Chapter 3: The Puzzle

Yang Shukai just went upstairs, and saw Yu Yuzhen and Jin Jiuhan, looking at the posture of the two, they hated to have to drink all the wine in the restaurant and refused to leave, Yu Yuzhen was fine, Jin Jiuhan was a little drunk with red faces.

Jin Jiuhan was still dressed in the white clothes of the school palace, but Yu Yuzhen changed his clothes. Replaced with a jet-black robe, which has an excellent texture. There are five bats tattooed on the back, and the neckline and cuffs are embroidered with red thread and silver silk to create a flowing moire. A scarlet jade belt is wrapped around the waist, and a transparent jade pendant is hung on it. This body is a little more energetic than when he was in the school palace, and he has a mediocre appearance, but he is a little eye-catching.

The other two tables upstairs were more active, both of them were middle-aged men, and they were very lively drinking. Practicing the wine order, punching, shouting five leaders, six, six, six, six or something, Yang Shukai heard it from a distance downstairs, and the one who won was shouting to let the loser drink quickly. Yang Shukai muttered "noise" after seeing it, and tapped his hand with a fan, which is his habitual action when he thinks about things on weekdays. After thinking about it, I always felt that there was something wrong, but I couldn't think of it.

Jin Jiuhan was sitting facing the stairs at this time, looking up and Yu Yu really wanted to clink glasses, although he was a little drunk, people could still recognize him. Yu Guang saw a person standing at the top of the stairs in a daze, squinted his eyes and looked at it, and said ridiculously to Yu Zhen: "Yu Zhen, look back, which master is here." ”

Yu Yuzhen pursed his lips, looked back in the direction pointed by Jin Jiuhan very reluctantly, and shouted, "I grass!", suddenly his teeth were pale, and without saying a word, he got up and punched Yang Shukai who was thinking about it, and said with a smile: "Shukai!" You can't sleep either? Want to come and have a drink again?" Yu Yuzhen spoke in addition to his left hand snatched the fan in Yang Shukai's hand and fanned it violently, not to mention the purple blackened ink bamboo fan bone, the few gold ink cursive on the fan surface are by no means available to idle people, the pen and ink are horizontal, there is a word to return to the heart, and the book in the lower right corner has a paragraph: "Luzhou Quzhennan". If you mention the world's first cursive script, women and children know it, and when it comes to the generalissimo of the three armies of Chu State, few people know it. After all, the prosperous era advocates literati, and only in troubled times do they need martial artists.

Yang Shukai has long been accustomed to snatching his fan, otherwise this fan would not be touched by ordinary people. came back to his senses and smiled bitterly, and said: "It's okay to go back, so I came out to hang out, who would have thought that when I passed by the restaurant, I let the shopkeeper see me, and I heard him say that you and Brother Jiu are also there, if I don't come up, wait for Xiaoer to tell you about what I passed by, so as not to be scolded by you again." With that, he flipped his hand over, hooked his four fingers, and asked Yu Yuzhen to return the fan to him.

Yu Yuzhen muttered in a low voice: "What's so good about this broken word in a little tune." Then he slapped the fan in his hand, Yang Shukai didn't hear it clearly, so he put the fan on his waist and moved a chair to sit down.

Yu Yuzhen was really up, how could he let go of Yang Shukai who had just come, and called out without waiting for Yang Shukai to take a seat: "Xiao Er, come, put on the pot of jade syrup, and fill a cup." ”

As soon as Xiao Er echoed and said hello, Yang Shukai shouted: "Little Second Brother, today I will change my taste, don't drink jade syrup, and give me a warm pot for eight years." Xiao Er saw that Yang Shukai's tone didn't look like a joke, so he responded again: "Okay, this will warm you up." Xiao Er thought to himself: "These three masters are really massive, and they drank it again just after drinking it for a few hours." The two tables next to him were quiet first, and there was a lot of discussion, and one person stretched out his thumb and shouted from the bottom of his heart: "Little brother, what a man!" Yang Shukai laughed.

Jin Jiuhan rubbed his nose lightly, raised the pot to signal, and said with a smile: "Su Kai, why have you wanted to drink for eight years." ”

Yang Shukai replied: "I just smelled the fragrance of the past eight years downstairs, I haven't tasted this wine in this restaurant for so long, maybe there will be less time when I sit together in the future, and I want to taste it today." Let's see if the rumor is true that you can get a few hours of wine on your clothes. As soon as Yang Shukai said this, he stared at the two with a slight smile.

Jin Jiuhan's nose tightened and he blinked and didn't say anything, Yu Yuzhen took over and said, "That's right, it's a pity that you haven't been drunk for eight years for so long." I'll tell you, you'll know when you drink it. I just went home and changed my clothes, and my close-fitting jade pendant was fragrant. Let's not talk about jade pendants, even the socks are fragrant! Yu Yuzhen said and gestured to smell things, the two of them glanced at him, and then the three of them laughed together.

Yang Shukai saw that Jin Jiuhan was a little unnatural, so he asked, "Huh?" Brother Jiu, I still want to ask you, why have you been drinking for eight years?"

Jin Jiuhan blinked again and said, "Su Kai, can you see that you are too delusional when you drank it for eight years?" He urged him to drink, you know. After speaking, he pursed his lips and rolled his eyes pretending to be disgusted.

Yang Shukai didn't ask any more questions, Yu Yuzhen smiled and proposed: "Hurry up and drink, or Brother Jiu's mouth is really broken, and you can't block it without a few drinks." Before the pot that let Xiao Erwen be served for eight years, Yang Shukai poured a cup from Jin Jiuhan's pot, and gritted his teeth and swallowed it as soon as he entered it. On the contrary, Yu Zhen was speechless after drinking it, and asked Yang Shukai with a slight sneer: "How does it feel?" Yang Shukai shook his head to signal, he felt a little thick when he entered the cup just now, and in a blink of an eye, a spicy sensation rushed straight to his nasal cavity, and he almost came up from his stomach after swallowing it strongly. Thinking that this drunken eight years is really not something that ordinary people can drink, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and exhaled a few hot breaths before he eased this momentum.

After drinking this cup, Yu Yuzhen said that he wanted to play boxing to help the wine, but Yang Shukai refused, not because he was afraid of losing at the level of boxing, but because he had something in his heart and had no intention of playing. waved his hand and excused himself: "Let me slow down and play later." ”

Yu Yuzhen, who has been drinking for eight years, naturally knew that this wine was difficult to drink, so he temporarily did not persuade him to drink it again.

Yang Shukai turned the fan in his hand, and when he saw that the two of them didn't speak, he said, "Let's talk about something interesting, have you ever heard the name Kou Meng?"

Yu Yu really thought about it and said that he didn't know this person, and Jin Jiuhan, whose face was a little red, turned a lot whiter in an instant, and it seemed that the wine had also woken up a little, and said solemnly: "Su Kai, why did you mention this?"

Yang Shukai smiled and said, "I just went home and listened to an elder in the family say that he seems to have come to Donghuan City recently, and I also heard it when I went out." But since the incident came out two years ago, I have admired this person a little, and I have always been curious and want to get acquainted, but I have never been able to find news of him. ”

Jin Jiuhan was silent for a long time, his voice was extremely low, and said, "The elders in the family mentioned it?"

Yang Shukai grabbed the fan in his hand and replied: "It's not a direct line, I just came to Donghuan City yesterday, it seems that I came to talk about something." ”

Jin Jiuhan hurriedly stared at Yang Shukai and asked, "Did you mention the Song Mansion?"

Yang Shukai was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "How do you know?"

Jin Jiuhan said with some self-deprecation: "You and Qiulai are world friends, and it is normal to mention it." ”

Yang Shukai smelled a hint of something wrong and asked, "Brother Jiu knows something about this dream?"

Jin Jiuhan smiled bitterly, patted his leg, and said, "I just heard about him two years ago." ”

Without waiting for Yang Shukai to ask again, Yu Yuzhen put down his wine glass as if he remembered something, and said, "Two years ago? Are you talking about the assassination of the prime minister of Qi that dream?"

Yang Shukai frowned, was stunned for a moment, and said, "You also know this person?"

Yu Yuzhen sighed twice, glanced at him and said, "I just heard this name, but I didn't react, I thought it was which one next to me." But if you talk about the person in the Prime Minister's Mansion of Qi two years ago, I'm afraid few people in the world can't remember it. ”

Yang Shukai rolled his eyes and thought for a moment, and said to the two of them half-tentatively and half-jokingly: "You said that if this person is always by our side, it would be interesting." ”

Yu Yuzhen smiled calmly and said happily: "I want to know someone with such courage, I will have a big drink with him to see how much he drinks." ”

Yang Shukai also had a lot of fun, this drunken maniac is free and easy by nature, and he only cares about whether people can drink alcohol and what their personality is. For so many years, I have never asked about the affairs of the court and the rivers and lakes, and with the friendship with him for several years, the suspicion just now is a little redundant. If Yu Yuzhen admitted that he was a dream, Yang Shukai would not be able to believe it, but Jin Jiuhan was a little strange at this time.

Yu Yuzhen glanced at Jin Jiuhan when he said this, and when he saw that he was stunned, he pointed at Jin Jiuhan with disappointment and said, "Ninth brother, ninth brother? A few cups won't work? Why are you still in a daze?"

Jin Jiuhan let out a long sigh, and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm not drunk yet, I just thought of some troublesome things." ”

Yu Yuzhen pretended to have a straight face, slightly joking, and said with a smile: "Relief should be wine, and if there is wine, you must be relieved." Drinking is drinking, thinking about what to worry about, this sad wine tastes bad. ”

Yang Shukai couldn't help but be a little more suspicious when he saw Jin Jiuhan like this, and there were still people nearby who were not good to ask, so he followed Yu Yuzhen and said: "This nonsense is reasonable, drinking is drinking, how can you be bothered if you have a brother?" Look down on both of us? Brother Jiu, I'll pour it for you. ”

Xiao Er served a warm eight years, Yu Yuzhen immediately smiled, and said: "It's all up, I will drink one with you with Shukai, and you are not allowed to think about it after drinking." ”

Jin Jiuhan drank this cup with a wry smile on his face. Yang Shukai also drank it all, and it was strange to say that this second cup was not as difficult to swallow as the first cup, and it actually tasted a little more out of thin air.

Yang Shukai had no choice but to wait for the two tables to disperse before asking, and then stopped mentioning the matter of Kou Meng.

The three of them were idle for a long time, and the wine was also a little upset at this time, and after the three of them drank the third cup together, Jin Jiuhan kept gritting his teeth, and after a while, he seemed to be a little unable to hold on, and went to the toilet.

Yang Shukai was drunk, but he was still a little conscious, so he also said to Yu Yuzhen, and went to the toilet with the stairs in one step.

Yang Shukai didn't notice that the other two tables disappeared when the three of them were chatting, if you compare Yang Shukai and the two tables of drunks at this moment, you will find that Yang Shukai's eyes are empty, and the group of drunks have a look in their eyes, and no matter how good the eyes are, they are different after all.

Just after the two left, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Yu Yuzhen's mouth.

Outside the latrine, Yang Shukai waited for Jin Jiuhan, who had just vomited, and stepped forward and said, "Brother Jiu, is it uncomfortable to drink?"

Jin Jiuhan scratched his hair and said, "These eight years have been really fierce. Then he breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "Su Kai, it's not me who provoked you and Qiulai, but there are some things you must know, if you still want to be stable, although your two families are world friends, don't get involved in Qiulai's family, believe me, brother, some things are not as simple as they seem, and participating in it will do you all kinds of harm but no benefit." It's as if I've been holding back for a long time on weekdays, and I just said it with the strength of eight years of drinking without thinking about it.

Hearing this, Yang Shukai was taken aback at first, and when he saw that there was no one around, he said in a deep voice: "Brother Jiu, I only ask you one word, you must tell me the truth." Jin Jiuhan spoke, and Yang Shukai said, "Brother Jiu, is it your hand in the Song Mansion tonight?"

Jin Jiuhan smiled bitterly, pointed upwards to the sky, and said in a silent voice: "It seems that you can't avoid getting involved in this game, and it's inconvenient to tell you some things, but what I can tell you is that I'm not dreaming, let alone delusional, he has been with me tonight, and he has no chance." ”

Yang Shukai sighed. didn't ask Jin Jiuhan how he knew this, but he was a little confused, he didn't know what to say, he was plain and cautious, he was not afraid of having ears through the window. If he is really sober, how can he be drunk for eight years? It has always been advocated that "the wine is half drunk, and the flowers are half beautiful." Yang Shukai was drunk with three cups.

Jin Jiuhan patted Yang Shukai on the shoulder and said, "Don't think about it, go back, wait for it." Yang Shukai suddenly had a headache, what he thought would be easy to understand became so complicated, and how could he not have a headache after being drunk for eight years.

The two didn't ask each other another another word, and hugged each other back to the table. Yu Yuzhen was a little displeased after seeing the two of them for so long, and said, "Do you two have a habit of dragon yang?" Did something bad go? How did it take so long. ”

Both of them smiled bitterly, and Yang Shukai said in a trembling voice: "I think these eight years can really be intoxicating for eight years, compare it to jade syrup, jade syrup is tasteless, and it is indeed good wine." With that, the two of them who had just sat down leaned back in their chairs and fell asleep. Yang Shukai fell asleep and clutched his fan, and Jin Jiuhan in his dream muttered: "It's really good wine, it's good to be drunk for eight years." ”

Yu Yuzhen pushed the two of them a few times and saw that the two of them had fallen asleep, so he drank the remaining wine in the pot in one gulp, called Xiao Er to settle the account, gave some reward, and asked Xiao Er to carry the lighter Yang Shukai, and went to the nearest inn with Jin Jiuhan on his back.

When he arrived at the inn, Xiao Er was panting like a cow, seeing that Yu Zhenzhen only sweated a few drops, he gasped and said: "Yu Ye, you have drunk so much wine and can walk like a fly, which is really powerful." Yu Yuzhen's expression changed slightly, and he replied lightly: "I just exercise a lot in the school palace on weekdays." Xiao Er didn't think much about it, arched his hand and rushed back to the store to prepare for closing.

After settling the two of them, Yu Yuzhen went back to the room, brewed two pots of tea, and blamed himself a little, and seemed to be waiting for someone, how could two cups of tea be drunk by one person? .

South of the city, in the courtyard of the Song Mansion.

Song Huan's eyes were like hooks, and his tone asked with a bit of majesty: "Ding Ming, how is it?" What do you see?"

There is a person dressed in a light blue black robe, wearing a white fox fur cloak on his back, with a slender and thin figure, accompanied by moonlight, which looks subtle and extraordinary. This person said slowly: "Jin Jiuhan should be a person from the Hidden Pavilion, and he shouldn't be Yu Yuzhen, and he should be able to make people who have dreams." The tone was calm, as if he was confident.

This man is the number one god in the world, although there are those stubborn lords who claim to be high or do not want to be tainted by the world. These stubborn masters can be called strategizing, and their means are well understood. But no one dared to say that compared with Dingming's strategy, he could be undefeated, let alone win. It is not known who Ding Ming came from, but when he entered the WTO at a young age, he assisted the ten-year-old little prince of Chen Guo to win the position of prince of the East Palace, and helped the little prince to step into the imperial power two years later. As one of the five great powers in the world, Chen Guo had to weigh the interests and disadvantages between the political power and the military leaders, and the painstaking efforts were to be considered. In the following years, Ding Ming changed the law in Chen Guoda, cut officials and disarmed, which aroused the displeasure of the rightists in the central government, and repeated admonitions were rejected by the little emperor under 20 years old. The four kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Jin, and Liang, who already had a heart of prevention, temporarily put aside grievances and jointly suppressed Chen Guo, and they were actually prepared, and they were always blameless. Internal worries and external troubles, Ding Ming retired to the court without informing anyone, and did not know where to go. The little emperor built the Ding Palace, posthumously crowned the king with a different surname and announced to the world: "If one day the king of Ding returns to Chen, I will drive thousands of miles to greet him in person." "In the past thirteen years, there has been no one else in the Dingwang Mansion except for the slaves and maids in the palace and the little emperor who must live for a few days every year.

Song Huan stared at the night sky, looking at the sky full of stars, like a dragon and a tiger, and said, "What about Yu Yu's true nature?"

Ding Mingxing's eyes turned slightly, and he looked deeply like Song Huandao: "If you don't encounter good and bad things, you won't see the city." ”

At this moment, the Song Mansion, which was silent, was crossed by a majestic sound, and the five drums sounded.