There are only two people left...

The soup spilled all over the ground still smoked white, and the simmering aroma of dog meat and star anise was rich and enticing. Outside, the heavy rain kept beating against the roof of the cabin made of green tiles, clattering like a galloping horse. The water of the lake is affected by the wind and rain, and the hull of the ship is in an orderly manner, like a drum in wartime, and it is also like a banquet and music.

Tian Bo led the people away for a while.

The visitor raised a trace of laughter without a trace, made a gesture of invitation to Liu Yan, and apologized: "The dog legs at the bottom are used to being wild, and they don't know Mount Tai with their eyes, so they actually offended Young Master Liu, and I also ask Young Master Liu to have a lot, and bear with me." ”

Liu Yan's attitude was still arrogant, and he casually picked up the sleeves of his shirt that were soaked by the rain, wrung it out with both hands, and at the same time looked at the person who was talking with a little afterglow. In the end, both sleeves were wrung out one after another, and then he arrogantly rolled up the hem of his clothes and walked two steps to the white jade round table, found a stool to sit down, and then picked up the bowl and chopsticks to bring two slices of beef, and said coldly while eating: "Report your name." ”

"Black Panther. ”

"Black Panther?"

This name, Liu Yan must have heard of it.

Chewing the piece of meat in his mouth, he said casually: "It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that there are five halls under the Dragon Hall: Leopard, Tiger, Bear, Eagle, and Snake. The leopard is in charge of the territory, the tiger is in charge of punishment, the bear is in charge of business, the eagle is through intelligence, and the snake kills people and destroys mouths, each performing its own duties. There are seven colors under each hall, black, white, red, yellow, blue, green, and green, since you are called the black panther, you must be the anti-handle of the leopard hall, right?"

The black panther picked up the wet towel on the white jade table, wiped the stool that Tian Bo had sat on before, and then sat down and carefully folded the towel and put it back in place.

Looking at Liu Yan, he smiled lightly: "Young Master Liu is really good at joking, although most of my Brother Longtang are martial artists in the rivers and lakes, and his blood is just reckless by nature, he never does anything illegal and undisciplined, and his business is also upright, where does the murder come from, and the punishment of the territory? Young Master Liu, don't listen to the gossip outside, those are all people with ulterior motives who are spreading rumors and slandering our Longtang." ”

"Slander?" Liu Yan looked at the slices of meat in the bowl and asked strangely.

The black panther picked up the blue and white porcelain pot on the white jade table with both hands, helped Liu Yan pour the wine, and nodded and sighed at the same time: "Yes, the business of this world is not easy to do." As long as there is a slight improvement, it will arouse the jealousy of peers, spread rumors and slander, make trouble for nothing, and even hire people to smash it, and any dirty means can be used..."

"Phew!"

Before the panther could finish complaining, Liu Yan suddenly spit out the chewed beef in his mouth with a sudden "phew", and spit on the panther's arm in the middle: "This meat is so stinky, it makes people want to be disgusting when it smells, and they are even embarrassed to take it to people to eat?" After speaking, Liu Yan sprayed two mouthfuls of foam at the black panther's arm as if he had eaten a fly.

This is clearly a beating...

is arrogant to the level of Liu Yan, I am afraid it is also the height of the realm.

The corners of the panther's eyes couldn't help twitching, and he could see that Liu Yan's arrogant attitude with no one in his eyes had already made him can't help but ignite his anger. But for some reason, the attitude of the black panther was somewhat similar to the previous Tian Bo, as if he was afraid of something, and he actually pressed the anger back into his stomach and did not have a homeopathic attack.

Quietly took a breath, slightly loosened his tight fist, put down the flask and took the towel again, wiped the filth off his arm, and said with a far-fetched smile: "Since Young Master Liu doesn't like this taste, then let's change something else..."

"Wooka..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the closed rosewood door was pushed open from the outside again. A strong man walked into the chamber with a coiled dragon rosewood box in his hand, came to the black panther, carefully placed the wooden box on the table, and then bowed and walked out of the chamber quickly.

Liu Yan looked at the wooden box with disdain, as if he had expected the mystery, smiled contemptuously, picked up the sauerkraut on both sides and continued to eat alone. The panther saw Liu Yan's expression in his eyes, and the displeasure in his heart must be even worse, but he had to endure the words at this time...

The panther said, "I'm afraid Young Master Liu really misunderstood our Dragon Hall. Our Longtang has always been law-abiding, and what we do is only a small business, and we can't make a lot of money. But no matter how small the business is, it is inevitable that it will be remembered by the gangsters, and there will be trouble at the door of the two ends in three days. Therefore, the most important thing in our business is to understand the rules. You see, every quarter, every month, every New Year's Festival, the Taifu Temple of the Criminal Department, the Governor of the Division, the Heavenly Prison Forest, the Ordnance Supervisor of the Ministry of War, the Tiger Camp, the Imperial Forest Academy, the Governor of the Ministry of Industry, the Moving Mountain Pavilion, the Ministry of Household and other mountain gods and Buddhas, our Longtang will send people to worship incense on time, and never dare to slack off. If you ask for a lot of God, you will naturally be blessed by God. Thanks to the blessings of the gods and Buddhas, our dragon hall has been smooth in recent years, with small difficulties but no major disasters, and we can barely settle down in Kyoto. Saying that, the panther poured himself a glass of sake, took a sip of moistened his throat, sank down a little and then continued: "Young Master Liu's plan to share the three orders of the government amazes Chang'an, and the national examination will be even more appreciated by the saints, and he has been appointed as the next chief of the Golden Ministry, which can be described as the golden scales and the hydration of the dragon ascending to heaven." Longtang sent people to visit the fence as soon as possible, but there was a thunderstorm in Kyoto recently, and the stall shop had to be repaired by manpower, so it was delayed. At this point, the black panther pushed the wooden box on the table in front of Liu Yan, and then said: "This is Longtang's little heart, not respect." Wan Wang, Young Master Liu, can ignore his past suspicions and smile peacefully. ”

"You're bribing me. ”

"It's just a mind. ”

"Mind..."

Liu Yan didn't even look at the wooden box on the table, stared at the sauerkraut in his bowl, and asked playfully, "Do you know me?"

The panther complimented: "I've admired it for a long time." ”

"Then you know what kind of virtue I am, don't you?"

“......”

The question is strange, like laughing at himself, and he wants to have another mystery.

The black panther didn't understand the meaning of Liu Yan's words, so he didn't know how to answer for a while. Liu Yan seemed to expect that the panther would be speechless, and without waiting for a while, he stared at the sauerkraut in the bowl, and then said softly to himself: "My virtue is to be arrogant, arrogant, and even more lawless. My grandfather never dared to let me out of the house alone, for fear that I would get into trouble. But I've never been afraid of getting into trouble, because I'm confident that no matter how big the disaster is, I can be sure to kick it through. And now, I've finally mixed it up. I was ordered by the emperor to check and balance the stock government and help the Tang Dynasty swallow the rich Huang family, which is my opportunity to soar across the world. ”

Qingping's words are rarely subdued and frustrated like homely chatter, but the meaning of the words is extremely profound, so that the black panther still doesn't understand what Liu Yan wants to express: "Young Master Liu, what does this mean?"

Liu Yan raised his right hand, tapped the coiling dragon rosewood box in front of him with chopsticks, and said, "You all know that I am the Golden Scale Hydration Dragon Ascension to Heaven, and I want to stop my Ascension Dao with just a box, don't you think it's ridiculous? Or do you just treat me as a beggar and send me away by throwing a rotten bone?"

“......”

The panther's face suddenly sank.

Liu Yan's words were hard to hear, but there seemed to be room for maneuver. The black panther pondered for a moment, endured his displeasure, and patiently asked, "Isn't Young Master Liu going to take a look at the contents of the box first?"

"Is it necessary to see it?"

"Well, it's always good to see. ”

"Heh..."

Liu Yan didn't rush to reply, and sneered.

Holding the wooden box in both hands and placing it in the palm of his hand to pad the weight, and then putting it back in place, he said: "Even if you still have some taste, you can't bear to use this box to hold silver taels, otherwise I will have to smash you in the face while I can take advantage of it." ”

The panther asked, "Can Liu Shaoke guess what's in the box?"

Liu Yan said disdainfully: "Isn't it just hundreds of thousands of taels of silver tickets." ”

"Haha..."

When the panther heard this, he immediately slapped the table and laughed.

The joy of laughter seemed to have heard some incredible interesting story, and instantly swept away the previous gloomy. After laughing for a while, the panther shook his head and said with a smile, "Haha... Liu Shao, you're really joking. Do you look down on our Longtang, or do you look down on your Liu Yan's two words? It is reasonable to say that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are offered to ordinary bodhisattvas, but just by virtue of the three orders you presented to Jin Luan, it is far more than that. The black panther didn't sell it, he directly stretched out his right hand, pressed the lock of the Panlong rosewood box, opened the lid, pointed to the thick stacked money tickets in the box, and said loudly: "Here are a total of one million gold tickets from the bank." The goods are genuine, if they are fake, Liu Shao can exchange gold and silver in any money bank in the world. ”

"A million taels of gold. ”

Liu Yan was obviously shocked by the number reported by the black panther.

His eyes couldn't help but widen, and his hand, which was about to pick up vegetables, was frozen in mid-air.

Although he grew up in the Ministry of Gold since he was a child, he followed his grandfather and was used to dealing with gold, silver and money. He has seen millions of dollars of gold and silver, but after all, it is all silver from the treasury, and it can't be spent or taken away, so people are greedy?

Because, this is definitely not a small amount.

Take the relatively generous remuneration of the Ministry of Gold as an example.

Liu Sizheng has been an official for many years, and the monthly salary of the third grade is only 1,400 taels of silver, and the monthly salary of the deputy secretary of the fourth grade is 700, and the other officials such as silver, Wenlu, Duzhi, and the chief minister are also about two or three hundred. There are about 300 officials of all sizes in the entire gold department, and the total amount of money they receive every month is about 150,000 silver, which is about 10,000 yuan when converted into gold. In other words, the million taels of gold sent by the black panther were enough to pay off the official fortune of the Ministry of Gold for nearly ten years. In addition to the two million taels of gold that Long Tang handed over to the Criminal Department a month ago, this is the official Lu of the Ministry of Gold for 30 years! This shows how rich and wealthy Long Tang, the so-called underworld gang that does not earn a few silvers, is.

"Awesome. ”

Even though he was stunned, Liu Yan still hid his emotions well, three points surprised, seven points casually, and seemed calm and unpretentious. He put down his chopsticks, took a stack of golden tickets from the rosewood box, and counted them carefully in his hand. Looking at this golden paper that was enough to make ordinary people crazy, Liu Yan sighed with emotion and muttered: "It seems that I really underestimate the heritage of your Dragon Hall, a million taels of gold are given away, and I don't even blink my eyelids, it's bold enough, it's bold enough." ”

The so-called money can make ghosts grind, over the years, a high-ranking and noble panther like Liu Yan has not met a few mortals. These people, in the end, all became the umbrella of Longtang driven by interests.

Seeing Liu Yan's emotional expression, the panther said with understanding: "Although Longtang is a small business, the people in the rivers and lakes pay the most attention to righteousness, and we are never ambiguous about our friends. Even if you are hungry, you can't let the brothers suffer. This million taels of gold is just a meeting gift from Long Tang to Young Master Liu, hoping to make friends with Young Master Liu. In the future, if you have a place to find Longtang, whether it is money or people, you just need to open your mouth. ”

"Just open your mouth?"

"Yes. ”

Liu Yan put the golden ticket back into the wooden box at will, then carefully closed it, and asked in a slow voice, "What if Longtang can use my place?"

The black panther waved his hand and said boldly: "Young Master Liu, you can rest assured, Longtang has always been measured and cautious in doing things, three provinces and six departments, four divisions and two mansions, and even the Hanlin Academy, Linyuan Pavilion, and Tianjian Division all have Bodhisattvas enshrined in our Dragon Hall, and they will never alarm your Buddha unless they have to." ”

The corners of his mouth slightly lifted a slightly playful smile.

Liu Yan picked up the bowl and chopsticks again, picked up a piece of cooked lamb ribs from the hot pot, put it in the bowl and blew gently, and said vaguely as if thinking: "That's really enough to suffer." ”

"Don't suffer. ”

The black panther was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly reached out to take the wine glass in front of him, and said politely to Liu Yan: "Cooperation is beneficial to both sides, and fighting is hurting. And I also believe that with Longtang's connections and Liu Shao's ability, it will only be a matter of a few years for Jin Luan to be crowned. The flying dragon rides the clouds, the snake swims in the fog, I salute this glass of wine..."

"Wait. ”

"You seem to have misunderstood what I meant..."