Fang Yizhi stood at the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, looking at the courtyard that had changed greatly, with a look of surprise on his face.

He knew that Yu Guozhen had practical talents, but it was only half a year before he was able to renovate the courtyard to this scale, which was still beyond his expectations.

Because the end of the year was approaching, he had to go home, so he returned from a six-month trip, and on the way he thought of his new friend, so he turned around to meet him. But when he saw the courtyard, which was very different now, he almost thought that he was in the wrong place.

Then he saw a group of teenagers come out with murderous guns, and from the edge of the dock, a small boat also rowed over.

"Who's snooping on the ship?" Someone asked.

"Brother Guozhenxian's villa seems to be a fine willow camp." Fang Yizhi smiled: "Please ask this little brother to go and say that Fang Yizhi from Tongcheng is visiting." ”

After the attack that day, Yu Guozhen realized that the protection of the other courtyard was still flawed, so he specially arranged for people to take turns on the boat every day to check whether there were any suspicious ships on the river several miles near the small pier. The young man who asked was the second batch of teenagers, he hadn't seen Fang Yizhi, and he didn't know who this Tongcheng Fang Yizhi was, so he said "Please wait", and docked the boat to the small pier again.

Some of the young people on the dock had seen Fang Yizhi, and he gestured: "Let Mr. Fang dock, he is a friend of the petty officials." ”

Seeing that these teenagers seemed well-trained in their words and deeds, Fang Yizhi laughed again: "When I came back, it was only seventeen or eighteen, but now it seems that the number has increased, and Brother Guozhen has done a great job." ”

"It's just a group of yellow-mouthed children, and they also learn to dance with knives and guns." One of the people beside him sneered.

"It's not a scholar to dance with knives and guns, Guozhen took these teenagers and killed a lot of water bandits, which can be regarded as protecting the township."

The man said proudly: "That's the case, it's just a brave man, the virtuous brother of Mi and Zhang Ximing both respect a brave man so much, and the younger brother is really a little puzzled." ”

Fang Yizhi patted him on the shoulder: "Brother Kexian has always prided himself on being General Fei, why does he look down on Wufu now...... Shouldn't I have been subjected to the words of the frontier, haha! ”

Fang Yizhi traveled this time, and many new old friends commented on the world's figures, and respected Yu Guozhen quite much, and even called him "the first in practical learning in 20 years, and the second in Xuanhu after 20 years", thinking that Yu Guozhen is the most outstanding figure in the past 20 years in practical learning, and in another 20 years, he can even become a generation of masters of practical learning like Xu Guangqi, who is known as Mr. Xuanhu.

When this kind of praise was heard in the ears of Zhang Pu and Chen Zilong, it naturally aroused the heart of friendship with Yu Guozhen, but when he heard the arrogant but tried and failed to make a mistake, it was inevitably a little tasteful; As for Sun Lin, he is Fang Yizhi's brother-in-law, he is bold, good at talking about military and martial arts, and is good at archery, but he has never had the opportunity to show his strengths, and he is both envious and jealous of Yu Guozhen, who can lead his servants to kill thieves. Therefore, among Fang Yizhi's friends, these two people are the most disapproving of Yu Guozhen.

"How can he compare with me, I am proficient in civil and military affairs...... I said, Brother Secret, you haven't known him for a long time, how do you know that he has such skills? ”

While the two were talking, the boat had already approached the small pier, Sun Lin jumped on the dock first, seeing him so eager, Fang Yizhi smiled and said: "I'm not convinced, I'm afraid that you are more anxious to see Guozhen than me!" ”

"That's natural, I can't wait to expose his true colors and convince you!"

While they were arguing, they were about to go to the other courtyard, but the young man holding the tasseled gun on the small pier stepped forward: "Honored guest, please wait, wait until someone from the courtyard responds before leaving." ”

Fang Yizhi was stunned, he remembered that the young man who spoke had seen it himself, and he should know himself: "You...... Don't you know me? ”

"The villain has seen Mr. Fang, and the little official and Mr. Fang are close friends." The young man laughed with him, but did not get out of the way: "It's just that the military law of the inspection department is strict, if the villain lets the honorable guest go like this, he will have to eat a whip...... Please also ask Mr. Fang for mercy. ”

"Hahahaha!" Hearing this, Sun Lin laughed, while Fang Yizhi's face was a little embarrassed.

Knowing his relationship with Yu Guozhen, he still stopped him from getting close to the other courtyard, which is a bit disrespectful, if it was ordered by Yu Guozhen, then it only proves one thing, he used wisdom to treat Yu Guozhen as a friend, but Yu Guozhen did not treat him as a friend!

He heard the news that Yu Guozhen's cousin, who had the status of a person, was appointed as the Xiang'an inspector, but in the eyes of Fang Yizhi, who has an official eunuch on behalf of the family, what kind of bullshit official position is this district inspection, if Yu Guozhen is arrogant and arrogant because of this, then it doesn't matter if this friend is not made!

Just when his mind was turning sharply, Sun Lin said: "Now I think that this Yu Guozhen has some skills, and what the secret virtuous brother said seems to be true." ”

This was tantamount to sprinkling salt on Fang Yizhi's wounds, which made Fang Yizhi's face rise. He coughed twice, and said to the young man with a calm face: "My friendship with your petty official is extraordinary, and he will not blame you." ”

"Mr. Hui, Mr. Fang, petty officials now don't care about discipline rewards and punishments, these are now in the hands of others, petty officials just need to make good rules, as for how to deal with it, he doesn't care." The young man smiled bitterly: "The one in charge of rewards and punishments is not easy to speak, and besides, there have been some things recently, I have to be so harsh, please forgive Mr. Fang." ”

"Something lately?" Fang Yizhi didn't really want to embarrass this young man, he just wanted to find a step for himself, so as not to lose face too much in front of Sun Lin, so he diverted the topic.

As a result, the young man smiled bitterly again: "Mr. Fang, this matter can't be said, after a while, Mr. Fang can ask the little official, with the friendship between the little official and Mr. Fang, he will naturally tell the whole story, the villain ...... But it is not appropriate to say it. ”

Fang Yizhi's nose was almost crooked, while Sun Lin laughed so hard that he fell to his feet. The young man's sad face made Fang Yizhi really difficult to ask again, but fortunately, at this time, Yu Guozhen's figure appeared in their sight.

"Guozhen, you really made this place into a fine willow camp, I can't even enter your other courtyard if I want to!" Seeing Yu Guozhen trotting out to greet him, Fang Yizhi's face finally returned to normal, and he became the appearance of a young man again.

"Haha, it's the fault of the younger brother, I didn't expect the big brother of the secret to come at this time, something happened some time ago, so the guard was tighter."

Yu Guozhen smiled and bowed his hand to Fang Yizhi, and then turned his gaze to Sun Lin beside him: "This brother is extraordinary, won't the secret brother introduce me to him?" ”

"Ah, this is my sister-in-law, Sun Linsun Kexian."

This is another celebrity that Yu Guozhen has heard of, although he does not blindly worship ancient celebrities, but the integrity shown by Sun Lin in the original history is still worthy of his courtesy.

"It turned out to be Brother Kexian, I have long heard the eldest brother of the secret mention of Brother Kexian's name, Brother Kexian is good at shooting, and the younger brother knows nothing about the way of bow shooting, this time Brother Kexian is here, I have to ask Brother Tai for archery!"

Archery is indeed a skill that Sun Lin is proud of, hearing Yu Guozhen say this, the little bit he originally had for Yu Guozhen suddenly disappeared, and he smiled: "Although I have archery, I can only shoot some cunning rabbits and foxes, where can I compare to Guozhen's virtuous brother and do so many great things!" ”

Seeing that they were quite speculative, and Sun Lin did not have the same anger as when he didn't see Yu Guozhen, Fang Yizhi pretended to be angry and said: "Guozhen, if you have a new person and forget the old person, no wonder you stopped me on the small dock and didn't let me get close to your courtyard!" ”

"Brother who doesn't hide secrets, a few days ago, someone set up an ambush outside the courtyard to attack the younger brother, although he killed three of them and captured one person, but the younger brother also lost three people."

Hearing this, Fang Yizhi's face suddenly turned solemn: "There is such a thing...... What is it that is so daring? ”

"If my expectations are not bad, it should be the remnants of the Smell Fragrance Sect." Yu Guozhen lowered his voice and said: "This matter is very important, out of my mouth, into the ears of the second brother, don't spread it." ”

The Wenxiang Sect once caused a great incident in Shandong, and now there are still some remnants of the party operating in Shandong, Henan and Anhui, which involves rebellion and rebellion, which is indeed very important, so Fang Yizhi and Sun Lin are both the same.

"The evil party is so rampant!" After being stunned for a while, Fang Yizhi was furious: "In that case, Guozhen, why don't you report to the official?" ”

"Huh...... Please come with me. Yu Guozhen avoided talking about it.

led the two into the courtyard, and after turning to the three rows of houses on the west side, there was a small courtyard with reading power, and the two young guards with tasseled guns in the front of the small courtyard saluted Yu Guozhen, and Yu Guozhen brought the two into it. The layers were so heavily guarded that the two of them knew that this place must be extraordinary, and when they entered the room, they found that there was only one entrance to the underground.

"Dungeon." Yu Guozhen said in a low voice.

Setting up a private dungeon is naturally against the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but now that the Yu family has the name of the Xiang'an Inspection Division, this is not a problem. When the three of them descended from the dungeon, they heard a strange sound, like the sound of shackles.

Immediately afterwards, they saw an iron cage, and in this narrow iron cage, a man in shackles struggled to raise his head to look at the crowd. And beside him, Gao Erzhu looked back with a stick.

"Spare me, spare me...... Let me sleep, let me sleep! ”

The man in the iron cage said in a dreamy voice, his eyes straight and red in the light of the torches.

"Say your confession again, I'm going to face each other back and forth, and if there's any discrepancy, don't want to sleep." Yu Guozhen said.

"Yes...... It's ......" that humanity.

"Name."

Pang ...... Pang Yougui. ”

"Where?"

"Caozhou."

"How old is this year?"

"No...... Can't remember ......."

"Who sent you?"

"I ...... I...... Chair...... His name is Fan Zhen, and he is dead......" The man's voice became smaller and smaller, and his head kept pecking, as if he would fall asleep at any time. At this moment, the stick in Gao Erzhu's hand was stuffed into the iron cage and stabbed him in the lower body, he was drenched, his eyes widened, but the tiredness was still obvious.

"Kill me, please, kill me!"

"Answer the question, what kind of leader is Fan Zhen?" In Pang Yougui's ears, Yu Guozhen's voice was cold and calm, like a yin wind blowing from hell, which completely collapsed what little reason he had left.

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(Thanks to the wood and bamboo for the tip)

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