Chapter 37: Preparing for War

After Yinzhen entered the study, he smashed all the utensils in the study, even his favorite Xuande furnace did not let go, so scared that a room of people did not dare to come out. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Yinzhen gritted her teeth and thought: It's a good Qingyue, even I dare to frame me, what does she want to do? Turning his head and instructing Toutuo: "I want to see Qingyue, let Tong Ling arrange it immediately!" ”

Toutuo replied yes and quickly disappeared from the roof.

On the icy pond, a group of pond workers are cleaning the lotus pond barefoot, just to make the lotus flowers more beautiful in the coming year. Qingyue looked at the pond workers and sighed secretly, they all know that the lotus flowers are noble and beautiful, but who knows how much bitterness there is behind the beauty of the lotus pond?

Yinzhen came with a gloomy face, Qingyue calmly poured tea for Yinzhen, and the fragrance of tea spread lightly throughout the room. Yinzhen closed the door and pinched Qingyue's chin, Qingyue did not show weakness and poured tea on Yinzhen's face.

"How dare you~" Yin Zhen trembled with anger.

"What don't I dare, as long as I still have use value, Fourth Master, you will not kill me, even if I am disrespectful to you." Qingyue smiled and put the teacup on the marble mahogany table, and then knocked off Yinzhen's hand. Yinzhen's eyes were full of murderous intent, Qingyue turned a blind eye, poured the tea again, and pushed it in front of Yinzhen's eyes. Yinzhen took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the tea on his face.

Qingyue was very happy in her heart, with continuous training, she had learned how to control a person, even if this person was Yinzhen, she could control seven points. Qingyue took a sip of tea before slowly handing the contents of her sleeve to Yinzhen. Yin Zhen hatefully took the thing, opened the green cloth bag outside, and inside was a bronze seal, which was engraved with these two seals: cuckoo.

Yin Zhen weighed the bronze seal and asked Qingyue, "What do you mean?" ”

"The fourth master knows how the cuckoo raises its offspring?" Qingyue asked, Yinzhen turned her eyes to the pond, ignoring Qingyue's question, Qingyue knew that Yinzhen learned the classics, and would definitely not know about agriculture, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, she deliberately wanted to suppress Yinzhen and make him feel frustrated, so as to achieve her goal.

"Then let me tell you."

"Not necessarily." Yin Zhen interrupted Qing Yue's words, Qing Yue was surprised, did he know? I made a gesture of please.

"The cuckoo does not build its own nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds and lets them take care of their offspring. When the baby cuckoo breaks its shell, it pushes the other birds and eggs out of the nest and lets them fall to their deaths. Yin Zhen said expressionlessly.

Qing Yue clapped her hands and said, "This seal can give you military power." ”

Yinzhen threw the seal back to Qingyue, gritted his teeth and said, "I remember last time you also said that I could get the military power, but you set a trap for me to jump, do you think I will still believe you?" ”

Qingyue stared at Yinzhen with a smile and replied, "You don't believe me, will you still come here to meet me?" ”

The muscles on Yin Zhen's face trembled slightly, he had never been so insulted, and he wanted to pull out his waist knife and kill Qingyue with one knife to vent the hatred in his heart. Qingyue poured the tea in the cup, stood up and said, "I framed you? Don't you think it's ridiculous? Remember, this time it wasn't me who framed you, it was you who didn't trust me, I arranged for you to go out in person, but you missed the appointment, and just arranged for Dai Ze to do it, you said, can this not go wrong? Qingyue ignored Yinzhen and stood by the window.

Yinzhen suddenly understood that Qingyue did this to avenge Yinxiang's revenge, he should have gone to the Fengtai camp that day, and he should have been imprisoned. Yinzhen's anger has disappeared mostly, and what he owes Yinxiang is not too much. After a while, Yinzhen asked Qingyue: "Are you doing this for Yinxiang?" ”

Qingyue replied in front of the window, "Yes." ”

Yinzhen was speechless, and sometimes he would think, did he care about Yinxiang or the dragon chair? But he always said to himself that it was just a mistake.

Qingyue slowly approached him, knelt in front of him, and said sincerely: "For Yinxiang, I want you to trust me completely, because only when you ascend the throne can Yinxiang's hard days come to an end." You can be suspicious of everyone, but not me! We're all close to Yinxiang, aren't we? ”

Yin Zhen was stunned, she had known that Qingyue was bold, delicate, and would figure out people, but this time, her outspokenness made him full of shame. Yin Zhen looked at Qingyue kneeling at her feet, she was looking up at herself, her eyes were stubborn, and she was pleading, he didn't know how to answer her for a while. was seen through by Qingyue again and again, and he couldn't tell what it was like. When I first met, she said that she was cold-hearted and cold-faced, just to hide that she was not good at getting along with people, and in a word, he was impressed by her, and he felt tormented after the day and night lovesickness; What now? For the first time, he had the idea of helping someone else, if there was someone in the world who could make him trust, this person could only be Qingyue!

"Well, what do you say I should do." Yinzhen helped Qingyue up.

"Fourth master, this square seal was imitated by someone I found, its owner is the old Sishan Su Mama, she has served as the emperor's secretary for fifteen years, and the time she has been in the palace for a full thirty years, and the people who entered the palace with her have three people in the prince's mansion, one person in your mansion, two people in the eighth prince's mansion, four people in the eldest prince's mansion, two people in the third prince's mansion, and the other lists are here." Qingyue pushed a piece of paper.

Yin Zhen put away the list, rolled his eyes and said, "There is a grandmother who monitors all the princes, you told me last time." ”

"She gave orders all on the basis of this seal, the last time I tried the princess's grandmother, I didn't succeed, the reason is that this seal is missing."

Yin Zhen already understood Qingyue's intentions: "You want me to use this seal to mobilize them and let them do things for me?" ”

"Yes, we can borrow the nest to hatch the eggs."

"What if Mama Su confronts them?"

"The fourth master is too worried, Mama Su only uses the seal of 'cuckoo' at the most important moment, in order to hide her identity and that of the emperor, she has never revealed to any mama that she is a cuckoo. Besides, their rule is to recognize the seal but not the person, and any grandmother who sees the seal must carry out the orders from above. Therefore, we are in danger, but we can be in danger. ”

Yin Zhen pinched this bronze seal, thought for a while, Qingyue shook her head secretly, she promised herself to trust herself completely one moment ago, and she was still wary of herself the next moment, and she spent a lot of effort to set up a situation to teach him a lesson in suspicion, I am afraid it will be in vain again. Yinzhen is Yinzhen, his suspicion is innate and unchangeable. However, it is not in vain to be able to vent for Yinxiang, Qingyue asked quietly: "What is the fourth master thinking?" ”

"I will use this seal to seize the position of governor of Gansu." Yinzhen told Qingyue his true thoughts.

"You are not seizing the position of the governor of Gansu, you are seizing the northwest gateway of 'one husband is the key to ten thousand people'. You want me to help you take the position of governor of Gansu? Qingyue heard Yinzhen say this, only to realize that the worry just now was superfluous, and she finally pried this piece of steel.

"None of the people around me are qualified to serve as the general of the northwest, I can only retreat to the second, I talked to Nian Qianyao, he said that Shaanxi and Gansu are the gateway to the northwest, if he can master the post of governor of Gansu, if the northwest army is in chaos, the Yumen will be closed, no matter how many troops he has, he can starve to death. I've always wanted my people to do this position, but I haven't found the right opportunity. ”

"Even if you don't show your way to get the military power, and you can't make the emperor suspicious, this is the biggest difficulty, right?"

Yin Zhen nodded, and Qingyue continued: "Most of the emperor's decisions are based on the news sent by his ears and eyes, and I don't need to say that I will naturally favor you, the key is how you want to make good use of this seal, so that the emperor believes that you have no ambition and can rest assured that he will hand over the military power to you." And I'm sure that the emperor will not hand over all the military power to a prince, just like the former crown prince, who nominally took the title of a prison state, and there is a group of princes below him as an 'auxiliary government'. You should definitely take advantage of this opportunity. ”

At this point, the two of them understood each other's position, and most of the previous estrangement and defense were eliminated.

Kangxi was lying on the kang, holding Dai Ze's fold in his hand, carefully pondering the recent series of abnormal actions of this five-grade petty official. He first served as a junior official at the end of the household department, and participated in the household department to fill his own pockets, and later actually came up with a series of ironclad evidence, pointing out that the household department members colluded with the military department commander to embezzle military salaries, implicated several highly qualified generals in the military department, which gave Kangxi a headache, cleaning up the treasury was his own order, and Dai Ze's "dedication to duty" was not wrong, but these generals were all candidates to lead troops in the northwest, and he could neither express nor express it. What made him even more suspicious was that a junior official could have evidence that he could not have mastered. He threw the fold on the ground, and if anyone wanted to take advantage of the rebellion in the northwest to secretly seize military power, he would not tolerate it. I thought that by punishing a prince, the sons would stop a little, but I didn't expect that they would seize power more intensively, and the anger in Kangxi's chest hit the top of his head wave after wave, making him insomnia for a long time.

Kangxi summoned Qingyue and asked Qingyue to secretly check Dai Ze's details, Qingyue knelt on the ground, and stopped talking. Kangxi moved his body, found a more comfortable position, and asked Qingyue: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Emperor Qiqi, the slave maid is in charge of the initiative and has investigated Dai Ze, do you want to take a look at his files?" Qingyue buried her head low.

Kangxi fiddled with the sandalwood beads in his hand, and it was not acceptable. For a while, there was no sound in the warm pavilion, Qingyue knelt for a long time, and the cool air of the bluestone slab gradually penetrated through the cotton wool.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the sound of the bell interrupting the silence of the hall, and Kangxi ordered: "Present it." ”

Qingyue "snorted", went to the Wanzi Pavilion to take Dai Ze's file, and presented it to Kangxi, Kangxi finished reading it, asked Qingyue to put Dai Ze's file away, sent someone to continue to monitor, waved his hand to let Qingyue retreat, and he turned the sandalwood beads in his hand on the warm pavilion dragon couch alone. Yinzhen's usual words and deeds floated in front of his eyes. What a fourth! The first abolished prince, the second abolished prince, all have his figure, and now he has surfaced, and he can't wait for military power, what a good son! He has been in charge of the household department for many years, and it is not surprising that there is evidence of collusion between the senior members of the household department and the military department to embezzle military salaries, and it can be said that it is more reasonable.

Qingyue came out of the warm pavilion and breathed a long sigh of relief. When she met with Yinzhen that day, she gave him the evidence of the embezzlement of military salaries by the household officials and the military officials, asked him to impeach them, and removed several generals who had qualifications and could lead troops to fight in the ranks of the northwest generals, and then let people recommend him, and the military power was at his fingertips, but Yinzhen didn't say a word and accepted the evidence. Qingyue looked indifferently at the back of Yinzhen leaving, he had already calculated that he would not personally impeach those people, at that time, he would be led by his own nose.

Sure enough, the next day, Kangxi reprimanded Yinzhen for being eager to clean up the treasury, allowing his subordinates to act arbitrarily, exempting him from the errand of the household department, and secretly transferred Dai Ze to Sichuan the next day. Yinzhen was beaten by Kangxi and was dizzy, and he didn't know what to do for a while. After listening to Toutuo's reply, as early as before Dai Ze played, Qingyue asked Tong Ling to investigate Dai Ze and record his words and deeds for more than a month. Yinzhen listened to it and stepped on it, as long as Qingyue returned what he saw to Huang Ama one by one, his seizure of military power would definitely make Huang Ama alert, and the current situation proves that Qingyue told Huang Ama about him and Dai Ze, perhaps, at the beginning, this is Qingyue's planned situation, he should not ignore Qingyue's relationship with the eighth child, the fate of the prince and the eighth seems to be in sight.

Qingyue tied her cloak and prepared to leave, but Yinzhen said wait. Qingyue turned her back to Yinzhen and said, "Fourth Master, if I keep talking about a person's goodness and not a person's badness, will you still believe what I say?" ”

"So, this is your intention to frame me on the second level." Yin Zhen poured himself a cup of tea and sniffed it, it was a big red robe.

"Yes, the fourth master is so smart, I have already given you the 'cuckoo' seal, you should be able to resolve it."

"It's not this, I want to know, if the impeachment is me, won't Huang Ama be suspicious?"

"Yes, the crown prince is imprisoned, the thirteenth master is imprisoned, the eighth master is reprimanded, no prince will put himself in a conspicuous position at this time, if you do it, the emperor will naturally not be suspicious, if you don't do it, let others do it, of course the emperor will be suspicious." After Qingyue finished speaking, she went out the door and disappeared around the corner.

Yinzhen drank tea and muttered to himself: Fiction is real, reality is reality, reality is reality, and reality is reality.

On the same day, Yinzhen wrote an excerpt, in which he complained about the sloppy military discipline and the disadvantages of the generals embezzling military salaries, and excused Dai Ze, with sincere words, and secretly explained how Dai Ze got the evidence. In the evening, Kangxi summoned Yinzhen alone.

Yinzhen took a big picture with Qingyue in the garden, Qingyue secretly gave a thumbs up, Yinzhen snorted in his heart, and followed Li Dequan into the warm pavilion quickly.

After asking for peace, Kangxi asked Yinzhen to play with the Dutch ship model in his collection, and Yinzhen looked at the Dutch ship model carefully, pondering Kangxi's intentions in his heart.

"How?" Kangxi asked.

Yin Zhen had an idea and replied: "Erchen doesn't understand, but it should be good." ”

Kangxi smiled and asked, "How do you know it's good if you don't understand?" ”

"At that time, although Erchen was only seven years old, he knew that when his father recovered Taiwan, he used this ship, and it would not be wrong to break the Zheng army."

"The Dutch ship is good, do you know who built it?"

Yin Zhen shook his head, pretending not to know.

Kangxi said slowly: "Shi Lang, Jinghai Hou Shi Lang." ”

Yin Zhen saw the fire, knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please show my father." ”

"Shi Lang was originally a minister of the Zheng family, and later took refuge in my Qing Dynasty, at that time, Suo Etu said: Shi Lang was a traitor, and later sold the Zheng family for glory, and his head has a backbone, and he is afraid that something will happen in the future. They should be killed to set an example. You say, what would have happened if I had said it at that time? ”

"Huang Ama is wise and martial, and tolerates the guilty ministers with a virtuous heart, so as to exchange for Taiwan's victory."

"I have a heart of great virtue, you are my son, what about you?"

Yin Zhen slowed down before replying: "The son obeys the teachings of the emperor Amma, but the son has the courage to ask for his life and hand over the errand of the household department to the son, if a penny of military salary flows out of the hands of the son, the son is willing to be punished." ”

Kangxi shook his head, after so many years of training, Yinzhen is still too upright, there is no fish when the water is clear, and the war is piled up with silver, Zhou Peigong of the year governed the army and was rigorous, but he also allowed the sergeant to rob the good people twice, he wanted not to leak a penny of silver, then this battle will definitely be lost.

"Yinzhen, you have been in charge of the household department for many years, and the drawbacks in it are also clear, I hope that if you have something to say in the future, you will say it to me directly, don't let the ministers make waves in the court, understand?"

Yin Zhen knocked his head on the ground: "The ministers know their mistakes, and they shouldn't disturb the morale of the army." But please ask Huang Ama to severely punish the officials who are greedy for ink in the household department to stifle this unhealthy trend. ”

Kangxi really has no choice but to wave his hand to let him go down. After Yinzhen went down, Kangxi asked the person behind the curtain: "Sister, do you think the fourth child is too serious, or does he have other ideas." ”

"The fourth master does things, everything is according to the law, and he doesn't leave half of his face, so the capital calls him the king of cold noodles. Your Majesty, you personally persuaded him, didn't he only give you a half-discount? ”

Kangxi sighed lightly: "The eighth is too sleek, and the fourth is too upright, it's good if they complement each other." ”

The voice said again: "The slave maid will let Qing Yuejia send people to the Fourth Master's Mansion, and the emperor can rest assured." ”

After Kangxi paced to the tent, the man gave Kangxi a salute, Kangxi waved his hand and said: "The fourth child has always been a capable minister, I don't want him to be hot on this dragon chair and end up with the same fate as the boss, he and the thirteen peacefully spend this life safely, which is my greatest wish." ”

"The fourth master has been fulfilling his duties so far, and he has not overstepped his behavior. After the crown prince was imprisoned, all the princes no longer came forward to do things, and it was reasonable for Dai Ze to come forward to impeach the minister of the household department. ”

"Accompany me to the Imperial Garden."

The man led the way with the palace lamp, Kangxi followed behind, the moon was thin and the stars were thin, the night was cold and dewy, Kangxi took a deep breath, and slowly spit it out, as if he wanted to spit out his contradictions in this dark night.

Qingyue came with news, Kangxi dispelled most of his worries, but asked her to send someone into Yongwang's mansion, Yinzhen agreed, and Qingyue sent Wenxiang in. On the third day after smelling the fragrance and entering the mansion, Kangxi issued an order to seal Yinzhen and was named the prince, Yinzhen was really relieved, everything proved that Kangxi believed his words, he took out the 'cuckoo' seal, and he wanted to make good use of it.

Yin Xi sat by the pond fishing, the cold wind blew the fishing line, and the ripples on the water were startled. After a long time, Yinyu put away the fishing line, a herring at the other end of the fishing line was struggling hard, every time he struggled, the hook was stuck tighter, and no one around him had a happy expression, after Zhao Yuaner caught the herring, Yinyu knocked on the water with a fishing rod, Zhao Yuaner put the fish back into the water, and as soon as the herring entered the water, it immediately dived deep into the water.

Guo Luoluo took Yin Yu to the pond, and the two gave Yinyu a salute, Yinxi handed the fishing rod to Zhao Yuan'er, and said: "It's a cold day, if you have something, you can send the maid back and forth, frostbite is not a joke." ”

Guo Luoluo handed a stove to Yinxi and said, "I have been bored in the house for a day, I asked my sister to accompany me out for a walk, and I heard that they said that you are fishing here, so I came over." ”

Yinyu took the stove and motioned for Yin Yu to hand his stove to Guanyintu, and after Yin Yu handed over the stove, Shi Li retreated.

Guo Luoluo waited for Yin Yu to go away before saying: "Master, it's just a prince, we want someone in the court, the family wants money, happy and happy, more like a prince than a real prince, you don't have to worry." ”

Yin Yu secretly suppressed his unhappiness and said: "I understand your heart, but this is our own words between husband and wife, and we must not let outsiders hear it." ”

Guo Luoluo stared at Yinxi for a long time before he said: "Master, the concubine has always done badly before, and then I knew that it was wrong, the concubine will work hard to learn to be a wife and a mother, these words that do not know the importance of the concubine will only say it in front of you, and the concubine has never said it to her brother and sister-in-law." ”

Yinxi helped her straighten the tassel and comforted her: "I don't blame you, I'm just afraid that some people with ulterior motives will be unfavorable to you." ”

Guo Luo Luo gritted his teeth and said: "The concubine is not afraid that others will be unfavorable to the concubine, the concubine has been a firecracker since she was a child, whoever dares to light the fire of the concubine, the concubine will blow him up." ”

Yin Yu smiled, without the favor of the emperor and Queen Xiaoyi, who could she bomb?

In the evening, Yinyu went to Yin Yu's room, Yin Yu brought him white fungus lotus seed soup, Yinyu finished eating, and breathed a long sigh of relief, his deployment was disrupted by the fourth child, it turned out that the hard work on those Qiu Ba was in vain, and he needed a new leader. According to the current situation, the most likely person to lead the troops is the fourteenth brother, he rubbed his temples, and Yin Yu immediately came over to rub it for him. Yin Yu patted Yin Yu's hand, concentrating on how to prevent the old fourteenth from taking over the post of general of the Northwest.

"Master, the concubine said something that shouldn't be said." Yin Yu suddenly spoke.

Yin Yu asked Yin Yu to say, and Yin Yu continued: "Among the girls that Fujin chose for you, one of them is the daughter of General Bai. ”

Yinyu shook his head, Yin Yu didn't quite understand, Yinyu said: "The first emperor will not use people who have anything to do with me, my power in the court has made the emperor jealous, military power, the emperor will not give it to me; Second, I would be fine with you, and no matter how much I have, I will not be blessed. In this matter, you have to share more for me, and you can't let Fujin fool around. ”

Yin Yu nodded, and told Yinxi about Hongwang's schoolwork, and the two of them stopped.

Yinyu sent a message to Qingyue, so that Qingyue could find an opportunity to block Fourteen from getting the military power, once Fourteen is full-fledged, he will be self-contained, and he will have one more opponent, and he will attack the original good brother, and his reputation will be worse than that of the fourth.

Qingyue suppressed the news of Yinzhen, if her judgment was correct, Kangxi talked to Yinzhen, the purpose was to stabilize the rear, and his candidate for the northwest general must be among these officials who are greedy for ink, otherwise, if she throws this stone, it will be a stormy wave.

Qingyue went to the fourteenth master's mansion, and the one-month period had arrived, and she promised to help Su Mo'er find her sister.

Su Mo'er took the address given by Qingyue, a little incredulous, Qingyue said to her: "On the birthday of Concubine De, please go to Dabao'en Temple to pray for blessings, and the Fourteenth Fujin will also go, and when the time comes, I will bring her to see you." ”

Su Mo'er had a little tears in her eyes, and suddenly she realized that she was out of shape, and said coldly: "Since my sister is in your hands, you can do whatever you want me to do, there is only one, you can't hurt half of her hair, and you can't let her do the same thing as me." ”

"She is about to reach the age of marriage, there are a few people, you pick one, although they are not rich and noble, but they are also a well-off family, marrying a wife, cutting off her contact with us, it will be safer for her."

Su Mo'er trembled and went to take the paper in Qingyue's hand, and as soon as she touched it, she shrank it back and asked sharply, "Qingyue, what kind of conspiracy do you have?" ”

Qingyue stuffed the paper into Su Mo'er's hand and said, "Fei Seyao made us suspicious of each other in order to control us. I did the same thing he did, and it was to control you. ”

After listening to this, Su Mo'er put the paper into her sleeve: "I owe you a favor, and I will pay it back in the future!" ”

Will it be returned? It's over, continue to hate me? Qingyue smiled bitterly, maybe she should keep a hand like Fei Seyao.

Tong Ling commanded his subordinates to probe the situation in the northwest everywhere, and reported every three days, just like the government. After receiving Qingyue's instructions, he personally took the post to visit the Northwest Sanxiong, the Guanxi Heroes, and entered Zhoujiabao five times, and asked his junior brother Tieliu to go to the Dingyuan Dart Bureau to say hello to Lu Haojie, the head of the dart, and the green forest ** settled most of it. The only obstacle is the Jiguan Mountain bandit Zhang Xiaodonkey, who is resourceful and vicious, so the people in the rivers and lakes give him the nickname: Little Scorpion. There are 180 people under his command, specializing in killing people and making a living, making Shanxi merchants and travelers miserable, suing the government, and Lang Siwei, the general soldier of Da Yao, sent people into the mountains to encircle and suppress, and lost twenty or thirty of his people, so that Zhang Xiaodonkey hated his teeth itching, and since then he has been dedicated to opposing the imperial court. Some time ago, Alabutan attacked and harassed the northwest departments, he took advantage of the chaos to buy more than 100 bird tubes from the Russian big hair, and plundered the military salaries of the northwest garrison several times. As soon as the army entered the Cockscomb Mountain, Zhang Xiaodonkey led people to abandon the village and leave, and as soon as the army withdrew, they came back again, and intensified their looting of military salaries. The young master of Zhoujiabao has always had a relationship with Zhang Xiaodonkey, and he suggested that Tong Ling would meet Zhang Xiaodonkey as a Jianghu person, or there might be a turnaround.

On the Yangguan trail, a man strode with braids and a half-new cloth jacket, although it has been spring, but the northwest boundary is still a solemn place, the cold wind blows, and the mink fur is slightly thin. This person does not wear a hat, only a cloth jacket, and he is either born with a good body or a practitioner. Standing at the lookout entrance, the shopkeeper stabbed the little fairy beside him, the little fairy understood, grabbed the broad beans and stood at the door, leaning against the door and snorting the broad beans, the broad beans rattled in her mouth, her mouth was busy, her eyes were not idle, the two big watery eyes kept glancing at the man, indescribably charming and moving, plus the red jacket on her body, which made her particularly eye-catching in this cold morning. The man looked up at the signboard of the tea shop: Xingwang, and went straight into the tea shop, without looking at the beautiful little fairy, who angrily scattered the broad beans on the ground and lifted the curtain into the tea shop.

"Xiaoxian, come and greet this master." The shopkeeper Gao wiped the table for the guests and called the fairy who had just come in. Xiaoxian curled his mouth and asked, "This master, what kind of tea soup do you want to drink?" "There was a lot of displeasure on his face.

The man took out a silver ticket worth one hundred taels and said, "Go to your place with a plate, and ask the chief ladle to give you a face." ”

The shopkeeper touched his beard and asked, "Mixed with 10,000 words?" ”

The man shook his head: "Lao He, who eats the money of the drifter." ”

The shopkeeper Gao was surprised that he knew nine out of ten of the water thieves in the Yellow River, and he didn't use this person, listening to his accent, he didn't look like a local water thief. The man handed over the worship post, and the shopkeeper opened the post suspiciously: Cao Bang Wanyou Hall Master - Tong Ling worshipped. The shopkeeper Gao was shocked in his heart, and the name of the seventh generation disciple of Southern Shaolin, Jin Gong Ruyi Buddha Tong Ling, was ringing in the rivers and lakes. The shopkeeper Gao didn't dare to slack off, poured the tea in person, pushed the silver ticket back in front of Tong Ling, hugged his fists and said: "The old man has eyes and no beads, I don't know that the master of Tong Hall has arrived, and I apologize here." ”

Tong Ling cupped his fists and saluted: "Don't dare to be, the second master has an iron abacus to impress the heroes from all walks of life in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the younger generations dare not hold it up." ”

Listening to him call himself a junior, the shopkeeper is comfortable, he basically has no name in the rivers and lakes, and he can't be compared with a person like Tong Ling. He quietly looked at Tong Ling, if it weren't for this post, he would never have thought of this tall, big-handed, plainly dressed, loyal and honest offspring, that is, the famous Jin Gong Ruyi Buddha, he was more like an ordinary farmer, he immediately came back to his senses and asked: "Listen to the meaning of the hall master, want to see us in charge and do business?" ”

"Yes, please make it happen."

The shopkeeper Gao told Xiaoxian and the two "guys" to take care of Tong Ling, and ran up the mountain to deliver the post by himself.

Tong Ling waited for the news of the shopkeeper in the store, he followed a "guy" into the guest room, after entering the door, he closed the door, carefully inspected every corner of the room, sure enough, it was a black shop, the room had secret passages, mezzanines, and organs, Tong Ling frowned, he has always been above board, and he never disdained such means, and he couldn't help but feel a little disgusted with the little scorpion.

The sound of someone walking outside the door, Tong Ling crossed over, got into bed, and closed his eyes, but his eyes in his heart were wide open.

"Yo~ Master Tong, I'm resting so early." Xiaoxian pushed the door in, and sat on Tong Ling's bed with a gust of fragrant wind. Tong Ling rolled over and passed her, got out of bed, and sat on the chair.

Xiaoxian twisted his handkerchief and asked aggrievedly: "Master Tong, does the slave family have thorns on his body?" Why don't you pay attention to people? ”

Tong Ling asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Xiao Xianjiao smiled and said, "Yes, of course." ”

"Then you can say it." If she was a man, Tong Ling would have thrown her out of the door at that time.

Xiaoxian approached Tong Ling again and said: "My mother is sick, and the family has no money, I have a gold inlaid jade here, and I want to sell it to my mother for medical treatment, but unfortunately I am a woman's family, and I don't know how much this jade can be worth." Master Tong's running from north to south is a lot of knowledge after all, and I want you to help me palm my eyes. She said as she unbuttoned her chest.

"Don't look at it! These are for your mother's medical treatment. Tong Ling threw the silver ticket from the morning on the table.

Xiaoxian was stunned for a moment, and then asked Tong Ling delicately: "Then how can the slave family repay your great kindness?" Don't forget to give Tong Lingfei a second look.

Tong Ling took the cup on the table and pinched it gently, the cup turned into powder, and it rustled from his hand, "Take the silver ticket, hurry up!" ”

When Xiaoxian saw this scene, he lost his frivolous appearance, grabbed the silver ticket with a frightened face and ran out of the door.

In the evening of the next day, the shopkeeper Gao came back and asked Tong Ling to go up the mountain at night. Tong Ling sneered in his heart, the little scorpion is the little scorpion, it is all a means that cannot be put on the table, going up the mountain at night will undoubtedly increase the danger, but if he is afraid, it is not a golden jade-faced Buddha!

The shopkeeper Gao accompanied Tong Ling to dine, and during the banquet, he asked Xiaoxian to hold the wine pot and frequently added wine to Tong Ling, and Tong Ling did not refuse to come, and drank them all. After the meal, the shopkeeper Gao said to prepare for it, and only Xiaoxian and Tong Ling were left in the room. Xiaoxian pretended to accidentally fall and rolled directly into Tong Ling's arms. Tong Ling pushed her away angrily, and Xiaoxian asked Tong Ling pitifully: "Master Tong, do you look down on Xiaoxian like this?" ”

"It's not that I look down on you, it's that you despise yourself." After Tong Ling finished speaking, he went out and stood in the courtyard waiting for the shopkeeper.

After a while, the shopkeeper Gao appeared with four strong men, hugged his fists and said, "Offended, Master Tong!" Tong Ling knew that this was the rule of the rivers and lakes, and said please, and the shopkeeper Gao unceremoniously blindfolded Tong Ling's eyes. The four strong men lifted Tong Ling into a carriage, and after a "driving", the carriage began to move, and the sound of the axle grinding was particularly clear in the night.

After walking for a while, the shopkeeper Gao asked Tong Ling to get out of the car, and after walking for an hour, he changed horses. Tong Ling had been listening to the movements around him with his ears, and the four strong men were all using single knives, and the knives hit them, making a slight trembling sound. The weapon of the high shopkeeper is his iron abacus, the sound of the abacus is not crisp, and there is a muffled sound in the secret, which shows that there is a mechanism in his abacus, and there is a hidden weapon.

"Master Tong, please move again." After walking for another half an hour, the shopkeeper called the walled door, and the walled door creaked open, and the bright light came in through the black cloth, and all around were torches.

In the justice hall, there were four chairs, the top one was covered with tiger skin, and a small man in his thirties sat on it, he waved his hand, and the high shopkeeper took off the black cloth covering Tong Ling's eyes, and after taking it off, he sat on the empty chair above.

The minions in the hall shook the nine-ring knife, and the rings collided with the steel knife chaotically, making a piercing sound. Tong Ling knew that this was Zhang Xiaodonkey's dismount, and stood quietly in the center of the hall without any movement, but the people around him felt a chill.

"You are Tong Ling, the master of the Cao Gang Wanyou Hall?" Zhang Xiaodonkey asked.

"Yes." Tong Ling replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Zhang Xiaodonkey sneered: "You touch the skin of your mouth up and down, say yes?" ”

Tong Ling mentioned his internal strength and said: "A manly man, standing between heaven and earth, if you don't change your name, you won't change your surname!" ”

Everyone in the hall was shaken by Tong Ling's internal force, Zhang Xiaodonkey clapped his hands gloomily, and the people below set up an iron pot, and the smell of raw sesame oil came out of the pot.

"I heard that the master of Tong Hall is known as the Golden Jade-faced Buddha, and there was a Buddha in the Buddhist scriptures who took the green lotus in the fire, I haven't seen it, and if I want to see it today, I will ask the Golden Jade-faced Buddha to open the eyes of the brothers."

As he spoke, the sesame oil in the cauldron began to smoke.

Tong Ling smiled slightly, took out a copper plate from his arms, threw it in the oil pot, rolled up his sleeves, put his hand in the oil pot, and easily scooped up the copper plate and threw it on the ground.

"Good kung fu!" Zhang Xiaodonkey shouted, Tong Ling felt that the evil wind behind his head was not good, and he flashed slightly, and a nine-ring knife slashed on the oil pot, and the oil pot flew up with the hot oil, Tong Ling lightly vertically dodged the hot oil, but the person who made the nine-ring knife was not so lucky, the person couldn't dodge, and later let out a miserable cry. Zhang Xiaodonkey and Tong Ling fought together, the knife was deadly, interlocking, Tong Ling dodged lightly, after dismantling twenty moves, Zhang Xiaodonkey's knife technique gradually slowed down, Tong Ling raised his palm, and knocked Zhang Xiaodonkey to the ground with one move. Zhang Xiaodonkey got up from the ground in embarrassment, picked up the knife to fight again, Tong Ling said to a fat man opposite the shopkeeper: "Master Zhangzhai, Tong Ling has something important to talk to you about." ”

A hint of gloom flashed in the fat man's eyes, and then he waved his hand, and the fake little donkey stood aside angrily, and the fat man spoke: "Tong Hall Master, good eyesight!" ”