Xia Quan slammed the porcelain cup in his hand to the ground.

This porcelain cup is one of the nine-piece tea sets specially customized by Yongkang City, the porcelain city of Giant Hammer Province, which is well-made, two of the cup bodies and a pot body are engraved with the wonderful pen Danqing of the painting saint Zhang Youquan a hundred years ago, vivid and expressive, it is a rare tea set treasure, if this one is broken, this set is no longer perfect, and the value will inevitably be greatly reduced.

But for Xia Quan, now that Zhang Youquan himself is resurrected, it can't calm his anger. Ten Zhang Youquan is not as important as one Naku.

That damn black clan, out of nowhere, no one knows how he ran from the dragon to the Leaping Horse Town, the Torture Pavilion and the Military Pavilion teamed up to cast a net of heaven and earth, searched the whole city, and set up checkpoints at every entrance and exit, and closely investigated, but even so, it still allowed Naku to escape to the Leaping Horse Town, killing the envoy sent by the Dragon Monarch to pick up the Great Elder Ming and his guards.

This is an out-and-out scandal for the Torture Cabinet.

The most fatal thing is that the whereabouts of the Great Elder Tongming himself are unknown, and he has not seen anyone alive or dead.

Long Jun attaches great importance to this meeting of the three elders, if there is such a problem on the way to the royal capital, he will be in great trouble if he has just taken office.

In case the Great Elder Tongming was killed by Naku, he was afraid that he would not want to sleep peacefully in the future.

"Have you notified the Military Pavilion?" Xia Quan glared angrily at the Torture Pavilion hunter who had come to summon him.

"Your Excellency, I have already been informed. ”

"Before the wind time tomorrow, we must find the Great Elder Tongming, whether it is dead or alive. It's the eighth day, and you haven't even seen a single hair of that nigga, and he's killed someone else! He's still killing such an important person! You're all fucking rubbish! If you can't handle this, you're going to fucking stay in the dungeon with Lao Tzu! Get out!"

Xia Quan didn't understand his hatred after scolding, and with a wave of his hand, he knocked over the eight remaining treasured tea sets on the table to the ground, and the porcelain was shattered into pieces and fell everywhere. A piece of the jug rolled around and slipped to his feet, touched his boots, and stopped, the curved piece of porcelain dangling on the ground like a cracked mouth smiling at him. Xia Quan scolded again, kicked it out of the door with a flick of his foot, and rolled away.

The maid standing at the door hurriedly ran over and picked up the broken piece of porcelain, and wanted to come in to clean up the mess, but before she could cross the threshold, she saw her master's angry and distorted face, and she was so frightened that she withdrew and closed the door with her hand.

Only when the anger gradually subsided did Xia Quan sit down and review the whole thing back and forth.

Challenging Xin Gang from the Dragon's Tooth Tavern, Naku didn't seem to have any intention of being a nobody, and then he was found by the people of the martial arts, which was also a natural thing. But Naku had no intention of working for the martial arts at all, and in turn, he took the lives of two martial arts negotiators. He then went into hiding, and then attacked the Fertility Chamber of Commerce and the Dragon Garden, and the Golden Needle Society complained that they had been attacked. But killing the Yuan Law is still not enough, and Naku needs more.

What the hell did he want? If he just wanted to hide and kill, then why would he want to be noticed and challenge Xin Gang? This is a complete lunatic, doing things that don't make sense, and they don't seem to have anything to do with it.

But is that really the case?

There are several inexplicable questions in this series of events, where exactly is Naku hiding, how did he escape from the city, and how did he know that His Majesty the Dragon Monarch had sent an envoy to the Awakening Temple, and even knew the approximate date of the return of the envoy's carriage?

The people of the Golden Needle Society sent a message the day before yesterday, but the search was still fruitless. As the official of the Criminal Pavilion, Xia Quan couldn't just rely on his hunters, in the past, when he was a book judge, he helped Zheng Kuan match with these guild gangs. He knew the ability of the Golden Needle Society, there were many cases in the past, and his hunters couldn't do anything about it, but if he entrusted the Golden Needle Society, he found out. The bricks and tiles, grass and trees of the royal capital, there are few people in the Golden Needle Society who do not understand.

Except for two places.

But that's almost impossible.

There was the sound of hurried footsteps in the hallway outside, and the eager voice of his butler.

"Master, someone has come from the General's Mansion, please go to Miaotang Street. ”

He immediately stood up: "Prepare the carriage." ”

Half an hour later, the pawn carriage crossed the official road, accelerated across the Julong Avenue, and drove from Hulin Street to Miaotang Street. The time was close to the time of the stove, and in the mansion of the magnates on Temple Street, the dinner party was about to begin, and the smoke from the chimney could be seen from afar.

Long Yingtian's Great General's Mansion was the big mansion that Long Chengtian had before, and Xia Quan on Miaotang Street naturally came a lot, but before he became a pawn, he didn't enter this Great General's Mansion once. Long Yingtian became a general, and originally planned to feast the ministers of the royal court on the day of Long Yan, but now this wedding banquet has not yet been held. In the absence of the dragon god, no one dared to make a big fanfare to celebrate.

Xia Quan didn't expect that the first time he entered the Great General's Mansion was because of a black clan. It's ironic.

The General's Mansion was as grand as he imagined, and when he entered the gate, there was a shadow wall, on which were engraved the images of the nine-layer realm from left to right, and there was a two-story courtyard around the shadow wall. In the courtyard on the first floor, there is a life-size gilt statue of the holy king Yugu holding a sword in his hand, wearing armor, riding on a horse with his front legs raised, and the golden cloak fluttering in the wind, which is very powerful, implying invincibility.

In the second courtyard is an iron-veined tree, which is very hard, close to steel, and is produced in the Brilliant Islands, which is quite rare on the Ruifeng Continent. The iron tree has a peculiar habit, the soil in other places cannot be sustained, it has to be on the glorious archipelago, so it is very rare and precious outside the island, and whoever plants one on the house can make the whole city look sideways. Five years ago, Long Chengtian led the fleet to the sea to help the Moro Kingdom of the Brilliant Islands defeat the rebels formed by the domestic nobles, and the king of the Moro Kingdom even took the tree seeds and soil as part of the thanksgiving gift, and Long Xingtian expressed his reward to Long Chengtian, and the iron tree became the symbol of the Great General's Mansion. After Long Yingtian took over the mansion, he suggested that the tree be moved to the palace, but Long Chengtian loved the tree very much, and was worried that it would not survive after transplantation, so he refused.

After the two-story compound, it is the living room. The servant took Xia Quan to the door of the hall and retreated, and when he entered the door, he saw that a sumptuous banquet had been set up, a large plate of whole sheep roasted with oily fragrance, a bowl of abalone soup with shiitake mushrooms, fungus, bamboo shoots, and Sichuan peppercorns, a bowl of fish floss broth, a bowl of mushroom and turtle soup, a bowl of borscht with a variety of ingredients, and various meats such as roasted venison and rabbit meat with green onions, a total of more than ten plates. There were already three people waiting for him at the table, one was the general Long Yingtian, the other was the minister Zheng Kuan, and the other was Yan Chonghu, the general of Zhennan.

"Nomasa-sama, you're finally here. If you don't come, we'll continue to go hungry. Come and take a seat. Long Yingtian beckoned to Xia Quan.

Yan Chonghu stood up and bent slightly towards Xia Quan, while Zheng Kuan nodded to him, both with heavy expressions.

"Three adults, I've been waiting for a long time. Xia Quan sat down beside Zheng Kuan.

"The three adults already know about what happened not long ago. I have not yet reported this matter to Your Majesty, and when Your Majesty knows, I am afraid that our Military Pavilion and the Criminal Pavilion will be punished. I invited the three adults to come over and discuss what we should do tonight. Long Yingtian said, "Lord Dianzheng, what do you think about this matter?"

Xia Quan thought for a moment and said, "First of all, we still have to determine whether the Great Elder Tongming is alive or dead. If Great Elder Tongming is still alive, that's the best outcome, and even if he dies at Naku's hands, we have to find the body. ”

"All the troops in Prancing Horse Town have been dispatched, as long as the elder Tongming is in the territory of Prancing Horse Town, no matter what the final result is, Kuaima will send us a message before tomorrow. Long Yingtian looked at Xia Quan and said, "It's hard for us all to believe that Naku can kill Tongming, and if Tongming really taught him Lei Guanquan, then he has no reason to kill Tongming." Therefore, whether Tongming followed the envoy to the Leaping Horse Town, I think it still needs to be verified. The envoy and his guards died under the Thunder Fist, and if Tongming arrived in Prancing Horse Town, the person who used the Thunder Fist would no longer be Naku alone. ”

Xia Quan frowned, thinking about the meaning of this sentence.

Long Yingtian continued: "The military pavilion has sent a fast horse to Jingyuan, the fastest, and it will not be able to come back until the night after tomorrow. And this matter must be reported to His Majesty tomorrow at the court meeting. Lady Dianzheng, we have to do something. ”

Xia Quan showed a look of embarrassment on his face, looked at Zheng Kuan, and then looked at Yan Chonghu, but neither of them reacted. It was a trouble to say something wrong at this juncture, so I had to say, "I really can't help it, and I have to ask the general for instructions." ”

Long Yingtian didn't answer, took the wine glass and raised it, and toasted to the three of them: "Come, three adults, you can't go hungry when talking about national affairs, this table full of food is not for us to see, and we have to eat it in our stomachs." ”

When the wine swallowed his throat, he got busy, and went straight to the roasted whole lamb in the middle of the table, and he tore off a whole leg of lamb, and then cut the leg with a knife, and poured the sauce on it, and he munched it heavily, and as he ate it, he said, "Good meat, you are welcome, adults." Come, Lord Dianzheng, you have to eat more of this mutton. ”

Xia Quan had no choice but to cut a small piece with a knife, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and he didn't know what it tasted like. He also has no appetite for the delicacies of Table Mountain, and his appetite has been very bad recently, and his subordinates say that he has lost some weight.

Zheng Kuan and Yan Chonghu on the side looked unrestrained, their appetites were actually good, and they ate with relish. Zheng Kuan had a piece of meat in his mouth, pointed to the plate, and said to Xia Quan: "How can you do things well if you can't eat enough, brother, one person and one leg, that one is yours." ”

Long Yingtian saw that Xia Quan didn't come to cut the leg of mutton, and he didn't eat much when he sat there, so he cut it off for him, cut the opening, and rolled it several times in five or six sauce pots such as herb caviar, garlic hot sauce, and mushroom beef sauce, brushed the leg of lamb with a brush, handed it to Xia Quan, and said: "Lord Dian Zheng came to my house for the first time, and the table was full of dishes but there was no appetite. ”

"No, no, General, when I think of today's incident, I really don't have an appetite. "The general personally cut the meat with a knife, that can't be refused, Xia Quan had no choice but to take the leg of mutton, the mutton was roasted very well, although the sauce was smeared casually, it looked really attractive.

After Zheng Kuan got rid of a leg of mutton in his hand, he picked up a napkin and wiped his hands, his mouth and beard were still stained with meat sauce, he didn't care, scooped a bowl of mushroom and turtle soup and tasted it. Yan Chonghu eats elegantly, he cuts the leg of mutton into pieces of meat and eats it slowly.

After drinking a bowl of turtle soup, Zheng Kuan looked at Xia Quan and said: "The night before yesterday, the son of Gray Scale, Geze, visited me, and mentioned the establishment of a province in the land of Shenze, as soon as I told him that there would be no problem if the land of Shenze could build a temple for my teaching, he turned to ask for marriage, hoping to marry a princess back." ”

Xia Quan didn't know why Zheng Kuan suddenly talked about this matter, "He asked for a lot." ”