At the end of August 5125 in the Julian calendar, there was a shocking rain of holy light on the outskirts of Chang'an City, but because the golden rain fell in a large array of cages that hid from the sky and the sea, except for the scribes and students in Chang'an City, there were only a few people in the world who saw this rain, and when they focused their attention on the old stone house, the holy light gradually disappeared without a trace.

Everyone took it for granted that this "Holy Word Came to the World" was Fang Xu's handwriting, and secretly speculated what kind of new understanding Fang everyone had in Wendao, or Fang Da was inspired to make an article that echoed the Holy Dao.

Two voices came from the east and west at the same time to the old stone house:

"Congratulations to Brother Wen He for coming to the world!"

"Brother Wenhe, what new articles have come out, brother please read them?"

In the stone house, Fang Xu was stunned for a long time, and suddenly smiled bitterly, with a wave of his sleeves, he covered the stone house again, and the two voices suddenly disappeared cleanly, Kong Xiaoru in front of the Confucius Temple of Lu Guo shook his head with a smile, turned around and entered the temple, in the courtyard of the manor mansion somewhere in Chen Guo, Chen Tong reprimanded "Fang Wenhe, who is so stingy", and also turned around and entered the house.

"In that case, why should Prince Zhong wait any longer?"

Fang Xu sat down on the futon, lowered his eyebrows, and asked Jiang Zhong softly.

Jiang Zhong finished the last sentence of the poem "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Residence: Part I", and then put down the brush and said: "Zi said to repay grievances with straightforwardness, repay virtue with virtue, and everyone trapped me with a cage array, the original intention was to save people, but I had different opinions from everyone, and I had a grudge in my heart at that time. ”

Fang Xu nodded and said, "Prince Zhong used these ten days to straighten out his mind, and once the time is ripe, he can break it in one fell swoop." ”

Jiang Zhong shook his head slightly and said: "I am really not completely sure about the late birth, and I am still on the word 'luck'." ”

Fang Xu didn't say anything more, and said, "In this game, Prince Zhong won." ”

Jiang Zhong stood up and bowed slightly, and said: "There is a sentence that has not been made clear to everyone on the other side, and when I am leaving, I dare not continue to hide it, this game and everyone's bet, no matter whether you win or lose, you will definitely not assist Prince Yutang." ”

Fang Xu looked up at Jiang Zhong, and Jiang Zhong said lightly: "The late life has long broken off with that palace. ”

Fang Xu was puzzled: "After all, it is a blood relative, how can you break off your love?"

Jiang Zhong turned his head to look at the small courtyard, and said in a calm tone: "That night, I wrote "Silent Night Thoughts" on the Spring and Autumn Pavilion, and unexpectedly introduced the essence of Yuehua, awakened the literary courage, and then His Majesty Emperor Jiang gave me a few dishes, I was secretly glad at the time, thinking that my unfortunate situation would finally change, but I didn't expect that before I could enjoy the food given by Emperor Jiang, a cruel and cold dagger appeared behind me. ”

"Does Prince Zhong think it's an assassin sent by Prince Yutang?"

Jiang Zhong shook his head: "Speaking carefully, that person is not an assassin, he should be an unknown ordinary eunuch." ”

"Do you mean that there are chamberlains in King Jiang's palace who dare to assassinate the prince?"

Jiang Zhong laughed and said, "What kind of prince am I?"

Fang Xu asked again: "Do you know who sent the inner servant?"

Jiang Zhongdao: "To be able to arrange such a killing game that seems to be unable to withstand scrutiny in such a short period of time, but in fact has no flaws, looking at those brothers who are close to each other, only the second prince Jiang Yulu is in such a hurry." ”

Fang Xu nodded and said, "Prince Yulu seems to be gentle and humble, but in fact, he is the most scheming, it is not surprising that people think it is him, but how can people be angry with Prince Yutang?"

Jiang Zhong shook his head and said, "How dare you anger Prince Yutang in the late life?

"Looted by the assassins who broke into the palace that night. ”

"Not really. Jiang Zhong sneered slightly: "There were indeed assassins who broke into the palace that night, but I was not the Liang Kingdom who was kidnapped by them, but thanks to the Soul Leaving Little Meteor Hammer of the Ninth Princess Jiang Hongdie." ”

Fang Xu was slightly stunned, and then suddenly, he sighed and said, "No wonder Zhuge Guoshi locked up the Ninth Princess in the seventh floor of the Star Pavilion for retreat. ”

Jiang Zhong said: "Although the late students have different opinions from Fang everyone, everyone's love for people should be remembered in the center. This good meeting has benefited a lot, and when he has a big event in the future, he will come to visit and say goodbye. ”

With that, Jiang Zhong bowed again, then took two steps back, turned around and left the stone courtyard, and did not look back.

At this time, the fog of the bamboo forest has gone, and the quiet path is winding but clear.

The first person outside the bamboo forest to recover from the shock was Li Ruoyu, Li Ruoyu sneered: "It really broke him." ”

Even though Jiang Zhong Haoran's demeanor had already been seen at the jade cake night banquet, but now that they learned that Jiang Zhong had broken the Fang family's Fan cage array, Fan Baotong and Yang Qice still felt unbelievable.

"But in half a month, I broke the formation of two masters in a row, and it was ...... Mrs. Chen must be the one who is protected by the saints. Yang Qice muttered to himself.

"Teacher!" Fan Baotong suddenly shouted, and everyone looked at the exit of Lin Dao, and sure enough, they saw that the young man in Tsing Yi walked out of the bamboo forest with a smile and a graceful expression.

Li Ruoyu bowed down and said, "Congratulations to Mr. Xiao Chen for breaking out of the formation." ”

Jiang Zhong returned the salute and said: "These days, Brother Lao Ruoyu has taken care of him, and he has time in the future, so he must come to taste Brother Ruoyu's craftsmanship again." ”

Li Ruoyu was surprised and said, "Mr. Xiao Chen doesn't want me to go to Liang together?"

Jiang Zhong said: "That's just a joke under it, if the foolish brother has to stay and serve everyone." ”

Li Ruoyu smiled and said, "If you are foolish, I will go back to Teacher Ming and personally send Mr. Xiao Chen back to China." ”

"So there is Brother Lao Ruo. ”

After Li Ruoyu returned to Shilu, Jiang Zhong greeted Yang Qice, Yang Lingyao, Xiang Qi and others, and then asked Fan Baotong, "Are you ready?"

Fan Bao channel: "Everything is ready to go." ”

Jiang Zhong nodded.

Xiang Qi looked excited, stepped forward, and said, "Second-Mr. Chen, I am willing to escort Mr. back to China." ”

Jiang Zhong was about to refuse with a smile, but Yang Qice also walked over and said, "I am willing to go with you." ”

Jiang Zhong looked at Yang Qice with an inquiring look in his eyes.

Yang Qice said: "Jiang Liang and the two countries have always had an alliance, and the human race is already in the same spirit, working together to fight against demons, and now we are escorting Mr. back to China, just to show the friendship between the two countries, and I hope that Mr. Xiao Chen will not refuse." ”

Yang Lingyao has always had a complicated expression, her eyes are flowing, she always stared at Jiang Zhong, and after listening to her eldest brother, she said softly: "Lingyao is willing to advance and retreat with Mr. ”

Jiang Zhong frowned slightly, and was about to pull Yang Qice to ask questions, but Li Ruoyu happened to come back and said, "The teacher has already allowed to give Mr. Xiao Chen a ride." ”

Jiang Zhong snorted, turned back to Fan Baotong and said, "Baotong, please get in the car with Mr. Ruoyu, I will be in a car with Yang Gongzi for the time being." ”

Fan Baotong responded "yes", and then asked Li Ruoyu to get into the car, and Jiang Zhong then got into Yang Qice's carriage.

"Tell me, what the hell are you going to do?"

After getting into the car, Jiang Zhong couldn't sit down with the three of them and asked forcefully.

Yang Qice replied, "As I said just now, the three of us are going to Liang Kingdom with Mr. Chen. ”

Xiang Qi said: "Second brother, Boss Yang has already told us, we can't watch you go back alone to make a mistake." ”

Yang Qice said: "This matter is public and private, and it is greater than the small, you have to take us to Liang Country together." I don't need to say more. ”

Jiang Zhong said: "Your Majesty the Emperor of your country has already decided to watch the fire from the other side, and the three of you will go to Liang with me, which is equivalent to resisting the decree, you should not think about yourself, but also for the sake of the prime minister and the general." ”

Yang Qice nodded and said, "At this point, Chen Gongzi doesn't have to worry, the three of us went to Liang this time because of His Majesty's secret decree." ”

"Something to say. ”

Yang Qice said: "This is the second plan secretly set by my father and His Majesty, in order to avoid the irretrievable alliance between Liang and Jiang, Your Majesty has specially ordered me and General Xiang Xiao to lead a team of 100 elites into the Liang State to help." ”

Jiang Zhong was "surprised" and said: "What a big deal!"

Yang Qice said: "Mr. Chen doesn't need to be surprised, don't you hear the saying 'soldiers are fine but not many'?"

Jiang Zhong said: "This plan really kills two birds with one stone, and it is very thoughtful. ”

Yang Qice said: "It is the idea of the people. ”

Jiang Zhong looked at Yang Qice, then at Yang Lingyao, and finally at Xiang Qi, and sighed: "It must be extremely dangerous to go to Liang Country here, why do you bother doing this?"

Yang Qice said: "At the beginning, Meiyuan worshipped, and we had an oath to share blessings and misfortunes, but now we are just fulfilling our promises, and Chen Gongzi doesn't need to persuade more." ”

The two teams of carriages quickly entered Chang'an City, and stopped in front of an inn also named "Penglai". ”

Jiang Zhong looked at Yang Qice, who said, "The three of us also have to go back and prepare, see you at the city gate." Yang Qice drove away, Jiang Zhong was about to enter the inn, Fan Baotong suddenly said: "Teacher, the preparations for the return trip have already been made, I just said that to send the three of them for you, let's go." ”

Jiang Zhong praised: "Yes, I know the plan." ”

At this time, another carriage drove over, and I don't know if Qingqin or Qinghe opened the curtain and urged, "Get in the car quickly." ”

Jiang Zhong, Li Ruoyu, Fan Baotong, and Fan Fuda hurriedly got into the car, and the carriage rushed to the outside of the city. ”

Fan Baotong lifted the curtain and saw that it was Yang Qice and others who had just been separated and were waiting in front of the city gate. Second Young Master Bao looked back at Jiang Zhong blankly, Jiang Zhong smiled helplessly, and said, "Forget it, that Yang Gongzi is scheming, and he can't hide it from him." ”

Fan Baotong had no choice but to reply: "I wanted to wait here for my son first, but I didn't want my son to arrive first." ”

Yang Qice smiled and said, "Then let's go out of the city together." ”

Two carriages, more than 100 people in casual clothes, went out of Chang'an City, out of the city on the official road, all the way to the south, but just less than three miles, suddenly came from behind a crisp and bright shout: "Mr. Chen, wait a minute!"

Everyone looked back, but saw a girl riding a red-haired lion galloping over, the girl was full of smoke and dust behind her, I don't know how many flying horse guards followed, only in terms of momentum, it was definitely not comparable to the "100 elites" led by Yang Qice.

Jiang Zhong returned to Liang on the road, and there was one more person to accompany him.