The day of the fire in Qishanzhai was exactly the fifteenth, and although no passers-by passed by at the foot of Qishan Mountain, the skyrocketing fire still attracted the attention of some surrounding towns. As the governor of Tongzhou, Yi Xihu naturally got the news after the report, and after three or five days, he thought for a while and asked Shouzheng to take people up the mountain to check, and the group tried their best to go to the mountainside only to find that Qishanzhai had become coke.

There are scorched corpses in the ruins of Qishan, and there are blood marks on the stone walls of some areas along the way, and a series of phenomena prove that Qishanzhai no longer exists.

There are also many people in the rivers and lakes who went up the mountain to check, and some young heroes who have just come out to experience are still vomiting when they see those corpses. What surprised them even more was the trap that came along the way, if there was no one with some strength, the possibility of attacking Qishanzhai was really very small.

For the safety of the people who went up the mountain later, Yixi Lake sent people to dismantle those traps one by one, and some people were accidentally injured during the demolition, so as to make more people awe of the strength of Huanxi Pavilion. Yi Xiangxiang only said one sentence after knowing it: "In the face of strength, all conspiracy traps are floating clouds. Yi Luochuan was also present when she said this, and the latter of course didn't know that this was his sister's self-praise, and only thought that she was feeling.

After hearing this, Yi Luochuan practiced martial arts even more diligently, and the flowers in the Chuanhe courtyard were about to be destroyed by the sword wind. Yi Ruofu, who has always cherished flowers, heard people talk about this, and her brain was hot, so she unceremoniously moved all the flowers in Yiluochuan Garden to herself. Afterwards, Yi Ruofu was ridiculed by Yi Xiangxiang for several days as a bandit, but she didn't care about this kind of ridicule, she just felt that she was impulsive, and she was afraid that the serious third brother would be angry, so she was worried for several days.

Yi Ruofu has not been close to her sister and brother since she was a child, and after the big house and the two rooms were combined, she only spent the longest time with Yi Xiangxiang, and she has always been a little afraid of the third brother Yi Luochuan, who is praised by everyone.

Yi Xiangxiang naturally knew Yi Ruofu's uneasiness, she hinted at her brother Yi Luochuan and asked him to take the initiative to send a few pots of flowers to Yi Ruofu's yard, which made Yi Ruofu relieved.

The backyard of the Yi family is peaceful, but Yi Xihu is busy. He sent someone to send the injured guards to the infirmary for treatment, and found someone to place the bones of Qishanzhai, although he didn't know how this serious problem was removed, but he still prepared an excerpt and handed it to Kyoto, after all, the matter happened in his own jurisdiction, and he would definitely report it.

However, although Yi Xihu does not know the details of the ins and outs, it is not so complicated to report this matter, because the truth is already very clear on the surface. The fact that Huanxi Pavilion served many mountain bandit nests in the Li Dynasty is already well known, and like the disappearance of other cottages, Huanxi Pavilion also left a symbol of them on the stone wall of Qishan Village.

A symbol for a skull.

A skull sprinkled with gold dust.

This is the unique logo of Huanxi Pavilion, Yi Xiangxiang feels very domineering, and others feel that it hurts money.

The news flew to all corners of the Li Dynasty like a bird with wings, but in just a few days, the name of Huanxi Pavilion became more and more colorful. And because the descriptions of the black-robed man and the woman in Tsing Yi are too concrete, the reputation of the twenty-four ghosts is even louder. Especially the fame of the fox fairy, somehow spread that she raised a white rabbit like Chang'e in the moon, and the Li Dynasty set off a "white rabbit wind". Looking at the women walking on the street, eight out of ten were holding the little white rabbit, and everyone in Huanxi Pavilion was very embarrassed.

Yi Xiangxiang knows how to seize business opportunities, she asked people to use fluffy steel wire tie to stitch, and made a pair of particularly cute rabbit ear hair buttons for sale, and she was very satisfied with the small profit.

Of course, as Yi Xiangxiang said before, there are really adults who use the names of the twenty-four ghosts to scare disobedient children. But the people who are afraid are not only children, Huanxi Pavilion's actions this time made all the cottage bandits who had human lives on their hands tremble, for fear that one day they would be painted with a golden skull on their door. It is a long time since there have been incidents of mountain bandits hurting people in the Yili Dynasty, which is a later story.

There are neat square tables and circle chairs in the cabin on the canal, and incense is lit in the unicorn incense burner on the square table at this time.

The taste of the autumn moon rivers and lakes is very light, there is a little bit of autumn chrysanthemum, but I don't know what other spices are added, which makes the chrysanthemum incense with hustle and bustle, and the feeling of fireworks has a kind of unrestrained chic in the rivers and lakes.

If you have the opportunity, you must meet the person who makes this kind of incense, Zhao Zixiu thought.

Zhao Zixiu sat at the table and tasted incense, smiling very lightly. Pang Qi looked at his master's face with a calm look, and his heart was relieved. He has been with Zhao Zixiu for nearly ten years, and he knows that the more angry his master is, the brighter he smiles.

"What is going on? I didn't receive a little bit of news in advance! Pang Qi knew that Zhao Zixiu's habit was to reprimand him on behalf of him.

"Subordinate convicted!" Kneeling down was a man in black, his name was Pang Hui, and he was the commander of Zhao Zixiu's secret guard.

"What is the origin of the Joy Pavilion? Who are the man in black robe and the woman in green robe? Who are the twenty-four ghosts? Zhao Zixiu opened the lid of the unicorn incense burner, and a strong aroma bloomed in the stove in an instant. He asked these words calmly, without a trace of anger, but a layer of cold sweat appeared on the back of the kneeling man.

"Subordinates will check immediately!" Pang Hui bowed and retreated.

Zhao Zixiu's dark eyes lit up, and he said to Pang Qi: "Send someone to lurk in Qishanzhai." ”

When Pang Qi heard this, he said that he would like to retreat, although he wanted to ask why he was looking for someone to keep an eye on Qishanzhai, but now there are so many people who go to Qishan to find out, and it is impossible to find out the suspicious person so easily; But he knew the rules and never questioned his master's commands.

Joy Pavilion? A killer organization, it actually has such a festive name, but I don't know what kind of person this pavilion master is.

Zhao Zixiu found that he had been interested in too many people recently, and the Wuda business name and the current Huanxi Pavilion showed that many things were becoming more and more uncontrollable.

He frowned, extremely unhappy with the feeling.

Zhao Zixiu will make a special excuse to go to Tongzhou this time, indeed for the Qishan cottage. His mother, that is, Concubine De Niangniang, had lived in Tongzhou for a few years, and some time ago Concubine De talked to him about Qishanzhai, saying that there were remnants of the previous dynasty hidden there, and they might have a batch of treasures in their hands.

Treasure, for these people, what a tempting existence.

Concubine De often followed Mr. Yu when she was in Tongzhou, and because Qishanzhai was a fish bone in Tongzhou's throat, Mr. Yu often talked about the mountain with Concubine De.

"Qishan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there were mountain bandits a hundred years ago, but I heard that they robbed past merchants, and they were not as murderous and plundered as they are now, I don't know why they became so cruel." Mr. Yu said this to Concubine De at that time.

So at that time, Concubine De, who was still willow fluttering, began to pay attention to Qishanzhai, once when she went to the street, she happened to see the guards transporting back the victim's body, covering it with a straw mat, but there was a Qilin totem embroidered on the exposed corner of the clothes. Later, I heard that some of the corpses of the mountain bandits were brought back by the guards, but no one noticed the embroidery.

Concubine De is also the daughter of the Hou Mansion, and she has read and dabbled in historical books and biographies, and the totems of major families are recorded in her heart. Although the Qilin Dynasty was destroyed for a hundred years, she also read the history of this dynasty, and even deliberately remembered the totems of the major families at that time because of her interest. The embroidery on the black robe frightened her, so she secretly began to investigate.

Speaking of which, she didn't dare to make much moves, firstly, she did not have the strength at that time, and secondly, she was afraid of startling the snake. It wasn't until she became Concubine De that she contributed to General Yuwen's justifiable attack on the mountain, and she never did it again after the failure.

In recent years, Concubine De arranged for someone to deliberately carry the fifteenth day of the new year through Qishan, and put the woman into Qishanzhai, and finally there was news a few days ago, which not only clearly affirmed the identity of the people in Qishanzhai, but also found out that Shangguanlun, the owner of the village, had a treasure map in his hand.

Concubine De didn't dare to delay any longer, so she told her son about Qishan, invoked the excuse of Mr. Yu's birthday banquet, and asked Zhao Zixiu to go to Tongzhou in person.

Of course, none of them would have thought that halfway through the battle of Huanxi Pavilion that did not know the details, Concubine De, who received the news, was not as light as Zhao Zixiu's surface, and she broke the jasper hairpin in her hand.

After more than ten years of investigation, it was confirmed that she was preempted, how could she not hate.

But hatred is one thing, and today's powerlessness is also a reality.

......

The fourth prince, Zhao Zixiu, received the news of Qishanzhai here, and Zhao Ziqian, who also paid attention to Qishan in Tongzhou, naturally also received the news.

Zhao Ziqian traveled lightly and simply, because he was already ahead of Zhao Zixiu at this time, and he would be able to reach Tongzhou in about three days.

At this time, Zhao Ziqian was sitting in the cabin, looking at the flying pigeon in his hand, and he was also very surprised.

'Qishanzhai was slaughtered by Huanxi Pavilion into charred corpses, and the life and death of the shadow killing are unknown. ’

A short piece of news made Zhao Ziqian and Xiong Wei relatively speechless. Shadow Kill was to chase the secret guard of the rouge shopkeeper, and disappeared at the foot of Qishan during the mission.

After a long time, Xiong Wei broke the silence with his words: "Then are we going to Tongzhou?" ”

"Go." Zhao Ziqian said briefly.

If Huanxi Pavilion doesn't know about the treasure, it should be able to find some clues from the ruins of Qishanzhai. If the Pavilion of Joy had already taken the treasure, there would be traces to follow. This is Zhao Ziqian's current thoughts.

Of course, although he thought so, he would no longer underestimate the strength of Huanxi Pavilion. can quietly slaughter the Qishan Cottage that General Yuwen has never captured, this Huanxi Pavilion is not simple.

At least there are many things that Kang Rui has never understood, otherwise he would not have such a wrong judgment. Zhao Ziqian tapped lightly on the table, lost in thought.

Zhao Ziqian's concern for Tongzhou began April ago, when he received a secret report from the secret guard, saying that a secret guard who was on a mission to avoid the pursuing soldiers accidentally sneaked into a rouge shop, and the dark room of the shop actually enshrined the spirit tablet of the previous emperor.

Any dynasty will have taboos about the word "previous dynasty", especially the royal family, who like to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, they will naturally pay great attention to the problem of the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Zhao Ziqian is also a cautious person, and after he found out, he let people lurk in to see who the previous dynasty was. Unexpectedly, the lurking person accidentally heard the shopkeeper and the housekeeper talk about the treasure, so Zhao Ziqian studied the history of the Qilin Dynasty in detail and found that their founding emperor seemed to have really left a treasure.

Money, you can recruit troops, you can form gangs, Zhao Ziqian has no reason not to look for this batch of treasures.

So he began to send people around to search for clues about the treasure, but naturally found nothing. It was not a good idea to keep an eye on the rouge shop, so he deliberately forced people to the nest by surprise. To Zhao Ziqian's surprise, the place where the shopkeeper fled to Tongzhou was Tongzhou, and he got news that Zhao Zixiu was also going to Tongzhou. As smart as Zhao Ziqian, he naturally knew that his fourth brother was one step faster than himself, so he hurriedly took Xiong Wei on the road.

On the surface, the fourth brother who is light and breezy is as ambitious as himself, and Zhao Ziqian naturally knows it.

These people are born in the royal family, and if you don't grab a lot of things, what you lose in the end is your life.

Zhao Ziqian took Xiong Wei to the south secretly, originally wanting to rush to Qishan before Zhao Zixiu. When he thought that only Zhao Zixiu was his opponent in this matter, he was given a stick by others, which was really frustrating!

Kang Rui's assurance, Zhao Ziqian, still remembers it clearly, because he really didn't expect that Qishanzhai would be broken by Huanxi Pavilion.

Zhao Ziqian has survived in the palace since he was a child, and he can naturally smell a different taste, so far he completely knows that the fourth brother Zhao Zixiu must go to Tongzhou for treasure. But what kind of role this Huanxi Pavilion played, he didn't even know anything.

He, like Zhao Zixiu, hated this uncontrollable feeling.

Xiong Wei didn't dare to speak anymore, he knew that Zhao Ziqian was not in a happy mood at this time, for fear that he would be accidentally taken by Zhao Ziqian to practice, because he hated Kang Rui very much in his heart now.

The merchant ships went down the river and gradually entered the mountains.

Kang Rui in Kyoto naturally didn't know that Xiong Wei had scolded him eight hundred times in his heart at this time, and he had been completely petrified when he received the news. Thinking of the promise he made to Zhao Ziqian before, he really wanted to strangle himself to death at this moment! The appearance of the young man who was angry was also very terrifying, and after the secret guard received the order to re-investigate the Huanxi Pavilion, the wine quickly withdrew.

Yi Rongcheng Zhao Ziqian's glimpse did not speak, but a white-clothed boy at the bottom laughed happily.

"I didn't expect you to have a time when Kang Rui was on his heels!" He shook the white jade bone fan in one hand, drank tea with a pair of hands, and looked at Kang Rui with a smile in his peach blossom eyes.

Kang Rui gritted his teeth and looked at the man in white and said, "Cheng Xi, you keep it for me!" ”

Cheng Xi, the richest businessman in the Li Dynasty. Today, the Li Dynasty Wealth List ranks seventh in the Li Dynasty Wealth List, but the Chengxi Firm ranks first. Yi Xiangxiang has always admired this person named Cheng Xi, and if it weren't for his identity, he would have wanted to get to know him. Of course, except for Zhao Ziqian's henchmen, no one knew that Cheng Xi was actually the person of Zhao Ziqian, the seventh prince.

Cheng Xi continued to shake his fan with a smile, ignoring Kang Rui's threat. In fact, he felt that Kang Rui had been too smooth sailing over the years, and as His Royal Highness's cousin, he occupied the position of the chief intelligence officer, so impetuousness was not a good phenomenon.

"I'll go to the Silent Building later to get the punishment." Kang Rui also knew that he was wrong, and the mistake of intelligence was likely to make His Highness and Xiong Weibai run away without saying anything, and it might even be dangerous.

"His Highness is about to arrive in Tongzhou, and his safety is even more important. I will leave immediately and appear in Tongzhou as a merchant, and you must keep abreast of the movements of all parties at any time, especially the Huanxi Pavilion that appeared out of nowhere! Cheng Xi said solemnly.

Kang Rui quickly realized that his mistake did not surprise Cheng Xi, because he no longer held on to this problem, and the more important thing now was the safety of Zhao Ziqian and Xiong Wei.

"I understand." Kang Rui nodded.

From beginning to end, the glimpse pretending to be Zhao Ziqian did not say a word, and the "Zhao Ziqian-style silence" was implemented very thoroughly.

Three days later, the well-known Chiling Sanren on the rivers and lakes publicly praised Huanxi Pavilion, because he had gone to Qishan to check before, and found that the corpses in the ruins were all men, and none of them were immature children and weak women. So in front of many rivers and lakes, and even when he was eating in a restaurant, he praised the righteousness of Huanxi Pavilion.

Chilingsan people are a living signboard of the rivers and lakes, and they are also a rare person with advanced martial arts in the older generation. Although he himself likes to walk the rivers and lakes alone, his eldest apprentice Lu Jing opened the mountain and established the Qingcheng faction, which is known as a chivalrous name in the rivers and lakes.

Zhao Ziqian was already sitting in the iris room of Tongzhou Xile Building at this time, Xiong Wei opened the inner window, listening to the discussion of everyone in the lobby downstairs.

"It is said that the killer organization is ruthless, but I don't want this Huanxi Pavilion to be a good person, such a soft heart is a taboo in the rivers and lakes!" A man with a jade crown on his head said.

"Brother Tai's words are not right, a chivalrous man walks the rivers and lakes, and what he wants is to understand the righteousness like this." The man sitting in the corner said, he was dressed in a black suit, and there was a sword standing against the wall in his hand.

Everyone looked at the man sitting next to him, but the man was not wearing a weapon, but anyone who knew the goods could see that he was dressed in purple clothes made of fine silk, only to see him nod and say: "Brother Ren is right, if everyone in the rivers and lakes punishes evil and promotes good like Huanxi Pavilion, then there will not be so many innocent people who die in vain." ”

The innocent people he was talking about were naturally those who were killed by the mountain bandits.

The other guests in the lobby chimed in, causing the man with the black jade crown to be embarrassed to stay any longer, and left with his entourage after hastily settling the bill.

Everyone laughed as if nothing had happened, and walked over with a smile, only to see him respectfully hand the wooden cards in his hand to the two sons and said, "Ren Gongzi, Xiang Gongzi, the room has been arranged for you, please move to the third floor with Xiaoyou." The proprietor knew that the two sons had arrived in Tongzhou, and asked the little one to bring a message to the sons, and the two sons would be feasted in the Fusheng Pavilion at noon tomorrow. ”

The two nodded, and followed Xiao Er to the third floor.

When they left, they heard someone say, "These two seem to be friends of the Yi family, not only do they have the exclusive wooden plaque of the Joy Building, but they can also be invited to a banquet in the Fusheng Pavilion." ”

Xile Building is an industry in the name of Lin, the wife of Yixi Lake in Tongzhou, which is well-known.

"This is strange, if it is a guest of the Yi family, how can it live in the Xile Building instead of the Yi Mansion?" Someone asked questions.

There was no one to solve the problem, but it caused a silence.

In the iris room, Zhao Ziqian said to Xiong Wei: "We are also staying in the Xile Building today. ”

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