Zhu Zhitong didn't expect him to answer like this, she was stunned for a moment, and then she immediately understood: "Do you miss your Uncle You?" ”

"Hmm...... He entrusted me with taking care of your aunt, but he seemed to hide so many things from me that I couldn't figure it out. If people have souls, I really want to ask about it. ”

"In this way, your Uncle You is really a good man, he is terminally ill, but he still thinks about his aunt. If I can meet ...... in the future" As soon as she was halfway through the words, Zhu Zhitong felt speechless and hurriedly stopped. She stood in the shadow of the building, Su Xiaochen didn't see her blushing face, and only asked, "If there are really ghosts, do you have anyone you want to see?" ”

"The one you want to see...... It's probably just my father. He died when I was born, and I don't even know what he looked like. Zhu Zhitong was a little gloomy.

"Didn't your mother tell you what he looked like?"

Zhu Zhitong shook her head and said, "Mother never talks to the three of us about my father, she doesn't like to talk about it. Among the three of our sisters, the eldest sister knows the most about her father, but she avoids talking about it when she sees her mother, and the second sister doesn't dare to ask, although I dare to ask, but every time I ask my mother, I only say that the person is dead, don't talk about it sadly, and I won't ask after a long time. ”

"Oh......" Su Xiaochen thought to himself, this is also a very helpless thing, just like his parents died early, he didn't know what he looked like at all, and his uncle didn't want to say more.

The deceased is the eternal pain of the living, and all people are the same.

"I heard the eldest sister say that my mother kept a portrait of my father, bundled in the attic of Laiyi Palace, and my mother only said that there was no such thing, and I secretly looked for it when I was a child, but I didn't find it." Zhu Zhitong said thoughtfully: "Actually, I just want to see what my father looks like." ”

"Why doesn't your second sister dare to ask?"

"I don't know, my mother always seems to dislike her, every time I see her, I have to sigh, in fact, when I was a child, my second sister was much more obedient than me." Zhu Zhitong was also puzzled.

While speaking, the previous maid had already gone downstairs, leading the two of them around for a while before coming out of Fuxingtai.

Su Xiaochen saw that the maid was walking away, and Fang asked, "When are you going to go to Nanhua Island?" ”

Zhu Zhitong thought about it and said, in three or five days, I have to go to my mother's palace before leaving, otherwise she will look for me if she doesn't see me for some days.

Su Xiaochen nodded, and was just about to get on the boat, when he suddenly felt that a huge black shadow seemed to be standing under the shade of the tree beside him.

Before he could see who it was, Zhu Zhitong had already sighed: "Tiehua? How are you here? ”

I saw that the man lifted the bare willow and walked from behind the shade of the tree to the moonlight, it was none other than Tiehua, the general of the Golden Feather Battalion.

Su Xiaochen remembered that he had seen her on the edge of the Hanjiang River, and at that time he felt that this person was very martial arts, she was really a strange woman, but she looked fierce and looked a little difficult to mess with. Now in the middle of the night, he suddenly appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but be frightened and took a few steps back.

Tiehua still bowed to the princess respectfully as usual: "Tiehua see Her Royal Highness the princess. Then he didn't get up, and turned to Su Xiaochen and said, "I've seen Master Su." ”

Su Xiaochen saw that her attitude was completely different from that of Hanjiang, and she was so polite, she was so surprised in her heart, and hurriedly returned the salute honestly.

"I heard...... I heard that Master Su has the heart to practice martial arts. If you don't give up...... Iron Flower Wish...... Professor one or two. ”

Tiehua was not good at words, and when he saw him, he suddenly said such a sentence without saying anything, and his tone sounded so polite that he couldn't say anything awkward. The two people who heard this were the same, and the second monk couldn't figure it out.

Tiehua is the leader of the Golden Feather Battalion, how can she have time to run to teach martial arts? What's more, Su Xiaochen almost didn't know her, how could she still let her come here in person in the middle of the night?

However, Zhu Zhitong's mind was still alive, and she clapped her hands and exclaimed, "I know!" The eldest sister must have sent you, right? ”

can know that this hour and Su Xiaochen will be in Fuxingtai, and who else can command the iron flower, who else can there be besides the eldest sister? Before, the eldest sister said that she wanted to send Yinhua to escort her and was rejected by herself, so she must still be relieved, so she asked Tiehua to pass on the martial arts of Dasu, and now that she thinks about it, the eldest sister is really well-intentioned to herself, and there is a warmth in her heart at the moment.

Tiehua listened, just smiled awkwardly and didn't answer.

Su Xiaochen was stunned, thinking, Lao Yang is really a fortune teller, can I meet such a person to teach me martial arts, is it really fateful? At the moment, he hurriedly replied: "General Chenglang is busy with military affairs, and a person with mediocre qualifications like me doesn't know how much effort it will take the general......

"Bang dang!" The pear flower spear in Tiehua's hand poked into the ground, frowned and asked, "You just say, learn or not!" ”

"Learn! Learn! Learn! Su Xiaochen immediately swallowed all the polite words. If this woman is really angry, it is not a joke.

"Then from tomorrow onwards, at this hour every night, I will be waiting under the Huliang attic." Tiehua's tone was a lot soothing.

Mom, the apprentice's master has blocked the door of the apprentice's house, and it seems impossible to refuse.

"But in another three or five days, I may have to go far away......" Su Xiaochen muttered, while giving Zhu Zhitong a wink, but Zhu Zhitong gloated and pretended not to see it.

"Three days is enough, I will pass on a set of stick techniques to Master Su, and then practice diligently in my spare time." Tiehua still has a categorical tone, and there is no room for bargaining.

Zhu Zhitong looked happy, she patted Su Xiaochen's back and said, "Tiehua is willing to teach you, then you are blessed." In the future, if you just mention the name of Master, it is estimated that no one in the Bihai Kingdom will dare to provoke you. If you encounter a thief again, it's much better than your Su name! ”

Su Xiaochen couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to say, "That'...... In this way, I thanked the general. ”

When Tiehua heard this, she nodded with satisfaction, made another salute, and went straight away.

* * * * * *

In the Taiye City of the Bihai Country, there is an inner lake in the city and an outer lake outside the city. Further outward to these two lakes are four well-groomed Duyi Avenues, which divide the entire Taiye Kingdom into the shape of a nine-square grid. Taiye City is right in the center of this nine-square grid, occupying the most outstanding place.

The east and west squares of the national capital are both marketplaces, for example, the merchant house in Imulan is located on Nanchi Street, which is adjacent to the east of Taiye City. The more profitable the business is, the more it occupies the best position in the market, except for the deliberately blinding fireworks and willows, the more you go to the east and west, the more deserted it is.

The southern three grids of the national capital are low, and mud puddles abound, and most of them are the living places of the common people. Every time the summer heat is scorching, the muddy water in the depression is foggy, like a steamer. In winter, it becomes dry soil, and when the wind blows, the dust flies.

The best boundary is the north three grids of the Taiye national capital, which is the most and most vast place near the national capital. The north grid is set up with the Zhongshu Province and the six departments, the northeast grid is set up with five temples and three halls, and the northwest grid is the place where these eunuchs' private residences gather. Ordinary poor people don't say that they come to live here, even if they don't set foot on weekdays.

There are also local wealthy people who do not know what they are in, and when they go to the capital of Taiye to buy a house in the northwest grid, it turns out that if it is not for the lintel of the powerful or noble blood, they dare to live in this area with just a few gold ingots, not only can the neighbors not speak, but also be ridiculed by others, and in the end they still move to live elsewhere.

Therefore, this piece of the northwest grid is the private reserve of the dignitaries.

In this northwestern grid, the ordinary official mansions occupy about two-thirds of the east side. To the west side, it is a high wall that cannot be seen, there are seven single-wall doors from south to north, and there are corner towers and high towers on the side of the high wall, just like a city, but only two words are written on such a magnificent wall door: Lufu.

Which Lu Mansion?

There is really more than one Lu Mansion, because after entering the field, you will find that there is a cave. Since the Prime Minister's Mansion of Peiguo Gong Lu Xingyuan, the Horse Mansion of Lu Wenjun, the Horse Mansion of the Jinquan Concubine, the Shangshu Mansion of Lu Wenchi, the Shangshu Mansion of Lu Wenchi, the Secretary of the Honglu Temple, Lu Wenxiang, the Lord of the Bibo Business Alliance, and the Governor of the Nine Gates, Lu Wenbi, there are a total of 17 Lu Mansions. The Lu family all gathered here.

This is the real door to power. Just two faint words of Lu Fu blocked ordinary people from the door.

In the Lixiang Pavilion of Shangshu Mansion, the lanterns are decorated with colorful lights, and the eyes are full of dazzling. A middle-aged man in his fifties was lying on a soft couch with his stomach and eyes closed, two beautiful maids were gently pinching their legs, and a maid next to him was kneeling with his head down and holding a plate of grapes. At the next head, there was another servant, holding a pipa, singing softly in his mouth, singing to the place of provocation, and squeezing his eyebrows.

Suddenly, her clothes were in tatters, and a Chinese woman hurriedly walked in, walked up to the man and whispered: "Master, my father is here, and I have passed the middle hall." ”

The man was shocked: "Father? Hurriedly waved his hand, frowned at the maids and shouted, "Get out, get out of here." ”

The maids hurriedly escaped from behind the screen, but in a moment, Lu Xingyuan had already walked in with square steps. The man hurriedly bowed down and asked, "My son came to see my father, why did he come here in person today?" ”

Lu Xingyuan didn't answer, looking at the folds pressed out of his son's plump figure on the soft couch, and the room was still filled with the thick aroma of fat powder on the servant's body.

He frowned and sat down in one of the chairs in the east head.

Seeing that his father did not open his mouth, the man took the teacup handed over by his wife, bowed his head and said, "Let the people go down, and you will go down too." ”

In an instant, only the father and son were left in Lixiang Pavilion.

"Wen Chi. How are you doing lately? Lu Xingyuan asked quietly.

Lu Wenchi's heart sank, and he said with a smile: "Fortunately, it's okay, my son hasn't asked my father to go recently, it's my son's fault." He hurriedly put the teacup on the table, and his head was already oozing sweat.

"Is it really good? Don't you have anything you want to talk to your father? Lu Xingyuan raised his eyes and stared at him.

When Lu Wenchi heard this, he secretly wondered if he could hide it, but he still wanted to give it a try, and replied pretending not to know: "I don't know what my father is referring to?" ”

"Phew!" Lu Xingyuan suddenly slapped his palm on the table, shaking the tea cup so that half of the tea flew out and splashed directly on the face of Lu Wenchi, who was standing in front of him. Lu Wenchi let the tea and sweat flow down, and he didn't even dare to wipe it.

"Evil obstacles! If I don't say the three words Nanhua Island, when are you going to hide it? The excerpts of the civil uprising played by the Southern Xinjiang Governor's Mansion have arrived on the Fuxing Terrace, and you are still here in a mess! Lu Xingyuan roared angrily, making Lu Wenchi's ears buzz.

As soon as Lu Wenchi heard the three words of Nanhua Island, he gritted his teeth fiercely and cursed in a low voice: "Shen Xianyun, this slut ......"

"Do you still have the heart to break her? Even if she is your person, how can she, a prefect, afford such a major event as the people's uprising? You can't even see this clearly, and you still have the face to live in the position of a dignified scholar! Don't say it's her, if it's me, I wouldn't dare to give my life to something like you! Lu Xingyuan was already so angry that he was smoking.