Destroyed outside, gold and jade inside

Chapter 176
Before dawn, Fu Yin hurriedly found the guest room specially arranged for Zhang Daochang, "My lord, my lord! It's not good!"

Unexpectedly, the sound of footsteps came from the room immediately, as if the people inside hadn't fallen asleep at all, and the door was pulled open with a creak.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Mingzhi, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, raised his eyes and looked at the governor at the door.

Fu Yin panicked, "My lord ordered the subordinates to send people to clear up the bandits, but that time the man came from an extraordinary background, he was not afraid at all, and he gave a severe lesson to everyone in my yamen... Isn't your lord right? ..."

Zhang Mingzhi looked at him with raised eyebrows, "Is it something?"

"Did your lord make a mistake? The soldiers came back to report," Fu Yin secretly looked at his face, and said slowly, "You don't think they are the bandits that your lord said?"

Zhang Mingzhi sneered, "I made a mistake?"

Fu Yin nodded again and again, "It's not surprising, or is it just a coincidence? That group really doesn't look like the bandits that your lord said, why don't you check it out again? We have limited troops in this yamen, it's really right Those people didn’t suffer any losses, but the people in the yamen suffered heavy losses and were seriously injured! If they were really bandits, no matter how daring they were, they wouldn’t dare to go against the yamen openly? Don’t you think so?”

Fu Yin cupped his hands and looked at Zhang Mingzhi with a face of embarrassment, and made a clear attitude, saying that he already vaguely knew that this matter was not simple, and it must be a struggle between power factions.

Fu Yin is unwilling and unable to follow this muddy water. They are far away from the capital, and no matter what the final result of the power struggle in the capital is, it has little to do with their territory.But if he said that, he offended the people around Uncle Yu, and turned around and put a hat on himself. It's hard to say whether the position of Fu Yin will last.

"Even if the subordinate officials send people there, it will be of no use other than to frighten the snakes. According to the subordinate officials, it is impossible to arrest them with only a small amount of manpower in the yamen." Fu Yin said with downcast eyes. .

"I don't know, it turns out that the local officials do things like this. Just put the matter aside and ignore it by saying it's impossible?" Zhang Mingzhi looked at Fu Yin with a cold face.

Fu Yin quickly shook his head, "My lord, don't get me wrong, you have to do what you can, you can't hold them here, they are just passing through this place, if you want to go to other places, the next official will definitely report to the county sheriff, Please, Lord Magistrate, dispatch multiple people to work together. It's not just ignoring it, what do you think?"

Zhang Mingzhi snorted coldly, "The governor is just trying to shirk."

"It's not meant to shirk! Uncle Guo's order, how dare I shirk!" Fu Yin said with a serious face, "It's just that adults can go and see, the soldiers in the yamen are now injured and disabled. If the official insists on going to arrest him again, it is not to help the lord, it will only drag the lord down, and miss the lord's business!"

When Fu Yin spoke, his attitude became more respectful, and Ji Shou became more serious, but there was no sign of compromise in his words.

Seeing his rhetoric, Zhang Mingzhi snorted softly, protecting himself wisely, the governor probably guessed the identity of Prince Qi, and if he couldn't guess, he also knew that he was someone he couldn't afford to offend, so he would rather sit here and lie low. Also refused to provoke again.

"Forget it, what the governor said is also reasonable." Zhang Mingzhi looked indifferent, "Then we won't waste the governor's time."

Hearing the words, Fu Yin hurriedly bowed and left.Leaving the courtyard of the guest room, although it was not yet dawn, his footsteps were already brisk.

Zhang Mingzhi didn't delay any longer, and set off overnight to rush to Uncle Guo.

It was dusk when Uncle Yu was found.Hearing that Daoist Zhang had returned, Yu Tai even stood up to greet him regardless of the sword wound on his shoulder.

Seeing that he returned empty-handed and did not bring back Shen Xinniang, or anything else, the expression on Yu Tai's face was not as eager as it was at the beginning.

"It's not surprising that Daoist Zhang returned without success. Fang Yan is cunning, and although he is young, he is quite capable. It is not surprising that Daoist Zhang is not his opponent." Yu Tai said lightly.

Zhang Mingzhi pursed his lips, cupped his hands and said, "It's not like I got nothing."

Hearing this, Yu Tai raised his eyes to look at him again, "Oh? What did the Taoist get?"

"Uncle Guo's sword wound has always been bad," Zhang Mingzhi said slowly, "This wound is not simple."

When Yu Tai heard this, his expression immediately became solemn. He had heard Daoist Zhang talking to the other two alchemists outside his room.Zhang Daochang hinted that his sword injury has always been bad, or it may be related to his destiny at the age of nearly 45.What is the purpose of repeating this now?He hates people mentioning his age the most, as if reminding him that he is dying.

He raised his eyes and looked deeply at Zhang Mingzhi, "The priest said, why is this wound so simple?"

"Pindao sneaked into the inn with the people in the yamen. He just waited and watched and didn't show up. Seeing that the yamen was outnumbered, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos and rob the little lady." Zhang Mingzhi said, "But the little lady stretched out her hand quite a bit. It's not bad, and the prince is also doing his best to help."

Yu Tai narrowed his eyes, what does this have to do with his sword wound?Could Zhang Mingzhi be looking for excuses?

"It wasn't until the little lady sacrificed the mahogany sword that the poor Taoist realized the difference." Zhang Mingzhi set his eyes on Uncle Yu's shoulder, "It was the sword that stabbed Uncle Guo. There was no trace of blood. Seeing that it was difficult to kidnap the little lady, the poor Taoist wanted to take away the mahogany sword."

Upon hearing this, Yu Tai looked at Zhang Mingzhi's empty hands, so he didn't even have the mahogany sword?

"However, there are people who practice Taoism beside Prince Qi, and they are quite famous." Zhang Mingzhi said with downcast eyes, "I think you have heard of the Xuanyu Guanguo uncle in the capital, right? It is the Ziyang real person who is famous in Xuanyu Temple. Now he is helping Prince Qi."

Hearing this, Yu Tai frowned slightly.The reason why Nanshi can develop rapidly and become a hot place is due to the Xuanyu Temple.It was Prince Qi's handwriting to invite Xuanyu Temple to move to the south of the city for expansion.Could it be that since that time, he has been in collusion with Master Ziyang of Xuanyu Temple?He was already entangled with the Lingshan Sect, and now he has people who practice Taoism to help him, so it is really unavoidable.

Zhang Mingzhi lowered his eyes, but he didn't say anything. Before he showed up, he saw that Prince Qi was quite at odds with that real Ziyang.If you say it, it will inevitably appear that you have returned without success this trip, and you are somewhat incompetent.

"When I was in Lingshan, I could see that the little lady was very skilled, she seemed to know magic tricks! She was able to command poisonous bees!" Another Taoist priest said.

"I don't think it's a sorcery. She is good at using medicine and poison." Zhang Mingzhi said slowly.

Hearing this, Yu Tai felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He hissed and raised his hand to cover his shoulder, "There is no sign of poisoning in the flesh, so it could be that the peach wood sword was poisoned?"

Zhang Mingzhi cleaned his hands, stepped forward, and opened the cloth strip wrapped around Yu Tai's shoulder.But seeing the sword wound on his shoulder, there is still no sign of healing, the flesh has not turned black, and there is no peculiar smell, but the delay in healing is really painful.

"Junior brother, can I change the medicine I asked you to change before I left?" Zhang Mingzhi looked at the Taoist priest beside him.

The Taoist nodded again and again, "Don't worry, brother, I changed it myself."

"It should be a problem with the sword, not ordinary poison. If it is ordinary poison, just force out the poison. This seems to be poisonous but not poisonous, so people can't tell." Zhang Mingzhi frowned and hesitated, "Uncle Guo still rests in peace of mind. , the other things should be recovered after returning to Beijing, and then slowly figure it out."

Uncle Yu Guo took a deep breath, feeling unhappy, and the pain on his shoulder made him even more unhappy, but he didn't speak for a while.The pain was on his body, and he knew it better than anyone else.

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Shen Xinniang and her party rushed to Lin County that night, and the real Ziyang had to stay in King Qi's car along the way.King Qi's car is spacious and comfortable to drive, and the bumps are also milder.

In order to facilitate the transfer to the boat early the next morning, they stayed at the inn in Lin County that night.

Along the way, no one paid any attention to Master Ziyang, leaving him aside, it made him feel very boring.

Smelling the scent wafting from Prince Qi's room, Master Ziyang salivated. On the carriage, the snacks brought out by that little girl Dan Xin already made people salivate, but the little girl guarded the food very much, watching it covetously. He seemed to be afraid that he would steal her wife's snacks.It made him feel embarrassed to reach out.

At this moment, he couldn't help it, thought for a while, stood outside Prince Qi's door solemnly, cleared his throat, "Poverty Dao has something important to say to the prince."

"My lord is eating, Taoist priest, please come back later." The entourage in front of the lord's door said with a straight face.

He just picked this time to come here, okay?Later, is there anything delicious later?

"This matter is quite urgent. It has something to do with the person who attacked Mrs. Shen yesterday. There should be no delay!" Master Ziyang said seriously.

The entourage in front of the door looked at him suspiciously, "Since it is related to yesterday's incident, why didn't the Taoist priest talk about it last night and today during the day, why did he want to talk about it now?"

"People often forget things, I just remembered." Master Ziyang stroked his gray beard.

There is not a single crease on his face, how does he look like an old man?
The entourage snorted, with disbelief on his face.

"Hurry up and report, it's something related to Mrs. Shen, it's especially important!" Ziyang Master emphasized.

The prince's importance to Mrs. Shen was naturally not clear to the people around him. Seeing Ziyang's serious face, the attendants really didn't dare to delay any longer, turned around and walked in, wanting to report.

But he saw that the prince was sitting opposite Mrs. Shen. The slender prince knelt down beside the food table, looked at Mrs. Shen intently, and brought the chopsticks in his hand to Mrs. Shen, "Try it?"

"I have my own hands." Shen Xinniang said slowly.

The follower felt that if he went up to report now, it would be too shameless, so he held his breath and wanted to leave.

But as soon as she moved her footsteps, Shen Xinniang looked sideways, "What's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)