Xu and Zhou walked out of the museum, and saw that the gate of the state capital had not been opened at this time, and there was still silence in the ya, so the two of them followed the original road, climbed the big willow tree outside the wall, climbed over the courtyard wall, and jumped off the state bridge. Just as the two of them turned to leave, they suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Come on, the government has been robbed at night!"

Xu Zhi turned around and saw several guards in thin armor holding spears and surrounding the Zhou Bridge. Xu Zhi motioned for Zhou Yuanzhi to leave first, then pulled out the Fengming sword, and without waiting for a few guards to approach, he made a move "sparkling", shaking the sword head, and the Fengming sword emitted a faint red light under the reflection of the morning light, like a flowing wave, surging towards several guards.

The guards raised their spears and poked over, trying to block Xu Zhi's long sword, but Xu Zhi turned to the side slightly, made a move to "turn the stars", followed the gap between several spears, went around the backs of several guards, and pushed them to the ground one by one with a wave of palms.

Xu Zhi took advantage of the guards to fall to the ground and was about to seal their acupoints. At this time, the governor of Jinju led a hundred horse infantry troops and a dozen archers out of the state office.

Zhou Yuanzhi saw the danger of the situation and reminded: "Brother Xu, don't fall in love with war, let's hurry up and find a fishing boat along the Fen River and leave here!"

Xu Zhi agreed: "Okay!"

At this time, from a large green pine tree by the state bridge, a masked man in black jumped and blocked Xu Zhi's way. Xu Zhi didn't think about it, and he was greeted with a move of "breeze blowing on his face", and waved his fist directly at the masked man's face.

The masked man lowered his head to dodge, bent down and made a "whirlwind leg", Xu Zhi jumped up, stretched out the two fingers of his right hand, and made a move "Two Dragons Play with Pearls", poking the man's eyes.

Seeing Xu Zhi's fierce move, the man in black hurriedly clasped his hands together and tried to clamp Xu Zhi's fingers.

At this time, the governor of Jinju rushed over, and when he saw a masked man in black fighting with a young man, he was at a loss for a moment, so he quickly stopped the soldiers and archers behind him, and asked, "You all see clearly, who is the thief and who is the chivalrous man?"

The guard who shouted first also hesitated, and said: "My lord, my subordinates saw that the young man leading a girl sneakily out of the state office, the young man and the girl behind him must be thieves!"

Before the guard could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhizhou: "Lord Ben, I see that you drank too much last night, and you can't even tell the difference between thieves and innocent people? The masked man in black must be a thief, you look at his dress, either a thief or a thief, how can an ordinary person dress like this, and that young man with a beautiful girl, how can he burglarize? This official has never seen a thief stealing things and bringing a woman." You're either really confused, or you're looking away!"

Those guards were scolded by Zhizhou, and they no longer dared to defend themselves, so they had to praise them repeatedly: "It's still an adult who judges the case like a god! Let the villain assist the young knight to capture the masked man and torture him well!"

While fighting with Xu Zhi, the man in black listened to the discussion of the official behind him, and scolded: "It's really a group of wine bags and rice bags, eating the court for nothing, good or bad!"

Zhizhou listened to the words of the man in black, and said angrily: "It's really upside down, the thief shouted to catch the thief, come, quickly take down the black-clothed masked man for me!"

The group of officials listened to Zhizhou's order, and immediately took chains and wooden shackles and slowly surrounded the black-clothed man.

The man in black didn't dare to move forward anymore, he made a false move, turned around and made a move "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers", stretched out his hands and ten fingers, and quickly poked at the wrists and chest of the servant. Those officials were shocked, put down the ropes in their hands, drew their knives and guns, and took a dozen steps back.

The man in black didn't dare to move forward anymore, he made a false move, turned around and made a move "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers", stretched out his hands and ten fingers, and quickly poked at the wrists and chest of the servant. Those officials were shocked, put down the ropes in their hands, drew their knives and guns, and took a dozen steps back.

Seeing that the masked man was superb in martial arts, Zhizhou had already snatched the saber from the hands of several officials in an instant, and ordered in a loud voice: "The archers are ready, if the thieves continue to resist, they will be killed!"

Seeing that the situation was urgent, the man in black didn't have time to explain, so he took out the golden token in his arms, and ordered in a low voice: "The imperial gold medal is here, don't stop it yet!"

Zhizhou took the gold medal arrow in the hand of the man in black, and said in a trembling voice: "It turned out that Lord Qincha came here, the lower official is really blind, and please punish the official!", after speaking, he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. Seeing that the man in black was silent, he had no intention of blaming, and said flatteringly, "You dog minions, you are really blind, don't chase the real assassin yet!"

The man in black saw that Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi had already gone away in the boat, and sighed: "Let them go! I order you to keep quiet in this matter, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

Zhizhou hesitated a little and asked, "My lord, why is this, what if the assassins escape from Taiyuan?"

The man in black smiled, "Lord Zhizhou, don't worry, they won't leave Jinyang, and the fish will be hooked soon!"

Besides, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi returned to Xinghua Restaurant, He Mengjiao, Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Anger, and Idiot hurriedly greeted them, and the seven of them finished breakfast in the restaurant and returned to the guest room to discuss. Xu Zhi told several brothers and sisters about the discovery of himself and Zhou Yuanzhi, and everyone carefully checked the ancient map of Jinyang City, and decided to ask the local people about the specific location of the ruins of Daming Palace first, and then go to the south of the city to find out the whereabouts of the palace records.

Xu Zhi and his entourage disguised themselves a little and got out of the Xinghua Building, everyone saw that there was nothing unusual in Jinyang City, and there was no uproar because of the theft of the state government last night, and there was still a lot of people coming and going in the market, and there was not even a notice of bounty for arrest, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi secretly felt strange, and thought: Maybe it is because Zhizhou saw that he did not discard any valuable gold and silver objects in the mansion, and he was afraid that the ugly thing would be publicized, so he did not dare to make a noise!

Xu Zhi took out the map and stopped several local people, falsely claiming that he was a tourist from Jinyang from other places and wanted to go to the Daming Palace in the south of the city, but he didn't know the path there.

A common man shook his head and said: "The south of the city is a barren place, all are cemeteries, how can there be any palace, to say that the monuments in the south of the city, there is only one Jin Temple, which enshrines the ancient sage Jin Marquis a thousand years ago, I heard that Emperor Wen of the Dynasty once drove to the Jin Temple, and now there is his own handwritten imperial book in the temple! ”

Another common man dissuaded: "Ladies and gentlemen, you don't know, now that the people of Hedong are fighting again and again, the people of Hedong are in danger, how can they have the heart to go to the south of the city to pay homage to the Jin Ancestral Hall, but I am afraid that this Jin Ancestral Hall will also be drowned in the barren grass and thorns! Besides, there are often wild beasts in the south of the city, so you better not go there!"

Zhou Yuanzhi looked at the ancient map carefully, but still didn't want to give up, and asked again: "A few fathers, do you know that there is a large lake in the south of the city, called Jinyang Lake?"

The people shook their heads and said: "Our Jinyang is surrounded by high mountains, how can there be lakes, if you want to talk about rivers, there is only the Fen River in the east of the city!"

Xu Zhi asked a few more people, and saw that they didn't know the specific location of Daming Palace and Jinyang Lake in the map, so he had to thank the people in the city one by one, and sighed: "Even the people in the city don't know the Daming Palace in the south of the city, is it possible that in just over a hundred years, this Daming Palace suddenly disappeared from the ground?"

Xue Atan shouted: "Brother Xu, Miss Zhou, why don't we go to the south of the city to find it in person?"

He Mengjiao stopped: "Xue Aniu, this Jinyang City is hundreds of miles away, if there is no guide, just with the seven of us, even if we look for a year, it is impossible to find the remains of Daming Palace!"

Li Cunxiao also said: "What Sister He said makes sense, we are not familiar with the place, if we can't find the clues in the ancient map, if we want to find Daming Palace in the south of Jinzhou City, it's like looking for a needle in the sea, it's more difficult than climbing to the sky!"

Everyone crossed the Fenyang Bridge and saw a teahouse in front of them, full of tea customers, listening to an artist telling a story. I saw that the storyteller had gray hair, was over the age of sixties, and his face was full of vicissitudes, so he picked up a piece of shocking wood, slammed the table, and said in a loud voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the villain wants to say today that it is the story of the founding of the dynasty and the defense of the prince! This is also the true thing that happened in our Taiyuan City 250 years ago!"

As soon as the storyteller finished speaking, there was a burst of exclamations below, followed by a burst of applause.

Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Angry, Idiot or Listening to a book for the first time, seeing that the storyteller was lively and interesting, he begged Xu Zhi to go to the teahouse to listen to the book. Xu Zhi couldn't resist everyone, so he had to follow the people who watched the excitement, gathered around the storyteller, and listened to him talk about the past:

It is said that in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, there was a prime minister in the imperial court, named Yang Su, who was originally the uncle of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. This Yang Su has a lot of power and hundreds of millions of family assets, and he also wants to climb the elegance, imitate the deeds of the ancient Meng Weijun with 3,000 diners, and recruit strange people from all over the world in Chang'an.

This Li Weigong was originally a famous family, a beautiful young man, as soon as he entered the Prime Minister's Mansion, he was favored by Yang Su, Yang Su and Li Weigong talked about the situation in the world, often forgot to sleep and eat, and sighed. Once Yang Su praised Wei Gong in front of everyone: "Li Lang is a great talent, and my current seat will be his!"

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Yang Su has a maid holding a red whisk beside him, seeing that Li Weigong is a young hero, he actually disregarded his name and integrity, and escaped from the Prime Minister's Mansion that night and defected to Wei Gong. Wei Gong was very happy to see that the beauty took off her clothes and hat, but she was a beautiful woman. In order to avoid Yang Su's pursuit, the two escaped from Chang'an overnight and went to Taiyuan, the land of our Longxing.

After the storyteller finished this paragraph, he picked up an erhu on the table and hummed a small song in the Qin dialect to entertain the audience. Raise your eyes and get drunk, smell the fragrance and your cheeks are scarlet. The world is trending in the morning, and the beauty returns at night. Who can be like the discerning eye, the romance has been rare since ancient times!"

After the storyteller finished singing the song, he continued: The two befriended a bearded guest on the way, who wanted to make a contribution in the Central Plains, but he learned from Li Weigong that Taiyuan had a heavenly emperor, so he decided to ask Wei Gong to help and see the true face of Emperor Wen in person. Wei Gong agreed, decided to take the red whisk first, and agreed with the bearded guest to meet at the Fenyang Bridge in Taiyuan a month later.

After Wei Gong entered Taiyuan City, along the Fen River, he went to the Daming Palace in the south of the city, and met the Tang King.

When Zhou Yuanzhi heard this, she whispered to Xu Zhi: "There was a Daming Palace as early as the Sui Dynasty, why don't we ask this storyteller, maybe he is well-informed and can know the reason!"

Xu Zhi nodded at Zhou Yuanzhi and said, "When the old man finishes the book, we will consult him again!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan and others around her also listened to it with taste, and said angrily: "Big brother, seeing that you are so obsessed with listening to it, you won't be attracted by Li Weigong's adventure, right?"

Xu Zhi replied: "This Li Weigong is really destined to have God's help, I don't know what legendary things will happen later?", only to see the storyteller continue to speak:

Later, Li Weigong met the bearded guest again at Fenyang Bridge, and introduced him to Emperor Wen, who saw the bearded guest and was also shocked by his arrogance, and Emperor Wen immediately invited the bearded guest to play three games by the Jinyang Lake in the north of the Daming Palace. In the first two games, the sky was dark, the waves in the lake were turbulent, and even the guards were scared like earth, only Emperor Wen and the bearded guest did not look shocked, and the two won a game each. In the third game, the bearded guest saw that Emperor Wen did not think twice, first courtesy to himself, and then besieged, he gradually became passive, and suddenly became disheartened, gave up his original intention, and admitted defeat to Emperor Wen, saying that it was strange, at this time the dark clouds dispersed, and the lake was also calm.

Hearing this, he asked loudly: "Uncle, this Jinyang Lake is too strange, is there a water monster hidden at the bottom of the lake?"

When all the guests heard the angry words, they all turned their eyes to the storyteller. Seeing that everyone was skeptical, the storyteller explained: "What's so strange about this, this Taizong and the bearded guest are two dragons in the sky, and when the two dragons meet, can they not soar through the clouds and fog and surge in the wind and waves?"

After listening to it, he seemed to have an understanding, and said angrily: "It is often said in books that 'the cloud follows the dragon, and the wind follows the tiger', which means that the dragon and the cloud, the wind and the tiger are not separated, where there is a tiger, there must be wind, and where there are clouds, there must be a real dragon!

Xue Atan saw that all the guests were a little impatient, and shouted: "Sorry, stupid brother, I'm still waiting to hear the rest of the story?

Seeing that the crowd had regained their composure, the storyteller continued to clear his throat and said:

Afterwards, the bearded guest said to Wei Gong: "Don't hide it from Brother Li, the eldest brother originally wanted to achieve the imperial cause in the Central Plains, but now when he sees the dragon and phoenix of the Tang King in Taiyuan, he knows that there is a sky outside the sky. This Li Weigong has a huge family property, makes friends with the world's heroes, is familiar with military books, and later assists Taizong and establishes the immortal foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

When the storyteller finished telling the book and collecting the reward, he was about to leave the teahouse. Xu Zhi saw that he was staggering when he went down the steps and almost fell, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to support him, and said with concern: "Old man walks slowly, do you have something to ask for advice from the juniors?"

The storyteller glanced at Xu Zhi hesitantly, saw that he didn't look like a bad person, and replied: "Thank you for your help, if you don't give up, come to the cold house to talk!"

Xu Zhi and the others hurriedly nodded yes, and followed the storyteller to a grass shed on the outskirts of the city, and the storyteller hurriedly let Xu Zhi and others go to the grass shed, and instructed the old woman in the family to pour tea for everyone.

It turned out that the storyteller's surname was Wu, and he went to Guanzhong to do business when he was young, and then Chang'an City was broken, so he had to move his family back to his hometown Taiyuan.

He Mengjiao saw Uncle Wu's ill-fated fate and sighed: "This world is full of killings, blood everywhere, when will it be an end?"

After hearing this, he clasped his hands together and recited: "Amitabha, the Buddha's way is lost, the demons are in trouble, I hope that my Buddha will be merciful and can send down a great hero to save the world as soon as possible, and avoid the suffering of all sentient beings!"

Uncle Wu opened his mouth and asked, "Listen to the accents of a few people, aren't you locals?"

Zhou Yuanzhi glanced at Xu Zhi and said, "Brother Xu, let's talk about it!"

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Uncle, you go south and north, you are well-informed, do you know this Daming Palace in the south of Jinyang City?", after speaking, he took out the ancient map from his arms and spread it in front of Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu sighed and said: "Although the old man's book often mentions Jinyang's Daming Palace and Jinyang Lake, these are all monuments, at least when the old man was born, that is, 60 years ago, they no longer existed!"

Li Cunxiao sighed, "Since even the old man doesn't know about this Daming Palace, how can we find it?"

Uncle Wu thought for a while, pointed to the map and said: "Don't be discouraged, at least we can find some clues from the ancient map, for example, in this map, the Daming Palace is east of the Fen River, and the north is Jinyang Lake, although the location of Jinyang Lake is uncertain, but the Fen River has not changed for hundreds of years, and the Kuching Temple on this corner should also be the current Jin Temple!"

Xu Zhi listened to Uncle Wu's analysis, and suddenly opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Yes, Uncle Wu, in this way, the location of this Daming Palace in the south of the city is much smaller! At least within a hundred miles between the Jin Temple and the Fen River!"

Xue Atan listened, and was still puzzled: "The range of a hundred miles is still very large, we have few people, how can we carefully search for such a large piece of land?"

Uncle Wu looked at the map carefully, thought for a while, and then said: "I can't be very sure in the next, I can only rely on the vague memory of 50 years ago, there is a post station in the south of the city on this map, and there is a temple to pay tribute to Jie Zitui, less than ten miles away from Daming Palace, I went there with my grandparents to fly kites when I was a few years old, this post station and temple were later destroyed in the war, and the old man has never seen them again after he became sensible!"

Xu Zhi then asked: "Then according to the old man's opinion, where should this Daming Palace be?"

Uncle Wu hesitated for a while before replying: "Judging from below, this Daming Palace should be near the cemetery in the south of the city!"