"Alas, do you think the state pastor is really old and confused?"

In the Xiuyue Building of Xu's Mansion, Xu Jinzhen, who had a bearded face, shouted loudly, his cheeks were a little flushed, and he was still holding a wine bottle in his hand.

Xiao Baihe, who was sitting on the side, also frowned, although he was not as angry as Xu Chengzhen, but it could be seen that he also had some worries and worries at this moment.

"Hmph! This fucking is clearly going to ride on our heads and shit, why don't you even dare to let out a fart, his old man is good, and he sits leisurely in his state governor's mansion, so that we people are in a hurry! I said what the hell is he going to do, can't he give us a word? If he wants to break up, let's break up quickly, now it's okay, the prince is also offended, the Jin family is also offended, and the old man doesn't care about us, isn't this fucking forcing us to death?" Xu Jinzhen shouted again, and threw a thing on the table as he spoke.

Xiao Baihe glanced at the thing, and his brows furrowed a little deeper.

He had also received this a few days earlier—an invitation, an invitation from the Prince's Mansion, and it had been held three days after the banquet for all parties to participate, that is, on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, the completion ceremony of the Wupan Dragon King Temple in Ningxiao City.

What kind of existence is the Wupan Dragon King in Ningzhou, some people with vision are naturally clear.

Previously, due to various historical problems, Ningzhou made many concessions to the layout of the imperial court, which made the Wupan Dragon King gradually bigger, but it was also within a controllable range, but with the failure of Jiang Huanshui to ascend to the Holy Realm, the Wupan Dragon King became a big problem for Ningzhou. But even the Sanxiao Army, which had gradually fallen apart for various reasons, still maintained a rare tacit understanding in the face of the edict issued by the imperial court to promote the Wupan Dragon King to the Zhaoyue Zhengshen - neither objecting, but also never cooperating.

And Ningxiao City, which was carved out by the imperial court as the boundary of the Wupan Temple, has never been implemented under the tacit agreement of the three families, which is why the prince personally Ningxiao City supervised the construction of the temple.

It's just that after Jiang Huanshui suppressed the rebellion of the Sanxiao Army that day, and let Yuan Sleevechun make a promise to open the mountains and rivers for the Tianque Realm as he wished, Xu, Xiao, and Ning could only compromise on this, and all the boundaries that Yuan Sleevechun was optimistic about, and the temple of the Wupan Dragon King was built as scheduled, which was a thing that made the various scholars in Ningxiao City dissatisfied, but Yuan Sleevechun didn't know whether it was the spring breeze that was carried away, or deliberately wanted to show off his might, and even invited everyone to watch the ceremony in the name of the prince.

The so-called murder is nothing more than that.

"Damn! Yuan Zhichun's dog's day thing is really a number of classics and forgetting his ancestors, and he doesn't want to think about it, his name as the prince, who guarded his Yuan family's country for him!"

"In my opinion, his Yuan family is a fucking virtue, but the angry old man doesn't know what he is afraid of, our brother has a few sons at hand in the early years is to tear his face with his Yuan family, and then pull up to Manzhou to do a family, this Yandi may not indicate whose surname it is, now it's good, I can't beat it, I can only sit and wait for death......"

The more Xu fell into the battle, the more angry he became, and the more he talked, the more annoyed he became, in this short period of less than a hundred breaths, just "Niang" was scolded by him four or five times.

Compared to Xu Cheng's impatience, Xiao Baihe seemed much calmer, he glanced at Xu Chengzhen, who was full of wine and his face was flushed, shook his head, and then looked at Ning Luyuan, who had been drinking and pouring himself, and asked, "Lao Ning, you have the most idea, tell me what we should do now?"

When Xu Cheng heard this, he didn't wait for Ning Luyuan to speak, so he stepped up by himself, staring at the military general dressed as a scholar with bright eyes, and said: "Yes, yes, yes, Lao Ning, you kid has the most crooked thoughts, but now hurry up and give us ideas everywhere." ”

Ning Luyuan, who was drinking and pouring himself, raised his head when he heard this, first glanced at Xiao Baihe, who was frowning, and then looked at Xu Yuan, who was full of anxiety, and then slowly put down the wine glass in his hand, and said slowly: "It's not that the old man doesn't express his position, but the time has ......not yet come."

"Hmm, what do you mean?" asked Xu Trapping with a frown.

"What is the most important thing to do big things, especially those that are extremely dangerous, and if you make a wrong move, you will lose everything?" Ning Luyuan did not answer this question, but squinted his eyes and stared at the two people in front of him and asked rhetorically.

At that time, there was snow outside the house, and the candle flame in the house was flickering, but it couldn't resist the chill pouring into the door through the crack in the window, and of course, it couldn't resist the cold glow flickering in Ning Luyuan's squinted eyes.

Xiao Baihe's body trembled, as if he thought of something, and his brows furrowed a little.

Xu Trap looked ignorant of this, and he said: "Of course, it is planning, layout, and reserving enough strength......

"Not true. Ning Luyuan shook his head, took a sip of the wine glass, and then said, "It's to distinguish between friend and foe." ”

When these words came out, Xiao Baihe and Xu were stunned, and their gazes at Ning Luyuan suddenly became strange and inexplicable.

Ning Luyuan ignored the confusion on the faces of the two, and continued to speak slowly: "The old man wants to do a big thing, but if he wants to do this big thing, of course he can't rely on one person alone. But who is a trustworthy friend and who is an enemy who will kill people is very important. After all, no one wants to be stabbed in the back at that juncture when they have to fight with someone, right?"

When Ning Luyuan said this, his eyes fell on Xiao Baihe and Xu Trapping without hesitation, and he almost didn't directly tell the two of them that the guy he said would stab him in the back was the two of them.

Xiao Baihe became more and more silent when he heard this, and lowered his head thoughtfully. But Xu was furious, and at that time, he slapped the table, stood up and shouted: "The surname is Ning, what do you mean? I fucking ate Ningxiao City in order to defend us, but I tore my face with the Jin family and the Yuan family, how did you become an untrustworthy guy in your mouth?"

Ning Lu was so far away that he didn't panic at all because of Xu Yuan's anger, he still maintained his calm attitude, and said in the same calm tone: "Commander Xu's daughter is the proud protégé of Guiyuan Palace, and it is not difficult for the Xu family to move to the territory of Guiyuan Palace, besides, as far as I know, with the status of your daughter in Guiyuan Palace, I am afraid that as long as Commander Xu shows half of this meaning, there are people in Guiyuan Palace who are willing to serve the Xu family." ”

"As for the Xiao family...... Ning Luyuan said, and then turned his head to look at Xiao Baihe, "As far as I know, although the Xiao family has a bad relationship with the Tianque Realm, the Tianque Realm has never been the first choice of the Xiao family, after all, with the talent of the second son, even if he goes to the Tianque Realm, he is just an ordinary disciple, and he may not be able to make any progress in the Tianque Realm, how can he talk about protecting the Xiao family......?

Speaking of this, Ning Luyuan paused slightly, as if he had some concerns and was reluctant to say more.

"Of course, Commander Xu and Commander Xiao are both trustworthy people, but there are also degrees of trust, Lord Zhou Mu knows that the two of them will not do anything to harm Ningzhou, but there is no guarantee that under the general trend, will they choose to withdraw at some point, or from the beginning, they are both the ones who are waiting to be sold?"

After saying this, Ning Luyuan fell silent again, as if he had said everything he wanted to say in one breath, he picked up his wine glass again and poured himself a drink.

Xiao Baihe and Xu fell into silence, obviously Ning Lu Yuan's words were right in the heart, and one word broke the little Jiujiu in the hearts of the two.

"What about the Ning family? Could it be that Bingqing Yujie doesn't have his own abacus?" Xu Cheng probably felt that he was a little embarrassed by being told like this, and he couldn't help but muttered in a low voice after thinking about it for a while.

Ning Luyuan faced such a question, but he did not show the slightest embarrassment, but admitted very calmly: "The Ning family naturally has a way out for the Ning family, and the Sanxiao Army, which Lord Zhou Mu relies on the most, has some concerns, but I can think of the rest of the parties, so it is reasonable that the State Mu has not taken action for a long time?"

Ning Luyuan's calmness made Xu Trap, who had finally found a statement, dumb again, and held back for a while, before he said again: "But this old man is too unkind to do things, right? But his old man didn't allow it, he dragged it out and dragged it out, retreated and retreated, and now he thought about it! But Ningzhou is still the Ningzhou of the past, and the Sanxiao Army is still the Sanxiao Army of the past. Our brothers didn't oppose him, it's already affectionate enough, and they still want us to tie our heads to the waistband of our trousers and do it with him again like before, how is it possible?"

"Old Xu, why did Lord Zhou Mu give in to Yan Ting back then, that is something that you and I both know, as for the failure to succeed in the end, it is also the destiny of heaven to disobey the Zhou Mu, so you don't talk nonsense!" Xiao Baihe frowned and interrupted the angry Xu Trap, and then he looked at Ning Luyuan and asked: "Since Commander Ning has seen it so thoroughly, he should have already prepared to leave Ningzhou, right? The battle between the crown prince and the Jin family for the heir is about to burn in Ningzhou, and it won't help us to stay......"

When Ning Luyuan heard this, he glanced up at Xiao Baihe and asked meaningfully, "Is Commander Xiao willing?"

"How can you give it?" Xiao Baihe smiled bitterly, he turned his head to look out of the window at the Xiuyue Tower, and muttered to himself: "This is the river and mountain that our ancestors fought inch by inch with knives, swords, flesh and blood, and fire...... Unwilling, reluctant......"

"But what's the solution? The state pastor's mind is incomprehensible, and I can't figure it out. Whether he wants to play or not, and whether he has the hole cards to compete with Yan Ting, we don't know, our family is a big family of thousands of people, and the state pastor doesn't say anything and asks us to take our lives to do what our ancestors did with him again, to be honest, Xiao doesn't have the courage to do it......"

When Xu Lianzhen, who had been scolding and scolding before, heard this, he also sighed, lowered his head, and stopped talking.

Ning Luyuan saw the performance of the two in his eyes, smiled slightly, and then stretched out his hand to pick up the wine jug and poured a glass of sake for each of them.

"It's true that no one can guess the mind of Lord Zhou Mu, but there is one mind that is much easier to ponder, and coincidentally, his mind largely determines the old man's mind. Would you like to probe him with me before making a decision?"

Ning Luyuan's words caused Xiao Baihe and Xu to raise their heads at the same time, look at him, and ask, "Who?"

The smile on Ning Luyuan's face was even worse, and he opened his mouth and whispered.

"Wei Lai. ”

"Maybe as his name suggests, he is the future of our Ningzhou. ”