After Jin Hong returned to Dingshui, he did not immediately return to Lingyin's mansion, but went to the house of the main book of Dingshui, who was surnamed Xiahou, a single name, and two out of fifty this year, who was born and raised in Dingzhou.

Xiahou has a son and a daughter, the daughter has been married, the husband's family is also a Dingshui person, there is a restaurant of his own in the city, although it is not rich, but the life is also prosperous, the son is younger, but it is also angry, just passed the township examination last year, and is preparing for next year's state examination.

When they arrived at the door of Xiahou's house, the family had just had dinner, because their daughter had already married, and now there were only Xiahou, Mrs. Xiahou and their son at home.

Jin Hong knocked on the door, with a dog barking, the courtyard door was opened by the owner inside, it was Xia Hou who opened the door, at this time he was wearing a thick cotton coat, wearing a cotton felt hat on his head, poking his head out, wanting to see who was calling the door.

"Master Xiahou, I came to visit late at night and disturbed me." Jin Hong stood aside and bowed his hands.

Xia Hou rubbed his eyes, only then did he adapt to the night outside, and saw the person who came clearly, "Lord Lingyin, please come in quickly, please come in quickly, I don't know that Lord Ling Yin is visiting at this time, and I hope that Lord Yin will forgive my sins."

While muttering forgiveness in his mouth, he opened the two courtyard doors widely, although only one door was enough for Jinhong to pass, but the customs of the Yan Kingdom made the old master think that it would be very rude, as the saying goes, "open the door to welcome guests", if only one door is opened, in the customs of the Yan Kingdom, it means that the host family does not respect the visitors enough.

And Jin Hong, as the Ling Yin of Dingshui City and Xiahou's top boss, no matter what aspect it is, there are enough reasons for Xiahou to welcome him with a wide open door.

"Master Xiahou doesn't need to be so polite, I have something to ask Lord Xiahou about here, it's getting late now, let's close the courtyard door first." Jin Hong naturally knew what Xia Hou was thinking, so he was relieved.

"Eh, that's good, sit in the room first, I'll go close the door." Xiahou responded, although he didn't get along much with this Lord Ling Yin, who had just come to Dingshui for a short time, but after all, he hadn't worked in vain for so many years, and he still had the strength to see people, compared to the previous Ling Yin, although this Lord was young, his temper seemed to be more amiable, and he got along with their subordinates, and he didn't have the commanding official like Ling Yin.

Of course, this is not to say that the previous Ling Yin was bad, but compared to the young adult in front of him, it was worse.

Jin Hong has been waiting behind Xiahou for him to close the door, and then he sat down in the house under the guidance of the other party, Xiahou's house is actually not much different from ordinary people's homes, there is no kind of living room or side hall specially used to entertain guests, as soon as you enter the door, there is a stove, next to the stove is a quaint table of eight immortals, on which there are meals that have not been eaten at night.

Looking inside, there is a kang that is one size larger than ordinary people's homes, thinking that this is the only privilege he enjoys as the master of the water book, Mrs. Xiahou is moving things from above, obviously Jinhong's sudden visit did not give others a little time to prepare.

Seeing Jinhong come in, Mrs. Xiahou gave Jinhong a blessing apologetically, "My lord came suddenly, don't blame my husband for the crime of neglect." ”

At this time, Jinhong felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly arched his hand to return the salute

"Madame said something, I took the liberty of disturbing it. ”

Xiahou honestly and unceremoniously greeted Jinhong and sat on the kang, and then instructed his wife: "Go and bring my pot of wine, let the adults drink two cups to drive away the cold, and fill the bag of fried peanuts that my in-laws gave me yesterday, so that I can drink wine." ”

When Mrs. Xiahou heard this, she confessed to Jinhong again, and went down to prepare, and then Xiahou turned around and asked: "I don't know what happened when the adults came to visit late at night, could it be that there is a new discovery in stealing silver?" ”

Jinhong took off the boots under his feet, sat cross-legged on the kang, only felt that his body was warm, he couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and it was warm to touch, and he was quite curious about this kang in his heart, but now that Xiahou asked, it was inconvenient for him to talk about those irrelevant topics, so he nodded and replied: "Does Lord Xiahou know that there is a temple about ten miles southeast of the city?" ”

Xiahou frowned and thought about it, "There is indeed a temple, because the land is close to the Yangtze River, so it is called Anshan Temple, and it was also a relatively famous temple in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns back then, and even many good men and women in the city will go to worship on the fifteenth day of the first month, but later, it is said that there is a man and a woman who cast the river by the river, and since then it has become not very peaceful, and the people are also afraid of it, and gradually they will not go, and there is no incense money, the monks in the original temple will be hungry, and slowly they will all run away, and it will become an abandoned temple." ”

"When did the man and woman who threw themselves into the river happen?" Jin Hong asked.

But Xiahou just shook his head, "I don't remember very well, it should have been more than ten years, my daughter was only ten years old at that time, and I also took her to the temple to pray for blessings, but the kind of crowd at that time was really unpredictable." ”

Jin Hong nodded, muttering to himself, but Xia Hou couldn't sit still, "Does it have anything to do with the theft of silver?" As far as I know, there's no one there, so could it be ......"

Looking at the other party's frightened appearance, Jin Hong smiled with relief, "Master Xiahou doesn't want to scare himself, how can there be so many gods and ghosts in the world, and it may be that the thieves took advantage of the disrepair there and it is not easy to attract the attention of others, so it is unknown that they chose there to hide the stolen silver." ”

Xiahou's expression was relieved, and he nodded again and again: "That's right!" That's right, too! ”

However, although Xiahou's application was relaxed, Jinhong's heart became more and more clueless, and at this time, Mrs. Xiahou brought the wine and a large plate of peanuts and put them away, "I'll go and see if Ke'er has slept." ”

After speaking, he withdrew again, and here Xiahou took the initiative to fill a cup for Jinhong and himself, "Come, Lord Lingyin, first drink wine to warm up your body, taste this fried peanut, although my in-laws don't know a big word, but this cooking skill is a must, I also fell in love with his cooking skills, so I agreed to marry my daughter to his son, but I secretly had a gentleman's agreement with him, that is, ......" Xiahou pointed to the peanuts in the plate, and said a little proudly: "This can't be without mine, hehe." ”

Jin Hong looked at Xia Hou with some amusement, and at the same time was infected by his happiness that is easy to satisfy, many people pursue fame and fortune all their lives, pursue glory and wealth, and for this they can sacrifice happiness, feelings, and even life, but in the end, what can accompany him to the grave, it is better to be like the little old man who is over half a hundred years old in front of him, simple satisfaction is the greatest

Happiness.

And at this time, he also suddenly understood Yan Wuji's mood, because he knew that the Xiahou in front of him, the reason why he could enjoy the simple happiness he was now was because there were thousands of Yan soldiers in front of him, using their bodies and their lives to shield the "Xiahous" in the rear, and for such a group of people, what reason did the imperial court or Yan Wuji have to owe them happiness...... Military salary!

drank a few glasses of wine, and chatted with some nonsensical words by the way, most of them were Xiahou talking, Jinhong was listening, and it wasn't until about the same time that Jinhong came out of Xiahou's house, and then dragged his somewhat groggy head and walked towards Ling Yin's mansion.

When he returned to the house, the lights in Yan Changfeng's room were still on, and when Jin Hong walked in to see what Yan Changfeng was still busy with, the other party rubbed his tired eyes, retracted into the quilt and said, "Knowing that you are back, I can sleep peacefully." ”

Jin Hong's heart was warm, and he quietly leaned over Yan Changfeng's forehead and kissed it gently, and in the corner of the latter's upturned mouth, he slipped back to his room, and he finally figured out why that temple looked so weird, because the Buddha statue was so clean, so clean that it was not clean, which was quite inconsistent with the scene around it that was dilapidated and full of cobwebs.

Maybe it was because I drank alcohol, and I thought about it, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.

……

The morning glow sprinkled on the majestic city wall of Caiguan, the heavy snow that lasted for several days finally converged today, at the highest place of Caiguan, it was like being able to take in the entire Caizhou wrapped in silver, and the vast scenery was shining under the sun.

But compared with this sunny and good weather, Yan Hu's current mood is in opposite tune to this weather.

The reinforcements from Jingyue made him anxious, although he was here in town, the two troops could get along peacefully, but as long as he was careless, something would go wrong over there, no, because he saw them a few days ago and was relatively peaceful, he didn't care much about them in the past two days.

Just last night, the soldiers on both sides had another fight, this is the fifth time, and the scale is bigger than the first, at the beginning there were only a few people on both sides, Yan Hu just beat some military sticks, and a little punishment is just enough, after all, it is not his own troops, it is not good to be too severe.

But this time, it's not a matter of a few people who participate in the fight, nor is it a matter of dozens of people, but hundreds of people on each side participate, what kind of concept is this, it is like a mutiny!

"Tell me, what's going on?" Yan Hu sat on the commander's seat, and on the left and right stood Fang Gao, the commander of the Jingzhou Legion reinforcements, and Gou Yuezhi, the commander of the Yuezhou Legion reinforcements, and in the center of the hall knelt a major general who participated in the weapon fight, and the highest level was already Qianzong.

However, compared to these in front of him, what attracted more attention was the heavily armed soldiers standing around the hall, they were all Yan Hu's personal guards, staring at the people in the hall with serious expressions, and Yan Hu would not hesitate to chop up all these people when he gave an order.

It can be seen that this old marshal is going to be real this time! Although Fang Gao and Gou Yuecuo both looked at each other unhappy, their thoughts at this time were surprisingly consistent, and they couldn't help but secretly sweat.

Indeed, Yan Hu does have a plan to make an example this time!