Detective in the Red Chamber

According to the development of this momentum, I am afraid that within three or two years, Sun Shaozong will threaten Lu Hui's throne as the governor.

That's why he changed his strategy recently, from being close to guarding, even suppressing—otherwise Sun Shaozong should be in charge of hunting the White Lotus Sect for the first time.

In view of this, how could Sun Shaozong be willing to hand over this god-given credit?

As for disobedience...

Not to mention that Sun Shaozong now has the support of the crown prince, but Eunuch Dai, the real helm of Beizhen Fusi, also favors him very much.

As long as he made a contribution at that time, how dare Lu Hui do anything to him?

Besides, Sun Shaozong's main authority is still within the civil service system. If he really rips his face completely, it will be a big deal in the future, and he will no longer be involved in Beizhen Fusi's errand.

Less gossip.

But the one who is the leader of the six is ​​just a general banner of the seventh rank. If he can make such a great contribution, what's the point of recommending a hundred households from the sixth rank?

It's impossible to say that it can't be directly promoted to two levels, it's unknown!

Therefore, after hearing Sun Shaozong's promise, the six talents were all very excited, and they all screamed and expressed their willingness to die for Lord Qianhu.

But Sun Shaozong said again, "I naturally hope that the big guys can come back alive to be promoted and make a fortune-to avoid leaking rumors, there are only seven of you and me tonight, but there are more than [-] members of the Bailian Remnant Party, and most of them are green forest masters. If you don't want to take risks with me, it's still too late to quit now."

Hearing that there are more than [-] good players on the opposite side, but there are only seven on his side, the Dragon Guards who are used to bullying the few with the more, feel a little uneasy.

It's just that he was clamoring to 'be dead', who has the face to back down at this time?

In the midst of silence, one of the little flags suddenly raised his head and said loudly, "I am willing to go through fire and water with my lord!"

This time someone took the lead, whether it was willing or not, they hurriedly followed and respectfully said, "I am willing to go through fire and water with my lord!"

"Good, good, good!"

Sun Shaozong shouted hello three times, then laughed and said, "It's just that we are going through fire and water, but it's not enough. No matter how powerful the thieves of the White Lotus Sect are, can they still beat the army with firearms and strong bows and crossbows? "

"Don't you forget that when I was in the Jinmen mansion, I killed more than a hundred rebels by myself - now with your help, what's the big deal about twenty or so thieves?! "

When everyone heard this, their confidence suddenly increased.

"Get on the horse!"

Following Sun Shaozong's order, the six quickly found their own mounts.

Seeing that it was Xiaoqi who took the lead again, Sun Shaozong couldn't help feeling a little pity for his talent, so he asked Xiaoqi's name specifically.

The little flag cupped his hands on the horse, and said heroically, "Wang Zhen, a humble official, is from Yuzhou, Hebei. If you die today, please send your bones back to your hometown and bury him with your parents."

I go!

Wang Zhen of Weizhou? !

Sun Shaozong was really shocked by this title, and almost blurted out asking, aren't you a eunuch?How did you sneak into the Dragon Guard? !

Chapter 527

Qingxuguan Southeast, Jixiang Street.

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water. This street is not far from Qingxu Temple, so naturally it is mainly engaged in the business of incense and candle offerings. It was originally called Jixiang Street, but later it was called It has become an auspicious street.

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

"The sky is dry and things are dry, so be careful with the candles!"

The fourth watch was approaching, the watchman Zhao Laoshi was holding a lantern in one hand and beating the gong hanging on his elbow with the other, but he couldn't help showing some panic in his voice.

When Gein usually passed the intersection, even if he couldn't bump into Ma San, he could at least echo each other, but today he shouted several times, but the surroundings were quiet, without any response.

Didn't Ma San meet a thief?

As soon as I thought of this, two black figures suddenly jumped out from the alley next to me, and Zhao Laoshi fell to the ground without any explanation.

"Heroic man, spare your life, heroic man, spare your life!"

Zhao Laoshi hurriedly closed his eyes, and shouted, "The villain knows the rules, just take whatever you want, the villain didn't see or hear anything!"

"Special girl!"

But one of them laughed and scolded, "I can't see or hear anything, what's the use of you watchmen?"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Zhao Laoshi still closed his eyes and shouted, "A villain is not as good as a fart. I beg the good man to praise the villain, and let the villain be a fart!"

"You bastard..."

"What nonsense are you talking to him!"

The laughing and cursing person was about to say something, but the accomplice next to him became impatient, stretched out his hand to open Zhao Laoshi's eyelids, and took advantage of the opportunity to smash a dark thing in front of him.

"Dragon... Dragon Guard?!"

Although Zhao Laoshi is illiterate, but as a watchman, he is no stranger to the badges of officials, so he hastily changed his words and said, "The villain has no eyes, and he treats the official as..."

"To shut up!"

Wang Zhen put the waist card in his pocket, pulled Zhao Laoshi from the ground, and threatened viciously, "I am supervising a major imperial murder case. If you dare to startle the thieves by shouting, be careful, I will kill your whole family!"

Zhao Laoshi hurriedly shut his mouth tightly, followed Wang Zhen obediently, and entered the alley next to him.

It's just that when he got to the alley and saw the face of the leader clearly through the dim starlight, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Qing...Master Qingtian?!"

"You mother..."

"Zhao is honest, right?"

Sun Shaozong raised his hand to stop Wang Zhen from yelling, and said with a warm smile, "We should have met twice during the investigation last time."

Seeing that Sun Shaozong still remembered his humble name, Zhao Laosan was so excited that his nose bubbled up all the time, and he was about to kowtow to see him in fear.

However, Sun Shaozong said again, "Now that the situation is urgent, I won't stop talking to you about the old days——I invite you guys to come here because I want you to help me catch the thieves of the White Lotus Sect."

Only then did Zhao Laoshi realize that besides himself, Ma San and Wang Tiezhu, the watchman of Ruyifang, were also standing not far away.

And when they heard that they were going to help arrest the thieves of the White Lotus Sect, the three watchmen all had ashen-colored faces and trembling tremors, neither daring to answer nor refusing.

"Don't worry, I will definitely not let you put yourself in danger, you just need to hide in the distance and work hard."

Sun Shaozong comforted the three of them, and when their fear subsided a little, he let Zhao Laoshi lead the way to Jixiang Road, in front of an oil workshop next to Chahe.

Seeing that Zhao Laoshi was ordered to come forward to call the door, Wang Zhen was holding his sword tightly, but he couldn't help questioning, "My lord, although this oil shop is not small, if you want to hide more than [-] thieves, I'm afraid..."

"Who said the thief is in the oil workshop?"

Sun Shaozong asked back, seeing that the gate of the oil workshop was already open, he walked in.

"Hey, you are..."

"Hush! Don't yell!"

"Are you blind? You can't even recognize Sun Qingtian from Shuntian Mansion's 'Shenduan'!"

The store clerk who opened the door was about to stop him, but was stopped by three watchmen.

Sun Shaozong arrived in the courtyard unhindered, roughly identified the direction, led Wang Zhen and others straight to the back door, unlatched the door, pushed the door panel left and right, pointed to a brightly lit place on the other side of the river and said, " Where is the place where the thief hides."

Wang Zhen set up the awning to look around for a few moments, and suddenly blurted out, "We love each other?! No wonder there are more than [-] thieves in the room, but there is no news!"

This is the four characters of 'together with each other'.

Yu husband and wife are for never leaving, and Yu brothers are for watching and helping each other.

But if these four words are mentioned near Qingxu Temple, it must refer to the famous Elephant Girl House on the bank of the Chahe River.

It is said that Auntie Li, the owner of this "blessing each other", was born with a pair of discerning eyes. She can see how much a man is worth on the street through two layers of cotton trousers, so there are many talented people under her banner.

In addition, two great lamas of Tantric Buddhism were invited to be the instructors of guns and sticks. The Xianggu under the banner can be said to be both internal and external, and they are all good at "playing, playing, playing and tasting".

And this "Xiangxiangyimo" is divided into two courtyards, the front and the back. The outside is no different from other houses.

The inner courtyard is specially set up for the rich and bitter wives.

In view of the fact that women will inevitably have scruples and pressures in various aspects when visiting a brothel, so this "Xiangnu" Xianggu Pavilion was specially built on a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides.

Every night, there will be five or six willow-leaf and awning boats, shuttle back and forth on the two-foot-wide river, and guide the female guests who come to visit the museum.

Except for a few mavericks, most of the female guests covered their faces with scarves and masks, and the light boats and boats danced all night.

It is precisely because of this that the backyard where they have been together for a long time has always been a mysterious place, and it is difficult for outsiders to get a glimpse of it unless it is introduced by a regular customer.

But he said that it was just after four o'clock that night.

In a secluded small building in the backyard of Xianggu House, the famous Aunt Li paced back and forth, and the dangling candlestick became restless.

"Master Li Xiang."

Someone in the corner couldn't see it, and couldn't help but said, "If there is something important, you might as well invite the venerable back now."

"No no no!"

Aunt Li quickly waved her hand and said, "It's so easy to meet a suitable woman who can entertain the old man, why bother at this time?"

"Humph!"

Someone snorted again, stretched out his bear-like body, raised his fists and said with a grin: "In my opinion, old sister, you have been in the capital for a long time, and you even forgot how to teach the people below - if this In northern Shaanxi, whoever congregation dares to be so disrespectful, I, Liu Jun, must tear him alive!"

Aunt Li smiled wryly when she heard the words, but she didn't bother him, she just raised her neck and kept looking outside.

That Liu Junbao nicknamed "Holding the sky with one hand", relying on his bravery to run across the green forests in the northwest, is the number one fighter under the White Lotus Sect. Originally, he didn't pay attention to such women, but now he saw that Aunt Li treated him badly. Ignore it, and immediately feel annoyed.

"Old sister."

He sneered and said, "Why don't you tell me the identity of that person, brother, how about discipline for you?"

This violated Aunt Li's taboo, although that man was somewhat difficult to control, he was her trump card, how could he allow others to spy on him?

She lowered her face, and was about to hit Liu Junbao with words, so that he would know whose territory this place is, but someone outside the door scolded, "Presumptuous! You can ask this matter?!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a thin old man stepping in, scolded with a heavy face, "The identity of 'Bing San' is a sect secret, and it will be of great use in the future—not to mention you, except the leader Apart from Li Xiangzhu, even this old man is not allowed to ask about his identity!"

Even though Liu Junbao was rebellious, he softened his spine in front of the old man, obediently listened to his lesson, and then smiled apologetically, "Master, I..."

The old man raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to say more, then turned his head to look at Aunt Li, and said solemnly, "Master Li Xiang, what important news did you get when you called everyone together so late?"

This person is Ge Zhen, the vice-leader of the White Lotus Sect. Because of his high morals and prestige, he is not inferior to the leader, so people often call him the venerable.

"Report to His Holiness."

Aunt Li said cautiously, "Bingsan sent a message, saying that he hoped that the brothers who came to Beijing would proceed carefully, and it would be best to temporarily stop their activities, at least wait until he sent his pregnant wife away, and then... and then..."

Seeing that Ge Zhuan's face was getting more and more gloomy, she quickly stopped the following words, knelt down and said, "It's the subordinate's incompetence that connives at Bing San being so reckless and rude!"

"none of your business."

Ge Zhen shook his head slowly, and said sternly, "There is an old saying that 'when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples'. It is understandable that the people below have their own little calculations."

After a pause, he said again, "Well, you pass the message to him for me. You can't delay the search for the saint for a day, but I can arrange for the brothers in the sect to escort his wife out of the capital first."

This is clearly to take the other party's wife as a hostage!

Aunt Li groaned secretly in her heart, but she didn't dare to disobey Ge Zhu's order. She was about to bite the bullet and take the order, when she suddenly saw someone rushing towards him, bowing down to report, "My lord, an oil factory on the other side of the river is flooded." It's..."

Ge Zhu was upset, he heard even such trivial things, and came to report to himself, he couldn't help scolding, "Absurd! The fire on the other side of the river has nothing to do with us?"

The person who came quickly explained, "The shopkeeper poured all the burning oil into the river, and now half of the river is burning red. Our two secret sentries patrolling the river were scared and abandoned the boat and fled to the bank."

"Master Wang Xiang felt that the fire was a bit strange, so I asked my lord to ask the venerable, do you want to send someone to the other side to see what happened?"

Ge Zhuan's brows frowned even deeper, and he rushed outside in a few steps, but saw that most of the sky outside was dyed red by the flames in just a few words.

Sure enough, something strange!

Tonight is just a breeze, even if the oil workshop is on fire, it shouldn't spread so quickly.

"Liu Junbao!"

Ge Zhu immediately ordered, "I'll go to the back door first to find out what's going on, you stay here and gather everyone!"

Without waiting for Liu Jun to respond, he had already strode towards the back door with great strides.

Aunt Li and the others hurriedly followed after seeing this.

Seeing the approach, suddenly several people rushed forward in a panic, the leader was none other than Wang Xiangzhu, even though he didn't care about hiding anything, he shouted at the top of his voice, "My lord, I'm afraid this fire is coming for us." The oil mills on the opposite side are pouring oil into the river, and throwing a lot of bedding and furniture down..."

Ge Yan's face became more and more gloomy, and he passed Wang Xiangzhu and the others without saying a word, and looked outside the door, but he saw that the two-foot-wide river was almost completely occupied by raging flames, and the entire Xianggu House It was like being surrounded by a dancing fire dragon.

bang, bang, bang...