The yellowish moon hung in the west, Zhang Mingyuan looked at the bracelet at ten o'clock in the evening, and continued to walk south along Dongkou North Street through Loudong Street. When passing by Fangkou, I casually glanced to the west, and saw two tall and short figures next to the pillar on the steps at the entrance of Kaiwen Academy not far away. He knew how bad the environment in the occupied area was, so staying there late at night was by no means an ordinary person. Curiosity drove him to jump onto the courtyard wall of the Zhuangyuan Mansion and slowly lean over. The two of them spoke in a very small voice, and a child's voice could be faintly heard.

After a while, two figures descended the stairs to the east. Without the moonlight, he could tell that it was Lu Jiaxun who turned south into the Hutong of the Fire Temple in front of him, and Chen Xiaodan, a young man from the Sihe Inn, who walked to the north of Zhuangyuan Street behind. When Chen Xiaodan crossed the intersection to the door of the Sihe Inn, he was suddenly covered by someone and ran to the root of the city wall at the east end of Erfu Street a few times, so fast that he didn't even have a chance to scream.

The person who arrested Chen Xiaodan was Zhang Mingyuan, pressed him on the city wall and asked in a low voice: "Little thief, tell me honestly!" Was that person your accomplice? ”

"No, it's not! I didn't steal! "Chen Xiaodan became less scared the moment he recognized Zhang Mingyuan." I was woken up at night by the drunken man upstairs who was spitting out wine and couldn't sleep, so I came out to untie my little hand and met him to gossip a few words. ”

"Oh - wake up by a drunk so coincidentally at night? And so skillfully to meet an acquaintance? Hehe, it's a coincidence, so coincidentally, I just had tea with Director Lin in the same shengju. Hey, he hasn't gone far yet, so let's go over and ask him? See if he believes it or not? ”

"No, no, no, yellow devil - no, the surname Lin will wronged people!"

"Hmph, who is that for! Remember what I said at the mouth of the alley that day? If you find out if you steal again, pinch off your fingers! Forgot about it so quickly? ”

"Ahh Chen Xiaodan was really scared, "Puff" knelt on the ground and begged for mercy with a crying voice, and the official language became Shandong. "Don't! Sir, I swear I didn't steal! I-I-"

"Still not honest?"

"I said, I said. In fact, I am not familiar with Comrade Lu, but when Director Qian was leaving, he told me to give him the news of the inquiry. Really, I also saw him at night, no, I only saw him a little later (1). ”

As soon as Zhang Mingyuan heard Chen Xiaodan call him "Comrade Lu", he guessed what Lu Jiaxun's identity was, and he was obviously an investigator using the shop guys as a cover, so there was no need to be so strict with him, and he was not interested in knowing the content of their conversation. He waved his hand lightly and said, "Okay, get up." If you are a scout, you can no longer be a thief, and if you are caught by the enemy, the consequences will be very serious, and you may even affect other comrades. ”

"Sir, are you also your comrade? Didn't you say it earlier? It almost scared me to death! Chen Xiaodan got up from the ground and wiped the corners of his eyes.

"Don't call sir, call sir! It's dangerous for you to communicate like this, why don't you write a note? How convenient is it to go when it's stuffed? ”

"I can't write."

"Oh? So, if I teach you to write tomorrow, would you like to learn it? By the way, I will teach you how to run as fast as possible so as not to be caught by the bad guys. ”

"Okay! But, sir, I still get to be an eyeliner on the street during the day. ”

"At the end of the morning, at five o'clock in the morning, I will be waiting for you in the stele forest behind me. Teach you half an hour every day, and after three or five days, ordinary people will not be able to catch up with you. ”

"Yes, thank you, sir."

"Go ahead. You can't let anyone know about this, not even Director Qian! Got it? ”

"Yes, even if I am caught by the yellow devil, I won't say it, and I'd rather bite my tongue and kill myself! I swear—"

"Alright, alright, let's go." Zhang Mingyuan really didn't want to listen to this kid's oath, just now he was so scared that he said everything, "Don't forget, tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, get up at five o'clock in the morning, Shi Linzi." After speaking, he turned around and ran towards the Sihe Inn.

On the morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zhou Yizhi made an appointment with Ji Tang to arrange the construction of a light bulb factory, wanted to hear the opinions of Zhang Mingyuan and Lu Jiaxun, and invited them to go together. Before leaving, Zhao Zhenhuan sent someone to invite Zhang Mingyuan and Cao Ying, saying that it was to fulfill the friendship of the landlord. Zhang Mingyuan rode a horse and said that he would come back early in the afternoon and go to the store to find them. Zhou Yizhi was originally a little worried about the two of them, but when he heard Xu Hu say that ten or eight people couldn't take advantage of Zhang Mingyuan, he was relieved. Let Xu Xudong drive, pick up Ji Tang to eat on the street and go to the store together after breakfast.

After arriving in Tangyi, Yu Banshan had already greeted them outside the town, and let them enter the security group with a few words of greeting. As soon as he said a few words to Zhao Zhenhuan, someone put mutton soup on the table, started to eat breakfast, and drank liquor two to two. Breakfast was eaten until eleven o'clock, and it was lunch, the banquet was not very rich, but there was a lot of wine. Zhang Mingyuan didn't care, knowing that this was planning to get the two of them drunk, so he smiled and accompanied. Yu Banshan carried a pair of small loach eyes, and kept looking Zhang Mingyuan and Lao Cao up and down, Lao Cao only ate vegetables and did not touch alcohol. Zhang Mingyuan drank back and forth without being drunk at all, and no one would have thought that he could use his internal skills to dissolve the alcohol. By two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Zhenhuan couldn't stand it, but he refused to give up easily, and went to no one outside the hall to dig his throat and spit out the wine and came in to continue.

After a few people had lunch, the construction foreman that Zhou Yizhi was going to meet had not yet arrived, and Ji Tang suggested that he lie down and rest for a while. He lay down on the sofa in the manager's room, but from time to time a phone call came in, so he simply went to the office of the University of Science and Technology. Just two minutes after lying down, my heart began to feel uncomfortable again, my brain flashed a pair of gloomy triangular eyes, and a dagger with blood on it, and then I fell off the wooden sofa and fainted.

Everyone was in a mess in an instant, Ji Tang wanted to pick him up but was afraid that he would not be able to hold him and fall him, so he hurriedly called Xu Xudong. Xu Xudong picked him up and met the two of them at the door before he arrived, it was Huang Zhenkun who accompanied the young grandmother Xing Hongying. Huang Zhenkun caught Zhou Yizhi and put it on the steps outside the gate, and asked Xu Hu and Xu Xudong to fan the wind with their clothes. He took out a box of silver needles from his arms, and pierced them on Zhou Yizhi's lips at the Renzhong acupoint, the Shixuan acupoint on the index finger of his left and right hands, and the Neiguan acupoint above his wrist, and then gently rubbed the aorta of his heart. There was not much time, and Zhou Yizhi woke up. Huang Zhenkun took out the needle, rubbed his heart for a while before slowly helping him up, and carried him back to the house in person.

After entering the house, he told Zhou Yizhi that it might be a temporary shock caused by the stimulation of the nerves, turned around and scolded Xu Xudong for being careless, and told him not to let the eldest young master be tired anymore, and now he and the eldest young grandmother came over to share the worries of the eldest young master. Several other nursing homes looked very happy to see Huang Zhenkun, and they came over to Shi Li, calling him "Master Kuan". Huang Zhenkun immediately pulled his face down: "Bastard things, don't scream!" The lord took me to accept me as a righteous son, but we can't lose our manners because of this. The only young master of our Zhou family is Brother Yi, whoever is presumptuous will slap his mouth! ”

Zhou Yizhi knew that Huang Zhenkun was deliberately acting in front of him, so he hurriedly stopped with a smile: "Hey, Chen Kuan, what are you doing here?" Even if Dad doesn't recognize you as a righteous son, who doesn't know that I treat you as a brother? Alright, Red Sakura, let's all come in and sit down. ”

Huang Zhenkun said yes again and again, following behind Zhou Yizhi and Xing Hongying. After entering the house, he first saluted Lu Jiaxun and Ji Tang with his fists, and then sat down at the position of his lower hand and asked Zhou Yizhi about their current situation.

In the evening, when he was going to prepare for dinner, Zhou Yizhi asked only to know that Zhang Mingyuan and Cao Ying had not returned, and asked Xu Xudong to drive out of Xicheng to pick him up. Then he briefly introduced Huang Zhenkun and Xing Hongying to the two, Ji Tang, Lu Jiaxun, Luo Sanneng, and Zhang Gen were all there, and he did not say Zhang Mingyuan's identity as an officer, nor did he mention the extent to which his condition had recovered.

At this time, Zhang Mingyuan and Cao Ying had already entered the city, because there were many people on the street in the dark, they did not ride horses, but led the horses as if walking. Enter the West Gate and walk to the south of the entrance of the Xin Archway, and go to the front street of Wanshouguan to cross the South Street and walk the Fire Temple Street, so that it is different from Xu Xudong. Xu Xudong didn't meet the two until Zhao Zhenhuan's security team in Tangyi, and only after asking Yu Banshan did he know that they had been gone for a long time. Yu Banshan asked him about Cao Ying again, but he didn't know anything except that he was called Lao Cao, so he asked Yu Banshan what was going on, and what was the relationship between Cao Ying and the legendary box. Yu Banshan shook his head with a smile and said that if he got the box, he would tell him.

Zhang Mingyuan and the two led Ma Shun Hutong to the south, and suddenly heard someone crying in the west courtyard wall, so he naturally turned his head and looked in through the fence. A woman in a pink blouse and a dark red cotton skirt sat in a small pavilion, leaning against a pillar and shaking her shoulders. The afterglow of the sunset cast on the lush foliage beside her, as dark as blood. Cao Ying saw a small box in the crook of the woman's arm, and couldn't help but sigh and say, "Presumably she is the girl of Xinyi, and she will grow into a big girl in a blink of an eye." ”

"Do you recognize her? Will she recognize you? ”

"Ah, no, no, no. Sir, I was only in my teens when I saw her, and I couldn't recognize her for a long time. I know the box she clipped, and that is the seven-trick exquisite brocade box I gave her. ”

"So? Let's meet her tomorrow. ”

"Is it necessary, sir? Chen Sesame is rotten grain, and ten percent don't recognize me. ”

"There's no harm in trying. What if you don't know each other at all? Can't you hear her crying sadly? Maybe there's something really painful. Listen to Yizhi's meaning, this girl may suffer from schizophrenia, maybe it is bipolar disorder caused by poor qi and blood, if I am cured by mistake, I will help Yizhi and help your deceased. ”

"Yes, yes, sir."

"Let's go back first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow."

The two turned around and were just about to enter the courtyard, when Xu Hu came out and said that Xu Xudong was going to pick them up. Zhang Mingyuan thought that it might be a fork in the road, let Cao Ying tie the horse, and he walked to the hall. Zhou Yizhi had already stood up and walked to the door when he heard him speak, and Xing Hongying, Huang Zhenkun, Ji Tang, Lu Jiaxun and others all came over to say hello. He washed up and insisted on waiting for Xu Xudong for a while, and everyone set up two tables in the side hall to eat and chat. Zhou Yizhi said that Huang Zhenkun used silver needles to puncture his acupoints today to save him, and Huang Zhenkun politely said that he learned some fur acupuncture from an old Chinese medicine friend. Zhang Mingyuan could see Huang Zhenkun's cautious style, and his gestures also seemed to have real kung fu under his hands, so he paid more attention to him.

After a meal, Zhang Mingyuan was even more sure that Huang Zhenkun was not simple. At that time, his wandering eyes could not contain his shrewdness, and the slightly bulging temples and thick fingers were obviously both internal and external. However, his behavior was too humble, which vaguely made Zhang Mingyuan feel that he was very scheming. Similarly, he was also observing Zhang Mingyuan, but with this gentle treatment and full of temperament, he was completely inconspicuous, which made him, an old man, unable to touch the pulse.

After eating, everyone sat back in the hall to drink tea and chat, and they were like old acquaintances. Huang Zhenkun saw that the moonlight in the courtyard was bright and bright, and he especially wanted to try Zhang Mingyuan's depth. Just jokingly said that Brother Yi praised Mr. Qigong, can you let everyone see it. didn't think about it, but Zhang Mingyuan readily agreed, and there happened to be a moon suitable for activities.

Zhou Yizhi secretly complained in his heart that Huang Zhenkun was stirring up trouble, and Zhang Mingyuan was clearly trying to save his face. But Zhang Mingyuan agreed, and he didn't want to say anything else, so he stood outside the door of the hall with everyone. I thought it would be embarrassing if I didn't get it right, and even the fourth sister-in-law was watching the excitement next to him, and everyone knew that he was a close friend of Zhang Mingyuan.

When he left, Huang Zhenkun glanced at Xu Hu, so Xu Hu stood in the middle of the courtyard after going out. first bowed to Zhou Yizhi, and then saluted Zhang Mingyuan as if he couldn't erase it, and then hugged his fists and said, "Sir, little Xu Hu takes the liberty to ask for your advice." "Actually, I was really cowardly, even if it was a trick for the note to turn into shreds, but a few days ago there was a thief who fell from the house with a burst of laughter.

"Okay, don't dare to teach, let's learn from each other, okay?" Zhang Mingyuan was still very casual, and he also walked three or four steps in front of Xu Hu and stopped.

"The little one is offended." After Xu Hu finished speaking, he saw that Zhang Mingyuan was still calmly holding his hands behind his back, and his heart was even more anxious. So after saying this, the body is a move for the tiger to come out of the forest and double wind through the ears, and the two moves are used coherently, which is fast, ruthless and accurate.

However, when Xu Hu went out with his palms, he found that there was no Zhang Mingyuan in front of him at all, and he looked to the side from the corner of his eye and saw a figure one meter behind the left. Without looking back, he used a series of three inverted peach-picking peach, followed by the oolong tail. But he turned around after kicking, and there was still no Zhang Mingyuan in front of him. His head sweated instantly, and he knew that it would be for nothing to fight again, but since Huang Zhenkun signaled, he couldn't easily admit defeat. Turn over with a harrier in your heart, and take advantage of the situation to use seventy-two times of lying on the ground. To say that this is also a kind of exquisite fist and foot kung fu, I saw Xu Hu rolling left and right on the ground, and his feet took turns to use techniques such as kicking, kicking, cutting, twisting, winding, tripping, hooking, sweeping, tying, and stepping, and people were dazzled by it. But it wasn't until he finished the whole set of punches that a carp stood up and looked, but Zhang Mingyuan was still not in front of him.

Xu Hu was so helpless, he was so tired that he was covered in sweat and didn't even wipe the corners of other people's clothes, panting and turning around and pounced again. Xu Xudong drank him: "Ah Hu, don't you step aside?" Let me ask him a few tips. After speaking, he walked to the middle of the courtyard and bowed to Zhang Mingyuan, "Sir, don't play Ah Dong like Ah Hu, you can show a few hands and ask Ah Dong to learn." ”

"Hehe, don't get me wrong, I never play anyone. Just now I saw that Xu Hu's boxing technique was very special, so I just paid attention to it, so I didn't reach out to him in time. Zhang Mingyuan still looked at Xu Xudong gently.

"Yes, yes, Ah Dong lost his words. Please sir, be sure to dial Adong's three moves and two styles. Xu Xudong said and bowed again.

Zhang Mingyuan stretched out a left hand and stretched forward and nodded at Xu Xudong. Xu Xudong didn't dare to be careless, his left hand shook his eyes forward, and his right hand slammed into his lower abdomen like lightning. Seeing that he turned sideways to the left to dodge the immediate change, he shot out the head cannon with his left hand, and then twisted his body to change to Shunluan's elbow, which was obviously the famous eight flashes and twelve flip punches. Xu Xudong's boxing skills are much more exquisite than Xu Hu in terms of skills and foundations, but it is not enough to say that he has master-level ability. Since he said that Zhang Mingyuan would dial it, Zhang Mingyuan was really unkind. Just as he made the nineteenth leap double captive hand, he felt a numbness in the back of his right waist, and almost at the same time, the blood sea point in his left leg also hurt, and he unconsciously fell to the left. When he was about to fall, he had a hand holding his shoulder blade, gently lifting and throwing him seven or eight meters away, and he staggered a few steps on the ground and did not fall. knew that the gap with others was very big, so he hurriedly bowed and didn't dare to speak.

Huang Zhenkun under the eaves slapped his hands with a smile and said, "Gao, it's so exciting!" Mr. Zhang is really a real person! A relieved heart to take oral! ”

Brother Ah Kuan smiled. In fact, Brother Adong and Brother Xu Hu are also very good at kung fu, and Zhang has to ask them for a lesson or two when he finds time. Zhang Mingyuan was still calm.

Everyone laughed and returned to the hall to sit down, and the fourth sister-in-law changed tea for everyone. At this time, Zhou Yizhi was also shocked, in the past, Zhang Mingyuan's qigong was to guide people to the meridians, sort out qi and blood, and cure diseases, but he didn't expect Xu Xudong and Xu Hu's kung fu to be completely untouched in front of him. After entering the house, he secretly decided that he must take advantage of his time in Liaocheng to make Huang Zhenkun confess, and only he can balance Huang Zhenkun when he really starts. After sitting for a while, Zhou Yizhi told Zhang Mingyuan about fainting, and Zhang Mingyuan also thought that what Huang Zhenkun said was reasonable, so he would just try it tomorrow, and it might be okay to protect his heart with true qi in advance. The moonlight gradually dimmed, and they went back to their rooms to rest, Xing Hongying naturally lived in the backyard hall with Zhou Yizhi. Huang Zhenkun lives in the guest room at the east end, and Lu Jiaxun, Cao Ying, and Zhang Mingyuan are in the west.

It's late at night, and most people are already asleep. The lights in the study room of Ji Jiadong across the courtyard on the West Street of the Provincial Department are still on, and two figures are reflected in the window, one far away and one near, and there is a faint sound of talking.

"Young master, we said earlier that both of them may be fake names."

"It doesn't matter if it's a fake name, it's just that the unpredictable kung fu is worrying. There is also a person surnamed Huang, who actually came here, plus a second uncle Lu Jiaxun who can't see the slightest detail, it's really a mess! ”

"What do you do?"

"Nope! You can tell Hammer and DogDan to keep an eye on these two people first to see what else they can do. ”

"Okay, and then?"

"I can only wait. Unless they are in the nest, we will really stop cooking (2)! ”

"What then? Don't we need our keys? ”

"Humph! Do you think I'll give up if I don't want them? Why did you come here? It is necessary for Lao Tzu to go out and fight hard, rather than let the jade be broken than let the tile be complete! ”

"It doesn't matter if it weren't for the young master, more than ten years ago—but you still have a big family! Besides, what are we going to fight? ”

"Don't say that, our name is the master and servant, but we are actually brothers, closer than brothers! If it's really a last resort, let's do it with Little Japan. ”

"Isn't there still the old guy of the bandit Zhao Zhenhuan and Master Yu? We can find them. ”

"Well-no, no, no, cooperating with that old treacherous giant is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger, it is better to have a showdown with Zhou Yizhi and them."

"There's another way to try. Didn't Master Yu say that Lao Cao was his own brother? ”

"Oh? What do you mean—"

"Young master, do you think this will work? Let's ......," the two of them came together and muttered quietly.

Note: (1) Dialect refers to the afternoon.

(2) It means dead, finished, no play, stepping down, walking away, no way, no way, no way, etc.