Qingfeng Lan walked to the side of the bed and thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow you go to Xuanyue and ask him to arrange some things for you in the mansion, and then you can manage the affairs in the mansion." ”

The man looked at Qingfenglan's back: "I'm in charge of things in the house, so what are you doing with Xiao Yueyue?"

Qingfeng shuddered and looked back at the man: "What a disgusting title, when did you become so disgusting." ”

The man stood up: "Hey, I'm not the only one who said this, you go out to inquire, almost the entire imperial capital knows that you like men, and you also like the son of the Xuan family." ”

Qingfeng retched, and turned to look at the man at the table with a shocked expression.

Just as he was about to say something, Xuan Yue's voice sounded outside the door: "Brother Qingfeng, have you slept?"

After hearing Xuanyue's voice, the man whispered: "Everything is worth a thousand gold in the Spring Festival, come on, and walk to the side and slowly disappear after speaking." ”

Qingfeng Lan opened the door reluctantly, and Xuan Yue was a little puzzled when she saw Qingfeng Lan's expression, but she didn't think much about it, she walked into the room and turned around and closed the door.

Qingfeng Lan saw that Xuanyue closed the door, hurriedly walked over to open it, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Let's open the door, there are no outsiders at home." ”

Xuanyue always felt that something was different when she looked at Qingfenglan, but she didn't care so much, after all, there were too many things in Qingfenglan that people didn't know.

After standing still, Xuan Yue spoke: "I didn't plan to disturb you so late, but it happened suddenly. ”

Qingfeng sat at the table and took a sip of the teacup on the table: "What's wrong?"

Xuanyue: "My father just sent someone to inform me that the competition will start tomorrow." ”

Qingfeng Lan frowned: "Why? Isn't it the first day to sign up today?"

Xuanyue: "That's the case, tonight, a delegation from the five countries entered the palace to meet Your Majesty, because their people also want to participate in the competition, but the empire is vast, and the population is the first in the mainland, and the number of people who signed up for it today alone has reached 80,000, and the mission feels that if it continues like this, I am afraid that their people will be tired by our wheel war, so I ask Your Majesty to start the competition tomorrow." ”

Qingfeng Lan thought for a moment and nodded: "It's normal, they are all small countries, how many talents can there be?" ”

Xuan Yue coughed lightly twice: "Ahem, but we didn't sign up." ”

Qingfeng: "I didn't sign up, I'll 。。。。。 tomorrow What?"

Xuan Yue lowered her head and whispered, "We didn't have time to sign up. ”

Qingfeng Lan stood up directly and ran out, and Xuan Yue hurriedly followed.

As soon as he got out of the gate, Qingfeng asked, "Where is the place to sign up?"

Xuan Yue replied with some guilt: "It's late now, and the registration has closed." ”

Qingfeng patted his head and sat down on the steps. It's over, I don't participate in the competition, it's better to have one more guard for Zifeng, but with Seven Stars by his side, this guard has no effect, if he is unlucky, he gets the first place by the mission of which country, then Zifeng will marry to another country.

"Stupid!"

Hearing the words, Qingfeng Lan suddenly raised his head, only to see a man in black standing in front of him, the man's face was delicate, but with a trace of haggardness, as if he would fall down in the next moment, after seeing the man in front of him clearly, Qingfeng Lan stood up and reached out to grab the man, but the palm of his hand could never touch the man.

After catching a few unsuccessful attempts, Qingfeng Lan sat back on the steps, grabbed his hair bitterly, and cried slightly: "What should I do now? ”

Just when Qingfeng Lan scratched his ears and cheeks, a wooden card appeared in front of Qingfeng Lan, raised his head and looked at the wooden card suspended in the air, Qingfeng Lan grabbed it, and the wooden card said one.

Qingfeng Lan looked at the man with the wooden sign, but the man didn't look at him and walked straight into the courtyard.

This is Xuan Yue shouted in surprise: "This is the token of the competition!"

Qingfeng: "What?"

Looking back at Xuanyue, I saw Xuanyue pointing to the wooden card in her hand in disbelief.

Qingfeng Lan picked up the wooden card and looked at Xuan Yue again: "Are you sure this is the token of the competition?"

Xuan Yue nodded frantically: "I've seen it." ”

Qingfeng Lan hurriedly stood up and chased back to the yard.

Catching up with the man asked, "Where did you get this token?"

"Snatch!" the man said these two coldly as if he didn't have any emotion, and his voice seemed to come from Jiuyou.

Qingfeng Lan looked back at Xuan Yue who was following behind him, Xuan Yue thought for a while and said: "Yes, we can snatch it, the token is just an admission ticket to enter the martial arts arena, but whoever enters and who doesn't enter, then it's not Your Majesty's business." ”

Qingfeng Lan nodded suddenly in realization, looked at Xuanyue and shook the wooden card in his hand: "Hehe, it's you who want to snatch it, not us, because, I already have it." ”

After saying that, he went to chase the man.

Xuanyue stood in place with her mouth open, and finally sighed and walked out.

Qingfeng Lan arranged the man to stay and then returned to the room, after returning to the room, carefully looked at the wooden card in his hand, and could faintly feel a special breath on the wooden card, but he didn't know what it was, but he probably guessed what it was.

Put the wooden sign close to his body, and Qingfeng lay down on the bed satisfied.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, Qingfeng slept well, suddenly felt a hint of cold, opened his eyes, and saw the man from last night standing indifferently in front of his bed.

Qingfeng said helplessly: "Brother Xue, can you not stand next to me while I am sleeping?" ”

Wang Xue did not answer Qingfenglan's question: "An hour later, the competition begins!"

Qingfeng shuddered, and hurriedly touched the wooden card in his arms, and found that the wooden card was still there, fortunately it was not a dream last night.

He sat up from the bed and asked while getting dressed, "Brother Xue, why did you come to the imperial capital?"

"Boredom"

Qingfenglan: "You're bored, why don't you go somewhere else? Why do you want to come to the imperial capital? The imperial capital is very dangerous." ”

"There are seven stars"

Qingfeng Lan nodded: "It's all because you brought the seven stars badly, he is going to compete with me when he sees me now, and I don't dare to see him." ”

"Weak!"

Qingfenglan: "I can't say that, I just think he's too small to play heavy, otherwise he won't be able to beat me." ”

"Humph!"

Qingfenglan: "Every time I say it's like this, hey." ”

Wang Xue turned around and walked out, Qingfeng Lan looked at Wang Xue who walked out, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned.

As soon as she walked out of the room after cleaning up, Tong Yao also greeted her, today she disguised herself as a short man, but she was full of muscles.

Tong Yao also saw Qingfeng Lan come out: "Why is the second brother here too?"

Qingfeng Lan scratched his head: "I don't know, he said that he came to the imperial capital because he was bored, I thought you notified him to come." ”

Tong Yao also hurriedly waved his hand: "It's too late for me to hide from him, how can I call him?"

Qingfeng Lan looked at Tong Yao with a playful face: "Oh, you also have people who are afraid, I thought you were not afraid of heaven and earth?"

Tong Yao also glanced at Qingfeng, turned around and walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

Qingfeng Lan followed with a smile, and when he walked to the gate, Xuan Yue and Wang Xue were already waiting, the four of them glanced at each other, didn't say anything, and followed Xuan Yue towards the competition venue.

As soon as I walked out into the street, I saw that there were dilapidated houses everywhere and many restaurants had been razed to the ground.

Qingfeng Lan looked at the somewhat dilapidated but vibrant street in surprise, and the people on the street didn't pay attention to these ruins at all, but still did their own things, as if they were used to this situation.

Xuanyue knew that Qingfeng Lan didn't come out last night, so she explained: "I don't know who said that you can rob at will last night, and the entire imperial capital is in chaos, burning and looting everywhere, but fortunately, Chief Chen came early and stopped everyone's destruction." ”

Qingfeng Lan nodded and asked curiously: "What kind of position is Chief Chen? Why is he in charge wherever something happens? There are positions in the imperial city, there are positions in the martial academy, and there are also positions in the imperial capital, and there are many more things to manage when they go out of the city." ”

Xuan Yue said with a smile: "Chief Chen's institution is called the Nazhi Institute, this institution is directly under the Taisi, and is mainly responsible for some civilian duties, but in recent years, there has been a shortage of talents in the empire, so Chief Chen also has the position of the city defense office, so you will see him everywhere." ”

Qing Fenglan looked at Xuan Yue with a shocked expression: "Is the combat power of civilian personnel so strong?Is the lack of talent in the empire because the benchmark for defining talents is too high?"

Tong Yao on the side also laughed and said, "You are still as innocent as before." ”

Qingfeng Lan scratched her head and looked at Xuanyue and smiled awkwardly.

Xuan Yue also couldn't help laughing: "In fact, it's not that the benchmark of the empire is too high, but that the princes have been fighting for themselves over the years, and these talents have been put into the prince's door, and there are only a handful of talents who can really be used." ”

Qingfeng Lan looked at Xuan Yue with a puzzled expression: "Even if you join the prince's sect, you can still serve the empire, and it is impossible for the prince's subordinates to raise a group of people for nothing, these people should also have certain positions in the empire, right?" ”

Xuan Yue nodded: "Yes, these people all have positions in the empire, but they will put the interests of the prince first, not the interests of the empire." ”

Looking at Qing Fenglan's confused face, Xuan Yue continued to explain: "For example, it was the second prince's person who issued the token this time, so all the warriors under the second prince's door got the token, and the second prince and the fifth prince were not right, so no one on the five princes' side participated at all this time, even if the five princes' subordinates were all brave and good warriors." ”

Qingfeng Lan now understands why the empire has agreed to so many requests from the surrounding small countries over the years, and also understands why the envoys of the five countries were able to make His Majesty change his mind last night, it seems that the empire is much weaker than it seems.

The four of them came to the martial arts arena with a smile and a smile, and they were stopped as soon as they arrived outside the martial arts arena, and it was Wu Shuo who stopped everyone.

Seeing Qingfeng coming, Wu Shuo hurriedly greeted him: "You guys are here?"

Qingfeng Lan bowed his hand: "I've seen Master Wu!"

Xuanyue also saluted on the side.

Tong Yao and Wang Xue didn't seem to see Wu Shuo, so they ignored him.

But Wu Shuo was not angry at all, Qingfeng Lan in front of him had saved his family, and it didn't matter if his friend didn't salute, if Qingfeng Lan hadn't specially settled himself and didn't expose it, he should have saluted Qingfeng Lan.

Hurriedly picked up Qingfeng Lan and handed over the token in his hand.

Qingfeng Lan took the token and looked at Wu Shuo with a puzzled expression: "Master Wu, what does this mean?"

Wu Shuo: "I temporarily stopped signing up yesterday, and I hurriedly decided to start the competition today, I think you may not have signed up, so I asked people to prepare a token." ”

Qingfeng Lan took out the token that Wang Xue gave him last night from his arms: "My friend helped me grab a piece last night." ”

Wu Shuo saw the one written on the token that Qingfeng Lan took out, and looked at the two strange men on the side: "Since you already have the token, then it's okay, please enter the martial arts arena." After speaking, he took the token handed over by Qingfeng Lan and made a gesture of please.

Qingfeng Lan and the others walked in the direction pointed by Wu Shuo.

After Qingfeng Lan and the others walked away, Wu Shuo summoned an entourage beside him: "Those people who died last night, you can find a suitable excuse to deal with them." ”

The attendant nodded and left.

Qingfeng Lan and the others came to a clearing with a token, and everyone in the open space held a token, and everyone was eyeing the surrounding crowd.

Not long after Qingfeng Lan and the others walked in, a soldier stood on a high ground and shouted, "Everyone, please listen to the rules before the competition officially begins." ”

Seeing that all the people around him quieted down, "A total of 10,000 people participated in this competition, the 10,000 people are divided into ten groups, and the five people who are still standing in each group are qualified for promotion, and the fifty people who are promoted are divided into five groups to participate in the retest, and two people in each group can be promoted, and the ten people who are finally promoted participate in the final written test, and the one who passes the written test is the final winner of this competition." With that, the soldier looked around, saw that no one had any doubts, and turned to leave the clearing.

Qingfeng Lan bumped into Xuanyue beside him: "Didn't you successfully sign up for 80,000 people last night? Why are there only 10,000 now?"

Xuan Yue whispered: "I don't know very well, but I heard that a lot of people who made trouble last night were arrested, and then some people thought that last night was the audition, so they grabbed it on a large scale, and many people in the crowd present had multiple tokens." ”

Qingfeng Lan nodded, it seems that the rest of the people now have people with a few brushes, and they can't be sent casually, but they looked back at Tong Yao and Xue Xue behind them, and suddenly felt a little pity for the people present.

It didn't take long to see a team of soldiers appear around and begin to divide the contestants in the clearing.

Qingfeng Lan saw that he was going to be grouped, and hurriedly said: "Everyone, let's separate first, and see you in the written test when the time comes." After saying that, he turned around and ran.

Xuan Yue saw the breeze and ran away, and politely saluted Tong Yao and Wang Xue and turned to leave.

Wang Xue didn't say a word, he stood motionless.

Tong Yao also glanced at the man beside her, and walked to the side helplessly.

It didn't take long for the grouping to be completed, Qingfeng Lan took a look, he didn't know anyone in his group, and he was relieved, if there were people he knew, he was really embarrassed to start.

After looking around, he found that the other three were not in a group, and it seemed that he would have three fewer opponents, but after thinking about it, he suddenly felt that he might have eight opponents missing.