Jiangxia Town was reduced to ashes overnight, and the next day, the secret letter was sent to the Lama Temple on a fast horse. Yinzhen Yinxiang and Wu Sidao felt that it was difficult to hide this matter from Yinzhen's ears and eyes, and the most important thing at the moment was to stabilize the eighth elder brother. Otherwise, once the secret private file is burned, you won't even be able to grasp the slightest handle. Therefore, after snoring for two hours, Yinzhen washed up as usual, and went to Yuqing Palace to see the prince, and came out of the palace.

"Fourth brother rare guest!" When Yinxi saw him, he knew that the night cat had entered the house and had nothing to do, so he welcomed him into the study with a smile on his face, gave up his seat to serve tea, and said, "Just came down from the prince's place?" What's the news? ”

Yin Zhen took the tea, took a sip, and said, "Just came down." I feel bored, I want to scatter around Tongzhou, passing by you here - yesterday He Zhu'er went to my house to borrow books for you, I heard that you had a heartache in your heart? As he spoke, he looked at Yinxi, and said, "What he said is scary, look at your complexion and look irrelevant." Lao Thirteen gave me a pack of jujube flower yellow celery tea a few days ago, the most nourishing stomach and spleen, I don't need such medicinal tea, Ming'er will send it to you. Yinzhen smiled, guessing Yinzhen's intention while listening, and bowed and said, "Let the fourth brother worry about it." It doesn't matter to me. But you know, I'm in a difficult situation, and I don't want to see people, so I can just use a pretense to avoid customers. "I know." Yin Zhen nodded, "Now there is a scripture that is difficult to read." My messenger is getting harder and harder to wait, and after the New Year, I will have to learn from you and study behind closed doors. Joke - Prince Yong is so easy to bully? ”

"Huh?" Yin Yu raised his eyebrows, "The fourth brother is full of pride!" ”

Yin Zhen sighed and said, "Do you know Feng Shengyun?" It's the Zhejiang feudal division introduced the year before last, and the one who was promoted to the governor of the river last year! Yinxi shook his head and said: "I have heard of this person, it turned out to be the eldest brother's person, and he has also been with the third brother, I have never met." Why, do you want to beat him again? Yin Zhen said: "Where! I have a solid copy of the prince! This dog just caught Fang Bao in Luoma Lake, was hit by Banzai Ye, touched a big moldy head, and found out that he risked hundreds of thousands of taels of silver from Zhihe Gong, all kinds of cheats, and made Banzai angry to death, if Zhang Tingyu hadn't stopped him, he would have been righteous at that time. I don't know what the reason for our foolish master, or who we listened to, led to Zhang Shizhi's handling of the case of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, and it was only 3,000 miles. It really me off and I can't say anything! ”

"Oh!" Yin Yu held the cup in both hands and muttered, "There is no capital crime for rushing to commit the holy car, and Banzai wants to kill him because he is corrupt and despicable." How can you avoid the heavy and light? The prince is confused. Yin Zhen said coldly: "This is clear, but it may not be necessary to say that he is 'confused'. According to my thoughts, I originally planned to bribe more than 100 officials, and there was no feudal official among them, so I always felt that it was not enough to shock the world. Hooray took one for us, and the meaning of the question is self-explanatory. But the prince just wanted to turn the severity upside down, and the list was turned upside down, meaning that I and the old thirteen top names should do it, so I withdrew without saying a word. Feng Shengyun, no matter who he is, I must kill him! Only then did Yinxi understand that it was to kill Feng, and he came to the house to talk to himself in person, because he smiled and said: "The surname Feng is not my doorman, and it doesn't hurt at all." In fact, it is my protégé, who is doing nonsense outside, and I never protect it. When the fourth brother encounters such a situation in the future, he will do his best to deal with him strictly, which is also to fulfill the reputation of the brothers. ”

Listening to this, Yin Zhen seemed to be in a better mood, shook his head and smiled: "It's really unreasonable...... Sometimes I really want to shave away these ten thousand threads of troubles with one knife and leave six pure hearts in peace! Yinxi also smiled and said: "The fourth brother believes in Buddhism, so he has this idea." My brother just said it, do you really want to learn from Emperor Wu of Liang to sacrifice himself to join the Buddha? Oh - what is that bud doing now? He had an accident that year, and we still protected him, why did we meet Banzai again? Yin Zhen got up and walked and paced, casually watching the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and said for a long time: "I don't know much about this." I heard that Fang Bao scolded Feng Shengyun, and it happened that Long Live Weifu was present, and when I heard it, the person surnamed Feng wanted to take someone, so he caused it. Fang Bao has now entered the study to wait, and when he comes to Beijing, you will naturally know if you ask him. ”

"Really?" Yin Yu was so surprised that he almost stood up, "Why didn't I see the edict, and I didn't say it in the newspaper!" Yin Zhen said indifferently: "I saw Zhang Tingyu write it in the letter to the prince. Fang Bao is not an official, and he is dressed in white. I'm afraid it's been the same since the Tang Dynasty, right? This is an outlier! Yin Yu groaned and said, "That's true. Even Li Bi Buyi worships the prime minister, and he is still an official, long live really thinking about people's thoughts, and pedestrians not doing it! Seeing Yinzhen standing at the door contemplatively as if he was about to leave, he smiled and said, "Fourth brother, don't go, hit the afternoon clock immediately." It's also a coincidence that Zhuangzi has more than a dozen pairs of bear paws, and I have made a pair. A person doesn't scream, we drink a few cups, bear paws and fish get both, even our bell ringing and eating emperor is also rare. ”

Yin Zhen went around again and said with a smile: "My meal has been prepared, I can't compare to the old ten and thirteen them, I can't stand the meat, this month of fasting, I don't eat meat." Nian Qianyao sent me a letter, saying that he would honor me for a few catties of raccoon lips, but I had no good words, and replied: Your filial piety is better than nothing! He will go to Nanjing to see Long Live after me, this is not the rule of being a slave! In Jiangxia, he said that he had served the Zazi of Yuqing Palace, and killed a Zhuangzi named Liu Whatnu, and even your doorman named Ren Bo'an was killed with a knife! People's hearts are not ancient, the world is declining, this kind of wild slave is really helpless! ”

"Ren Bo'an is dead?!" Yinxi's face suddenly became extremely pale, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of relief, but Liu Ba Nu had more than 700,000 taels of silver for him in Jiangxia, all of which fell into the hands of this young Qianyao, and he couldn't be indifferent, thinking about it, it was already a little messy. Yin Zhen smiled secretly in his heart, but he seemed to ignore it completely, and said: "The prince said that the surname Ren died." On an errand, I'm not angry with him, the people who killed my brother, I didn't even say a word to the master, and I was the emperor and the prince, so I got it myself, what kind of thoughts did I have? I'm thinking about whether to leave his nationality, he was originally Han, and he called him Ansheng to be Han, anyway, he is a bastard who has no royal law! "Then lift your feet and go.

Yinzhen accompanied him, and he didn't know what it was like in his heart, so he didn't have time to sort out the mess, and paced to comfort Yinzhen: "The fourth brother is in a bad mood these days, so he thinks so." Tell me it's nothing. Ren Bo'an has never been a person who abides by the rules, I got rid of him a long time ago, and I have nothing to do. It's Nian, you can't be angry, it's not worth it, when you come to Beijing, you can ask him in person, and just teach him a few words. The Han people are keen on fame, there are few good things, and they know it in their hearts......" sent Yinzhen all the way out of the Yimen before stopping, and said loudly: "Fourth brother again!" He turned around and instructed the family members waiting at the door: "Go and call the tenth master, as well as Xu, Wang Hongxu and A Ling, this time I will come!" ”

Gou'er and Kan'er took the messenger from Yinxiang, the two little ghosts discussed it that night, and went to the ghost market early in the morning, I don't know what things I bought, and hurried back to the Lama Temple to find Gao Fu'er to help. Because they were all messengers, Gao Fuer didn't say a word, and assigned more than a dozen capable servants in the second gate to the command of the two, and chased them out and said: "Be careful, I'll go later!" ”

"Yes!" The dog agreed, came out with Kan'er all the way, and whispered with a smile: "Look at his bear appearance, and teach me a lesson!" Stupid Wang Ba, last time I rode that chrysanthemum out of the blue, and the big bag that fell on my head is still green! "The shrewdness in Kan'er's heart is far above that of a dog, because he has grown two years old and has read more and more, although he still looks confused, the city government has gradually deepened. Although he and the dog are in the same study, the dog's mind is used to tune the eagle and the dog, he has already read a lot of words, and the "Three Character Classic" can be spoken. Hearing the dog talk about Gao Fu'er, Kan'er only nodded and said: "I know, Chrysanthemum Qing told you to tame you backwards, calling advance is retreating, calling retreat is advancing, stopping is running, right?" In case the fourth master rides, how can you get it? We're getting older every year, and we have to think about serious things, like Dai Duo, we can get a top to wear Dai, why can't we? The dog patted the back of the head and said with a smile: "In vain, I am half a year older than you!" It's hard for me to play this way, and somehow, as soon as the fourth master forces me to study, I doze off-" As he spoke, he turned out of the moon cave door, and just collided with a girl who served dishes, stepped on the girl's foot, and squatted down in pain and screamed "ouch". Kan'er smiled and said, "Isn't this Sister Cui'er?" I haven't seen you for two years, and I don't dare to admit it! ”

The dog also smiled, and looked at Cui'er carefully: the moon-white jacket, covered with green onion and yellow shoulders, because of the feet, a pair of bow shoes were not large enough to hide under the shirt, the sideburns of the black crow crow, lined with goose egg face, cage smoke eyebrows, smiling and dizzy, really like a slim garlic. Somehow the dog's heart moved, he blushed and smiled and said, "Sister Cui'er is the same-adult." Although they are all in this courtyard, the Hou Gate is like the sea, and they can't even see each other, but if they meet in other places, they may touch each other! Cui'er was embarrassed by him, glanced at Kan'er and said, "That's it." I don't have to wait for Fujin to drink ginseng soup and eat tits, and I don't have to go out of two ways-" As she was talking, a big girl shouted with a flashing face: "Cui'er-Fujin called you!" "Hey! It's coming—" Cui'er hurriedly agreed, and walked away with her plate.

The two of them stopped talking, and walked out of Lao Qihuamen quickly, and saw the Wanyong pawnshop at the Chaoyangmen Canal Wharf. The façade of this pawnshop is not big, and the three street boards and the Zhaobi of the Eight Princes' Mansion are far away, only a stone's throw away, and you can hear it when you say hello here. The courtyard behind the pawnshop is very large, there are dozens of rooms, the back is close to the canal, and the things that have passed the current period are transported from the back door to the south to sell, which is indeed very convenient. Kan'er saw more than a dozen family members in Prince Yong's mansion pretending to be idlers eating tea and talking under a tea shed in Zhaobi West, knowing that he was ready to stop, nodded to the dog and entered the pawnshop, pounced on the high counter and asked loudly: "I have a piece of silver cake, should I be it?" I want to exchange some copper coins! After saying it twice, he stuck out his head and said, "Take it and take a look!" ”

"This is it." Kan'er looked naïve, frowned and lifted the silver cake, "My master is sick, waiting to grab the medicine to make money, you hurry up!" ”

That Chao Feng took the silver cake, very expert and repeatedly looked at it, the cake surface is a silver tendon to the heart, honeycomb fine white, with silver frost on the side, an authentic Taizhou foot pattern, and said: "Ninety-eighty, when six!" ”

"Foot Lines!"

"I know it's a foot pattern, it's the rule." Chao Feng said coldly, "It's like this all over the world." When inappropriate? ”

Kan'er took a breath and said: "Our master is not poor, he lives in Shuangpailou, preparing for the exam, and the family's money is not helped, you should be a few more ......."

"Wrong?" Chao Feng asked impatiently, holding a silver cake in his hand, and threw it down as soon as he answered. Before he could speak, the dog came in and said, "The pawnshop has been searched, and you are here!" The eighth young master's family sent silver, if it's not right, the foot pattern has to be jewelry for the young grandmother! As he spoke, he took out two ingots from his arms, and rushed to Feng: "These are two Jining ingots, the young grandmother said in the letter a total of eighty taels, the young master said that it is so big, it is not easy to make it, you give it a name, change it to a silver horn, and give you five cents of silver, is it done?" ”

Without thinking, the courtier threw the silver cake back to Kan'er, took the ingots in the dog's hand, glanced at it and put it on the house, a hand, it was actually eighty-eight taels, according to the joy in his heart, and said: "Five cents of silver is cheaper for you, and I will change it for you when I see the poor people who are out of the house." Alas...... I'm afraid that five cents of silver is not enough to clip and cut off the ballast! So saying, he exchanged another eighty taels of silver and handed it to the dog, and the dog and Kan'er laughed and went. The pawnshop was happy with Fengzheng, and an old man next to him said: "Xianggong, do you see the ingots?" One of these two monkeys is called a ghost, and the other is called a dead ghost, and no one knows about it when they go out of Xizhimen. Just now, I saw the two of them muttering ghostly over there in the tea shed, don't fool you, right? The courtier was taken aback, and hurriedly took the ingots to take a closer look, the tender head was shining with cyan silver, and the edge was green, very similar to the color of Jining ingots, but the glaze was not green. Knowing that he was deceived, he was so busy that he clamped it on the clipping stool, sat down in a sophisticated manner, and broke it off with a "cluck", and all the truth was revealed, and there was a lead tire wrapped inside! Chaofeng's face immediately turned pale, and his voice changed: "Thirty-year-old mother is a child!" Then he asked the old man, "Where did you see them talking?" ”

"Over there!" The old man pointed to the tea shed on the west side, squinted and said, "They didn't leave!" This...... That's bold! ”

Chao Fengteng jumped off the counter, looked through the door, and saw Gou'er Kan'er and a group of people talking and laughing, and immediately became angry, and shouted inside: "Li Zaixin, you come out to greet the façade." Tell the shopkeeper that I'm humane, and the thief is outside! Call some guys to come with me! The old man hurriedly said: "Don't say that I said it, don't say it!" Alas...... An old and unserious mouth! "Slap" slapped himself in the face, and he was too busy to slip away. The courtier, with two or three men, pounced out like a hungry wolf and went straight to the tea shed!

"Your grandmother's little bastard!" Chao Feng split his chest and lifted the dog who was dancing and talking with his eyebrows, and grabbed one by one, "I didn't inquire about the façade, so I dared to make people on this day!" What about the silver? The dog rolled and got up, crossed his waist and scolded: "your eight ancestors!" Why hit someone? As he spoke, he pounced, and the two of them fought together. Suddenly, there was a big circle around the three inner and outer three floors, and it was lively.

Kan'er glanced at Mo Xiang, the little girl in the study pretending to be the eighth young master, Mo Xiang coughed, shook the fan and said, "Let go!" What kind of system is this? Something to say slowly, what's wrong? Chao Feng grabbed the dog with one hand, glared and asked, "Who are you in the crotch of your pants?" Fuck you! Kan'er said, "You have a clean mouth, this is our eighth young master!" ”

"Eighth Young Master? The eighth master and the eighth master are also sparse! Chao Feng jumped up and shouted, because he told the people on the street that the two of them were fooling themselves, and took out the broken ingots and told everyone to see: "Look, look! The two of them are eighty taels in total, and they are abducted! This is the foot of the imperial city, in front of the Son of Heaven, dare to make this ghost! Send you to Shuntianfu and kill you with a stick! ”

Mo Xiang asked for two ingots, weighed them in his hand, and said: "My family is a famous eunuch in Jiangnan, how can there be such a thing?" Moreover, this silver is not like the two that the inner man gave me, and look, all of you, I am like a sick poor man? - Dr. Tea, do you have a son? Looking at it, the weight doesn't seem to be right...... "Yes! Dr. Tea promised to take out the coffin one after another, and in front of everyone, he immediately sank his face, looked at the two people, none of whom he could afford to provoke, and he didn't dare to speak. An idler watching next to him looked refreshed, jumped on his feet and shouted: "Eighty-eight taels!" This son of a bitch's pilgrimage is not a good thing! ”

"Hit!"

The dog shouted, and there were dozens of people in the royal mansion plus passers-by, and the three courtiers were beaten without a head or face, and the three people rolled all over the ground, killing the pig and yelling: "The shopkeeper of the willow - come on!" This is a bunch of thieves who read the seedlings! Kan'er watched carefully, and saw about forty or fifty people rushing out of the pawnshop door, not counting carefully, but they retreated one after another, and then saw a man in his forties wearing a cheerful sauce-colored robe, a jacket with a buttoned vest, a pair of crystal sunglasses on his eyes, and a betel nut purse around his waist swaying out, and turned around and said: "Don't come out!" As he spoke, he paced over and asked, "What's the matter, is there anything you can't say well?" At the feet of the Son of Heaven, is there no place for reason? As he was talking, Gao Fuer rode a tall horse and came over with more than a dozen family members, because he saw a large number of people watching the excitement, he raised his whip and said, "Go over and have a look!" When everyone saw that he was so powerful, they were all busy. Gao Fu'er flashed his eyes, saw Mo Xiang, Kan'er and the dog giving him a look, jumped off the horse, and gave the dog a mouthful by splitting his face!

"Good! It turns out that it's the three of you again! I walked all over the Xizhi Gate, but I didn't find your ghost shadow, it turned out that I was deceived to the door of the eighth master in Dongcheng! This is really Skynet's recovery but not leakage, it turns out that the well also falls into the barrel sometimes! Gao Fu'er scolded viciously and waved his hand, "Take it down and hand it over to the fourth master to dispose of!" Seeing that Gao Fuer's subordinates were going to go to two, they couldn't help but say that they had set up Moxiang and the others, and they were relieved for a while, and asked, "Dare to ask your surname, Taifu?" Is it congratulations from the Fourth Master's Mansion? Gao Fu'er nodded, and said with a hanging face: "I am Gao Fu'er, the housekeeper of the fourth master, and I bought more than 20 catties of fake ginseng from these little beasts last time. Who are you? ”

"Oh, the little Liu Renzeng is the shopkeeper of this Wanyong pawnshop, the owner is not there, guarding the façade, and he will be deceived by these three little thieves if he is not in danger." Liu Renzeng said with a smile, "It's also my court, who is not angry, and I want him to be eight taels of silver...... because he said a rough idea of what happened to Fang Cai. Na Chaofeng was sparsely rotten, his head and face were blue, and he was also crying on the side: "...... If it's not a master, the villain can't speak clearly. ”

Gao Fu'er smiled when she heard this, and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, but Qiao'er I have something to do with you today, it's really fate!" As he spoke, he patted the shoulder of the shopkeeper Liu, and turned around and instructed the family: "You wait here, and there will be a reward when you go back-go, the store says to go!" ”

"That'...... Okay, please! Rao is Liu Renzeng was cautious, and he was also confused by Gao Fu'er's serial buckles one after another, hesitated slightly, let his hand go, and respectfully took Gao Fu'er into the backyard of the pawnshop. Gao Fu'er walked slowly while picking his teeth, and when he looked closely, some of the dozens of houses were locked, and there were eighteen people dressed as masters holding account books and other things in a large living room to reconcile accounts, and there was nothing unusual, so he smiled and said: "I didn't expect your façade to be small, and it was so magnificent!" Liu Renzeng felt that it was inappropriate to bring this person in at this time, so he hurriedly let Gao Fuer into the tent room, poured tea and said with a wry smile: "This is Ren Bo'an's family belongings, how can I be so wide?" - Master Gao, if there is anything to ask, the little one will obey the order. ”

Gao Fu'er took a sip of tea, took out a piece of paper from the page of his boots, handed it to Liu Renzeng, and said, "Look at this." When Liu Renzeng took it, it read:

Forty strings of large coral beads, two sides of the mirror, 24 pieces of strange amber, 15 pieces of large doro wool velvet, eight pieces of gold wool carpet, four collared bird feather satin, 15 pieces of fine woven cloth, two large gold bell bells, 10 ice chips, 34 catties of gold-inlaid small boxes, one jade-inlaid gem-inlaid Ruyi, three ivory Western ships, one gold-inlaid saber, five platinum Maitreya, one gold-inlaid thousand-armed Guanyin, and seven fine pony guns

"It's all tribute!" Liu Renzeng gasped and asked, "Could it be that Ye Feifei is short of money, so he wants to be a pawn quietly?" ”

"Where do you think of it?" Gao Fuer smiled, "I'll die of poverty, and I don't dare to use the fourth master's needle and thread!" Who doesn't know his old man's temper in the world? Annoyed to come up and peel my skin! These objects are long live the fourth master, originally stored in the warehouse behind the West Flower Hall, half a month ago stolen, has already reported to the Shuntian Mansion, so far even a thief Maoer has not been held, the fourth master is afraid that Long Live knows, angry and anxious, ordered down, Shuntianfu to check, I also want to check, take this thief, I have to deal with it personally! Tell me to inform all the pawnshops in the city to see if the stolen goods have been sold. ”

Liu Renzeng suddenly relieved his heart and said with a smile: "I don't have it here." We never dared to take such a fee. If you don't believe it, I'll take you to see the warehouse. "If you don't forget it, I see that you are also a businessman." Gao Fu'er stood up with a smile, "Who has the time to look at one warehouse and one warehouse to another?" There are more than 100 pawnshops in Beijing! He said and left. Liu Zengren sent it to the door, and just said, "Master Gao is good to go", but Gao Fuer stood still, and said: "You have put the list, someone will come to be it, and you Pegasus will report to me." I will give you five hundred for a thousand taels of silver. The fourth master wants to personally judge this thief, and the evil anger of the picture is to make him unhappy. "Let's go.

Liu Renzeng waited for him to go, and rushed to Prince Lian's mansion without stopping. Because Yinxi was talking with Alinga in the study, a little person like him didn't dare to disturb, so he stood at the door and waited. After waiting for half an hour, Ah Ling'a resigned, and then listened to Yinyu: "You just don't know about Feng Shengyun's case, don't stir it up." The prince proposed a flow of 3,000 miles, long live Ye Zhu approved it, and scolded the criminal department to the blood, and even Zhang Shizhi of the Han Dynasty clicked in, saying that he was a man who sold his reputation and reputation - he had changed his head. Let's just stand and see. As soon as he turned his face and saw that Liu Renzeng was there, he asked, "What's the matter with you?" Liu Zengren hurriedly kowtowed and said in detail about Fang Cai's affairs.

"Well, you're doing pretty well." Yin Yu stroked his shaved head and thought about it for a long time, but he really couldn't think of anything strange about the encounter between Wanyong Pawnshop and the Fourth Elder Brother's Mansion this time, so he said: "I have heard about the loss of things in the Fourth Brother's Mansion, and if someone sells stolen goods, you can tell Yongfu." Only those things, you have to be careful and careful, there must be no leakage, and all my handwriting must be burned. I see that you are a very knowledgeable person, and you are good at doing it, and Ren Bo'an's errand may be pointed out to you! With a wave of his hand, Liu Renzeng hurriedly kowtowed and withdrew.