The tall and thin Taoist priest cowered like a frightened bird, quietly looked up at the expression of the woman in white, looked at the eyebrows and slowly moved his body back, and saw that the woman in white did not care, so he had the courage to tremble and get up, and the other Taoist priests slipped away without looking back.

Zhang Yuruo, who was dressed in white, pondered for a moment, and said: "It's been a few days, senior brother, they should leave Xiangyang and go to Muru Temple." ”

Bai Yun nodded and agreed: "It's not too early, let's go back to the inn first to pack up our baggage, and leave Xiangyang early tomorrow morning." ”

Squatting at the entrance of the alley to watch the lively yellow-robed monk finish nibbling on the chicken legs, the earthy rice wine poured into his mouth, patted his butt and stood up, picked up a broken bowl in his hand, and walked towards Baiyun and Zhang Yuruo with laughter.

"Amitabha, good and good, the two donors look at a glance is compassion for the people who are kind and benevolent, should be illuminated by the light of the Buddha, the Buddha has cut meat to feed the eagle, in exchange for small love for great love, the merit is immeasurable, and the great love is boundless. The yellow-robed monk couldn't stop laughing, like a complete madman, he knocked on the bowl in his hand and said, "Actually, it's nothing, the old man just wants to beg the two donors for food." ”

Zhang Yuruo recognized this monk at a glance, although he helped himself keep the jade pendant intact, but a monk with six pure roots who escaped into the empty door, how could he be a scoundrel who drank and ate meat and stained women, he really didn't have much good impression of him, and with a flick of his white sleeves, the two copper plates fell into the bowl crisply.

"Thank you, girl. The yellow-robed monk folded his hands and returned the salute, and then stretched out the bowl to the white clouds.

Bai Yun was neat, and took out a few copper plates from his body and put them in the monk's bowl.

"Eh!" the yellow-robed monk suddenly stopped laughing.

"Young man, the old man sees that you have wonderful bones, excellent bones, and you are a martial arts wizard, it is better to worship the old man as a teacher, and the old man will teach you the world's martial arts, how about it?"

Bai Yun was stunned, he didn't know how to answer, and the words of the laughing monk almost didn't make him upside down, and the two had only met twice in total, but this crazy monk said that he was a martial arts wizard, and he was cheeky enough to say that he would accept himself as an apprentice, and he would change to ordinary people, most likely because he felt that this yellow-robed monk didn't know which tendon was missing, and he was crazy.

Bai Yun brushed the preface of the words, and politely thanked him: "This master, I have already entered the sect, and I already have a master and a master, and I am grateful for the master's wrong love. ”

With that, the two of them did not linger longer and turned to leave.

The yellow-robed monk disagreed, plucked his ears with one hand, and stood in place with a bowl in the other, looking at the back of Bai Yun and laughing.

The drizzle that had been falling all day gradually stopped, and Bai Yun and Zhang Yuruo returned to the inn from the east of the city along the road.

After the rain, the street business has sprung up like mushrooms after the rain, the gongs and drums on the street not far away are deafening, the pedestrians who love to join in the excitement have gathered around the past to form a circle, the white clouds also looked slightly when passing by, it turned out to be a show on the street, an old and a small, the old one is about seventy, the small is only eight or nine years old little girl, it is estimated that it is the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, the old one is beating gongs and drums on the side, the little girl performs the juggling scene with the sound of gongs and drums, and the cooperation is seamless, the crowd of exclamations rises and falls, and the copper plate is also in an uproar and constantly falls into the iron box in front of the grandfather and grandson。

The street was bustling, Bai Yun's shoulder was lightly knocked down, and when he looked back, it was a woman in black wearing a felt hat with Ana, the two looked at each other for a few breaths, Bai Yun never saw through the face behind the black curtain, but the woman took the lead in looking away, and left straight through the crowd with the servant behind her.

The yellow-robed monk outside the Zifeng Tower also didn't know when he disappeared.

The lantern in front of the door of the Zifeng Building is hung high but there is no one missing, the three words of the Zifeng Building on the signboard door plaque are all written by gold paint, and the two couplets are even more spring-like, endless reverie, peach blossoms flowing water mandarin fish fat, dragon chapter and phoenix posture fly immediately.

The window of the attic opens a palm-wide gap, the sandalwood in the attic is the beam, the crystal jade is the lamp, the pearl is the curtain, the gilding is the pillar base, the curtain is the wind and the wind is moving, such as the falling clouds and mountains and the phantom sea, there is a green jade incense pillow on the bed in the building, and the soft silkworm ice is paved, and the jade belt is stacked.

A three-foot-wide sunken wooden square table is next to the window, there are all kinds of pastries and wines on the table, and on both sides of the wooden table sit two sons and brothers who are dressed in vastly different clothes, and on the left and right are charming and charming women.

Someone gently pushed open the door and walked into a graceful purple dress, slender and seductive autumn water eyes like a lotus after the rain and not sticky to a trace of cheesiness, which is completely different from the foxy femininity of the two sons who are surrounded by the two sons, with a plump and tender body like water.

The woman in purple walked through the pearl curtain, and without glancing at the luxurious furnishings in the room, she walked into the ear of one of the plain-robed men and muttered a few words.

The smoke willow women who lingered around the plain-robed boy seemed to be very displeased, and they all frowned and treated each other with white eyes.

After hearing this, the plain-robed boy nodded slightly, and his eyes pointed to the young man in the gorgeous costume sitting on the opposite side of the wooden table.

The brother of the Chinese costume boy understood and asked all the smoke willow women who were waiting for him to retreat, and only the plain robed boy, the purple maid and the Chinese costume boy were left in the room.

After all the idlers retreated, the prince in the costume suddenly got up, knelt on his knees, and said respectfully: "Wen Changjian has seen the palace of the prince... ”

"Eh, Changjian, you and I are old acquaintances, you don't have to be so restrained, besides, you do such a big courtesy, if someone with a heart sees it, then my identity will not be revealed? The plain-robed boy feigned anger.

"Childe, even if you give Changjian ten more dares, Changjian won't dare. The second son of Wen, who was dressed in expensive clothes, understood and quickly changed his words.

"Get up, a dignified second son of the Wen family kneels down to a foreigner, what kind of body, get up and sit down, to be seen by those Oiran outside, and laugh off his big teeth behind his back. The plain-robed boy put away the elephant fracture fan and put it on the table.

The prince in Huafu shook his head vigorously and said: "By all means, between the monarch and the minister, the etiquette should be clear, and where is the son of a foreigner, the whole world is not the king's land!"

"I said yes. The plain-robed boy said with a straight face.

After hearing this, the young man in the costume hurriedly got up, but still bowed respectfully before sitting down again.

"Wen Changjian, Wen Changjian, your mouth has been such a flamboyant tongue since childhood, and it is not inferior to your father who has been a marquis in the capital. The plain-robed boy said.

"Changjian has a clear conscience, and what he says is from the bottom of his heart, if there is half a sentence that is untrue, the sky thunders. The young man said.

"Come on, it's thundering. The plain-robed boy smiled slightly, but the next moment his expression became serious again: "Now that the saint is alive, the beams are rejuvenated, although you have grown up in the palace with me since childhood, but there are some words in my ear that are okay, but they will spread to the outside world, setting off gossip, and I will not be able to protect you at that time." The plain robe boy said.

In the eyes of outsiders, this big gentleman who covers the sky with one hand in Xiangyang City has always been high in his eyes, but this time he obeyed in front of the prince in the plain robe: "Childe don't worry, Changjian naturally understands these truths." ”

"Okay!" The boy in the plain robe smiled again: "I see that your kid is living a very nourishing life in Xiangyang, your father and brother are in Chang'an, as the so-called mountain high emperor is far away, I can't care about it! You will also become a wild horse that has escaped, a beauty in a fragrant car, singing every night, and spending a lot of money to buy half of the Zifeng Tower, who doesn't know the name of your second son Wen in the whole Xiangyang City? How many flower girls do you say you have harmed?"

The prince in Huafu said with an innocent face: "Childe is really good at laughing, Changjian has been dormant in Xiangyang for many years, on the surface he is an idle man, a loser who likes to look for flowers and ask willows, but all this is forced by the situation, in order to let the Wu family relax their vigilance and hide people's eyes, but in fact, Changjian has never forgotten the trust of the son, and is bound to help the son complete the great cause." ”

Although he knew that Wen Changjian was clever and clever, the prince in the plain robe nodded with satisfaction after hearing this: " The reason why the Wu family can stand tall with your Wen family in Xiangyang is indispensable to my uncle Wang who is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and the businessmen are all masters who like to play exquisite abacus, in fact, it is the same as hoarding, but the difference between the abacus is big or small, they think that my uncle in Jiangnan will one day be in a yellow robe, and he is extremely nine, and my uncle is planning to use the Wu family to balance your Wen family, and when the time comes, he will use the reputation of the Wu family to control the entire Xiangyang and even Jingzhou, so that there will be one less high wall in the Central Plains, and it is really a cheap deal。 ”

The prince of the plain robe paused paused and continued: "If the Wu family really thinks so, it can only mean that they are short-sighted, and the wishful thinking in their hands is far inferior to that of your Wen family, of course, this account book will be calculated with them sooner or later." ”

"Childe, you have let Changjian lie dormant in Xiangyang for many years, in fact, Changjian has already had evidence of collusion with the Wu family in his hands, why not directly uproot the Wu family and the corresponding strength?" Wen Changjian wondered.

"As the saying goes, the thief captures the king first, and now is not the time, hastily action will only startle the snake. The plain-robed boy raised his glass and took a sip of wine, and felt a tiger-shaped gold seal in his arms.

Wen Changjian turned his head and asked, "Childe, this is... ”

"This is the tiger talisman that mobilizes the defenders of Xiangyang City, and it can mobilize the eight thousand elite heavy cavalry in Xiangyang City. The plain-robed boy said calmly.

Wen Changjian took the tiger talisman and suddenly realized, and said, "Childe, do you want me to see the right time to make a move?"

"Yes, it takes seven inches to fight the snake, if the situation suddenly changes and it is difficult to control, you will lead these eight thousand heavy horses to eradicate the Wu family and the forces related to the Wu family. The boy in the plain robe raised his head slightly: "When Jiangnan is pacified, you are the pastor of Jingzhou"

"Command!" Wen Changjian was so excited that he knelt down and saluted again.

"Don't be happy so fast. The plain-robed boy waved his hand.

Wen Changjian was confused and waited for the following.

"Although you and I are small, whether you can be qualified as the pastor of Jingzhou in the future and guard the land of Jingchu still depends on your ability. "The boy in the plain robe is used to rewarding people with a candied fruit before putting on a board, so he immediately poured a basin of cold water on the boy in the Chinese robe.

Wen Changjian smiled warmly and said, "Childe just orders." ”

The prince in the plain robe looked down and said: "Take the Weishan Mountain to attack Yangzhou City, the old nest of King Wu, and solve the siege of the temple. ”

The breeze blew into the room, the beaded curtain fluttered, and the plain-robed boy put down the wine glass in his hand and looked out the window.

"Childe, are you really so optimistic about that Jixia disciple?" Wen Changjian asked.

The corners of the plain robe's mouth rose without answering, his eyes fell on the street where pedestrians came and went after the rain stopped, and after a while, he said: "I heard that there is a famous fortune teller in Xiangyang City, Changjian, can you please move this fairy?"

Wen Changjian rolled his eyes and replied, "The fortune teller that Gongzi said is a half-immortal grandson?"

The plain-robed boy nodded.

Wen Changjian said with a look of embarrassment: "Gongsun Banxian left Xiangyang a few days before Gongzi came. ”

"Oh, that's it, I want this old fairy to give me a hexagram. The plain-robed boy said with a little regret.

"Mr. Gongsun has always regarded himself very high and does not easily divinate for others, Changjian privately begged him no less than ten times, and he was willing to help Changjian calculate a hexagram. Wen Changjian retracted his gaze from the plain-robed boy and said.

"What did you calculate?" said the plain-robed boy.

He said that Changjian would become a pastor in Jingzhou. Wen Changjian quietly glanced at the plain-robed boy and said.

The boy in the plain robe smiled knowingly, naturally seeing through Wen Changjian's flowery intestines, and no longer continued the topic, and asked Qiuli to take out a handkerchief with Qiankun in the package.

Qiu Li carefully opened the handkerchief, and there was a slender silver needle wrapped in it, with subtle wavy carvings on the silver needle, and some dried blood stains.