Song Hai came to Wuqiao again, looking at the gurgling water under the bridge, he couldn't help but think of the scene when he said goodbye to Qiu Sheng, and felt sad.

He came out of the front camp overnight, if not for anything else, but to find out the death of Qiu Sheng.

Song Hai remembered what Qiu Sheng said to him before leaving, he was grateful for Qiu Sheng's kindness, and felt that he had the obligation to find out the truth for him, so that he could repay Qiu Sheng's kindness.

So, he ignored military law, abandoned his official post and went straight to the capital.

Huaizhou, Xuzhou, Dajiang, in one day, Song Hai finished the two-day road, and the capital is in front of him.

The nine gates of the capital are patrolled by soldiers.

Song Hai was not shocked in his heart, could it be that his whereabouts were known to Feng Wangyuan so quickly.

No, even so, it takes time for him to report quickly, and I have not stopped or delayed time all the way, nor have I seen any fast horses pass by.

Song Hai guessed that the inspection of the city gate was not aimed at him.

The soldiers of Xidumen were talking, only to hear a soldier say to a sergeant: "Brother Tiger Head, that nun just now is really generous, and she will take a piece of silver." ”

The person who answered seemed to regret it and said, "Yes! If I knew that I would knock her more bamboo poles, how could I go out of the city so easily. ”

As he spoke, he glanced at his eyes and saw Song Hai leading the horse.

In fact, Song Hai had heard the conversation between them from afar, and a very contemptuous smile had already hung on his face.

"You, come here. What for? ”

The sergeant pointed at Song Hai and asked him to come over.

Song Hai came over honestly, but did not answer.

"Where did it come from? What for? ”

The sergeant asked, looking at it a few times.

"From Huangzhou, come to the capital to visit friends."

Song Hai calmly replied.

The sergeant once again repeated the other skills of looking at people, and circled Song Hai.

"See you're carrying a sword, from the government?"

"It's not a person in the government, it's just an ordinary person."

After Song Hai joined the army, the whole person was not as good as before, and his words became more civil.

"Ordinary people? Is there a customs clearance document? ”

Of course, the sergeant will not believe the words of the person in front of him, so he still has to look at the official documents.

Song Hai seemed to wake up from a dream, reached out and took out an item from his cuff, and then stuffed it into the sergeant's hand, "Master Jun, can my customs clearance document be useful to you?" ”

Of course, the customs clearance document obtained by the sergeant is very useful, because this document is a larger ingot of silver than the silver given to him by Yuan Huitai.

The sergeant thought to himself, it was really good luck today, and he received so much silver on duty.

"Oh! The document is not fake, release, release. ”

"There's Master Lao."

As he spoke, Song Hai had already led the horse through the wide and tall city gate cave and came to the capital.

The capital is the political center of a country or political power, the center of the imperial court, and the symbol city of the country.

In ancient times, the fall of the capital often meant the collapse of a regime and the end of an era, just like the Jin Dynasty captured Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Song Hai was coming to the capital for the first time, and for him, everything was unfamiliar.

If you want to find out the case of Qiu Sheng, you must first find a breakthrough, otherwise the second monk will be confused and have no way to start.

There were a lot of people in the capital market, and Song Hai planned to go around Qiufu first, but he didn't know how to get there.

He didn't dare to stop passers-by casually to ask for directions, so he could only think as he walked.

Seeing that there was an honest vendor passing by the street, he stepped forward and asked, "This big brother, bother, how to get to Qiufu?" ”

"Qiufu? I don't know which enemy you are asking? ”

The peddler asked rhetorically.

"It's the mansion of Qiu Sheng, the general of the protector."

Song Hai continued.

"General・・・・・・ you're talking about the enemy! The most magnificent mansion on Nanshi Street is it. But now that the Qiu Mansion has been copied, are you looking for someone? ”

The vendor then asked.

Before Song Hai could answer his words, business happened to come to the side, and he didn't say anything more, and went to do business by himself.

Following the direction of South Avenue guided by passers-by, Song Hai looked from west to east on the street, and finally came to the gate of Qiufu, which had been sealed.

Because the last time someone sneaked into the Qiu Mansion, Jing Zhaoyin sent people to guard and inspect outside the mansion, and outsiders were not allowed to enter the mansion again.

Song Hai watched from a distance at the entrance of the market outside the gate, the plaque of the Qiu Mansion had been taken off and erected aside, and no one had cleaned the door for many days, and the fallen leaves and weeds seemed that the mansion was particularly depressed and defeated.

Looking at such a scene, Song Hai couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

Outsiders know that Qiu Sheng has the grace of knowing him, he is his Bole, and they also know that Song Hai is Qiu Sheng's life-saving benefactor, so Qiu Sheng attaches great importance to him, but few people will understand that there is a father-son friendship between Qiu Sheng and Song Hai.

When Song Hai was young, his parents were gone, and fatherly love was even more luxurious for him.

Qiu Sheng cared for Song Hai very much, and always taught him to behave and do things with a fatherly face, and Song Hai was very grateful to Qiu Sheng for his fatherly care.

This is also the reason why Song Hai ignored a qiē and only sought to find out the truth about Qiu Sheng's death.

Nancheng City is a place where business travelers from all over the world gather, and people in the capital call it a big city, but people outside the capital are accustomed to calling it Nanshi.

The area of the southern city is very large, and there are many merchants.

The profession of businessman should have originated very early, and the names of various big businessmen in history are often seen in the history books, Fan Li, Lü Buwei and so on are all famous rich businessmen, among which Fan Li is considered to be the originator of businessmen.

Fan Li, he was originally from Chu State, and he was a doctor in Yueguo.

In the battle of Wu Yuefu Jiao, the Yue Kingdom was defeated.

Fan Li offered the king of Yue, and humbled himself to ask for peace.

After returning to China, he assisted the king of Yue to make great efforts to govern and finally destroy the state of Wu.

He thought that Gou Jian could only share hardships and hardships, not happiness, so he retired, resigned and went into hiding, and took the great beauty Xi Shi to the country of Qi.

He is good at management and has assets of tens of millions.

After moving to Dingtao, the number Tao Zhu Gong.

Some people say that he and Xi Shi drove a boat into the five lakes to live in seclusion.

So far, there is still a saying on the edge of Taihu Lake that "planting bamboo and raising fish is a thousand times more profitable, thanks to Xi Shi and Fan Li"

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In the market, there were not only merchants from all over the country, but also from overseas feudal countries, and even many merchants from the country of Makime, who had been fighting with the kingdom for many years, all of whom exchanged their goods in this large capital city, doing their own business and taking what they needed.

When there are more people coming and going, it is natural that news from all over the world will come together.

Song Hai chose an inn with the most merchants near Nanshi and stayed there, hoping to take the opportunity to find out some news about Qiu Sheng's case.

After a few days, Song Hai heard a lot of news, what Mumu country's ruling Empress Dowager Xiao rewarded his favorite male pet Yuan Ang Sijin in the courtyard, and allowed him to walk in Shangshu Province; What is the coup d'état of the prince of the Nanyang feudal kingdom Da'anguo, who killed the old monarch and proclaimed himself king; What Rongzhou recently dug up a piece of beautiful jade in the mountains, which is worth a fortune; Even the peach-colored scandal about the Queen Mother and the regent is occasionally heard.

But these were not what Song Hai wanted to hear, and he was determined to find a new source.