It would be late at night, and most of the guests in the inn were asleep.

This inn is more than ten miles outside Cangzhou City, and there are few surrounding villages, and the nearest one is seven or eight miles away, so the people who come to the inn to rest are some merchants who have rushed to catch up with the long road in the past.

The signboard at the door of the inn was swaying in the wind, and the young man on the cabinet was dozing off, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves outside, and the young man was busy cheering up and went out to greet him, but he saw that the two people at the door were turning over and dismounting, all of them were in the same black robe, and they looked like the appearance of the official.

The young man ushered in the send-off here, his eyes were sharp, and he carefully led the horse over for the two of them, and asked: "The two masters are good! Are you staying in the hotel or eating? At this time, I am afraid that I will have to rest for a night before leaving?"

One of the long-faced young men nodded, glanced at the inn, and suddenly asked, "Who are the people who are here today?"

The young man listened to him ask in a low voice, and he replied with interest in his heart, "There are not too many people who come, there are two merchants who sell silk from the south, and there is a family who goes to Beijing, and they are also an official, and there is a little sister who is only four or five years old, and she is born with a good appearance...... "The young man said this, and suddenly woke up, and said with a smile: "Because that child was born really well, I will talk a lot, and the two of them are not strange...... In addition to this group, there are a few ordinary passers-by, all of whom are resting at the moment. Two of you, please?"

The two raised their feet and wanted to leave, but the long-faced man asked again: "The adult who went to Beijing is surnamed 'Ying'?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Isn't it exactly? Could it be the acquaintance of the two masters?"

The two of them glanced at each other, did not agree, both went to the inn, the shopkeeper stretched his neck to look, saw the two of them enter the door, busy smiling faces, the long-faced man walked to him, and asked in a low voice: "Where does the adult surnamed Ying live?"

The shopkeeper was also well-informed, and hurriedly pointed upstairs, and the long-faced man glanced up and glanced at the one beside him.

The man did not make a sound, but raised his feet and went upstairs, and walked as fast as he could, but he did not hear a sound at all.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper trembled a little, shrank his body slightly into the cabinet, and asked in a trembling voice: "Are the two officials ...... Yes, is it a case?"

The long-faced man ignored it, and only asked, "Where do the other people live?"

The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva, opened the account book and looked at it, pointed and said a little, the long-faced man listened, groaned slightly, and then raised his feet and went upstairs, the shopkeeper glanced at the saber on the other party's waist, and stopped talking.

It was night, Ying Lanfeng was asleep, and suddenly heard a knock on the door, vaguely, someone asked outside: "Dare to ask Lord Ying from Taizhou?"

Ying Lanfeng was startled, and hurriedly turned over, and Li Xianshu next to him also got up, and said, "Why is someone looking for this kung fu, isn't there something urgent?"

The man said, "Can you be awake?"

Ying Lanfeng hurriedly agreed: "Please wait." He got up in his clothes, and when he got to the door, he opened the door, and when he looked up, he saw a young man in black standing by the door, his eyes shining.

Ying Lanfeng couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Who are you?"

At first glance, the sharp light in the young man's eyes disappeared a lot, smiled slightly, and bowed his hand and said: "It's rude, I came from Beijing below, and Liang Jiu walked in Dali Temple." If you take the liberty of disturbing you passing through here, please don't blame you. ”

Ying Lanfeng didn't know why, but seeing that the other party was gentle and polite, he said, "It's okay...... Lord Liang came here late at night, could it be that he was handling a case?"

While the two were talking, Liang Jiu's eyes were like electricity, and he had already swept the room, and at this time, Li Xianshu also got dressed and walked over to see what was going on.

Liang Jiu said: "Isn't there a person who loves you, isn't it in this house?"

Ying Lanfeng was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The little girl is asleep next door, I don't know ......"

Liang Jiu listened, did not answer, turned around and walked quickly, Ying Lanfeng's heart jumped, and hurriedly followed him out, seeing Liang Jiu arrived at Ying Huaizhen's door, he raised his hand and went to push the door.

Ying Lanfeng saw that Liang Jiu's behavior was abnormal, so he naturally knew something, so he didn't care about stopping him, but shouted: "Zhen'er, Zhen'er, are you asleep?"

At this moment, Liang Jiuyi pushed it over, noticed that the door was bolted from the inside, and was about to use internal force to shake the door open, but he heard someone inside: "Dad, I didn't sleep." ”

Liang Jiu was stunned, and when he heard a slight sound in his ears, he hurriedly took a breath and lowered his palm diagonally. At the same time, the door was opened, and Liang Jiu lowered his eyes and saw that there was a good boy with pink makeup and jade snow standing in front of him.

Ying Lanfeng hurriedly stepped forward and hugged Ying Huaizhen first, Li Xianshu also followed at this moment, seeing that Ying Huaizhen was unharmed, he hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

At this moment, Liang Jiu took a look at Ying Huaizhen's house again, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, only the two girls were getting up in a panic, hurriedly dressing, and said, "What's wrong? What's wrong?" and shouted to each other: "Oops! You took the wrong clothes for me!"

Liang Jiu didn't care, turned his eyes back to look at Ying Huaizhen, and saw that she was in Ying Lanfeng's arms, her eyes were dark and shiny, and there was no panic on her face...... The third watch was woken up in the middle of the night, even Ying Lanfeng and his wife were panicked, and the two □□ maids were even more at a loss, but this girl didn't react?

Liang Jiu's heart moved, and he was secretly surprised.

At this moment, many residents were also woken up and came to watch.

Liang Jiu smiled on his face, and said to Lan Feng: "Let the two of you be frightened, in fact, it doesn't matter, it's just that we were ordered to arrest a Jiangyang thief, and I heard that he stayed here tonight, lest he be bad for adults, so we took the liberty to disturb each other!"

At this moment, Liang Jiu's companion gestured to him from a distance, Liang Jiu's eyes changed, and he responded to Lan Feng: "Leave me alone for a while." He turned around and hurried to that place.

Ying Lanfeng hugged Ying Huaizhen and tilted his head to look over, but saw the two guards walking to a room in the corner and flashing inside, but the room was dark and there was no movement.

The people upstairs and downstairs looked at that place together, and some people wanted to go up to see it, but they didn't dare to get closer.

was whispering, I heard a sound of cooing on the stairs, it turned out that the little maid Jinbao ran up, and saw Ying Lanfeng standing at the door, so he asked, "Master, what's wrong?"

Ying Lanfeng waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, you go back to sleep first." ”

Jinbao was suspicious, and when he was about to leave, he saw Liang Jiu walking out from there, and went straight to Ying Lanfeng's side, and said with a smile: "It's a false alarm, it's no big deal, just go back to your room to rest." Then he said to the people around him: "It's okay, everyone should go back to the room!"

The shopkeeper at the bottom breathed a sigh of relief, and climbed out from behind the counter, waving his hand: "Let's go back to sleep, everyone will go back to sleep, Ming'er will have to get up early to hurry!"

When everyone heard this, they slowly dispersed and went back to the room, Ying Lanfeng was frightened by this, and didn't dare to let Ying Huaizhen go to sleep alone, so he said, "Is it okay for Ah Zhen to sleep with his father?"

Ying Huaizhen blinked, looked at Liang Jiu, shook his head and said, "No need, I'll just sleep with Ruyi and Jixiang." ”

Jixiang and Ruyi were so frightened that they didn't know what to do, and it took them out after a while, and when they heard the words, they took Ying Huaizhen over and led them back to the room.

Liang Jiu watched the little figure enter the room, and couldn't help but respond to Lan Feng: "Ling Ai is really different, Yuxue is cute, no wonder Tang Sicheng never forgets it." ”

Ying Lanfeng was watching Ying Huaizhen enter the room, and was stunned when he heard the words, and said, "Tang Sicheng?"

Liang Jiucai smiled and said: "Yes, we are the subordinates of Tang Sicheng of Dali Temple, my name is Liang Jiu, and that brother is called Zhang Min.

Ying Lanfeng reacted and said, "It turned out to be Xiao Tang...... Ahem, it's Lord Tang, and the two of you are actually Lord Tang's subordinates?"

Liang Jiu heard him say "Xiao Tang", and there was a slight smile in his eyes, so he nodded.

Ying Lanfeng woke up like a dream, and muttered: "No wonder, no wonder ......" After a while, he said again: "Lord Tang actually mentioned the little girl?"

Liang Jiu said with a smile: "Exactly, Si Cheng also mentioned that there was an unfinished agreement with Ling Qianjin." ”

Ying Lanfeng couldn't help laughing when she heard this, thinking that it was just Ying Huaizhen's childish words on a whim, but Xiao Tang really "never forgot", this kind of temper and personality seemed to be a little different from his identity.

Suddenly, Liang Jiu said: "My lord has to hurry tomorrow, so it's better to go back and rest early." There is a lot of disturbance tonight, please Haihan. ”

Ying Lanfeng knew that they were on official business, and seeing that they were so polite, he hurriedly said: "Where is it, since this is the case, Ying Mou retired first, and the two of them are also at their own convenience, please." ”

Ying Huaizhen said, turned around and went back to the room, and closed the door.

Liang Jiu turned around and wanted to leave, and when he passed by Ying Huaizhen's room, he heard the voice of the maid inside, and said, "I'm so scared that my soul is gone, what do you do in the middle of the night?"

It was Ying Huaizhen's voice that replied: "It's okay now, don't talk, go to sleep quickly." The voice was as calm and calm as ever.

Liang Jiu's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he suddenly thought to himself: I didn't hear footsteps inside when I knocked on the door just now, until Ying Lanfeng called, Ying Huaizhen's voice seemed to be by the door, could it be that this girl had been standing at the door......? Why is that?

At this moment, the inn was silent again, Liang Jiu's feet were silent, and he returned to the room where he had investigated with Zhang Min before, and after entering the door, he closed the door.

The shopkeeper and the young man outside kept looking up, and naturally they couldn't see anything.

Liang Jiu closed the door and asked in a deep voice, "What do you see?"

As soon as the fire lit up, his companion Zhang Min said: "They were all killed by someone who twisted their necks with heavy hands, and the others can't be seen for the time being." ”

Liang Jiu nodded, and the fire fold gradually lit up, reflecting the situation in the house, it turned out that on both sides of the door of this room, on Liang Jiu's side, there was actually a corpse lying horizontally, both of them were wearing black night clothes, and their faces were half surrounded by a black cloth to cover their faces.

Liang Jiu leaned over and looked at it a few more times, looked at the slightly rough palms of the two, and said, "It's indeed them...... But how could someone suddenly kill someone, and who did it?"

Zhang Min said: "Looking at this method of killing, it must be a master! Could it be that Sicheng is not worried about us, so he sent another brother?"

Liang Jiu shook his head and said: "Impossible, Si Cheng instructed us to do this matter in secret, and we will never ask others to interfere again, and it is not his habit to act." ”

The two looked at each other, and after a while, Liang Jiucai said: "That's it, no matter what, fortunately, Ying Gong's family is fine, and we are not derelict in our duties, just go to Beijing and report to Sicheng one by one another day." ”

Early the next morning, Ying Lanfeng and his entourage set off on their way, Cangzhou was not too far from the capital, but they hurried and hurried, they still walked for nearly a day, and they would not enter the city until it was dark.

Ying Lanfeng looked at the scene in the twilight, and thought in his heart: When he left Beijing five years ago, he was still an ignorant child...... I couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and I was looking around, when I suddenly took two steps forward and said to him, "My lord, those two errand officials also entered the city last night." ”

Ying Lanfeng was stunned, turned his head to look, and sure enough, he vaguely saw the figures of Liang Jiu and Zhang Min, the two of them were riding horses and turning into an avenue on the left, and they disappeared very quickly.

Ying Lanfeng frowned slightly, and couldn't help but think in her heart: "Why are these two behind us? Could it be that they met by coincidence?"

was pondering, when he heard someone in front of him shouting: "Second brother, let me wait for a long time, but I can be regarded as here!"

Ying Lanfeng looked up and saw that it was Ying Zhuyun riding a horse, followed by four or five small guys, who came forward with a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Ying Lanfeng put the matter of Liang Jiu and Zhang Min behind for the time being.

Let's say that Liang Jiu and Zhang Min and the two of them, Pegasus rushed to Dali Temple and asked the guards at the door, but said that Lord Tang had already left, and asked them if they were in a hurry, and instructed the two to go to Xingze Building, and said: "The Ling Dian Prison of the Criminal Department came early and called to eat and drink, and the two of them may still be there at the moment." ”

When the two of them heard this, they immediately came to Xingze Building, but unexpectedly, the young man said: "The two of you are a step late, and Lord Tang and Lord Ling left a quarter of an hour ago." ”

When the two heard this, they were very helpless, and Liang Jiu said: "I don't know if Sicheng went home or if he had other entertainment, but where to find it? It's okay in other places, but if it's in the house, it seems inappropriate for us to look for it rashly...... The left and right Ying Lanfeng has already returned to Beijing smoothly, and we are also on a bad deal, so we just go back to Ming'er. ”

Zhang Min thought the same, and the two parted on the street and went home separately.

Where is the little Tang people, he is really at home at this moment.

After eating enough wine with Ling Jingshen and separating from each other, Xiao Tang returned to the house, and inevitably visited the old lady first.

Seeing that he seemed to be tired, Mrs. Tang asked, "But have you eaten wine?"

Xiao Tang said: "I have eaten a few cups with the depth of field, and I haven't drunk too much, so don't worry." ”

Mrs. Tang smiled: "I am naturally relieved, you are so old, and you are very measured." Okay, don't delay here, go back quickly, your **sister is here, I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Xiao Tang listened, slightly stunned, had to agree to retreat, he thought to himself Lin ** must be at his sister Minli at this moment, so he slowly went to Minli's residence, as soon as he entered the door, a maid greeted him, and said: "The young master is back, and the girl urged us to take a look." ”

Xiao Tang stopped and asked, "Is Miss Lin also there?"

The maid said, "That's right, it's coming in the afternoon." And he rolled up the curtains.

Xiao Tang entered the house, turned inward, and vaguely heard the voice of the inner room, only to hear the voice of his sister Minli, and said: "I also love this poem very much...... It is strange that the emperor was particularly gracious at the beginning, and he must have noticed that this Lord Ying was not a thing in the pool after all, or the emperor was prescient. By the way, do you know what kind of character this Lord Ying is? I heard that he will be returning to Beijing soon. ”

Lin ** said: "This is from the Ying Gongfu, and the character must be first-class." Only such a character can write such a good poem, otherwise...... If an ugly monster wrote this poem, I wouldn't like it. ”

Min Li chuckled and said: "Zi said: 'Judge people by their appearance, lose Ziyu', you are good, you actually did the opposite, leaving the words of the saint behind." ”

Lin ** snorted and said, "What kind of saint and layman? I'm not the kind of pedantic scholar who reads dead books, and I often take what 'Zi Yue Shiyun' as a guideline, who cares about those Lao Shizi, it's just my mood." ”

When Xiao Tang heard this, he laughed and laughed.

At this time, the maid came in, and when she saw that he didn't go in, she coughed and said inward, "The young master is back." When he heard it, he stopped talking.

Xiao Tang had to step inside, but saw Lin ** and his sister Minli sitting together, with a piece of paper on the table next to him, he glanced at it and saw a poem written in hairpin flower letters, which was naturally Ying Lanfeng's masterpiece that caused a sensation in the capital.

When Minli saw him coming, she got up and saluted and said, "My brother is back." ”

Lin ** also got up, and saw that his cheeks were slightly red and his eyes were drunk, so he gently fanned it with his hand, and frowned: "Are you drinking again?"

Xiao Tang smiled slightly, and before he could make a sound, Lin ** suddenly said again: "It must be with that Ling Jingshen again? What does this person always pester you!

Xiao Tang saw that she was smart, so he smiled and said, "I am of course inseparable from his childhood friend." ”

Min Li said softly: "I also know that Brother Jingshen, and the Marquis of Jinning's family and my family were originally world friends...... It's just that their family has been a little downed recently, Brother Jingshen was originally extremely talented, but now he is only a warden in the Criminal Department, which is really overkill. As he spoke, he sighed softly