Wu Fatian is one of the eight evil kings of the Demon Sect, and he is far above Su Hongyu in terms of martial arts, but he also knows that Su Hongyu is the righteous daughter of Yuwen Tianlu, and her position in the sect is very important, not to mention, Lord Yuwen sent her close to Xiao Jinyan and the others, and she can't exert her cultivation with all her strength.

The little red fish was flexible and attacked Wu Fatian's vital points everywhere, but Wu Fatian was in the way, so he was forced to defend and not attack, making him embarrassed. The two dismantled more than a dozen moves, the little red fish move was extremely ruthless, and couldn't help but make Wu Fatian angry, he took advantage of the little red fish to breathe, and showed the ability to look at the box, for a while, the yin wind roared angrily in the woods, and a black mist wrapped around Wu Fatian.

Xiao Hongyu stopped his hand in time at this moment, jumped back slightly, and said with a smile, "Master Wu, accept it." ”

Wu Fatian is not fighting at the moment, nor is he not fighting, so he snorted coldly in anger.

Xiao Hongyu said again: "Master Wu came to Suzhou this time, presumably not for my business. ”

Wu Fatian said coldly, "This Dharma Master has no obligation to explain to you. ”

Xiao Hongyu's words were returned to her as they were, and Xiao Hongyu was so angry that he had to smile and said, "I wish the Dharma Lord a victory, don't let Zhao Wou-Ki of Yixiao Hall take the lead." ”

This sentence poked Wu Fatian's sore spot, although the eight evil kings of the Demon Sect, although Yuwen Tianlu was the leader, the rest of the people were also fighting openly and secretly, fighting for power and profit. These people in the Demon Sect have never been convinced by anyone, Wu Fatian surrendered to Yuwen Tianlu and was sent to Suzhou to carry out a mission, but Yuwen Tianlu didn't trust him very much, and sent Zhao Wouji of Yixiaotang to supervise the battle, which made Wu Fatian very unhappy, and snorted coldly when he heard this, "I don't need you to remind him." ”

The little red fish smiled slightly, gave a gift, and disappeared into the forest.

......

Xiao Jinyan swept the floor in the lobby, saw Xiao Hongyu walk in, didn't say hello, went straight upstairs, and quarreled with the guys upstairs, returned to the room, and slammed the door. Xiao Jinyan felt strange, took a basin of face washing water, came to the door of Xiaohongyu, and knocked on the door.

"Who?"

"Redfish girl, I'll bring you face wash. ”

Little Red Fish didn't open the door, "You're busy, you don't need to be courteous." ”

Xiao Jinyan felt strange and asked a few more words, but Xiao Hongyu still refused to talk, so he had to come back in a huff. Fan Wuchang saw him, "Are you very idle, there are still more than 30 bowls in the backyard that have not been washed." "Xiao Jinyan said I'll go now.

At this moment, two poor people, one tall and one short, came to the door, with two big red flowers on their chests.

Fan Wuchang saw it, and his heart chuckled.

"Is Squire Fan here?"

Fan Wuchang smiled on his face, stepped forward and said, "Two officials, I don't know what to do when you come to our store. ”

The tall messenger took out a big red wedding card from his bosom and said, "Squire Fan, we are the messengers at the gate of the Futai Yamen, and we came here today to congratulate you." ”

"Daoxi?" Fan Wuchang was confused.

"Yes, on the fifteenth day of this month, our lord's mother has a happy event, and the lord of Futai will hold a banquet in the yamen to entertain the squires of Suzhou City. We came here to send the post. ”

Fan Wuchang said: "On the fifteenth day of last month, didn't Lord Futai just hold a 60th birthday banquet for his mother, why should he be invited again?"

The short man said: "Yes, the fifteenth birthday banquet last month, the fifteenth of this month is the full moon." The adult said that in order to increase the relationship with the gentry and the people in the city, it is necessary to establish a regular contact mechanism, and gather together from time to time and walk around, which can be regarded as a kind of virtue and politics for adults to be close to the people and love the people. The adult also said that at the fifteenth birthday banquet last month, Squire Fan went to Hangzhou to visit friends, and the old lady saw you kowtow, and felt very uncomfortable, she had been sick for more than a month. ”

Fan Wuchang scolded secretly, he really avoided the first year of junior high school, but he couldn't hide from the fifteenth. This time, Zhou Papi asked me to go, if I didn't go, I was afraid that I would have to wear small shoes at that time, so I took out a hundred yuan from my arms and handed it to the two poor people with a distressed face, "The two of you have worked hard, you see, I am just ...... on the fifteenth of this month."

The high-ranking person glanced at it, only a hundred dollars, and said that this money was called Huazi, and on the day of the birthday banquet, you will not pick it up, "Okay, Squire Fan, I have a good intention." By the way, Fan Daren also explained, the old lady is old, don't do some strange gifts of obscene skills, adults are really people, just send silver tickets. ”

With that, the two put down the invitation, turned around and left.

Fan Wuchang shouted from behind, "Drink a glass of water and then go." ”

Seeing the two of them walking away, Fan Wuchang took the invitation over, stretched out his hand to tear it, hesitated, put it on the table again, and said dissatisfiedly: "I kind of understand it, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of being a businessman is too low, and no matter how much money you make, it is not as high as the status of a messenger at the yamen." ”

Xiao Jinyan echoed on the side, "The shopkeeper has a point. ”

"If I have money, I'll get an official. ”

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "If Shopkeeper Fan becomes an official, I guess he is also a corrupt official." ”

Fan Wuchang snorted, "That's not necessarily, my life is a little bit of a pick." But thrift is also an art of life, I can't find a second person in the world who can live my life like this, if I become an official, I must completely change this atmosphere. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "I don't think so. As far as I know, a few days ago, when Lord Song, the governor of the Heavenly Patrol, celebrated his birthday, Zhou Xiao sent 30,000 taels of silver over. Even if you become an official and refuse to loot the land of the people, but these people above have three festivals and two longevitys, Bing Jing, Tan Jing, and some officials who pass by and take office, and use silver everywhere, if you are not greedy or robbed, where do you get this silver?"

Fan Wuchang was speechless, "Then what should I do? I'll give you ten taels of silver, and you can help me slaughter the prefect." ”

"Even if you kill one Zhou Papi, can you guarantee that the next one will not be Zhang Papi or Li Papi?

Fan Wuchang has a point. So he took ten taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to Xiao Jinyan. Xiao Jinyan said that you won't really let me kill people. Fan Wuchang said that you think too much, I will give you ten taels of silver, so that you can find a way to help me prepare a gift for Lord Futai, not only can I not lose my share, but also give me a long face, this matter, I want to think about it, only you can do it.

Xiao Jinyan pushed the silver into Fan Wuchang's arms, "Shopkeeper, I can't do it." ”

Fan Wuchang pushed back again, "Don't live up to my trust in you." It's done, you continue to live in this inn, and if it's messed up, you'll leave with a roll. As you know, the employment situation is not good this year, first the Federal Reserve raised interest rates, then the trade war, and the inn business is not good, and I am still thinking about whether to lay off a few guys. ”

Xiao Jinyan took the silver, "Don't worry, shopkeeper, I have done this for you." ”

Fan Wuchang nodded with satisfaction, "What are you going to do?"

Xiao Jinyan pondered for a long time, and said: "Since Futai asks you to send something, you can't help but send it, it's better to send a rooster to Lord Futai, and you can also imply that your lordship is an iron rooster and doesn't pull out a hair, even if you express a silent protest." ”

Fan Wuchang said it was a good idea. Isn't that old lady a chicken, if you apply a layer of gold dust on it, it will be a golden rooster. His father died early, give him a rooster, and he should give him a father!haha!

"If you think so, you can't help it. ”

Fan Wuchang said: "Since this is the case, I will go to the blacksmith's house in the east of the city, he has exquisite handiwork, fair prices, and no deception, and went to report my name, and there is a discount." ”

Xiao Jinyan took the silver and came to the blacksmith Li's house in the east of the city.

When Blacksmith Li heard that the shopkeeper Fan of the Xiaoyao Inn wanted to fix the iron rooster, he said that you have found the right person, in Suzhou City, only the shopkeeper Fan can come up with such an ingenious gift. The two discussed the price, Xiao Jinyan paid a deposit of one or two silver, and did it urgently, and Blacksmith Li asked him to come over tomorrow to pick up the goods.

The next day, Xiao Jinyan came to the blacksmith shop again, and Blacksmith Li took a wooden box from the inner room and handed it to Xiao Jinyan, "The iron rooster you want." Xiao Jinyan opened it and almost laughed, and Blacksmith Li asked with a smile, "Is it like?"

Xiao Jinyan laughed, "It's amazing!"

Blacksmith Li was full of confidence, "I'll just say, just look for me." ”

Brought back to the Xiaoyao Inn, Fan Wuchang was scratching his ears and cheeks, Xiao Jinyan asked what was going on, Fan Wuchang said, "Strange, today's income in my account is obviously three taels of silver and eight hundred and thirty-one yuan, but I can count it several times, how can it be shorted by a penny." ”

"Isn't it just a penny?"

Fan Wuchang said, "This is not a matter of a penny, this is a matter of principle. He saw Xiao Jinyan carrying the box in his hand and asked, "Is the gift ready?" Xiao Jinyan smiled and handed the box over, "Shopkeeper, you see?"

The box opened, and Fan Wuchang suddenly became angry, "I asked you to get an iron rooster, what did you get here?"

It turned out that in the box, it was an iron man half a foot in size according to Fan Wuchang's appearance.

Xiao Jinyan said, "Yes, Blacksmith Li said that you are an iron rooster, but I really can't find a reason to refute it." Besides, if you look at the mountain and not the mountain, and the water is not water, you think in your heart that this is a rooster, and this is an iron rooster. ”

Fan Wuchang was very angry, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this iron man was holding an abacus in his hand, which said that he was making money every day, like himself, and said that it was not bad to be a collection, so he put the iron man away, "I don't care about this matter, but you spend my money indiscriminately, and you have to do it for me." ”

Xiao Jinyan spread his hands, where do I have a way.

Fan Wuchang's eyes rolled, "Not long ago, Suzhou City just opened a Tianning Temple, it is said that there are sixteen golden Buddhas in the temple, if you have the heart to make up for the loss of this shopkeeper, go and get a Buddha head over." ”

Xiao Jinyanqi asked, "Why the Buddha's head?"

Fan Wuchang said, "Men wear Guanyin and women wear Buddhas! I have inquired, these sixteen golden Buddhas, the body is a clay embryo, only the Buddha's head is made of brass, coated with gold powder, used as a gift, the most suitable. ”

"Didn't I steal it?"

Fan Wuchang said: "How could it be stealing, you obviously went to invite it!"

Xiao Jinyan had never done this kind of thing, he was about to call Zhao Lanjiang together, but Zhao Lanjiang said that he was going to go to Li Yinyang for a drink. Xiao Jinyan knew Zhao Lanjiang's thoughts, he was also a swordsman, Li Yinyang (Qiuyi) was a person who used knives on the rivers and lakes, Zhao Lanjiang was itchy in his heart, and wanted to go to Li Qiuyi to compete, thinking of Wang Banxian's previous advice, he was a little helpless.

When he came to Tianning Temple and arrived at the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Xiao Jinyan found that the abbot was beckoning several monks to move ladders, holding a saw blade in his hand. Looking at the sixteen Buddha statues again, fifteen of them had lost their heads, Xiao Jinyan felt strange and asked what was going on.

The presiding abbot is a monk from the Western Regions, who is said to be a monk invited by the Jokhang Temple, and the law is called the sugar gourd monk, and said: "This prefect is too ruthless, it has been less than a year since he came, and the sixteen golden Buddhas in our temple have been sent fifteen, and this is not fifteen and has to hold a banquet again, and the last Buddha head will also be sent over." Hey, next month, I don't know what to give. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, Isn't the incense in your Tianning Temple very prosperous?

The sugar gourd monk said: "The incense is prosperous, but it is just an illusion of prosperity. We came here to build a temple, originally the previous prefect invited to come, the early investment was too large, basically relying on the government subsidy to live, this week the prefect took office, the new official ignored the old accounts, cut off our subsidy, but also from the pilgrim's reward to draw 30% of the incense tax, now it is just barely support. ”

Xiao Jinyan sighed in his heart, saying that foreign monks will chant scriptures, and now the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty is not good, the two strong enemies of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Western Chu are waiting for the opportunity to move, and the court is fighting for power and power, and the fight is fierce.

In this way, Xiao Jinyan couldn't continue to "invite" the Buddha's head from Tianning Temple, thinking about it, there was really no way, he went to the bottom of the mountain to dig mud and pinch a mud head, and hid the weight of the iron pimple pendant in it, and bought three taels of copper powder with silver, went to Li Blacksmith to help brush it, and handed it to Fan Wuchang, who didn't see the flaw.

On the fifteenth, Fan Wuchang changed into a satin dress embroidered with gold threads, and said to Xiao Jinyan, "Tonight, you accompany me to the prefect's yamen as a guest." ”

Xiao Jinyan said that I asked Zhao Lanjiang to drink, so it's not appropriate.

Fan Wuchang said, "I'm also a squire, I have to have a guy with a bag when I go out, right?" Xiao Jinyan said that your ancestors didn't have a person for eight generations, what kind of squire is it? Fan Wuchang had a calm face, "If you go, you have to go, and if you don't go, you have to go." ”

Li Chengcheng came down from upstairs at this time, "Since there is a free banquet, wouldn't it be sorry for you and me not to go?"

Xiao Jinyan re-examined Li Chengcheng, "You're not your style?"

Li Chengcheng said leisurely: "Among today's guests, there are also you and my friends. ”

"Who?"

"The new Chincha-sama. ”

"Vancouver?"

"That's right, Lord Inspector of the Dengwen Academy, is also among the invitees this time. ”

Xiao Jinyan clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Since this is the case, then you have to go for a while, you can drink with old friends, and you don't have to spend your own money, such a good thing, it's hard to find it with a lantern, Shopkeeper Fan, let's go now." ”

Fan Wuchang felt it, "Everyone in Suzhou City says that I am an iron rooster, in my opinion, in this kind of thing, you are better than me in this kind of thing." ”

Xiao Jinyan arched his hand, "Pass the prize, pass the award!"

Everyone packed up and went to the prefect's house for a banquet with gifts, but they didn't know that this trip had caused a monstrous disaster to Fan Wuchang.