At the foot of Panlong Mountain, there are soldiers and horses of unknown origin stationed for a night. The next morning, the fine ghost from last night came again. He entered the big tent of the Chinese army with his hands proud, and said to the general of the garrison: "Dare to ask the general's name?" ”

The general said, "Didn't I sue you last night?" Taihu King Five. ”

The fine ghost sneered, "This is just to coax me for a while." The age of the five village lords of Taihu Lake is younger than that of the general, let alone ten years old, and Princess Jian'an had seen it when she was young. ”

The general was shocked and said with a dry smile: "The princess has never seen a water bandit." The delicate ghost looked at him with a smile. The general had an epiphany. Yes, the fifth king of Taihu Lake has been dominating for many years, and the court has not moved; After that piece of land fell into the hands of King Wu, it was also cleared several times, and General Wei Ruoxuan, who was invincible in Dongying, also had nothing to do with him. I'm afraid that I will be the same as the king of the golden horn and the king of the silver horn, but he will be a thief by order. Concubine Ning is quite favored in the palace, Princess Jian'an had seen Wang Wu when she was young, and she knew that Wang Wu must be the emperor's person. The strategy of pretending to be Wang Wu was obviously recognized, and the general was slightly embarrassed.

The fine ghost said slowly: "Come to think of it, this leader is also from the court. I don't know if it's the Yellow Wind Monster or the Yellow Eyebrow Ancestor? ”

The general smiled dryly again and said, "I don't know who is the Taishang Laojun above your king?" ”

The fine ghost skin smiled and said: "Lao Jun is naturally Lao Jun." He looked at the general again, "Elder Jin Cicada only has one. Our king wants it, and so does the chief. Since the lower realm is lowered, it naturally follows the rules of the lower realm. Our leader wants to fight with the leader for three days, and the winner gets Tang Seng to go, how about it? ”

The general thought for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay." "They have Princess Jian'an and the terrain in their hands, and they have more soldiers and horses, which is fair. So he made an appointment with the leader of the fine ghost for three days to fight. The fine ghost bowed to the ground and swaggered away.

The general then prepared a trench and a sword and arrow fire at the foot of the mountain. guns, etc. Two days later, there was still a day left before the battle with the people on the mountain, and suddenly a patrolling scout came to report that the soldiers were coming! The general was shocked: "Quickly find out who is it!" ”

The scout said: "Look at the banner of the soldier A is the Royal Forest Army, and the word 'Gan' is picked on the flagpole, and there are five or six thousand people who come, and they are coming straight to our army." There was a woman who looked like a village girl sitting on a horse in front of her. ”

The general pondered for a moment, then stumbled and said, "I'm afraid it's Gan Lei." Hit the trick! Nai asked, "How long will it take for the Guards to arrive?" ”

The scout said, "We've reached the hill ahead." ”

The general pinched his fingers, and it would be too late if he didn't leave. looked up at the mountain, gritted his teeth and said, "It's a good thing to drive the wolf." Wait, the old man will come back to settle the score. "He ordered to leave the camp tent and other baggage, and leave immediately with the dry food blade.

As soon as they left on the front foot, the Royal Forest Army chased after them, and when they saw the mess all over the ground, they knew that there were indeed soldiers and horses stationed, and they hurriedly followed the horseshoe prints to chase over. Those who play for their lives in front of them run away, and those who chase after them vigorously. Fortunately, both armies have just recuperated and are full of energy, and they can play "You Chase Me and Run" for a long time. Soon after the Royal Forest Army left, there were chariots and horses gradually coming down on the mountain, Princess Jian'an's ten-mile red makeup and the soldiers sent by King Lu were a lot, and there were more than 300 cavalry guards to escort the back, An An walked steadily along the path, and there were more than 50 bandits sent out more than two miles.

Seeing that there was a big road ahead, the leader of the three hundred cavalry clasped his fists at the bandits and said, "Thank you leaders for your help, there will be great rewards in the future." ”

The leader of the bandits said, "Well said. Our family's business in Beijing is expected to be taken care of by adults. ”

The cavalry leader laughed and said, "This is natural. Our two families are good friends, and our master has always been fair. The meat is in the pot, and everyone has soup to drink, so why not? The thieves also laughed and said goodbye.

When a group of thieves returned to the bottom of the mountain and looked at the baggage all over the ground, someone said, "Hurry up and move up the mountain." ”

The other said, "No! These can only be given to the Guards for nothing. If they are suspicious, we have to move. ”

Again, "That's what you said...... But they haven't counted the numbers, so how do they know that we moved some? Besides, it can't be taken by the people of the left near the mountains? Horizontal and vertical is not wanted by the master's family. ”

Fang Cai said: "It's better not to move." These things are not worth much, and it takes a lot of effort to move them up the mountain, which is not worth it. Are you looking for anything soft? The leader of the big object doesn't look down on it. ”

The thieves then carefully selected and found nothing worthless, and said disappointedly: "So poor." ”

Another smiled: "These are all officials and thieves, they don't have much oil and water, even if they get good things, they have to hand them over to the master." How can we be at ease. Ming'er still has to deliver goods to Beijing. And they laughed, and then they forsaken the coarse benzene and did not take any of them, and went up the mountain with joy.

When they were gone, a man jumped down from the old locust tree at the foot of the mountain, looking at the ground and thinking for a long time. After waiting for another two hours, someone from the Royal Forest Army came to clean up the battlefield and picked up all the baggage and other belongings.

The next day, seven or eight bandits came down from the mountain, all of whom disguised themselves as ordinary mountain people and sent a cart full of goods out of the mountain. The mule cart walked slowly for most of the day, and when it came to a market town, it found a secluded alley to unload the contents of the cart. After a while, more than 20 big men came out of the tavern not far away, and they came over with their shoulders and shoulders with wine burps. The leader of the drunken man whispered something to the bandits, turned around and gestured. The drunkards woke up, and each of them took out a piece of baggage, wrapped up the belongings, and carried them on his back, turned and went back to the tavern, fetched his horse, and whipped up his whip and headed for the capital. The bandits drove the mule cart back to the mountain slowly.

Not long after the drunks left, a man approached the tavern where they had been eating and asked for some food and drink. After eating for a while, he said that he had just seen a group of drunken men riding horses, and said with a smile: "I don't know if I will fall off the horse and knock my teeth." He said enviously, "Look at that appearance, he is not a nobleman, his clothes are so neat!" There are also horse rides. ”

The shopkeeper loves to be talkative, and said, "That's the guy from the hidden phoenix house!" Do you know that the hermitage of the phoenix? The largest antique shop in Kyoto. Don't underestimate them, their owners are extremely wealthy and generous, and the guys have silver in their waists. ”

This man couldn't help but sneer: It turned out that the hidden phoenix residence in the capital was doing stolen goods. It's just that the "adult" must not be King Yan's person, otherwise, it would be extremely cheap to take advantage of the Royal Forest Army to help them send Princess Jian'an back to Beijing. It can be known that the Imperial Forest Army was recruited by the king of the mountain or "adult" to be the robber. It may not be too late to catch up with the drunks, so he feasted, bought a horse at the bazaar, and galloped to the capital.

He was hurrying on horseback, and when he was about to arrive at the capital, he encountered Princess Jian'an's convoy, and the three hundred cavalry were gone. I thought to myself: If those people are invited by Rongguo Mansion, they don't have to hide it, just follow them into the city. Since it was hidden, it was probably the idea of someone else. He was alone, he couldn't do anything, he just pretended to be a curious passer-by and looked around for a long time, and the horse rushed into the city. At the gate of the city, there are people from Rongguofu waiting eagerly, among them is holding a weak-crowned young man, holding a pergola in his hand and looking into the distance, thinking that it is the quasi-horse Jia Huan. The man smiled coldly in his heart: his daughter-in-law had spent several nights in the hands of the bandits, and he didn't say anything about it; Since she is willing to tell the thief that she knows the "Taihu Lake King Five", she may not let someone buy it.

On the afternoon of this day, Zhao Cheng, the Soldiers and Horses of the Five Cities, received an anonymous report that the antique shop "Hidden Phoenix House" colluded with the bandits to sell stolen goods. In recent years, there have been more stolen goods, and the government does not care at all. It's just that the note sent to report the news is a good Xue Tao note, who uses this for ordinary people? It can be seen that the person who reported the news was not an idle person. He was worried: he didn't know whose property it was, nor who wanted to seek it. Is this case going to be handled or not?

On the other hand, Rongguo Mansion can be regarded as receiving Princess Jian'an. Jia Huan saw the carriage and horse coming from a distance, let out a sigh of relief, greeted him, and greeted Zhong Wei when he saw him. I asked what was going on, and it was much later than the original estimate. Zhong Wei said: "Let's go back and talk about it." Jia Huan knew that there was an accident on the road, nodded, and ran to the princess's carriage to give a deep salute: "The princess has worked hard all the way. Princess Jian'an's heart fell to the ground, and she smiled in the car. Knowing that there were many onlookers next to him, he couldn't lose his manners, so he ordered the maid to go out and say something about the scene, which was nothing more than "okay" or something like that. The dowry of this brigade entered Beijing, and it provoked many idlers to watch.

It's just that since he hasn't gotten married yet, he naturally can't live directly in Rongguo Mansion. The Situ family is not without property in the capital. Moreover, Situ Pan, the king of Yan, is his uncle, and the empress dowager is his grandmother, and he has done a lot of good deals in the past two years, so he has to add some dowry, right? Situ Pan then made the decision and ordered someone to place her in one of his private houses. I don't know if he did it on purpose, the small courtyard happened to be the one in Lychee Lane, which was lent to Lin Hai to live in his early years.

On the Taiwan side, everyone else is busy preparing to go to the Malay Archipelago in a few days and has no time, only Jia Cong quickly entered Beijing, and he just arrived yesterday. After Princess Jian'an was settled, Zhong Weituo's brothers took good care of her, and she went to Rongguo Mansion alone. Because of Shi Li's instructions, Zhong Wei did not mention the poisoning of the Empress Dowager, and Jia Huan only said that she stole the items in the palace and sent them to the hidden phoenix residence to sell.

Speaking of the soldiers and horses he met a few days ago that might be the king of Chu, Zhong Wei said with a smile: "The plan to drive away the wolf and devour the tiger was the princess's own idea. She also guessed that they would leave spies to check on the follow-up, and it was also her idea to plant it to the hermitage phoenix. Did General Gan Lei chase people down? Is it the King of Chu's people? ”

"I haven't come back yet." "Those people are quite capable of running." According to the baggage that was shipped back, it looked like something from the Wu Kingdom. It's just that Wu goods are all over the world, and it's not easy to decide. Turning around, Brother Cong went to Feng Ziying's house to investigate, and by the way, he helped King Wu pick up the black pot. ”

"I'm not going." Jia Cong said lazily, "Feng Ziying is not stupid, how can she be so easily fooled." By the way, don't worry about living in seclusion. The Empress Dowager, King Yan and the suspected King of Chu are scuffling, let's wait and see the excitement. ”

Jia Huan didn't know about the "poisoning", and he should clean up the hidden phoenix house to vent his anger for Chen Ruijin, and said with a smile: "My daughter-in-law helped her concubine?" Jia Cong glanced at him.

Shi Li held his chin in both hands and said, "We still have to help with the fire." Zhao Cheng, that coward, didn't dare to make a move, for fear that there would be some big man behind him. ”

Jia Cong said, "Okay. Does Situ Pan have any son who is short of money? ”

Shi Li thought for a while: "None of them are short of money." Although the son of the world is honest, the people around him are not very honest. The third elder of his family is younger, and his ambition has risen; After the death of the second child, he didn't think it was a warning. By the way, Situ has had two more sons in the past few years, do you know? ”

"I don't know." Jia Cong happened to sit opposite Shi Li, he was a lazy bone, and when he saw Shi Li being lazy, he was lazy, and he also held his chin with both hands, "The son of the world is higher after all, just him." ”

Zhong Wei looked at the two of them face to face and was about to fall asleep, coughing twice: "Everyone has been careful these days, don't make any more trouble." The Empress Dowager still has a lot of characters in her hands. ”

Jia Cong said: "Isn't it in King Yan's hands?" Since the princess had taken up residence in his yard, her uncle was in charge of her safety. By the way, Situ Pan himself is short of money, isn't he? ”

Shi Li hurriedly straightened up: "Don't mess around!" Jia Cong rolled his eyes. Shi Linai said, "Since the third shopkeeper of Qin San in the west of the city abducted the fifth master, her subordinates are much worse than her, the harvest is not as good as a year, and King Yan is also short of money, and now he has sent people to mine Dongying's gold mines." The hidden phoenix residence fell into his hands, and it must be clear. ”

Jia Cong frowned and said, "Won't you destroy this big stolen goods?" ”

"Why do you want to extinguish?" Shi Li gave him a blank look, "Do you know how big the palace is?" Do you know how many good things are in it? Destroying the hidden phoenix residence is cutting off a financial route. Besides, what the Empress Dowager wants in the end is not firearms? Did you send someone to tell Sù about the true Ming Dao chief Liu Hu? ”

"Nope." Jia Cong said, "I just notified my colleagues in Nanyang and the West. He grinned, "Didn't he want to buy a firearm?" Firearms are the most expensive, so you have to shop around, right? ”

Shi Li clapped his hands: "See? In the end, the money of the hidden phoenix residence does not have to fall into our hands. ”

The corners of Jia Cong's mouth twitched: "The empress dowager can't let her live in peace, you people in the capital can watch it." ”

Who knew that a maid came to Lychee Lane at this time, and she didn't enter the gate of Rongguo Mansion, but went around to Lixiang Courtyard. Jia Huan hurriedly went out and asked the princess what she had to say. The maid said, "The princess asked who the soldiers and horses that almost robbed us that day belonged to them, but they couldn't find out." If it is found out, let it go, and she will deal with it herself. ”

Everyone in the back room heard it, and Jia Cong and Shi Ligu took a picture: "So ambitious!" ”

Jia Huan smiled: "Wansheng knows." But if Wansheng helps, please ask the princess to just command. It's just that General Gan Lei has not returned from chasing the thieves, so I don't know which one it is. ”

The maid said, "In that case, let's wait for him to come back." "He resigned.

That night, Jia Cong went back to the house to wash up and get ready to rest. Because he knew that Chen Ruijin had gone out, he went next door to see if she had come back. waited until the third watch day for Chen Ruijin to come back, and patted his heart: "An Sheng." ”

Chen Ruijin smiled lightly and said, "I'm looking for Princess Jian'an to talk." ”

"Huh?"

"Sue her Jia family is the least rare daughter-in-law of 'no talent is virtue'." She said, "The more capable you are, the more important the Jia family values." ”

Jia Cong blinked: "Does she believe you?" ”

"I was going to be skeptical, but I wrote a few words and she believed it."

Jia Cong didn't know why, she didn't say or ask. "Then who are you to tell her?"

"I can probably guess it." Chen Ruijin tilted his head, "I called her to be the third sister-in-law of Huan." Jia Cong smirked for a long time.