Xu Zengshou drank too much last night, and he slept well all night, and he didn't get up yet.

At the gate of Xu's house, several family members cleaned the steps up and down early in the morning, and saw that the sun was a little warm, so they hurriedly fetched well water to splash on the ground, and washed the stone steps with a broom. Where to break, this is Zhongshan Palace! ”

"I'm waiting for the holy decree to go to the Zhongshan Palace!"

The captain of the brocade clothes flashed the palace waist card, raised his legs and rushed in, and the people of the Xu Mansion still wanted to stop him, so he heard a deep voice in a deep voice: "Let them in!" ”

As soon as the Xu family looked up, they saw that their own master, who had gone to the court early in the morning, was saddled and dismounted.

The family members were at a loss, and hurriedly got out of the way, and the group of Jinyi lieutenants broke into the Xu Mansion.

After a while, Xu Zengshou, who was still full of alcohol, was tied out in a moon-white coat, Xu Zengshou was as angry as a tiger, and roared loudly: "Bastard, you are so bold, you dare to arrest me, let go!" Ding Laosi, Xu Laoshi, pick up the stick, and blow these *** away to me! ”

Under his pulling, the few brocade-clothed lieutenants who were pulling the rope staggered and stood unsteadily. Xu Laohu was exerting his might, and he heard a deep shout: "The third child, you dare to be presumptuous!" ”

Xu Zengshou raised his head and saw his eldest brother standing in front of him, and couldn't help but be stunned: "Big brother, haven't you gone to the court yet?" "What's going on?" ”

"What's going on!"

Xu Huizu lifted a crumpled piece of letter paper in front of him, and asked sharply, "What is this?" ”

"This?"

Xu Zengshou looked at it, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and he woke up from drunkenness, and he stammered: "Big brother, I'm ...... I ......"

Xu Huizu slapped his face, and roared with a blue face: "You did a good thing!" My Xu family is full of loyalty, and now this reputation is lost in your hands, do you know what sins you have committed? Do you have to let my Xu family bear the great sin of the Nine Clans? ”

He brushed the paper away and shouted, "Take it away!" ”

Xu Zengshou was scolded by the eldest brother in a daze, and he didn't resist, he was pulled and dragged into a big car, and the horseman in front of him whipped up, and Ma Mu galloped away.

At this time, Xu Zengshou's wife and concubine, even with a few children, ran out in a panic, and when they saw that Xu Zengshou was pulled into a carriage and had driven away, the second Mrs. Xu knelt in front of Xu Huizu with a tom, and begged with tears in her eyes: "Uncle, uncle, what crime did Zengshou commit, Uncle is the head of the Xu family, if there is anything wrong with Zengshou, don't you just ask the family law to beat him, why do you need to be an official?"

"A woman's opinion!"

Xu Huizu flicked his sleeves and was about to pull the saddle and get on the horse, although the concubines and Xu Zengshou's children didn't know what was going on, they also knelt down in front of Xu Huizu, begging repeatedly, Xu Huizu said with a calm face: "It's late, I have already reported to the emperor!" The only way to deal with it is to obey His Majesty's judgment! ”

Second Mrs. Xu cried and asked, "Uncle, what crime did you commit to increase your longevity?" ”

Xu Huizu didn't answer, pulled the saddle and got on the horse, raised his hand and whipped his hand, and chased after those brocade captains.

In the Zhengxin Palace, Zhu Yunfen, who had just left the early dynasty, glared angrily at Xu Zengshou who was kneeling in front of him.

Before the early dynasty began, Xu Huizu came to ask him for guilt, explaining the matter of the third brother's collaboration with the enemy, Zhu Yunwen was furious, and immediately called several Jinyi lieutenants to follow him back to get people, all during the early dynasty, Zhu Yunfen's face was not good-looking, and all the civil and military officials saw it in their eyes, but they didn't dare to ask. When the morning dynasty dispersed, according to the custom, he should go to the side hall to use some food, and then go to the Zhengxin Hall to review the chapter, but Zhu Yunfen had no intention of dealing with official business, let alone dining, he went directly into the Zhengxin Palace, and waited there angrily, until Xu Huizu brought his younger brother over, and Zhu Yunyan's anger that had been suppressed for a long time finally erupted.

"Good! Okay, it turns out that I have such a big eyes and ears of King Yan hidden around me, no wonder my court soldiers and horses have been defeated repeatedly, it turns out that you are reporting to King Yan! ”

Zhu Yunfen waved the official letter that was searched from Xu Zengshou's arms, and said with a cruel smile: "The soldiers and horses of my Beijing camp have gone to three of them, and the outside of Tianfu is real and the inside is empty, huh?" You sent this letter out, do you want to let Yan Yi lead the troops all the way into Jinling City and take my head! Well? If it weren't for Hui Zu's loyalty, I would have been buried in your hands! ”

As he was talking, a group of female eunuchs came. They waited in the side hall to wait for the emperor to eat, and waited for most of the time without the emperor appearing, and thought that the court was delayed this morning, and after inquiring again, they learned that the emperor came directly to the Zhengxin Palace, and a group of palace maids and little eunuchs hurriedly held the plates and bowls, and brought the meal to the Zhengxin Palace.

The steward and eunuch walked in the head, and did not pay attention to the situation in the palace, and when he entered the door, he bent down to the emperor and saluted, and said softly: "Your Majesty, you must also pay attention to the dragon body when you work on state affairs, you should eat......

"Get out!"

Zhu Yunxiang roared, grabbed a teacup and threw it over, frightening the eunuch in charge, and the eunuchs and palace maids who followed up with plates and bowls knelt on the ground: "The emperor forgives ...... sins."

"Get out, get out!"

Seeing this, Mu En, who was guarding the side of the imperial case and didn't dare to come out, hurriedly ran over and bombarded people: "Go, go, don't make the emperor unhappy, pick up the broken teacups too." ”

Mu En helped pick up the teacup broken into several petals, and roared them out, and these people saw that the emperor was furious, and they were so shocked that they fled as if they were followed by a tiger. Mu En followed behind, and went out of the Zhengxin Hall to stuff the broken teacup pieces into a small palace

From the hand, gently pinched her palm, and said a few words quickly, the palace maid glanced at him in surprise, Mu En hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Go and go, don't go quickly, I don't know whether I am dead or alive!" ”

Only then did the little palace maid react, and hurriedly chased after the people and horses in the imperial dining room and left.

Mu En stared deeply at the back of the little palace maid named Dai Yixuan, turned around and walked back, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he heard Zhu Yunwen shouting inside: "You still dare to talk back?" Come on, pull him out for me, Ming Zhengcanon! ”

"The emperor can't kill me, my Xu family has a Danshu iron coupon!"

"The Danshu Iron Coupon does not protect the rebels!"

"Rebellion? The emperor only complains about the heavens and others, doesn't he never think about himself? Before the bones of the first emperor were cold, the emperor killed the kings without guilt, may I ask the emperor, where is Ren? The first emperor worked hard for 30 years, and the emperor only worked hard for three years to govern the world to this step. Good and decent, who will be good""

"You're damned!"

Zhu Yun was annoyed and angry, this scream, thin and powerful, even sharper than the voice of the eunuch, pierced Mu En's eardrums, and couldn't help but shiver, at this moment, a rush of footsteps started, Mu En turned his head to look, and saw that the Jinyi guards were commanding the servant Luo Kedi to rush towards the Zhengxin Palace.

Ji Gang came out of the rented house, looked around, and walked lazily along the Qinhuai River.

Across the river is the Kenlou area, but this area is a rented place for the people who entered Beijing to take the exam, which is equivalent to the shantytown of later generations, the houses are small and crowded and narrow, and the real bucket room is a humble house, but the price is cheaper. Therefore, in this shantytown, not only the poor scholars who entered Beijing to take the exam were willing to rent in order to save money, but even many small businessmen and traders who went to Beijing to do business were also willing to live here.

Many people also cook their own food, and they don't have a uniform time to get up, so that the chimney of this house smokes at any time, and the chimney is made low, and the smoke lingers in the shantytown. As for public security, fighting and killing people and pickpocketing are not more than 100 yuan, but it is just a little bit of a matter, and the inspection masters have long given up management.

Ji Gang already knew who the big man Xia Shi was talking about, the Ming Dynasty Cao Guogong, who had led 800,000 troops to fight against the Marshal Yin and King Yan, and now Li Jinglong, the leader of the main and faction of the imperial court, was actually the eyes and ears they planted in the heart of the imperial court, if he hadn't heard Xia Shi talk about it with his own ears, how could he dare to believe it.

However, the other line made him even more curious, he never knew who that person was, Xia Chen just told him that every day he had to walk in the alley of the stone lane, at the head of a house gable made of stones, there was a red brick in the stone pile, and the third stone under the brick was movable.

Ji Gang is also a very careful person, in order not to attract attention to the daily "fixed patrol", he chose to live in this shantytown after some inspection, because that alley is a slum, just connected to this shantytown, walking around, it seems more natural. He checked again, and there was a snack bar at the end of the stone alley, specializing in duck blood vermicelli soup and scallion pancakes.

So, Ji Gang, who originally only loved to eat pancakes and green onions, suddenly became a fanatical fan of duck noon soup, rain or shine, he walked out of his snail's house every afternoon, walked through the stone alley, went to the small shop on the street, drank two bowls of duck blood soup, and ate six scallion pancakes, Ji Gang is a real big-bellied man.

On the way back, he naturally turned to the gable of the house to make it easier.

It's just a small solution, don't say anything insulting, there are even big explanations for the exam, you don't think that wearing a Confucian shirt, you really suddenly sublimate to the point that even eating, drinking, and Lazar are different from ordinary people. Every year at the end of spring and autumn, the problems of hygiene and weathering such as the Yoneda Republic and the flirting with the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law are everywhere, which has been a great headache for the imperial courts since the beginning of the dynasty.

Today, as in the past, when Ji Gang passed by the house's Fangshantou, he didn't look at it, staggered over, walked through the alley and sat down in the shed of the snack bar. Ji Gang finished eating, paid the money, and staggered back again, and when he passed the head of the house's house, he naturally turned inside.

If at first he was here for convenience or on purpose, but now it is a conditioned reflex, he lifted his robe, unbuttoned his trouser belt, bent down to tie his pants after releasing the water, and took advantage of this effort, he pulled out the stone, reached out and probed inside, and his movements were very familiar. He thought it was the same as usual, there was nothing in it, but this time, his fingers touched a boxy piece of paper.

Ji Gang was slightly stunned, quietly flicked the note into his sleeve, stuffed it back into the stone, and left swaggering away.