The sky is bright, the morning light in Taihua winter today seems to be extraordinarily warm, Zheng Yan felt the warmth on his face finally woke up, his body and mind were comfortable, and the fatigue accumulated by many days of sleeping and trekking and fighting was swept away, looking at the room with a bright and clean window for a while, he was lazy for a while, and he smelled a faint fragrance leisurely, and the whole person was a lot more comfortable, the taste of Xingwei...

Star Latitude?!

Zheng Yan sat up suddenly, stunned for a moment and hurriedly looked at his body, wearing underwear, but the coat was removed, it was okay; and then looked at the coat on the hanger next to him, Xingwei was not in the house, where did he go? Just left? Zheng Yan hurriedly began to check the bed again, and there was indeed a humanoid trace next to him, there was residual warmth, there was also a faint fragrance, and there was a green silk next to the pillow, what happened last night? Zheng Yan's heart was suddenly emptied.

After a while, the sound of opening the door sounded, Zheng Yan suddenly woke up, and saw Xingwei coming in with a food box, smiling gentle and intoxicating, and his posture was graceful and plump.

"What's wrong, isn't it comfortable?",

Seeing that Zheng Yan had been stunned, Xingwei put the food box on the table and walked to the bedside, as if he wanted to pretend to be concerned, but his eyes were full of ridicule and fun.

"Ah, it's okay, it's good, when did you wake up?

Zheng Yan didn't know what he said, probably his body's natural reaction to the current situation,

Xingwei finally chuckled, and then took Zheng Yan's shoes and socks to squat down, Zheng Yan hurriedly put them on himself, completely panicked,

"Didn't Yingyue and Xinluo serve you like this when you were at home?",

Xingwei looked at Zheng Yan's embarrassed appearance and smiled, turned around and went to the table to start serving the food, and asked curiously,

Zheng Yan quietly glanced at Xingwei's graceful back, and then hurriedly said, "Look at their mood, this kind of thing can't be done to me",

Xingwei turned around and asked with a smile, "Then you must be spoiling them?"

Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed, and reluctantly smiled, "It should be",

Xingwei had already set up the dishes and chopsticks, prepared a wet towel for Zheng Yan, and said with a smile, "The maids of large families will follow their masters for the rest of their lives, and they will not and do not need to have other choices and ideas except to serve their masters, which is actually quite good, right?"

Zheng Yan wiped his face and shook his head, " No, it is difficult for a maid to have a name, you know that the name is very important, not only about their status and treatment but also about the future of the child, and it is not uncommon to be bullied as a maid in the room, because it must be close to the master, and in the future, after the mother enters the door, it will inevitably be jealous of the people, and it is not strange to wear small shoes and scold or something in daily trivialities, even if the male owner protects it, the law will only protect the eldest woman and the famous wife and concubine, and the maid is different from the ordinary maid, the ordinary maid may be hired to have a serious household registration of the woman, and the maid is actually no different from the slave”。

The two sat down and began to eat, Xingwei took a bite of the dish, thought about it and asked, "How will you deal with possible conflicts between them when you marry a lady in the future?"

Zheng Yan smiled and said, "If I can be the master, I will definitely not marry that kind of jealous and vicious woman, of course, if I can be the master, I will not marry a wife",

Xingwei asked curiously, "Don't they all say that men have three wives and four concubines, and there are many heirs?"

Zheng Yan suddenly explained with a smile, "This is just a metaphor, raising wives and concubines and children must have corresponding family wealth and the ability to support the family, so what actually means that men should be motivated, diligent and responsible, just like being born in Suzhou and Hangzhou and dying and buried in the north."

Xingwei suddenly smiled and said, "In that case, you should be unmotivated, right?"

Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed, such an idea in a powerful family is indeed a deviant and unmotivated performance, but such an idea is very respected by everyone in private, otherwise characters like Zheng Nanzhu and uncle Zheng Kaiyuan would have been in a group of wives and concubines.

"No, we are all cultivators, what do cultivators do when they are involved in so many karmic things? Hongchen is a trap, no, it is an illusion, it wants you to fall into it all the time, yes, this is also the meaning of the way of heaven, so that all living beings in the world are deeply trapped in it and will not think about breaking through its shackles, so we will tell ourselves that cultivation is a matter of going against the sky, and we should not invite too many obstacles to ourselves."

Xingwei chuckled and said, "What you say is not convincing at all, the growth and cultivation of living beings is the process of satisfying their own desires, and the desires after falling into the illusion are also your desires, and you will be happy when you are satisfied, if the illusion is shattered or you wake up by yourself, there is only an empty understanding, in fact, even if it is a real thing, when you change your mind one day, you will feel that what you did and thought before is just vain, then can you say that the previous ones are as meaningless as illusions?" But are those real things?"

Zheng Yan was a little speechless, from the perspective of a monk, illusions and reality are as meaningful, but for ordinary people, the disillusionment is indeed only an empty one, but most of the people are in self-denial before themselves, so that they can progress, what is the difference between those past and illusions that can be denied? Can you say that they are meaningless? At least it is the accumulation of experience, and the illusion can also accumulate experience to adjust the self, so it seems that the illusion is also reality, because it is what we see and feel, so the question is why do we think that the illusion is meaningless? Just because the illusion can only affect our soul and spirit, but not our body? Does it have to act on the body to be realistic and objective? So what is reading and thinking? Preparation before reality begins? But not all reading and thinking can be embodied into reality, so those reading and thinking that cannot be embodied into reality are meaningless if they are not reality?

Xingwei didn't know that Zheng Yan, who was a little distracted, had run away, smiled slightly, and handed a chopstick dish to his mouth, Zheng Yan subconsciously ate it, and the two people who were about to come in at the door of the outer room stopped, and they didn't seem to know whether to enter or retreat for a while.

In the end, Dugu Takihyun turned around and left, Jingshu put the food box on the table and said, "I went to your room to look for you in the morning, but no one answered no matter how I called, it turned out that Mr. was here, and he actually got breakfast, which made me worry about it all night."

Xingwei smiled, "When your food is cold, do you have any arrangements today?"

Jing Shu put out a few more plates of breakfast and said casually, "In a while, I will let everyone go down to see the four volumes of the Heavenly Book, and there are some secret treasures to see the fate of each person, if you can get it to Shengyang Mountain, it will also be given away, Mr. Let's go together in a while, Miss Yuchan has already passed with Aunt Fengyi",

Zheng Yan originally lowered his head to eat, but he was a little helpless when he heard the words, Yuchan actually ran away by himself, Xingye also said that he would let him take care of her, but he didn't expect to be a wild girl,

"Okay, I'll take a look later, by the way, do you have any arrangements for Dugu Takihyun for a while?

Jingshu got up and said, "I'll go tell Sister Takihyun and let her wait for Mr.", and walked out as she spoke.

Zheng Yan was completely uncomfortable with Jing Shu calling himself husband, so he took it as a name, and Xingwei next to him smiled and didn't say anything,

"Xingwei, why didn't you see Shuangyun and Wu Huang last night?",

"They should have gone out to do things, I heard that there is a lot of waste to be done here, not only do you need to recruit manpower but also need to prepare all kinds of expenses, more than half of the men brought by Li Zhibei are hiding in the city and don't know what they are doing, all you see are some cats and dogs",

Zheng Yan listened to how Xingwei seemed to be a little unimpressed with Li Zhubei.

After eating and cleaning up, Zheng Yan went to find Dugu Takihun, knocked on the door and no one answered, and finally the door was opened, but the woman in front of her frowned slightly and her expression was still cold, Zheng Yan didn't care, signaling if she could go in and talk, the woman seemed to be a little hesitant, and after a while, she still let go, Zheng Yan stepped into the threshold and was about to close the door, but was stopped by a plain hand.

"I'm a little unsure about this matter, it's better not to let others know",

Zheng Yan said with some doubts,

Dugu Takihyun looked at Zheng Yan and frowned again, but still took his hand away. After the door was closed, Zheng Yan was about to go inside again, and Dugu Takihyun finally spoke.

"What the hell are you going to do?

Zheng Yan turned around and nodded, "It's really a bit unsightly, at least here, uh, wait, what do you want to express something else?"

The woman opposite seemed to be a little stunned, and after a while, she sighed lightly and walked in, Zheng Yan followed behind a little inexplicably, wondering if there was something wrong when she fused last night, or that there were some taboos in some of the bits and pieces of the two getting along in the New Year's money before, so it seems that there really is, but I remember that she didn't say anything at that time!

When the two arrived inside, Dugu Takihyun turned to Zheng Yan, just looking at the white jade vase next to him, Zheng Yan stepped forward and suddenly pointed at the woman's eyebrows, Dugu Takihyun was suddenly startled, his eyes widened and his face was stunned, but he didn't say anything else, as Zheng Yan pushed a dark light cluster drawn from his eyebrows into her eyebrows, the woman quickly fell into a stupor.

A fiery red and dark magma world, but he didn't feel the temperature at all, and finally saw the middle-aged man again, Zheng Yan looked at Dugu Takihyun beside him and said with a smile, "Finally completed the task, you talk first", said and retreated and disappeared, Dugu Takihyun subconsciously grabbed it, but it was as empty as before.

"Little Black Chick",

There was a loving call from the side.

Zheng Yan looked at the woman with empty eyes but tears rippling on the other side, a little relieved, the promise was really not done casually, if it weren't for the encounter in the cave, there wouldn't have been so many things along the way, maybe at this time he was sitting quietly in the school building of Guozijian to distract or listen to lectures, there was no hunger and cold, there was no dangerous battle, there were not so many people and so many things, alas, born in the world, if you are not careful, you will fall into an illusion, I hope that when I return to Luoyang, everything will be empty.

Zheng Yan, who was relaxed, thought about going out like this, looking at the book of heaven and browsing those so-called secret treasures, and didn't want to understand that they were all indifferent things, but he thought that Dugu Takihyun was still in Lu Yin's mind in Shengyang City, and saw that the woman's tears had already slipped down to the placket of her clothes, anyway, she should send the Buddha to the west, so she went outside and brought a pot of water in, prepared a towel and waited for her to wake up.

The house has been quiet, and there are gradually a lot of voices outside, first the servants came to clean up, Jingshu became a housekeeper or is also studying, and has been talking about some details of the work, it sounds like these servants are all from human origin, and they are all from Shengyang Mountain out of nowhere, which reminds Zheng Yan of the situation when he and Xingye went to Beifu Mountain, and I don't know what happened to those people in the end, don't really be eaten by the spirits like the legend.

After that, there was the sound of Li stopping the cup, and I heard that I was going to go straight to the attic here, but I was stopped by Jingshu halfway, but fortunately, I deliberately explained to Jingshu when I came in before. However, although Jingshu is smart but also simple, after a few words, Li Zhibei asked Li to set out the content that only Zheng Yan and Dugu Takihyun were in the attic, and then there was silence, and the courtyard fell silent.

Zheng Yan could naturally see what Li Zhubei meant to Dugu Takihun, probably jealous, well, under normal circumstances, most people may be jealous, maybe they will be irritable or even rush in, Zheng Yan leaned on the partition between the inside and the outside and looked outside with interest, imagining the situation when Li Zhubei rushed in in a hurry,

However, Li Zhubei is Li Zhubei after all, and soon began to chat with Jingshu with a warm smile, but Jingshu rarely answers, so it will definitely be a little embarrassing to chat, but Li Zhubei is not discouraged, Zheng Yan has to admit that this guy is indeed very capable, if it is placed in the world, it is definitely an existence like Wenrengui, but people are stronger than Wenrengui now.

With the passage of time, Dugu Takihyun in the house has not moved, but he no longer shed tears, just when Zheng Yan went in to check again, suddenly a breath of qi suddenly erupted from the originally quiet woman, sharp and bursting, Zheng Yan was defenseless and flew out upside down the next moment, almost at the same time, the door behind him was slammed open accompanied by an angry and cold question,

"Is that what Your Excellency is here to visit?!".

Zheng Yan didn't care to answer Li Zhubei's question, the moment he was hit by the gas engine just now, he saw an extremely inconspicuous phantom trying to get close to Dugu Takihun, so his feet were forced to land and he completed the accumulation in a very short time, and then instantly rushed into the dark smoke in the room, Li Zhubei never stopped, and followed Zheng Yan and rushed in.

Jingshu was a little anxious, but when she was about to rush in, she was pulled by Xingwei, who shook his head and looked at the spirits who came to hear the sound.

Zheng Yan rushed into the dark smoke without any thought, and as soon as he entered, he was a little calm, he couldn't see anything in front of him, and the violent qi from before disappeared in an instant, as if he had entered the center through the storm. Thinking about the distance between him and Dugu Takihyun before, he stretched out his hand and grabbed it, but he didn't catch anything, I remember that when the qi machine first started to erupt, Dugu Takihyun still closed his eyes and didn't wake up or move, why is he not in the original position now? Such a short time? There is no feeling of Li stopping the cup behind him, I remember that Yu Guangming saw him coming in with him just now.

Just when Zheng Yan was puzzled and groped around, he suddenly felt a strong wind in his ears, almost subconsciously twisted his body and grabbed it with a claw, the other party's change of move was also extremely fast, dodging Zheng Yan's claw and raising his knee and bumped over, Zheng Yan slapped the knee that hit him obliquely upwards with a palm, and judged that the person who attacked was Li Zhubei through the feeling of the clothes under his hands, and almost subconsciously accelerated the speed of the move, and then there was a storm that seemed to attack, and finally Li Zhubei was smashed by Zheng Yan with a punch, and then there was no movement.

In a moment's fight, it was obvious that Zheng Yan had defeated Li Zhubei, which made Zheng Yan feel a sense of pride in his heart, and then he felt a little inexplicable, when was this going on? Thinking of this, he hurriedly continued to grope Dugu Taki, but before he could touch it, another wave of energy struck, and in an instant Zheng Yan concluded that this was definitely not Li Zhubei, let alone Dugu Taki, so it was another fight, the opponent was obviously more powerful than Li Zhubei, whether it was strength or reaction, Zheng Yan was beaten a few punches, although the blood was surging, he knew that the opponent was not easy, so he endured and kept entanglement with the other party, at least he couldn't let him get close to Dugu Takihyun What to do.

The opponent obviously wanted to break free from the battle, but Zheng Yan's sense of battle was too strong, and he wouldn't give him a chance and room at all, but he didn't know if he could see the situation around him clearly, but Zheng Yan was not sure to take down the other party, just when he couldn't hold on to each other and consumed each other, Zheng Yan suddenly felt that his body was light, broken, and was stabbed by someone with a sharp blade!

The feeling of being stabbed or scratched by a sharp blade in a fierce fight is very weak, but Zheng Yan is no stranger, and he has experienced it a lot when he was at home, of course, not really greeting with a real knife or a real gun, but in Ru Hui's illusion, there is not much difference from the real feeling. Knowing that he was stabbed or cut by the opponent, Zheng Yan immediately changed his breath and pounced along the strength of the opponent, this is the easiest way to fight, when you know that the opponent has a blade and you don't, either retreat and wait for the opportunity, or close to make the opponent lose the use of the blade, Zheng Yan chose the latter.

The surrounding darkness is very mysterious, you can only feel something when you are close, such as sounds such as qi machines, the opponent didn't seem to expect Zheng Yan to take such a fighting style, and then he was completely knocked down by a punch and a kick, Zheng Yan suddenly grabbed an outstretched wrist, and with a hard pinch, there was a clear sound of bone cracking, and the sound of a blade falling sounded, and the wrist he was holding in his hand suddenly disappeared when he was about to step on it, and then there was no more induction from that guy.

Then the surrounding darkness began to tremble, gradually becoming light, until there was a light through, Dugu Takihyun who opened his eyes saw the blood-stained Zheng Yan with a stunned face for a while, and stepped over to grab it to check, Zheng Yan quickly looked around and said that it was okay, and then suddenly noticed that Dugu Takihyun was staring in one direction, where Li Zhubei was holding a delicate dagger and frowning.

Xingwei and Jingshu, who came in, were stunned when they saw the situation in front of them, Xingwei instantly appeared beside Zheng Yan, Jingshu had already slapped Li Zhu's cup with one palm, Zheng Yan hurriedly spoke,

"It's not him!".