At the end of the path was another alley, and at the end of the alley was a small black door.

After pushing the door open, Master Zhang walked up the stairs, came to the wing room on the second floor without being very skillful, followed the light and cold smell of rosin to the door of a side room, and then he hesitated for a moment, but still walked in.

The cold voice of His Royal Highness King Zhennan came through a thin layer of screen, "It's coming." ”

After Mr. Zhang entered the door, he bowed humbly and sat opposite Song Yuchen, and he didn't intend to be polite, he took the cup of tea handed over by Song Yuchen and poured it into his throat, and without waiting for anything to smell from the bar, he hurriedly felt out the things in the cuffs and put them on the table.

He simply didn't know what to say.

This highness was born with a clear moon and a clear wind, and he looked like he was lofty, but he was a disaster star with a fate, and he would be in chaos whenever he came out.

Since Lord Zhang took over Jingshantang, although the daily characters are heavier, there are many folds to see, but fortunately, most of them are some nonsense greetings and greetings, and there are not many that are really worth sending to the emperor for review and consideration, especially in the recent period, after being busy with the disaster in the south of the Yangtze River and the plague in the southwest, he thought that he could breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect a new stone to fall from the sky again, and smashed it firmly on his head, and suddenly woke him up from the spring and autumn dream of "can relax".

And such a hot potato happened to fall after His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan came down to beat it.

I don't know if he is lucky or lucky, as long as he gets involved with this highness, things will definitely be able to pick him at a glance among thousands of pillars.

Master Zhang's whole body shook, and the bottom of his buttocks seemed to have thorns, and the cushion in the soft brocade cotton gave him a little taste of pins and needles.

The disaster star in front of him looked at him expressionlessly, swaying left and right, and said, "If Lord Zhang thinks it's uncomfortable to sit-"

Lord Zhang was afraid that he would not be able to spit out any ivory from his mouth, so he was busy straightening his body. Immediately I felt that something was wrong, and now it should be His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan who has asked for others, what is his heart!

Thinking of this, Master Zhang's body was just a little straighter, and the time to regain dignity was not as long as the freshness of a bowl of rice in the scorching summer.

Song Yuchen glanced at the fold, and the donkey's lips pulled out a smile that was not very sincere, "-I will order someone to carry you up on a couch, you can just lie down and talk." ”

Master Zhang, "......"

was so coldly stuffed by him that Master Zhang simply forgot what he was going to say, and the manuscript that had been played all the way turned into a thousand clues, blocked in his throat, and he couldn't get out of order for a while.

Song Yuchen raised his eyes to look at him, and there seemed to be nothing else in his eyes except for a clear concern.

The old scholar was stared at with goosebumps in his affectionate eyes like this, and quickly raised his fist to cover his mouth, and coughed lightly to cover it, "Thank you, Your Highness, for your love, no need." The minister came this time because he had something urgent to say. ”

At the same time, he sat up silently.

As soon as Song Yuchen met, he subdued the irrepressible anger of Lord Zhang, smiled slightly, and said, "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

Master Zhang opened the fold and handed it to him, "Your Highness, please take a look." ”

Song Yuchen swept over with a glance and ten lines, and felt very familiar from the beginning - wasn't this the first-class excerpt he saw that day?

He glanced out the window, his dark eyelashes twitched slightly, "Lord Zhang, is he sleepwalking this big night?" ”

What kind of urgency is a fold full of sycophants? He also sweetly coaxed the old pedant for a while.

Song Yuchen glanced at the cup of tea that Fang had just handed over, and suddenly regretted it, suspecting that Master Zhang was trying to cheat a good cup of tea this night, and he would have given him a cup of white water if he knew it.

Master Zhang, who didn't know that he had been demoted to the eighteenth level of hospitality, took out a crumpled piece of paper and handed it over, "There is nothing wrong with just looking at that fold, but Your Highness, please look at it - this is the letter from the old man who guarded the door in Jingshan Hall." ”

Song Yuchen hadn't come back from the question of whether he should give him white water or swill, he kept rubbing the corners of his forehead, and the ridiculous words had reached the back of his teeth, but he suddenly reacted a little, "This old man is from Yongxian?" ”

"Your Highness Bingxue is smart." Master Zhang lost no time in patting the sycophants, "That old man is illiterate, honest and honest, he has been working in Jingshan Hall for more than ten years, and he has some friendship with the minister, so the minister read this letter to him." He has a son who sits in the tea business in Yongxian County, and it is said that he is doing well, but he suddenly moved away this year, and he is bringing his family with him, and he has the meaning of never going back. ”

Song Yuchen sighed, "You continue." ”

Master Zhang suppressed his voice and said, "He mentioned in his family letter that the reason why the family moved was because of the plague in the county. ”

Pestilence?

Song Yuchen finally sensed that something was wrong, and then a terrifying thought flashed through his mind.

He twisted his brows, picked up the family letter and looked at it from beginning to end, the warmth in his eyebrows fading a little, revealing a little cold light on the sharp blade of the axe.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, since he has already opened his mouth, the words in the future will naturally slide out of his lips and tongue, "If what is said in the family letter is true, then it means that the county order of Yongxian County deliberately concealed the art situation and did not report it, of course, it is not ruled out that this is a fake." What does Your Highness think? ”

Song Yuchen didn't even put half a word in his head, he gently raised his eyebrows and eyes, and changed his words coldly, "Lord Zhang thinks that this matter is related to the epidemic in the southwest, right?" ”

His Royal Highness King Zhennan hit the nail on the head with a quick avoidance, and just rightly reminded him that there were only two people in front of and behind the table in this room at the moment, and there was a tea cup in the middle that was getting thinner and thinner, so there was really no need to say anything about the scene.

Master Zhang paused, and finally bowed his head slightly, and honestly held back a human sentence, "Exactly." The epidemic in the southwest this year started strangely, and it ended strangely, as if it was a menacing army, standing on the city tower, you could see a piece of yellow sand connected with the sky in the distance, but the real soldiers came to the city to find that it was actually just a group of old and young women and children. ”

Lord Zhang, who was born in the Hanlin Academy, was still chewing the words unconsciously, and His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan over there had already heard that sour water was about to come out of the cracks of his bones.

After a moment of silence, Master Zhang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and cautiously and carefully revealed his true thoughts, "But there is another possibility-those old and young women and children are actually elite armor in disguise. ”