In the dead of night, Chen Shiyi was still tossing and turning about how to try to cultivate the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and there were still many people in Chang'an City who had difficulty sleeping like him.

The craftsmen who appeared in the alleys behind Lazy Review at night were sitting in a small black canopy boat, navigating through the dark waterways with no sky, and only the dead wind lamps on the bow of the boat illuminated the place.

The old captain was carelessly playing the oars, and kept chatting with the craftsman, but the craftsman was obviously on his mind, and it was often the captain who said three words before he replied.

"Ahem...... This month is more diligent to run outside...... Look at the way you are preoccupied, something? ”

"Hmm."

"Is the outside world still too peaceful now? Ahem......"

"The same old ...... No quieter than below. ”

The craftsman glanced at the man who was deliberately coughing, and frowned: "Your body is not suitable for staying in a cold and damp place all the time. ”

"Where can you go if you don't stay here? Ahem, if you go up, you will die, the ghost of Chongli Division is not gone, and the official document of arresting me has not disappeared until now, I heard that it has risen to 20,000 taels of silver! I didn't expect my head to be so valuable...... Haha, ahem......"

"If you cough badly, let's say a few words."

The craftsman's heart was cold, this man was also a figure in the four realms of the hall back then, in the secular world for a while, carrying countless blood debts, and then being chased and killed by the Chongli Division for many years, the food was unpleasant, and he couldn't sleep at night, until he was beaten and fell into the realm, and he was nested in this place where he did not see the light of day to operate a boat to earn money for life.

The iniquities that were made in the past must always be repaid.

Including you, there is more than enough money, Baishou Town let you run away, but I didn't expect to meet your heir in Chang'an City. You betrayed your teacher, deceived your teacher and destroyed your ancestors, and now you are teaching the secret method of the Ancestor Hall privately, you really deserve to die!

The boat moved quietly in the dark, and gradually there were houses and lights on both sides of the waterway, and there were human figures, and when they reached the dense place, it was like a small town, and there were even shops, green buildings and wine shops on the streets.

The captain leaned the canopy boat against the shore, but when he saw the craftsman handing over a piece of gold leaf, his face couldn't help but sink, and he had no wind to automatically: "I give too much, I can't find change." ”

"You boat, I have a lot, go find a few boats, this is the fixed money, go and adjust your body first, and then you will be busy."

“…… It seems that something is really wrong. ”

After the craftsman went around the town, he came to a white shop, and entered the back hall, where there were already people waiting. Seeing him come in, he hurriedly asked, "How, is your identity confirmed?" ”

"Hall Master, it's confirmed! The technique of Zha Cai is indeed the inheritance of the family, and even the blue is blue, and it is integrated into the Mo family's ball connection technique. As for the puppet manipulation technique, although the person is cautious, but the seedlings are promoted, how can this secret technique be coveted by a fledgling person in the lower four realms, and naturally there are clues. It's just ......"

"What? Questions? ”

"The heirs who have more money are actually the hundred households of the Chongli Division, and they have a lot of dealings with the nobles in Beijing, if they do it rashly, I am worried that they will be confronted by the Chongli Division."

"Even if it is a head-to-head confrontation with Chongli Division, I can't take care of it much, the secret cultivation method of the Ancestor Hall of this sect has been stolen by Qian Youyu, it has been decades, and the strength is already at the bottom of the Yin Five Family, and Qian Youyu is like a loach, every time we fall short, we finally have a heel this time, and we can't just give up. Even if you lose this hall because of this, you will not hesitate to do it. ”

"Although our Cai family is said to be eating in the underworld, and the family of the lower sect is even more wealthy, but it is also a fair and honest business that has been handed down for thousands of years, why did you set up the entrance of the hall in the capital to this dark river waterway and hide dirt and dirt?"

"You ask me, I ask who to go, I'm afraid only the head of the family knows what the elders of the Ancestor Hall are planning. You continue to monitor the noodle shop, and you don't miss out on it. ”

"Don't worry, the hall master, I use the technique of psychic borrowing to drive the paper man to investigate, as soon as there is a wind and grass, the paper man will immediately spontaneously combust into ashes, and will not be held by the other party."

"Well, good. So I sent a message to the master of the house, and reported it to him. ”

……

In the courtyard of a deep house in Yongjiafang, Chang'an City, the light is still on in the study in the back garden.

The summer was scorching, the night was very hot, the door of the study was open, but the windows were tightly closed. A young man was sitting in the lamp and contemplating.

The footsteps came, the young man stood up, let the people into the study, and commanded the seemingly empty courtyard: "If you don't get the order, the one who is ten feet close to the study will die." ”

After speaking, he turned around, invited someone to sit down, poured tea with his own hands and brought it to the person, and said: "It is really a last resort to disturb Mr. to rest late at night, and I hope Mr. will forgive him." ”

"It's okay, I'm used to going to bed late, don't worry. It's Your Highness, it's so late, I don't know what's important. ”

"Before this king went to the eastern capital of Shanjian City to take office, he left Mr. in the capital to preside over the overall situation, so that now there is no one around him to discuss, and Gu is a group of martial artists. Alas, there are many miscellaneous things in the eastern capital, how can there be a well-organized Mr. when he is around, and this king misses Mr. more and more. ”

"Your Highness has an overreputation. The capital is the top priority. At the beginning, it was agreed that the prince would serve as the eastern capital and jump out of the daily court battles, firstly, to avoid the edge of the prince's party, and secondly, to gather momentum before the dragon dance for nine days; In the next, the prince stayed in the capital and responded in the middle. Don't change it. ”

"Sir is too worried, this king knows the severity, that is, when he sees him, he complains. This time, the king returned to Beijing on the pretext of congratulating his mother on the birthday of his mother, just to ask his husband for some things in person. ”

"But the prince wants to ask a thing or two about Huanhualou?"

"It has to be sir, in a word! In the afternoon, the king entered the palace and went to see his mother, but he was counted down by a good meal, so that I even had a dinner that my mother specially ordered the palace dining room to make, and ate the same taste as chewing wax. ”

"But I don't know what Concubine Hui means?"

King Jin smiled bitterly and sighed, and told the middle-aged scribe who was sitting indifferently shaking a folding fan about meeting his mother in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, King Jin entered the palace with a birthday gift, thinking that his mother and son would be filial and happy, but he never wanted to be directly reprimanded by Concubine Hui for more than an hour.

"You let Wei Niang help you, and Niang also helped with a shy face, and the position of the Eastern Capital Thorn Shi was won for you from Your Majesty. It is said that staying away from the court, I can stop for a while. But it's only been three months, and it's been tossed again. Even if there are still dead people, the Han'er of the Yan family in the Left Army Governor's Mansion has still seen it in this palace, and it is gone. When you let Weiniang celebrate her birthday, how do you face the old lady of the Yan family?! Bengong is old and can't control you, but Bengong really can't afford these heart-pounding. ”

Concubine Hui pinched her eyebrows with one hand and covered her heart with the other, not looking at the King of Jin kneeling in front of her, and counted her down.

"Mother, that's none of my business, I'm in the Eastern Capital."

"It's none of your business?! The prince of Song Guo is good friends with you, and it is the people on your side and the prince's side who do it. You dare to say that it has nothing to do with you?! ”

"I ......"

King Jin felt that he was more wronged than that Dou E, but he couldn't say that this matter had nothing to do with him, and the man-made sins below, as the core of the main affairs of a party, were indeed inseparable.

But I really didn't do it at my own behest.

"The prince is weak, the grandson is young, and he is also frail and sickly, and it is normal for you to have ideas. But there is one thing that you must remember clearly, you must not have the blood of your brother on your hands! Especially the blue sparrows! It was entrusted to her mother by the queen before she died, and she was raised as her own son. If he has a good one, how will you go to see the queen under the nine springs in the future. If it weren't for the queen back then, Wei Niang would have died a long time ago, and Shanmen was born in this palace as a fart, let alone an outer disciple. ”

"Mother, where did you go, of course the child would not do that kind of thing of killing brothers and taking away the heirs, besides, Qingque also grew up behind my ass."

"If only you knew!"

"Why didn't you see Aunt Liu this time?"

"Your Aunt Liu asked Weiniang to send her back to the teacher's door, you are not young anymore, and it is time to start a family, go back this time to see if there is anyone with outstanding character and appearance, and bring it back to the palace to see."

“……”

Hearing this, the middle-aged scribe smiled lightly: "Niangniang's love for her son is heartfelt, and she says that she doesn't care about it, this is the selection of a concubine for His Royal Highness from the mountain gate, and it is also an extra layer of protection for His Highness in the future." ”

"I know, it's just a person from Su Yuan, and I don't like it. Don't look at the fact that you are getting close to your mother now, in previous years, you didn't care about it, and you don't mean that in the future, you will make up for it in this king, hum! ”

"Mutual use ......"

"Sir, this time the matter of Huanhualou, this king is very puzzled, and I hope that Mr. will solve his doubts."

"There's something weird about it...... After carefully questioning, the death of Yan Jizu was strange. Moreover, the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army was impartial and wise, and after this incident, he sprinkled his resentment on Xiangchenghou, thus staying away from the prince's party. But on our side, there are a lot of resignations and resignations, but none of them are important positions. Therefore, I really don't understand it. ”

"The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman wins. I don't know who this fisherman is? ”

"Your Highness, do you think it will be King Wei?"

"Blue Sparrow? No way! Although Qi Xuan was sent before, it was the eunuch who was dizzy and usurped the royal power, no matter what Qingque said, it was also the blood of Taizu, how could he allow a eunuch to be powerful. Besides, what is the situation in the Qingque Mansion, Mr. should know better than me. ”

The scribe couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Indeed, with the heart of His Royal Highness the King of Wei, he would rather associate with the peddlers and pawns and the prison officials than get involved in the affairs of the court." But if it weren't for King Wei, I'm afraid it would only be that one......"

After speaking, he pointed to the beam.

"Old man......"

"However, it doesn't make much sense, if Your Majesty wants to knock on both sides, how can a person from the Yan family die? Could it be that there is something else hidden here. Because of this, it is recommended to stabilize the people below first, each in its own position, don't disturb yourself, and take a look at the rest. ”

"What the gentleman said is very true." King Jin saw that he couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he put the matter aside and asked about another related matter: "What do you think of this Chang'an City Flower List?" ”

"I've also heard about this flower list, Oiran is a newcomer to Mingyue Building, called Su Pujia, in the autumn colors on both sides of the strait, full of sycamore leaves and moonlight, a good name!"

"The name is good, but I don't know which family it is? It's really not easy to compare Liu Suhuan to others! ”

The scribe shook the folding fan lightly, and his face seemed to be smiling, but there was a hint of fierceness in his eyes:

"I already know a thing or two about this woman."

"Oh?"

A few days ago, Liu Suhuan came to report: On the day of the Qixi Festival flower list, Su Pujia danced three dances in a row within an hour, saying "Lingering Dust", "Jiyu", and "Xuanhuai", all of which are long-lost works of the pre-Qin Dynasty. That Su Pujia jumped on the rice paper covered with incense ash for a whole hour, but there was no trace, to say that there is no advanced cultivation as a foundation, it is impossible to do it.

I sent people to investigate, this woman seemed to appear out of thin air, only said that there was a dance club from the countryside that was sold to Mingyue Lou, and there was no other useful information, and all the clues were inexplicably broken......"

"Didn't Mr. Fang Cai say that he knew the roots?" King Jin couldn't help but ask out loud.

"Sometimes, no news is also a kind of news. The person behind this woman was confused and wanted to cover up, but it just met my guess. Excluding other possibilities, this woman can only come from one place......"

"Where?"

The scribe's squinted eyes opened instantly, and two words burst out of his mouth:

"Below!"