In the evening, a horse galloped across the moat, and the men on the horse shouted: "Brothers, please wait." ”

The guard signaled for a moment to stop pulling the noose, looked over with his eyes, and saw that it was a very familiar young man, and after thinking about it again, he was suddenly startled, and hurriedly greeted him and arched his hand: "It turned out to be Lord Jing Zhaoyin." ”

"If I missed it, I had to spend the night outside the city, but luckily I caught up. Li Yixiu sighed, jumped off the horse, and said to the guards with a smile, "Thank you for staying at the door." ”

The guard knew that this Jingzhao Yin was kind, and he was not restrained, and said with a smile: "Raul, raise your hand, my lord, this is going to the state capital." ”

Every once in a while, the state capital will hold a state meeting by the Thorn History, and each county must send people to participate, although Jing Zhaoyin is the prime minister of Kyoto, but also belongs to Qingzhou, and is subject to the control of Qingzhou Thorn History.

"Yes, fortunately, Chen Tingshi doesn't have a banquet. Li Yixiu's face was full of joy.

The guards respected him even more in their hearts, and when he was a hundred officials, there was no one like him who had no shelf.

"You're busy, the villain closes the door and leaves. "The guards didn't dare to delay each other too long.

"I have the opportunity to invite you to a drink and take my leave. Li Yixiu led the horse into the city, and the sky was soon dark at this time, but in Yongling, at least after the hour, the street would slowly desert.

Walking through the downtown with one person and one horse, this young Lord Jingzhao Yin seemed to be at ease, although he was dusty, he was not disturbed by the hustle and bustle, just like a lake, quietly watching the vicissitudes of the world.

Walk straight along the main street of Suzaku and soon arrive at Jingzhao Mansion.

When a servant saw him returning, he hurriedly went up and led his horse: "My lord." ”

"You take it down to feed it something, you're going to be tired after a long day. Li Yi cultivated.

"Wow. And the servant went.

"Wait. Li Yixiu stopped him, "Nothing happened in the past two days, right?"

The official said: "Hey, what can I do, it's all trivial bits and pieces, with you in Jingzhao Mansion, who dares to really make trouble?"

Li Yixiu smiled and shook his head: "For some murderers, my name may not work. ”

"Why did you come back?"

At this moment, a scarlet-robed official with a book in his hand, a food box in his left hand and a beautiful gift box in his right hand came out and said in surprise: "Where's your car?"

Li Yixiu said: "It's Zhizhen, I'm too slow, let Ah Fu live in Jiujiang County, and come back on horseback." I asked my younger brother and sister to bring you food again? I said a few times, the food has to be eaten at home to be fragrant, and I always eat in the house, and when I spread it, I thought I was so harsh that my subordinates didn't even have time to eat. ”

The scarlet-robed official said disapprovingly: "You can't change your habits, it's like this when you were in the academy, and you don't know it...... What's wrong with being harsh besides, Your Majesty knows it, and will only rely on you even more. ”

His name is Chang Zhizhen, Li Yixiu's classmate and friend, and now he is the Shao Yin under him, who treats official affairs very seriously and responsibly, and has Li Yixiu's trust.

Li Yixiu smiled bitterly: "Okay, I really can't talk about you, why did someone give you a gift today, such a beautiful box is really rare." ”

Chang Zhizhen smiled: "Someone did give me a gift." ”

Li Yixiu said: "When did you enlighten yourself and actually accept bribes?"

Chang Zhizhen said: "Your Majesty sent it, do I dare not accept it?"

Li Yixiu was slightly surprised, and said, "Why did Your Majesty send you something?"

Chang Zhizhen said: "This is your share, I wanted to send it to your house, but now that you are back, take it with yourself, my share has already been taken home." ”

"I have it too?" Li Yixiu took over.

Chang Zhizhen said mysteriously, "Tell you, there is Qingxi tea in it, if it weren't for the sake of our friendship for so many years, I would have secretly hid it." ”

Then he told Ji Tiansheng about inviting the Hundred Gardens and distributing New Year's goods by the way, and said at the end, "Hey, Your Majesty really has good intentions for that Yan Li." ”

"Oh?" Li Yixiu's heart moved slightly.

Chang Zhizhen said indifferently: "Why did Your Majesty suddenly have the leisure to invite hundreds of officials to enjoy the flowers, it turned out to be a special official ceremony for Yan Li, and now he is already the secretary of Dali Temple, located in Jiuqing, comparable to the prince, you are even inferior to him." ”

Li Yixiu said with a smile: "You have a temper, there must be more opposition voices in the court, Your Majesty brought it up after appreciating the flowers, it is to prepare a way out, in case it doesn't work, there is still a step down, it's not like you said, it's a special official ceremony for Brother Yan." ”

Chang Zhizhen couldn't help laughing and said, "You are a good person, I really can't hide anything from you." Now that you're back, take a walk and have a drink with me. ”

"Forget it today. Li Yixiu shook his head.

Chang Zhizhen said: "Rushing so much will make you a soft-footed shrimp?"

Li Yixiu was not annoyed, smiled and took out a piece of jade from the package, handed it over, and said, "Do you remember the Hetian jade I told you last time, I asked someone to find it." ”

Chang Zhizhen only felt that the jade was smooth in his hand, and there was a hint of warmth, knowing that this was not an ordinary jade, and suddenly said: "You have to prepare Lord Situ's birthday gift." Speaking of which, Lord Situ's fiftieth birthday is just these days. ”

Li Yixiu smiled and nodded.

"Let's go back together. Chang Zhizhen was helpless and returned the jade and gift box to Li Yixiu.

The two walked and talked, and soon came to a dark alley, their homes were on the left and right sides of the dark alley, and they were about to go separately.

Chang Zhizhen suddenly lowered her voice and said, "The information provided by Shen Jiaoxi, about Yu Youwei......"

Li Yixiu raised his hand to stop him, looked around intently, and said after a while, "What's the eyebrow?"

Chang Zhizhen said: "I got information that someone saw Yu Youwei in Tianyun Pavilion. ”

"Tianyun Pavilion?" Li Yixiu narrowed his eyes.

Chang Zhizhen said: "Tianyun Pavilion has held poetry meetings at both ends in the past three days, and the invitees are all young brothers and celebrities with heads and faces in Yongling, every time I dress up and go in, I don't find any trace of Yu Youwei, but I find a strange phenomenon. ”

"What phenomenon?" Li Yixiu hurriedly asked.

Chang Zhizhen said: "Whenever the poetry meeting is halfway through, there are always some people who are inexplicably missing, but after investigation, it is found that they have all gone home." ”

Li Yixiu said: "What's so strange about this?"

Chang Zhizhen said lightly: "Those who left the scene halfway seem to have autism, they lock themselves in their rooms all day long, and they have to be sent in to eat and drink, and it is said that some of them have lost their minds and beat several servants to death." ”

Li Yixiu pondered for a moment and said, "Continue to investigate, be sure to find out Yu Youwei's whereabouts, I suspect that these things are related to her." But you have to be careful, if there's anything wrong, take care of yourself, remember?"

"Provincial province. Chang Zhizhen nodded.

......

Tomorrow is going to move out of the academy, Yan Li is not reluctant.

At least he didn't have to worry about the grumpy old guy on the top of the mountain behind him suddenly couldn't think of running down and cutting him.

Now there is no sword on his back, and after melting Xuanjun, he found a ring inside, which looks like a wooden one, and the ashes are very inconspicuous, even if it is thrown on the street, no one will bend down to pick it up, because it is too ordinary, too ordinary.

Yan Li forgot to sleep and eat for a month and studied it, but he didn't find its peculiarity, and any secrets of immortality were all nonsense.

He looked down at the Dragon God Ring lying quietly in his palm, and suddenly sighed.

Anyway, after all, the Dragon God Ring is something that his father has told him a thousand times, and now in his own hands, it can be regarded as a small consummation, and it seems a bit greedy to ask for more.

He tied the ring with a red rope around his neck so that he would not lose it, and got up and walked out of the courtyard.

His small courtyard is now a little deserted at night, perhaps because Fu'er is not there, and when he is not cultivating, he always can't stay.

Walking to the street, the pedestrians gradually became scarce, and as I walked, I somehow came to the vicinity of the Resentful Kite Tower.

Looking at the signboard of the resentful kite tower from a distance on the arch bridge, he suddenly remembered Zhan Mu, and the past suddenly was like a picture scroll, opened one by one, he took a step, crossed the river, walked down the river bank, and walked until he reached the entrance of the peach forest.

At this time, Taolin had already built a fence under the order of Ji Tiansheng, and the entrance was guarded by guards, like a royal forbidden land.

Yan Li suddenly wanted to go in and have a look, so he crossed in from a corner that the guards couldn't see.

Pacing slowly, pondering.

Why is there always a sense of familiarity and familiarity?

Why is there always an inexplicable sound here?

Who is the owner of that voice, and why is my desire to see her so desperate at this moment?

Perhaps, her smile is a kind of redemption.

Suddenly felt a palpitation, he suddenly came back to his senses, one foot hung in the air, he didn't dare to move, it turned out that he had walked to the lake unconsciously, if this foot stepped down, he would fall directly into the water.

Fortunately, he came back to his senses at the critical moment, otherwise in such a royal forbidden land, if he fell into the lake, there was really only a dead end.

But he found something even worse, because he was too close to the lake, he was frozen by the breath of the water, and no matter how much he commanded his body to retreat, it had no effect. The fear of water caused his body to lose sensation.

What's even worse is that at this moment, a strong wind blew from behind him, and it was really unlucky that he even stuffed his teeth with water, and he regained consciousness while trying to keep himself balanced.

But the wind was so strong that he felt himself slowly falling in the direction of the lake.

In a hurry, he suddenly thought of the Fire Spirit Bead, and called out loudly in his heart.

Perhaps it was the fire spirit bead that heard his call, and slowly extended a stream of heat from somewhere in his body, and with this heat, he used all his strength to jump backwards, and finally moved away from the lake, and his body gradually regained consciousness.

He still had palpitations, gasping for breath, feeling a burst of powerlessness for the sudden passage of life and death.

"Huh?"

He suddenly found that the heat of the fire spirit bead did not dissipate, but had a feeling of getting hotter and hotter, and he said angrily: "Hey, don't dissipate the heat anymore, you're going to burn me to death!"

But the Fire Spirit Bead didn't listen.

He jumped up from the ground, and when he lifted his clothes, the fire spirit bead suddenly sprang out of its own accord, and it flew straight forward, looking very panicked, as if it was fleeing.

Before Yan Li could react, the Dragon God Ring suddenly broke out of his chest and chased after the Fire Spirit Bead, only then did he realize that there seemed to be a red light connecting the two.

After taking a closer look, he found that the Dragon God Ring was actually extracting the energy of the Fire Spirit Bead.