"Brother, doesn't that guy know magic?" Lin Linyou followed Zhang Bi and whispered, "What if he turns into a fish..."
That's right! Huang Ze's master and the biggest suspect in the Jiaofang Division case is the guy who had fought against Lin Linyou in Xiaoyao Tower before - Jin Ye, the eunuch guard of Xiaoyao Tower and a master of illusion, whose full name is Jin Chang!
Huang Ze's martial arts master was hired by Li Zengzhi. It seems that Li Zengzhi also has shares in Xiaoyao Tower.
Zhang Ben said impatiently: "Second brother! Illusions are just a trick. Besides, the water in the bath is hot. What kind of fish can swim in hot water?"
Lin Linyou blurted out: "Tropical fish."
Zhang Bi: "..."
"Yes, it's a cover-up." Lin Linyou also felt that it was impossible to turn into a fish, but... "But what if he disguised himself as a woman? This can be done easily with a cover-up, right?"
Zhang Bi: "Second brother, are you afraid of being beaten by that guy? Why are you so nervous?"
Lin Linyou remained silent. Indeed, Jin Chang's illusion made him frightened. The dragon he transformed into was so big and ferocious that he flew up into the air!
Thinking back, he even smelled the bloody smell spewing from the dragon's mouth in the air!
"I'm afraid, but not afraid. I'm nervous, and indeed a little nervous." Lin Lin said, "Aren't you worried about my little sister and the others?"
"Don't be nervous." Zhang Ben stretched out his generous hand and put it on his shoulder, "Isn't there brother, a martial arts master, here? I am here!"
"In my opinion, we will bring our troops tonight, surround Xiaoyao Tower, and capture that guy!" Lin Lin said.
"There is an eunuch from the inner court in Xiaoyao Tower. We don't know whether that eunuch is not favored or has a strong background, right?" Zhang Bi said, "Besides, except for Huang Ze, where is the physical evidence? We have the same No."
Lin Linyou nodded: "This Xiaoyao Tower was built under the personal order of Emperor Taizu. This eunuch can turn it into a gambling house, so he must have a strong background."
"That's right!" Zhang Ben said, "Besides, you and I don't have the Holy Order. Who dares to lead troops to surround it without authorization? At the very least, we have to communicate with the official Li Chun and the others, otherwise if something goes wrong, we cannot bear the responsibility. .”
"Li Chun? Forget it, the guy who eats nothing but corpses will definitely not help us." Lin Linyou has never had a good impression of this Li Qianhu.
"Don't worry about this. I will tell you in person then... I still have to say it." Zhang Bi glanced at the back of Yang Fang in front of him, "I also sent people to inquire about Xiaoyao Tower. , don’t be impatient!”
Lin Linyou sighed: "Hey, I never thought it would be so troublesome for our Jin Yiwei to arrest people."
Zhang Bi said: "It's not troublesome! It will definitely be troublesome to catch high-ranking officials, but it won't be troublesome at all to catch some unruly officials. It depends on the situation!"
"It makes sense." Lin Linyou nodded again, "It's not just the Jin Yiwei. This rule applies to the past and the present. It has been the same since ancient times."
"Whenever you become a third-level commander and a second-level commander, you can really arrest whoever you want and release whoever you want," Zhang Bi said.
"Brother, you have been around for so many years, and you are not just a member of a hundred households?" Lin Lin said, "I am self-aware, but you can't be a commander, how can I be so good and capable?"
"You can't say that, second brother, as soon as I looked at you, I knew you could achieve great things." Zhang Ben looked at Lin Linyou pretending to be deep, "I'm different. Being a commander puts a lot of pressure on me. I face the emperor and accompany him. A king is like a tiger accompanying a tiger. How good I am now! All I have to do is serve myself."
"Brother, I don't agree with this." Lin Lin said, "Don't we have a few people to serve now? Which one is easier to serve than the emperor, deputy qianhu, qianhu, governor, or general? "
"Second brother, my eldest brother has always told you to keep a low profile as a person." Zhang Bi said, "It's the same as being an official. Don't strive to be the first in everything, otherwise the blame will be easily placed on you."
Lin Linyou, who had never wanted to be promoted but only wanted to make a fortune, now had a further change in his thinking - the first change was when he heard about the palace banquet. Not only were the food and wine drool-worthy, but those palace maids were... tsk tsk! Now, the commander's python robe also made him drool a little.
If one day I become the commander of the Royal Guards and have great power, haha!
"Let's go! Don't think so much now, take a bath and relax."
Zhang Bi patted Lin Linyou and pulled him to follow Yang Fang and the others. Yang Fang, this kid, is now staring at Ren Ran all day long and rarely participates in their conversations.
They discussed the matter and did not take him with them. He was considered a family man now, so it was better not to involve him in risky matters.
When the group arrived at the perfume store, they saw a luxuriously decorated yet elegant attic with four characters written on the plaque: "Bronze Fish Warms the Pond".
Upon entering, there was a counter where a young man wearing a green scarf greeted a few people with a smile and gave several people wooden clogs, which were also called slippers at the time and were almost similar to modern slippers.
I still have to go inside to change clothes.
Several people changed into their wooden clogs, clicked up several steps, and turned around a long corridor. At the end of the corner, there were two marble-decorated screens on the left and right sides. One had "Yuan" written on it, and the other had "Yuan" written on it. The word "yang".
"Damn, if you don't know how to read, you don't know which way to go." Lin Lin said.
Zhang Bi said: "Illiterate people generally don't come here. In fact, those who come here are all officials' families or businessmen."
The women's bathhouse was very empty. In the Ming Dynasty, women rarely went out on the streets, let alone soaked in hot springs outside.
In the men's bath, I heard that someone was already taking a bath inside.
The bathhouses are all equipped with single baths, which are single baths. They are actually small changing rooms separated by screens. There are coat racks inside, so you can step into the bathtub directly after taking off your clothes. The bathtubs that are several feet in size are also separated by separate partitions. It is open, and a small part is blocked by the curtain, so you can't see your body when you enter the water. Familiar people will not feel embarrassed or inferior, and women will not be ashamed. You can also chat over wine across the bathtub.
Because there are fewer women than men in hot springs, the price of women's baths is relatively cheaper. When Zhang Bi paid for the soup at the counter, he bought single rooms for all four girls. He was three grown men and confessed We are free to meet each other, just go to a cheaper mixed room, but going to a single room seems a bit coy.
The key is that it’s expensive per class!
"Brother, do you look like you were a kid wearing these clogs?" Lin Linyou said to Zhang Bi half-jokingly after parting ways with the girls and entering the men's bath.
"My clogs were stolen from us when I was young," Zhang Bi said.
"What little day?" Yang Fang asked.
"He's just...a person who lived a good life as a child." Zhang and Lin laughed.
Yang Fang said seriously: "Every household has clogs, and they are not something only those who have lived a good life can afford to wear."
Zhang Bilin Linyou: "Yes, yes."
I saw that the huge bathroom was full of steam, warm as spring, and the decoration was very gorgeous——
Bronze lamps are lit on the surrounding walls, and dolomitic copper braziers with burning charcoal are placed at the four corners. The ground is paved with granite, and evergreen hollies and blooming wintersweets are planted in the corners; on both sides are several rooms. There is a private bathing hall, with a large mixed bathing pool in the middle. There are already four or five men taking a bath in the pool.
There are bathing utensils such as bath stools, double-eared copper pots, copper bathtubs, ladles, etc. around the pool; there are several pumice stones for back rubs thrown in the pool, and there are hundreds of gauze or kudzu sachets sunk at the bottom of the pool. It is filled with "Baixianxiang" mixed with fine powders of various spices, which quietly overflows into the water, leaving a fragrance lingering on the surface of the pool.
Even the edge of the bathing pool is made of as luxurious as jade, and is inlaid with precious clams.
There was also the back-scratcher and the waiter Hou Li - the Guanfeng wine was included in the soup price, but back-scratching had to be paid separately, and it was not expensive for two coins.
With Yang beside him, Lin Linyou could only sigh in his heart: It is no less than the hot spring spas of our era!
Zhang Bi blinked: "Second brother, third brother, do you know why these boys are also wearing green headscarves?"
Generally, only the turtles and teapots of the Jiaofang Division wear green turbans.
Yang Fangqiong was also the first to come to this perfume shop, so he shook his head to express his ignorance.
Lin Linyou thought about it for a moment and understood: "Could it be that there is one here too?"
Zhang Ben pointed to the room: "You can sleep in there, and there are both meat and vegetables."
Yang Fang didn't know whether he really didn't understand or pretended not to: "What? Can we still eat inside?"
Zhang Bilin Linyou: "Yes, yes..."
"Come on, let's take a relaxing bath and take you in for a meal later!" Zhang Bi said, taking the lead to take off the bath towel around his waist, and his fat body fell into the bath with a "plop", causing a big splash. water splash.
"Brother, you can't handle the water splash! Look at me!" Lin Linyou plunged into the water with a sudden thrust.
At this time, a person lying on the edge of the pool with his hands spread open suddenly opened his half-closed eyes and shouted at Lin Linyou and the others: "Hey! Sand sculptures, what are you making a noise about?!"
The word "shadiao" is not a modern patented product. The ancients have long used it to curse people. In the scripts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, almost all of them still used the word "diao" to express swear words. For example, Ma Zhiyuan of the Yuan Dynasty wrote in "Jianfu Stele":
"Sidiao, let me go, I'll go after my husband!"
They may be written differently, but they all sound the same and have similar meanings.
The companions around this man stared at Lin Linyou and the others and continued: "Why are there so many inexplicable people? Nanjing is really getting more and more chaotic!"
I saw that both of them had tattoos on their chests, one of them had yellow hair, and both had ruthless expressions on their faces.
"Golden Retriever Lion King?" Lin Linyou emerged from the water and secretly thought that these two people were a bit strange.
Moreover, it seems that I have heard what they said somewhere?
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