Coming out of General Youwuwei's mansion, Zhen Mingbitter went to a Chinese medicine shop and bought more than a dozen medicinal materials.

Holding these medicinal materials, he locked himself in the smelting room of the Instrument Division, and did not come out for two days and two nights, only to hear the clanging sound of forging from time to time in the smelting room, and the people of the Instrument Division were all curious about what he was doing in it.

Two days later, Zhen Mingku, who was tired but excited, walked out of the Instrument Division, took off the mask with a pig's nose on his face, tidied up his clothes, hired a carriage, and left the smelting room of the Instrument Division.

Only then did the people from the equipment department be able to see the situation in the room, the smelting room was in a mess, the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and the smell made people feel dizzy, and there was a medicine pot specially used to decoct medicine on the side of the refining furnace, and the medicinal materials in it had already been burned dry.

On the table was a pile of glassware and some strange-shaped glass devices, the vessel contained a small bottle of black liquid, the oil lamp boiled the liquid in the test tube, making a puff boiling sound, and a stream of white gas steamed up, after a test tube cooled, into a mass of white cotton cloth for adsorption......

After more than a dozen intricate processes, a pinch of white powder that has been filtered and dried comes out of the other end of the glassware.

Inside the vessel containing the white powder are two tiny steel needles with a unique shape.

In these days in the Instrument Division, Zhen Mingku has designed and produced a lot of strange blades for the Right Wuwei Mansion, and has also improved the refining methods of many alloys, making the characteristics of alloys more prominent.

As usual, they fumbled around the smelting room in a daze, trying to figure out what Zhen Mingku had been fiddling in the smelting room for the past two days, they had always been able to get some information from the clues before, but this time, they found nothing.

One of them curiously picked up a small steel needle in the utensils on the table, looked carefully, the steel needle has a subtle spiral dent, it can be seen that the production is fine, the difficulty of making such a steel needle is not small, it takes at least half an hour, they are all experts, at a glance can see that the subtle spiral dent on the steel needle has a mystery, and if you look closely, you can find that there is white powder attached to it.

"Could it be some kind of poison?" One person reminded.

The person holding the needle was startled, his hand shook, and the steel needle accidentally punctured his finger......

After a while, the man suddenly rolled his eyes and fell down with a pop.

At this time, at the gate of the West Song Mansion in Luoyang City, a few miles away, a roar sounded that shook the street: "Song Jingang, get out of here!" ”

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Luoyang has been spreading a major event the most in the past few days.

In one of the largest teahouses in Luoyang, hundreds of people sat around the storytelling hall on the first floor, knocking melon seeds, drinking tea, and listening to the storyteller tell the story of the incident.

The storyteller is an old man, his mouth is like a river, and he talks endlessly: "This thing is what I saw with my own eyes, when I passed by the door of the Song Mansion, I heard this loud shout that resounded through the sky, and saw that the door was noisy, surrounded by people, and when I stepped forward, it turned out to be a thin man who was shouting at the gate of the Song Mansion to the master of the Song Mansion, and I inquired with the next one, only to know that it was for a woman." ”

"What woman?"

"Speaking of this woman, there must be a lot of people here who have heard of it, that's right, she is the most famous tofu Shih Tzu Zhang in Luoyang, everyone who has seen her knows, it is called a national color and natural fragrance, the world's unparalleled beauty, there are poems as evidence, a hundred flowers for the dew condensation of muscles and bones, jade spirit into the essence of the gods, coquettish voice into the heart of the sweet, a smile and a smile to make people pitiful, sandalwood mouth light spitting orchid fragrance, dust socks Ling Bo reflecting the fairy posture...... In the entire Luoyang City, the only thing that can be compared to her is the peony fairy of Baihualou! ”

Someone in the audience interrupted him with a smile and asked, "Old man, is it so exaggerated!" ”

"It's not an exaggeration at all, if you see her in person, you will know that these poems are really difficult to describe her fairy beauty, since ancient times heroes love beauty, these two men for her, it can be said that they will not hesitate to spend money, if the old man is dozens of years younger, maybe he will have to fight for her."

The crowd laughed.

The storyteller continued: "These two men, one is for her to provoke the two gangs of the mining gang and the salt gang, and as a result, Zhen Mingku, who was wanted and hunted down by the two gangs, returned to Luoyang not long ago and opened Zhang's sweetheart shop, and the other is the official minister of the Zhang family, the first martial champion Song Jingang since the opening of the imperial examination of the Great Sui. ”

"This Song Jingang, when he led his troops to attack Liaodong at the behest of the emperor, the soldiers he led were all wiped out, and they all thought that he had died on the battlefield in Liaodong, but he knew that he was still alive."

"Think about it, if it's you, your wife who hasn't seen you for many years is taken by another man, are you willing to give her up to the other party and let yourself wear a green hat?"

"Nonsense! Of course not. ”

"That's right, this Song Jingang dignified Sui Wu champion, of course he refused, but that Zhen Mingku seemed to have expected it, when he went to the Song Mansion to challenge, he was not in a hurry, and took out a deed of sale of the tofu Xi Shi from his arms, which actually had the signature of Song Jingang and his father, and Song Jingang looked at it, and he had no idea for a while, his father signed and sold his daughter-in-law, and he couldn't publicly break the contract as a son, if the other party sued his father to the yamen, then the old man Song was not young, if this was sentenced, he would have to fight dozens of boards if he didn't fill the army, That has to die in the yamen, even if you are not a father, you can't ignore it as a son, this is too unfilial, don't you say? ”

At this point, the storyteller paused to take a sip of tea.

"Old man, don't keep talking about stopping for a while, hurry up! What's going on in the end? ”

Everyone was complaining, and a child with a begging plate came out behind the storyteller, and walked to everyone one by one, and the storyteller arched his hand: "Ladies and gentlemen, the old man is talking dry here, it is nothing more than a cup of tea and money, if the officials are happy to hear it, please also reward my grandfather and grandson with a mouthful of food, and the next story will be more exciting, the old man bows to the officials here." ”

The crowd of spectators threw a few copper plates on the plate, and the storyteller estimated that the day's meal had been settled, so he coughed dryly, and his mood rose a lot.

"It's just that this deed of sale is nothing, this Zhen Mingku also took out an appointment document from many years ago, with a large seal of the Ministry of War on it, proving that Song Jingang was the martial champion of the year, the pioneer general of the Eastern Expedition ordered by the emperor himself, as soon as the document of the Ministry of War came out, Song Jingang's face turned blue."