The Skull Gate is located in a deep, dark, twisting cavern in the valley beneath the peerless peak. The entrance to the cave is narrow, the cave is deep, and no sunlight enters. The seventeen hall masters of the ten sects and eight sects each led seven or eight disciples to escort them, and they entered the skull gate's old nest, the skull cave, together with Xu Feng, the hall master of the Skull Gate, and their new lord "Yan Shu", as well as the new lord's friend and their sworn enemy Zhuge for ten years.

After walking through the narrow and deep valley bottom tunnel, it turned out to be a bright and bright cave. It turned out that the Skull Cave was not a cave, but an open place hidden at the bottom of the valley. The peerless peak is covered with snow, but the bottom of the valley is full of flowers. One by one, the purple magnolia trees are in full bloom, with huge petals and a fragrant fragrance.

The master of the Skull Gate instructed the disciples and women in the door to prepare a banquet, and in the evening, the sky was crisp, and everyone decided to sit on the ground under the magnolia tree.

Shu'er had just sat down when she saw a hideous-looking skull beside her looking at her. She involuntarily moved to Zhuge calmly, and looked around at the ground, only to see that under the magnolia tree, there were many skeletons scattered around. Shu'er leaned into Zhuge calmly's ear and whispered to him: "Just now, I thought that the magnolia in the skull gate was blooming, like a fairyland, but I didn't expect there to be so many skeletons under the tree, it's weird and scary!" ”

Zhuge smiled calmly: "Boss Yan has not gone to the sky and the earth, how do you know that there are no skeletons in the fairyland, and there are no flowers in the underworld?" ”

Before the words fell, I only heard the skull gate hall master say in a loud voice: "Brothers, we have ten sects and eight factions, and we are mixed in the rivers and lakes, although we can't say that we are chivalrous and righteous, but we must be willing to gamble and lose!" Since Brother Shu won the West Demon Gate Hall and advocated hatred, we should call him 'Lord Gong'! The lord is not only strong in martial arts, but also benevolent, well versed in the way of management, in the future, the ten doors and eight factions will rely on the leadership of the lord, and we are also rich in Shu! My lord, although you are young and delicate, your brothers admire your martial arts and your personality! Come, my Skull Gate Hall Master Xu Feng, I will give you a bowl first! With that, he handed over a wooden bowl filled with cloudy wine.

Shu'er took the bowl with both hands and said loudly to everyone: "What we said before the competition was that if I won, you would call me 'lord' for eighteen years, but in fact, now that I think about it, eighteen years is not necessary. If I can't take you to earn a hundred taels of gold, you won't have to call me 'lord' again!" ”

When everyone heard the "one hundred taels of gold", they all became excited, and shouted in unison: "Lord! Lord! Lord! ”

Shu'er drank the wine in the wooden bowl, only to feel that the wine tasted simple and strong, a kind of wine she had never drunk before.

Xu Feng, the master of the Skull Gate Hall, took another bowl of wine, brought it to Zhuge calmly, and said, "Stinky boy, I also salute you with a bowl." ”

Zhuge calmly took the wine, but Shu'er snatched the wooden bowl from his hand and said to Xu Feng: "My Wuyi swordsmanship was taught by Young Master Zhuge , so I will take a sip of his wine today." ”

Xu Feng said: "Lord, please rest assured, although he is our sworn enemy, he is also the master's master, in today's Skull Gate, we will definitely not attack the stinky boy of the Zhuge family." We have ten sects and eight factions, and we are also wise people who don't do dark things! ”

Shu'er nodded, but still took a sip of wine from Zhuge calmly in the wooden bowl. Zhuge calmly snatched the wooden bowl from her hand and said to Xu Feng: "I have only taught her for more than 20 days, and I am not her master." The so-called 'mentor and friend', I am a friend. Since I am a friend of your lord, I am also your friend. Instead of calling a person you can never beat a 'sworn enemy', it is better to turn hostility into a jade silk and call me a brother, which will benefit you and do no harm." ”

Xu Feng glanced at him and said, "Stinky boy, calling you a brother and sister to a person who is invincible is really ruining the reputation of our ten sects and eight factions!" ”

Shu'er smiled and said, "Hall Master Xu, Young Master Zhuge didn't hurt any of you back then, and I didn't hurt any of you today." For my sake, let's laugh at the grudge, from now on, don't worry about the face he lost back then! Speaking of which, their Zhuge family is a big businessman who rivals the rich, and it is better for you to be friends with rich businessmen than to be rivals, right? ”

Xu Feng said helplessly: "But I still can't change it, I want to call him 'stinky boy'!" ”

Zhuge laughed calmly and drank the wine in the wooden bowl.

In the gap between the various hall masters of the ten sects and eight sects taking turns to toast, Zhuge calmly asked Shu'er in a low voice: "Why did you suddenly take that gambling contract seriously?" ”

Shu'er put a few bowls of strong wine into her stomach, and said boldly: "Just allow you Young Master Zhuge to become the 'Zhuge Brother' of the white-clothed sister halfway, and don't you allow me to become the 'Xiling Lord' of the Ten Sects and Eight Sects halfway?" ”

Zhuge calmly snatched the wooden bowl from her hand, and said in a lower voice: "At first, I thought they were just bandits and road rage, and you didn't have enough actual combat experience, so I asked you to stay and practice swords with them." But your boss Yan is in the restaurant business at home, and after drinking so many bowls of wine from them, he didn't drink the mystery of this? ”

Shu'er's eyes widened and she asked in a low voice, "What mystery?" ”

Zhuge said calmly: "The turbid liquor in this wooden bowl is the scorching rain of defending the country. ”

"Defending the country?"

"These ten sects and eight factions, in the eyes of outsiders, are scattered, and you fight for them. But in my opinion, they move neatly, retract and release freely, and they also attach great importance to the morality of the rivers and lakes, and they are not like ordinary bandits and road rages. I think that they didn't come at me this time, but that day when you and I were practicing swords in the bamboo forest, Zhang Hate of the West Demon Gate saw that your sword was forged by Meng Lin, so he deliberately provoked all the way to the peerless peak. They didn't want to compete with me, but they were always looking for the descendants of the Wei royal family who were living among the people. But they can't tell that they are the old people who defend the country, they can only approach you step by step, and see why you are holding a priceless Meng Lin sword. ”

"Are all Meng Lin swords forged for the Wei royal family?"

"At least the Meng Lin swords collected by the Shu King Wuxie's house are all from the Wei royal family."

"But my sword is not from the royal family." Shu'er smiled drunkenly and looked at Zhuge calmly. She whispered, "This sword of mine is the sword of King Huai." He died on the battlefield during the Battle of Chen Song, leaving me and ...... Alas, in short, I am not the patriotic descendant they are looking for. Actually, I don't know whose descendants I am......"

Zhuge calmly supported the swaying Shu'er and whispered, "Don't drink it, this wine is too strong, let's leave quickly." After you have been the lord of this year, don't get involved with these ten sects and eight factions. ”

Shu'er pushed Zhuge away calmly and said, "Although I know how to make wine, I have never been so drunk as I am today. "If you want to talk about "The Ups and Downs of the Nations" with more like-minded people, follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends