When Zhang Yu walked out of the school, a strong wind blew, stirring his shirt sleeves, and the branches and leaves of the trees outside the door and the shadows of the trees below also shook together.

Director Wang died yesterday, that is, the day he left the Xuanfu, in his exquisite mansion outside the Xue Palace.

It seems that he took a large amount of secret medicine made of spiritual strange flesh and blood, and died with one of his favorite concubines. It is said that when the body was found, it was covered in red, as if it had just been lifted out of a steamer.

He always felt that there seemed to be some connection between the death of Master Wang and the fact that his study sticker was taken away by others.

According to Song Fujiao, when Director Wang took the post that day, he scolded him, as if he was not angry with the school palace that he had recommended himself, thinking that he was an opportunistic person and was not qualified to study in the school palace, so he did so.

But if he really wants to stop him, then he only needs to deal with the study post secretly, so that he can not only delay time, but also shirk it after the fact, and if he just wants to express his attitude, then it is okay to tear the post on the spot, so why do you have to take it away?

Does the person have any other intentions?

He changed his mind and learned from Song Fujiao's mouth that Master Wang likes to read, and when he has nothing to do, he goes to Xuanwentang to drink tea, so he thought of a person who might be able to get some more correct judgments from others.

After contemplating this, he walked on.

Half a moment later, he came to the Xuanwen Hall, and found Qu Gong, the steward here, on the third floor, although he had only met this man a few times, but they could talk to each other, and after a few polite words, he asked him about the affairs of Lord Wang.

Qu Gong glanced at the crowd walking below the lobby and said, "Brother Zhang, let's talk in another place." ”

He invited Zhang Yu to a well-lit tea room, asked the assistant to make two cups of fragrant tea, waved him down, he half leaned on the rattan chair under the seat, and said with a smile: "Wang Xingtong is really known to many people because he likes to read, and two or three groups of people have come here to inquire about him today. ”

Zhang Yu also had nothing to hide, and after a little thought, he recounted the incident that his study post was taken away by Master Wang that day, and finally said: "I think there are many strange things in this matter, but I have never had contact with Wang Xingtong before.

Qu Gong straightened up, turned the teaspoon in the cup with his hand, then raised his head, and said: "There are indeed many people in the school palace who cling to the old rules, and they naturally look down on those who are not 'on the right path' to study, but Wang Xingtong has never been an old-fashioned and upright gentleman. In his early years, in order to earn money for his pen, many derogatory articles in the newspaper came from him, and he advocated whatever the master asked him to say, and today he turned to this house and tomorrow to another, with no position at all, and he never flaunted himself as a moral gentleman. ”

He smiled playfully, "And such a person is suddenly on the side of the moral gentleman, it must not be because he has read too many books." ”

Zhang Yu thought for a moment and nodded.

Qu Gong picked up the teacup, blew lightly on the floating tea leaves, and said: "Actually, it is very simple to detain Brother Zhang's worship sticker, Wang Xingtong has been in charge of the school for ten years, and he is well versed in the secrets of clerical work, if he really wants to stop you, just find a sticker with an inappropriate format, you can beat the worship sticker back, and make you unreasonable, but he can obviously use this method, but he chose such a way that seems to be the most rough and clumsy, but unreasonable, this does not seem to be done by a familiar hand who has been in affairs for many years. ”

Zhang Yu looked at Qu Gong and said, "From this point of view, can it be understood that the words of Director Wang's retribution against me that day were deliberately conveyed by him, in order to cover up his true intentions?"

Qu Gong took a sip of tea, put it down, crossed his hands on his abdomen, and leaned back in a more comfortable position, he looked up at the top, then at Zhang Yu, and said seriously: "Wang Xingtong must be insincere, I don't know why he did this, but there is no doubt that he came to Brother Zhang's letter of worship." ”

Zhang Yu couldn't help but nodded, Qu Gong's judgment was consistent with his analysis, then his purpose was basically certain.

But what is the use of Wang Xingtong getting this thing? Could it be that he wants to make a fuss about this? But he himself is still in the school palace, and he is not like the previous booklet......

Well?

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

This thing may not be useful to Wang Xingtong himself, but it is very useful to some people!

He stood up, shook his hands at Qu Gong, and said, "Thank you Brother Qu for clearing up your doubts, and the emperor has taken his leave." ”

Qu Gong also got up from the rattan chair, and saluted back: "Brother Zhang is polite, if you have any questions, you can ask me again." When he sent Zhang Yu out of the tea room, he seemed to say casually, "Brother Zhang, do you know the 'Shi Yi'?" I heard that the past few days are coming to an end, I think if there are any cards on both sides, they may try to play as much as possible. ”

Zhang Yu was thoughtful.

Out of the Xuanwen Hall, he walked on the stone road obscured by the branches and leaves of the golden sycamores, and thought as he walked under the shade of the trees where the sun could not penetrate at all.

Just now he thought of one thing, the person who appropriated his roster must know his name, and when his reputation for killing newts spreads, if the other party hears it, it will most likely be a little suspicious, but there are many people with the same name and surname, so it may not be certain, so the safest thing is to try to check his place of origin, age, and past experience to see if it is the same person.

And what could be more convenient than a study post? On it, everything is written.

If this is the case, then even if the other party has a large background, most of them are not the upper echelons of the Academy, otherwise they can find out his specific information soon, and there is no need to do more.

Therefore, while he is checking the other party, the other party is also checking him!

And he found that there was a place that he had overlooked.

That is, the person who stole his books did not necessarily have to enter the Taiyang Academy.

The current Taiyang School Palace is not without opponents, in the past 60 years, due to the needs of the military, government and people's livelihood, the Duhu Mansion has successively supported one large, two small and three school palaces, and even in order to weaken the influence of the Taiyang School Palace, a lot of people were transferred from the school palace to these school palaces.

These schools have always been open to the disciples who can be admitted to the Taiyang Academy, and they will even spare no effort to cultivate, if that person goes there, it is also somewhat possible, but because of this choice, the pay and the gain are a little disproportionate, if the other party's background is big enough, he will definitely not be willing to do so.

And beyond that, there's actually a place to go.

That's the Divine Captains!

All the soldiers before the Divine Captain Army were all admitted, even if the situation is different now, if someone enters it as a student, whether it is promoted or promoted, it is often one step faster, and even the inherited robe may be more powerful.

And if the other party was originally a person who wanted to enter the Divine Captain Army, and only managed to get such an identity in order to gain a higher status in the Divine Captain Army, it would also be very reasonable.

Especially in there, no one will come to test your knowledge, which perfectly avoids the shortcomings of your own lack of learning.

He thought in his heart, if everything was as he deduced, then the other party should have determined his true identity by now, and following this line of thought, the death of Lord Wang is afraid that it will not be as simple as it seems on the surface.

And the letter sent by pretending to be Zhao Xiangcheng before, could it also be related to this matter?

"It seems that in the near future, we should try to stay in the school palace as much as possible, try to collect items to replenish the divine yuan, read the chapter of the Great Dao, and wait until we have enough power to protect ourselves. ”

Thinking of this, he was also vigilant in his heart.

It's very safe in the school palace, but it's about your own life, so you can't be too careful.

So he immediately returned to his residence, took out the vermilion gloves, put them on, and took down the Xia Jian hanging on the wall, and prepared to carry it with him.

Before, he was just an assistant teacher, and he came in through self-recommendation, if he walked around the school palace with a sword, it would be easy to cause trouble, but now it is different, his other identity is a disciple of Xuanfu, and some things don't have to be too cared about.

At this time, because it was already noon, he took the pill and meditated to regulate his pranayama, and only when the sun was falling did he come out of his meditation and came out of his dwelling, this time to the miscellaneous storehouse.

This boundary is located in the southwest corner, and it is actually a separate land of the school palace, although it is also within the school palace, but because there are many outsiders, there is a stone wall on the road leading to the inside of the school palace as a barrier.

When he passed through here, there was also a special person here to check the identity of the people who came and went, but the other party saw that he was dressed in auxiliary clothes and was in good spirits, not only did no one come up to interrogate him, but also bowed respectfully to him.

After successfully stepping out of the partition wall, he saw a large flat and open ground, which was piled with all kinds of miscellaneous debris, and in the southeast direction there were rows of houses of varying heights, and everywhere there were laborers pushing small carts and people coming and going, and some of them were stout naturalized barbarians.

It's noisy, dusty, chaotic and dirty, and it's hard to imagine that just outside the wall is the quiet and clean Inner Mansion of the Academy.

He swept his gaze, this is also the place where the most miscellaneous things are in the school palace except for the serious storehouse, he didn't have time or excuse to come here before, so he wanted to take the opportunity to buy medicinal herbs to walk around here and see if he could find items with source energy here.

But after turning around and spending more than a summer, I didn't find anything special.

He thought about the several items he had come into contact with before, and thought to himself, "Is this kind of thing really only found in those ruins?"

Now that the sun was setting in the west, since there was no gain, he didn't waste any more time, and went directly to the place that Ren Yi said, and walked towards one of the highest gatehouses.

Ren Yi was here at the moment instructing the people below to move things, he was also sharp-eyed, and he saw Zhang Yu in a flash, and he hurriedly ordered the people next to him, and he greeted him happily, and arched his hand: "Zhang Fujiao, you are here." ”

Zhang Yu nodded in return and said, "Ren Assistant, I'll take those medicinal materials." ”

"Okay, Zhang Fujiao, please," Ren Yi led the way in front with a smile on his face, and when he passed by a short, thin and honest middle-aged man, he patted him on the shoulder, "Old Yang, go pour a good cup of tea." ”

The man smiled innocently, glanced at Zhang Yu, squeezed his right hand, and walked out with his head bowed.

Zhang Yu turned his head sideways, and his gaze lingered on his back for a moment.

"Come on, Zhang Fujiao will sit inside. Ren Yi invited Zhang Yu to an open room, although there are still a lot of people here, it can be seen that there are often people cleaning up, and it is relatively clean.

"The assistant teacher sat down for a while, and I asked people to bring all the medicinal herbs. ”

Ren Yi greeted him, and soon, someone from below carefully moved in the medicinal materials purchased by Zhang Yu and placed them on the open platform near the window, which looked like there were about thirty bags, occupying a large area on the open platform.

Ren Yi said with a smile: "Zhang Fujiao can check it, and if there is any problem, the villain can be replaced." ”

Zhang Yu checked it and found that the quantity was much more than the medicinal materials he wanted to buy, but the quality was a little uneven, but considering that the requirements for ordinary medicine and his refining pills were different, it was impossible for outsiders to know the key here, which was also acceptable.

Well?

Just when he was inspecting a certain kind of medicinal material, he suddenly felt something different, pinched it with two fingers, picked it up and looked at it, it was a bone fragment the size of a fingernail, to his surprise, there was an extremely faint source energy on it, but it was so weak that he could hardly detect it if he didn't pay attention.

He looked at Ren Yi and asked, "Where did you buy these bone fragments?"

Ren Yi glanced at it, then took a worn-out notebook and flipped through it, and said: "It's a small business house called Futong, could it be that Zhang Fujiao is not satisfied? ”

Zhang Yu put down the bone fragment, the source energy on it was too little, even if it was through the gloves, it was sucked clean between breaths, and said: "I'm tired of letting the assistant run for me again, try to buy as many of these medicinal materials as possible, I can use it, you don't have to worry about the price." ”

Ren Yi said with a smile: "Where is it, Zhang Fujiao is willing to take care of our business, it's too late for me to be happy, I'll go there in person tomorrow." ”

At this moment, heavy footsteps came from outside, and the honest man named Lao Yang walked in with tea in one hand.

Ren Yi said dissatisfiedly: "Old Yang, why are you so slow?"

Lao Yang lowered his head and did not speak.

Ren Yi looked like he hated iron and steel, stepped forward to take the teacup, waved his hand to drive away, and said, "Forget it, you go down." ”

When Lao Yang was about to go down, a voice came from behind:

"Wait a minute. ”

Lao Yang's body was stunned.

Zhang Yu looked at him, and said in a very casual and natural tone: "What's wrong with your right hand?"

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