Bao Zheng said: "It's not early, everyone has worked hard all night, let's go rest first." After that, he called Zhang Long and Zhao Hu again, and asked them to find a large break between the three eagles of the party and the three eagles, so that they would not have to be imprisoned in the future, and they would be released when the three of them had recovered from their injuries.

Tuoba Hongfei and the three of them were surprised when they heard the difference. Tuoba Hongfei said: "Lord Bao has nothing else to ask for, so let the three of me leave?"

Pan Tianluo also said: "Master Bao, the three of us snatched the "Martial Arts Classic" from Kou Yun's hands, and my third brother blinded him, are you really willing to let us go?"

Ma Qing was also very puzzled, but he didn't say a word, speculating about Bao Zheng's intentions alone in his heart.

Bao Zheng said: "Shicai Mu Hu said very much, the three of you are all bewitched by Na Song Zanpu, and the main culprits are not the three of you. Furthermore, Kou Yun also said, 'Repay grievances with directness, and repay virtue with virtue.' Although his eyes were harmed by Ma Qing, Mu Han also blinded his eyes, and the karma has been retributed, and it is superfluous to punish him. I'll let the three of you go back to your own people, but you still have to agree to three conditions from me. ”

Seeing that Bao Zheng was very honest, the party leader Sanying was very grateful, and immediately said in unison: "Lord Bao, please speak." ”

Bao Zheng said: "I want the three of you to promise that from now on you will no longer be enemies of our Han people, you must not indiscriminately hurt innocents, and you must not participate in the competition for the book "General Essentials of the Martial Arts". ”

Pan Tianluo and Ma Qing said in unison: "Okay, we promise Lord Bao these three conditions!" Only Tuoba Hongfei was silent.

Bao Zhengqi said: "Won't Tuoba Hero agree?"

Tuoba Hongfei said: "Yes, I can only agree to the first two conditions of Lord Bao, not to be an enemy of the Han people, not to indiscriminately hurt the innocent, but if I want to no longer participate in the competition for the book "Wujing General Essentials", I can't obey the order. ”

Bao Zheng was even more curious: "Why can't this alone?" said in his heart: "Why is he so stubborn, does he still have to obey the orders of his master Song Zanpu?"

Tuoba Hongfei said: "Master Bao doesn't know, what I mean is to help the Song people to take back those scriptures that were plundered by Songzanpu and return them to your court." He had seen the face of Master thoroughly in his heart, and he didn't want to call him Master anymore, so he called him by his first name.

After speaking, he turned to Pan Tianluo and Ma Qing again: "What do you think of the two junior brothers?"

Pan Tianluo and Ma Qingju said: "The two of us should obey the orders of our senior brother, and it is incumbent on them. ”

Only then did Bao Zheng and the others know his intentions, and they were very relieved to hear that his two fellow disciples were so expressed.

At that moment, Bao Zheng asked everyone to go to rest, and agreed that the next day, they would discuss the matter of tracking the scriptures.

Hu Zhenbang was thinking about going down, when he suddenly heard Bao Zheng calling him: "Little brother Muhu, I don't know if you can talk to me for a few words?"

Hu Zhenbang said with a smile: "Master Bao's orders, how dare you disobey." Mu Hanyi didn't know what was going on with the two of them, but it was inconvenient to stay, so he had to go back to the room to rest first, but he was very curious in his heart.

After everyone dispersed, Bao Zheng said to Hu Zhenbang: "Hu Shaoxia, come with me to the inner room to sit for a while." ”

Hu Zhenbang was surprised in his heart, and said in his heart, why did he stop calling me "Mu Hu", and he immediately understood: "It must be Kou Yun who recognized my identity and told Bao Zheng my real name." "Be careful to smile and don't ask much.

Bao Zheng laughed, took Hu Zhenbang's hand, and walked into the inner room, only to see Kou Yun sitting on the wheelchair in the inner room, who was thinking about it, and heard the two of them come in, and asked, "Did the virtuous brother bring Hu Zhenbang and Hu Shaoxia?"

It turned out that Bao Zheng and Kou Yun were like siblings, and their personal relationship was even good, so Kou Yun still called him Lord Bao in front of people, but in private he called Bao Zheng a virtuous brother.

Hu Zhenbang said: "Master Kou, it is Hu Zhenbang below. I didn't expect that after saying goodbye to the Fuliang Tea Shop in Shangjing that day, Master Kou would still recognize me. He deliberately didn't say, "You can still hear my voice", because he was afraid of touching Kou Yun's sore spot.

Kou Yun smiled faintly and said: "Hu Shaoxia, although my eyes are blind, I can still see some things more clearly, that day you brought the county lord of Liao to arrest me, why did your subordinates be tolerant? That day, I was thinking, since you are a Song person, why did you work under Yelu Kokand in Liao State? I am afraid that there must be a hidden secret in this!"

Hu Zhenbang saw that Kou Yun was quick-minded, and admired it in his heart, thinking that there were no outsiders here, and both of them were honest and loyal ministers of the Great Song Dynasty, so I might as well confide in the two of them and plan together.

So he replied: "Lord Kou is the former Lord Kou Zhun, and he is very respectful. Master Bao is also an iron-faced, selfless, honest and honest government Yin, and he should tell the truth. ”

At that moment, the three of them sat in Bao Zheng's inner room and slowly narrated. When Hu Zhenbang told him about his life experience, Bao Zheng and Kou Yun were both surprised, it turned out that this Hu Zhenbang was actually the son of Ding Du, the governor of the Ministry of Works, who compiled the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts".

Bao Zheng and Kou Yun are more than 20 years older than Hu Zhenbang, when Hu Zhenbang's father Ding Du was killed, it was when Bao Zheng was a senior high school jinshi, and Kou Yun was not the champion of science and technology for a long time, so the two did not know much about the murder of Ding Du that year, but I heard that the imperial court had been investigating the whereabouts of the murderer and the robbed scriptures for many years, and there was no clue.

Many years later, because the Liao people repeatedly sent masters to infiltrate the Song army's north and south workshops, bow and crossbow courtyards to steal Song weapons, and then many new blades appeared in the Liao army, the Great Song Dynasty privy envoy Wang Shu wrote to Renzong to investigate thoroughly, so Kou Yun was ordered to sneak into the Liao capital to investigate the news, which lasted for many years, and finally learned that one of the twenty volumes of the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" that was robbed from Ding Du that year, one of the twelve volumes fell into the hands of Kulun.

Hu Zhenbang told his father-in-law Suo Longtu the events he told since he was a child, and Bao Zheng and Kou Yun were shocked and sighed when they heard it, and they were shocked that Hu Zhenbang's father, Ding Du, died tragically at the hands of the Jinren kung fu master. What sighs is that this Khitan prince adopted Ding Du's orphan, not only raised him as an adult, but also devoted his life to martial arts and martial arts, and taught each other the art of military affairs, so that Hu Zhenbang became a material for both civil and military affairs.

What is even more impressive for the two is that this Suo Longtu strongly advocated that Song Liao have a good relationship and the two countries live in peace. He even instructed Hu Zhenbang to try to recapture the twelve volumes of "Wujing General Essentials" that Kulun had taken possession of him and return them to the Great Song Dynasty.

"Although your father-in-law is a Liao person, it is really rare that he can do such a righteous act, but how can he know that your father-killing enemy is a golden man?" Bao Zheng asked.

"My father-in-law said that when he arrived at my house that day, it was noon, and he saw the back of the murderer jumping out of the back window of my father's study. ”

Kou Yun said: "In this way, there is no doubt that the murderer must be Jinren." You think, the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", which includes the weapons of the Song, Jin, Liao, and Western Xia countries, was written by Lord Ding himself, and he naturally knows all kinds of weapons well. The wolf's tooth simple knife does not belong to any of the eight items in the record: hand knife, drop knife, bending knife, moon covering knife, halberd knife, eyebrow tip knife, phoenix mouth knife, and pen knife. I think only Lord Ding can testify. ”

Hu Zhenbang saw that Kou Yun's description of the weapons classification described in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" was the first and the same, and he was greatly admired in his heart, and said: "Lord Kou knows the weapons described in his father's book well, and he really admires them. ”

Bao Zheng said with a smile: "My brother, he is the martial champion of the fifth year of the Heavenly Sage, and he knows all kinds of weapons well. Suddenly, he thought of something and asked, "Hu Shaoxia, in this way, are you in Liaoying, and your heart is in Song, are you not really loyal to Liao?"

Hu Zhenbang said: "Although my father-in-law is a Khitan, he has always taught me that I must always regard myself as a Han person, and I must never forget that he said to me: 'As long as I devote my life to friendship with the Liao and Song dynasties, I will never fight, where I am from, and what does it matter. It's just that he instructed me that the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" that was 'borrowed' by Kulun must be returned to the Great Song Dynasty. It is because I will fulfill the wishes of my biological father and father. ”

Bao Zhengqi said: "Since your father-in-law lent it to Kulun, why didn't he go back to it?

Hu Zhenbang said: "This father-in-law didn't talk about it, but when I think about it, my father-in-law owes Kulun a favor, and he can't pull down his face to fight with Kulun." ”

Bao Zheng asked, "What kind of favor?" I wonder if you can tell me about it?"

Hu Zhenbang said: "When my father-in-law was young, he fell in love with the daughter of the patriarch, but my father-in-law liked freedom in human nature, loved to study martial arts and the art of war, traveled everywhere, made friends with people from all walks of life, and often walked for many years. That year, all the members of the patriarch's family died in a robbery killing, but his daughter escaped because she was out. She was helpless, waiting for her father-in-law to return, only to hear that her father-in-law went to the Central Plains, but there was no news of the letter sent out, so she wanted to find it alone, and she lost her way halfway, tired and hungry, and fainted on horseback, which coincided with Kulun's training in the desert, rescued her, and took care of her, after a year, my father-in-law returned to the Khitan tribe, and Kulen took him to see the daughter of the patriarch, but I didn't expect that the daughter of the patriarch said that she wanted to marry Kulen in front of my father-in-law, and said that she would rather guard a horse that would not leave her, rather than wait for an eagle that wanders everywhere。 ”

Bao Zheng said: "Your father-in-law is the prince, he is in a high position, if he is strong, then Kulun can't do anything, but your father-in-law didn't marry him, right?"

Hu Tuobang said: "Yes, Lord Bao is like a god! The father-in-law has been traveling for a long time, and he already feels guilty about the daughter of the patriarch, and when he sees that Kulun is very attentive to taking care of the daughter of the patriarch, he feels that he owes him a lot. And because he and Cullen were brothers, and the books that he borrowed from him later, he really couldn't open his mouth and ask for them. I came up with a strategy to try to get it back after I entered the Liao camp and return it to the Great Song Dynasty one day. ”

Kou Yun interjected: "Your stepfather has never remarried in his life, but he is also a man of temperament. But he didn't tell you, so how did you learn about it?"

Hu Zhenbang said with a smile: "Although he didn't tell me personally, but every year on the birthday of the patriarch's daughter, he will get drunk, and then tell it to himself. ”

Bao Zheng laughed when he heard this, and said: "Your father-in-law's character is indeed a hero with a true temperament, and the people he has cultivated are self-explanatory!"

Kou Yun listened, and suddenly said: "Hu Shaoxia, can I ask you a question, if you can tell the truth, it would be great, if it is inconvenient to answer, it will not hurt." ”

Hu Zhenbang said: "Lord Kou, it's okay to ask. ”

Kou Yun smiled and asked, "You are not called 'Mu Hu', and the girl named 'Mu Han' must not be her real name?