Since seeing Li Yuanhuan that night, Xi Yuanxiu has not been as lazy as before, and has become more and more diligent.

Every morning, when I came together, I began to compare the five bird operas I learned in a well-known Jianghu Langzhong in the courtyard.

However, his movements are really a little clumsy, like a master in the capital who teaches people to recuperate.

And the Huangcheng County Ya, which is half a day's away from Yangzhou City, is also full of vitality.

The whole yamen seems to be built in the deep mountains and old forests, and every day there are birds flying up and down in the courtyard, which is very lively, but there are not many problems with the bird droppings that fall in the air from time to time.

And among these little things that fertilize the yard for free every day, except for a gray-headed bird that cannot be named, the rest are some slightly cute white pigeons.

However, the little gray bird does not stay in the government office very often, and every time it comes, people feel that it has been flying, and it just wants to rest, so it comes here to stay for a while.

As soon as Liu Xiao saw these pigeons, he felt that the worms in his stomach were hooked, so as long as it was morning, he would sneak into a trap to catch birds.

As long as he thought of the delicious pigeon meat, coupled with the fresh cucumbers sent by Aunt Hao a few days ago and transplanted from Jingguo by Xiliang Kingdom before, he couldn't help but drool.

But every time he gets the trap right, he's always discovered.

And the one who found him doing these things was Xi Yuanxiu, who got up early every day to practice.

As long as he was discovered by Xi Yuanxiu, he would angrily kick Liu Xiao's rudimentary tool made of a wooden stick and a basket, and then call Xu Lai, who came over, and tied Liu Xiao into the shape of a meat dumpling in May.

And after Xu Lai finished these daily routines, he still pondered his swordsmanship like the day he first came to the county office. Every day, under the watchful eye of Xi Yuanxiu and Liu Xiao, a human meat dumpling, climbing the window, under the ginkgo tree in the backyard, practicing the style of stabbing out and then taking it back.

Xi Yuanxiu will also get closer to see when he is idle, and Liu Xiao will go out angrily after being bullied by these two people every day, and I don't know if he went to investigate the poor puppy or secretly went to the Qinglou Gambling House!

Anyway, this deserted county government is much more lively than before!

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On this day, Xu Lai, who got up early to practice swordsmanship, felt that someone was sneaking behind him, and he didn't turn his head, and threw out a sword qi with his left hand that was not holding a sword.

And that sharp sword qi, impartial, just shaved the new hair crown on Xi Yuanxiu's head that he bought with storytelling money to the ground.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the new hair crown that was cut off on the ground distressedly, touched his hair again, and shouted at Xu Lai: "You madman, I'm just looking for the pigeon I lost, and getting up early in the morning will ruin my mood today!" ”

Xu Lai put the sword into the sheath, looked at Xi Yuanxiu, who was thunderous, and asked, "Why do you want to peek at me practicing the sword, didn't you look at it before in the bright light?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu picked up the hair crown on the ground, turned into a smiling face, and said: "I happened to be passing by today, by the way, you will take back this sword, I see you only practice this move every day, does this move have a name?" ”

"Shocking"

"Good name, in line with your temperament, pretend!"

After Xi Yuanxiu finished speaking, he saw that Xu Lai didn't react, and asked him again: "But what's the use of your trick, I saw it in the martial arts arena of the Chang'an Praetorian Guard at the time, and even a person with a knife is better than you?" ”

Xu Lai turned his back to Xi Yuanxiu, the smile on his face was not seen by Xi Yuanxiu, he pulled the sword out of the scabbard, and said, "One hit the ground!" ”

In Xi Yuanxiu's eyes, he only pulled out half of the sword body, and his body didn't move, but the fallen leaf in front of him just now turned into two halves in the air, so fast and so accurate.

Xi Yuanxiu, who was stunned, didn't need Xu Lai to say a second word, and ran out of the backyard directly, his speed was definitely faster than Xu Lai's sword.

At this time, after Liu Xiao had breakfast with these two, he had already set off on the way to Yangzhou.

It's not just going to give a gift to that Lord Chincha, but also the dog disease that can't be seen in the Scoop City.

The scenery along the road did not affect Liu Xiao's dissatisfied heart at all, and he read in pieces: "One of you two is practicing at home, the other is teasing pigeons at home, I came to Yangzhou to play with dogs, hey, who made me a master, no one loves me!" ”

While he was still complaining right away, someone was already staring at him behind him.

Liu Xiao walked the trail at first because he was afraid of the heat, and when he was about to go to the official road in front, two men in black suddenly stopped in front of him.

Liu Xiao's mouth closed suddenly, then showed an extremely frightened expression, dismounted, and said to the two: "Brother, I don't have any money, the two heroes don't dislike it, just take away my osmanthus cake immediately, my body doesn't mind you are also free!" ”

The two men in black glanced at each other, and as soon as the two of them walked up, they were each played by Liu Xiao, Liu Xiao laughed and said: "You two grandsons, just bully me in the yamen, I'm going to come to Yangzhou, you two are still pretending to be like this, hahaha, come and take off the mask for me!" ”

As soon as Liu Xiao stretched out his hand, he was caught by a steel knife around his neck, feeling the coolness of the knife and the sharpness of the blade, he knew that he had really met a kidnapper.

But the security in Yangzhou has always been good in recent years, and it has been a long time since I heard of thieves blocking the road and robbing property.

The two of them didn't pay attention to what he was thinking, and in less than half a cup of tea, Liu Xiao had already been shut down, like a suckling pig about to go to the grill.

The clothes on his body had been turned inside and out, even his sweat-soaked socks.

On his little yellow horse, the osmanthus cake placed in the box was not let go by these two people, and the pieces were crushed piece by piece.

And his purse, which he thought was a treasure, was only roughly glanced at by one of them and thrown aside.

Liu Xiaoguang squatted on the ground, looking at what these two people were doing, and muttered in his heart, do these two people have any special habits, they don't want to be good for their bodies or money, they just want to play with the sweet osmanthus cake as mud.

Before he could think about anything else, the two men walked up to him with knives in their hands, and they were about to say their words of mercy when they were kicked and fainted.

The two men in black turned around and left, leaving Liu Xiao here, and then this Master Liu was lying naked on the grass like this, with a horse next to him, plus osmanthus cakes all over the ground, it was really infinitely beautiful!

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After learning that the Qincha team of the court had entered the city yesterday, Li Yuanhuan did not go directly to the Qincha master, but found someone to deliver a message to him, asking the Zhou master to go to the prison to interrogate the prisoner first.

However, as soon as I received the word this week, I heard that there were guests from outside his house.

The outsider did not say hello, did not inquire, did not knock on the door, and pushed the door in as usual, as if the person was going back to his own home.

After Zhou Wenbin saw this person, he saluted and said, "I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

This makes sense, in this world, where is not the Li family, it is naturally your own family!

But what Zhou Wenbin was thinking more about at this time was that a prince and a king, both of them wanted to handle this case so much, why don't you two come here!

This prince, dressed in an apricot yellow costume with a slight fierceness between his eyebrows, was the one who watched Zhou Wenbin enter the city on the city wall yesterday.

Compared with the previous His Royal Highness Xianwang, the two people are two extremes, His Royal Highness Xianwang is peaceful and low-key, while His Royal Highness the Crown Prince exudes domineering arrogance.

Two months after the crown prince was made the prince, the fourth prince, who had made outstanding achievements in the court, was named the king of Xian.

This made Li Yuanqing, who had just sat in the East Palace for a short time, very unhappy.

And the officials in the capital are also talking about it, because when the prince of the East Palace has not yet taken all the powerful ministers in the court under his command, there is a prince who has been crowned a prince because of his political achievements.

This changed the one-sided situation in the court, and this situation in which the crown prince and the king were auxiliary to the government was exactly what His Majesty the Emperor liked to see.

So these two people are like fire and water, which is naturally expected.

Li Yuanqing looked at the Lord Zhou, who was still saluting, and did not let him get up, but asked him, saying, "Is it the person who came to offer the king just now?" ”

Zhou Wenbin heard this cold, unemotionally fluctuating voice, came back to his senses in his own world, and hurriedly said to Li Yuanqing: "Back to His Royal Highness, just now His Royal Highness did send someone over, and said to Wechen, let Wechen go to the prison to interrogate the prisoner first, but I didn't explain anything else!" ”

"Get up and speak, Lord Zhou!"

"Your Highness"

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince casually picked up the teapot on the table, poured a full cup of tea, and then drank it by himself.

The prefect who entered the door first asked Li Yuanqing for peace, but he put aside the emperor's hand-picked messenger, Zhou Wenbin also felt that it was natural, in addition to the Li family and those who held a lot of power, no one looked down on him, not to mention that he was a little-known squire.

After talking to Li Yuanqing for a while, this Xue Luping Xue prefect pretended to have just seen Zhou Wenbin, and said: "Oh, this is Zhou Shilang from the court, look at me, I really didn't recognize it just now, the lower officials were panicked, and I ask Lord Zhou not to take it to heart!" ”

Zhou Wenbin looked at his face with wrinkles that could almost catch flies, and suddenly felt a little disgusted, and responded to him: "It's okay, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, and I, Lord Qincha, naturally don't need to look at it!" ”

Hearing this, Xue Luping naturally knew that he was disgusting himself in turn, but a person of this age and experience naturally would not let others see what he was thinking.

He still smiled and said flatteringly: "Since Lord Zhou is the Lord Qincha sent by His Majesty, he is naturally the most admired figure in this city, except for His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Yuanqing on the side saw the bickering of the two, his face was not like the expression just now, cold, it could be seen from the upward movement of the corners of his mouth, he was in a good mood now, and he thought that it must be very interesting for these two to perform the burlesque that is now popular in Jingguo!

However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't think much about it, and said to Xue Luping: "Lord Xue, there is a wrong sentence, there is still His Royal Highness the King in this city, I don't know if I have been to your mansion?" ”

Hearing this, Xue Luping realized that he thought that the crown prince would come to Yangzhou instead of the king, but he didn't expect that His Majesty, who was far away in the world, would send his two own sons.

While laughing, he thought that this Yangzhou City was interesting!