In the afternoon of this day, someone sent a post to the fourth child of the Shu Wang's family, which read: Go to the Wuhou Temple alone for a while, and talk about important matters. The signature is Qiu Liang. His Royal Highness gladly went to the appointment. Naturally, he didn't dare to go alone seriously, so he took two capable guards. When I arrived at the Wuhou Temple, I wandered around, and saw a person in front of me who looked like Qiu Liang from a distance, beckoned to him slightly, and flashed into a matching hall. The Fourth Highness was dressed and ordered the guards to wait outside and stop the others, and he went in alone. I went in and didn't come out until it was nearly dusk. The guards were suspicious, and when they looked inside, their master was long gone. The guards were anxious and hurriedly ran back to the Shu Palace. The king of Shu ordered someone to find Qiu Liang; Qiu Liang has been working in the yamen since the morning, and he hasn't left yet; Lunch was also eaten with colleagues. This whole day talked about the Wuhou Temple, and he never even left the yamen.

Even if he doesn't like the fourth child, he is also his biological son after all. The king of Shu hurriedly called Qiu Liang to check it himself. Where can I find it out at a moment's notice? The post pretending to be himself meeting with His Royal Highness, the words on it are not his.

Early the next morning, the guard of the Iron Statue Temple sent someone back to the city to report that there was nothing last night, and he waited in vain. The king of Shu said: "What did you wait for a night in vain?" The messenger went out to ask the soldier, and the soldier said, "Yesterday, His Royal Highness the Fourth came to pass the order, let us prepare for our lives, and the rest of the Fang family robbed people at night." The king of Shu hurriedly called him in and asked him to tell him what had happened.

The soldier said, yesterday afternoon, the four highnesses led the troops to the Iron Statue Temple, holding the edict of the king of Shu to tell them, the prince tricked the enemy, and someone would come to attack at night tonight, so that they could set up an ambush.

The King of Shu was shocked: "You read that right? Is it really the fourth? ”

The soldier said: "Our General Huang knows the Fourth Highness, and we also see Lord Qiu Liang and Mr. Ding Wangji wearing clothes and armor mixed in the ordinary soldiers. ”

"Is he blind?" The King of Shu patted the case and said, "Why did Qiu Liang leave the yamen?" ”

The soldier was dumbfounded! After a long time, he said: "The fourth highness is at the end...... took away the women and children of the Fang family...... It was ordered by the king's hand. ”

The King of Shu was furious and kicked over: "Waste! "Kick the soldier to the ground.

At this time, someone came to report that His Royal Highness had found it. Early in the morning, someone sent a large cart of gifts to Qiu Liang's family, but inside the car was a dead plucked little hen, and a stripped of his clothes and shaved his hair and eyebrows. Two words are written on the top of the head: eggs. The man had woken up, but he was frightened and speechless, and Qiu Liangzheng sent a carriage to send him back to the house first. The king of Shu suddenly felt embarrassed, grabbed the cup and inkstone vase on the desk and smashed it to the ground.

Jia Cong was still sleeping at this time, and Qiu Liang took a young man to the residence to carry him up. Jia Cong stared and listened to him for a long time, and said: "I'm hungry ......" Qiu Liang was helpless, let him wash and eat snacks first, and Jia Cong listened to him talk again from the beginning while eating. Hearing that someone pretended to be Qiu Liang to hook up with the fourth child, he swallowed the dragon in his mouth and muttered, "How could I pull you?" Didn't that old girl say that you are a lonely minister? ”

Qiu Liang couldn't help but glance at the young man he brought and asked, "What lonely minister?" ”

Jia Cong said: "That Ding's family, the princess's concubine, the old sister-in-law who helps the fourth child." Last time, she said that Qiu Liang was a lonely minister, don't provoke him. Nai lowered his head and took a sip of soup, "This fourth child has been kidnapped?" What do you want the prince to take in exchange for or a ransom? ”

Qiu Liang sighed: "Didn't you listen to what I said just now? ”

"I haven't woken up yet." Jia Cong said, "Last night, I watched the stars and told the legend of Azeroth, and I slept very late. ”

Qiu Liang said: "The women and children of the Fang family were rescued. ”

"Huh?" The spoon in Jia Cong's hand paused, "Explain it clearly!" I sobered up. ”

Qiu Liang then spoke in detail again, looked at him with a smile and said, "It's your idea to leave the people of the Fang family, and you have to go into the water to help in this matter." ”

Jia Cong pushed the dim sum plate and glanced at Qiu Liang: "When did Master Qiu start to learn to be a scoundrel?" ”

Qiu Liang stroked his beard: "It has always been, I was embarrassed to be unfamiliar with it before." ”

Jia Cong rolled his eyes, grabbed the chair with his backhand and said, "The fourth child of the prince's family doesn't look like a reliable person. What's the deal with the oracle? ”

Qiu Liang smiled bitterly: "The edict really looks like the prince himself wrote it. General Huang has been following the prince for many years, but he didn't recognize it as a fake. ”

Jia Cong frowned and said, "Handwriting is difficult to imitate. ”

Qiu Liang said: "When the prince himself looks at it, he feels like he wrote it." ”

Jia Cong thought about it again: "That's not right. The handwriting is like fingerprints, even if it is imitated, it is just coaxing ordinary people, where are acquaintances? Has the prince ever lost any pen and ink? When I was a child, I heard my husband talk about a case. Someone asked a very powerful framer to cut out a rich man's words and frame them in one place to make up an IOU, and after the rich man died, he used the IOU to blackmail his son's money. ”

Qiu Liang's eyes lit up: "That paper is solid and thick!" Immediately he called someone to go to the yamen to get the false edict.

Jia Cong said again: "The prince doesn't need to be in such a hurry, the Fang family can't make any waves." It's the age of firearms. He squeezed his eyes, "The Fang family has no money, so they can't afford to buy a fire. Gun. What if the rest of the party supported which child was the main one? Zhenyuan's martial arts are always strong, and it wasn't that our fifth uncle was shot three times. ”

Qiu Liang smiled bitterly: "The trouble is here." A few days ago, I searched the Fang family's property and found that something was wrong. ”

"Huh? Is it reconciled? ”

"You don't need to reconcile accounts, just take a look and you'll know it's wrong." Qiu Liang said, "How many big families did Fang Xiong raid in the capital back then!" Now the Fang family's treasury is far less than one percent. ”

Jia Cong blinked: "You mean, the ones that Fang Xiong got out of the capital were not handed over to the prince, but swallowed privately?" ”

Qiu Liang nodded and said, "Most of them have been swallowed privately." ”

Jia Cong chuckled in his heart: No wonder Fang Xiong wanted to rebel against the King of Shu. Fang Xiong was originally led into Beijing by the King of Shu, and confiscated the property of so many big families in Beijing, all of which he privately swallowed. According to Fang Xiong's financial resources, it is good to use the name of the king of Shu to distribute the territory. As long as the soldiers and horses are hidden in the deep mountains, when the world is decided, and all the kings are taking care of their own people, he will send troops to kill the king of Shu, and he can cover the sky in Shu with one hand.

Because of the fear that the guns would be too chaotic, the firearms of Red Bone were not sold casually. Fang Xiong himself couldn't buy firearms, and all the firearms in Shu were bought by the King of Shu. Since he has hidden so much money, where will the king of Shu give him firearms? Naturally, the money returned from going abroad to rob with firearms will not be distributed to him. Fang Xiong was afraid that he felt that he had been unloaded and killed a donkey. With thousands of dollars in his pocket, money is his confidence, so he was unwilling to let the King of Shu dry like this; If you can't buy firearms, you can't beat the King of Shu, so Fang Xiong really has to secretly kill the King of Shu.

Jia Cong thought for a long time: "In this way, the Fang family still has a huge amount of money hidden and I don't know where it is. Then, the people who took away the women and children of the Fang family may not be the people of the Fang family, and they are not guaranteed to be those who know about this matter. ”

"What does Mr. Jia mean?"

"Since ancient times, it is the money that touches people's hearts." Jia Cong said, "A little profit can make people forget their ancestors, not to mention a huge amount of money? Lord Qiu, I thought that I could send more people to Qingcheng Mountain to wander around. ”

Qiu Liang and the young man looked at each other and asked, "What kind of faith did you get from your suspicions?" ”

Jia Cong nodded and said, "Zhenyuan is a strange person. In his early years, he was a thief in the green forest, and he also had an imitation of the gold medal of the first emperor in his hand, which was imitated very realistically. After somehow becoming a monk, he lived in Qingcheng Mountain for decades. He hadn't been anywhere else! As a thief, you should be very sensitive to things like treasure. Besides, he has nothing to do with Fang Xiong, what is he doing to get involved in the Fang family's affairs? As the saying goes, if you have nothing to do, you will be a traitor or a thief. It was true that he wanted to rescue the women and children of the Fang family, but he didn't have any good intentions. I thought he was coming for me. Now it seems that I am just the barrel of a gun that he used to win the trust of the Fang family. ”

"Hiss......" Qiu Liang took a breath, "He's not from the first emperor?" ”

"Is the gold medal real?"

"It's not."

"Again!" Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "Imitation of gold medals has been done, can it still be the first emperor's person?" ”

Qiu Liang said: "Why did he want to kill Ding Wangji to test you if you have the heart to stand on your own?" ”

"Otherwise, what would the people of the Fang family believe in him? A Taoist priest, helping them for no reason, are you the Fang family, do you believe it? Even if you believe for a while, will you give him money? Jia Cong laughed and said, "I thought that he was a master in the world, and he didn't change his thief nature after practicing for decades." So why do you need money when you're older? ”

Qiu Liang looked sideways at the young man, who was thinking. Jia Cong also looked at him when he saw this, but Qiu Liang didn't introduce him. The young man raised his head and asked, "According to Mr. Jia, can the person who robbed the women and children of the Fang family have anything to do with Zhenyuan?" ”

"Probably not." Jia Cong pondered, "Don't those people have soldiers and horses?" Zhenyuan is a thief, where did the soldiers and horses come from? ”

The young man said: "Qingxiao Daoist said that Zhenyuan received a letter at the end of the old year, and burned it after reading it. This man must have accomplices. ”

Jia Cong said: "I still think that the only one who can join forces with thieves is also a thief, and there will be no soldiers and horses in his hands." They are known as the Three Thieves of Xinglin, and the one who wrote to him must be the other two thieves. Unless those soldiers and horses themselves were Fang Xiong's subordinates, the thieves joined forces with the Fang family. ”

Qiu Liang's yamen is not far away, and someone has already taken the fake Shu king's edict over this time, and it is really framed if you look closely. Qiu Liang sighed: "There is such a way! ”

Jia Cong disagreed: "The methods that people have used are not new to them. He thought about it again, "How many people know about fake gold medals?" ”

Qiu Liang asked, "There are only a handful." Mr. Jia suspects that there is a mole? ”

Jia Cong said: "To be honest, their trick is quite good. Why didn't you think of it before? Could it be that he won a fake gold medal and coaxed the presiding Taoist of Qingyang Palace to remind him of this, drawing a scoop with a gourd? ”

Qiu Liang pondered: "It's really possible. I'll go back and check it out. ”

Jia Cong yawned: "I'm so sleepy, I haven't slept enough." The horizontal and vertical people have run away, and I have come up with the idea, and it is not to catch it quickly, go back and sleep for a while. ”

The young man smiled and said, "Mr. Jia is not very worried. ”

Jia Cong said: "No matter how capable they are, they don't have firearms in their hands after all." What waves can be turned? He yawned again.

The young man nodded: "It makes sense." Does Mr. Jia know who I am? ”

"I don't want to know." Jia Cong waved his hand, "We don't know each other." The young man smiled and said goodbye to Qiu Liang.

After the two of them left, Jia Cong went back to the house and asked Jia Huan: "This is the eldest of the King of Shu?" The Son? ”

Jia Yu nodded: "Not bad." Since the Fang family still has money in their hands, we don't need to worry about this matter. Whatever they wanted to do, they had to try to buy firearms. ”

"That's right."

Jia Cong was really sleepy, and he told Chen Ruijin last night that the Warcraft was about to dawn, so he really wanted to go back to sleep. Coincidentally, Liu Feng came in from outside and said, "Miss Chen, hasn't you gotten up today?" ”

"yes, we were in love for too long last night."

Liu Feng said: "Just now I was cutting flowers and branches outside, and the young man who came with Master Qiu came to me to inquire about Miss Chen. ”

Jia Cong scratched his head: "The son of the King of Shu is so gossipy!" What did he say? ”

He said, I heard that this Miss Chen is as beautiful as heaven and earth, but is it true? I said, it's really rare, it's very rare. He asked Miss Chen which one was better-looking, and I said that the one next door was more beautiful. ”

Jia Cong and Jia Cong looked at each other: "What does he mean by this?" ”

Jia Yu thought for a long time and said, "I'm afraid that someone will spread the appearance of Chen Yatou outside." It's not good, if it's too outrageous, I'm afraid it will cause trouble. But I don't know how much truth Ding Wangji told the King of Shu. ”

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "Whatever, I'll go back and sleep first." ”

He had just taken two steps, and before he had bypassed the big screen, someone came in and replied, "There is a scholar outside the door who asks to see him." He handed over a post.

Jia Cong said annoyedly: "I don't let people sleep!" I took the post casually and glanced at it, and I woke up on the spot! It reads: Liu Yifei. This name is obviously a homonym for "Liu Yifei". Jia Cong was suspicious for a moment, but he met a fellow countryman in his previous life. After thinking about it, if you are a fellow countryman, why do you need to write Miss Liu's name wrong? I'm afraid that it will be spread again. Then I ordered you to come in.

As soon as this scholar entered the door, Jia Cong recognized it, it was the young lady of the Fang family. Nai tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Mr. Liu is so bold!" ”

The young lady said: "At this time, everyone thinks that our family has hidden in the deep mountains and old forests. Besides, no one knew me. ”

Jia Cong couldn't help but yawn again: "I'm sorry, I slept late last night." I made a deal with your general, and the two sides were settled. What did Mr. Liu do when he came to me again? ”

Miss Fang said: "Make a deal with Mr. Jia again, and bother Mr. Jia to come up with an idea to help our family get rid of the fake 'General Fang'." ”

"Huh?" Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, "Didn't he receive the favor of Lord Fang Xiong?" I think he's quite sober. Your family is only women and children, and you have to rely on him. ”

Miss Fang looked at Jia Cong for a long time and asked, "Does Mr. Jia know that there is a treasure in our family?" ”

"I heard what Master Qiu said just now. I copied it from my home in the capital. ”

"If Mr. Jia can help us get rid of that person, the treasure will be divided equally between our two families." She suddenly said with affection in her eyes, "The little girl is also willing to make a promise with her body." ”

Jia Cong was so frightened that he jumped back and stayed away from her: "Don't mess around!" Those who are late in life and don't sell their bodies! Miss Fang was stunned. Jia Cong hurriedly said, "It's easy to discuss business if you have money." In business, you don't have to worry about the rest. Miss Fang is open-minded. If you want to find someone to rely on, it is better to find yourself, isn't it more reliable than to give it to a stranger at will? ”