Fanhualou, Caiyu Courtyard, late-night singing and dancing, as in the past.

A man in black in a robe appeared in the small courtyard under the guidance of a young man in green clothes, looking at his dress and appearance, he looked like an assassin who assassinated Zhao Xinyi during the day. The man in black didn't say a word, flashed past the boy, and raised his foot to break through. Seven or eight men in strong suits emerged from the canopy of the roof and surrounded the men in black.

"Bold!" A man scolded.

The man in black snorted coldly, pulled off the stance, and was ready to fight.

The man who asked the question was angry, and took the lead in drawing his sword, and the rest of the people also drew their sharp blades, and when the man in black made a slight move, they would attack him in a group and take his life. It seems that the man should be the leader of the group.

The man in black was not afraid at all, nor did he use a blade, and he slapped the leader with a mistake with both palms. The latter's eyes were cold, his wrist was straight, and his sword pierced the heart of the man in black, but the man in black did not dodge, like a moth to a fire. The rest of the men breathed a sigh of relief, and dared to come here with this little ability, it was simply a death.

However, before he could think of it, he saw the man in black turn his wrist slightly, and his fingers flicked on the body of the sword, and with a crisp sound of "ding", the sword was bounced away. The leader's mouth was numb, and before he could come back to his senses, a palm of the man in black had already appeared in front of him, and his eyes couldn't help but widen, and his soul was full of death.

"Stop!" A pretty woman with a red heart on her eyebrows appeared at the door of the house at some point.

The man in black snorted, and then withdrew his hand. The leader's legs went limp, and he nearly fell to the ground.

The red-hearted woman smiled: "The girl is really good!" Please come with me! So saying, he went into the house first. The man in black stepped forward, and the leader hurriedly made way for him to get out of the way.

The man in black came to the house, looked around, his eyes stayed on the curtain, and he looked directly at the middle-aged man who lived deep in it and said, "I thought it was the sanctimonious hypocrite of King Baihan!" I didn't expect it to be the fifth prince who never asked about the court! ”

The laughter in the curtain was hearty, "Jinxiu, open the skylight and say something bright!" ”

The red-hearted woman put away the curtain, and the middle-aged man inside showed his true body, only to see that he was thin, his face was pale, and he looked like he was overly wine-colored, but his eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Yan Xinghai. This person is none other than today's Five Princes, King Qingtang, and Yan Xingning. Everyone knows that he is an idle prince, who has never asked about court affairs, and has indulged in lust, and this prosperous building is opened by him.

The woman in black also ripped off her hood, it was a young woman, sixteen or seventeen years old, with thin eyes and long eyebrows, and a heroic posture. This person is none other than Hong Jiangcheng's youngest daughter, whose name is Hong Zhining.

"Miss Hong is really a cheerful person!" Yan Xingning praised.

"Lord Wang, you are not refreshing enough, let a little guy take me around the city for most of the day, and almost broke my legs!" Hong Zhi's words were angry.

"The current situation must be cautious, if the tail is not completely shaken off, this king does not dare to see the girl, and I hope the girl will forgive me!"

Hong Zhining snorted, flicked his arm, and threw a small bamboo tube at the man, Jinxiu flicked his sleeves and received the bamboo tube into his hand.

Hong Zhi sneered: "It's terrible, it's terrible, my peerless secret weapon was broken by you like this!" ”

Yan Xingning apologized to Hong Zhining: "Let the girl laugh!" "Don't be nervous, it's just a letter from the old governor, bring it!" ”

Jinxiu hesitated slightly, threw the bamboo tube gently, Yan Xingning took it in his hand, took out a note, swept the two lines of words on it at a glance, the smile on his face was even stronger, and said to Hong Zhining: "Tell Ling Zun, it will not make the humerus minister feel cold, and there will be a time when the wind and waves will be broken!" ”

Hong Zhining arched his hand casually, turned around and left, just took two steps, suddenly stopped, and said without looking back: "If you leak the things on the street today to my father, I will demolish your flower building!" ”

The splendid silver teeth clenched, Yan Xingning waved her hand and said, "Girl, just rest assured!" ”

Hong Zhining walked away quickly.

Jinxiu said angrily: "Hong Zhining, this girl is too arrogant!" ”

Yan Xingning said with a smile: "Being young and vigorous may not be a good thing for us!" ”

Jinxiu frowned, and said worriedly: "Although we relied on the secret letters we found in Zhang Zhiyuan and Li Chunqiang, as well as the favor that helped Hong Jiangcheng to extinguish his mouth, Hong Jiangcheng can be regarded as obedient to us, but now he is clearly saying that he is recuperating at home, but in fact, he is confined to the palace by the emperor, and all the power of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is now attributed to the suddenly extra right governor, he Hong Jiangcheng is now a mud bodhisattva who is difficult to protect himself, what is the use?" ”

Yan Xingning said with a smile: "Our Emperor His Majesty has always been unable to rub sand in his eyes, but this time, he has the evidence of Hong Jiangcheng's corruption and perversion of the law, but he still did not kill Hong Jiangcheng, and he did not even make the evidence public. The surface strength of this veteran minister of the Three Dynasties is only the tip of the iceberg, but his true strength is extraordinary! He laughed.

Before the laughter fell, a miserable scream suddenly sounded outside the courtyard, and there was a sudden uproar, and the shouts of killing were all over the place, and the momentum shook the sky.

Yan Xingning suddenly got up, "Jinxiu, go out and have a look!" The tone was panicked, completely lost his previous calmness.

Jinxiu strode away, Yan Xingning glanced out, crowded, both the Imperial Forest Army and the emperor's secret guards, the fight was very fierce, knowing that something was wrong, hurriedly walked to the west of Duobaoge, holding a blue and white porcelain vase with both hands, and turned it hard, "squeak" There was a sound, and a wooden board on the ground was flipped open, revealing an underground passage. Walking briskly inside, the planks returned to their original shape, and the lights were lit on both sides of the passage, and although it was dim, the road under your feet could be clearly seen.

Yan Xingning walked briskly in the passage, and with more than a dozen flicks of his fingers, he came to a stone room, with more than three rooms in depth and width, brightly lit, like daylight, and the surrounding array fluctuated, obviously containing a powerful array. In a panic, he took out a spirit talisman from his bosom and ignited it in the jade tripod in the center.

After a while, a strong light lit up in the stone room, and there were two more people in the center, an old man and a young man, the old one had gray hair, wearing a Zhu Bajie mask, opening his mouth and sticking out his tongue, which was slightly funny. Young, seventeen or eighteen years old, born with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, arms around the chest, holding a long sword.

Yan Xingning was pleasantly surprised when she saw the two, and hurriedly bowed down: "I didn't expect the star picking boy to come in person, it's really good!" There are thieves outside, and I ask my son to help! ”

The star-picking boy snorted coldly and sneered: "You idiot still doesn't know why you died, it's really hopeless!" ”

Yan Xingning's expression changed greatly, and his already pale complexion became even paler, no different from a dead person, and he stammered: "What...... Is that possible, for now...... is obviously the second most suspicious! ”

The star-picking boy sighed: "You, you are the Adou who can't be helped!" ”

Yan Xingning suddenly thought of something, "Could it be that Hong Jiangcheng's father and daughter are yin against me?" However, I have the evidence of his guilt in my hands, how dare he ......"

"Let you die too!" The star-picking prince lowered his head and stroked the scabbard of his sword, "Before you, Yan Xinghai had already obtained the evidence of Hong Zhi's crime, compared to the few innocuous broken letters you searched in those two broken yamen, that was the thing that killed him." You think you are smart, but you don't know that you have already gotten into someone else's urn and let people capture your ready-made turtle alive, which is really self-defeating! ”

Yan Xingning knelt on the ground with a "poof", tears flowed, "Childe saved my life, I will help Childe succeed when I am a cow and a horse!" ”

"It's late!"

Yan Xingning turned around and ran, just ran two steps, suddenly stopped, couldn't move, couldn't even open his mouth, the star picker shook his head, the old man slowly withdrew a white silk from his arms and put it around Yan Xingning's neck, hanging him in the middle of the stone room, he struggled, but to no avail.

"Let's go!"

The old man stomped his feet slightly, and the formation in the stone chamber cracked, dissipating invisible.

……

As soon as Zhao Xin returned to the inn, it was already late at night. When I walked into my room, I didn't feel sleepy and was in a very bad mood.

In the Imperial Garden, he risked angering Long Yan and still pushed down the county order of Baishi County. It's really not that the official is small, for a poor and lowly white body like him, he was named the Qipin County Order, which is already considered the emperor's special kindness. It's because over the years, with Zhao Laodao wandering around, he is used to seeing corrupt officials who disregard people's lives, and he has hatred engraved in his bones for those high-ranking officials. Not to mention making him an official, he is even more eager to kill all the officials in the world!

Of course, now it seems that not all officials should be killed, at least Yan Xinghai, the emperor, is a good emperor. However, it is not a pity that people like Jiang Shoujing, Li Chunqiang, and Zhang Zhiyuan died.

However, his poor mood had nothing to do with this county order, mainly because of the cause of Lin Sanhammer's death and what Yan Xinghai said to him at the end.

"Things in the world, you should try more. But some things are predestined, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain, and the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment in the end. As someone who has walked this road and is still on the road, I can tell you that what you want to take is not a detour, nor a single-plank bridge, there is no way to go at all! Instead of getting bruised, it's better to do something meaningful. Life is too short! ”

To be honest, he still had a little illusion about the practice of the Eight Classics before, after all, the world is vast, strange people emerge one after another, and there are countless Taoisms. However, the owner of these words is a great monk who is about to enter the infant period, and at the same time he is the emperor of a country, well-informed, and his subordinates are innumerable.

"Is there really only the path of the Dark Spirit Returning Sutra and the Dark Spirit Vein?"

He couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the night he was covered in blood and almost fell into the abyss from which he would never recover.

"No, I must not escape into the devil's path! Master, where the hell are you......" Before I said anything, I couldn't cry anymore, I was really helpless, I miss the old Taoist priest so much! Even if I can't cultivate again in this life, I really want to sleep well in his arms!

Could it be that people like me can only become ants, and life and death can only be manipulated by others?

"I'm not convinced! I'd like to give it a try! ”