Veterinarian Cao held a gelding knife and walked in front of Lu Gongzi with a smile, Lu Gongzi was shocked, jumped up, retreated again and again, hid behind Xiao Jinyan, and rubbed Xiao Jinyan's back with his head.

Veterinarian Cao said, "It's okay, it's just a minor operation." ”

As soon as he said it, Lu Gongzi ran around in the yard like crazy, for fear of being caught by Veterinarian Cao.

Xiao Jinyan couldn't look past it and persuaded, "Veterinarian Cao, if you castrate this product, it is estimated that the rest of its life will be meaningless." ”

Veterinarian Cao wondered, "Who said that you want to gelding it? This kind of donkey, called the Qianli Lone Oyster, travels thousands of miles a day and 800 at night, and is the first magic horse in the world. ”

"And you take the gelding?"

"Oh, in this way, the offspring of this oyster can understand human nature, there is a polyp under its lower abdomen, called soul flesh, as long as the piece of meat is cut off, its potential can be maximized, I don't have a tool to take advantage of, so I found a gelding instead. ”

Lu Gongzi looked at Veterinarian Cao suspiciously, with a look of horror in his eyes, after all, the knife in his hand was his nightmare.

"In that case, then it will bother Veterinarian Cao. ”

Veterinarian Cao slowly came to Lu Gongzi, Lu Gongzi was just about to escape, Veterinarian Cao put his hands on his back, and Lu Gongzi couldn't move at all. He touched Lu Gongzi's lower abdomen with his hand and found a bulge, "This is it!"

The knife fell, Lu Gongzi snorted, lay on the ground, blood flowed all over the ground, veterinarian Cao took out a thumb-sized hard object from its lower abdomen, put it on the tray, and took the medicine powder to stop bleeding and help it coat it.

After doing this, Veterinarian Cao nodded with satisfaction, "After ten and a half months of cultivation, it will become the number one divine horse in the world." During this time, I also have to go to the mountains to collect some medicinal herbs to replenish my body. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "Then it's troublesome for veterinarian Cao." ”

"What's the trouble, it's my good, you gave it to me just now. ”

"Uh-uh......"

Xiao Jinyan regretted it a little, he knew that Lu Gongzi was such a divine object, and he would not send it out if he was killed, but now that the words have been spoken, there is no room for remorse.

In the midst of his frustration, an old man of fifty years old, dressed in gorgeous clothes, with neatly combed hair, and two egg-sized thistles in his hands, walked in slowly.

This person is the Tang Sect Grand Steward Tang Bing in Shuzhong, responsible for the internal affairs of the Tang Sect family in Shuzhong, since the time of the old lady, he has been serving as a follower, although he is a domestic servant, his status in the Tang family is not low, but he did not expect that he would come to this kind of dilapidated thatched cottage.

When Veterinarian Cao saw the God of Wealth coming, he trotted all the way to the man and said, "Steward Tang." ”

Tang Yuan looked at Xiao Jinyan and the three of them, and saw that they were dressed in tatters, and their beards were long and dirty, so he couldn't help frowning and said, "They are?"

Veterinarian Cao said, "Come here to see the disease." ”

"Aren't you a veterinarian?"

"Mama Li introduced them, these people have no money on them, and no one treats them in the city. ”

Steward Tang sighed, I see. Ignoring the three of them, he asked, "How about I asked you to dispense me with the medicine?"

Veterinarian Cao said, "It's already good." With that, he turned around and went back to the room, took out a bottle, and said, "This medicine has no sè and no taste, put it in food, and it will have a seizure three days later, and when the attack occurs, the heart will burst overnight, and the blood pressure will increase suddenly, and the poisoned person will die of heart failure, and no one can tell that it is poisoned." ”

Steward Tang nodded with great satisfaction, took the bottle, and as soon as he unscrewed it, a foul smell came out.

Everyone covered their noses.

Veterinarian Cao glanced at it, and even grabbed it and said, "I'm sorry, this is the stinky tofu I pickled a few days ago, and I took the wrong bottle." After a while, he took another bottle and handed it over.

Steward Tang opened the cap and asked, "Can you smell it?"

Veterinarian Cao said: "I don't recommend it. ”

Steward Tang took out a money bag and threw it to Veterinarian Cao, who took it and weighed it, "Master Steward, let's say okay, it's not this number." ”

Tang said, "How do I know if it will work, after the matter is completed, I will pay you the other half." ”

Veterinarian Cao asked tentatively, "I don't know who this medicine is used for?"

Steward Tang's face sank, and he said coldly, "Don't ask, don't ask, you know too much about things, and it's easy to get into trouble." Remember, don't mention it to anyone. ”

Veterinarian Cao agreed, "God knows this, you know it, I know." He pointed to Xiao Jinyan and the others, "There are still those three people who know." ”

Steward Tang naturally noticed these three people, he walked towards Xiao Jinyan and the three of them, Xiao Jinyan waved his hand and said, "Steward, what is that poison is tasteless, we haven't heard a word of burps or anything like that three days after eating." ”

Steward Tang laughed, he looked at the three of them with interest, "You three are strangers, right?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "The three of us wander the rivers and lakes, and the four seas are our homes, and we came to Chengdu this time to see it." ”

Since the time he came in, Steward Tang had been secretly observing the three of them, this person who spoke, there was no trace of internal force fluctuations on his body, and the man with the knife looked reckless, but the slightly delicate person, he couldn't see the depth of martial arts, but with these two people as friends, it was estimated that the martial arts were not high.

Don't you know that along the way, in order to take care of Xiao Jinyan's emotions, Li Chengcheng and Zhao Lanjiang accompanied him to practice boxing by the way, and deliberately pressed the realm to the realm of Wen, which was regarded as a sight to behold.

He asked the three of them, "Are there any acquaintances in Chengdu?"

"When I first came to Chengdu, I didn't have any friends. ”

When he first saw the three of them, he was moved to kill, but when he thought of what was about to happen, he was missing a few unfamiliar faces, so he changed his mouth and said, if these three people have acquaintances in Shu, then he will be unceremonious, and kill them after the three of them go out.

"Lack of money?"

"Lacking, very lacking, very lacking. ”

Steward Tang bowed slightly, "Do you know who I am?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "God of Wealth." ”

"Haha!" Steward Tang was amused by Xiao Jinyan's words, "Okay, very good." I have a short errand for half a month here, more money and less work, after the work, each person will give you thirty taels of silver, and the masters will be rewarded separately, I don't know if you are interested?"

The three of them are now a little short of money, the vote of the Spring Breeze Night Rain Building, the Pei family missed the appointment, and Xiao Jinyan spent another small sword, if he took this job, the cost of the road from Shuzhong to Yinyang was basically hopeful.

The three of them looked at each other and said in unison, "I'm so interested." I don't know what it is?"

"Tomorrow morning, go to the Tang Mansion on Chunxi Street to find me, and you will know by then. With that, he took the jade bottle and left the cottage.

Veterinarian Cao was a little envious, and said: "You three are lucky, the Tang family has always been generous, ordinary people go to the Tang Mansion to find an errand, and they are entrusted with people and gifts, and the chief steward took a look at you, and he recruited you to the Tang Mansion, you have to take care of it."

Hold the opportunity. ”

Lu Gongzi had just undergone surgery, and he still needed to be taken care of by Cao Veterinarian, so he had to stay here to take care of it, Xiao Jinyan pondered, and when he made money, he would find a way to redeem Lu Gongzi again.

Back in the city, in order to save money, the three of them did not go to the inn, anyway, they were used to living in the barren mountains and mountains, and they lived in the Chenghuang Temple in the east of the city.

Zhao Lanjiang asked, "Are we really going to go to the Tang Sect to be a buddy? If we really don't have any money, I'll go out tonight to do a vote, and everything will be solved." ”

Li Chengcheng said, "Reckless." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said unhappily, "What did you say?"

"If you hadn't destroyed that Qilin Tongbao, we wouldn't have ended up so badly. ”

"Don't pretend to be hindsight, I haven't seen you take it out for money before. Besides, don't you still have a jade pendant in your arms, why don't you see it?"

Li Chengcheng said, "This is what my grandmother left me." He paused for a moment and said, "This time I decided to go to Yinyang with you, in fact, it was not that I forgot to bring money, but that I deliberately did not bring money. ”

Xiao Jinyan wondered, "Why?"

Li Tingcheng refused to say, Xiao Jinyan and Zhao Lanjiang were deeply curious, and continued to ask, Li Tingcheng finally couldn't help but say: "Because I don't want to spend a penny on my family!"

After speaking, Li Chengcheng leaned against the corner of the wall, lay down, and ignored Li Chengcheng again. Xiao and Zhao saw that he looked lonely, and they no longer bothered him.

Li Chengcheng did not tell the two that the reason why he left Jinling was that Wujing was just a reason, and his real purpose was because Li Xiaohua forced him to marry the second lady of the Cui family in Hedong. This second lady of the Cui family, he had seen it before, she was born beautiful, knowledgeable, and a fairy couple in anyone's heart, but Li Tingcheng didn't like her.

Before he met Li Jinhua, he had never been moved by any woman, and during the days when he was separated from Li Jinhua, he never forgot her, recalling the days when he was teaching on the ship, but it was the happiest period of his life. This kind of happiness is not the same as when he traveled the world with Xiao Jinyan, it was the friendship between men, and with Li Jinhua, it was the affection in his heart.

Early the next morning, Zhao Lanjiang and Li Chengcheng were awakened by the shouting outside the temple, and when they came out, they saw that Xiao Jinyan was practicing boxing.

"Xiao Jinyan, are you crazy? Your arms are just good, you still have to practice boxing? We know that you are eager to recover your martial arts, but you also know how to take it step by step, remember to be impatient. Zhao Lanjiang said.

When Xiao Jinyan heard this, he punched him and said, "Look at the boxing!"

Before I touched Zhao Lanjiang, I saw Zhao Lanjiang's voice, and he fell out three or four feet in a very exaggerated posture, "Good boxing skills, even I, a master of the Xuan Upper Realm, am not your opponent!"

How could Xiao Jinyan not know that he was pretending on purpose, and said with a wry smile, "Okay, don't pretend, hurry up and pack up and report to Tangmen, anyway, Lu Gongzi still has to cultivate for a while, so we will stay in Chengdu for a while." ”

In the southwest rivers and lakes, the Qingcheng faction and the Emei faction are not in Chengdu Mansion, although the status of martial arts is higher than that of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, but the influence in Chengdu Mansion is weaker than that of the Tang Sect, after all, the Tang Sect is a secular sect, although it is famous for its secret weapons and poisons, as the first family in Shu, the industry in the family has long been integrated with Chengdu Mansion, and there are shadows of the Tang Sect everywhere.

The Tang Gate and the Tang Mansion in Shuzhong are not the same concept, the Tang Gate, as a family industry, occupies the entire Chunxi Street, and the Tang Mansion is the residence of the Tang family, located in the middle of Chunxi Street.

The Tang family mansion covers an area of 100 acres, the building is extraordinarily magnificent, the blue bricks and red tiles more than one zhang high, like the copper wall and iron wall, guarding the Tang family, from the outside, the buildings inside are scattered, only a corner is faintly exposed, which is prohibitive.

Where is this mansion, as long as the door is closed, it is a city within a city.

Opposite the Tang Mansion, is the residence of the King of Shu, after the rebellion of the King of Shu twenty years ago, the King of Shu was abolished, the emperor was angry, no longer the King of Shu, the property of the King of Shu has been robbed countless times, and now it is a broken ruin, overgrown with weeds, and has become an abandoned house.

One rises and one dies, in contrast, it is even more special about Tangmen. Zhao Lanjiang couldn't help but ask Li Chengcheng, "Did your Li family in Jinling also build like this?"

Li Chengcheng said lightly, "There are many people in our Li family, and Jinling City doesn't have such a big place to fit it." In fact, the relatives of the family are scattered in Jinling City and the surrounding state capitals, and there is only one ancestral hall and school, and the clans get together every year when they worship their ancestors. When the disciples in the clan reach a certain age, they are all sent to the academy to learn literature and martial arts. Of course, if ordinary people have children with good conduct, they can also go to the school to study for free. ”

Compared with the Tang family, the Li family in Jinling did not deliberately create an atmosphere of isolation from the world, the surname Li in Jinling is the majority, and does not prevent intermarriage with ordinary people, for hundreds of years, the Li family in Jinling has long been integrated with Jinling City, it can be said that Jinling is the Li family, and the Li family is Jinling.

Not only that, some famous families in the surrounding state capitals of Jinling also have an inseparable connection with the Li family. For ordinary people, if there are people who are excellent in learning, the Li family will not hesitate to fund the whole process. There is such a saying in Jinling City, it is easy to be admitted to Shiyi, and it is difficult to enter the Li Family School.

In the past 30 years, among the students sponsored by the Li family, there are thirty or forty people who have passed the Jinshi examination, and the Li family has a wide range of connections in the officialdom.

The three of them came to the gate of the Tang family and were about to report to themselves, when suddenly a person came out of the gatehouse, with anger on his face, and said: "Hey, you three, go elsewhere if you want food, don't be here, it will hinder the appearance of the house!"

At this time, the three of them were in rags, with unstubbed beards, and they looked very embarrassed, hearing what the porter said, Xiao Jinyan said, "We are not here to ask for food, we are here to apply!"

"Apply!" As if he had heard a big joke, the porter shouted to a few people in the concierge, "Everyone come out to see, there are three people named Huazi, come to our Tang Mansion to apply!haha!"

When the five or six porters heard the sound and saw the appearance of the three people, they couldn't help but smile and said, "With Your Excellency's honor, you don't look in the mirror and apply for a job?" Do you think anyone can enter the Tang Mansion?"

"It's not, even the one recommended by the gentry Li in the east of the city, the second housekeeper didn't give face, you must know that we entered the Tang Mansion back then, but how much relationship was entrusted and how much money was spent!"

"Get out of here, get out of here, stay where it's cool. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was not excited, and was about to step forward to make a move, but was stopped by Xiao Jinyan and said, "We were recommended by the steward." ”

"You were recommended by the steward? Then I was recommended by the third lady!"

At this time, in the inner courtyard, a woman in Tsing Yi walked out with a horse, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but stop at the door.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Who is the third miss?"

"You don't even know the number one beauty in Shu, Tang Xiqiu, the third lady of our Tang family, and you are embarrassed to come to Tangmen?

Xiao Jinyan smiled, "Martial arts moves."

Interesting, funny!"

"What, you three have ideas?"

"yes, what's the limit?"

"No, no, there are so many masters of the rivers and lakes who came to sign up, the young heroes of the four major families and the eight major schools were moved, and even the Li family of Jinling also sent people, you just need to be careful and don't be killed. ”

Xiao and Zhao looked at Li Tingcheng, and Li Chengcheng spread his hands, saying that he didn't know.

Xiao Jinyan sighed, "I see, but I'm thinking, if the three of us sign up, if we win against the others, and we don't know whether we win or lose, then won't the three of us marry the third lady of your family together? This is stumped for me, how can the three of us divide it?"

The woman at the door saw that these people were more and more presumptuous, and snorted coldly, and when the porters heard the words and looked back, they were so frightened that they came forward one after another, leading the horses and pouring the tea, and cautiously laughed and said, "Sister Qingqing, why are you here?"

The three of them looked at it, this woman was dressed in green clothes, and she looked quite handsome, but looking at the outfit, she should also be dressed as a little maid, and seeing the strength of the gatekeepers trying their best to please, her status in the house should not be low.

The woman called Qingqing said coldly, "If I don't come out, the three young ladies will be robbed and divided by the three called Hanako." ”

The leader said, "Sister Qingqing is angry, let's beat the three blind ones out." ”

Qing Qing said, "Fight out?" She pointed at Xiao Jinyan, "This guy's mouth is extremely damaged, tear his mouth apart for me!"

Where did everyone dare to disobey the order of the third lady's personal maid, and when they heard the rumors, they rushed over with sticks.

Xiao Jinyan and the three of them stepped back, "Why don't we go?"

"I'm afraid it's a little late. ”

The crowd was about to start their move, when suddenly someone shouted, "Stop!"

Everyone looked, a burly man, came out of the inner courtyard, this person's surname is Li Ming Datong, is the dean of the Tang Mansion, the three of them saw that his temples were high and convex, and at first glance he was a master of the outside family.

"Li Huyuan, it's so small that I can see you!"

The Tang family has a strict hierarchy, even among the domestic servants, there are obviously people of high and low status, this Li Datong is the leader of the public guard and the gatehouse, responsible for the security of the Tang Mansion, and reports directly to the chief steward, this person has strong martial arts and a great spectrum, and everyone is very afraid of him in private.

Li Datong's face was calm, and he asked, "A few of you, what are you making trouble in front of the main entrance of the mansion in broad daylight, it will damage the style of the Tang family, and each person will be fined for half a month!"

The doorman at the head said, "Li Huyuan is wronged, these three boys came to make trouble, and we are about to drive them away!"

"Still quibbling? Each person will be fined for one month. ”

Everyone heard that their bowels were blue, and they all looked at the maid Qingqing, and threw a look of help at her, Qingqing said, "These three guys, insulting the third miss, Dagang and Xiaohu are just angry for the young lady, Li Huyuan is making a big fuss, right?"

She is the maid of the third lady, and her status is on the same level as Li Datong, and even in front of several aunts, she can speak better and is not afraid of Li Datong.

Li Datong didn't give any face, "I teach my subordinates a lesson, and it's not the turn of the young girl to point fingers." ”

Qingqing was so angry by this sentence that she stomped her feet, grabbed the horse, and was about to go out from the gate, Li Dadao, "There are no rules at all?

Qingqing relied on the fact that she was the third young lady's maid, and she was used to being arrogant in the mansion, so she was angry in her heart and said, "I'm going to send a horse to the third young lady." ”

"I'm doing things according to the rules of the house!"

Qingqing was annoyed in her heart, but the rules of the Tang Mansion were extremely strict, and she snorted, "Be careful that I go to the third lady to complain, and when the time comes, be careful about your skin!"

Li Dadao, "Listen to it." ”

Qingqing was angry and led the horse to the west side of the gate to go out.

The three of them were about to leave, when Li Datong suddenly said, "Wait!"

"What's the matter?"

"The three of you were recommended by the chief steward to do short-term work?"

"Not bad!"

"Come with me. ”

Li Datong took the three of them to the side door on the east side of the mansion, although this door was not as grand as the main entrance, but it was also much larger than the ordinary mansion.

Li Datong said hello to the porter, led the three of them into the Tang Mansion, and said as he walked, "There are four gates in the Tang Mansion, the east gate is for waterwheels, vegetables, firewood and rice, and the west gate is for gold and water, filthy things, you three are new to it, although you don't stay for a long time, don't break the rules." ”

When he came to the account room, Li Datong went in to say hello, and after a while, a middle-aged man wearing a straight shirt and a paralyzed face came in and said, "Come with me!"

The middle-aged man took the three of them to go through the formalities of entering the house, asked for the three people's guides, filled in a number of things, took out three wooden cards, wrote some things on them, and handed them to the three people.

"Recently, the house has been busy with the third lady's competition to recruit relatives, there are more things, there are not enough people in the house, recruit the three of you to do short-term work, from today on, you are the lowest-level handyman in the house, this is your identity card in the Tang Mansion, don't lose it." ”

The three of them took the wooden card, only to see that there were three names written on it: "Tang Dabao, Tang Erbao, Tang Sanbao", Xiao Jinyan said, "This big brother ......"

The man's face was cold, "I am responsible for all the miscellaneous duties in the house, my name is Tang Xie, I am your boss, and I will call the boss when you see me in the future." Of course, in front of the lord and wife, I still call me Tang Chief. ”

The three of them nodded yes.

"Boss, the three of us are not called Dabao......"

Tang Xie interrupted, "I don't care what your names used to be, when you come to the Tang Mansion to do miscellaneous labor, you will be called Tang Dabao, Tang Erbao, Tang Sanbao, you can choose your own name." ”

Xiao Jinyan took it over and chose Tang Dabao, Li Chengcheng chose the second treasure, and Zhao Lanjiang chose the third treasure.

Tang Xie said again, "You work here for half a month, and your salary is five taels of silver." ”

Xiao Jinyan said no, at that time, Tang Yuan kept his promise for ninety taels of silver for three people, how did he get it here and it became five taels, and said, "Boss, what the steward promised us at that time was thirty taels a month. ”

Tang Xie grimaced and said, "Do you really not understand, or are you pretending to be confused?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Thirty taels is what the steward promised you, just now Li Huyuan brought you in, and I will give it to Li Huyuan for fifteen taels every month, and the remaining fifteen taels, ten taels are our public expenses, and the remaining five taels are yours. ”

Zhao Lanjiang's face was horizontal, "Isn't this peeling off layers of skin?"

Tang Xie came up with a kick, Zhao Lanjiang was kicked by him coldly, took two steps back, and was immediately furious, Li Chengcheng stopped him and shook his head.

"What, don't you get convinced? Love to do it or not, don't do it and pull it down! Some people squeeze their heads and rush to do it. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was not convinced, Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng grabbed him, "Let's do it, let's do it!"

"That Tang Sanbao, against the boss, deduct a tael of silver!"

"Why?"

"This is the rule! You kid is a thorn, okay, today I will tell you about the rules of the Tang Mansion!"