On the second day, the dawn of the day, the rain was still falling, the entire imperial capital was shrouded in mist and water vapor, the wet weather was unpleasant, and the streets were naturally less noisy and prosperous than usual, only the footsteps of people hurrying and the hem of the clothes because of the galloping and throwing up the water droplets, the water droplets flew over a low arc, fell into a small puddle on the side of the road, the water droplets fell, and a small ripple appeared on the puddle.

On this circle of ever-expanding ripples, a vague figure appeared, and the next moment, a big foot stepped directly into the puddle, and the sewage immediately splashed away, and then the big foot continued to lift without stopping, and walked forward, leaving a clear sewage puddle.

Liu Fu, the general banner of Wenxuanfang Baihu Institute, walked in a hurry, with a large bag of oiled paper in his arms, and the heat was still vaguely steaming on it, he walked into a restaurant, and the coolness on his body was brought into the restaurant, which made several people in the restaurant perceive it, and looked up at the door at the same time.

"Liu Fu, why is it so long?" Guo Yong, the general banner, held a bowl of hot tea in his hand, frowned slightly, and looked at Liu Fu who had just come in.

There is only one table of people in the restaurant now, and it is not yet an hour at this time, and because of the bad weather, the restaurant is even more deserted when the business is cold, and this table of brocade clothes and guards, ordinary people are even more afraid to come in, and there is an unlucky shopkeeper left in the lobby of the restaurant, and the shopkeeper has already hid in the back hall.

But fortunately, these Jinyi guards are not domineering, and they don't have any special requirements, but they just want two pots of hot tea, and they are all wet, which dilutes some of the Jinyiwei's anger.

Liu Xin sat on the top, playing with a tea bowl in his hand, putting it in the palm of his hand and constantly rotating, its eyes were focused on this constantly rotating tea bowl, and it seemed to be deaf to the outside world.

Liu Fu has a kind face, and he is also the most honest one among the four general flags, he has a bitter face, puts the oil paper on the table, and after opening it, it is still steaming steamed buns, he sat down next to Guo Yong before saying: "This is close to the imperial city, why don't you even have a bun shop, I ran two shops to find one, and I trotted all the way to not let these buns be cold!" ”

After saying that, Liu Fu turned his head to look at Liu Xin, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Ding Mingfu on the side.

"Lord Liu is thinking about things, don't disturb him, Lord Liu said, let's eat first!"

"This..."

Liu Fu was still a little hesitant, but he saw that Guo Yong had already picked up a bun and ate it, and ordered a bun with his hand and said: "If the adult asks you to eat, you will eat, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Although Liu Fu was still a little hesitant, he also picked up the bun and gnawed it, drenched in the cool rain all night, although they are all martial arts practitioners and are in good health, but now they are a little unbearable, and the steamed buns and hot tea that are still slightly hot can just expel the coolness.

Although the four general banners and Liu Xin have not been in contact for a long time, they also have some understanding of this new hundred households, this Liu Baihu and the old Liu Baihu are the same, they are both relatively good people, and they are more easy-going to their subordinates, but compared with the old Liu Baihu, Liu Baihu seems to be more caring for the people at the bottom.

They can only come out of the imperial city in the early hours of this morning, and the case has escalated, and the officials at the upper level have to have a good meeting, and even go to the imperial court to receive a reprimand, which can make them breathe a sigh of relief and rest. They originally planned to take Liu Baihu to the restaurant for a meal and find a side room to sleep for a while, but they didn't expect Liu Baihu to ask a few people if they had brought silver, and a few people naturally didn't bring it when they were on duty, but they didn't expect Liu Baihu to nod and give Liu Fu a tael of silver, and asked him to buy some food.

As for the captain at the bottom, Liu Xin asked them to find a way to go by themselves, and it is estimated that the upper echelons will not be able to give any instructions at this time.

If the previous case was still within a certain level, then a unit like the Hundred Households Office could act according to the instructions alone, but now that the situation has escalated, I am afraid that the entire Beizhen Fusi will be integrated and accepted for unified deployment. How should he, the hundred households, make some achievements in this matter next, has become Liu Xin's biggest headache now.

He himself is an anxious person, if he wants to slowly mix his qualifications, mix for more than ten or twenty years, and slowly support him with the Holy Sect as his backer, he can always sit in the position of Jinyi Wei and even Tongzhi in the end. But more than ten or twenty years is too long, Liu Xin set a request for himself, within three years, Jinyi Wei will do something!

10,000 years is too long, seize the day!

I don't know if Liu Xin is a master of art or bold, or whimsical, since the Zhengyang National Kingdom, there is no military attache at the level of Jinyi Weishi, there is no one under the age of thirty, and even if there is, it needs to have a deep background and the merits of splashing the sky to be possible.

Don't talk about the background, if it's still flat today, where can you earn the credit for pouring the sky, and even if you have, how can you get him Liu Xin?

Therefore, in order to achieve the goal he set, Liu Xin must seize every opportunity to perform meritorious service, he is naturally not afraid of the power of the officialdom, with the Holy Sect's secret investigation team as a backer, he thinks singlely, anyway, someone will always wipe his ass for him if something happens, as long as it is not too excessive.

When he came back to his senses, he found that Liu Fu had returned, Liu Fu had been paying attention to Liu Xin's state, and found that Liu Xin had come out of his thinking emotions, so he immediately said: "Lord Liu, Baozi!" ”

This sentence blurted out, because he had been paying attention to Liu Xin, and his nerves were also slightly tense, so he blurted it out, and as soon as he said it, he felt that he didn't seem to be like this, it was too casual.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xin smiled, took a bite of the bun.

"Well, good buns, where did Mr. Liu buy them, I'll go here next time!"

Liu Fu was a little surprised, Liu Xin's performance was completely different from what he expected, but he still reacted quickly and said: "Ah, it's a guy named Chen Ji, and his subordinates see that his stall is clean...... So..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that Liu Xin had already eaten a bun, and he was a little hungry after a busy night, and then Liu Xin picked up the second bun, but turned his head and interrupted Liu Fu's words:

"There are no chili peppers, spicy ones!"

"Yes!" Guo Yong got up, went to the back hall, and soon took out a jar of chili peppers, this thing has only become popular in recent years, and the price is not cheap, and every restaurant will treasure some.

Liu Xin also knew this, took ten copper coins from his arms, put them on the table, and then took a spoonful of chili peppers from the jar, and the red chili peppers gave off a spicy taste.

Smeared some on his buns, Liu Xin looked around and asked, "Do you want them?" ”

The four general flags were silent, but soon, Guo Yong raised his chopsticks and said with a slight hesitation: "I... I'm going to! ”

Liu Xin naturally handed over the chili pepper, and then began to eat it, admiring while eating, it was still delicious to add chili peppers.

The four general flags were speechless to each other, but they all saw some strange expressions in their eyes.

After a breakfast, the chill in my body was dispelled by the hot bun and hot tea, and my body was comfortable. At this time, the sky seems to give a little bit of thin face, and the rain has stopped, although it is still gloomy, but the annoying raindrops no longer fall, which can always make people feel much better.

The high-level discussion that was expected to not be effective soon ended unexpectedly, and in the end, Jinyiwei was headed by Liu Licheng of thousands of households, and each thousand households mobilized manpower and arranged it by him.

This result made Liu Xin slightly surprised, but soon it dawned on him, this was the result of the three factions in Jinyi Wei squeezing out Liu Licheng from Martial Emperor City, and the three parties estimated that they would kick Martial Emperor City out first.

However, he is under Liu Licheng, and such a result is a good thing for him.

So before Liu Licheng could gather everyone, Liu Xin went to Liu Licheng's duty room first, and was very open and honest, indicating that he hoped to make meritorious contributions, and had some thoughts about this case, and was ready to investigate in that direction, hoping that Liu Licheng would allow it.

This Liu Licheng was also a little anxious at this time, such a big thing fell on his shoulders, but no one discussed it with him, and he quickly realized that he was targeted, but he had no choice but to face the difficulties in this kind of thing, or he would withdraw from the circle of Jinyiwei, of course, he would also lose the support of Emperor Wu City, and he would have no chance to get ahead.

And Liu Xin's words he actually didn't care, a hairy boy, all with a lot of blood, just became a brocade guard hundred households and was anxious to make meritorious contributions, he was really a reckless martial artist, and he thought he was a little smart before. However, although I don't care much about what Liu Xin said about this matter, and he has thoughts about the case, this is also an opportunity to kick Liu Xin out.

Although he has a lot of troubles now, he may be able to get over this hurdle if he takes precautions, and if he can kick Liu Xin out by the way, it will really be the best of both worlds for him.

Liu Licheng also agreed to Liu Xin, allowed him to act cheaply, and gave him a waist card for investigating the case full-time, as if he was afraid that he would regret it, and also instructed two sentences, taking the waist card is equivalent to making a military order.

Liu Xin was very satisfied with this, and after thanking Liu Licheng repeatedly, he said goodbye and left.

As everyone knows, Liu Xin's thoughts about Liu Licheng and Liu Licheng's thoughts about Liu Xin are roughly the same.

Liu Licheng felt that he still had a chance to investigate the case, after all, he was not the only one to investigate, and the East Factory also shared half of the pressure. Even if it can't be found out in the end, Jinyiwei also has some traditional 'craftsmanship' here, which can make this case have a result, so that nothing can't be found. No matter how bad the final result is, it is limited, Liu Xin, a stunned young man, will definitely not be able to make any achievements, and a hundred households will not help him much now, and the most important thing is that he can kick Liu Xin away by the way, and he can get a complete thousand households.

Thinking through these joints, Liu Licheng felt as if he was possessed by Zhuge Liang, and his thoughts were extremely clear.

And Liu Xin felt that Liu Licheng was still very kind, not only sent a pillow when he was sleepy, but even sent a quilt. With the emperor's investigation waist card, he can enter and exit the imperial city more freely, and there are many conveniences for investigating cases outside, which simply saves him a lot of trouble.

took the waist card, Liu Xin went back directly to the hundred households, and assigned tasks to the four general flags. Guo Yong cautiously asked Liu Xin if this was the little shoes that Liu Qianhu gave him to wear, Liu Xin looked indifferent, just let them act as they were told, and the four of them were even more uneasy, but now they had no choice but to do what they were ordered.

Liu Xin asked Liu Fu and Jiang Shixi to take people to investigate some of the relationships and circumstances of the five dead eunuchs.

And he himself took Guo Yong and Ding Mingfu to the imperial city together, and he wanted to go to Nadongchang to learn something about the imperial horse eunuch and these eunuchs.

The Yamen of the Admiral of Dongchang is set up in the Imperial City, and it is not too deep, and it does not look much different from the ordinary courtyard in the Imperial City, but the plaque of the Yamen of the Admiral of Dongchang hanging on it is inscribed by Emperor Wuyang himself, which is magnificent.

Liu Xin glanced at this word, and felt that Emperor Wuyang really deserved to be a first-class hero since ancient and modern times, and that awe-inspiring domineering spirit was revealed from between the lines, which touched Liu Xinda.

Liu Xin visited the East Factory, and naturally could not find such high-level officials as the East Factory was in charge of 1,000 households and 100 households. Instead, he found a supervisor to investigate the case, in terms of rank, the head of the East Factory and the hundred households of Jinyiwei are at the same level, but the power of the East Factory is higher than that of Jinyiwei.

However, the head of the squad was not too domineering, but a little melancholy and haggard.

The head of the class is surnamed Wang, he is forty years old, and he used to be Jinyiwei, and later he was transferred to Dongchang, and he also has some background and relationships. From the perspective of Yulu, Jinyiwei and Dongchang are at the same level, but when it comes to the silver in their hands, Dongchang is much higher than Jinyiwei.

"Wang Zhangban, this time, I want to read some information about this imperial horse eunuch and the five eunuchs who died." Liu Xin got straight to the point.

Wang Zhangban nodded, smiled a little tiredly, and then said slowly: "You young man seems to be doing well, and he is quite valued by Shangguan, hehe, you are the first Jinyiwei to come to me to investigate the case." ”

After that, Wang Zhangban recruited a Dongchang fanzi, gave a few orders, and then went to find the case file.

Turning around, the tea ordered by Wang Zhangban also arrived, Liu Xin took it and thanked him, and then asked puzzledly:

"Jinyiwei has never come to check the case file here?"

Wang Zhangban smiled, took a sip of the tea in his cup, and then said:

"You Jinyiwei have your own intelligence sources, so naturally you can't look down on these cases in my Dongchang."

Liu Xin smiled awkwardly, he understood that the words in front of Wang Zhangban, which were highly valued by Shangguan, were actually ridiculing Liu Xin, saying that he was not mixing well, and Shangguan didn't even tell him about it.

For Liu Xin, this Wang Zhangban also has some understanding, in fact, after Liu Licheng took over this case, all the information around him has been summarized here in the East Factory, but other situations have been understood before, only this Liu Xin is new, so they are still deeply impressed by the East Factory.

However, Wang Zhangban's words didn't mean anything special, just a casual ridicule.

Seeing that Liu Xin didn't speak, Wang Zhangban continued: "This case is very strange. There are nearly 1,000 people related to the Imperial Horse Prison, and we have all carefully touched them, but we just don't have a clue. ”

Because he knew that Liu Xin was not treated by Liu Licheng, Wang Zhangban was not so wary of talking to him at this time, so he would say a little more.

Liu Xin took the opportunity to ask: "Wang Zhangban, what is the relationship between these eunuchs, do you know?" ”

Wang Zhangban drank tea, just as he was chatting with the young man, these things were not very important, so he said slowly: "After our investigation, we found that these people were originally brothers of the same sect, and the relationship is naturally good. But since arriving in the imperial city, their temperaments have changed, some people have become withdrawn, some are taciturn, in short, the relationship is not very harmonious, but it has not reached the point of hatred for each other. ”

Liu Xin nodded and continued to ask, "Have these people had anything to do with other people on weekdays?" ”

Wang Zhangban shook his head and said, "Impossible, they are in charge of the secret art of raising horses, and they have not communicated with the outside world for more than ten years." ”

"Then about the secret technique of raising horses of this imperial horse supervisor, has Wang Zhangban ever known a thing or two?"

"Hehe, that's a secret related to military affairs, how can I know, if I inquire about those things, I will be killed!"

"This is also true, Wang Zhangban, the last two people died of poisoning, where did this poison come from, the imperial city should be very strictly guarded, right?"

Wang Zhangban glanced at Liu Xin with strange eyes, as if he felt that this hairy boy was really young, if he knew these answers, this case would have been solved a long time ago, but now he didn't have the mood to say much to Liu Xin, just said lightly: "The imperial city is naturally strictly guarded, if someone can send poison into the imperial city, then this person is not simple!" ”

Liu Xin's eyes lit up, and he asked hurriedly: "Then can Wang Zhangban talk to the kid, who are such not simple people?" ”

Wang Zhangban was silent this time, he drank tea and blew, but he stopped talking, and Liu Xin's face immediately showed embarrassment.

Fortunately, not long after, Na Fanzi brought a case file and handed it to Wang Zhangban.

Wang Zhangban put down the teacup, put his palm on the case, and said slowly: "Boy, I don't think it's easy for you, so I said a few more words to you, but there are some things that you still have to check by yourself." This case is here, what I know and what I don't know, it's all in it, you can read it yourself, please read it, the old man still has something, so I won't accompany him! ”

After that, Wang Zhangban got up and left, and Liu Xin immediately got up, bowed and thanked him repeatedly.

When the king left, the tension on Liu Xin's face with a strong sense of greenness and the previous embarrassment slowly dissipated. He smiled slightly, sat back down, picked up the case file, and looked at it carefully.

An hour later, Liu Xin left from the Yamen of the East Factory, Guo Yong and Ding Mingfu, who had been waiting anxiously at the door for an hour, looked anxious, this East Factory was not a good place, Liu Xin entered an hour, which made them a little worried.

Seeing the anxious look on the faces of the two, Liu Xin comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, I see that you are nervous." ”

Guo Yong wiped the fine beads of sweat oozing from his head and said, "What did your lord ask?" ”

Liu Xin smiled and nodded: "Naturally, there are, and there are quite a few." Now I finally have some clues, let's go, let's go somewhere. ”

Guo Yong and Ding Mingfu glanced at each other, Liu Xin gave people a very calm feeling, which surprised the two of them, but also settled down a little, and then the two hurriedly followed.

Out of the imperial city, the commuter changed from a carriage to a horse, and there were horses in the brocade guard, but there were not many of them, and they would only come in handy when dealing with some urgent cases on weekdays. Now that Liu Xin's waist card is in hand, he will naturally not be polite, and directly led three horses.

After leaving the imperial city, they found a place to change their clothes, after all, Jinyiwei's fish and dragon clothes were too ostentatious, and the place they were going to next needed to be low-key.

After changing his clothes, he only brought Ding Mingfu and a good Xiaoqi, and the rest of the people were taken by Guo Yong to investigate the news everywhere.

Now Liu Xin is out to do it alone, but after all, the manpower is limited, and it is impossible to send some information to the door by himself if he does not take the initiative to probe it, Liu Licheng may not deliberately hide him, after all, Liu Xin is still not a threat to Liu Licheng, but if this case is handled, it is impossible to say.

The three riders went all the way out of the inner city to the outer city, where the roads suddenly became narrow and crowded, and the roads became more muddy, and the rainy outer city roads were full of large and small mud pools, of different depths, and if you were not careful, you might step on a deep pool and make a mess. But riding a horse will not have this kind of trouble, but riding a horse will still cause trouble to other ordinary people, Liu Xin was also speechless for a while, feeling cold in his heart about the huge gap between the inner and outer cities.