingchen Branch in the sixth year of Kaitai was the last imperial examination of Lingzong Zhu Wuneng.

In this imperial examination, there were three people with different backgrounds who were admitted to the Jinshi: Xie Shiting, Hu Zongxian, and Min Qiuye.

The Xie family is a prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the ancestors of the official eunuchs are prominent, and they soon gained a foothold in the capital, entered the Hanlin Academy, and since then they have ascended to the sky and made steady progress. Min Qiuye's family was poor, and he was outspoken, offended the powerful people of the dynasty, and was exiled to Qiongzhou as a county official. Only Hu Zongxian, who had great ambitions but could not, was so powerful that he had to enter the Yan Mansion and became a small official.

Xie Shiting and Hu Zongxian have similar interests and have a strong relationship, but Xie is not ashamed to invest in the old family of Yan Ge with Hu, and the relationship between the two gradually deteriorates. Three years later, Yan Ge Lao fell, and Hu Zongxian became rootless again.

Xie Shiting first served in the Hanlin Academy, and then went to the Ministry of Rites, with a noble position, and a good literary style, and gradually became the leader of the Jiangnan literary circle. Originally, the two had no intersection, but a few years later, the Japanese in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were rampant, Hu Zongxian took the opportunity to cling to Yang Ge Lao, climbed to a high position by nepotism, and in the chaotic times of the Japanese rebellion, he broke out of the world with his military exploits and became a second-class feudal official.

During Hu Zongxian's anti-Japanese period, Xie Shiting organized family forces to provide him with a lot of help, but the two had an estrangement before the Songjiang War last year, and then the two broke off their friendship, and then Hu Zongxian broke out of corruption and complicit, and was escorted to the capital and placed under house arrest in disguise.

Xie Shiting didn't say clearly why the two had a bad relationship, but I guessed a clue from the words, and it was very likely to be related to Zhu Wuneng. I asked, Jiangnan Weaving Feng Linggan's bribe Hu Zongxian's 500,000 taels of silver tickets must also be Your Excellency's handiwork, right?

Xie Shiting did not answer, but he did not deny it.

I knew that Hu Zongxian was a feudal official, and the dignified Feng Bao, if there was no one backstage to support him, how could he shake his position? Moreover, the emperor was also in Jinling at that time, how could he not know what was wrong with it. Thinking of the various reactions of Yang Menglong, the first assistant of today, after Hu Zongxian was dismissed, I suddenly remembered that there is another possibility, that is, the investigation of Hu Zongxian is the meaning of Emperor Zhu Runze.

I asked again, the recent popularity of "The Legend of the Monkey and the Wanderer" in the capital was also instructed by you, right?

Xie Shiting said impatiently, some things don't necessarily have to be instructed by me, with my status in the literary world, there are many people who want to hold stinky feet. For example, the three views are still there, and he sniffed out the political implications, which happened to actually write such an excerpt.

I thought to myself that it would be better not to let me see that guy, or I would break his legs.

It was late at night when I came out of Xie's house, so I took a deep breath and hurried back to my accommodation.

Just around the corner of the alley, I suddenly heard Doctor Xue's begging for mercy, my aunt and grandmother spared my life, I didn't mean to say it, and besides, I didn't have anything to say? Curious, I gathered the true yuan and hid my breath, but I saw Doctor Xue kneeling in front of Xie Junyan, no, it was Jian Wushuang.

Jian Wushuang said, Divine Doctor Xue, your skills are not easy to come by, if you are talking nonsense, be careful that I pull out your tongue.

Doctor Xue said, if I am saying a word to the kid surnamed Su, I will choke to death when I eat, choke to death when I drink water, and die when I go out, and I will not die well. Jian Wushuang nodded and said, it's good to know. After that, like a ghost, it floated away.

Divine Doctor Xue got up and was about to leave, when I shouted, Divine Doctor stayed.

When Doctor Xue saw me, like a mouse seeing a cat, he ran away, I took a lost step, and hurriedly came to him, what are you running? Doctor Xue waved his hand and said, I can't talk to you. I said what I was afraid of, there was no one around.

Doctor Xue said, how do I know if you are tricking me with that little demon.

I said I swear by my personality, why don't you do this, I invite you to dinner?

If you don't go, you're afraid of choking.

And go for tea?

If you don't go, you're afraid of choking.

I said why is there so much nonsense, pulled out an iron sword, put it on his neck, and said, then please eat the knife.

Doctor Xue said that I was afraid of you, but I also saved you once that day, you will take revenge like this, and you are not afraid of five thunderstorms in the sky? I said that it is winter now, and it will be half a year before the bombardment, let me ask you, what happened to Miss Xie, do you know?

Divine Doctor Xue looked around and asked cautiously, did you also notice that something was wrong?

I said in my heart that it wasn't right, I was almost killed by her, but I still nodded and asked, can you untie it?

Divine Doctor Xue said in a low voice, have you ever heard of the word soul snatcher?

I shook my head, don't make so many mysteries, just talk about things.

Divine Doctor Xue sighed and said that this is an underworld spell, which has been lost in the rivers and lakes for hundreds of years, and this Miss Xie must have encountered something unclean that day, right?

It's no wonder, Divine Doctor Xue touched his beard, the yellow array diagram was one of the three great arrays of the year, if it was said that there were people from the underworld sealed in it, it would be reasonable. Three hundred years ago, the Sword Wushuang of the Underworld was closely related to the Demon Sect Breaking Changfeng, and if you let the old witch come out now, the rivers and lakes will be chaotic.

I thought to myself that Jian Wushuang was now occupying Xie Junyan's body more and more frequently, and I had to find a way to drive Jian Wushuang out of Xie Junyan's body, so I asked, what should you do?

My face sank, did Doctor Xue want me to tell me about the mess you were selling in Jiangnan back then?

Doctor Xue said, how long ago did this happen, who believes it?

I sneered, coincidentally, not long ago, there was also a person surnamed Xue, and the things of a few years ago were found out, who can say for sure what happened in this year?

Divine Doctor Xue glared, and said with disdain, I am a dignified divine doctor, like a fake royal imperial doctor, how can I compare with a singing artist? Anyway, the one surnamed Xie has nothing to do with you.

I said we were friends.

Just friends?

I nodded in acknowledgment, a friend.

Divine Doctor Xue sighed, Anyway, all the dares are ambiguous, you don't have to be embarrassed to find an experience. That's it, just let me do a good deed, if you want to drive Jian Wushuang out of the body of the little girl of the Xie family, there is only one way.

What's the solution?

Divine Doctor Xue said slowly, the world's first strange array, amazing array!

And then what?

Doctor Xue said, the secret of heaven must not be revealed, and I will lose my life. I said that you are a divine doctor, and you are not a divine stick, will you die if you say it? Divine Doctor Xue nodded vigorously and told you this, I'm afraid someone will beat me to death.

Who?

Your master, Simon, blows out the lamp.

I gasped, this guy actually knew that Ximen Blowing the Lantern was my master? Could it be that he was bullied by me and the two elders in Jinling before, and he pretended to be on purpose, so he asked tentatively, do you know Ximen Blowing the Lantern?

Doctor Xue said that he had three moles on his buttocks.

Do you know this?

Doctor Xue said proudly, he came to me to treat hemorrhoids back then, and he almost didn't kill him. Hey, don't talk about the past......

When I got home, the more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, and although I didn't ask any questions during today's trip to Xie Fu, I could at least guess some things.

Hu Zongxian's death, Xie Shiting can't get rid of it, as for whether it is his intention or the meaning of Emperor Zhu Runze, it is unknown. This matter is related to Zhu Wuneng's matter, the capital has been chaotic recently, the Sihetang is hidden underground, Xu Ruonan has not heard from him, the situation is a mess, and he is really annoyed.

In the confusion, there was a faint smell of burning, and someone shouted in the distance, it was on fire!

I woke up to smoke billowing from the room and someone setting it on fire. I put on my coat, picked up my light work, and rushed out the door in a hurry.

As soon as I went out, I felt an alarm in my heart.

Whoosh!

A dozen powerful arrows whizzed past me and galloped towards me.

I didn't have time to draw my sword, so I struck off the three arrows that came first, and I rolled around on a lazy donkey, avoiding the rest.

Dingdingding! The arrow did not enter the stone slab in the hospital. I glanced at it, and the arrow body was more special, not like the arrow of the Central Plains. The bows and arrows of the Central Plains have long arrows and long flight distances, while this kind of short arrows are only available in countries like the Northern Zhou Dynasty that fight the world on horseback.

I remembered Huyan's incompetent eyes before leaving, and my heart suddenly understood. The dignified Northern Zhou Martial Arts Grandmaster, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, actually used such despicable means to assassinate me, it is really shameless. The archer missed, and then retreated.

I was about to pursue, but my body was trapped in it by an invisible force.

Huyan Incompetent, dressed in a tiger fur coat and a mantle, was standing alone in the courtyard, his back to me, fiddling with a plum blossom in the courtyard. This yard is Zhang Youqian's house, this strange plum, also he transported from Shijingshan, the shape is strange and rugged, these days the plum blossoms are blooming.

Huyan was incompetent and didn't turn around, and said in his mouth, I didn't expect Su Shaoxia to hide it.

I hate this kind of person who relies on martial arts to despise me, but he is a martial arts master of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, not to mention that I am the peak realm of Zhixuan, even if I am a general image, it is estimated that it is difficult to be his opponent, thinking about countermeasures in my mind, Dao, a dignified martial arts master, and he is also an envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Lord Huyan is like this, there are some villains.

Hu Yan smiled dumbly and said, You shattered the meridians of my master and nephew that day, why didn't you talk about villains?

I said that it was an upright competition, willing to gamble and lose, and shout parents if you lose, is it such a rule in the rivers and lakes of the Northern Zhou Dynasty?

Huyan incompetently laughed, turned around, and said, Okay, I will use the rules of the rivers and lakes to meet you Central Plains martial arts for a while.

I said do you want to have a face? You want to see the Central Plains martial arts, go to Longhu Mountain, Langya Pavilion, and then go to Wudang Shaolin, what kind of ability is it to bully a junior?

Huyan is incompetent, too far, and the imperial court does not reimburse the travel expenses.

I was stunned when I heard this, this reason was so high-sounding that I couldn't refute it for a while.

With my many years of experience in walking the rivers and lakes, if you meet a rookie who has just come out of the rivers and lakes, you have to fight all over the ground to find teeth, press on the ground and rub hard, but when you encounter a martial arts master like Huyan Incompetence, the first reaction is still the best strategy to go with thirty-six strategies.

I looked around, but found that more than a dozen archers from the Northern Zhou Dynasty had surrounded the courtyard, and the houses behind me were gradually burning. The strange thing is that no one came to put out the fire, this matter is troublesome, such as today's cold and freezing, the weather is dry, and the spark can start a prairie fire, and the capital of the empire where the sun never sets was half burned by a fire.

Now the imperial court is going to hold a meeting to prohibit private fights among people in the rivers and lakes, and you see that I am still performing official duties, why don't I compete another day?

Huyan looked at me indifferently and didn't speak.

I knew that this battle was inevitable, so I attracted the true yuan of the stars and mobilized the true qi of the twenty-eight stars.

For a while, I was one with heaven and earth, looking up at the sky, starry, twenty-eight stars hanging in the air, I vaguely sensed a trace of the power of the stars, which was a feeling that I had never felt before.

Between heaven and earth, the true element began to shake violently.

The corners of Hu Yan's incompetent mouth curled, I didn't expect that I still underestimated you.

I thought to myself, you are not only underestimating me, you are simply underestimating my strength.

I mobilized the true essence of my whole body, gathered in one place, and yelled: Help!