This night, Duan Jiu lay in bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep for a long time. I don't know if it's because he slept too much when he was unconscious, or because of the kiss of Fang Cai Tiannu Xi. He only felt that his heart rate had not calmed down for a long time, and his whole brain was abnormally awake, and he could not sit still.

I don't know how long it will take to toss and turn like this, he only knows that when he woke up, he opened his eyes and saw Ling'er grinning at him with bared teeth.

"Brother, get up, the sun is going to burn your ass!"

Duan Jiu rubbed his sleepy eyes and was about to stand up, but he saw Tiannu Xi walking over with a vermilion tray on the other side of the door.

Duan Jiu's heart suddenly jumped as if he was about to be resurrected.

Tiannuxi put the tray on the wooden table, the orange-red broth on the tray is fragrant, you can see red dates, codonopsis, wolfberry, black chicken, etc., the sale is good, attracting people salivating.

Heavenly Maiden Xi smiled and said, "How about Duan Gongzi taste my phoenix soup?"

Ling'er hurriedly continued: "Well, this is the soup that Ling'er and Sister Xiaoxi have been boiling for more than an hour in the morning. It's fragrant, it's sweet. ”

Duan Jiu smiled slightly, looking at the red blood-tonifying soup, he suddenly felt like a woman doing confinement. He touched Ling'er's nose with his hand, looked up at Tiannu Xi again, and smiled, "Thank you." ”

With that, Duan Jiu lifted the bowl and drank the soup with a grunt.

Ling'er hurriedly grabbed Duan Jiu's left hand and said angrily: "Brother, don't you know how to taste it?

Duan Jiu put the bowl down, and at this time, the soup was gone, and the only few pieces of chicken were left with bones in the bowl. Duan Jiu looked at Ling'er who was pouting, smiled, and promised, "I will definitely taste it next time." ”

Ling'er pursed her lips and said, "Ling'er and Sister Xiaoxi have been boiling for more than an hour, and you can drink it all in one sip." Hmph, Ling'er won't boil it for you next time. ”

Duan Jiu smiled, lifted the quilt, and was about to get out of bed.

Heavenly Maiden Xi asked softly, "Where are you going to Gongzi Duan?"

Duan Jiu picked up the tray and said, "I'll go and boil a bowl for Ling'er." ”

Heavenly Maiden Xi couldn't help laughing, covered her mouth and chuckled, and reached over to get the tray back, but as soon as her jade hand touched Duan Jiu's hand, Duan Jiu was like touching lightning, and suddenly let go, the tray slipped and tilted to one side, and the bowl fell to the ground, shattering with a "bang".

Duan Jiu hurriedly squatted down to clean up the fragments of the bowl, and Heavenly Maiden Xi also squatted down, only Ling'er sat on the edge of the bed, tilting her head, and looking at the two of them with a confused expression.

The two of them picked up the pieces of the bowl on the tray, and after making sure that they were done, Duan Jiu wanted to pick up the tray, and Tiannu Xi also wanted to pick up the tray, but the two of them unconsciously touched each other again, Duan Jiu hurriedly took it back, Tiannu Xi smiled lightly, and said softly: "Duan Gongzi, you are really a gentleman." ”

Duan Jiu's face was slightly red, and he stood up at the same time as Tiannu Xi, his hand wanted to take back the tray, feeling that it must be bad to let a girl do so much work for herself, but he couldn't reach out for some reason.

Ling'er jumped out of bed and muttered, "Brother is really clumsy. ”

Tiannu Xi couldn't help but smile, took Ling'er's little hand, and said, "Duan Gongzi, let me do this kind of work." You've just finished the soup and sit down to rest. With that, the two walked out of the Chen Pavilion.

Duan Jiu looked at Ling'er's distant back, and wondered in his heart, how could this girl recognize her sister when she saw that girl, and she was closer than my brother, who had been with her for three years.

Duan Jiu sat on the edge of the bed, although he didn't sleep well last night, he didn't feel sleepy. I just feel a little bored, I want to practice the control technique, but he can't cultivate without Ling'er. As soon as he closed his eyes, the face of Tiannu Xi suddenly appeared in his mind, and he immediately opened it in a panic. For some reason, he now has an inexplicable sense of guilt, like he has done something sorry for people.

He touched his heart, feeling that the beating had returned to normal, but it was still not as comfortable as before. He shook his head, stood up, and looked out the window, where the lotus flowers were blooming.

"Let's go outside. This woman's seduction is too powerful. ”

Duan Jiu stood up and was about to leave the door of the Chen Pavilion, when he suddenly saw a middle-aged man in red on the Wuting Road striding towards the Yuhua Pavilion.

"Mo Yingtian?" Duan Jiu was shocked.

He recognized this person, he was Mo Yingtian, the newly established city lord of Kaiyang City by King Fengjing after Duan Zhenghao's death!

Kaiyang City is his hometown, and Duan Jiu is very concerned about the wind and grass in the city, so as soon as Mo Yingtian took office, he began to secretly inquire about this person's news.

However, to his disappointment, this Mo Yingtian seemed to be a person who had never been born out of thin air before, and there was very little information about him that could be investigated. I only know that this person has made meritorious contributions to King Fengjing's rescue, so he has won the trust of King Fengjing, and within a year, because of Duan Zhenghao's death, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to the position of the city lord of Kaiyang City!

Duan Jiu had always felt suspicious about this, he was convinced that Mo Yingtian was King Fengyu's person, and all of this was arranged by them in a plot, killing Duan Zhenghao and supporting Mo Yingtian. King Fengyu wanted to create contradictions again and again, find a reason to destroy the old city lord, support his henchmen to gain the trust of King Fengjing, take up the new city lord, and gain the right to rule the cities of the Su Dynasty step by step!

Duan Jiu was originally unsure of this, but it wasn't until Ma Longwei, the city lord of Tianfeng City, took office and the old city lords of the ten cities of the Su Dynasty were ousted one by one in various ways, that he was even more sure that these were all a game of chess that had been planned for a long time.

On the surface, the "owner of the village" is inseparable from King Fengyu, but in fact, they are friends rather than enemies.

Duan Jiu knew very well that he was being a pawn at the mercy of his allies who killed his father's enemy!

But Duan Jiu didn't have a choice, he had to do it, he didn't have any strength to fight against these two forces.

Get involved and get to know it!

Duan Jiu gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and looked at Mo Yingtian with solemn and hateful eyes. When Mo Yingtian completely disappeared from sight, he hammered the door with his left hand, the door was solid wood, and the door was not damaged in the slightest, but his hand felt the numb pain.

This is the reality, hitting the stone with an egg is destined to break the egg and the stone is not damaged.

Duan Jiu sometimes felt that he was too calm, and there were too many things that he could see clearly, so he was very tired, tired and wanted to be impulsive once.

However, from three years ago, when he wanted to kill the Fengyu Mansion single-handedly with his bare hands, but because of Ling'er's fall, he didn't succeed, and when he chose to forbear because of a letter, Duan Jiu understood that he was too calm, so calm that the blood and hatred couldn't make him really impulsive!

Am I emotionless? Or have I been numb from crying day by day since my mother died?

Sometimes, Duan Jiu would also wonder if he had loved, loved his family, loved his parents, loved Grandpa Wei, and loved Ling'er. Every time he thought about it, he felt that he was too terrible, so terrible that he didn't dare to love himself, but he also had to love others, proving that he was human and emotional.

Duan Jiu took a heavy breath and sat back on the bed. He didn't rush over to find out, and he didn't rush to Mo Yingtian to question. He chose to sit back quietly, because he knew that he could not startle the snake at this time, and he could not expose his face.

Time slowly passed for a while, and it was Tiannu Xi and Ling'er who came in from outside the door.

Ling'er smiled at Duan Jiu and said, "Brother, Ling'er just thought of a way that allows you to compensate Ling'er, guess what?"

Duan Jiu shook his head and said, "Do you want your brother to take you to Yujie City to play?"

Ling'er shook her head and said with a smile: "It's not." Ling'er wanted her brother to weave a wreath for Ling'er. Like, the one in Sister Xiaoxi's hand. ”

After speaking, Tiannu Xi cooperated and raised the wreath in her hand, the flower had withered, and there was only a circle of gray vines sandwiched with one or two dying petals.

Ling'er explained: "This was done by Ling'er and Sister Xiaoxi two days ago, and Ling'er found that the wreath had withered, so Ling'er, I want my brother to make one for Ling'er." Okay, okay?"

Duan Jiu frowned slightly, it's okay for you to let him chop wood and make a fire, this is a wreath......

"Okay, okay?" Ling'er pulled Duan Jiu's left hand and kept shaking.

"Okay, okay. Duan Jiu gave way.

"Then brother and Ling'er come on. Ling'er excitedly pulled Duan Jiu up and said.

Duan Jiu then followed Ling'er and Heavenly Maiden Xi out of the Chen Pavilion, and saw that Mo Yingtian was walking out of the Yuhua Pavilion at this time, he seemed to have completed something and was in a hurry to go back.

Seeing Duan Jiu's eyes staring at Mo Yingtian, Heavenly Maiden Xi asked, "Is Duan Gongzi very interested in that person?"

Duan Jiu came back to his senses and said, "Little ...... Miss Xiaoxi, do you know why he came?"

Heavenly Maiden Xi said: "For the sake of Liu's predecessor's Jiuyang return elixir." ”

Duan Jiu's heart trembled, this elixir needs to be refined from the herbs of the Nine Flavors to the Yang, and it has the same effect as the Qi Spirit Pill! The Jiuyang Returning Spirit Pill can quickly restore people's spiritual energy, and it is said that it has a certain effect of repairing the spiritual veins.

It is not difficult to obtain the nine-flavor pill required for Jiuyang Rejuvenation Pill, but the heat during alchemy, the time of entering the medicine, and the order are all particular, if the fire is too big, the herbs will be incinerated immediately, and the fire is too small, and the herbs cannot be refined and formed. The refining of the nine flavor grass should not be messed up, and if it is messed up, it may be counterproductive. In the process of refining the Nine Flavor Herbs in turn, the time to put them into the Dan furnace should not be too early or too late, otherwise the effect of the herb will be greatly damaged or even completely lost.

It is precisely because these requirements are too strict that the Jiuyang Returning Spirit Pill must come from the hands of the master to rest assured. This may be the reason why a powerful person like Mo Yingtian needs to sell his face to Liu Wangchun for alchemy.

Seeing that Duan Jiu didn't respond, Heavenly Maiden Xi said again, "Does Duan Gongzi remember last night?"

Duan Jiuyi heard that last night, his face was slightly red, and the picture of Heavenly Maiden Xi kissing him instantly appeared in his mind, and instantly the whole person felt uncomfortable, swallowed his saliva, and said, "Huh?"

Heavenly Maiden Xi covered her mouth and chuckled, and said, "Didn't Duan Gongzi forget, when you were waiting for Senior Liu yesterday, Senior Liu was refining the pill? At that time, Senior Liu was refining the Jiuyang Returning Spirit Pill. ”

"Ahh Duan Jiu seemed to suddenly realize, and he was even more relieved, only to feel a great sigh of relief in his heart. But he blamed himself for not forgetting such a rude thing, and even thought about it crankily.

Heavenly Maiden Xi looked at Duan Jiu and squeezed her eyes, and said with a smile: "Didn't Duan Gongzi think of something else?"

Duan Jiumu said, "No...... Yes. ”

Most people thought that Duan Jiu was stammering and saying "no", but in fact, Duan Jiu wanted to say no, but he subconsciously corrected himself, and even more so for "yes".

Heavenly Maiden Xi smiled coquettishly.

The three of them had walked out of the Yuhua Pavilion and headed up the mountain......