In the evening, in the 1st East District, deep in the slums.

Even in the poorest of places, when the smoke rises, it can also give people a warm feeling, that is, a feeling of home.

In the small courtyard of the single-family house, Lord Zhong Xinzhong felt very bad, because he was in front of the stove, clumsily cooking on the fire.

He hadn't done anything like this in forty years, and the last time he went to the stove and looked at these pots and pans was many, many years ago.

At that time, Zhong Xin was only one of the children of the Zhong family, he was mediocre in his studies, and his appearance was not good.

At that time, the days were really simple, every day was to read during the day, and in the evening with a few good classmates, get together a little money, cook a few small dishes, drink a pot of wine, everyone sat together, talked about life, talked about ideals, talked about the future, and talked about girls.

Well, in fact, it's the girls who talk the most!

Forty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the partners who drank and chatted together back then have long since disappeared.

I remember that the most dashing boss among the brothers, as early as thirty years ago, died in the mutiny that shocked the god city, the boss blocked the east city gate alone, and was smashed by the city wood and shattered the bones of the whole body, but he still fought to the death and did not retreat, he really did the first hero, standing up to the sky and the earth.

There is also the third child, the one who is the most greedy for drinking, who joined the office with him, is considered his confidant, and has always been the governor of the ministry, but because of drinking and mishapting, he violated the law of God, and finally caused a big disaster.

At that time, he was competing for the important position of the servant of the ministry, and as a last resort, he had to do official business and sent the third child to prison.

So far, as soon as I walk in front of the gate of the Divine Heavenly Prison, I will think of the unwilling eyes of the third child.

In fact, after the third child was sent to the prison, he died after less than half a year, and his family all moved out of Fashen City, and he has not been heard from since.

The brothers of his youth have gradually drifted apart, and they have all disappeared in their lives, and their officials have become bigger and bigger, but their happiness has become less and less.

Before you know it, you can no longer find the beauty of drinking and chatting with your brothers. Zhong Shangshu looked at the empty stove and had mixed feelings for a while.

The forty years of official career are like a spring and autumn dream, until I was taken down and imprisoned in this kind of place, I gradually woke up, but my temples were already gray, and my hair was born early.

"Why are you in a daze? don't you need to make a fire to cook?" Duanmu Qingyi couldn't help but sarcastically when he saw the old man in a daze on the side.

Lord Zhong Xinzhong suddenly came back to his senses and began to stuff wood into the stove in a panic.

With his eyesight as an official for 40 years, he can't see the details of this man and woman, which is also something that he can't understand.

Not to mention the unfathomable young man, even the beautiful woman in front of him is always in a gesture, giving himself a feeling that the other party's identity is indescribable.

That feeling is not deliberately pretended, but a kind of nobility engraved in the bones, Zhong Xin has only seen this kind of grace in the children of the royal family, in comparison, this woman is even more like a princess than Her Royal Highness Phantom Sea.

"Old man, add some dishes tonight! I'll show you a good show!" At this moment, Lu Menglan's hearty voice came from outside the courtyard gate.

Zhong Xin raised his head and looked at this young man with a mysterious background, and couldn't help but feel a throbbing in his heart.

has been an official for forty years, I don't know how many heroes and heroes I have seen, even if it is the strongest in the legend, Zhong Xin has seen two or three of them, but no one has ever been able to give him this feeling, it is a kind of unfathomable sense of distance like Yue Linyuan, as if no matter what he is thinking, the other party can easily guess it, under that smiling handsome face, there is a daunting heart.

"Did you send the letter to Princess Phantom Sea?" Zhong Xin thought for a while, and finally asked.

He wasn't questioning, he was just looking for a topic, because so far, he couldn't even figure out whether the young man in front of him was an enemy or a friend, and it seemed that the other party was on the side of Her Royal Highness Princess Phantom Sea, but in essence, only he knew.

"No! I went to the Pine Forest Pavilion. Lu Menglu said lightly.

"What? You went to the Pine Forest Pavilion, how did you get there?" Zhong Xin was stunned for a moment, and then cold sweat broke out all over his body.

He knew that once his letter was sent to the Pine Forest Pavilion and was seen by several other people who were also the Seven Sages of the Pine Forest, he would be mortal enemies from now on, and he would never be able to go back.

Lu Menglan smiled and said, "Don't be nervous! Have you forgotten? You taught me the method! I went to the Bai Clan's pawnshop first, and then I sent a code, and they teleported me there." I think there's a big pine forest over there, so it's probably your lair. ”

"You, you, then how can you come back alive?" When Zhong Xin heard this, he didn't think about it, and blurted out.

It's not that he doesn't have a city government, as a secretary of the ministry, he has been a big official all his life, how can he not have a city government, it's just that he really can't understand that the young man in front of him went to the Pine Forest Pavilion, how could he still get out under the power of the magic circle?

"I have no grudges with them, and I also handed over your letter to them, they are very happy, and they want to accept me into the Pine Forest Pavilion!" Lu Menglu said with a smile.

"You, you betrayed me?" Zhong Xin said with round eyes and a look of disbelief on his face.

"Am I on the side of you? It doesn't seem to be? Why do you want to betray it? Besides, they also gave me a divine weapon! Uh, you see, this is it!" Lu Menglu said, took out the judgment divine weapon, and shook it casually.

Zhong Xin looked at it intently, and sure enough, he saw the special mark of the Pine Forest Pavilion on the Ruling Divine Weapon, not a person in the hall, so he couldn't see the difference at all, he only needed to recognize it at a glance, that Ruling Divine Soldier was indeed the private collection of the Pine Forest Pavilion.

"You, did you really take refuge in the Pine Forest Pavilion?this, how should this be good? His Royal Highness Phantom Sea will not let you go!" Zhong Xin said helplessly with a bitter expression.

He is really tired! He is one of the seven sages of the Pine Forest Pavilion, originally a high-ranking official and majestic, but after being captured, he finally changed his mentality, and wanted to take refuge in the Phantom Sea Princess and avenge the family in the house, but the young man who guarded him suddenly switched to the Pine Forest Pavilion, and his mentality suddenly collapsed!

"Who said I took refuge in the Pine Forest Pavilion? I just handed them your letters, changed the ruling, and told them your address by the way, I didn't take refuge in them. Lu Menglu said with a smile.

"What? you, did you tell them the address here?" Zhong Xin exclaimed in amazement.

If just now he was just heartbroken and angry, then now he has only one thought, that is, to run! The old man must run! He does not dare to stop for a moment.

"Well, I have to show some sincerity, otherwise how can they believe me?" Lu Menglu said with a smile.

The old man Zhong Xin was completely discouraged, his face was like ashes, his eyes turned twice, and he said with a miserable smile: "I understand! This is the bitter plan of you and Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Phantom Sea, you have to exchange the old man's life for the opportunity to break into them!"

"Well, you know too much!" Lu Menglu replied coldly.

The old man Zhong Xin sat on the ground, didn't even burn the stove, and simply closed his eyes and waited for death.

"Just kidding, old man, get up, I haven't eaten yet, I'm hungry!" Lu Menglan said with a chuckle.

Old man Zhong didn't move, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him at all.

"If I don't tell them the address, how can they send someone to send them to death? This is the reason for encircling the point to send reinforcements, do you understand?" Lu Menglu said with a smile.

Only then did the old man open his squinted eyes and look at each other with a puzzled face.

If you can not die, no one wants to die! Hearing him say that he seemed to be very promising, Old Man Zhong was only skeptical.

"What do you want?" Zhong Xin was also stunned, so he simply spread his hands and asked.

Lu Menglan shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "You cook first! After eating, you can make a bench and sit at the gate, just wait to watch the show!"

Old man Zhong was skeptical, so he had to honestly bury his head in cooking, and after a while, four dishes and one soup were served on the table.

It's just the taste of this meal! It's really not a drop! It is said that cooking depends on the mood, and this is really true, the old man Zhong is hanging in his heart, and it is strange that the food he makes can be delicious.

And he himself is not good at cooking, eating his own food, such as chewing white wax, he has no taste at all.

Fortunately, Duanmu Qingyi quietly made two dishes, a bowl of fried meat and a green vegetable tofu soup, which were brought aside and enjoyed with Brother Wu.

Lu Menglan didn't eat Old Man Zhong's meal at all, in his words, he couldn't eat in a pot with these officials, and letting that old guy cook was just a bad taste.

After eating, Zhong Shangshu really honestly took a chair and sat at the gate.

The old man looked like he was full and dozing off, and no one knew how worried he was at the moment.

If that kid really leaked the news of his place here to the Songlin Pavilion, then it wouldn't be long before someone would inevitably be sent to take Zhong Xin's life, especially after they saw the letter, Zhong Shangshu was already on the must-kill list, and he was not spared.

Then now it's up to the Pine Forest Pavilion to send someone to do things.

The old man Zhong Xin turned his heart sideways, thinking that it was a knife to stretch out his head anyway, and it was also a knife to shrink his head, so it was better to sit at this door and see the person who came clearly, so that he would die with more dignity.

Not long after, night fell, and the Eastern District 1 entered its darkest hour.

It was only night, and the sound of small footsteps could be heard everywhere in all directions of this small courtyard.

Someone is rapidly approaching, and there are quite a few of them.

"Eight in the east, six in the west, seven in the south, and one in the north!" Lu Menglan sat on the wall, muttering a dogtail grass pulled from nowhere, and muttered casually while picking his teeth.

Duanmu Qingyi didn't bother to pay attention to these at all, took a wooden basin, and the basin was the clothes that had been changed, and went straight into the backyard to wash clothes.

"I'm an old monster, free and easy, killing people without blinking, eating people without salt!" Lu Menglu half-leaned against the wall, looking leisurely and leisurely, shaking his head and said.

At this time, Zhong Shangshu, who was sitting at the gate, was full of nervousness, and finally saw the person clearly.

Gathered in front of them from all directions was a group of black-clothed people, all of whom had a gong hanging on their chests, some were copper gongs, some were silver gongs, all of them, faintly emitting powerful energy fluctuations in the night.

"It's a watchman! Hehe! These former companions really look up to the old man!" Zhong Xin saw that it was a watchman from the famous Divine City, and there was more than one, a group of people came, and he was immediately discouraged, and only a wry smile remained.