There are all kinds of pastries and candies in the palace, but there is no such little candy man made by hand, Zhu Huichan held it in her hand, and her previous gloomy mood instantly improved a lot.

Li Hu said: "There is only Sun Wukong Zhu Bajie on that stall, but unfortunately there is no Bull Demon King and Iron Fan Princess, if I am not in a hurry to enter the palace to see you, I will definitely ask him to pinch a pair." ”

"These two are also very beautiful!" Zhu Huichan said, "The Bull Demon King and the Iron Fan Princess, you let him pinch a pair tomorrow!"

"Okay. Li Hu responded.

After a while, he said, "I also brought something for you today." ”

He touched his right hand behind his back, and there was another thing in his hand.

"Sword!" Zhu Huichan's eyes lit up.

What Li Hu was holding was a sword. This sword is only two feet long, with a pale yellow ivory handle, a red gold sword, and an orange cat's eye diamond embedded in the sharkskin sheath.

Zhu Huichan took it from Li Hu's hand, felt that the weight was not heavy, and pulled the sword out of the sheath according to the handle, but only saw the cold light flashing, the blade was only an inch wide, as thin as rice paper, and two small characters were engraved on it, "Bird Dance".

"This is what the Stone Boss asked me to bring to you, and it is the same swordsmith as my 'snake wing', but it is a blade that sharpens iron like clay. Li Hu said.

When Lu Long Saihua Bushi first met Zhu Huichan at Xifengkou, he promised to give her a sword that was better than the "snake wing", and sending this sword today can be regarded as fulfilling the promise.

Zhu Huichan didn't know much about how to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of weapons, but when she saw that this sword was exquisitely shaped, extremely luxurious, and very good in her hand, she liked it a little at the moment, and said: "This sword is really good, more beautiful than the swords I have seen before, but it's a pity that the name 'Bird Dance' is not very good, so it should be changed to 'Phoenix Dance'." ”

The name of the sword, "Bird Dance", was chosen by Ou Shi, because this sword is short and thin compared to ordinary long swords, and the weight is also light, and the tooth handle is yellow, just like the color of the same canary, this name is quite vivid.

Li Hu said: "I think this name is very good, and it is like a pair with 'snake wings'." ”

The so-called "dragon flying phoenix dance", Li Hu's sword is a snake not a dragon, although the finch is small, but it is just worthy of it. Zhu Huichan thought about it for a while, and felt that it was very reasonable, so she said: "Okay, then this sword is called 'Bird Dance'." ”

She played with her sword before it was put back into its sheath and hung it around her waist.

"With this sword, this woman walks the rivers and lakes to eliminate violence and peace, and she will have a competent weapon!" Zhu Huichan stroked the hilt of the sword, quite excited, but it didn't take long for it to become dull again.

"What's the matter, Ah Chan, aren't you happy to get the sword?" Li Hu saw the change in the expression on her pretty face and asked.

"Bull Demon King, do you think we can still have the opportunity to walk the rivers and lakes together? Today, the queen mother reprimanded me, and I'm afraid I won't even be able to go out of the palace in the future. Zhu Huichan lowered her eyes and said, she originally thought that Li Hu could enter the palace as a guard, so that she could often take her out of the palace, but now it seems that this plan is obviously not successful.

Li Hu said: "If you don't want to stay in the palace, I'll take you out." ”

Zhu Huichan shook her head and said: "The Forbidden Palace is tightly guarded, if you don't have Lan Dutong's help, you can't even get in, how can it be so easy to take me out of the palace?"

Although Lan Haochen can let Li Hu enter the palace, if Li Hu wants to take the princess out of the palace, it is a big crime to kill his head, and he will definitely not help him.

Li Hu grinned and said, "I was able to rob the car out of the capital that day, and it was not easy to take you out." Don't forget that I'm the Bull Demon King, and nothing will bother me!"

Zhu Huichan said angrily: "People are telling the truth, not joking." ”

Li Hu suppressed his smile and said: "It's not a joke, if Achan is really willing to go through the rivers and lakes with me, I will take you out of here, protect you in the future, take care of you for a lifetime, I Li Hu can swear as proof!"

Looking at Li Hu's very serious eyes, Zhu Huichan bit her lower lip lightly, two red clouds flew up her cheeks, but her heart was as beautiful as if she had been filled with honey.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ in a metropolis like Beijing, there are often some novel things that people talk about, and they become the topic of conversation among ordinary people, peddlers and pawns.

In the past month, what people have talked about the most is neither the powerful Cao family, nor the eight heads of the "Eight Gates of Yanjing" who have spent a lot of money to bail out of prison, but two people who have just come to Beijing, one is Yang Sichang, and the other is Hua Bushi.

Yang Sichang is famous only because of the speed of his official promotion. Today's Yang Sichang has been promoted to the secretary of the military department, the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Fengyi, who was originally in this position, was dismissed because of the disadvantage of the principal.

Although Yang Sichang had also been an official in the court earlier, he was idle at home for several years, and this time he was actually promoted to the secretary of the military department of the second grade, which can be described as a step to the sky. This is because of Emperor Chongzhen's trust in him, and also because of the joint support of the "Five Kings Party" of the "eunuch party" in the DPRK and China.

After Yang Sichang took office, he also made a promise to the emperor that he would rectify the armament within three months, lay a "net of four positives, six corners and ten sides", and pacify the bandits in all realms.

In this way, the drastic dismissal of military and political officials in the five provinces of the Central Plains is justified. With the fall of Zhang Fengyi, many backbones of the "Donglin Party" were also transferred and dismissed from their posts one after another, and they were replaced by cronies of the "Eunuch Party", which was also the exchange condition between Yang Sichang and Cao Duyun when they first entered Beijing.

All of a sudden, under the suppression of the "Eunuch Party" and the "Five Kings Party", the forces of the "Donglin Party" suffered heavy losses and suffered considerable losses.

If people's talk about Yang Sichang is very substantiated, the rumors about Hua Bushi are quite fantastical.

The emperor summoned Yang Sichang because of state affairs, and Hua Bushi was just the eldest young master in the Jianghu sect, and he was also frequently summoned, which was quite puzzling.

The wisdom of the common people should never be underestimated, and various claims were quickly made up.

One said that Hua Bushi had a secret book for cultivating immortals handed down by Peng Zu in ancient times, which contained a secret technique that could make people immortal and feather and ascend to immortals, and the emperor summoned the eldest young master to ask him to teach this technique.

The second statement is also similar to the first one, except that what Hua Bushi has is not the secret of cultivating the truth to become an immortal, but Peng Zu's technique of controlling the woman by collecting yin and supplementing yang. The "evil dog boy" has a reputation for being greedy and lustful in the rivers and lakes, and the emperor's harem has a group of concubines, and it is very useful to learn this technique.

This was very disrespectful to the emperor, and no one dared to publicize it publicly, but on the contrary, it was this kind of rumor that aroused people's interest the most, and everyone spread it by word of mouth in the tea and wine shop, and it did not take long for everyone in the whole capital to know about it.

No matter what kind of secret technique it is, Hua Bushi can't be wrong when he gets the emperor's weapon. One of the most powerful proofs of this is the marriage of the Holy Lord.

The marriage between Hua Bushi and Sima Rulan had already been decided, and the three-month marriage date that he had agreed with Xiong Bailing was now approaching. Just after Hua Bushi finished the "heart needle" for Chongzhen on the seventh day, Cao Duyun seemed to be inadvertently saying this, and the emperor was immediately overjoyed after hearing this, and immediately announced the marriage.

Getting married by the Son of Heaven is an infinitely glorious thing, but Hua Bushi knows very well where this glory comes from.

Entering the palace for seven consecutive days to perform the technique of silver acupuncture, even ordinary doctors have to charge some fees, and the emperor should always have a reward. The so-called one cannot have two, this time Chongzhen can no longer write a painting of ink treasure to fill the number, and the royal mouth gives a marriage of ten thousand gold, but in fact does not need half a tael of silver, for this emperor who spends money more frugally than the beggar gang leader, it is really the best reward.

Hua Bushi never expected Emperor Chongzhen to really have a heavy reward from the beginning, and his purpose of entering the palace this time has been achieved.

The main organizers of the wedding are Xiong Bailing and Chu Yiyi, and they have already agreed on how to arrange them, and they are ready to hold three wedding banquets in Jingshi, Wuyang City and Okura City. They first spent tens of thousands of silver taels in Dongcheng to buy a mansion with five entrances in front and back, and prepared to hold a happy event.

Since it is the emperor's marriage, the wedding banquet in the capital is inevitable, and Wuyang City is the helm of the "Evil Dog Gate", and Sima Rulan is the eldest lady of the city lord of Okura City, so after the first banquet in the capital on the eighth day of August, the ninth day of September is in Wuyang City, and the tenth day of October is in Okura Island, and then a big banquet is held separately.

After the news of Hua Bushi's wedding came out, many people soon sent valuable gifts, among which the heaviest gift money was the "Yanjing Eight Gates".

Although the news of the robbery of the prince on Tianqiao Street was blocked, the "Eight Gates of Yanjing" was well-informed in the imperial court, and they all knew the inside story, and they also knew that the "Evil Dog Gate" that escorted the prince back to Beijing contributed a lot. The head of the Eight Sects was able to get out of prison and not be used as a scapegoat to cut off his head, and this eldest young master can be said to have helped a lot.

With such a life-saving grace, the "Yanjing Eight Gates" should also repay their kindness.

In addition to these eight sects, there is an endless stream of people who come to congratulate and give gifts these days, in addition to the people in the rivers and lakes, there are actually many figures in the officialdom.

In today's imperial court, the most powerful is the Cao family and the newly appointed military secretary Yang Sichang, and Hua Bushi has a close relationship with the two of them, and it is no wonder that many people want to climb the relationship between the Cao and Yang families by befriending Hua Bushi.

These people are also much more generous than the emperor, and the gifts they send ranged from hundreds to thousands of silver taels, and the day of the wedding banquet has not yet arrived, and the "evil dog gate" has received more than 30,000 taels of gifts. But I don't know how the emperor would feel when he heard this.