Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

"The fourth-rank imperial guard?"

Bai Yutang walked around Zhan Zhao twice, and said in disbelief, "Fourth Grade! This is really..."

Zhan Zhao said with a stern face: "Young Xia Bai, it's getting late, please return to your residence with Master Bao to protect your safety before the Dragon Boat Festival."

Bai Yutang could not work with Ouyang Chun, according to the emperor's arrangement, before the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhan Zhao and Ouyang Chun would work together to protect the evidence and witnesses with relatively large targets in the barracks, and Bai Yutang would protect Bao Zheng alone.

Now the emperor's letter to Duke Lai to second Ouyang Chun has been sent to Qingbei University, and Ouyang Chun is probably on his way.In order to avoid embarrassment when Ouyang Chun and Bai Yutang meet again, Bao Zheng and Di Qing are trying their best to persuade Bai Yutang to go to Bao Zheng's residence.

That's right, persuasion.

Bai Yutang didn't know what was wrong, he was unwilling to go back home with Bao Zheng.

He hugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly: "Why should I go to Mr. Bao's mansion? I am a serious general with a military post, so I should have stayed in the camp!"

He didn't know that Ouyang Chun was coming, he only knew that Zhan Zhao would change guards with him - if he knew that Ouyang Chun was coming, how could he obediently leave the barracks to avoid Ouyang Chun?Although he still has a youthful heart, he also knows how to write the words "dedicated to his duty".

Di Qing shook his head and sighed: "Yutang, don't be self-willed. The official's words are golden, how can you change it as you please?"

I thought to myself, I don't know which ancestor it is, I don't know the heights of heaven and earth to provoke a long-established knight, and after losing the test, he became angry and wanted to surrender.The emperor was considerate of your lack of face, and changed the arrangement for you, and you were picky.

Bai Yutang said: "If you don't leave, you won't leave. I am a lieutenant general, and I swear to my death that I will not leave the barracks!"

Di Qing frowned: "Bai Yutang! This is the emperor's order. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can speak up in front of the official!"

Seeing his gloomy face, Bai Yutang straightened his back uncomfortably, and said back: "Then why did he let Zhan Zhao and I change guards? Yes, he is a Southern Xia, a famous knight, but I, Bai Yutang, also No worse than him! Why should you leave all the important things to him and give me an easy one?"

Zhan Zhao couldn't help saying: "Young Xia Bai, you misunderstood, protecting Mr. Bao is definitely not an easy job."

He wanted to say that with Mr. Bao's temperament of making enemies everywhere, on average, he would encounter at least five or six assassinations, seven or eight poisonings, and countless "accidents" in a month.He usually followed Mr. Bao closely, with all his heart and soul, Ju Que dared not leave him for a moment.Even so, the thieves almost took advantage of the loopholes several times.

Bai Yutang and them have been away for more than half a year, and he has seen this kind of scenery with his own eyes, but he probably thought it was a special situation in a special period, and never imagined that this was the daily life of Bao Zheng since he became an official.

Bai Yutang said coldly: "I don't care. Anyway, I don't want to change my guard. Whatever you can do, I will do better than you."

Di Qing gritted her teeth, thinking that this little brat really owes a lesson.But Bai Yutang's temperament is like this, once he decides something, he is rarely willing to listen to other people's persuasion.Even if you force him to follow Bao Zheng away, I'm afraid he will sneak back.

That would be a big deal.

Di Qing softened his tone, and said to Bai Yutang: "Yutang, you are so ignorant! The officials asked you to protect Mr. Bao, not to look down on your ability, but to reuse you."

Bai Yutang was the most conceited in his life, when he heard that others wanted to use him, he immediately turned his head: "What?"

Di Qing pointed to Zhan Zhao and said to Bai Yutang: "You just see that Zhan Yishi is about to be named a fourth-rank guard by the officials, and you feel uncomfortable, but have you forgotten how you got into my command? The officials persuaded him personally Senior Xia let you go with the army, and personally asked me to take care of you. It can be seen from this that the officials favored you much earlier than Zhan Yishi."

Bai Yutang glanced at him: "My lord is right."

Di Qing said again: "This time I want you to change guards with Zhan Yishi. Actually, there is no other meaning. These evidences are piled up in our barracks. If someone wants to come and destroy them, it is really easy to destroy them. Just burn them clean. But you Unexpectedly, this is in the camp of the new army, and this is the only military camp in Bianliang City to defend the capital. If you want to do something in this camp, you can do it silently, but if you leave even a little If there are any clues, then this crime can be..."

The new army is the sharp edge of defending the capital and the emperor.If you come to make trouble in the barracks, there is too much room for maneuvering - do you want to disrupt the barracks and take the opportunity to rebel?

He shook his head: "If I were those corrupt officials, I would rather not destroy the evidence than take the risk. In this way, the most dangerous way is not the evidence, but Mr. Bao himself."

Bai Yutang hesitated, "Is that true?"

Di Qing smiled: "Indeed."

Disturbing the barracks is a capital offense if caught.But many people in the Jianghu rely on their martial arts skills and think that they will never be caught, so it is very possible that they will come to die one after another.

But there's no need to tell Bai Yutang these words.

Bai Yutang said: "The official asked me to protect Mr. Bao..."

Di Qing hit the iron while it was hot: "The officials know that although you are young, you are strong in martial arts, calm and quick-witted, no matter how powerful you are, they will never want to take advantage of you. Although the martial arts of Zhanyi are not weak, but they are not good. You are as insightful as you are. Therefore, I entrust you to protect Zhan Zhao during this critical time."

Although Bai Yutang is only fourteen or fifteen years old, he has a clear understanding of the methods of assassins and thieves in the world, and he can adapt to changes.It is really rare to assassinate Bao Zheng under his hands.

After hearing his words, Bai Yutang felt very relieved, and said vigorously, "The government really knows how to handle people well! If that's the case, I'll go back home with Mr. Bao!"

He patted Zhan Zhao's shoulder: "Our Master Di will entrust it to you!"

Zhan Zhao was speechless and stood silently behind Di Qing.Bao Zheng laughed and said, "Lord Di, Bao has resigned."

Di Qing smiled: "Master Bao, walk slowly."

After watching Bao Zheng and Bai Yutang go away, Di Qing and Zhan Zhao looked at each other, sighed at the same time, shook their heads and smiled wryly.

This Bai Yutang... when will he grow up?

Bai Yutang followed Bao Zheng out of the gate of the barracks, and saw Bao Zheng's car - a rather narrow carriage parked beside him.

He pointed to the carriageway: "My lord, where is the coachman? Or should I drive for your lord?"

Bao Zheng said: "Don't worry about Bai Shaoxia, my servant Bao Xing..."

"Yutang!"

Hearing this call, Bai Yutang's eyes widened, and he looked towards the place where the voice came from in surprise and joy: "Brother!"

Bao Zheng also looked there, and saw a young man in Chinese clothes striding forward who looked a little like Bai Yutang: "Brother Jiang is right, you are indeed here!"

Behind him were three people, one was Jiang Ping, an old acquaintance, the other was a nine-foot tall man like an iron tower, and the other was a tall man with a pale complexion and his hands in his sleeves.

It was Bai Yutang's elder brother Bai Jintang.

Seeing his brother coming, Bai Yutang hurriedly said: "Brother, I have official duties, I have to escort this Master Bao back to the mansion, and I have to personally protect his safety. We brothers will meet again some other day."

It wasn't that he didn't want to be reunited with his elder brother—he left his elder brother to study in the capital at a young age, so his homesickness was eager.But he thought he was already a man with a heavy burden on his shoulders, and even the emperor valued him.When performing official duties, how can he argue with his brother and delay the business?

Bao Zheng said: "Since he is the elder brother of Young Master Bai, if you don't dislike him, why don't you go back to the mansion with us. Although the humble house is simple, it can still entertain a few heroes for a few days."

He considered it for a while, and decided to use "hero" to address the few people in front of him.

Bai Yutang's family was in business, and had quite a fortune in his hometown in Jinhua, and now he is still running a match factory in Yangzhou City, and he is getting richer and richer, he knows this well.

but……

He looked at the two people behind Bai Jintang, and felt that with his iron tower-like stature, he was worthy of the title of hero.

Anyway, Bai Jintang has a younger brother named Bai Yutang, so he probably wouldn't mind being treated as a gangster.

Bai Jintang hurriedly bowed to him: "This is Mr. Bao! Student Bai Jintang, I have admired you for a long time."

Bao Zheng wondered, "Do you have fame?"

Bai Jintang said humbly: "It's just a scholar's fame, I'm laughing at you."

Bao Zheng nodded in praise and said: "I have heard people mention that you are a businessman with a wealth of wealth. With such a fortune, it is not easy to study hard and gain fame."

Bai Jintang hurriedly said: "I dare not be that," and introduced the two people behind him: "These are two friends of the student, one is surnamed Han, the other is surnamed Xu..."

He looked back, and saw the two were winking with Bai Yutang, and the tall man said to be surnamed Han was secretly handing him a small package in his sleeve pocket.

Bai Jintang glared at the two of them, but they quickly withdrew their hands and stood upright.

Bao Zheng said: "It turned out to be Han Zhuangshi and Xu Zhuangshi."

After several people greeted each other, Bao Zheng said: "The car is too small to accommodate a few strong men, how about..."

Jiang Ping smiled and said, "What's so difficult?"

Pointing from a distance: "Isn't there a big cart coming?"

It turned out that this place was near his factory.Bai Jintang, Han Zhang and Xu Qing came to Bianliang to discuss matters with him. Hearing that Bai Yutang was working in the barracks, he came to the gate of the barracks to try his luck and see if he could meet.

Unexpectedly, it was such a coincidence that they met each other.

They returned to Bao Zheng's house in Jiang Ping's cart. Bao Zheng's wife, Li Yuanlang, was surprised when he saw Zhan Zhao sent away and brought back so many guests. Their usual standard of extraordinarily sumptuous dinners entertained these tall and burly guests.

During the dinner, Bao Zheng also knew that Bai Jintang came to Jiang Ping from Yangzhou because of some small problems in the accounts—even if Bao Zheng was not as good at settling accounts as Gongsun Ce, he knew that the small accounts of tens of hundreds of taels were not enough to make this A wealthy businessman ran all the way from Yangzhou to Bianliang, even on a bicycle boat.

It must be that Bai Jintang missed his younger brother and found an excuse to visit relatives.

As for the two Han and Xu, it is said that they mined coal coal in Jinzhou.

What they came to Jiang Ping for, Bao Zheng didn't know, and didn't ask.But they must be very familiar with the Bai family brothers, during the dinner, I saw the two of them chatting and laughing with Bai Yutang, and sometimes the three of them were reprimanded by Bai Jintang to eat properly.

After dinner, Li Yuanlang arranged accommodation for them.Bao Zheng was tired all day, ready to wash and rest.While he was wiping his face, Bai Yutang sneaked into his brother's room: "Brother!"

The two brothers hadn't seen each other for half a year. After complaining bitterly about their divorce, Bai Jintang asked him, "What did your big brother Han give you just now?"

Bai Yutang's eyes faltered: "It's nothing."

Bai Jintang said with a straight face: "Don't think I didn't see it, take it out quickly."

Bai Yutang reluctantly took out the small package in his sleeve: "It's the new Meng Huolei made by Brother Han. He said that the world is dangerous, and it's for my self-defense."

What Han Zhang honored when he walked the rivers and lakes, apart from his superb poison technique, was this fiery thunder.

Bai Yutang took out one: "It is said that this fierce thunder uses his new material, and its power is stronger than before. I will try one."

Han Zhang's Fierce Fire Thunder, although the word fierce is included in its name, is actually not very powerful, like firecrackers, but the sound is louder.

He casually threw the fiery thunder in his hand, and saw that the thunder landed in the corner of the courtyard, and with a loud bang, the courtyard wall was blown into a pile of dust.

Bai Yutang was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear: "It's terrible! What is this thing!"