I'm watching the gate in the jail

A few people went up to the third floor of the restaurant, and walked up the stairs all the way, and saw the buzz of people below, people coming and going, and the business was very good.

Entering the most luxurious private room on the third floor, Qiu Zijin sat down and asked the waiter who was cleaning the table for them, "This is not a festival or festival, and it's not a day for a temple fair. Why is it so lively?"

This Mr. Qiu is also a frequent visitor, and he is the youngest head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Xiaoer is naturally very attentive to him, "Mr. Qiu, yesterday was the Yulan Basin Festival. According to the custom, there will be three days of flames in Longfu Temple. Donate to hungry ghosts and save the dead. So many people come to the temple to pray and burn paper, and even our business is good. If today is not the best, tomorrow is the last day of the puja, and we will burn a big treasure ship. Give alms to the monks of the ten directions and all kinds of evil spirits, then there will be the most talents."

Wanda let out an "ah", and finally remembered that yesterday was actually the "July and a half" in the legend of the lunar calendar.That is what Buddhism calls "the Yulan Basin Festival", and what Taoism calls "Hungry Ghost Festival", which is the day when local officials release sins.

According to the folk saying, this day is the day when the gate of ghosts is opened, and every family will worship ancestors and the dead on the roadside.Whether it is a temple or a Taoist temple, they will practice deeds and set off flames. Even the Taoist temples in the palace will specially set up large treasure ships and burn them as sacrifices to the soldiers who died for the country.

On such a special day, there happened to be an aggressive and strange incident of Hei Hao attacking His Majesty the Emperor in the palace.

All this is too "coincidence".

Wanda thought to himself.

Since Liu Tiechi entered the "Xinghaihui" restaurant, he began to dislike the lack of these two eyes.

All the mistresses in this "Xinghaihui" are dressed in uniform blue-gray short brown, with red belts tied around their waists, and square flat caps on their heads, looking energetic and dignified.No matter who came in, they all had a smile on their faces, without any trace of the usual snobbish look of the little girls.

Liu Tiechi didn't know that this was due to the "employee training" advocated by Wanda.

Wanda uses the service standard of the famous hot pot restaurant "Hai X Lao" in the future to require the waiters, stewards, and even the staff in the stables to make every guest who steps into "Xinghaihui" feel at home, thus winning a great deal. word of mouth.

Of course, the monthly money offered by "Xinghaihui" is the only one in Beijing.The waiters here earn more than the accountants in ordinary restaurants.

Except for Xiao Er's enthusiasm, everything that comes into view in this building is full of splendor and splendor, well arranged.Even in the daytime, the lights and candles in the building are flickering, the corridors and verandas are shaded, and the beautiful scenery attracts each other.

"This is the capital... so good, so good..."

Liu Tiechi couldn't stop tsk-tsk.

As soon as they sat down, Xiao Er came in with a tray, which contained snow-white towels, and used bamboo tweezers to clamp them into small plates placed in front of everyone.

Liu Tiechi reached out to open the towel, but found that the towel was scalding hot.He was too scared to move.

Seeing that other people on the table, including the little kid with the "dragon pose", spread out the towel carefully as usual, then wiped their face first, then their hands, and finally put the towel back on the plate.

Liu Tiechi did the same thing. After wiping, he felt refreshed both physically and mentally. He thought that people in the capital really enjoyed it.It's just that the towels are white after other people wipe them, but his towel turned gray because of him, and he felt a little embarrassed immediately.

"Brother Liu is indeed a 'travel servant'."

Qiu Zijin joked.

"Ashamed ashamed."

Liu Tiechi cupped his hands, "Xiaodao is also a newcomer today, and I haven't found a place to stay yet. I entered the city and saw the incense here from a distance, thinking that there should be a Taoist temple nearby to place an order for me. , I found it here. But I didn't expect to meet Master Wan and you, it seems that we are really destined."

Halfway through the conversation, Xiao Er, who had just exited, opened the door and came in again, and put away all the plates with towels in front of everyone.Behind him were two waiters, each holding a huge tray, with eight cold, eight hot, and sixteen dishes on the table one by one.

The last waiter who came in poured tea and water for everyone, and when Wan Lan and Wang Zhi were in front, they replaced it with two cups of milk.

"Father, I don't want milk, I want sherbet."

Wan Lan lowered her head, glanced at the milk, and said dissatisfied.

"Drink milk to grow up. Look at your father, he can be as tall as today... Although he still can't keep up with you Uncle Yang and Uncle Gao, he is already half a head taller than your Uncle Xiaoqiu. Do you want to be a dwarf? No? Then drink it quickly. You see, your brother Ah Zhi drank it up."

Facing Qiu Zijin's eye-knife, Wanda smiled and added a piece of food to his bowl, "Xiaoqiu, eat whatever you want. You're welcome. I'll treat you to this meal. I have business to do in the afternoon, so this meal will be fine." Tea is used instead of wine. After the case is over, I will invite everyone to have a good meal."

The cost of this "Xinghaihui" is not low, even if Qiu Zijin is now an official to the sixth rank, it is not affordable every day.

What's more, he has no support from his family for a long time now, and all his food and clothing depend on the salary of the imperial court, as well as the remuneration for writing a book with Wanda and all the daily retouching fees.

"Master Wan, are you this child's 'father'?"

Just as Liu Tiechi was about to pick up some food for himself, when he heard Wan Lan calling Wanda "Father" over and over again, Master Wan also acted like an old man teaching his son to him, which really shocked Liu Tiechi.

"What? Doesn't it look like it?"

Wanda looked at him dissatisfied.

"Hehe, pardon Xiaodao's bluntness. You can't be born like this... hey!"

It was too late to say that a chicken leg suddenly flew into Liu Tiechi's half-opened mouth. The hot chicken skin and chicken distorted his face, and he wanted to spit it out but was reluctant. For a while, his eyebrows and eyes were twisted together, looking like It was hilarious.

Wan Lan was sitting across from him, looking at the old man's appearance, she leaned back and forth with a smile, and almost fell off the chair.

"Old Liu, how come the more you live, the more you go back?"

Yang Xiuxian picked up the teacup and walked to Liu Tiechi's side, took the chicken leg from his mouth, and put it on a plate.Bending down, leaning against his ear, he threatened, "Didn't you tell me just now? If you dare to talk nonsense, you will die..."

Liu Tiechi wished he could tuck himself into the chair, and couldn't stop nodding.

"Liu Tie Chi, tell us quickly about your 'shi scum'. How did you make you run from Jiangnan to the capital?"

After Yang Xiuxian finished speaking harshly, he patted Liu Tiechi's shoulder with a smile, looking happy.

"That's my junior brother..."

Liu Tiechi patted his chest with lingering fear, and smiled awkwardly, "It's called 'Hou Dequan', originally from Baoding, Hebei..."

Everyone listened to Liu Tiechi while eating.

Wan Lan, who was a little frightened by his weird behavior at first, let go of her courage after the scene just now, and listened to it like a book with relish.

"This guy with the surname Hou is quite powerful. He first became a monk and then became a Taoist priest. If he studies another book and gets a good name in the exam, won't he be involved in all three schools of 'Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism'?"

Wanda laughed.

Hou Dequan, a native of Baoding, is in his 40s this year.

At first, he became a monk in the temple of Langshan, Hebei, and then went to Shaolin Temple in Henan to become a monk, and then transferred to Master Liu Tiechi and became his only junior.

"This Hou Dequan, it is said that he is not called by this name anymore. He changed his name to something... called 'Li Zilong'. I came to Beijing to arrest him."

Liu Tiechi didn't know how long he hadn't had a good meal along the way. The food he ate was called wind and clouds, and half of the dishes on the table went into his stomach.

"Slow down, slow down, if it's not enough."

Fearing that he would choke to death, Wanda raised his hand and poured him a glass of water.

"What did he do, you want to arrest him? Is it like the White Lotus Sect, cheating the world?"

Wanda thought to himself that I have experience.

"If I don't catch him, our entire sect will be finished."

Liu Tiechi took the teacup with both hands.

"What's up with him?"

"He said he was the 'right man' and wanted to be emperor."

"puff!"

As soon as Liu Tiechi finished speaking, Qiu Zijin, Yang Xiuxian, Gao Hui, Wang Zhi and others who were holding teacups drinking tea spouted the tea out of their mouths.

Good guy, those are four or five water guns, all spraying towards Liu Tie Chi.

If Wanda hadn't been able to hide quickly, he would have suffered a lot at this moment.

"Good! Interesting!"

Wan Lan looked at the sluggish looks of the group of uncles on the left and right, and thought it was very fun. She held her palms together and gave a warm applause.

"You said, is there any connection between Liu Tiechi's younger brother 'Li Zilong' and the 'Hei Yao' we want to catch?"

Let Xiao Er remove all the food and wine, and replace them with good tea.

Wanda turned her head and glanced at the small cabinet specially set up next to the half-open box.

This was specially prepared for women and those who brought their children to Xinghaihui to eat and play when the restaurant was built.There is a couch and washing tools inside.

Of course, the price of a box with such a small cabinet is also amazing.However, there are many rich people in Beijing, and those who can bring their wives and children out to play don't care about such a small amount of money at all.

Wan Lan, that damn child, was reluctant to take a nap just now, but now he is already snoring.

Just now everyone worked together to stain Liu Tiechi's only piece of clothing. Xiaoer has gone to a nearby tailor shop to buy him a new Taoist robe, shoes and socks, and opened a private room for him. Changing clothes in the room.

Taking advantage of Liu Tiechi's absence, everyone discussed.

"He said that when Li Zilong switched to his master's school, he had already received the "superior" on demand."

To be correct, this guy who was previously called "Hou Dequan" met a Jianghu man named "Jiang Chao" by chance when he was a monk in the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain and boxing.

That Jiang Chao was also a fortune teller. After seeing the bald Hou Dequan, he knelt down and kowtowed immediately, saying that he had the appearance of a real dragon and was destined to be an emperor.

"A bunch of nonsense."

Qiu Zijin snorted, "I think their fortune-tellers probably have this problem in nine out of ten. Don't talk about others, just talk about Liu Tiechi, who kowtowed to Alan just now. Could it be that Alan is also the emperor?"

Qiu Zijin's fate was so rough when he was a teenager. In the final analysis, when his mother was born, someone said that she would be the imperial wife in the future.From then on, Qiu's mother took this as the goal of her life's struggle, which caused so many disasters.

So Xiao Qiu didn't have a good impression of these quack warlocks, and he was able to talk to Liu Tiechi because of his past friendship and Wanda's face.

By the way, Qiu's mother is indeed an "extraordinary person".

She returned to Shexian County, and after finishing her hard labor, she became pregnant with a child. At the age of 40, the "old clam begets a pearl" gave Qiu Zijin a younger sister.

It was because of this younger sister that Qiu Zijin gradually regained some contact with the Qiu family. He didn't want his younger sister to become a second mother.

"Well……"

Although he knew that Qiu Zijin's words were mocking, Wanda still exchanged a knowing look with Yang Xiuxian in a very guilty conscience.

"Later, this Hou Dequan stopped being a monk... he became a Taoist priest, and joined Master Liu Tiechi's disciples. He wanted to be self-taught, and figured out whether he was really ordered by the emperor."

It has to be said that this is a very inquisitive person.

"I don't know what he looks like? Is it really very different?"

Wanda asked curiously.

You must know that he has met the real "True Dragon Emperor". Apart from being a little more handsome than him, the emperor's brother-in-law has nothing special about him.

"Hmm... The horns on his head are tall, the cheekbones are soaring, and the jaw is fleshless. The ears are bony. It can only be called a 'vision'. Anyway, my master and I didn't see that he has the emperor's fate."

After changing clothes, Liu Tie Chi walked in and said.

He subconsciously glanced at Wan Lan who was sleeping soundly in the open door next door, and then turned his head in fear.

If you want to talk about the appearance of an emperor, I'm afraid this is the one here.

"Not long after he entered the school, his master saw that his intentions were not right, so he was driven down the mountain to undergo various experiences. The master said back then that if he repents, he will be able to return to the mountain gate in the future."

Wanda clicked his tongue twice, and shook his head, "It's a pity, if you were expelled from the school back then, you don't have to go there yourself now."

After being expelled from the teacher's school, this student Hou, who is very inquisitive, did not give up his study path.

After returning to his hometown of Hebei, according to his own account, he met an unknown wild Taoist priest who taught him a divine book.After self-taught, he acquired great supernatural powers, taught people in the Hebei area to teach water, and gave people ways to eliminate demons. He made friends with people in the world, and gradually became famous.

Later, I met a Taoist priest and told him again that he had the appearance of an emperor, which made Hou believe it.This time he simply changed his name to Li Zilong, and when he came to the capital, he actually started planning to ascend the throne and become emperor.

"But Lao Liu, how did you know about this kind of rebellion in Jiangnan?"

"Hey...it's a coincidence. Half a year ago, I was sincerely blessed, and suddenly wanted to tell the future of my teacher. After all, Xiaodao is nearly forty years old, and I haven't found a disciple yet. I am a little impatient. I'm worried that my sect will be ruined in my hands."

Liu Tiechi sighed, "Who knows, our family will be wiped out soon, and the disaster will come from the north."

"Humph……"

Qiu Zijin listened to his chatter, and turned his head away with some disdain.

On the contrary, Wanda and Yang Xiuxian knew that this person had real skills.

Although it sounded outrageous, he still urged him to continue talking.

"It just so happens that I have an old customer who has been doing business on the Grand Canal all year round. He returned to his hometown in the south of the Yangtze River and invited me to drink. After he was drunk, he said that there was a great master in the capital. He was first in Hebei, and later went to Shaoshi Mountain practiced, and was taught the divine book by the immortals. He has great supernatural powers, knowing that 300 years before and after is not counted, and he has a long head and horns, claiming to have the appearance of an emperor..."

Liu Tiechi shook his head, and said as if he was drunk, "Although Xiaodao was already drunk at the time, he was stupefied. But after hearing this experience, who else would it be if it wasn't my Junior Brother Hou? I pretended not to know and continued to listen to him Nonsense... As a result, he said that he worshiped that Taoist priest named 'Li Zilong' as his 'guru'. Every time he came to Beijing, half of the silver taels he earned would be enshrined to him as 'merit'."

"Kindness? This guy learned from the White Lotus Sect."

Wanda said disdainfully, "Does it mean that I have accumulated a lot of merit and can go to the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss in the future?"

"No and no. The 'merit' of this enshrining determines the future 'official position'. According to Xiaodao's wealthy businessman friend - it is the proof of "being a marquis and worshiping a minister."

"Confess the Marquis and pay homage to the Prime Minister?"

Everyone stood up and said, almost waking up the sleeping child next door.

Is this person really planning to start a rebellion? Is this trying to raise military expenses?

Liu Tiechi snapped his fingers, "Those who enshrine 100 taels will be given a ninth-rank sesame official at most after the 'thing is done'. Those who enshrine more than a thousand taels are eligible to enter Fengtian Hall. If they can offer more than ten thousand taels of silver— —It can be ranked among the third. It is said that nearly one million taels have been raised.”

Wanda felt a chill down her back when she heard that.

According to Liu Tiechi, this guy who changed his name to "Li Zilong" has been lurking in Beijing for at least three to five years.They Jinyiwei Yamen and Dongchang didn't notice it at all?

"Did your friend tell you where Li Zilong's teaching altar is?"

There is actually such a person who intends to rebel hidden under the feet of the Son of Heaven. No matter whether the black hole has anything to do with him or not, this person must be arrested, and then his gang of so-called believers should be copied and killed.

Speaking of which, Beizhen Fusi hasn't encountered any particularly serious cases in the past two years, and the law and order in Beijing is so good that Wanda feels so bored that he grows hair.Hearing what Liu Tiechi said now, he couldn't help but feel itchy in his hands and feet, and began to feel eager to try.

"No...he only said that every time he entered the capital, he would go to the bustling place in the east of the city to get a job. When I asked about that Li Zilong, he would be completely drunk and unable to say anything."

Liu Tiechi sighed.

"Afterwards, Xiaodao wanted to ask him again. He seemed to feel that he had said something wrong that night, so he began to deliberately alienate me. Even if Xiaodao offered to buy him a drink, he only drank three points, and he would never be like that again. I was as drunk as last time, and I was heartbroken about Xiaodao."

When everyone heard this, they were also stunned.

"Susu, come here."

At this moment, Wang Zhi who didn't know when he walked to the window of the box waved to Wanda.

Wanda walked over curiously and looked down at the opposite side.

Looking out from the third floor of Xinghaihui, it is just facing the mountain gate of Longfu Temple.

Looking from this side, you can see a large square in front of the Daxiong Palace. There is a lot of people inside, and the smoke from the high incense burns in the air. With the help of the wind, you can smell it on the third floor of Xinghaihui.

Wanda watched for a while, and saw either monks knocking on wooden fishes and chanting scriptures for salvation, or devout men and women were either praying or burning incense around the mountain shed that was built.There are also a few tourists who are obviously from other places, pointing at the various Buddha statues, as if they are tasting something, but they don't see any abnormalities.

Yang Xiuxian and Qiu Zijin also walked over curiously, stood at their adjacent windows and looked opposite, but they didn't find anything special.

"Look at those two people."

Wang Zhi finally stopped being a joke, pointed to the two men below and said.

"These two are servants in the palace."

Upon hearing this, Wanda hurriedly took a closer look.

I saw a middle-aged man in an earth-colored coat, and beside him was a young man in a green shirt. Both of them were holding incense candles and peach charms in their hands, and they were worshiping in front of the burning incense burner.

The flame was facing Wanda and the others, so he couldn't see it clearly for a while, but after carefully distinguishing it for a while, he did find that the two of them were both white and beardless, and they seemed a little familiar...

"Huh? Wasn't this person on duty in Fengtian Palace yesterday?"

Wanda suddenly lost color.

Yesterday, there was chaos in the Fengtian Hall. After Wanda drove away the black man, Wynn helped the emperor Zhu Jianshen to retreat. He was also taken to a side hall by several servants and palace servants to bandage the wound first.

One of the men who supported him was that middle-aged man.

"Why is he here? Could it be that something unfortunate happened yesterday, and today he deliberately went out of the palace to get rid of the trouble?"

Wanda asked.

"Eliminate evil spirits? There are temples and Taoist temples in the palace, why should the servants come to the temple outside the palace to eliminate evil spirits?"

Although Wang Zhi himself does not believe in gods and Buddhas, he often accompanies Concubine Wan Gui to burn incense and pray for blessings in various temples in the palace, and he knows some temple rules to some extent.

"Because half of the Longfu Temple is a Tibetan Lama Temple, so there is no such thing as talisman paper for sale in the temple. Look at the gold and silver peach talismans in his hands... that is clearly the talisman paper that only exists in Taoist temples. How about it?" Appeared in the monk temple?"

Because none of this group of people worshiped Buddha on weekdays, they didn't see anything strange just now. After Wang Zhi's reminder, everyone came to their senses—yes!These two people actually took the talisman paper from the Taoist temple and ran to the monk's temple. Did they slap the Buddha in the face, or the Taishang Laojun?

The windows were all occupied, and Liu Tiechi couldn't find a place, so he couldn't see the scene below for a while.However, upon hearing Wang Zhi's analysis, he nodded in agreement, "That's true, it's against the rules."

As the saying goes, "what kind of temple to enter, what kind of incense to burn", these two people obviously don't believe in Bodhisattvas, but they are still putting on airs here, what are they doing?

"Gao Hui, follow up."

Yang Xiuxian said in a low voice.

Gao Hui nodded, quickly left the box and walked towards Longfu Temple.

"Let's follow."

Wanda said, just took two steps, turned around dejectedly, and looked at Wan Lan next door who had just woken up and opened his eyes ignorantly at the moment, not realizing that he was not in the baron's mansion at the moment.

"Go first, I will follow later."

Yang Xiuxian smiled and left with everyone.

Wanda redressed the sleepy Wan Lan, took the towel that Xiao Er had twisted and wiped the child's face.

Although Wanda is a young man who has never been married, he takes care of the children by himself.

Since Wan Lan was weaned at the age of one, he basically took care of him.He does everything from shit to piss, to early childhood education.

In the first few years, he would carry Wan Lan behind his back even when he was on duty in Jinyiwei.Before Wan Lan could walk, she had already visited the torture chambers of Zhao Prison and Jin Yiwei.

So these two people seem to be noisy, but in fact, their relationship is extremely deep, which has long surpassed that of ordinary father and son.

"father……"

Wan Lan yawned, "Where are uncles and uncles?"

Why did he only sleep for a short while, and the adults all left.

"The uncles have found the bad guy."

Hugging Wan Lan, who was fully dressed, to the ground, Wanda took his arm and smiled, "We will follow to catch the villains."

Wan Lan looked excitedly at Wanda who was searching for the mark left by Yang Xiuxian.

They went out of the restaurant and went straight to Longfu Temple, and they saw the mark left by Yang Xiuxian at the corner of the wall of the temple gate.

This is the unique tracking mark of Jin Yiwei. Ordinary people would only think it is a child's scribbling, but it actually has a deep meaning.

Wanda held Wan Lan's hand, walked two steps following the mark, and found that he had returned to a familiar place—not somewhere else, but the one where they turned from the narrow alley just now and surprised the waiter at Xinghaihui. intersection.

Come to see this place is really weird.

Wanda simply picked up Wan Lan and strode on the fallen leaves.

Three turns and two turns, just when Wanda almost doubted whether Yang Xiuxian made a wrong mark and caused him to lose his way.

Another familiar building appeared.

White walls, black doors, black columns.

This place is not anywhere else, it is where Taixue and Guozijian are located.