Yu Ke said: "He doesn't have to do it himself, some people are willing to help him clean up the portal." ”

When Liu Mazi heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and after hesitating for two seconds, his face showed flattery:

"This Dao Chief, what I said just now is not inferior, don't care."

"Don't tell me about what is going on here, I, Liu Mazi, thank you for your great kindness."

Saying that, Liu Mazi gritted his teeth, took out a silver ticket with a denomination of ten taels of silver from his sleeve pocket, and put it on Yu Ke's table.

The farmer knew that Liu Mazi was lying to him, and his face turned red with anger:

"Liu Mazi! You black-hearted brute actually lied to me! Who the hell are you going to sell my daughter to? ”

Liu Mazi glanced at him and was silent.

When the farmer saw that Liu Mazi didn't reply, he was about to pull him by the collar, when a hand suddenly reached out next to him and pulled him.

The farmer looked at Yu Ke suspiciously, but saw Yu Ke hand him the silver ticket of ten taels on the table.

"You take this money, don't sell your daughter."

When the farmer saw Yu Ke handing him the silver ticket, he was taken aback and kept waving his hand:

"How does this work! I, I can't ask for your money! ”

Yu Ke said slowly: "Take it, there is no shortage of this money in the poor road, you should be the compensation for Liu Mazi to deceive you." ”

"Ten taels of silver, save a little money, it should be enough for your family to last for two or three months."

"If you can't plant the land, just think of a way to do some small business, there will always be hope."

Liu Mazi on the side hunched his waist and echoed:

"The Taoist chief is merciful, see that you are pitiful, and kindly reward you with ten taels of silver, you can go on quickly! You ......"

Yu Ke glanced at Liu Mazi lightly, and the other party immediately closed his mouth in amusement.

The farmer took the silver ticket with some trembling, and suddenly knelt down directly for Yu Ke, kowtowing a few times. Yu Ke didn't stop.

"The great kindness of the Taoist chief, I... I don't know how to repay you. ”

"Please tell me your name, which Taoist temple you are practicing in, and I will definitely pay you back this money!"

Yu Ke said: "You get up first." Poor Dao is just a traveling Taoist priest and has no permanent place to live. ”

"If you have a heart, you can reach out to help a poor person in trouble in the future."

The farmer stood up, thanked him for his kindness, and turned back and walked away.

"Dao Chang Gaoyi!"

Liu Mazi smiled and stretched out his thumb to compliment.

In his heart, he scolded the eight generations of ancestors of the Taoist priest in front of him.

Yu Ke was noncommittal, pointed to the bench opposite and said, "Sit." ”

"Dao Chief, dare to ask what to call it?" Liu Mazi's eyes rolled and asked.

Yu Ke casually: "The poor Dao King is also." ”

"Liu Mazi, how long have you been doing this kind of thing?"

Liu Mazi smiled all over his face: "I've been working for less than two years." I'm just going to be a middleman and make a little money to make ends meet. ”

"If I don't help him win him over, he may not be able to find a buyer, and then the family will starve to death, which will be my sin."

Yu Ke sneered: "You are very sharp-toothed." ”

After thinking about it, Yu Ke asked directly: "Do you know Li Lianying?" ”

Liu Mazi said with a smile: "There have been several encounters, but he doesn't know if he remembers me as a little person." ”

"It's a director of the imperial dining room surnamed Pang under him, who has a good relationship with me, and I usually run errands for him and do some small things."

Yu Ke was noncommittal and asked again: "You usually rely on this for a living?" ”

"Of course not, that is, to make some quick money, I have a small shop in the rice market, doing some small business, but the business is not very prosperous these years."

Speaking of this, Liu Mazi took the opportunity to ask: "Dare to ask Daoist Wang, which Taoist temple do you practice?" ”

"Baiyun Temple outside the city."

"Then you are the apprentice of the Pure Dao Master?"

"It's not. Poor Dao is not from the capital, but only temporarily hangs in Baiyun Temple. ”

Liu Mazi suddenly understood, it turned out that the Taoist priest in front of him had no origin.

He thought that this Taoist priest was one of the Taoist priests who had entered the palace and done rituals for the Empress Dowager Cixi, so he didn't dare to offend.

I didn't expect it to be an alien wild Taoist!

However, although he guessed that Yu Ke had no origin, Liu Mazi still didn't dare to be presumptuous, after all, people still held his handle in their hands.

Yu Ke asked: "Poor Dao heard that the Queen Mother has always admired the Taoist masters, and often asks Taoist monks to hold rituals and pray for her?" ”

Liu Mazi thought for a while and replied:

"Yes, on the first day of every month, the Queen Mother will invite Dao Zhenxiu and virtuous monks to go to the palace to do the Dharma for her."

"For example, the pure Taoist of Baiyun Temple, the Taiwu Taoist of Xianhe Temple, and the karmic master of Hongluo Temple, ......, are all from several Taoist temples near the capital."

Yu Ke thought in his heart.

Today is November 18, and there are still more than 10 days before the first day of the lunar month.

At that time, Cixi was probably going to hold a puja as well, which may have been a rare opportunity.

However, how can you sneak into the palace? And in what way did they assassinate Cixi and Zaiyan and others? And how to get out of it all right?

These three questions should be carefully considered.

Now Yu Ke knows almost nothing about the internal intelligence of the palace, and he has to investigate it again.

Yu Ke's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to Liu Mazi:

"I have been practicing in the mountains since I was a child, and my cultivation fell into a bottleneck in the first two years, so I had to go down the mountain to enter the red dust to practice, and at the same time look for an elixir that can help me break through the realm."

"I've been cultivating the Dao for more than thirty years, and now I've only mastered a small spell in my sleeve, I don't know if I can get into the eyes of the Queen Mother?"

Liu Mazi was surprised: "Oh? The Taoist can actually spell? I wonder if you can open my eyes? ”

"What's the matter? Of course. As he spoke, Yu Ke reached out and held the teapot on the table.

In the next second, the teapot disappeared into Yu Ke's hand out of thin air.

Liu Mazi wiped his eyes, a little incredulous, looked left and right but couldn't see any clues, and said in surprise:

"Where did you receive this teapot by Daoist?"

Yu Ke said: "My spell is called Qiankun in the sleeve, and naturally I received it in the sleeve." ”

Liu Mazi didn't believe it: "How is it possible, your cuffs are so small, where can you stuff such a big teapot?" ”

Yu Ke didn't explain: "Mustard Na Sumeru, you don't understand what you said." ”

As he spoke, Yu Ke took the teapot out of the mustard seed space again.

"I don't understand, I'm not a Taoist."

Liu Mazi said with a smile: "But Daoist, you have this skill, let the Queen Mother know, and I will definitely invite you to the palace to let her take a look." ”

Yu Ke was noncommittal, and after asking some more questions, Liu Mazi became a little impatient.

"Wang Daochang, I still have something at home, go first and say goodbye."

Saying that, Liu Mazi arched his hand, said hello to friends at other tables, and walked outside the teahouse.

Yu Ke didn't stop him, but less than a minute after Liu Mazi left, he also followed out of the teahouse door and hung far behind Liu Mazi.

I followed Liu Mazi for a few minutes, walked through a few streets, and came to the rice market. saw that Liu Mazi walked into a small shop in the grain and oil business.

Yu Ke stayed outside for a while, and saw that Liu Mazi still hadn't come out.

I went to a few nearby shops and asked about Liu Mazi, and determined that the shop was indeed Liu Mazi's industry.

and learned that Liu Mazi usually lives in the house behind the shop.

In the middle of the night, Yu Ke quietly touched the door.