Hu Guiyang is the captain of Jinyi Weinan Si Guifang, seconded to the West Factory, and when he heard that he was going to the East Factory, he was very surprised, "You have been transferred to the East Factory?" ”

Shi Guida shook his head, "I'm still in the West Factory." Let's go, it's best not to make too much noise. ”

Hu Guiyang looked at the officers and soldiers and Jinyi guards on half the street, and said with a smile: "Okay, don't make a fuss." I'll talk to the people in the courtyard. ”

Shi Guida nodded, "Just stand here and say." ”

A little farther away, a group of Taoist priests and a group of monks stood in the middle of the group of officers and soldiers, as if they were doing something, and this kind of formation was not like arresting a prisoner, but like preparing to encircle and suppress a certain rebellious gang.

Hu Guiyang slowly turned around, turned his back to everyone, and said to the courtyard: "You two, clean up the house, feed the horses, you are not allowed to move a finger of the flatbread, you can use my money to buy some wine and meat, and you are not allowed to touch other things." ”

Jiang and Zheng were already stunned, Mu Ran nodded, the big cake was smart, but he was a timid dog, hiding in the utility room without saying a word, revealing half of a dog's head, and his front paws protecting a few packages.

Hu Guiyang slowly turned to the street again, and said with a smile: "Horseback riding or walking?" ”

"Sitting."

"Yes, I can take a sedan chair just after returning to Beijing. Need me a new outfit? ”

"No, I don't. Don't waste time, let's go. ”

A two-person sedan chair came from the crowd, Hu Guiyang shrunk his shoulders and sat up, bumpy and undulating all the way, and really felt that sitting in a sedan chair was not as comfortable as riding a horse.

The officers and soldiers withdrew, and people from all over the family slowly came out, and soon there was a lot of excitement and discussion.

"Hu Guiyang has caused a big incident, no wonder he has never dared to come back."

"It must be in Yunyang Mansion to hide treasures."

"He just said in the store that he would bury the gold and silver, and it turned out to be true!"

"What's the matter with monks and Taoist priests?"

……

Hu Guiyang couldn't hear these discussions, and he couldn't answer the questions of the neighbors, he fell asleep in the sedan chair, and he didn't wake up when the sedan curtain was opened, and his body was leaning in the corner, snoring loudly.

"Wake up." Shi Gui gave two big pushes.

Hu Guiyang woke up suddenly, forgot what place this was in a trance, raised his fist at Shi Guida, and spoke after a while: "Arrived?" ”

Hu Guiyang was led to a small room in Dongchang, not like a living room, not like a prison cell, with a stool in the middle, and nothing else.

"What kind of person am I?"

Shi Guida was the only guard, and said in a low voice, "You'd better tell the truth later." ”

"Of course." Hu Guiyang sat on the stool, looked at Shi Guida at the door, and said with a smile: "You have changed a lot. ”

"Hmm."

"Is the beard real?"

Shi Guida nodded coldly.

"Hehe, another hundred households of the Zhao family, if you continue like this, your position will definitely surpass that of your father-in-law. Are you already married? ”

Shi Guida was slightly stunned, then nodded again.

Hu Guiyang laughed, "I'll just say, you look like the husband of the Gu family now, you won't even have children, right?" ”

Shi Guida was slightly stunned, "We haven't seen each other for half a year, and I've only been married for two months." ”

"I'm sorry, there's no date in the mountains, I'm too confused."

"You've been in the mountains?" Without waiting for the other party to answer, Shi Guida immediately added: "No need to answer, I'll talk about it later." ”

The door opened, and two acquaintances and two strangers came in turn, the stranger was obviously a scribe, set up a simple small table, spread paper and ink to prepare for the record, the acquaintance was Nansi Zhenfu Liangxiu and Dongchang Baihu Zuo Pre.

"Hey, you're not dead." Hu Guiyang said happily and didn't get up, "Don't care, I have no malicious intentions, if what I said just now was placed in Yunyang Mansion a few months ago, it would be a good word." ”

Many people died in Yunyang Mansion, and "not dying" was indeed a celebration at the time, but after a few months, it was very rude to return to the capital.

is completely different from Yunyang Mansion, there is no temptation of foreign objects such as Jin Dan here, Liang Xiu and Zuo Yu are pure Ming officials, loyal to the emperor, and have no distractions.

The two glanced at each other, but Liang Xiu spoke, "Hu Guiyang, the captain of the Fusi Guifang in Jinyi Weinan Town." ”

"Exactly." Even at such a time, Hu Guiyang refused to get up to meet his boss.

Liang Xiu didn't take this matter seriously, glanced at the scribes, saw that they were ready, and continued: "After the seventh day of the seventh month of July this year, where have you been? ”

"What time is today?"

"December thirteen."

"No wonder everyone is idle, it turns out that the New Year is coming soon, do we have any rewards at the end of the year?"

Liang Xiu was furious, and his bad impression of this captain immediately came to mind, "Hu Guiyang, this is Dongchang, not a place for you to be flamboyant." ”

Hu Guiyang smiled: "Okay, you ask, I answer, tell the truth, there is no concealment." ”

Liang Xiu's anger decreased slightly, "Where have you been?" Why don't you report back to the team? ”

"I went around the mountains and didn't report back to the team, because I didn't have a team in the first place, and Lord Zhenfu should remember that I went to Yunyang Mansion alone and didn't follow the team."

The people brought by Hu Guiyang did not have official status, strictly speaking, he was indeed a person.

"What are you doing in the mountains?" Liang Xiu had to avoid that question.

"It's still that little thing, chasing He million."

"He Million has already been killed by you, how can you chase him?"

"Great, because I was careless, I didn't bring back the head, I can't prove myself, and there are rumors that He Million is not dead, and he frequently appears in the mountains, so ...... It turned out that I was busy in vain, but now that I have the approval of Lord Zhenfu, I can feel at ease. ”

"What do I approve of?"

"I killed the Qin prisoner He million, and I finally lived up to your trust."

Liang Xiu's face turned red, and his fists clenched involuntarily.

Hu Guiyang immediately smiled and said, "Lord Liang still cultivates divine skills? ”

Liang Xiu immediately let go of his hands, "Nonsense, where did the magic come from." ”

Liang Xiu continued to ask, wondering where Hu Guiyang had been in the past few months, especially who he had met.

Hu Guiyang couldn't say clearly, he walked around the mountains, he didn't know where he was, he usually made a living by hunting, and occasionally met scattered mountain people, exchanged some salt and wine, and didn't ask each other's names.

Speaking of wild game in the mountains, he talked endlessly, and he didn't know anything else, and he always got the wrong time, thinking that the change in Yunyang City had passed for a few days.

The more Liang Xiu asked, the more annoyed he became, and said to the left: "Don't bother, just torture." ”

Zuo Pre-thin's face remained silent, "That's it." ”

When the five of them left, Hu Guiyang stood up, paced back and forth, stretched from time to time, and there was no panic on his face.

Shi Guida returned, stood against the door for a while, and said, "Dongchang is tortured, you can't get through." ”

"I bet they won't torture." Hu Guiyang still looked disapproving.

"You've been in the mountains for too long to understand the situation here."

"Hey, what's there to know? It's still that little thing, immortal, Jindan, immortal...... I've been wandering around the mountains for 10 years, and it won't change much after I come out. ”

A smile slowly appeared on Shi Guida's face, "You're still so smart." ”

"When I was invited, there was a lot of fanfare, and even the monks and Lao Dao were brought with me, no matter how stupid people were, they could guess what was going on."

"I told them I didn't need too many people."

"But no, I'm all back, can I still make a big fuss in the capital?"

"It's still the same thing, but the division of labor has changed a bit."

"Oh?"

"The West Factory is responsible for searching for Jindan, and the East Factory and the South Division are looking for strangers."

"What's an Inhuman?"

"It is said that on the day of the great change in Yunyang City, you were awake."

"It's okay, at least you know who you are."

"Then you didn't see the stars fall?"

Hu Guiyang shook his head, "It was daytime, I was hit by a black cloud, I couldn't see anything, and when the clouds cleared, there was nothing in the sky. ”

"No wonder." Shi Guida chose to believe, "Many people testified that dozens of fiery stars had fallen in different places at that time, and when they sent people to look for them, they only saw some strange wreckage, which shattered at the touch of a button." Later, we found out that there were originally people in the wreckage, and they did not know where to go after landing. ”

"I know who it is."

"You know?"

"It's the Wen family, they were all on the Tianji ship at the time, and they must have been sent back to the ground at the last moment. I've met one of them, it's Gu Zhongxian, he said a few words to me, and then he went to bewitch the mountain people to attack the officers and soldiers, and I heard that he was defeated, right? ”

"Yes, the officers and soldiers were in chaos at that time, and later ...... Soon returned to normal, the two sides did not fight much, the thieves retreated, most of them accepted Zhao'an, and a small part fled into the mountains and forests, including the valley immortals you mentioned. ”

"Self-inflicted."

Shi Guida revealed some things as if chatting, and Hu Guiyang also said a lot, but none of them mattered.

After chatting about the same, Shi Guida found that he couldn't ask anything, so he had to say directly: "What about the golden pill you took from the Southeast Dan Cave?" ”

"You even know about this?"

"You'll find out after the fact." Shi Guida said flatly.

"Hehe, more people is better, I've been sober for so long, and I don't know as much as you."

"Hand over the golden pill, you will be fine, and you can still make a great contribution." Shi Guida didn't want to talk any longer.

"I can't hand it over."

"I'm not kidding."

"I didn't either, Jindan—I ate it all." After coming to Dongchang, Hu Guiyang lied for the first time.

"Take it all? Haven't you always rejected Jindan? ”

"There's no way, I lack food and clothing in the mountains, I can't survive just by hunting, Jindan is refreshed after taking it, and I don't feel hungry for several days, it's all because of it, I can hold on to it until now."

"None left?" Shi Guida refused to believe it.

"You should understand that if you don't touch it, it will break, no, you can't stop if you touch it. I wanted to keep a few, but I couldn't hold back. ”

"Then you should be the best now, right?"

"It is indeed easier to catch pheasants and hares than before, and when you meet a larger beast, you still have to hide and go."

Shi Guida sighed, "I don't know if I should believe you, you have to understand that Jindan is a rare thing, and only one person in the world can enjoy it." ”

"But I didn't know it when I was in the mountains, and I thought that Jindan was as common as before."

"Dongchang is looking for you to ask about the whereabouts of the Wen family, it seems that you really don't know."

"I don't even understand what to do with those people? Without the Heavenly Ship, they are nothing. ”

Shi Guida didn't explain, and continued: "As for Jin Dan, it doesn't matter if I believe it or not, come with me to the West Factory again, if you can convince the factory father, you will be considered to have passed." ”