Don’t wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you.

Huaguo Imperial Palace, Imperial Study.

The emperor (Tong Qing's doppelganger) had a solemn face, holding an eight-hundred-mile urgent document secretly sent by Xue Ziqian, the prefect of the Xihai Sea, frowning, walking around, and finally made up his mind and made a shocking decision.

"Land Rover, quickly send someone to the West Sea to spread my will, and allow Xue Ziqian to resign from his illness! In addition, you go in person, Lu Jianxun, the champion of Xuanxinke, will enter the palace, and see you in the imperial study!"

"Obliged, long live!"

The chief eunuch Land Rover hurried away.

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Western Xinjiang.

Xue Ziqian, the prefect of Xihai, received the emperor's decree (Tong Qing's doppelganger), allowed him to resign from his illness, immediately went through the delivery procedures, took his family, and gradually drifted away.

Lu Jianxun, the new champion of the new department and a young and promising prefect of Xihai, surrounded by all the squires, walked into the government with a spring breeze on his face and took office.

On the table in the hall of the palace, there was a pile of shiny silver, which made people suspicious.

Master Ma Xudong stepped forward, picked up a letterhead on the table, glanced at it, and then handed it to the new prefect Lu Jianxun, only to see that the letterhead read: "This silver totals five hundred and sixty taels, it is a gift from the villagers of Xihai, Xue Ziqian is sick and resigned, and he does not dare to accept it, and he asks Lu Zhifu to return it on his behalf." ”

It turned out that these silver were the squires of the West Sea who made up the money for Xue Ziqian, who was as clear as water. The new prefect Lu Jianxun couldn't help but praise Xue Ziqian's high style and brightness.

"Since Lord Xue doesn't accept these silver taels, please take them back. Lu Jianxun said.

However, the squires shook their heads into rattles.

Lu Jianxun pondered for a moment and said, "Well, since everyone refuses to take it back, then this official will do a good deed on your behalf and the departing Lord Xue." ”

Lu Jianxun called his relatives, took his own 40 taels of silver, made up an integer of 600 taels, and instructed his master Ma Xudong and Liu Xinyu, the head of the squire, to use these silver taels to buy some rice and noodles together, and give alms to the poor people in Xihai City.

When the squires walked out of the palace, they praised the new prefect Lu Jianxun, saying that the people of Xihai were very blessed, and they had just left an honest and honest Lord Xue Ziqian, and they gave Lu Jianxun, a Qing official who loved the people like a son.

The next morning, a long line formed in front of the government office of the poor people who received the grain, and a young man of about 18 years old was particularly eye-catching.

Master Ma Xudong was wondering to himself, and Liu Xinyu on the side said disdainfully: "This young and beautiful, I don't know where he came from?" Three months ago, he suddenly appeared in the city of Xihai, and at a young age, he made a living by begging. ”

After hearing this, Master Ma Xudong said, "Since this is the case, let's help this young man change his laziness." ”

Master Ma Xudong asked someone to call Xiao Laizi and told him: "These grains are given to those poor people who have no ability to work. In this way, the ditch behind the prefect's yamen is a bit blocked these days, if you are willing to contribute to clearing the ditch, then give you a piece of grain and rice, how about it?"

Xiao Laizi had no choice but to agree.

In the gutter of the prefect's yamen, in the garden behind the prefect's yamen, Xiao Laizi followed a servant to the back garden, lifted the ditch cover, and a rancid smell rushed to the end of his nose, he gritted his teeth, picked up a shovel, and jumped down the gutter and dug up the silt.

After a while, there was only a muffled sound, and the shovel seemed to have touched something? Xiao Laizi carefully dug through the surrounding mud and found a large box, blocking the middle of the ditch, and it was it that blocked the smooth flow of the ditch.

Seeing the huge wooden box that was lifted, Master Ma Xudong was also confused, and wondered, he hurriedly ordered the official to open the lid of the box, and a peculiar smell made everyone take a few steps back, it turned out that in this wooden box, there was a corpse lying there!

Lu Jianxun, the new prefect who heard the news, covered his nose and watched the autopsy.

Xiao Laizi, who was cleaning the gutter, didn't know what was going on, and he suddenly shouted excitedly, "There are two big boxes down there." ”

The officials lifted two large wooden boxes from the gutter, and when they opened them, they found that they also contained two corpses.

Looking at this scene in front of him, the new prefect Lu Jianxun's face turned pale, I don't know if he was smoked by the smell of corpses? Or was he angry when he encountered such a strange case of hiding corpses just after taking office?

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In the middle of the night, there was silence in the back garden of the mansion, and suddenly, a black shadow, like a swallow, flew to the wall of the back garden.

The black shadow groped his way to the front of a small room, took out the fire fold and shook it, only to see that under the eaves, there were two white lanterns hanging, on which the words "mortuary" were written, the black shadow knew that he had found the right place, he pushed the door, and entered the hut.

Inside the hut, an eerie, miserable moonlight shone in through the back window, shining on the three corpses that had been dug out of the gutter during the day.

This black shadow walked directly to the mortuary bed, went around the heads of the three corpses, and got busy, until the rooster crowed for five watches, and then flashed out of the door, as fast as the wind, and flew out of the mortuary.

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Early the next morning, He Jingtai came to the mortuary, and as soon as he opened the door of the small room, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The scalps of the three rotting corpses salvaged from the gutter yesterday were all stripped of their scalps, leaving only Sensen's skull and a patch of black hair.

He Jingtai was frightened and hurriedly reported the matter to the new prefect Lu Jianxun.

The new prefect Lu Jianxun came to the mortuary, looking at the strange scene in front of him, his eyebrows twisted into a knot.

Master Ma Xudong was about to speak on the side, and the heart of the new prefect Lu Jianxun moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Master Ma, do you have anything to say?"

"Xihai has been peaceful under the governance of the predecessor Lord Xue Ziqian. However, as soon as Lord Xue's front foot left, so many things happened, this ...... This makes people have to think about it. Master Ma Xudong said.

"Master Ma, do you want to tell this official that Lord Xue's good governance is just a superficial phenomenon, but in fact, in Xihai City, there are undercurrents surging?" asked the new prefect Lu Jianxun.

Master Ma Xudong said: "That's right, Lord Lu, what do you think, these three corpses were all found in the gutter behind the mansion, except for the people in this mansion, who has the courage to do this?"

As soon as Master Ma's words were finished, the faces of Li Ronghao, the head catcher and He Jingtai, who were standing on the side, both had indignant expressions on their faces.

The new prefect Lu Jianxun saw it in his eyes, and hurriedly said: "Master Ma, this is unlikely, right? Before I came, Lord Ben heard that Lord Xue is a good official who is honest and loves the people like a son. This case should be slowly investigated by the official. ”

Just when the new prefect Lu Jianxun and others were checking the mortuary in the backyard, the front of the government office was open to the commotion, and the little laizi was lying in front of the government office like a wave, making a lot of noise, refusing to leave, attracting many people to watch the excitement, and the official on duty was helpless, so he had to come over to report to the new prefect Lu Jianxun.

It turned out that yesterday Master Ma Xudong and Xiao Laizi agreed that as long as they dug the gutter, they would give him a portion of grain and rice, and later, three corpses were dug up in the gutter, and Master Ma forgot about it.

The new prefect Lu Jianxun asked the reason, and then instructed Master Ma to give him the portion of grain and rice he deserved.

Xiao Laizi received grain and rice and was summoned by the new prefect Lu Jianxun.

During the questioning, he learned that Xiao Laizi had studied for a few years and had a clear way of speaking, so Lu Jianxun came up with the idea of keeping him by his side.

This little laizi has no fixed place, so he naturally can't ask for it, so he hurriedly nodded and agreed, followed Master Ma Xudong, and entered the back house.

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In the middle of the night, the surroundings were silent and pitch black, and the new prefect Lu Jianxun's room was still brightly lit.

The officials all thought that it was the new prefect Lu Jianxun, in order to solve the case as soon as possible, no one could have imagined that what he was looking at under the lamp at this time was the scalp he peeled off from the three corpses in the mortuary last night.

In fact, the new prefect Lu Jianxun is not a simple character, he has another side that is not known.

The female demon Yu Die'er caused trouble in the world, sent a large number of goblins, and in the rivers and lakes of the human world, a large number of scum were killed, and this Lu Jianxun was one of them. Lu Jianxun is a rising star in the rivers and lakes of China, sinister and cunning, ambitious, and has a well-known nickname "Flying Scorpion", he was originally a rich child, but he was the king of the mountain, and became a terrifying bandit leader, who once had thousands of brothers, all of whom were outlaws who killed people without blinking. Lu Jianxun was a child, once accepted as an apprentice by an evil veteran, blue out of the blue is better than blue, up and down, extremely evil, after his debut, wandering the world, falling into the grass, killing people like hemp, under his command, there are three henchmen, but also his personal disciples, known as the "scorpion needle three blood ring", all have a hand of flying poison needle stunt.

Originally, Lu Jianxun sent three disciples to secretly sneak into the West Sea for a major event, but unexpectedly, they were all buried in the West Sea City for no apparent reason. Thinking of this, a wave of hatred rose in Lu Jianxun's heart: "This must be a good thing done by that guy Xue Ziqian, and when the matter is over, Xue Ziqian will definitely be killed in order to calm the resentment in his heart."

Lu Jianxun looked at the green and faint tattoo patterns on the three human skins in his hand, and thought secretly: "Fortunately, the three blood rings are clever enough to draw a picture of the news they heard and write it down, otherwise, I would have lost my wife and broken my soldiers!"

Lu Jianxun didn't let go of the bandit leader who ate and drank spicy food, but spent a lot of money to become an official in Xihai City, in fact, because of an extremely important secret.

Lu Jianxun was bewitched by the banshee, couldn't extricate himself, fell deeper and deeper, and was easily controlled by the female demon Yu Die'er with a slave seal, and he couldn't help but obey others. The female demon Yu Die'er gave orders and instructed him that there was a big treasure in Xihai City in Huaguo, which was a large treasury left by the Murong family, the great princes of Xihai during the ancient Shun Dynasty.

Since ancient times, the West Sea has been rich in gold, and in ancient times, the Murong family sat on the West Sea, established itself as the king, and mobilized millions of people to mine gold mines. However, the Murong family was later dissatisfied with the feudal princes and rebelled against Emperor Shun, and after it was destroyed, the new ruler did not find much gold.

The female demon Yu Die'er said that in ancient times, the Murong family committed rebellion, and Emperor Shun personally led the divine soldiers to descend from the sky, besiege the West Sea, and quell the rebellion.

Before the defeat of the army, Murong Xia Dun, the last rebel leader of the Murong family, secretly sent people to hide a large amount of gold in Xihai City in advance, and then killed all the people who buried the gold, hoping that one day, his descendants would carry on the past and forge ahead, make a comeback, and take revenge. At that time, there was a soldier who participated in the burial of gold, crawled out of the pile of dead people, fled back to his home, he knew that his life was not guaranteed, so he asked his family to flee to the eastern region overnight to avoid trouble, and then**, coincidentally, this person's soul was found by Yu Die'er's master Yuan Feng when he was looking for the Flame Mountain in the West Sea, and saw that he was covered in fire, out of curiosity, he was secretly detained for research.

Time has passed, the Dashun Dynasty has already been wiped out, Yu Die'er learned about this matter by accident, from the mouth of the master Yuanfeng, and asked for the soul torture, but it was self-defeating, that soul couldn't stand the torture of destruction at all, and the soul was scattered and destroyed. The angry female demon Yu Die'er gritted her teeth with hatred, and with the idea of believing it, she decided to send people to the territory of the West Sea of Huaguo to find this treasure house, and to further attack the Three Realms for herself, buy people's hearts, and make a strong backing.

That's it, Lu Jianxun entered the sight of the female devil Yu Die'er and became the best candidate.

After getting this will of the female demon Yu Die'er, Lu Jianxun, who couldn't help himself, was helpless, so he decided to send his three most powerful henchmen to secretly sneak into Xihai City to find the whereabouts of the treasure. Fortunately, he has secret skills, and in addition to the kung fu of poisonous needles and hidden weapons, each disciple also has the skill of blindly tattooing the scalp through the hair.

Lu Jianxun went to the mortuary last night to find the last message left by the "Scorpion Needle Three Blood Rings".

At this moment, the three scalps with patterns are in his hands, and when put together, they are a complete gold map.

Lu Jianxun looked at the tattoos on his scalp for a long time, and called the military advisor Master Ma Xudong, and ordered him to immediately go to the Xihai Mansion Chronicles to find the topographic map of the Xihai Mansion Chronicles during the Shun Emperor period, and refer to the directions and terrain in the map, and they finally found the location of the secret room where the gold was hidden.

There is only one secret passage to reach this secret room, and this secret passage is actually in the gutter where the corpse of the "Scorpion Needle Three Blood Rings" is buried.

"Big boss, since the three blood rings were buried in the gutter after being killed, does it mean that the people who killed them have also discovered the secret passage to hide gold?"

Lu Jianxun smiled coldly and said, "Master Ma, I don't know if you noticed the situation when Xiao Laizi was digging a ditch that day. The gutter was filled with silt, and as soon as the box was dug out, the vacant space was filled with overflowing silt, which means that no one had dug up the latter section. Moreover, the color of the silt also proved my inference, so I concluded that the secret chamber behind the gutter had not yet been discovered. ”

"What happened to the death of the three blood rings?"

Perhaps, the three of them were investigating and inadvertently revealing their identities. However, Master Ma, since the gold map has been obtained, it is the right thing for you to arrange for our brothers to dig up the treasure as soon as possible. As for the revenge for the three of them, I'll talk about it when the matter is over. ”

"Yes. Master Ma agreed and withdrew.

Early the next morning, Master Ma passed down the order of the prefect Lu Jianxun: "Continue to dig the gutter and look for clues to the murder." ”

Several bandit minions followed Master Ma and immediately started digging the gutter. After digging for a whole day, in the evening, good news came from under the gutter: the gutter had been dug to the end, and there was a stone door at the end. Master Ma hurriedly reported the news to Lu Jianxun. Lu Jianxun ordered Master Ma to take a look at the stone gate, but what patterns were marked?

Master Ma came back and reported that the stone gate was engraved with a picture of gluttony swallowing the moon.

After hearing this, Lu Jianxun's heart was overjoyed and said: "It's not wrong, the gold must be in it." This gluttonous swallowing moon is one of the most important symbols of the Murong family. ”

Lu Jianyun entered the gutter with many bandit minions and Xiao Laizi.

Behind the stone gate, there was a stone staircase going down, and when they reached the end of the stone staircase, they saw a small stone palace. In the middle of the palace, there is a passage, and in the middle is an altar. On the altar, there are many spiritual tablets with ebony gold characters. On both sides of the passage, there are huge wooden boxes. The group walked to the altar and saw that the names written on the ebony spirit seats all began with Murong.

"It seems that this time, we have finally found the right place. Lu Jianxun looked ecstatic, and finally got what he wanted and found Nanyan Zangjin.

Opening a wooden box, a piece of golden light dazzled everyone's eyes. I saw that the wooden box was neatly filled with gold bricks.

The bandit minions hurriedly ran over, and one of them hugged a piece.

Lu Jianxun also took a piece handed by Master Ma, and was smug, when he suddenly found that something was wrong, he felt that the weight of the gold brick was wrong, and after a closer look, it was simply a layer of gold paint on the outside of the stone brick.

Just as he was looking closely, there was a loud "boom" sound, and a large hole opened in the ground above the chamber, and countless torches lit up above their heads. Many officials quickly stood overhead, and Lu Jianxun saw a familiar face at a glance.

"Xue Ziqian!" he said through gritted teeth.

Xue Ziqian laughed: "Yes, it's the old man." Scorpion, I'd like to see where else you can fly this time?"

Lu Jianxun sneered and said, "Naive, do you think that this underground cave more than ten meters high can trap my flying scorpion?"

Xue Ziqian replied: "Yes, I know your ability to fly a scorpion, this cave of more than ten meters is just a piece of cake for you." With your rain-drenched secret weapon technique and extremely poisonous scorpion needle, dozens of people like us are indeed not your opponents. However, I am sure that you are in danger this time. ”

Lu Jianxun had already taken out the scorpion needle with both hands, and was about to send it out, when someone in the back of his head suddenly shouted: "Flying Scorpion, you take your life." ”

When he turned around, he saw Xiao Laizi standing on the altar, and at some point a secret door appeared on the altar.

Xiao Laizi saw him turn around and entered the secret door sideways.

As he was questioning, it was pitch black above his head, and when he tried to fly and jump up again, he had already been smashed down by the mud waterfall that split his head and covered his face. The scorpion needle has also become a waste vessel in this mud flow. It turned out that this was the strange plan set by Xue Ziqian and the emperor (Tong Qing's clone), so that his flying and light skills and hidden weapons would lose their effect in the mud, and in one fell swoop captured alive the bandits who aided and abused the tigers and their leader Lu Jianxun.

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Outside Xihai City, in the ten-mile long pavilion, Xue Ziqian asked Xiao Laizi: "Do you really want to leave?"

"Yes. ”

"What about the gold?"

Xiao Laizi smiled: "They were originally the things of the common people of the West Sea, so let's leave them to them." I believe that Lord Xue will definitely use them where they should be used. ”

The flying scorpion Lu Jianxun probably never dreamed that when he was plotting to drive away Xue Ziqian and send the three blood rings into the West Sea to hunt for treasure, Murong De, the descendant of the Murong clan who hid the treasure back then, also came to the West Sea.

Murong De held the ancestral gold map in his hand, disguised himself as a beggar, and wanted to use this to infiltrate the government and take out the gold buried by his ancestors. Later, he was moved by Xue Ziqian's love for the people, and in the middle of the night, he quietly walked into the mansion and told Xue Ziqian everything. Among them is also the "Scorpion Needle Three Blood Rings" that he secretly saw dressed as ordinary people probing around the mansion.

Xue Ziqian knew that this must be a subordinate sent by Lu Jianxun, he knew that Lu Jianxun was a bandit in the past, although he was now an official in the imperial court, he was plotting against him in his heart, but he was suffering from no evidence. So, he secretly reported to the emperor (Tong Qing's doppelganger), got permission, took out the hidden gold, and used the stone bricks painted with gold paint and Xiao Laizi's treasure map to deceive the "scorpion needle three blood rings" as it was. He also used the mechanism left by the secret room maker to set up a clever plan to capture the flying scorpion Lu Jianxun alive. Then, he deliberately fulfilled Lu Jianxun's wish, returned to his hometown after illness, and actually hid in Xihai City.

Sure enough, as he expected, he finally captured alive this habitual bandit leader who took refuge in the demon world, for the West Sea, and even more for the imperial court, except for a big harm.