Ji Qingwen didn't like to listen to this, and said: "You can accept the money if you like, what are you doing with cynicism?" I gave you money, and it became mine, didn't it? ”

Li Yan also came over to help: "We are going to Beijing to take the exam, and the post stations in various places have the obligation to receive them. Your post station is not full, why are we outside the door? ”

That Yicheng already had three points of reason, and when he heard Ji Qingwen and Li Yan arguing like this, he suddenly became angry and angry, and waved his hand to summon: "Come on, these people are making trouble at the post station, blast them out for me!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers of the four inns came up behind him, armed with spears, and were about to come and drive people away.

Ji Qingwen saw that these four people were skinny and hungry, and the spear in his hand was as thin as two noodles, and he didn't feel funny in his heart, so he said to Huang Degong: "Degong, these people are going to beat me, why don't you come over and escort me quickly?" ”

Huang Degong said with a sad face: "The owner, these are all soldiers of the imperial court, I don't dare to beat them......"

"Nonsense, they beat me, they can't tell me to fight back, right?" Ji Qingwen said, "Whatever I tell you to do, you will do what you do, and I will bear all the consequences." ”

"Okay!" Huang Degong agreed with some hesitation, but still walked a few steps and protected Ji Qingwen in front of him.

The thin soldiers in those post stations, seeing Huang Degong's tower-like body, were already a little discouraged, and they were so timid that they held the weapon in their hands tightly to protect their chests, lest the tower fall down and smash themselves to pieces.

Seeing this, Na Yicheng immediately scolded: "A few of you, you don't take or eat less than anyone else on weekdays, when it comes to the critical time, why don't you give me such a pus-filled picture!" ”

Although the post keeper urged him tightly, the soldiers of the post station took two steps back, but they refused to move forward.

At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the post station: "Yo, where did the monkey cub come from?" It made it impossible for the miscellaneous family to sleep. The voice was old and hoarse, but it was so pinched that it made people shudder and shudder.

So everyone's attention was attracted by the sound, and they raised their eyes to look in the direction where the sound came from, but saw a person slowly walking out of the post station step by step, surrounded by a dozen or so big men in the shape of a dozen people.

Ji Qingwen and the others didn't know the identity of the person who came, but the Yicheng looked frightened, quickly left Ji Qingwen alone, turned around and walked to the person and made a deep gesture, and said: "Nine thousand years old, it is these two poor people who have entered Beijing to take the exam and want to live in the post station." The younger ones were afraid that they would disturb the rest of the nine thousand-year-old, so they asked them to find another place to spend the night. But they don't know how to lift it, and they are still here to persevere, and finally alarmed the nine thousand years old, and ask the nine thousand years old to forgive their sins......"

This Yicheng took a bite of "nine thousand years old", and immediately called Ji Qingwen, Li Yan and others stupid.

Could it be that this "nine thousand years old" who came out to speak was Wei Zhongxian, who was belittled by Emperor Chongzhen?

I only heard the man say again: "Whether you kid is called the husband of the miscellaneous family Wei or the old eunuch, even if you just call me Wei Zhongxian, don't call me 'nine thousand years old' anymore." The miscellaneous family was dismissed by the Banzai Lord, and you don't know it. ”

At this point, everyone was shocked, and hurriedly looked at the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian: I saw that he was quite tall, but his waist had no strength, and he leaned forward slightly and seemed to be a little hunchbacked; The complexion was blue and white, and the skin on the cheekbones was loose and drooping, almost hanging down to the neck; The hair was white and sparse, and he couldn't even pull it up in a bun.

"It turns out that he is Wei Zhongxian!" Ji Qingwen was a little frightened, and whispered in Li Yan's ear, "It seems that this post station is not so easy to live in......"

Before Li Yan could answer, he saw Wei Zhongxian raise a dry finger, pointed at the two of them, and said, "These two are the filial piety who rushed to the exam?" Well, well, a talent, to be able to serve the country, this is excellent. If you want to stay in the hotel, you can live there, Yicheng, this monkey cub is a sycophant, you don't pay attention to him. ”

After saying that, Wei Zhongxian turned around and walked back to the post station, his steps were quite flexible.

After Wei Zhongxian turned a corner surrounded by guards and disappeared from everyone's sight, Yi Cheng said, "Did you hear it?" Since it's 9,000 years old, then you can live in. ”

This time, it was Ji Qingwen who hesitated and discussed with Li Yan: "Brother Li, is it good to live in this post station today?" Still don't live well? ”

Li Yan's eyes flashed, and he said, "It seems that this post station can be stopped even if it is not lived." However, Wei Zhongxian is a person of right and wrong, and I always feel that something big is going to happen tonight, so we need to be careful. ”

As soon as Ji Qingwen heard that something might happen, he immediately became instigated and said: "I think more things are better than less things, since Wei Zhongxian is a person of right and wrong, then this post station is a place of right and wrong." The land of right and wrong should not be stayed for a long time, so we might as well find another place, right? ”

Li Yan smiled and said, "Why is Brother Ji like this? It's all this time, if you don't live in this station, you can only sleep outside, wouldn't it be even more dangerous? ”

Ji Qingwen had no better way, so he could only ask Yi Cheng to arrange the three most marginal rooms—he and Xing'er shared a room, Li Yan lived alone, and Duo Jiugong and Huang Degong shared a room—and lived tremblingly.

He was in a nervous mood, only feeling that he was in the tiger's den in Longtan, and he didn't even dare to eat the food made in the post station, so he ate a few mouthfuls of dry food he brought with him, and then lay down to sleep. Originally, he was in the same room as Xing'er, and he always had to do some cloud and rain things, but today he was not interested, and he always felt that someone wanted to kill him, so he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep until midnight.

So Ji Qingwen woke up Huang Degong and asked him to stay outside the door of his room, so he was a little relieved and gradually fell asleep.

But Ji Qingwen didn't sleep for long, and then he woke up from his dream again, and there seemed to be the sound of swords and shouts of killing in his ears, which frightened him to sit up from the bed and shouted: "Huang Degong, what's the situation outside?" ”

Huang Degong replied outside the door: "Owner, two black-clothed masked men came from outside, and they fought with Wei Zhongxian's guards!" ”

Huang Degong's answer was so loud that even Li Yan next door heard it and said, "Brother Ji, this matter is not trivial, you hurry up, I want to discuss with you." ”

Ji Qingwen was timid, originally reluctant to go out to the next door, but when he thought that Xing'er was still in his room, it was indeed a little inconvenient to invite Li Yan over, so he had to get dressed, pushed open his door hard, ran two steps quickly, pushed open Li Yan's door, and entered his house.

Li Yan sat in the room, his face was reflected in the light of a flickering oil lamp, and said, "In the next sentence, something happened here. In my opinion, for the sake of now, the only way to get out of here is to get out of here quickly. ”

Ji Qingwen was puzzled: "Not really, right?" I think Wei Zhongxian is so famous, and this is the imperial court station, these people are definitely not thieves who rob houses and houses, they should be going to Wei Zhongxian. In that case, if we pretend to sleep in the room and don't know anything, they probably won't bother us. ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "It's just that Wei Zhongxian is too famous." Now although the emperor hates him in his heart, he can't kill him yet. If he dies in this post station, the relevant people and others must be held accountable—in this way, the post station will naturally not be able to escape, and the local officials will inevitably be implicated, and we may not get any good fruit to eat......"

Ji Qingwen looked puzzled: "The emperor hates Wei Zhongxian so much, and it is inconvenient to do it, so why should he be held accountable if he died like this?" ”

Li Yan's face turned pale, and he said, "Brother Ji doesn't know anything. Although Wei Zhongxian has been removed from his official position, the eunuch party is still powerful. Wei Zhongxian died, and although the emperor was happy, he always had to temporarily appease those eunuch officials. How to appease? Isn't it just a matter of dealing with a few scapegoats? Brother Ji is a smart man, I'm afraid he doesn't want to be the scapegoat of being slaughtered, right? ”

"Humph! Scapegoat who loves to be whom, anyway, I don't deserve! Ji Qingwen replied without hesitation.

As he spoke, he shouted to Xing'er and Duo Jiugong to prepare their luggage and leave overnight to avoid the impact of this unwarranted disaster.

A group of five people walked out of the house, and sure enough, they saw two black-clothed masked men fighting each other with more than a dozen of Wei Zhongxian's guards - these guards were armed with martial arts, and every move and style had rules; And the two masked men had higher martial arts, and they were outnumbered and still killed with their opponents.