I'm watching the gate in the jail

Wanda and others rejected the invitation of the local gentry and stayed at the government's inn that night.

County Magistrate Luo and that Guo Yuanwai cannot leave the county office for the time being.

Qiu Zijin asked them to set off with him tomorrow morning to go to Dingjiazhuang for research.

Wanda immediately sent four Jinyiwei to monitor the two of them closely.Another team was sent to Guo's and Ding's houses immediately to prevent the two families from "moving up and down" during this period.

After all, this is the bustling land of Mount Huang and Baiyue, and the sun is still in spring. Although it is a small station, it is also clean and tidy.There is a piece of green plants in the yard, which exudes a sense of warmth, and it is considered to be well-maintained.

With her hands behind her back, Wanda watched the soldiers move their luggage in one by one, and turned her head to look outside.I saw green mountains and green waters, mixed with white walls and black tiles, and I was in it, just like in a sideways painting.

Poor classmate Xiaoqiu, who had a great time, could only be trapped in the house to deal with the case.

After putting down their luggage, Wanda and Yang Xiuxian changed their official uniforms, put on ordinary spring clothes, and went out for a stroll.

As for the high meeting, it is natural to protect Qiu Qingtian's safety personally.

Who knows if there will be another person rushing out of the post station who wants to sue the emperor.After all, he is a "patron of the eight prefectures" who rarely visits once in decades.

This place is really misty and rainy south of the Yangtze River, and it is full of fragrance in April.

The clothes of ordinary people passing by on the bluestone path are all simple yet elegant.The children on the way to and from school all have the legacy of Confucius and Mencius in their actions and actions.Occasionally, a woman passed by, and when she saw a strange man, she hurriedly lowered her head, revealing only a section of white pink neck, and gradually walked away with light steps.

Standing in this dreamlike flower-like alley in the south of the Yangtze River, smelling the scent of unknown flowers and trees in the air, Wanda felt that his bones were a little crisp.

No wonder the emperors like to have nothing to do, and come to the south of the Yangtze River to have fun.

Wanda remembered that Lord Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, who was Little Swallow’s father, went to Jiangnan seven or eight times.

Among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there seems to be one named Zheng. What emperor did Zheng come from?

Wanda tapped her head, unable to think of anything.

Well, I don't know when this emperor will appear, so why worry about it.

Wanda squinted her eyes, feeling the warm spring breeze, thinking that Huizhou is already like this, and I really don’t know what Yangzhou is like.

"Master Wan likes it so much, why not settle in Jiangnan in the future?"

Seeing him sitting in the tea room, Yang Xiuxian looked at the beauties in the south of the Yangtze River coming and going, with an expression of ecstasy, and asked amusedly.

"Hey, let's talk about this...it's not impossible."

Wanda turned her head and said half-truth to Yang Xiuxian.

"Do you think it's better for me to buy a house in Nanjing? Or Yangzhou? Otherwise, how about Songjiang Mansion?"

Buying a house in Shanghai 600 years in advance is not a "long-term" vision.

"Xinghai, you...you don't really want to leave the capital, do you?"

Yang Xiuxian had never heard Wanda mention such an idea before, and now he was taken aback.

If he really decided to die in Jiangnan, wouldn't it mean that he would abandon his relatives in the Marquis' Mansion?

"To be honest, since I came back from Guangxi last time, I feel that I am out of place with my family. I am like an 'outsider'."

Wanda tilted her head dejectedly, and said bitterly.

In the final analysis, he is still a soul that has been cleansed after nine years of compulsory education 600 years later.

What concubines, what disputes between the concubine and concubines, although the sister-in-law herself has accepted her fate and accepted the existence of that little Wan family and the child in her belly.He has even made preparations to accept more women and children in his life in the years to come.

But he really didn't want to force himself to accept all this, and he didn't want to watch his elder brother take one woman after another back home in the future.

As for his father Wangui, as long as the family has many children and grandchildren, he will completely disregard the promise he made to the Zhao family back then, making it clear that he will break his promise.

In the past, it was okay in the countryside of Bazhou. Although the four of them were poor, they had a peaceful and happy life.Now that he has official titles and titles, and the houses and cars are issued by the imperial court, Wanda feels that he is not used to living here.

The resplendent Marquis Mansion in Beijing is Wan Mansion.

Not his Wanda home.

Of course, if he proposes to live in a separate residence with them now, it will definitely cause an uproar.

If you don't talk about others, my sister will be worried.

But after more than ten years, when his wings become stronger, it is not impossible to settle in another place.

Wanda even inquired about it—there is also a Jinyiwei yamen in Nanjing!He accepts to be stationed in other places and transferred at the same level.

At that time, I really can't live in the capital, so I will live in Nanjing for a long time.

Besides, Nanjing duck is also delicious, it is the ancestor of Peking duck.

"Guanghuai, when the time comes, will you accompany me to Nanjing?"

Wanda sincerely invited.

"Okay, you can leave the family business behind, and then I have nothing to worry about."

Yang Xiuxian smiled and nodded without hesitation.

The one-year period agreed between Yang Fengshi and the businessman has passed, because this Yang Qianhu who does not intend to "brother and brother respect" will not let go of his death, and his younger brother has to be an "old man" for another year. youth".

Yang Feng was so angry that he was going to die, but after learning about Wanda's methods last time, he never dared to come to find faults casually.

His father sent messages to his family several times, asking him to sit down at Xishan's house, and the father and son had a good talk.

They were all rejected by Yang Xiuxian on the grounds of his busy schedule.

Yang Qianhu, who is the top iron, would rather not have this "Xiuwu school lieutenant" position as a posting official than to give it to his own younger brother.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War couldn't wait for Yang Xiuxian's reply for a long time, so it was inevitable to rush.

While the emperor's brother-in-law was in Zhaode Palace, he listened with great interest to Uncle Xiaolang's gossip about his courtiers.

Although this matter has already been reported by someone from the East Factory, but no matter how you hear it, the version of Uncle Xiaolang is more interesting.After all, Uncle Xiao Lang had "barred" that Yang Feng family head-on.

Then Zhu Jianshen thought about it, he was almost replaced by Zhu Jianze, born of the Queen Mother Zhou, as the crown prince...

The little emperor waved his hand, expressing that the Jilu officer should be kept by Mr. Yang.When he gets married, or after he has offspring, it will not be too late.

In addition, why should Yang Qianhu's fame of Jinyiwei be passed on to his son?

I am not a son of a concubine, but the eldest son of the first emperor; the child of Zhen and Minister Wan is not a son of a concubine, but the eldest son of a concubine.

What happened to the eldest son?

Isn't my emperor doing a good job?

Yang Qianhu's father was too pedantic.As long as the child is talented, it's fine, what kind of concubine is divided.

Besides, Yang Qianhu had already been adopted to his brother.

According to his name, Father Yang is the real "uncle" now, why does this old man's family keep trying to get other people's children to be officials.

Wan Zhen'er, who was sitting with her son in her arms, nodded frequently.

She knew that His Majesty said this to herself, to the child in her arms, and even more so to the Empress Dowager in Yongqing Palace.

Since Zhu Jianshen said so, Yang Xiuxian decided to completely cut off contact with his father, and would not visit the house during the Chinese New Year, so he sent someone to send a post to explain.

If he is a civil servant, there is still the possibility of attracting criticism.However, he is a military general, and he is also a thousand households from Beizhen Fusi, so no admonisher dared to join him.No matter whether Yang Feng's quarrel is in the clan or in the yamen, it is wrong.

For Yang Xiuxian, the person in front of him is the real "family".

The so-called "family" should not only be related by blood.

Feelings and kindness are the bonds that maintain all relationships.

The world is in the south, the sea is north, the world is in the sky, as long as the two of them can be together, they are home everywhere.

The two looked at the tenderness in each other's eyes across the small broken table in the roadside tea house, as if they really saw the infinite star sea and the vast grassland.

For a moment, their eyes met, and they were speechless.

"Are you two going to buy land and build a house? You can ask me that. In the whole south of the Yangtze River, there is no good Fengshui that I, Liu Tiechi, don't know about."

While the two of them were looking at each other affectionately, an unlucky guy broke in and sat across the table between the two of them.

"I, Liu Tiechi, specialize in Fengshui for people. Whether it's the yin house, the yang house, the mysterious sky, or the burial method, I know a thing or two."

"In addition, I am also proficient in the eight-character sun pillar, Ziwei Doushu, and palm lines. Would you like to have a hexagram?"

Wanda turned her head wordlessly, and looked at the man in his thirties, wearing a nine-yang scarf, a soap-colored crane skirt, and cloud-toed shoes in front of him.

The man had clear and handsome features, and he kept twirling his goatee beard under his lips as he spoke.

"Liu Tie Chi? A Taoist priest?"

Yang Xiuxian turned to look at him.

"Exactly. Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, good and good."

This person slapped Wanda and the others, "I am the descendant of the Zhengyi Heavenly Master, who traveled here. I am fortunate to meet you today, and it is the intention of heaven."

Two civil servants in the Ming Dynasty really wanted to ask the celestial master if he could not read or write.

A few months ago, His Majesty issued an order to prevent wandering monks and Taoists from wandering around and causing trouble.All monks and Taoists along the Grand Canal are required not to leave their respective temples and Taoist temples until the ban is lifted at the end of the year.

The bulletin is posted at the gate of the county government office and at various docks and ferries, so he can't miss it.

Or are the monks and Taoists here so arrogant that they don't even care about the imperial list?

"No, no, divination and fortune-telling are the needs of the people. People in Huizhou, especially, are used to asking for divination first, regardless of weddings and funerals, making books on beams, and even bathing and washing their hair. Xiaodao didn't deliberately disobey the emperor's order, I It’s for everyone, for everyone.”

Liu Tiechi deserved to be a man of open mouth, he was talking nonsense with a small mouth.

Seeing that he has been talking nonsense here for so long, even the guards patrolling the street have passed by the tea house once, and it is not likely that any of them rushed in to arrest him.It can be seen that everyone did not take this imperial list seriously.

Wanda and Yang Xiuxian looked at each other.

"Come on, show me."

Wanda took out a small piece of silver from her pocket and placed it on the table.

The perfect color of a tael of silver exudes a charming luster in the sunlight.

Liu Tiechi's breathing was stagnant, his hands stopped, and he almost cut off a beard.

"It doesn't take that much."

He smiled "embarrassed", but did not move his eyes away from the silver.

"That's right, take them all."

Wanda pointed at Yin Zi and said, "It's not right... I'll report to the police and arrest you, saying you're a deceitful deceit. I wonder if the county magistrate dares not accept my complaint."

Hearing this, Liu Tiechi seemed to have been inspired to fight.

Stretched out one palm and put it on the table, "My lord, please show your left hand. Let's take a look at Xiaodao."

Yang Xiuxian looked at them with great interest.

This Liu Tiechi first looked closely at Wanda's open hand on the table, took a look, raised his head uncertainly, and looked at his face.

Seemingly a little unsure, he pleaded guilty, raised Wanda's hand, and brought it close to his eyes for a closer look.

Looking at it, Wanda almost thought that he was going to stare at a hole in his palm.

"My son... I'm sorry, can I tell you your birth date?"

Liu Tiechi broke out in a cold sweat looking at each other.

Wanda hesitated for a moment, but still said her horoscope.

Of course, it was the horoscope of the "indigenous" of the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing Wanda's birthday date, Liu Tiezhi blurted out three words: Impossible!

He barked so loudly that he startled the people who were drinking tea around him.Everyone looked sideways, only to be snorted coldly by Yang Xiuxian, and they all turned back.

"How 'impossible'?"

In the last operation to wipe out the White Lotus Sect, Wanda had already seen the tricks of these Taoist monks pretending to be gods and playing ghosts.

Seeing this Liu Tiechi performing like this again today, Wanda thought to himself: Act, you continue to act!

I have already thought out the lines for you. I must say that I have a "blood disaster" recently, and I need to spend money to do a ritual to resolve it, right?

"I'm sorry, I can't earn this money. The two young masters also hold their hands high, don't catch me. Xiaodao will leave now."

With that said, I was about to leave.

"Hey... don't go."

It was a bit unexpected, but now Wanda quit. She stood up and grabbed him.

"What do you mean? What did you figure out? Could it be that I will die tomorrow?"

"What nonsense!"

Seeing that he spoke so freely, Yang Xiuxian gave him reprimanding eyes.

Their Jin Yiwei ate knife-edge rice.Although Mr. Yang is not superstitious, he also has taboos.

Wanda knew he was wrong, smiled flatteringly at him, and pulled Liu Tiechi back.

"Tell me. You haven't said it yet, how do you know if it's accurate?"

Wanda pulled Liu Tiechi back from outside the teahouse, and Yang Xiuxian simply punched him in the back, making him unable to leave even if he wanted to.

He sat down and wiped the cold sweat from his brow with his cuff.

"Tell me, I won't arrest you if you're not allowed, just tell me."

Wanda picked up the large celadon teapot and poured him a cup of tea.

"My lord, I'll just say..."

Liu Tiechi drank the tea in the cup in one gulp.

"I looked at your palmistry first... This palmistry, to be honest, is not very good. Although someone in the family is extremely expensive, it doesn't have much to do with you."

Wanda's originally joking face slowly turned serious, while Yang Xiuxian turned his head away in disdain.

How can you be rich if you are an extremely personable minister and become an official?

"But I look at your face. You have thick earlobes and a faint red glow in the middle of your forehead. This is clearly the face of a wealthy man. But it is completely opposite to your palm prints."

"go on."

Wanda pursed her lips.

"I'll listen to your horoscope again...it finally matches the palm print. But it's even more opposite to the face."

刘铁齿说着，舔了舔嘴唇，“公子，您听了，别揍我，行么？”

"After I listen to it, I will decide whether to beat me or not."

Wanda said with ease, but a strange feeling rose in his heart.

Because he knows that he is not the real "Wanda".

He is a soul from 600 years later. For unknown reasons, he came to the Ming Dynasty in the last years of Tianshun.

Strictly speaking, no one here can count their own lives.

Because he doesn't belong here at all.

"Forgive me, Xiaodao,...according to what you said, you would have died long ago. You will not be able to live now. This is the fate of premature death, and you will not live to be ten years old at all."

Liu Tiechi said tremblingly.

"What nonsense!"

Yang Xiuxian lifted him up from behind and said angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"I just said, you guys are going to beat me up after hearing that..."

Liu Tiechi cried while holding his head.

"It's okay, it's okay, Guanghuai, you put him down and let him continue talking."

Wanda jumped up and said.

Yang Xiuxian was baffled by Wanda's actions, he threw the Taoist priest on the stool, walked to Wanda's side, and looked at him very puzzled.

"Say it, keep talking, I won't beat you up."

Wanda couldn't care less about comforting his lover, he was completely shocked by this "charlatan".

Isn't that right, the real "Wanda" died more than ten years ago.

"Young master, I can't count your fate. Not only I can't count, but the entire Huizhou territory. Oh no, I don't think anyone can count the entire Taoist priests of our righteous sect. It wouldn't work if it was my master."

Liu Tiechi cupped his hands, with a bitter expression on his face.

"Your fate is too strange. It can only be said that there may be great opportunities and disasters, but you can also meet great noble people. It is a strange sign that life and death depend on each other, and you seek honor in death."

Life and death depend on each other, seeking preciousness in death...

Yes, if "Wanda" is not dead, how can "Wan Xinghai" survive?

"alright."

Wanda smiled and pointed the table with her finger.

A fate like his is indeed difficult to calculate.

This Liu Tiechi is already very good at talking so much.

Metaphysics is amazing...

"Then look at him, if the calculation is accurate, the money will still be taken away."

Yang Xiuxian glared at him disapprovingly, and the latter put his arms on his shoulders with a smile, and smiled at Liu Tiechi.

"Find out when my elder brother will be able to marry a sister-in-law. See when his peach blossoms will bloom, and teach me that being a brother is also happy."

Yang Xiuxian looked at him dumbfoundedly, and shook his head helplessly.

"Um……"

This Liu Tiechi stared at Yang Xiuxian's face for a while, then looked at his palmistry for a while, and finally pushed the silver back in front of Wanda.

"Second sons, the villain was in a hurry when he went out today, so he didn't make a regular divination. Today is not going well, forgive me for going back to avoid the disaster."

Say, want to run again.

Wanda thought that Yang Xiuxian was not just like him, but also a "reborn" future person.

He saw that his words and deeds did not mean that at all. Could it be that "dear" he is a "film king"?

"Really, Xiaodao always thought that he was in the Book of Changes and had a lot of research. When I saw the two of you today, I realized that I was arrogant. I dare not accept the money. Goodbye."

After being slapped by Yang Xiuxian and pushed back on the stool, Liu Tiechi was about to cry.

"If you tell me, you can say it."

Yang Xiuxian looked at Wanda's smiling expression and shook his head helplessly.

"This son has a very murderous aura... Although I don't know your horoscope, he should be a soldier or a first-class bodyguard."

The main reason is that Yang Xiuxian doesn't look like a policeman, and ordinary people don't think in the direction of Jin Yiwei.

Yang Xiuxian smiled disdainfully, "We and other generals naturally have some bloody smell on them, and ordinary people can also see it."

Meaning this doesn't count.

Liu Tiechi's eyebrows twitched, thinking that if I don't show my big move today, you may really look down on me.

"Then I'll just say - this son's life is the life of having no wife and no children."

He just saw that this man was full of blood, and he was afraid that more than one life was on his back, and he was afraid that if he really said it, he would suffer, so he wanted to run away.

"Really? No wife and no children?"

After hearing this, Wanda moved her face to Yang Xiuxian's side, "What about me?"

"The villain didn't dare to say it before. You...you probably have this sign too!"

Liu Tiechi gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, thinking that he would die, or he would be locked up in the yamen for a few days at worst.It's not that I haven't encountered it before.

"Hahaha, interesting, really interesting."

"No wife and no children, everyone has no wife and no children, hahahaha."

Seeing these two well-dressed and top-notch young men in front of him, after hearing their "miserable" fates, they actually pointed at each other and laughed, which attracted the attention of the people around, Liu Tie Chi suddenly I feel like I have met two lunatics.

"That's a good deal! I'll give you this, and add another ingot of silver."

Enough of laughing, Wanda clutched her sore stomach, took out another ingot of silver from her cuff, and put it on the table.

This time it's a real little ingot, ten taels.

Wanda looked at Liu Tiechi's eyeballs were about to pop out, and said with a smile, "You think you know how to look at public affairs?"

"exactly."

Liu Tiechi pounded his head like garlic.

"Let's go, come back with me. I have a geomantic treasure for you to see, this... It's considered wages. You can follow me for the next few days."

"Okay, okay."

Liu Tiechi originally thought that when he went out today and encountered these two evil stars, he had "rushed".Unexpectedly, he actually took over a big business, and his expression was so beautiful that he put it away.

Yang Xiuxian rolled his eyes and immediately guessed Wanda's intention

Master Xiaowan...

He picked up the teacup and drank the remaining tea in the cup.

The "Geomantic Treasure Land" that Wanda wants Liu Tiechi to see is naturally the location of the archway that the Ding family and the Guo family competed for.

During the time they came out to hang out, Qiu Qingtian had already studied the certificate carefully, and asked Gao Hui to move some of the documents from the county government to the post station.

Compared with each other, it is found that the problem is quite big.

Let's not talk about how the Guo family's daughter-in-law died.

As far as the piece of land that the two of them are fighting for now, it stands to reason that it should be where the Ding family's ancestral grave is located.

If the servants of the Ding family are right, their old Ding family migrated from Luoyang to Huizhou since the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, Shexian County was not called by its current name, it was called "Xin'an County".

At that time, people from the north traveled south in all their clothes, mostly for refuge.The Ding family was no exception. They went down the south of the Yangtze River in order to avoid the Anshi Rebellion in the late Tang Dynasty.

The reason why the ancestors of the Ding family settled in She County was mainly because of the feng shui here.I feel that "the writing pen pierces the sky, the strange peak rises steeply, and the two dragons converge" here, which is a rare good geomantic omen, which can bless future generations.

At the beginning, the ancestors of the Ding family first determined the location of the tomb in the future, and then reversed to select the site for the Yangzhai.Since then, it has taken root and multiplied here, from generation to generation.

In fact, the Ding family has gone through so many generations, and there have been several brilliant scholars in history.The county chronicles are also vivid.

But when Mr. Ding came here, people in the family abandoned their studies and started business one after another, and went to Lianghuai to do business.As a result, although there are many children in the family, there is no one in the court, and they lose the right to speak in the town a little bit.

Counting it, the most beautiful time recently was the one ten years ago when Master Ding erected the chastity archway for his old mother who passed away.

Speaking of the ethos of reading in Huizhou, apart from the fact that this place has been thriving with literature since ancient times.If someone in the family is admitted to fame, or someone in the clan is an official in the court.It means that his family has power in the local area and can speak up.

Money alone is not enough. In the Ming Dynasty, which emphasized agriculture over business, and in Jiangnan, which was itself rich, political capital represented available benefits.

As a modern person, Wanda may not be able to understand what such interests represent.

But until modern times, in the vast countryside.During the farming season, due to the lack of family power, it is common for one's own family to use the canal a few days later than other families.

In ancient times, this would likely have resulted in a terrible situation where the crops in the farmland were completely wiped out.

Although the Ding family, who make a living by operating pens, ink, paper and inkstones, did not have access to water canals, they endangered their ancestral graves.

Although this family is not considered a big family in She County, it is still an ancient family. To be bullied to such an extent... Qiu Zijin felt chilled just by reading the documents.

This is why the whole family hopes that he will take the exam and become an official.

Although Jingdezhen is located in Jiangxi, it is adjacent to Wuyuan in Huizhou, and the customs of the two places are very similar.

When Qiu Zijin was a child, he also said that his father went to business in his early years, because no one in the family was an official, and he was laughed at as a "Fuliang businessman" when he arrived in Yangzhou.

Having said that, although the Guo family lives next to the Ding family, there is no reason for Wan to erect the memorial archway of his own daughter-in-law to the grave of Lao Ding's ancestors.

"So that's how it was said to be a 'war for the memorial archway', but it's actually about fighting for land."

After hearing this, Wanda suddenly realized.

"Understood? Tomorrow, we will go for a walk in the countryside with our lord, and see what's strange about the Feng Shui of Lao Ding's grave."

Wanda said to Liu Tiechi, who had been lying on the ground for a long time and hadn't stood up until now.

"Big, big, my lord... Xiaodao. Hey no, the villain is not a Taoist priest, I was just talking casually just now. A few adults, you adults have a lot, let the little ones go."

Liu Tiechi took out the two ingots of silver and put them in front of his head.

When he walked into this inn just now, he felt something was wrong.This post seems to be an "official post", not a "folk post" where ordinary people live.

As a result, when he entered the door, he was directly led into this room.

And the young man who was working in this room turned out to be the Supervisor Censor who had just disembarked today.

Qiu Zijin put down the paperwork, raised his head, looked at "Liu Tie Chi" who was lying on the ground trembling, and frowned.

Master Wan, what kind of tricks is he going to do?

As the saying goes, "snakes have their way, and rats have their way".

Liu Tiechi has been traveling around Huizhou for many years, and he has some knowledge in Shexian County. He knows that there will be important figures in Shexian County recently, not only the supervisory censor, but even Jinyiwei.

Who knew, Jin Yiwei was the grandfathers in front of him!

He must have been blind outside the teahouse just now, thinking that these two young men could fool around, but ended up fooling himself in.

"Don't be modest. I think what you said is very good. When we get to the ancestral grave of the Ding family, you can perform better."

Wanda squatted down and patted his shoulder.

"Come on, I'm optimistic about you!"

Wanda is not a top student like Qiu Zijin, who would look for clues and investigate cases from the pile of words.

Since Huizhou people believe in Fengshui, he will start from this aspect and touch their old roots.

There is a saying - use magic, defeat magic!