In the trance-like dream, Cha Xiaodao remembered the four stiff soles side by side on the mat, remembered the cigarette smoke rings and ceiling fans spreading under the ceiling, and remembered the sparks and crying children.

He slowly opened his eyes, a slight musty smell rushed to his nose, and there was only a stiff bed board and a table of eight immortals in the room, and the smooth gray wall skin looked a little oppressive.

The door creaked open, and Li Yan carried a wide sword box on his back, and his tall body blocked the sunlight at the door.

He looked around and smiled, "Of all the houses for sinners to live in, yours is the worst. ”

Li Yan found a place to sit down, and looked at Cha Xiaodao on the bed.

"How are the Hao couples?"

"Zheng Yuanning wants to induce confessions, they still have a conscience, biting you to death is a righteous act, I am staring, and the yamen does not have the ability to refer to the deer as a horse."

"What are you going to do next? If I don't have an idea, I'll have a bad idea. ”

Cha Xiaodao drank the boiling water in the kettle and said to Li Yan.

Li Yan was a little surprised, he had the impression that Cha Xiaodao had always been a person who did multiple-choice questions, and since he walked with him, he basically belonged to the attitude of "do the things in the part, don't ask about the things outside the part, I only take my share", unless there are visible interests, he rarely takes the initiative to do anything.

"You say."

Cha Xiaodao: "You come to kill your relatives with righteousness and dissociate yourself from me." Anyway, there is a dragon and tiger flag, no one can do anything to you, I simply escaped from prison and killed Zheng Yuanning, who was going to frame me. Let's go our separate ways first and meet at Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi, how about it? ”

Li Yan nodded: "Enough." ”

Cha Xiaodao tilted his head back: "Then listen to you." ”

Li Yan smiled, and said with a small knife: "Chen Tianfang is from a high background, his family has an errand for the comprador of the Cao Gang, and he is a big landlord. The Chen family and the Ke family have been married from generation to generation according to their ancestral teachings, and since the dragon and tiger were shocked in the Jiajing year, the two families found that their blood was born with the ability to dispatch all kinds of people in the sea. At that time, Zhejiang was in trouble, and even the Heavenly Master Dao had no way to take the sea-covering sage who drowned countless people along the coast, so he could only let it wreak havoc. Chen Tianfang volunteered, he led the Chen Ke family at that time, and it took two years to finally temporarily drive away the Great Sage of the Sea. He originally had five sons, but three of them died in repeated fights with Zhu Polong. Later, Chen Ke's family agreed with the Great Sage of the Sea that Zhu Polong would only lay eggs in the waterway in July and August, and the government wanted him to enter the court as an official, but he also refused. Therefore, Chen Tianfang was rewarded with three robes. ”

After a pause, Li Yan said again: "Until today, except for Chen Dong who you slaughtered yesterday, there are only four people in the Chen Ke family combined. You have already seen the two of the Chen family, the head of the Ke family is called Ke Nuoran, who is Chen Tianfang's son-in-law, his wife Ke Chen, and the two have no children. None of these people have a good reputation in the local area. The Chen brothers, the younger one is called Chen Dong, nicknamed Huahua Tai Sui, Chen Dong raped the ** girl, and has reached the point of domineering. He always thought that the bitter lord was troublesome to sue the official, so that when he saw a woman, he simply went to the county government and asked two messengers to come to the door together, which cut off the bitter master's thoughts. The big one is Chen Han, Chen Tianfang is old and wise, the Chen family's family business is taken care of by Chen Han, Chen Han always likes to take advantage of the rich, he bought the fields of civilians at a low price in the famine year, not to mention anything else, only last winter, he maliciously raised the price of food, so thousands of people starved to death. As for the Ke couple, it is rumored that they colluded with pirates to specifically ask the people in the green forest to attack and kill those nosy officials and Qingliu. Then they pretended to be looted, and there were even examples of people being slaughtered all over the house. ”

Li Yan said and poked the ground: "Knock them all down, uncover this pot of angry and resentful oil pot, and your little thing will not be a problem." ”

"You're not a bad idea, but it's too hard." Cha Xiaodao said this in his mouth, but there was an eager expression on his face: "Is this necessary?" ”

Li Yan stretched out a finger: "I am a person who does things, when I ask if I can do it, and then ask if it is painful or not, I never ask if it is necessary." ”

"What do you need me to do?"

Cha Xiaodao asked again.

"Be honest and put away the murderous intent."

Cha Xiaodao's eyebrows moved lightly before he smiled: "You see it?" ”

Li Yan knocked on the table: "If you really want to escape from prison, it is not just Zheng Yuanning who died." ”

Cha Xiaodao didn't speak, apparently acquiescing.

"Okay, then it's decided."

Li Yan got up to leave.

"Wait."

Cha Xiaodao suddenly stopped Li Yan.

"What else?"

“…… Don't you ask, why am I so reckless this time? ”

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "Where are you reckless?" ”

The two men looked at each other and fell into a long silence again.

"When I didn't say it."

Cha Xiaodao lowered his head and laughed.

Li Yan was also laughing, and he only rushed to check the knife before he went out: "If you are willing, drink and talk to me another day." ”

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"Li Zhenfu, I have admired the name for a long time, I dare to ask, what is the matter with you looking for my family?"

Tianfei Pavilion originally specialized in the guest residence of the official gentry, and the banquet was dispersed, whether it was Zhu Changyun in Hangzhou, or Li Fukai, who had a mansion in Suzhou, they all lived here.

The person in front of Li Yan was the commander of the Qianhu under Zhu Changyun, the governor of Caoyun, surnamed Qi, and he and Li Yan were both five grades, so there was no use of honorifics. Escort Zhu Changyun only came here yesterday.

"There are a few catties of wild meat in my hometown, which is quite flavorful, and I had a very happy conversation with Lord Zhu at the banquet that day, and said that I would send it to him."

Of course, Qi Qianhu didn't know that Li Yan didn't say a few words to Zhu Changyun at the banquet, to be exact, he didn't have a pleasant chat with anyone.

"Li Zhenfu, my family is dealing with official business, and it's getting night, you see, can you hand over this game to me, and I will forward it to Lord Zhu?"

"Absolutely."

Li Yan handed the oil paper bag in his hand to Qi Qianhu, and then left.

Qi Qianhu carried the oil paper package, turned around and walked into the door.

Of course, Zhu Changyun was not dealing with official business, but was just playing five poultry plays in the yard.

"Sent away?"

"Let's go, my lord, this Li Zhenfu doesn't seem to have any intention of visiting, just said that you made an appointment with him to give you a few catties of game, and then left."

"Oh?"

Zhu Chang turned his head: "What kind of game, bring it to me to see." ”

Qi Qianhu walked over, put the oil paper package on the stone table and opened it, and it was indeed two catties of cooked meat, which looked like it had been steamed with materials, and a layer of hot oil was drizzled.

Zhu Changyun stared at the oil paper bag for a while, and suddenly reached out and took a piece and put it in his mouth.

"Your ......, my lord"

Zhu Changyun smiled disapprerovingly, and said while chewing: "Could it be that he still wants to poison me?" ”

When the taste in his mouth was exhausted, he wrinkled his brows and asked, "Did he say, what kind of meat is this?" ”

"I didn't say it, I just said it was game."

"You come and taste it."

Qi Qianhu didn't dare to refuse, and also picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.

"How? Can you taste what kind of meat it is? ”

Qi Qianhu shook his head: "It's weird, it's a bit like an old hen with firewood, and it's not good to say that it's lowly either." ”

"You go and call the cook of the Tianfei Pavilion, hurry up."

"Yes."

Qi Qianhu chirped and hurriedly called the chef here.

After a while, the master chef came over and bowed to Zhu Yunchang: "My lord, you call me." ”

Zhu Changyun pointed to the oiled paper bag on the table: "Taste what kind of meat this is, I will reward you for tasting it." ”

The cook took a closer look, couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly said to Zhu Changyun: "My lord, don't taste it, this is the meat of Zhu Polong." ”

"Are you sure?!"

"The little man has been in Zhoushan for decades, how can he not recognize it. When I was a child, the Great Sage of the Sea did not come out, and some of the people hunted and killed the pig Polong to eat meat, and then the Great Sage of the Sea was disturbed, and no one dared to eat it again, oh oh, except for the Chen family and the Ke family, they never left. ”

"Go ahead." Zhu Changyun smiled: "Qi Qianhu, give him a tael of silver." ”

When the cook took the reward money and left happily, Qi Qianhu came over: "My lord, what does this Li Zhenfu mean?" ”

"He's trying to tell me." Zhu Changyun didn't care about the oily one, picked up another piece of meat and put it in his mouth, he couldn't see the demeanor of a local official, and his cheeks were a little gloomy when he chewed: "The meat of Zhu Polong is not only eaten by the Chen family......

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Chen Zhai

There are more than a dozen vermilion lacquer pillars inside and outside the deep house, and the lights are bright at night, and there are maids with double buns to weave back and forth, cleaning up the dinner for the host.

"Did the old man sleep?"

A beautiful maid wiped the corners of Chen Han's mouth.

"The lamp is blowing, and you should sleep."

Qian Gui bowed.

"My father is almost sixty years old to have such a son, although it is not a weapon, but the old man likes it in his heart, this hatred, we can be regarded as a relationship with the Li family in Liaodong."

Chen Han pondered for a while before asking, "Governor Wu's mansion, do you have a letter?" ”

"Yes." Qian Gui nodded, and after a while, he said, "It's not good." ”

"How?"

"One is to ask Longhu Mountain, whether this knife is from the soap service of the Heavenly Master Dao, but it is said that the soap service of the Heavenly Master Dao is no less than 100,000, and it will take a few days to sort out the roster, and it is obviously a delay to reply later."

Chen Leng smiled: "It's not strange, what about the case?" ”

"The one surnamed Li is a hindrance from it, and it is not easy to overturn the case."

Chen Han glared at her: "What are you turning over?" The old man has set the tone, and he will do whatever it wants. But the surname Cha killed people without going through the God Emperor Gou Zhu, this is a sin that cares about human life and is a sure sin, why don't you send a document to the cabinet? ”

Qian Gui replied: "Zheng Yuanning originally sent it, what he meant was to disassemble the case for trial, first determine the guilt of the surname Cha, and then handle the case of the second master. ”

"Then the cabinet's reply should be about the same as Longhu Mountain, right?"

Qian Gui shook his head: "No, the paper crane didn't leave Zhejiang, so he asked the thief to intercept it, I don't know who committed it."

"Hmph, it seems that someone is holding back, looking at the jokes of our Chen family, they don't want to think about it, now Zhejiang is away from my Chen family to suppress the pig Polong, and the coast will be in chaos immediately, and now the imperial court has to use troops everywhere, at this time, if you want to cross the sea and tear down the bridge, you are not afraid of falling to death."

Qian Gui lowered his voice: "Do you want to send a letter to your uncle?" poisoned in the yamen and did the surname Cha. ”

Chen Han shook his head and vetoed him: "The old man asked me to cook, and I went to his Ke's house?" I can see that Li Zhen's intention to soothe the drunkard is not to drink, maybe the surname is checked by him. There are still many people who want to watch the fire from the other side, and now they call the people in the green forest to kill and check the knife, but it is not beautiful. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly shut up, and waited until the servants and maids had cleaned up the Eight Immortals table and retreated, and only Qian Gui and him were left in the room, and then he spoke: "In this way, you go to Nanqu Sanbao Temple, give two hundred taels of sesame oil money, and then take my letter and throw it into the well in the backyard, and tell it to find a reason to make trouble." ”

Qian Gui blinked, looking a little embarrassed: "Uncle, the old man has an order, no one can go to the place of Sanbao Temple unless he agrees." My uncle's family lives opposite the Sanbao Temple, and I haven't even looked at the opposite gate over the years, you see? ”

"How do you have an elm head? The old man also said, this time the matter will be handled by me, has he said such things before? ”

Qian Gui rolled his eyes and didn't dare to refute.

"After all, my father is over eighty years old, and it is impossible to do everything in person in the future, you just have to go. When this matter is over, I will tell the old man. ”

"Yes."

"Also, I gave Mrs. Wu Keyang's maiden family 50,000 taels of silver, thanks to his help in suppressing the people last time. We'll have more places to use people in the future. ”

Chen Han stood up, and Qian Gui hurriedly followed: "Where are Governor Zhu and the little marquis?" ”

"How are they now?"

"They all live in the Tianfei Pavilion."

"Li Fukai was sent by the top to pacify Zhu Polong, to put it bluntly, his soldiers are our soldiers. But Zhu Changyun's errand here has ended, why doesn't he go back to Hangzhou? ”

"I don't know."

Chen Han thought about it and patted his thigh: "I also give the little marquis 50,000 taels, and the surname Zhu doesn't have to, if he doesn't leave at this time, he is holding back his intestines, and giving money also makes him look down on us." Wait until tomorrow, I will call Zhu Changyun to rush to beg me. ”

"Uncle."

Chen Han was a little impatient: "What's the matter?" ”

"Well, these accounts you just mentioned, do you want to talk to the old man tomorrow, and then arrange them."

Chen Han stared at Qian Gui, suddenly pointed to the pillar outside, and said, "How much silver does it cost to transport this pillar beam from the north." ”

Qian Guixin calculated for a while and replied: "Add them all, about 20,000 taels." ”

"Then I will change five pillars for our family, and do I still use it to inform the old man?"

"Little one understands."

Qian Gui nodded and retreated.

"I'll do it overnight!"

Chen Han's face was gloomy.

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The next day, the south of Changguo burst the embankment, flooded Dinghai County, the ocean of water covered the sun, the people were killed and injured innumerable, the mud and sand were all down, the water rushed out of a carved reef out, the above was sprinkled with dozens of words, to the effect that it was to tear up the agreement with the government, saying that only seven or eight two months to lay eggs, not enough for the reproduction of the pig dragon, not only to occupy two more months, but also to the government to send out three hundred boys and girls to worship the great sage of the sea, before August 5 people can not get together, then send a big flood, Yinxian, Xiangshan, Cixi, Fenghua and other places, all into an ocean.