The old man stirred the water with his arms, and after draping the towel over his shoulders, he sat down on the edge of the bathhouse pool and pouted, "Those two young men are your sons?" ”

"How can you?" Yang Fan didn't feel that the water on the pool here was caused by the yang fire in his dantian, his eyes were dull and he looked at the mist, thinking about other things, "Those two are my little brothers." ”

"Oh?" The old man was suspicious, "I wonder where the little brother went for business this time?" This grain from the south to the north is now restricted by the imperial court, is it possible that the little brother has a way in the northwest? ”

Yang Fan finally heard a hint of relief that this southern grain is strictly forbidden to be sold in the north, which is also the source of the businessman's price hike. In this way, the imperial court was to price the purchase, and when it was shipped to the northwest, it reduced the expenditure. "There is no way, but just a little grain in our own fields. I don't know what kind of business the old man does? ”

"Haha, I can't do this business for ordinary people. The doorway inside, if you listen to it, you can't hear the gist, so don't say it. The weather was cold, and it seemed that the water vapor on his body had dried up and was a little cold, so the old man went into the water again and said, "It's comfortable to take a bath in this bathhouse, but it's not so comfortable at home." Later, call a bath master, that will be comfortable. ”

"It is said that the merchants of Jindi will do business, and the grain in the coal fields in the mountains will be sold, so the old man sells coal, right?" Yang Fan asked. The old man on the side smiled and said, "You're right, there is indeed such a mine here, but you can make a lot of money selling coal." Most of these families still burn firewood, and it is expensive to burn coal. ”

"What does that old man do?"

Seeing Yang Fan's curious inquiry, the old man was also a little frivolous, anyway, they didn't report to each other, so they had the right to chat, and they didn't taboo, and said, "It's okay, it's okay to tell you." Just now, the old man said that you guessed it right, indeed, my ancestors made a fortune from the mines. But now, there are several big households in Shanxi. They all made a fortune by selling firearms to those wild boar skins. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be smuggling arms."

"You can't say that, you should say where there is a need. Where there is a sale. The old man stretched out a finger, twisted his itchy nose, and said, "How is it, envy, right?" The old man rubbed his arms triumphantly.

"I do have some envy." Yang Fan touched his nose.

"Envy can only be envy. The doorway here. If no one leads you through the door, you will have to endure this business. The old man raised an eyebrow, "Young man, I've been talking to you for so long, I'll go up and find someone to rub my back." The old man got up, draped the towel over his back, and walked a little farther away.

Sun Yi and Li Yuhuan came over, looked at the old man, and asked, "Sir, do you know each other again?" Li Yuhuan followed Yang Fan. I feel more and more that I look up to it, and every time I go to a place, I can encounter too many strange people and strange things. Maybe it's because he's short-sighted, but it's a bit unbelievable.

"I don't know." Yang Fan continued to lie down.

"I don't know, can the lord talk to him so happily?" Sun Yi asked.

Yang Fan got up, the thin little ** highlighted his figure, and the two of them raised their heads and smiled. Li Yuhuan hurriedly turned his head. Only Sun Yi smiled cheaply: "The crotch of the lord is very spectacular." ”

Yang Fan was not ashamed, and teased: "Children, eat more." Do less bad things at night, otherwise you will look down on your little brother in the future, and it will be embarrassing. He got up and walked to the southwest corner. Yang Fan's towel dried his body. Where Chi Guoguo squatted, rummaging for his baggage.

"What the lord is looking for, is it this ......" The voice came faintly from behind Yang Fan. Yang Fan suddenly felt a tightness in his lower body, and involuntarily clamped his legs, took the burden, and quickly got dressed. Looking back, I thought that it was the old pervert who had to take other people's clothes from the bathhouse. However, thinking that the man was calling the lord, he was vigilant, stared at the man's eyes, and said, "Who are you?" ”

The man had a fair complexion, looked a little sickly, and his eye sockets were sunken, as if he hadn't slept well for a long time, and said, "Zongren Mansion, Zhu Qi." ”

"Zongren Order?" Yang Fan was surprised. The Zongren Mansion, placed in the early Ming Dynasty, had all the clans to state their requests, report to the emperor on their behalf, introduce talented people, and record their guilt and negligence. He is responsible for sending and receiving documents, managing the internal affairs of the clan, registering the yellow and red books, imprisoning criminals, and educating the children of the clan. The children of the royal family are afraid of this official office, and if they are rude, they will be invited to the Zongren Mansion for a cup of tea, be educated, criticize and criticize, and if they do too much, they will have to be locked up in the Zongren Mansion, no different from prisoners.

Later, for a variety of reasons. The functions of the Zongren Mansion were replaced by the Ministry of Rites, and the Zongren Order became a fictitious entity.

"I didn't expect Lord Yang to remember it so clearly, it's really rare." Zhu Qi arched his hands. Yang Fan smiled, as early as not long after arriving in Beijing, Yang Fan memorized the roster of officials above the third grade clearly, so as not to step on any poisonous snakes.

"It's really rare that the lord can still have this Yaxing to take a bath in the bathhouse."

Yang Fan fastened his belt and said with some doubts, "Why does the Sect Commander know that he is here?" "He shouldn't have revealed his identity, and even when he entered the city, he was extra careful, and hundreds of brocade guards also entered the city in civilian clothes, how could they still be recognized.

Zhu Qi smiled and said, "When the lord was outside the city, the eyes and ears of the Zongren Mansion were connected with the Jinyi Guard. It's just an order from someone to keep quiet. ”

Yang Fan's pupils shrank, and he was a little surprised, "That one is here too?" "You can order the people of Jinyiwei and Zongren Mansion, but Yang Fan has only one person in mind. He never expected that the person in the palace had made such a big determination this time and dared to go out of the palace to inspect.

Zhu Qi's thin lips opened slightly, his thin eyebrows and thin lips, he knew that he was a person with a thin and cool nature, and said with a smile, "It is indeed here, but when the saint came out, it was set to sacrifice Mount Tai, and then there was a Jinyi Wei and a cadre of Zongren Mansion escorted him to Shanxi." With such a big game of chess, if there is no master watching chess, it will inevitably have a taste of singing a one-man show. ”

"Is the saint afraid that he won't be able to stop the scene?"

Zhu Qi smiled and did not speak. If the entire officialdom in Shanxi has roots and beards, then with these hundreds of people in Yang Fan, it is really a fool's dream to overthrow those people. Yang Fan arched his hand and said, "Since the saint has come, he will not be mixed up below." Why don't you just leave? ”

Zhu Qidao: "The saint thinks, this game of chess, it is best for you to play the chess, and when the time is right, the saint will come forward." The Holy One let me come down, that is, to give you a courage, this time let go and do it boldly, just know that the Holy One is there. ”

Yang Fan smiled bitterly, and sure enough, he still had to sing with a white face. (To be continued.) )