"The owner of the zombie gate is called Hu Chongshi," Qin Kan reported to Ningjiang about the situation he had investigated in the past few days, "The main altar of the zombie gate, in the area of Fengqiu District, the people who join the zombie gate can learn all the way boxing, called the seven-way zombie boxing, mainly for self-defense on the way to drive corpses and transport coffins, but there are no famous masters in the door, and the kung fu of the door master Hu Chongshi is about to be second-rate." ”

Ning Jiang knew that the business done by the zombie gate was a bit similar to the dart game, except that the dart board transported all the property, and the zombie gate transported the dead and coffins, so there was basically no need to worry about robbing the road and the like, and the martial arts requirements for the door people were naturally not high.

"However, the zombie gate also has a background, and its backstage should be the Quanqing faction of the Daomen," Qin Wuyan also reported, "This Quanqing faction is one of the three major sects of Taoism in the capital, and many high-ranking officials and princes in the capital have dealings, the suzerain of the Quanqing faction is called Wang Yiqing, who was originally a talent who failed to be promoted, and later abandoned Confucianism and entered the Tao, and created the Quanqing faction, which has developed very rapidly, and in the past few years, it has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and it has spread out all of a sudden, and there are many people who have sent down the sect. It was also influential among the princes and nobles of the imperial court. ”

Qin Kan said: "This Wang Yiqing Wang Zhenren, I heard that he was also a local pest when he was young, although he was both civil and military, but he was not doing his job, his brother scolded his sister-in-law, bullied the weak and bullied, and the locals called him 'Wang Harm', although he was a showman, but because he was not cowardly, he was almost robbed of his fame. Later, he claimed to have been persuaded by the immortals in his dream, changed his past wrongs, abandoned Confucianism and entered the Tao, and founded the Quanqing School, it is rumored that his exercises are unfathomable, and he is proficient in the shocking and exotic methods, it is in this capital, there are many large families, abandon their wives and daughters, worship under Wang Zhenren, and donate the whole family's property to the Quanqing Sect. ”

Ning Jiang said: "Abandon your wife and daughter? "The Taoist priest of this world is allowed to have a family, eat wine and drink meat, and there is no difference between him and ordinary people, so he can't help but be a little surprised when he hears this.

Qin Kan said: "The canons of this Quanqing sect are a little different from other Taoist sects, they do not practice talismans, do not practice yellow and white, and specialize in the art of Neidan of three returns and five antis, and do not set up words when teaching apprentices, claiming to be the culmination of Confucianism, ink and Taoism. They called themselves Quanqing Taoists, and once they entered the Quanqing sect, they were forbidden to marry wives and have children, and those who originally had wives had to divorce their wives before they could do so. In addition, some small sects in the capital have been secretly controlled by the Quanqing faction, and the zombie gate is one of them. ”

Quanqing? Ning Jiang groaned secretly.

Qin Kan said: "Master, do you want to start the investigation from this Quanqing faction?" ”

Ning Jiang shook his head and said, "No! If the traitorous matter in the capital is really related to the Quanqing faction, then they are too powerful, and I only have a few helpers like you now, so it is not appropriate to go against them for the time being, even if it is just an investigation, they may be discovered. ”

Carrying his hand, he took two steps: "First of all, we need to develop our own 'Jianghu forces' in the capital, we don't need to have too much combat effectiveness, as long as we can form a network for finding out news, we can start to develop from the pawn coachman that no one pays attention to, money is not a problem." He explained some operational methods and precautions, and then took out a burden and handed it to Qin Kan.

Qin Kan took the burden and opened it, only to see the pearlescent light flashing inside, and he was immediately moved......

***

Ning Jiang, who has a small Sui Hou Palace behind him, naturally does not worry about the problem of operating funds, and he is quite trustworthy about the loyalty of the five ghosts of Qinchuan after these days of investigation.

Of course, if they are not trustworthy, then it is better to give him the scroll treasure and abscond now, so as not to have problems when giving them more important tasks in the future.

The person whom the treasure alone is enough for them to betray is not qualified to stay by his side and do great things.

Give the bag of jewelry to Qin Kan and Qin Wuyan, and let them use it to try to sell it and organize a force that mainly investigates news.

Ning Jiang just helped them make some plans, and basically left the rest alone.

Ning Jiang's trust naturally moved Qin Kan and Qin Wuyan.

Youdao is rich and easy to do, and Ningjiang's requirements are really not high. The five ghosts of Qinchuan used to make a living in the area of Pishan, and they also did a lot of tomb robbing, pit meng and other things, and they had their own ways and means, so they used them as the basis to slowly develop their own underground forces in the capital.

That night, Ning Jiang took out the Skyfall Streamer.

The skyfall streamer is quite strange, it is flowing gold, but it is sticky to each other, simply tearing it by hand, it is impossible to tear off a piece of it, forcibly cut it with a knife, the blade is over, and then it is glued by itself, only by heating it with a furnace fire, and then cutting it slowly, can it cut off a corner.

Ning Jiang cut two pieces of Skyfall Streamer, and then called Qin Mo over, and handed over the two small pieces of Skyfall Streamer and a piece of design paper with a strange humanoid pattern to Qin Mo, and said: "On Zhongnan Mountain, there is a Taoist living there, that old man calls himself Jiao Yu Lao Dao, although he is dressed as a Taoist, he is an extremely rare ink master, good at making wooden armor, dolls, mechanisms, and clever weapons, you find him, give him these two Heavenly Meteor Streamers, and so on." ”

Qin Mo answered the order, took the two skyfall streamers and the design manuscript paper, and went to Zhongnan Mountain.

This year's Lantern Festival is slowly approaching, and the excitement of the capital is still unabated.

For Ningjiang, life in Guozi Academy is not much better, Dr. Lu Xuesong and a few professors will call to the square from time to time to criticize, and occasionally under the "anger", the literary atmosphere is divergent, which provokes all the students to look at Ningjiang.

Ning Jiang knew that they were "doing", but he still couldn't figure out the purpose behind this, after all, every doctor in Guozi Studies was an official above the fifth grade, and Lu Xuesong was no exception, Ning Jiang couldn't understand why he wanted to target him, and for a while, he didn't act rashly about it.

On the contrary, it was Gan Lie, Lu Zhiyuan and others, but they were deliberately building a good relationship with him in the past few days, especially Gan Lie, who was short-tempered, and had never seen him and Bai Zijin with a good face when he was in state school before, but now from time to time in the name of asking for teaching, he came to talk and chat with Ning Jiang, and together with other people, comforted Ning Jiang who was scolded by the doctor.

Ning Jiang knew that if something was abnormal, he would be a demon, but he didn't know their true purpose, so he simply took one step at a time......

***

Two days before the Lantern Festival, Ningjiang went to Guozixue early in the morning.

In the morning, I had nothing to do, and I took Qin Xiaoya'er to go shopping together, and at the same time bought some firecrackers, lanterns and so on for the Lantern Festival.

For Xiaomeng, this is the first time she has left her hometown to spend the Lantern Festival outside. And in the past few days, in order to prepare for the next month's exam, her brother has no time to accompany her, Qin Mo left the capital and went to Zhongnan Mountain, Qin Kan and Qin Wuyan didn't know what they were busy with, they went out early and returned late all day.

So, in the past few days, only she and Qin Xiaoya were left in the house, and when there was nothing to do, shopping became the norm.

Walking on the street, the sound of crackling firecrackers came from the other end, it was the procession of welcoming relatives passing by the street, and the children were running around excitedly in front of the procession. The groom was dressed in red satin, riding a white horse, in front of and behind him, suona gongs and drums.

In the buildings on both sides, many families opened their windows, and women and girls looked into the street, probably to see if the groom was handsome. It didn't take long for the children who were running around holding hands in front of the greeting team to stop the groom's white horse, so someone came forward to send the candy with interest, and the children who got the candy laughed and dispersed, Xiaomeng unexpectedly found that the little girl was also in those children, and when he turned around, there was no one around him.

Qin Xiaoya'er, who returned to the girl's side, gave some candy to the girl with a grin, and the two continued to walk while peeling the candy, and suddenly someone on the other side was surprised: "Isn't this Ning Xiaomei?" ”

Qin Xiaoya'er heard someone call the girl, and immediately prepared, because her fourth sister had an explanation, once the prince of the county palace came out, she would immediately act as a "light bulb", but this time it was not the prince of the county palace who stopped the girl, but a young woman, wearing an autumn-colored arrow sleeve skirt, a stacked and twisted Pan Heng bun, and a delicate long sword also inserted in her waist.

Xiaomeng was stopped by this person, and he was a little puzzled for a while, thinking about who this person was?

The woman laughed, "You don't remember me?" That night, on the shore of Luoyan Lake in Tongzhou Kongshan, haven't you and I ever seen each other? ”

Xiaomeng reacted suddenly, and said, "It turned out to be the maid sister who carried the lantern?" ”

At that time, the elder brother was chanting poems on the boat, and it was this woman who was ordered by the eldest princess to carry a lantern and invite them up the mountain.

The woman smiled and said: "My surname is Yue Minmei, and I am under the tutelage of Liuxia Sword Pavilion Duan Thirteen Niang in swordsmanship, although I am hired by the eldest princess, I am actually not a maid, but a female guard with a sword in the eldest princess's mansion." ”

Xiaomeng hurriedly said: "Sister Mingmei! "Whether it is a maid or a guard, she is the person next to the eldest princess, for the sake of her brother's marriage, Xiaomeng feels that she has to come first.

Yue Mingmei saw that Ning Xiaomeng was charming and cute, her mouth was sweet, and she also had a good impression in her heart, walking on the street with her, and seeing that she also had a sword at her waist, so she asked: "Sister Xiaomeng seems to be also a sword learner, but she doesn't know how to learn from that master of swordsmanship?" ”

Xiaomeng said with some embarrassment: "My little sister doesn't have a master, but she just got a sword book by accident, so she watched the sword book and learned it, and asked my brother if I didn't understand anything." ”

Yue Mingmei said: "That's it! She saw that Ning Xiaomeng was not very old, and there was no famous teacher to guide her, although she asked her brother if she didn't understand something, but her brother was just a scholar, what could he teach her in swordsmanship? Naturally, I didn't take it to heart.

So he smiled and said: "Our Liuxia Sword Pavilion has always been famous for sword dancing in the capital, and my master Duan Sanniang is a famous sword dance master in the capital, I think you should have heard of it." Many county lords and ladies in the capital worship her as a teacher and follow her to learn swordsmanship. I'm going to Liuxia Sword Pavilion at the moment, if Sister Xiaomeng is fine, why don't you go to Sword Pavilion with me? Although the family teacher is preparing for the sword dance on the night of the Lantern Festival, he has no time to take care of it, but he knows it first, and if Xiaomeng's sister does not understand anything in swordsmanship in the future, she can also ask the family teacher for guidance. ”

Xiaomeng said happily: "Thank you, sister!" Because she didn't have a master, she didn't know how well she practiced her swordsmanship, and now that she had the opportunity to get the guidance of a real swordsman, she was naturally ecstatic.

Walking on the road with Yue Mingmei, he asked curiously: "I heard that the martial artists on the rivers and lakes are divided according to first-class, second-rate, and third-rate, and I don't know the swordsmanship of Sister Mingmei......"

"Learning a sword is an elegant thing, how can it be compared with those rough men on the rivers and lakes?" Yue Mingmei said complacently, "But the master also praised me for my good talent, and said that when it comes to swordsmanship, in the rivers and lakes, Sister Yu has at least entered the third-rate rank." ”

Xiaomeng said enviously: "Sister Mingmei is so powerful!" She doesn't know much about the rivers and lakes, but she also knows that for ordinary people, if she can enter the third rate, she is already a master. Although at that time in Luo Jieling, I felt that none of the enemies I encountered could fight, but when I thought of that very powerful "crazy knife", I didn't know if I had entered the "third rate".

At this moment, I know that Yue Mingmei studied under a famous master, and most of them are still "not in the stream", so I naturally admire and envy Yue Mingmei.

Behind her, that day, I saw the girl slash the "full-sleeved bamboo flower" that was at least second-rate on the rivers and lakes with one sword, although she had the support of the old man's literary style, but against the two first-class masters who were undefeated Qin Xiaoya, seeing the girl facing a "third-rate master" who had just entered the stream, she was envious and admired, spread her hands to the sides, and let out a long sigh......

***

"Nonsense, nonsense, the chapter of "Ji Lu Shi" 'Che Ma Yi Qing Qiu', this word 'clothes' has always been read as a sound, you actually read it as a flat voice, so unlearned, the examiner who clicked you on the day to solve the yuan, isn't it blind?" In the Guozi Academy, an old man's angry scolding sounded.

"Your Excellency!" A young man stood in the midst of all living beings and said, "If it is the sentence 'Zihua makes Yu Qi, rides a fat horse, and wears a light fur', the word 'clothes' is used as a verb to interpret it, indicating that it is wearing a light fur, and it should indeed be used to make a sound." However, in the chapter of the Analects of "Ji Lu Shi", "chariots, horses, clothes, and light fur" are clearly the four things of chariots, horses, clothes, and furs, and the word "clothes" here is used as a noun, how should it be used? Moreover, this sentence, the whole sentence is 'I wish the chariot and horse clothes are light and fur with friends', if the word 'clothes' is interpreted as a verb, is it that the car, horse, and fur are all shared with friends, but the clothes are not shared with friends? ”

The old man froze.

All the students watched him come.

After a long pause, he slapped the table with the whip and said angrily: "The word 'clothes' in this chapter has always been read as a voice, Confucius said a little righteousness, and half of the treatise on language rules the world, why should it be used here to go to the sound instead of the flat voice, there is the truth of the sage!" ”

The young man said: "Dare to ask adults, what is the reason?" ”

The old man's face was red, and the whip was beaten even harder: "What is the reason, think for yourself!" Do you want to question whether the saint is not? ”

"But my lord, the sage's words are true," said the young man, "but the students looked through the books, but they didn't see the sage leave a word, saying that the word 'clothes' here should be used?" If so, please show them. ”

"You mean that the great Confucians of all dynasties have read it wrong?"

"This ...... It's not impossible, the saints will never be wrong if they speak slightly, and if the Confucians are also wrong, then aren't they also saints? ”

"Get out, let me go out and stand, let me go out and stand until the end of class." The old man was so angry that he almost couldn't breathe.

Then the boy went out and stood.