With a 'haha' smile, Jiang Yu nodded noncommittally, already having an evaluation of Yang Zhao in his heart - he was born in the marketplace, bullies the weak and fears the strong, like a Zhongshan wolf, rampant when he is proud. However, it seems that both Jiang Yu and Li Linfu are such people. Therefore, Jiang Yu not only is not angry with Yang Zhao's arrogance and shameless style, but instead feels a burst of kindness. He pulls Yang Zhao shoulder to shoulder. Zhao walked towards Zhuque Street and said with a smile as he walked: "Where are you talking? This is also my fault. I went out for a few days to handle some official business, but my official robe was broken. I found a piece of clothes to put on at random. If it was an official I obey you, but I didn't do anything like this today." He turned to look at Bai Meng, who had a nonchalant expression on his face, shook his head, but did not mention Bai Meng's intention to apologize to Yang Zhao anymore.
Bai Meng naturally didn't care. Although Jiang Yu wouldn't let them cause trouble, they were eager to make things bigger when things got imminent. The servant who was kicked to death by him was picked up by the gangsters and carried away, which made Bai Meng feel regretful for a while: What a good piece of meat, just carried away like this. He and Long Yi were murmuringly discussing which of Yang Zhao and the others had better meat quality. Long Chihuo rolled his eyes and picked his teeth with a small piece of wood. When he couldn't bear it anymore, Long Chihuo reprimanded them in a low voice: "Low down, gentle. We are not monsters now, we are all fairy beasts and dragons, please don't keep discussing cannibalism, okay?"
Long's eyes widened and he whispered to Long Chihuo: "You won't be a monster if you change your skin? We brothers will never forget our roots!" These words made Long Chihuo's white eyes burst out with anger. With red bloodshot eyes, he could only continue to grind his teeth. Long Chihuo couldn't tell whether he should be happy or worried that Bai Meng had found these "like-minded" guys as friends.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Jiang Yu made a generous promise, saying that if Yang Zhao encountered any trouble in Chang'an City, he would just ask him to help him solve it; Yang Zhao loudly boasted about how many relatives and friends he had in Sichuan, and how good the skin of the beauties in Sichuan was. How fair and fair she is compared to the beauties of Yangzhou, so I must give Jiang Yu some beautiful concubines in the future. Jiang Yu has been fighting on the streets since he was a child and forcibly collecting protection fees from those shops, but Yang Zhao has been gambling, moneylending, hurting people, and robbing since he was a child. Two delinquents with similar childhood experiences got together, so naturally they have a common language. Duoduo, the two of them formed a deep friendship over just one meal. After hearing Yang Zhao say that he had only been in Chang'an for two days and had not yet found a place to live, Jiang Yu immediately promised to find him a cheap and clean mansion to live in, and the two of them talked more and more about entering Hong Kong.
Finally, the drunken Yang Zhao was carried back to the post house by several servants. Jiang Yu stood at the door of Zuilong Pavilion and just sneered. "If this guy is favored by the emperor, he will not be blessed by the eldest brother, and it will be a trivial matter to be granted the title of marquis or prime minister in the future. If the emperor is not pleased, he will not survive two years in Chang'an City!" He has no power to tie a chicken, and is good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He is a man who lends money and robs, but is so arrogant and domineering that he can compare with those children from aristocratic families. Jiang Yu is not optimistic about Yang Zhao's future. "If Yang Yuhuan is favored by the emperor, maybe he will have some good fortune?"
But now Yang Zhao does not pose the slightest threat to Jiang Yu, nor is he of any use. Jiang Yu just established a little friendship with him and put the matter behind him. In the next few days, he was busy enjoying the spring scenery with Gongsun and Bai Xiazi, busy occasionally going to Yuan Tiangang to visit Zhang Bingyun, and busy transporting the five directions and five colors of innate soil into Xingqing Palace, where A geomantic treasure land was chosen beside the dragon pond and an altar was built to worship the official seal of that day.
Jiang Yu himself took people to the north to get the innate black soil condensed by the northern Kuishui elite. The box of black soil in the jade box one foot long and wide weighed only a thousand kilograms. After mixing it with the black soil taken from the bottom of the river north of Chang'an City, The soil is as fine and dark as jade. It is dozens of feet away, and the cold air released from the soil has made it impossible for ordinary people to get close. The Taoist monks helped him fetch the four innate soils from the other four directions. The red Bingding fire soil did not have the shape of soil at all, but was a burning flame. After mixing with the clean red soil dug outside the city, the soil became It's as thick as lava and extremely hot. The eastern Yimu Qingtu is naturally condensed into a tree trunk. After mixing with the mortal soil, countless thin grass buds actually sprouted from the turquoise soil, which looked like a piece of transparent jade, making people dumbfounded. Although the Gengjin white soil in the West is called soil, it shines like a piece of white iron. When struck, there is a sound of gold and iron. When mixed with ordinary soil, the soil is so hard that even a sledgehammer cannot break it.
The one with the most bizarre nature, which took the most effort when setting up the altar, was the central Wuji loess. In order to get this little amount of loess, the Taoist monks paid the price of three people being seriously injured. This loess looks like a handful of floating yellow air, but it is as heavy as a mountain. Once a mortal comes close, his body feels like it is weighed down by ten thousand kilograms.If pressed by force, there will be disasters such as broken bones and tendons. In order to mix the loess and the earth into an altar, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, two old Taoists who devoted themselves to cultivating in Taoist temples and occasionally showed up to give advice to the dignitaries in the court, had to help, almost exhausting the true energy in their bodies. Yuan, then reluctantly turned over the yellow air and mixed it with a pile of clean and fine loess particles. The ordinary loess was contaminated with the yellow gas, and suddenly it was shiny and shiny. There was a mighty and majestic aura blowing in the face, and it had become extremely magical.
After the soils of the five directions and five colors were gathered together and placed according to their own zodiac signs and directions to cast the altar, all the different appearances disappeared. The altar that was made was thirty-six in length, six in length, and three in height. It was completely integrated and the five elements were The Yuanli gathered together and turned into a hazy Qi that enveloped the entire altar, but it reflected each other with the dragon Qi seeping out of the dragon pond next to it.
In order to cast this altar, Jiang Yu led a group of subordinates to hang out with the pile of various mud in Xingqing Palace for more than half a month after a few days of romance. These soils have extremely weird properties, and it is impossible for ordinary people to get close to them. They can only work hard as plasterers like Jiang Yu. The jade book that also records the Tianguan seal casting method repeatedly emphasizes that no magic can be used in the process of casting the altar, and the soil can only be piled up manually. This is also the main reason why Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng almost fainted from exhaustion.
During the past half month, Yang Zhao, who was a member of the Jinwu Bingcao army, often followed the enshrining officer into Xingqing Palace. He also often followed Li Longji to visit Yang Yuhuan at the Taoist temple next to Longchi, and he always saw the gray fish with gray heads. The face one was there holding a shovel and a pile of mud to death. Yang Zhao was shocked, but when he saw Li Longji turning a blind eye, he obediently did not ask what was the mystery behind it, but his admiration for Jiang Yu increased to a higher level - being able to Playing with mud in the palace, you have the guts!
After the altar was cast, Jiang Yu personally carved some ancient talismans on the altar. Without any mana injection, the altar itself had a strong energy wave. The majesty and majesty are just like the pressure released by Li Longji when he is angry, but the pressure on this altar is a hundred times more powerful. Wisps of purple dragon energy from the dragon pond next to it were drawn to the altar, turning into a puff of auspicious clouds that rippled with the wind, but never came out of the three-foot radius of the altar. The altar was looming in the purple clouds, and there were a few. The mystery of the Shenlong's head but not its tail.
With one or two hundred gold elites each, a drop of the seal's owner's hard work, and a soul of a beast that the seal owner personally killed, the seals of Jiang Yu, Guo Ziyi, Long Chihuo, and Bai Meng have been cast. The Tianguan Seal is not a magic weapon in the conventional sense. It can be made smoothly by any mortal blacksmith. The two General Huwei Seals and the two General Leopard Soaring Seals only took three days of work to complete. The four-sided seal has a simple shape. The length and width of the seal are three inches each, and the height is six inches. The buttons are in the shape of a flying tiger and a mountain leopard roaring up to the sky. Dozens of twisted tadpole characters are engraved on the seal body. That's all. That¡¯s all. Except for the faint fluctuations of the seal soul in the seal body, there is nothing strange about the four-dimensional seal. Seeing this big seal, Guo Ziyi, who was urgently transferred to Chang'an by Jiang Yu, couldn't help but be confused. He didn't understand that such a lump of earth could have the magical effects that Jiang Yu boasted about.
This day was an auspicious day carefully chosen by Yuan Tiangang. At noon, Li Longji brought Li Linfu, Yang Zhao and other close ministers, and Gao Lishi guarded the imperial garden tightly. Only about twenty people below Li Longji came to test whether the Tianguan Seal was really so effective. Li Longji was very interested in the Tianguan Seal, a powerful seal that symbolized that mortals could fight against monks. He doesn't expect that this seal can really fight against the powerful monk world, but at least with this seal in hand, monsters like Disha Palace and Tianyu Palace will not be able to break into the palace and cause trouble. Is it easy?
Li Longji even decided that if this Heavenly Official Seal really has the miraculous effect mentioned in the jade book, he must limit the number of this Heavenly Official Seal. This powerful seal can only be held by the people he trusts most. The jade book of Tianguan Seal only has a method of casting, but there is no way to restrain Tianguan Seal. Think about it if a general who is leading an army has a powerful general's seal in his hands, and the combat power of his soldiers suddenly increases more than ten times. How can Li Longji rest assured when he raises troops to cause chaos?
The auspicious moment had arrived. When he saw Jiang Yu solemnly holding the four-sided seal and standing on the altar made of five-color earth, Li Longji complained in his heart: "Why is there no seal of the Emperor of Heaven?" Then he cheered up and strode forward. Stepping onto the altar, according to the records in the jade book, he stood in front of the table with four large seals at the top of the altar. He quickly wrote an edict on the spot and once again conferred military posts on Jiang Yu, Guo Ziyi, Long Chihuo, and Bai Meng. The imperial edict was stamped with the seal of the Tang Dynasty, and then the edict was burned in the middle of the altar. A whirlwind emerged from the sky and rolled up the burning edict.The written edict flew straight into the sky, flying hundreds of feet high before slowly burning up.
The purple clouds around the altar rolled, turning into four purple auspicious lights and pouring straight into the four big seals. The four big seals flashed with faint light and flew straight up. After circling for a while in the sky several feet high, receiving the seal With a little effort and guidance, it turned into four rays of cold light and rushed towards Jiang Yu and the others. Jiang Yu raised his hand to take over his General Tiger Seal, and felt a mighty wave rush straight down his arm into his body. He shouted, and there was a burst of light on the big seal, a fierce tiger with two wings on its back. The virtual image suddenly appeared out of thin air, and it roared several times. An extremely brutal murderous aura was emitted from the body with Jiang Yu as the center, and bursts of strong strong wind spread along the ground to all sides, rolling up the dust on the ground into waves like waves.
Li Longji, Li Linfu, Yang Yuhuan, Yang Zhao and Gao Lishi, who had just arrived, gasped at the same time. Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's eyes widened, and they all looked at Jiang Yu blankly. Jiang Yu spread his hands in confusion: "I didn't use any internal force. This is the power attached to the big seal."
Guo Ziyi also held the General Tiger Seal tightly in his hand. The virtual image of the tiger appearing behind him and the virtual image behind Jiang Yu roared in response to each other. The brutal murderous intent forced Yang Zhao and Yang Yuhuan to retreat one after another. Li Linfu reluctantly leaned on With the cover of Yuan Tiangang beside him, he avoided the murderous frontal impact. Gao Lishi's face turned blood red, especially his nose, which was about to bleed. This murderous aura put too much pressure on him. Only Li Longji faced the murderous impact as if nothing had happened. He held his beard in his hand and showed a satisfied smile: "Okay, but I don't know if the other effects of this big seal are the same as those recorded in the jade book." Li Longji couldn't wait to call Jiang. Yu quickly recruited a group of fifty thugs from the Wind Catching Camp and asked them to test the blessing effect of the big seal on them.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? did not happen: 50 thugs had just approached Jiangyu and were still a hundred feet away. The clothes of the fifty thugs made a subtle cracking sound at the same time. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, their height increased by three inches, and their body muscles swelled a lot. Li Longji personally operated the sword, picked up a Longquan sword and slashed a thug's arm hard. There was a crisp sound, and a several-inch-long wound was cut on the skin of the thug's arm. A little blood flowed out, and the wound healed in an instant. Li Linfu and Gao Lishi exclaimed at the same time, who can defeat such a warrior on the battlefield? Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng smiled. Well, the Taoist sect finally has a team that can face Gao Xianzhi's cavalry head-on. No matter how many Buddhist Vajra Zen techniques the monks gave to the cavalry, they can't compete with the captured cavalry. The thugs in Fengying were usually about the same strength, but they were far inferior to the thugs who had been blessed by General Huwei's seal.
Yang Zhao, who was standing nearby and taking care of Yang Yuhuan, looked at Jiang Yu with a strange expression. He was already deeply wary and afraid of Jiang Yu's unpredictable methods, and he also had a bit of disdain for Li Linfu. Yang Zhao now only has a deep fear of Li Linfu. He has made up his mind that the first person he will curry favor with in the future is Mr. Li, but he has temporarily extinguished his desire to rely on Yang Yuhuan and Li Linfu to compete for supremacy.
Li Longji happily slashed several thugs from Catching Wind Camp with his sword. Finally, he made a decision and asked Li Linfu to select ten loyal ministers and generals in the court, refine the Tianguan Seal and secretly seal it as a reward to them. This is an absolute secret and no one is allowed to leak it. In the future, if someone makes great achievements, he will be eligible to receive a Heavenly Official Seal as a reward. Li Longji even emphasized that the names of Li Tiande and Li Tianba must be included in the list of ten people selected by Li Linfu.
Time flies by, the Tang Dynasty becomes increasingly prosperous, and Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan play almost every night. Yang Yuhuan, who was naturally good at singing and dancing, became Li Longji's biggest confidant. Together, the two actually composed a song called "Nancy Clothes and Feather Clothes Song" that was praised as a fairy sound. Half a year later, Yang Yuhuan was canonized as a noble concubine, and several of her sisters were brought to Chang'an. I heard that Li Longji often met Yang Yuhuan's sisters in private, but no one could provide actual evidence. All the civil and military officials in the dynasty were now replaced by Li Linfu as his confidant. No one expressed the proper surprise at Yang Yuhuan's transformation from Princess Shou to a noble concubine, and the matter transitioned smoothly.
Since his wife has become a noble concubine, it is naturally impossible for him to sit on the throne of the prince again. The frustrated Li Hao obediently went to enjoy his happiness, and Li Heng got a big deal out of thin air. After Li Linfu's approval, Jiang Yu's recommendation, the recommendation of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's "gazing at the sky at night to get good omens" , Li Heng successfully became the prince of the Tang Dynasty and lived in the East Palace.
Gao Xianzhi went to Congling, but when he came back after not seeing the battle report for a long time, Jiang Yu thought he had died in Dashi, but heHe also stopped thinking about stabbing him in the back. Although the great virtuous and wise man has great power, he also retreats into seclusion and no longer appears in the court. It is difficult for Jiang Yu to come to bully people. In addition, he is also afraid of the terrifying power of Monk Hualuo. Therefore, although he still holds grudges about what happened in Tubo, Jiang Yu Yu could only temporarily give up his thoughts of revenge against Buddhism and could only wait for the opportunity.
Out of thin air, the demon cultivators of the Demon Sect got millions of vicious souls that had been sealed for who knows how many years under Fuso Fugaku. When they just emerged, they were like frightened rats, and they didn¡¯t know where they hid. Huaying's spies searched for information in Tubo, Turkic tribes, Goguryeo, Nanzhao and other places. The demonic monks who had shown some traces had disappeared. The threat to the Tang Dynasty from these neighboring countries was weakened a lot. Huaying I am also relieved. However, the people in the Taoist sect frequently sent out a large number of people to explore the mountains and rivers all over the world, knowing that there would definitely be a dispute in the future.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Yang Yuhuan becoming a noble concubine, Yang Zhao was a clever and capable person. He made Li Longji happy. In just over half a year, he concurrently held official positions such as Duzhi Yuanwailang, and was responsible for fifteen years of service. The six positions were at their peak. Even when Jiang Yu was the most favored by Li Longji, he was not as prosperous as him. If Yang Zhao's foundation in the court was not too shallow and he had no roots except Yang Yuhuan as his iron backer, he could even form two factions with Li Linfu.
It seems that the New Year is just a few days away, and the heavy snow has wrapped up Chang'an City again. Under the thick snow mattress, Chang'an City is like a hibernating bear, silent and taciturn, quietly accumulating strength. In the rare peaceful days, Jiang Yu would go to Zuo Xiaoqiwei Dian Mao every day and leave all official duties to his subordinates. He would either go to Li Linfu's house to drink a bowl of tea and chat for a while, or simply go to Li Linfu's house to have a cup of tea and chat for a while. I went to my house to sit quietly and read alchemy books, but I also enjoyed myself.
The days were very leisurely, but they also had their own unique charm. The friendship between Gongsun and Jiang Yu greatly increased, and with the participation of the vixen Bai Xiazi, the relationship between the three suddenly became like a ball of lava. piping hot. Nowadays, the teaching of sword dance skills in the Liyuan is left to a few of Gongsun's disciples. Gongsun spends his whole day practicing Wangyue Sect's exercises, or reading Taoism and playing chess with Jiang Yu. , lived an extremely happy and peaceful life. With the support of a huge amount of spiritual stones and fairy stones, Gongsun's cultivation level has skyrocketed, which is also a major gain during this period. Except that Jiang Yu is a super bad chess player who always loses every game, this life is also very happy.
On this day, Jiang Yu got a silver mink cloak and stood on the stone steps outside the lobby, watching the servants in the mansion counting the new year's goods prepared under Xing Tianyi's guidance. As the commander of the Feng Catching Battalion, Xing Tianyi is now also the second housekeeper of the Jiangyu family, and he becomes busier as the new year approaches. Seafood and dry goods from the south, deer and deer from the north, wine and other rare goods sent by Hu merchants to please Jiangyu, as well as local specialties sent by Guo Ziyi who was guarding one side outside, and the two greedy thieves An Lushan and Shi Siming. The money and other items that were secretly delivered in carts had to be counted by Xing Tianyi one by one. As for Xuan Bagui, the chief steward of the Jiangyu family, he hangs around in the circle of scribes at the Imperial College every day. How can he be willing to meddle in such noisy matters?
Seeing several servants tying several large sika deer with ropes and pulling them over, Jiang Yu quickly pointed out: "Well, clean and peel a male deer, and prepare the deer's blood for the soup pot. The antlers are hanging at the gate. Send the venison to Uncle Long and his friends to cook over charcoal fire for wine, and the deer whip, wash it and send it to the kitchen, stew it into a soup and give it to Butler Xing to replenish his health." Xing Tianqiu, who was holding a ledger to compare the numbers. My feet slipped and I almost fell down. Seeing several servants winking and making faces at him, Xing Tianyou waved his hands angrily and scolded him threateningly.
Two more servants ran in carrying an iron cage. In the iron cage were several foxes with shiny fur and red bodies. Xing Tianyi shouted there: "Pinglu General An Lushan sent seven alien fire foxes. Hey, Lord Marquis, they are made for you to wear." Xing Tianyi smiled sinisterly and deliberately made his voice louder. Lao Gao.
Jiang Yu took a sharp breath, rushed over and grabbed the iron cage with one hand, tore open the cage and released the fire foxes. His innate natural heart had a rapid communication with these fire foxes, and an agreement was reached in an instant. Bai Xiazi, whose ears are more sensitive than anything else, has already swayed slowly out of the lobby and called out in a delicate voice: "Oh, I just heard someone wearing fox fur?" Bai Xiazi said in a polite voice. , that pretty face can even scrape off a layer of frost.
Gongsun also wore a mink fur cloak and walked out slowly, showing a strange smile to Jiang Yu. However, those firefoxes obediently rubbed their heads next to Jiangyu's legs and made a cautious and obviously flattering cry towards Bai Xiazi. Bai Xiazi glanced at the fire foxes, shook her head and said, "It's a pity that they are all of ordinary blood, but they are not worth cultivating. Old Master, please take good care of them."?Winter, should we wait until spring to release them back to the mountains? "
Bai Xiazi called Jiang Yu in a coquettish voice and deliberately prolonged her voice. Several servants in the yard suddenly trembled, clamped their thighs tightly, and ran away with the things in their hands. Xing Tianyi also trembled, and a few flashes of white energy quickly flashed across his face. He forcibly raised the water-based energy in his body to protect his mind, and then he barely managed to avoid making a fool of himself. The several fire foxes were even more unbearable. They were made to lie on the ground by Bai Xiazi's sweet exchanges, and they were already as limp as a puddle of mud.
"Hahaha!" Gongsun chuckled and pulled Bai Xiazi out: "Sanwei, don't tease me on purpose. Just accompany me for a walk outside." She glanced at Jiang Yu from the corner of her eye, and gently He nodded and asked, "Are you coming?"
Just when Jiang Yu was about to agree, Zhang Laosan suddenly ran out. He took off the green leather hat on his head, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and shouted: "Hello, Mr. Yu, hello, Miss Gongsun. Hello Aunt Bai, hello Uncle Xing. Hey, Mr. Yu, the person you asked us to keep an eye on has done good things recently." Looking at Gongsun and Bai Xiazi, Zhang Laosan smiled apologetically and approached Jiang Yu. , lowered his voice and said: "Yang Zhao recently lost a sum of money to the boss in Dajiangdong Goge gambling, and now he is angry in the mansion."
"Hi, how much did he lose?" Jiang Yu became interested immediately. Gongsun and Bai Xiazi looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and went out on their own hand in hand.
"Hey, it was fine in the first few months. His winnings and losses were at the level of dozens or hundreds of guan. But in the past three days, probably because he wanted to have a good year, he entered the gold, silver and sea of ??Dajiangdong. Jinshanfang of a gambling house went to gamble a few times and lost more than 5,700 yuan. Now that he is in the house, two family members have been injured by him." Zhang Laosan smiled and said proudly. : "Master Yu, what you said is absolutely correct. This guy has become a member of the Communist Party of China. How can he not embezzle money at a loss?"
With a few sneers, Jiang Yu threw down his mink cloak and called Zhang Laosan to prepare his horse. He sneered: "I don't dare to be short-term. His foundation is not stable now, but misappropriation? It's obvious. How much salary does he have this year? How much money can Concubine Yang secretly give him? Well, this is just right, the eldest brother said, It¡¯s time to strike up a friendship with him as soon as possible to avoid hurting everyone¡¯s friendship in the future.¡±
When he reached the gate, Jiang Yu suddenly turned around, smiled at Xing Tianyi and said, "Tianyi, just take care of these fire foxes. If there are male foxes, just castrate them. If there are female foxes, just castrate them." Just feed one spirit stone to see if it can improve their Qi. Hehehe, now we have a lot of money, we can add a few more vixens, but we are not afraid." Xing Tianyi nodded sinisterly and looked at them with subtle eyes. Several firefoxes on the ground. Zhang Laosan stood beside him with an admiring look on his face. Jiang Yu smiled slightly, patted Zhang Laosan on the shoulder, and said calmly: "Do your best, I will find an introductory Taoist book for you in a few days. Can you participate? It's up to you to realize what you want. However, even if you can't achieve enlightenment and live hundreds of years longer, I can still help you."
When Zhang Laosan heard this, he was so happy that he beat his chest desperately and shouted loudly that as long as Jiang Yu gave an order, he would go up the mountain of swords and the sea of ??fire and wade into the frying pan. If he snorted, he was not a hero. More than a hundred kilograms of meat were all given to Jiang Yu. Hearing him beat his chest, it sounded like a drum. Jiang Yu felt his heart tremble. This guy had already practiced his iron sand palm to an extremely advanced level. He wouldn't kill himself with one palm? Where can I find such capable subordinates?
However, now that he had the idea of ??letting Zhang Laosan practice, Jiang Yu began to have other crooked ideas. He also has a bottle of high-quality golden elixir that weighs nearly a thousand kilograms. Perhaps the Jingjiehu, this river fish that spreads across the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, should have some other function.
Halfway through, Jiang Yu ran into a Hu merchant¡¯s shop and selected a box of refined ambergris that was carefully packaged in a rosewood box. He took out the glass vessel containing the ambergris, took only the ornately decorated sandalwood box, threw down a piece of gold cake, turned around and left. The Hu merchant boss at the back stared at Jiang Yu's back in stunned silence, muttering: "Buying a casket for pearls? Is there really such a person in the Central Plains? God bless me, is this piece of gold real?"
The rosewood box is one foot long, three inches wide and two inches high. Jiang Yu casually scattered a lot of pearls and jade in the bracelet into the box. Thinking that this box of jewels was much more than what Yang Zhao had paid out, Jiang Yu then closed the box and led the Zhang Laosan arrived at what is now Yang Zhao's house.
Originally, Jiang Yu found a quiet, clean and cheap house for Yang Zhao to live in, but after Yang Yuhuan made her a noble concubine, Yang Zhao immediately moved out of the small courtyard. Now there are two side courtyards on the left and right, with three entrances in front and behind. He lived in a large house and bought dozens of maids and maids, and nearly a hundred soldiers he brought from Sichuan.?? became his servant and nurse. Jiang Yu sent Zhang Laosan a greeting card at the gate of Yang Mansion. Yang Zhao immediately went out to greet him personally and led Jiang Yu into the lobby.
There were still a few vaguely visible blood stains mixed in the snow on the stone steps under the lobby, but Jiang Yu did not reveal the mystery. After sitting down with Yang Zhao as guest and host, he immediately handed the rosewood box to Yang Zhao: " Hahaha, Brother Yang, I haven't seen you for a few months, how does your face look so good? It's just a small thing, but it's not respectful. Hey, Brother Yang, your yard is well kept, isn't it? All the maids are also very smart." Jiang Yu's maid He took the tea cup in his hand and glanced at several maids in the lobby. They were all above average in appearance. It seemed that Yang Zhao was a person who liked to enjoy himself.
Yang Zhao took the box and felt that the box was not very heavy and there would not be many things in it. The smile on his face faded slightly. Yang Zhao threw the box on the coffee table beside him. Just as he was about to speak, the lid of the box suddenly slipped aside, revealing the jewels and jade worth at least ten thousand yuan inside. Yang Zhao's face suddenly changed. The smile on his face suddenly broke out, and he grabbed Jiang Yu's hand enthusiastically, shook it repeatedly and said, "Brother Jiang, what are you talking about? Why are our brothers so polite? Never give such valuable gifts in the future. Gifts are just a little bit of meaning. If you like these maids, Brother Jiang, feel free to take them back."
Yang Zhao smiled extremely happily and repeatedly asked his family to buy a banquet, and he must treat Jiang Yu to a meal. Jiang Yu smiled slightly and suddenly saw a maid standing next to her with a bruise on her forehead. She deliberately pretended to be shocked and asked, "Brother Yang, what's going on with this girl?"
After being stunned for a moment, Yang Zhao hurriedly covered it up and said: "This bitch was walking carelessly and fell down on the road." He laughed dryly a few times, pointed at the maid and cursed angrily: "Bitch, hurry up and get out of here. Get out? Why are you being an eyesore here?" The maid ran out with a frightened look on her face, and Yang Zhao laughed at Jiang Yu again.
With a 'haha' smile, Jiang Yu directly uncovered Yang Zhao's scar: "So he fell down? Brother, I heard that Brother Yang had a lot of fun gambling in Dajiangdong in the past few days? I don't know what the harvest will be. How about it?" Without showing the slightest trace of ridicule on his face, Jiang Yu said calmly: "Brothers also like to gamble a few times occasionally and make small gains! Don't you know Brother Yang?"
Yang Zhao, who has not yet become accustomed to the intrigues in the officialdom of Chang'an City, is still the gambler and ruffian from Sichuan. He heard Jiang Yu say that he occasionally likes to gamble, especially when Jiang Yu said that the place was Dajiangdong. Going to the pavilion, he couldn't help but pricked up his ears excitedly: "Oh? I wonder where Brother Jiang is, how about winning or losing?"
The corner of his mouth raised slightly, Jiang Yu smiled and said: "I've made a small gain, I've made a small gain. Well, I just won tens of thousands of coins with a few friends in the past few months. Alas, who told Da Jiangdong to go to the pavilion before? The prince is the backend of a big gambling house? Although the former prince has fallen, the owner of his money is the Chai family, one of the largest aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty. Hehe, he won tens of thousands of dollars from them, but it can't hurt him. Their sinews and bones. How much do they lose every day with a tap?"
Yang Zhao, whose eyes instantly turned red, said tremblingly: "Ten thousand yuan? Chai family?" For a time, Yang Zhao had a deep impression on Dajiangdong Quge, who could make him rich quickly. place. At the same time, he also had great resentment towards the Chai family - if Jiang Yu hadn't delivered the tens of thousands of jade jewels in time, how would he have been able to make up for the money he embezzled? Doesn't this cost his life? He lost his money in Dajiangdong Goge.
Yang Zhao secretly murmured in his heart, no wonder Jiang Yu bought such a box of extremely valuable jewelry and jade. It seems that he often won money in Dajiangdong Goge. Ten thousand guan, this is a huge amount of wealth. A good Mo Dao is just a little more. This money can arm an elite army of a thousand people. It was given to me so casually, but I was so in love with Cheng Jiangyu.
Seeing Yang Zhao sitting there, huffing and puffing, leaning lazily on the armrest of the chair, he said casually: "However, going to the pavilion in the east of the river is not a good place. It's not like I, Jiangyu, am boasting. Da, I went to Dajiangdong Pavilion. They didn¡¯t dare to do anything mysterious, but if ordinary guests or new guests come in, they will always cheat them out of money. Brother Yang, you won¡¯t be cheated by anyone in there. Is this a plan?"
Yang Zhao's eyes widened and he murmured to himself: "Hi, Yang Zhao is a master gambler who kills everyone in Chengdu. How could I come to Chang'an and lose so much money so easily? I'm sure. It's the people from the casino who are cheating! Damn it, they actually dare to bully me, Yang Zhao! Chai family, don't fall into the hands of me, Yang Zhao, otherwise Well, it can't be Jiang Yu who is deceiving. Me? How can he win money from the casino? I am the only one who loses? Hmm, could it be that he is the casino¡¯s spy? "
Okay, Yang Zhao has begun to suspect that Jiang Yu is a shill for the casino, and he can't help but have a hint of suspicion in his eyes.
Jiang Yu didn't see Yang Zhao's hesitation. He just said loudly: "Brother Yang, there was nothing much going on in the court last year. Everyone was bored. Why don't you and I go to Dajiangdong to go to the pavilion to have a good time?" Winning a sum? Hey, I'm not bragging, as long as I take action, it will be easy to win, I can only win but not lose."
Yang Zhao's mind moved, and he thought: "Okay, here comes the words. Do the people in the casino really think that I, Yang Zhao, am just a meathead and let them slaughter me? Humph, what if you, Jiang Yu, are really sent by the casino? I just don¡¯t want to bet, what can you do to me? I appreciate that you gave me this box of jewels. Well, it seems that there are a few thousand more jewels. How about I try my luck with two or three thousand jewels? Woolen cloth?"
While hesitating, Yang Zhao had already stood up. He gritted his teeth and said resolutely: "In that case, why not go ahead? Well, let me get some money."
Jiang Yu pulled Yang Zhao and walked out. He said loudly: "Are you kidding me? I'm dragging you to the casino, brother Yang. Do I need you to pay for it? Three to five thousand guan, I don't care about it yet. My subordinates The children turn in every month, which is almost enough."
Having prepared his horse, Jiang Yu took Yang Zhao, Zhang Laosan and the rest of the group and headed straight for Dajiangdong Pavilion.
In the wind and snow, I could only hear Yang Zhao shouting: "Oh, how can this be done? This is not good, not good"
However, his opposition became smaller and smaller, and gradually became weaker.