At the end of the year, it is the time for everyone to have a banquet, relatives and friends have to take turns to do the east, no matter whether the waist bag is a drum or a deflated one, they have to fill a fat man, contact with fox friends and dog friends, and by the way prove that they have mixed quite well this year.

Let alone the small people in the market, let alone the government and yamen, which are places where power and wealth are concentrated in the world.

At the end of every year, if the officials do not go out en masse, eat and drink for ten days and a half months, their brains are full of fat, their mouths are full of oil, and they carry the special allowances and New Year's goods issued by the yamen, they seem to be drunk and hazy, but in fact, they go home with a swagger, and they cannot show their neighbors that they are people in official uniforms, and they cannot prove that they are superior, which will greatly affect the sense of superiority that will be maintained for the whole year in the coming year.

The last few months of this year have been very fruitful, and the officials and soldiers of the prefecture have also received enough oil and water in addition to the Yulu, so the scale and movement of the banquet during this period are very large.

Don't say that when the officials above the general flag are dispatched, they often charter a whole rich and magnificent restaurant, and even ordinary government soldiers get together, and when they arrive at the restaurant, their voices are also loud, and they reward one more than one, for fear that others will not know their own majesty, and they will not know that they are masters, and they will not be able to experience their own high spirits.

Zhao Ning has been tossed a lot these days, he always feels that his body has been hollowed out by wine, and he wakes up on the bed every morning, and he is somewhat weak in the face of Xia He's resentful appearance.

This is a helpless thing, with his current status in the Governor's Mansion, there are too many kinds of flattery, plus it is the first year to serve in the Governor's Mansion, and it is also the first time to get involved in officialdom, Zhao Ning can't be close to people, let alone fall into a high-minded and self-sustaining reputation, so he always has to give his subordinates and colleagues some face.

This led to almost all the famous Qinglou in Pingkangfang, and he was almost invited to visit it.

On the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhao Ning no longer had to go to the Governor's Mansion, so he planned to rest in the mansion for a day, enjoy a massage from Xia He, and nourish his spirit, so as to prepare for the New Year in various provinces after the New Year.

This year, he has entered the office, and his identity is different, and he needs to be serious to greet the elders, such as the Luguo Mansion. At that time, he will definitely be pulled by the heroic and enthusiastic old man Wei Chongshan, who will pour a belly of wine and stuff a belly of meat.

After resting for a long time, someone from the Fu Soldier Workshop came to report, saying that there was something wrong with the production of the amethyst rune bow, and now that Zhao Xuanji was not in the house, they asked Zhao Ning to take a look.

There was no way, Zhao Ning could only get up from the recliner and leave the rare warm sun, with Xia He's soft and powerful slender jade hands.

When he arrived at the Fu Bing Workshop, Zhao Ning quickly understood the situation, it turned out that there was a problem with the rune array engraving of the amethyst stone, and the rune masters and craftsmen in the workshop failed to successfully complete this most important process.

"We haven't used amethyst to refine runes before, so we don't know much about its characteristics, and we thought that after refining amethyst, arranging rune arrays on it is not much different from other ores, but everyone has tried for so long, and the results have always been unsatisfactory. The workshop steward was ashamed.

Zhao Ning frowned slightly, "Is it completely unsuccessful, or is the rune array's transformation and utilization of true qi insufficient?"

The steward said truthfully: "The amethyst stone rune array is better than using the ore we are used to ...... to increase the power of true qi."

This is not done at all, and Zhao Ning feels very dissatisfied in his heart. After the steward introduced some details in detail, Zhao Ning also realized that this could not be blamed on the talismans and craftsmen of the workshop.

Amethyst is the core resource of the Liu family, and the effect of improving the power of the Fu soldiers is unique in the world, and the annual output is not much, with the relationship between the civil and military forces of the Great Qi, the suppression attitude of the gate to the generals, and the opposing position of the Liu family and the Zhao family, the Zhao family could not get the amethyst stone in batches before, so there was no research on it.

Now that the runes are in a hurry, it is reasonable that it is difficult to refine in a short period of time.

According to the workshop manager, the Zhao clan's talismans may need a period of time to study amethyst thoroughly, as short as three or five months, and as long as one or two years.

Zhao Ning is going to get a thousand amethyst stone rune bows in half a year, and according to the current situation, it is not possible at all.

Zhao Ning was also unfamiliar with amethyst in his previous life, he had never refined a talisman soldier, nor was he a talisman master, so he never expected something to be so difficult. Although he was born again, it did not mean that he became an omnipotent god.

The first solution that Zhao Ning thought of was to ask for help from several other generals who were very close to the Zhao family.

But when he thought about it carefully, there seemed to be no one in the gate who was familiar with amethyst stones, and those amethyst stones produced by the Liu family seemed to be only sold to the Mendi family.

"This is a bit troublesome...... "Zhao Ning can't get the Liu clan's talisman master back from the distribution place and refine the talisman for his own - the other party will not agree if he eats a ghost."

There are very few amethyst mines in the world, except for the Liu family, there are only two amethyst mines in the imperial room, and it is said that the output is far inferior to the Lantian Mountain mine.

"Do you want to ask the emperor for someone?" Zhao Ning felt that this idea was debatable.

Zhao Ning walked back, wondering whether he should or could ask the emperor for a talisman master, but before he entered the courtyard gate, Wei Wuxian and Chen Anzhi were killed halfway - the Zhao family and the Wei family were world friends, and Wei Wuxian never had to report when he entered the mansion.

"Let's go, let's go to Yanlai Tower!" Chen Yanjin went crazy today, and he was ashamed to say that if he wanted a top two to bring us down, I had to let him know what a grasshopper shook a tree!"

Chen Biting Jin is a new nickname he gave Chen Anzhi, intended to ridicule the other party as a reckless and rough man with developed limbs like Cheng Biting Jin.

Chen Anzhi happily accepted this nickname, and retorted, saying that Wei Wuxian had never read a book, and he didn't know that Cheng Yanjin was a true wise man with a thick outer and a thin inside.

Zhao Ning has already made up his mind, in the past few days, he has a good time to rest and recuperate his weak body, if he is another person and wants to take him to Yanlailou to drink and prostitute, he will definitely refuse.

Even if Wei Wuxian dragged him hard, he could put the other party in the mansion and bask in the sun with him.

Chen Anzhi is different.

After the autumn hunt, this guy went to the Ministry of Rites, and the Chen family was in the back of the door, and the family was not compatible with the prime minister, so he could only be an eight-grade master, and the starting point was lower.

On weekdays, everyone is busy with official business, and they have to pay close attention to cultivation when they are resting, since they have entered the office, they are no longer gentle, and when they are not so much idle, the requirements of the family have suddenly become stricter, which has led to the fox friends and dog friends who used to be messing around all day long, and now they are in Yanping City, but it is rare to see each other.

This is not to mention flying eagles and lackeys as usual, fighting with other sons in the market, drinking wine and eating meat in big bowls.

Half a month ago, Zhao Ning and Wei Wuxian took the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion to inspect the security on the street, and met Chen Anzhi by chance, and the other party also accused them of being at ease in the Duwei Mansion now, cooperating with each other to achieve great success, one has become the sixth grade and the other has become the seventh grade, which can be described as "high-ranking officials have to ride on horses", but they forgot that there is also an eight-rank petty official brother who eats soil in the Ministry of Rites, and he only spends his days as a year, so he asks where his conscience is.

Now is a good time to reunite at the end of the year, Zhao Ning has to pour Chen Anzhi into Yanlai Building, and then stuff the most popular Qingqier into his quilt - that is worthy of the word brother.

Because it was still early, the three of them lingered in Zhao Ning's courtyard for two hours.

Chen Anzhi found an excuse to learn martial arts with Wei Wuxian, who laughed with his hands on his hips, saying that Chen Anzhi was really asking for his own hardships, you need to know that because of his good performance in the Duwei Mansion, he was rewarded with a lot of precious pills by his family, and now he has achieved the middle stage of the Imperial Qi Realm for many days, and is about to break through the late stage of the Imperial Qi Realm.

As a result, Chen Anzhi, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, beat Wei Wuxian, who was three hundred pounds, to run all over the yard. It wasn't until he chased the other party up the big locust tree that he patted the dust on his robe, and Shi Shiran withdrew his hand.

"Why are you in the middle of the Qi Realm? This, you are also in the middle of the Qi Realm, how can you fight so much more than me? This is not fair!" Wei Wuxian, who was like a bear, couldn't help but scream before he could come down from the tree trunk.

Chen Anzhi, who was dressed in a solid green robe, stood with his hands on his chest and long body, his face was full of master demeanor, and when he heard this, he raised his nose and snorted, making a disdain to answer the nonsense questions of his defeated generals.

Zhao Ning looked dumbfounded and smiled. Before he was reborn, the most capable of the three was Chen Anzhi, who was born in the door but longed for the iron-blooded Chen Anzhi on the battlefield. Wei Wuxian's mind is full of bad ideas, he is the dog-headed military master of the three, and his hands-on ability is a little worse.

Soon, Zhao Ning sighed again.

Not to mention that the Chen family is inferior to the Wei family, and the best cultivation pills that the clan can have are not as good as the Wei family, Chen Anzhi has served in the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites for a few months, and there will be no chance of meritorious service being rewarded by the family and cherishing the pills, in this case, he can still be in the realm not lost to Wei Wuxian, who is already very diligent, and I don't know how hard to practice.

Wei Wuxian got off the tree, rubbing his thick arms and muttering dissatisfiedly, "It's really worthy of Chen Biting Jin, it's really fucking heavy." ”

These words were exchanged for a warning look from Chen Anzhi, which means that if you are verbose, I will let you go up the tree again.

Wei Wuxian dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, he walked to the stone table with grief and indignation, lifted the teapot and raised his head to a fierce pour, drank it directly, and then put it on the table again, making a bang, to show that although he lost, although he didn't dare to fight again, he just didn't accept it.

Chen Anzhi, who was inexplicably evil, did not continue to answer Wei Wuxian, he snorted again with a complacent and majestic face, accepted it when he saw it, and turned his head to look at Zhao Ning.

At this time, his mouth moved, but in the end he didn't speak, and the smugness on his face gradually dissipated.

There's also a late stage of the Imperial Qi Realm, forget it, you can't beat it, it's better to drink and drink him......

In the evening, the trio set off for Pingkangfang. Before leaving the door, Wei Wuxian suddenly laughed at the sound of a pig, which made Chen Anzhi very disgusted, and at the same time asked him curiously why he was laughing.

The sound of the pig made Wei Wuxian startle, and he quickly covered his mouth, and when he heard Chen Anzhi's question, his eyebrows immediately fluttered, and he approached Chen Anzhi, squeezing his eyebrows at Zhao Ning, who had a black line on his face, and chuckled:

"Didn't you see Xia He's resentful little eyes? She was sorry for Brother Ning to continue to go to the Qinglou to empty her body, and she was deeply resentful, but she didn't dare to speak...... Hey, hey, hey, haha......"

is also the son of a family, where could Chen Anzhi not understand the meaning of the words, and suddenly realized, he also followed Wei Wuxian, turned his head to look at Zhao Ning and smiled.

Seeing that these two guys were laughing quite rhythmically, Zhao Ning was annoyed and angry, and in order to prove that he was still fierce, he said with a dark face: "It's the grandson who will drink down first later!"