- Cen Chi looked at the second senior brother Lin Shan beside him in a daze, although he didn't know how to express his admiration, but this did not prevent him from showing a look of surprise in his eyes.

"Actually, all three of us have a talent that ordinary people don't often get, which may be the reason why the three of us can get together, but it's not something to be proud of." Xiao Kuang only stopped at this point, and did not explain what to do if he couldn't be complacent, and then turned to say: "It's not early, we should go back." ”

Lin Shan didn't suddenly remember something until this time, and exclaimed, "Senior brother, is it ...... Master is back? He remembered that when Master was in the cottage, the senior brother might not be in the cottage, but as long as the senior brother was in the cottage, then the master would definitely be there.

Xiao Kuang's eyebrows moved slightly, his eyes swept over the pottery altar on the ground, a trace of wisdom appeared in his eyes, he turned his direction to look at Lin Shan, and said lightly: "Senior Brother Lin, you're finished." ”

……

On the mountain road with heavy rain, Cen Chi, the last disciple of the twenty-second generation of Beili, was lying on the warm back of Senior Brother Xiao Kuang, and looked sideways at the Second Senior Brother next to him. Xiao Kuang wrapped his left hand around his back, held Cen Chi's buttocks steady, and hung his right hand at his side, carrying a wine jar that was blackened by firewood tied with a straw rope.

Parallel to him was the second senior brother Lin Shan, who raised his hands in a somewhat strange posture, one tall and one short, holding two umbrellas. The three of them walked back in the direction of the grass hut on the mountainside, and if someone could look down from the sky, there seemed to be two walking mushrooms on the mountain road in the hazy rain and fog.

"Senior brother, you really refuse to help me lie in front of Master?" Lin Shan was accustomed to a handsome face with an indifferent expression. A rare one showed a look of horror and worry.

"It's not that I don't help, it's that this jar really can't be washed back to its original color, and the wine that was originally contained in it can't be recovered. In the face of this situation, it is better for you to be honest. Xiao Kuang tugged at the corners of his mouth, not knowing whether the smile was a kind comfort or the joy of a theatergoer, "Now Senior Brother can only pray to you." Don't happen to pour out the most cherished jar of wine from Master. Then he may forgive you. ”

The corner of the young man's eyes twitched, and he asked with a somewhat nervous expression: "Senior brother, do you know that?" Which altar is Master's favorite? ”

"Yes." Xiao Kuang smiled and said, "But whether this altar in your hand happens to be that altar, senior brother can't tell anymore." ”

The young man holding two umbrellas next to him lowered his head.

Cen Chi, who was being carried by Xiao Kuang, suddenly shouted, "Senior Brother Lin, rain." The rain was pouring down......"

The young Lin Shan hurriedly straightened his back again, and the two crooked umbrellas were like grass and trees that had been recuperating overnight after the wind and rain. Pick yourself up again and keep the rain curtain above you tight.

Xiao Kuang glanced at the junior brother beside him, who was still depressed despite holding the umbrella high, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly said, "Actually, before burning the altar." You can first apply a layer of mud on the outside, so that it depends on the temperature of the firewood. No matter how you burn it, it won't leave a trace. ”

Lin Shan's eyes flashed with a hint of brightness quickly, but soon they dimmed again. He just sighed again and again and said, "How dare there be a next time!" Senior brother, you are always like this, waiting until the matter is over to make a statement. ”

"Really? I remember saying these things to you before. ”

"I don't remember at all."

"It's my business to say that I don't say it, but it's your business to remember it or not, maybe you need to suffer a little to remember it. This is not something that can be rescued by an abnormal talent, but it is caused by your mental slackness, which is a bad habit. ”

"You ......"

……

Back at the cottage, Lin Shan obeyed the advice of the senior brother and calmly admitted his mistake to the master, but he did not reduce the punishment because of honesty at all, and as a result, he was beaten with twenty boards, and the flesh wound on his buttocks was bedridden for half a month before healing.

Without Lin Shan's help, Cen Chi really realized how heavy the two tasks of carrying water and collecting firewood in his daily homework were, more than three times heavier than reading and writing.

However, because he had to take care of Lin Shan, the senior brother stayed in the grass house and stayed for half a month, which was a rare thing in the past.

Because of this month's relationship, Cen Chi finally got used to calling Xiao Kuang his senior brother, but he couldn't change his name when he called his second senior brother Lin Shan, and he still habitually shouted out "senior brother". In this regard, Xiao Kuang first tried to correct it for a few days, but when he saw that it had no effect, he gradually relaxed.

In addition, Cen Chi also had the opportunity to fully understand what the second senior brother was talking about, which five pentathlon senior brothers were "able".

Among these five skills, Cen Chi experienced the most deeply the cooking skills of the senior brother, and the most shocking thing was the martial arts of the senior brother. He finally believed that a person could practice martial arts to the point that he could kill a wild boar with his bare hands, so the wild boar's den that day was hiding from the rain no longer dared to have a wild boar left, and he was really frightened by the methods of the senior brother.

And although he has an amazing memory, I am afraid that he will never be able to catch up with the level of the senior brother in martial arts cultivation.

Cen Chi realized that the talent possessed by the senior brother lay in his comprehension of martial arts, and this kind of heaven-given material could not be surpassed by himself.

The senior brother only smiled faintly at this, and only said: "The wise man is in charge of the world, and war is always better than peace and long luck, so in the future, people with good brains will still have a broader future than people with strong martial arts." ”

Cen Chi Yingying heard a certain meaning in Senior Brother's words, and immediately retorted disapprovingly: "Senior Brother, you are not stupid!" I don't know what you know......"

Senior Brother Xiao Kuang gently stroked the child's pigtail on Cen Chi's head, and said with a smile: "Senior brother is a multiple older than you, these knowledge are just the accumulation of time, when you grow to my age, you must be much better than me...... You little brain, you don't know where the limit of your memory will be? ”

Cen Chi raised his head and asked, "What is the 'limit of memory'?" ”

Xiao Kuang hesitated and said, "This senior brother can't answer it, but when you grow up, you will naturally know, because this answer belongs only to you." ”

……

In addition to having a comprehensive understanding of the senior brother's personality, in this half-month frequent intersection, Cen Chi and Xiao Kuang's way of getting along. It's like a question and answer, and the pattern is repeated.

In this way, Cen Chi learned more about the sideways from Xiao Kuang. The reason why it is called a side door is because Cen Chi is pulling the banner of mutual assistance and discussing pedantry, but the questions are all doubts that the master teaches outside of knowledge.

Fortunately, the senior brother is obviously more patient than the second senior brother, and he is as friendly as ever, facing some strange questions often asked by the six-year-old junior brother. He was never irritated or angry.

It's just compared to the second senior brother. Cen Chi soon discovered that Senior Brother actually had a flaw that made him scratch his head very depressed, that is, although his expression was serious when answering questions. But he often said words that he didn't understand. Moreover, this kind of understanding is that the more you explore, the more confused you become, and there is no way to continue at all, so many questions are explored to the end. I don't know how it ended.

For example, on the fifth day after the second senior brother Lin Shan was punished and beaten, the senior brother Xiao Kuang made lunch and brought it into the grass hut. Eating with the two junior brothers, Cen Chi suddenly thought of a word that the senior brother had said on the way back from the wild boar cave five days ago, and he had never been able to figure it out. Immediately, he carried forward the spirit of studying diligently.

……

Fang Wu said that half of the reason why he deliberately visited Chiyun Gorge was because he wanted to meet the famous perverted medicine ghost. Maybe it's because strange people have a quirk of cherishing each other's talents, and Fang Wu thinks: get rid of the evil habit of medicine ghosts. He may be the pinnacle of medicine.

But Fang Wu also said later that he visited Chiyun Gorge for half a year. In the end, he was not lucky enough to meet the medicine ghost, but he was fortunate to meet the medicine master Liao Shi who was passing by here.

People who are a little older should know that more than ten years ago, the reason why Liao Shi was imprisoned in the prison by the monarch of the former dynasty was rumored to be the same door as the medicine ghost department.

It has been rumored in the medical community in Kyoto that Liao Shi not only practiced evil arts with the demon doctor, but also influenced his mind by the same sect and became vicious and vicious. So he could save the Queen Mother, but he lost his humanity and played with the heart of experimentation, and after rescuing the Queen Mother, he killed her with his backhand.

At the beginning of Liao Shi's rescue of the Empress Dowager, the name of 'pharmacist' given by Emperor Zhou Ling immediately became a notoriety of 'medicine ghost' after the empress dowager died of an abrupt illness.

Now, after many years, this statement is finally inconclusive. And after Liao Shi left the prison ten years ago, he disappeared, and this kind of bad legend about him gradually faded in the memory of those who knew it.

But those who remember this, after seeing Liao Shi with their own eyes, will definitely be interested in this kind of legend again. Fang Wu couldn't avoid vulgarity, and asked Liao Shi tentatively, if he knew the specific location where the demon doctor lived in Chiyun Gorge.

Liao Shi didn't say a word about this, didn't say he knew, and didn't say he didn't know. After inquiring about Fang Wu's purpose for coming to this place, Liao Shi only bluntly warned Fang Wu not to continue to go deeper into Chiyun Gorge, because that place not only did not have the so-called aura suitable for prolonging life, but also had a lot of highly poisonous miasma with a pale red color.

Fang Wu's experience now gives Shi Jing a more realistic convincing power. In short, no matter what, Cen Chi's trip, it is best to meet the medicine ghost, if he can meet Liao Shi, it is not bad, it is better than staying in Kyoto and waiting for death. Although Kyoto has abundant supplies and a wide number of medical centers, there are not many people who are outstanding in medical skills.

In the past few days, the Prime Minister's Mansion sent a letter to Fang Wu, and Fang Wu also gave a reply.

Now Cen Chi, who had died nine times in his life, had been sent to a small town in the northwest corner of the country, and Fang Wu would not answer there. Then he who has been to that place will also act as a guide, accompanying Cen Chi to enter Chiyun Gorge again to find a chance to rescue.

Cen Chi's matter was like this for the time being, and Shi Jing immediately cleared up the other party involved in this murder incident.

Logically speaking, Shi Dufang's protagonist seems to be directed at the eldest lady, because the worst thing about her insanity is that once she goes crazy, the first thing she wants to do is kill someone.

But the eldest lady can only kill people in one move, if there is no knife at hand, it is to directly choke the neck with her hand. Drugged this kind of thing is not her habit of killing people after committing illness.

To put it another way, a deranged person who goes crazy and behaves more towards direct violence cannot use the poisonous trick of patience and carefulness.

I sent someone to bring the eldest lady to the flower hall before, but Shi Jing wanted to see if she was really crazy, and the result of the observation was that Shi Jing's two moods were half of each of the contradictions.

The eldest lady even speaks logically, and it is difficult for her to have anything to do with her, so there is only one possibility.

It's just that...... Where did the two servants get such a ferocious du-potion? Why did you deal with Cen Chi?

There are still many mysteries about the latter incident, but just talking about the previous question is enough to attract Shi Jing's attention.

The two maids were each beaten ten boards. Later, the nurse brought them back. In the flower hall, the clamps on their shoulders had just been loosened, and the two women were like thin clay figures, lying weakly on the cold and hard floor tiles.

The skin on their backs had been torn open by the board, and the wound was only reddish with blood, but it was no less painful than a knife cut.

They serve in the small courtyard where the eldest lady lives all the year round, and they actually do very light work. It should have been very comfortable. Lack of physical exercise. They couldn't bear it, and when they came down with ten boards, they had lost half their lives.

But they should rejoice. If Shi Jing hadn't knocked on the table just now, but dropped the teacup, the two of them would have been beaten to death at this time.

So when they came back, they couldn't care about the burning pain in their backs. While crying, he screamed and begged for mercy.

But they don't know. Death is not terrible, what is terrible is to be tortured before death. Maybe when they were dragged out just now, they were killed directly, for them. It's kind of a relief for a little bit of pleasure.

Shi Jing saw that the two of them were sent back, and he didn't get angry anymore, but his face was full of coldness.

The two maids, who were half-kneeling and half-lying under the hall, did not dare to look up at him. But he only used one word to pierce this cold air into their hearts.

"Say."

……

Men generally don't like the trivialities of housekeeping. In addition to the men's way of doing things, most of them are also because the eldest woman in the family handles these affairs.

But there seem to be some exceptions to the situation of historians.

Although the eldest lady of the Shi family has been mad for many years, Shi Jing still retains her position in the mansion, and it seems that it is also because he believes that the eldest lady will recover one day, and this belief has lasted for more than ten years.

If Mrs. Shi has only gone crazy in recent years, it makes sense that Shi Jing does not continue to string. But in the year when Mrs. Shi first showed madness, Shi Jing was not yet forty years old. It is really rare for a man in a high official position like him to be able to stick to this step for his wife.

But anyway, Shi Jing seems to have another result by doing this, his housework is not so complicated, there are no female dependents in the house, and it is convenient to have a banquet with those guests.

For more than ten years, this is a rare time for Shi Jing to personally review household affairs. This time, even the old butler who had been loyal to the Shi Mansion for many years was not allowed to meddle in this matter.

Shi Jing and the two dynasties are the prime minister, the literary struggle in the court, the martial arts in the prison, I have never seen any wind and waves, not to mention the two maids in front of me.

If he really decided to deal with these two maids, the iron-beaten man would have to let him roll up and burn out of the hole.

Although there are also heroes among women, most men are more decisive than women. For Shi Jing, as long as the suspicion of the eldest lady is ruled out, it will be easy.

Of course, after this family case was cleared, Shi Jing also understood a problem.

The more important reason why he was able to let these two maids recruit so quickly was that the master who instructed these two maids to do many bad things was already dead.

The reason why the two maids continue to do evil after the death of the main messenger is because they know that if they don't go all the way to the dark, sooner or later, it will only be a dead end for themselves.

And now, in the situation where they have to die if they say it or not, they can only choose the former, which seems to have a little way to live.

When the two maids said all the sins that had been hidden in their hearts for more than ten years and had accumulated for more than ten years, Shi Jing only felt as if he had seen two hideous-looking demons vomiting filth in front of him, which was extremely disgusting! He was furious!

He shouldn't have been so angry that easily, but these two people did all the things he cared about, and he couldn't tolerate it.

No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he is not completely crazy, there will always be a few people in his heart who care, which is an immortal part of human nature. And the less people he cares, the less he can tolerate the person he cares about.

The moment he stood up and was about to leave the flower hall, several ways to vent his anger came to Shi Jing's mind: cane death, bury him alive, and burn it......

However, in the end, he just sighed and suppressed the manic feelings in his heart, but not erased them, but pressed them into a line, almost buried in the bottom of his heart without leaving a trace.

After standing still for a moment. Shi Jing only said softly: "Take them down to eat something." ”

It was as if he had just suffered a serious illness, and his body had just recovered, but his spirit had not yet recovered.

Of course, he could not forgive the sins committed by these two maids, but after learning of the inhuman torture his wife had suffered, he could not forgive himself for his past negligence.

As soon as Shi Jing's voice fell, the three nursing homes in the flower hall couldn't help but look at each other, and they didn't act for a while. I thought I had heard it wrong.

The two maids who were kneeling on the ground were also stunned when they heard this. looked at the three nursing homes, and then stared at Shi Jing's back when he came out of the house.

Shi Jing didn't say a second sentence, nor did he look back to make up for it. Just brushed his sleeves and left.

No one knows what Shi Jing thinks in his heart, and even from his political enemies, it is difficult to find such a 'confidant'. However, it is not difficult for the subordinates in the Prime Minister's Mansion to understand a question at this time, Shi Jing will definitely not forgive those two maids.

The two tortured his wife for more than ten years. The cruelty of the method made the three nursing home members who listened to the two maids explain their crimes and couldn't help but grit their teeth.

However, he was looking at the two men. If you can calm down, there is only one conclusion.

Shi Jing had already carved the word 'death' on the white and smooth foreheads of these two cheap maids with a cold gaze, he couldn't see the fear in their eyes, the sweat on their foreheads, he only looked at the two corpses by himself.

He doesn't use his mental power to deal with the dead.

After Shi Jing left the flower hall. It didn't take long for the three nursing home members who were stunned to look at each other gradually come back to their senses. The three of them looked at each other again, as if they had silently decided something. Then he dragged the two maids who suddenly understood and wept a little later out of the flower hall.

……

Shi Jing took a half-day off to go home, mainly to bid farewell to Cen Chi. Incidental trial of the crime in his own home, which had been put on hold for a few days.

This family case involves some family affairs of the historian, as well as some family ugliness. Shi Jing was once the prime minister and didn't want to make a noise about it. He has a lot of experience in interrogating people, and he can do it himself at home, and he can get more information he wants to know.

After disposing of the two evil slaves, it was not enough for the vacation, but when he listened to the two maids' dictation in the flower hall, he suddenly wanted to take another look at his 'Lan'er' before leaving.

Although today's Lan'er can no longer be like when he first married him more than ten years ago, when he went out to go to the official office, he stood at the door of the house and looked at his back with a smile, and called softly: "Be careful on the road." ”

However, when Shi Jing walked to the quiet courtyard where his wife was grounded, he was just about to step forward, but he retreated again.

He sighed inwardly, turned and walked back. The sedan chair stopped at the gate, and he had to hurry back to the court.

Not far back, Shi Jing suddenly saw a somewhat familiar maid. Before the maid got too close, Shi Jing recognized her, it was the girl named Qingqiang who he arranged to serve by Cen Chi's side.

Qingqiang has been a servant in the Prime Minister's Mansion for several years, but since she was arranged to Cen Chi's side, she has rarely met with Shi Jing, but Shi Jing has not neglected her existence because of this. In fact, probably because of Cen Chi, Shi Jing's cultivation of this girl can be regarded as attaching great importance to it.

However, because Shi Jing is still a little unsure of what Cen Chi's mind is, she has not taught Qingqiang anything other than serving people for the time being, so her heart is still a blank slate, which is much simpler than the two cheap maids who taught in the flower hall just now.

When Shi Jing saw Qingqiang, a thought arose in his heart, so he called it close to him and took a look.

Qingqiang was originally a maid who served Cen Chi closely, but today Cen Chi left the Prime Minister's Mansion and went to the northwest, but her spirit seemed to be more haggard than when she took care of Cen Chi day and night a few days ago.

After Shi Jing carefully observed Qingqiang a few times, he felt that this girl seemed to have lost her soul. Her soul was not in this body that should have been full of youthful vitality, and probably followed the carriage.

Shi Jing couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic in his heart, it was really rare to be able to serve people with heart and affection to this extent, but he didn't see the filthy intentions of the two cheap maids who served Lan'er, it was really a big mistake. It seems that for family affairs, if you can't think of chaos, you have to start from the root.

Shi Jing knew that Qingqiang's heart for Cen Chi was not as simple as a master-servant relationship, but he believed that as long as Qingqiang had a pure heart, he could also serve his 'Lan'er' well. It is often only a matter of time before feelings are cultivated.

"You're worried about Cen Chi?" After staring at Qingqiang for a moment, Shi Jing suddenly asked.

Qingqiang's shoulders trembled slightly, and she said in a low voice: "The slave doesn't dare to trespass." ”

Shi Jing spoke slowly, as if he was just describing a very ordinary thing: "You must also know that although my wife has been crazy for more than ten years, I have never thought of abandoning her. But you may not know that I was with my wife back then. All of them were born in poor families. I was able to support each other all the way until I became famous, and what she meant to me during this period. There is no one to replace. ”

Speaking of this, he changed his words and said: "There is no need to deliberately hide emotional matters. As for the issue of identity. There is always a solution. The most expensive thing in the world is true love, and its price is not because of the high price. Rather, it cannot be measured by treasure. ”

It may be foolish to show what you care about most in front of others, but it can also be said to be a great trust in this 'other person'.

From Shi Jing's words, Qingqiang heard a lot of past stories about Master Shi that she had never known before. And among them, the most surprising thing for Qingqiang was when Master Shi, who has always been strict and busy, would meet her halfway. Talk to her about her attitude towards 'love'.

Qingqiang, who lowered her head slightly, couldn't help but glance up at Shi Jing, and saw that he was also looking at herself. She immediately lowered her head again, and there was some awe in her heart that she couldn't explain why, and she didn't know how to answer.

Maybe I'm not qualified to discuss my attitude towards 'love' with my lord at all.

"From tomorrow onwards, you will serve by the side of the eldest lady!" Shi Jing suddenly spoke, the topic changed very quickly, and there was no room for Qingqiang to think in his tone, "In the future, the eldest lady will only have you to serve, and I will send someone to stay by your side to protect your safety." ”

The safety he said naturally did not mean that the eldest lady would go down again, but to prevent the eldest lady from going crazy again, leaving someone to stop it when she needed to take action.

Although he didn't say this too bluntly, Qingqiang would only think about it in this way. And once she figured this out, her heart was full of gratitude.

Looking at the back of the old man leaving, although he didn't ask for it, some of the hindsighted Qingqiang still knelt down at him and kowtowed seriously.

……

On the way to the gate, Shi Jing decided one more thing and called the housekeeper closer, but only after he sat in the sedan chair did he signal the official to come to the small window on the side of the sedan chair.

Shi Jing said calmly: "The three family members who led the eldest lady to the flower hall just now, but who are the locals?" ”

The housekeeper glanced at Shi Jing with his eyebrows suppressed, and said in a deep voice: "None of the three are from Kyoto, but two of them are cousins. ”

"Let those cousins go back to their hometown, don't come back, the other one and the two maids ......" Shi Jing said this, was silent for a while, and then spoke again, "Send the rock sugar osmanthus cake that the eldest lady eats leftovers, so that they can eat enough and go on the road." ”

The eldest lady is not noble, and her gluttonous snacks are more common, and her favorite snack since she was a child is rock sugar osmanthus cake.

After Shi Jing gained fame and finally became a prominent position, he asked his servants to buy enough fresh rock sugar osmanthus cakes every day and give them to the eldest lady, so that she could eat happily and live a sweet life.

Later, the eldest lady suffered from frequent episodes of madness and lived in that quiet courtyard, and Shi Jing did not cut off this supply.

However, when there was an accident in the small courtyard a few days ago, there were also osmanthus cakes among the refreshments that the eldest lady gave Cen Chi to taste.

Although after Cen Chi was in the middle of the house, Shi Jing personally inspected the osmanthus cake and other snacks stored in the eldest lady's house, and the results were all safe, but he still asked people to take away all the stored food.

It's only been a few days since this happened, and some of the pastries that were sorted out were still not thrown away, which were not poisonous, and some servants were still a little greedy when they looked at them, but ...... Shi Jing said such things now, which made the housekeeper understand a problem.

The old butler's eyes were slightly condensed, but he quickly complied.

In the face of Shi Jing's order to end the lives of three people and almost ruin the lives of two people, this old servant who has been loyal to the Shi family for most of his life will not have a trace of objection.

He is Shi Jing's most trusted confidant and servant, so he will not live up to Shi Jing's trust. As for the three people who were going to die, the reason why they wanted to die must be to live up to Master Shi's trust.

ended the lives of three people in one sentence, Shi Jing's heart still felt a little irritable, not because of the killing, but because he cared more about the truth, the two maids didn't say it in the end.

They are reminded of the evil deeds they have done before. was so small that they spit into the porridge bowl of the eldest lady when she was not paying attention, and they didn't dare to say it out, but they didn't admit that they were the ones who made it in Cen Chi's teacup and then blamed the eldest lady.

The evil concubine who instructed the maid to do evil to the eldest lady has long since died, and Shi Jing knows very well that the only thing that can compensate for this matter is to care more about his 'Lan'er' in the future.

Meanwhile. Shi Jing was a little unconvinced. For the new manipulator behind it, those two maids can be so loyal in the face of death.

Shi Jing suddenly had some doubts about the third son's speculation.

But he couldn't find any evidence for his son's assumptions, or rather, for the time being. Even if he forcibly found evidence to prove that Cen Chi put du in his cup, but this poison was really amazing, Shi Jing looked for several Lang Zhong, and determined that it was the kind of du-medicine specially developed by the medicine ghost. If you don't get the antidote, you really can't escape death.

This is tantamount to an act of self-destruction. Why did Cen Chi do this?

Even if he really suffered any setbacks, based on his temperament, he would never think of using death to solve the problem.

Could it be that there is a problem among the other Qingke in the house?

Shi Jing shook his head and decided not to think about these complicated trivialities anymore. The matter of self-trial in the court has just ended. Shipping is about to begin again, whether it's to do your job well or to be wary of the plots of political enemies. He had to keep a clear head during this time.

Perhaps time will tell.

Shi Jing closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then opened his eyes and said slowly to the old butler who was still bowing next to the sedan chair: "Next to the eldest lady." Arrange for Qingqiang's girl to serve, if she has needs, the outer courtyard needs to do its best to meet them. In addition, arrange for Xiao Leng to go to the courtyard of the eldest lady and be responsible for the security guards. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly nodded and said, "The old slave will arrange these things that the master ordered, and the master can rest assured." ”

Shouldering the heavy responsibility of Xiangguo, Shi Jing has the right to keep a few guards by his side.

In fact, in addition to him, many Beijing officials have martial arts guards in their own houses, and some wealthy businessmen are the same, and the meaning is similar.

This habit has been derived from the previous dynasties. Although the Zhou Dynasty has now died and the new dynasty has replaced it, the emperor of the current dynasty did not order to prohibit this unspoken convention, but only vaguely mentioned it, and the number should not be too large.

The number of such people who are good at kung fu is linked to the position of their protector, but there is an upper limit.

Although Shi Jing's current identity is almost equal to more than 10,000 people under one person, there are less than 30 people in the Xiangfu Nursing Courtyard, which is far lower than the upper limit of domestic military attendants.

And only those with slightly higher seniority in the Prime Minister's Mansion know that among these twenty or so people, only ten are Xiangye's close guards.

These ten people are all strong in martial arts, and they are the closest attendants to Xiangye, and they often take turns to follow Xiangye around. Whether Xiang Ye is working in the yamen or visiting friends, they are still inseparable from Xiang Ye.

In addition, they have a set of titles in private, which is called: Ten Generals.

These ten people have rankings, but they are neither ranked by age nor by martial arts, but by Xiangye himself.

Although even the ten families don't know what the basis for Xiang Ye's ranking is, they only need to understand one thing, and protecting Xiang Ye's safety is their lifelong mission.

Ten same history, this may already be considered to be a problem!

Xiao Leng called by Shi Jing ranked sixth among the ten generals, in addition to being called Leng Liu, he also had a real name, called Leng Yi.

In addition to being ranked lower among the ten generals, Leng Yi is also the youngest of these ten people, and he has just turned thirteen years old in the Midyear Festival this year.

It may be because of the fact that he often practices martial arts, and the thirteen-year-old is cold, and his body has grown much taller than that of young people of the same age, and his appearance is also very spiritual, and he also gets along very well with the ten generals and brothers.

However, although Leng Yi's height has been pulled up, there is still a little childishness on his face.

Perhaps for this reason, from the day he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, until now, Shi Jing has not let him take on the job of going out to guard, only let him stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Because he often rotated around the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion and inspected the Anzhai back and forth, he gradually became almost the microphone inside the ten generals.

Leng Yi inquired about the outside from the ten generals who followed Shi Jing in shifts every day, and told the brothers who went out about what happened every day in the mansion, so he was also very cared for by the ten brothers.

But in any case, compared to the other nine, Leng Yi often felt that he was the only one of the ten who ate idle food. He felt that there were already so many nursing homes left behind in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and it seemed that there was no more than him, and no less than him.

Therefore, when Leng Yi heard the old butler who came to him say that Xiangye had a new dispatch to him, he was wiping the blade with a soft cloth, and he suddenly put the knife into the sheath, and stood up from the chair with a "Teng" look, his eyes full of anticipation.

However, when he heard the last half of the old butler's words, his expression suddenly shrank a little.

It is said that it is a new assignment, but in fact, it is still a job that does not require leaving the house, and the scope of activities seems to be more cramped.

The old housekeeper has served in the Shi Mansion for most of his life, and he has almost watched Leng grow from a little boy to his current size, and he also likes this very young and energetic young man very much.

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