"People from the Jiang Mansion?"

Du Juan shook his head and said, "No, he said that his name is Liu Futang." ”

Dong Ping was stunned at first, and then smiled and said, "Invite him in." ”

Mr. Liu is meticulous in tidying up and down, he is very energetic, and his eyes are unusually bright. Liu Futang stood outside the hall for a moment, and suddenly, he came back to his senses, ran into the hall quickly, held Dong Ping's arms excitedly, and said in a trembling voice: "Dong Song, I can see you again!"

Seeing that when Liu Futang opened his mouth to speak, he was missing a small half of his tongue, and he could hear him speak a little slurred, and pronounced the word brother as a loose character, which made Dong Ping feel a little sorry, and he smiled: "Brother Liu, come on, please take a seat." ”

After Liu Futang sat down, he turned his head and looked around at this big house and the exquisite furnishings in this room with an almost dull gaze. After a while, he spoke: "Dong Song, I... I've heard a long time ago that Lin'an has a horse master surnamed Dong Mingping... But I can't believe it's you. Although I can't believe it in my heart, but these days, I don't want to see this horse master all the time. Today I couldn't help it and ran over, but I didn't expect it, Dong Song, you... It's really the horse master, and... is still the concubine of the palace in Shuzhong. ”

In Dong Ping's impression, although Liu Futang is arrogant by nature, he is a decent gentleman. Although Liu Futang deceived this day in order to gain an advantage in the confrontation between the two armies. But the torture of such a righteous gentleman still made Dong Ping's conscience unhappy. However, Dong Ping was also very happy, because through Liu Futang's incident, he knew that he still had a conscience and that he was still a living person.

Dong Ping pondered for a moment, smiled slightly, changed the topic, and said, "Brother Liu, I saw how crazy you were back then, I really think that your life has passed in such a mess." Seeing your condition improve today, I am really happy for you. ”

Liu Futang said with a smile: "I would like to thank Dong Song for sending charcoal in the snow and saving me and Jing Jing in fire and water." These things are also what I heard from Clumsy Jing later. After Dong Song's friend sent the couple to Chengdu, Humble Jing took me around looking for a doctor. Finally, in Lin'an, I met a master of the apricot forest, and I was rescued from chaos. ”

Dong Ping smiled and said, "Mrs. Ling can also be regarded as a heroine among women. ”

Liu Futang smiled and waved his hand, noncommittal, he said: "Now I am a teacher in a private school outside the city, although my life is dull, but it can be regarded as stable and happy. ”

Dong Ping looked at Liu Futang again and nodded, compared to when he first met, Liu Futang has lost a lot of sharpness now. He smiled and said: "The two rarest words in this world today are stability, and Brother Liu's life is already complete." If Brother Liu doesn't dislike it, he can take Mrs. Ling to come over and walk around more in the future. When I first came to Lin'an, I didn't know anyone well, and what I lacked most was friends. ”

Liu Futang said with a smile: "Of course, there will be trouble for Dong Song in the future." ”

Dong Ping pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "Until now, there is something I want to make clear to Brother Liu." ”

Liu Futang said: "Dong Song, please speak." ”

Dong Ping said slowly: "Actually, when I met Brother Liu on Houde Island, I said ......"

Before Dong Ping could finish speaking, Liu Futang raised his hand to interrupt him and said, "I didn't think it clearly at first, but now I understand." With Dong Song's character, how could he go to the water bandits?" Speaking of this, Liu Futang laughed at himself.

Dong Ping smiled bitterly and said: "It's still the same sentence, the two most difficult words in this world today are stability." Most people are unstable, everyone is drifting, everyone has difficulties, and this is the rivers and lakes. ”

Liu Futang nodded and said, "Dong Song has seen it thoroughly, I can't catch up." ”

Dong Ping said with a smile: "Brother Liu will stay at the house for a light meal, and we will also have a few drinks." ”

Liu Futang waved his hand busily and said with a smile: "It's not going to work today, Dong Song doesn't know, I sneaked into the city today." If you let Humble Jing know that I'm wandering around, it will inevitably be another nag. Besides......" Liu Futang's eyes showed a bit of tenderness, and he said softly: "Besides, today is the birthday of the clumsy Jing. I guess she forgot that she had been a daughter-in-law and a mother all these years, working day and night for me. But for the sake of my so-called ambitions, I took her to run around, but I forgot to think about her for half a point, and forgot that she was just a weak woman. Now that she's settled, it's time to make amends to her. After that, Liu Futang took out a simple hairpin, a silver chisel, and a jade bead flower from his arms.

"Dong Song, what do you think of this hairpin?"

Dong Ping supported his head with his hand, thoughtful. Listening to Liu Futang's words, he also felt some empathy. When Liu Futang asked, he replied with a smile: "If a man meets a good wife, he will become a child." This hairpin is very beautiful, and Madame Ling will definitely be a treasure. ”

Liu Futang smiled and carefully put the hairpin in his arms. Afterwards, he chatted with Dong Ping for a few more words, and then left.

Dong Ping called Lin Sanchuan and said, "You go to Sister Juan'er to get some silver, go to the private school where Mr. Liu teaches, give the silver to the person in charge of the private school, borrow his hand, and then give the silver to Mr. Liu." ”

Lin Sanchuan said with a smile: "I know that Gongzi is afraid of losing Mr. Liu's face, but don't be so troublesome, when Mr. Liu is not at home, I can just give the silver to his wife?"

Dong Ping smiled and said: "It's not appropriate, if you are seen by others, it is easy to be criticized." And between husband and wife, where can there be something to hide. Lin Sanchuan nodded: "That's right, that's okay, I'll go here."

”

After Lin Sanchuan left, Dong Ping wiped his face, and then left the Horse Mansion and went to the Qin Mansion. And in the dark, there was a pair of cold eyes containing murderous intent, which were already staring at him.

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It's time for dinner again, and since the Great Song Dynasty moved the capital, the royal three meals have pursued the principle of simplicity. Despite this, in front of Zhao Zhen, there were still no less than fifty plates of various dishes. Two pretty palace ladies stood around the table, one holding two pairs of chopsticks. Next to Zhao Zhen, there is a kind old man with pale hair, holding a white scarf in his hand, and smiling all over his face. The old man has no beard, and between his eyebrows, there is a little feminine color. This old man is a father-in-law, and he is not an ordinary father-in-law. He was the chief eunuch of the palace province and the eunuch Zhang Xue.

Zhang Xue smiled and said, "Your Majesty, the old slave sees that you have a lot of appetite today. ”

Zhao Zhen said: "I'm really hungry today, let's wait for dinner." ”

Before Zhao Zhan's words fell, the two palace moths took turns to pick up the dishes and send them to the silver plate in front of Zhao Zhan. Before they gave Zhao Zhan a dish, they had to use the pair of silver chopsticks in their hands to take a bite for themselves.

But these two palace ladies are sandwiched back and forth, and they are only sandwiching about 20 dishes in the first half of the table. As for the dozens of dishes on the second half of the table, they didn't even touch them. Zhao Zhen saw the performance of the two of them in his eyes, and suddenly, he said lightly: "Take the fried lotus seeds in the back, and clip one over for me to taste." ”

Zhang Xue's hand holding the white scarf trembled slightly, and he looked at the two palace ladies, just in time for the anxious gaze of the two palace ladies glancing at him. Zhang Xue sighed lightly and said, "What are you still doing in a daze, Your Majesty wants to eat lotus seeds." ”

A palace lady frowned at first, and then put a lotus seed into her mouth with a little helplessness. Seeing that her cheeks didn't move, she swallowed the lotus seed, and immediately, she looked at Zhao Zhan and said: "Your Majesty, this lotus seed is not fried well, the fragrance is insufficient, and it is more bitter, so it is really not worthy of Your Majesty's jade mouth." ”

Zhang Xue said with a smile: "Your Majesty, according to what the old slave can see, you have been running around for a day and need food supplements." This sauce stuffed with bear's paw is more suitable than the tasteless lotus seeds. ”

Zhao Zhen smiled and said, "What's the matter, whatever I eat, I have to take care of your group of slaves?"

Zhang Xue hurriedly said: "The old slave doesn't dare." ”

The two palace ladies even knelt on the ground.

Zhao Zhen slowly stood up and said, "I want to see what you are selling." When he came to the table, when he saw the plate of lotus seeds, he laughed, he reached out and pinched one of the lotus seeds, and said, "Okay, my imperial chef is a cook, but he is condescending, he should go to carve dragons and embroider phoenixes." It took a lot of effort to carve this stone like a lotus seed. ”

Zhang Xue had already kowtowed, "It's the old slave's dereliction of duty, please punish Your Majesty!"

Zhao Zhan ignored him, then picked up a plate of green onion abalone and said with a smile: "This dish is even more wonderful, it originally looked like abalone, but when I took a closer look, I found that it was originally made with pumpkin puree." Zhang Xue and the two palace ladies were scared and sweaty, while Zhao Zhan laughed more and more happily, he covered his belly and laughed: "Okay...... Okay, how can I say that these dozens of dishes have become decorations, it turns out that the dishes on this table are either fake or rancid!"

Zhao Zheng slammed the pumpkin and abalone he was holding at Zhang Xue, Zhang Xue's body didn't move at all, and he caught the plate with his brain. The plate fell to the ground with a "bang", and the blood flowing from Zhang Xue's forehead fell into the plate ticking.

Zhao Zhan said coldly: "Gonggong Zhang, what do you want to do in the palace province, do you want to collectively bully the king?"

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Xue cried bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, the old slave is not trying to bully the king, there is really no money in the palace, and the old slave has no choice but to make this decision." If you eat it according to the previous dinner standard, your majesty will be aggrieved in less than two months! The slaves and maids don't care, but they are afraid of hurting your majesty's body!"

Zhao Zhen was stunned, the words "no silver" sounded to him, it was a fantasy joke. How could he be the dignified king of a country, but he was short of silver flowers? Zhao Zhan suddenly bent down, waved his arms on the table, and in the blink of an eye, he swept all the dishes on that table to the ground. Immediately, he stared at Zhang Xue again, and shouted to Zhang Xue: "I know that the treasury has no silver, but my private treasury has no silver!

Zhang Xue wiped a handful of tears and said in a lamented voice: "Your Majesty, how dare the old slave." Now, although the treasury is empty, and His Majesty's private treasury has not been paid for several months, His Majesty's private treasury still has a lot of silver before, which is enough to spend until the beginning of spring next year. And today, His Majesty opened his mouth and rewarded that Lin Zhuangshi, as well as thousands of taels of gold from the son of the Jiang family, as well as boxes of jewelry. If there is no silver in the treasury, it can only be taken from His Majesty's private treasury. If it weren't for the slaves and maids, His Majesty's private treasury would have been emptied. Now, there is still a shortage of Jiang Lin and the others, eight hundred taels of gold. ”

Zhao Zhen was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he was speechless for a while. After a while, he said, "Even if you don't have any money, you shouldn't fool me, and what if you cut the number of dinner dishes in half." It's not that I haven't suffered hardships, I grew up eating other people's leftovers. Zhang Xue sobbed in a low voice again, and Zhao Zhen asked, "What are you crying about?"

Zhang Xue said: "The old slave feels sorry for Your Majesty. ”

Zhao Zhen snorted coldly and said lightly: "Okay, let's all be even." Clean up here, and then ask the imperial dining room to fry two side dishes and send them over. In the future, you slaves and maidservants must know what it means to do what you can. Don't try to share the burden with me, it will crush you!"

"Slave obeys!"

Zhao Zhen sat back on the chair and watched Gong E clean up the mess all over the ground, and his stomach was tumbling upside down, and he felt nauseous.

He frowned and said, "Didn't Qin Zhonghui say that he could get me silver? How long has it been, what about the silver! Go and go, and call Qin Zhonghui to me again!"

In less than a day, Qin Zhonghui entered the palace for the second time.

When Dong Ping arrived at the Qin Mansion, it was really not the time, Qin Zhonghui had already left, and he had eaten a closed door. He felt bored and walked back again.

As he turned, a needle suddenly plunged into his back. Not a real needle, but an eerie gaze sharper than a needle.

Dong Ping only felt that between this, his heart stopped beating, and the depressing feeling of tiredness like suffocation rushed from his mouth and nose like his mind, raging wildly. Fortunately, this feeling of depression is fleeting. Dong Ping didn't dare to take it lightly, and he jumped onto the wall of the Qin Mansion. Staring his eyes, he looked in all directions. Suddenly, he saw a tall man with a bright silver steel structure walk into an alley, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Dong Pingxuan frowned, and thought: "There are not a few people in Lin'an City who want to kill me. Today, I'm taking it too lightly. Dong Ping sighed, turned around and jumped into the courtyard of the Qin Mansion. At this moment, for Dong Ping, the Qin Mansion is the safest place.

A man with a steel hook pushes the door into a dark and narrow hut. He took out the fire fold from his waist and lit an oil lamp in the dark. He smiled as he watched the warm, bright orange-yellow glow fill this cabin. He turned his head to look at the old man standing in the middle of the floor and said, "Why don't you light the lamp?"

There are two kinds of people who are not afraid of the dark, children who have never heard ghost stories, and old people who tell ghost stories. And the middle-aged people who are doing ghost things are especially afraid of the dark.

Wei Dujiang should have reached the age of telling ghost stories, and now he is very happy to be alone with the darkness. Seeing that Tian Shou lit the lamp, he sighed lightly: "Have you seen Dong Ping?"

Tian Shou smiled: "I saw it, but it's strange to say." I found out that besides me, there were people stalking that Dong Ping. That person's cultivation is unfathomable, and I can't compare to it. He spotted me and showed murderous intent, so I came back. ”

"Oh?" Wei Dujiang was a little interested, and he asked, "What does that person look like?"

Tian Shou shook his head and said, "I can't see clearly, that person's whole body seems to be shrouded in clouds." ”

Wei Dujiang sneered and said, "I know, it's a Taoist priest in the banyan forest in the north of the city." In Lin'an, they are the only ones who like to play tricks. ”

Tian Shou was puzzled: "Can you tell me, what is the origin of those Taoist priests? I know, our Majesty has always been a disbeliever in ghosts and gods, why did he treat those Taoist priests as guests?"

Wei Dujiang said lightly: "This involves a secret, I can't tell you." But there is one thing you can know, the Taoist leader Dongye Daoren, and our Majesty have known each other for a long time. This matter, except for me and Cong Yunwei, the oldest Turtle Commander, no one in the two guards knew about it, not even Ran Zhong. ”

Tian Shou was surprised, and he said: "The government and the opposition all said that the Dongye Daoist was recommended to His Majesty by Prime Minister Qin, but I didn't expect this to be a disguise." ”

Before Tian Shou finished speaking, he heard a man's giggling sound outside the house. Tian Shou's heart sank, and he immediately whispered: "I can feel the aura on this person's body, exactly the same as the person who followed Dong Ping." ”

The man outside the house laughed for a long time before he stopped, and after coughing twice, he said, "Commander Wei, you talk too much nonsense. ”

Wei Dujiang's tone was flat, and he said: "The reason why I am still alive is because I know what to say and what not to say. Higashino Michito would never be rude to me like you, because he knew what kind of person I was. Tian Shou, go out and slap him twice, and then let him go. ”

"This ......" Tian Shou was surprised and surprised, although he was extremely reluctant to face the man with advanced cultivation outside. But he had never disobeyed Wei Dujiang's orders, and even if he was reluctant, he walked out.

After pushing open the door, Tim Shou smiled. He finally knew what level Wei Dujiang's cultivation had reached now. At this time, the person in front of him, the layer of fog that shrouded him had dissipated. The man's teeth chattered, and his pupils shrank into a sesame seed.

Tian Shouxin said: "This person's cultivation is indeed profound, when the aura on his body is similar to a sharp needle, and he is like a hedgehog." All those who feel his aura will be pierced and hurt to the bone marrow. But the aura on the adult body is like a big hand, which can be used to make a gentle caress or a loud slap to others. This is called doing what you want!" Thinking about it, Tian Shou stepped forward and said to the middle-aged man: "Offend...... Finish. He paused for a moment as he spoke, and in an instant, he slapped the middle-aged man twice.

The middle-aged man took two steps back, clutching his chest and slowing down. Immediately, he stared at the dark cabin. The oil lamp in the house has been blown out by the Wei Du River at some point. He said, "Farewell." ”

Wei Dujiang replied in the house: "Tian Shou, you can go too, please come here to talk about it." ”

Tian Shou said: "Yes." ”

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