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The smoke and rain continued for several days, and the entire Qi Town looked foggy.

Shi An followed his son-in-law to the Yugutang in the east of Qi Town, pointed to the group of uneasy children in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Son, this is the last batch." ”

Shen looked at the children standing in front of him, they were wearing old clothes, their faces were clean, and when they looked at him timidly, their eyes were full of fear.

The person in front of them is too far away for them.

Whether it is the exquisite clothes at first glance, or the appearance of an immortal, and even the gold silk sachet hanging around his waist, all show his noble status.

Shen didn't find the person he was looking for among these children, and his eyebrows furrowed slightly: "There is nothing else?" ”

"Hui Gongzi, the children over the age of twelve or thirteen in this orphanage are all here." Shi An said in a low voice.

Shen was disappointed, pursed his lips and said to Shi An, "Let them go back." ”

When Shi An heard this, he knew that these people did not have the person his son was looking for.

He waved his hand and asked the children to be taken away.

Shen said to him: "Someone will send some silver and food to repair the house here." ”

Shi An had already done this errand more than once along the way, skillfully handed the fifty taels of silver tickets to the old man next to him who was smiling with wrinkles on his face, and explained to him that someone would come to repair the house and send some rice and grain later.

After receiving a thousand thanks, when he came out of the Yugu Hall, he saw his own son-in-law frowning and contemplative in the carriage.

"Childe."

"Let's go back first."

Shi An rushed to the car, and couldn't help but turn his head: "Childe, you have been away from Kyoto for more than two months, and after entering Jiangnan, you have been looking for all the way, who are you looking for?" ”

Shen leaned against the wall of the car and was silent.

Shi An couldn't help but say, "I don't know who you're looking for, but it's not a way for you to look around like this." ”

"If it's really that important, why don't you draw down the appearance of the person you're looking for and tell the government here, and ask them to help you find it?"

He is really incomprehensible, his son-in-law is the sister-in-law of the Shen family, he has entered the court at a young age, he is deeply trusted by His Majesty, and his relationship with the prince is also very good.

He has always been calm and self-controlled, upright, and can be described as an example of a gentleman, but just over two months ago, Gongzi suddenly said that he wanted to come to Jiangnan.

looked for an errand to go south to inspect, but Shi An knew that Gongzi was here to find someone.

"The old lady's birthday is approaching, and the lord has already sent a letter to urge him twice, saying that even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already asking when you will return to Beijing."

Shen listened to the sound outside the curtain, and when he rubbed his eyebrows, he also felt that he was probably crazy.

For a dream, he actually ran to Jiangnan to find someone.

Three months ago, he went out hunting with the prince, fell off his horse to save the prince, and then fell into a coma for two days and had a dream.

In the dream, the crown prince died two years later, the royal family collapsed, the court was in chaos, and the Shen family was also implicated because of the prince.

A man named Xue Nuo was born, he had a gloomy temperament and ruthless methods, he was obviously a man but had an extremely charming face, and was selected from Jiangnan to be sent to the Four Princes' Mansion with a group of Yangzhou thin horses.

was originally an Israelite servant, but then rose out of thin air, and suddenly became a confidant of the four princes, provoking the four princes to seize power, secretly taking refuge in the three princes to fight with them, and attracting the ministers of the court and the central government to defect to King Kang.

The dream was intermittent and incomplete.

Shen watched the man hide in the shadows to stir up the situation, assassinate loyal ministers, instigate various forces in the court to fight with each other, and recognized Feng Yuan, the eunuch with the palm print, as his father-in-law.

That person colluded with Feng Yuan, colluded with internal and external, and finally under the defeat of the people in the court, he tricked King Kang to murder His Majesty, pushed the young six princes to the throne, and became the thousand-year-old master who leaned towards the government and the opposition.

He fostered puppets, imprisoned the royal family, and used the entire court as a hunting ground.

The blood in Beijing is like a river, and the people are struggling to make a living.

Shen watched the Shen family join forces to overthrow Xue Nuo, but he was driven to death, and saw that he was blocked in the Shen family ancestral hall by him full of jokes, and said with a smile, "The Shen family Yulang is just like this."

When he woke up from a dream, Shen only felt a biting cold.

He thought it was just a dream, but then the dream came back and forth.

The evil young man sat high on the temple, looking at the people below with peach blossom eyes slightly upturned, as if he was having fun and said "let's kill it", which almost became his inner demon.

Day and night disturbed him.

The intermittent dream begins to coincide with reality, and the things that appear in the dream also have signs in reality.

Shen made a decision that was incomprehensible to ordinary people.

I personally went down to Jiangnan and wanted to find the person in my dream.

Before he enters Beijing, cut down the grass and eradicate the roots!

Shen Jiayulang was bright and upright, but for the first time, he had such a big killing intent with a stranger he had never met.

He only vaguely remembered that Xue Nuo was an orphan, and he was first found in the Yugutang, because of his outstanding appearance, he was taken back to train with the thin horse, and then sent to the palace of the four princes in Beijing, and he was about fourteen or five years old.

But after looking for so long, I almost searched the Yugutang near Jiangnan, but I never found the person in the dream, and even Shen himself began to doubt whether his dream was true or false.

"Childe."

Seeing that there was no sound inside, Shi An couldn't help but persuade in a low voice,

"If that person is really important, why don't I stay and continue to look for you, you go back to the capital to celebrate the old lady's birthday first, so as not to make the people in the second room turn around and talk ......"

"No need." Shen sighed lightly, "Go back and pack up your salutes and prepare to go back to Beijing." ”

Shi An was immediately overjoyed: "Childe is not looking for it?" ”

"I'm not looking for it."

His eyes were slightly dark, and since he couldn't find this person, he could only stare at the four princes.

If that dream is true, then Xue Nuo will appear in the capital sooner or later, and it will be like in a dream, setting off a storm in the Four Princes' Mansion.

……

The south of the Yangtze River is moist and rains a lot.

When the carriage returned to the willow garden, where it was temporarily staying, the drizzle outside had already soaked the bluestone floor.

Liuyuan is the most wealthy place in Qizhen, a standard Jiangnan house, built near the water.

The front of the door is elegant and majestic, the green wall is towering, the door railing is carved and painted, the continuous drizzle falls on the roof and accumulates a lot, and when it falls down along the eaves of the outward, it smashes out a small puddle on the ground.

Shen sat in the carriage and before he got out of the carriage, he vaguely heard a noisy sound not far away, lifted the curtain and looked, and saw a group of people gathered in front of a mansion.

"What's going on over there?"

Shi An glanced at it and replied: "That's the Hu family, and it has something to do with the Hu waiter of the Ministry of Rites, it looks like he's recruiting." ”

Shen was puzzled: "Why don't you go to the tooth shop for recruitment?" ”

Shi An said: "Childe doesn't know, two months ago, Yanling was flooded, and many victims flocked to Qizhen, these victims are willing to do any dirty work in order to beg for food, and the price is cheaper than that of the tooth shop." ”

"I heard that the Hu family is going to marry a daughter in a few days, because it is a high marriage, and the other party is a lord's family, and he is quite high-profile and pays attention to pomp, presumably the Hu family also wants to recruit a few more people temporarily, so that it can fill the scene when the time comes."

Shen glanced at Yan with little interest, retracted his gaze and wanted to go back to the house first.

Who would have thought that at this moment, the crowd over there pushed and rushed, as if there was a dispute over the recruitment quota, and a group of people first quarreled and shouted, and then to the point of moving.

"Noble recruit me, I don't want much, just twenty dollars a day!"

"I'm eighteen, just take care of the food!"

"Fifteen wen, I only need fifteen wen, I can do any job......"

The scene was instantly chaotic, and when the crowd was noisy, the people behind pushed the front ones forward, scrambling towards the Hu family's steward, and the last black thin figure was stunned and squeezed back the others and rushed to the door of the Hu family.

"I'm smarter than them."

"I can fight better than them."

"Two steamed buns a day, let me do whatever I want."

Shen was a little familiar when he heard this voice, and he subconsciously looked over there with the curtain raised, and saw the side face of the black thin figure with his chin slightly tilted.

He was struck by lightning.

The first thing he thought about was not that he had worked hard to finally find the person in his dream, but that the high-spirited, brocade-dressed Chitose in the dream was only worth two steamed buns a day?