Sunan runs a snack bar at home, mainly selling lo cakes, and there will be some seasonal side dishes, like now in late autumn, their family has a delicacy called Lianfang fish buns.

This delicacy is rare in northern regions such as Zhongzhou, and the Sunan family comes from the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south, so they will make some exquisite dishes that are only available in the south.

Lianfang fish bun is one such dish.

It removed the lotus canopy and cut off the bottom. Peel off the flesh, leave the holes, then take the fish, marinate it with wine, sauce and spices, mince the fish, fill the holes of the lotus pod, and finally seal it with the truncated bottom and put it in the pot to steam.

This dish is laborious to make, the price is naturally not cheap, and it is not very popular in Binh Duong.

The people of Binh Duong Province are all heroic northern men, who like to eat meat and drink wine in large pieces, and they don't care about the taste of food, they care about whether they can fill their stomachs.

When Wang Qilin and the four of them went, they happened to have lunch, and there were ten small tables in the store, and there were twenty or thirty people sitting, but most of them only ordered a big bowl of lo-lo cakes, at most with a small dish such as pickled cucumber and eggplant sauce, and no one ordered the lotus fish bun.

Xu Da ordered five in one breath.

Shu Yu smiled: "Master Xu, do you want to eat two servings by yourself?"

Xu Da was stunned and said, "Oh, I forgot to give you something." ”

Shu Yu thought he was joking, which meant that he didn't understand Xu Da.

Wang Qilin added three more copies.

They ordered eight lotus fish buns at one table, and the shopkeeper of the Su family enthusiastically personally sent them up and asked cordially: "How many masters have come north from the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou?" The lotus fish buns in the small shop taste authentic, but there is a lack of lakes in Pingyang Mansion, so the lotus pods are scarce, so my family can only use this lotus pod repeatedly, and I hope that a few masters Haihan." ”

Wang Qilin said: "The shopkeeper is polite, we are locals, just admiring us." ”

The shopkeeper of the Su family was stunned, and he said: "It's a pity that the mandarin fish sent before has been used up, otherwise you should use mandarin fish meat to make this dish for you to taste, so that the taste is delicious." ”

The lotus canopy opened, and Xu Da shuddered.

Wang Qilin asked, "How are you?"

Xu Da said: "What's good? I haven't eaten yet, I suddenly saw so many holes, and suddenly something was wrong in my heart." Seventh Master, do you think I'm wrong? When I see something very dense, I feel uncomfortable and can't help but feel uncomfortable. ”

Wang Qilin said: "When you make money one by one, why don't you feel uncomfortable? Aren't those copper and silver bahts dense enough?"

Shen Yi forked out a piece of fish meat with a fork and ate it: "Amitabha, it's really fragrant." ”

He bowed to the south very religiously.

Shu Yu was stunned for a moment.

Wang Qilin ate a mouthful of fish, it was soft and sloppy, and the taste was delicious, it was indeed a rare delicacy, and it was completely different from the fish he had eaten in the past.

After a while, a young man dressed as a scholar came into the store to eat, he wore a green square scarf on his head, a plain white robe, and a black veil tied to his arm, his face was haggard and sad, Xu Da nodded to Wang Qilin after seeing it: The main lord is here.

The four of them immediately went to take Sunan away, Sunan was panicked and wanted to shout, Wang Qilin said: "Listen to the heavenly prison, we want to investigate Feng Liang's case, we don't believe he will commit suicide." ”

As soon as Sunan heard this, he quieted down, and he said, "You come with me." ”

There is also a small house behind the snack bar, this is where Sunan lives and studies, his parents live on the second floor of the snack bar, and the gentleman cooks far away, so the family has prepared an additional residence for him, there are only two main houses, a bedroom and a study, and there is no kitchen.

After Wang Qilin came in, he smelled a cool smell and drilled into his nose, Shu Yu immediately clenched his waist knife and said in a deep voice: "There is yin qi." ”

Sunan was stunned for a moment and asked, "What's there?"

Xu Dadao: "There are ghosts. ”

Sunan nodded and said, "Oh, don't be afraid, it's just a lonely soul and a wild ghost." ”

His reaction made the four of them blink vigorously: Is the young man so natural?

Wang Qilin looked at the room and said: "You have no problem with feng shui here, there are so many sage books, the reason why there are lonely souls and wild ghosts come to the door is because you have no stove in the house, no kitchen, and no fire all day long, so there is a lack of human smoke, so the lonely souls and wild ghosts will naturally come to the door." ”

Sunan smiled indifferently and said: "Then let them come to the door, anyway, they don't harm people, they don't give birth to mosquitoes and rats and birds to hide, just to help me protect the books." ”

Wang Qilin was surprised: This is different if you have read the book of sages.

But he still persuaded: "Be careful, even if ghosts are not harmful, but their yin energy is too strong, and you will inevitably have weak yang energy if you contact them for a long time, and it will be easy to get sick when the time comes, and it will be troublesome to be targeted by some evil ghosts." ”

Sunan still didn't care, he smiled and said: "Who hasn't died since ancient times? ”

Wang Qilin looked at him in surprise and said, "Your mentality is very wrong." ”

Sunan smiled and waved his hand and asked, "The adults didn't come to me to help me exorcise ghosts, did they?"

Wang Qilin said: "I want to ask you some things about Feng Liang, first of all, did Feng Liang write to you after he died, and secondly, did you dream of Feng Liang after he died?"

Sunan said: "Yes, all of them. ”

He opened a box, took out an envelope, and put it on the table, and said, "On the third day of my brother's disappearance, that is, the day his body was found, an old gentleman sent me such a letter, and the letter was written by my brother Xianwei. ”

Wang Qilin asked, "There is a smell of mutton on the old man's body?"

Sunan nodded.

Wang Qilin asked again: "Do you still have an impression of his appearance and clothing?"

Sunan nodded again: "His face is dark and wrinkled, about the same height as me, but he is bent on his waist, so in fact he should be taller than me, and his accent is very strange, not a local accent......"

Wang Qilin looked at Xu Da again.

That's what the old shepherd they met!

Yin Cha didn't lie to them, but the shepherd was very good at acting, and he played with the three of them!

The main reason is that they didn't guard against such an old man, Xie Toad tested him, and didn't find that he had cultivation, so he relaxed his vigilance.

Wang Qilin opened the envelope, and there was also a yellow sheet of paper inside, on which there was also a poem: The immortal caresses my top, and the hair is immortalized.

"Bai Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor. The immortals caressed my top, and my hair was immortalized. Xu Da finished reading and said, "These two sentences are from Li Taibai's "After the Chaos and Departure, Tian'en Liuyelang Reminisces the Old Travel Book and Presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai", which is the first two sentences of the poem. ”

Wang Qilin looked at the yellow table paper and asked, "Su Xiucai, does Feng Liang write this poem to you, does it mean anything?"

Sunan shook his head and said, "I don't know, maybe he got a big opportunity, didn't you ask me if I dreamed of Brother Xianwei?

Wang Qilin said: "We know very little, only that there are some people who have also dreamed of Feng Liang, so I want to know what Feng Liang told you in his dream?"

Sunan was in a trance, he walked to the window and held on to the windowsill and said slowly: "The dream of that day was very real, a good weather, Brother Xian pushed the door in and invited me to go to the market for a walk." ”

"We started in Tianshu Town and went around the seven towns, and we just talked casually during the process. One of the things that impressed me the most was that my brother told me that although this Pingyang Mansion is large and has a large population, there is only one me, a true friend, and that Wu Jingchao does not treat him sincerely, but has a purpose for his kindness, just to make up for some debts. ”

"It was a good day, the sun was shining and everything was fine. Brother Xianwu took the initiative to take my hand, and we walked in the seven towns, chatting about poetry, fame, and all kinds of things in the world. In the end, my brother told me that he was leaving Pingyang Mansion and would never come back. ”

He said that his next step was to go to Yunzhou Mansion to meet an old friend, and from then on, he set off to travel all over the mountains and rivers to appreciate the great rivers and mountains of my Han. He also said that his life's wish is to read 10,000 books, but this wish cannot be fulfilled, but as the saying goes, 'it is better to travel 10,000 miles than to travel 10,000 miles', so he will walk 100,000 miles to see 100,000 miles of clouds and moons, in order to make up for his regrets in life......"

Speaking softly in his mouth, Sunan sometimes smiled sweetly, sometimes sadly left tears, and completely immersed himself in his emotional world.

When his voice fell, Xu Da suddenly said, "Seventh Master, I vaguely understand what's going on!"

Shen Yi laughed: "You understand an egg, do you really think of yourself as a mother's showman?"

Xu said angrily: "Uncle's show is the real test!"

Sunan, who has been calm and calm since they met, finally showed a shocked look: "This adult is a showman?"

Xu Da said unhappily: "I was a Xiucai who was admitted at the age of eighteen, what's wrong?"

Sunan looked straight out of the window with his eyes and sat down suddenly.

In this life, he is unreasonable!

Xu Da ignored him and continued to say to Wang Qilin: "Seventh Master, this poem "After the chaos and separation, Tian'en Liuyelang reminisces about the old travel book and presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai" has a background, when Li Taibai was exiled to Yelang because of the defeat of King Yong, he was pardoned halfway through, and went to see an old friend, and he made this poem after seeing the old friend. ”

"So you see, will he use some kind of magical power, after his death, the ghost is out of his body, and then travel all over the world to see his friends? I guess he wrote a letter to friends all over Jiuzhou, and on each letter there is a poem in "After the chaos and separation, Tian'en Liuyelang remembers the old travel book and presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai", starting from the first sentence and ending with the last sentence!"

Wang Qilin asked, "How many lines are there in this poem?"

Xu Da scratched his head and was about to open his back, when Sunan answered: "Eighty-three sentences." ”

Everyone looked at him, and Sunan continued: "After Brother Xian sent this poem, I have to recite this poem a hundred and ten times a day, and I have memorized it backwards. ”

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "Okay, is there any information in the dream that you find useful?"

Sunan frowned and thought about it, and finally shook his head.

Wang Qilin asked again: "On the fourth day of the eighth month, Feng Liang went to Landa Temple, did you go with him?"

"Yes. ”

"Was there anything unusual about him that day?"

Sunan said without hesitation: "Yes, he was originally elated, and he talked about Buddhist scriptures with the monks in the temple with great interest, and then Lord Yang Zuo came to him and took him away." Later, when he came back, his mood became very low. ”

"Anything else?"

Sunan racked his brains and said, "My lord, I'm really sorry, the days have passed too long, I can't remember clearly." ”

Wang Qilin asked some more questions, and after asking them clearly, he hugged his fists and thanked him, and led people to leave.

Before going out, he turned his back to Sunan and said: "Feng Xianwu likes this world very much, so he wants to go all over the country to see it, I don't know why he doesn't want to live to see it, but in short, he likes this world." Then he must hope that you also like this world, if you have no interest in fame, then you might as well follow his footsteps to see the north and south of the river. ”

"I have seen works such as "Notes on the Book of Water" and "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" on Feng Xianwei's desk, why don't you also travel all over the world and leave a book like this?"

Sunan's body shook, he sat down in a trance, and when the four of them went out, they heard a howl and cry in the house.

Shen Yi touched his bald head and said, "Amitabha, this donor's brain doesn't seem to be quite right." ”

Xu Da wanted to sarcastically mock him, Wang Qilin said: "The big troll is right, Sunan has self-destructive emotions, even if he also wants to commit suicide, at least he is not afraid of death." ”

"Why?"

Wang Qilin sighed lightly, and said as he walked: "Ask what the situation in the world is, and teach people to live and die." ”

"It's asking the world, what is love, and teaching life and death, right?"

"As far as you know, hurry up and ask me about the grocery stores in the city, and ask Feng Liang if he has bought envelopes in large quantities!"

Wang Qilin went straight to Feng Liang's house and asked Feng's father and mother if they had dreamed of Feng Liang's body the night before they found him.

Feng's father and Feng's mother nodded one after another: "I dreamed, that dream is quite strange, I dreamed that I would go home first, and I had to let him take him back to his hometown to see." He didn't know where to find a green ox, so he carried me back to my hometown and went to the place where he was a child to herd cattle and study......"

Speaking of this, Feng's mother couldn't cry: "This dream is unusual, but the old woman is stupid, she didn't even think of its deep meaning." ”

Wang Qilin already understood, so he didn't continue to ask, he couldn't ask anymore, the old man's mood had collapsed.

It was still Father Feng who sent him out, still sent him out of the alley, and still couldn't kneel for a long time.

Wang Qilin didn't dare to look back.

He now speculated that Feng Liang had indeed committed suicide, not by someone, so how could he give an explanation to the Feng family?

However, Feng Liang's suicide should be strange, something very important must have happened to make him decide to commit suicide.

According to the news obtained now, Feng Liang's suicide is not the end, he seems to have a very wonderful spell, mailing strange letters, and his soul can attach to these letters, travel the world with the letters, and meet friends from all over the country in his dreams.

However, he remembered the words of the Yin in the sacrificial well in Osmanthus Township: one of the sixty-four scholars died, and the other sixty-three did not.

He guessed that it was Feng Liang who died, and now he sees that Feng Liang's ghost is swimming, so is he dead or not?

In a conventional sense, he must have died, and everyone was buried.

But when Yin Cha mentioned Yu Shanshan, he said that her body had rotted and turned into dry bones, and her soul had not been destroyed.

The situation of Feng Liang should be the same, his body turned into dry bones, but his soul was not destroyed.

Yin Cha said that one of the sixty-four scholars died, so wasn't it Feng Liang who died?

A series of question marks flew around in his mind, and Wang Qilin was stunned!

When he returned to the post house, he was even more confused, and many young men came to the post house with their heads held high, eyeing each other.

But the big guy is honest and quiet.

This surprised him, and beckoned to Ma Ming: "These are all heroes who came to apply?"

Ma Ming smiled: "Yes, Seventh Master." ”

Wang Qilin nodded at him appreciatively and said, "You are worthy of being a good hand in the army, and you are very good at governance and discipline." ”

Ma Ming smiled bitterly: "I disappointed the Seventh Master, no matter where the discipline is, it needs strength, and the strength of the humble position is not enough to suppress these heroes, the reason why they are so honest is that they all rely on Shen Yi." ”

At this time, Shen Yi walked out with his wand on his shoulder, his gaze was sharp, sweeping over everyone, and everyone bowed their heads.

Shen Yi said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this Dao Leader once again warns you donors, this Dao Chief's brain is not good, listen to the Heavenly Supervisor Yushuai Li Changge is my relative, so if you don't listen to Ma Ye's words and continue to chirp, then be careful and continue to be beaten!"

He swung his wand and slammed it to the ground.

The building trembled!

Everyone trembled with fright, and their legs and stomachs trembled.

The fish cover shuddered with fright, and his chest trembled.

The crowd looked up again.

Wang Qilin was very disappointed with this group of rhodium, cesium, and beryllium: "There is not even one who can beat Shen Yi?"

Ma Ming said: "Seventh Master, I think we should not consider their strength for the time being, but consider their background. Who knows where these people came from, why they came, and what they will do when they come?

Wang Qilin patted him on the shoulder and said, "I know all this, so unless they are very good, we don't directly recruit them to Tingtianjian to become regular workers, they are temporary workers!"

"Part-time workers?"

"It's long and short-term workers," Wang Qilin explained, "Tell these people that they have no problem entering the Listening Prison, but they must have a three-month probationary period, and within three months they will be probationary, and only those who perform well will be officially recruited into the Listening Prison, otherwise where will they come from." ”

When the big men heard his words, some people immediately said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't this a pastime for us? How can there be such a reason? Lao Tzu is gone!"

Shen Yi's figure flickered, flew up and kicked him to the door: "If you don't do it, get out, who are you shouting 'Lao Tzu'? Lao Tzu is a Buddha! What do you want to become a Buddha? Then I'll send you to the West Heaven ......."

The big man was angry but didn't dare to reply, so he got up and ran quickly.

Others want to go, too.

Seeing this, Wang Qilin said coldly: "Listening to the Heavenly Prison is the Son of Heaven Guard, how can it be so easy to get in?

Everyone protested dissatisfied, and Wang Qilin said loudly: "It has been said in the list that the Heavenly Prison only recruits heroes from all over the world. As the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire, heroes are not afraid of trials, if any of you are afraid of trials, then go home and hug your mother-in-law, don't listen to me crying and crying in the heavenly prison!"

As soon as they heard this, everyone could only hold back their dissatisfaction in their hearts.

A few people who originally wanted to leave turned back, and now they are going to be rumored to be a laughing stock when they go out.

But the man who was kicked away had already gone out, and he had no face to come back, so he had to leave with a gloomy face.

Just as he went out and went to the street for a short time, a young scholar with two beautiful mustaches stretched out his hand to stop him and smiled: "The good man is invited." ”

The big man looked at him suspiciously.

The young scholar smiled and asked, "The hero is here to listen to the Heavenly Prison to apply?"

The big man said coldly: "Yes." ”

The young scholar stuffed a letter into his hand and said, "Then please give this letter to your lord, Lord Wang, and say that it is a letter from an old friend of Jixiang County to him." ”

With that, he turned around and walked away quickly.

Dahan didn't react, he looked at the envelope and looked up to find someone, but there was no one.

He sneered: "But my mother didn't apply, and I was beaten by them!"

"Yes, dare to beat Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu tore up your family letter!"

He was angry, tore up the letter and threw it out with a few clicks.

When the wind blows, the paper is blown away.

As soon as the wind blew, he calmed down: "It's not good, I'm in trouble! This is a letter to the Heavenly Supervisor, Wu Cao, I'm afraid it's a big trouble, hurry up, Pingyang Mansion can't stay, Lao Tzu hurry up and go to the countryside to avoid the limelight!"

When Xu Da came back in the evening, Wang Qilin hurriedly asked, "How is the envelope going?"

Xu Da said briefly: "I found out, Feng Liang did buy a lot of envelopes after participating in the Autumn Festival, he bought them in a scholar's four treasure shop, and the shopkeeper had an account, and he bought eighty-four envelopes, which were bought on the fourth day of the eighth month. ”

Wang Qilin said: "On the fourth day of the eighth month, the candidates went to the Landa Temple in groups, right?"

"Yes. ”

"Feng Liang also went to the Langda Temple, and what happened or he met someone during the period, he knew something or something, anyway, he suddenly changed his attitude towards life, came back to send letters, and then dug a mud pit and buried himself, right?"

"Yes. ”

Wang Qilin: "He sent eighty-four letters, but there are only eighty-three sentences in "After the chaos and separation, Tian'en Liuyelang reminisces about the old travel book and presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai", so the question is, where did he mail another one?"

Xu Da said: "Maybe he bought too much?"

Wang Qilin shook his head: "If it is ninety or one hundred envelopes, it can be said that he bought too much, eighty-four?"

"The Feng family is not rich in money, he will never waste money to buy more letters, so since he bought eighty-four envelopes, he must have used eighty-four envelopes!"

Xu Dadao: "It makes sense, then you can go to the post office to verify, he can find an old man in the city to help deliver the letter, and outside the city, especially in the distance, he has to use the post office to mail it, right?

The New Han Dynasty had quite a wealth of means of mailing letters, such as finding acquaintances to piggyback, spending money to find merchants to do less, spending money to find a dart bureau to piggyback, etc., but now the most conventional is the post post.

The post post system has a long history, the earliest was recorded in oracle bone inscriptions, there have been post posts since the Shang Dynasty, and later dynasties gradually improved.

Like today, there is a post station every fifty miles on the official road of the New Han Dynasty, and horses are equipped in the post station, and horses can be changed in the station in the process of sending letters, so that the official documents and letters of the government can be passed on one after another.

Before the New Han Dynasty, the post office only mailed letters to the court and officials, and the common people could not enjoy this privilege, so it was difficult for them to send a letter, so there was a poem of 'family letters worth ten thousand gold' in the world.

In the New Han Dynasty, the imperial court encouraged the people to do business and the movement of civilians in order to make the economy develop, so that the common people had a great demand for family letters and news.

So Taizu sympathized with the people's feelings, so he restructured the post post, and there was an official post in the post post, which was still specially for sending letters to the court and officials, and used fast horses to deliver letters.

In addition, there is also a civil mail, which is to send letters to the people, the price is low, but often use ox carts, horse-drawn carts, and donkey carts to deliver letters, and the speed is slow.

Therefore, Xu Da guessed that Feng Liang would definitely use the people's post office to send letters to friends in other places, which was slower but reliable.

Wang Qilin thought so, and the two immediately went to the post post again.

The Civil Postal Department has a special document to register the letters sent every day, who mailed it, where it was sent, and to whom it was mailed, which all had to be registered, so it was very convenient to check.

As soon as Wang Qilin said that he wanted to check the letters sent by Feng Liang on the fifth or sixth day of the eighth month, the clerk said: "He mailed eighty-two letters, and I am very impressed. ”

The mailing addresses of the eighty-two letters are all in detail, and Wang Qilin was overjoyed when he read them, and praised the documents: "Your Excellency is serious and conscientious, and your official is very admirable. ”

The old face of the clerk smiled, he was just an old boy who was unwilling, although he knew that Wang Qilin was painting a big pie, and he might be praised by the Iron Captain of the Heavenly Prison for a while.

Wang Qilin and Xu Dayi glanced at the registered address one by one, and Xu Da pointed to the last one and said: "Seventh Master look at this, how could he send a letter to this place?

After a glance, Wang Qilin said: "You left a copy of all the letter addresses and the names of the recipients, I went back to prepare, I originally wanted to go to Landa Temple tomorrow to see, but now it seems that this trip has to be delayed." ”