The first year of Tianbao, the seventh day of the ninth month.

Pushing open the door, the dimly lit room lit up. In fact, whether it is bright or not, it doesn't matter to Ran Zhong, who is blindfolded but still can't cover his vision. The room is simply furnished, with an elm table and two benches.

At this time, there was a person in the room kneeling with his back to the door, and when he heard the sound of Ran Zhong pushing the door, this person stood up. He turned around, and the first thing that caught the eye was his patched coarse cloth garment. The man looked very old, and he put his hand on the back of a slightly hunched man. Immediately, he looked up and saw that his beard was gray, and his dull yellow skin was covered with large and small brown markings.

It was such an old man who was so old, and where he knelt just now, it was covered with pebbles of flesh. The old man staggered and sat down on the bench. He first rubbed his knees for a long time before he slowly spoke, and said in a deep and hoarse voice: "Manager Ran, since you are here, then sit down." ”

"Yes. ”

Ran Zhong, who had been forcing Dugu Xun to call himself president, made a mistake about the old man's manager, but he didn't remind him to correct it.

Ran Zhong seemed a little cautious, and in the short time he had been watching the old man's face almost all the time from standing to sitting. The old man, on the other hand, kept his head down from beginning to end, as if he was asleep. Ran Zhong sat for a moment, and the old man slowly raised his head, opened his cloudy eyes, and said, "President Ran, come here today, what is the so-called matter." ”

Ran Zhong replied: "Prime Minister Qin, the details of the person who made trouble in Lin'an last time have been roughly investigated. As expected, it should be someone from the Shuzhong Palace. ”

"Lord Shu is really a lice on our Great Song Dynasty. The old man said and chuckled: "President Ran, do you have any good strategy for the Shuzhong Royal Mansion to go north?"

Ran Zhong said in a deep voice: "The lower officials don't know anything about marching and fighting, so they don't dare to show their ugliness in front of Prime Minister Qin." ”

The old man smiled and said, "But it's okay to say it. ”

When Ran Zhong heard this, he pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Then the lower official is offended." Since our Great Song Dynasty moved south, after several major wars, the troops have been insufficient. In addition, in the past few years, there have been unscrupulous generals in the DPRK and China, ......" Speaking of this, Ran Zhong's voice stopped abruptly. When he saw that the old man's face did not fluctuate, he continued: "Most of the military attaches in the DPRK and China are incompetent, and the combat effectiveness of our army is getting worse day by day. And all the armies under the king of Shuzhong are fighting bloody battles in foreign countries in southern Xinjiang, and they have been fighting for a long time, and they are all elite soldiers, and our army is absolutely no match for him. If you want to stop the pace of the king of Shuzhong going north, the only way to do it is to surprise the thief and capture the king first. ”

After hearing this, the old man nodded and said, "The old man is very pleased, President Ran is a practical talent. The old man was reluctant to send troops to fight, so in several court discussions, the old man suggested that the emperor refute all the excerpts that sent troops. If there is a real war, I don't know how many Lebanese people will be displaced. This is a great disaster for the community. ”

Hearing this, Ran Zhong hurriedly got up and said: "If Qin Xiang can trust him, he is willing to lead Cong Yun and the secret guard to take Zhao Qingting's head." ”

The old man waved his hand and said, "No, we can't do it." The king of Shu this time is in the name of suppressing bandits, and it stands to reason that the big and small foreshadowing he did before made his northward suppression of bandits seamless in his division this time. And once the people in our palace do it to it, if it succeeds, his subordinates will not be at peace, and when the time comes, my Great Song Dynasty will raise swords everywhere, and people with ill intentions will wave the flag and rebel, that is the great disaster of the common people. If it doesn't work out, it's even worse. So, this time, let's ask the people in the rivers and lakes to do it. ”

Ran Zhong shook his head and said, "Don't hide it from Prime Minister Qin, according to the information sent by the subordinates of the lower officials." It is very likely that the king of Shu is the same person who injured the lower officials and the Dugu commander last time, so it can be said that his cultivation is unparalleled in the world at this time. The top ten commanders of the two guards shot together, and the outcome was still unknown. Those so-called masters on the rivers and lakes are not their opponents. ”

The old man smiled: "If we want to find it, we must find the best assassin." You order to go down and invite the four emperors of Hong Tianzong, the three bosses of the fireworks building, and the seven great killers under the Seven Killing Sect. Together, I'm afraid this drama can be worth 100,000 elite soldiers, isn't it more than enough to deal with one Zhao Qingting?"

Ran Zhong was obviously frightened by the old man's thoughts, and after a long pause, he said in a trembling voice: "Qin Xiang has lived in the temple for a long time, and he may not know something. Most of the people you just mentioned have become old monsters who can't escape from the world, and if you want them to do it, they don't have a few hundred million taels of silver, I'm afraid it won't work. ”

"Then empty the treasury, if it is not enough, then copy the homes of Zhang Jun and Wan Yiqi. Over the years, the two of them don't know how much money they have embezzled, and how much fat and ointment they have looted!" The old man suddenly raised his voice, and only looked at the appearance of him blowing his beard and staring, like a tiger that had just woken up.

Ran Zhong's heart trembled, Zhang Jun and Wan Yiqi were both the old man's henchmen. When the old man said this, you can imagine that his determination is firm.

"I am afraid that the DPRK and the central government will not agree to this move. ”

As soon as Ran Zhong's words fell, the old man slapped the table, and he immediately stood up slowly: "Three provinces, six departments and two courtyards, one is counted as one, whoever dares to disobey will be beaten to death!"

With that, the old man sat down on the bench again, gasping for breath. After a while, the old man calmed down and said, "Send me into the palace to meet the saint, and you go to the treasury to count the silver taels." ”

The old high sun shines brightly on the world.

As soon as the old man entered the palace, he went straight to the Funing Palace.

Standing in front of the gate of the Funing Palace, the old man hesitated for a long time with a gloomy face before stepping into the palace gate. But as soon as he entered the hall, he immediately changed his smile. I saw that in the main hall, there was a man lying naked on the ground, and the man's face was covered with a white belly pocket.

The hall was full of pretty women dressed thinly, and the man lying on the ground carried two women behind him. He was like a horse in the women's pile, and from time to time from under his belly pocket came a few vivid horse calls, which caused the women to laugh.

Suddenly, the man stood up, and he shouted facing the temple door, "Who is coming?"

The old man hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, it's the old minister Qin Zhonghui." ”

After hearing this, the man picked up the woman and got up: "It turned out to be Qin Xiang, you came just in time, come with me to play this game of making horses." ”

"Yes. ”

Without hesitation, the old man stripped off his clothes, revealing his old flesh and skin. As soon as he climbed down, two women came and rode on his back. The old man smiled and carried the two women, and became an old horse that had not lost its hooves before it had stumbled. The old man approached the man and walked in with him.

The man smiled: "It's really difficult for Qin Xiang, just your old bones, and you still play this game with Lone." Although this game is fun and tight, I'm afraid that you can't stand it. ”

The old man smiled and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the old minister is playing with Your Majesty, and he has worked hard." ”

"Oh, what did you do?"

The old man replied: "The old minister kneels on the pebbles at home every day, and at the beginning the old minister's knee was about to break, but now the old minister does not kneel for half an hour every day, then he is uncomfortable." Now Lao Chen Mo said that there are two people on his back, that is, three people on his back are effortless. ”

"Good, good!" the man laughed wildly as he clutched his stomach in one hand and the ground with the other, and the two women on his back were also thrown upside down.

"Qin Xiang, you are really a lonely confidant! Say, what reward do you want!"

The old man replied: "The old minister does want a reward, but this reward is not for the old minister, but for the king of Shuzhong." ”

The man smiled and said, "Isn't the imperial uncle going to be reversed, what is he going to do with him?"

The old man said with a smile: "That's all the slander of the rebels and thieves against the prince, according to the old minister, the king of Shuzhong worked tirelessly and went north to suppress bandits, but it was all to stabilize the foundation of our Great Song Dynasty, which really deserves to be rewarded." ”

The man chuckled and said, "Since Prime Minister Qin said reward, then reward!"

The old man replied: "Then your majesty will write an excerpt from the treasury to the old minister, and the old man can sympathize with the subordinates of the king of Shuzhong." ”

Hearing this, the man stood up, he ripped off the belly pocket on his face, revealing a white face and red lips, this majesty is a boy and a woman, but she is very beautiful. Suddenly, he grabbed a woman by the neck and pulled her over, and in an instant, his face was closed. When the woman saw this, she was surprised and delighted.

But suddenly, a terrible scream resounded throughout the Funing Palace. The woman's red lips were bitten off, and her lips were really delicate. The man spat the flesh of his lips on the ground, and then he dipped the blood from the woman's lips and wrote a letter of appropriation on his belly pocket.

"Take it!"

The old man held this belly pocket and enshrined it as a treasure.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. ”

He prostrated again and again.

The man sat on the ground and laughed: "Qin Xiang has worked hard for my Great Song Jiangshan, and he really should be a good minister." ”

The old man was already crying bitterly at this time, and he said: "With Your Majesty's words, the old minister will die without regrets." With that, the old man approached the man again and whispered a few words to him. As soon as the man heard this, he was afraid of hitting the ground.

"Qin Xiang, you are really willing, okay, I will go to your mansion tonight. ”

When the old man was dressed and came out of the hall, he saw Ran Zhong waiting outside the hall.

"Back to Prime Minister Qin, I just counted the silver in the treasury, I'm afraid it is not enough. Now Xia Guan is preparing to raid Zhang Wan's house, and he has come to report to Qin Xiangyu. ”

When the old man heard this, he said lightly: "How much oil and water can the two of them have, the house will not be completed, you go to Zhongshu Province, and let them collect taxes from all over Lin'an for three years immediately." ”

"This ......" Ran Zhong didn't dare to speak, the matter of taxation is a big matter, who dares to advocate it?

The old man said in a deep voice: "You take this belly pocket, and tell the people in Zhongshu Province that this is Your Majesty's order, and the fold is written on the belly pocket, and the belly pocket is pulled from Han Guifei's body." ”

In an instant, Ran Zhong understood the old man's intentions. He didn't ask too much, took his belly pocket and walked away.

The old man looked at the magnificent palace in front of him and said lightly: "This day, I can't turn it over." ”

"Flipped. ”

Dou Huaisheng put the letters in the envelope and said.

The old gentleman sitting next to him smiled: "Then Zhao Qingting is so powerful, how can you turn his sky?"

Dou Huaisheng smiled and said: "Zhao Qingting killed innocents indiscriminately for his own selfish desires, these people must be eliminated, and Zhao Minji can't get rid of them, so I will help him get rid of them." ”

The old gentleman smiled, "Why are you?"

"With this sword. Dou Huaisheng held the sword that he had always wanted to put down, but now he couldn't let go.

"Oh, you have some ambition, Li Minji finally found a good heir in the end. ”

Dou Huaisheng said with a smile: "Senior, you and the senior in the mountain, as well as the old woman, should be alone." ”

The old gentleman was stunned when he heard this, and Dou Huaisheng continued: "Behind the ears of the three seniors, there is a mole, if this is a coincidence, it is too coincidental. ”

The old gentleman sighed: "Since Zhao Qingting destroyed my whole family and killed Sister Xue, I don't know who I am. ”

"As for the ghost-like boy in red, it should be a puppet. I've heard the master say it before, but it's the first time I've seen such a lifelike puppet. ”

The old gentleman smiled when he heard this: "You are so clever, and it is not in vain that Li Minji has wasted so much effort." ”

"But there is still something unknown to the juniors, why didn't Zhao Qingting kill Li Jianshen?"

The old man said lightly: "Because Zhao Qingting has low self-esteem and is jealous." He was jealous of Li Minji's talent, and he was jealous that Li Minji was famous all over the world at a young age. So he didn't kill Li Minji, but wasted all his heart to slander Li Minji and deprive Li Minji of the love of his life. Only in this way can he make his narrow-mindedness feel better. ”

The old man said that, and looked at the honey orange dressed in flowers and branches and ran into the house: "Huaisheng, we should go!"

The old man said lightly: "Have you thought about where you want to go?"

Dou Huaisheng smiled and said: "Back to Yanlin, this is a walk in the rivers and lakes, and the younger generations only know that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the sky." That Zhao Qingting's cultivation is to reach the sky, and only by continuing to follow the master's cultivation can he one day be side by side with him. ”

The old man nodded, and he suddenly looked at Honey Orange and said, "She's a good girl, don't leave her behind." ”

Seeing Dou Huaisheng and Honey Orange walking away, Boss Huang flashed out of nowhere. Boss Huang stood behind the old gentleman and said, "Sister, do you think he can do it?"

The old gentleman stretched out his hand and wiped his face, and then ripped off a human skin mask. Boss Huang looked at the face under the mask and smiled with relief, he hadn't seen it for ten years. He, the little ghost in the Nanling barracks, wanted to see the smiles of the heroic sisters again.

"Go ask Lee Min-je. ”

Boss Huang shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this: "Sister, you said that if there was no Li Minji back then......"

"There were years, but there were no ifs. ”

Now, it's all gone with the wind.

The first year of Tianbao, September 8, frost.

Ruan Qinglu really fulfilled her promise, and in two days and two nights, she dressed in red for the old city. At a glance, it is festive and red. The people who were intoxicated couldn't help shouting, Du Fu in the grass hall, Kong Ming in the Wuhou Temple, can you come and have a drink. People who came from all over the world to congratulate each other, came one after another, and the Shu Wangfu was also atmospheric, and there were 3,600 tables of banquets inside and outside the palace.

Dong Ping was also slightly drunk, not for anything else, just because of the pot of wine on the table next to him.

On the other side of the table sat a young man with two thick eyebrows. Before the wedding, those who can come to see the palace are not ordinary people.

Suddenly, Dong Ping smiled and said, "Second Master Sun, your wine is indeed a good wine." But today I am afraid that I will not be blessed, and the princess has instructed me not to drink greedily before the wedding. ”

As soon as Second Master Sun spoke, he knew the identity of this young man. The most powerful martial arts family in Shuzhou today, the second son of the contemporary head of the Sun family in Qinghua Mansion, Sun Muyi.

Sun Muyi said with a smile: "It's okay, if the master can look down on my wine, then I will be satisfied." ”

At this time, Dong Ping was playing with a golden and cyan Heavenly Saint Divine Kingdom jade pendant, but he didn't want to care about this second master Sun. Sun Muyi knew that Dong Ping was going to send off guests, but he didn't mean to leave, but continued: "I heard that Master Ma has been in the border between the north and the south for a few years, and I want to ask Master Ma about something. ”

"I know that this second grandfather's wine is not given for free. Dong Ping said, threw the jade pendant in his hand into the wine jug, and suddenly heard a bang, the wine jug was smashed to pieces, and the elixir and jade liquid in the pot were also spilled on the table. Immediately, Dong Ping said with a cold face: "Say." ”

Sun Muyi's smile froze on his face, and after a while, he spoke: "I have been fascinated by Beimang's Sword Ruins Shaolin, but I have never been there, and I just happened to be free these days, so I want to go to Beimang, and I hope that the master can show a shortcut." ”

"You're looking for a gap that can avoid the Song defenders. ”

Sun Muyi said with a smile: "Master Ma is really discerning. ”

Dong Ping said lightly: "You can take the waterway." ”

"I'm afraid of the water below. ”

Dong Ping sneered when he heard this: "Then you can only cross the Blackwood Castle." ”

Sun Muyi hurriedly said: "I also hope that the master of the horse will give you some advice." ”

Dong Ping said lightly: "There is no need for my guidance, the people at the junction of the north and the south know that the sect that has just emerged in the past two years is sheltering one side. Because this Blackwood Fort does not do evil things, and specializes in fighting against bandits, the defenders of the border fortress have the mind that more things are better than less, and they let it go. But the tolls there are not cheap. ”

Sun Muyi said with a smile: "Thank you for your advice, I will send you a few more jars of this wine in the future." ”

"Well, this wine is too good for me to be blessed. ”

Seeing that Dong Ping didn't enter, Sun Muyi also gave up his desire to curry favor, smiled bitterly, and said goodbye and left. When he was gone, a girl stepped forward to pick up the broken porcelain pieces on the table.

"Uncle, I see that you don't seem to like Second Master Sun. ”

Dong Ping smiled and said: "The cheap look on his face is not as rare as that dog." ”

"In that case, how did you give him the way?"

Dong Ping said with a smile: "Silly girl, that Blackwood Fort is the largest bandit den in the Northland, and if you enter there, you will undoubtedly go to find death." ”