Taiping Inn

On this late autumn noon, it should have been sunny, but because of the convergence of lead clouds, there was no trace of sunlight. The entire Beimang County seemed to have a huge lid on the top of the head, and the sun was dark and there was no trace of light. It was almost like stretching out your hand No five fingers.

In the dark sky, a cold wind gradually erupted, and the coldness was bone-bone. The sound is shrill and invisible. If you listen carefully, you can faintly hear the sound of ghosts crying and sad.

All the streets in the city are empty, but occasionally there will be teams of yamen runners with knives passing by.

There are only ten regular officers in Beimang County, but each officer can be equipped with two deputy officers, and each deputy officer can be equipped with two gang members. In this way, ten regular officers are equivalent to With seventy people, plus the soldiers and Qingluan Guards stationed in the city, there were hundreds of people, so it was enough to maintain public order in one city.

At this time, the orders of the county government had spread throughout the city. Some people who were good at leaving the house were arrested and imprisoned immediately without regard for the reasons. Therefore, people were in panic at this time, and every household stayed in their doors, fearing that they would encounter them before natural disasters. Man-made disasters.

At this moment, Zhang Nanmu walked out of the county government office, wearing a stone-blue silk robe and a square scarf on his head. If he didn't look at the jade pendant on his waist and the ring on his thumb, he would really look like an ordinary scholar, not like a scholar at all. The commander of the Qingluan Guard, the magistrate of Beimang County, dressed in the seventh-rank official uniform, followed behind him, constantly wiping the fine sweat beads on his forehead with a white towel in his hand. I don't know if it was hot or scared. , he whispered and said, "Sir Tongzhi, what you said just now is true? If it is true, the officials... they can't afford to take responsibility!"

Zhang Nanmu stopped, turned around and looked at the local parent with a smile, and said with a sneer: "Mr. Wang, what are you afraid of? There are also the prefect, the governor's yamen, the governor's yamen, and the governor's yamen above you. The yamen, there are tall men holding on to the sky. "

The local parent official smiled bitterly and wanted to say something, but after seeing a middle-aged man wearing a green brocade robe coming from the side, he knew that he was from the Qingluan Guard, so he stepped back with tactfully. A few steps, no longer talking.

Zhang Nanmu glanced at the magistrate, pondered for a moment, lowered his voice and said, "Miss Wang, I have already obtained the exact news. Now the masters of the two factions of good and evil have come to Beimang County one after another, and the next Beimang County It will be a situation of storm, so I would like to advise Magistrate Wang here to see some things, so don’t come forward to provoke them, so as not to cause trouble.”

Another circle of sweat oozed out of County Magistrate Wang's face and nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Nanmu gently patted Wang Magistrate Wang's shoulder, making Wang Magistrate Wang's already slightly bent back a little shorter. He smiled a little and turned to meet the Qingluan Guard who was unable to see the depth of the county magistrate Wang.

When the two of them left, the magistrate standing in front of the government office slowly straightened his waist, and the care and flattery on his face had disappeared. A man who looked like a master and a clerk came up from behind and whispered: "Mr. .”

Magistrate Wang turned around and walked towards the mansion, and asked calmly, "What do you say from the ancestor?"

The housekeeper followed behind and whispered: "What the ancestors mean, everything should be done according to the original plan."

Magistrate Wang stopped suddenly, with a cold look on his face, but his tone did not change much. He said, "I understand," and waved his hand to signal the master to go down.

...

On the other hand, the Qingluan Guard who met Zhang Nanmu was not a person. It was Zhao Wuqi, the governor of the Qingluan Guard who followed Lu Yanbing. After the Tianle Sect was defeated, Lu Yanbing returned to the imperial capital, while Zhao Wuqi stayed to clean up the mess. The big net that Gu Fengxian, Zhang Nanmu and others had been removed, and they turned their main energy to the affairs of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau and the Jingzhou Maritime Conservancy Bureau.

Jiangnan Weaving Bureau and Jingzhou Maritime Warehouse are both headed by Eunuch Liu's children and grandchildren, and their Qingluanwei is close to Eunuch Liu. Although Lu Yanbing once said "Let them kick the quilt by themselves", it was in the sky. If the Le Sect can be controlled by Qingluan Guard, if there is huge benefits of Tianle Sect, it is naturally possible to ignore this. This is not a deep ally relationship. If Le Sect is defeated today, the situation is different, so naturally he has to use ally. It's important.

After Zhao Wuqi met the surveillance master of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, the two had a deep conversation. Zhao Wuqi learned about the official and silver case from the mouth of the old man Jin. The reason why this case was involved was traced back to the palace. eunuch. Because Eunuch Liu comes from the Taoist lineage, his disciples and disciples also believe in the Taoist lineage. Because Eunuch Liu comes from the Ge Zao lineage, he is close to the Tibetan people in the Zaoge Sect today, so his disciples and disciples believe in it. The Tibetan elderly man offered statues of the Tibetan elderly man and offered a large amount of money to the Zaoge Sect every month, so there was a private use of official silver. According to the news from the Weaving Bureau, someone in the six doors had already followed. Following clues, I followed all the way to Beimang County.

Because of this, Zhao Wuqi and others came to Beimang County again, preparing to completely end the disaster.

But I didn't expect that when they came here, the situation suddenly changed and they were involved in a pool of muddy water.

Zhang Nanmu said in a deep voice: "Sir, strange phenomena frequently appear in Beimang County at this time, which is probably not a good omen. Now we have not found the traces of the people from the Six Gates. The Zaoge Sect is also strange and unpredictable. Whether to leave first. Go, avoid the limelight for the time being?”

Zhao Wuqi looked at the dark sky above his head and said expressionlessly: "It's indeed not a good omen, but just leaving rashly. If the official silver is exposed in the future, we may not be able to do so in the palace. Explain."

Zhang Nanmu asked, "What does that sir mean?"

Zhao Wuqi pondered for a moment and said, "Stay for another three days. If there is no progress in the matter, we will not be too late to withdraw. This is also an explanation for the palace. As for the Zaoge Sect, we have already said hello and want to come and see it. In terms of Eunuch Liu's face, it won't be like us."

Zhang Nanmu nodded and answered.

...

In a luxurious mansion in Beimang County, there was no light, and the wind was blowing, and a middle-aged man was sleeping in his bedroom with his eyes closed. In other words, he was wandering around with the "method of travel" in the "yin god method".

A sound of tiny footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door. The middle-aged man instantly came to his senses, slowly opened his eyes, and then a light knock on the door sounded.

The middle-aged man sat up from the bed, his eyes a little confused and dazed. This is a sign of unstable mind after his soul left his body. After a while, he spoke in a low voice: "Come in."

After the person who knocked on the door gently outside the room was allowed, he pushed the door open and entered. He was an ordinary woman, who respectfully reported: "There was news from my ancestors, and the servants dared not take their own actions, so they had to disturb the master. ”

A middle-aged man had a problem when he practiced the "Yin Shen Dafa" in his early years, and had hidden diseases inside. Before he reached the level of perfection, every time he left his body and returned to his soul, he would cause symptoms of soul unstableness, so when he left his body and wandered around. , there is no one within a hundred feet, so I dare not disturb the casual matters.

After a while, the middle-aged man suppressed the anger caused by his unstable soul and said coldly: "Take it over."

The woman handed a note about an inch wide on both hands.

After taking the note, the middle-aged man destroyed it casually and ordered, "Change."

The woman responded softly and began to serve her master to change clothes.

Not long after, a middle-aged scholar wearing brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes walked out of the mansion with his maid Shi Shi.

...

In a welcoming pavilion outside Beimang County, a beautiful middle-aged woman sat, holding a cigarette pole in her left hand and constantly counting on her right hand, muttering to herself: "Does Zaoge Sect also know that one? Things? But Zaoge Zong has never been proficient in the way of testing. How did they know? Could it be that there is an expert behind the scenes to guide him? "

The woman showed a solemn look on her face, and she came to the top of the pavilion, looking high and having a wide view. She looked towards Beimang County and continued to calculate the evolution, "If there is an expert hiding it, who will it be? Yin and Yang Sect Xu Wugui? Zhang Jingxiu of Zhengyi Sect?”

Because it took great effort to deduce Tianji, the woman's cheeks were red and her hair was messy. But she still didn't stop. While continuing to calculate, she also felt a little resentful towards her husband: "You should have gone to Longmen Mansion in person."