Chongzhou City, the birthplace of Lao Tzu's thoughts, although the prosperity is not as good as the imperial capital Chang'an, but at this time the Tang Dynasty is also regarded as a first-line city. The Wang family, who controlled the business travel, the Zhang family, who controlled the wine and grain, and the Ma family, where the Confucian scholars gathered, these three families checked and balanced each other and joined forces to control this Chongzhou city.

Three days later, in the inner courtyard of the Wang family, Ye Lin was lying on the soft couch and looking at the roof boringly, after coming to Chongzhou, Ziyi threw herself here, although three meals a day were delivered by someone, but he was not allowed to leave the gate of the Wang family, and a familiar face was guarding him next door.

Ye Lin suddenly regretted that he didn't carry those few catties of silver on his body, otherwise he would have returned to Qingyunguan one day.

Recently, Ye Lin got up, pushed open the door, and a figure appeared behind Ye Lin, "Dao Chief, where are you going?" ”

Ye Lin looked at the armor in a black robe: "I haven't changed this robe for a few days, I want to go out and change it into a new one."

Not far away, Jia Yi immediately said: "It's good to tell the Taoist about this matter, the Lord of the Yi Hall said that you can stay in the courtyard honestly these days."

"Your name is Jia Yi, you are Ziyi's subordinate, she asked you to look at me, right, I'm really bored to death these days, you just follow me around in this Wang family, with you with you, this is not a violation of Ziyi's task for you"

"Why don't you let the concubine accompany you?"

Ye Lin was trying to bewitch Jia Yi, but Ziyi's voice came into his ears, and when he looked up, a purple-robed figure appeared in front of him at some point.

Ye Lin saw that Ziyi was not on crutches and asked, "Is your leg well?" ”

"Okay, almost, where does the Taoist want to go?" Ziyi asked.

"Just go for a walk," Ye Lin replied.

"The concubine has nothing to do today, so let's go for a long time, this Wang family is the rich family among the three major families in Chongzhou, and the garden house is also the most luxurious, the house is huge, the garden is integrated into nature, and the entire Wang family can hide nearly a thousand soldiers, and it is because of this that my sister chose the Wang family as a foothold" Ziyi walked in front.

Ye Lin followed Ziyi to the gate of the Wang family's garden, where several black-robed guards with swords were guarding the surroundings, and when they saw Ziyi coming, they bowed their heads and saluted.

Ziyi waved her hand and said to one of the guards, "Give me the key."

As soon as the words fell, one of the guards respectfully took out a key and handed it to Ziyi.

"These guards with moire on their chest clothes are under my sister's control, and the moire color is different and the position is different, Dao Chief, let's go in" Ziyi said Ziyi and took Ye Lin to approach the Wang family's garden.

Ye Lin followed Ziyi's footsteps, looking around at the rockery and green bamboo, and soon Ye Lin said, "What do you want to do?" ”

Zi Yi stopped, sat on the stone bench not far away, leaned against the stone table and looked at Ye Lin and said: "The three families in Chongzhou City work together to check and balance, and now the two families have been controlled by Zixuan, and the remaining Ma family is loyal to Li Shimin, delaying our time while going to report to Chang'an." Thanks to the fact that I arrested the head of the Ma family in a few days, I found a letter of help from him in his study to Chang'an, otherwise the news of Chongzhou would reach Li Shimin's ears, and Zixuan would become a lost dog again."

Ye Lin didn't lean over, and his intuition told him that it was not a good thing to be too close to this woman.

"You're going to kill him? Then kill it, what are you going to do with these things with Poor Dao? ”

Zi Yi supported his chin with both hands and said, "Because the city lord seal is in his hands, without the city lord seal Zixuan, he can't control the military power in the hands of the Ma family."

"You've even arrested people, and you can't control the power of the army?" Ye Lin asked rhetorically.

Ziyi spread his hands and said: "There are always some brainless scholars who recognize this thing, my sister and I have tried a lot of methods, coercion and temptation, and even use his family to persecute it, but this old master just doesn't speak, there is no way that he can't be tortured when he's old, so he has to let the Taoist chief try."

Ye Lin asked: "Why can't you be tortured when you're old, you don't respect the old and love the young so much, right?" ”

"Of course, I'm afraid that this old man can't stand the torture, what? The Taoist is willing to run, he is in the wooden house in front, this is the key to open the door" Ziyi put the key on the stone table and said.

"I don't want to!" Ye Lin said directly.

"Dao Leader really isn't going?"

Ye Lin said: "Don't go, you can't let him speak, it's useless for me to go"

Ziyi sighed and said helplessly: "Then we can only solve the Ma family by force, I originally wanted to save this old thing's life."

Ye Lin was stunned and said, "You want to kill him?" ”

Zi Yi looked at Ye Lin and said, "Not only him, but all the scholars in Chongzhou City who are loyal to Li Shimin will die, alas! We just want to find a place to stay, we don't want to kill so many people."

Ye Lin frowned and said calmly: "Woman, no matter how many people you kill, it has nothing to do with me, it's not that Poor Dao doesn't want to save them, it's just that Poor Dao can't do it."

Ziyi's eyes moved, straightened up and said: "Since the Dao Chief is unwilling, let's go back to the small courtyard for a few days, and when we finish dealing with the affairs of the Ma family, Chongzhou is stable, and the Dao Chief is leaving the small courtyard, these days Jia Yi is by the Dao Chief's side, and the Dao Chief is assured that Jia Yi is Zixuan's top killer, and he can definitely protect the Dao Chief." ”

Ye Lin's body stiffened, Ye Lin was depressed in that small courtyard for the past few days, and that Jia stared at himself like a ghost day by day, and in a few days Ye Lin was afraid that he would be driven crazy.

Ye Lin stepped forward and sat on the stone bench next to Ziyi, and said, "I'll go, but I have the conditions."

"You say"

"I want to be free, don't let that Jiayi spy on me, Chongzhou is controlled by you, I can't escape" Ye Lin said.

Zi Yi hesitated for a moment and nodded, and Ye Lin picked up the key on the stone table.

Ye Lin took the key and asked, "Are you in the wooden house in front?" ”

Ziyi nodded again and said: "You give this key to the guards at the door, and they will open the door for you, where, you can see it if you take a few steps forward, if the Taoist wants to use torture, you can also use it, you only need to ask the guards for tools."

After saying that, Ziyi pointed in a direction, Ye Lin looked in the direction Ziyi was pointing at, and turned to leave.

Seeing Ye Lin leaving, Zi Yi lazily snorted, lay on the stone table, and quietly watched the new branches in the garden sway in the wind.

Ye Lin took a few steps forward, and a wooden house hidden behind the rockery appeared in front of him, as Ziyi said, after Ye Lin stepped forward and handed over the key, the two guards opened the copper lock of the door.

Ye Lin entered the house, in the main hall, an old man with white hair sat straight in front of the bookcase, no wonder Ziyi refused to use torture, this kind of old man who was sixty or seventy years old at a glance was really too easy to die.

"You're the lobbyist they're looking for?"

Before Ye Lin stepped forward, the old man took the lead in speaking.

The old man looked up and saw Ye Lin, who was not choosing, and frowned again: "How is it a Taoist priest?" ”

Ye Lin smiled, sat down in front of the old man's bookcase and said, "The master of the Ma family, Ye Lin, the poor road, is here to get the seal of the city lord."

"What city lord seal, I'm old, I haven't used that thing for a long time, I don't know where I lost it, you better please go back" The old man picked up the tea soup and said calmly.

Ye Lin took a breath and took out a medicine bottle and put it on the bookcase.

"Does the master of the Ma family know what kind of medicine this is?" Ye Lin asked.

The old man took another sip of tea soup and didn't pay attention to Ye Lin at all.

Ye Lin said: "This is an aphrodisiac, the most intense kind, the guards outside the door will give you this medicine for a while, and then throw you into the pigsty, you will spend the night with a few animals, maybe your body can not hold up this kind of intensity of exercise, but the people of Chongzhou don't care about these, tomorrow in the downtown of Chongzhou, from the big business travelers of the Shi clan to the beggars and children, they will know that the respected Ma family master on weekdays has done such and such things to a few sows late at night, Ma family master, don't be embarrassed by the small way, They're anti-thieves......"

The old man's hand holding the tea soup was frozen, and his expression was difficult to see, and the old man gritted his teeth for a long time and said, "You demon way!" ”

Ye Lin sat up straight and asked in a cold voice, "Where is the City Lord's Seal?" ”

"The old man doesn't know!" The old man stood up and said loudly.

Ye Lin also got up and nodded, and said, "I'm sorry, someone!" Give this medicine to the master of the Ma family! Poor Dao wants to see how hard the mouth of the Ma family master is! ”

Ye Lin's voice fell, and the old man's face changed dramatically and he said loudly: "I said, I said"

"Where?" Ye Lin asked.

"In My Study"

"Where's the study?" Ye Lin asked coldly.

The old man was silent, and Ye Lin spoke again: "Someone!" ”

As soon as the old man's face changed, he immediately said: "On the beams of the house! On the beam of the study, the demon road! You demon! ”

Ye Lin smiled, bowed down and said, "Thank you Ma family master, I offended just now, if there is nothing else, the poor road will go down first."

With that, Ye Lin turned around and left, and the old man sat on the floor as if he had no soul.