The evening breeze was blowing slowly, passing through the corridor, walking through the stone road, and when he returned to Yuntian Pavilion, he was already close to Zishi, as expected, Ouyang Ze's second disciple, Li Zifeng's fellow disciple Xu Zining was waiting in the courtyard.

Xu Zining started two years later than Li Zifeng, and he was two years younger than Li Zifeng, when he was just brought back by Ouyang Ze, his face was yellow and thin, Ouyang Ze saw that he was weak, so he casually arranged for him to be a disciple.

After more than half a year of recuperation, Xu Zining's body became stronger and stronger, Li Zifeng took him to practice martial arts every day and taught him to read, and after that, Ouyang Ze saw that he had some qualifications, so he officially accepted him as a second disciple.

When Xu Zining saw Li Zifeng coming back, he didn't greet politely, but just stepped forward to take a closer look, and then stretched lazily, "Are you back?" Xu Zining pointed to the flowers and plants in the courtyard, "These days when you are away, these flowers and plants are about to wilt when you think about it." “

"You're getting lazy. Li Zifeng feigned anger, but a trace of warmth surged in his heart, presumably because he learned that he was coming back today, and he must wait for him to come back before he was relieved. Sure enough, Xu Zining yawned, "You still have a lot of things to do tomorrow, right? I won't bother you." All the medicines are on your bookcase, remember to take the medicine yourself. ”

Before Li Zifeng could say anything, he went back to his room, and Li Zifeng shook his head helplessly.

As soon as he entered the room, he smelled the smell of smoked medicine, which was exactly the same as the smell in Ouyang Ze's study before, which was comfortable, Li Zifeng twisted the wet handkerchief, sat down at the round table, untied his clothes and bandages, cleaned the wound with the wet handkerchief, and picked up the medicinal powder on the table and sprinkled it.

After a while, the severe pain spread on his shoulders to his heart and lungs, Li Zifeng frowned, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Sure enough, the medicine is strong." ”

After treating the wound, it was already the beginning of the ugly time, maybe it was a tired day, or maybe it was the calming effect of the medicine, Li Zifeng lay on the bed for not long, and fell asleep.

When he woke up, the sky was already bright, Li Zifeng took a long breath of relief, and was surprised to find that the true qi in his body was much more relaxed, and the wound on his shoulder was not very painful, and he was amazed at the effect of the medicine. After getting up and dressing up, washing up, and having a few mouthfuls of breakfast in a hurry, he went straight to the residence of the Dharma Ring Elder, Yan Huaju. As soon as he arrived at Yan Huaju, the attendant disciples came out to spread the word, saying that the elder of the Fa Ring had already understood the general situation of the matter, and asked him to go to the dungeon for interrogation first, and he arrived later. Li Zifeng frowned slightly and took the order.

The dungeon, built on the deepest ground floor, a stone staircase road winds down, looming in the darkness, Li Zifeng took the lantern and walked to the deepest part of the slippery road, a gust of wind crossed, and the oil lamps hanging on the walls on both sides of the passage were lit up in turn, and in the dim and deep light, a dark guard dressed in black appeared and saluted Li Zifeng respectfully, "Senior brother." ”

Li Zifeng nodded, extinguished the candle flame in the lantern and handed it to the dark guard, "What about people?"

"He was already tied to the torture rack, but he didn't say a word for the past two days. ”

Li Zifeng sighed heavily, and at the same time glanced at the dark guard with his peripheral vision, the dark guard seemed to feel the pressure, and then pleaded, "The subordinates are incompetent." ”

"It doesn't matter. Li Zifeng said coldly, "It must not be easy to be the informant of Lingye Palace. "It took some time to track down this person to capture him, Li Zifeng tightened his wrist guards, "The Elder of the Law Ring will come in a while, and he will have his own way to make him speak." ”

A basin of cold water was splashed over, Wang Zhuang shook his head, looked at Li Zifeng with a dark face, snorted, and mocked, "Have you figured out a way to deal with me?" ”

"There's no hurry. Li Zifeng said slowly, took the leather whip in the strong man's hand and played with it, and then threw it aside, "Presumably you are used to this thing, today, how about we change something fresh?"

"I'll see what new tricks you can play. Wang Zhuang was dismissive.

"There are guts. Li Zifeng's cold gaze approached, "Who is that rich boy?

"Hmph...."Wang Zhuang snorted contemptuously, "I don't know what you're talking about, what is Lingye Palace? ”

"Honestly?" Li Zifeng's expression was calm, and a cold smile appeared on his face.

Wang Zhuang was weak-hearted, and turned his head away from Li Zifeng's compelling gaze, "Tell the truth." ”

Li Zifeng's cold and deep eyes flashed, "Just now, you have lost your last chance. "Since you don't want to tell me the truth, then later, my uncle will ask you personally, and at that time, if you have more or less on you, I hope you will bear more." ”

The 'uncle' in Li Zifeng's mouth is Yan Cheng, the elder of the Dharma Ring, since he started to apprentice, Yan Cheng has been in the position of elder, and Li Zifeng has always respectfully called him 'Elder of the Dharma Ring', but now it is the first time to call him 'Uncle Shi' according to his generation, he is really a little uncomfortable, and a bitter smile flashed.

At this time, the secret guard reported that the Elder of the Law Ring had arrived, and Li Zifeng walked out to greet him, and saluted respectfully, "Elder." ”

And Yan Cheng still had an ice cube face, his face was gloomy, his brows were slightly furrowed, and he sighed for a long time, exempting Li Zifeng from the courtesy, "Excuse me, what about people?"

Li Zifeng's heart tightened, Yan Cheng was always straight to the point, never verbose, and lowered his head slightly, "The disciple is incompetent." ”

Yan Cheng glanced at Li Zifeng profoundly, and said with a smile, "I mentioned to the head a few days ago that your biggest weakness is that you are too soft-hearted. With that, without waiting for him to respond to anything, he quickly walked past him.

The autumn breeze is blowing, but at three o'clock, the sunlight is already very sufficient, through the window cracks into the house, warm and comfortable, Huayue Pavilion, burning a faint sandalwood, making people feel refreshed.

A game of chess, with black and white chess pieces, is almost a draw, at this time, a black piece falls, as if a piece is decided, so that the whole chess game has been reversed, although no matter how hard the white son tries after that, the final result is only not so obvious.

"I almost tied with you, but I still missed a move. "It was Ouyang Ze, the head of the sect, who spoke, and the one who was holding the sunspot to play against him was Ouyang Ze's fellow senior brother, the solemn elder Haiyi.

"Definitely. If it weren't for your repeated distractions, I'm afraid I'd have lost at your hands. Hai Yi smiled calmly, "But you're worried about your big apprentice?"

Ouyang Ze was noncommittal, thinking that Li Zifeng was running around day and night against danger, and he hadn't had time to rest when he just returned to the mountain, so he was injured in the dark and damp dungeon early this morning, and continued to deal with the people of Lingye Palace, which was really distressing.

"Are you really not going to meddle in this matter?" Hai Yi paused, "Why don't you go and take a look!"

"Forget it, it's rare to be idle..."Ouyang Ze smiled and put away the chess pieces, "Speaking in the house, the burden of the Hengshan faction will weigh on him sooner or later, I can't always stand behind him, let him be independent earlier, besides, isn't there still a Dharma Ring Elder to mention something?"

Hai Yi frowned slightly, "Zifeng, after all, he is only seventeen years old. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, senior brother, you already shared everything for your father when you were fifteen years old. So, seventeen years old is not too young. Ouyang Ze sighed, "If it weren't for the accident back then, ...... now"

"The boss is confused again, isn't he?" Hai Yi interrupted Ouyang Ze's words, grabbed a piece of purple potato cake and put it into Ouyang Ze's mouth, "You haven't eaten anything yet, have you?" Try my newly made purple potato cake to see if it suits the taste." ”

The sweet and soft purple potato cake melts in the mouth, but it tastes slightly bitter in Ouyang Ze. He was soft-hearted for a while, disregarded the door rules, and let go of his junior brother Xu Yiping, who ignored the door rules and made friends with the maid without authorization, and brought the bead exchange and the unborn child in her womb, and it was Hai Yi, the chief disciple of the year, who was responsible for the pursuit.

Under the soft grinding and hard bubble, Hai Yi not only agreed to let them go, but even took all the blame for Ouyang Ze, and was removed from the position of chief disciple by Ouyang Tian, who was also Ouyang Ze's father, and was assigned to the miscellaneous workshop as a miscellaneous disciple, which was two years later.

A few years ago, I inquired about the news, and what I got was the bad news of Xu Yiping, who died of a serious illness, and his wife Changzhu was sad, and it didn't take long for her to leave, leaving only her only son Xu Haiping in exile.

Hai Yi knew Ouyang Ze's thoughts, and smiled indifferently, "It's all in the past, what do you want him to do?" I have been inquiring about the whereabouts of that child in the early years, but ......"

"But..."Ouyang Ze paused, "I don't know why, I always feel that he is by his side." ”

Haiyi was a little annoyed, and secretly scolded himself for mentioning these things well, "You and I just talk about this behind your back, even if you find out that the child is hidden among the disciples in the end, you have to rot his life experience in the stomach, if you want to let people with a heart misinterpret it, a word will be transmitted to Jingzhuxuan, I am afraid that it will be another turmoil." ”

Ouyang Ze listened to it, thinking of the wide range of involvement in this matter that year, he couldn't help but shudder; door by door, sent to the bitter cold land of Beifeng, there were not a few people imprisoned in the dungeon, until Ouyang Ze succeeded to the head, he had the courage to ask Ouyang Tian for pardon one by one.

And the Jingzhu Xuan in Haiyi's mouth is the resting place of the former head Ouyang Tian. Ouyang Ze picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea that had already been cold, and the bitterness spread in his mouth, "Thank you Senior Brother for reminding me, I understand." ”

After all, it was easier to persuade others and difficult to persuade himself, so he suppressed Ouyang Ze's emotions, but Hai Yi's own emotions became more and more sad, after that incident, he was pardoned under Ouyang Ze's strong persuasion, and he succeeded him as the elder of Suyan, but since then, except for official business, Ouyang Tian has never said a word to him, even if he went to see Ouyang Tian when he was recuperating, he was unsurprisingly turned away.

Ouyang Ze has always felt guilty about Hai Yi, and seeing his gloomy expression at this time, he knew his inner thoughts, but it was not good to persuade anything, and the two were silent.

In the dungeon, Wang Zhuang's upper body clothes were all taken off, and under the strict instruction, a strong Dharma Ring disciple carved something on his chest, which made Wang Zhuang cry continuously, and about a stick of incense, the Dharma Ring disciple took the work in his hand. A large word 'thief' seemed to be presented on Wang Zhuang's chest, and Li Zifeng couldn't help but laugh when he looked at it.

Yan Cheng turned his head to look at Li Zifeng, his face was slightly gloomy, "Don't think it's funny, this will often bring out the news you want to know." ”

Li Zifeng listened, and said, "Yes." ”

And Wang Zhuang, who was still tied to the torture rack, probably saw the words on his chest, and kept struggling uselessly, with iron chains rattling, "What are you going to do?! If you want to kill, you will kill, why humiliate people so much!"

"Definitely. Yan Cheng picked up a small dark brown porcelain bottle in his hand, and said with a smile, "This bottle of potion can eliminate the words on your body, and this is the only bottle in the world." As long as you tell the truth, I will use it with you immediately, otherwise, you will carry this word with you for the rest of your life. ”

"Shame on you!"

Yan Cheng was not angry, and smiled slightly, "I can give you half an hour to think about it, if you still keep silent, I can let you go." But..."Yan Cheng approached Wang Zhuang and said word by word, "After more than an hour, this word on your body will be completely impossible to get rid of, you have to think about it." ”

Wang Zhuang suddenly quieted down, his eyes widened, and then his expression darkened, and he said in a tone that was almost begging for mercy, "What do you want to know?" ”

Coming out of the dungeon, it was the end of the day, the sun was already very sufficient, different from the humid and stuffy environment in the dungeon, but it was a little more dry and cold outside, a gust of autumn wind blew, Li Zifeng couldn't help but shiver, and subconsciously wrapped himself in a thin coat.

Passing through the courtyard, stepping up the stone steps, stepping on the Zhixin Bridge, and crossing the stone road, Li Zifeng almost trotted all the way, and even the disciple in charge of the inspection saluted him, and he also hurriedly answered. It wasn't until he stopped in front of the gate of Shang Qingyuan, and at this time, he felt that he had returned to the world from hell, and his breathing was much easier.

This was the first time he had interrogated a prisoner with Yan Cheng, and it was also the first time he had seen his interrogation methods with his own eyes, which he felt suffocated. Unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, this is used in strict sincerity, which is very appropriate.

"Why are you standing here?"

A familiar voice came from his side, Li Zifeng came back to his senses, and when he saw that it was Ouyang Ze coming slowly, he immediately stabilized his breathing and saluted respectfully, "Master." ”

Ouyang Ze nodded, seeing that his face was pale and his breathing was not smooth, he frowned slightly, "What's wrong?"

"Nope. Li Zifeng shook his head, a trace of helplessness and worry flashed across his face, "The interrogation methods of the Fa Ring Elder, the disciple has been taught, and that Wang Zhuang really did not hesitate to explain everything." ”

Li Zifeng's deliberately hidden emotions did not escape Ouyang Ze's eyes, and it seemed that Yan Cheng's words were praised, but in fact they contained opposition and dissatisfaction, and Ouyang Ze did not intend to expose him, but sighed heavily, "Go in and say." ”

Entering the study, Li Zifeng took out a roll of official paper from his sleeve robe and handed it to Ouyang Ze with both hands, "According to Wang Zhuang's confession, he is the hall master of the Foreign Affairs Hall of the Lingye Palace, and the celebrity around the palace master of the Lingye Palace, who is responsible for liaising with the outside world on weekdays and tracking down the people who are useful to them. When he first came out of the Lingye Palace, his first task was to go to Hongyuan Villa and talk to the owner Li Muyang about cooperation. But Li Muyang didn't seem to promise anything. ”

Hearing the news of Hongyuan Villa, Ouyang Ze's brows suddenly tightened, "What a good move." ”

Li Zifeng nodded, "Hongyuan Villa has not stated its position before, and this time Wang Zhuang came to talk about cooperation so blatantly, it was like announcing the entire martial arts that Hongyuan Villa had an affair with Lingye Palace, and in the end Li Muyang had to give in and agree to cooperate." ”

Ouyang Ze smiled coldly, "I'm afraid that Hongyuan Villa can't sit still for a long time." Soon, Ouyang Ze's face returned to calm, "What else?"

Li Zifeng continued, "When the disciple was tracking Wang Zhuang a few days ago, he was leading a group of killers to chase and kill a rich son, and the disciple rescued the son and captured Wang Zhuang. ”

"Rich boy?"

"Yes. Li Zifeng continued, "Seeing that although he is dressed plainly, the texture of his clothes is fine Jiangnan satin, so it is judged that his family background is not cheap, and when he asked his name, he also talked about him left and right, and he didn't say anything until the disciple sent him back to Anyang City to break up." According to Wang Zhuang's confession, he only secretly checked and tracked down the portrait provided by Wei Yuan for several days, and did not know the true identity of this person. ”

Ouyang Ze sighed lightly, and guessed a few points in his heart, "The current situation is turbulent, the court is unstable, and the person who can let the leader of the Lingye Palace, send the hall master to chase and kill, do you think he will be just an ordinary rich son?"

Li Zifeng's expression was awe-inspiring, recalling the tone of the son's speech, as well as his every move, and remembering the excellent double dragon play pearl jade pendant that he insisted on giving him when he was leaving, and suddenly had a bold guess, "Prince?"

Ouyang Ze smiled, noncommittal, and said intentionally or unintentionally, "It's just speculation now, but no matter who he is, presumably this person must have a pivotal position, and saving him will at least avoid a lot of trouble." As for his identity, let's wait for the results of your Uncle Shen's investigation!"

Li Zifeng was stunned, but it was not surprising that Ouyang Ze would know so much about it, and then he looked like he was pleading, and said calmly, "It's the disciple who makes the claim..."

"It doesn't matter. Ouyang Ze smiled gently.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, "Master, my subordinate Feng Yichen asks to see you." ”

"Come in. ”

After receiving the answer, Feng Yichen, who was dressed in green clothes, walked in, walked in front of Ouyang Ze and Li Zifeng and saluted, and then replied, "Qingsongtang sent someone to come, saying that there are important items to be handed over to Senior Brother in person. ”

Ouyang Ze and Li Zifeng glanced at each other and smiled knowingly, "Sure enough... Speak of the devil. Let's go check it out!"

"Yes. ”

What Qingsongtang sent was a delicate decorative box, on the yellow silk cloth inside, carefully lined with the double dragon play pearl jade pendant left by Li Zifeng two days ago, Li Zifeng carefully flipped through the box, and finally found a neat stack of paper hidden in the bag.

Written on the paper was a poem, with the word 'Shen' on the end of the stamp.

"At dusk, there is no one in the north, and there is still a beacon fire burning in the Han family. Luo Jun gave Jun two poems, and the fairy palace knocked on the entrance. ”

Li Zifeng finished reading in a low voice, his eyebrows were slightly surprised, Ouyang Ze listened, and his heart was clear, "This person's identity is clear." ”

"What?"

Ouyang Ze smiled, and didn't seem to answer Li Zifeng's question positively, "I, the junior brother, have become more and more cautious in handling things since I became the hall master of Qingsong Hall. ”

"Huh?" Li Zifeng suddenly understood, thinking that it was not a hidden poem, and recited it silently twice, and finally discovered the mystery, "The Huang family gave jade... A royal gift?"

Ouyang Ze nodded approvingly, "When the emperor has already entered the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, he obviously will not be a teenager. Most of his princes are adults, and the kings are scattered and stationed in various places, so he is the only prince who holds this jade and lives in Wei'an City. ”

"Sure enough, there were no accidents. Then ...... this jade pendant" Li Zifeng hesitated, determined the identity of the son, and always felt that it was not appropriate to keep this jade pendant by himself.

Ouyang Ze didn't care, "Since the son thanked you for saving your life, why not accept it?"

"Yes. ”