It is said that a Mr. Mei blocked Jia Cong and invited him to see a friend, saying that this person had invented an excellent copper wire drawing machine. Jia Cong always felt that something was wrong and did not dare to follow him arbitrarily, so he sent someone to call
Chen Ruijin. Just as the guard was about to leave, Jia Cong hurriedly called him back and handed him three packages of snacks. After thinking about it, he said: "Tell the third grandma that this gentleman who makes copper wire drawing machines is still in love with Fan Meiren. I
He was probably the one who did most of the busy work for the past few days, and even brought in a Lu country to do some detailed work. I asked the third grandma if she was interested in meeting her. If she is too lazy to go, just tell her that I will go back later today." The guard left in response.
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Suddenly Chen Ruijin came to the small teahouse with a bell. Jia Cong explained the story to her in detail and presented three packs of snacks. After hearing this, Chen Ruijin frowned slightly, glanced at Mr. Mei and said, "Where is it?"
Mr. Mei said: "Zhuzhi Street in the west of the city."
Chen Ruijin thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine."
Mr. Mei then led the way, and the two of them took a few guards to follow. They walked through the streets and alleys from the east to the west of the city, and after walking in circles for half a day, they finally reached a small street. At the end of the small street was a large house with high walls, standing on
The low and dilapidated houses nearby are quite eye-catching. However, this house is clearly in disrepair. The exterior walls are in disrepair, and even the wood of the door is almost rotten. But there are tall trees inside the walls, most of which are pines and cypresses at first glance. You can’t tell what’s inside.
Which yard had a lot of greenery coming out? Jia Cong jumped off his horse and praised: "It feels like history."
Mr. Mei lightly clicked the door knocker three times, and the door creaked half way open with a very loud sound. An old servant with a hunchback was revealed inside, and he raised his head vigorously and glanced at Mr. Mei several times. Mr. Mei asked, "Is Old Liu here?"
The hunchbacked old servant nodded, first pushed the east door hard, pushed it open a little, and then slowly opened the entire west door. Mr. Mei personally pushed open the east door and looked back at Jia Cong.
Jia Cong bowed his hands to the hunchbacked old servant and stood at the door to take a look. Inside was a wide gray screen wall, in the middle was carved a brick sculpture of five bats approaching the door, and on both sides were carved two standing tigers. Look.
There was an indescribable disharmony in the clothes. Mr. Mei adjusted his clothes and stretched out his right hand as if to follow him. Jia Cong took Chen Ruijin's hand and tried to walk forward.
After pulling it, Chen Ruijin stood still and frowned: "I don't want to go in."
Jia Cong blinked: "Then...shall I go in?"
"Don't go in either." Chen Ruijin said, "This yard is dirty, and it can't be any filthier inside. When you turn around, you'll be covered in ashes." She frowned more and more, turning her head slightly to look inside.
"It's not like we don't have good craftsmen at home."
Jia Cong touched his nose, looked at Mr. Mei and smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry...Then I won't go in today."
Mr. Mei said amusedly: "Is Mr. Jia so henpecked?"
Jia Cong puffed up his chest and said loudly: "Being afraid of your wife is a manly virtue!"
Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "Let's go, it's time for dinner."
"Yes." Jia Cong bowed to Mr. Mei, "Sorry, let's talk next time." He turned around and walked towards the horse with Chen Ruijin.
Suddenly, someone slapped their hands twice, and a dozen figures suddenly appeared from the wall, all holding muskets, and the cold barrels were pointed at Jia Cong and others. Jia Cong shivered.
: "What's going on!"
Mr. Mei slowly walked a few steps inside with his hands behind his back, but stopped at the threshold. He smiled half-heartedly and said, "Mr. Jia, your daughter-in-law is really smart." Then he looked at Chen Ruijin, "It's hard to tell where the third grandma came from.
Yes?"
Chen Ruijin said: "The place is too remote, the house is too big, and the screen wall is too wide."
"Really?" Mr. Mei said, "I thought you thought Biwan was unusual."
Chen Ruijin glanced at the screen wall behind him: "To be honest, I haven't seen that it was a scorpion."
Jia Cong said "Huh": "Bi'an? The brick tiger on the screen wall? How do you distinguish between the bian and the tiger?"
Chen Ruijin said: "Looking back now, even a tiger is not a good match for the five bats." She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Is this the prison of the Ministry of Punishment?"
"That's not true." Mr. Mei said, "Anyway, you don't know." He slowly raised his right hand.
He had only raised his arm halfway, and Chen Ruijin said: "I have something to say, and I must tell the person above you immediately. I'm sorry that I can't tell Mr. Mei, because you don't understand."
Mr. Mei smiled like a spring breeze: "Since that's the case, it's okay not to say anything."
Chen Ruijin said: "I know what your boss wants. If he doesn't listen to me and talks about himself, his grandson may not be able to get it."
Mr. Mei stared at her and said amusedly: "Can Third Grandma know how to pinch her?"
Chen Ruijin said: "I don't know it, and neither do our third masters." He said something. Jia Cong looked blank, Mr. Mei looked blank, and everyone else looked blank - neither Chinese nor English. Chen Ruijin got on his horse and lowered his head.
Asked Lingdang, "Lingdang, did you hear what I just said?"
Ling Ding was also confused: "I heard it, but I just didn't understand it."
Chen Ruijin said: "You shouldn't understand. Just say it again and I will listen." Ling Ding repeated it crisply. Everyone still didn't understand it after listening to it for the second time. Chen Ruijin nodded, "That's right."
Pointing at Mr. Mei, "Follow him in and tell his boss. If his boss doesn't understand, then tell his boss's boss again until someone understands."
Ling Dang was young, so she only listened to the third grandma's words, and walked towards Mr. Mei seriously. She walked up to him in a few steps, and looked at Mr. Mei with her round eyes, as if to say: Sir, you are leading the way!
Mr. Mei was stunned for a moment, then threw down his sleeves and said, "That's fine." He turned around and left, followed by Bell.
Seeing them turn around and go behind the screen wall, Jia Cong looked at the barrel of the gun on the wall and sighed: "Sure enough, the way of heaven is reincarnation!" They had used this kind of formation on others countless times, and now it was their turn.
I had nothing to do for a while, so I got on my horse and said to my wife with a smile, "Anyway, I have nothing to do now, so I will sing to you~~" Chen Ruijin glanced at him helplessly.
Jia Cong took it as acquiescence and sang at the top of his voice. "I want to hold your hand like this and never let go~~Can love be simple and harmless~~" "Back to Lhasa~~Back to Potala
~~" "The girl opposite, look here, look here, look here~~" As he sang, he clapped his hands and made time. Chen Ruijin gently dismounted his horse and stayed away from him, with "I don't want people to know that I know this girl" written all over his face.
goods".
They sang about ten songs, which was enough for the first half of the concert. Then they saw figures flashing by the screen wall, Mr. Mei and Lingdang were back. Jia Cong was roaring with deep affection, "I want to meet you again in the vast sky."
On the way." When he saw the two of them coming back, he immediately shut up. He glanced at Chen Ruijin quickly, then lowered his voice and quickly sang, "Life has been pulled, the tide ebbs and flows." Seeing that Chen Ruijin's expression remained unchanged, he even lowered his voice and sang.
After singing quickly, "Wherever you are, there is heaven." Lingdang couldn't help but smile.
But he saw Mr. Mei bowing to Jia Cong with a smile: "Mr. Jia, since the third grandma is not interested, let's give it up for now. Another day my friend will clean the courtyard and Mr. Jia will be free, and it will be the same again."
Jia Cong hurriedly raised his hands and said, "It's easy to talk about!" Then he pointed at the black-pressed first gun barrel on the wall.
Mr. Mei smiled and said: "No problem, Mr. Jia just pretends that there is no problem."
Jia Cong shrugged: "...Okay, I'll try my best." Chen Ruijin nodded to Mr. Mei on the horse and took the lead in turning the horse's head. Jia Cong followed, and Bell and several guards supported them as they left the small street.
Walking straight to the main road, Jia Congfang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the cars and people passing by. He then asked his wife: "What was the message you asked the bell to send? We all can't understand it."
Chen Ruijin said: "Sanskrit."
"Ah? Indian?" Jia Cong blinked and muttered, "You know so many foreign languages..."
Chen Ruijin said calmly: "What's so strange, Taoist Master Zhenming will have more."
"His old man is not a normal human being on earth at all." Jia Cong curled his lips and sighed, "How on earth did I deceive such an awesome wife like you! I really admire myself." Chen Ruijin gave him a funny look.
Jia Cong knew that it was inconvenient to speak on the road, so he returned to Jia's horse shop without hesitation. After sending everyone else away, Chen Ruijin personally checked around and ordered soldiers from the special battalion to guard the place where Yi was hiding. Fang La
Sitting in the courtyard with Jia Cong, he called the bell to come and ask questions.
Bell just followed Mr. Mei around the screen wall and entered the front yard. The front yard was generally in a dilapidated state. There was no couplet inside or outside the main hall, but there was a plaque hanging, which said "upright and bright". The same is true in the hall.
The Eight Immortals table in the middle of the gray wall with bare pillars has lost one leg. There is a thin, bald old man sitting at the table with a pipe in his hand, looking at the bell and smiling; the bell suddenly feels shabby from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
The old man knocked the table twice with his pipe and asked Mr. Mei: "What's going on?"
Mr. Mei said, "Jia Cong's wife has something to say to this little maid." He glanced at the bell.
Ling Ding was a little scared and boldly recited what the third grandma had just said. The old man trembled all over and looked up at Mr. Mei. Mr. Mei shook his head. The old man took a dozen deep breaths, stood up suddenly and squeezed the pipe tightly. After a while,
He waved his hand. Mr. Mei asked Bell to go out. Bell stood waiting outside the front hall and could not hear what was said inside. He could only hear Jia Cong outside the door howling an extremely unpleasant ditty. Then Mr. Mei came out.
He led her back to the door. Inside, she never saw a third person, not even the old hunchbacked servant who opened the door.
After hearing this, Chen Ruijin ordered her to go down and whispered to Jia Cong: "The person named Mei just now is a member of the Supreme Emperor."
Jia Cong took a deep breath: "Huashan Taoist priest?"
"I don't know." Chen Ruijin said, "I'm afraid that besides the Huashan Taoist priests, the Supreme Emperor also has other hidden cards. How did you meet him? Tell me again."
Jia Cong honestly said it from the beginning again, and finally said: "At that time, I felt like I was being set up. I was checking on Fan Meiren, so he got involved with Fan Meiren; our family was familiar with the King of Lu, so he took out the
I got the King of Lu’s elaborate token; our electrical laboratory has been stuck with copper wires for many years, and we were looking for a master who could make a copper wire drawing machine, so he said that his friend could. A person can not only help Fan Meiren win favor, but also make copper drawing machines.
There is a slight conflict between the two personalities, and it is unlikely that they will be concentrated on one person. This person surnamed Mei seemed to be a bait that smashed my head, and he had to coax me to meet his friends."
Chen Ruijin looked at him and said, "You clearly know that someone has set a trap for you, but you still stretch your neck to get in?"
Jia Cong touched his neck: "I'm just curious... Where does that guy come from? If there is no copper wire extraction machine, how will he be able to smooth things over?"
"Have you never thought that people dare to say anything, but they just want to coax you away and take your life?"
Jia Cong was startled and recalled what Chen Ruijin suddenly said at the door of the house, "You must tell the person above you immediately who has the final say." It was when Mr. Mei raised his arm halfway that he couldn't help but shuddered: "
What kind of grievance or hatred! The Supreme Emperor wants to kill me?"
"It may not be the Supreme Emperor." Chen Ruijin said, "It's probably Mr. Mei himself or the bald old man who wants to kill you." He slightly raised the corners of his lips, "The Prince of Xining County took advantage of your weakness and didn't take action immediately, otherwise he would be dead.
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Jia Cong shrank his neck: "Villains also have senses!" Nai smiled and said, "If you ask your superiors for advice on this kind of thing, there will be no chance. What did you say in Sanskrit?"
Chen Ruijin lowered his eyes and said, "Say you don't see any infidelity right now."
"ha?"
"There are many kinds of Sanskrit, just like there are various dialects in our dynasty. When Liu Deng was training our group of people, he specially selected a man from Tianzhu to teach us this kind of Sanskrit. At that time, the world was still in the hands of the late emperor, Liu Deng
Denxi acted very cautiously. We have no directory or tokens, and most of us don’t recognize each other, but we all know this kind of Sanskrit.”
Jia Cong suddenly realized: "This kind of Sanskrit is like a sign! The Emperor thought you were Liu Dengxi's person." He touched his chest and said, "I'll go! You escaped. The Emperor trusted Liu Dengxi the most. They were afraid of omissions.
, don’t dare to act rashly.”
"No." Chen Ruijin said, "They want to kill you. They probably checked like the Prince of Xining County and determined that Jia Cong and the Taiwanese government are beyond their control. In addition, there are other reasons. Now.
They guessed that I might be able to get a hold of you."
Jia Cong nodded: "That's right." He thought about the matter again, "What do you think that place is?"
Chen Ruijin thought: "The beast is a prison beast. That place is either for trial cases or to imprison people."
Jia Cong frowned: "Why do I encounter a lot of messy things every time I come to Shu?" He took another breath and said, "So, that bald and thin old man is Liu Dengxi's person?"
Chen Ruijin said: "Mr. Mei too."
"Ah? Didn't he understand?"
"He understands." Chen Ruijin said solemnly, "I want to pretend not to understand."
Jia Cong was stunned for a while: "Then...he just wanted to kill me on purpose? Does he have any grudge against me?"
Chen Ruijin gave him a sideways look: "There are so many people who have grudges against you. However, we people are not allowed to put personal grudges above official duties."
"Then he is?"
"He can't trust me."
"He thinks you're a fake?"
"That's not the case. If he doubts me, he won't care about my Sanskrit words. He will just shoot and others will not understand." Chen Ruijin said, "He feels that I can't control you. He feels that you must
There is no doubt that Mr. Mei has personally been to Taiwan." After a while, she added, "That bald old man has never been."
When Jia Cong thought about it, Mr. Mei must have despaired of "Jia Cong's loyalty" for a long time, and now he fell into a state where his superiors were all confused and sober. He couldn't help but sympathize with him: "Poor Mr. Mei."