The oblique moon is deep, the branches are sparse, and in the secret room of a high-walled compound, there are eight middle-aged men in brocade costumes. They all wore a black sand silk hat on their heads, and they were obviously from the officialdom. Everyone was silent, and they all looked at a lean man who was about forty years old. That man called "Mei Guanqun", he was the martial artist of the Rongling Palace, and he was among the masters of the Chenwang Palace, Geng Ling Eleven, Nongyangshan, and Jiang Bin, and was called the Four Great Ronggang.

At this time, he was holding a letter and reading it, and everyone waited for a long time, seeing that he was just reading page by page, silent, and couldn't help but feel anxious, and finally couldn't help asking: "Manager Mei, what did Mr. Sima say in the letter?"

Mei Guanqun groaned for a moment and replied: "Mr. Sima said, 'We have all been dismissed, and whatever we do now has nothing to do with the palace of the prince Geng......

Before he finished speaking, the seven people sitting below couldn't help but talk about it, and asked in a gossipy manner: "Why, we didn't make any mistakes!"

"Yes, everything we do is instructed by Mr. Geng Sima, the prince, why are we wrong, why do you want to drive us out?"

"This is clearly unloading the mill and killing the donkey, the bird is hiding the bow, and the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooking......"

"Yes, yes! Lai Rong is right, why did Mr. Sima dismiss us from our official position? What did we do wrong?"

Seeing that everyone was arguing, Mei Guanqun did not answer, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Everyone, Mr. Sima's words have not been finished, Mr. Sima said, 'Our whereabouts have been exposed, Li Dongyang's old thief once visited our prince in the palace a few days ago, and falsely accused the prince of colluding with the eunuch Liu Jin, disregarding human life and maiming Zhongliang. In order to quell the criticism, Wu Zong ordered an investigation, but fortunately, Wu Zong did not ask about political affairs, and he was detained by General Manager Liu and left in the middle of the house. ”

"Mr. Sima also said, 'The matter of the dragon-patterned jade knife has been revealed, and the people of the government and the wilderness are moved, so we are instructed to be extra careful, and there must be no mistakes, and when the dragon-patterned jade knife arrives safely in the palace, it will be the day when we will be added to the official and enter the knighthood. ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, and couldn't help but be full of joy, and couldn't help but praise: "Mr. Sima is worthy of the prince's right-hand man, Zhuge among the people, sure enough, I don't know how he thought of this trick 'Wang Zuo's broken arm', the prince has the assistance of Mr. Sima and Mr. Geng Li, and he will reign in the world, just around the corner." ”

"Mr. Sima is not only brilliant in intelligence, but also in martial arts, and has practiced a set of "Thunder Sword" and a set of "Gangfeng Imperial Qi Palm" to the point of mastery, and there are few people in the world who can walk ten moves under him! Alas, if I, He Ji, can learn one and a half moves under him, even if I ask him to carry a urinal for the rest of his life, I am willing!"

When one person heard this, he couldn't help but sneer: "Mr. Sima is in simple terms, and it is rare for us to see him as an old man." In the whole world, only the little prince Geng Yinglian is blessed to worship Mr. Sima as a teacher. If you want to lift the urinal, I'm afraid you have to lift it from the little prince's chamberlain first!"

He Ji was furious when he heard this: "Bah! your grandmother, you dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth, if Lao Tzu carries a urinal to the servant of the little prince, you are only worthy of carrying a urinal to Lao Tzu!"

Hao Huai said with a smile when he heard this: "I only carry a urinal for my son!"

When He Ji was still about to scold, he only heard Du Teng, who was sitting beside him, muttering to himself: "Strange! How did Sun Sui's old puppet know about the dragon-patterned jade knife, when we seized it, we had already washed the Liu family with blood, and none of them were alive, and even the slave Shang Junde, who wagged his tail and begged for food to the prince, was killed together by us on a charge, and never leaked any news, how could outsiders know?"

Mei Guanqun listened, snorted coldly, and said: "It's not because of Shang Junde's damned slave and your negligence! It turns out that Liu Rui has a son and two daughters, the female first, the second daughter has been worshipping under the Emei sect Jingxuan old nun when she was six years old to practice martial arts, usually don't go home much, Shang Junde's slave has never seen it, so we don't know that on the night of the bloodbath of the Liu family, she accidentally escaped the eldest daughter Liu Shuxian, and she told Liu Shuyan about it after she escaped.

"The two sluts then stabbed the matter to Yang Yan, the prime minister of Zuo, who had a friendship with her ancestors, and Sun Sui, the old horseman, who wanted to kill us through the hands of the emperor to avenge us, but they didn't know that although the robbery was planned by the prince, it was the idea of the chief manager Liu to kill them. The meaning of General Manager Liu is actually the meaning of Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of today's emperor.

"The former emperor Xiaozong Zhu Youjiao, who was frugal and made great efforts, was a good emperor. On his deathbed, he passed the throne to Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, and entrusted Gu Xie Qian, Liu Jian, and Li Dongyang.

"Liu Jian relied on the last order of the emperor, and told Wu Zong about everything, saying that he was 'misbehaved and discouraged', and Wu Zong had already been tired of it. With Mr. Liu's plan, he finally expelled the old man from the cabinet. Although Liu Jian was dismissed from office, Mr. Liu's intention was to eliminate the evil, so he entrusted our prince to help. Now that this matter has been leaked, Wu Zong wants to block the tongue of the people in the world, so he has to make some appearances and let Jinyiwei find out. ”

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief, laughed and laughed, and exchanged discussions. After a while, Zhu Hongbo, who was sitting at the bottom of the house, asked, "Manager Mei, what should we do now, is there any other instruction on Mr. Sima's letter?"

Mei Guanqun nodded and said: "Mr. Sima instructed, 'Let's divide into two teams, Lai Rong, He Ji, Zhu Hongbo, the three of you are responsible for escorting the dragon pattern jade knife back to the palace, although the news of the dragon pattern jade knife leaked, the people of the government and the public are moved, and there is no need to be afraid."

Mr. Sima pointed out in the letter, saying that not far from here there is a Shuntong Dart Bureau in Huoqiu County, Fengyang Prefecture, the owner of the dart is a famous person in the rivers and lakes in the past, called Jin Chongwu called "eight-armed Fulong", this person is the disciple of the old monk Zhikong of Ganlu Temple in Jiuhua Mountain, and has won the mastery of Zhikong's "Liuhe Demon Knife Method" and "Heart Liuhe Fist Method".

"I had a relationship with Mr. Sima as early as ten years ago. Mr. Sima was very appreciative of this person's martial arts, and he could send the dart to the palace. The three of you will be escorted to the palace with this dart early tomorrow morning, and you must be extra careful all the way, so that nothing goes wrong!"

The three of them listened and agreed in unison.

Mei Guanqun nodded, and looked at Wu Yongqi, Hao Huai, Du Teng, and Lu Yang: "You have two things to do with this official, one is to arrest the two sisters of the Liu family who have slipped through the net, and the second thing is to assassinate Sun Sui's old horseman, so that others know what the consequences will be if you dare to go against our prince!"

The three of them listened, bowed down and received the order.

Mei Guanqun nodded and said, "Do you understand?"

Everyone responded, "Yes!"

Mei Guanqun nodded "um".

I only heard one person say: "Poor even though he is as good as Mr. Sima, he can only bow to the right in front of the prince's throne." Which of us is not a well-known name in the rivers and lakes, but it is inevitable that we will often be angry with those people under Li Shishi!"

Mei Guanqun said indifferently: "The court has been dumping since ancient times, be cautious! It's not early, let's eat a few cups of tea and rest early!"

Leaning slightly, I heard only a few knocks on the door.

Mei Guanqun raised his voice and asked, "Who is it?"

A woman outside the door replied, "My lord, I was sent by my lord to bring supper to the adults." ”

Mei Guanqun listened to Fang Dao: "Come in!"

The woman promised a "yes", pushed the door in, lowered her eyebrows, moved her steps lightly, held a tray in both hands, put the fruits down one by one, and poured tea for everyone.

The woman was disgusted in her heart, and immediately dispersed to dodge, causing Hao Huai to feel empty.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh. Hao Huai didn't take advantage of it, and ate everyone's ridicule, and he was angry in his heart, but he was afraid of Mei Guanqun, and he didn't dare to get up and chase after him at that time, so he had to hold back his anger and take a sip of tea.

Mei Guanqun saw it clearly above, and saw that this woman was light and agile when she dodged, which seemed unintentional, but in fact it was elegant and natural, unlike ordinary women, and she couldn't help but be suspicious. Pay attention to it right now. When the woman poured tea for herself, Mei Guanqun only glanced at the woman, and couldn't help but feel fluttering, and secretly praised in her heart: "What a beautiful embryo!" followed the woman's eyes, but found that when the girl poured tea for herself, she squinted at the brocade box containing the dragon pattern big jade knife on the table next to her, and her heart couldn't help but be more suspicious.

After pouring tea for everyone, the maid lowered her head and stepped aside.

Mei Guanqun picked up the teacup and said "please" to everyone when she raised her glass to drink, she peeked in her afterglow, but found that the woman's eyes were flickering and she was quietly peeping. I couldn't help but feel moved, and hurriedly shouted: "Slow!" Several people had already drunk into their stomachs when they spoke.

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be suspicious, and they didn't know why, holding a tea cup and looking at Mei Guanqun in a daze. I saw Mei Guanqun pointing at the woman and saying, "Come here." ”

When the woman heard this, she stepped forward. Mei Guanqun handed out the teacup in his hand and said, "You drank this tea!"

The maid lowered her head and replied, "The slave doesn't dare!"

Mei Guanqun's face sank, and he said angrily: "Drink!"

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of "dangchang", Hao Huai, Du Teng, and Zhu Hongbo got up "ouch", and when everyone looked back, they saw that the three of them had softened and languished on the ground, their faces were blue, their mouths were foaming at the mouth, and their whole bodies were convulsive. Everyone suddenly woke up and exclaimed, "The tea is poisonous!" hurriedly threw away the tea cup in their hands, panicking.

Seeing that the matter had been revealed, the woman snorted, flipped her wrist and stretched out a dagger from her sleeve, and stabbed straight at Mei Guanqun.