Early morning.

Song Ran woke up from Liang Yuan's residence where the secret detectives were stationed.

There are two courtyards and twelve branches under the command of the secret detective, but the world only knows that its main mansion is adjacent to Weiyang Palace, and it is a building complex with five entrances and five exits.

But no one knows that Liang Yuan, the head of the secret investigation, is actually not the core.

In the underground of the main mansion, there is another underground palace, and part of the area coincides with the underground area of the front hall square of the Weiyang Palace, which stores many secret files of secret detectives to investigate the world.

This is the real core of the secret investigation.

The leader of the Secret Investigation Mansion is called the Secret Detective Order, and his status is not below Jiuqing, and he is chasing after the three dukes. But from the moment he took over the secret investigation system, he vowed not to leave the secret investigation institute for the rest of his life.

He will live and die with the secrets of the Great Han, the secrets of the royal family.

Early in the morning, Song Ran received an order to enter the real secret investigation house from a dark alley behind Liang Yuan.

There is a courtyard on the east side of the front hall of Weiyang Palace, and few people know what this courtyard is for.

There is a four-story tower in the courtyard, which is the only building on the ground of the secret investigation dungeon, and it needs to be entered through the beam garden outside, through the underground or through the dark alleys connected to it.

Song Ran is a registered disciple of the leader of the secret detectives.

She was now called to the fourth floor of the central tower of the Secret Investigation.

"Master."

The one who called her over was the secret detective order, one of the most trusted courtiers of the Son of Heaven, Ru Bohu.

He is 51 years old this year, and he is a concurrently cultivating yin and yang, vertical and horizontal. When Liu Che was the crown prince, he was a close minister of the prince.

"You have been following Huo Shizhong for the past few days, what judgment do you have on him, tell me."

Ru Bohu has a thin and long face, and it is not ordinary long, it is very long, and it looks a little ugly at first glance.

But he has a pair of restrained looks, as if he has seen through the world but retains innocent eyes, black as ink.

His voice was gentle, his figure was also tall and thin, he was dressed in a black robe, with a wide belt of jade checkered squares tied around his waist, holding a bamboo scroll in his hand, and reading a book.

Huo Shizhong, the apprentice couldn't see his depth clearly. After a few days of contact, I found some of his outstanding features.

The apprentice found that he seemed to be able to perceive everything, and his judgment was so sharp that the apprentice had only seen it in Shizun. The apprentice followed Huo Shizhong to do things, and he has not seen any mistakes so far, every time he gives an order, he will gain something later. Song Ran said.

Ru Bohu snorted, neither spoke nor looked up, but just motioned for Song Ran to continue.

Song Ran said while recalling: "Huo Shizhong told me to investigate Liu Huai's matter, let me try to start with the cultivation of the female prisoner Xia Jie, as well as the secret path hidden in Liu's mansion.

He also said that Xiao Ying was tracking Xia Jie at that time, but he was interfered with halfway and chased Xia Jie away, this matter seems to have many possibilities, but with Xiao Ying's experience, Xia Jie should not have the ability to get rid of Xiao Ying alone.

Huo Shizhong said that he had a feeling at that time that there was still a person hiding in secret who helped Xia Jie get out.

This person needs to have the ability to interfere with the orientation of the earth.

And if the other party wants to make a timely move, it is likely that Xiao Ying and Xia Jie were not far away at that time, so Huo Shizhong could have an induction.

Combined with the direction at the time, delineate the distance, and let us screen the people with the ability to interfere within this range. ”

"Has he ever pointed out other characteristics of the person who secretly helped Xia Jie escape?"

"Having said that, he said that the other party is most likely one of the two lineages of Confucianism or Yin-Yang School."

Song Ran said: "Confucianism holds the context, and it is not difficult to secretly turn the image upside down. It is even easier for the Yin and Yang family to communicate with the world. ”

After hearing this, Ru Bohu nodded lightly as if he was a little satisfied, and finally put down the scroll in his hand, picked up a brush with a bamboo pole, and marked it on the scroll.

Song Ran saw that on the bamboo slip in Ru Bohu's hand, Huo Quai's name was actually written.

After the name, there are different labels such as strategy, cultivation, potential, character, talent, etc.

Ru Bohu wrote the word Shang Ke in the column corresponding to the calculation.

And the other corresponding items of Huo Qu's disease are all marked as acceptable.

Song Ran was surprised and said, "What is the master doing, evaluating Huo Shizhong?" ”

"Nothing to do is not an assessment."

"Huo Shizhong...... The master only gave a Shang Ke? Song Ran was surprised.

"Shang Ke is not low." Ru Bohu said with a smile.

Song Ran couldn't help but ask: "What about the apprentice, if the master assesses the apprentice, what grade will he give?" ”

Ru Bohu thought about it very seriously: "My evaluation is divided into, not in the stream, inferior, mortal, acceptable, outstanding, and excellent." You, the difference is very average, all of them are inferior. ”

Song Ran was stunned, and his mentality collapsed a little.

I'm very poor, all inferior?

Song Ran was broken and blurted out: "I always thought that the master chose me as a disciple because I showed off my talents. ”

"Hehe, you think too much, it's not easy to be inferior, it's quite rare, that's why I chose you."

"Master, don't I have anything outstanding in any of them, is it really all inferior?" Song Ran was a little unrelenting.

"It's not all inferior, your appearance is acceptable, and your character is acceptable."

Ru Bohu sprinkled salt on the wound: "But there is no appearance column in my evaluation, you can consider adding it in the future, then you will have a good one." ”

Song Ran lost his soul and was depressed, but he still didn't recover for a while, and laughed at himself: "So the master attaches great importance to Huo Shizhong, and his apprentices are all inferior, but Huo Shizhong is all acceptable." ”

"No, no, Huo Quzhi has two excellent grades, and I will be ready to adjust them in a while.

And his assessment is not the final assessment at the moment, and there is still room for improvement in the future. ”

Ru Bohu looked at his apprentice and explained one more sentence:

"There are some things you don't understand, I am internal, and now the soldiers, Confucianism, and law are in dispute, and Confucianism is promoting the improvement of Taixue, and they want to use Confucian ideas to set rules for the people of the world.

This move is of great benefit to His Majesty's stability of the government and the opposition and long-term peace and stability, so the prosperity of Confucianism is unstoppable. ”

Ru Bohu almost said to himself: "But at the same time, Your Majesty has the ambition of surrendering to the four Yi and expanding the territory, and the war is indispensable in the future."

Huo Qu's illness may be the key to the internal and external disputes between the three schools of war, law, and Confucianism.

He is a game-breaker, and if he can always maintain courage and diligence in the future, he may change the direction of the world.

First of all, of course, he survived......"

"Okay, you go, try your best to assist Huo Shizhong, I was afraid that he would grow too slowly, but a few days ago, the sympathy of qi and machine, the changes of heaven and earth, he was much faster than the teacher estimated, enough for those Confucian people to have a headache."

Ru Bohu finally smiled meaninglessly: "You go and send the results of the investigation to Huo Shizhong." ”

"What findings?"

Song Ran said unexpectedly: "The apprentice hasn't found anything new yet. ”

"The third book pavilion on the left side of the third floor downstairs, there is a secret scroll on the second floor, which is what Huo Shizhong wants you to check, and soon after the teacher summed it up, he asked you to investigate this matter, and you just took it to him." Rubo Tiger Road.

This time, Song Ran was quite calm, and she was not surprised by her master's unpredictable and prophetic ability.

Song Ran turned around and left.

Ru Bohu sat there and muttered to himself: "You are not all inferior, there is one that is excellent, but as a teacher, I can't tell you at the moment." ”

Song Ran came to Huo Mansion near noon.

"Huo Shizhong wants to go out?"

Song Ran saw Huo Quai, who came out at the gate of Huo's mansion.

What surprised her was that she hadn't seen her for one night, and this Huo Shizhong seemed to have more temperament that she didn't have before, and there was an indescribable feeling, which made her unconsciously attracted.

This is actually the reason for the beauty scheme, Huo Quzhi's talent strategy was used for the first time last night, and it blended with himself, and he had some inexplicable luck.

"I'm going to your secret investigation institute, let's go."

It was inconvenient to ride a horse in the city, so Huo Qubing boarded the double-wheeled carriage at the door and set off for the secret investigation institute.

"This is what Huo Shizhong asked me to investigate." Song Ran said.

Huo Quzhi took the secret scroll she handed over from the carriage, flipped through it casually, and his expression quickly became positive.

The secret scroll says that one of the nine Qings, Taichang's Dazai Palace Shiyu, the first realm of heaven and man practice, Confucianism.

Liu Cheng, the eunuch (eunuch) of the middle palace under the command of Guanglu Xun, one of the nine Qings, walked in Changle Palace, secretly cultivating the yin and yang line.

The translator under the command of Daxing Ling, Lu Xun, practiced Confucianism......

There are more than 20 names recorded in this secret volume, the highest one involves Jiuqing, and the lowest is also a subordinate official of Jiuqing.

These officials all have the ability to interfere with Xiao Ying's pursuit of Xia Jie.

To Huo Qu's surprise, the secret scroll also included eunuchs, and there were eunuchs in Changle Palace who were good at cultivating yin and yang.

And the secret detective obviously had information, but he didn't touch these people, and let them stay in their original position.

Huo Quzhi didn't need to ask Song Ran, he knew that it was the secret detective behind her, who was taking the opportunity to show favor to herself, and also to warn herself that the matter to be involved was very deep, and even he didn't dare to set foot easily.

It's so much at stake...... Huo Qu said sickly.

He was in the carriage, tapping his fingers lightly on the side of his legs, lost in thought.

If you want to find out the people who interfered with Xiao Ying's pursuit of Xia Jie, to find out the deeper hidden person behind it, this direction of investigation is obviously unworkable, the number of targets is large and some people are sensitive, the cost of investigation is too high, it is better to change the direction directly.