The clouds hung low, the moonlight was dim, the candlelight flickered in one of the upper rooms of the Huixian Inn, and the two black shadows reflected in the window were distorted and deformed, and from time to time there was a sound of laughter:

"Wow Ka, old man Xu, said that this fake kung fu is really powerful, and if you take it into the palace tomorrow, you will have to deceive everyone!"

"The old man's craftsmanship, the chief can rest assured, but the old man is ashamed of his courage to bully the king!"

It was Qin Lin and Xu Wenchang who spoke.

Could it be that they want to forge a "Qingming Riverside Map"?

The Qingming Shanghe picture is not a simple landscape painting, but a very long horizontal row of banner customs paintings, only eight inches wide, as many as 16 feet in length, the painting is extremely huge, painted with more than 550 people of various colors, 50 or 60 livestock such as cows, horses, mules, donkeys, etc., more than 20 cars and sedan chairs, more than 20 large and small boats, plus the base, seals, inscriptions, and ...... of the collectors of the past dynasties from the beginning of Song Weizong

Even if Xu Wenchang is skillful, how can he forge a fake painting that can deceive everyone's eyes in just a few days? Not to mention, Feng Bao, the master of ceremonies in the palace, is a well-known art connoisseur, proficient in music, painting and calligraphy, and it is basically impossible to hide from him with fake paintings.

Qin Lin in the room smiled again: "Sure enough, the county that broke the family, Ling Yin, the master of Shaoxing, and the enemy of the king of Shaoxing, Mr. Xu's ability to forge seals is also one of the best in Shaoxing. ”

Xu Wenchang forged not a huge picture of the Qingming River, but a wooden stamp, dipped in ink and lightly pressed on the paper, "the country is picturesque" four-character seal book imprint is bright red, and the font is quite graceful and luxurious.

Looking at the paper and the imprint, it was too fresh, Xu Wenchang shook his head and was not satisfied, he took a mouthful of tea and sprayed it on the paper, and slowly dried it on the side of the candle, hey, the color is yellow, it is exactly the same as the old seal seven or eight years ago.

Qin Lin arched his hand with a grin: "I also want to borrow Mr.'s big pen like a rafter." ”

"All the people who raided the family and exterminated the clan have done it, and it is not bad for the last one," Xu Wenchang put a copy of Emperor Longqing's imperial pen Zhu Pi that Qin Lin borrowed from the Jiangling Prime Minister's Mansion on his left hand, and after thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly grabbed Zichen Wolf Hair, and put a pen on the paper, and wrote a few lines in one go.

Qin Lin took a closer look, compared with Zhu Pi, what Xu Wenchang wrote was not out of shape at all, even from the perspective of his professional handwriting identification, it was extremely difficult to find the difference.

Chief Qin suddenly slapped the table lightly and said sharply: "What a Shaoxing master who privately engraved seals and forged imperial pens!" ”

Xu Wenchang also knocked on the table and said-for-tat: "You are also a deceitful and rebellious brocade cloth!" ”

After a few moments, the two guys laughed at each other.

Xu Wenchang continued to use the secret method passed down by Master Shaoxing to make the documents old, while Qin Lin walked to the cross-courtyard where Xu Xinyi lived.

After returning from the palace in the afternoon, Xu Xinyi chased after Qin Lin and asked what method he used to force Feng Bao to return the four treasures to Zhu Yaoyuan, but Chief Qin talked about him left and right, and after dinner, he hid in the room with Xu Wenchang to do this and that, but she was choked enough.

"Qin Lin, if you don't say anything about this matter, Miss Ben is not done with you!" Xu Xinyi closed the door and blocked Qin Lin in the room.

Qin Lin was uncharacteristically serious, and made an honest gesture: "Wife, I'll talk to you when I come back tomorrow, but this time I have to ask my sister-in-law to do me a favor......

Xu Xinyi listened, and his round apricot eyes widened more and more.

Early the next morning, Feng Bangning, Xu Jue, and Chen Yingfeng went to the White Tiger Hall of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, waited for Qin Lin to come, passed Liu Shouyou, and then went straight to the Yamen.

The celebrant is not in the Forbidden City, where the emperor and princess live, but in the northeast corner of Banzai Mountain (Butterfly Mountain), between the palace wall of the Forbidden City and the wall of the imperial city.

Qin Lin and his entourage walked into the imperial city from Dong'an Gate, which has eunuch yamen such as the ceremonial supervisor and the imperial horse supervisor, as well as the Guanglu Temple and the inner transport warehouse, although the Forbidden City is the most heavily guarded, and the scene in the imperial city is also extremely solemn.

Everywhere there are eunuchs in green clothes and blue clothes hurrying forward, the density is higher than anywhere in the capital division, each city gate is equipped with sentry posts, and the important yamen is also guarded by brocade clothes with embroidered spring knives, and the guard is strict. ,

Qin Lin also visited the Forbidden City during his "previous life" in Beijing, and when he revisited the old place, the weather was completely different, and he couldn't help but feel like a world away......

Compared with Qin Lin, Feng Bangning, Xu Jue and the others were even more embarrassed, because yesterday Feng Bao was furious and scolded them all one by one Qin Lin didn't seem to find any clues outside the palace, but he successfully led his suspicious eyes to the calm palace, Feng Bao, who was the master of ceremonies, naturally bore the brunt, and his annoyance can be imagined.

The group didn't answer to others, even if it was a familiar military attache or eunuch in brocade, they just smiled and nodded slightly, hurriedly walked to the celebrant and reported inside.

The other officials hung their heads and didn't dare to take a breath, and Qin Lin, who had a ghost in his heart, looked around with interest. This yamen, which almost competed with the cabinet and in some stages even became the de facto ruling core of the entire Ming Empire, was not very conspicuous on the outside, it was a large-scale courtyard house and supporting houses, and in terms of the size of the area, it was even far inferior to the Shangyi supervisor in charge of the emperor's robe to the west and the secretary in charge of the tent curtains, rain gear and other things.

But the envious and awe-inspiring expressions of the eunuchs in front of the door, and the nervousness of the officials who did not dare to take a breath, all invisibly reminded Qin Lin: This is the ultimate goal of holding the supreme power of the inner court and the power of the Ming Dynasty......

"This young brother is Commander Qin?" Someone stood on the steps, his voice with a bit of the shrill harshness of a eunuch.

Qin Lin saw that this person was born with big ears, white skin and no beard under the collar, a pair of hanging eyebrows with a sinister aura, wearing a red woven gold python robe, and even the celebrant Zhang Cheng who he knew could only stand next to him, and he knew that it was the current celebrant supervisor's palm print, Dongchang Governor Feng Bao.

"Xiaguan see Feng Sili!" Qin Lin made a gesture towards him without being arrogant or humble.

Xu Jue and Chen Yingfeng are appointed as Dongchang, but in fact, Feng Baojia is a slave, and Feng Bangning is his nephew, all three of them have already knelt down and kowtowed, but only Song Lin stood and stood out, which was very conspicuous.

Feng Bao couldn't help laughing when he saw this, looked around and said, "Our family originally thought that there was only one Hai Ruihai pen holder in the dynasty, but I didn't expect Commander Qin to let it go too far!" ”

When Hai Rui, the official of the Qing Dynasty, did not kneel to the prefect in the school as usual, but the two colleagues on the left and right were weak in their knees and knelt down, so the two sides were low and high in the middle.

Feng Bao's words were a little ridiculous, but the meaning of not waiting to see Qin Lin was also obvious.

Zhang Whale gloated a little sadly, his nephew Zhang Zunyao was not less rectified by Qin Lin in Nanjing: Zhang Cheng looked at Qin Lin vigorously, meaning to tell him to kneel down quickly and apologize.

Qin Lin was hehehe, he arched his hand at Feng Bao, and said with a hippie smile: "So that Feng Sili knows that although Xia Guan is young, his knees are a little bent, and he has only knelt down to Qizhou Li Lao Shen Doctor, Nanjing Wei Guogong and Jiangling Zhang Xiang, whether to kneel Feng Sili or not, Xia Guan is inevitably a little undecided." ”

Zhang Whale, Feng Bangning and the others stared at Qin Lin like a monster, and said in their hearts, could it be that this person is sick in the brain? Want to use Wei Guogong and Zhang Juzheng to suppress Feng Bao? This is the Imperial City of Beijing, inside the Yamen, I'm afraid that Wei Guogong can't protect you, and Zhang Xiangye won't have time to protect you!

No one expected that Feng Bao's eyes widened, and with a snort in his mouth, he immediately leaned forward and back with laughter and couldn't breathe, and waved his hand angrily for a long time: "Yes, our family doesn't dare to ask you to kneel down like this, and our family can't be relied on by you!" ”

Others don't know Qin Lin's origins, Feng Bao, who is in charge of the East Factory, has long been clear, Qin Lin said that the three who have knelt are his father-in-law, father-in-law and quasi-father-in-law, after worshipping, people will have daughters and granddaughters to marry him, do you Feng's father-in-law also want to marry a daughter?

Of course, Feng Bao himself has no children, although he has a few nieces, he can't be relied on by Qin Lin, knowing that this guy is a naughty bone, and even his old friend Zhang Juzheng can't do anything about him, so he doesn't care about him, and laughs it off.

The others were very surprised when they saw it, they didn't know what Qin Lin could do to make Feng Bao helpless, look up at the sky, the sun was still in the east and didn't come out of the west one by one?

Zhang Cheng admired Qin Lin more and more, and secretly gave him a thumbs up, determined to use his nephew Zhang Xiaoyang and his friendship in the future to win over this young man.

"Get up, get up," Feng Bao's extremely reserved hands were wrapped in his sleeves and lifted up.

Feng Bangning, Xu Jue and the others got up from the ground at this time, Feng Bangning looked at his uncle in surprise, and then looked at Qin Lin, he really didn't know why.

"Come in, don't be formal," Feng Bao beckoned Qin Lin and the others into the hall of the celebrant supervisor.

In the middle of the lobby and on the four walls, there are many famous calligraphy and paintings, the style is quite elegant, and there are inscriptions or poems in the blank space of each painting. "The font is dignified and generous, and the calligraphy is quite good.

Everyone sat down, and before Feng Bao could speak, Qin Lin pointed to the inscription on a landscape painting in surprise: "Hey, is this written by Feng Sili?" The handwriting is really good, much better than what the lower officials wrote! ”

Why did you do it before? Feng Bangning and the others sneered, and said in their hearts, you are starting to pretend, only now do you know that you are afraid, and you are busy currying favor with Feng Bao? I'm afraid it's too late!

Besides, if this is a sycophant, the level seems to be a little too clumsy.

As everyone knows, the muscles on Feng Baoyan's face twitched lightly involuntarily twice, his expression changed a few times in an instant, and he looked at Qin Lin meaningfully...... ）