Hearing this, Cui Tianyou put down the wine glass in his hand and turned his head to look at Gu Xu's face, his heartstrings quietly tightened.

In his cognition, this question should be regarded as a taboo in Gu Xu's heart.

The former Gu Xu and Shi Xiaohan did have a deep friendship and were like glue.

The sentence written by Gu Xu on the night of the Lantern Festival, "Looking back suddenly, that person is in the dim light", is considered by many people to be the best proof of the relationship between the two.

It was only because fate played a joke on them that the two were forced to separate.

In order to protect himself, Shi Lei tore up the marriage contract.

The dowry gift that Gu Xu gave before was burned to ashes by Shi Lei.

In the Great Qi Dynasty, the woman's unilateral repentance of marriage was an insult to the man; If Gu Xu hadn't become a traitor and a thief, according to the "Law of Qi", the female chief would have been "sixty rods".

Not to mention such a move as burning a dowry.

Cui Tianyou felt that Gu Xu should have a lot of guilt about this matter.

So he's been deliberately avoiding the topic tonight.

Don't look at Gu Xu's low-key demeanor today, without any arrogance, talking and laughing with these lowly sesame officials.

But after all, he is the leader of the Northwest Rebels—no, the leader of the Rebels, the king of the Northern Great Yan and the Northwest Grasslands, and the lord recognized by the three saints.

If Gu Xu is displeased, then the consequences are unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Cui Tianyou immediately hinted at Wang Yang with his eyes, asking him to quickly find a way to divert the topic.

"You said Xiaohan," but Gu Xu still smiled relaxedly, "When the war in the Great Wilderness is over, I will go to the Sword Pavilion to pick her up." ”

Wang Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

It's great that his CP isn't separated.

But Cui Tianyou's focus is on the term "the end of the war".

He knew that the so-called "war" referred to the Northwest Rebel Army's defeat of Emperor Tianxing, the complete overthrow of Great Qi, and the establishment of a new dynasty.

Cui Tianyou has been eating the fortunes of the Great Qi court for many years, and he is very aware of the profound heritage of the Great Qi, and he is worried about whether Gu Xu can succeed.

I didn't expect Gu Xu to behave so easily and confidently, as if he had already won the battle.

Cui Tianyou couldn't help but remember that during the time he arrived in Liangzhou, he learned from the people's discussions that Gu Xu was not only rebelling against the rule of the Great Qi Dynasty externally, but also carrying out drastic reforms internally.

Gu Xu is starting from the six cities in the northwest, trying to break the monopoly of the big families and sects on cultivation resources, and improve the resource distribution system, so that civilian-born monks can obtain high-quality exercises, martial arts, and pills by virtue of their talents, military merits, contributions, etc.

This is something that the Great Qi royal family has been unwilling to do for hundreds of years. Gu Xu is sparing no effort to implement it.

In addition, he seems to have a pair of eyes that discern the world - all the officials who are vegetarian, corrupt and bribery, and engage in favoritism will be found out and punished mercilessly; And all aspiring people of insight, even in remote villages, can be accurately unearthed by him.

The "wild and virtuous, people make the best use of their talents" described in the ancient books seems to have really become a reality in the six cities in the northwest.

Gu Xu is really different from before.

He seems to have long looked down on all kinds of suffering, grievances, suspicions, and entanglements of the past, and has detached himself from the mundane, condescending to look down on the world like an immortal, his eyes calm and compassionate, open-minded but not arrogant.

"Maybe it won't be long before that," Cui Tianyou thought to himself silently, "when you meet us again, you'll have to call her 'Guifei Niangniang'." ”

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After that, the other officials of the Yishui Exorcism Division Yamen also arrived at the restaurant one after another, and the table became more and more lively.

The last one to come was Chen Jisheng.

After not seeing him for a while, the wrinkles on his face seemed to be a little more.

Today, he no longer wore the black Qiyao suit of the Great Qi Exorcist Division, nor did he wear a high black gauze hat, but changed into a gray-brown cloth shirt, tied his hair with a wooden hairpin, and looked like an elder who was living in the countryside.

"Lord Chen."

After seeing his old superior, Gu Xu's eyes revealed mixed emotions.

He clearly remembered that when he first crossed into this world, he was weak and sickly, and when he walked in a hurry, he would have a dull pain in his chest. Chen Jisheng examined his body and said that he was "congenitally deficient and deficient in his roots and bones", and that only by being promoted to a saint before the age of thirty could he avoid an untimely death.

But knowing that this was an almost impossible thing, Chen Jisheng still tried his best to guide him in his cultivation and fight for him the opportunity to be promoted, and even risked his life to go to Yishan and snatch a snow ginseng from under the nose of the Snow Girl.

At this moment, Gu Xu is only one step away from the realm of a saint, and he no longer needs to worry about the problem of lifespan. But in his mind, there are still often pictures of Chen Jisheng forcibly stuffing eggs, white fungus, wolfberries and other domineering stuffed into his hands, and repeatedly telling him to replenish his body.

"You kid has a future, in a year, you can cultivate from the first realm to the sixth realm," Chen Jisheng stretched out his hand and patted Gu Xu's back, and said with a smile, "It seems that I still underestimated you a little at the beginning." ”

"It's Lord Chen who has guided you well." Gu Xu lowered his head, smiled humbly, and invited Chen Jisheng to the main seat, while he sat aside and poured him a full glass of wine.

After a few months, the Yishui Exorcism Division Yamen reunited.

They were staggered and had a good conversation.

In a trance, everyone seemed to have returned to that simple and unpretentious time. Practice, kill ghosts, accumulate meritorious deeds, and support your family...... Living between these things is boring and repetitive.

Sometimes I am busy and take a few drinks in a restaurant, which is a rare bright color in the monotony and boring.

Most of the people present were mediocre in talent. They all thought at one time that such a simple and boring life would continue until the day they went to the grave.

Unexpectedly, all of a sudden, the Great Wilderness was in chaos.

I can't go back to that kind of life.

"In my opinion," Gu Xu has been drinking tea tonight, and he has not touched a drop of wine, but under the infection of everyone's emotions, he seems to be faintly drunk, "The past time, you can be nostalgic, but you don't have to be melancholy." Our blessed days are yet to come. ”

Wang Yang was already half drunk. As Gu Xu's former number one fan, he was the first to raise a glass and say: "Brother Gu is right!" Just wait for Brother Gu to kill Luo Jing and slaughter the dog emperor...... I've had enough of that bastard who doesn't in the pit! ”

For Emperor Tianxing, Wang Yang has a deep grudge in his heart. Emperor Xing of the Ming Dynasty has a high level of cultivation that is enough to push the world, but he did nothing, and allowed the Nine Infant Snake Demon to plague Qingzhou Mansion twice, killing his parents, killing his life-saving benefactor Lord Zheng, and killing many fathers and villagers.

He had never dared to express his resentment before.

But now that he is on Gu Xu's territory, he can finally take advantage of his drunkenness to let down his guard and express his chest directly. (End of chapter)