Hua Qiao had nothing to do at home all night, but Hu Yanjin didn't sleep all night.

He only let the dark clouds run for thirty miles, and when he arrived at the post station, Hu Yanjin changed the military horse with the appointment of the emperor's grandson, and every thirty miles, he went to the post station to change horses, and the horses rested, but he did not rest, and ran to the outside of Yingtian City, just five watches.

As soon as the city gate opened, Hu Yanjin led the horse into the city.

When Ying Tianfu was still in the capital, Hu Yanjin came many times, and twice came to buy medicine, it was the imperial city at that time, and it was strictly checked in and out of the city.

Hu Yanjin remembered that on the eighth day of the first month of the first month when he was thirteen years old, he went to Yingtianfu to buy medicine alone, and he was not very conspicuous in the queue to enter the city. It was still very cold in the first month, but everyone queued up outside the city gate for a long time that day.

Because on that day, the king of Shunning, the king of Xianyi, and the king of Anle of Wara sent envoys to the capital to apologize, not only returned the Ming envoys detained by Wara, but also sent a large number of tribute horses. On that day, the crown prince Zhu Gaochi personally went to the city gate to greet the returning Ming envoys, Hu Yanjin remembered that he saw the crown prince chubby from a distance, but the laughter sounded very kind.

After those nobles entered the city, the common people still waited outside the city for a long time, because there were many tribute horses, and the horses lined up to enter the city, and they looked very beautiful.

Xiao Hu Yanjin thought at that time, Emperor Yongle is good! Let those fans come to pay tribute honestly again! I don't know why my father didn't think so, as if everything was as it should be. However, when the man heard this, he kept nodding his head, although he didn't say anything.

In the past two years, Ying Tianfu has been reduced to a companion capital, and the surface of is only light, and the city defense management has been loosened a lot.

If he hadn't met the emperor's grandson, Hu Yanjin would have planned to come to Yingtianfu to find someone after a while, a person who had not been found for a long time, he went to Yangzhou Mansion and found that the clues he got before were broken again, and he only knew that the person they were looking for had arrived in Yingtian nineteen years ago. Nineteen years, everything has changed, let alone one person?

Now that the matter of finding someone has been sent to another person, Hu Yanjin didn't know why, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Hu Yanjin quickly entered the palace with a letter of appointment.

Unexpectedly, the palace in front of me was a group of people who went to tea and cool. Although the palace tower is still there, it has lost its popularity. Because the foundation of the northern part of the palace is a little sinking, the terrain of the palace is high and low, and the rain that fell in the first two days is still accumulated on the ground, and the pools cannot be drained out, and no one comes to sweep the water away.

Hu Yanjin had no choice but to step on the thin layer of stagnant water and came to the James Mansion next to Qingning Palace. Probe to see, it's okay, it's not in vain, there is a person inside.

"Coming to James Xu? He had back pain today and didn't come. If you want to find him, go up to his house and look for him. The man inside glanced at Hu Yanjin, and continued to carefully add tea leaves to his bowl. It looks like this year's spring tea.

Hu Yanjin took out the letter of appointment from his arms, and said with a smile: "No, I'm here to ......"

"Didn't anyone teach you? In the palace, you can't call 'me', you have to call 'minister', or 'villain'...... In other words, are you a 'minister' or a 'villain'? The man saw that Hu Yanjin was young and fresh, but he was able to enter the palace again, and he was not sure who he was.

Hu Yanjin handed over the letter of appointment. The man opened it and immediately smiled:

"Oh, it turned out to be Lord Huyan, the imperial grandson has already been notified, saying that you are coming to report, but I haven't seen you for more than ten days, and I thought you weren't coming. Is there something delayed on the way? If you come a few days earlier, you will still be able to catch this month's pay......"

While giving up his seat to Hu Yanjin, he introduced himself: "Xia Guan is the chief of the South James Mansion, named Ma Tiande. You can just call me a horseman. ”

Ma Tiande was forty-five or six years old, and he turned around and personally made a cup of tea for Hu Yanjin. Hu Yanjin noticed that the tea leaves that Ma Tiande poured from an old box were different from those in his own bowl.

Ma Tiande smiled and said: "Lord Huyan, you wait, the lower official will give you the official seal and waist card." There is only one official uniform, according to the approximate size given by the emperor's grandson, you have to do it yourself, the requirements are written on paper, and when you do it, remember not to transgress the rank.

You, from now on, when you receive your money on the fifth day of every month, just come to the lower officials, and if you can't come if you can't come, it's better to save a few months to get it together.

Now the people in the Southern James Mansion and the left and right Chunfang are no longer in order, the prince and grandson are not in the Southern Capital, and the James Mansion is like this. There is one official on duty here on weekdays, but there is usually nothing urgent. ”

Hu Yanjin only listened, did not speak, picked up the bowl and took a sip of tea. Now it's almost summer, and this year's spring tea is not difficult to find, Ma Tiande should have brewed himself last year's old tea, and the taste is already very light.

Hu Yanjin couldn't help but laugh secretly: The Southern Palace has fallen to this point? It seems that he can't count on it, relying on his own two sirties to get by, so it's no wonder that Ma Tiande let himself save a few months before receiving it.

Ma Tiande opened the cabinet, rummaged through it, took out a small wooden box and handed it to Hu Yanjin with both hands, and said with a smile:

"To put it mildly, my lord, you are so young and promising, and you are good friends with the emperor's grandson, why don't you go directly to Shuntianfu to take up a job, why bother to come to this Yingtianfu for the elderly? Don't you feel aggrieved? ”

"The minister's family lives in Baoying, and the old man in the family is over seventy years old, and he needs someone to take care of him. When the time is right, follow the arrangement of the imperial grandson. Hu Yanjin explained with a smile.

"Oh...... I see. Xia Guan also wondered, why did the South James Mansion still enter the inside, and it was a high-level ...... You see, Si Zhilang was originally a sixth-grade official, but the emperor's grandson directly assigned you to the sixth-grade, isn't this valuing you, what is it? ”

Ma Tiande suddenly remembered something, and went to the cabinet to take a green bamboo tube and handed it to Huyan Jindao:

"This is an urgent shipment that was delivered last night, indicating that it was handed over to Lord Huyan. Last night, the lower officials were still worried, you haven't reported yet, and the mission has already come...... It can be seen that the imperial grandson wants to reuse you! ”

Hu Yanjin took it and opened it to see that there was a task list inside, which was written:

Tongzhou Youwei Zhen Fu Chen Kai rebelled against the incident and fled southward, intending to defect to Yangzhou with the same party, and Yi Chengjin, the director of the Criminal Department, led a team to arrest him.

Now he ordered Hu Yanjin, the director of Zuochunfang in the southern capital of James, to immediately cooperate with the Criminal Department to search for the anti-thief Chen Kai and his fellow party, the leader of the same party, and his brother Chen Xuan in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, and Yingtian.

The task list is stamped with the private seal of the imperial grandson, indicating that this is an order directly given by the imperial grandson to Hu Yanjin, and the South James Mansion is not allowed to ask. That's why Ma Tiande just said that Hu Yanjin was "friendly" with the imperial grandson and wanted to "reuse" him.

Hu Yanjin looked at the bamboo tube again, and there was a piece of rice paper rolled in it, guessing that it should be a portrait of Chen Kai.

When he opened the portrait, Hu Yanjin secretly screamed in his heart:

The middle-aged man who was hidden by them behind the pile of carriage tiles yesterday was the thief to be arrested, Chen Kai!