The Marquis of Shenhua returned home for three days, during which time he tried his best to spend time with his wife and children, but he still spent most of his time on official business.

The affairs of the army and the excavation and transportation of iron ore were tightened, and Feng Ji had to leave to return.

The husband and wife said goodbye in front of the Hou Mansion, and the empty square of the three words "Shen Lichi" was personally approved by the Yukou in front of the Hou Mansion of Shenhua, laying a piece of fan-shaped dragon scale floor tiles, the color is like gold, mixed with fiery red fine lines.

The whole sacred carp pond is bathed in the morning light, the dazzling scales are shining, dazzling, and the luxury is comparable to the white jade steps that must be passed through on the pilgrimage of the imperial palace in the capital.

Chu Xiaoting straightened and tidied the clothes of her husband, who was higher than her head in front of her, and dusted and dusted, not allowing the slightest skew or dust, "The military tent has no tile to cover the roof, and it has been cold recently, so you can't take off your middle clothes when you go to bed." Morning and evening, remember to cover your mouth and nose and wear a cotton hat outside the tent. Your spleen and stomach are weak and cold, and you should properly regulate in autumn, eat and drink stomach soup on time, and do not take the emergency pills prescribed by the military doctor. It is inconvenient for you to bring the maid and wife into the army, so I will follow Zhu Jin and Xu Zhong into the camp with you to call together. Xu Zhong has entered the camp many times, and the taboos in the army are understood, I asked him to watch Zhu Jin closely, you don't need to be distracted by such trivial things. ”

Feng Ji couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard that the two people who entered the camp with him were missing the old cigarette butt Song Lianshu, but there was also a female and male Zhu Jin. This Zhu Jin's heroic aura overshadows her charming posture, she is tall and slender like a man, her face is not ugly, but she is a very attractive beauty with a little makeup.

has a generous temperament, without the delicate pretentiousness of an ordinary woman, and most importantly, Chu Xiaoting once proposed to make her a concubine in the side room of Feng Xuan. Feng Xuan was suspicious, could it be that his wife was deliberately tempting?

"The military camp is not suitable for women to enter, even if I am a marquis, I can't make an exception easily. Xiaoting, your arrangement is inappropriate, or let the old cigarette butt accompany you!"

The two of them are obviously noble, but they are commensurate with you and me in ordinary people, which shows the deep friendship between husband and wife.

Chu Xiaoting covered his mouth and smiled, Feng Wei tilted his head slightly, and stared at his wife's fair-skinned and slightly blessed face to show puzzlement. Chu Xiaoting mysteriously leaned into Feng Xuan's ear, and whispered: "Zhu Jin is actually a man, his grandfather's generation has foreign blood, and his face is naturally feminine. He has his own heroic spirit, but it is easy to confuse. ”

"You, you......" Feng Wei smiled dumbly, stretched out his finger and tapped Chu Xiaoting's delicate little nose. repeated temptations to his wife, not angry but happy.

The Western Domain Ma Mingyue Hou was on the side, Feng Xuan stepped down and turned over on the horse, stepped on the stirrup with both legs, held the reins, and his temperament changed suddenly.

Seeing Chu Xiaoting obsessed for a long time, he finally waved goodbye, and watched a team of people drift away until they disappeared at the end of the long street.

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The city is well developed in commerce, except for the salt and iron trade, which is strictly controlled, the rest of the commodities have their own open or dark ways.

As long as you have the will, you are a big living person, and you can buy it, of course, the price is not comparable to a cheap thing like a cow or sheep.

The Golden Snow City has undergone expansion and is now divided into two layers, the outer layer is the ordinary businessmen and ordinary people, and the inner layer is the real Golden Snow City, where the rich and powerful gather.

It's just that the inner and outer city gates are wide open during the day, in addition to the outermost city gates fortification, the interval between the inner city and the outer city is extremely loose, and the people in the city can also freely shuttle between the two cities.

The layout of the houses in the outer city is relatively loose, and the stationing of military brigades in them will not disturb the people's livelihood.

The inner city is different, every inch of land is not limited, and the large families or the palaces of the eunuchs will not allow the vulgar soldiers to be stationed near their mansions, so all the men and horses who maintain stability in the turbulent period need to be dispatched from the outer city.

The inner city is so big, there are more than 80 fangs, each of which is separated by a high wall, and there are all kinds of eating, drinking and entertainment in the square.

Patrols are limited to the outer streets and avenues, and they are not allowed to enter the square without permission.

Wandering around the streets, responsible for arresting thieves and collecting news, they are a large number of but scattered arresters and fast hands who are not easy to cause disturbances and disturb people's livelihood.

Xue Siwei, who is not old but slightly hunchbacked, is a fast hand, his status is one level lower than that of a full-time trapper, and his salary is naturally pitiful.

Xue Siwei rented a place in the outer city, where the price was affordable, and the place he rented was right next to an army of 20 hundred people, and before the hour of the day, he was awakened by the loud drill horn, followed by the neat stamping and shouting for a whole hour.

Therefore, Xue Siwei can sign in to the government office on time every day, and the old pen officer who signed in the government office is very optimistic about such a "motivated and diligent" young man.

He received an iron ruler and a cowhide rope, and tied one left and one right to his waist! Kuaishou is different from the trapper, there is no iron medal and no official book, and the only thing that can show his identity is the iron flat ruler that is not short or long.

Ordinary people are not allowed to carry large iron tools that are too long to be privately hidden, and those who swagger onto the avenue like Xue Si with iron tools on their waists, but do not wear armor, official uniforms, and brocade clothes, most of them can only be people in the yamen.

Xue Sixiang was about to go to the Jin Jufang in the jurisdiction, and along the way, many shop guys facing the street greeted him, and some of them called him Brother Xue Zhu'er, and those who were slightly younger called him Master Catcher, this treatment was the main reason why Xue Sixiang walked slowly and leisurely.

was intoxicated with a good sense of self, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves in his ears, Xue Siwei subconsciously retreated from the edge of the horse road in the middle of the road.

Looking up, facing the morning sun, I saw a team of people and horses, the sound of horses' hooves was not slow, and the horses could still maintain a certain degree of stability when they ran, and they were well-trained horses at first sight.

The leader is a man with a majestic complexion, a slightly dark complexion, and a majestic expression without any smell of fat powder. It is impossible for Xue Si to recognize a big man under an emperor like Shenhua Hou, in fact, none of the people in this team can guess their identities. However, when the twenty or thirty cavalry in black armor approached, the cold aura on his body made Xue Siwei shiver in broad daylight.

At the end of the horse team, the head hangs alone, the horse is a yellow flower horse, a long pole is tied to the side of the horse, and a middle-aged man sits on the back of the horse, his body is like a mountain. Xue Siwei looked at his short-sleeved thick arms, which were actually thicker than his thighs, and couldn't help but sigh: "What a fierce man!"

A hawker who was shouting in the street approached and asked, "Whose son is this traveling, so majestic?"

Xue Si was about to take out an iron ruler to teach this bold wanderer who hit the muzzle of the gun a lesson, and when he took a closer look, it turned out to be an old acquaintance, so he casually said nonsense: "What a son! This is a big man who came out of the Hou Mansion to do business, don't you see that team of black-armored cavalry? That is the best cavalry in our Yanlong Three Prefectures, even if a hawker like you carries a knife and gets on a horse, it is not enough for people to cut off their heads!"

The wanderer gasped very cooperatively, and said in astonishment: "So powerful? Brother Xue actually recognized the rank of the cavalry, and he must have a close acquaintance in the army." The wanderer's expression was very exaggerated, but it was very useful to Xue Si, and he unconsciously blew up the cowhide.

"That's it! I also carried a knife into battle back then, you see my hunchback, it is the disability that fell from a knife for the robe. Alas. Later, it was inconvenient to go into battle, so I retired from the army and became a small catcher in this Golden Snow City......"

The vendor listened with fascination, and felt deep pity for Big Brother, and finally had to tear a handful of sadness with great sincerity.

After the two separated, Xue Sixiang instructed the vendors not to wander on the street, and if they were caught, they would be fined copper plates, but they could enter a certain alley, where there were more rich and noble people who liked to try new things.

So Xue Sixiang nibbled on a scallion oil flatbread and walked to Jin Jufang just to finish eating.

Jin Jufang is not too big, the merchants inside are mainly engaged in rouge, gouache, brocade, silk and the like, not to mention the flow of food and lodging and people's livelihood, and another business in the workshop is also in full swing.

That is the place where the women sneered at the gold cave and the men understood it, and the place where the leather and meat business was done, which aroused the primitive desires of the men more than the gambling house.

Jin Jufang is located on the periphery, which is a relatively remote place in the inner city, and there is still a lot of distance from the real place where the official eunuchs and rich people gather, so naturally there will be no such colossal Qinglou as the Qingqiu Pavilion. However, the green building here has a good reputation in several nearby shops, and the girls inside are also delicate and tender, which is very good at attracting business.

Soon after Xue Sixiang arrived, two other fast hands gradually gathered in the martial arts pavilion, and the three of them talked to each other, and they were not familiar with each other.

The three of them stayed for a while before two trappers came slowly, one with a knife and the other with a crescent cane.

Both of them have a very eye-catching door-shaped iron plate around their waists, and they are the official thieves of the Yamen.

The three fast players in the pavilion were obviously a little afraid of these two, and after the two entered the martial pavilion, they were silent, and they didn't dare to come out.

The crescent cane stomped heavily on the ground, and a tall burly man snorted coldly and asked directly, "Is there any trace of the thief who sneaked into the Song family to steal the property?"

The three of them were divided, Xue Si's scalp was stiff, and he replied: "In the past few days, I have searched and checked among the green skins in the workshop, and the black market where the laundry goods has also been carried out, and the results are ...... Combine...... And nothing. ”

The man with the saber looked at him with undisguised disdain, and said lightly: "I said a long time ago that this group of wastes is unreliable, and he can't even mix up the trapping assessment, what can you expect him to do?"

Xue Siwei's shoulders shook slightly, and then he calmed down and held back without having a seizure. Besides, with Kuaishou's skills, it's okay to deal with ordinary green-skinned people, and rebellion?

This small action fell in the eyes of the knife-wielding catcher, which made him more and more proud, and he looked down on the unpopular Kuaishou even more.

The identity of the burly man is on par with the man with the knife, but the ability to handle the case is not as good, and he relies on directing this group of subordinates to run around on weekdays, and then he sits back and enjoys the success, and rarely has the opportunity to catch the thief.

It's really hard for him to use his brain to investigate the case. The burly man didn't want to lose face in front of his colleagues, so he ordered: "Even if you dig three feet into the ground in the Jin Ju Fang, you must also look for clues to the thieves! If there is no one in the fang, you will go to the outer fang to find it, they have a huge amount of property, can they still fly away?"

The three Kuaishou were in a dilemma, and it was the man with the saber who relieved them: "The authority of the Kuaishou is only in the workshop, out of the Jinju Fang, there is no arrest sign and official documents, and the people and the arrester have no obligation to cooperate." Moreover, it is a felony of overstepping the authority to investigate the case without authorization, and they will be dismissed at the least, and if you are the mastermind, they will be confiscated at the worst. ”

The burly man's body trembled, and he quickly changed his words: "Only allow them to investigate in the workshop, and they can't escape the high wall of Jinju Fang." ”

The man with the saber was noncommittal, and pointed at Xue Sixiang with the tip of the sheathed knife, "What's your name?"

Xue Sixiang was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied: "The little Xue Sixiang, nickname is missing, he has served as Kuaishou in Jinjufang for five years, and he belongs to the Eleventh Pavilion on standby......"

The saber man withdrew the saber that was more than two feet long, his tone was unwavering, and he said calmly: "This arrest Huang Xinyong, in charge of the first to fifth pavilions, today ordered the eleventh pavilion Kuaishou Xue Sixiang to assist this arrest in tracking down the theft of the Song Mansion." Do you have any objections to the arrest of Luo?"

The burly man was a little unsure of Huang Xinyong's thoughts, "I can't talk about dissent." Brother Huang wants someone to take away, but Kuaishou lacks four abilities in general, and it has not been outstanding under my hands for many years. ”

"No need, just him!"