The difference between sending charcoal in the snow and icing on the cake Wang Zizhan naturally understands.

The so-called icing on the cake is gratifying, but sending charcoal in the snow is even more valuable.

Sima De's words were obviously a reminder to Wang Zizhan that before the crown prince was decided, the sooner the decision was made, the greater the benefits would be, just like sending charcoal in the snow, which was unforgettable. And when the eldest prince Lin Xuan becomes the crown prince before making a decision, it can only be regarded as icing on the cake, and the benefits will be reduced.

Faced with Sima De's "kind" reminder, Wang Zizhan nodded bitterly, and then stepped away from the Taishi Mansion step by step.

Sima De looked at the back of Wang Zizhan leaving, and for some reason, Sima De suddenly felt that Wang Zizhan's back seemed to be old all of a sudden.

Similar incidents continued to be staged throughout the imperial capital, and due to the great investigation of the Yang ghost and the obvious special treatment of the Xue family, many endangered forces saw a glimmer of light, and they tried their best to take refuge in the various princes to avoid the investigation.

After all, to put it mildly, who can survive in a place like the imperial capital where a random person may involve a bunch of forces, who doesn't have a few unsightly things under his hands?

When the storm was stirring up in the imperial capital, about 3,000 miles away from the imperial capital, a small city called Dangyu City welcomed three uninvited guests.

In the tea shed thirty miles outside the city, two peasant men in cloth clothes were drinking tea and chatting, but their eyes were inadvertently looking in the direction of the city, obviously waiting for someone or news.

Although the two peasant men seem to have just returned from the crop field, and there is mud on their feet in cloth clothes, if you look closely, you will find that the two of them are extremely strong, especially the one with a big head, and the water surface in the tea bowl did not have a trace of ripples when he picked up the tea bowl.

However, this tea shed is located not far from the field, the owner and the guys of the tea shed are just ordinary people, and Dangyu City is only a small city, and no warriors will come, so I didn't recognize that these two people were not real croppers, but chatted with the two from time to time.

After a while, a figure wearing a hat slowly appeared on the road out of the city, and the moment he saw the tea shed, he was stunned at first, and then walked quickly to the tea shed and sat opposite the two peasant men.

"Master, what do you want to drink on a hot day?"

The guy in the tea shed saw that a guest was coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Oh, what kind of tea do you have here?"

The man in the hat seemed to be interested, and asked with a smile.

"There are ordinary bitter Qiao, Longjing has it, and if you want to drink spiritual tea, you can also have it, but the price will be a lot more expensive. ”

"And the spirit tea?" The man in the hat was slightly surprised, but said: "It's better to give me a bitter qiao, how much money can you drink in the spirit tea throughout the year!"

"Okay, wait a minute!"

The man responded with a sigh, and ran to the table of the man with a hat with a pot of bitter Qiao, put a tea bowl on the table, poured a full bowl and said: "If you still want to drink after drinking, just say hello, only one bowl of money will be charged in three bowls!"

The man with the hat smiled and nodded, and then he took off the hat and revealed his true appearance, which was the Qintian Prison Inspector who had crossed paths with Lin Liang in the sealed land, Lin Brown.

Looking at the two peasant men opposite, Lin Brown smiled, lightly knocked on the table three times with his fingers, and asked with a smile: "Even if we meet each other, I don't know what the two brothers are called?"

Lin Brown's actions suddenly made the faces of the two peasant men change, hesitated for a moment, and the big-headed man spoke: "My name is Zhang Zhi, he is my younger brother, his name is Zhang He, I don't know what Mr. is called?"

"It turned out to be the Zhang family brothers, Jiu Yang!" Lin Brown arched his hand, but in his heart he already knew the true identity of the other party.

In fact, Lin Brown came to Dangyu City this time after receiving the mission of Qin Tianjian, and he came to this tea shed to connect with the two eagle guards who cooperated with him.

In the system of Qin Tianjian, the first thing the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Level 4 Inspector to do when accepting the task is to get in touch with the Eagle Guards hidden near the mission location to obtain detailed information.

With Lin Brown's eyesight, he was naturally very clear about the disguise of the Eagle Guard, so after entering the tea shed, Lin Brown directly locked on the peasant man disguised by the Zhang brothers, and the three clicks on the table and asking for the name were just to verify the identity.

The number of times he taps the table represents the level of the tapper, and Lin Brown's three taps on the table means that he is telling the Zhang brothers that his rank is a prefecture-level supervisor, and asking his name is also to clearly record the credit after the task is completed in the future.

On the one hand, the Zhang brothers asked Lin Palm's name to go through a process, and on the other hand, because the rank reported by Lin Palm was too high, and the prefecture-level supervision envoy could be said to be one of the few in the entire Qin Heavenly Prison, and as for the highest heaven-level supervision envoy, it was said that only the candidate for the deputy supervisor could serve as the highest.

"My surname is Mu. Lin Brown took a sip of tea and said with a smile.

Surname Mu?

Zhang Zhi and Zhang He brothers glanced at each other, and there were some doubts in their eyes. The surname Mu is not common in the Great Yan Dynasty, and it is even rarer to serve in the Qintian Prison, and the Zhang brothers have served as Eagle Guards in the Qintian Prison for decades, but they have really never heard of any supervisor surnamed Mu.

"The surname Mu, this is really the first time I've heard this villain!" said the guy with a smile, and at the same time walked to Lin Palm's table and filled the tea bowl in front of Lin Palm again.

"It's just my father's surname. Lin Brown explained with a smile: "But speaking of which, man, your tea here is quite delicious!"

"If you like it, you can do it!" the man smiled, and hurried to greet the other guests.

And the Zhang brothers opposite Lin Brown didn't understand the meaning of what Lin Brown just said.

With the father's surname?

Suddenly, Zhang Zhi seemed to think of something, and his eyes looked at Lin Brown with a little more incredulity. Although Zhang He on the side didn't understand why his brother suddenly changed so much, after carefully reviewing what Lin Brown said, Zhang He also understood.

The surname is wood, and the surname is compounded with the family, isn't the two trees a forest character?

The surname Lin is not simple, and he is the prefecture-level supervision envoy of Qin Tianjian, so there is only one possibility, the young prefecture-level supervision envoy in front of him is actually from the royal family!

In the face of Zhang Zhi and Zhang He's sudden restraint, Lin Brown didn't break it, and immediately threw a business as usual look at the two of them, but instead asked the guy: "I said buddy, your tea here is not bad, why do I see that there are few people drinking it when you come and go?"

"Hey, Mu Ye doesn't know, this tea shed, business used to be quite good, but in the past two years, business has become more and more difficult. ”

This guy is also a spirited person, Lin Brown just casually said that his surname was Mu, and Mu Ye's name was directly called, leaving Lin Palm speechless for a while.

"What's the matter, is it possible that everyone has been poor and can't afford to drink tea in the past two years?" Lin Brown quipped, but he vaguely felt a trace of strangeness in his heart.

"Not really. The man shook his head and said, "This is the main thing, the tea drinker is gone." ”

Saying that, the guy saw Lin Brown looking unbelieving, and explained with a wry smile: "Mu Ye must have also seen that most of the people who come to our tea shed to drink tea are ordinary people, and many people in the nearby city originally liked to come here to drink tea, but in the past two years, these people have basically stopped coming, and many farmers in this vicinity have also left." ”

"What is the reason for this? The people in the city may think that the road is far away, but how can this farmer leave his field without tidying up?" Lin Brown drank the tea bowl in his hand and said, "Another bowl!"

"Who's to say it isn't!"

The guy sighed and filled Lin Brown's tea bowl, and then said: "I don't know what's going on in the past two years, a group of martial artists come here every once in a while, this ordinary person is a little careful when he sees a martial artist on weekdays, and a group comes here every once in a while, how can ordinary people stand it!"

"A group of warriors?"

Lin Brown seemed to be interested all of a sudden, and urged: "Man, how can there be a group of martial artists here? And it's every once in a while, the environment here can't compare to those second- and third-class cities!"

"Hell, this group of warriors all wear masks, and they don't say much, but our spiritual tea is for them. The guy thought for a while and said, "But their clothes are quite strange, except for a few who are all dressed in black, most of them are actually wearing robes, don't you think it's strange?

"Alright, don't talk nonsense!"

The man turned around, but saw the owner of the tea shed standing behind him, and hurriedly silenced himself to greet other guests.

"This kid speaks openly, don't take it seriously!" The boss explained with a smile: "The poor business in the past two years is mainly due to the poor location of the tea shed, in the end, it is the people who drink tea in the city, how much money can the farmers in the countryside make?"

In this regard, Lin Brown only smiled and nodded, but he was noncommittal in his heart.

"Man, let's have a pot of spiritual tea!"

At this moment, a rough voice suddenly came from outside the tea shed, and Lin Brown and the Zhang brothers glanced at each other, and they both turned their eyes to the source of the sound.

"Oh, Master Hu, you're here! I haven't seen you for a few days!"

"Don't talk nonsense, Lao Tzu finally had a chance to come out, don't hurry up!" The man in black walked into the tea shed and complained: "This ghost weather, hot and cold, is really not human!"