"Bell, bell, bell!" The melodious sound of bells echoed in the heavens and the earth, eight in a row, deafening, and the sound was deafening. Most of the mountains are shrouded in golden light, which looks beautiful and treacherous.

After a long time, the stars in the sky gradually dispersed, and a person dressed in golden light walked out of the mountain forest, and the land behind him became calm again, as if this place had never experienced a fierce battle.

A few days later, in Yongchang City, in the Huxin Pavilion of the Weiming Lake of Qingtian Academy, Xu Sanshi and Xuanyi sat opposite each other.

Xu Sanshi pinched a delicate wine glass and took a sip slightly, with no joy on his face: "Brother, this time I can be regarded as planting." ”

Xuanyi picked up the wine glass and clinked glasses with him slightly: "The punishment of the head of the courtyard has come down?"

"Hey!" Xu Sanshi sighed: "Twenty-three students died! I'm afraid it's not so easy to fool around this time." ”

He gritted his teeth, and the muscles on his face twitched: "It's good that several imperial relatives are fine, otherwise my life will be completely over." ”

"Brother, don't get carried away by anger, the top priority is to find out who is behind it. In my opinion, since he has not done his full work this time, this person will definitely not give up. Xuanyi patted his arm and persuaded him with good words.

"Well, I've got to think about myself!" Xu Sanshi raised his glass and drank it all, and a meaningful smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Brother, I think that the county lord of Shumei seems to be quite interested in you." ”

When Xuanyi saw his lewd smile, he knew what he wanted to express, he shook his head and laughed: "Brother, you better take care of yourself." ”

"That's right, that's right!Come, come, drink!" Xu Sanshi laughed, gulped down wine and food, and vented all his depression on food.

Xuanyi put down the wine glass, frowned slightly, from beginning to end he always had a feeling of being watched by, he looked around but found nothing, the faint sense of coercion was always pressed in his heart like a haze, lingering.

The two gradually lost interest in talking, and finally each poured a few pots of water and wine and parted ways.

Xuanyi walked slowly towards his residence, he didn't deliberately use his internal strength to force out the alcohol in his body, he felt a faint drunkenness, and his mood was extremely relaxed. From a distance, he noticed that there seemed to be someone standing outside the dwelling, and the style of his robe was somewhat different from that of ordinary people.

The man obviously recognized Xuanyi as well, and immediately quickened his pace to meet him.

"But Xuanyi Xuanxue?"

"Yes, it's down there. Xuanyi nodded.

Without waiting for Xuan Yi to ask, the man opened his mouth to introduce himself: "In Xia Que Zheng, he is the deputy commander of the guard of the Kokang County Palace. Speaking of this, Que Zheng's eyes lit up, and a condensed momentum rose from his strong body.

"This time, I was ordered to come and invite Xuanjiao Xi to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony of the county lord. Que Zheng took out a crimson invitation from his arms and handed it to Xuanyi.

"Dare to ask the Commander, is your county lord Shumei?"

"That's right, the county lord of Shumei is the little county lord who is the most favored by our Kokang county king, and he is also the protagonist of this coming-of-age ceremony. Que Zheng replied.

Xuanyi knew in his heart that in the Wu Dynasty, non-royal relatives could not be named county lords, and Shu Mei was obviously not the heir of the Hong family, which showed that the Shu family behind him was deeply favored by the emperor.

Que Zheng briefly explained a few words of etiquette for going to the banquet and then left, and patted Xuanyi on the shoulder with deep meaning before leaving: "Xuanjiao Xi should be a good student and prepare." ”

Xuanyi was puzzled and was about to ask, but Que Zheng had already left quickly.

Open the invitation, a faint unknown floral fragrance came to the nose, looking at the slender and neat font with a little delicate in front of him, it was difficult for Xuanyi to match it with the figure of the dancing knife and sword in his mind, and a lilac emblem was drawn under the invitation, which looked a bit like a sail at first glance.

The time for the banquet was arranged three days later, Xuanyi counted the day, it was the end of the month, originally according to the customs of the Wu Dynasty, major happy events were often arranged a few days before the beginning of the month, and rarely chose to be placed at the end of the month, ordinary people are like this, not to mention the royal nobles.

According to Fang Caique Zheng, Shu Mei, as the most favored little county lord of Kokang County, could not arrange such an important ceremony as a girl's coming-of-age ceremony on a day that was not auspicious at the end of the month.

Could it be that this arrangement has another deep meaning? Xuanyi frowned slightly, opened the invitation card again, and looked at it carefully, and indeed found something unusual.

In addition to specifying the time of the banquet, the invitation deliberately omitted one point - that is, the time of the banquet, although some aristocratic gentry often organize banquets that last all day or a few days, but the royal nobles cannot be so unscrupulous.

Xuanyi's gaze stayed on the family emblem of the Shu family for a few seconds, and in a trance, he seemed to see the emblem writhing restlessly, and his head was extremely dizzy for a few seconds.

Xuanyi's eyes lit up, but he didn't expect that there was actually the existence of xenogeneous energy on a small invitation. The wood core around his neck lit up slightly and then quickly returned to dimness, the xenomorph energy attached to the emblem was too weak, and the wood core disappeared into the air before he could analyze the composition. At this point, Xuanyi can be 100% sure that this coming-of-age banquet must have a deep meaning.

At the end of the month, Xuanyi reluctantly left from the most luxuriously decorated jewelry store in the city, all kinds of jewelry in the store are sky-high, far from the salary of Xuanyi's current low-level teachers can afford.

In the end, Xuanyi still chose a delicate sheathed short knife in a weapons shop on the street, this short knife has a relatively novel design, and the handle is hidden in the bracket, and three crossbow arrows can be ejected by simply pressing the handle. The price of this short knife was that Xuanyi paid five hundred taels of silver.

Ji Ling took out five silver tickets painfully and handed them to the boss, carefully took the brocade box with both hands, seeing his expression, Xuanyi couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

There were still a few hours before noon, and the two of them walked leisurely towards the Kokang County Palace, spending a lot of time on the road. After arriving at the palace, there were already many guests outside the palace at this time, but there were few people who came on foot like Xuanyi and the others.

Xuanyi smiled and handed the invitation to the chief of the palace who welcomed the guests, who quickly glanced at the invitation, the smile on his face was still the same, and his heart was full of doubts but pretended to have no waves.

"Xuanjiaoxi, please inside!" Shu Feng, the chief manager, bowed slightly, and a small servant behind him had already come over to take the gift and lead the two Xuanyi to take a seat.

Xuanyi glanced at it roughly, the scale of the banquet set up by the King of Kokang this time was not large, there were only less than ten tables in the entire atrium, and the scale of the guests was less than a hundred.

According to the rules of one person, Ji Ling was not allowed to sit down, and he could only stand behind Xuanyi like the entourage of other guests. As the minutes passed, the entire atrium gradually became more and more guests, and many seats were already full.