In the late days, the rivers and mountains are beautiful, the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and plants, the mud melts and flies with swallows, and the sand is warm and sleeps with mandarin ducks.

The spring breeze is warm, the flowers are blooming, since Baicheng came to the Nine Immortals Temple, seven or eight days have passed in a moment, Baicheng took advantage of the past few days to walk through several scenery around the Xuangui Hall, and by the way went to the courtyard of the Nine Immortals Temple to visit Xiao Wan once, the Nine Immortals Temple is a Taoist temple, the woman is always not very appropriate here, and the Qingji Taoist has sent Xiao Wan to the other courtyard early.

In the first few days, the Qingji Taoist also arranged for the Taoist priest in Guanzhong to be on duty to prevent the Xuangui Hall from suddenly attacking, but there was no movement for several days, so they sprinkled their manpower to Qingyangfu City to inquire about the news.

Half a day later, the news came, Xuanguitang Lu Jianshan has passed away, according to the news in the hall, Zhang Tang Master said that Lu Jianshan's death was the Nine Immortals Temple sent someone to assassinate, he has made the matter clear to Huang Tiandao, Daozhong replied to the news that he would send a messenger to Qingyang Mansion in the near future to severely punish the Nine Immortals.

Hearing the news, Bai Cheng smiled bitterly at Qingji Daoist and said, "It's the junior brother who has affected the senior brother." ”

Qingji Daoist sneered and said: "The junior brother is not familiar with the Daomen, so he will be deceived by Zhang Dao's words, in the eyes of the poor Dao, even if he gives him two more courages, he does not dare to report the news to the Daozhong before he succeeds the Daoist, his statement is just the heart of everyone in the hall." ”

Bai Cheng nodded slightly, and deceived his heart, which was really a reason for ancient and modern.

On this day, the Qingji Taoist was preaching to Baicheng in the study, as well as the life deeds of the ancestors of the Nine Immortals.

The sound of footsteps outside the door came, and Dao Tong Jiuru came to report and said, "The prefect of Qingyang Mansion sent someone to send an invitation, saying that he invited the master to go to the mansion for a while. ”

Qingji Daoren's eyes flashed, and he said, "Why did he invite me? Let the person who sent the post come in." ”

Jiuru turned around and went out to reply, and after a while, a messenger strode into the fast, this person was twenty-eight or nineteen years old, with a shrewd and capable face, wearing a blue-bottomed official robe, a waist knife with a red scabbard on his shoulder, and stepping on thin-soled official boots. ”

Qingji Daoist also knew this person, and hurriedly picked him up, and said with a smile: "Zheng Zhutou doesn't need to be polite, I've worked hard all the way, so let's rest for a while." ”

Zheng Feihu stood up and said, "How dare you bother the master." ”

Qingji Dao ordered someone to pour fragrant tea, arranged to sit down, and then asked, "Zheng Zhutou doesn't know what is important here?"

Zheng Feihu took out two invitations from his briefcase, handed over one of them and said: "The Lord of Futai has something important to discuss with the Lord, so he specially sent a villain to come and ask the Viewer to go to the Mansion in three days." ”

Qingji Daoist took the invitation and said with a smile: "Lord Futai is invited, and the poor road should go there." ”

Zheng Feihu saw that he agreed, his expression was certain, and then he asked: "I don't know if there is a Baicheng in Guiguan recently, and Bai Shaoxia will live here temporarily?"

Bai Cheng sat on the side, and when he saw him suddenly mention himself, he smiled and said: "The young man doesn't dare to be, it's just Bai Cheng, I don't know why Zheng Zhutou suddenly mentioned the little brother?"

Bai Cheng stayed idle in the observation for the past two days, because he didn't bring a change of clothes, and he also changed into a wide Taoist uniform, but he didn't tie his hair in a bun, and his hair was scattered and draped behind him.

When Zheng Feihu entered the study, he had already seen Bai Cheng, and saw him in a blue robe, sitting on the side in a muffled voice, thinking that he was a disciple of Guanzhong, so he ignored it, and when he heard him speak, he knew that it was Bai Cheng.

However, Zheng Feihu has been in the yamen for a long time, and he is used to seeing characters in the rivers and lakes, and knows that most of these people are informal people, so he is not surprised, but laughs and says: "Bai Shaoxia is really a young hero, with an extraordinary appearance, before the villain came, the Lord of Futai had personally explained, if Bai Shaoxia is here, please go to the banquet together." With that, he reached out and handed out another post.

Bai Cheng was stunned, he had no contact with the people in the government, not to mention that he was not familiar with the life of Qingyang Mansion, and he really didn't know what the prefect was looking for him, but he had always been cool, and he didn't shirk it, he stretched out his hand to take the post, and said: "Since the Lord of Futai is invited, the younger brother must go." ”

Zheng Feihu was relieved to see that both of them had agreed and that the task of this trip had been completed.

A few people had nothing to do, and chatted in the study for a while, and when chatting, the Qingji Taoist people tried to find out what was going on with the prefect's summons, and Zheng Feihu only said that he didn't know.

Seeing that the sun was reaching noon, the Qingji Taoist left him to eat in the flower hall. After eating, Zheng Feihu saw that it was not early, so he was about to leave and go home. When Jiuru sent him out, he casually handed over ten taels of silver for the carriage and horse fare, Zheng Feihu did not shirk, and after taking it, he whipped the horse and galloped away.

Sending Zheng Feihu away, Qingji Daoren and Baicheng returned to the study.

Bai Cheng had some doubts in his heart and asked, "Senior brother is familiar with this prefect?"

Qingji Taoist knocked lightly on the tea bowl and said: "The prefect of Qingyang Mansion is surnamed Lou, four years ago to serve here, this person has never liked many things, and I am also a general friend, and now he is about to leave office, but suddenly summoned you and me to go, I am afraid that there will be something strange in it." ”

Bai Cheng thought for a while and said, "It makes sense to ask the senior brother to go, but how did he know that the junior brother was here, and why did he invite me to go, this really doesn't make sense." ”

Qingji Daoist pondered for a long time, and said: "Although Zheng Feihu didn't know, he still leaked some rumors, in terms of his title for his junior brother, I'm afraid that Governor Lou doesn't know that you have entered the Nine Immortals Temple, so I'm afraid that this matter will be related to..."

When the Qingji Daoist said this, Bai Cheng suddenly waved his hand, signaling him not to say any more, the Qingji Daoist looked at him, and the two had the same mind, and laughed at the same time.

Three days later, in front of the Nine Immortals Temple, Jiuru prepared the carriage early in the morning, and the Qingji Daoist and Baicheng took the same carriage and headed towards Qingyang Mansion.

Half a day later, the carriage entered the city from the north gate of Qingyang Mansion, crossed two streets, and went straight to the back gate of the prefect's yamen.

The two came to the flower hall and saw that the flower hall was empty.

Qingji Daoist asked: "Dare to ask Steward Wang, how many people have been invited by the Lou Governor's Mansion to come here today, and why is there no one here?"

Steward Wang said: "The Taoist is polite, but the villain doesn't know about this matter, and the adult ordered the villain to wait for the Taoist and Bai Shaoxia to come here at the back door, and the villain doesn't know anything else." ”

Qingji Daoren's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Does Steward Wang know what the prefect invited today?"

Steward Wang's face was bitter, and he said: "Don't ask, to be honest, my family doesn't know why I invited the Taoist to come, in fact, today is not that he invited the two of you here, but someone else, just temporarily borrowing my family's mansion for a while." ”

When Qingji Daoren and Bai Cheng heard this, they looked at each other and stopped talking.

Steward Wang arranged for the two to sit down, and beckoned his subordinates to offer tea and snacks before retreating.

Qingji Daoren and Bai Cheng sat in the flower hall and tasted tea, although they both had some doubts in their hearts, but at this time, they lived elsewhere, and the wall had ears, so it was inconvenient to discuss, just glance at each other, ready to act at the opportunity.

The two were sitting quietly, and suddenly heard the sound of "sonorous" iron armor colliding, and a moment later, a middle-aged general walked into the flower hall, this person was seven feet tall, full of beard, a bright light armor, wearing a black cloak, a horizontal knife at his waist, and holding a black iron chain in his hand.

The general came to the flower hall, threw the iron chain on the ground, made a noise, and said with a sneer: "You two have committed a felony, and you don't tie it yourself, do you have to wait for a certain family to make a move?"