In the private room on the third floor of Yanque Building, four men sat down separately, and today the king is the east to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the brother-in-law who has just returned to Beijing.

If it was only him and Ma Lianli, I am afraid that they would have to be cold after chatting for a while, but it happened that Liu Luming and Jiang Xiucheng were present, and Wang Quanquan was not a stingy person, so they called together.

Jiang Xiucheng and Liu Luming are honest officials, and all the money is spent on family expenses, and there is no more than a dime.

Wang Quanquan saw that the two were in a hurry to eat, so he didn't be too polite, and directly took the lead in moving the chopsticks, he first unceremoniously snatched a piece of lamb chops from Liu Luming, and then stuffed it into his mouth in the other party's resentful eyes, and said vaguely:

"I heard that Lian Horse made a lot of trouble in Zhongzhou this time, is it inconvenient to tell us about it?"

The ancients said that "food is not spoken, sleep is silent", and no one will abide by it on the wine table.

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Liu Luming on the side pulled a chicken leg and echoed:

"I've also heard that the news in the capital has been fierce recently. There are few people among the people who do not praise Lian Lang officials, and they all say that you are a rare good official in the 30 years since the founding of the dynasty, and there are few officials who do not scold the horse master, saying that it is ......"

Without waiting for Liu Luming to finish speaking, Wang Quanquan kicked him directly under the table, "Just talk about the compliment, do you really plan to repeat those dog barks to pollute our ears?" ”

"Oh."

Liu Luming very obediently stuffed the chicken leg into his mouth and stopped talking.

Lian Li on the other side smiled slightly and said calmly:

"It's okay to say it, I just lack an excuse to impeach them, and I tell right and wrong in private, although this crime is not big, but if it really comes to Your Majesty, it is enough to talk for a while."

The other three were stunned when they heard this, they didn't expect that this horse master looked gentle and elegant, how could he be a person who would repay him?

Looking at the smile on the corner of the other party's mouth, Wang Quanquan was the first to react and laughed:

"This is polite, talking about even the horse behind his back is tantamount to criticizing my royal family, if it is replaced by this king, he must first join him to despise the imperial power, and then join him to bully the king and disrespect."

Buckle the hat, the king has never served anyone.

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A few people chatted while eating, Lian Li and Jiang Xiucheng naturally discussed the current literary world and the current court situation, Wang Quanquan and Liu Luming were not so elegant, they were basically chatting and farting.

After all, one is the prince, and no matter how much the court situation changes, it won't affect him, so he doesn't have to care, as for the other, he can't understand it at all, and he can mix in the treacherous and changeable officialdom to this day is purely because his backer is hard enough.

The meal ended quickly in the conversation of several people, when Wang Quanquan and Liu Luming were lying by the window to watch the girl, Lian Li got up to say goodbye, Wang Quanquan knew that the brother-in-law was in a hurry to go home to see the princess, so he didn't keep it, only said "next time I have time to visit the princess's mansion", and said goodbye to the other party.

After Lian Li left, Wang Quanquan turned his head to look at the young Jiang Xiucheng, and said with a smile:

"Jiang Dacaizi, how is it, do you have the confidence to replace him?"

The young man frowned slightly when he heard this, and only after a moment did he say thoughtfully:

"Ten years, ten years later, it is not known who will kill the deer."

The smile on Wang Quanquan's face grew, and he teased:

"I'm not very old, but my tone is not small, I thought you could name a 'twenty or thirty years', but I couldn't wait to shoot each other to death on the beach after only ten years.

The old ginger said that you are not sharp enough, I think he is absolutely dizzy, you kid is now eager to poke a hole in the sky, but your brother and I have to persuade you, it is too sharp, it is no different from looking for death, and you need to think twice about everything.

Have you seen how many people in history have become famous at a young age and died well? Most of them offended many people with their arrogance of not having many catties and taels, and they were excluded and suppressed and could not be reused, and finally died of depression. ”

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Wang Quanquan's words made the young man silent for a while, and after a long time, the other party spoke:

"That's twenty years."

Wang Quanquan nodded with satisfaction, "The son can be taught, and there is a way that you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." ”

Liu Luming pretended to listen to it for a long time, and suddenly interjected:

"Do you have some tofu for this meal?"

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In a small county town in Bashu, an old man and a young man walked along the street.

The old man had a goatee, and half of his gray hair had fallen out, so thin that he could barely insert a hairpin.

The old man was dressed in a simple outfit, looking no different from an ordinary old man, except for the untimely broken sword at his waist.

The young one seems to have never been far away, look east and west, one is not paying attention and runs away, compared to the old man's ordinary dress, the young man can be said to be high-profile to the extreme, the body is not big and carries two swords, one is wrapped in linen and tied to the back, and the other is a shoddy wooden sword, hanging directly from the waist.

Seeing that the young man was really not in shape, the old man couldn't help but remind:

"Mao Wazi, do you want to go to Tangmen? According to your way of walking, even if you go to tomorrow, you won't see the shadow of the Tang Gate. ”

The young man glanced back at the old man and said impatiently:

"What are you urging, it's hard to break through the rivers and lakes once, but you can't have fun? I heard that the county magistrate here is a well-known dog official, so let's go to his house first in the evening and make him, and then it's not too late to go to Tangmen. ”

This old man and young man are the old sword fairy Ye Jian and the young man Hong Mao.

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Since Ye Jian returned the favor, he took his grandson out of Beijing, and the two walked all the way, nominally walking the rivers and lakes, but in fact it was no different from touring the mountains and rivers.

Hong Mao's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, relying on the sword fairy who has a calf guard beside him, he took the initiative to provoke Jiangyang thieves and roadblock thieves several times in the middle, and turned a simple house robbery into a slaughterhouse.

The grandfather and grandson have gone all the way, and their worth has risen all the way, and the two are now among the best on the underworld bounty list, and many cottages have teamed up to hire masters to intercept and kill the two, and in the end, without exception, there is no return.

Hong Mao is worthy of being the grandson of the sword fairy, at first he did not dare to kill, after seeing the cruel methods of those bandits to rob and kill the common people, he gradually understood the true meaning of the phrase "the rivers and lakes are sinister", and later after seeing a gang of bandits do that kind of thing to a young woman, he was even more enthusiastic, and the entire cottage was uprooted from the local area.

After half a month, although the innocent boy was still naïve, there was an indescribable meaning in his eyes, Ye Jian, as a person who stepped into the coffin, naturally understood that his grandson had grown up overnight.

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The grandfather and grandson walked along the road, and the front gradually began to be lively, and the young man naturally did not let go of this opportunity and plunged into the crowd.

In the middle of the crowd, there was a platform, on which seven or eight people knelt down in a row, their hands were tied behind their backs, and there was a sign behind their necks, and the word "death" was big on the sign.

"What did they do?" Hong Mao asked a kind-faced woman next to him.

When the woman saw that it was a child who spoke, she did not think much of it, but lowered her voice and said:

"It's not that I offended the county master."

"Do you want to cut off your head if you offend the county order?" The boy said with a puzzled expression.

The woman sighed, "I don't know about other places, but here, the county magistrate is the sky." ”

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