On this day, Wu Jiansheng finally came to the Xinwang Mansion, only to see that the Xinwang Mansion was very luxurious, occupying half of the street. There was an endless stream of guests who came to visit at the door of the vermilion lacquer, and it was obvious that since he served as the assassin of Yongzhou, Yulin Zhonglang would become a close confidant of the saint, a large number of people in the court wanted to scold him. Looking at this group of guests with expectant faces, Wu Jiansheng looked down on him from the bottom of his heart: "Cut, it's not a home that relies on my ability to predict the future." ”

Wu Jiansheng walked to the doormen who were chatting at the door, barely squeezed out a smile, took out the token of the Xinwang Mansion and said: I am Wu Jiansheng, the doorman of Li Xuantong, the son of the Xinwang, and I will trouble a few people to report it. ”

The leader gave him a contemptuous look, called a man and gave him two instructions, and said to him, "Send someone to speak, and wait." ”

After about two pillars of incense, seeing that there was still no movement, Wu Jiansheng stepped forward impatiently and said, "It's been so long, why haven't you come back yet, are you squeaking?"

The leading doorman mocked: "Can't wait so soon? Look at the few people at the door, some of them are wearing green official robes, and some are wearing green official robes, aren't they honestly waiting at the door? Like you, who is wearing a white cloth shirt without a pattern, where does the face dare to cry in a hurry? Wait slowly." ”

Wu Jiansheng was anxious all of a sudden, and said, "I have a token that believes in the Wangfu." ”

The doorman took the token and glanced at it, and casually threw it to him, "I don't know how much this thing my eldest son did when he was poor, and there are three people who came to our house to deceive people with this thing." Our prince is a close confidant of the emperor, how can I see such a pickled thing as you in my eyes. ”

When Wu Jiansheng heard him say this, his heart was full of anger: A guy who looks down on people with dog eyes, I don't pay much attention to Li Longji, the emperor who was forced to flee to Sichuan by An Lushan, what kind of thing is his dog legs? Although he thought so in his heart, he still suppressed his anger and said: "Okay, you just say it directly, how can you let me in." ”

The little guy stretched out his hand and gestured, Wu Jiansheng took out five taels of silver and handed it to him, the little guy really shook his head and laughed: "It's not enough." ”

Because the drunken village was still pestered by the people of Jingzhao Mansion, Wu Jiansheng really didn't bring much money when he went out today, so he had to take off the wrench in his hand and hand it to him, glaring at him very much.

The doorman was indeed not afraid at all, took it and turned it upside down, and smiled: "Someone has come to take this Mr. Wu into the lobby." After Wu Jiansheng left, the doorman laughed at a few peers: "Hahaha, brothers, I finally caught a fat sheep today, and I will invite the sheep soup hot pot at night." ”

The doorman, who led the way, led him through two courtyards, turned five or six corridors, and finally came to a large house. There were bursts of cups and cups and laughter inside, and it was obvious that Li You was entertaining guests. Wu Jiansheng just wanted to go in, but the doorman stopped him and stretched out his hand to compare the numbers.

Wu Jiansheng was angry: "One by one, you are finished, right, this is the hospitality of your Xinwang Mansion." ”

The doorman said contemptuously, "Cut, there's no money, right? I've seen six of the officials above the fourth grade, don't put this distinguished guest on the shelf for me. ”

Wu Jiansheng just wanted to scold him a few words, and then walked away, when a woman wearing a white saro water sleeve moire robe walked over, and the doorman hurriedly knelt down and said, "The little one is Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

When Wu Jiansheng heard this, he also bowed and saluted, during which he quietly glanced at her, and saw that this princess surnamed Wei was beautiful and very beautiful.

Princess Wei said softly: "Is the prince discussing with His Royal Highness King Qi any warm skin and bones again?"

When Wu Jiansheng heard this, he thought to himself: Li Fan, the king of Qi, is also inside? Isn't that an allusion to warming the hands with a woman's chest?

The doorman trembled and said, "This, the little one doesn't dare to say." ”

Princess Wei sighed with a gloomy expression: "Alas, forget it, I'm too lazy to say anything." And he wanted to turn and leave.

"Wait, Your Excellency. Wu Jiansheng stopped her.

Princess Wei glanced at him, pondered in her memory, and said, "Who are you?"

Wu Jiansheng handed her a dagger and said, "This is something that the next friend asked me to pass on to you." ”

Princess Wei was dumbfounded, and the subordinates next to her looked the same, and they were angry: "Okay, you dare to enter the palace with a sword, do you want to plot against you?"

When Princess Wei heard this, she scolded: "You, go down for me." ”

"Ahh

Princess Wei took the dagger, took a closer look, and said to herself: "At this time, I used it for self-defense, and when I escaped from the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Hall, I thought I couldn't find you." After that, he looked at Wu Jiansheng and said, "That friend of yours, it's Zhang Nianxin, right?"

Wu Jiansheng nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

"How is she now? Has she been caught by the government?"

Wu Jiansheng got up and said, "She is now safe and sound, and she has gone to Longxi." ”

Princess Wei nodded, "Anyway, what else do you want me to do besides sending this knife." ”

"That, I want to see His Royal Highness King Xin, if you stay in King Xin's Mansion in the future, I hope that Your Excellency the Princess can say a few kind words in front of King Xin. ”

Princess Wei smiled: "What's so difficult about this, you just go in, and I will speak for you in the future." ”

"Then thank you, Your Excellency, Princess. Saying that, Wu Jiansheng was about to go to the house, but Princess Wei stopped him, "Wait," and then returned the dagger to him, and said, "Although I am grateful that you have traveled hundreds of miles to return this knife, you should keep it for yourself, I don't want to have anything to do with my past." ”

Wu Jiansheng was stunned for a moment, and finally took the knife and opened the door. As soon as I entered the house, the smell of incense came to my face, and I walked around a screen painted with beautiful pictures, and saw a group of richly dressed scholars drinking and having fun in the lobby from a distance, and next to seven or eight good-looking singers were playing pipa, dong flute, guzheng, yangqin, xiqin (erhu) and other musical instruments. The song is very pleasant, but unfortunately Wu Jiansheng can't understand what they are playing.

The two people sitting on the top seat, one of them was wearing a dark crimson nine-chapter pattern brocade robe, looking heroic, at the moment he was hugging a beautiful girl with beautiful qualifications to talk and laugh, from time to time put his hand into her arms to grope and provoke her to laugh, making the guests in the hall red-faced, covering their faces and blindfolding, he was at ease. This one is tired of playing, let her go down, and pick up another one to continue playing. Wu Jian said in his heart: This is Li Fan, the king of Qi, right? I don't know if he has anything to do with Li Maozhen. He is not very familiar with Li Fan, and only knows an allusion to fragrant skin and warm hands, but he is still quite familiar with another Qi king, Li Maozhen, after all, he is a figure with a head and a face in the late Tang Dynasty. The person sitting next to Li Fan, the king of Qi, was not the same as his dress, and his appearance was very similar to Li Xuantong, and at this moment he was also holding a beautiful Ji and talking and laughing with Li Fan, but he was not as presumptuous as him, just stroked her twice. At this time, a guard in the aisle came over, and saw a person sneakily lying behind the screen to watch, grabbed him by the collar, and was furious: "Who are you to dare to peep here?"

Wu Jiansheng was taken aback on the spot, and then said loudly: "I am a guest of Li Xuantong, the son of King Xin, let me go." The guard searched him, searched him, found a book and a dagger, and said, "Good fellow, if you have bad intentions, go, go with me to see Commander Fang." With that, he couldn't help but pull him to a courtyard in the back hall. When Wu Jiansheng looked at this Fang Commander, he immediately smiled, and was happy: "Fang Cheng, it turned out to be your old friend, alas, let me go." ”

Fang Cheng looked at him, but he was in a complicated mood, as Li You's confidant, he knew that now King Xin's achievements all depended on him to persuade Li Xuantong to write a letter, and he joined hands with Shangshu Zuo Cheng Zhang to say that he and Wang Ju, the head of the household, had eliminated Princess Taiping. However, King Xin took the credit for the use of the Dao Sheng, and hid Li Xuantong and his deeds in the song, and gave him an order to find a way to drive him out if he found that Wu Jiansheng had come to Chang'an, so this is why he had a lot of broken skin in his drunken incense shop a few days ago. But he never expected that this Wu Jiansheng would not give up and actually ran directly to the Xinwang Mansion. An Li said that according to King Xin's instructions, in order to prevent the leakage of Li You's bullying in the future, he should directly kill Wu Jiansheng, but he felt that this was too ungrateful after all. What, you said that you know the truth, why didn't Zhang Shuo tell the truth about the report against Princess Taiping? Hey, how could this unprofitable person offend a prince for the sake of a gentleman (historical records record that Zhang said that he was extremely greedy for money).

Thinking of this, Fang Cheng pretended to scold: "Which scoundrel, when has someone on our side ever seen you." ”

Wu Jiansheng suddenly said inexplicably: "Alas, you were on the boat in Hanshui, and you were next to me at that time." ”

"Shut up," Fang Cheng stopped him, picked up the book and asked, "What is written in this book?"

Wu Jiansheng smiled: "This is some experience in handicraft business, farm tools, and iron tools. In this book, Wu Jiansheng's achievements of a year of painstaking work are recorded in detail: the production methods of various tools such as the Quyuan plough at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the new textile machine at the end of the Song Dynasty. In addition, there is still a large number of handicraft workshops in the Lianghu area, and there is also the Champa rice that only appeared during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, etc., as long as he still remembers something in modern times that can benefit the ancient people, he wrote all of them on it. He didn't know much about the knowledge of the world, but he clearly remembered that in the late Tang Dynasty, due to the relationship between logistics and transportation, many times the cost of transportation along the way was twice as much as the materials transported, so Wu Jiansheng put forward an idea of using the vouchers of the cabinet to change them into silver tickets.

Then Fang Cheng took it and only looked at it for a while, then threw it into the fire next to him and said angrily: "What is written without knowing what is written, it is simply a mess of filth." He was telling the truth, and the writing was crooked, mixed with all kinds of vernacular, ink, typos, and all kinds of characters that he couldn't understand, and he hit his head when he turned a few pages.

Wu Jiansheng was stunned when he watched his painstaking masterpiece being mercilessly thrown into the fire.

Fang Cheng picked up the dagger and said, "This person is full of nonsense, you call me out." Let him never come to the palace. ”

Suddenly, dozens of wooden sticks and leather whips beckoned Wu Jiansheng's body, and after two pillars of incense, they had enough, and saw Wu Jiansheng dragged it up and threw it outside the house.

In the evening, Wu Jiansheng, who had been knocked unconscious, finally woke up, looked at the Xinwang Mansion with disgusting eyes, and got up to leave. Because of the severe pain all over his body, he had to hold on to the wall, limping away, and when he came to an alley, a small servant of the palace came over, and then handed him a bag, Wu Jiansheng was surprised to open it and see that the silver of the white flowers was fifty taels. He sneered: "What, what do you mean by this? King Xin paid me to go back?"

"Shh~" The little guy made a gesture to signal him to be quiet, and whispered: "I am a close confidant of Her Royal Highness the Princess, he asked me to come and tell you that she was in the side room when you were beaten, but she has no real power in the mansion now, and she doesn't dare to go up to tell the truth, all this silver should be compensated for you." Also, I met Fang Cheng when I was on the road, and he asked me to tell you that the reason why we didn't recognize each other today was to protect you, and quickly asked you to leave Chang'an quickly. In order to cover up his sin of bullying the king, His Royal Highness King Xin has already issued a death order to let Commander Fang seal your mouth, if you don't leave, then King Xin will personally find a way to do it, and he will not be able to protect you. Then the little man turned and left.

After hearing all this, Wu Jiansheng was stunned for a long time with the silver, and suddenly he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahahahahahahaha In the end, you took all the credit, didn't even leave me some soup, and sent your subordinates to humiliate me like this, sure enough, sure enough, sure enough, the officialdom in the world throughout the ages is generally black, hahahahaha. ”

"This brother, why are you laughing here?" Suddenly, as soon as the voice interrupted his laughter, Wu Jiansheng turned his head to look, only to see a literati in a white robe looking at him, the man saw that he was sober, and arched his hand and said: "In Xia Gao Chongwen, the current Shaozhou Sima." Seeing that Brother Tai is dressed as a literati, he must also be a scholar. ”

When Wu Jiansheng heard this, he said in his heart: Gao Chongwen? Well, no, he wasn't born at this time, so he must be someone who worships him. So he handed it over: "The next surname is Wu Jiansheng, and now he is a white ding." Originally, he was a guest of Li Xuantong, the son of King Xin, but today he came to visit King Xin, but he didn't expect that the guests in his house were all greedy and flattering, and as soon as he entered the door, he was vying to ask me for money. ”

Gao Chongwen heard the right color and said: "Oh, it turned out to be Brother Wu Tai in Fengyang who passed on Jingzhao with a song of Jiang Xue, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”

Wu Jiansheng said a little embarrassed: "Where, where." ”

Gao Chongwen sighed and said: "Speaking of which, I also took the opportunity to go to Chang'an to visit His Royal Highness King Xin, but alas, don't mention it, it's almost the same treatment as you." ”

At this time, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy turned out behind him and said: "Mr. Wu's Jiang Xue is indeed a good poem. Especially the lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow. It's really a quatrain for the ages. ”

Hearing that he praised himself by plagiarizing Liu Zongyuan's poems, Wu Jiansheng's face was red, and he was a little embarrassed: "Where, where." ”

"However, sir, it seems that you have misplaced the hand that saluted just now. ”

Wu Jiansheng: .........

Gao Chongwen hurriedly pulled him over and reprimanded: "Shi'er, aren't you fooling around? Don't you see that Wu Gong's hands are broken, how can you be so good." ”

"Shi'er, his surname is Gao, that is, Gao Shi's !!" Suddenly, more than a dozen poems that he had learned when he was in school, such as Don't Dong Da, Jimen Xing, and Tuxia Qu, came to his mind, and looked at the child in front of him, Wu Jiansheng leaned down and said, "Xiaolang, how old are you now?"

Xiao Gaoshi smiled: "Not yet ten years old." ”

Wu Jiansheng nodded and said, "Yes, it's really you, one of the four poets of Biansai." ”

Gao Shi's eyes were full of doubts when he heard him say this.

Wu Jiansheng stood up and said to Gao Chongwen: "Gao Sima, I look at this son, and I have a temperance to make it talented. (Gao Shi once served as the envoy of Huainan Jiedu to quell the rebellion of King Yong Li Lan, which was the highest moment of his life.) ）

Gao Chongwen laughed: "Thank you Mr. Wu Miao for praise." ”

Wu Jiansheng pointed at him and continued: "He hasn't decided on the table yet, right?"

Gao Chongwen nodded.

Wu Jiansheng continued: "Then, his future expression will be called Duff." ”

"Okay, according to what Wu Gong said, the word in the future will be called Duff. ”

Before the three separated, Wu Jiansheng also gave him a poem as a gift: thousands of miles of yellow clouds smoke during the day, and the north wind blows geese and snow.

Don't worry about the road ahead, no one knows you in the future. (Gao Shi: ??? you give me my poems, so "generous") After doing one thing, Wu Jiansheng finally felt a lot more comfortable in his heart, and smiled: "After coming to Datang for so many years, I have finally done one thing, and when Gao Shi is written in the history books in the future, I Wu Jiansheng will always mention it, hahahahaha." ”

At the same time, in the barracks outside Zicheng, Zhang Nianxin waited for a long time and didn't see Wang Bold come back, and just wanted to go out of the camp to investigate, only to see him walk back to the camp gate with a depressed face, Zhang Nianxin stepped forward and asked: "How is it, what did Lord Assassin Shi say?"

Wang boldly shook his head and said, "Don't mention it, on the way to the Assassin's Mansion, I met a master of the mansion, and when he saw this fine salt, he asked me where I got it." I was so obsessed with money that I said that I made it with salt mine when I made my own soup. ”

When Zhang Nianxin heard this, he was furious: "Ah, how can you plagiarize Mr. Wu's masterpiece, this is the result of his painstaking writing." ”

Wang Daring said helplessly: "Alas, I have been a food soldier for five years, and I have never seen the hope of promotion...... Alas. ”

Zhang Nianxin said with a displeased face: "Then what happened later? ”

Wang Daring gritted his teeth and said: "The main book called Cui Youjie is also a shameless thing. After trying to get this method of making salt out of my mouth, he sent me two dollars and blew me away, and went to find Master Thorn Shi himself. I reasoned with his subordinates, and he didn't give me an answer, alas. (Wu Jiansheng: Now I understand that the content of my book is written and revised by myself, and I never find someone to write it.) There was no copyright law in the Tang Dynasty, and if your own work was impersonated, there would be no place to cry, so you could only write a few articles to scold others, and there was no way to defend your rights at all)

Zhang Nianxin scolded: "You two are really rat voles giving birth to a litter, half a catty and eight two." Go, take me to him, I'm going to reason with him.

Wang boldly pointed to the camp and said, "No, there is still half an hour before the curfew, you see that the camp gate is closed, how can you get out." ”

When Zhang Nianxin heard this, he punched the gate. shouted: "I see if you dare to stop me." However, the heavy gate of the camp was three feet high, so that her knock was as if she had been hit by a catapult, and flew two feet away, and the sentry posts on the arrow towers on both sides saw this and beat their drums and shouted: "There is an enemy attack, come quickly, there is an enemy attack." ”

When the king saw this, he was as stunned as a hen, and did not know how to speak for a while.

Zhang Nianxin was also secretly surprised when he saw this situation: Oh my God, obviously I have tried my best to punch as little as possible, why is the power still so great. As he spoke, he looked at his hand again, there was no wound, Zhang Nianxin didn't even feel a trace of pain, and said: "It's strange, how is the effect of the Su Wen Sutra getting stronger and stronger, and it is becoming more and more difficult to control." (It is known: the weight of the trunk of an adult tree is about 800 catties after removing water, and a solid gate for thousands of people to enter and exit the barracks needs about 20 tree trunks, that is, about 1,800 catties)