In the afternoon, Zhang Yanyuan came to worship and comfort Yan Niang.

This person has a white face and a long beard, a dignified appearance, very thick eyebrows, bright eyes, and an official uniform, which is quite dignified, which makes people feel trustworthy inexplicably.

"Zhang shouldn't have introduced Brother Yu to Qinglong Temple at the beginning, I didn't expect to attract the disaster of killing, I really didn't kill Boren, Boren died because of me." Zhang Yanyuan sighed.

"It's no wonder that Zhang Wailang is doing this, his first husband Duomeng has made great progress in painting with his talents, but there are people in Qinglong Temple who are harmful, even if he doesn't go there, he can't hide if he is afraid elsewhere." Liu Yanniang cried.

"Has the murderer ever been caught?" Zhang Yan said from afar.

"Wannian Li Mingfu is investigating this case, and the person who did it has been arrested, and he has not yet confessed the instigation behind it." Yun Xuansu said.

Zhang Yanyuan asked with concern: "If there is a problem at home, even if you say it clearly, Zhang will never shirk if you can help." ”

Liu Yanniang said: "Recently, the people of the Yu clan have been working hard to drive my mother and daughter away, so as to occupy the inheritance of my late husband......"

Zhang Yanyuan was furious when he heard this: "Chang'an is the first good place under the feet of the saint, how can it be allowed to oppress good people so much, my family has an old relationship with Du Wailang, and I can report this matter to Jingzhaoyin and Dali Temple through him......"

Zhang Yanyuan is from Hedong Zhang's family, the ancestors of Zhang Jiazhen, Zhang Yansheng, Zhang Hongjing three generations in Xuanzong, Dezong, Xianzong, Muzong Dynasty for the phase, known as "Hedong Zhang's, three phases of Shengmen, four dynasties Yawang", he is the grandson of Zhang Hongjing, father Zhang Wengui is now the son of the country.

Zhang and Du's two families are world friends, Zhang Hongjing was appreciated by Du You when he was young, Du Mu is Du You's grandson, and Zhang Yanyuan's father Zhang Wengui is good friends.

Liu Yanniang was anxious when she heard this, and said: "No, no, this matter is not to be done......

Zhang Yanyuan was a little strange and asked, "Why is this?" ”

Of course, Liu Yanniang would not say anything about her relationship with Du Mu, and she finally fooled the past.

She has been paying attention to the news of this negative person, and knows that he is now a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, living in Anrenfang, next door to the north of Fuguangfang, where Yun Xuansu lives.

Liu Yanniang usually doesn't go to the West Market, and if she really wants to go, she tries to bypass the Anrenfang area.

Zhang Yanyuan saw that this woman refused to say more, and did not ask more, but secretly shook his head, Du Mu is known for his romance, and he wanted to come to the past to have a relationship with Liu Yanniang, which made her unwilling to face it.

He thought for a while and then said: "In this case, Zhang will visit Secretary Liu (secretary supervisor Liu Zhongying) in a while and ask him to come forward, Liu Gong is the predecessor Jing Zhaoyin, there must be a way." ”

"Thank you so much."

Zhang Yanyuan didn't talk anymore, said goodbye to the Yu family, went around to the main street, and went straight to the gate of Liufu Mansion.

Since it was a visit to the house, it was natural to go to the west courtyard where the second room was located to visit Liu Gongquan first.

Liu Gongquan was the third year of Yuanhe (808) Jinshi and the first, Zhang Yanyuan's grandfather Zhang Hongjing was the right to pay tribute in the fourth year of Yuanhe (809), and Liu Gongquan's brother Liu Gongqi was a minister at that time, and the two families had a relationship.

Zhang Yanyuan's father, Zhang Wengui, was appointed as the secretary of the Guozi Jian under the fourth grade (843) in the third year (843), and Liu Gongquan was appointed as the priest of the Sanpin Guozi at that time, and he was his top boss, and the Zhang family was also a calligraphy family, so Zhang Wengui had a very personal relationship with Liu Gongquan.

Liu Gongquan is seventy-one years old and now serves as the secretary of the Zhengsanpin Ministry of Industry.

He was good friends with Li Deyu in his early years, and was recommended by Cui Heng of the Niu Party to be promoted during the Huichang period, Li Deyu was very unhappy and demoted him to suppress him.

In fact, the Niu Li Party struggle is not a dispute between the old and new forces at all, and the Niu Party does not represent the emerging landlords, because their current leader is the Qinghe Cui clan, which is the oldest gate valve since the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The leader of the Li Party only has the Longxi Li family headed by Li Deyu and his son and their in-laws, and they have not even done it in the clan, and another Niu Party boss, Li Zongmin, was born in the clan.

There are not many people in the Bull Party, in fact, most of the courtiers are centrists, and whoever is in power will cooperate with whomever they want.

None of the courtiers would openly admit to forming a party, after all, it was the most taboo thing for the emperor.

In private, they will say that others are the Niu Party and the Li Party, and accuse their opponents of forming a party, but they will never claim to be a certain party, and the words Niu Party and Li Party are also born in the course of attacking each other.

Zhang Yanyuan followed the servant to the study and found that Liu Zhongying was also there, grinding while observing Liu Gongquan's writing.

When Liu Zhongying saw him come in, he waved his hand gently, Zhang Yanyuan walked over quietly and stood aside to watch, only to see Liu Gongquan concentrating and writing a few lines of poetry:

Regardless of the grace of the Lord,

has been lonely and guarded the long gate.

But now the king cares,

Re-enter the pepper room to wipe the tears.

After writing, I admired it for a while, and then I looked up and saw Zhang Yanyuan, so I nodded and smiled: "Binhu, you are here." ”

Binhu is Zhang Yanyuan's small character (nickname), and his character is Aibin. Only an elder like Liu Gongquan is commensurate with small characters.

Zhang Yanyuan hurriedly saluted and said, "Uncle Liu (Uncle Zu)." ”

Liu Gongquan put down the pen, waved his hand and said, "It's all my own family, you don't have to be polite." ”

Zhang Yanyuan saluted Liu Zhongying and called him uncle.

Liu Gongquan returned to the main position, Liu Zhongying and Zhang Yanyuan sat down respectively, and the subordinates served tea.

"Your father's affairs are in a hurry, if the time is ripe, the old man will naturally help." Liu Gongquan took a sip of tea and said.

Zhang Wengui is his old subordinate, the officials of the Tang Dynasty generally move every two to four years, he has not been promoted for almost six years, the day before yesterday he prepared a heavy gift to ask for the house, Liu Gongquan also promised to help mediate.

Zhang Yanyuan naturally nodded in response, and he asked Liu Gongquan for calligraphy for a while, and then mentioned Liu Yanniang's matter to Liu Zhongying.

Liu Zhongying listened, frowned and said: "That Yu Mengwei and Yu Zhongde are the same ancestors of Yu Hongzhi, the right lieutenant of the Shence Army of the previous dynasty, after Yu Hongzhi's death, his descendants have no interest, but the Yu family is still a little old in the Shence Army. ”

Yu Hongzhi followed Qiu Shiliang to kill the prime minister Li Xun and Zheng Zhu in the Manna Change, and was Qiu Shiliang's right and left hand, and was killed in the third year of Huichang (843), Qiu Shiliang saw that the situation was not good and died of illness soon after.

The descendants of the Yu family and the descendants of Qiu Shiliang were liquidated by Wuzong together, and after Emperor Dazhong succeeded to the throne, although they were reactivated, their official positions were not high.

Zhang Yanyuan listened to Liu Zhongying's words and understood that things were more tricky, so he said: "Bullying orphans and widows is always angered by the people, and the fish Liu family (Liu Yanniang) is also a neighbor of your mansion, please help me get an idea, Uncle Liu was Jing Zhaoyin a few years ago, didn't he also kill Liu Xu, a junior colonel of the forbidden army?" Presumably, he is not afraid of the Divine Army. ”

Liu Zhongying shook his head and smiled bitterly, when he and his father Liu Gongyu were Jing Zhaoyin, they both killed the junior colonel of the forbidden army, but this was not an unconscionable move, but the two junior colonels had no background, so they wanted to use this to establish their authority, but Liu Zhongying caused a backlash from the Shence Army that time, and finally transferred him to the secretary and supervisor, which can be said to be a miscalculation.

"Binhu, let's see how this develops in advance, if it is really succeeded by the wicked, I will transfer the book to Jingzhao Mansion to inquire."

Zhang Yanyuan knew that he was in a hurry, so he chatted with Liu Gongquan and Liu Zhongying for a while before getting up to say goodbye and leave.

When Liu Gongquan saw Zhang Yanyuan leaving, he said to Liu Zhongying: "Zhang Yanyuan is so enthusiastic about coming out for the Liu family, I'm afraid he has other plans, and his father Zhang Wengui's matter should not be moved for the time being, now is not the time." ”

Liu Gongquan is old, chattering, often forgetting what he said, this time it is repeated, Liu Zhongying remembered that Zhang Wengui begged to come to the door a few days ago, and his uncle had said roughly the same thing to himself:

In the early years of the Changqing Dynasty of Muzong Dynasty, Bin Hu's grandfather Zhang Hongjing was exiled as the envoy of Youzhou Festival, and was imprisoned by Zhu Kerong, lost the country and lost his land, and was hated by the world.

"Wei Guanzhi and Wei Wen's uncle and nephew are the predecessors of the Niu Party, fighting with Pei Du, Pei Du and then Li Jifu, Li Deyu and his son Li Dang are in the same line, but Pei Du's sons are Luoyang villagers with Niu Monks' and children's family, and they are very close to each other.

In his early years, Li Deyu entered the shogunate of Zhang Hongjing, Taiyuan Hedong Jiedu, served as the secretary, and during the Huichang period, Zhang Wengui's brother Zhang Cizong was promoted to the examiner Wailang, the knowledge system, and the Zhang family belonged to the Li Party.

"Now that the Niu Party has re-entered the center, Li Deyu has been demoted to Yazhou, the party is scattered, and it is not easy for Zhang Wengui to be promoted to the fourth grade."

Liu's, Wei's, and Bai's (Bai Juyi, Bai Minzhong) were neutrals during the Niu Li Party struggle, Bai Minzhong became the ruling party after Emperor Dazhong ascended the throne, and Liu Gongquan also did the Ministry of Works, so it can be said that the neutral faction picked peaches at this time and became the biggest beneficiary after the party struggle.

The Li Party has collapsed, and the Liu family secretly takes care of the Zhang and Zheng officials in the Li Party and wants to take them as wings.

Liu Gongquan pointed to the four lines of poetry he had just written and asked Liu Zhongying: "Do you know why I wrote this poem today?" ”

Liu Zhongying said: "This is the second uncle Huichang five years (845 years) Zhengdan wrote a poem called "should be made for the palace concubine Yong", when Emperor Wuzong missed Wang Cairen and wanted to release him out of the cold palace, so he asked the second uncle to write this poem and give himself a step. ”

Liu Gongquan nodded and said: "What happened to this Wang Cairen, you and I understand in our hearts that today's saints take Emperor Taizong, who killed his brother and brother, as a model, and his six relatives are not recognized. ”

Liu Zhongying nodded again and again, and he chatted with his uncle for a while before returning to the courtyard of his house.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw that my second son Liu Jue was cleaning up and ready to go out.

Liu Zhongying frowned and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Liu Qi was silent.

Liu Zhongying snorted and shouted, "Rebel, what the hell is the idea?" still dares to hide from his father, but his courage is getting bigger and bigger! ”

Liu Jue was frightened, he was afraid of his strict father, but he was caught at this time, and hurriedly defended: "I didn't do anything, I just studied for a long time and wanted to go out." ”

Where did Liu Zhongying believe it, he immediately called the servants, and figured out what was going on in a moment.

It turned out that Liu Jue went to Yu's house to pay for filial piety, and when she saw that Liu Yanniang was moved, she asked the little girl to inquire about the details, and then prepared to go to the street to buy some gifts, and once again went to see the beauty in the name of hanging filial piety.

"Evil obstacles! If you don't go on a blind date, you just like a widow who just died of her husband! ”

"She's different, she's really different......"

Liu Zhongying snatched the rattan from the servant and chased after his son......

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Guo Hong has been cultivating hard since he fought Yizhen.

After his Xuandu Altar realized the truth, his skills improved by leaps and bounds, relying on the black and white arms practiced by the "Immortal King Jue", he could not hold on to Yizhen in a short time.

But Guo Hong also knows that his experience and internal strength are not as good as the other party, and if he fights for a long time, he will still lose after all.

After this battle, although the fight was short, I gained a lot of insights.

He kept reminiscing about the other party's boxing, and had a deeper understanding of the Five Elements Boxing and Dayu Shenquan.

Guo Hong got the "Bugang Stepping Bucket" from Xuanbi, the Spleen Mansion Chicheng Boy successfully visualized, and continued to cultivate the Heavenly Pivot Position, his chest was like jade, and now a faint star appeared on his ribs, crystal clear, just in the position of the spleen.

It is estimated that if you continue to practice like this, you will draw the Big Dipper on your chest?

Guo Hong is very suspicious that Sima Chengzhen's disciples are cultivating people in jade, after all, there are many legends of cultivating immortals and wearing jade in ancient times, and what are the gold and jade clothes, that is, they think that jade can be immortal, and people can also be immortal when they become jade.

He also has the Taoist book left by Han Huayang in his hand, which contains Sima Chengzhen's sitting and forgetting skills, but this exercise requires an ethereal mind, sitting and forgetting where it is, Guo Hong asked himself if he was not so single-minded, maybe only a drunken immortal like Li Bai is suitable for cultivation.

He is still specializing in the "Huang Ting Jing" in his internal strength, which is after all a heavenly book inheritance, which is much stronger than the ordinary human exercises.

As for where the Book of Heaven came from, it doesn't matter, whether there really is a Heavenly Court is even more unknown, although he is more inclined to atheism, but this kind of thing is beyond all scientific explanations.

After breaking through the Zhonghuang Court, his internal strength has greatly improved, and when he has cultivated to this stage, he has surpassed most of the martial artists in the world, and there are only one or two hundred people who are stronger than him.

However, the cultivation at this stage is also more than ten times more difficult than that of Xia Huang Ting.

At the beginning, he had completely cultivated the Nine Palaces of the Yellow Court in less than half a year, and it has been some time since the enlightenment of the Xuandu Altar, and the first palace has only cultivated a small half, according to this progress, it will probably take ten years to cultivate the Middle Yellow Court!

Guo Hong often thought to himself: "Is this the difference between middle school and primary school?" ”

After that, if it is ten times more difficult to go to the Yellow Court, won't it be too late to refine it until death?

There must be some way to speed it up! Maybe it's in the small half of the mystery.

In the past few days, in addition to helping to guard the spirit at Yan Niang's house, it is to practice boxing and refining qi, and by the way, I got together with Xiao Xuanji to sense one or two, but there has been no good way.

I'm afraid that a small half of the mysteries have been integrated with the mind of the mystery, how can I get what the other party wants?

Regarding Yizhen's self-defense that day, Guo Hong also discussed with Zhong Liquan, Yun Xuansu and others, and felt that the investigation should be continued.

They didn't think that Yizhen would know anything about the many disciples going to Yuezhou.

The old monk cleared up in public, and the sea fishing document sent by Li Yuan had not yet arrived in Chang'an through the post station, and even if he did, he could no longer do anything to him.

Shi Quanyi was poisoned by his own poisonous needle, and it was too coincidental, and there were also strange things in it.

Yizhen got Topaz, Guo Hong felt that he was haunted, and he didn't know what it had to do with the plot of the Demon Sect!

He remembered now where he had seen the pattern behind the King of Bishamon.

That's exactly the same as the back pattern of the Empress Dowager Guo's token!

Now you need to go to Qinrenfang as soon as possible to find Guo Congshi and inquire about the origin of this purple jade pattern.

Guo Hong put the mask he grabbed from Shi Quanyi's face into his arms at that time, and he didn't think it would be useful for a while, so he put it away.

After the first seven years, Liu Yanniang helped the coffin out of the funeral, and Yu Zhongde brought people to make trouble a few times, and finally let Yu Chengzhao enter the cemetery of the ancestors of the Yu family for burial.

As soon as the funeral came to an end, Guo Hong told Yun Xuansu and Lu Zhizhen that he and Cao Shouzhen went to Qinrenfang to visit Guo Congshi.

Lu Zhizhen wanted to continue to explore Qinglong Temple, Yun Xuansu accompanied Liu Yanniang, but they couldn't get away for a while, and Guo Hong didn't want them to participate in the matter of Empress Dowager Guo's will.

Before leaving, he was stopped by Yun Xuansu and asked quietly: "Yan Niang said that Shen Zhao appeared again two days ago, and it was night, and she was the only one in the mourning hall who said a few words. Her pulse was originally a stagnation of liver qi, and I thought she would be seriously ill, but I didn't expect to survive. You're the only one here to stay with you at night, isn't it another practice? ”

Guo Hong glanced back and saw that Liu Yanniang did not come out, so he nodded slightly.

"That's fine. What did you say? She's not so sad now. Yun Xuansu was also curious, this Senior Brother Guo seemed to know everything, and he could even comfort a woman.

"I borrowed Uncle Yu's tone and said that I want her to cherish herself, so as not to worry Uncle Yu in the underworld, and take care of Senior Sister Xuanji and raise her as an adult."

Yun Xuansu listened, shook his head slightly, and said, "Hades, who knows where it is?!" ”

She remembered her master, who loved her like a mother, and her nose was a little sore, and she hurriedly turned around and walked out.

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Guo Hong and Cao Shouzhen both dressed up as ordinary people and entered the gate of Qinrenfang.

Qinrenfang is in the south of Xuanyangfang, where the Wannian County Ya is located, and the northeast corner faces the southwest corner of Dongshi.

The square is divided into the shape of a field by the cross street, and there is the former residence of An Lushan in the southeast corner, which was changed to the Huiyuan Temple, and Liu Zongyuan also lived here, and spent 32 years here.

The southwest corner of Qinrenfang is the Xianyi view presided over by Princess Yongjia, the mother of He Qiong.

There is no private residence in the southwest corner, and the east side of Xianyiguan is the hotel where foreign officials enter Beijing, a few days ago, Cao Shouzhen lived here in order to keep an eye on Qinglong Temple, he is a Taoist priest, and he is also eligible to rent.

In the Tang Dynasty, monks could only go to temples to place orders, and Taoist priests could live in post stations and hostels in government offices in addition to related Taoist temples.

The entire northwest corner of Qinrenfang lives the descendants of Guo Ziyi, known as "Guo's Land" and "Qinrenfang's Guo Family".

Guo's family built a wall on the cross street, and opened the gate on all sides, but it was open all day long without guards, and the vendors and pawns could enter and exit at will.

This rule has been passed down from Guo Ziyi's time.

The walls of the wall have been mottled and hung with green vines, and when you enter the gate, the corners of the lanes and the cracks of the stone slabs are also covered with moss, and the old trees exposed at the top of the wall are lush and lush, exuding a sense of seclusion, making people feel as if they are in the deep mountains.

Guo Hong stopped an old man and asked Guo Congshi where he lived, but the man smiled and said: "There are more than 1,000 households and 35,000 people living here, and they don't know each other, which room are you looking for?" ”

"I heard that it belongs to the three ancestral houses."

"Then enter the door and go north, and ask again after two alleys."

Guo Hong hurriedly said, "Thank you, uncle." ”

They stopped and asked a few more people before they found a place.

Guo Hongzheng asked Cao Shouzhen to wait in the distance, and he stepped forward and knocked on the courtyard door, and someone inside asked, "Who is outside?" ”

"I'm here from the south, looking for a Mr. Guo Congshi."

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Historical figures: Zhang Yanyuan, Liu Gongquan, Liu Zhongying