Prime Minister Fan, who was supported by his nephew, got into the gorgeous carriage of Fan Mansion. The two of them sat down in the carriage, and the carriage carried them all the way to the gate of the inner city.
It was more than an hour before General Qi Yun saw this in the inner city. Fan Mansion's carriage left and returned again. The carriage approached and the curtains were raised. He saw that it was still Mr. You Cheng and he hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen you at last." Sir You Cheng, where are you going, Sir Right Prime Minister?" There was a murder of nine guards last night. The guard had no intention of stopping it, but when he saw that the Right Prime Minister was about to leave the inner city, he gave a warning.
Fan Mou stroked his beard and said, "My nephew has come all the way, and I want to take the young man to visit Jianglin City and outside it."
"In this case, I will not prevent you from leaving the city. However, Jianglin City has not been peaceful at night recently. Please be careful," the city guard general warned.
"Thank you for your kindness, I'll spare you the trouble." Fan Mou pulled down the curtain, the coachman whipped up his whip, and the carriage passed through the inner city corridor and looked at the outer city of Jianglin City.
The carriage was driving in the bustling outer city of Jianglin. The New Year's Day festival was approaching and there was a bustling scene everywhere.
In the carriage, the scholar in gilded clothes still had the same posture with his eyes slightly closed as when he came, but Fan Mou did not look like Qi Yun's right minister when he came. At this moment, he leaned forward slightly and sat in his carriage, as if he was that person. The 'nephew' who came from afar, the scholar in brocade clothes across from him was the powerful right minister of Qi Yun.
Seeing the scholar in gilded clothes like this, Fan Mou asked in a low voice and cautiously: "The envoy was in a hurry last night, so he didn't ask for advice from the envoy Gao. In the future, if I am lucky enough to return to the Northern Jin Dynasty, I will definitely pay a visit."
When Fan Mou asked about the origin of his name, a breathtaking light shone in the scholar's eyes. Fan Mou, who was staring straight at him, felt restless in the carriage, as if he had said something wrong, feeling that the right minister in front of him was With a look of fear in his slender eyes, the scholar in Jinyi slowly withdrew his gaze, motioned for Fan Mou to come forward, and whispered in Fan Mou's ear: "My surname is Zong." After saying these four words, he continued to close his mouth. Keep your eyes open.
These four words hit his ears, and Fan Mou was so shocked that he didn't recover for a long time. The surname "Zong" was the national surname in Jin State. Only people from the royal family could take Zong as their surname. Since the scholar in brocade clothes in front of him had the surname Zong, he was holding a North With the Black Iron Order from the Lord of Jin, Fan Mou secretly looked at the scholar in brocade clothes who was concentrating with his eyes closed. With his age and appearance, Fan Mou seemed to know his identity.
Just when Fan Mou was calculating the identity of the scholar in gilded clothes, the carriage arrived at a quiet place in the West Market of Jianglin City. The West Market of Jianglin City specializes in the business of restaurants and tea shops, and restaurants and tea shops are inherently noisy places. However, although this place is in the West Market, there is no one making any noise within a hundred feet, and it is extremely quiet. Even the occasional carriage passers-by lowered their voices and tried their best to keep silent.
The scholar in Jinyi opened the curtain of the carriage and was also surprised that this place was so quiet and unusual in this bustling area full of restaurants and restaurants.
Fan Mou saw the surprised look on the scholar's face, and explained in a low voice: "Back then, when the Zhao Kingdom was still under the rule, Qi Yuan, the Marquis of Qi Yun, had made great contributions to pacifying the princes and was named King of Qi Yun. At that time, Qi Yuan first arrived in Jianglin incognito. I was so thirsty that I went to Zhou's teahouse to have a rest. I drank the tea from this teahouse. When I was about to pay the bill, I found that I had been robbed of the money. When I was in trouble, the teahouse shopkeeper saw that Qi Yuan's words and behavior were either rich or noble, so he stopped. After receiving tea supplies from Qi Yuan, he also gave money as a gift for traveling expenses. King Qi Yun felt grateful for the shopkeeper's kindness for a cup of tea, so he borrowed paper and pen with a silver-hook iron painting and wrote "Guests come to live together, and unexpectedly all guests come" as a gift to the shopkeeper. , later Qi Yuan set the capital of the fiefdom in Jianglin. The story of Qi Yuan and this "Qi Ran Ju" spread throughout Qi Yun. After that, King Qi Yun was killed by Emperor Zhao, and the people all remembered King Qi Yun's kindness. , from then on, the people from Qiyun to the princes and princes of the DPRK passed by this 'Qiranju' and consciously kept silent to mourn Qiyuan, and this 'Qiranju' became a place where no one dared to make mistakes in Jianglin City .”
The scholar in Jinyi heard Fan Mou's words and looked up at the two-story teahouse. The erosion of time has given the teahouse a unique flavor. The "Qiranju" plaque hanging on the beam further highlights the difference between this place and other shops in the West City. place.
Just when the scholar in Jinyi was looking up at the plaque, shopkeeper Zhou of the tea house had already come out. Shopkeeper Zhou heard that the right minister of the current dynasty was visiting, so he naturally wanted to welcome him personally.
"I didn't know it was Mr. Fan who came here, please atone for your sins." Shopkeeper Zhou is already sixty years old, but he is still energetic, and his eyes reveal the shrewdness of a businessman.
Facing Shopkeeper Zhou, Fan Mou was very polite and returned the courtesy: "These days, the affairs of the court are complicated. It has been a long time since I have seen Qi Ranju's Longtuan Shengxue. I am here today to bother you."
Shopkeeper Zhou heard the Prime Minister's praise and said: "Since Mr. Fan likes it, I have sent someone to come down and I will bring the tea set to visit myself. How dare I come to visit you, Mr. Labor? Hey, who is this?" Shopkeeper Zhou and Fan Mouke's suite, Seeing a scholar in gilded clothes standing behind Fan Mou, this young man just stood with a smile, but he had an aura of having been in a position of power for a long time. Shopkeeper Zhou had seen the world, and he had hung the old Qi Yun Wang's imperial pen in the tea house. There are countless dignitaries and dignitaries who come here to see Qi Ranju's plaque. Shopkeeper Zhou also has countless visitors. Now that he sees this scholar in gilded clothes, the more he looks at him, the more extraordinary he becomes.
Waiting for Fan Mou to introduce himself, the scholar in gilded clothes smiled and saluted Shopkeeper Zhou: "You're polite, I am Mr. Fan's nephew. This time, I was ordered by the elders in the family to come to Jianglin to visit my second uncle. I just came to the second uncle." I heard at my uncle's house that my second uncle praised Qiranju greatly, so I asked my second uncle to bring my nephew to see Qiranju."
"Thank you Master Fan for your compliments. Please take a seat on the second floor." Shopkeeper Zhou bowed his hands to Fan Mou and hurriedly led the two of them into Qi Ranju.
The scholar in Jinyi looked at the elegant layout of Qi Ran's residence and nodded slightly. As he stepped onto the second floor, Shopkeeper Zhou led Fan Mou and the two to an elegant room. A simple wooden sign hung beside the door. , the word "Lanting" is written on the wooden sign. When I open the door of the elegant room, there is actually a cave in the elegant room of Lanting. What I see when I open the door is not a brocade stool and tea table, but a suspended wooden bridge. The wooden bridge reaches the Jianglin City and passes through the city. Next to the Linjiang River, shopkeeper Zhou led the way, followed by Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi. Walking on the suspended wooden bridge, the scholar in Jinyi looked back and saw that every elegant room on the second floor of this natural residence was spanned by a wooden bridge or Pass through the houses and reach the bank of Linjiang River.
After following Shopkeeper Zhou for a moment while burning incense, there were steps going down at the end of the wooden bridge. Shopkeeper Zhou went down first and waited by the steps. When he saw Master Fan and the scholar in Jinyi stepping down the steps, he made an invitation with one hand. The scholar in Jin Yi followed Shopkeeper Zhou's gesture and looked at it. There was a small boat parked by the Linjiang River in front of him. There was only one boatman at the helm. On a winter afternoon, the boatman was lazily leaning on the boat as the sun was shining warmly. He was taking a nap on the boat. , Shopkeeper Zhou stepped forward and tapped the hull of the boat with his hand. The boatman just woke up, making a sound of ahhh, and saluted to several people.
The scholar in Jinyi couldn't help but be a little curious when he saw the boatman's scene. Shopkeeper Zhou saw this and said, "Young master, what you have in mind is good. The boatmen in Qiranju are all born deaf and mute. I hired them to learn how to steer." , one is to see these deaf-mute people having difficulties in life, and the other is that some of the guests who come to the second floor of my Qiran residence talk about matters that are inconvenient for others to hear, so it is more appropriate for a deaf-mute person to take charge."
After saying these words, Shopkeeper Zhou bowed to Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi, and continued: "The old man is back here, tea and snacks, just now when Mr. Fan's uncle and nephew were talking with the old man in front of the door, according to Mr. Fan's past I like to prepare dragon balls to beat the snow. One way, Master Fan can enjoy the winter scenery of Linjiang River with his nephew while drinking tea. The other way, he can talk about the love between uncle and nephew. If he wants to return, he only needs to tap the two sides of the cabin with his hands. If there is a long one and a short one, the boatman will lead the boat back."
The scholar in Jinyi said: "I didn't expect that there is such a place in Jianglin City. The method of drinking tea is really unique."
Shopkeeper Zhou saw Mr. Fan's nephew opening his mouth to praise him, and stroked his beard and said: "Old man, Qiranju was originally a small teahouse. Thanks to the First Emperor, he drank a cup of tea in Laochan's tea house and gave it to me. A pair of calligraphy treasures, the business here has been getting better and better over the years." Shopkeeper Zhou thought of King Qi Yun, and his expression became much sadder: "But his old man was actually harmed by Zhao's Hunjun. Alas, God really has no eyes. Forget it, Mr. Fan, please get on the boat, I will wait in the shop."
Fan Mou and the scholar in Jinyi returned a courtesy to shopkeeper Zhou, and boarded the boat to enter the warehouse. When the boatman saw the guests boarding the boat, he started rowing, and the boat swayed towards the center of the Linjiang River.
After entering the cabin and closing the door, Fan Mou changed his posture and saluted the scholar in brocade clothes: "I don't know where this is, but the envoy is satisfied."
"Yes, I didn't expect that the capital of Qiyun is really interesting, and the teahouse is also unique." The scholar in Jinyi looked around the cabin. There was a stove and tea sets, all available. The cabin was more elegantly decorated than the first floor of Qiranju just passed by. , and in order to prevent the tea soup from spilling out as the ship shakes when drinking tea on the ship, this tea cup is also specially made. When you want to drink tea, you only need to use skill to open the lid of the tea cup and drink.
"Okay, there is no one else here, please tell me in detail about Wangli Villa and how to obtain the defense map of Qiyun North." The scholar in Jinyi observed the boatman for a while, withdrew his eyes and looked at The scenery of Linjiang River outside the boat window showed a greedy look and he spoke.
"Your Majesty, it's not that the lower officials doubt what the envoy said, but that Li Kurong is a first-rate figure in Qiyun's martial arts world, and his martial arts attainments have reached the state of perfection. How can the envoy be so sure that this Li Kurong has gone crazy? After all, This subordinate's spy has been hidden for many years." Although he said he was guilty, Fan Mou still carefully asked the doubts in his heart.
The greedy gaze of the scholar in gilded clothes did not follow Fan Mou's questioning and he just said lightly: "I gave Li Kurong a classic, which may be the only cultivation method in the world that can break the immortal realm and step into the immortal realm. However, this classic It's a broken copy, Li Kurong was so obsessed with martial arts that he was willing to take risks and start practicing, it is inevitable that he will become obsessed."
"The last time the envoy came, he said that it was the elders who ordered the envoy to visit. If anyone investigates..." Fan Mou said stutteringly.
"Don't worry, since I said so, the hometown you reported to the court will have everything to prove your identity. Even if someone investigates, there will be no mistakes." The scholar in Jinyi said.
After listening to what the scholar in Jinyi said, Fan Mou put aside his doubts and said: "In that case, please allow me to report in detail. Since Li Kurong founded Wangli Villa, although Wangli Villa has been prosperous, the descendants of Lijia have not." There has been no talent for many years. Li Kurong's son Li Buwei has mediocre martial arts and is unable to control the overall situation. However, Li Buwei's daughter Li Wan'er is very valued by Li Kurong. My spy is already well-known in the world. He has a son who is talented. Both of his martial arts skills are top-notch. I have ordered him to propose marriage to Lijia. Li Kurong has gone crazy. If the two families get married, Lijia can still support him. This is a plan." After finishing speaking, Fan looked at the bedside and saw The scholar in gilded clothes who looked at the lake had no expression. He was just sipping tea and looking at the scenery, so he continued: "I have another plan. King Qi Tao of Qi Yuning has been ordered by the emperor to secretly go north to investigate after the Yuan Day Festival. If this marriage is If the plan fails, a dead soldier will be laid in Wangli Villa to attack and kill Qi Tao. When the prince is attacked, he can take advantage of the chaos and sneak into Jing Hua Shui Yue and take away the martial arts anecdotes."
The scholar in Jinyi put down his tea cup and said with a smile: "Did you know that Li Kurong used the Mirror Flower and Water Moon as a bait to attract many young people from famous families to rush in? However, when these people actually entered the Mirror Flower and Water Moon, they only got a glimpse of some ordinary martial arts and some insignificant rivers and lakes. Things, those ignorant people, after seeing some superficial knowledge, really think that those are the secrets of Jinghua Shuiyue, and the secrets recorded in Jinghua Shuiyue over the years that can really threaten the martial arts people, and the lost secrets of the martial arts, were written into two volumes. No one except Kurong himself knows where these two volumes are."
Fan Mou asked in surprise: "How did the envoy learn about such secrets?"
The scholar in Jin Yi looked at the winter scenery of Linjiang mockingly. He didn't know whether he was laughing at the fact that he had not succeeded, or he was laughing at Li Kurong's obsession with martial arts and going crazy, or he was laughing at the plan in front of him that was too childish, and said: "Because I want to Li Kurong studied under his master for ten years, and also stayed at Wangli Villa for ten years."
