The morning rooster breaks at dawn.

In the dark apprentice's dormitory, Chen Ji slowly sat up from the bed.

He turned around and glanced at his friends beside him: Yu Dengke and Liu Quxing were wrapped tightly in quilts, and Liang Gou'er, who had returned from unknown time, smelled of alcohol and was sleeping soundly with his head on Liang Mao'er's belly.

Chen Ji put on his clothes lightly and went out. He stood under the apricot tree and breathed out a faint mist. He silently looked up at a red cloth strip tied at the highest branch. After a long time, he turned around and went to the master's main house.

He quietly opened the heavy cotton curtain and poked his head inside to look inside.

Prince Jing was lying on the bed and was fast asleep. Old Yao was leaning on the couch with his eyes closed and meditating. The low stove in the room was emitting warm air. Chen Yi slipped into the room through the gap in the door curtain, walked carefully to the edge of the bed, and reached out to touch it. Prince Jing’s pulse.

However, before he could touch it, Old Man Yao grabbed his wrist from his side.

Chen Ji was startled and almost shouted: "Master, when did you get up and why didn't you make any sound?!" Old Yao said expressionlessly: "What are you doing?"

Chen Ji quickly explained: "I just want to see if the prince is sick."

Old Man Yao sneered: "With your half-heartedness, if I ask you to feel the pulse, what can you find out? The prince has just fallen asleep, I'm just afraid that you might wake him up rashly."

Chen Ji thought for a while and said: "Master, Your Majesty took me to the Lin Mansion on Tongji Street last night to listen to a hall meeting. At the hall, the lead singer of Meng Band sang the story of the White Boat. In the play, the young general has been busy for half his life. In the end, he didn't end up well. The person he traveled three thousand miles to save eventually turned against him."

Chen Ji asked curiously: "Master, is the prince the young general in the play?"

Old Yao raised his eyebrows: "What nonsense are you talking about? Baizhou Ji is a storybook written more than a hundred years ago. How could it be the prince?" Chen Ji looked at his master: "Master, you know what I mean."

"Where do all these problems come from?" Old Man Yao grabbed Chen Ji's wrist, pulled him out of the main room and threw him out: "The water tank is empty, go get some water." After that, Old Man Yao turned back. house, and the door curtain is tightly covered.

Chen Ji stood outside the door, looking back at the thick cotton curtain. He was a little confused, was Prince Jing sick? He couldn't even feel his pulse. If Prince Jing was not sick, how could Master cover Prince Jing's pulse? Master The more you cover it up, the more it means there is a problem.

If King Jing was sick, what kind of disease did he have? How could he faint when he was sick and couldn't hear people talking to him? But when he was not sick, he could lively walk for an hour to listen to a play? At this time, magpies were heard outside the hospital. cry.

Magpies are resident birds. In winter, they will put on their winter feathers early and build nests. Once winter comes, they will no longer leave the nest at will, nor will they sing at will. Chen Ji realized that this was the signal of the secret agent's bronze whistle!

He bent down, picked up the pole and barrel, and walked unsteadily toward the door. When he reached the door, the palace guards brought by Feng Daban crossed their halberds and blocked the way.

Chen Ji smiled and said: "Two guards, I went to fetch water. The water tanks in the courtyard are all empty. If it's not convenient for you to let me out, you can help fetch the water back. It will take about eight trips to fill the tank." .”

The two guards looked at each other, hesitated for a moment and then silently put away their halberds.

The traces passed through the mist on the bluestone road and when they came to the well, there was already a fat figure shaking the wooden oar at the mouth of the well. The golden pig!

Chen Ji walked to the well calmly, and without turning his head, the golden pig said in a voice as thin as a mosquito's: "Is Prince Jing really ill or a fake illness?" Chen Ji whispered: "My master told Concubine Jing that Prince Jing is Time is running out."

The golden pig cursed in a low voice: "It's too late to get sick." Chen Ji was confused: "What's wrong?"

Jinzhu explained: "The Liu family is frantically mobilizing more than ten private soldiers in Yuzhou. The huge Yuzhou has only allowed entry and no exit. The Liu family wants to rebel, but our news cannot be sent out!"

Chen Ji asked: "Even Pegasus can't get out?"

The golden pig moaned in pain: "The Liu family has been planning for a long time. The few official roads that can be entered and exited in Luo City are heavily guarded, and there are scouts all over the mountains. No matter how powerful the Pegasus is, they are only in the Seeking Dao realm. They are not officials in the Seeking Dao realm." Dare to fight against the reorganized military formation?"

Chen Ji said: "If Tianma breaks through to the divine realm, can it be done?"

Jin Zhu picked up the rolled up wooden barrel and placed it on the edge of the well: "If you are determined to leave the Shinto realm, the military formation cannot stop you. But the problem is, looking at the entire Ning Dynasty, there are only three Shinto realms, and Tianma wants to break through. , it’s getting even more difficult. Hundreds of dead soldiers from the Liu family are carrying portraits of me and Tianma all over the city to demand us. I’m lucky to be able to escape this catastrophe alive.”

Chen Ji's heart sank: "Aren't we going to watch the Liu family rebel?"

The golden pig put the empty barrel into the well: "Otherwise, what else can we do? How about we secretly go to the Liu family now, kill Mr. Liu Ge first, and then put all the Liu family relatives in prison. Wait for the Liu family's tens of thousands of private troops If there is no leader, the situation will be broken."

Chen Ji couldn't laugh or cry: "How about another way to die... Sir, if the Liu family is really ready, why don't they take action? What are they waiting for?"

The golden pig replied: "The Liu family is waiting for a division to become famous. They want to raise the banner of King Jing, but at this time King Jing is ill. As soon as he falls ill, the whole Luo City is in chaos. Last night, we I found that Concubine Jing hurried to the Liu family mansion and just returned to the palace half an hour ago; Concubine Yun hurried to Dongshi and lost her whereabouts under the cover of Caobang, and she has not returned yet."

Jin Zhu continued: "You must keep an eye on who met Prince Jing in the hospital, what he asked, and what he said. These are all very important. If the Cao Gang and the Liu family join forces, things will be even more difficult. .”

Chen Ji was confused: "Caobang? What is the relationship between Caobang and Yunfei?"

Jin Zhu was startled for a moment: "Don't you know, behind the Cao Gang is Luo Tianzong, and Concubine Yun is the only daughter of the previous sect leader, otherwise why do you think Prince Jing married her? When His Majesty was young, the court was in turmoil, and Luo Tianzong took advantage of the chaos to control Sanhe. Water transportation, freight transportation from south to north, and grain transportation are all controlled by them. This dilemma gradually improved after Prince Jing married Concubine Yun."

Luo Tianzong!

Previously, when Concubine Yun was trading firearms with the Jingchao Military Intelligence Department, she asked them to go to the Jinfang in Hongyi Lane to find the old bustard and report the word "Luo Tian"! Chen Ji suddenly asked: "Who is the current leader of the Luo Tian Sect?"

Jinzhu explained: "The current sect master's name is Han Tong, he is the direct disciple of the previous sect master, and his childhood sweetheart with Concubine Yun." Chen Ji's pupils shrank: "Does he have a tattoo of Buddha on his wrist?"

Golden Pig wondered: "Have you seen him?"

Chen Ji explained casually: "No, I just heard about it."

At this time, the golden pig rolled up the second bucket and placed it on the edge of the well. He said with emotion: "This man's whereabouts are strange. He has been hiding in the caobang stick. He can't catch him even if he wants to. If you see him, you have to do it first."

Report it to me immediately."

Chen Ji said helplessly: "Sir, you are now wandering around without a fixed address. I don't even know how to find you, so how can I report you as soon as possible?"

The golden pig lamented: "That's right... Damn it, where can the dignified secret agent be forced to do this? Prince Jing, please wake up quickly. He will continue to be ill like this. Yuzhou doesn't know yet."

Where will it go?"

"Can Prince Jing put down the rebellion when he wakes up?"

"If he wants to, maybe he can. With Prince Jing's reputation in the Central Plains, as long as he is willing to stand up and lend a voice to quell the civil unrest, many of the Liu family's plans will fall apart. Not everyone in the Liu family's tens of thousands of private troops

They all want to rebel, but they are not too hungry to survive. As long as the people have something to eat, who is willing to commit the crime of losing their heads and killing the Nine Clans?"

"But what if King Jing also wants to rebel?" "Then it's all over."

Chen Ji guessed that Prince Jing was not involved in the rebellion.

He knew best that if Prince Jing wanted to rebel, then they should not have gone to the hall last night, but to the Liu family mansion!

Jin Zhu warned: "I'm leaving, so be careful. Don't go out and about unless there is something particularly important these days. The Liu family now wants to kill all the secret spies in Luo City."

Chen Ji responded: "I understand, I will be careful."

At this time, Golden Pig took out a small cloth wrapped in it from his arms and put it into Chen Ji's hand: "This is for you, practice well." Chen Ji was startled for a moment, and he unwrapped the ashes layer by layer.

When I opened the cloth, I saw five ginseng sticks squeezed inside: "Sir, is this...?" The golden pig reluctantly said, "I bought this with my salary. Your cultivation talent is extremely high, so don't waste it!"

"

After that, he picked up the pole and wandered into the mist.

Chen Ji suddenly felt that the entire Luo City was like a speeding carriage, and Prince Jing was like a carriage driver. Over the past ten years, he had conscientiously tightened the reins, turned the direction of the carriage, and walked on the official road.
Chapter completed!