Zhao Asan brightened up, and said with a straight face: "Wang Hou? …… You wait, I'll report. With that, he strode in. Chen Xiaoqi stared at the silver in Wang Hou's hand, and several people around him were expressionless, and said, "Zhao Asan is this virtue...... Hey, poor sour boy, I don't hear your accent is local, where are you? "Down there is the Luzhou people." When Chen Xiaoqi heard Wang Hou say this, he was even more sure in his heart.

The prefect's name is Wang Rong, a native of Hangzhou. Chen Xiaoqi heard him report his name, which was somewhat close to the name of the prefect, and then looked at Wang Hou's fearless and triumphant posture, and thought that this scholar was a relative of the prefect, and only after asking did he know that he was not related to him, so he pointed to the open mouth of the lion next to him: "Here." ”

Wang Hou didn't know what he meant by "here", but when he saw him staring at the silver in his hand, he understood, answered the hello, held the silver ingot in his hand, and suddenly rose slowly, drew a circle in front of Chen Xiaoqi, folded and flew into the lion's mouth. Needless to say, Chen Xiaoqi didn't need to say it, the other six people's eyes were wide open, and they were stunned there one by one with a killing stick.

At this moment, Zhao Asan's three steps came out and said to Wang Hou: "Scholar, you are lucky today, the prefect is just free, go in quickly." After passing through this head hall, I went all the way through the courtyard and saw the lobby. Seeing that you are a scholar, you should know the etiquette, but I still remind you that you remember to kowtow when you enter the second hall. ”

Wang Houlian thanked him and crossed the one-foot-high threshold, and the pillars and beams in the head hall were tall and exquisitely carved, and the windows were inlaid with wooden lattice carvings. It's just that he didn't have time to look closely, so he took a few dozen steps forward, crossed a high threshold, and entered a spacious courtyard, with the East Flower Hall on one side and the West Flower Hall on the other.

Looking up, I saw that in the second hall in front of me, one person was sitting in the middle, and one person was sitting on each side, the one on the left was a long beard, the one on the right was a fat face, and there were some people standing on the side. Wang Hou retracted his gaze and stopped looking around, stepped in with square steps, and saluted with fists: "I have seen the prefect of Wang Hou's mansion in Xia......" "Bold, don't kneel down yet!" The fat-faced man sitting on the right shouted in a deep voice.

The man in the middle was in his fifties, wearing a black gauze hat with a majesty on his face, wearing a crimson robe and embroidered with cloud geese. During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, the government was divided into three classes, and the grain of more than 200,000 stone was the upper house, the lower 200,000 stone was the middle house, the lower house was less than 100,000 stones, the Fuzhou house was the middle house, and the prefect was the fourth grade, so the scarlet robe was embroidered with cloud geese.

The white-clothed scholar in front of the meeting of the prefect Wang was neither humble nor arrogant, not like ordinary people, he was already vigilant in his heart, stretched out his hand to stop the fat face, and asked, "What are you looking for me?" Wang Hou didn't want to say more, he had already taken the sheep fat jade wrench in his hand, and gently sent it, and the wrench slowly moved forward, floating in front of the Wang Governor's Mansion.

The prefect of the Wang's mansion was stunned, took it with both hands and looked at it for a moment, hurriedly got up and walked to the hall, landed on his knees, arched his hands, and bowed to the ground with his forehead: "The lower official greets the prince!" When everyone on the left and right saw the prefect perform this great salute, they all suddenly changed color and hurriedly knelt on the ground. The situation in front of Wang Hou made Wang Hou a little determined, this jade wrench finger was given by Emperor Zhu Di, after coming out of Beijing, only half a month ago when he went out of Lichuan County, he was intercepted by the soldiers guarding the city, and it didn't work, and finally under the guidance of the old Daogu, it took twenty or thirty taels to get out of the city.

The night before yesterday in Minqing, after the owner of Jishan Gate left, when everyone discussed how to deal with the robbery of Wanshihui and Dongshan Island, Li Zhixian finally proposed: If you plan it, if you don't fight hard with them, let them snatch the goods. Then, Wang Hou held the jade wrench and asked the government to come forward to settle the matter, and then he deliberately let President Pan and Liu Island take the goods in the Phoenix Mountain at noon yesterday.

The prefect of the palace didn't hear any movement for a long time, and when he looked up and saw that the prince was silent, he was even more shocked, and he didn't know what he was wrong, so he said in a low voice: "I don't know that the prince is here, and he has never greeted him from afar, and I ask for forgiveness." Wang Hou came back to his senses at this time, he was worried that the prefect Wang would not recognize this jade wrench, if that was the case, he could only ask President Pan and Lord Liu for the goods. At this time, seeing everyone kneeling, he said slowly: "Governor Wang, get up." ”

Hearing this, the prefect of Wang stood up, and the other people also stood up. Wang Hou said unhurriedly: "I didn't want to alarm the prefect, but I just ran into a little trouble in Fuzhou, so I came over." Cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the prefect Wang, and he stammered: "The subordinate officials should be damned, the subordinate management is not effective, and it has brought trouble to the prince...... I don't know who dares to provoke the prince? ”

Wang Hou glanced around, let the servants on both sides retreat, and told him what had happened. Wang Zhifu didn't know what was going on before, but when he heard it, he knew that it was not his fault, so he calmed down a little and said busily: "The lower officials heard that Wanshihui is under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou Mansion and Dongshan Island is under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou Prefecture. Please calm the king's anger, and I will send someone to investigate this matter thoroughly. ”

Wang Hou knew that the prefect could only maintain general law and order, and in the event of a major rebellion, he could only mobilize troops and horses after obtaining permission to join forces with the local general army. But if you want to come to Wanshihui and Dongshan Island, you will not be bold enough to dare to confront the government, so she snorted: "Well, I will give the Wang Governor's Mansion a day, and I can only tell them that Wandongyuan is a ruthless gang looking for them to ask for goods, and nothing else can be mentioned." I have other things to do now, so I won't bother with them. ”

Hearing his tone, Governor Wang's tone softened, and wiped a cold sweat: "Yes, yes, where does the prince live?" Do you want to send someone to protect it? Wang Hou thought for a moment, after all, the Salt Gang and the Tea Horse Gang are both illegal gangs, at least Mingli can't have anything to do with the government, and it's not good for himself and the Wang Governor's Mansion, so he said: "There is no need for protection, the Wang Governor's Mansion knows where the largest restaurant in the city is?" ”

Governor Wang replied: "Donghai Restaurant is in the east of the city. "Well, I'll dine there at noon tomorrow, and ask the prefect to send someone to explain the investigation to me, no matter what, to ensure that the goods are intact, otherwise I have to ask you." After that, he didn't wait for the prefect Wang to say anything, turned around and walked out.

Outside the yamen, Chen Xiaoqi glanced at Zhao Asan: "Hey, that poor scholar hasn't come out for so long, he won't be invited into the West Flower Hall, right?" "The West Flower Hall in the compound is the place of execution, and the East Flower Hall is the place to receive guests and friends. Hearing him say this, Zhao Asan said roughly: "Although the scholar has never seen the world, his eyes are clear, he must be a nobleman, and his surname is Wang, so he must be the prefect's ......."

As he was talking, he saw the scholar wearing a Taoist hat and pacing out, and behind him, the prefect of the Wang Mansion followed suit, and slammed to the ground: "The prince walks slowly, and the next official will definitely wait for him at noon tomorrow." The reader didn't look back, and left with a wave of his hand.

Several errand officers have never seen this kind of situation, one by one they were stunned with a killing stick, and when there was a loud sound, Chen Xiaoqi's killing stick fell to the ground, and the bones rolled out.

Wang Hou walked out of the mansion, looked at the jade wrench in his hand, and couldn't help but think of what the old Taoist said, "This wrench is a palace thing, where did you get it?" …… Those soldiers are of humble status, where can they recognize this thing? "I have a little respect for the old Daogu, I don't know if she has any major problems after she was injured, where did she go?

Wang Hou went straight back to the helm of the Salt Gang and asked about the progress of the investigation of Zhang Yizhen's murder, when he was in the palace, he did not say that the Salt Gang and the Tea Horse Gang were poisoned, which is different from Wanshihui and Dongshan Island, because Wandongyuan is a gang organization and is controlled by the government, but it is like secretly poisoning, which is purely a contradiction in the rivers and lakes, and the government can do nothing.

Lord Chen replied, "The people who were sent out have not returned. Wang Hou nodded, his own things went well, so he came back early, it seems that he can only wait for lunch to talk, so he told Chen Duo about his going to the mansion, the night before yesterday when everyone discussed together, Chen Duo was still suspicious of Li Zhixian's words, I didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and he was even more impressed by the envoy in front of him.

Wang Hou told a few words and asked Master Chen to continue to monitor Wandong Garden. Walking back to the bedroom, when I passed by the bedrooms of Liu Hanyan and Zhou Qingzhu, I saw that the door was open, but it was quiet inside, and I couldn't help but be a little surprised: How many people ran out? Don't you want them to be in the rudder? The probe glanced inside, and saw Liu Hanyan, Zhou Qingzhu, Li Zhixian, and Jin Minhui sitting around the square table, bowing their heads and busy, and another woman walking back and forth, as if pointing something.

Wang Hou coughed, the five people in the room were startled, Liu Hanyan looked up and saw that it was Wang Hou, and shouted: "Nerd, come in, come in, take off your clothes." Wang Hou couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and muttered: "Take off your clothes in broad daylight?" ......"What, bad thing, thinking about it again, come in!" ”

Wang Hou walked into the room, only to see four silk handkerchiefs spread on the square table, the four of them held embroidery needles in their hands, and were embroidering something on the handkerchief with gold thread, Wang Hou looked at it one by one, Zhou Qingzhu embroidered the word "Zhou", Li Zhixian embroidered the word "Li", Jin Zhixian embroidered the word "gold", and Liu Hanyan embroidered the crooked word "Wang",

"This is the envoy?" Wang Hou raised his head when he heard the sound, it was the woman who had just pointed out the four people, about twenty-four or five years old, with thin eyebrows and apricot eyes, and she was born small and exquisite. Before Wang Hou could answer, he heard Liu Hanyan rush to say: "What kind of envoy, just call him a nerd, a nerd, haven't you seen Sister Chen?" ”

Zhou Qingzhu smiled and said: "Sister Chen, it's better for you to call the envoy, if you really call a nerd, I'm afraid someone will be unhappy." "Hey, Sister Zhou, who would be unhappy?" But it was Jin Minhui who was asking, her eyes staring at Liu Hanyan. Liu Hanyan gestured the embroidery needle in his hand to Jin Minhui: "What do you think I'm doing?" ”

Li Zhixian laughed softly: "Brother Wang, Sister Chen is the daughter of Lord Chen's helm, named Chen Qian, and she is teaching us embroidery." Chen Qian gave Wang Hou a blessing: "The little woman has seen the envoy." Wang Hou hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It turned out to be Miss Chen, who was not only born beautiful, but also skillful, and was teaching the four elders embroidery?" ”

Liu Hanyan looked proud: "Nerd, I'll test you, do you know when this Fuzhou embroidery originated?" It was the first time Wang Hou had seen her tone in a crepe tone, and he took a deep seat: "I don't know about Xiaosheng, and I hope that Miss Liu will give advice." ”