In a small shop in the eastern part of Shouzhou City, an old man is crackling with an abacus and carefully calculating the accounts.

Next to him, a young fellow was sitting behind the counter, dozing off with his chin propped on his hands. At this time, there was not a single guest in the shop, but the old man's abacus did not stop at all, as if there were many accounts in his hand.

Just as the old man was carefully recording the ledger, a middle-aged man walked in from outside the store, but the old man didn't notice it at all.

But the young man who was dozing off on the side woke up immediately. The moment he woke up, his eyes burst out with a fierce light, but in an instant, he immediately removed the sharpness in his gaze, and instead stepped forward with a smile on his face.

"This guest officer welcomes us to Baiyutang, our family's jewelry is the best in the entire Shouzhou City, our Baiyutang has flutes, hairpins, hairpins, step shakes, jade pendants, wrenches, earrings, and all kinds of rouge gouache, you see what you need?" As soon as the young man spoke, it was like a cannon.

"I need a purple gold mandarin duck hairpin with a luminous jade wrench." As soon as the guest came in, he opened his mouth with two very strange-sounding things.

Under normal circumstances, few people would use purple gold to make things, because the so-called purple gold is actually natural gold, and this thing is too hard and difficult to smelt, so few people use it to make jewelry.

And luminous jade wrenches are even rarer, because the so-called glow-in-the-dark jade is actually a night pearl, which everyone uses to make luminous pearls, and few people use it to make wrenches.

Although the two things that the guest said were very strange, the young man was not the slightest strange.

He immediately put on a flattering smile and said.

"This guest officer, because the things are too valuable, please move with me to the back hall to have a look." The man who came in followed the young man through the front hall door and into the back hall of the shop.

And the old man who settled the accounts from beginning to end did not come forward to talk, as if he had been completely immersed in the reckoning.

However, after the young man and the guests entered the back hall, the old man suddenly put down the ledger and abacus in his hand, and then sat down on a chair behind the counter and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

"Didn't the higher authorities stipulate that you should only be allowed to come over on the fifteenth day of every month? Why are you here so early this month? As soon as the young man entered the back hall, it was as if he had changed into a different person.

The smile on his face disappeared in an instant, and his original humble and submissive appearance disappeared without a trace, replaced by the momentum of a superior person.

"Chu Zhanggu's incident happened suddenly, originally we shouldn't have interfered in the affairs of your Prosecutor's Office, but now the order I brought was directly issued by Nansi." So saying, the man handed a letter in his bosom into the young man's hand.

The man unfolded the envelope without saying a word, and began to read it carefully. As he read the letter word by word, his face began to change slowly, frowning and then surprised.

In a short time he finished reading the letter, then took a fire fold from his cuff, blew it up, and lit it directly.

"Go back and tell the people above, I will receive the father-in-law, and at the same time, I will also go and inquire about the people mentioned in the letter." Then the guest left the white jade hall with his fists clenched.

It wasn't until a while after the man had left that the young man walked back into the antechamber. The solemnity on his face immediately turned into a smile on his face.

"Old Feng, you go and arrange for the brothers to find a young man named Li Yi immediately." Although the young man looked humble, he spoke with a commanding tone.

The old man who settled the account answered, put his hands behind his back, and slowly lifted a purple clay pot and walked towards the outside of the store.

When he walked out of the store, he happened to meet the shopkeeper of the shop next door. The man immediately greeted with a smile.

"Yo, Boss Feng is going for a walk!" The old man who settled the account immediately responded with a smile.

"yes, anyway, there are no customers in this store now, I'll go out and take a look around to see if there's a singing show over there."

"What if you come to do business with this shop?" The shopkeeper next door asked with a smile.

"Don't worry, I can rest assured that Xiao Chu is looking at me in the store." The old man who settled the account said with a smile.

"Don't you really say that this Xiao Chu in your store is really good, he can be eloquent on weekdays and often coax customers to their hearts, and he works hard and complains, I have never seen him complain, and then look at the few uncompetitive guys in my store to think about it." The shopkeeper next door was still chattering.

"Then why don't you say that the salary I gave Xiao Chu is more than twice as much as you gave!" Seeing that the other party still wanted to pull himself and chatter about settling accounts, the old man choked the shopkeeper next door with a straight word.

Then he walked towards the street in the distance with a smug face.

"What are you talking about an old guy with no children and no daughters, when you die, it is estimated that there will be no two people who will send you to death." Seeing the old man walking away, the shopkeeper who was choked and couldn't speak immediately spit out a mouthful of phlegm in the direction where the old man walked, and said viciously.

And Chu Zhanggu, who was standing at the door of Bai Yutang, had a disdainful face. Two hours later, the old man carried his purple clay pot and slowly returned to the white jade hall.

After he sat down, he said slowly.

"Chu Zhanggu, my subordinates have already explained the matter just now."

"That's good, by the way, have there been any other movements in the city lately?" Chu Zhanggu squatted at the door of Bai Yutang and asked without looking back.

"To say that there is no change in the Huainan Palace, but last night the prince of Huainan went to Wanfu Tower." The old man continued to fiddle with his abacus and said.

"Oh? Isn't Wanfu Lou his second brother's property? How did he end there? Chu Zhanggu asked in some surprise.

"This is exactly what the subordinates want to report next, according to the news of the inquiry, the reason why Mu Qingyun went to Wanfulou last night was because Wanfulou was attacked." The old man said leisurely.

"And such things, could it be that other vassal states are already preparing to take action against Huainan Kingdom?" Chu Zhanggu immediately thought about whether this could be other vassal kings testing the king of Huainan.

"No, according to the news, the people who attacked Wanfu Tower are just ordinary people." The old man shook his head and said playfully.

"Oh? That's strange, this King of Huainan treats the people under his rule very benevolently on weekdays, why do these people want to attack Wanfu Tower? The old man's words made Chu Zhanggu completely incomprehensible.

In his opinion, the people in the world are basically forced to rebel, if the people can be fed and clothed, who will rebel without their lives.

Moreover, judging from the previous information, the king of Huainan treated the people even more like a son. It can be said that the people of Huainan Kingdom were much luckier than the people of other vassal states and feudal towns of the Dayu Dynasty.

"Zhanggu is not because the people are dissatisfied with the king of Huainan, but because an immortal appeared outside Wanfu Tower at that time, and the immortal disappeared near Wanfu Tower after his manifestation." The old man roughly recounted the ins and outs of the matter.

"It's a little interesting, I didn't expect this prince of Qi to be involved with some Jianghu warlocks, but the most stupid thing about him is that it is actually related to the Buddhist family, doesn't he know that the imperial court issued an edict to destroy the Buddha a few years ago?" Chu Zhanggu's face showed a cruel smile.

"I guess this matter should have been planned by someone else, and according to the IQ of the prince of Qi Country, he shouldn't have thought of these strange tricks."

"Zhanggu, do you also think that the Jiangyong Golden Lotus two days ago and the Colorful Buddha Light last night were all tricks deliberately made up by someone with a heart?" The old man asked in a whisper.

"Of course, there are no gods and ghosts in this world, this is just a trick made by people with a heart." Chu Zhanggu pursed his lips and said.

Here, when the two of you were still discussing the gods and miracles, a boat upstream of Huaishui was slowly moving towards Shouzhou City along Huaishui.

And at the bow of this small boat was a middle-aged man standing. This person's face is like a crown of jade, and his sword eyebrows and starry eyes look heroic, but he can't see a single beard on his face.

"How long will it take for us to get to Shouzhou City?" The middle-aged man opened his mouth to ask an old man with a hunched back beside him, and his voice was sharp and crisp, as if he were a woman.

"If you go back to Father-in-law Zhou, it is estimated that we will be able to reach Shouzhou City tomorrow." The hunched old man spoke slowly, but his gong-like voice and his figure complemented each other, making people shudder when they heard it.

Although the middle-aged man in front of him is a eunuch, this father-in-law is completely different from other fathers-in-law, and he does not have the femininity of other fathers-in-law.

He exuded a killing aura all over his body, and at a glance, he knew that Gonggong Zhou was a battle-hardened veteran.

At this time, if Li Yi and the others were at the scene, they would definitely be surprised, because the Zhou Gonggong in front of him was Zhou Gonggong, the eunuch of the Pengzhou Army.

"I don't know what the prosecutor's office in Shouzhou City is? I don't know if they will be able to find Li Yi and the others after we arrive tomorrow. Father-in-law Zhou said to himself.

He originally didn't have much impression of Li Yi in the Pengzhou Army, and the reason why Gonggong Zhou had a little impression of Li Yi was because Li Yi's focus on the return cannon was too shocking.

"It's hard to say, according to the subordinates, it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to find clues about Li Yi and others." The hunchbacked man immediately said with a wry smile.

"Oh? Why do you say that? Father-in-law Zhou asked curiously.

"Father-in-law Zhou, what do you think, Li Yi killed two Yue princes in Anzhou City before, and along the way he destroyed a big ship of Mu Fengxiang, and at the same time he fought a big battle with Nan Yi and kidnapped the prince of Qi Kingdom, although they won, but because their number was too small, they could only flee in a hurry, so due to the influence of various circumstances, I boldly speculate that Li Yi and others at this time should be hiding in Shouzhou City and quietly waiting for the limelight to pass." The hunched old man said with a determined face.

"If these things were done by someone else, then he might really be as you said, but now that this person is Li Yi, he will definitely not be willing to come from hibernation." Zhou Gonggong gave a different speculation.

"Father-in-law, are you suspicious of exaggeration?"

"Hmph, you don't know Li Yi, do you know that he once led 500 cavalry to launch a surprise attack when the grassland tribe's tens of thousands of troops were besieging us."

"Five hundred? Pounce? The hunchbacked old man looked at Father-in-law Zhou in shock, as if he wanted to see some clues from Father-in-law Zhou's face.

"That's right, it's five hundred, and then he took these five hundred cavalry to raid the Chinese army tent of the grassland tribe."

"And what was the result?" The hunched old man immediately asked eagerly.

"I don't know much about the specific situation, you also know that I was recalled by the Northern Division at that time, but since he attacked the big tent of the Chinese army in the grassland tribe, the Xianbei tribe and the Tugu tribe in the grassland tribe have changed khans." Father-in-law Zhou's leisurely voice seemed to explode in his ears like thunder.

"Do you mean that this Li Yi and the others not only killed the khans of the Xianbei and Tugu clans with their whole bodies?" The hunched old man looked at Grandpa Zhou in disbelief.

"Although this matter is not certain, it is not far from ten." Gonggong Zhou said with a serious face.

"Why is there no record in the imperial court's mansion newspaper?" The hunchbacked old man's brows had been wrinkled into Sichuan characters at this time.

"Do you need to ask? All the newspapers about the Pengzhou Army were burned by the Ministry of War and the North Division. Gonggong Zhou said with a wry smile.

"It's a pity, if such a character can join the court and be trained, he will definitely be Wei Huo's talent!" The hunchbacked old man sighed.

"Could it be Sima and the like?" Gonggong Zhou said with a smile.

"My father-in-law laughed."

"I'm not joking, you think about how many people the kid has offended since he returned from the north, not only that, but he also dared to attack the prince of the vassal king, once this kind of person takes charge of the army, he is either the commander of the country and the country, or he is a thief who brings disaster to the country and the people." Gonggong Zhou looked at the distance of Huaishui and said.

"Gonggong Zhou, what you said is also reasonable, but in this world, there is no one who has the ability to be a person with a strange temper. This kind of character must be taken down for the court. At this time, the hunched old man said in a firm tone.

The hunchbacked old man who had never met Li Yi had already started to solicit.

"Don't blame Master Han for not reminding you, this guy is carrying the lives of the two princes of the vassal kingdom, once you really recruit them into the Prosecutor's Hall, there will inevitably be a conflict with the Yue Kingdom, not to mention whether Nan Si Si Zheng will deal with these troubles for you, it is estimated that there will be people in your Prosecutor's Office alone." Father-in-law Zhou's basin of cold water was splashed down, directly hitting the hunchbacked old man like a wilting flower.

"But Grandpa Jiang has already given that kid a waist card of your Prosecutor's Hall, theoretically speaking, this kid is now a person from your Prosecutor's Hall." As soon as the hunchbacked old man heard this, he immediately came to his senses as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

"And such a thing? It's easy to deal with such a relationship in it, but I don't care if the Yue Kingdom will come to me for trouble, anyway, the sky is falling, and there is a tall man on top of it. ”