Li Min'er and the others bowed and retired again, and when they left, Li Min'er's eyes locked on Zhang Xiaowu's eyes and refused to move away, but Zhang Xiaowu shifted his gaze a little embarrassed. He also had to admit that in the snowflakes, he was moved to face this girl he met for the first time.

The cold wind rose, the cloak was blown to hunt, Zhang Xiaowu suddenly calmed down, he took Wang Yijin and others back to the Yinyi Guard Yamen, and then immediately assigned tasks. Xia Ming took people to visit all the places called Jixiang Inn, and Li Chuncheng went to check all the news of Kuang Lao Liu, and he always felt that this explosion was not simple.

Unconsciously, it was completely dark, Zhang Xiaowu held the metal block found in the Jintian Hall, but he thought of the cat-like Li Min'er in his heart, and somehow, his brain couldn't stop thinking about her. Her smile, her light movements, her green jade fingers, even her voice.

"Am I poisoned?" Zhang Xiaowu took a few deep breaths, this is not a good thing, he quickly shook his head, calmed down, and focused on the metal block. First of all, he has to determine what material it is, and then what the metal block is.

He came to the Ink Bureau to look for craftsmen to identify, and several old craftsmen looked at it and came to a unanimous conclusion: lead and silver.

Lead silver is used to counterfeit silver, and some unscrupulous people will mix lead and iron into the silver to add weight, making it look as if it is silver. The advantage of lead silver is that it is easy to manufacture, and the disadvantage is that it is not easy to preserve, and it is easy to find once it changes color. However, most of the lead and silver counterfeiting occurred in the heyday of the era, and there were few disaster years like the present, so everyone did not think that this iron block was fake silver.

"There's another possibility." An old craftsman said, "The waist tag, the identity brand of the golden guard, and the brand of the captain of the golden coat are made of lead and silver." ”

Zhang Xiaowu paused for a long time before he suddenly realized, no wonder he felt familiar, Li Yuan once drank to get his brother Li Qing drunk, and told himself, and later there were several gold-clothed spies who wanted to blend into the army, but they were all killed by Wolf Ear, and Wolf Ear also handed over their brand to himself.

"Could it be that this black powder was purchased by the Golden Guard?" Zhang Xiaowu shuddered at this conjecture, if Jin Yiwei secretly bought this batch of gunpowder, what were they going to do?

He had trusted Jin Yiwei very much before, and thought that Wang Jingzhi was loyal to the Holy Han Emperor, probably because he trusted them too much, but he never suspected that Jin Yiwei had done anything excessive. However, once the black powder was really purchased by the Jinyiwei, or some people with ulterior motives in the Jinyiwei, then what was their purpose?

What's even more terrifying is that what if Wang Jingzhi is only loyal to His Majesty the Emperor on the surface, but in fact he is anti-hearted? But Zhang Xiaowu quickly denied this assumption, and Wang Jing's family has been a golden guard for generations, and there is no need to plan a dangerous conspiracy.

Could it be the deputy marshal of the Quartet? Although from the expression of the deputy marshal of the Quartet, he doesn't know, but people can deceive people, Zhang Xiaowu has no system that can see through people's good and evil values, and he doesn't have Wang Yibo's mind-reading skills of touching people's faces in "Extraordinary Talent", and he hasn't even seen the face of the Quartet, this person always wears a mask, which is more mysterious than Wang Jingzhi.

Zhang Xiaowu made a decision in his heart: Jin Yiwei will no longer be involved in this case.

"General, aren't you going home today?" Wang Yijin reminded and asked.

Zhang Xiaowu shook his stiff neck, rubbed his shoulders and relaxed his shoulders, only to feel that his muscles were sore, perhaps because he was too nervous these days. But in the end, it was a young body, and he moved a little bit, and his body quickly returned to normal.

"It's pretty good, this body is simply too animal, compared to the original little civil servant with 600 degrees of eyes, I don't know how much to get." He sighed in his heart that he had traveled through time, from a greasy middle-aged uncle in his thirties to a physically strong teenager, not a lame, blind, dumb or eunuch, it was simply God's favor.

"Let's go, let's go home."

"Whoa."

Today's wind and snow are a bit heavy, and the northwest wind is also a little fierce, if the big explosion happens tonight, it is estimated that the entire North Ground Fang will be burned to the ground. Zhang Xiaowu has only now discovered the wonderful use of this square city, if there is really a fire, the road between the streets is wide enough, and the avenues will naturally become a separation belt.

However, the height of the wall is only one zhang high, and it can only dodge wild beasts, and it really can't play any defensive role, which is why Yuan Qi's silver-clothed guards were able to attack the prince's mansion unhindered three years ago.

Zhang Xiaowu's home is also in Jixiangfang, and there are not many people on duty at night, so it didn't take long to meet a husband and a team. It was just getting dark, and they were on their first night patrol.

The night patrol team has to pass through every road in the city, usually three times, that is, once in the first half of the night, once in the second hour, and again in the second hour.

After everyone met Zhang Xiaowu, they immediately asked for peace, Zhang Xiaowu saw that the husband who was holding the lamp and leading the way was dressed very thinly, and he was a little shivering, and he was busy asking why it was so cold today, why don't you wear more. The man said with a bitter face, because he was in a hurry to come out in the morning and was not prepared, who would have thought that the weather would suddenly cool down and there would be such a strong wind.

Zhang Xiaowu took off his cloak and gave it to his husband, and said with concern: "You put on my cloak, although it may not be warm, but at least it can block the cold wind tonight." You're right, the northwest wind is so strong that people can't breathe, and they breathe all the time. ”

The husband was moved, but he couldn't speak because of excitement and fear, and by the time he wanted to say something, Master Zhang had already walked away.

The man hurriedly asked the chief of the Wu and said, "Master Wu, the commander of the lord is he...... Has it always been so human-friendly? ”

Wu Chang nodded and smiled: "So that's why we are willing to follow the general, from Saibei to Longdu, from the dead to the bustling city, we are all willing to follow such an official to do things." Actually, before I followed the general, I had many superiors, but do you know? Those officials never regarded us as a person, we were like a dog for them, allowing them to oppress and humiliate. By the way, do you know what it's like to be a dog? You certainly haven't felt it. ”

The husband said with a bitter face: "Just like I am now? ”

Wu Chang was stunned for a moment, then laughed, waved his hand and shouted, "Raise the lantern higher to light the road ahead." ”

When Zhang Xiaowu arrived home, he saw that the people were still cleaning, and in this dark and cold night, everyone was holding lanterns to clean.

Zhang Xiaowu was surprised, his house is a four-in-four-out courtyard, although the house is not big but it is small and chic, and the people also have enough rooms, but compared to the general's mansion in Saibei, today's Zhangfu has no pool rockery and martial arts field, only a small piece of flat sand for Zhang Xiaowu to exercise and exercise. But this yard is not big, it is not small, and it is really troublesome to clean up, especially on such a cold day.

Zhang Xiaowu saw that people were working hard, so he wanted them to take a break.

At this time, Mang Chong hurriedly shook his head, and then approached and said: "Master, these people are not good at working during the day, I punish them for not being able to sleep if they can't finish today's work, when will they finish their work neatly, and then when will they rest." After coming to Longdu, these people are a lot lazy, but fortunately, everyone is just lazy, not with any bad intentions, otherwise I will definitely let people sell them to cheap buildings. ”

Zhang Xiaowu scratched the nose of the little housekeeper and said with a smile: "Where did you learn the methods, and you have to sell them to a cheap building." ”

Mang Chong hurriedly rubbed his nose and said: "I heard that the lowly building is full of people who do the dirtiest and most tiring work, people are like livestock, in our house, they are enjoying happiness." Today I asked them to wipe all the doors and windows, what did they say? It's really strange to say that you want to use hot water, could it be that when you were in Saibei, you used hot water? When you come to Longdu, do you really think of yourself as a golden nobleman? ”

Mangzhong's small mouth keeps talking, quite a bit of the feeling of a Beijing girl's broken mouth fork, which makes people feel very kind and interesting, and it is not abrupt. Zhang Xiaowu seemed to feel that there were several Guan Xiaotong around him, and after a closer look, it turned out that there was a little Jia Ling standing, chubby, he laughed and said, "You are in charge, you have the final say." ”

Mang Chong stuck his waist, glared at his eyes and said angrily: "Master, listen to what you mean, you will be a hands-off shopkeeper, and I will do everything that offends people, isn't it?" ”

Maybe she looked a little happy, Zhang Xiaowu felt that she was angry and there was no threat, so he nodded and smiled: "Yes, if you don't mention that I carry the black cauldron, who will carry the black cauldron." ”

Mang Chong was even more angry, and only said after a while: "By the way, the gift given to you by Mu Donghou has been placed in your study, master, you have to take a good look, you must take a good look, there are surprises." ”

"What kind of gift is mysterious, is it silver?" Zhang Xiaowu asked.

Mang Chong smiled and said, "It's much more valuable than silver." ”

"I'll see later." Zhang Xiaowu first went back to the bedroom, Wanqiu had already made the mattress, the temperature in the room was very high, there was a hot stone slab in the center of the ground, and charcoal under the stone slab. Many houses in Longdu only use charcoal pots for heating, but Zhang Xiaowu has always felt that charcoal burning in charcoal pots is dangerous, and the heat is only distributed around the charcoal basins. So he combined the distance between the warm wall and the floor heating to make the current heating equipment, which Zhang Xiaowu named "central heater".

Wanqiu was sitting on a rattan chair embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water, but next to the embroidered mandarin ducks, there was a string of small mandarin ducks, it seemed that Wanqiu wanted the child to be a little enchanted. Seeing that Zhang Xiaowu was back, Wanqiu hurriedly put down the embroidery, stepped forward to untie his wide clothes, and brought hot water to put on the slate. Zhang Xiaowu washed his face and feet under Wanqiu's service, and said with a smile: "Is this what you embroidered today?" ”

Wanqiu shook her head and said, "No, this is what I have been embroidering for a long time, and today I mainly wrote it, because you encouraged me, Langjun." ”

"Show me." Zhang Xiaowu came to be interested.

Zhang Xiaowu took her and read it carefully, it was only about 2,000 words, but it used 20 sheets of paper. The main line of the story is a rich lady who is in trouble in the countryside because of a change in her family plan. But the house leak happened to rain overnight, and at this time a group of robbers appeared, just as the rich lady was about to commit suicide to celebrate the festival, thinking that the young general had appeared, he beat away the robbers, and escorted the young lady all the way to her relative's house. The rich lady is under the fence of a relative's house, and she meets a few cousins who are all sharp and sharp-mouthed-the story is written here for the time being, and it seems to be a dream of Red Mansions mixed with heroes saving beauty.

However, Zhang Xiaowu found the biggest shortcoming here, Wanqiu's writing and wording of the story were a bit obscure, that is, he had to ponder for a long time to understand the meaning, he frowned and said: "Madam, you have read a lot of books, and you know the Four Books and Five Classics and other scriptures, but you must first make sure that you are writing this book to whom, and you are not writing a book for those scholars who are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics." ”

Wanqiu was curious: "Why is this solved?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu patiently explained: "Any book, its audience is fixed, such as the book "The Legend of the Heroes of the Holy Han", the people who read the book are nothing more than literate men, and it is these people who read a lot, they can't understand the content that is too profound, and they are only interested in the fights and storylines in the "The Legend of the Heroes of the Holy Han", so they don't need too advanced writing techniques. And the book you read earlier was written for you women or young ladies who were literate and hyphenated, so there is no need for too obscure writing techniques. However, if it is written to the candidates of the imperial examination, "Nanhuai Writings" or "Hundred Schools", it needs to be more profound than your writing technique. And I think that this story of yours is mainly written for young ladies or ladies who are from the same rich and literate as you, and these people don't need to be too deep in rhetorical writing, of course, the language in the story can't be too life-like, and you can't write well in the vernacular. ”

Wanqiu thought about it for a long time, and asked with a little feeling: "You mean, I read a lot of books, and the writing is too difficult to understand?" Others can't read it? ”

"It's not that others can't read it, it's that the readers who read your book can't read it, and the people who can read your book won't read your book." Zhang Xiaowu pulled her into his arms like a barbarian, Lou hugged her and kissed her, and praised: "It's still my wife Bingxue who is smart, but-I think you've lost a lot of weight recently?" Have you been eating hard lately? ”

Wanqiu blushed and said, "What's the matter, I've gained some weight recently." ”

Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and said, "Don't lie to me, I found out from the feel, it's not as mellow as before." ”

"I hate it." Wanqiu struggled and jumped out of his arms, "Lang Jun, how about I change this story?" Have you read the story inside? How's the story written? ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Your sum is less than 2,000 words but you have written a lot of content, I think you are a little deliberately pursuing the advancement of the storyline, but ignoring the details of the description." That said, you're writing too fast, which kind of forces the reader to read your story. So I suggest that you expand your story from 2,000 words to 20,000 words so that people have time to buffer. As far as I know, there was once an author named Simon Blowing the Lantern Zero Zero-Seven, who liked to write like this-"