When Zhang Wen woke up, it was already in the sky, looking at the suddenly bright room, he was startled, and when he turned around, he saw that Shen Biyao was already missing next to him, only her embroidered handkerchief was wrapped around his hand. He remembered what Shen Biyao said last night, and understood her intentions, but he still went out to find it unwillingly. He couldn't really understand the physical pain that Shen Biyao had suffered, but he felt the heart-wrenching pain she had been suffering. Even if he knew that he and her would definitely have goodbye, he thought about what Shen Biyao said last night. How can you forget that?

Shen Biyao's people drove a carriage to pick him up and go to Hangzhou City, and brought him more decent clothes. He didn't ask Shen Biyao how he could get there or when he left, but he just kept thinking in his heart why they couldn't be together? Why can't everything be simpler between them? He didn't want to say that it was common for a man to marry three wives and four concubines, and the word "common custom" would blaspheme all the women who lived in his heart, and he didn't want to feel sorry for himself and underestimate himself. He just wants to remember again what the big thing is, he wants revenge, he wants to save his life, he wants to be promoted, he has to climb up. He wants to rely on the sisterhood of Zhang Ying and Zhang Yan to climb to the royal family. He was going to trip them before all the forces could strike at him.

There was a dense flow of people outside, and Zhang Wen felt safe in the crowd. The city on the outskirts of Hangzhou is also very prosperous, paved with stones, the streets are neat, and there is not much difference from the city, but there are fewer restaurants and shops.

Zhang Wen originally lived in the southwest of the city, entered the city, and arrived after a short walk. He parked the carriage at the corner of the street, and then had the carriage go down and stare around. I waited for nearly an hour before I saw someone knocking on the door. The person who asked Zhang went over to look at it, came back and said, "Someone has come to the door." ”

Zhang Wen was a little apprehensive in his heart, and he really couldn't rule out the possibility of a trap, so he asked, "What kind of people are those people?" ”

"There's a horse's face, half-squinted eyes, and a very deep look."

Zhang Wen suddenly smiled: "Yes, go and tell him, I'll follow behind, don't reveal your identity." Then he took out the seal letter and asked someone to bring it over.

The half-squinted horse face is naturally Wei Zhongxian. Zhang Wen followed behind Wei Zhongxian and the others, turned a few streets, entered a shop, then changed carriages, came out of the back door, and then rushed to the place where the prince lived.

The prince lived in a secret station in Jinyiwei, and Zhang Wen and others entered the station under the guidance of Wei Zhongxian.

After passing through two courtyards and several corridors, you will arrive at the door of a cave gate, and there are many brocade guards in yellow clothes and some guard handles in cloth clothes inside and outside the wall. Wei Zhongxian said to the brocade guard at the door: "He is the person the prince wants to see." Jin Yiwei's attitude towards the eunuch was very respectful, so Zhang Wen followed Wei Zhongxian into the courtyard.

This is a small courtyard, as soon as I entered, I heard the sound of sawing wood, Zhang asked: I'm afraid the prince is doing carpentry again, he really likes that thing.

Walking to the outside of an open pavilion, Zhang Wen saw that Zhu Youxiao was really doing carpenter work. Zhu Youxiao's expression was very focused, completely out of the world, he put down the saw, picked up the planer and pushed it around, the ground was all woodcuts, and after a while, he took a folding ruler to measure, and worked very hard. From time to time, a eunuch took a towel to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

Wei Zhongxian put his index finger to his mouth, shuttered lightly, and said in a low voice, "Let's wait." ”

Zhang Wen nodded, and also said in a low voice: "Doing some work can move your muscles and bones, and it is good for your body." Wei Zhongxian tore his mouth and smiled.

After waiting for a long time, Zhu Youxiao sat on the chair and gasped, picked up the teacup, and muttered, "That's it for today." The two eunuchs hurriedly fetched water to wash his face and hands, and one of the eunuchs said at this time: "Your Highness, Gonggong Wei has been waiting outside the door for a while." ”

Zhu Youxiao turned his head to take a look, sighed, and said, "Call Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Wen to come over." ”

"Yes."

Wei Zhongxian and Zhang Wen listened to the message, and then walked into the open pavilion, Wei Zhongxian bowed his head, Zhang Wen thought about it, and knelt down and bowed. Zhu Youxiao laughed, probably because Zhang asked why he had never knelt before, and said, "Get up." ”

Zhu Youxiao seemed to be in a good mood and stopped coughing. Wei Zhongxian is good at observing words and feelings, so he can naturally see it, and said flatteringly: "Your Highness, just now Zhang Wen told our family that doing work on a regular basis is good for the body." His Highness is getting more and more energetic. ”

Zhu Youxiao sighed, looked at Zhang and asked, "Is there really such a thing?" ”

Zhang Wen arched his hand and said: "Taoism and Buddhism have active muscles and bones to strengthen the body, in ancient times, the people were simple, there was no government governance, and the people were at peace, so the whole people worked, so the lower officials believed that doing the work of the people not only strengthened the body, but also allowed to indulge in sentiment and enjoy with the people. ”

"Hehe......" Zhu Youxiao laughed, "Yes, yes, that's right, as soon as I picked up these things, I felt comfortable, I didn't know why before, when you said that, it's really like that...... Wei Zhongxian, go and bring the wooden cart I made yesterday and reward it to Zhang Wen. ”

Wei Zhongxian took out a small carriage according to his words, handed it to Zhang Wen with both hands, Zhang Wen took it, hurriedly thanked him, and looked at the model of the carriage very carefully, and it was really decent, and he praised it a few times, "Even if you are a skilled craftsman in the world, it is difficult to have such attainments." ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "How can a craftsman be compared to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

"Yes." Zhang asked the boat and said, "I thought, the craftsmen do a lot, why can't they catch up with this boutique?" ”

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "It's really better than what the craftsmen do?" ”

Zhang Wen nodded solemnly: "There is one more kind of charm, if there is a big sorrow in the chest, there can be no such technique...... Just like the piano, musicians and hermits have good pianos, and musicians can't show their bearing. But he said in his heart: This world was originally a smart person, but he was not very literate, and he had thoughts in his heart that could not be expressed with the help of pen and ink, so he had to do this kind of thing.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, "Zhang Wen is right, I sometimes have such a flash in my mind, and that feeling ......"

Zhang Wen added: "A flash of inspiration. ”

"yes, that's the word, I just want to make it out in some way, I can see it, I can hear it, so that it doesn't just stay in my head...... Zhang asked, you come with me. Zhu Youxiao stood up with great interest, the eunuchs hurriedly supported him, Zhu Youxiao shook it off, and walked out of the open pavilion very toughly, and the group followed behind.

Zhang Wen pretended to have something in his heart, but he couldn't say anything else at this time, thinking about letting Zhu Youxiao feel close to him first, and when he talked about things, he would feel that the two had a common topic, and it would be easier to accept his own point of view.

A few people entered a small room, where there was only a wooden collapse and a small case, but it was covered with yellow silk, on which some patterns were scribbled with pen and ink, some could see that it was a model, and some were simply only a few lines, a mess. Zhu Youxiao said: "When I have that inspiration, I will write it down, hehe, you can't understand it, only I know what it means." ”

Zhang Wen pretended to be concentrating on the patterns, but in fact he didn't know what they were, similar to the children scribbling and playing.

I heard Zhu Youxiao say again: "I heard that the bird made by Lu Ban can fly by itself, why can't the bird I make fly?" ”

Zhang asked: "The carriage can move, it is horsepower traction; The windmill can move, and it is also pulled by the wind; Mill Ridge Valley, is water down also. Everything is powerful, how can there be an automatic reason? Xia Guan believes that Lu Ban is a flying bird because of false rumors, which is not enough to believe. ”

Zhu Youxiao said disappointedly: "That's ......"

Seeing this, Zhang Wen hurriedly said: "But there are also mysterious things that can be controlled by qi." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "Resist movement with qi? What is it? ”

"There is a Westerner on the outskirts of Beijing, named Matteo Ricci, who is the Westerner who built a church on the emperor when Ye Xianggao was in the court, does the prince know?"

Zhu Youxiao shook his head, but he looked very interested.

Seeing this, Zhang Wen continued: "The church is very chic, and the lower officials themselves are also interested in the peculiar architecture, so I once went to listen to them talk about Buddhism. Their Buddha is not the Lord of the Buddha, but a man named Yahweh, who made people crucify themselves in order to understand the Dharma, and died after bleeding too much, and he became a Buddha......"

Zhu Youxiao laughed and said: "Westerners are fools. ”

"Matteo Ricci believed in the Buddha called Jehovah, and he wanted everyone to follow him, but they didn't believe it, but they were interested in some strange things he said, and I went to listen to it, and said that it was a Western craftsman who made a thing called a qi ball, and if you burn it with fire, the ball would turn on its own."

Zhu Youxiao said excitedly: "Is that Matteo Ricci still in Beijing?" ”

Zhang asked: "It seems that he died in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli and was buried in Jingshi." Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Do you know how that kind of air spinning ball is made?" ”

Zhang Wen shook his head. Zhu Youxiao said disappointedly: "If I see a Westerner in the future, I will ask him to come to Beijing to find me." ”

Zhu Youxiao took out a few wooden objects from the cabinet and said to Wei Zhongxian, "Take them, let's go to the market and sell them." ”

Zhang Wen was stunned for a moment when he heard this, how could there be a reason for the prince to be a seller on the street, presumably this Zhu Youxiao had thought about addicting ordinary people.

Sure enough, I heard Zhu Youxiao say: "When people make things, they take them to sell, and then buy rice, there can be many interesting things." Alas, I sometimes feel like a prisoner......"

The group dressed up and went out of the station, found a vegetable market, and set up a stall at the entrance. Next to the stall is a snake wine seller, who says it can go to rheumatism.

shouted for a long time, no one cared, the business of selling alcohol next door was very popular, Zhu Youxiao's face was a little unhappy, but he was very involved in the role. Zhang Wen saw Zhu Youxiao's love for life from his face.

At this time, a middle-aged man walked to Zhu Youxiao's stall, looked at it with great interest, and said, "I want all the silver." ”

Zhu Youxiao paused, looked at the man's expression, and asked, "Why did you buy it?" ”

The man muttered, "You sell, I buy, why do you ask so much?" ”

"Bold!" The eunuch on the side snorted coldly, and the man hurriedly knelt on the ground, and passers-by all came sideways.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Who told you to mix blindly?" ”

Zhang Wen felt funny when he saw it, it must be which eunuch asked someone to buy it on purpose, so as to make Zhu Youxiao happy. Unexpectedly, he was seen by Zhu Youxiao, but he was not so easy to fool.

At this moment, Zhang Ying suddenly ran over with two women in Xuanyi, and pulled Zhang Wen to look up and down: "Xianggong, where have you been?" I didn't see you last night and went to Shen ......"

Zhang Wen hurriedly raised his hand to stop her from going on, and gestured to Zhu Youxiao's position with his eyes, but he didn't notice that he raised his hand wrapped around Shen Biyao's silk handkerchief. Zhang Ying was stunned, her eyes swept the Jinyi guards hidden everywhere, and she didn't say more, but whispered in Zhang Wen's ear: "Xianggong, I saw a few people who were wrong, be careful." ”

Zhang Wen consciously hid that hand, but he didn't know that Zhang Ying had already confirmed the guess in his heart when he was in his ear. She went to the Shen family's manor last night, and saw the dead and wounded of the sisters in the past, and she couldn't find a good person who could ask Zhang Wen's whereabouts. If Zhang Wen had been here, Shen Biyao would have to take him to hide, she searched for the secret passage she knew before and didn't see anyone, so she wondered if Zhang Wen had fled back to Hangzhou City, and was anxious for a whole night, but this silk handkerchief proved that Zhang Wen was indeed with Shen Biyao. No matter where they hid, it was impossible to squeeze Shen Biyao, and the smell of incense powder on Shen Biyao's body rubbed on him, not on his clothes, but on him. And he changed his clothes, which does not testify to what happened, but gives an idea of what might happen next.

Zhang Ying glanced at Zhang Wen, and the moment their eyes met, Zhang Wen felt a little weak, "Ying'er......"

At this moment, a man walked up to Zhu Youxiao and whispered a few words, and Zhang Wen guessed that maybe Zhu Youxiao's guards also saw Miduan. Zhu Youxiao ordered someone to clean up the stall and was about to leave, when suddenly a guard kicked the pedestrian who tried to lean over to the ground.

In a hurry, a group of people rushed out of the surroundings, Zhang Wen hurriedly ran to Zhu Youxiao's side, blocked Zhu Youxiao with his body and shouted: "Escort!" Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "Zhang Wenzhen is a loyal minister, go quickly." ”

Suddenly, chickens and dogs jumped around, and the stall vendors were busy fleeing for their lives. The people on both sides brushed and pulled out sharp weapons, and in a blink of an eye, seven or eight people protected Zhang Wen and Zhu Youxiao in the middle, and hurriedly retreated to the entrance of the vegetable market.

The surrounding chaos was abnormal, and Zhang Ying and the other three didn't care about the others, and followed Zhang Wen closely. Zhang Wen saw a head flying up behind him, and the blood arrow flew straight up, and the two people with knives rushed over, Zhang Wen hurriedly said, "Ying'er, be careful behind." ”

I only heard a pop, and a sharp arrow was stuck in the throat of one of the guards behind Zhang Wen, and the man fell on his back, holding his neck with both hands, his eyes were round, and his legs were kicked straight, and he was not dead yet, and the pain was abnormal.

Immediately after that, another arrow feather flew over, and Zhang Ying swung his knife to accurately block the arrow. At this time, the two people who cut off other people's heads in the back had rushed closer, and the knife was split, and the person in front of him slashed at Zhang Wen obliquely, Zhang Wen was in a hurry, the arrow was too fast, and it was too late to dodge, and suddenly the knife was soft, and the hand with the knife flew over from Zhang Wen's side, and fell far on the ground. The man's hand had been cut off and he was screaming loudly.

Zhang Wen ran away, Zhang Ying stabbed the other person, the man raised the knife and waved it in front of his chest for a while, Zhang Ying hurriedly retracted his hand, jumped backwards and followed Zhang Wen. Another woman in a dark robe took a soft sword and attacked the assassin, and the two fought.

Zhang Wen turned around and saw a person in the crowd holding a bow and arrow aimed at him, and hurriedly pointed: "Clean up the dark arrows first." ”

With a sound of brushing the ground, an arrow flew over, and at the same time, Zhang Ying pulled Zhang Wen hard, and Zhang Wen's body pounced and dodged an arrow. When the guard behind heard Zhang Wen's shout, he was already vigilant, waved his sword in front of the door to resist, and opened the sharp arrow with a bang.

At this time, another woman in Xuanyi next to Zhang Wen took a bamboo pipe to her mouth and blew it, and the archer screamed, dropped her bow and arrow, covered her eyes and screamed.

"Chirp!" When Zhang Wen heard two muffled sounds, he smelled a smell of gunsmoke, and two fireworks broke through the air. After a while, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a group of cavalry rushed over from the entrance of the vegetable market, surrounding Zhu Youxiao and others in the center. Seeing this, Zhang Wen sighed.

Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "Take down all the thieves!" ”

The cavalry rushed in and entered the warband, and the Assassins fled in a hurry, killing several more men.

Jin Yiwei went to look for life, but found nothing, ran away, and died. Everyone escorted Zhu Youxiao back to the station, and more than 100 people were transferred to guard. Zhu Youxiao was sitting on a chair and angrily reprimanding a brocade guard, and the brocade guard in yellow knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic.

At this time, Zhang Wen secretly became happy, Li Ruzi is not very powerful, he can kill whoever he wants, this is good, he directly murdered the son.

Wei Zhongxian also stood next to Zhang Wen, he was scared, his body was trembling slightly, the prince was fortunate to be safe, otherwise these eunuchs would not have to lose their lives.

Zhang Wen said in a low voice: "Those assassins are probably Li Ruzi's people. ”

Wei Zhongxian glared and said, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Zhang Wen said in a low voice: "I'm just guessing, Gonggong Wei knows that there is a person named Zheng Min who died in Jinyi Prison last time, who is Li Ruzi's son-in-law." This Li Ruzi has a lot of private soldiers, and he is domineering in Zhejiang, in today's battle, even Jinyiwei has killed many people, who else has such great ability besides him? ”

Zhang Wenxin said: There is no need to say anything about the beads now, so as not to make Zhu Youxiao feel that he knows too much.

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian bent over and walked in, whispering a few words next to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao dismissed the brocade guard and asked Zhang Wen to go in for questioning.

Zhu Youxiao's face was blue, he covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice, and said coldly: "Zhang asked, do you know who did it?" ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly said: "The lower officials don't dare to confirm it...... Last night, there was a bloody case in Hangzhou, and the person who died was a businessman in Hangzhou, and I heard that it was because he offended Li Ruzi that he suffered this fate. Xiaguan has never heard of such a bloody case in Zhejiang, dozens of people died in one night, and there are probably not two ...... such forces."

At this time, Wei Zhongxian also helped beside him: "The person who died in Jinyi Prison last time was named Zheng Min, who was Li Ruzi's son-in-law. Wei Zhongxian said it to prove that he was a capable person with eyeliner.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Who is Li Ruzi?" ”

Wei Zhongxian kept his mouth shut, he had never heard of it at all. Zhang Wen said: "Li Chengliang's son." One is named Li Rubai, who is a general in the army; The other is Li Ruzi, a businessman, and many businessmen and officials have dealings with him, and his influence should not be underestimated. ”

Zhu Youxiao's face was pale, he coughed twice, closed his eyes and gasped, thinking about the connection, and remembered that there was a Sang family in that account...... Sang, Zi, Sang Mo doesn't mean Li Ruzi?