Out of the courtyard of Wu Baihu's office, Shen Chai thought for a moment after sighing at the danger of the infighting in the Daomen, and then walked towards the signing room of the 100 households.

Wu Haifu wanted to win over himself, whether it was to let him be promoted to the general flag or wear the "thin tiger knife", it was just a small favor from Wu Baihu, and he must not be allowed to work hard for Wu Haifu, so he could bear it with peace of mind and did not need to worry too much.

It's just that the handle of accepting bribes from Tang Da is still in Wu Haifu's hands, as long as Wu Haifu pinched this handle to the death, then he had to take refuge under Wu Baihu, under Zhang Qianhu, and under Zhengyi.

Shen Chai was even thinking about how good it would be if Li Sanxin found out that he had this handle - in this Luzhou, the power of Taiping Dao was much stronger than Zhengyi, and his future of taking refuge under Taiping Dao would definitely be much brighter than that of taking refuge under Zhengyi.

Since you have to take refuge in the three paths of the Daomen, it is not impossible to choose a better way out.

Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world.

While thinking wildly, Shen Chai had already come to the signing room of the 100 households.

High test 100 households, surname Gao Gong, long respect, in Longshu County 100 households boiled for most of the life to get to the position of 100 households.

Gao Gong is the real head snake in the hundred households, and he is also the kind of senior old man who is indispensable in every yamen, proficient in the affairs of the entire hundred households, and is the right-hand man of the chief officer Wu Haifu.

As for why Gao Gong wanted to help Wu Haifu, the chief officer who was airborne, it was not something that Shen Chai should worry about, what he had to worry about now was to quickly change his saber.

Being able to wear the "thin tiger knife" is a status symbol of Qingluanwei, and it is also an honor.

Although the "thin tiger knife" is the standard configuration of Qingluanwei, but in Qingluanwei, not everyone can hang the "thin tiger knife", ordinary captains and wrestlers do not have this kind of treatment, at least there must be an official to a small flag, so most of the low-level Qingluan guards carry the "long sheep knife".

Even if it is the small flag officer of Qingluanwei, not everyone has the qualification to wear the "thin tiger knife", and in the entire Qingluanwei, the characters who can wear the "thin tiger knife" in the position of small flag officer can be regarded as good hands.

At least among the twenty small flags in the hundred households in Longshu County, there are only three who can wear the "Thin Tiger Knife", and all of them have reached the cultivation stage of the acquired person.

Now, he Shen Chai is the fourth person - this "four" homonym is not very good.

When the 100 households saw Shen Chai coming, they didn't put up any shelf, politely brought him into the signing room, and were not so surprised to hear his intentions, leading Shen Chai to Liu Zongqi, who was in charge of logistics equipment under him, and personally selected an almost new "thin tiger knife" for him, which was handed over to Shen Chai with a sense of ceremony.

From this point of view, Wu Haifu and Gao Gong must have passed the qi in advance, and Gao Xian Baihu knew that he Shen Chai would defect to Wu Baihu today, so he prepared this knife in advance.

Thinking of Liu Zongqi's eyes when he changed the knife, Shen Chai was sure that Liu Zongqi, who was about to become a leader, also knew that he had taken refuge in Wu Baihu's hands.

However, these two are considered to be Wu Baihu's cronies, and Liu Zongqi is about to leave these hundred households, and he will not reveal his identity as an undercover agent to Li Sanxin in the future.

After thanking Liu Zongqi and the 100 households of the high test, Shen Chai left the treasury of the 100 households and walked towards Li Sanxin's signing room.

No matter who he secretly took refuge into, on the surface, he was Li Sanxin's subordinate.

On the way there, Shen chased around and saw that there was no one, quietly pulled out the saber at his waist, and looked at it carefully. I saw that this knife is three feet long, the handle is six inches long, the back is thick and thin, the spine is straight, the blade is slightly arced, the weight is nine catties and nine taels, the hair is blown and broken, and the edge is exposed.

After watching it, Shen Chai inserted the "thin tiger knife" back into the scabbard at his waist, let out a sullen breath, and accelerated the pace of his feet.

……

In the 100 households in Longshu County, a sign room.

A Qing Luanwei, dressed in a cyan narrow-sleeved brocade robe, tied a jade belt around his waist, with a black iron eye-catching white-fronted tiger head hanging on the jade belt, and official boots with a black face and white background and a square head on his feet, sat lazily behind the table, casually flipping through a book, and a "thin tiger knife" also hung from his waist.

This person was Li Sanxin, who was sent to Longshu County because he made a mistake.

He wasn't on duty today, so he naturally acted casually.

Just as Li Sanxin wanted to turn the script to the next page, there was a sudden knock on the door of the signing room, and he had to put the script in his hand on the table first, and the person outside the door came in.

A young man about twenty-four or five years old walked into the room and saluted Li Sanxin respectfully, his clothes were not much different from Li Sanxin's, but there was no jade belt around his waist, and the tiger head had also become a black iron beast head.

The person who came was Shen Chai.

Li Sanxin nodded in response, took the script on the table back in his hand, glanced at the "thin tiger knife" on Shen Chai's waist, put his gaze back on the script, looked through a few pages as if casually, and asked, "I'm back, why did I change the knife?" ”

Shen Chai's face was as usual, and he deliberately made a little happy and said: "Back to the adult's words, my subordinates went home to rest on the Shangyuan Festival, and when they meditated and cultivated, they felt something, and by chance they entered the cultivation stage. ”

Hearing this, Li Sanxin raised his head and stared at Shen Chai's face for a long time, before he said leisurely: "You entered the cultivation in your twenties, and you can be regarded as having some cultivation talent in this hundred households, since it is the 'thin tiger knife' that the hundred households have rewarded you with, then you can wear it." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Sanxin got up and came to Shen Chai's side, patted him on the shoulder in a pretended gesture, and said in a fake manner: "Work hard, after Liu Zongqi retires next year, I will guarantee you to take over the position of General Banner." ”

"Coincidentally, not long ago, a person surnamed Wu also told me the same thing." Shen chased the belly, but he still pretended to be flattered, and thanked him again and again: "Thank you for your cultivation, your subordinates can't repay your subordinates for your kindness, and your subordinates will definitely ...... in the future."

Li Sanxin raised his hand to interrupt this loyal nonsense, looked at Shen Chai with an inexplicable look, and said: "You don't have to wait until the 'future', you should perform well tonight, if this errand is done well, your position as the general flag will be certain." ”

Shen Chai was surprised, and asked curiously: "Dare to ask my lord, what kind of errand is it?" Lord Hyakunhe didn't tell me anything. ”

"Mouthy, is this what you should ask? I think you're stupid for eating Lantern Festival, and you even forgot the rules of Qingluanwei. Li Sanxin glared at him and continued: "You just need to remember that this errand is very simple, and there is a lot of oil and water, and the credit is not small, but it took me some effort to grab it, so it can't go wrong, understand?" ”

Shen Chai didn't dare to ask anything more, so he could only nod again and again and respond to this order.

Li Sanxin sat back on the table, picked up the notebook, and said back to his lazy appearance: "Go down and tell your subordinates that they will gather at the door of the hundred households at three o'clock tonight, and all the people must be present for this operation, and they must not take leave." Before the start of the operation, no one who knows about it is allowed to leave the gate of these hundred households, and is not allowed to contact outsiders. ”

Shen Chai replied: "My subordinates understand, my subordinates will go and inform their subordinates about this matter, and they will definitely not let tonight's actions go wrong." ”

Li Sanxin nodded, continued to look at the notebook in his hand, and said to Shen Chai: "Go down, you don't need to bring the door, this room is too stuffy, it's good to ventilate." ”

Shen Chai saluted and slowly exited Li Sanxin's signing room.

……

On the seventeenth day of the first month, three o'clock in the first month.

More than 50 Qingluanwei lieutenants and wrestlers, under the leadership of ten small banners, waited quietly at the gate of the 100 households in Longshu County.

As the leader of the team, Li Sanxin wore an official uniform that tried hundreds of households, straddled the "thin tiger knife" at his waist, and rode a black horse, which was at the forefront of the Qingluan guards.

Behind him were two Qingluan Wei banners who were also riding tall horses.

I saw a general flag rider come to Li Sanxin's side, and said softly: "My lord, the ten small flag officers and their subordinate wrestler captains have all arrived, do you want to set off now?" ”

Li Sanxin, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating, opened his eyes and ordered: "To go, you must arrive at the predetermined location just before Zi Shi. ”

According to the timekeeping method of the Western Continent, two hours are an hour, the sub-hour corresponds to 23 o'clock to 1 o'clock, the ugly hour corresponds to 1 o'clock to 3 o'clock, and so on.

In the old days, the twelve hours were subdivided into hundreds, and each hour was divided into eight quarters, for a total of ninety-six quarters, with four quarters remaining. And the four quarters shall be two hundred and forty quarters, and each hour shall be twenty quarters.

Nowadays, the Daomen has simplified the method of timekeeping to 12 hours and 96 minutes, each quarter is 15 minutes, removing the small quarters, and each hour is eight quarters, that is, the beginning, the first day, the second day, the third hour, the first day, the first one, the second one, and the end.

Zi Shi Zheng is 24 o'clock in the morning under the Western timekeeping method.

The general flag led the order, and then the whole team of Qingluan guards lined up under the leadership of Li Sanxin and set off, looking from a distance, this flow of people seemed to turn into a green snake ready to go out to forage, spitting snake letters, ready to give the prey a fatal blow with its fangs.

Longshu County is not big, so the Qingluan guards did arrive at the location where they were going to do it tonight within the stipulated time.

It was a big mansion, and there was already a small flag officer of Qingluanwei who was ambushing and monitoring outside the courtyard with his subordinates, and when he saw everyone coming, the little flag officer hurriedly took four of his subordinates to meet him.

Standing outside this mansion, looking at the plaque with gold letters on a black background above the gate, a drop of cold sweat crossed Shen Chai's forehead, and his heart "banged".

Because there are two big characters on the plaque: "Tang House".

There have been strict rules on the name of the residence since ancient times, and no matter which dynasty it is, it is in the same line. Generally speaking, the ruling and princes are called mansions, the remaining officials are called houses, and the common people are called homes. The palace and hall are exclusively for the royal family, and those who use them without permission are regarded as trespassers.

In this dynasty, when the residence of the first and second grade officials and princes of the dynasty is called the house, the houses of other officials are called houses, and the houses of the common people are called homes, so there are prime minister's mansions, Shangshu mansions, bachelor's mansions, generals' mansions, as well as palaces, public mansions, and Hou mansions, and then there is no one who can be called a mansion. Then there are local governors' mansions and governor's mansions, which are actually official offices, or governors, governors and other feudal officials temporarily live in the official offices, and take the official offices as their homes, and this "mansion" is actually the official government's mansion.

As for the Daomen, it is this palace and that house, it is naturally unruly, but there is no way, the Daomen is powerful, no one can take him, power may not be the truth, but it can establish rules. And since ancient times, Taoist Buddhist temples have the name of palaces and halls, strictly speaking, these palaces are not used by Taoist priests and monks, but are dedicated to Taoist ancestors and Buddhas, Taoist priests and monks temporarily live here as people who serve, and the royal family can not be opposed to the gods and Buddhas of Mantian, which is a special case.

This family can hang a plaque of "soup house", indicating that someone in the family is an official, or the ancestor has been an official, but he has not been able to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister, and he cannot be called a house.

As a public person, and Qingluanwei, who still has to deal with countless officials, looking at plaques is just a basic skill, not a special ability.

The problem is that among the county officials of Longshu County, there is no official surnamed "Tang", but the Tang Datang shopkeeper who hosted a banquet for Shen Chai yesterday, his grandfather used to be the magistrate of Taishun County, Dongou Prefecture, Jiangzhou, and moved his family to Longshu County after Zhishi, so he is qualified to use the word "house" on the plaque.

Could it be that I am going to raid the soup shopkeeper's house today?!

Without waiting for Shen Chai to continue to think deeply, Li Xian Baihu called their small flags and general flags to his side, ready to explain the errand and assign tasks.

Li Sanxin patiently waited for everyone to gather in front of him, and then beckoned the little flag in charge of monitoring and asked, "What's the matter, have you ever found anything abnormal?" ”

The little flag replied: "My lord, my subordinates took ten brothers to monitor this soup house, guarding the front door, the back door, each small door and even the courtyard walls for a day, and I didn't see anyone coming in or out. ”

Li Sanxin nodded with satisfaction, and asked that Xiaoqi to take his subordinates to rest for a while, before explaining to everyone: "According to the information sent by Huzhou Qianhu, this Tang Da is a member of the secret association 'Heavenly Court', and our task today is to arrest Tang Da, confiscate his home, and strive to combat the arrogance of the 'Heavenly Court'!" ”

Li Sanxin paused, glanced at the people around him, and finally stopped his gaze on Shen Chai, and ordered: "Wang Zongqi, you take your subordinates to firmly surround this soup house for me, and you are not allowed to let go of a demon." Nie Zongqi, you take Shen Xiaoqi and them to search for Tang Da, remember not to take his life, and his family will also be imprisoned and brought back to the hundred households for careful interrogation. ”

The two general banners led the order, Wang Zongqi took five small flags and twenty-five wrestler captains under his command to block the surroundings of the Tang Mansion, and Nie Zongqi also took Shen to chase them to the gate of the Tang Mansion, preparing to forcibly break into it.

Before breaking the door, Nie Zongqi looked at the saber on Shen Chai's waist and said to his subordinates: "After breaking the door and entering the Tang Mansion, immediately search the whole house, and no one can let go." Shen Xiaoqi, it's up to you to go to the study and bedroom to search for Tang Da, and don't let him escape. ”

Shen Chai had a lot of thoughts in his heart, but he still accepted this order with a calm face.

If you really want to meet Tonda, you must first dislocate that guy's jaw, lest he bite himself out loud.

As the door was slammed open with a "bang", more than 20 Qingluan Weilux quickly rushed into the soup house, and then scattered in all directions, going to search for the demons of the secret association throughout the soup house.

Shen Chai took the five wrestlers under his command and went straight to the study of the soup house, asking Tang Da to feast on his blessings, and he knew where the study of the soup shopkeeper was.

But on the way to the study, Shen Chai suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart - it was too quiet, except for the footsteps of various Qingluanwei, there was no sound in the huge soup house.

The uneasiness caused by this strange appearance gradually magnified as Shen chased forward, and finally reached its climax when they slammed open the door of the study.

I saw that the Tang shopkeeper who was still talking and laughing with Shen Chai yesterday, and the demon Tang Da, who had a secret association "Heavenly Court", was being hung on the beam of the room by a white silk horse, and he was already dead of anger.

Looking at Tang Dana's pupils that rolled out the whites of his eyes because of the hanging, the fat tongue protruding from his mouth, and his hideous face that was purple due to lack of oxygen, Shen Chai couldn't help but swallow his saliva fiercely.

Tenda ...... Hanged yourself?!