So Cui Yi tossed and turned on the bed, his heart ranging, his eyes stared, and he couldn't sleep. Then he thought: 'Maybe this is because I am too careful, the prince may not have so many eyes and ears, even if there is, An can meet it by chance?' Moreover, in a nameless inn...... the thought of this made his anxiety subside, and he was relieved not to think about the worst outcome.

"That person, don't you think it's suspicious?" A strong man dressed as an errand closed the door of the guest room and looked back at his colleague, frowning suspiciously.

"The one arguing in front of the counter?" Another duke, who was taking off his soap boots, replied to him, "It's a little suspicious, and he doesn't look like a flat-headed person." Moreover, in order to save his face, he threw two taels of silver, which was too bold. ”

"Do you want to check this person?" The strong man leaned against the door panel and asked.

"It must be investigated," the man replied crisply, "but before you and I were ordered to leave the capital, the prince had an order: do not startle the snake, and make a small noise." In my opinion, if he is a member of the Ye Thief Party, he will come from Beijing, and he will pass through several small counties along the way, and he will be interrogated when he enters the city. You can write down all his clothes and figure, and ask those county towns; If this is indeed the case, then our suspicions will not be far from ten. ”

"This is a very good plan, but I don't know his voice and appearance, these two clues are missing, and it will be very difficult to sound," the strong man came over and said, "It just so happens that I have also seen the portraits of the Ye Dang, such as Cui Yi and Minghuiguang; It's not very similar, but it's enough. Why don't you ask me to talk to him tomorrow, see his face, and probe his details. ”

"I'm afraid...... It will alert him. ”

The strong man sneered: "Don't worry, I have my own way!" ”

The next day, the rooster crowed, Cui Yi got up early, he was still not at ease in his heart, how dare he stay in the store for a long time, quickly put on his coat, and opened the door in a daze.

"Oh, don't go!"

Cui Yi was just about to go downstairs, when he suddenly heard someone shouting behind him, as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt, and his whole body couldn't move.

"Your name is Zeng Yuan?"

Cui Yi leaned on the stairs and turned around nervously, seeing a stout man, wearing a light gray cotton coat with several patches.

"You...... How do you know? Cui Yi was wary.

The man smiled and said, "I came to stay yesterday and was surprised to see this name from the shopkeeper's book. Because my surname is Zeng, I have a cousin named Zeng Yuan who I have never met, and I moved to the capital when I was a child. I don't know, but you? ”

"Where are you from?"

"It's local."

Cui Yi then made a gesture: "Then I'm sorry, I'm just having the same name as him, not one person." ”

The man was taken aback: "Oh, what a miracle this is...... What do you do? ”

"I'm in a hurry, aren't I going downstairs?"

The man hugged his fists, even said 'bother', and retreated. Cui Yi didn't hear that he had other intentions, so he let out a breath, thinking that he was a false alarm.

The strong man returned to the house, threw away the cotton clothes on his body, changed them back into official clothes, and said to his colleagues with a smile: "It's a certainty." You don't have to visit anymore! ”

"What? What's the news? The other asked, grabbing him by the sleeve.

The strong man said slowly: "I set a trap and said: 'My cousin moved to the capital when he was young', but he did not refute it, but even came to ask me where I came from. Think about it, if he is a foreigner, when he hears this, he knows that he is not his person, why bother to ask? It can be seen that he is also in the capital! ”

The man was overjoyed, and slapped him on the arm and said, "Wonderful! There's something extraordinary about you! Besides, what is his face and voice? ”

The strong man shook his head: "I didn't see the face, the face was extremely dirty, and he didn't have a beard; The voice is a little thin and not very loud. ”

"Hmm...... Now everything is complete, only one empirical evidence is missing. You and I hurry back to the yaya, follow this guy, don't let him run out of our sight! ”

"Phew, phew."

Cui Yi pulled the reins a little and parked the horse under the seat by the wall. He looked at the huge mansion in the distance and thought to himself, "This should be King Yi's mansion." Then he put away his whip and turned over and dismounted.

He walked out of the shade of the trees, looked at the soldiers who came and went in front of the palace, and suddenly hesitated, took a step backwards, touched his chin, and pondered.

Although I didn't meet any eyes and ears of the prince along the way, the process went so smoothly that people were a little frightened. I can't tell my real name to go in, so it's prudent. Thinking like this, he was about to step forward, but he paused again, 'Not good! I don't say my name or surname, but with the identity of the ordinary people now, I will definitely not be able to enter the house. So I was torn between a dilemma and a lot of wandering.

He gradually walked down the street, and saw a large signboard in front of a locked dilapidated house, which read 'Ten Texts for Splitting Characters', and next to him a gentleman in a straight shirt sat on a stone bench, putting pen, ink, paper, and inkstones on the stone table, and writing alone there.

"Yo, you're here to test words?" The gentleman suddenly looked up, and looked very young, but in his early twenties.

"Sir, how much money do you have a day to break down the words here?" Cui Yi looked at it and asked.

The man got up and smiled awkwardly: "It's been more than ten days since I split the words here, and there are only two or three guests, which is really deserted." ”

"Why don't you do something else?" Cui Yi continued to ask.

The fortune teller arched his hands and stammered and replied: "The little and the little are not talented, they only know how to read and write in their lives, and they have not read many books, let alone participate in the imperial examination." Only this skill of dismantling characters was learned by the old scholars in the village, so I was able to open here. ”

Cui Yi couldn't help but sigh: "I had the same experience as you in the past. They are all unemployed, unemployed, and unaccomplished, looking for work everywhere, and there is no hope for life. It's not easy to see you, count a hexagram. Alas, how is your level of word measurement? ”

"The little one, the little stupid, has only learned a little fur from the old pedant, and it is not even a ...... fur," the gentleman lowered his head, a few beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face was full of shame, "The few guests came, and I only thought that I would not offend others, so I did everything I could to please him, and said that all the evil was good, and all the bad were good, and I was really ashamed." ”

Cui Yi smiled bitterly: "This is not easy for you, but no one blames you." But you can say this passage, which is very respectable. Those well-dressed men are not as good as gentlemen like you! ”

"Thank you, thank you!" The gentleman burst into tears of gratitude.