Xue Zhen said: "Fang Da is so straightforward, what else do I want to investigate, not to mention that if there is anything unsightly, it can only be sent outside the city, how can there be anything to be picked up in the city." ”

Seeing that Xue Zhen didn't get off the horse to investigate, Fang An drove the car and continued to move forward, saying, "Since Lord Xue doesn't investigate either, why do you keep following me?" ”

"I just didn't understand why Steward Fang went outside the city to find a doctor for Fang, and I haven't heard of any doctor from outside the city coming to the capital recently?"

The two followed one by one, taunting each other from time to time, but as soon as the doctor's question was mentioned, Fang An kept silent.

Xue Zhen followed Fang An all the way to the Fang Mansion, in front of the Fang Mansion, Fang An stopped the carriage and said to Xue Zhen: "Thank you Lord Xue for escorting you all the way, and now it is also sent to the gate of the Mansion, Lord Xue, please go back." ”

Xue Zhen looked at Fang An with a smile and said, "Don't worry, I can only feel at ease when I see Grand Steward Fang and Fang Shoufu enter the mansion." What is Steward Fang still doing in a daze? Hurry up and help your master get out of the car? ”

Fang An frowned, it was naturally impossible for Fang Congzhe to ask him to help him in the car now, but Xue Zhen must have seen something when he spoke like this. So he said: "Lord Xue's area of responsibility is in the east city, but this is the north of the city, I don't know if Lord Xue is dereliction of duty now?" ”

Xue Zhen said: "Count, of course." It's just that this question is not enough to dispel my curiosity, I really want to know how to get out of the car now, if Lord Fang, who is weak, can't even stand the wind of lifting the sedan curtain. ”

As soon as he heard Xue Zhen's words, Fang An thought about it for a while and had a plan, and said: "No wonder Lord Xue followed me all the way, but it's a pity that Lord Xue is afraid that he won't be able to see it, if you had said earlier, I would have told Lord Xue a long time ago, and Lord Xue of the province ran away in vain." After speaking, Fang An beckoned to the porter waiting in front of the mansion, and after the porter came, Fang An whispered a few words in his ear, and then drove the carriage away again.

Xue Zhen didn't understand what Fang An meant for a while, why did he leave again when he returned to the house, but he didn't want to do so much, so he followed.

It wasn't until he followed Fang An around Fang Mansion and came to the back that Xue Zhen finally understood, it turned out that he wanted to drive the carriage directly into the mansion to avoid Xue Zhen's ears and eyes.

At this time, the back door of Fang's mansion had been opened by the gatehouse, Fang An jumped out of the carriage and took the reins, glanced back at Xue Zhen and said, "Lord Xue, I don't even have to watch the excitement now, please Lord Xue hurry back." After speaking, Fang An led the carriage to the mansion.

Seeing this situation, Xue Zhen hurriedly jumped off the horse and ran a few steps forward, came to Fang An's side and said, "I escorted Lord Fang and Grand Steward Fang all the way, didn't Grand Steward Fang invite me into the mansion for a cup of tea?" ”

Fang An laughed softly as he pulled the carriage forward: "Lord Xue has already thanked him for escorting him all the way, as for the rest, my master did not allow it, and Fang An did not dare to lead people into the mansion without authorization, and I hope Lord Xue will forgive me." ”

Xue Zhen saw Fang An's style, his heart wandered, he was just guessing before, but now he has basically determined that there must be something unsightly in this car, otherwise it would not be so that in order to prevent him from seeing Lord Fang get out of the car, even the carriage had to go through the back door to rush into the mansion, so before Fang An stopped and invited Xue Zhen to inspect the car, the car was just to get away with it.

Xue Zhen figured this out, and he said to Fang An: "Slow, this official has to check your car now." ”

Fang An glanced at Xue Zhen disdainfully and said: "I stopped and asked Lord Xue to check before, but Lord Xue himself was too lazy to check, but now that the carriage has returned home, he has to check, if our master's carriage is checked by Lord Xue at the door of his own house, then no one will dare to bully our master in the future." ”

Xue Zhen said: "I am on official business now, and I also ask Chief Steward Fang to cooperate." ”

Fang An ignored Xue Zhen's words at all, he still pulled the carriage and walked towards the mansion, and said without looking back as he walked: "This is the north of the city, Lord Xue's patrol area is in the east of the city, if you want to check, please ask Lord Xue to call the imperial history of the north city to check." ”

Xue Zhen gritted her teeth in anger, but she had no choice but to lead the horse and stand outside the door, watching the back door of the Fang Mansion slowly close.

It wasn't until the back door was closed that Fang An breathed a sigh of relief, Xue Zhen was really difficult to give birth, and he was targeted like a dog skin plaster, and he couldn't take it off.

Fang An handed over the carriage to the porter, and then went to report to Fang Congzhe.

In Fang Congzhe's room, Fang An told Fang Congzhe about the events along the way, and Fang Congzhe said angrily after hearing this: "The British duke is against the old man, the son is against the old man, and now even a seven-grade city patrol imperial history dares to go against the old man." ”

Fang An said: "The old man is angry, Xue Zhen is not against the master, this person is a tendon, whoever makes him target, there is no headache, the Inspectorate's Zuodu Yushi is Xue Zhen's teacher, even he was blocked by Xue Zhen in the official residence and did not dare to go out, and Dali Temple please and the criminal department waiter, which has not been entangled by Xue Zhen, people say that this Xue Zhen is our Wanli Dynasty's sea pen holder, but he is slightly more reasonable than the sea pen holder, not so pedantic, at least the emperor still does not dare to call the board." ”

Fang Congzhe said: "Then what do you think about this?" Wouldn't it be troublesome if he was allowed to continue to be entangled like this? ”

Fang An said: "Fortunately, there is no danger this time, the old slave didn't let him catch any handles, I think that although Xue Zhen has some doubts this time, he has no way of knowing what the old slave is covering up, and I think Xue Zhen will not spend it with us all the time for certain doubts." It's just that when I meet him again in the future, I'm afraid it will still be difficult for him to use excuses,"

Fang Congzhe nodded and didn't say anything more, Fang An told the deeds of the two of them and then went out to leave.

Xue Zhen, who had been watching outside the back door of Fangfu for a long time, saw that there would be no movement for a while, so he also turned around and left, and returned to his inspection area.

Outside the Dongding Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang Temple, Guo Lai and the two of them got off the carriage and merged into the flow of people, since they plan to do it here, then at least they must be familiar with this place.

Not to mention that the temple fair of Niangniang Temple stretches for several miles, Niangniang Temple itself is huge, and the two of them only know that Zhu Youzhen will come to visit the temple fair, but they don't know where they will go, so they can only familiarize themselves with this temple fair before and after, and then they can adapt to the situation.

The temple gate of Niangniang Temple is large-scale, in front of the door is a huge square, on the left and right sides of the square are two rows of shops selling incense and candles, the incense and candle shops here are different from other places, and it is also caused by the particularity of Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang Temple here.

The incense candles sold by each shop here are the same kind, the so-called same kind of incense candle means that all the incense candles painted on the group are the same kind, the incense candles of this shop are either asking for children, then this store sells only asking for children incense candles, and the other is to give birth, then there are only incense candles for life, as well as to dispel evil spirits, dispel diseases, ask for blessings, etc., the difference between each kind of incense candles is on a layer of painting paper wrapped outside the incense candles, although it is said that those who buy incense can also go to the Niangniang Hall to burn blessings, but basically no one will do that when they come here to burn incense and pray for blessings.

Because the square in front of the temple is more than one zhang higher than the street below, there is a stone fence of dozens of zhang in the outermost part of the temple gate square to prevent pilgrims from falling down.

Directly opposite the street from Niangniang Temple is a large theater building, where many folk grass stage troupes and jugglers will perform on the big stage to show their reward to the gods. And the seventh day of the fifth month, is also the last day of the temple fair of Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang Temple in Dongding Dongba, the lion dance and stilt team of the northwest gate of Dongba will also come to help the fun, the lion dance is called "lion sweeping the hall", the stilt is called "Tiger Leaping Mountain Gate", the so-called "Tiger Leaping Mountain Gate" is the stilt team stepping on three-foot stilts to jump over the eight immortal table placed in front of the mountain gate.

Whenever these performances begin, the tea house in the big theater, the street in front of the theater and the square in front of the Niangniang Temple are crowded, and the tea house in the big theater and the stone fence in front of the square are the best places to watch the play.

The tea house in front of the big theater can be entered for silver, but it is a temple fair of nearly 10,000 people, but it is difficult to grab a position, and it is usually impossible to buy a good position with a lot of silver.

In fact, the performances here and the performances in other places are not too novel, but the performances in the big theater in the temple fair in the past few days are all for rewarding the gods, and those who want to watch are not only lively, but most of them want to be blessed.

The tea house in front of the big theater costs money to enter, but the viewing stage behind the stone fence is not something that everyone can enter if they want to.

The two ends of the stone fence are two dozens of steps, at the end of the steps are enclosed with lanterns along the stone fence a corridor, there is a note under each lantern, the paper slip is written with the upper couplet of the couplet, the riddle of the riddle or the word of the poem, if you want to enter here, there must be a talented person, take one at will, answer it and you can enter the play.

Literati have always disliked crowding, they would rather go to the flower street and willow lane than stay in this kind of crowded place full of all kinds of sweat for a while, so there are few literati and scholars who come here to visit the temple fair, so the number of people on the eaves corridor behind the stone fence is not much.

The two walked along the outermost part of Temple Street to the front of Niangniang Temple, and went up the steps to the square in front of the temple, and only then did the two feel that the surroundings were slightly looser.

Seeing the pilgrims in and out of the temple gate, the two wanted to enter the temple to check it out, looked at the tall temple gate, the two looked at each other, and then walked inside, although the Jurchens believed in the shaman, and did not have much feeling for Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang, but after all, they were gods, and the two were ready to commit murder here, and it was inevitable that they would be a little worried in their hearts.

Guo Lai two people into the door, not far away is by the three into the hall to form the main hall, the front hall for the king Lingguan Palace, the statue in the hall is fierce and vicious, the face is hideous, looks fierce and abnormal, the role of this hall is to guard the mountain gate, dispel evil and suppress evil, drive away all the ghosts and ghosts.

The two of them just glanced at the statue, and then hurriedly looked away, perhaps because there was a ghost in their hearts, how to see how the statue was grinning at them as a warning.

The second hall is the main hall, and the middle is dedicated to Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang. The east and west sides are respectively enshrined in the children and grandchildren of Niangniang, the birth of Niangniang, the spotted Niangniang, the vision of the Niangniang and so on.

Some pious disciples, believers and pilgrims of Niangniang Temple sent plaques, thank-you posts, banners, etc. are placed and hung in this hall, and the content on them is nothing more than "respond to requests", "sincerity is spiritual", "Niangniang God blesses", "Wind and rain are smooth" and other words.

Guo Lai two raised their feet and were about to enter the store, only to hear the sound of "click", a lightning thunder in the sky outside the hall split, the night sky reflected as bright as day, Guo Lai looked up, and saw that the lightning was shining on the statue of Bixia Yuan Jun Niangniang in the hall, only to see the original amiable Bixia Yuan Jun Niangniang, at this time it looked a little more hideous, and then remembered the statue of Wang Lingguan in the front hall, it was inevitable to have a bit of a sense of emptiness and reality in my heart.

Seeing this, Guo Lai's foot was retracted before he could hit the ground, and he turned his head to the other Jurchen: "It is not appropriate to commit murder here, let's go outside and find another opportunity, I have a hunch that if we do it here, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to leave alive." ”