In the early morning, the rooster crowed.

Xiaoman opened his eyes in a daze and walked out with the little black cat in his arms.

She saw Chen Ji sitting on a stone bench under the ginkgo tree, silently looking at the map of the outer city.

Xiaoman asked curiously: "Young Master, when are you going to do it?"

Chen Ji looked up and said, "No hurry. Hundreds of people from Hutchison and Fu Ruixiang didn't even do business, so they could stay in the Eight Great Hutongs. Let's see who can't stand it first. They had already beaten hundreds of sticks at home to recuperate. After a few night attacks, they couldn't gather so many people, so they could take away the Eight Great Hutongs' business."

Xiaoman was shocked: "Young Master wants to take away all the businesses in the Eight Hutongs? There are big names behind those businesses."

Chen Ji smiled: "We have big names behind us."

Xiaoman was puzzled: "Who?"

Chen Ji pointed at the sky: "The future chief minister of the cabinet, Lord Zhang Zhuo and Zhang."

"Oh..." Xiaoman's eyes turned: "Zhang Zheng invited you to Baishun Hutong last night? Don't be attracted by the women there."

Chen Ji put down the map and said with a smile: "I didn't call the woman to accompany me, I just made a drink order."

Xiaoman said curiously: "Where is Zhang Zheng?"

Chen Ji glanced at her: "Not Zhang Zheng either."

Xiaoman said a long time: "Young Master, I heard from other maids in the mansion that Liang would invite some officials and noble ladies to go to Pratyekabuddha Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha every day, but in fact, they are looking for a suitable marriage for you. Young Master, I know I shouldn't get involved in this matter, but I think it's better to marry me instead of just finding a woman to marry me..."

Chen Ji put down the map and interrupted, "Xiaoman, I will leave sooner or later. At that time, no matter who gets engaged, it will hurt the other party's reputation. This is a great injustice to the engaged person. So I can only be selfish and hope that the engaged person will be a person who is disgusted with ghosts, so I don't have to feel too guilty."

Xiaoman whispered: "So that's it."

Chen Ji stood up and walked out: "I'm going to the yamen to Yingmao."

After leaving the door, Li Xuan and Qi Jingjing had already waited outside the door.

Qi Jingju's face was filled with excitement that could not be concealed, and he chattered: "Master, I went to Yanzhi Hutong last night. There were fewer people there than Lishamao Hutong. When will we go and have another vote?"

Chen Ji said calmly: "It's not time yet."

"Ah?" Qi Zhenzhuo was stunned: "When will it take?"

Chen Ji thought for a while: "When they can't stand it, we have no industry in the Eight Great Hutongs anyway, so we can go anytime we want."

"oh……"

The three of them turned into the Yulin Army Governor's Office along West Chang'an Street. When they entered the door, they saw that Chen Wenren and others no longer trained the ceremonial guards, but instead replaced the spear to train the troops and set up formations, full of murderous aura.

When the three of them came in, Chen Wenren glanced at them sideways and said carelessly: "Have you heard that something happened to the outer city recently?"

They thought carefully and pretended to be confused: "Big thing? What big thing?"

Chen Wenren sneered: "It is said that there is a group of elite troops in the army who masked them and beat some gangs in the outer city, which makes the outer city uneasy and does not feel embarrassed."

Qi Zhenjue said in surprise: "Why did Lord Chen hear about this? It's not that your second wife of Chen's family still has any money dealings with those idle people, right? No, if you are to be known by the censor, you will definitely impeach your Chen family!"

Chen Wenren's expression was stagnant, and after a moment he sneered, "Some people are not brave enough to kill Jing Chao's thieves. They only dare to take some help from the market. I am ashamed of him. I really feel that I have the ability, so I will practice with my Yulin Army."

Qi Zhenjiu's face turned dark. He had just found confidence in the Eight Great Hutongs, but now he has been re-told by someone else's old things.

Both of them guessed something, but no one wanted to expose it or lose that person.

Li Xuan pulled his arms and walked into the yamen: "Don't talk to him so much. If you practice the formation well, you will be proud of yourself."

Qi Jingzhe took a deep breath: "Brother-in-law, don't worry, I understand!"

Chen Ji asked the Yulin Army to lie dormant and wait for the opportunity. This wait took five days.

Until the evening of the fifth day, Chen Wenren and others returned home early, and Chen Ji still led the Yulin Army to train the Mandarin Duck Formation in the Governor's Mansion.

"Chen Ji!" Zhang Zheng shouted under the window of the Governor's Mansion.

Chen Ji pushed open the window and looked down and saw Zhang Zheng slashing back with his left hand three times.

He nodded to Zhang Zheng and closed the window again.

After a stick of incense, Chen Ji led Qi Zhenzhuo and others to the carriage outside the gate.

In the alley opposite the Yulin Army Governor's Office, a man secretly stared at the carriage and drove towards Zhengyang Gate. He immediately took out a horse from the alley and galloped towards the Chen family.

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Lishamao Hutong, Chunfengyuan.

The young man leaned against the window and yawned. He waited from You to Hai, so he was extremely bored.

The young man sighed: "You shouldn't have driven out all the women in Chunfengyuan. It would be nice to let them stay and sing small songs."

Zhou Kuang sat aside, his eyes were also dull: "Master, keep them here. If you see your identity and go out to speak nonsense, will I still silence me? It's the fifth day. You didn't go by the Ministry of Rites Wu's appointment, and you didn't go by the Ministry of Personnel Zhang's appointment. Just how much delay is it to watch this drama? If they haven't come yet today, let's not come again."

The young man smiled and said, "You fool don't understand. What do I see so many ministries doing? It's just a waste of time. Don't worry, that group of people will definitely come."

Zhou Kuang looked up: "When will you come?"

The young man looked through the crack of the window to the alley downstairs: "Hundreds of people from Hutchison and Fu Ruixiang didn't even do business, so how many days can they stay here? Chongnanfang, Zhengxifang, and Liulichang's business still need? Can the ghost market in Panjiayuan still open? It depends on who can't stand it first."

At this moment, there was a quarrel downstairs.

But Zhu Guan was standing in Lishamao Hutong and arguing with Qian Ping loudly: "Don't stop me, this is the fifth day. Do you remember to do business? I, Fu Ruixiang, still have to do business."

Qian Ping stood under the red light building and said calmly: "Zhu Dazhu, you and I, Longtou, have already become a ally in front of Mr. Qi. Are you going to betray your faith now?"

Zhu Guan sneered: "I'm not traitorous, I really can't afford to delay business. If this is a mess, I can't afford to blame Pan Jiayuan's business. If the boss comes again, I can just send someone to call me quickly. My Fu Ruixiang will never watch the fire from the other side."

The young man upstairs smiled and said, "Zhou Kuang, look, some people can't stand it anymore."

Zhou Kuang frowned: "Master, do you want to change this Zhu Guan?"

The young man was amused: "What did he do?"

Zhou Kuang thought, "This person is jealous. He has suppressed countless of the best among Furuixiang in the past ten years, which can be considered to have harmed your interests."

The young man's arms were placed on the windowsill and his chin was placed on his arms. He looked bored at Zhu Guanling Fu Ruixiang's men and hurriedly left.

He suddenly sighed: "When I was young, Taifu Xu taught me to read history and say that all evil people will be punished. Later, I followed Xu Jianzheng to practice Buddhism, and he also said that we must accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Later, when I saw Zhu Guan, I deliberately did not move him, wanting to see when this evil person would be punished. But Zhou Kuang, you see, Taifu and Xu Jianzheng were both right. In this world, the more evil people are, the better they live."

Zhou Kuang whispered: "But most of the evil people died tragically."

The young man laughed: "I have been happy for decades, but died in a tragic moment. Is it a loss or a profit for decades of freedom? Is it a big profit? Zhou Kuang, the reason why Wenyuan Bookstore doesn't want my words is not because I didn't write well enough, but because I wrote too seriously and didn't have the hero they want."

At this moment, a shout of killing came from outside Li Shamao Hutong, and the young man's eyes lit up: "Look at what I said, it turns out that as soon as Fu Ruixiang left, they came! That's right. If they only act recklessly, I wouldn't be happy to see it. Now they can be patient and say that they have a big plan, which is interesting... But how should they deal with the officials who are doing business?"

"Zhou Kuang, make me a pot of tea and then I will cook the melon seeds!"

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Outside Li Shamao Hutong, Chen Ji and others came in with masks.

Chen Ji reminded at the end of the team: "Be sure to beat them for ten days and half a month and not get out of bed, so that they can beat them less and less."

The sticks came from the other end of the alley. As soon as the two sides contacted each other, a six-foot-long iron wolf sil forced the sticks to retreat.

Someone tried to catch the end of the iron wolf squid and fought with the Yulin Army to seize the iron wolf squid, but the end of the iron wolf squid was covered with fine thorns. With a touch, several holes were pierced in his hand, and blood was flowing.

Someone angrily rushed into the brothel and shouted, "What are you waiting for?"

Hutchison used the same trick again and rushed out of brothels, trying to cut off the mandarin duck array from it.

But as soon as they came out, Duobao suddenly roared: "Change the formation!"

The mandarin duck formation immediately contracted like a furry hedgehog with spears standing. Someone rushed forward with a stick holding the table as a shield. A Yulin army used a trident to push the table so that it could not be close. Li Cen made a quick decision and swept the legs of the stick under the table with a short spear.

Holding an iron wolf wicket, trident, and vine shield, the pick-and-roll hand guards prevent the formation from leaking, while the spearman is waiting for an opportunity to attack.

The young man upstairs looked through the crack in the window and murmured: "What a good formation, it was born for street fighting. Zhou Kuang, how should you solve this formation if you encounter this formation in your fifth military camp?"

Zhou Kuang thought for a while: "Boom with cannon guns."

The young man said angrily: "In such a complex and narrow alley, when you drag your guns over, people will hide long ago."

Zhou Kuang thought about it again: "It's true."

The young man touched his chin: "This group of people is also strange. A group of elite soldiers in the army used sticks from the city as Jing Chao elites, which was too unethical. Zhou Kuang, can you tell where they are? Shenji Camp? Five Military Camp? Long live the army?"

Zhou Kuang observed carefully for a moment: "It's not like. The Longsheng Army's fighting style is overbearing. The Shenji Camp does not like close-fitting fighting. The Five Military Camps cooperate in an exquisite manner. At present, this group of people are not overbearing enough, and their cooperation is far from being sophisticated... But I must have seen blood."

The young man was puzzled: "Where did this group of people come out? Could it be the Yulin Army?"

"You said those dandy groups? It's impossible."

The young man looked at the fighting in the alley: "However, this formation is so powerful, but it doesn't matter much. If you want to break it, you just want to pile up human lives. This kind of fighting style is so ugly. Go and let Fu Ruixiang's official take action to make the scene look better."

Zhou Kuang whispered: "Master, the Zuo brothers have some friends hiding their official skills. If they are exposed like this, they may cause disputes... And now Hutchison is being beaten, so we don't have to get involved."

The young man said carelessly: "You make sense, but if the martial artist on the stage has no opponent, the play will not be good enough. Hutchison's official in the hall is too timid, so Fu Ruixiang should come and give them some examples, go and let the Zuo brothers take action."

Zhou Kuang turned around and went out, and waved a black flag on the railing on the second floor of Chunfengyuan.

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To be continued...