The New Year is approaching, and Suzaku Street is full of lights, but this festive taste can't dissipate the melancholy in Xu Chen's heart.

There are some things that he understands, and those words naturally he understands.

It's just that...... It doesn't seem to be like this......

Something missing, the most important thing!

The opportunity to reappear is not easy, Xu Chen does not allow the slightest flaw!

The horse's hooves flew out of the Mingde Gate and headed southwest.

The courtyard that Wang Ce bought was in the southwest of Chang'an City, at the northern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and it was originally a separate garden of an official eunuch's family, and it took some money and a lot of thought to take it over.

Now in addition to Lu Zhi and Chai Lao, there is also a team of young people stationed in this courtyard.

When the carriage arrived at the door, the courtyard door opened, and Lu Zhi greeted him: "Big boy!"

"Say in the house!" he got out of the car and waved.

The two entered the courtyard, and the decoration of the courtyard before and after the three entrances was simple and natural, and one step at a time, all of them were natural, and there was a smell of dust.

It's just that now Xu Chen has no intention of appreciating it, his steps are hurried, and his speech is fast: "Where is Lao Chai?

"This way!"

Xu Chen passed through the corner gate and came to the small courtyard in the west, and when he entered the house, he smelled a smell of medicine.

"Medication?"

"Yes!" Lu Zhi nodded and replied: "Just like me at the beginning, the aura was depleted, the meridians were injured, and some warm pills were used, but the effect was slow, and I was afraid that I would not be able to recover without months of effort." ”

Xu Chen frowned slightly, walked to the table and sat down, and asked, "What the hell is going on?"

Lu Zhi sighed lightly: "It's also to blame me for being careless, when I came to Chang'an on the order of the eldest prince, I just built the foundation, and it was the time when I was in high spirits, and I happened to meet the third prince in distress as soon as I came, and I didn't think about it, and I made a move, and the result was ......."

"Alas, the result is the same as Lao Chai now!"

"What about the specifics?" Xu Chen asked solemnly, "What exactly is wrong?"

"Aura!" Recalling the scene at that time, Lu Zhi is still frightened: "At that time, I was just running the aura, and the dantian was like water entering an oil pot, and it exploded in an instant, and the aura of the whole body turned into nothing in an instant, and the meridians were as if they had been burned by fire!"

"Sure enough, it's a matter of aura!" Xu Chen muttered, "I had just activated the rune at that time, and a brand new spirit stone burst instantly!"

After thinking for a moment, Xu Chen raised his head and asked, "Is this situation only after entering Chang'an City?"

"Yes!" Lu Zhi nodded: "Only when I entered Chang'an City did I have that feeling of suffocation like drowning, and I didn't pay attention to it at the beginning, so I was recruited!"

"After leaving Chang'an, that feeling is gone?" Xu Chen asked again.

Lu Zhi pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "No! I went to take a test after the injury got better, and found that the closer I got to Chang'an City, the heavier the suffocating feeling. ”

"In this way, it should be strange in Chang'an City! It sounds like there is some formation to suppress aura, could it be that there is a big array laid by cultivators in Chang'an City?"

Xu Chen read through the "Initial Solution of the Formation" and made creative innovations to the runes, when it comes to the understanding of the rune formation, no one can beat it, and as soon as he heard Lu Zhi's description, he couldn't stop guessing about the formation.

"But that's not right! How expensive is it to maintain a formation in this environment of the outside world?"

Thinking like this, Xu Chen asked Lu Zhi again: "What about the range? Is it only in a certain part of Chang'an City or in the entire Chang'an City?"

Lu Zhi said without thinking: "It's the entire Chang'an City! I have circled Chang'an many times, and the strength of the suffocation is only related to the distance!"

"That's even more wrong!" Xu Chen frowned and said, "With such a large range, if it is really a formation, how much aura will it take? Not to mention how can the millions of ordinary people in Chang'an City survive in the big array?"

"Suppress the aura? If it's really a big array set up by cultivators, why do you want to suppress the aura? This sounds like a ...... Protect the ordinary people in the city?"

"What cultivator would be full enough to do such a thing?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Chen, who still couldn't do anything, had to shake his head helplessly.

"Wait!" Xu Chen raised his head suddenly, looked at Lu Zhi, and asked, "You said that you suppressed the aura, how did you suppress it?" I see that Lao Chai has also spent a lot of time in Chang'an City, so it is not like something will happen as soon as he enters the city, right?"

"That's good!" Lu Zhi nodded and said, "I think it should have been an accident that happened after we used our aura!"

"Yes, Lao Chai is cautious by nature, as long as he doesn't do it, his divine consciousness will also be restricted, and he will not use his aura. So at the beginning, Lao Chai stayed in Chang'an City and didn't have an accident, until I asked him to solve that Qi Yuan, and then something ......happened," Xu Chen muttered: "In this way, as long as you don't use your aura, even if you are in Chang'an, it will be fine." ”

"That's right!" Lu Zhi replied: "I have also entered Chang'an City carefully this month, as long as I don't use my aura, nothing will happen!"

"That's even more wrong!" Xu Chen muttered: "If it's really for the purpose of protecting ordinary people, why don't you just do it? Wouldn't it be nice to just not let the monks in? Can't you do this? How is it possible! Or the formation has failed for a long time? It's not right! Judging from the effect, the power is still very great, and the reaction speed is also very fast, it shouldn't be like this......"

"Damn, there's too little information!" Xu Chen guessed for a long time, but still couldn't find an explanation that made sense.

As he was talking, footsteps sounded outside the house, and Zhang Li pushed the door in: "Big brother, the wine and food have been prepared, everyone is waiting!"

"Okay!" Xu Chen stood up, turned to Lu Zhi and said, "You go into the city in two days, and we will do a few experiments." Don't worry about that now, come and eat!"

"Good!"

Out of this courtyard, detouring to the main hall of the front yard, the ten teenagers stood up in unison when they saw Xu Chen enter the door.

"Sit down, you're polite at home!"

Xu Chen smiled and walked to the north of the round table and sat down, looked at the dishes on the table, and said with a smile: "Are you trying to kill all the wild meat on Zhongnan Mountain?"

"Haha!" everyone laughed, and Zhang Li replied: "Big brother is rare to come once, you have to get something distinctive, right?"

"Blame me for this!" Xu Chen said with a smile: "That's it! In the future, you will change guards with your brothers in the city once a month, and some important things may have to be transferred here, and the strength of the guards will definitely increase!"

"When I go back, I'll transfer half of my brothers to save you from being left alone!"

"That's a good feeling!" Zhang Lixi said: "A few of us stayed here for more than a month, and we could only drill into the mountains all day long, and we were all suffocated!"

"That's it, it's decided!"

After Xu Chen clapped the board, he raised his wine glass, got up and said: "Come!" Although it means that it is Chinese New Year's Eve, tonight we will eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in advance!"

"It's all my own brothers, I don't pay so much attention to it, I should eat and drink, I don't need to take turns today, anyway, Lao Lu can't get drunk either!"

"Hahahaha......"

The lights are bright, the smell of wine wafts out far away, the mountains and forests are silent in the distance, and the snow throws the cold moonlight on the whole sky at the top of the mountain, reflecting the stars more and more exciting.

In the same night, at the southern foot of Zhongnan Mountain, separated by a mountain, there is a winding path on the steep cliff, and a fat figure is flying on the path, and the moonlight occasionally shines, and the bare head is like a star in the sky......

The next day, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.

I had a hangover last night, and it wasn't until the sky was bright and tomorrow was hanging high that Xu Chen staggered and got up.

After drinking the warm sobering soup at the head of the bed, the chaotic brain felt better.

The young man outside the door heard the movement and pushed the door in, one carrying a basin of water and one carrying a set of clean clothes.

They are all children from poor families, and Xu Chen trains them according to the style of the army, although there are a lot of servants in the courtyard of Chang'an City, but this villa outside the city is naturally impossible to allow outsiders to enter.

"What time is it?" Xu Chen asked as he sat on the edge of the bed and was a little confused.

"It's noon in a moment!" the young man carrying the water placed the basin on the wooden shelf in front of Xu Chen, while the other stood still with his clothes in his hand.

He looked at the young man with his hands and feet with eyes that were still a little ghosted, and said suspiciously: "You two boys didn't drink less last night!

"Huh...... This...... This one...... Hehe......" The two teenagers looked at each other and could only smirk.

"Okay!" Xu Chen suddenly realized when he saw this: "You two boys are just going to be blind while I'm not around, right?"

"This ...... Big brother, you're just too busy usually! In fact, if you drink a few more times, the amount of alcohol will naturally come out! Anyway, we have medicine, and no matter how much we drink, we won't hurt our bodies!"

"That's it, which man in Chang'an City doesn't drink? Big brother, you have practiced the amount of alcohol, and your brain can be more sober when you go back to talk to people, right?"

"Yes, yes, yes! This is the same as what the eldest brother taught us! If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!"

……

"Hehe!" Xu Chen sneered and scolded: "I won't clean you two up for the New Year today!

"This ...... Again...... It's not like the two of us...... Everybody ......"

"Okay!" Xu Chen feigned anger and said: "When I go back, I have to find the third child and ask how he brought the people!"

"Three...... The ...... led by the third brother

“……”

Xu Chen stretched out his hand and pointed at the two of them, and said angrily: "You guys are really good!"

"And the two of you! just sold the third child?huh?"

"This ...... Third brother, don't you have to listen to your eldest brother!"

"Hey, hey, yes!"

“……”

Xu Chen washed his face, changed into clean clothes, and walked out of the garden with a straight face. When he got into the carriage, Zhang Li looked at the eldest brother who left Leng Bingbing suspiciously, and then turned his head to see that the two betrayed brothers had to quickly turn around and discuss a pot of flowers in the yard seriously.

"Say, what kind of flower is this?"

"Look at it like this, it's red, it's so round, it's so big, it should be ...... It's supposed to be a trumpet flower!"

"Really?"

"Of course! I've worked in a flower field before, so I won't lie to you!"

Zhang Li walked over, glanced at the pot of red and bright flowers surrounded by the two, squinted his eyes and said, "This is a peony! I specially picked it from the flower market!"

"Oh, so this is a peony! Haha, I said, no wonder it's so deflated, it's so big, and there's no such horn! hahahaha......"