The flowers bloom at each end of the table, and it is said that Liu Hao went straight to the Huo family after separating from Su Wufang, the Huo family belongs to one of the Confucianists and has a very high status in Confucianism. The Li family, where Li Yi is located, also belongs to Confucianism, but the Li family's status and strength in Confucianism are somewhat inconspicuous compared to the Huo family.

The concept of Confucianism is different from Taoism, Confucianism is the way of man, so most Confucianism will be hidden in the market, and the location of the Huo family happens to be in the capital.

Liu Hao landed not far from the capital, put away his magic sword and carefully checked his outfit, and only after making sure that there was no problem did he walk towards the city.

As the capital, the capital is different from other cities, even in the cultivation realm, it is an extremely special existence, from the perspective of physiognomy, this is a place where momentum gathers, whether it is spiritual power or luck, it is extremely prosperous.

The most important thing is that this is the place where the emperor is, the emperor is a humanitarian leader, and he is a very special existence among mortals. Each generation of emperors has the protection of Ziwei's qi, all spells are ineffective against it, and the same emperor cannot practice, these are the rules set by God.

However, the imperial court is the favorite place of practice for many monks, among whom the hundred monks are the most, who will verify their ideas above the court and improve their cultivation in practice.

So in this case, Liu Hao will pay a little attention if he wants to enter the capital, and he will not expose his weapons, although it is only a formality, but this face still has to be given.

Although he has been to the capital many times, but every time he comes, he will be surprised by the prosperity of the capital, the streets of the eight cars are also full of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages, on both sides of the road are shouting and hawking vendors, and there are customers bargaining in the stalls, many children are playing on the road, and the road can be described as shoulder to shoulder, and the traffic is endless.

Liu Hao walked through the crowd along the Vermilion Bird Avenue in the center to the city, and the entrance to the city was the most densely populated market, and he gradually walked out of the market after walking through this section of the road.

Liu Hao turned into an avenue on the avenue, which was completely different from the market just now. There were suddenly fewer pedestrians on the road, and there were no shops on either side of the street, replaced by high-rise compounds.

From the moment he entered this street, Liu Hao could feel from the mansions on both sides that there was constantly a divine mind probing on him. These divine thoughts all come from the monks in these mansions, and there are basically some cultivators in this street, and the Huo family's mansion is also on this street.

Liu Hao was also here for the first time, he walked all the way and watched, and saw Huo Fu at the end of this street.

He stepped forward and knocked on the door gently, and after a while, a family opened the door and saluted respectfully, the family members of the cultivation world have always been extremely restrained, everyone who came could be a master in the cultivation world, and they didn't dare to underestimate anyone. He saw that the person who came was a Taoist priest, so he cautiously asked: "This Taoist chief is good, this is Huo Mansion." Dare to ask what the chief is doing. ”

Liu Hao also replied meticulously and said: "Liu Hao, who is in Xiachong Xushan, came to the appointment at the invitation of Huo Tingyun this time. ”

As soon as the Ding family heard that Liu Hao was a Taoist priest from Chongxu Mountain, and he was invited by Huo Tingyun, he immediately became more respectful, and hurriedly said: "The Taoist chief is asking for leave, our young master is drinking tea with friends in the backyard, so I will take the Taoist chief there." ”

After speaking, the family took Liu Hao into the door, and after walking around the mansion for a long time, he came to an elegant courtyard, where many people were drinking tea and chatting.

The family Ding first asked Liu Hao to wait in the courtyard for a while, he went to report first, and after a while, he saw Huo Tingyun with a few people to greet him, only to see Liu Hao Huo Tingyun opened his mouth and said: "Niubi, you are here." Come on, come on, we're just in the middle of a poetry meeting. ”

Liu Hao pulled Huo Tingyun with a serious expression and whispered: "You come out, I have something to tell you." ”

Huo Tingyun saw that Liu Hao didn't look like he was joking, so he nodded and turned back to his friends and said, "Everyone go back to the courtyard first, and we'll be there later." ”

Huo Tingyun's friends didn't say much, and several people returned to the courtyard with laughter, and explained to Huo Tingyun before leaving: "Hurry up, I'm still waiting for you to drink tea." ”

After seeing that his friends had returned to the courtyard, Huo Tingyun also asked the family to leave, and then he said to Liu Hao lightly: "Nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, have you come this time to have news of the Heavenly Spirit Layman?"

Liu Hao originally wanted to sell a pass, but Huo Tingyun directly broke it, he suddenly lost the interest in playing tricks, and directly told Huo Tingyun the truth of the matter.

After listening to Liu Hao's narration, Huo Tingyun fell into deep thought, if according to what Liu Hao said, then there is a huge force lurking in the capital now, and this force is now snaring all kinds of people.

Huo Tingyun took Liu Hao to a pavilion outside the courtyard and sat down, and after a little thought, he said, "If you follow what you said, they are constantly absorbing new people into their forces. No matter what they are planning, if it takes so many people to accomplish it, then the plan of this force must be great. However, I have not found any clues in the capital for so long, and there have been no new forces in the capital recently, or any forces have suddenly expanded. ”

After listening to Huo Tingyun's words, Liu Hao also fell into doubts, he still believed in the accuracy of Huo Tingyun's news, after all, the Huo family was also one of the best forces in the capital. If Huo Tingyun really said so, then this force may be more dangerous and powerful than they think.

Liu Hao thought for a while and asked, "What about the forces around the capital? Could these people not be in the city, but outside the city?" ”

Hearing Liu Hao's conjecture, Huo Tingyun also agreed, but unfortunately there are too many forces outside the city, large and small, intricate. In addition, there is a black market around the capital, and dragons and snakes are mixed, even the Huo family has no way to investigate clearly. He could only say truthfully: "The surrounding forces are too complicated, and I don't know." In that case, we'll have to look for another clue. ”

When Liu Hao heard Huo Tingyun say this, he suddenly smiled proudly, and said complacently: "Hehe, I have a way to do this matter of sour scholars." ”

Huo Tingyun didn't bother to pay attention to Liu Hao, he knew that Liu Hao was going to sell Guanzi again, but in the current situation, he really had no choice, so he could only ask, "What way." ”

Liu Hao smiled and said nothing, he looked at Huo Tingyun playfully and said, "I'm ready to investigate the clues now, do you want to come." ”

Huo Tingyun had no reason to refuse, and immediately agreed: "Okay, you wait for me, I'll come when I talk to them." ”

After saying that, Huo Tingyun went back to the courtyard and talked to his friends, and soon went out of the courtyard again, Liu Hao looked at Huo Tingyun and didn't explain to him, and walked directly to the outside of Huo's mansion. Huo Tingyun had no choice but to follow Liu Hao and walked out.

After Liu Hao walked out of Huo's Mansion, his footsteps kept walking through the city, and the more Huo Tingyun looked at Liu Hao's route, the more puzzled he became. Liu Hao didn't seem to know how to go, so he saw that Liu Hao sometimes walked through a fork in the road, looked around and then walked back to the fork in the road and walked along another road.

After a few observations, Huo Tingyun also summed up Liu Hao's approximate choice, Liu Hao will choose a direction that is less crowded and less prosperous, following this line of thought, Huo Tingyun has a guess in his heart, if it is really what he thinks, then he is estimated to have fallen for Liu Hao again.

Liu Hao took Huo Tingyun for a long time, and the road he walked became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a path that was only wider than a person's shoulder.

To the left and right of this path are one-story bungalows, and these one-story bungalows are now covered with very simple but strange buildings of different styles on the roofs. There are local styles of the Central Plains, there are also rooftops from the Western Regions, and there are some architectural styles that even the well-informed Huo Tingyun can't recognize, and he forcibly turned this piece of house that should have only one story into a small building with two or three floors.

Only a little sunlight shines through the cracks in these strange buildings, which makes the path extremely dark, and the stagnant water that cannot be drained for many years in the path emits a pungent stench on the ground.

Huo Tingyun held the hem of his robe with both hands, and carefully looked for a cleaner foothold in the trail with his toes, and when he saw this trail, Huo Tingyun confirmed the conjecture in his heart, and said angrily: "Niu Nose, did you mean it, you want to come to the beggar door, you said earlier, I can help you contact someone, you deliberately brought me to this place." ”

Liu Hao walked in front and didn't care about the stagnant water on the ground, walking step by step, hearing Huo Tingyun's words, he turned around with a wicked smile and said, "Ah, I was discovered by you." I'm not embarrassed to trouble your Huo family, this kind of thing that can be solved by ourselves, we can solve it ourselves. ”

Huo Tingyun didn't expect Liu Hao to admit it very scoundrelly, so he could only let out a long breath to suppress the anger in his chest, and secretly decided in his heart that he must take revenge afterwards.

At this time, Liu Hao stopped and said, "Okay, we're here." ”

Huo Tingyun hurriedly stopped and looked up at the dilapidated and unsightly land temple on the side, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe that there could be such a dilapidated temple in the capital, which was full of all kinds of beggars.

Liu Hao took the lead in walking in, and the beggar in the broken temple heard the footsteps and looked up, and after seeing that the person who came was a Taoist priest, he closed his eyes and changed to a comfortable position to continue sleeping.

"This Daoist, what do you have to say, no matter what kind of work it is, as long as this is in place, we can do it. At this time, a few beggars with bright brains got up, came to Liu Hao in three or two steps, and rubbed Liu Hao with two fingers, implying that as long as they gave money, they could do anything.

Obviously, this is not the first time these people have done this, and the beggars lying on the ground not only did not get up, but also glanced at the beggars who came to Liu Hao's eyes with disdain.

Liu Hao ignored these beggars who came to him, he knew very well in his heart who these people were in front of him. They have the ability but do not work, they spend their days loitering and begging for a living, relying on those ignorant and sympathetic people in the capital, who do all day long the work of chickens and dogs, and even begging will pretend to be disabled to win sympathy.

What's more, they will do murder and robbery, these people are beggars here, just because there are dragons and snakes here and the identity of beggars is not easy to trace. Because of this, many people will pay this person to hire someone to do some shady things.

Liu Hao impatiently dispersed these beggars, and after seeing that they were unprofitable, these beggars also dispersed after scolding a few words.

Huo Tingyun, who was at the door, saw that the beggars were no longer gathered at the door, so he covered his mouth and nose and walked in, he didn't look for the beggar in person, he didn't understand the doorway, so he could only ask in a whisper: "Niu Nose, what's next." ”

Liu Hao smiled and said, "You just wait here, and leave it to me next." ”