However, it was said that after Lu Yi said goodbye to everyone in Perak Hall, he rode his horse and whipped to Nanyang.

He set off later than Xie Qingfeng, and was delayed in Yingyang Town and Changqiao Town for two days, if Xie Qingfeng traveled day and night, it is estimated that he would have already taken the boat to Chongqing, so he did not dare to delay any longer on the way, and ran away.

Xiangcheng is three hundred miles away from Nanyang, although Lu Yi is taking the official road, along the way is also over the mountains and mountains, the crotch of the horse several times to foam at the mouth, fall to the ground, he simply changed horses in the passing town and continued to gallop, and finally arrived in Nanyang when the day was about to fall into the night.

The prosperity of Nanyang is not Xiangcheng and Yanling such a small city can be compared, it is the seat of Nanyang Prefecture, built in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, has a history of nearly two hundred years, because it is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is harmed by the disaster of war and affected less, it has continued to grow and develop in more than two hundred years, and it has been called a big town that is enough to compare with Luoyang, Kaifeng and Guide.

Nanyang can be described as an outstanding person, it is rumored that Jiang Ziya, Fan Li, Zhang Heng, Zhang Zhongjing, Zhuge Liang are all Nanyang people, now Nanyang Wang clan Zhang is said to be the descendants of Zhang Zhongjing, the Zhang family has been operating the medicinal material business for generations, the business is all over the country, the family advocates Ye can be civil and martial, and the relationship is very wide, the wealth of the Zhang family is far better than that of Shang Luowen, Zhang Ye also has a very high reputation in the rivers and lakes.

And Fan Liuyun, the master of Liuyun Hall, another major force in Nanyang City, is said to be after Fan Li in the Spring and Autumn Period, but he did not inherit the wisdom of his ancestors in business, but practiced martial arts and was aggressive, and governed the huge Liuyun Hall in an orderly manner.

Xie Qingfeng once had the idea of subduing Liuyuntang, but Fan Liuyun was extremely conceited, he was a master who did not eat hard and soft, and his martial arts were extremely good, Ding Fan, Guo Weigang and others were not his opponents in the rudder, Xie Qingfeng even planned to personally fight Liuyuntang * to force Fan Liuyun to obey, but later he did not make the trip because of other things.

In addition, the biggest force in Nanyang is the Tang Palace, but at this time the Tang Palace, which is far inferior to the Tang Palace, when the Ming Dynasty was in the early days, since the Chengzu Jingjing, the Tang King Zhu Ta judged the situation, and the first batch of goodwill to Chengzu, the Tang Palace, was thus preserved.

The current Tang King Zhu Qijun is the fourth grandson of Emperor Taizu, but after a hundred years of changes, the title has changed from a prince to a duke, and the number of fields, servants and guards under the palace is far less than before, and according to the ancestral system as Zhu Qijun, without the edict of Emperor Yingzong, he will never be allowed to go out of Nanyang, which is not much different from being under house arrest in the Tang Palace.

Lu Yi didn't hear Master Wu Hanjiang talk about any friendship with Tang King Zhu Qijun, Nanyang Zhang's and Liuyuntang, but he heard Xie Qingfeng mention that Liuyuntang, which had just been established when the Kyushu Juyi League was at its peak, went to Luoyang to pay a visit, and the Kyushu Juyi League had some business dealings with the Nanyang Zhang family, but the friendship was not deep.

Moreover, since the collapse of the Kyushu Juyi League, the Zhang family has never had any dealings with the rudders of the Kyushu Juyi League, and after Liuyuntang became more and more powerful, they didn't even pay attention to the Kaifeng rudder.

Lu Yi also had no intention of visiting Zhu Qijun, Fan Liuyun, Zhang Ye and others, firstly, his father's master did not have a deep friendship with them, so he had no need to be hot and cold, and secondly, he had important things to do, so he only planned to rest in Nanyang for one night, and he had to leave early the next morning to continue his journey.

Although the time involved in the rivers and lakes is not long, it also makes Lu Yi understand a truth, that is, only when your strength is strong enough, will you be taken seriously, so he made up his mind that he must first make himself a strong man, and at that time, there is no need for him to visit this and that, and the other party will come to visit him after hearing his news.

When Lu Yi arrived in Nanyang City, it was not yet ten minutes before the curfew, and it was the most lively time in the city, only to see people coming and going on the streets, extremely prosperous, and from time to time there were groups of patrol soldiers passing by, and it was really a scene of a prosperous town.

On both sides of the reception is also the wine flag exhibition, the wind and moon places are lined up, and I heard the courtesans singing Li Bai from a distance: "Qing song curbs the flowing clouds, there is spare time for dancing, invite you to Sheng Wanluo, and the crown is returned with the wind." The song is lazy and lingering, constantly tugging at the heartstrings of passers-by, and many rich sons go in and out, spending a lot of money, so unhappy.

Suddenly, a strong aroma of wine came, Lu Yi looked up and saw a restaurant several feet high not far away, two huge red lanterns hung at the door of the restaurant, and the wine flag obliquely displayed outside the eaves on the second floor was waving in the wind, and the three words "drunken fragrance building" were particularly conspicuous.

The guests at the door came in and out, and Xiao Er was busy outside the house, a scene of prosperous business.

Lu Yi looked around, then led the horse over, and Xiao Er, who had a sharp eye, greeted him from a distance, and while taking the reins from his hand with courtesy, he bent down and bowed down to greet him in the restaurant.

When he got closer, Lu Yi found that there were five floors up and down the drunken incense building, and it seemed that the first and second floors were restaurants, and the third to fifth floors were for accommodation, so he threw out a silver ingot and asked Xiao Er to prepare a private room for him on the second floor.

Xiao Er had already been in his heart when he saw Lu Yi's gorgeous clothes and extraordinary manners, and when he saw that he threw out a silver ingot weighing five taels, he became more and more attentive, and sang loudly, "Distinguished guests are here, and there is a private room." While pedaling and trotting, he led Lu Yi upstairs.

The environment of Zuixiang Building is not bad, the second floor is a single private room, so that customers do not disturb each other, Lu Yi asked for a room by the window, and instructed the shopkeeper to serve some wine and food casually, and then instructed the second to prepare a room for him to stay in the hotel at night.

The shopkeeper agreed with a smile, while thinking about how much benefit he could get from this generous son, a rough calculation included eating, drinking, and living in the hotel, and he could save a full seven or eight dollars of silver, and his heart suddenly blossomed, and the smile on his face became more and more bright, and he hurriedly agreed, and rushed downstairs.

When Lu Yi left White Turtle Mountain, Liu Haoming offered a lot of gold leaves and silver taels, he naturally wouldn't wronged himself if he had a lot of money, and only when he had enough food and drink and rested, could he catch up with more roads the next day, right?

No wonder Zuixianglou is full of customers, business is booming, the time to prepare meals is very short, the shopkeeper went downstairs to not get a cup of tea, and brought a pot of good wine and a few exquisite side dishes, as well as the local specialty fish-flavored eggplant, suddenly the aroma was overflowing, the aroma of the meal was mixed with the strong fragrance of the wine, Lu Yi suddenly had a great appetite.

However, just when Lu Yi was about to feast, he only heard a "bang", and then heard a miserable scream on the street outside, and I don't know who suddenly shouted twice, "Kill, kill!" ”

There was a sudden chaos outside, and he was directly stunned here.

Just now I said that the public security in Nanyang Mansion is excellent, so there is a homicide case?