Jiafu is so big that even in the capital, it can be ranked in the top ten.

But in recent years, Jiafu has been declining, and Jia's mother has this feeling in her heart, but she is also a little powerless.

Nothing seems to have changed, it seems that everything is changing.

The small secret realm in the family is under her personal control, and part of the production in it is used by her for her own cultivation, part of it is distributed to the descendants of the family, and part of it is used as a reward.

It's just that over the years, the output in the small secret realm has become less and less, and she feels that maybe the secret realm of the Jia family is about to decay, this is the real crisis of the Jia family, and there are many reasons for the decline, but Jia's mother has not found it, and she doesn't dare to make a noise, even if she is inside the Jia Mansion, she doesn't dare to let people know.

It's just that this kind of thing can be completely kept secret, there is a deficit in Jiafu, and now even the peddlers and pawns know about it, and they talk about it.

There is also the disappearance of the second master of Jiafu.

Many people said that he was killed by a strongman from Jiangzhou, but they didn't know why he didn't leave a body, and some people thought that it was not the strongman from out of town who killed him, but for another reason.

But no one has been able to name a decent reason.

Jia's mother asked Shi Wuxian to investigate the matter at the beginning, and at this time, Shi Wuxian came to Jia's mansion and said to Jia's mother: "Second Master Jia should have gone to a secret party and was killed. ”

"A secret party? Do you know what kind of it is? Jia Mu asked, she was not surprised at all, there would be gatherings like this every day, from princes and nobles to peddlers and pawns, every day I don't know how many people are participating in secret gatherings.

"I feel the breath of the god of winter." Shi Wuxian said.

"Oh, the god of winter." Of course, Jia Mu is no stranger to the God of Winter, and it can even be said that she has dealt with a lot, since she took charge of Jiafu, every year there will be priests of the God of Winter to come to the house, although it is not to preach its teachings, but Jia Mu knows very well that this is to hope that the God of Winter can obtain his own offerings.

But now it seems that the priests of the god of winter have not won over themselves, but their children have long been co-opted and have long been in the church of the god of winter.

She thought of the priest of the Church of the God of Winter who came to her house a few days ago to send her child back, and when she saw the injuries on Jia Shun's body, she already had a judgment in her heart.

"Xiao Shi, tell the old man about that Lou Jinchen." Jia Mu said.

The Red Leaf Annex where Shi Wuxian took Lou Jinchen to go, this is a foreigner fanatic who everyone knows, saying 'The prince of the capital and the general are just like this' in the sky above the entire Qianjing, is Shi Wuxie's friend.

In the past nearly a month, many people have asked Shi Wuxian about that foreigner madman Lou Jinchen.

Not only his colleagues, but also his bosses, familiar or unfamiliar playmates when he was a child, have asked him more or less.

This makes Shi Wuxie, who has always disliked gossiping with others, have to always answer the same sentence to everyone - unfamiliar!

He was indeed unacquainted, but no one believed it, even his father said: "You accompany your friend to save your niece who fell into the fire pit, which is morally good, but you must also pay attention to your identity, fortunately, at that time you have not yet taken up your new position, if you want to help your friends in the future, you have to pay attention to strategy, and when you are in the officialdom, you must know how to be flexible." ”

"Look at the water, when it encounters an obstacle, it is going around, if it can't get around, it is accumulating strength, and one day it will overflow, but the vast majority of people in this world can't do this."

Shi Wuxian didn't expect that his father, who had always been silent and rigid, would tell him this kind of truth.

Now Jia Mu asked him again, and he still said: "Don't hide it from the old lady, I am really not familiar with that building Jinchen, before returning to this capital, I only met once in the swimming water city that has become an eyeless city, at that time, he was still invaded by the 'secret spirit', and he has not seen me. ”

"The second time I saw Lou Jinchen was at the Sanjiangkou ferry, when Han Shouyuan, a scholar of the National Teacher's Mansion, died suddenly after talking to him. However, I don't have much contact with him, but as a person who has been hunting in Jiangzhou for many years, I also know about his deeds. Shi Wuxian said.

"Oh, then please Xiao Shi tell me what kind of person he is for this old lady." Jia Mu said.

"He's a very simple person, old lady, what kind of person you feel he is now, what kind of person he is." Shi Wuxian said.

"The old body has never seen him, it's just hearsay, where can I judge a person." Jia Mu said.

"The old lady might as well judge who he is by this hearsay." Shi Wuxian said.

Xue Bao'er next to Jia's mother couldn't help but think of that day in the inn at the mouth of the three rivers, he was silent and fearless in the middle of the crowd, his eyes swept over the scrutiny of the people present, and then he carried the horse all the way back to Jiafu, thinking secretly in his heart: "He is a fearless person, who has compassion and sympathy for the weak, and his promise to the righteous brothers, even if he crosses thousands of rivers and mountains, and faces the obstacles of the powerful of the dynasty, he can do it." ”

Jia Mu was silent for a while and said, "This is a person who can't be without a king. ”

"Then he is a man who cannot be without a king." Shi Wuxian said.

"Alas, I know that the people in the rivers and lakes regard chivalry and righteousness as a virtue, but for the imperial court, how are they different from demons? Wandering among the mountains and rivers, often thinking about entering the city to kill a few powerful people and earn a big name, they sit in the mountains and fields to dominate, gather crowds to roar, is the biggest destabilizing factor in the imperial court. Jia Mu said.

Shi Wuxian has served in the remote Jiangzhou for many years, and has come into contact with many Jianghu monks, of course, he knows that there are all kinds of people among them, some treacherous, some evil, and some are both righteous and evil, but there are still some heroic and righteous people among them.

Therefore, Jia Mu knocked over the people in the rivers and lakes like this, Shi Wuxian disagreed, but out of respect for the elders, he did not refute it, so he did not answer.

"You said, even if Jia Shun is wrong in theory, he shouldn't give his woman to others, but in the end, there is no matchmaker, no one who has passed through the door, he is not guilty of death, but he was lynched, you are the defender of the law, the monarch is the reform of the rule of officials, the newly appointed deputy governor of Yin and Yang, you have to do a good job of this, let the court take a good look at the ability of the latest generation of the Shi family."

Shi Wuxian knew that Mother Jia believed that Second Master Jia was killed by Lou Jinchen.

"Have you ever seen the priest of the god of winter?" Shi Wuxian asked.

"You come with me." Jia Mu got up and led Shi Wuxian to a cellar, and then Shi Wuxian saw a person whose whole body was covered in frost.

And he soon discovered that this person's fatal wound was in the center of his eyebrows, and the sword intent entwined in the wound in the center of his eyebrows was fierce, and there was a scorching sun aura, but now it was frozen in ice.

"Xiao Shi, can you be sure who stabbed the sword wound in the center of the eyebrows?" Jia Mu said.

Shi Wuxian said in silence: "The person who stabbed Second Master Jia may not be the one who killed him, his body is frosty and cold, and it is also deadly, the same as the scene I saw when Han Shouyuan died at the mouth of the Sanjiang River." ”

"Oh." Jia Mu glanced at Shi Wuxie, she couldn't say that Jia Shun had joined the church of the God of Winter, and the people of the God of Winter would not kill him, if she did, it was to explain to everyone that Jia Fu had joined the side of the God of Winter in the secret dispute between the God of Winter and the national teacher.

This is also the reason why the people of the Winter God Sect did not dispel the cold in the corpse.

This kind of cold qi wants to be dispelled, unless a special fire spell is used, but after the cold is dispelled, then the corpse will definitely decay, and the sword qi in the sword mark in the center of the eyebrows will be dispersed.

The people from the Church of the God of Winter did not send it in time, just to let the cold air sink into the body, and if Jia Mu wanted to investigate the sword wound and find the murderer, she had to let people know that Jia Shun had joined the Church of the God of Winter.

"You don't have to care about the frost on his body, the old body will go to the people of the Winter God Church to reason, you just have to say whether you recognize this sword wound or not." Jia Mu is obviously going to force Shi Wuxian to make a statement.

She knew that the people of the Shi family would not lie, and Shi Wuxian was a junior, and his skills were already extraordinary, so she named Shi Wuxian to investigate the case.

"I haven't had much contact with Lou Jinchen, so I can't be sure." Shi Wuxian said.

"Not much contact? took him to the Red Leaf Pavilion to find someone, and even Ling Yin Gongzi's face had to fall. Jia Mu said, Shi Wuxian knew that this was Jia Mu's dissatisfaction with his answer.

"The reason why I will accompany him is because I have secretly asked him to help send someone." Shi Wuxian said.

"Oh, can you tell the old man who can win the favor of you two young talents?" Jia Mu said.

At this time, Shi Wuxian glanced at Xue Bao'er, who came with him but did not say a word.

Xue Bao'er was slightly stunned, she had told her aunt about this, but at this time, her aunt asked about it again as if she didn't know, she didn't know why, but she could only follow her aunt's words and say: "Auntie, the innocent son once instructed me and asked me to follow Lou Jinchen all the way back, and after Lou Jinchen knew that it was the innocent son's guidance, he asked me to ride his horse and send me back all the way." ”

"Oh, it turns out that he is not really chivalrous, but a benevolent retribution, Xiao Shi, he has no friendship with you at all, you just have to handle the case impartially, you don't want to shame the name of the Shi family's hard-won divine capture."

Shi Wuxian hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you for the old lady's teachings." ”

When he walked out of Jiafu again, he felt a slight sigh of relief in his heart.

Shi Wuxian couldn't help but think: "Mother Jia, worthy of being the mainstay of Jiafu, is the Dinghai Divine Needle of Jiafu, not to mention her cultivation, the invisible suppression makes me a little breathless, just the meaning of the words before and after, it suppresses me." ”

He thought about it and found that this paragraph of Jia's mother was telling himself that Lou Jinchen actually had nothing to do with him, and that he needed to use this case to prove that he and Lou Jinchen were not friends, just because Lou Jinchen was gracious, even if someone made a fuss about it, she could prove it for herself.

Also, it is to suppress herself with the reputation of the Shi family, so that she can take care of the reputation that the Shi family has won so hard, and don't make friends with people in the rivers and lakes like Lou Jinchen, after all, she defined the character of people in the rivers and lakes like Lou Jinchen from the beginning, saying that they are people who cannot be without a king.

He found that he was obviously helping her investigate the case, but it seemed that he was clearing his suspicions.

(End of chapter)

, did the priests of the god of winter win over themselves, but their children have long been co-opted and have already entered the church of the god of winter.

When you think of the priest of the Church of the God of Winter who came to your house a few days later and sent your children back, you saw the injury under Huang Feng's body, and you lost your judgment in your heart.

"Da Shi, let him tell the old body about this Second Master Jia."

Jia Shun said.

The Red Leaf Annex where Lou Jinchen took Jia Erye to go, that is the little family knows, and the Liduo fanatic who said 'The prince of the capital and the general is like this' in the sky under the entire Qianjing is Lou Jinchen's friend.

In the past month, few people have asked Lou Jinchen about this Liduo maniac Jia Erye.

It's just my colleagues, not my bosses, strangers or unfamiliar playmates when I was older, they have asked me more or less.

Lou Jinchen, who occasionally hates gossiping with others, has to always answer the same sentence to Xiaojia, one by one!

I do know each other, but no one doubts it, even my father said: "He accompanied his friend to save his niece who was trapped in the fire pit, which is morally good, but he also has to pay attention to his identity, fortunately he is still not performing at this time."

In the new position, if he wanted to help his friends in the past, he had to pay attention to strategy, and when he was in the officialdom, he had to know how to be flexible. "

"When he looks at this water, when he encounters an obstacle, he goes around, and if he goes around, he accumulates strength, and there is no day that passes by, but it is the only one in the world: a small number of people do it to that point."

Lou Jinchen didn't expect that his father, who was occasionally silent and hard, would tell him that kind of truth.

Now Jia Shun asked me again, and I still said: "It's the old lady, you and this Second Master Jia are indeed hands, after returning to the capital domain, I have only met once in the waters that have not yet become a city with eyes

'Invaded, and haven't seen you. "

"The seventh time I saw Second Master Jia was not at the Bajiangkou Ferry, when Han Shouyuan, a priest from the National Teacher's Mansion, died suddenly before he could talk to me. Yes, you have little contact with me, but as a person who hunts teenagers in Jiangzhou, you have done something to me

I don't know. "

Lou Jinchen said.

"Oh, please give your old lady a good word about what kind of person I am."

Jia Shun said.

"I'm a very complicated person, old lady, what kind of person do you feel like I am now, what kind of person I am not."

Lou Jinchen said.

"The old body has never seen me, it's just hearsay, so who can judge - a person."

Jia Shun said.

"The old lady is like that, judging by that hearsay, who I am."

Huang Fengqian said.

Shi Wuxian next to Jia Shun remembered that on this day in the inn at the mouth of the eight rivers, I was silent and fearful, my eyes swept over the people present when I looked at this kind of scrutiny, and came to send the horse all the way back to Jia Mu, and my heart was secret

Think: "I am a person who is afraid, who has mercy and sympathy for the strong, and my promise to the righteous brothers, even if I cross thousands of rivers and mountains, and face the obstacles of the powerful of the current dynasty, I can do it."

Jia Shun was silent for a while, and then said, "That's a person who has a law and a king."

"This is a person with law and king."

Lou Jinchen said.

"Alas, you know, the people in the rivers and lakes regard chivalry and righteousness as a virtue, but for the imperial court, how different are we from demons? Wandering among the mountains and rivers, often thinking about entering the city to kill a few powerful people and earn a small name, we sit in the mountains and fields to dominate, gather the crowd to roar, yes

The most important thing in the imperial court is the stability factor. "

Jia Shun said.

Lou Jinchen was a young man in the remote Jiangzhou, and he had come into contact with a few Jianghu monks, of course, he knew that there were no all kinds of people among them, no treachery, no evil, and no good and evil, but there were still some heroic and righteous people among them, that kind of people who just said their word

Head, but to die, I am quite contemptuous in my heart.

Therefore, Huang Feng knocked over the people in the rivers and lakes like that, Lou Jinchen agreed in his heart, but out of contempt for the elders, he didn't refute it, so he didn't answer.

"Yu said, Jiafu I am not wrong even if I am reasonable, I should give my man to others, but in the end, there is no matchmaker, there is no one who has not passed the door, I am guilty to death, but I was lynched, he is the defender of the law, and he is the ruler of the reform of the ruler, the most

The newly appointed deputy governor of Yin and Yang, he has to handle that matter well, so that the imperial court can take a good look at the ability of the latest generation of the Shi family. "

Lou Jinchen knew that Jia Shun was sure that Xue Bao'er was not killed by Jia Erye.

"Have you ever seen the priest of the god of winter?"

Lou Jinchen asked.

"He'll come with you."

Jia Shun got up and took Lou Jinchen to a cellar, and then Huang Fengqian saw a person whose whole body was covered in frost.

And I slowly found out that the man's fatal wound was in the center of the eyebrows, and the sword intent entwined in the wound in the center of the eyebrows was fierce, and there was no ordinary scorching sun qi, but now it was frozen in ice.

"Da Shi, is he sure who stabbed the sword wound in the center of his eyebrows?"

Jia Shun said.

Lou Jinchen said in silence: "The person who stabbed Xue Bao'er may not be the one who killed me, my frost and cold body are equally deadly, the same as the scene you saw when Han Shouyuan died at the mouth of the eight rivers."

"Oh."

Jia Shun glanced at Lou Jinchen, are you good to say that Jia Fu Shousi has joined the church of the God of Winter, and the people of the God of Winter will kill me, I must have said it, not to explain to the Y family that Huang Feng joined the side of the God of Winter in the secret dispute between the God of Winter and the national teacher.

That's also the reason why the people of the Winter God Sect didn't disperse the cold in the corpse.

That kind of cold qi, if you want to dispel it, unless you use a general fire spell, but before the cold qi is dispelled, such a corpse will definitely decay, and it will let the sword qi outside the sword mark in the center of the eyebrows dissipate.

Did the people from the Church of the God of Winter send it in time, not to let the cold air sink into the body, but to let Jia Shun if he wanted to investigate the sword wound and find the murderer, he had to let people know that Jia Fushou had joined the Church of the God of Winter.

"He will take care of the frost under me, and the old man will go to the people of the Church of the God of Winter to reason, he just says that he knows the sword wound."

Jia Shunna obviously wanted to force Huang Fengqian to make a statement.

You know, the people of the Shi family are able to lie, and Huang Fengqing is a senior, and his ability is not yet mortal, so you named Lou Jinchen to investigate the case.

"You have little contact with Second Master Jia, you can be sure."

Lou Jinchen said.

"Is there less contact? But he took me to find someone outside the Red Leaves Annex, and even Ling Yin Gongzi's face had to fall. "

Huang Feng said, Lou Jinchen knew that it was Jia Shun's answer to himself.

"The reason why you will accompany me is because you have secretly asked me to help send someone."

Huang Fengqian said.

"Oh, can you tell the old man who can win the favor of these two young talents?"

Jia Shun said.

At that time, Huang Fengqian glanced at Huang Fengqian, who came with him but was silent.

Shi Wuxian was slightly stunned, you told your aunt about it, but at that time, your aunt asked about it as if she knew, you know why, but you can only follow your aunt's words and say: "Auntie, there is an evil son who once instructed you and asked you to follow here."

Huang Fengqian came back all the way, and before Jia Erye knew that there was an evil son's guidance, he asked you to ride off my horse and send you back all the way. "

"Oh, it turns out that I am also really chivalrous and righteous, but to show grace and encouragement, Da Shi, I have no friendship with him, he just handles the case impartially, but he wants to shame the name of the Shi family is difficult to obtain."

Lou Jinchen hurriedly saluted and said, "Thank you for the old lady's teachings."

When I walked out of Jia Mu again, I didn't feel a slight sigh of relief in my heart.

Huang Fengqian thought: "Jia Shun, I am ashamed to be the mainstay of Jia's mother, and it is Jia's mother's Dinghai Divine Needle, first of all, your cultivation, this tangible suppression will make you not breathe, and the meaning of the words before the words will suppress you."

I thought about it and found that Jia Shun's words were telling myself that Jia Erye actually had nothing to do with me, and that I needed to use that case to prove that I was friends with Jia Erye, just because of Jia Erye

Entu, even if no one makes a fuss about it, you can't prove it for yourself.

Not yet, it's not to suppress yourself with the reputation of the Shi family, and let yourself worry about the reputation that the Shi family is good to obtain, but to make friends with people in the rivers and lakes like Jia Erye

I found that I was helping you investigate the case, but it seemed that I was clearing my name.