Ma Yangchen went out of the city early in the morning, rented a carriage, and went to Zhuji.

Zhuji is the birthplace of Xi Shi and a place rich in beauties.

Xi Shi has been with his mother Huansha Riverside since he was a child, also known as Huansha Girl. After the defeat of the Yue King Goujian, he adopted the [Nine Techniques of Cutting Wu], so that Fan Li offered the husband of Wu with the beautiful Xi Shi, confusing his heart and messing up his schemes, causing the King of Wu to indulge in wine and be desolate in national politics. After Gou Jian destroyed Wu, Xi Shi went with Fan Li Pan Wuhu and disappeared in the vastness of the smoke and waves, not knowing what to do.

It is said that Xi Shi enjoys "the appearance of sinking fish and geese, and the appearance of shy flowers in the closed moon", which is the first beauty in ancient and modern times. [The work of the dead Wu, Xi Shi should be].

The place where Ma Yangchen arrived was Xi Shi's hometown.

At the foot of the Ramie Mountain. Octagonal Inn.

The shopkeeper's surname is Shi, and he claims to be Xi Shi's distant nephew.

Shopkeeper Shi arranged an upper room for Ma Yangchen, and asked the store guy to bring hot water, and then sat at the counter and took a nap.

There was a cold wind outside the door, the crack in the door was large, and the inside of the house was not very warm. Shopkeeper Shi just wanted to ask the guy to put down the cotton curtain. At this time, three people walked into the house.

Ma Yangchen was about to enter the room, and he glanced downstairs upstairs and was happy. The three of them are none other than the five little blessings of Tianyi Pavilion - little loaches, little crabs, and little turtles.

Ma Yangchen jumped down, clasped his fists and said, "Don't come unharmed." ”

The little loach was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is the honorable driver?"

Ma Yangchen suddenly understood that they didn't know him, and hurriedly said: "I was sent by my sister who didn't see you, my name is Ma Yangchen." ”

The little turtle was happy and said, "The big boss sent you to us?"

Ma Yangchen said: "Exactly." ”

After finding a place to sit down, the little loach opened the conversation: "Originally, we should have pursued the Wangcheng Village tragedy to the south, but who would have thought that a bigger secret would be discovered halfway." After discussing and discussing, I still chased after the line of Zhuji. ”

"What did you find?"

The little loach squinted at Ma Yangchen and said, "Where have we seen each other before?"

Ma Yangchen knew that they were doubting themselves, so he said: "The clothes on my body were given by Sister Jun, and I haven't had time to change them." ”

The little crab slapped the table and said, "Yes, yes, before the shopkeeper Jun asked us to leave, he just arranged for someone to buy clothes, saying that it was for what it was called..."

"Ma Yangchen. ”

"Yes, I asked Ma Yangchen to buy clothes, and said that he looked about the same size as me. ”

"I am Ma Yangchen. ”

The little crab glanced at it and said, "You're thinner than me." ”

The little loach said in disbelief: "If you know where the big boss usually stays, I will judge whether you are my own person." ”

"Square Alley. I also know that there is a parrot in the guest room of the big boss, whose name is Sanyang, which is a birthday gift that you bought for the big boss after you lost a bet with the three Yu brothers. In order to take revenge on the Yu brothers, you named the parrot Sanyang. ”

The little loach scratched his head: "Why did the big boss tell you everything?"

Ma Yangchen asked, "What did you find along the way?"

The little loach said: "After the crucian carp and lobster returned to Yangzhou, we followed the line of Huo Zhutou to Xiaoshan, and the murderer of the tragedy in Chengcun was killed halfway. We didn't dare to get too close, but we found that the team of people and horses intercepted and killed were using the equipment of the barracks, Yishui's crossbow and Pu knife, and the Fang Tianhua halberd led by it was used on the battlefield at a glance, and it was estimated that it was a general or something. Behind them is a big marquis, probably surnamed Shen. The turtle and I disguised themselves as the guys of the inn overheard their conversation, and the marquis asked them to go to Lin'an Rong Bao Zhai to ask for a picture, saying that the people in the palace were also looking for this picture, and we followed them to Lin'an. But the news was that the people in the palace had been killed. Later, Lai'an was full of people from the imperial court, and we could only caten near the welcome building. ”

Ma Yangchen didn't interject and listened carefully. Hearing this, he suddenly asked, "Yingbin Building, which one in the west of the city?"

"That's right, just west of the city. ”

"Have you noticed that there are two palace eunuchs nearby?"

The little loach pursed his lips and said, "How can the eunuch see that he is not walking on the street naked." ”

Ma Yangchen smiled awkwardly and said, "You go on." ”

The little loach sorted out his thoughts and continued: "It is said that the one who died in the welcome building was Tan Sihai, the eunuch with the palm print of Shangyang Palace, who was killed by a little kid of a thousand doors, and the portraits were pasted everywhere, which is a bit like you. ”

Ma Yangchen smiled bitterly.

The little loach said again: "It's not a matter of always being a cat, we went to Rong Bao Zhai last night for a walk." It was found that Rong Bao Zhai was sealed by the government. On the way back, we accidentally discovered the whereabouts of that Marquis Shen and followed him all the way. Unexpectedly, this Hou Ye led people to arrest people in an old mansion, and I heard that it was Rong Bao Zhai's people. ”

Ma Yangchen's heart tightened and asked, "What about their boss?" The owner of Rong Bao Zhai. ”

"It seems that even the boss and more than 100 men have been arrested. The little loach didn't pay attention to Ma Yangchen's face, and said to himself: "This morning, the general who made Fang Tian draw the halberd came to Zhuji with people. My brother thought there must be a big secret on this line, so he rushed here first. ”

Ma Yangchen lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Brother Loach, I have to ask you something." ”

The little loach said, "You say." ”

"Go to Hangzhou to deliver a letter, the master of the king is now in the Seven Colors Villa, you just give the letter to the big boss. I'm writing right now. Brother Crab and Turtle, I have to trouble you to work hard, return to Lin'an, find a way to enter the prison and contact Yang Liuzhi, the boss of Rong Bao Zhai, and say... Let's just say that the seller of the index map is the one who captured her, and she understands what is going on. ”

The little loach said: "The big boss is in the Seven Colors Villa?"

Ma Yangchen said: "It's true. ”

The little loach said, "Okay, you can write a letter." Crab and turtle, you two go to the counter and ask for something to eat, return to Lin'an immediately, and do as he says. ”

The two got up and left.

Ma Yangchen asked the shopkeeper Shi for pen and ink, wrote a letter, handed it to the little loach, and instructed: "The letter must be handed over to the big boss by hand." ”

The little loach patted his chest and said, "Don't worry." "I turned around and hit the road.

Ma Yangchen returned to the room, took out the index map, spread it on the table, thought about it, and said to himself: "Isn't this the index map imitated by Mu Fengchun, could it be that this was the bureau designed by Shen Wanshan from the beginning." Now the location of the Zhenguo Divine Beast marked on the map is imitated by Mu Fengchun, or is there really such a Zhenguo Divine Beast. ”

Ma Yangchen got up and paced a few steps, thinking to himself: "No, if the picture is fake at the beginning, and the Zhenguo Divine Beast is fake, then the person who gets the picture should naturally be from Shangyang Palace." If this is a game and the picture is true, the people of Shangyang Palace should not appear in Rong Bao Zhai. And now, not only did the people from Shangyang Palace appear, but Gonggong Tan was even killed, what is the problem?"

"As soon as Shen Wanshan arrived in Lin'an, he found the hiding place of Rong Bao Zhai, and arrested people, and he even knew that the Zhenguo Divine Beast was in Zhuji, which means that in addition to me, Nangong Liuzhi and Dugu Xun, there are still people who have seen this picture. Who is this person?"

Ma Yangchen was thinking about it when someone knocked on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw that it was the shopkeeper. Shopkeeper Shi held a note in his hand, handed it to Ma Yangchen, and said, "Just now, someone downstairs asked me to hand it over to Gongzi." ”

"What about people?"

"Gone. It's a woman. ”

Ma Yangchen thanked him and closed the door, opened the note and saw that it read: The Zhenguo Divine Beast has been taken, the task is complete, be careful.

Ma Yangchen was shocked, and hurriedly went downstairs to chase after him, but there was no one left.

Zhuji County Yahou Hall.

Yasukuni Gong Xu Jiye, one of the four heroes of Chu Hao, Luo Guanguan, four gentlemen Mu Fengchun, Xia Chan'er, Ye Zhiqiu, Shen Xuehan and others were discussing around the table. On the table was the Zhenguo Divine Beast Ying Long. About a foot high, purple jade is made, lifelike, and the living dragon is vivid.

Yasukuni Gong Xu Jiye looked at the Yinglong Divine Beast and asked Luo Guanguan: "You said that this Zhenguo Divine Beast can really assist the Ziwei Star Emperor to achieve hegemony like the legend?"

Luo Guanguan said: "Returning to the country, the dragon beast is the master of the weathered rain, in the center of the five directions, unique between heaven and earth, the five elements of the earth, for the god of clouds, rain and thunder, cultivated for 1,500 years, and then the concubine of the god Taiyi, called Shun Tianyou Qi Fu should be the dragon god." Auxiliary Nuwa, on the nine heavens, auxiliary Yellow Emperor, Cheng Taiyi, auxiliary Dayu, flood control, auxiliary Ziwei, can be called the emperor. ”

Yasukuni Gong said with a smile: "Now that the Zhenguo Divine Beast is in my hands, see what she Wu Cao can do to me in the future?"

Luo Guanguan said: "Watching the sky at night, the handle of the Big Dipper points directly to the east, the world is spring, the purple micro star is bright and dark, high and low, as if there is a sign of falling." ”

Yasukuni said: "Wu Cao's visit to Lin'an in person has something to do with it. ”

Xia Chan'er asked in a low voice: "The young master is still in the Octagon Inn, next..."

Yasukuni said with a smile: "It's okay to let him suffer a little, it's still too reckless." Killing Tan Sihai of Shangyang Palace directly led to the soldiers of Lin'an City, if it weren't for Lotus to print out the index map in advance, this operation would have fallen short. ”

Ye Zhiqiu said: "Grandpa Guo, my subordinates feel that there must be a secret in it. Judging from the situation at that time, the young master had no need or motive to kill Tan Sihai. And according to Lotus, the young master actually had the opportunity to leave directly after getting the index map, but he didn't go, but returned to Rong Bao Zhai, and worshiped Yang Liuzhi and Dugu Xun as Jiang Lingzi. The subordinates didn't know why the young master did this, but one thing was certain, the young master must have found something more important than the index map. ”

Yasukuni sneered: "But he left Lin'an during the most important period. If Tan Sihai was not killed by him, why did he run, and when he should track down the Zhenguo Divine Beast according to the map, he returned to Rong Bao Zhai again. ”

Xia Chan'er said: "The young master doesn't know the authenticity of the index map, and the news I gave him is that the index map and the Zhenguo Divine Beast are both imitated by Mu Fengchun, so it is understandable that he is not in a hurry to find the Zhenguo Divine Beast." ”

Yasukuni waved his hand and said, "You don't have to defend him. It is estimated that Lotus should tell Shen Wanshan the address of the fake Zhenguo Divine Beast, and Mu Fengchun's craftsmanship should be able to deceive this old fox. Now let's put on makeup and sneak back to Lin'an. Before Ziwei turned into qi and the dragon beast recognized the master, he gathered the Beidou Sword Formation and waited for Wu Cao to throw himself into the net. ”