Pingle prefect's yamen, in front of the prefect's public office. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After a slight hesitation, the scribe Shile pinched the silver ingot, which weighed five taels in his hand, and finally had the courage to knock on the half-closed door.

In the past few days, Qu Zhifu has been in a bad mood, and many people in the yamen have been severely taught by him because they touched a certain moldy head. Originally, Shi Le didn't dare to come to the prefect at this time. But just now at the yamen, he met a man who asked him to secretly hand over a letter with unknown content to Master Qu at the price of ten taels of silver.

Ten taels of silver, in a poor and remote place like Guangxi, is a huge amount of money, and it can even top his stone scribe's salary for nearly a year, so even if he is worried that he will be blamed by Lord Qu for doing this, for the sake of this silver, he can only bite the bullet.

After knocking on the door, a somewhat tired voice came from inside: "Come in." ”

"I've seen Lord Futai." Shile cautiously walked through the door and bowed his hand.

Qu Zhifu, who was leaning back in his chair and pretending to sleep, opened his eyes and looked at this subordinate scribe a little strangely, he didn't remember what he had told him, why did this person come to see him: "Why did you come to this official?" ”

"Well, my lord, this is a letter entrusted to you by someone outside the yamen, and the man said that he has something important to tell you, as long as you read this letter, you will know." With some trepidation, Shi Le handed over the letter hidden in his sleeve with both hands.

"Hmm......" Qu Zhifu, who was already upset because of the threat, frowned fiercely after hearing the other party's words, and wanted to reprimand this subordinate. He could guess that he must have accepted an advantage from someone else to give him such a strange letter. What does he think of the prefect's yamen and himself, and he doesn't even understand this rule?

But as soon as the words of reprimand came to his mouth, he stopped again, because a thought suddenly came to his heart, could it be that those White Lotus Sect members wanted to meet him outside, so they used this hand? Thinking of this, he didn't dare to hold it up, reached out and took the letter, and then waved his hand: "You go down." ”

Originally, seeing that the adult suddenly wrinkled his brows, Shi Le was still a little worried, but when he saw him say this, his heart finally calmed down, and he hurriedly agreed to exit the door. But at the same time, he also saw that when the prefect tore open the letter, his expression was even more nervous and tired than before, which made him a little puzzled, not knowing what was going on.

Qu Zhifu, who was apprehensive, took out the letter and looked at it, but was stunned again. This letter was not given to him by the White Lotus Sect at all--I think it was also, they could suddenly break into their bedroom in the middle of the night to threaten themselves, how could they use such a method that was likely to expose themselves to write to themselves--But after seeing the seal at the end, Qu Zhifu's heart still twitched, and he felt that this matter was even more terrible than receiving the letter from the White Lotus Sect.

Because, as the letter has already stated, it is from Jinyiwei, and he is invited to meet him alone at an inn outside the yamen this evening.

Jin Yiwei, although he is in the south and far away, he still has heard of this terrible institution. Now, these guys who take it as their duty to supervise hundreds of officials suddenly and mysteriously invite themselves, what is going on, is it a blessing or a curse?

Could it be that the matter of his contact with the people in the White Lotus Sect has been investigated by the powerful Jinyi Guard, and they have come to deal with themselves? Thinking of this, the whole person of Qu Zhifu trembled, and it took a long time to stabilize his mind: "No, if this is the case, with Jinyiwei's consistent style of acting, he will come directly to the door to get people, instead of being so mysterious." ”

Although he was very uneasy in his heart, he couldn't help but go on this date, after all, there are probably not many officials in the world who dare not to give Jinyiwei face, at least not him. As for how to talk about this and deal with it, then we can only take one step at a time.

Half a street away from the prefect's yamen, there is a large inn with considerable scale, which is also the best inn in the whole Pingle City. Because Pingle is located at the intersection of Guangxi and Huguang, there are still a lot of guests, so someone will open such a high-grade inn even in Guangxi.

Of course, this high-grade is only compared to other small and dilapidated inns here, this kind of inn is located in the capital or Jiangnan, which is simply the lowest grade.

And today, the Jiazi courtyard, which has always been vacant in the inn, has finally been packed. In fact, they also chartered several courtyards around it, which made the inn, which was still empty, suddenly lively, and also made the boss, who was worried because of the light business, laugh so much that his eyes couldn't see it.

These are dozens of people, not only the house money, but also the food and wine they order, and the forage that the horses need can make the inn a small profit. Because of this, he was very attentive to these guests, and when a middle-aged man with a nervous look asked to meet these guests by name, the boss looked at each other with some vigilance for a while.

But in the end, a young man with a broken arm came out of there, and only whispered a few words to the middle-aged man, and then led the person to the back. In this regard, although the boss was a little strange in his heart, he didn't say anything, but muttered slightly in his heart: "This guy looks a little familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere." He would never have dreamed that this suspicious guy he was a little wary of was actually the local prefect, and Qu Zhifu, who had taken off his official uniform, looked no different from an ordinary down-and-out middle-aged scholar at the moment.

Following behind Hu Ge, Qu Zhifu walked into the hall of the Jiazi courtyard with some uneasiness, and saw a handsome young man looking at him with a pair of bright eyes. Although this was the first time he had met the other party, Yang Zhen's temperament that he had cultivated over the years still made him see that this person's identity was extraordinary, so he immediately bowed his hand and said: "Xiaguan Guangxi political envoy Xia Pingle prefect Qu Feng has seen a bad situation. "Although the other party has not revealed what errand he is here for, as long as it is a Jinyi guard from the capital, in the eyes of the magistrate, it is a bad business.

Yang Zhen smiled, hurriedly bowed back, and then spoke: "Qu Zhifu is too polite, this official didn't come here today to have any errands, but he wanted to talk to you about some personal matters." As he spoke, he politely invited the other party to sit down.

Qu Feng sighed and sat down cautiously. At the same time, he said in his heart, why did you Jinyiwei come to our Guangxi thousands of miles away, and in order to see me, you made such a mysterious and mysterious thing, should I really be so coaxed?

After only a brief greeting, Yang Zhen said his true intention: "I came here just to find the whereabouts of a Taoist, as far as I know, he came to Guangxi a few years ago, but there was no news after that." Although finding people is our Jinyiwei's specialty, after all, after many years, if there is no government help, I am afraid it will be difficult to find people. As he spoke, he spread out the portraits of Zhang Tianqian in front of the other party.

After carefully examining the appearance of the old Taoist on the portrait, Qu Feng first frowned, and then asked cautiously: "I don't know what this Taoist master has done, so that you can work all the way to come here to find him?" In his mind, Jinyiwei has only one purpose to find someone, to take someone!

"Oh...... This Taoist chief is not a human criminal, he can't hide it, and he has some friendship with him, so he hopes to find his whereabouts. Yang Zhen did not tell the real relationship between the two parties, but only in general terms.

But just like this, it was enough for Qu Feng not to dare to slack off, and he quickly nodded and said: "Xiaguan understands, Xiaguan will ask his subordinates to wait in my Pingle area to carefully find the whereabouts of this Dao Chief." But...... Adults should also know that I Pingle is just the gateway to Guangxi, if this Taoist leader really comes to Guangxi, although it is likely to pass by, but it may not stop here for too long, and after such a long time, I am afraid there may not be any clues. ”

"I naturally know this, I just asked Master Qu for your help to find it today, if you can't find it, I naturally don't dare to blame you." Yang Zhen smiled and said, of course he understood that there was little hope for this kind of finding method, but he still had to give it a try.

"I wonder if you have any other orders?" Qu Feng didn't dare to stay here for a long time because he had something in his heart, he just wanted to deal with the matter and leave.

Yang Zhen saw what he meant, so he handed the portrait into his hands: "In this way, there will be labor." ”

"Don't dare to ......" The moment he took the portrait from Yang Zhen's hand, Qu Feng had no reason but an impulse, should he take this opportunity to tell the White Lotus Sect about the threat to him. After all, no one should know that they had met with Jinyiwei's people at this time, maybe......

Thinking of this, he unconsciously opened his mouth and said, "Lord Yang......"

"How?" Yang Zhen, who was about to send off the guest, saw that he seemed to have something to say, so he asked casually.

But after a little hesitation, Qu Feng still didn't dare to tell the truth about things. He didn't know how the people of the Jinyi Guard would react once they learned that they had colluded with the White Lotus Sect and promised them to intercept the military report or something, maybe they would take him down immediately. In this way, not only is he finished, but also those family members who are still in the hands of the White Lotus Sect......

In just a blink of an eye, Qu Feng had changed his mind: "Xiaguan wants to say that after all, this Guangxi is not as good as the Central Plains, there are many foreigners here, and the folk customs are extremely fierce, and I hope that you adults can be as careful as possible when looking for people...... If you find someone, or if you can't find someone, it's better to leave as soon as possible. With that, he hurriedly took his leave.

Yang Zhen didn't stop the other party from leaving, but after he left, he looked at Hu Ge beside him thoughtfully: "Did you hear anything, there seems to be something hidden in the words of this Qu Governor, and there is something strange in it." ”