Because of Lu Xiancheng's refusal of the red envelope, all the Jianchang officials who came with him lost the mind to appreciate the back garden of the Tan family, and they were speechless, walking quietly along the garden path.

After some hard work, the officials still sold some face, and the atmosphere finally eased up.

To say that the back garden of the Tan family is really good, the winding pond, the rockery pavilion, the staggered, the green grass in the garden, the flowers are vibrant, showing the gorgeous scenery of the big family in Jianchang. The officials stopped and stopped, chatting with each other about officialdom and the topic of Fengyue Field, and no one mentioned the disharmony just now.

Xu Liang walked with Lu Xiancheng, and saw that several officials had already walked to the important place in the depths of the garden, and his heart couldn't help but be nervous, and his eyes were focused on that place intentionally or unintentionally.

"Lord Xu, there are some things that the official thinks it is better to explain them clearly to you." Lu Xiancheng said slowly.

After a while, Lu Xiancheng didn't listen to Xu Liang's echo, and couldn't help but look back, and saw Xu Liang looking at the rockery in the corner of the garden with a strange expression, where the scribes of the three households were discussing something with great interest. I couldn't help asking, "Oh, Lord Xu?" ”

"Huh?" Xu Liang retracted his eyes, saw Lu Xiancheng looking at him, and couldn't help but ask embarrassedly: "The lower official is distracted, what did Lord Lu say?" ”

Lu Xian Chenghu glanced at the rockery suspiciously, and said: "The official just rejected the red envelope arranged by Lord Xu, and Lord Xu is afraid that he will have some other thoughts in his heart, so for this reason, the official has a few words to say." ”

"Oh, sir, please."

Lu Xiancheng looked at the depths of the garden with a faint eye, and said slowly: "I remember the year when the official was in high school, he was only twenty-three years old, he was in his prime, full of spirit, and he wanted to serve the court and contribute to the country, and he didn't want to make people worse. ”

Lu County Cheng sighed, and then said: "Over the years, the official has already seen it, I am just an ordinary person, the Ming Dynasty has two capitals and thirteen provinces, the most lacking is the wind and bones, the most indispensable is the scholar, the official is afraid that he will not be able to be a famous minister in this life." ”

"But!" Lu Xiancheng's tone was stunned, and his eyes were resolute, "This official doesn't care how others are greedy for ink, how they form a party, how they run a private business, this official can't control others, but he can always control himself, I don't care how dark it is outside, but this official must be pure and innocent." Lord Xu, do you understand what this official means? ”

Xu Liang looked at Lu Xiancheng seriously for a long time, nodded and said, "Xia Guan understands." Lord Lu, it's disrespectful! ”

Lu Xiancheng waved his hand and smiled awkwardly, and said, "Where is it, the words of spirit made Lord Xu smile." ”

Xu Liang saluted Lu Xiancheng seriously, and said sincerely: "Lord Lu, the lower officials are really disrespectful. ”

"Lord Xu, please get up, Lu can't stand it." Lu Xiancheng was very surprised and a little moved, and finally had someone who understood him.

"No, Lord Lu, you can afford it." Xu Liang said. Isn't it disrespectful to secretly think that I will pull you into the water for a while?

As the two were talking, they heard an exclamation from the direction of the rockery, and soon an official ran over and reported: "Two adults, a secret door has been found on the side of the rockery. ”

Xu Lu and the two glanced at each other in surprise and hurried to the rockery. At this time, there was already a group of officials surrounded by the rockery, Xu Liang stepped forward to take a look, only to see a wooden door near the small fountain on the rockery, where the grass was obscured, it looked like the exit of a basement.

Xu Liang exclaimed: "It turns out that there is such a dark room hidden in the backyard of the Tan family, but I don't know what is in it?" ”

Lu Xiancheng asked: "Why, didn't you find it when the patrol battalion searched it?" ”

"Nope." Xu Liang replied affirmatively, he waved to a soldier of the patrol battalion, and said loudly: "Pass the order, go down, surround this garden, no one is allowed to enter or leave without the order of the official." Plus, a few more people will break the door! ”

The wooden door looked to be some years old, and the edges were a little rotten, and the four soldiers of the patrol battalion smashed the wooden door and opened it.

Taking advantage of the time when the soldiers went down to check, Xu Liang said to the onlookers: "Everyone, today we accidentally found such a dark room, it is really an unexpected joy, it will be safe for a while, we might as well go down and have a look together." ”

When several officials heard this, they followed suit: "Listen to your lordship's orders." ”

A soldier came out of the secret passage behind the open wooden door, clasped his fists and said to Lu Xu and the others: "Two adults, there is a secret room under the secret passage, and there is no one in it. ”

Lu Xiancheng asked, "There are things in the secret room." ”

The soldier glanced at Xu Liang, nodded and said, "Let it go." ”

"What's that?"

The soldier hesitated: "I can't say if it's under the mark, but the adults will know when they go down and look at it." ”

Lu Xiancheng no longer paid attention to him, bowed down, and entered the dark passage.

Xu Liang arched his hand to all the officials and said, "Everyone, Lord Lu has already gone down, let's go and have a look." ”

The dark passage is actually not long, only forty or fifty meters. Xu Liang took all the officials and walked down the secret road in a noisy manner.

Liu Yuan, the head of the house, followed behind Xu Liang, and he said to the person on the side as he walked: "This Tan Zhiguo is extremely cunning, and he actually thought of digging a secret room in the back garden, in my opinion, there must be a lot of gold and silver treasures in it." ”

The official on the side responded: "Isn't it, it's hidden so tightly, it must be some kind of treasure." ”

When the officials entered the secret room, they saw the objects piled up in the secret room, and they were stunned one by one.

There were not any gold and silver treasures in the secret room, nor some great treasures, but a large number of knives and guns, armor and bundles of medicinal materials for swords, and even an earthen cannon in one corner, with a few rusty iron beads on the side, which looked like the shells of the former earthen cannons.

The officials stayed for a while, and then exploded.

"W-how does this look like an armory?"

"Tan Zhicheng is a businessman, what is he doing hiding these knives, guns, arrows and sticks? Ah, there's a turret! ”

"yes, that's weird, can't it be...... He's going to rebel? ”

"Rebellion?"

……

Xu Liang saw that the more the officials talked, the more they looked like that, and a few of them had already stepped forward to look at those swords, guns and armor, for fear of being seen by others, so he coughed lightly and said, "Everyone! ”

When the officials heard this, they stopped their mouths one after another, and turned their eyes to look at Xu Liang.

"In this Tan family's secret room, there are actually a large number of military weapons hidden, and even Lord Lu and this official didn't expect it. Tan Zhicheng is a businessman, although he once gathered some people to occupy the water and land transportation of the Jianchang River, but he is still a businessman on the whole, and he is still the vice president of the Jianchang Chamber of Commerce. Now that we have found these things here, it is self-evident what he Tan Zhicheng wants to do, and the official thinks that he will report the truth to the court. Now it's pointless for us to stay here and guess randomly, it's better to quit earlier, cough cough, I don't know how long this secret room has been built, the turbidity is too heavy, and it will hinder everyone's body. Lord Lu, did you say? Uh, Lord Lu? ”

The officials followed the sound and looked at Lu Xiancheng, who had entered the secret room earlier, and were surprised to find that Lu Xiancheng had a blue face, pursed his lips and stared at the pile of weapons without saying a word.

The official who was close next to him touched Lu Xiancheng lightly: "My lord? Are you alright? ”

Lu Xiancheng seemed to have just been summoned back to his senses by this call, he withdrew his gaze, glanced at Xu Liang deeply, waved his hand and said: "Lord Xu is right, this place is not suitable for a long time, everyone, let's go out." ”

The officials discussed one after another, and returned to the front yard of the Tan Mansion, where Liu Yuan, the head of the house, and the ambassador of the treasury and others beckoned the officials to receive the confiscated materials, and went out to return to the government with the materials. Lu Xiancheng stood in front of the Tan Mansion and looked at the door number of the Tan Mansion steadily.

Xu Liang stepped forward, also glanced at the door number, and sighed: "Alas, I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect Tan Zhicheng to hide evil intentions." ”

Lu Xiancheng turned his head, stared at Xu Liang, and said, "This official didn't expect it either." I didn't expect you Xu Liangxin to be ruthless far more black than in the past, and even the official was pulled into the water by you. ”

"Master Lu, where did you start with this?" Xu Liang was surprised, and said puzzledly: "Tan Zhicheng killed himself and secretly hid weapons, today you and I and my colleagues have seen it with our own eyes, how can it be said that the lower officials have affected the adults." ”

Lu Xiancheng stepped forward violently and said viciously: "Xu Liang, don't think that your crude skills can hide from everyone!" The officer took a closer look, most of those knives and guns looked very new, and there were a few knives with blood stains on the tips, which were clearly collected by you when you washed the Tigers that night, and those armors, some of which were clearly the materials you received from the county treasury to the patrol battalion years ago! Although Tan Zhicheng committed a heinous crime, others are already dead, and you are still trying so hard to frame it, what is your intention? ”

Xu Liang glanced at Lu Xiancheng deeply, took two steps back, and said, "Lord Lu really understands people!" Since everything has been said about this, there are some things that the official has to say thoroughly. ”

Xu Liang gritted his teeth and said: "He, Tan Zhicheng, Tan Zhisheng, and the two brothers tried to kill Xu's net worth three times and twice, but fortunately, Xu Moufu had a great life and escaped death several times. Xu's ten personal guards have just entered the ground, and their bones are not cold! The two brothers of the Tan family and Xu Mou have long been in an endless situation, if he does not die today, it is difficult to guarantee that Xu will not die in the suburbs one day! Xu's move was really forced to be helpless, and I ask Lord Lu to forgive me! ”

When Lu Xiancheng heard this, he changed color, pointed at Xu Liang and said angrily: "It turns out that you have a premeditated plan to destroy the Tan family!" Xu Liang, as an official of the court, you disregard the law of the country so much, and declare personal vendettas, is there still a court law in your eyes? No, Lu will go back and write an excerpt to report to the court! Lord Xu, you just wait to be locked and take the ginseng! ”

After speaking, Lu Xiancheng turned around and left. Xu Qing, the sentry officer of the patrol battalion on the side, stepped forward, pulled out his sword from the sheath, and stopped Lu County.

Lu Xiancheng paused and sneered: "What? Do you want to eradicate this official as well? ”

Xu Liang shook his head at Xu Qing, and Xu Qing angrily withdrew his knife and retreated.

Lu Xiancheng sneered coldly, raised his feet and left.

Behind him, Xu Liang shouted, "Lord Lu! Xu heard that Lord Lu came to Jianchang as an official alone, and he didn't even have an envoy around him, so he specially sent a few Yahuan to the house to wait! ”

Lu Xiancheng didn't look back, and shouted: "This official is going to drive them out!" ”

Xu Liang laughed: "I'm afraid it's too late, the official asked people to buy them in **, and the name of your Lord Lu is written on the redemption deed, besides, I'm afraid that this matter will spread in Jianchang City now." ”

Lu Xiancheng scolded: "Despicable! Without looking back, he trotted away.

Outside the gate of Tan's Mansion, Xu Qing said worriedly: "Third brother, this surnamed Lu is so ignorant, I'm afraid it's going to be a bad thing." ”

Xu Liang took a big sip and scolded: "It's really a stone from a dung pit, it's smelly and hard!" ”