Go to Kaifeng to be a civil servant

The so-called "hero saves the beauty", the ending is nine out of ten, it must be a man with a beautiful face, a marriage destined by fate, and it has become a good story that has been passed down for a while.

But when this kind of romantic drama happened to Jin Qian, it could only be described as "miserable".

Blocking the front of the burly man with one arm, he raised his knife arm, put the other hand in his arms and groped for a long time to no avail, Jin Qian had only one word to express his state of mind at this moment: the leak in the house happened to rain all night, the cat came before and the thief came later—— Mold is home!

"Ahem...here, this heroic brother...well, the weather is good today——"

With cold sweat all over his face and mouth slurping for a long time, Jin Qian could barely spit out such a boring sentence similar to "strike up a conversation" to relieve the tension, but the effect was not satisfactory.

The blue veins on the forehead of the big man who was held by his arms were exposed, and he stared fiercely at the thin young man in front of him, and shouted fiercely: "Stinky boy, what kind of onion are you, dare to act wild on Lord Guo's field, don't you want to live?!"

After finishing speaking, with a flick of his arm, Jin Qian staggered aside, and with one lift of the knife handle, he swung it towards Jin Qian again.

Seeing the flickering cold light of the blade, Jin Qian only felt a flash of light in his head, his belly twitched violently, his eyes narrowed, his face became serious, and suddenly he shouted sharply: "Wait a minute——!"

The so-called "closer to vermilion is red, and closer to ink is black", Jin Qian's loud shout is really a bit of a true biography of Mr. Bao's indictment, and immediately suppressed those thugs on the spot.

I saw Jin Qian's eyes were serious, staring straight at the steel blade in front of him, his body was straight, he waved his arm, and said with a pointing spirit: "This hero, we also know that life is not easy these days, but this person who threatens to extort protection money There is really no future in business. Looking at you as a hero, you are a good-looking talent. You are a handsome man, and your skills are even more vigorous. How can you be buried here?! The so-called good man has ambitions everywhere, for the country and the people. Shaking the Quartet, if you, big brother, can turn away from the darkness and turn to the light, and make a contribution to the peace of Jianghu and the harmony of the Great Song Dynasty, your name will be immortalized forever in the future!"

After the rhetoric in his mouth, the thugs were all taken aback, and even Fan Ronghua on the side was also slightly stunned, only Jin Qian felt bitter: Tsk tsk, I can't imagine that we are a modern person, but now we are reduced to shooting ancient times. To save one's life by being flattered by the boss of the underworld is really "time makes heroes"...

"Boy, who are you?" The big man asked with a gloomy face, and the broad-leaved sword in his hand eased a bit.

"Hero, we are just a small person, a humble name is nothing to worry about, it's insignificant—" Jin Qian's lips trembled slightly, trying to squeeze out an inscrutable smile.

Hearing the words, the big man looked at Jin Qian carefully for a while, but seeing Jin Qian looked confident, he couldn't help muttering to himself.

Seeing this, one of the subordinates beside him stepped forward a few steps, leaned into the big man's ear and whispered: "Brother, I think this kid's lightness skills are weird, his words are tricky, and he is definitely not a kind person. The imperial envoy will enter Xihua County in the next few days, and it is really not easy to cause trouble these days, in my opinion, it is better for us to have one more thing than one less thing!"

Hearing the words, the big man in the lead, although a little unwilling, still nodded his head slightly, raised his eyes to look at Jin Qian and said: "Boy, I think you have extraordinary eloquence and good skills. You must have some bad reputation in the world, my lord." I will give you face today and let you live!"

When Jin Qian heard this, he felt as if he had been granted amnesty, his eyes lit up and he smiled and said: "This hero is indeed magnanimous. Let me thank you in advance." Jump out Zhang Yuan.

Just when everyone thought that this person was about to run away, they saw Jin Qian's figure suddenly froze, his back froze for a few seconds, he turned around abruptly, took two steps and rushed back, with a flattering look on his face. The smiling face said: "Sorry, sorry, I forgot something...haha..."

Everyone is inexplicable.

I saw Jin Qian bent down in a hurry, picked up the pear that had fallen to the ground with his fingers at an unforeseen speed, and carried it in his arms, and moved it as he moved it until it moved to Fan Ronghua's side, raised his head slightly, and challenged Fan Ronghua again. Eyebrows, staring again, eyeballs flying up and down, muscles on the face shifting from left to right.

Fan Ronghua was taken aback for a moment, then understood immediately, couldn't help being grateful in his heart, and hastily blinked his long eyelashes.

Jin Qian suddenly felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then tears filled his eyes, and he couldn't help feeling in his heart:

Tsk tsk, what a considerate and beautiful young man, we can understand our great dedication just by giving him a wink. Compared with a cat with a twisted belly, this one in front of me can be regarded as an invincible and pure angel who descended to earth Ah, it's not in vain that we risked our lives to come to "heroes to save the beauty".

Thinking of this, Jin Qian became even more energetic, made up his mind, clenched the pear in his hand, jumped up, swung his arms and flew out, shouting loudly: "Look at the hidden weapon!"

How could the hooligans, who were wondering about Jin Qian's unknown actions, expect Jin Qian to act like this, only to hear Jin Qian say "Look at the hidden weapon!", and saw a black shadow coming through the air, and they didn't care to think about it, and immediately dodged , When I came back to my senses, I found that the so-called hidden weapons were just a few pears, and when I looked up again, I saw that the thin boy had already run away with Fan Ronghua, and there were still such words floating in the air: "Tsk! What are you doing?" Running so slow ah-"

"Brat, dare to trick us!!"

The gangsters were furious immediately, and immediately raised their steel blades and chased after them.

"His grandma, don't stand still!!"

"Stinky boy, you don't want to live anymore?!"

Jinqian has no internal energy, so he can't use his lightness kung fu for a long time, and he can protect himself, but at this time, he drags another person to escape. .

Fan Ronghua is a commoner who has no kung fu background, how could he keep up with Jin Qian's pace, he was so out of breath when he ran, and hearing the footsteps of the thugs behind him gradually yelling and cursing, he felt that there was no hope of escape, and he couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat , Said: "Guest, guest officer, go on your own... leave me alone..." As he spoke, he wanted to pull his wrist out of Jin Qian's tightly clenched palm.

Unexpectedly, Jin Qian's palm was like an octopus sucker, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull out half a cent.

"Guest, guest officer, you go first..." Hearing the footsteps behind him getting closer, Fan Ronghua became more anxious, his hands became stronger, and his voice became hurried.

But the strength of the grip on his wrist remained undiminished.

"Shut up..." A faint sentence came from the person sprinting in front.

Looking at the sweat-wetted hair of the thin and frail young man in front of him, and at the slender arm holding his wrist tightly, Fan Ronghua's heart was full of respect and pain: he had never met before, and he drew his sword to help. This person is only young, but he has such great righteousness. Presumably, the young heroes praised by everyone in the world are like this——

It's a pity that Fan Ronghua only cared about being touched, and didn't hear the second half of Jinqian's breathless words: "We want to let go too..."

However, the beauty is present, and the hands don't listen to the brain's command...

We hate this instinct...

"Stinky boy, let's see where you run this time!"

Just when Jin Qian was fighting hard between reason and instinct, he suddenly heard a thunderclap above his head and shouted loudly. He looked up and saw a gangster doing a somersault, jumping in front of him, and looking around, the two had been surrounded by several thugs in the center.

Jin and Fan were both heartbroken, and their faces were pale in shock.

Fan Ronghua glanced at Jin Qian, feeling sore in his heart:

Such a young hero, but now for me...

Jin Qian glanced at the beautiful boy beside him, and a word came out of his heart:

To die under the peony flower is to be a ghost—tsk tsk, why did this line come out so hard to die? !How unlucky!

The bearded man who took the lead swayed in front of Jin Qian step by step, and said with a grinning smile: "Good boy, you don't want to eat a toast or a fine wine, this time I see where else can you go?!"

A few attendants behind him also yelled: "Brother, stop talking to him, give these two brats a try!"

The bearded man sneered, raised the steel knife in a swish, and slashed at Jin Qian.

"Impossible!" Fan Ronghua stepped forward suddenly and stood in front of the knife, protecting Jin Qian behind him.

Jin Qian was startled. Seeing that the shiny blade was about to be swung towards Fan Ronghua's fat-like skin, his brain froze, and he dragged Fan Ronghua behind him again by some coincidence. Take the knife with your arm.

whoosh-

Clang!Clang, clang, clang!

Following the sound of breaking through the air, several loud noises were heard, and the broad-leaved long knives in the hands of several gangsters were inexplicably broken into two at the same time, and they all fell to the ground.

Looking at those gangsters again, they were stunned for a while, and then they all looked around at the same time.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, there are ghosts!!"

"Ghost ah ah!!"

"Ahhhhh!!"

I don't know which one took the lead and shouted loudly, the rest of the people were all frightened, dropped half of the steel knife in their hands, and ran away in a swarm.

Huh? !

Fan Ronghua and Jin Qian were left stunned in place.

half an hour...

"Hey—brother who sells fruit, do you think the wind is a bit cold today..." Even though the sun was shining brightly, Jin Qian felt his back feel a little chilly, so he asked involuntarily.

Fan Ronghua wondered, looked back at Jin Qian, and shook his head inexplicably.

"Why do I feel that there is a dark wind..." Jin Qian shrank his neck and continued in a low voice.

"...Guest, guest officer, you, behind you..." Fan Ronghua's condensed complexion changed slightly, and a pair of watery eyes stared straight behind Jin Qian and stammered.

An ominous premonition of deja vu came to his heart, Jin Qian turned around slowly, fixed his eyes on it, and suddenly his face twitched uncontrollably.

Standing in front of him was a person with a green pine body, a blue shirt that swayed in the wind, bright eyebrows embracing the moon, black eyes hiding stars, his handsome face was no different from usual, but the depths of a pair of star eyes seemed to be filled with thousands of years of frost, and the cold air was oppressive.

"Zhan, Zhan Zhan... villain, that, thank you for saving me..." The corners of his mouth twitched for a long time, but Jin Qian couldn't utter a single sentence.

Hei Shuo stared at Jin Qian firmly with his starry eyes, and the melodious voice he was used to hearing was a bit harsh at this moment: "Draw your sword to help, sacrifice yourself for others—"

"Then, thank you sir for your praise..."

"Brother Jin is indeed a hero!"

Brother Jin, Jin Jin Jin? ! !

There was a loud alarm in my heart, and a huge drop of cold sweat slid down from my forehead.

It seems that every time I hear this title, nothing good will happen.

Shrinking his figure, Jin Qian immediately lowered his head and closed his eyes, almost shrinking into a ball in a state of introspection.

Tsk, this cat has been having a weird temper recently, moody and unpredictable, and at this moment he is in a bad mood for some reason. To be on the safe side, let's admit our mistake first!

A moment of silence—

"..."

The long eyelashes moved slightly, the thin lips sighed softly, the frost in the black eyes gradually eased, and in the blink of an eye, the person in front of him returned to the elegant and stable Nan Xia who was praised by everyone in the world for his good temper.

"I don't know who this is?" Zhan Zhao changed the subject and suddenly asked Fan Ronghua.

Only then did Fan Ronghua come back to his senses, straightened his clothes in a hurry, and hurriedly clasped his fists and replied, "I'm next, Fan Ronghua, I don't know if your Excellency is—"

Zhan Zhao nodded slightly, his eyes turned to Jin Qian.

"Ah, ah, this, this is my master's bodyguard—tsk, it's a guard, Mr. Guard..." Jin Qian hurriedly regained his composure, and hurriedly answered.

"It turns out to be the guard, Ronghua is very polite." Fan Ronghua clasped his fists in salute, paused, then suddenly turned to Jin Qian, knelt down, and said in a serious voice: "Thank you benefactor for saving this time, the great kindness Fan Ronghua will never forget !"

Jin Qian was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Fan Ronghua up and said, "Kneeling, kneeling, kneeling is unnecessary... No, you're welcome to that—a trivial matter...Gah!"

The noisy voice suddenly stagnated, and the world became silent for an instant.

Jin Qian supported Fan Ronghua's arms with both hands, his narrow eyes were wide open, his mouth was half open, he stared straight at the boy who was half a head taller than himself, and was stunned on the spot.

The young boy in front of him frowned, his eyes were shining brightly, and he was fixedly looking at himself.

A beautifying cannonball struck, causing Jin Qian's literary films to soar:

Yan Ruyu, with radiance in her eyes, the graceful young man Miao Wushuang——

"Jin Qian!"

Suddenly, the cold voice hit like an ice bomb, immediately blasting Jin Qian's three souls and seven souls flying around back to their original positions.

The viscera couldn't help being excited, Jin Qian instinctively put aside Fan Ronghua's wrists, his legs whizzed back two steps, turned around, and immediately smiled and clasped his fists to his side and said: "What do you want to do, my lord?!"

The bone-chilling feeling around her suddenly disappeared, followed by a familiar clear voice: "...why are you in such a mess?"

Jin Qian raised his eyes and glanced at Zhan Zhao, his handsome face was the same as usual, but his brows were slightly frowned, revealing a hint of concern.

Suddenly there was a surge of emotion of "finally found the organization", and Jin Qian felt all sorts of grievances in his heart, tears filled his eyes, and he cried out with snot and tears: "My lord, this silver tael for buying vegetables and fruits - my lord! How about laying it down first?!"

-

Two miles away from Xihua County, there are few people and most of the orchards and vegetable fields, but the clouds are clear and the mountains are green, the stream sweeps the willow branches, and the scenery is pleasant.

"Brother who sells fruit, your place is nice——"

Standing in front of a residential house, Jin Qian looked around and couldn't help but praise.

There are two huts in front of you, with wild flowers surrounding the fence, and the idyllic mountain scenery, which is quite a bit of a paradise.

"Your benefactor is too much..." Fan Ronghua's cheeks became slightly hot, and he stepped forward to push open the gate, leaned forward and said, "Please wait a moment, my benefactors, my mother usually doesn't like strangers entering the house, I will go in and tell my mother, Come and invite the two benefactors to enter."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the two people at the door to reply, he hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, and quickly walked a few steps into the door.

Glancing at the half-closed door, Jin Qian couldn't help but bewildered:

Hey, I didn't expect this village aunt to have more rules than Kaifeng Mansion. The forest is really big, and there are all kinds of birds.

"Catcher Jin..." Zhan Zhao beside him suddenly said, "Although Brother Fan is willing to give me water pears as a reward, it seems that his family is not rich..."

"Ahem—Master Zhan—" Jin Qian hurriedly interrupted, "This statement is wrong, the gift of pears is out of the sincerity of Brother Fan, if we repeatedly refuse, don't we think we are looking down on others? !"

But he said in his heart: Tsk, this cat - if you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive it is, and it doesn't hurt your back when you stand and talk. The price of goods in Xihua County is more than five or six times higher than that in the capital. It is rare for someone to come to your door at this time , why don't you hurry up and accept it? !

"..." A soft sigh came from the top of his head, "When Zhan goes back, he should help the Jin policeman and ask Mr. Gongsun for orders. The money for buying fruits should be reported to the public account."

Jin Qian's spirit froze immediately:

"What Master Zhan said is true, look at Fan Ronghua's house, there is no tile on the roof, no chickens in the garden, life must be very difficult. As court officials, we should plead for the people and take the suffering of the people as our own. Taking the worries of the people as your own, how can you let the poor people give you gifts?! You should not take a penny, and you don’t take silk. The money for this pear must be half a penny, and you should pay it all!"

"..." The person next to him was silent for a while, and there was a faint and helpless smile on his face.

"You two benefactors, please come inside." Fan Ronghua appeared at the door at some time and greeted them.

"My lord, please—" Jin Qian bowed and cupped his fists and said to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao nodded slightly, stepped forward to enter the room, followed by Jin Qian.

Entering the room and looking around, Jin Qian couldn't help clicking his tongue.

Originally, I thought the words just now were too exaggerated, but now I feel that they are very appropriate.

This Fan Ronghua's family is indeed very poor. If one word is used to describe it, it would be "the family is barren".

There are two shoulder poles, a few baskets and nothing else piled up in the corner of the outer room, but when I walk into the inner room, I feel that my eyes are gradually brightening up, and when I look closely, I can see that although there is no valuable property in the room, it is full of light. Bright and spotless.

In the center of the inner room was a broken wooden table, with two wooden benches on the side, an earthen kang, and burnt yellow bamboo mats. An old woman was sitting on the edge of the kang facing the door.

I saw this old woman with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, bright eyes, gray hair in a bun, wearing a wooden hairpin, but her hair was not messy, and she was dressed in coarse plain clothes, but her figure was straight.

But when she saw Zhan and Jin entering the house, she ignored them.

Zhan Zhao and Jin Qian were wondering, when they saw Fan Ronghua hurried forward a few steps, stood beside the old woman and said, "Mother, my child has already invited the two benefactors in."

Only then did the old woman nod slightly, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, she pointed to the front and said, "Please sit down, both of you."

Zhan and Jin sat at the table according to the words, and fixed their eyes, only to find that although the old woman's eyes were bright, they didn't respond to the objects in front of them, they were invisible, and both eyes were blind.

The old woman smiled kindly and said: "The two rescued the child in the market, I am very grateful."

After saying that, the old woman bowed slightly, as a thank you.

When Jin Qian saw it, he couldn't help wondering, and thought:

To the benefactor who saved his son, just nod to thank him?Tsk tsk, this auntie has such a big show...

Turning to look at Zhan Zhao again, he didn't care much, he still clasped his fists and replied respectfully: "You don't need to be too polite, it's just a matter of little effort."

Hearing the words, the old woman nodded slightly and said: "You two have come from a long way, and you are Hua'er's benefactors. You should thank each other generously, but your family is poor and you can't repay them, so you have to give them home-grown pears. Don't be disgusted."

"This..." Hearing this, Jin Qian turned his eyes around the almost empty room, then looked at the slender waist of the young man in front of him, and thought: Tsk tsk, look at the figure of this fruity boy, rather than say It is slim, rather malnourished.Look at this beautiful young man's home, it's really poor and white.Alas, we have always cherished the beauty, how can we bear to make things worse, or the cat is right, a few pears, don't mind.

Thinking of this, Jin Qian couldn't help turning his eyes to Zhan Zhao beside him, thinking:

Cat, quickly think of a good-sounding reason to refuse.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao's thin lips parted slightly, but he said a nonsensical sentence: "How did the old man know that the two of us came from a long way?"

Ok?

The old woman smiled slightly when she heard the words: "If the two of you didn't come from other places, how dare you go against that Master Guo's subordinates?!"

"Master Guo?" Zhan Zhao was surprised.

Jin Qian rolled his eyes: Master Guo, it seems familiar—ah, I seem to have heard those bastards mention it.

"It's the master of today's local ruffians." Fan Ronghua interjected, "He is also the master of Xihua County and Caoqiao Town. All the big and small matters in Caoqiao Town are decided by Mr. Guo."

Speaking of this, the young man couldn't help but have layers of sullen expression on his face.

"Hmm—could it be that Master Guo has the final say on the price of pears in this town?" Jin Qian suddenly came to his senses.

"That's not true." Fan Ronghua shook his head slightly and said, "He just made every person who sells goods in the market have to pay 'collection money' every day, and everyone had to raise the price of goods in order to make up the 'collection money'. "

"'Jijiqian'?" Zhan Zhao turned to Jinqian with a puzzled look on his face, "What is 'Jijiqian'?"

"It's similar to the protection fee of the underworld." Seeing Zhan Zhao's question, Jin Qian replied instinctively.

"Underworld?"

"Protection fees?"

Zhan Zhao, Fan Ronghua and the old woman all had inexplicable expressions on their faces.

Jin Qian suddenly felt that he had lost his word, and hurriedly added: "The underworld is—that—cough cough, local snakes...gangs of street gangsters and local rogues; , if you don't pay, the gangsters will find you bad luck every day, making the people get into trouble and make it difficult to gain a foothold; if you pay according to your words, you can be "protected" by the local snakes in exchange for temporary peace and freedom from harassment, so it is also called "protection" fee'."

After finishing speaking, Jin Qian only felt that his tongue was a little knotted.

Looking at the other three people, Fan Ronghua bowed his head and said nothing, Zhan Zhao frowned, only the old woman's expression remained unchanged, she just closed her eyes and nodded: "'Protection fee'... this little brother is very accurate and right. Understood, it is true..."

The room was silent.

After a while, Zhan Zhao said in a deep voice, "How do you collect this 'collection money'?"

"One tael of silver per person per day." Fan Ronghua replied in a muffled voice.

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and pressed his eyes: "Why didn't you tell the government about such a ridiculous thing?!"

"Government?!" Fan Ronghua raised his head sharply, biting his vermilion lips tightly with his white teeth, and raised his voice, "The government and Mr. Guo are of the same breed, not to mention the government has benefited greatly from it!"

Zhan Zhao's eyes sank: "How do you say that?!"

"You need to pay 'regular money' to open a store, you need to collect 'holiday money' during festivals, you need to pay 'regular money' for work, and you need to pay 'official money' for litigation. Dog head money'. With so many titles, wouldn't the government take a share of it?!" Fan Ronghua said angrily with watery eyes.

Click!

Jin Qian's figure flickered, one of them couldn't sit still, almost fell off the stool and sat on the ground, shouting in his heart: strong, too strong!This Master Guo is indeed a master!

It is really hard for us to hold a candle to such a means of collecting money.

Click!Click!

There was a painful sound from the wooden table beside him, Jin Qian stabilized his figure and turned his eyes, and saw Zhan Zhaojian's brows were tightly frowned, his starry eyes were darkened, a heavy air enveloped his whole body, and he squeezed the wooden table beside him squeaky.

"My, my lord..." Jin Qian shrank back and tried in a low voice.

"... benefactor?" Fan Ronghua couldn't help being taken aback seeing Zhan Zhao's expression.

Although the old woman couldn't look at him, she felt that the man opposite her was awe-inspiring, and her complexion changed slightly.

After a long time, Zhan Zhao broke the silence in a deep voice, "I don't know who that Master Guo is? Why is he so capable?"

"A character, of course, is a character, otherwise the people in the government would not follow his lead." Fan Ronghua replied angrily.

"Could it be that Master Guo has a great background?" Jin Qian asked.

"The two of you are from other places, so you don't know the identity of this person," Aunt Fan said slowly, "but in this Xihua County, everyone knows it, and everyone in the world knows it. The adopted son of a father-in-law in the palace has an extraordinary status, and officials of all sizes in Xihua County and even Caoqiao Town naturally dare not offend him, and he is the only one who will follow his example."

tsk-

Jin Qian understood immediately, and thought: Feelings are nepotism in the palace, no wonder they are so rampant.

Turning his head to look at Zhan Zhao again, his evil spirit gradually disappeared, he frowned and lowered his eyes, and became the usual calm guard again.

"I don't know which father-in-law in the palace is this Master Guo?"

When Aunt Fan heard the words, her expression froze slightly, she stopped talking, and she blindly shot towards Zhan Zhao's place.

If he hadn't discovered that those eyes were blind, Jin Qian would almost have thought that Mrs. Fan was scrutinizing the fourth-rank guard in front of her.

After a while, Mrs. Fan suddenly lowered her eyes and smiled and said, "I am just a country woman, how can I know the twists and turns of this officialdom, my benefactor is probably asking the wrong person." After a pause, she turned her head to her side again Fan Ronghua said, "Hua'er, it's getting late, send these two benefactors to my mother, and don't forget to bring the two baskets of pears from the outhouse."

"Mother?" Fan Ronghua couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Hua'er, are you still seeing off the guests?" Aunt Fan asked slightly.

Fan Ronghua quickly lowered his head and tied his hands: "Yes, Hua'er knows." After a pause, he turned his head to Zhan and Jin and said, "You two benefactors, please."

When Jin Qian saw it, he was immediately helpless, and thought: Tsk, this aunt is really interesting, she didn't say a few words, and she was about to drive her out?Okay, let's be more acquainted, let's withdraw.

Zhan Zhao was also slightly taken aback when he heard the words, his black eyes cast a fixed glance at Aunt Fan, he got up and clasped his fists together and said, "Well, the two of us will take our leave first."

After finishing speaking, he and Jin Qian went out with Fan Ronghua.

It was just that when he was going out, he vaguely heard the old woman in the house sighing faintly.

Weird, really weird!

Jin Qian thought to himself while walking.

Looking at Fan Ronghua, he hurried to the outer room, picked up a basket, brought two baskets of pears and handed them to Jin Qian, with two blushes on his white cheeks, he said: "Grandpa, my mother is not like this usually, today I don't know why this is the case... Although these two baskets of pears are not valuable, they are also a wish from my mother and me, please accept them, benefactor."

"This..." Jin Qian scratched his scalp and looked up at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao nodded, glanced at Jin Qian, and turned to go out. When he turned around, an almost invisible white light flew into Fan Ronghua's arms.

Although Jin Qian couldn't see it clearly, but based on the dazzling brilliance, he could tell that the silver was at least one or two taels of silver. - There will be a period later, so farewell."

After saying that, he bowed and saluted, and hurriedly walked two steps, catching up with Zhan Zhao's footsteps, and hurriedly walked towards the county seat.

Leaving behind Fan Ronghua with slightly red eyes, he stood upright at the door.

Besides, Zhan Zhao had a gloomy complexion and staring eyes along the way, so Jin Qian naturally didn't dare to talk to him, so he could only follow behind silently with two baskets of pears.

The two walked in a hurry, and after a cup of tea, they returned to the inn where everyone stayed.

Going straight up to the second floor, Zhan Zhao came to Master Bao's guest room, and said, "I have something to see."

"Come in." Mr. Bao replied from inside the room.

The two pushed the door open and entered.

In the room, Mr. Bao sat firmly in the middle, Mr. Gongsun stood beside him, and Zhang Long and Zhao Hu guarded the two sides.

The four of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Jin Qian behind Zhan Zhao.

Zhao Hu took two steps forward, took the basket from Jin Qian's hand and put it aside, saying, "Catcher Jin, where did you go to buy vegetables and fruits, and why did you come back just now? Could it be as Master Zhan said?" Yan, lost your way?"

Zhang Long also curled his lips and said: "I think it's probably true. If Mr. Zhan hadn't gone out to look for you, I'm afraid he wouldn't come now."

Hearing the words, Jin Qian couldn't help laughing helplessly, just about to evade a few words, but saw Zhan Zhao took two steps forward, and said with a serious expression: "My lord, I have something to report."

Seeing Zhan Zhao's expression, everyone couldn't help being taken aback.

Master Bao immediately suppressed the smile on his face, and said seriously: "Guard Zhan, please tell me."

"Your subordinates obey." Zhan Zhao clasped his fists together, and reported what he had seen and heard along the way.

The more people listened, the more gloomy their colors became. When Zhan Zhao finished speaking, everyone's complexions darkened.

Master Bao lowered his brows for a while, then suddenly said: "Zhan Huwei, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, Jin Qian listen to the order!"

"Subordinates are here!"

"The government will order the four of you to go out and visit immediately to investigate whether what the Fan mother and son said is true."

"I obey." The four of them clasped their fists together and hurried out, but just as they were about to leave, Zhan Zhao suddenly stopped and looked back at Jin Qian.

Jin Qian was shocked immediately, he straightened his waist and clasped his fists and said: "This subordinate understands that this subordinate should sacrifice his life here to protect your lord."

Zhan Zhao nodded, turned and left.

Jin Qian watched several people leave, and after thinking about it, he realized that something was wrong. He felt that he was in a dangerous situation at this time, so he hurriedly performed lightness kung fu and rushed back to his guest room, hanging all the large and small medicine bags that had been left in the room on his waist, He rushed back to Mr. Bao's room again, and then stayed outside Mr. Bao's room with peace of mind.

This watch lasted until midnight.

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In the house, the two heroes gather together and talk at night by candlelight.

Outside, the night was dark and yawning.

"Ahh—sleepy..." Jin Qian rubbed his nose, squatted at the door, touched the medicine bag on his waist, and continued to fight against sleepiness with all his strength.

Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the stairwell, Jin Qian was shocked immediately, jumped up and looked around, and saw three people hurried up the wooden ladder. Zhan, Zhang and Zhao went out to investigate.

The people inside the door seemed to have heard the sound, so they heard Mr. Gongsun inside the door say: "But the guard Zhan is back?"

Before the sound fell, the three of Zhan Zhao came to the door:

"It's the subordinate."

After finishing speaking, he opened the door and entered.

"Did the guards find anything?" Master Bao immediately asked when he saw a few people.

Zhan Zhao stepped forward with his fists clasped, his elegant face was mostly hidden in the night, and the expression on it could not be seen clearly.

"After a half-day unannounced visit by a few of my subordinates, I found that there is indeed something unbearable in Xihua County. The county magistrate of Xihua County is in the same boat as Lord Guo. With the government of Xihua County as the backer, Lord Guo's rogue gangsters came forward and set up a clever name. By increasing the amount of money, the people are forced to pay money from time to time, and to pay fees everywhere, which makes the prices of goods in Xihua County skyrocket, and the people suffer unspeakably."

"What's more, if someone violates his wish, the light one will be beaten to serious injury, and the serious one will disappear for no reason..." Zhang Long clenched his fist and said angrily.

"Crack!" Master Bao slapped the table violently, trembling all over, he continued to ask after a long time: "Can you find out who that Master Guo is?"

Zhan Zhao's voice froze: "My lord, Mr. Guo's real name is Guo Guangyi, and he is the adopted son of Eunuch Guo Huai in the palace."

As soon as this remark came out, the room was silent.

Jin Qian couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and thought: Guo Huai - why does it sound like a derogatory term?

After a while, I heard Mr. Gongsun say: "The Eunuch Guo that Zhan Huwei said is the eunuch under the empress dowager, the chief executive of the four divisions and eight divisions?!"

"Exactly!"

"Snapped!"

Master Bao jumped up against the case and shouted angrily: "He is just the adopted son of an inner palace father-in-law, so lawless! This government will definitely punish him severely and give justice to the people of Xihua County!"

"My lord!" Mr. Gongsun stepped forward and said, "What your lord said is very true, but this Guo Huai is the first eunuch in charge under the Empress Dowager, and his power and connections are not trivial..."

Mr. Bao stared: "Mr. Gongsun, is he going to persuade the government to 'know the current affairs and be a hero'?!"

"The student has no such intention." Mr. Gongsun sighed slightly, "The student just wants to remind the lord that the lord just killed the uncle of the dynasty in Chenzhou and offended Grand Master Pang. If he offends the Queen Mother at this time..."

"Sir, I understand what you mean." Lord Bao also lowered his voice, "It's just that, as an official of the imperial court, I only want to respect the emperor above and the people below. In addition, as an imperial envoy at this time, I am even more Do your best to plead for the people."

"...My lord..." Everyone looked straight at Mr. Bao, speechless.

Master Bao looked around, nodded, turned to Mr. Gongsun and continued: "Mr. Gongsun, when will the imperial envoy team from our government arrive at Xihua County?"

"Four to five days faster, six to seven days slower." Mr. Gongsun replied with cupped hands.

"Okay, the government will try Eunuch Guo's adopted son - Guo Guangwei in seven days' time!"

"Subordinates should follow your lord!" Everyone clasped their fists at the same time and said in unison.

All of a sudden, everyone in the house was full of pride and blood in their hearts.

"what!"

Just when everyone was excited, a very inappropriate exclamation suddenly came from the corner of the room.

Everyone turned their heads in unison, only to see that Jin Qian who was standing in the corner of the room also remembered something, his eyes were wide open, his lips were half parted, and he looked surprised.

"Catcher Jin? What's wrong?" Mr. Gongsun asked.

"Guo Huai! It's Guo Huai!!" Jin Qian suddenly regained consciousness and exclaimed.

Guo Huai!The one who replaced the civet cat with the crown prince! !A rare and notorious figure in history! !

"Catcher Jin?!" Zhan Zhao frowned.

Sensing a piercing gaze, Jin Qian suddenly came back to his senses, and when he raised his head again, he saw that everyone was looking at him with surprised expressions.

Mr. Gongsun narrowed his eyes slightly, fixed his gaze on Jin Qian and said, "Catcher Jin suddenly said something strange, don't you have some good ideas?"

"Huh?!" Jin Qian couldn't help taking a step back.

"If it wasn't for his high opinion, why did the Jin police suddenly call out the name of Guo Huai, Eunuch Guo?"

"Hey——" Jin Qian took another step back, looked around, and found that everyone had an expression of "if you don't tell a reason, you will never give up".

"That...cough cough, subordinate, subordinate means—that Eunuch Guo has a lot of money and power, and power is in the hands of the government..."

"Huh~~?" Someone's voice suddenly turned up, which immediately aroused goosebumps all over Jin Qian's body, and also sparked a spark of wisdom.

"That, that, what this subordinate means is... since Eunuch Guo has a strong background and everyone knows it, and Guo Guangwei is the son of Eunuch Guo, so... In short, even if Mr. Bao is willing to open the court for interrogation, if he dares to ask Who dares to sue, testify, and openly be an enemy of Eunuch Guo, the number one celebrity in the palace?"

Jin Qian stared narrowly, staring at the few people in front of him, and replied:

Tsk tsk, the gang of desperate Saburos in Kaifeng Mansion probably never thought about the mentality of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death like us... I don't know if such fallacies can be fooled...

As soon as these words came out, everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then, at the same time, their faces darkened, and they remained silent.