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Chapter 379 Who is it?
In the west of Kaifeng City, there is Liu's house in Dawu East Lane. It is the house of a brother of Liu Taiping's family. It occupies a vast area and is connected by rice paddies.

Liu Taiping and Liu Zhongzhi's uncles and nephews each built mansions in Chang'an City. They came to Kaifeng only for the exam, so they borrowed to live in Liu's house in Dawu East Lane.

One day Liu Zhongzhi came out from the side door, walked for a while, and suddenly saw someone pulling a cart and walking in the west alley, accompanied by a woman.

Although the woman was wearing coarse clothes, she was tall and slender, she walked with twists and turns, and with the swaying kerchief in her hand, the fragrance wafted from afar.

"A lady from a good family, she is going out with her husband who is doing hard work." Liu Zhongzhi squinted his eyes, "I'm a little angry."

A few subordinates behind him understood and were about to step forward when the tall slender woman seemed to have sensed something and turned her head.

Liu Zhongzhi frowned, with a look of disgust on his face.

"Don't worry about it, go to the Juyuan."

His tone was a little cold, and he turned and left.

……

Jiang Fan snorted softly, waved the champagne on the hook, and led the man pulling the scooter across the alley, and walked for a long time before reaching a small gate.

He raised his eyebrows, and the man pulling the cart stepped forward and knocked on the door.

"The food is here."

Immediately someone opened the door.

"Bring in the vegetables."

"Okay, this place is really big, it will take a long time to go around..."

The small door was closed, and the voices of several people were extremely low.

"No problem?" Jiang Fan said, "I just met Liu Zhongzhi, where does he live?"

"Don't worry, he lives in the yard to the south, far away. Lao Zhong and I manage the pigsty, a separate yard, and we have taken charge of the manager, and several other servants have also bribed him."

"Where are people hiding?"

"In the pigsty, we have dug a hole. People can put people in it and cover it with thatch. There are more than 20 pigs around, no one can see, and it is convenient to feed, so they won't starve to death."

"Don't be trampled to death by pigs."

"Don't worry, we'll watch."

"Remember to give him more medicine, just in case he wakes up and shouts."

"My mouth is blocked. No matter how much you hum, it's just like a pig squawking. The Liu family wouldn't come to this dirty and smelly place."

"Don't be careless, be careful with me..."

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Liu Zhongzhi came to Juanyuan again, in order to find clues about Shi Zhang's disappearance, but found nothing.

"Where was Shi Zhang tied up?" he murmured.

There is no one singing in the dependent garden now, standing at the gate and thinking for a while, Liu Zhongzhi suddenly saw two young scholars walking by.

He frowned, led others to follow, and then walked behind the two scholars. Listening to their conversation, Liu Zhongzhi raised his hand again, stopping the movements of his subordinates.

He recognized one of the scholars, he was the nephew of Song Dao, a famous scholar in Luoyang;

"Mr. Bai has really arrived in Kaifeng?"

"Don't lie to Brother Song. Yesterday I saw him come to this Juyuan Garden to listen to the song, but unfortunately there was no one singing in the Juyuan Garden, so he went to the tavern over there to drink a pot of wine. Now that there are fewer and fewer restaurants in the city, maybe he still will come."

"You actually know Mr. Bai?"

"I listened to Mr. Yishan's lecture in Dongping the year before last. He was with Mr. Yishan, and I was lucky enough to meet him once."

"I really admire him. Didn't he come to the south last year? He wrote "Tianjingsha" and "Withered vines, old trees and dark crows" for half a year, which attracted northern scribes to fill in, but only Mr. Bai wrote another one. A whole poem of autumn poems will never lose to the southerners."

"The southerners can't write more than broken sentences, but Mr. Bai can write the whole poem, which is naturally better."

The two scholars walked and talked about this, and after a while they came to a dilapidated tavern.

"That's it, ah, Mr. Bai is here again, did you see it?"

Liu Zhong, who was following behind, heard this and understood who the two scholars were talking about... Bai Pu.

Bai Pu was born in a family of officials in the Kingdom of Jin. His father's name was Bai Hua. He was sentenced by the Privy Council, and he and Yuan Haowen were family friends.

When the Kingdom of Jin was destroyed, the Bai family suffered a catastrophe. Yuan Haowen adopted the young Bai Pu, taught him poetry, and carefully cultivated him, making him a well-known talented scholar in the North.

Liu Zhongzhi thought for a while, and ordered his subordinates to wait outside the tavern. When he went in alone, he saw two scholars talking to a middle-aged man.

"Mr. Bai, I've heard your "Tang Minghuang's Autumn Night with Parasol Rain", 'My God! A Han Ming concubine is far away from marrying Shanyu, but she can't help but weep the west wind and tears and wet her beard.'"

"You sing well." Bai Pu said.

Bai Pu faced the entrance of the tavern sideways, and could only see a side face, with a bitter expression, tightly frowning eyebrows, and three long beards, but still had an extraordinary bearing and a radiant radiance.

He spoke with a Hebei accent, held his wine glass, opened his mouth and sang a line following the libretto.

"How many times have you seen the six armies trampling together, laying a corpse in the yellow sand?"

"Good! I can hear Mr. Bai with my own ears..."

Liu Zhongzhi had already stepped forward, put a silver talisman on the table, and said: "You two gentlemen, let me have a chat with Mr. Bai."

When the two young scholars saw it, their expressions changed, they saluted quickly, and ran away in a hurry.

"Liu Zhongzhi, the original text, is the provincial experience officer, and his uncle is the governor of the province." Liu Zhongzhi smiled, picked up the silver talisman, and sat down opposite Bai Pu.

"I've heard of Mr. Bai's name for a long time, and I finally had the honor to meet you today."

Bai Pu said: "Is there something you can do with Liu Jing?"

"Although I am a layman, I occasionally read some poems. I heard that Mr. Bai wrote the song "Tianjingsha" last year, but did he echo the fragment of "withered vines, old trees, dark crows"?"

"Yes."

Liu Zhongzhi's literary talent was mediocre. Although he had heard of Bai Pu's words, he couldn't memorize them. He asked: "Mr. Bai, can you read it for me again?"

"In a lonely village, the setting sun is setting and the clouds are setting, the smoke is light and the old trees are jackdaws, under the shadow of a flying bird. Green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers."

"Good words." Liu Zhong stroked his palm and said, "Writing about autumn, but there is not a word of autumn in the whole text, it is better than that Li Xia."

Bai Pu said: "If you haven't seen the whole picture of Li Xia's poem, how do you know if it contains the word 'Autumn'?"

"Sir, do you know Li Xia?"

"Just heard about it."

Liu Zhongzhi squinted his eyes, and with a meaningful smile, he said leisurely: "Mr. Ying and Li Xia's broken sentences, but have you been friends with him for a long time?"

Bai Pu was also blunt, and said: "No, I wrote lyrics last year, but I was just not convinced. Now, I am looking for him."

"Oh?" Liu Zhongzhi was very surprised, and asked, "Sir, are you looking for Li Xia? Do you know that he has returned to Kaifeng?"

"The historian Erlang was robbed." Bai Pu said, "The person behind this incident should be Li Xia."

Liu Zhongzhi looked serious, and asked, "Why do you know?"

"From what Shi Shuai said, my father is in Shi Shuai's shogunate." Bai Pu said: "Erlang and I are also good friends, and we both like Zaju."

"Mr. Guigeng?"

"Thirty and one."

"That's a year-end friendship." Liu Zhong said straightly: "Sir, you usually pay attention to health care?"

"Practice some Wu Qinxi." Bai Pu poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Liu experienced such a questioning of me, do you suspect that I secretly communicated with Zhao Song?"

"No way."

Bai Pu said: "My father's life and past, I don't know Liu's experience, but have you heard of it?"

"I've heard about it, but I don't know the details." Liu Zhong asked the shopkeeper to serve a pot of wine, then turned to Bai Pu and said, "I would like to hear more about it."

"My father was originally an important minister of the Jin Kingdom. More than [-] years ago, the Jin Kingdom was destroyed. At that time, my father did defect to Zhao Song and became the Tilu official of Junzhou in the Song Dynasty."

"I know about this matter." Liu Zhong said straightly: "But I don't know why your father returned to the Mongolian Kingdom?"

"At that time, Fan Yongji, the governor of Henan Province in the Kingdom of Jin, contacted Meng Gong, the general of Zhao and Song, and wanted to surrender to Song. 'Rejected Fan Yongji's surrender.

Knowing that he was jealous of the imperial court, Meng Gong was disheartened, and sighed that "the Central Plains has been cleaned up in 30 years, and this aspiration cannot be applied", so he took the initiative to submit his resignation and died of illness soon.Fan Yongji then led his troops to rob Junzhou in the Song Dynasty, and sent money and food to Mongolia to surrender. "

Hearing this, Liu Zhongzhi grinned, looking extremely disdainful.

"Ha, Zhao Song used to be like this, it's disgustingly useless. Meng Gong is lucky that he didn't die of an unwarranted crime."

Bai Pu sneered slightly, with contempt in his eyes.

"Seeing Zhao Song like this, my father was very disappointed, so he followed Fan Yongji and the exiled ministers of the Jin Dynasty back north, and surrendered to Shi Shuai's family."

Liu Zhongzhi asked: "But I heard that Mr. Bai was brought up by Mr. Yishan?"

"Yes, after my father returned to Meng, Uncle Yuan sent me to Zhending so that our father and son could be reunited. Uncle Yuan treated me with such kindness as a mountain." Bai Pu whispered: "Gu I really become a bereaved dog, Lai Jun once protected the nest..."

Liu Zhongzhi picked up the jug that had just been served, and poured a glass for Bai Pu.

"I heard that at that time, Mr. wrote a song "Man Ting Fang", which was passed down as a good story in the northern literary world."

"I was only more than ten years old at that time, and I was so clumsy in words that I made Liu experience laugh."

Bai Pu took the wine glass and raised his head to take a sip. He felt Liu Zhongzhi's gaze, so he began to read the little poem.

"Guanglu Tower, the General's Pavilion, in the middle of a ten-year dream. Short clothes and horses, I saw Zhenzhou Mountain again. Nehan was drunk in the past, and the sarong is still tall and wide. Today and what day, the children in front of the lamp are happy to survive. "

"A good word should be clear." Liu Zhongzhi raised his wine glass and asked again: "Sir, you are so talented, why didn't you become an official?"

"Shi Shuai once recommended me, but I declined."

When Bai Pu spoke, he kept looking into Liu Zhongzhi's eyes, and he said: "Because the Mongolians brutally plundered and killed too much. I have no intention of becoming an official."

Liu Zhong was taken aback for a moment, the wine in his hand spilled all over the table.

Bai Pu asked: "Is Liu Jingji going to arrest me for this sentence?"

"Haha, it's absolutely impossible, it's absolutely impossible... The Great Mongol Kingdom never commits crimes because of words, it's just..."

Bai Pu laughed at himself, and said: "Don't worry about Liu experience. Just now I also said my opinion on Zhao Song. I despise the Zhao family who is so peaceful... There is absolutely no possibility of surrendering to Zhao Song."

"It's natural." Liu Zhongzhi's expression finally relaxed, and he asked, "But Mr. Shi Shuai has favored him and made friends with Erlang, so he plans to find Erlang?"

"good."

"Why are you drinking here, sir?"

Bai Pu said: "Yesterday, Zhang Shuai entered Kaifeng City."

"so what?"

Bai Pu raised his wine glass and pointed to the outside of the shop with the wine glass.

Liu Zhong turned his head and saw a middle-aged man questioning the porter at the gate of the Juanyuan in the distance.

"That man's name is 'Jing Jie', and he is Zhang Shuai's wife and nephew,"

"Sir, do you think this matter has something to do with Erlang's robbery? But, Zhang Shuai was summoned by the Hook Examination Bureau, so it's only natural for Jing Jie to investigate the matter..."

"Now Kaifeng City is only allowed to enter but not to exit." Bai Pu said: "If Li Xia wants to leave the city, someone must take him out of the city. Liu Shijing thinks, who will this person be?"

"Who sent Li Xia out of the city?" Liu Zhongzhi murmured in a low voice, lost in thought...

(End of this chapter)