Su Yue smiled: "He is the 'iron gall' Dong Shaoping." ”

"Iron gallant Dong Shaoping?" Dian Yin pondered in his heart, "My vision is not too narrow, why haven't you heard of this person?" But Su Yue's tone seemed to indicate that he had a well-deserved reputation. ”

Dian Yin closed his eyes and pondered, thinking about all the names he could remember, including the word "iron" and "guts", and all the martial arts masters, but he still didn't think about which sect and which faction had a person named Dong Shaoping.

Su Yue looked at both sides, and couldn't help laughing when he saw Dian Yin meditating.

"Brother!" he laughed, "Did you notice that there is no such person in the green forest of Youzhou?" ”

Dian Yin's heart was seen through, and his eyes widened, revealing a look of surprise.

Dong Shaoping, who was called "iron courage" by Su Yue over there, said: "General Su is right, this official is a member of the yamen, and he is Yunlin Taishou Dong Shaoping." The so-called 'iron courage' is nothing more than the people exalting their own officials?"

Su Yue said with a smile: "Dong Shaoping once served as the commander of Mudu, and the daughter of the enemy who killed me and destroyed my family, that is, the servant of Princess Meiyang, the aunt of Emperor Mudi, hid in the princess's mansion for murder, and then was caught by Dong Shaoping when he was on the street with the princess. When my enemy learned of this, he wanted to put him to death. When Dong Shaoping was dying, he accused him of only being for his own family and sorry for the great harmony. The queen of power also came out to protect Lord Dong, but the enemy was not confused this time, and when he came to his senses, he was kicked out of the capital and promoted to Taishou. At this point, he got the nickname of "Iron Courage". However, it seems to be rising and falling, and the Mudu Order is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and there are still a lot of opportunities for promotion upwards. ”

"General Su is really joking. I, Dong Shaoping, don't care about this, it's good to stay away from harmony, and stay away from the nest of right and wrong. Dong Shaoping waved his hand and said, "Don't mention those things about Chen sesame rotten grains, when did General Su come to Yunlin Town and not come to me?"

Su Yue smiled: "Su has just arrived, how can Master Dong be here?"

Dong Shaoping said: "On my way to Yamen, I saw a person who looked and behaved like an old man, and when I came forward to see, it was indeed you, the general." As he spoke, he looked at Su Yue behind him and hidden, and said, "These heroes behind the general are dignified and heroic, so introduce them to this official?"

Su Yue smiled and introduced Dian Yin, Liao Tingyun (Mr. Qingzhu), Tong Xi and Gu Dan to him one by one, and when he talked about Gu Dan, he told him what happened in Shuanghe Field.

Dong Shaoping shook his head and said to Su Yue: "The problem of official governance has been a heart disease of the eight counties for thousands of years. Nowadays, people are impetuous, and being an official is like doing business. No matter how honest the lord is, no matter how clever the decree is, layer by layer to the hands of the petty officials below, it will more or less change its taste. He turned his head and said to Gu Dan: "You go to the yamen with me! Write a complaint, and the official will find out!"

Gu Dan suddenly burst into tears, and knelt down to kowtow to Dong Shaoping with a "poof". Dong Shaoping helped him up and said, "The official's ugly words are ahead. If you really violate the rules, you have to demolish it. ”

Gu Dan said: "Master Qiqi Qingtian, demolish, the villain has no opinion, even if the whole village only demolishes my house." The villain just doesn't accept the personal vendetta of the Chang's family!"

Dong Shaoping said: "How to demolish it, the decree is clearly written, if you violate the rules, then demolish your family, and others will not let him go." ”

After speaking, Su Yue and the others followed Dong Shaoping to the Yamen. After Dong Shaoping received Gu Dan's complaint, he sent people to Shuanghechang to learn about the illegal construction and demolition of houses in the local area, and on the other hand, he sent his cronies to investigate whether local officials of all sizes were guilty of corruption and bribery. The matter was also settled, but after this incident, Gu Dan couldn't survive in the village anymore and had to leave his hometown, and the matter was discussed separately.

However, it was said that there were eight county money houses in Yunlin Town, and Su Yue and Liao Tingyun both had money in the money village, and after taking the entanglement, the four of them finally lived a normal life.

Yunlin Town has "two uniques". One is the beautiful wall paintings all over the city, and the other is the green cypress planted inside and outside the city like a cloud. Dian Yin and Tong Xi had never been to Yunlin Town, so Su Yue took them to play all day. In the evening, Dong Shaoping sent someone to invite them to stay in Dong's mansion. Su Yue refused on the grounds that he was rude and rude.

At that time, although Gu Dan's case had not yet been completed, after getting along, everyone thought that Dong Shaoping was not a sinister villain, or a flatterer, he was a really good official, and it was always good to have an acquaintance who was an official. Dian Yin and Liao Tingyun were both surprised why Su Yue refused to be thousands of miles away. Su Yue smiled silently.

On this night, the moon was in the sky. Dong Shaoping carried wine and meat, and personally came to the guest house of the hotel where Su Yue and others were staying, and invited Su Yue and others to drink. After a while, Dian Yin could see that Dong Shaoping seemed to have something. Dong Shaoping is an honest man, after a few glasses of wine, his face is full of embarrassment, his eyes are floating around, and he just doesn't dare to look at people.

Su Yue was respectful and polite. After all the polite words, Dong Shaoping saw that Su Yue was still tepid, and said bluntly: "General Su, Damu is sorry for you, but the new lord is on the throne and wants to get rid of the malpractice system and regain the country, and now is the time to employ people." The general is a great talent, why don't you abandon your old suspicions and return to the army?" After he finished speaking, Dian Yin and the others knew why Su Yue respected him and stayed away.

Su Yue smiled: "Lord Dong is a good adult, but he is not suitable to be a lobbyist. Adults are stocky and simple, and when they encounter things that they are not good at, their joys and anger are on their faces. Su Mou's life has been up and down for half of his life, and his family has died at the hands of dog thieves, how can he have no hatred in his heart?" Speaking of this, he straightened his face: "Aside from this, the so-called fame and fortune are for the county, for yourself, and for your family." Su Yue is rebellious by nature and doesn't like restraint, now that his father is dead and his son is mourning, how am I in the mood to eat this military ration?"

After he said this, there was a sudden silence in the banquet. After a while, Dong Shaoping coughed lightly, shook his head and said, "I knew I couldn't convince you." In any case, General Su is a legend of Damu, and Dong Shaoping will give the general another drink. After speaking, he picked up the wine glass and drank it all. The words have been spoken, and it didn't take long for the banquet to disperse, Dong Shaoping left the guest house, and Su, Dian, Liao, Tong and others also went back to their respective rooms to rest.

In the early morning of the second day, the shopkeeper suddenly took a letter to Dian Yin, and the envelope read: My brother Dian Yin opened it personally. This handwriting dictionary looked a little familiar, and when I opened it, it was really sent by Shao of the Zhou Dynasty, and the letter said:

Brother Dianyin:

See the words as they are

The Dart Guard Battalion has learned that it is time for his brother to return, and Bo Cang wants to join forces with Bai Hansheng to assassinate his brother. The elder brother can't stay in harmony for a long time, and the foolish brother is looking forward to the brother coming soon in Caizhuang, Cai County.

Be careful along the way!

Brother Shao Dun head.

Dian Yin handed the letter to Su Yue and Liao Tingyun, and Su Yue smiled faintly after reading it, and said, "Foolish brother said something that shouldn't be said, there is nothing wrong with Vice Head Zhou, right?"

Dian Yin said: "Dai Shao is one of my best friends in this life, and he will never lie to me." ”

"Could it be that Bo Cang arrested his family and then threatened him to do so?" Su Yue said.

Dian Yin said: "I am familiar with Dejun, although the Zhou family has passed down to the generation of Dai Shao, and there is no land in the Wanjing official family, but Zhou Daishao is Yang Dingtang's grandson-in-law after all, they don't look at the face of the Zhou family's ancestors, and they have to worry about Yang Dingtang's power." ”

Su Yue stroked his beard: "If this letter is sent by Wanjing, it will take at least three or five days, and if it is sent by Caizhuang, it will be at least seven days ago." In this way, the owners of the 'Buddha's tooth' a few days ago are very likely to be your old bosses. ”

Liao Tingyun also said: "Among the people who do this work, the bid for the 'Buddha's tooth' should be the highest, and the twelve 'Buddha's teeth' are really not what ordinary people can afford." ”

Dianyin nodded a little contemplatively and said, "The two of you are reasonable. We may not know the full truth, but it is better to be careful. ”

Su Yue said: "Since Deputy Chief Zhou invited us to Caizhuang, then let's go." ”

When Tong Xi heard this, she suddenly stood up, her face was rarely serious: "You are all masters, I am dragging you down, this time, you don't have to worry about me, although I have no ability, I don't want to be a burden to others." ”

Liao Tingyun sneered: "You don't need to be so polite, I told you a long time ago, we are just using each other......" Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Dianyin.

"What do you say? Who hasn't sacrificed his life for others along the way? We don't have anyone's baggage, but we all have our own strengths......

Tong Xi said: "You don't need to say anything, I have my thoughts." Anyway, I'm not going with you this time. I will go mine, you will go yours. Cai Zhuang convergence. ”

Dian Yin had to persuade again, but was stopped by Su Yue, and when she walked a few steps, Su Yue said: "Will you go?

Watching her drift away, Dianyin was a little anxious and asked Su Yue how it was. Su Yue smiled: "Don't worry, brother, this little girl is a little arrogant." She is a chick, the heroes of the green forest will not buy her account, you think about such a little girl who is like a flower and does not know martial arts, and is not anyone's daughter or sister. Maybe if you leave Yunlin Town, you will be captured by bandits to be the lady of the village. ”

Dian Yin hurriedly said: "Then you can't let her come nonsense!"

Su Yue said: "She can only follow her hair now, the more you don't let her do, the more she has to show that she is no worse than others, let's go with her, just follow quietly behind, with our skills, ......" "Interrupt!" Liao Tingyun said: "I want to follow you, the old lady is not interested in this!" After speaking, he slammed the door of the hostel and left alone.

Dian Yin shook his head, sighed deeply, and after a long time, he muttered, "Why are they both women?"

Su Yue and Dian Yin followed Tong Xi out of Yunlin Town, and sure enough, within ten miles, there were four or five people behind who followed her one step at a time and one step at a time.

Su and Dian looked at these people, unkempt and tattered, presumably some homeless people who made a living by begging. There are many sources of displaced people, such as war, famine, plague, rebellion, and banditry...... The so-called "prosperity, the people suffer, and death, the people suffer", roughly this is the case. In order to be able to eat a full meal, they often do everything, so they are often bullied and insulted by the world, like rats crossing the street. After a long time, the bottom line of human nature was thrown out of the clouds.

The more Tong Xi walked outside the town, the fewer people there were, and the more the homeless people followed, and as time went on, she also noticed. But there's no way, they don't know martial arts, and they're not in front of them. Su Yue and Dian Yin saw him stop and go, looking very anxious. There were almost no pedestrians on the road, not even anyone who could ask for help, and Dianyin saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. Su Yue patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be anxious, brother, if you want to cure this Nizi's heart disease, you must have a dose of fierce medicine, otherwise she will have to be angry in the future." Let's just sit on the sidelines. ”

Dian Yin nodded, thinking that Su Yue's words were reasonable. The two continued to follow, less than ten miles away, to the largest cypress forest in the southern suburbs of Yunlin, this cypress forest is Yunlin, Yunlin Town is also named after this. The cypress trees here stretch and fall, from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, from the south of the city to the north of the city, like a green scarf that encloses half of Yunlin Town.

As soon as Tong Xi entered the cloud forest, he disappeared. Disappeared with her, as well as those few homeless people. Su Yue shouted that it was not good, and took Dianyin to check in the forest, but he saw neither the Tong rhino nor the homeless. The two searched back and forth for a long time, but they were nowhere to be found. Nowhere else to be found.

"Hunting geese year by year, but now I am pecked by geese!" Su Yue's eyes rolled, "These homeless people look ordinary, but in fact they are not extraordinary, you see that they are under our noses just now, and they disappear in the blink of an eye, what does this mean?"

"These people are extraordinary. Dian Yin blurted out.

"Not only that," Su Yue said, "They already knew that we were secretly following this little girl. ”

"That's right, if it's really an ordinary homeless person, with low skill and little courage, so they want to hide in the forest to catch people, but with their skills, they can catch her at any time, so why wait until the cypress forest?" Speaking of this, Dian Yin suddenly clapped his hands and said, "These people are here to prevent us from saving my stupid girl." ”

Su Yue nodded, searched the ground and branches again, and said, "These people are very familiar with us, they were ambushed here in advance, you see." When he said, "Look," he pointed to the ground and to the branches, which had been trampled off, and there were many footprints on the ground. I don't know how many people there were, but there were certainly more than four or five people.

"Who is it? the Bai family or Wanjing's dart guard camp?" Dian Yin whispered to himself, turned his face and said, "It's not Wanjing's dart guard camp, it's not like their style." As he spoke, a tall man jumped from the tree overhead, wearing a black hat and holding a delicate sword.

In the tense atmosphere, Dian Yin and Su Yue rarely looked at each other and smiled.

Liao Tingyun said coldly: "I don't think they look like the people of the Bai family in terms of martial arts footwork. ”

When she said this, Su Yue put away her smile and fell into deep thought again: "It's not the Bai family, it's not the Dart Guard Battalion, who could it be? Since they want to threaten us with this Nizi, they should also give a hint." He looked up and suddenly said, "Look around, there is anything left, pieces of paper, strips of cloth and the like." Dian Yin and Liao Tingyun searched everywhere. Sure enough, I saw a strip of white cloth on a branch within reach, and there were only two big blood characters on it: Cai Zhuang.