The capital of Layue is covered in silver; Jiangning in Layue is still dark green and full of vitality.

This year, the beginning of spring is the year before, and the climate has begun to warm up. Walking on the streets of Jiangning, you can occasionally see the plum blossoms poking out of the roadside courtyard.

The magnolia tree also has flower bones, as if it is about to bloom at any time.

Although the sky is gray, the air is humid, and there is no blue sky and warm sun, there is still a lack of cold winter.

Standing on the front street of the weaving mansion, looking at the familiar plaque from a distance, Cao Hao felt very strange.

Nothing seems to have changed, the straight bluestone road, the tall vermilion lacquer gate, and the plaque with gold letters on a black background are the same as those of more than 20 years ago.

But if you look at it twice, it seems to be different, the bluestone road has been broken, and the clusters of half-withered yellow and half-green weeds in the broken bluestone slabs are half-yellow.

The vermilion lacquer door was repainted, and the color was a little wrong, no longer a heavy red, but with a bit of red color, which seemed to be brighter than in the past, but it always felt that it was not as pleasing to the eye as the color of the past.

The plaque has also been repainted, and the black places are getting darker, and the golden places are also golden.

The weaving house is dilapidated, despite its bright surface.

"Revisit the old place, don't you go in and go around?" Wei Hei stood beside Cao Hao, saw him looking at the gate of the Weaving Mansion in a daze, and asked with a smile.

Not to mention Cao Hao, even Wei Hei also has a lot of feelings for the Weaving Mansion. He entered the Weaving Mansion since he was a teenager, and hid beside Cao Hao as a secret guard, until Cao Hao entered Beijing, and stayed in the Weaving Mansion for ten years.

Cao Hao shook his head and said, "It's too hasty today, let's talk about it in two days." ”

Although this was his home in the past, it was also the imperial court office, and now he lives in someone else. With his identity, it is easy to be this "unsueful" villain, but it is not guaranteed that it will lead to a lawsuit.

The identity of the Cao family in Jiangnan is already sensitive, and he, the head of the Cao family, must be cautious in his words and deeds.

He wants to stay in Jiangning for a while, but he is not in a hurry for this moment.

"Go to the Confucius Temple?" Cao Hao turned his head and said to Wei Hei and Cao Jia.

Today, when he came out of the General Soldier's Mansion, Cao Hao did not bring anyone else, only Wei Hei and Cao Jia. The rest of the people will stay in the General Military Office for adjustment. Nearly 2,000 miles, galloping down, is also a boil.

Wei Hei was born differently from Cao Jia, although he was older than everyone else, he was in the best spirit.

Cao Hao originally asked them to rest for two days, but they refused, so they still came out with Cao Hao.

Cao Hao just wanted to go around, and he didn't have a special destination, so he asked Wei Hei and Cao Jia at random.

Wei Hei looked at the gloomy sky, and said with a smile: "Just go to the Confucius Temple, it's the time to eat duck blood vermicelli soup, put a few spoonfuls of spicy seeds, and it makes people drool when they think about it." ”

Cao Jia didn't have much to say, but at this time he just picked the corners of his mouth, and seemed to agree with Wei Hei's words.

Cao Hao looked at the tall Wei Hei, and then at Cao Jia, who was not smiling, and couldn't help laughing.

Three big men, who are more than a hundred years old together, are walking on foot on this cloudy day just to drink a bowl of duck blood vermicelli soup, which is really a bit ridiculous to say?

However, two quarters of an hour later, there were three more guests in the "Yao Ji" shop of Confucius Temple.

The snow-white vermicelli, the red duck blood, and the green onions make people have a great appetite to watch.

Cao Hao ate two bowls in a row before putting down his chopsticks.

Wei Hei also used several bowls, but Cao Jia only ate one bowl, but drank a pot of wine with the vermicelli.

Wei Hei couldn't help but look sideways, although it was in Jiangning City now, it might not be safe. The reason why he came out with Cao Hao was because there was a master Cao Jia.

Now in broad daylight, outside, if Cao Jia is drunk, what will be good?

I don't know if it's because of the wine, Cao Jia's expression is much richer, as if there is melancholy, as if there is remorse, as if there is remorse, and there seems to be deep remembrance.

Seeing this, Cao Hao thought for a while and said, "What year did the great offering enter Cao's Mansion?" ”

"What year did you get into Cao's Mansion?" Cao Jia's eyes were a little confused, and he muttered, "That year, the imperial court ...... The imperial court sealed the ...... of the 'Four Kings of the Golden Dragon'"

"Huh? Didn't the four kings of the Golden Dragon exist in the previous dynasty, how did they become sealed by the imperial court again? Wei Hei was puzzled.

This reason happened to be known to Cao Hao, so he explained it to Wei Hei: "Hebo Xie Xu was a native of the late Song Dynasty, and he was regarded as Hebo by the people since the Yuan Dynasty, and he was already canonized in the Ming Dynasty. The first emperor re-emphasized the river and the waterway, which was to canonize Xie Xu as the god of the Yellow River and take charge of the waterway, but it was just to ensure that the water transportation was accessible and the people along the river lived and worked in peace and contentment...... I remember clearly, the forty years of Kangxi at that time ......"

Cao Jia was silent, and was still stunned with a wine cup. Wei Hei was surprised in his heart, if Kangxi was forty years old, he would be the Cao Mansion that he entered in the same year.

Such a foreign master should not be an unknown person, but he has never heard the master mention it.

At this time, Cao Hao didn't pay attention to Cao Jia, but thought about the Hongmen ring buried under the imperial monument in the weaving mansion garden.

Whether it should be dug out or not, whether it should meddle in the affairs of Hongmen, Cao Hao is still hesitating.

"Dahongshan Wu Tiancheng", in the early years, people inquired about this person, but there was no clue.

The "remnants" of Hongmen, which are now entrenched in Hangzhou and Jiangnan, are headed by "Wanfu", and now they have been caught, as well as several "bandit leaders" who have been recorded in the government and do not have the surname Wu.

If Cao Hao still had sympathy for this gang that was often mentioned in martial arts in later generations, he heard about "Wanfu" plotting to seize other people's properties, and he lost all that sympathy.

He didn't even think kindly about whether these "[***] armed forces" of Hongmen had any friendly contacts with the Cha family in Haining in private, otherwise how could the great talent who came out of the Cha family three hundred years later mention "Hongmen" in his book three times and twice, and also wrote the leaders and backbones of it as heroes of righteousness.

Although he had no good impression of Hongmen, he still didn't approve of Li Wei's idea in his heart.

Some of these people are "people from the rivers and lakes" who rely on armed assembly; Some people only enter Hongmen for a belief, a belief that the Han family has constant incense.

They are not bandits, but just remnants of the previous dynasty.

The number of these people is not something that can be suppressed, but if there is a confrontation between the military and the people, I don't know what kind of trouble will happen.

It's just that now Li Wei has handed over the secret request, and the emperor is unwilling to bend his temper, and Cao Hao now wants to persuade one or two, which is also an afterthought...... Cao Hao rubbed his forehead, and was thinking about what he should do next, when he heard someone calling: "Lord Cao......"

Cao Hao raised his head and saw Wei Ren enter the restaurant and walk towards his table.

"It turned out to be an adult, just through the window, I really didn't dare to recognize ......" Wei Ren saluted and said.

Cao Hao got up and returned the salute and invited Wei Ren to sit down.

Compared with when he sent Wei Wenjie's brothers to Beijing, Wei Ren looked older and older, less than fifty, and his hair was almost white. It seems that there is something on the mind, worried, and there is no joy at all.

Seeing this, Cao Hao couldn't help but be stunned.

When he was a young friend with Wei Xin, Wei Ren happened to be on an errand in the weaving mansion, and he was young and handsome.

Twenty years, like a carving knife, turned Wei Ren into someone else.

Seeing Cao Hao's bleak expression, Wei Ren sat down with a few cramped gestures, but he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

Cao Hao was a little impatient to deal with it, thinking that after eating half a cup of tea in front of him, he found a reason to say goodbye to the "old man" in front of him.

Wei Ren looked around, then lowered his voice and said, "The dog and the nephew were kidnapped by thieves, and I asked Lord Cao to help......"

The eagerness in his eyes didn't seem to be fake, and looking at Cao Hao was like looking at a savior.

When Cao Hao heard this, he was stunned and said, "If the place is not peaceful, shouldn't you report it to the yamen?" Call me for help, where do these words come from? ”

Wei Ren's face turned red and said, "The other party has planted people in the yamen, and said that if they report to the official, they will abolish their brothers." The villain really couldn't, so he had to endure it and slowly figure it out...... It shouldn't have alarmed the adults, but among the children of the Wei family who were kidnapped by the thieves, there was a fifth younger brother, Wen Ying......"

Cao Hao's face suddenly turned cold, and his gaze at Wei Ren was a little more scrutinizing and reproachful.

Wen Ying is the half-brother of Wen Jie and Wen Zhi, who was ruled by his grandparents in his early years and passed on to the Wei family's three-room widow, so he stayed in Jiangning and did not enter Beijing with his brothers and sisters.

Wei Ren was embarrassed by Cao Hao, but he was indefensible. If it weren't for the two evil obstacles that he said he had dragged Wenying on a trip, the three cousins would not have been plundered by thieves.

"The other party kidnaps people to ask for money?" Cao Hao suppressed his anger and said.

Those who can do such an act of plundering people's children, where will there be any good people. If Wen Ying really has a case, how will Cao Hao explain to Wei Xin.

He was really annoyed this time, Wei Ren was controlled by his wife and treated a few nephews poorly, which was no longer right. Now that the two older nephews have entered Beijing, only Wenying, the youngest, is left by his side, and he can't take care of it, what is this called?

Now he is ashamed to ask for help from himself, if he doesn't come to Jiangning, he will watch Wen Ying die?

Although Wei Ren is cautious in front of him now, the Wei family is still a high-ranking gentry in Jiangning. If Wei Ren would be controlled by a few thieves, Cao Hao would not believe it.

Wei Ren shook his head, glanced at Wei Hei and Cao Jia, who were still sitting at the same table with Cao Hao, and said in a low voice: "It's not asking for money, it's just that it's exchanging lives for lives...... The villagers of Pangjia Village detained by the governor's yamen were exchanged for ordinary villagers, and five for one of the children of the Wei family; If it is compiled into a book, it will be three for one......"

Yesterday, I heard Li Wei talk about the encirclement and suppression of Pangjia Village, and now that he heard about this "person for person", Cao Hao only felt strange in his heart.

"What's wrong with Uncle Wei, with the Wei family's local power, it shouldn't be difficult to move a few people out of the yamen...... Cao Hao thought for a while.

Wei Ren shook his head and said, "If you really find a relationship and release people, then won't the Wei family become a 'bandit'?" At that time, if you have this handle, you will be controlled by thieves, and if you are not careful, you will be wiped out. I had no choice but to drag it, and while inquiring about the affairs of Pangjia Village, I prepared a lot of silver for those 'thieves', just to want my nephew to be safe......"

* I was shocked to hear that the female frequency author Qin Rhythm had a stroke rescue. More and more diseases that were originally only old people are appearing in young people, which is frightening, this is the era of national homes, and it is an era of frequent dangers. I wish her peace and hope that everyone will take care of their health.

(To be continued)