In the evening, Chaosi Lane.

There are several plates of delicacies on the stone table in the small courtyard, including the indispensable noodle soup from Aunt Feng's hands, sweet and sour tenderloin, beef jerky, roast chicken, roast goose, steamed crucian carp, a plate of fennel beans by the way, and a pot of wine exclusive to Li Mengzhou.

For Li Mengzhou's financial resources, this is already an extremely luxurious dinner, and it is unimaginable in normal times.

Except for fennel beans, which are cheaper, everyone can afford to eat, and even eat them as snacks, and the rest of the meat dishes, on such a big day as the New Year, Li Mengzhou is not willing to spend money to buy and eat, it's not that he can't afford it, it's just that he really doesn't want to spend that silver, and he feels that it's a bit too wasteful.

But today is different, although there is no danger, but it is also worth extravagance and waste, eat a good meal, and comfort your fragile heart.

Li Mengzhou held a bowl of steaming noodle soup, with a chopstick for each dish, his cheeks were bulging, the corners of his mouth were full of oil stains, he poured a big sip of wine, swallowed it hard, and tasted the taste buds fragrantly, and said with some emotion: "Although I have Aunt Feng's noodle soup to drink every day, and I can eat some good things after morning class in the Sword Academy, but after all, it is not as delicious as this, and I feel as if I haven't eaten meat for several years." ”

has no livelihood to make money, just relying on the monthly Tianshu Yuan to distribute the money, with Gu Shiyan here, Li Mengzhou can't save it if he wants to, he usually doesn't feel anything, but at the moment he has a feeling of pity for himself.

Gu Shiyan is still eating very elegantly, she can eat very well, but she eats slowly, so there have been things like Li Mengzhou swallowing all the meals, and the result is naturally unbearable, although Gu Shiyan still has not changed the elegant temperament of eating, but Li Mengzhou does not dare to grab food anymore.

No matter how fast he eats or how unbearable his appearance is, the food that finally enters his stomach is not proportional, Gu Shiyan eats slowly, but most of the food is hers, Li Mengzhou can only stare dryly at the end.

Fortunately, today's dinner is very sufficient, but I don't have to worry about whether the food will be snatched away and Gu Shiyan will not have enough to eat.

Thinking back to what happened in the afternoon, Gu Shiyan pursed her lips and said softly: "With our strength, we can't compete with the Xuan Zheng Division, even if you have the relationship of the Heavenly Council, but if the Xuan Zheng Division insists on making things difficult for you, we must also have some countermeasures, today is lucky, if the people from the Heavenly Council are too late to come next time, will we be captured, or will we really draw our swords to the Xuan Zheng Division in the capital?"

Li Mengzhou glanced up at her and said, "Didn't you already draw your sword today?"

Gu Shiyan said: "That's a matter of attitude, in fact, I'm just pretending." ”

Li Mengzhou: "......"

He wiped the sweat from his forehead a little speechlessly, and said, "I really didn't see it, thinking that Zhu Zaitian also thought that you would use the sword, and his face turned pale with nervousness." ”

Gu Shiyan picked up a piece of chopsticks and fish, chewed and swallowed it slowly, and then said calmly: "Although I do want to, but sometimes I always have to bow my head to reality, I am not confident enough to sword the squire of the Xuan Zheng Division, and I can stay in the capital safely afterwards." ”

Li Mengzhou nodded, "That's the same." ”

Even if Gu Shiyan is not a stable character, it does not mean that she is really lawless, it doesn't matter in Yanzi Town, but after all, she doesn't have the strength to make her lawless in the capital, let alone facing the behemoth of Xuan Zhengsi. Li Mengzhou thought that even if Gu Shiyan could easily defeat Zhu Zaitian, things would become more complicated after that, in addition to not being able to offend Xuan Zhengsi, he also couldn't afford to be completely exposed.

At present, Xuan Zhengsi is only suspicious, maybe he has other purposes, but after all, he is involved in the case of Taijing, and if he is a little careless, he will confirm the evidence of the crime, not to mention whether the Heavenly Council can save him, I am afraid that with his identity as 'Qingjiu', the Heavenly Council will not be able to escape the blame, after all, it is the responsibility of negligence to his subordinates.

Li Mengzhou once again lamented that his strength was too weak, there were strong people in the capital, and there were many big people who couldn't be provoked, especially the institutions with real power in the court, in the face of these, he didn't even have the ability to protect himself.

Improving one's practice is a given, but it doesn't happen overnight.

Li Mengzhou has never slackened his cultivation, but it is a pity that he has not found the opportunity to break through the realm for a long time, he is already at the limit of the upper realm of commitment, and there is only one window paper left before breaking the realm, but this window paper seems to be very hard, and it can't be pierced at all.

Thinking that there are more and more troubles in the capital, and the desire to break through the realm is becoming more and more urgent, but the so-called impatience can't eat hot tofu, and maybe even the speed may not be reached, rather than having problems with cultivation in the future, it is still necessary to stabilize the state of mind and find the most stable key to breaking the realm as soon as possible.

Gu Shiyan lowered her eyebrows and ate noodles quietly, but there was still a trace of uneasy crampedness between her eyebrows, she glanced at Li Mengzhou opposite, and said softly: "Xuan Zhengsi will definitely take action, if he has an ulterior purpose, maybe he will not really look for evidence in the open, at least in secret." As long as Xu Hexian doesn't take action personally, I don't have anything to be afraid of, but you are different, any squire from the Xuan Zheng Division can easily kill you. ”

Li Mengzhou looked up at the sunset and said: "Most of those attendants of the Xuanzheng Division are in the realm of the Four Realms, and there is no shortage of existences that have stepped into the upper realm, before I have broken through to the peak of the Three Realms, these people are indeed a high mountain, but as long as I break through the realm, those great monks who have just entered the Four Realms may not be able to kill, and I am very confident in this." ”

Gu Shiyan admires Li Mengzhou's blind self-confidence, at least shameless people are indeed more delicious in this world.

She said seriously: "The most difficult thing for monks in the world is to cross the border to kill the enemy, especially above the four realms, because the gap between each small realm is too big, unless you are evil enough to be able to cross that distance, but there are very few characters like this, although this is not completely a fantasy thing, but all demons can do it, but where do you get such confidence?"

Li Mengzhou was stunned and said, "Am I not a demon?"

Gu Shiyan nodded and said, "If you change to another interpretation, you are indeed a demon." ”

Li Mengzhou's face is black and black, I suspect that you are scolding me, but I have no evidence.

He took a few mouthfuls of his face a little depressed, and said vaguely: "I'm different from others, what others can't do, doesn't mean I can't do it, what others can do, I must be able to do it, and I can do it better." ”

Gu Shiyan said softly: "You are really shameless. ”

Li Mengzhou slammed the noodle bowl on the stone table, "I'm pretty sure you're scolding me this time!"

Gu Shiyan glanced at him and said, "So what?"

Li Mengzhou continued to eat noodles, "It's okay, the so-called beating is kissing and scolding is love, although I don't love you, it doesn't prevent you from loving me." Gu Shiyan: "......"

Resisting the urge to draw the sword, Gu Shiyan silently put the sword she had subconsciously picked up back to the stone table, and said coldly: "Far water can't cure your thirst, your opportunity to break through the realm has not yet arrived, but the people of the Xuanzheng Division may appear at any time, maybe you should seek the secret protection of the Heavenly Academy, or go to find those gentlemen from the Sword Academy." ”

Li Mengzhou glanced at the sword that had been placed, exhaled lightly, and said: "After all, the Xuanzheng Division is under the pretext of handling the case, and we are suspicious, so it is not easy for the Heavenly Council to appear in Chaosi Lane openly, even if it is secretly protected, it is not in accordance with the rules, and the capital is not in charge of the Tianshu Council and the Xuanzheng Division after all." ”

"Besides, there is only the third senior sister in the Sword Academy, I guess I can't please her, as for the teacher, I guess if I go for help, he will scold me instead. It is impossible for a character like Xu Hexian to take action in person, even if we don't have to ask for help, we will not be at a loss for countermeasures. Let's see the move, it's a big deal, it's really not good, I'll go to the teacher for help. ”

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In the territory of Jiang country, a small village.

The stars are like a sea, and the moon is silvery.

The barking of dogs came far away.

In the small courtyard, there are a few fat chickens pecking, and there are boys squatting on the ground, picking up dirt and piling hills, and they are not tired of it.

There was a very shabby wooden table in the courtyard, and three low chairs, two of which sat people, an old woman and a young girl.

The house was filled with candlelight, and the silver and white moonlight swayed to the fullest, illuminating the small courtyard very brightly.

The old woman was dressed in coarse linen clothes, her complexion was rough, wrinkles were piled up on her face, and her figure was bloated, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were completely narrowed, and she was amiable.

The young girl was dressed in a blue-red stitched robe, with high-quality fabrics, and her long green hair was simply tied behind her head, showing her cold and peerless face perfectly.

If it weren't for the old woman who gave her granddaughter all the food and clothing, it would be obvious that they were not a family.

On the shabby little wooden table, there were just a few plates of pickled pickles and stewed tofu with green vegetables, steamed buns made of coarse grains, and the girl with a very inconsistent temperament and dress did not dislike it, silently gnawing on the nest head and eating the pickles.

The girl was a guest, passed through a small village, and stayed at the old woman's house for the time being.

The old woman's house was seldom visited, and there had never been such a beautiful girl, and the old woman of simple conduct was very fond of such a delicate girl.

The girl ignored the old woman's gaze at her, and glanced at the boy who was playing with the mud, thinking that there were only these grandparents in the house, and that perhaps the child's parents were gone, and life would be hard.

It's true to be poorer, but it's not hard enough, after all, there is no shortage of rice and food every day, and vegetables are grown in the yard, so there is no time to go hungry all year round.

But after all, without a stable source of income, it is difficult to live and dress.

Compared with the people in most areas of Beiyan, it is already a very happy thing to be able to eat a full stomach every day, the girl's identity is different, but she has not been troubled by silver and food and clothing, but she is used to seeing the hard days of many people, after coming to Jiang Country, I found that there are really outstanding people here, although there are also poor people, but compared to the poorer, it is already very good.