Chapter 5 Clearing the Clouds and Fog

And back to the present, Lu Ziang is worried, thinking that his life has to be explained here, no clues can be found, so many eunuchs and palace maids Jinyi Wei are indeed no one in the memory, originally thought it was a thief, but never thought that it was really a thief, what to do, what to do! Just when Lu Ziang was worried about how to escape this catastrophe, a eunuch came from afar, holding his hat while running, looking very panicked.

"Why are you so flustered!?" asked General Joe, holding him by the hand.

"General!" said him, standing on tiptoe to whisper in his ear, General Qiao waved his hand, "but it doesn't hurt to say!"

"Your Excellency, the Renzhi Hall has found a palace maid who didn't return last night!"

"Oh! look at you so flustered, there is something else to hide!"

"My lord Mingjian, this palace maid seems to be stunned, and she is naked and sleeping in the side room of the Renzhi Palace!"

Qiao Chenpei and Lu Ziang looked at each other, and thought of going together, this matter must be related to the seal, so they repelled the eunuch and hurried to the Renzhi Palace. Stepping up the red stairs, as soon as you enter the hall, you will see the side room on the right, surrounded by a bunch of eunuchs and palace maids inside and out.

"Get out of the way! It's all gone, what should you do!" Qiao Chenpei evacuated the crowd, the two approached the side room, and saw a cardamom little palace maid, with a round face, a bed of red flowers wrapped around her body, tears in her eyes looked very pitiful, and there were two older old women next to her who were asking about something! Seeing the two coming in, the two saluted desperately.

"Excuse me! You two should go out first! I have something to ask this palace maid!" The two grandmothers agreed and withdrew. The little palace maid also wanted to get up and salute, as soon as she stood up, the quilt was too big to lift it off, her petite and slightly chubby body was as white and shiny as a tender lotus, and a touch of shame flew on her bulging face, and she squatted down on the quilt again.

"Don't worry, girl! There is no need to be polite at this very moment, Xiao Sheng and this general only have a little matter, delay the girl for a while! Dare to ask how the girl ended up in such a situation?" Lu Ziang hurriedly went over to help pull the quilt.

"Thank you, sir! Last night..."The little girl's face flushed.

"In this way, girl! This master knows a little about medical skills, you can reach out and let this master call the pulse to see if there is any injury!" Qiao Chenpei gently touched Lu Ziang from behind, and Lu Ziang understood.

"Then it's bothering the master!" The little girl stretched out a hand from the quilt, Lu Ziang said that she was offended, and put her hand on it! It turned out that this little palace maid was bullied by the palace maids in the same room last night, and the little palace maid felt wronged, so she came out for a walk, and suddenly stretched out a pair of hands from the dark night and patted it in front of the little palace maid, and the little palace maid lost consciousness, until she was found just now, and then called the old lady in the palace.

"How offended! The girl is fine, peace of mind is to recuperate, the current occasion is not suitable for men and women to be in the same room, Xiaosheng farewell! I'm tired of the girl!" Lu Ziang glanced at Qiao Chenpei and walked out.

"Congratulations to the two adults!" the little palace maid thanked timidly.

The two of them came to the outside of the palace, "How? Do you have a clue?" In this way, Lu Ziang told Qiao Chenpei what he saw, and Qiao Chenpei touched his chin, "Hmm? No wonder this palace maid is spitting and vomiting, not daring to sue and not daring to deceive! This thief is also very capable, entering this palace is like going home, where can the master be counted out of this person?"

"I don't know where I went..."Lu Ziang didn't finish speaking.

"That's good, I don't have any clue!" Qiao Chenpei anxiously swung a punch back.

"General, don't worry! I don't know where Xiaosheng went, but this trip is not in vain, Xiaosheng has a clue!" Lu Ziang smiled at the corner of his mouth!

"Oh!

"Dare to ask the general, is there a skilled painter who is familiar with it?"

General Qiao thought about it, didn't this count the appearance of the thief, "Master, come with me!", the two of them went out of the palace, rode their horses around a few alleys, stopped in front of an ordinary house, turned over and dismounted, knocked on the door, and after a while, a woman pushed the door out.

"It turned out to be General Qiao, is there something wrong?" The woman asked worriedly.

"Sister-in-law hasn't seen you for a long time, is Brother Fan at home?

"I'm in charge of the family, I'm going to go to the market! I want to look for him and come back! I have to wait for him to come back, not until it gets dark!"

"Thank you for telling my sister-in-law, I won't work for my sister-in-law! I'll wait for the two of them to look for him on their own, but it's time to catch up with the 49th episode?"

The woman nodded yes, and the two of them got on their horses and rushed to the market, and saw a large area of Heiyangyang not far away, and the people would gather together to exchange some of their own things for some silver taels on every four or nine days! Many small merchants and vendors took advantage of this time to sell some fast snacks, and children in pairs and threes carried copper plates in their pockets, running around the stalls, and the laughter and the sound of money colliding with copper plates evoked layers of memories. Not only did there be food, but craftsmen from all over the country also beat gongs and drums and shouted vigorously, one circle here and another, playing monkeys and dancing guns to break big stones, and the onlookers cheered for the melon-eating crowd to surround the road with water! The two put their horses in the temporary stables on the outermost periphery, and they melted into this large crowd of people as many as ants.

"Come with me!" After strolling around for a while, Qiao Chenpei pointed in the direction of a cultural stall and said.

The two approached the literary play stall, and a middle-aged man with a fat belly and a round belly asked, "What do the two officials want?" Don't look at us so small, we have everything, there is a Haomo inkstone used by Wenqu Xing, and the three lessons and nine exercises necessary for the imperial examination....!" Before he could finish speaking, he saw a voice interrupt and said, "Shopkeeper Wang, don't talk in vain!" This is the general of the dynasty, and you probably can't use those objects!"

Only then did Lu Ziang find that there was a thin man sitting on the ground next to the cultural play stall, his cheeks slightly sunken, and a few paintings were placed in front of him, and the flowers, birds, and landscapes were vivid.

"It's been a long time, Brother Fan!" General Qiao smiled slightly.

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be! I wonder if the general is here to look for grass people! Or to visit the market?" The man's real name as Brother Fan was Fan Li, and he looked at Qiao Chenpei and squinted.

"Naturally, I have a request for Brother Fan! can I go back to the house and talk about it!"

"I said, how can the general come here! But what happened in the palace?"

"Exactly!"

"Then there is no need to talk about it! The grass people are only shallow in their studies and can't do anything!" Fan Li refused very decisively.

"Brother Fan, it's about the world's major affairs, and I hope to do a little favor in the past!" Qiao Chenpei whispered in his ear.

"The grass people don't want to or dare to wade into the troubled waters of the palace anymore!" Master Fan simply narrowed his eyes.

"This..."Qiao Chenpei wanted to say something, but Lu Ziang pulled his sleeve, "In that case, I'll leave first, I wish Mr. Fan a prosperous business!" Lu Ziang pulled Qiao Chenpei out of the crowd with his hand.

"Master, what do you mean? Don't look at this person so sloppy, his painting skills are first-class!"

"General, the literati and ink writers are very stubborn, and Xiaosheng has a plan! Let's go to Master Fan's house!" Lu Ziang smiled unkindly.

When she came to the door of Fan's house, she knocked on the door, and the woman was puzzled, "Didn't you find the head of my family?" Lu Ziang muttered a few words in the woman's ear, the woman's face turned blue, and she said that the two of you would wait a minute, and then she ran away, and after about half an hour, she saw these two people coming back one after the other! Master Fan walked in front, rubbing his ears and arms as he walked, walked to the front and gave the two of them a white look, and then walked straight into the house. The woman beckoned them into the house from behind

"What did you say, let him come back obediently?" Qiao Chenpei asked in a low voice.

"That's a secret! Lu Ziang smiled and did not answer positively.

"Don't worry!" Qiao Chenpei patted his chest!

The two came to the house, this hut didn't have any decent furniture, and it was a little sour, Fan Li had already spread out his pen and ink, and didn't seem to want to talk to the two of them much, staring at the two of them to start. Lu Ziang came to Fan Li's side and narrated some characteristics, and after a while, a woman with a black hat, thick eyebrows and a small mouth jumped on the paper, but a large piece of black on her nose covered one-third of her face.

"There's a small hemorrhoid here. Lu Ziang said while poking at the left side of his mouth.

"Master, this is?" Qiao Chenpei was a little unconvinced, it was actually a woman who went deep into the palace, and Lu Ziang nodded meaningfully.

"Okay, okay, let's go, let's go! Fan Li put down the pen, picked up his hand and closed his eyes, halfway through speaking, it seemed that Mrs. Fan screwed him, and then Mrs. Fan smiled and said, "Two officials, don't be surprised!"

"Now that the matter is done, Master Fan, I'll leave later!" Qiao Chenpei arched his hand.

"Let's go...."Master Fan just said two words, looked up and saw the woman's eyebrows and angry eyes, and then swallowed, "Let me send you out!" The woman followed the two out of the door and came to the gate, hehehe.

Lu Ziang stabbed Qiao Chenpei, "General!

"Look at my memory, give!" Qiao Chenpei reacted quickly, patted his head, took out the silver from his pocket with a smile and handed it to the woman, who hurriedly thanked her.

It turned out that Lu Ziang said in the woman's ear that he would give ten taels of silver for just painting a painting, but Master Fan still refused to help, saying that the family had nothing to do with him.

"Do you know that a nine-rank official has five taels of silver a month, and you promise her ten taels!" Qiao Chenpei paused for a moment and then said, "But I also owe it to him, so behaps!"

"Why did the general say this!"

"I think I was a little bit younger with this painter, he loved to dance and write since he was a child, especially when painting people's portraits, which are really vivid. After I joined the army, this is not a few years ago, the Turks took advantage of the collapse of the emperor for many years, the decline of national strength and the south, Chen Lu fought the Turks to withdraw the army, I returned to Chang'an and met Fan Li. He became a family, set up a calligraphy and painting stall on this street, and also undertook to write letters on behalf of others as a couplet, and it seemed that he was living a tight life, and his old friends had not seen him for a long time, so he went to the tavern to get drunk and rest. I also wanted to help this old friend, and soon after the lack of painters in the palace, it was the kind of fat poor who specialized in painting show girls, so I recommended him to go. At first, he did a good job, but this person is very upright, there are many show girls from big families, and the powerful and rich pens are all the pen, and others have lowered their faces, and they handed him money with good words to let him draw better, such as drawing less hemorrhoids, painting less scars, drawing higher noses, bigger eyes, etc. He didn't eat this set, and he spoke very upright, which provoked many people, and was later driven out of the palace by a big official. In this huge place in the capital, if you look down and don't see what you look up, you are not less bullied. Since then, there has been a gap between him and me, and he doesn't have much contact with me, and now this situation has something to do with me!" Qiao Chenpei sighed, touched the big horse outside the door, and turned over on his horse, "Master, come with me!

"General, I don't know if I want to report to the Holy Lord first and then to the Hall Master?"

"The hall master has already given the hall master full authority to find out this matter, as long as the result is informed, there is no need to ask for instructions one by one for the tedious and irrelevant matters in the process!"

"Yes!" Lu Ziang turned over and got on his horse, and after the two walked away, a person walked out from behind the grass hut at the door, this person was the ghost-faced monk with a half-evil face Arhat mask, and his half-exposed mouth lowered slightly, and turned into Fan Li's house.