Hearing that the Xuanjing Dao Leader was coming, the emperor's face softened slightly, and he changed his words: "Quickly invite the Dao Leader in." ”

Father-in-law Ni breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went to welcome Xuanjing in person.

Xuan Jing was still wearing a simple Xuan-colored robe, his hair was raised with a bamboo hairpin, and the wide hem of his clothes swayed gently with his steps, a fairy wind bone.

Xuanjing held a mahogany carved box in his hand, saluted the emperor first, and then presented the box, "Your Majesty, the first furnace of the Ninefold Pill has been practiced, and the poor Dao has come to present it to the emperor." ”

The emperor's eyes lit up, his eyes were shining, and he quickly presented it.

Ni Gonggong took the box and presented it to the emperor, and as soon as the box was opened, there was immediately a smell like sandalwood and bamboo incense in the room.

The emperor just smelled it, and he felt refreshed.

Xuan Jing shook off the dust and proposed with a smile: "Your Majesty, why don't you take medicine now, and let Poor Dao protect the Dharma for you?" ”

This proposal was exactly what the emperor wanted, and he was busy asking people to give Xuanjing Dao a seat.

Gonggong Ni asked the emperor to bring a cup of warm water, and took a big red nine-fold pill for the emperor, and the emperor swallowed the water, and then sat by the window with his eyes closed.

Xuanjing sat cross-legged on a futon, the silver dust hanging on one side, and his eyes were closed, looking solemn and sacred.

Father-in-law Ni held his breath, and he didn't even dare to take a breath, for fear of disturbing the emperor.

After a while, the emperor felt that his body was getting hotter and hotter, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Gonggong Ni looked at the emperor without blinking, and he didn't dare to wipe the emperor's sweat.

Finally, after half a cup of tea, the emperor opened his eyes, and his eyes were full of light, as if he had suddenly become a few years younger.

"Dao Chang is really an immortal!" The emperor was in a good mood and praised again and again, "Since I ate the Nine Returns Golden Pill, my health has been getting better and better, and my energy has become more and more vigorous, as if I have returned to the age of twenty." ”

"This Ninefold Pill is even more extraordinary, and I now know what it means to wash the marrow and change the tendons, and be reborn!"

The emperor only felt that his whole body was happy, and all the fatigue and depression of Fang Cai were swept away.

Xuanjing also opened his eyes, still sitting cross-legged on the futon, not arrogant or impatient, quite a bit of a worldly master.

"The emperor praised it falsely." Xuanjing said with a smile, "The Tao is natural, it is the emperor that you have an immortal fate." ”

The emperor only felt that Xuanjing had said everything appropriately, which made his mood more comfortable.

Only then did Gonggong Ni wipe the sweat on the emperor's forehead with confidence, and served tea to both the emperor and Xuanjing.

The emperor took a sip of tea, and the topic turned to Gu Jue, "Dao Chief, how is Gu Jue's illness?" ”

Xuanjing took out a simple turtle shell and six copper coins from his sleeve, and said lightly without humility or arrogance: "Your Majesty, let the poor be divined." ”

He put the six copper coins into the tan tortoise shell, then sealed it with his right hand, closed his eyes and held it high, shaking it gently.

The sound of copper coins striking the tortoise's shell echoed clearly in the imperial study.

After Xuanjing shook the turtle shell four or five times, he gently poured out the copper coins inside......

In the imperial study, there was silence, and the emperor and Gonggong Ni were staring at Xuanjing's every movement.

I only heard a few birds fluttering their wings outside the window, playing with each other.

Xuanjing looked at the copper coins and muttered to himself: "Need hexagrams, Tianshui hexagrams, the road is bumpy...... 64 is also known as blood, the disaster of blood and light...... to wait for a transfer. ”

After a while, Xuanjing raised his head and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, King Chen is seriously ill and has died nine times in his life, which is the appearance of 'desperate life'. ”

He stroked his beard inscrutablely, and a gleam flashed under his eyes.

He also inadvertently knew that the people of King Chen's Mansion were looking for a famous doctor in Jiangnan, and in order to win the emperor's trust, he pretended to say it through a hexagram. For this reason, the emperor trusted him even more, repeatedly recruited him into the palace, and asked him to open the furnace for alchemy.

The emperor's face froze, and he felt that Xuanjing had calculated too accurately.

Gu Jue is seriously ill, the miracle doctor in Jishitang is just a charlatan, it stands to reason that she should not be able to cure Gu Jue, but what if, as the hexagram said, let Gu Jue "die for a lifetime".

The emperor put the teacup on the coffee table heavily, and the impact made Ni Gonggong's heart jump, and the dust in his hand almost didn't get out of his hand.

The emperor was very unhappy in his heart: how could this Gu Jue's life be so good, he couldn't die from a bloody disaster like Xueyao, and he would continue to obstruct his eyes and block his way!

The air around them cooled down.

Xuanjing stroked his beard, and then leaned down to look at the hexagram, as if hesitating: "But ......"

"But what?" The emperor was anxious and hurriedly asked.

"According to this hexagram, King Chen is in the moment of life and death, as long as he makes a wrong step, a glimmer of life will be extinguished......" Xuanjing ambiguously said the whole thing.

The emperor narrowed his sharp eyes, contemplating the meaning of Xuanjing's words, and silently recited in his heart: As long as you make a wrong step, a glimmer of life will be extinguished......

Seeing that the emperor was silent, Xuanjing Dao Chang said again in an unfathomable manner: "People's lives are all destined by heaven, and everything has its own fixed number......"

The Emperor's eyes lit up.

Heaven is it?! He is the Son of Heaven, and he can go against the sky!

Destiny?! He had to weaken Gu Jue's life......

Wait, weaken the lifeframe!

The emperor thought of something, and was about to ask Xuanjing again, when the curtain of Concubine Xiang was opened, and a young waiter in Tsing Yi came in, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped.

The emperor immediately guessed something, and his face became even more ugly, as if a storm was coming.

Xuanjing was very good at looking at his face, and retired with interest: "The emperor still has government affairs, so don't bother the emperor if you are poor." ”

Only then did the little chamberlain in Tsing Yi say: "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Chen refuses to come." ”

He swallowed and hung his head. He didn't see King Chen at all, and the people in King Chen's Mansion sent him away with a sentence of "don't come".

The Emperor was even more annoyed, his fists clenched into fists, and it felt as if an angry dragon was roaring and rolling in his chest.

For more than two months, he announced Gu Jue again and again, but Gu Jue ignored him and didn't take him, the Emperor of Great Qi, in his eyes at all.

He's going to go in person!

"Swing the palace of the king of Chen!" The Emperor said angrily and strode out of the imperial study.

But before he could reach the Qianqing Gate, the emperor changed his mind again and suppressed the unhappiness in his heart.

"Go to Zhongcui Palace!" The emperor temporarily changed direction and went to Concubine Chu's Zhongcui Palace again.

The emperor hadn't come to Zhongcui Palace for a long time, and Concubine Chu was overjoyed, so she was busy and inserted an extra five-phoenix sunrise pearl hairpin into her sideburns, and took pity on herself in the mirror, and then went to welcome the saint.

The arrival of the emperor made the entire Zhongcui Palace happy, and the palace maids and attendants were all busy, some served tea, water, melons and fruits, some added ice basins to the east side hall, and some fanned them......

After the emperor took a sip of tea, he couldn't wait to get to the point: "A few days ago, I saw Nan Zhao with your two nieces in the imperial garden......

Concubine Chu's heart moved, and her eyelashes trembled, "That day, the concubine's sister-in-law took her two nieces into the palace to visit the concubine, and the concubine asked the second prince to take them to the imperial garden to enjoy the flowers. ”

While Concubine Chu was speaking, a trace of thought flashed in her eyes: The emperor suddenly mentioned this matter, could it be for Chu Qianchen......

As Chu Guifei guessed, the emperor did come for Chu Qianchen.

"What do you think of your second niece?" The emperor asked casually while brushing the foam off the tea soup with a tea lid.

Concubine Chu chuckled in her heart, her son mentioned to her that he wanted to ask his father to marry him and Chu Qianchen, but at that time she coaxed her son not to look for his father first, could it be that her son still begged his father behind her back? !

It must be Chu Qianchen's vixen who coaxed his son!

Concubine Chu said secretly in her heart, hiding the different colors at the bottom of her eyes, so she sighed in embarrassment, as if she wanted to say something: "The second niece of the concubine is the concubine's eldest brother's concubine......"

Her intention was to remind the emperor that the identity of the concubine was definitely not qualified to be the prince's concubine.

"The concubine heard from her sister-in-law that she has always been quiet and soft-tempered, and she is just a female celebrity or something at home, and she stays at home on weekdays."

"This child is a filial piety, because Sister Huang entered the palace to read to the third princess as a companion, and she often went to the concubine's sister-in-law to give her companionship. The concubine's sister-in-law likes her, and even took her with her when she entered the palace this time, and the concubine looked at Sister Huang and had to let go. ”

Chu Guifei said it tactfully and implicitly, and it seemed to be a little bantering.

She didn't say that Chu Qianchen was not good at a word, at first glance, it seemed to have the meaning of maintenance, but in fact, every word of this word was full of deep meaning, saying that Chu Qianchen took advantage of Chu Qianhuang's absence, so he took advantage of the situation to enter, pretending to be filial piety in front of his mother-in-law, and stealing the limelight of the eldest sister.

However, the more Concubine Chu said badly, the more satisfied the emperor became, and the corners of his lips curled. That's it!

The emperor put down the teacup, opened the folding fan with his hand, and fanned it slowly, and the words that Xuanjing said that day sounded in his ears again: "Some people are strong when they are strong, and weak when they are weak, if she meets someone unladylike, it will weaken the other party's life." ”

Interesting! This Chu Qianchen is really "good".

Concubine Chu had been observing the changes in the emperor's expression, and she was a little unsure of the emperor's attitude, so she said tentatively: "Your Majesty, what was rude about her that day?" ”

The emperor casually said "no", his expression was cold, and at this time, he remembered the gilt sachet in Chu Qianhuang's hand that day, so he praised it casually: "Your eldest niece is not bad." ”

Concubine Chu Guifei listened to the emperor's praise of Chu Qianhuang, but she didn't have half a good word for Chu Qianchen, so she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and praised the emperor's words: "Yes, Sister Huang is a concubine who grew up watching her since she was a child, and she is a good one." ”

It seems that the concubine really took a fancy to her, the eldest niece, and became a side concubine to the second prince. The emperor thought he understood what Concubine Chu meant, and said "um".

The topic of the Chu family ended here, and Concubine Chu turned the topic to Gu Nanzhao's homework again, and said a lot of good things for her son without a trace.

The emperor's left ear went in, his right ear went out, and his eyes looked out the window again, looking in the direction of King Chen's mansion.

It was not far from Halloween, and he couldn't wait to give Gu Jue a heavy gift.

Within two days, the news of the closure of King Chen's Mansion spread to everyone in the capital.

Thinking of the rumors that King Chen was seriously ill before, many people were originally skeptical, but now they feel that there is a chance that King Chen is really dying.

King Chen was in charge of the Northern Army, and completely expelled Chidi from the territory of Daqi, and over the years, his prestige among the people and troops of the Great Qi Dynasty was close to that of the emperor, and his survival was bound to have a great impact on the changes in the court situation.

Many courtiers saw the opportunity and were eager to try, including Chu Lingxiao, the Marquis of Yongding.

However, no matter how ambitious Chu Lingxiao was, there was nothing he could do, so he could only pin his hopes on his son.

"Brother Yi, you have to fight for your father!"

Chu Lingxiao patted Chu Yunyi's shoulder and admonished, feeling very aggrieved in his heart, feeling that he was simply born at the wrong time.

It would have been a great opportunity.

As soon as King Chen fell, the tree fell and scattered, and King Chen's vein would not become a climate, but it is conceivable that there will be many vacancies in the army at that time, and he will try to maneuver around the court, maybe he will be able to go to the next level.

But now, he is trapped on the couch, and he can only watch this great opportunity miss!

Chu Lingxiao looked at his injured leg that was tightly bandaged, and his heart was surging with anger, and his injured leg began to hurt again.

During this time, he never gave up, and invited doctors who were good at orthopedics from many places around him to come to the Hou Mansion, but all the so-called famous doctors said no.

The frustration and disappointment poured buckets and buckets of cold water on Chu Lingxiao, making his temper more and more irritable, scolding and angry people at every turn, and the subordinates lived in fear every day.

The two maids in the room all shrunk their necks, and they didn't dare to say a word, only glanced at Chu Yunyi quietly, and said in their hearts: Fortunately, there is a young master, and Master Hou seems to be in a good mood today.

"Don't worry, father, I will do my best." Chu Yunyi, who was sitting on the edge of the couch, said confidently.

Looking at his eldest son, who looked similar to himself, Chu Lingxiao's face softened slightly.

His eldest son is like him in everything, he can be literate and martial, he is his pride, and he will definitely be able to make a long face for the Hou Mansion!

"This martial arts test on the Halloween Festival is your best chance, as long as you enter the finals, you can soar to the sky and become famous in the capital." Chu Lingxiao taught earnestly, looking like a loving father, "Brother Yi, you performed well in yesterday's primary election, and you can't slack off in the sword competition and shooting test in the future." ”

"During the sword competition, you will use the set of sword techniques taught by Master Xu, and you will be sure of nine out of ten."

"Your riding and archery has always been excellent, there are few opponents in the same age in Beijing, and when you shoot the test, as long as you don't underestimate the enemy and don't panic, you will definitely be able to stand out."

On the day of Wanshou Day, there will be a martial arts test in the palace, which is a great opportunity for the military generals and the children of the nobles to show their prestige.

The martial arts test is divided into two games, one is a duel between military generals, and the other is for teenagers under the age of fifteen to participate, as long as they pass the first three preliminary tests to reach the final on the day of Wanshou Day, they can show their faces in front of the emperor and the barbarians who come to the pilgrimage.

In the past years, there are military generals or noble children who have a good future.

Hearing Chu Lingxiao mention the riding shot, Chu Yunyi's brows moved slightly, and he thought of Chu Qianchen and the Yunting Pavilion that day.

Chu Qianchen's four arrows, one arrow was more wonderful than the other, and he couldn't help but think about how she would shoot if there was a fifth arrow......

His father and martial arts master praised him for being good at riding and archery, and he had always thought so, he had never lost a test of riding and archery with other noble children in Beijing before, but he was not as good as Chu Qianchen.

He lost, no doubt.

Chu Yunyi's lips pursed into a straight line, revealing a little stubbornness and a little refusal to admit defeat.

"Father, did you also teach the second sister's archery?" Chu Yunyi clenched his fists and couldn't help but ask.

Whether he and Chu Qianhuang were reading or riding and shooting, they were all enlightened by Chu Lingxiao himself.

"......" Chu Lingxiao frowned, not understanding how Chu Yunyi could suddenly ask this, and replied impatiently, "I didn't teach her." ”

Chu Lingxiao became angry when she thought of Chu Qianchen: This girl is a white-eyed wolf who can't be raised, unfilial and disrespectful, and has no aunt and her father in her heart.

Chu Yunyi moved his eyebrows in surprise, and said: "Father, the second sister's archery skills are superb, last time I competed with her in Yunting Pavilion, I lost ......"

Chu Yunyi was about to elaborate on the events of the day, but Chu Lingxiao was impatient to listen at all, and interrupted him with a sneer: "Your second sister, it's just a show." "Chu Qianchen knows every day that to please the Shen family, she will only take those crooked paths, how good can her riding and shooting be!

"......" Chu Yunyi wanted to speak and stopped, always feeling that what his father said was not quite right.

Chu Qianchen's arrows in Yunting Pavilion were exquisite, and even the second prince, the prince of Shun, and the great prince of Nanhao, Wuhe Jialou, were full of praise, this shouldn't be a show, right?

If this is called a showmanship, then what is the self who loses to her?!

Chu Yunyi pursed his lips and thought: Chu Qianchen clearly practiced archery with hard work, but no one in the mansion knew about it, not even his father.

So, does my aunt know?!

The answer naturally appeared in his heart, Chu Yunyi was almost sure, and Aunt Jiang probably didn't know anything.

Chu Yunyi became more and more curious about Chu Qianchen in his heart, thinking that she easily overturned her own affairs, and thinking that she heard the maid talk about her saving her fourth brother a few days ago.

Later, Chu Lingxiao said something, Chu Yunyi just went in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, and responded with a sentence or a word.

Half an hour later, because Chu Lingxiao wanted to change the medicine, Chu Yunyi came out of him.

When I got out of the yard, there was a sudden sound of "banging bells" in the back room.

Chu Yunyi's little servant heard the sound and glanced back with a complicated expression.

There is no secret in this Hou Mansion, the little guy has heard about it a long time ago, the Hou Ye has been getting more and more irritable recently because of his leg injury, and even Aunt Jiang has been angry several times, and the little guy is still worried that his young master will also be angry with the Hou Ye......

"Young Master......" The little guy retracted his gaze and found that Chu Yunyi had already walked forward by himself, he seemed to have something on his mind, and he was absent-minded.

Chu Yunyi was still thinking about Chu Qianchen, and before he knew it, he went to the martial arts arena.

At this time, the sun is slanting in the west, and the surrounding flowers, trees, pavilions, etc. are full of brilliant glow.

"Chu Qianchen, you show me again!" Chu Yunmu's excited voice came from the martial arts arena.

Chu Yunyi couldn't help but speed up his pace, and the oncoming breeze was warm, making people feel a little depressed.

After walking into the martial arts arena, he saw Chu Qianchen in a lilac-colored skirt standing in front of him, taking arrows and drawing a bow with his hand......

While demonstrating, she patiently talked to Chu Yunmu: "Brother Mu, look carefully, ...... like this"

"The heart must be calm, the eyes must be fixed, and the hands must be steady."

"And then ...... arrows"

As soon as the last word fell, her hand to pull the string was released, and the feather arrow broke through the string......

Chu Yunyi didn't look to see if the feather arrow hit the target, even if he didn't look at it, he knew that her arrow must hit the bull's-eye.

His gaze still fell on Chu Qianchen's body, and fell on the confident smile on her lips.

That subtle feeling rose in his heart again, as if he had never known this sister in the past ten years.

The girl in front of her was familiar and unfamiliar, so brilliant and so dazzling.

"Bang Bang!"

Chu Yunmu clapped his palms excitedly, and praised without hesitation: "Chu Qianchen, you shot again!" You're so powerful, a famous teacher makes a high apprentice, and I'll be as powerful as you, right?! ”

Chu Qianchen took another arrow and gently touched the top of his hair with the end of the tail feathers, "If you want to be as 'powerful' as me, you have to practice hard!" ”

"Whatever you learn, remember one sentence......

"I know! Without him, only the hand is familiar. Chu Yunmu said tacitly, "You've said it a hundred times." ”

He raised his chin proudly and confidently, and said, "You can, so can I!" ”

Chu Yunyi looked at Chu Qianchen and Chu Yunmu, his heart was extremely complicated, some admired, some surprised, some admired, and some refused to admit defeat...... It's also a little sour, and a sour gas is bubbling up.

He's her brother, why doesn't she take him to practice?!

Chu Yunyi clenched his fists and walked awkwardly towards Chu Qianchen and Chu Yunmu.

Chu Qianchen had actually noticed him coming, and he didn't pay attention to him, and handed the feather arrow in his hand to Chu Yunmu, "Come on, you come and shoot!" ”

Chu Yunmu saw Chu Yunyi at this time, and waved his hand holding the arrow, "Big brother." ”

Chu Yunyi also greeted him firmly: "Fourth brother." ”

He was still awkward in his heart, deliberately not looking at Chu Qianchen, nor greeting her.

Chu Yunmu didn't notice that they didn't speak, and went to shoot arrows by himself.

While setting up an arrow and drawing a bow, he muttered and repeated Fang Cai Chu Qianchen's advice: "The heart must be calm, the eyes must be fixed, and the hands must be steady." ”

Chu Yunmu has been practicing archery with Chu Qianchen for more than a month, basically rain or shine, that is, after being injured by a broken string, he stopped for a few days, and now his archery level has greatly improved, and every arrow can hit the target.

Chu Yunyi was also practicing archery next to him.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

He shot very fast, Chu Yunmu shot one arrow, he could shoot almost two arrows, and he shot faster and faster, with a kind of impatience.

Each of the first few arrows hit the bull's eye, and when it came to the fifth arrow, this arrow suddenly deflected and hit the target of Chu Yunmu next to him, and it hit the bull's-eye again.

"Big brother, you're off target!" Chu Yunmu pointed at his target and giggled, learning Chu Qianchen's tone to reprimand him, "Your heart is not quiet!" ”

"......" The corner of Chu Yunyi's eyes glanced at Chu Qianchen who was standing beside Chu Yunmu, waiting for Chu Qianchen to "laugh" at him together.

However, Chu Qianchen still didn't look at him, and gently rubbed the top of Chu Yunmu's head, "You still have time to manage others, practice your own well!" ”

The face of the "others" stiffened, watching Chu Qianchen rubbing the top of Chu Yunmu's hair "gently", his heart became even more sore, and he remembered the scene when he was thrown to the sky by her, and his back and buttocks began to hurt again.

She...... She...... She's too differentiated!

Chu Yunyi held his breath in his heart and said to himself, Hmph, she doesn't pay attention to him, and he doesn't pay attention to her!

He's not uncommon with her!

Chu Yunyi turned his head and wanted to talk to Chu Yunmu, but found that the side beside him was empty for some time, and Chu Yunmu and Chu Qianchen were gone.

What about people?!

He looked around for half a circle, only to see the two of them walking towards the door of the martial arts arena, talking as they walked.

"Chu Qianchen, I heard from a few cousins in the clan study today that there will be a sword competition tomorrow, and I want to see it too." Chu Yunmu pulled Chu Qianchen's sleeve and looked up at her, obviously wanting her to take him.

"No, you're in a tight area of your homework." Chu Qianchen refused without saying a word.

"Second sister~" Chu Yunmu shook Chu Qianchen's sleeve and dragged the coquettish end note.

"If you're good, I'll take you to the third show." Chu Qianchen negotiated conditions with him.

"Good! I'm the best! ”

"Oh."

"What do you mean by 'oh', am I not good?"

“……”

The sister and brother talked and laughed, and gradually drifted apart.

Chu Yunyi's little servant also looked at the back of the two of them leaving, and was actually a little surprised in his heart.

Not long after he returned to Beijing, he also heard that the second girl and the fourth young master are getting along well, but hearing is false, and it is not until now that he sees it with his own eyes, and the little girl has a feeling that seeing is believing.

"Young Master......"

The little guy wanted to ask him if he wanted to continue practicing archery, but he saw his young master casually throw the bow in his hand to the side, and threw a sentence: "Don't practice anymore!" ”

The little guy scratched his head, and always felt that his young master seemed to be a little yin and yang today.

Chu Yunyi left in a huff, holding his breath in his heart.

He will definitely not lose, and he must let Chu Qianchen see his ability.