In King Gong's mansion, Xia Ji sat in front of the desk, eagle-eyed and yin.

Many of the things that happened today were like carving knives into his heart.

At the alchemy conference, things took many turns, but all of them were out of his control. The appearance of Princess Yuning, as well as the lost alchemy conference, and the impostor who didn't know his identity until the end.

At this time, a guard slowly walked in outside the door and reported: "Your Highness, the silver has been returned." ”

"Silver, what silver?" said Xia Ji impatiently.

The guard said: "Your Highness forgot, it was the silver taels that His Highness made a bet with Jiang Xiaoru and Jiang Gongzi." ”

"Bet?" Xia Ji said in a sharp tone, and sneered: "Didn't this king lose? How can he still have the meaning of returning? Jiang Xiaoru shouldn't have bet a penny this time, right?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, Gongzi Jiang took a penny, and Gongzi Jiang only bet a penny......"

"Bet on nothing!"

Xia Ji's heart instantly became full of doubts, and he said in his heart: "Is he afraid of losing the gambling game so he only bets a penny? No, he guessed, guessed that I would lose! Since he guessed, why did he only bet a penny? Could it be that Cheng deliberately wants to humiliate the king?!"

The more Xia Ji thought about it, the more angry he became, and the guard knew that he couldn't bear his anger, so he hurriedly bowed and hurriedly retreated.

Just when Xia Ji was about to have a seizure, Zhen Yunqing appeared behind him at some point, and sighed: "Your Highness still loses......"

"This king didn't lose!"

Xia Ji looked at him coldly and said, "Even you dare to laugh at this king!"

Zhen Yunqing shook his head and said, "The minister didn't have any intention of mocking His Highness, but His Highness forgot what he said the last time he played against Jiang Xiaoru. ”

"What words?" asked Natsuji.

Zhen Yunqing said: "The most important thing in a gamble is often not who is the final winner, but who is the drawer. ”

Xia Ji secretly pondered, and suddenly laughed out loud, and the laughter was full of hatred.

"One day, the Jiang family will be in the hands of this king, and the entire Xia and Zhou kingdom will be in the hands of this king!

In an elegant courtyard outside Prince Gong's mansion, Jiang Xiaoru was looking at a bird on the branch in a daze.

Ah Li hurriedly walked into the courtyard, and when she saw this scene, she was afraid of disturbing him, and said softly, "Lord, he is here." ”

"Let him in. ”

As this sound fell, a young man walked in outside the door, with dark skin and a strange appearance.

The young man walked up to Jiang Xiaoru and knelt down on one knee, and said respectfully: "Lord, Ding Chou has won the alchemy conference on the orders of the lord and has come to restore his life. ”

Jiang Xiaoru didn't turn around, still looked at the flying bird, and said, "I've worked hard for you this time, go down." ”

"Yes. ”

Ding Chou saluted and then turned around and left.

Ali stood behind the wheelchair again, looking at the lark on the branch.

The bird seemed to be aware of two unusual glances, flapped its wings twice, and flew away.

Jiang Xiaoru came back to his senses, picked up a cup of tea, and said lightly: "Just ask whatever you want, the birds on the branches are all disturbed by what is in your heart." ”

"Ah Li doesn't understand, the Lord just let Ding Chou pretend to be a Dan Master to participate in the alchemy conference just for a gamble?"

Jiang Xiaoru smiled: "What do you think?"

"Ah Li thinks that the Lord is more for the alchemy conference, and there have been rumors about the injustice of the alchemy conference for many years, saying that it is to comment on a person's Danshu by his appearance, and Ding Chou won the competition, which naturally makes this statement not credible, but Ah Li doesn't understand, the Lord is not a Dan Master, why should he meddle in the affairs of the Dan Master? Is it for the Jiang family?"

Jiang Xiaoru didn't have time to return, so he heard a frivolous tone and said: "Beauty, the Jiang family and Jingzhou can't fight the matter, and your lord is the most nosy person on weekdays, if it was for the Jiang family, he wouldn't have waded into this troubled water!"

A cold color quickly bloomed under Ah Li's eyes, and she didn't even notice the appearance of this person!

She followed the sound in an instant, and saw that there were no birds on the wall of the courtyard where the Lord was staring at the birds, but there was one more.

There was a young man squatting, with an eight-point resemblance between his eyebrows and the Lord, she had seen this person, not Jiang Changan or who?

Jiang Xiaoru said, "You go down." ”

"Lord, this ......" There was a faint worry color between Ah Li's eyebrows, but she remembered clearly the scene when this little prince Jiang was in Jiangzhou with a dagger, and she still remembered it vividly, so she naturally refused to let the lord be alone with this dangerous person.

"Go down. Jiang Xiaoru said.

"Yes. ”

Ali glared at Jiang Chang'an, as if warning, and turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Jiang Changan jumped up, and his body fell lightly in front of him, without startling a trace of dust.

Jiang Xiaoru smiled: "Why don't you go through the door and go over the wall?"

"You are willing to roar at such subordinates, they look pretty good, and they want to come to this tea and taste good. Jiang Changan casually picked up the teacup on the table, poured a cup and tasted it gently, frowning.

"I take back what I just said, tea is good tea, it's a pity. ”

Jiang Xiaoru said: "It's a pity that the water here is not as sweet as the still water of Fengyue Lake in Jiangzhou, not as pure as the waterfall in Jiulongzhai Waterfall in Jiangzhou, and not as soft as the well water in the Jiangzhou Lianhuan Peak." ”

Jiang Changan tasted it again and put it on the table without any interest: "In the end, what I want is that the person who makes the tea has a strong smell of blood in his hands, and the anger is mixed into the tea, which is naturally unpalatable." ”

Jiang Xiaoru smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into a line, and said: "There are not many people who can reach this kind of opportunity like you, after all kinds of refinements of Bodhi enlightenment, the killing spirit is restrained, and it is not revealed in the appearance. ”

After a pause, he looked at the faintly disclosed spiritual power on Jiang Chang'an's body, and said in slight astonishment: "The middle stage of the spring eye realm is good." ”

"Heavenly Master Jiang of the Heavenly Master's Mansion praised it personally, and it really flattered me, a former disciple of the Heavenly Master's Mansion. Jiang Changan rolled his eyebrows, "Don't talk about these nonsense, there is one thing I want to ask you, what are you doing in Jingzhou?"

"Why, you can only come to the fourth son of Jiang, and don't you allow me, a cripple, to come out and have a look?"

"Play?!" Jiang Changan snorted coldly, "Isn't your heart weak?" I'm afraid that I really found out what happened in Jingzhou?"

Jiang Xiaoru squinted slightly, and the corners of his mouth were always smiling.

It was this appearance that made Jiang Changan feel frustrated, and more often than not, he didn't know where to start.

When Jiang Changan asks someone, he often judges the truth from the person's expression and reaction, and various small movements, so as to determine the direction of the next question.

But Jiang Xiaoru is the only one he is helpless, no matter what he asks, the other party is always calm and light-hearted, and he can't make any waves in big things.

Sometimes Jiang Changan even wondered if he was wearing a fake human skin on his face, hiding all kinds of joys, sorrows, and sorrows under this skin, buried deep in the bottom of his heart.

"How did you know that person was sent by me?" Jiang Xiaoru asked.

Jiang Changan said: "It's very simple, since he said 'Childe said I can win', I know that this Childe is referring to you." ”

Jiang Changan sat on the recliner on the side, closed his eyes comfortably, the breeze blew away, and the two of them didn't say a word.

Finally, after a long time, Jiang Changan said lightly: "There is something I want to ask you, is there any news of the Dragon Whisker Soul Grass by your side?"

Dragon Whisker Soul Grass, this is the most critical medicinal material for the treatment of Xia Leling, Jiang Changan has to find it no matter what.

Jiang Xiaoru said with a smile: "The Dragon Whisker Soul Grass, shaped like ginseng, is full of tentacles, and lives in a strange land of smoke miasma, preferably in the territory of the Dragon Clan, and it is more likely to grow." Once the Dragon Whisker Soul Grass is picked, there is no way to preserve it, and it must be put into medicine in the fastest time, so even if there are thousands of rare treasures in many treasure places, it is impossible to find a single Dragon Whisker Soul Grass. Even the Jiang family and this palace don't have it. ”