"What's wrong?" Chen Baoen looked at the people inside the yamen with uneasy expressions, and from time to time one or two officials in a hurry walked in.

"Lord Zhang died, according to their guests, Lord Zhang was drunk at the wine table last night, and he didn't come back for more than an hour when he went to the thatched house to relieve himself, and their maid went to check and found that Lord Zhang had died in the thatched house with a sword, and the whole ground was covered with his blood! Their family just married their daughter-in-law yesterday, and before the daughter-in-law entered the door, her father-in-law died at home, causing evil!"

"Dead?" Chen Baoen looked at them in surprise, Lord Zhang can be described as an old minister of the Three Dynasties, usually highly respected in the imperial court, although the official position is not big, but he is generous, often invites those who are not yet famous to come to his home to sit, if necessary, he will often spare money or give help to officialdom, in this case, those petty officials will often remember Lord Zhang's kindness, and will definitely repay it in the future, at least they will not be enemies with him.

How could such a person die in the thatched house for no reason, and it was on the night of his son's wedding, the more Chen Baoen thought about it, the more strange it became, and suddenly there was a noise outside the door, and the woman's angry scolding poured into his ears like a tide, which was mixed with the sobs of the girl.

"It's her!My lord! It's her father-in-law who killed her!" a woman dressed in black and with a disheveled hair pulled the skirt of a young girl to the yamen, followed by a large group of domestic slaves, all with sticks in their hands, and their faces were black.

"I didn't...... I didn't. The girl wept and collapsed in front of the yamen's drums, still dressed in red silk and silk, and her bare feet were stained with mud and blood.

"Bold! Who dares to come to the yamen to make trouble!" Chen Baoen scolded the woman angrily and shocked with a low roar, she looked at everything inside the yamen blankly, and suddenly tears gushed out like a flood that burst the embankment, she knelt at Chen Baoen's feet and cried: "My lord! Avenge my lord's grievances! This broom Xingke killed my lord! I said at the beginning that our son could not marry her, but he didn't listen! Who would die on the night when his child married his wife! It must be this broom star that harmed!"

"Presumptuous, now that the matter has not been clarified, why do you treat your daughter-in-law like this?" Chen Baoen didn't look at her, and strode to the girl to help her up, but the girl grabbed her sleeve tightly and said with a pale face: "My lord...... It's really not me, I've been in the room with my husband last night...... It's really not me. ”

"I will definitely investigate this matter, please rest assured, Madame!" Chen Baoen said in a deep voice.

"Ye Bihe! You broom star ridden by 10,000 people! Now go home and pack up your things and get out of our Zhang family! Your father was also supported by our Zhang family! You actually treated us like this! After we set your Ye family on fire, we will sell you and your mother to a brothel!" The woman had no former luxury and dignity at all, her long hair was scattered and she spat out a vicious language that Chen Baoen had never heard, and the girl in his arms let out a painful choking and passed out in his arms.

"You!" Chen Baoen looked at her in shock, but there was a sound of gongs and drums in the distance, a middle-aged man with a blue face walked into the yamen wearing a red coat, and behind him was a sedan chair covered in red and green, dozens of burly young people carried the sedan chair outside the yamen, the man saw the girl in Chen Baoen's arms, and angrily broke in and slapped the woman: "You old witch is so shameless! I will marry my daughter to your son! You actually treat her like this!"

"Ye Zhongen! Your daughter killed my master!" You compensate my master!" The woman pulled him desperately, her sharp nails cut through the man's face, and the man coldly pushed her aside and took the girl from Chen Baoen's arms: "How did I send Bihe to your house yesterday, how can I send her back today! There are many sedan chairs! Our Ye family has been cut off from you ever since!"

"You dare!" The house slaves of the Zhang family surrounded Ye Zhongen with sticks, and the house slaves of the Ye family outside the door threw the sedan chair to the ground, a bunch of bright long knives slipped from the sedan chair, and several burly men rushed into the yamen with knives in both hands, and a weapon fight was ready to happen at any time.

"Die!" Just as they brandished their long knives and slashed at the necks of the Zhang family's slaves, a sharp unsheathed sound broke into everyone's ears, the golden long knife pierced the air with a terrible whistling, and the blood exploded in the air with an extremely tragic curve, the Ye family's slaves fell to the ground one after another, and several round objects rolled down to the door of the yamen, Chen Baoen wiped the blood on the long knife with his index finger and said coldly:

"Those who complain about grievances in the ya, hold the iron, and there is no forgiveness for killing!"

The golden long knife made a buzzing sound, Chen Baoen put the knife into the sheath with his backhand, and the blood stains that had dried up for a long time could be faintly seen on the sharkskin scabbard, and the slaves of the Zhang family and the Ye family slaves outside the door trembled and fell to the ground, for fear that the long knife would fall on their heads in the next second.

Fifty years ago, there was a vicious bandit named Lu Shunya on the platform mountain outside Lin'an City, this Lu Shunya was cold-blooded and ruthless, specializing in robbing the tribute cars and military rations on the official road, the Yinhuang at that time was very headache, this Lu Shunya was insidious and cunning, and sent the army to encircle and suppress it many times without exterminating it, Chen Baoen's grandfather took six subordinates, a group of people, seven knives to the platform mountain to fight Lu Shunya, and finally beheaded the platform mountain thief Lu Shunya 300 people, and the Lu Shunya family of eighteen people were beheaded, this matter was known by the Yinhuang at that time, personally summoned Chen Pingen, and personally awarded the Golden Eagle long knife a handle, and p.s.: "Those who wield knives, behead corrupt officials, behead thieves, and those who have a clear conscience!"

"My lord, spare my life!" The woman and the slaves of the Zhang family knelt down in front of Chen Baoen, crying and crying: "How can I explain to the ancestors of the Zhang family after I die! ”

Ye Zhongen looked at the bloody corpse of his house slave, and there was no sadness or joy in his eyes: "Come in and pick up your young lady for me!"

Ye Zhongen hugged his daughter into the sedan chair and shouted at the same time: "Knock me hard! Knock as louder the better!" More than a dozen house slaves beat gongs and drums desperately, suppressing the cry of Mrs. Zhang's family, Ye Zhongen looked at the "in-laws" who fell to the ground and snorted coldly, and followed the back of the sedan chair with his sleeves raised and left.

Mrs. Zhang looked at the sedan chair that was fading away, her hair was scattered, and her eyes were red: "Ahhh

Then he fainted, and the slaves of the Zhang family looked at their own wives who collapsed on the ground and cried one after another: "Madam...... Madame!"

"Send a few of them back to Zhang's house! Quickly send the corpses of Master Zhang to the yamen, and let them make preparations immediately, clean up the blood here, and send the corpses of several of them back to Zhang's house...... Send someone to inform the Zhang family that I want to see Zhang's son. Chen Baoen coldly ordered.

"Obey, my lord!" Several subordinates quickly received the order and left the yamen with the Zhang family, Chen Baoen took a deep breath and leaned on the bluestone pillar.

"What an eventful time!"

"Your Excellency...... Eventful times are not what you say it is. A young man in a blue shirt appeared from behind the stone pillar, and Chen Baoen was stunned for a moment. Grabbing the boy's shoulder, he said in a deep voice, "Don't you allow me to talk nonsense?"

"My lord, a letter from the imperial court. The young man respectfully handed over an ink-colored codex, the white ash flying eagle seal on it was still warm, Chen Baoen quickly scraped off the seal after taking it, opened the codex and read it carefully, his eyes flashed like leopard eyes.

The boy wiped the beads of sweat from his nose, and saw several headless corpses lying not far away, the incision on the neck of the corpse was neat and neat, and it looked like an incision that could only be cut by a knife master, and the dazzling blood under the corpse pierced him a little panicked, he gasped in a low voice, and his body couldn't help but stiffen up.

"Are you scared?" Chen Baoen's voice came from behind him.

"Hey...... There is no fear of doing things with adults, but we are serving adults with our lives. The young man settled his mind and said rightly.

Chen Baoen put away the codex, patted the boy on the shoulder and said: "Fear is everywhere, fear is not shameful, only by facing fear can we grow!"

"Thank you, for your teachings!" the boy knelt down on one knee with his hands clenched into fists.

"Get up, you kid just have too many rules, it's enough to be my subordinate, it's enough to be flexible, and the rest is playing in front of me, by the way, you take my letter to Baihuayuan, let Lily and them go to the White Crane Tower in the evening to wait for me, I have a task to them." Chen Baoen handed him a jade medallion, and the boy took it carefully.

"My lord, they are all peerless beauties, and every time you let them out, you are so casual, do you know? ”

"One book, one gift, one gift?"

The meaning of the book is that before inviting the girl out, you have to let your own servants send a handwritten letter to their hands, which will indicate the place and time of meeting, if the girl agrees, the other party has to prepare a gift, this gift can be exquisite, as small as rouge gouache, as large as gold jade, which depends on their own financial resources, last time the son of the Song Yin family made an appointment with the Oiran in the Mingyue Building to the Huangtong Juli, and specially sent someone a carved ice jade chain, which is tsk! As for this send-off, it is to personally send the girl home after the meeting, no matter how far the journey is, but if everyone is as wealthy as Song Gongzi, and Oiran is willing to spend the night with him, there is no such thing as this send-off......"

"Where did you hear such evil things from this kid?" Chen Baoen gently tapped the boy's head with the scabbard and laughed and cursed.

"My lord, you are not too young, in our village of Anxiang, people of your age have already gotten married, and children can go up to the trees to fish. The boy's face flushed slightly.

"Spend less time on women and do what we do...... Maybe he will live to one day" Chen Baoen was silent for a moment, grabbed the scabbard and turned around and walked out of the Uwazhu Gate.