Sure enough, Ning Yunju's next narration immediately confirmed Wu Zheng's inner guess.

"The Ling family came to complain, saying that someone had seen with their own eyes that Yin Wu Zheng of Linshan Mansion would be the Ling family's ancestral martial arts "Lingyun Footwork". And the Ling family's "Lingyun Footwork" was stolen many years ago, so they sued me and asked you to come and tell you the origin of the "Lingyun Footwork" you learned. ”

Wu Zheng was inevitably angry when he heard this. According to the people of the Heavenly Dao Gate, the predecessor of the Lingyun footwork was the Qiankun Yin and Yang Steps, if it was investigated, wouldn't it be stolen by the Ling family? Besides, he is definitely not the only one in the world who knows the Lingyun Footwork, and the Taishi Liu Shiqing will also do it, so does the Ling family have to ask where they got the "Lingyun Footwork" formula?

"Hmph, nonsense. ”

"It seems that it is impossible for Wu Gan and the organization behind him to make you pure. By the way, can there be any progress in the case of the Zhao family being wiped out in Linshan City?"

Wu Zheng immediately told Ning Yunju in detail about the incident.

After listening to this, he pondered for a long time before Ning Yunju spoke:

"This matter is not simple, after I go back, don't go to investigate Ruyan Pavilion for the time being. According to your description, it is very likely that the forces behind Ruyan Pavilion are people in the imperial court. ”

"Who is it?"

"It's not certain yet. Obviously, the court and the central government have Liu Taishi as one faction, and Jia Yi, the left prime minister, is another faction. Moreover, there has been a long history of open and covert fighting between the two factions. ”

From his uncle Ning Yunju's words, it is not difficult for Wu Zheng to hear that there should be more than the two factions of Liu Taishi and Zuo Prime Minister Jia Yi in the court, at least his grandfather Ning Zezhong's faction.

Speaking of this, Wu Zheng can't help but think of the one sent by his uncle Ning Yunju, about the imperial history impeaching himself in the imperial court when he leaked the title to the "teacher Zou Rong".

"I wonder if the mistake in the impeachment chapter of the imperial history is the negligence of the person who made the secret report or someone deliberately did it?"

"It is impossible for someone to come to the whistleblower to be so obvious and omission, someone must have done it on purpose. ”

At this point, Wu Zheng also understood that it was definitely not a mistake made by the imperial history who didn't know anything about him, but just. And who would have instructed Goshi to do this?

"It's nothing more than two people, one is Prime Minister Jia Yi of Zuo, and the other is Taishi Liu Shiqing. ”

"Are they trying to force me to take sides?"

"For now, that's all there is to it. ”

The uncle and nephew talked about it very late, and when Wu Zheng lay on the bed, he was thinking about how Tie Ning was planning.

It stands to reason that Tie Ning would not have thought that his uncle Ning Yunju would appear in Jiangning Mansion as the governor of the Eight Mansions in advance. Other words. brought the marriage contract with Zhang Xiaoou of the Zhang family to his uncle, obviously after returning to Jiangning Mansion, he learned that the patrol press was Ning Yunju, who was already familiar with Boye City, before he made a temporary decision.

So, what would Tie Ning's original plan be?

As soon as he woke up, after exercising for an hour as usual, he accompanied his uncle Ning Yunju to have breakfast, and Wu Zheng came to the streets of Jiangning Mansion alone.

When I inquired carefully, I knew that the Tie family was located on the Dragon Street mentioned in Tie Ning's message.

Naolong Street is easy to find, right in the center of Jiangning City. It is only two streets away from the State Guest House. Walking around, Wu Zheng was in the bustling streets, keeping an eye on the passers-by, hoping to see Tie Ning, even if it was Xiaomei and Xiaolan beside Tie Ning, he could ask why he had to come before the full moon.

It's just that Wu Zheng walked back and forth along Naolong Street twice and didn't find any trace of the master and servant, but instead met a beggar curled up on the corner of the street with strange behavior.

The reason why the beggar is strange. It's because when Wu Zheng walked over, the old beggar, who was already in the age of sixties, was holding a wine gourd. Holding a half-gnawed chicken leg in his hand, he drank it with taste. The smell of alcohol is strong, and you can smell it from a long distance.

But when Wu Zheng returned and passed by him again, the drunken old beggar stretched out one foot coldly, as if he was asleep. almost tripped the unprepared Wu Zheng.

"Boy, don't you have eyes when you walk?"

Obviously, he deliberately stretched out his leg and tripped over himself, and the wicked person sued first. Although Wu Zheng was angry in his heart, he couldn't make it, so he could only bend down and apologize.

"I'm sorry old man. I didn't pay attention for a while. ”

"I'm sorry, that's it?"

Seeing that Wu Zheng turned around and left after apologizing, the old beggar stood up reluctantly, and grabbed one of Wu Zheng's sleeves with the oily hand that was still holding the chicken leg just now, which had the meaning of asking the teacher for guilt.

"What did the old man say?"

"What should I do, I don't say anything about you stepping on it, and you are shocked by my sweet dreams, what do you say?"

At this time, it had already attracted many onlookers, and Wu Zheng didn't want to be exposed to the sight of the Tie family too early. So he hurriedly took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom, and put it into the beggar's outstretched hand, and turned to leave.

But what Wu Zheng didn't expect was that he didn't break free from the old beggar and grabbed his hand. Although he didn't use his internal strength, Wu Zheng's strength, which has been practicing martial arts for many years, let alone an old person, even if he is a strong guy, will be pulled aside, but the old beggar's body didn't move at all, but drove Wu Zheng's body to lean towards the other party.

Frightened, Wu Zheng hurriedly stabilized his body, and was about to exert himself again, when something strange happened again.

The body of the old beggar, who had not moved at all, crashed towards Wu Zheng without warning. Involuntarily, Wu Zheng stepped on Lingyun's footwork with both feet below in an attempt to hide to the side. Unexpectedly, the old beggar's body seemed to be dragged by Wu Zheng, and the maggots of the tarsal bones still leaned on Wu Zheng's body, and his face full of dirt slammed into Wu Zheng's ear.

"Under the Linglong Pagoda outside the East City Gate. ”

A very low but very clear word drilled into his ears, and the old beggar took advantage of Wu Zheng's dodging body, staggered to hold on to the wall with one hand, and glared at Wu Zheng angrily, then he looked down at the piece of silver in his hand, which weighed four taels, and his face showed a look of satisfaction.

After walking more than a dozen steps, Wu Zheng glanced back and saw that the old beggar had sat down against the wall again, staring at the silver in his hand and smirking.

"Could it be someone sent by Tie Ning?"

While secretly conjecturing in his heart, he quickly walked out of Naolong Street and went straight to the east gate of Jiangning City.

The only people who knew that they would come to Haolong Street were the three masters and servants of Tie Ning, as well as his uncle Ning Yunju. So what Wu Zheng could think of, the old beggar's reminder just now could only come from Tie Ning's arrangement. Hardly any suspicion, he walked out of the east gate, looked around, and immediately saw a high spire leaking out of the trees on a hill about two or three miles away.

There was only one tower in his field of vision, and Wu Zheng, who didn't think about it except for the Linglong Tower, pulled his footsteps away and quickly rushed towards the small hill. (To be continued.) )