"Lord Guo is late for the appointment, maybe the nobles are busy, and they have left the invitation of the deceased letter behind, right?"

Suddenly, a voice suddenly resounded through the dark and dilapidated courtyard, cutting through the silence and gloom in the courtyard under the night sky.

Fortunately, Guo Ye had expected it in his heart, otherwise he would definitely be frightened by this sudden sound in this environment, and fainted on the spot.

He stopped standing there when he heard the sound, unable to distinguish where the sound was coming from, so he had to carry the lantern in his hand and sweep around the courtyard, looking around for the owner of the voice.

But in vain, by the light of the lantern, I couldn't find anyone around the courtyard.

"Don't look for Lord Guo, this courtyard is empty, and there is no place to sit, I will really stand in the courtyard and wait for you for a night?"

Then, the voice came again: "Directly in front of you is the master bedroom of this small courtyard, and I have been sitting in the house waiting for Master Guo." ”

"it!"

Guo Ye scolded angrily, lifted the lantern in front of him, and scolded: "God chatter, you are really idle!" ”

In a few falls, with the light yellow light emitted by the lantern leading the way, Guo Ye took more than a dozen steps forward and entered the house.

The room was small, and the lantern lit up as soon as it entered.

The furnishings in the house were shabby, not even furnished, except for a round table with paint peeling, three or two stools, and a dilapidated bed with cobwebs hanging from the gauze tent.

Obviously, this place has been abandoned by the owner's house for a long, long time.

Some of the dilapidated furniture scattered on the ground almost tripped Guo Ye to the ground. It seems that the owner's family left this place in a hurry.

Guo Ye hung the lantern on the protruding hook on the wall, and then turned his gaze to the four-legged round table with the paint faded and worn......

The table was wiped clean, not spotless, but at least it was passable.

On the table, there is a large pot full of sauce elbows, and there are two jars of wine, one jar of mud has not been opened, and the other jar has already overflowed with the fragrance of wine.

Of course, there are wine bowls, and there are two of them.

The man at the table was holding a wine bowl in his left hand and a sauce elbow in his right hand, and he was already eating and drinking.

Seeing Guo Ye come in, the man directly threw the half-eaten elbow back into the basin, waved his oily right hand, and beckoned: "Come on, come on, Chang'an Jiuwei Zhai's sauce elbow, and then pair it with a jar of drunken fairy wine from Pingkangfang Immortal Residence, haha, it's really delicious in the world, a perfect match!" ”

Guo Ye looked at each other and walked over slowly......

The other party's mouth was full of oil, like a foodie, the white robe that should have been spotless and plain had already been splashed wet by the wine, and the grease stains should have been wiped with his hands and dirty.

Grandma's, Guo Ye was stunned by the sloppy appearance in front of him, where is this still the white-robed and snow-clad Arrow King Bodang?

That's right, the person who invited Guo Ye to the letter and came to meet in this haunted house-like courtyard late at night was Wang Bodang, who had retired to the mountains and forests that day.

Damn, this is too ruining the image, right?

Where is this still the handsome uncle back then, and now he is alive and depressed lazy drunk.

What is it that makes him like this?

Could it be that when the emperor Li Yuan and Li Yuanqing, Li Yuanfang and other three princes changed the day and plotted to rebel, Wang Bodang was captured and detained by Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian County, who was then the governor of Tuyuhun, and suffered in prison without suffering, which made him so depressed?

Thinking of this, Guo Ye also felt that he couldn't stand Wang Bodang, you must know if it wasn't for his involvement, where would he have experienced this ordeal? Moreover, after exterminating the henchmen of the Emperor Taiding, after Jimmy led the strange army to kill Li Xiaogong and rescue Wang Bodang, he didn't even seem to have gone to Tuyuhun to appease Wang Bodang in person, and he didn't even send a letter to the other party.

The more Guo Ye thought about it, the more guilty and ashamed he felt in his heart, and he came to the table and opened the so-called mud seal of the old wine with one hand, and poured himself a full bowl of it.

Then he raised the wine bowl and saluted Wang Bodang: "Senior Wang, I haven't seen you for a long time, I respect you for this bowl!" ”

Wang Bodang was not hypocritical, touched the bowl with Guo Yewan, drank it all, slammed the wine bowl back on the table, and shouted: "Happy!" ”

Then he reached into the basin, grabbed a sauce elbow and gnawed it, devouring it as if he had been hungry for a long time. Wang Bodang greeted inarticulate while eating: "Taste, taste, I haven't eaten this sauce elbow of Jiuwei Zhai for many years." ”

Guo Ye wanted to speak and stopped, and finally sat down and learned from Wang Bodang to gnaw on the sauce elbow.

Not to mention, the sauce elbow of this Jiuwei Zhai is really delicious, I have to take it, Uncle Wang is really good at finding it, and he can still find this kind of place after leaving Chang'an for so long.

The two of them were speechless one after another, just caring about drinking old wine from bowl to bowl, gnawing on sauce elbows, drinking happily, and eating happily.

After a storm, Wang Bodang suddenly stopped the movements in his hand, rolled up his sleeve robe and wiped his oily lips, and then wiped his hand on his body again, sloppy and sloppy, and asked: "Are you very strange in your heart, I once said that I would never step into Chang'an again in this life, but now I will go back on my word and enter Chang'an City again?" ”

Guo Ye was noncommittal, nodded and said, "Yes, you swore to me that day......

"Do you think it's very puzzling, since I'm coming to Chang'an, why don't I come to visit you in the Pingyang County Mansion openly, but instead hide my head and find an idle man to submit a letter to your mansion?"

Wang Bodang interrupted Guo Ye without waiting for him to finish speaking, and asked rhetorically again.

Guo Ye didn't finish this time, just nodded his head.

Wang Bodang asked again: "Do you feel puzzled, how could I hide in a slum like Luoshuifang and ask you to meet, and also found this house that has no owner and has been abandoned for a long time?" ”

Guo Ye still nodded.

Wang Bodang smiled bitterly, pointed to his dirty white robe, and pointed to his sloppy makeup, and asked, "Do you think that I and I were like two people when I was in Tuyuhun, and I have become decadent and pickled?" So much so that you almost didn't recognize me? ”

Guo Ye still nodded.

He didn't ask, because he knew Wang Bodang, and he would naturally say it when it was time to say it.

However, I understand it, but Wang Bodang's words next almost scared Guo Ye into a sip of wine.

I saw Wang Bodang take a deep breath, his eyes were complicated and strange* and said slowly: "The reason why this is like this is because-

I killed someone in Tuyuhun, I killed someone who shouldn't have been killed! ”

At this time, Guo Ye couldn't sit still, couldn't calm down, and hurriedly got up and asked cracklingly, "What happened?" Who did you kill in Tuyuhun? Who is the other party? ”