Before the night ban drumming stopped, Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan returned to the front of the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion. At the agreed place, Li Xin'er was waiting in the twilight, and saw the two happily come forward to round.

When they entered the mansion, the servant guarding the door was very polite, and there was no nonsense, and the three of them were able to return to the mansion without any nonsense.

The two mothers-in-law who were cooking in the house didn't know where they had gone, and the house was darkly lit, and the three of them didn't care about it anymore, lit candles, and gathered in the east wing to talk quietly.

Li Xin'er first asked, "Have you gone to see?" Are there any ghosts in the house? ”

Wang Yuan smiled and told Gongsun Lan what he had discovered, Li Xin'er was surprised, first she didn't believe it, and asked Gongsun Lan again, Gongsun Lan also nodded slightly, and then she wondered: "It's really unbelievable that there is such a thing." However, 500 guan seems to be quite expensive, and if the price of this house is lowered, it is estimated that one or two hundred guan can be sold. ”

Gongsun Lan smiled and said: "On the way back, Wang Yuan has already complained about me, but in fact, we know in our hearts that buying this house is a bargain, and Wang Yuan also asked people to move out of the capital to avoid leaking news, and the loss of people is also quite large, so it should be regarded as compensation for them." ”

Wang Yuan sighed and said, "What else do you want to say when the matter has come to this point?" It's just that I don't have that much money, and I have fifty taels of savings and five pieces of silk cloth, which add up to only a hundred pieces of wealth. When I went to deliver the money and goods at night, I had to use my cousin's savings first. ”

Gongsun Lan smiled: "Didn't you say this matter a long time ago? I'll pay for it. Your 100 yuan was rewarded by Li Shizhi, if you want to leave, do you still want this money? ”

Wang Yuan was stunned and said, "Why not?" This is the prize money that I won the first prize of the Pear Blossom Poetry Club, and it is not something I get by following him around, and I get it with peace of mind. Besides, there is a lot of money to be spent later, the house is not inhabitable at all, it has to be renovated into a look, and it will not be done at all without a few hundred yuan, and I am worried about how to get a sum of money to deal with it, but to return the bonus I deserve? Is that reasonable? ”

Gongsun Lan was speechless, and Li Xin'er smiled and said: "Erlang, you are a celebrity, but you are a rookie in the poetry circle in Chang'an, it is not good to teach people to see you talk about money." ”

Wang Yuan glared and said: "I'm from a poor family in Yong'an Fang, you don't know what it's like to have no money." My good brother Huang San, a family of four, only spends as much money as usual every month, and the two younger sisters are in their teens, and they wear the clothes and pants that their brothers wear all day long. Half-grown girls can't go out because they don't have decent clothes to wear. I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about money, if I have a lot of money, I can do some charity and don't give alms, isn't it a matter of accumulating virtue? ”

Li Xin'er was stunned and said, "I'm just reminding you, do you need such a long speech?" I don't know it's money, okay? ”

Wang Yuan was silent, he didn't know why he was so excited, it may be that it costs five hundred yuan to buy this house today, and he can only use Gongsun Lan's money, so he is very unhappy in his heart. Although Gongsun Lan didn't care, and Li Xin'er didn't say anything, Wang Yuan was always a little upset in his heart.

Seeing that it was getting dark, and the street drums had stopped for a long time, Gongsun Lan said: "Wang Yuan, you write two contracts for me to bring, and I will go and hand over the money deed with the two couples, and I'm afraid they won't be able to wait later." ”

Wang Yuan agreed to go to his room to write two sales contracts, and when he was blowing and waiting for the ink to dry, he suddenly saw Li Xin'er and Gongsun Lan coming in from the hall, and Gongsun Lan was holding the small wooden box in her arms with a slightly unkind face.

"What's wrong?" Wang Yuan asked.

"Someone touched our stuff." Li Xin'er said in a low voice.

Wang Yuan was startled and said in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Gongsun Lan said: "I put this box in the cabinet and locked it, just now I found that the lock of the cabinet is intact, but the wrapped clothes in the cabinet have been turned over. Xin'er knew that after my clothes were folded, I stuffed incense pieces into my clothes to prevent mildew and insects, but just now I found that the incense pieces were scattered in the cabinet, and it was obvious that someone had turned over the clothes, although they were folded and covered up as they were, but they didn't know that the stuffing had been exposed. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and said, "Did you lose anything?" Have you lost anything of value in this box? ”

"That's not true, I put this box in the dark compartment under the cabinet, maybe it wasn't found, it's really hateful, there can be thieves in the Zuo Prime Minister's mansion?"

Wang Yuan said in a deep voice: "It's good that you didn't lose anything, obviously it's not a thief, since the lock of the cabinet has no traces of picking it open, that is, someone took the key to open the lock." The house where I live is the house of the Zuo Xiangfu, and the one who has the key is naturally the person of the Zuo Xiangfu. Li Shizhi, Li Shizhi, you have also lost your identity, and you actually took advantage of us to go out and secretly rummage through our things, is this a gentleman's doing? ”

Li Xin'er said angrily: "Let's go to them to theorize, what is this for?" What did you take us for? ”

Wang Yuan shook his head and said, "What's the theory?" I'll quit tomorrow, and I'm not too much to say anything more to him. There's no need to tear your face apart until then, I don't want to make a fuss, after all, we're in his house. ”

Gongsun Lan also said: "What Wang Yuan said is reasonable, and I endured this time, and we will leave here tomorrow." I think that since he did this, he must have doubts about us in his heart, and if he was to reason about this matter, he would find an excuse to do it. Is the contract written? Bring it to me, and I'll go back when I'm done. ”

Wang Yuan signed the contract and handed it to Gongsun Lan, who opened the box and found more than ten small gold ingots, estimated that it was about thirty taels, and carried it in his arms along with the contract. Li Xin'er took a black cloak and put it on Gongsun Lan, and the three of them went to the courtyard.

Gongsun Lan said: "I went." ”

Wang Yuan said in a low voice: "Be careful. ”

Gongsun Lan smiled, and her figure was already under the wall of the small courtyard in a flash, and she had already disappeared from the courtyard wall in a leap. Wang Yuan was envious, he was actually not worried about Gongsun Lan at all, it was not extremely difficult for Gongsun Lan to enter and leave a place like Zuo Xiangfu.

Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er returned to the house, and after the two sat down, Wang Yuan asked about Li Xin'er's meeting with the prince, and seeing Li Xin'er's expression, he also knew that things were basically no big deal, otherwise with Li Xin'er's temperament, he would not have been calm until now.

"When the slave saw the prince and told him about your situation, he was very surprised, and he didn't expect Yang Zhao to take the initiative to make friends with you."

"That's for sure, not only for him, but for myself. Did he agree to my terms? ”

Li Xin'er nodded slightly and said: "You guessed right, his surprise was followed by ecstasy, although he tried his best to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, his eyes revealed his mood. Not only did he agree to all of your conditions, but he also asked me to bring a jade pendant that he carried with him to reward you, saying that from now on, he is the only person besides me who knows your identity, and I want you to be careful to have a good relationship with Yang Zhao, win his trust, and make great achievements in the future. He also said that he would like to meet you in person when he has the opportunity.

As Li Xin'er spoke, she took out a piece of green Pisces jade pendant from her waist and put it in Wang Yuan's hand, Wang Yuan smiled, and carried the jade pendant to rotate in the candlelight.

"It's not a loss to the scheming prince, he knows very well that my position is of great benefit to him, and it's really refreshing to agree, but he also promised to cover up his identity for you?"

"Yes, he said that he would arrange this matter, so that Pan Chengfang would believe that I had escaped from the capital and died outside the capital, and I would be the only contact between you and the prince in the future, and there was no need for you to inquire about the news unless the prince felt that he needed to use your identity."

Wang Yuan nodded and said: "Okay, in this way, we can have a peaceful life, I can justifiably do nothing, and there is no risk of being recognized, which is exactly what I want." ”

Li Xin'er nodded and said: "The prince also named you Zhan Shi, fifteen times a month, but you can't enjoy this treatment publicly." The prince will ask a personal attendant named Li Fuguo to send the monthly order to a secret place every month for me to pick up, and at the same time convey the latest situation. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and said, "That means this Li Fuguo will also know my identity?" ”

Li Xin'er said: "Everything around the prince will not be hidden from this Li Fuguo, this person is the most trusted and intimate servant around the prince, many of the prince's decisions are this person's idea, he knows that this matter is inevitable." ”

Wang Yuan said helplessly: "It seems that it is impossible to keep it completely secret, and the fewer people I hope will know, the better, and the safer we will be." By the way, didn't the prince give any gold, silver and jewelry in addition to this jade pendant? Didn't you tell him I was going to buy a house and settle down? ”

Li Xin'er said: "I said that I was going to leave the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion, but the prince didn't say that he wanted to reward money or anything. ”

Wang Yuan smacked his lips and said, "Oh, you are really, you don't even knock a bamboo bar at such a good opportunity." Doesn't it cost money to move out? This Li Heng is also pretending to be stupid and stingy. By the way, this jade pendant looks very expensive, I don't know how much I can sell it for, so I went to the East Market to ask for the price. ”

Li Xin'er was startled and said, "You want to sell the jade pendant rewarded by the prince?" ”

"Yes, I'm very poor now, the money to buy a house is still borrowed by your master, and then I have to spend a lot of money to make a whole living, I don't know how much it will cost, and this jade pendant may be able to subsidize the subsidy."

"You can't sell it, the jade pendant that the prince rewarded you with is your unique identity certificate, and you can prove your identity with the jade pendant in the future. Even if your identity is unknown to others in the Luo Yi Sect, this jade pendant will definitely be useful in the future, how can you sell it? ”

Wang Yuan was puzzled: "How do you say this?" Luo Yimen's rules are really a little difficult to understand. ”

Li Xin'er said: "It's easy to understand, there is a strict hierarchy in the Luo Yi Sect, and almost no members know each other, especially between superiors and subordinates, superiors have the right to know the identity of their subordinates, but how to identify them?" It is identified from the unique token. For example, if a deacon sees a person with a peach blossom sachet embroidered on his waist, he knows that this person is a purple shirt, but the person who is a purple shirt guard does not know the identity of the deacon, because they do not know what the deacon's token is. However, they can know the token identification of the next level of redshirts. By analogy, the higher-ranking ones know the low-level ones, and the low-level ones don't recognize the high-level signs when they see them, unless the higher-ranking ones take the initiative to whisper to them, which is also a means of protecting the high-ranking personnel. ”

Wang Yuan had to admire the strict organization of Luo Yimen, and the crown prince Li Heng spent great efforts to establish such a spy organization, which shows that Li Heng had the heart to seize the throne from a long time ago.

"May I ask what your logo is?" Wang Yuan smiled.

Li Xin'er said softly: "In terms of level, you and I are at the same level, and you are also a special deacon now, there is no need to identify between us, but what is there to hide between you and me?" Mine is this thing. ”

Li Xin'er said that, she reached out and took out something from her bun and handed it to Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan took the candle and looked at it carefully, it was a jade hairpin carved into a budding plum branch with stems, the carving was fine, delicate and lifelike. It is the one that Li Xin'er pins in her bun on weekdays.

"And a special deacon, what is his token, do you know? Maybe I can meet him in the future, isn't it very likely that he is hidden in the palace? ”

"I don't know, the deacons don't know each other, this is the iron law of Luoyimen, and you and I are already a special case within a special case."