Jin Tingjiao

Chapter 464 Hiring a Martial Artist?

"It's not impossible." Xiao Huai turned around, "Zhou Qian's appearance should not be accidental. If it was Yin Shijie's prison, then it is very likely that they have already left the city.

"But if they leave the city, what is the purpose of their trip?"

Deliberately let Han Dun catch him, escort him to Beijing, and then rob him after being imprisoned, what is the plan?
"Anyway, they definitely didn't want to expose their target." He Lanzhun also said after hearing this.

"If there is another purpose, then they are still in the city in all likelihood. ——I will look for it first, and I will inform you when I have news."

Here he goes out with the guards first.

Huo Jiu came over and looked at Xiao Huai with a smirk on his face: "That's right, you can still come out of the palace the day after your wedding, don't you have leg cramps?"

The corners of Xiao Huai's mouth twitched: "The Shen family is considering marrying my sister-in-law next, do you want to let go of my legs and take care of yourself first?"

Huo Jiu's gaze was like a knife: "You have been too close to He Lan recently."

It's almost black!

He walked towards Shen Xi who was three steps away with the spring breeze: "Sister and sister, He Lan is actually—"

"I won't bother Mrs. Huo with his business." Xiao Huai grabbed Shen Xi's waist and said to her softly, "Brother Liang is going to study at home?

"Anyway, Mei Qiying is idle in Beijing. He is well educated and has a good temperament. Why don't I make a post for him and formally hire him to be a teacher in the Shen family?"

Shen Xi looked at Huo Jiu, whose expression was bursting, and laughed.

Siblings?

……

When Huo Jiu returned to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, his complexion was not very good.

Originally, his facial features were sharp and sharp, and because he developed a domineering aura in the palace, and then spent many years in Dingprison, he developed an aura of not getting close to strangers. This mood makes him look extraordinarily harsh.

The officials of the same yamen were very discerning and did not provoke him.

This incident happened in Dali Temple, Shen Ruopu happened to be working in the Ministry of Criminal Justice at noon, and was reading official documents here, when he suddenly heard someone coughing at the door.

Looking up, he saw that Huo Jiu was talking to the yamen servant, so he put down the notes and said: "Huo Shilang came back from Dali Temple, what did you find?"

Huo Jiu came in immediately, and submitted the previous confession: "Just now Ji Han and He Lan have both passed, and they suspect that Zhou Qian's accomplices did it.

"Now that He Lan has brought people to investigate secretly in the city, there may be news in the near future."

Shen Ruopu took a look at it, frowned and pondered for a while, and said, "The reason why Han Dun was able to find Zhou Qian is not easy."

"Obviously so," he said.

Shen Ruopu nodded, closed the confession, and took up his pen to review it.

Looking up and seeing him still sitting there, he couldn't help saying: "Do you have anything else to do?"

"It's not a big deal."

He flicked his fingers resting on his lap, then put them down, and leaned forward to Shen Ruopu: "Ge is an authentic Tuoba people, our Tuoba ancestors all practice martial arts.

"But I don't think the young masters of your mansion look like they are practicing martial arts. I don't know why the old man will let the young masters lose all their martial arts?"

Recently, the court has calmed down, and the granddaughter has officially become the imperial concubine, so Shen Ruopu is not busy with official duties.

Hearing him ask about this, she put down her pen and chatted with him: "These generations of Shen's family are not prosperous, but Zi Chongyi's generation is better.

"My father passed away early, my widowed mother brought me up, and at that time no one came to teach me martial arts, so I fell behind.

"Later, I won the imperial examination, and my disciples also followed Wen, and I couldn't go to the battlefield and lead soldiers, so I just got down like this.

"You kid, why do you ask this?"

Because of a lot of contacts with Yan Wangfu recently, Shen Ruopu got acquainted with several young people in the Wangfu, and his tone could not help but be kind.

Huo Jiu put his arms around his chest and said with a half-smile, "I don't know if Mr. Ge has considered asking a martial artist to teach them to practice martial arts and keep fit?"

"Warrior?" Shen Ruopu was really surprised.

"We must never forget our roots." Huo Jiu said seriously, "Practicing martial arts is still good, especially for the old man who wants the Shen family to prosper, so it is always good for him to discipline his children."

Shen Ruopu paused, then raised his eyes and looked at him up and down: "What kind of medicine is sold in your gourd?"

Huo Jiu smiled, took the tea from the yamen servant, and took two sips.

With the matter of Dali Temple, Xiao Huai became a little absent-minded after returning to the palace.

Why not Shen Xi?

Knowing that He Lan and Huo Jiu had taken on errands on their own because of their new marriage, she and Xiao Huai were not hypocritical at the moment, but it might not be possible to take it seriously in their hearts.

That night in the suburbs of Beijing, both she and Xiao Huai covered their faces, and Zhou Qian only saw the blood oozing from her fingers.

But by now, he might not be unable to figure it out.

I am not worried that he will have the idea of ​​defecting to the Great Zhou court, but I am afraid that he will fall into the wrong hands.

But with Xiao Huai and the others here, she doesn't need to worry too much about these.

Let him and Su Yan go to the study here, and send someone to the kitchen to bring some refreshments in.

It just so happens that there are still the group of guards given by the King of Yan here. She needs to meet and arrange, and also needs to get familiar with the layout and internal affairs of the palace as soon as possible, and they have to go back to Shen's house in Guining tomorrow.

So I got serious in the next afternoon, and I was never tired of being in one place.

As for He Lanzhun's place, he went to the Zhongjun Yamen after coming out of Dali Temple.

Although he does not hold a full-time job in the yamen, all the military newspapers reported to Prince Yan's mansion have to be handled by him, so he chose the office where Xu Jing stayed in the past and is still using it now.

"The Taoist temple that you have tracked a few days ago, has there been any movement recently?"

I've been busy with the affairs of the palace recently, so I don't care about it here.

Since Zhou Qian and the others may still be in the capital, and the whereabouts of people haunting Zhang's house are also suspicious, they can naturally contact them to investigate.

"There is nothing abnormal in the Taoist temple itself. The subordinates have already pretended to go inside to inquire, and there is nothing wrong with the Taoist priests inside." The guard who reported that day came to report.

He Lan frowned earnestly, and said again: "During your grand marriage, did you find any other abnormalities?"

The guard thought for a while and said, "The eldest son is getting married, everything in the palace is as usual, and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple can't say anything wrong, but there is one thing that my subordinates always feel that something is wrong."

"what's up?"

"Several times, my subordinates saw a little Taoist priest coming out from the backyard of their Taoist temple. He obviously went out, but after a while, the little Taoist priest came out from the backyard again."

He Lanzhun stopped his hand tapping on the table, and suddenly looked over.

The guard looked back deeply, and said: "At first I thought I was foolish, but I absolutely put my heart into it the next two times. It is true that the little Taoist priest did not go back after he came out."

Did not go back, but was able to walk out of the house many times, what does this mean?
"You mean, there are other passages in that Taoist temple?" He Lanzhun asked.

"It is indeed possible. I checked carefully, and they have two gates in total. The little Taoist priest never entered through these two gates after going out."

In an unremarkable Taoist temple, someone came out to follow him and Shen Xi, and there were other secret passages in and out?

He Lanzhun frowned, and looked out thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)