The people sitting in the small hall had different expressions. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu Jingtang had a cold face, while Han Baohu kept smiling, relaxed, and didn't seem to care about the master's dislike.

Xie Caiwei and Yuan Lai sat on the side facing Han Baohu, silent, very quiet, but their ears were pricked up, and they kept analyzing the meaning of the words of these two people, but Sanzang and Youyou didn't care about the conversation between the two strangers, and concentrated on dealing with the seasonal fruits on the table, and the crystal clear grapes like warm jade were picked clean by the two of them after a while.

"Eat?" Xu Jingtang looked at each other coldly and repeated.

Of course, I also know that you are busy with official business, but the so-called one piece of relaxation is the right way, Lord Xu should not be too busy, always relax moderately, adjust your spirit, and do things better for Your Majesty. Han Baohu smiled lightly.

Xu Jingtang glanced at him, and said indifferently: "If it's a meal, forget it, don't dare to relax for Your Majesty, and if you relax a little, you may be ruined." ”

Han Baohu waved his hand, sighed and said, " In fact, this meal is not just what I mean, Lord Xu, you have been closed since you arrived in Bacheng, these days Yu Linwei is walking everywhere in the city, which makes several local big families very uneasy, you also know that these local gentry families are more concerned about the affairs of the court, and they all have the heart to share worries for the court, even if you don't want them to help, they are also worried that they have accidentally delayed the major affairs of the court, so I was entangled by them as soon as I came back, and I wanted me to do a favor and hand this in. ”

Han Baohu said as he reached into his arms, and took out a thick stack of invitations from it.

He pushed this stack of bright red invitations in front of Xu Jingtang, who was frowning, and said: "The local gentry and wealthy families in Bacheng are collectively the east, and invite you to eat this light meal in Xiyuan, and ask me to come up, there is no way, for the sake of the villagers, I can only be cheeky and invite you." ”

Xu Jingtang frowned, picked up the top one of the invitations and opened them, and saw that it was an invitation from the largest local family in Bacheng, the location was in Xiyuan, Xiyuan is his family's industry, he usually does not live in his own house, and is specially used to hold various banquets. He looked at the time again, but saw that there were only two words written on it: night.

Han Baohu squinted his eyes and saw his doubts, and answered in time: " These people have been preparing for this banquet since three days ago, and they won't tell you the truth, since the day I first came to visit, more than a dozen tables of big tables have been prepared in Xiyuan every night, just waiting for you Lord Xu to arrive and start the banquet, but unfortunately you haven't been there for a few days, but you have wasted those dishes in vain, and they have to be done every night, and if you don't go all night, you will throw them out and feed the dogs, Commander Xu, you don't see it, the big dogs of the grassland in Xiyuan are all like women who are pregnant in June, haha!"

In the end, this military general who looks quite elegant can't help but show a bit of the arrogance of the Northwest soldiers, not elegant enough, slightly vulgar, but from a word it shows a bit of the Northwest people's atmosphere.

Xu Jingtang sat there frowning, looked at Han Baohu coldly, and wanted to refuse, but as soon as he saw this guy's smile, he began to hesitate, these banquets of wealthy gentlemen said that it was not him and Han Baohu instructed him, he didn't believe it!

Those locals didn't know Xu Jingtang's true purpose, Bacheng was also a long way away from the capital, and they couldn't help but have an unclear understanding of the situation in the imperial court, and their political sense of smell was far less sensitive than that of the Son of Heaven, so it was estimated that they didn't know much about the imperial court's attitude towards the northwest border army, even if they did...... As a local, he Han Baohu naturally has his unique connections, although he has been in the northwest for a long time, but with his family's local power in Bacheng, it is enough to give Xu Jingtang a headache!

Of course, he can directly push it off with a cold smile at this banquet, his family business is in the capital, as long as he hugs the emperor's thighs as long as he hugs the emperor's thighs, the faces of the rest of the people really don't need to be seen at all, but he doesn't dare to take this risk!

Han Baohu dared to come over so openly and honestly to invite him, it must not be just as simple as it seems, it's okay to go by himself, if he doesn't go, maybe this smiling tiger will take advantage of the situation to make some tricks!

Xu Jingtang had to guard against this, and he also had to admit that although he was not afraid of this Northwest Tiger in the cultivation realm and in the simple contest of force, he was definitely not an opponent in terms of scheming!

Han Baohu was not in a hurry at all, just picked up the tea and tasted it slowly, and began to look at the few young people opposite him leisurely, but he didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't seem to care about the changes in Xu Jingtang's face.

Finally......

Xu Jingtang sighed and said, "Since General Han personally came to invite him, then of course I can't ignore it." Tonight, seeing that it will be dark in an hour or two, please let those people know. ”

Han Baohu laughed when he heard this, got up and said, "That's good! I didn't expect that I, Han, still have some face, I'll go out and let me know, and we can wait for Lord Xu to come in Xiyuan in the evening!"

After speaking, he was about to leave, but suddenly said again: "By the way, since the daughter of the Xie family has also caught up, then you must also come to Xiyuan for a trip, if the scholarly families in Bacheng learn that Lord Xie's only daughter has arrived, they will be very happy!"

After speaking, without waiting for Xie Caiwei to agree, he walked out of the main hall with a smile and left with the sergeant.

When the others walked away, Xu Jingtang sighed solemnly.

"Uncle Xu, who is this ......?"

Xu Jingtang saw Xie Caiwei asking, shook his head and said: "Han Baohu, his status in the Northwest Army is not low, according to the position of Daqi Army, he is also a commander-level general who leads an army alone, and he is also a capable general of General Long Xiang, hehe, in terms of his power in the army, it is much greater than that of me, the commander of the forbidden army." ”

He didn't shy away from anything, of course, the identity of this Han Baohu is not a secret, and it is estimated that anyone in the house can say one, two, three, and he naturally has nothing to hide from Xie Caiwei.

"Okay, regardless of him, Caiwei, where have you been these days?" Xu Jingtang waved his hand to change the topic.

Yuan Lai replied first: "Miss Xie was knocked unconscious by a stranger that day, and I was close enough to hear the movement and quickly chased after her, leaving some marks along the way, can General Xu see it?"

Xu Jingtang sighed: "I didn't pay attention that day, I actually let the gangsters have a chance, and when I rushed upstairs, I didn't see you anymore, I ordered the Yulin Army to assemble in place and wait until dawn before setting off, and then I chased out, at first I did see some marks you left, but after chasing out for a long distance, I didn't notice your trace at all, and I saw a few sneaky shadows from a distance along the way, but unfortunately I didn't catch it too far!"

"Oh, General Xu, did you see a ruined temple on the road?" Yuan Lai didn't know the name of the local place, so he could only try to describe the nearby terrain.

Xu Jingtang shook his head after hearing this: "No." And the more I chased it, the more blurred the marks I saw, and finally I didn't know the direction. ”

"That looks like a lost chase. Yuan said, but he thought in his heart that it might be the accomplice of the tall and thin man who had captured them at that time who had modified his mark, or deliberately went out to lure Xu Jingtang away.

"When it was dawn, I searched the neighborhood for another day, but to no avail, I had to rush to the city. Xu Jingtang said, his tone a little ashamed.

Xie Caiwei hurriedly said that it didn't matter.

And Yuan Lai also continued to tell the next few people, but many things were hidden between the words, just saying that a mysterious person tied them up in the broken temple, and then met Sanzang and was rescued, and then came all the way over.

Xu Jingtang didn't ask much about the rest of the things, the only thing he asked more was to ask them if they could see what the gangsters who kidnapped them looked like.

Xie Caiwei was in a coma that day and didn't see it, so she shook her head honestly.

Yuan Lai really saw the other party's face that day, and there was a conversation, but of course he didn't say it, just said that he was knocked out by a black shadow when he followed into the temple, and when he woke up, he was already gone.

Xu Jingtang glanced at him, and his deep gaze seemed to want to see the truth of what Yuan Lai said, but fortunately Yuan Lai was not a real teenager, he just responded with a pair of very clear and innocent eyes, without revealing half of his feet.

"Oh, by the way, when Miss Xie woke up that day, she found that her meridians were blocked, and we have been helpless, so please ask General Xu to take a look. ”

"Oh?" Xu Jingtang looked at Xie Caiwei.

Cai Wei nodded obediently and said, "Uncle Xie, can you see if you can untie it?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his snow-white wrist.