Now, what Tao Ziyun wants is to prevent Sang Motohara from reconciling the troublesome king from selling salt privately. However, he wanted to show them justice in private, and persuaded them to stop in time, and did not want to punish them. In this case, he had to find an appropriate time to make sure that they would give up willingly.

After thinking about it, Tao Ziyun blew out the candle and exited the warehouse. Because Tao Ziyun did not live in the same room with He Renzhi, he did not go to tell He Renzhi about the situation he found out tonight, but directly lay down in the guest room where he lived.

The next morning, before Tao Ziyun got up, Xie Fujun came to knock on the door and still invited them to the Xianggan Hotel for breakfast.

"This grocery store is also managed by the shopkeeper and the shopkeepers, who go to bed early and get up early, and they have already opened their doors to do business, so we can go out with confidence. Xie Fujun gave Tao Ziyun some dispensable explanations.

"I'll do it according to your arrangement. Here, Tao Ziyun listened to the words conveyed by Xie Fujun without any objection.

At the well in the backyard, when Xie Fujun accompanied Tao Ziyun and He Renzhi to wash, Tao Ziyun still wanted to tell He Renzhi about the situation he found last night, but he never thought that Sang Benyuan also came over to wash, and Tao Ziyun had no choice but to give up.

Later, Sang Motohara called Xie Fujun aside, saying that he had something to discuss with him alone.

Tao Ziyun took the opportunity to tell He Renzhi about the fact that he found Sang Benyuan and them selling salt without permission last night, and then said to him: "I will go to the governor's yamen this morning to deal with the things that must be handled. You pretend to have nothing to do, follow them, and see what they do. ”

"Okay. I will follow them as if I have nothing to do with them, and I will not interfere with what they do, so that they will not be wary of me. He Renzhi agreed to Tao Ziyun's mention without hesitation. He also further clarified his thoughts so that Tao Ziyun could feel at ease with him.

"You're getting more mature, good. Let it go!" Tao Ziyun praised He Renzhi with satisfaction, and also had greater confidence in what he was going to do.

After they all washed up, they took off directly from the well and came to the Xianggan Hotel opened by Kumoto. Sang Benyuan warmly greeted Tao Ziyun and He Renzhi to eat and drink, but did not say a word about what to do next.

In this situation, Tao Ziyun took the initiative to bring up the topic he was interested in: "We are idle, it seems that Master Sang and Xie Fujun are the same as us." ”

"Hey, hey. Well, if we want to say that we are idle, we are also idle, and if we want to say that we are busy, we have to be busy. Sang Benyuan only responded to Tao Ziyun ambiguously.

"Haha! It's good if you have time, I'm afraid you're always too busy. He Renzhi took over the conversation smartly, and said enthusiastically to Sang Motohara and Fujun: "Actually, here, we are all guests from other places, and now you are entertaining guests for food and accommodation, which is inappropriate. I don't think so. I'm a more easy-going person, and in the next few days, I'll invite you back and forth, and invite you to play in interesting places. As a return gift to you. Master Tao is from the government, strictly speaking, he is not one of our fellow practitioners, so I won't invite him, how about it?"

Kuwamoto Hara and Fujun discussed this issue. In the end, I agreed appreciatively.

He Renzhi immediately said to Tao Ziyun confidently: "Brother Tao, that's it, after breakfast." You can do whatever you want, and I'll ask Master Sang to have a good time. ”

Tao Ziyun smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Gongzi He, your many unsatisfactory experiences in the examination room and the love field once made you close to collapse. Fortunately, you have figured it out some time ago, so it's still very interesting to live a wandering life like this, and go out to play more when you have fun. Very good, you guys go play! Leave me alone. ”

Xie Fujun sighed with emotion, and he said to He Renzhi: "He Gongzi is a playboy, the kind of person who can't do anything and doesn't want to do anything. If you can't do what you want to do, don't do it at all, you can live a wandering life, it's really enviable!"

Tao Ziyun further affirmed He Renzhi: "Well, everyone has a desirable side, and I understand what He Gongzi did. ”

With an interesting new plan, their interest seemed to be high, and soon after breakfast, He Renzhi led the way out.

Tao Ziyun followed to the door of the hotel and waved goodbye to them. When they were far away, Tao Ziyun walked in the opposite direction for a while, and in a place where no one was, he flew into the sky and flew to the governor's yamen.

Tao Ziyun called the people from the governor's yamen to the public court, and after ordering them, they were all busy. He wrote the memo on the public case, and then he put the written memo into an envelope together with the confession of Prince Jin and the troubled king, and after sealing it, he called the officers and soldiers and asked them to send them away.

Come to think of it, that official document, after being forwarded several times, will take a few days to reach the emperor. But he can't fly and send it over in person, Tao Ziyun shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Tao Ziyun expected that He Renzhi was a clever person, and he would deal with Sang Benyuan and them, so that he would not make a mess. The affairs of the governor's yamen will wait for the emperor's arrangement. Thinking of this, he simply didn't say hello to the people of the governor's yamen, so he left the governor's yamen, flew to the guest room of the grocery store in Kumotohara, and lay down when he entered.

Tao Ziyun thought of some inconsequential scenes in his heart, and fell asleep in a daze, until someone knocked on the door and called outside the door: "The distinguished guests in the room, get up for lunch." ”

When Tao Ziyun opened the door, it was a young man, and he explained to Tao Ziyun: "I am the second shopkeeper here, and the shopkeeper asked me to invite you to lunch." ”

Tao Ziyun asked casually, "Do you still want to go to Xianggan Hotel for lunch?"

The shopkeeper replied truthfully: "Not now, it's almost time to cook, so we'll divide two guys into the kitchen and cook our own food." ”

"It's okay, whatever. Tao Ziyun responded as casually as possible.

In the lobby of the grocery store, Tao Ziyun met with the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper, and more than a dozen people had lunch together, but they didn't wait for Sang Benyuan and them to come back.

Tao Ziyun ate lunch and went to sleep in the room, pretending to be a situation where he didn't care about the world's affairs, and even went to ask him to have dinner, but he politely declined.

Late at night, I heard He Renzhi calling him outside the door: "Brother Tao, I'm back." ”

Tao Ziyun walked quickly to open the door, and when he saw He Renzhi standing alone at the door, he asked, "Have you had fun today?"

"Actually, I didn't have a good time today. He Renzhi smiled bitterly and told Tao Ziyun about today's events, "Because I am not familiar with the road here, the leader turned a few corners on the street, and under the guidance of Xie Fujun, he walked outside the door of the 'Wuji Inn' they opened here." ”

"What happened later?" Tao Ziyun asked simply.

He Renzhi thought about it and replied: "Later, a shopkeeper came out and called Sang Benyuan as Boss Sang, saying that someone inside was looking for them. So the three of us walked into the Great Inn. Looking for them was a foreigner, I heard it was called Bruce Dodge. ”

Tao Ziyun was taken aback: "Bruce Dodge! I met him in the capital, how did he come here?"

He Renzhi replied seriously: "Okay, I will be with them and will not interfere with their actions." I didn't interject, just listened from the sidelines. I heard that the foreigner came to do the porcelain business, but I heard Kuwamoto say to the foreigner: The way to cooperate with the yamen is broken, and we will directly do that business with you. It's so mysterious!"

"It's really weird, they are doing porcelain business with foreigners, do they need to cooperate with Sang Benyuan to find someone from the governor's yamen?" Tao Ziyun was puzzled.

He Renzhi solemnly told Tao Ziyun: "I don't understand this, but I don't care so much." They talked for a while, and the foreigner told them to look at the goods, and I went with them. In a foreigner's church, we saw many large wine barrels used by foreigners, and on the outside of the barrels, there were foreign characters and Chinese characters written on them, and I only recognized the Chinese characters as 'red wine'. I opened it and looked at a few wine barrels, but they didn't contain wine!"

"What's in there?" Tao Ziyun asked nervously.

He Renzhi pondered and described: "It was a fist-sized, round, pale yellow or brown solid. ”

"Oh my God! that's opium!" Tao Ziyun exclaimed, "They smuggle opium ......under the guise of doing a porcelain business!"