After Lin Feng left, Murong Yanchao sat in the study for a long time, unable to make up his mind until a rush of footsteps woke him up.

"Big brother, there were actually only three people in that Lin Feng just now, and they went out of the city and walked along the main road to the southwest. Do you want me to lead the cavalry to catch up and take him to vent my anger to my eldest brother? Murong Yanfeng, who ran in, shouted excitedly.

Murong Yan slapped the desk violently, and a burst of anger erupted: "People fought from Chu State to Liao State, and then to the Qingyuan Army, and won the huge Chu State, took our Jinzhou, and then took Qingyuan and Fuzhou, how many people want to catch him?" As a result, it was all folded in his hands! Just because you still want to hold people? Don't pee on yourself! ”

Murong Yanfeng's hot face was pasted with a cool buttocks, and his face suddenly turned blue and red for a while.

"Give me orders, whoever dares to spread a word about today's events, I will kill his whole family!" Murong Yanchao glared at this stupid clan brother and roared angrily.

Murong Yanfeng smiled and answered yes, turned around and ran away.

Lin Feng left Yanzhou, went straight southwest along the avenue, passed through Yizhou (now Linyi, Shandong), sneaked across the border, and arrived at Haizhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu) at noon on 18 May.

This time, Lin Feng really signed up at the city gate and directly asked to see Zheng Kuangguo, the assassin of Haizhou, and was directly led to the assassin's mansion by the soldiers guarding the city.

Zheng Kuangguo is in his early fifties, tall, lean but very energetic, wearing a wide official uniform, walking a little chic and free, and when Lin Feng was enthusiastically led to the study, he immediately understood where this free and easy feeling came from:

In addition to all kinds of thread-bound books, the most conspicuous thing in the study room is the ubiquitous Taoist decoration: under the north window there is a delicate altar of Zhaijiao, decorated with flags on both sides, there are three incense sticks just lit in front of the altar, and there are two prayer mats and two ** on the ground, all of which have deep dents, which should never be furnishings; In other places, Taoist utensils such as Taoist hats, Taoist robes, dust, tokens, and ruyi can be seen everywhere.

Feeling Lin Feng's surprised gaze, Zheng Kuangguo smiled indifferently: "The old man has been practicing Taoism for a long time, and he meditates every day, please don't be surprised!" ”

Lin Feng couldn't help frowning.

In the three dynasties of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the worship of Buddha and Taoism were prosperous. In the past, Li Yu, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, had taken the Ziji Palace as the place where the Taoist priest refined the moon, and then added the Si Ming Zhenjun Palace, and took the Yanying Hall as the Taoist flying refining place, and built the Bingling Gong Temple, Ziyang Temple and Baohua Palace, and rebuilt the Yong Optimism and Cave God Palace.

What's even more exaggerated is that Li Yu also recruited and reused Taoist priests in Jinling, including Wang Qixia, Shi Shouchong, Sun Zhiyong, Deng Kuangtu and Wei Jinzhong, etc., all of whom served him around him and were given gold and purple, which means that these people were treated as officials with more than three grades! However, Li Yu, who believed in Buddhism, died of taking Taoist pills. In Lin Feng's mind, the development of Taoism has been deeply affected by this incident, but he didn't expect that the dignified state assassin history would also be so openly obsessed with Taoist cultivation.

Lin Feng put away the irritability in his heart, asked Zheng Kuangguo to retreat, talked about the upcoming battle with the Zhou State, and then talked about the thoughts of the Holy Lord and the King of Qi about this war, reminding Zheng Kuangguo to prepare as soon as possible.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Kuangguo slapped the table, stood up, and said happily: "It turns out that what Brother Pan Yan said is really true!" ”

Lin Feng was in a fog, Brother Pan Yandao? What's the matter?

Seeing Lin Feng's doubts, Zheng Kuangguo explained with a dance that Pan Yan had often returned between Jianghuai and called himself a "wild guest". Back then, Pan Yan once took refuge in himself. At first, I didn't pay much attention to him, so I let him live in a small room next to the stable.

One day, Pan Yan went hunting with him to the suburbs. His wife, Zheng, went to the stable to look at the horses, and by the way, she took a look at Pan Yan's house, and found that there was nothing but a straw mat on the bed and a bamboo box next to the bed. His wife opened the bamboo box and saw that there were two tin pills inside, so she covered the box and left. When Pan Yan returned, he found that the box had been moved, and after understanding what had happened, he exclaimed, "What is this woman!" Dare to come and move my sword, fortunately I have already collected the sword light, otherwise she would have been in a different place. ”

When he heard about this, he suspected that Pan Yan was a swordsman, so he asked him to teach him swordsmanship. Pan Yan said "Let's try it" at that time, and came to a quiet courtyard with him, took out the two tin pills from his arms, and put them in his palms. Soon after, two rays of light shot out from the tips of Pan Yan's fingers, like white rainbows, circling around his head and neck, ringing and sounding, endlessly. At that time, he was so frightened that he was sweating like rain, and he was amazed by his straight path, Pan Yanha smiled, and led his hand to collect the sword light and revert it into a tin pill. After that, he attached great importance to him, and recommended the above table to the martyr ancestor Li Yu, Pan Yan was summoned to live in the Ziji Palace, and died a few years later.

Lin Feng sighed in his heart when he heard this, isn't this the so-called masters like Hu Wanlin and Wang Lin that are common in later generations? At most, he was a god stick, and he said that Zhou Guo's attack had nothing to do with him, and he immediately said his doubts.

Zheng Kuangguo ran to the altar and respectfully placed three pillars of incense, before turning around and explaining: "Before Brother Pan Yan left, he talked about this matter. Brother Dao said that in a few years, someone will come to tell Zheng that he is actively preparing for the battle with a strong enemy in the north, and asking the old man to secretly actively store grain, grass and weapons. ”

Lin Feng almost laughed out loud, do you believe the truth that will never be wrong?

Zheng Kuangguo saw the look of disbelief on Lin Feng's face, and immediately explained solemnly: "Brother Pan Yan also specially explained at that time that the person who reported the news was not from Jinling in the south, but from the north, and Lord Lin didn't come from the direction of Liao Kingdom in the north?" ”

Lin Feng shook his head lightly, noncommittal, and asked, "May I ask Lord Zheng, have you ever prepared grain and grass weapons according to Pan Yan's wishes?" ”

Zheng Kuangguo shook his head embarrassedly, and said hesitantly: "Alas, Haizhou itself is not rich in products, and a few years ago, there was a wind claiming that the Holy Lord wanted to transfer Zheng to another place, and Zheng did not act. However, Zheng now knows that he is wrong. ”

Lin Feng almost scolded the anger in his heart. If you really obey Pan Yan's instructions, I may even thank this magic stick! Now, it's just a joke! However, in front of this old-timer, Lin Feng had no place to vent his fire, so he had to repeat the importance of the future war, and asked this Taoist believer to be sure to put national affairs first.

Zheng Kuangguo nodded again and again and agreed.

Subsequently, Lin Feng asked about one thing that had always been on his mind: the current situation of the 500 elites who had gone to Jinling to participate in the all-army competition. Zheng Kuangguo became excited again, he claimed to have found that these people had become different after they came back, and he had asked curiously for a long time, and was deeply interested in Lin Feng's training method and way of training, and divided these people into various departments of the army again, leading and guiding the daily training of the whole army.

This is a good thing that Lin Feng expected, just now because of the Taoist believers, the little unhappiness has disappeared, and he praised several impressive leaders one after another, hoping that Zheng Kuangguo will pay more attention.

Zheng Kuangguo rubbed his palms and sighed, saying that he would definitely pay attention to these people.

Lin Feng was in a better mood, declined Zheng Kuangguo's invitation to dinner, and immediately rushed out of the city to the south, rushed to the Huai River at noon the next day, turned westward, passed Chuzhou (now Huai'an, Jiangsu) without entering, and went straight to Sizhou (now Xuyi County, Jiangsu) in the west.

Before dawn on May 20, Lin Feng and his party left the small inn where they stayed last night early and headed towards Sizhou City, a few miles away. ”