This is a house and courtyard away from the urban area of Jiankang City, which has been crossing the Qingxi to the east of Jiankang City, and is located between the foothills of Zhoushan and Zhongshan Mountains. Even if Chen San took everyone to set off early in the morning, when he arrived here, it was the middle of the day, and it was almost noon. None of the people rode horses, and they didn't expect it to be so far away, so that Gan Fei had already left out of breath, and looked at the skinny Chen San with a red face and couldn't stop nagging: "I said that it was not far, but I just crossed the river and went out of the city, you see, isn't this there?"

Well, thin people are born to walk better than fat people. Gan Fei gasped, touched his sore calf, and thought wistfully.

After the banquet last night, they found a rather elegant inn by the Qinhuai River to stay, but Gan Fei didn't have time to enjoy the sweet sleep brought by the incensed bedding, so Chen San came early. This little guy in the market can't wait to repay the favor of last night's meal, which is always the virtue of repaying kindness, what else can Gan Fei say?

I got up and set off in a daze, my back and legs hurt when I walked, and the wine and meat in my stomach had already been digested due to the intense physical wear, and I couldn't stop cooing at this time, it was really painful, and after hearing that I had arrived at the destination, Gan Fei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but when I looked at the house in front of me, I was a little hesitant.

The courtyard of the house covers a large area, black tiles and white walls, the construction is quite magnificent, there are vermilion columns erected under the eaves, there is no engraved surname plaque on the door, and there are two bare and dilapidated stone lions standing in front of the door, it has reached such a time, the courtyard is still silent, not like a scene where people live.

Moreover...... Gan Fei looked at this house back and forth, how could it not be like a suitable mansion to live in, could it be that Teng Xiang really lived here?

Chen Sanxing rushed forward to knock on the door, the beast's mouth swallowing ring on the door was slapped with a sky-shattering sound, and the piercing sound was endless for a long time, Chen San didn't know the etiquette, but said that this was a natural reason when knocking on the door, otherwise, what was the beast's mouth swallowing ring made so big?

However, Gan Fei and Zhong Linbo just watched Chen San slap like this, and no one had any intention of stopping it, it was too quiet here, quiet like an uninhabited wilderness, and some of the noise was more vivid.

After a long time, the two red and mottled doors still did not react at all, so that Chen San stopped beating, stuck to the crack of the door and looked in, and muttered, "Ah, Lord Teng is not here?"

Even those who sleep soundly will be awakened by the loud knock on the door, but since no one has answered the door until now, it only means that there is really no one living here.

"It doesn't seem to be there. Gan Fei grunted listlessly, and he felt miserable at the thought of having to walk such a long way back, "Why don't you wait here?"

"Are you sure that Lord Teng lives here?" Zhong Linbo asked Chen San, "If he doesn't live here, we will wait in vain." ”

Chen San frowned: "You really live here." Just last month, a few descendants of our neighborhood helped move the household utensils, and Lord Teng rewarded me with a few baht. ”

"Why don't I go in and have a look?" Scaleless approached Gan Fei and whispered, for him, a little demon who is good at change, it would be easy to turn into a black wind to penetrate the house and enter the house, of course, if he decided to do so, he had to avoid Chen San's attention.

Before Gan Fei could answer, he heard the two doors squeak, and a small crack was opened, revealing a sparkling eye, and the voice that came out was also quite magnetic: "Who is here?"

"Ah, why didn't you answer earlier? After hitting the door for a long time, I thought no one was there. Is it Lord Teng? I'm Chen San in the back street, Lord Teng, have you forgotten?" Chen San pointed to himself.

This person is not Teng Xiang, Gan Fei can be sure, because Teng Xiang's voice is not as magnetic as his.

Sure enough, the man replied: "Mr. Teng has been out of the city early in the morning, and I don't know when he will come back, what are you looking for him?"

"It's not me, it's these friends, who have come all the way to him. Chen San pointed to Gan Fei.

The crack in the door widened a little, and the man's head poked out, and Gan Fei noticed that it was a young man with a slightly dark complexion, and a pair of eyes were quite attentive, which swept over Gan Fei and the others, but finally stopped on Shi Yu and the scaleless face.

"Newcomer?" the young man asked.

"Huh?" Gan Fei didn't hear.

The young man didn't seem to care much about Gan Fei, his eyes only wandered around Shi Wei and Wu Scale: "Then it's not a newcomer, according to the rule that when Mr. Teng is not there, we have the rule of closing the door here." However, Mr. Teng also left a message that if a chubby and extraordinary gentleman came here to look for him one day, we must meet him. It's hard for a fat person to have any outstanding demeanor, so I think this feature is still easy to recognize, and it must be you, sir, you are the most attractive fat man I have ever seen. ”

The young man opened the door and bowed to Shi Wei with a smile: "I heard Mr. Teng say that you, the Gan hero of the Qianjia, without you, Mr. Teng would not be where he is today, and we are just as deep as Meng. No, Wu Ping, I have seen Gan Hero. ”

Shi Wei showed a look of wanting to laugh but embarrassed to laugh, and did not answer a word from beginning to end, and his eyes couldn't help but look at Gan Fei.

Gan Fei leaned sideways in front of him, blocking the young man's gaze of admiration when he looked at Shi Ningqian, pointed to his nose, and said solemnly: "The chubby and extraordinary person you and Mr. Teng said are me!"

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"Forgive me for being clumsy, I heard Mr. Teng say that you are a bearded man...... So ......" Wu Ping smiled brightly, but there was also a little embarrassment in the splendor, so he could only bend over and lead Gan Fei inward very enthusiastically.

"You only talked about demeanor and fatness, and it has nothing to do with the beard! Moreover, he doesn't have much beard!" Gan Fei said angrily, and at the same time glared at Shi Wei fiercely, Shi Wei just smiled lightly, he had a mustache on his lips, but it was indeed not a big beard.

Wu Ping's very obedient did not have an interface, and led the way with his head respectfully. Gan Fei looked around, the mansion was too empty, and there was no other decoration except for an incense burner placed in the open space at the main entrance. The incense burner did not burn any incense, but the whole courtyard was covered with ashes and fog, and I don't know why.

"Are you his father-in-law or family?" Gan Fei looked at Wu Ping's rather bright clothes, not like some kind of servant.

"What ...... I" Wu Ping walked through the hall, turned around a few times, and soon arrived at the inner hall of this courtyard, he stood up straight in front of the inner hall, politely sat down, the smile on his face was bright and respectful, and the magnetic voice sent a declaration of his self-identity, "...... I was the first lieutenant to be recruited, and when there was nothing to do, I served as Captain Teng's doorman, errand runner, and bodyguard. Welcome guests, this is the official office of the Governor's Office. ”

A few square tables, a few soft cushions, and a bluestone paved floor, in addition to the pile of bamboo slips as high as a hill next to the main seat, and a huge rhinoceros horn on the shelf behind the main seat, this is probably the most shabby and simple official office in the whole world.

Gan Fei was not surprised, he sat down on the cushion of the main seat, picked up a bunch of books and flipped through them, and said, "Ziyan has already taken office?" He lives here too?"

The books are all some anecdotes and anecdotes in the Jiangzuo area after the imperial court migrated south, but most of them are biased towards the nonsense of the history of barnyard officials and fields, Gan Fei only roughly flipped through a few pages, and found that there were several false rumors, so he threw the scroll back into the pile of books.

Zhong Linbo, Shi Huan, and Wu Yan also sat down separately, and Zhang looked at the hall curiously, and even Chen San didn't leave, and followed with great interest, but he also knew his identity, so he didn't dare to sit on the cushion, but squatted on the stone steps next to the hall.

Wu Ping glanced at it, but he didn't seem to care, and after listening to Gan Fei's words, he hurriedly bowed down and replied: "Mr. Teng was self-denying and serving the public, and he officially took up the post of the imperial court chief lieutenant last month, so he lived here, and made this famous public gate his own home. Early this morning, the official office summoned him, thinking that he had some official business. Suddenly, his voice raised: "Niu Lao Wu!

A fat black-skinned man came running up, with a slight knock on the stone slab ground, the fat on his body trembled with his running, and when he got closer, the black-skinned man's oily face showed a simple smile, but his voice was as thin as a girl: "There are guests, cook, meat!"

"Serve tea first!, just think about eating!" Wu Ping scolded.

"Hey, serve tea first, and then cook meat. The black-skinned man answered innocently, and then went like a hill full of fat and fat.

Gan Fei didn't dare to imagine what kind of tea such a black-skinned man would make, but he still agreed with his other proposal, and after walking for a morning, his only remaining stomach was already growling, and he thought that the meal made by the black-skinned man who was so similar to himself must be very suitable for his taste.

Gan Yingying laughed, Niu Lao Wu was greedy, and Mr. Teng made him a chef. Wu Ping immediately bowed apologetically, "Take care of it, the official office is newly established, and not everyone can come in, so there is too much shortage of manpower." ”

"Concurrently, do you mean that this Niu Lao Wu is also the same as you, and they are all the captains of the Cemetery Department?" Gan Fei heard the strangeness in his words.

"Yes, yes. ”

"I just think it's strange......" Gan Fei leaned his head closer to Wu Ping, and his voice was so small that only he and himself could hear: "...... Do you know what this Lieutenant of the Mausoleum does? It is by no means child's play for me to hand over the Lieutenant of the Mausoleum to Teng Gongzi, how can any cat or dog become the lieutenant of the Mausoleum?"

Wu Ping's expression looked very aggrieved, and he replied in the same slight voice: "First of all, you shouldn't tell me about this, this is us who were selected by Teng Duwei; second, you obviously didn't hear what I said before, although the official office is newly established, not everyone can come in; third, because of what is it, Niu Lao Wu and I are two cats and dogs as captains, I'm sorry, I can only say that our appearance may not really look like some capable people." However, as you know, many times you can't judge what a person is really capable of based on their appearance alone...... So, you don't know, I've been paying attention to the two of them, and they have an aura that doesn't belong to our kind. Wu Ping said that after the most sly, a sly smile suddenly appeared, stretched out his finger, and pointed at Shi Liang and no scales.

Gan Fei is speechless, Shi Wei and no scales, this guy is too right, one is a psionic person who has been transformed by the demon power of the water god, and the other is a little monster who is himself a little monster of the water, just from this sentence, you can know that Wu Ping is by no means an ordinary person, at least, he also has the ability to distinguish between demons and people, which seems that his slightly dissatisfied accusation just now is almost a bit vexatious.

"By the way, please forgive me for being blind at the beginning, how could I know that the mighty Gan Hero in Teng Duwei's mouth didn't have any strange aura on his body? So I recognized the wrong person, in fact, I know very well that your aura and demeanor are definitely above that fat scholar, and you still belong to the type that is intriguing, you must have deliberately restrained your divine light. Wu Ping nodded politely, smiling like a cunning mole, looking at Gan Fei's eyes but extremely sincere.

Gan Fei is angry and funny, he is really a sycophant, where did Teng Xiang find such a character? Just as he was thinking about the wording to deal with it, the black-skinned man Niu Lao Wu was already swaying with a fat body, holding hot tea, and while handing it over, he happily recited repeatedly: "Rice into the retort, meat in the pot, eat meat in a while." ”

"Eat meat. Gan Fei repeated to him, took the teacup, and said that the teacup might not be very suitable, because it was a huge pottery bowl, and after drinking the first sip of tea, Gan Fei frowned, and almost didn't squirt out. The suspicion of this black-skinned man's tea-making skills is absolutely right, even a person like Gan Fei who has no particular attention to the way of tea can taste it, this tea is astringent and bitter, and has a musty smell, which makes people very suspicious whether the broom silk is brewed as tea.

Zhong Linbo and Wu Yan took a sip directly, squirting out all the hot tea that had not yet entered the throat, Shi Wei was very self-contained, and swallowed the tea into his stomach without moving, and then put the pottery bowl on the table, and never touched it again, only Chen San, it was estimated that it was the first time to enjoy the treatment of serving tea in the mansion, and he drank it all happily.

Niu Lao Wu left again, looking at the incessant chatter and overjoyed look in his mouth, it was expected that his food, wine and meat must have been rectified, Gan Fei looked at Niu Lao Wu's fat back, and asked Wu Ping again: "What about this benevolent brother who always wants to eat meat? What ability does he have to enter here? Isn't he good at using his own tea and the like to poison what you want to deal with...... Those things?"

Wu Ping nodded respectfully, and before he could speak, he heard the heavy opening of the door outside the hall, and then, Teng Xiang's clear voice had already come: "Wu Ping!