"Haha! We knew that Your Highness was coming."

Gao Lishi smiled hypocritically. He blocked Li Xiu at the door and hinted with his hand behind him.

Two young eunuchs were in a hurry to take off Yan Liben's paintings and Zhang Xu's words on the wall, and take away a batch of fine porcelain from the official kilns.

"Gao Man, I want to know more details about the disappearance of the princess."

"I thought you were going to ask how to do the task?"

"I probably know a little about this, but I am more concerned about the case."

Gao Lishi glanced back from the corner of his eyes and was almost done.

"Then come in and sit down!"

Li Xiu walked into the room and saw that the wall was bare and there was no porcelain in the display cabinet.

He really despised him, what does it mean? My brother’s reputation is so bad? As for it!

"Haha! It seems that Mr. Gao has obtained calligraphy and paintings of Yan Liben and Zhang Xu!"

"Where! Where! I've recently planned to pink the walls and take off all the calligraphy and paintings."

"It's better to change the place, it's too small."

"You are right, I just plan to change the place, so I put away the calligraphy and painting porcelain."

The two laughed dryly, and Li Xiu felt that there was little hope of asking for porcelain, so he turned the topic back to the main business.

"Gao Man, let's talk about the princess' disappearance case!"

"The princess is about to get married in less than a month. This time the emperor is preparing to marry the Yang family. It is the royal family of the previous dynasty. It is of great significance to the emperor's control over the Dongdu. But at this critical moment, the emperor is really anxious."

"Then is the Regent supporting this marriage?"

"Why, do you suspect it's the Regent?"

Li Xiu nodded, "If this marriage would allow the emperor to strengthen his control over the Eastern Capital, then the Regent would definitely be dissatisfied and would inevitably destroy the marriage."

"You are wrong this time. The Regent supports the princess' marriage very much. After the princess disappeared, the Regent immediately mobilized the elite forces from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice to rush to Luoyang.

Things are quite complicated, and I can't explain it clearly for a while. Anyway, you just remember one thing: At this stage, the Regent is not our enemy."

"Mr. Gao, since I have come here, I can't let me run away in vain! Look, can the emperor give me some support? Maybe I will lose to Li Cui, and his face is so ugly."

Gao Lishi pointed at Li Xiu and shook his head and said, "You kid never leave without leaving. If you don't get something, you won't call Thirty-Balang."

Gao Lishi took out a silver medal and handed it to Li Xiu, "With this silver medal, you can enter and exit Luoyang City at night, but the number of people cannot exceed ten. Li Cui also has one, so you are even."

………….

Among all the clans who received tasks, Li Xiu was the weakest. Other clans fought in small circles, with at least dozens of subordinates.

Li Xiu only has four people under him, and there are two unreliable guys.

But completing tasks is not just about strength, but more about mind or even luck.

Otherwise, Shengjiquan, which ranks first in strength, would not have lost the dirt in the case of Niu Xiantong.

The next morning, Pei Doudou settled down and rented four more horses. Li Xiu took four subordinates to set off for Luoyang.

"Wait a minute, go out and calculate your fortune!"

Li Xiu no longer uses flat shoes, and he has also upgraded his fortune-telling skills. He invited a simple fortune-telling artifact from the Temple of Wealth, which is said to have been consecrated by the Longyang Real Person.

He put three hexagram coins of gold, silver and copper in his hand and muttered something in his mouth.

"Hold money in your hands, sit in your heart, recite it piously three times, and your fortune will fall on the ground!"

Three coins were thrown into the sky, and after landing, they formed money as the front, and silver and copper coins were both hexagrams on the back: up and down.

"Xiaomei, bring the sign!"

Xiaomei handed over a copper sign with twenty-four bronze signs inside. Li Xiu found the upper and lower signs, and the explanation of this hexagram was engraved on the sign: "There is talent to be successful, and there is talent to be rich, but there is no talent to be rich."

"Young Master, what does this mean?" Xiaomei leaned forward and asked.

Li Xiu scratched his head, "I can't understand it, don't care, let's go!"

The five people set out in the morning sun with ambitions.

When they reached a mile, Zhang Ping and Zhao Hu remembered that they forgot to take the dry food bag and the kettle, so they ran back and were scolded by Li Xiu.

When she walked two miles, Xiaomei found that she didn't bring her makeup bag, so she could not take anything else. She had to take the makeup bag and ran back to pick it up. Li Xiu was scolded a lesson again.

As soon as he left Chang'an City, Li Xiu found that he forgot to get the bronze medal of his title.

………………

Li Xiu and his party left Chang'an City from Chunming Gate and arrived at Bashang within less than half an hour.

After passing the Ba River, the flat official road leads to the distance, with dense forests on both sides.

"What's going on with you two?"

Li Xiu wanted to speed up his journey, but found that Zhang Ping and Zhao Hu were slowing down behind him, which made him really annoyed.

Zhang Ping and Zhao Hu stepped forward and said with a bitter face: "Maybe they have eaten badly, and the pain is very painful!"

"You two idiots, go quickly!"

The two of them turned over and dismounted and ran into the woods.

Li Xiu waved to Pei Min and Xiaomei in the distance, signaling them to wait for a while.

After a long time, the two finally came out of the woods, but Li Xiu accidentally discovered that Zhang Ping was still carrying someone on his back.

"What's going on?"

"I met a hanged person, fortunately we were quick and had a breath."

Li Xiu rolled his eyelids and even had a shit on him, he could even meet a hanged person.

"Put him down, Pei Jiu, come and have a look!"

Although Li Xiu can also press his chest, breathe artificially, he is amateur after all.

If it is easier to rescue, such as the little lady, he will definitely be determined and saving people is important.

But the stout man in front of him has the same hard beard as steel needles, so let professionals do it!

Zhang Ping put down the hanged man, and Pei Min stepped forward to check his breath and pulse.

"There is still a rescue!"

Li Xiu looked at the side. The hanger was wearing a scholar's robe and dressed as a scholar. However, he was 1.8 meters tall, burly, with a dark skin as charcoal, a leopard head and a ring of eyes, a twisted iron face and a rough eyebrows like a brush.

He looks like Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and seems to be even more Zhang Fei than Zhang Fei.

Pei Min sat him up and patted him on his chest, abdomen and back a few times. The man immediately started to cough violently.

He slowly opened his eyes, saw the people around him clearly, and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Why are you busy? Let me die, I really don't want to live!"

After saying that, the man leaned on the ground and cried bitterly.

Zhang Ping immediately said dissatisfied: "You are so unreasonable. In order to save you, we were very unhappy, but we blamed us for being troublesome!"

Li Xiu also advised: "You are dead, but what should you do if your family and children? I think you are only in your early fifties and in good health. You can live for at least twenty years!"

The man cried even more sadly, "Brother, I'm only twenty-five years old!"

Li Xiu was a little embarrassed, "Oh! You are only twenty-five years old! Why do you look so old?"

The man wiped away his tears and said indignantly: "Although I am a little ugly, I am given this by my parents. I cannot deprive me of being an official because I am ugly. I have been ruined after ten years of hard work."

Li Xiu understood. This person passed the provincial examination and the Ministry of Rites, but failed the interview with the Ministry of Personnel.

Passing the Jinshi does not mean that you can become an official. You must also conduct the second level of the Ministry of Personnel examination, mainly interviews, which is the gate of hell that Jinshi fears the most.

Many people were wiped out during the second pass of the Ministry of Personnel’s Examination, and the main reason for being wiped out is their ugly appearance.

This situation is the worst. It is typical to go from heaven to hell, and it is better to just fail the exam.

So it is completely understandable that this man couldn't figure it out that he wanted to hang himself.

"What's your name? Where's the person?"

"My name is Zhong Kui, from Yishou County, Jingzhao Prefecture"

Li Xiu widened her eyes, "What's your name?"

"My brother Zhong Kui."

Damn! He is another celebrity! Judging from his fierce appearance, he should be the famous ghost hunter.

………………

Since it was Zhong Kui, Li Xiu would certainly not leave him alone. It just so happened that Zhong Kui was going to Luoyang to visit his master, so Li Xiu invited him to accompany him.

He rented another horse in Bashang Town, and Zhong Kui joined their team.

Zhong Kui did not recover from the heavy blow of the failure of the imperial examination. He was taciturn and depressed all the way.
Chapter completed!