When Qi Xuansu returned to the Jade Emperor Palace, it was already late at night, and he looked at the time, at the beginning of the day, it was already the second day.

Today is the twentieth day of the 42nd year of Jiushi, and the group of five arrived in the imperial capital on the seventh day of November, and a month and a half has passed in the blink of an eye, so it can be said that the days have passed quickly.

Tomorrow morning is the day of the "seal" of the yamen in the capital, that is, the big seal is sealed and the annual leave begins. Many things have to be done before the start of the annual leave, the household department has to settle the tax revenue of the states, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate has to evaluate the performance of the officials of the ministries and yamen for the year of this year, and they will be distributed to the ministries on the 16th day of the first month of the following year. Therefore, every year on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the chief and deputy hall officials of the six ministries and the imperial historians stationed in Beijing have to come to the lobby of the Metropolitan Procuratorate as usual. In between, more than 20 days are the annual leave of the Beijing officials.

After today, the entire Imperial Kyoto will enter the state of the New Year, and the undercurrent that has been surging for several months will finally reach its peak.

The most obvious feeling is that the atmosphere in the Jade Emperor Palace not only did not have the slightest festivities for the New Year, but became very tense.

Although the people of the Taoist Sect do not attach great importance to the New Year's Festival, in order to cater to the general public, various celebrations will be held in various prefectures, and this is the first time that it has been like this year. Even the most sluggish person knows that something is wrong.

Naturally, it was the high-level officials of the Dijing Provincial Mansion who created this tense atmosphere, to be precise, Li Ruoshui, the real person in charge of the mansion, and Shi Bingyun, the second deputy mansion master.

Since the last time Qi Xuansu was suspended, the two have torn their faces, and now the conflict has intensified, which is also expected by many people.

According to the reason, the real people in charge of the mansion are all real people who know the real people, so in order to maintain the three-legged situation of the local provincial government, the candidates for the second deputy head of the mansion must be carefully selected, generally with respectable status, deep background, strong strength, not a real person but better than a real person, such as Li Tianlan of Jiangnan Province.

The same is true of the Dijing Daofu, after all, Shi Bingyun is a person who almost became a Cihang real person, whether it is a status background or a realm cultivation, there is no lack of it, but many of the things she has done are a bit outrageous, so after so many years, she has not become a real person. Originally, Dijing was half of the Li family's home field, but Shi Bingyun also had the help of the dignified King of Jin, and there were many disagreements between the princes of the Li family, although they would not openly embarrass each other, but they might not really help each other, so this aspect was a draw.

The two competed, and the two major factions under their command also looked at each other unpleasantly, and the smell of gunpowder was very strong. On the contrary, the chief deputy head of the government, Zhou Jiaoxian, did not participate in it, and his faction generally adhered to neutrality.

Qi Xuansu is very interesting here, he has both Shi Bingyun's manpower and Li Ruoshui's manpower, and both sides are also affected by the two major leaders, and they are ready to move, but they were quickly suppressed by Qi Xuansu. Qi Xuansu does not enlighten people, nor is he good at reasoning, that is, he is suppressed by violent means in the literal sense. He has both the name of his boss and the strength of heaven and man, which is not a difficult task.

Moreover, in terms of position, Qi Xuansu is Shi Bingyun's subordinate, but in terms of faction, he should be on the side of Zhou Jiaoxian, who represents the whole truth, in fact, Qi Xuansu did not participate in the wrestling between the two, because he knew that Shi Bingyun was responsible for containing Li Ruoshui, but gave Zhou Jiaoxian enough room to operate.

In this way, although Qi Xuansu realized it later, he could also deduce that Zhou Jiaoxian was the "index finger" or "big finger", and the so-called "five fingers" of the Buddha finally had a person who was on the table, and it couldn't really be a bunch of juniors of the third and fourth grades to suppress the "heart ape".

Qi Xuansu rarely went back to his residence, and more often lived in the signing room, which was convenient for dealing with various affairs, but as soon as he returned to the signing room, he saw Zhang Yuelu sitting in his place again.

This time, he was not surprised and had become accustomed to it.

Ke Qingqing, this girl is unreliable, she has the potential to be a traitor, she forgot everything after seeing Zhang Yuelu, she responded to her requests, and she took the initiative to come up and do something if she didn't ask, and even gave Zhang Yuelu the key to his signing room, so Zhang Yuelu can open the door and come in openly every time, instead of sneaking in, let alone breaking in.

Although husband and wife are one, aren't they not married yet? Even if you get married, you have to leave a little space for each of you, and you can really be like in the words, with a ball of mud, pinch a you, mold a me, and then break it, pinch a you, and then mold a me? A living person is not a mud, and it is terrifying to think about beating one into a pulp, and beating the other into a pulp, and together with it, to create two living people.

Zhang Yuelu's face was not very good, and she was a little pale.

Qi Xuansu put aside these marginal thoughts for the time being, and asked with concern, "Injured?" ”

"It's good that there are no injuries." Zhang Yuelu used the key given by Ke Qingqing to open the isolation formation, "I followed the will of the Heavenly Master and went to see ......."

She used her finger to write a word "purple" on the table, and then disappeared.

Qi Xuansu was not surprised, but almost blurted out, "You also joined the secret association?" "Fortunately, the precipice was reined in time, otherwise the word "also" would not be self-admitted.

Qi Xuansu paused for a moment and reorganized his language. In Zhang Yuelu's eyes, it seemed that Qi Xuansu was very shocked, but she didn't expect that she, the upright Deputy Hall Master Zhang, would also degenerate into dealing with the secret association.

Zhang Yuelu couldn't help but smile bitterly, not knowing what to say.

In Vanity Fair, who can get out of the mud without being stained?

In a sense, the Heavenly Master is already laying out the aftermath of the matter, and letting Zhang Yuelu be responsible for contacting the Purple Light Society is equivalent to Zhang Yuelu having the backer of the Purple Light Society, no matter how reluctant the major forces are, they must also recognize Zhang Yuelu, even if Zhang Yuelu cannot inherit the position of the Heavenly Master and become the face of the Zhang family, he will also become the son of the Zhang family. Of course, if Zhang Yuelu has another opportunity, the Purple Light Society can also become a help, making her a face.

For example, today's division has both face and lining, he finally gave Lizi to Zhang Yuelu, which is also the bottom line of the sect, after all, the Ziguang Society is different from the Qingping Society and the "Heavenly Court", as one of the three secret associations, the Ziguang Society is even more terrifying, it is a veritable double-edged sword, and the attitude within the sect is also very contradictory, if you want to hold it in your hands, and you are afraid of burning yourself, it is better to let Zhang Yuelu take over, not only to have an explanation to Zhang Yuelu, but also to say that they don't pay attention to Zhang Yuelu, and they can continue to maintain contact with the Ziguang Society, It's a dilemma.

Zhang Yuelu also knew the difficulties of the Heavenly Master, if the Heavenly Master still had thirty years, or even twenty years, he would not have to tolerate the forces of the Great Sect so much, but it was a pity that his time was running out.

As for what the Heavenly Master was doing thirty years ago, twenty years ago, and ten years ago, why didn't he make an early layout, it was naturally to deal with the five and six generations of the two Great Palm Sects, don't look at the six generations of Great Palm Sects being evaluated as weak, then it also required the three deputy Masters to work together to suppress it, as long as one person deviated from morality, it was still the Great Palm Sect that had the final say. As for the Five Generations of Great Masters, the three Deputy Masters of the Great True Sect can't even talk about suppression, or even confrontation, but they just protect themselves and wait for him to ascend. Besides, there was no option for Zhang Yuelu at that time, and the Heavenly Master didn't expect that Zhang Yuelu would be born, so naturally he couldn't lay out in advance.

Zhang Yuelu roughly told Qi Xuansu what happened.

After hearing this, Qi Xuansu smiled and said, "It's indeed a good thing." ”

Zhang Yuelu held his forehead with his hand: "It's just that after fusing that thunder talisman, it's still a bit too burdensome for me." ”

"Burden?" Qi Xuansu wondered.

Zhang Yuelu said: "To put it simply, it's a matter of eating." This statement is very unpleasant, but I can't find a more appropriate way to replace it, that's the case, I can only eat two steamed buns, and I have already eaten two steamed buns, but they stuffed me with a third steamed bun, but I can't spit it out, I can only endure it, waiting for the three steamed buns to be digested slowly. ”

Qi Xuansu came to Zhang Yuelu's side, stretched out his hand and pressed her lower abdomen: "When you are almost digested, it will be the immeasurable stage, right?" ”

Zhang Yuelu slapped his hand away: "Theoretically, that's the case. However, what she gave me was the 'Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Righteous Method' before the Xuan Sheng's induction and integration of the Five Immortals inheritance, I don't know if it will conflict with the inheritance left by the Xuan Sheng. ”

Qi Xuansu said: "You can find an opportunity to ask the Heavenly Master." ”

"I think the same way, but I have to wait until the matter of the imperial capital is over." Zhang Yuelu didn't want to talk about her own affairs, this was just an introduction, and then she changed her words, "This is just an additive, the key is that they have agreed to make a move and established contact information, what about you, what progress has you made on your side?" ”

In Zhang Yuelu's opinion, it is inevitable that Qingping will enter the meeting, but I don't know if Yao Pei is in charge of liaison or Qi Xuansu is in charge of liaison.

As for saying that Qi Xuansu has nothing to do with the Qingping Society, Zhang Yuelu doesn't believe it at all, the question is how deep is this connection, is it a simple contact like her? Or did he directly become a core member of the Qingping Society? After all, she almost became a member of the Purple Light Society, and fortunately she won the gamble.

Qi Xuansu said without changing his face: "I also met one of the leaders of the Qingping Society. ”

Zhang Yuelu asked, "Is it convenient to say the identity of this leader?" ”

"It's inconvenient." Qi Xuansu shook his head, "But if you really want to know, I can tell you too." ”

In the past few days, Qi Xuansu has traveled to a lot of places, not just a Xie Mansion, it is difficult for others to determine who is the leader of the Qingping Society through Qi Xuansu's whereabouts, and Qi Xuansu does not plan to betray the "Holy Worry-free" Xie Linyuan, he plans to betray the "Seven Niangzi", who will let the head of the mother pit him? Come and don't be rude, anyway, it's a family, the ugly daughter-in-law always has to see her in-laws, and on the other hand, the in-laws also have to see your daughter-in-law, sooner or later.

"Then forget it." Zhang Yuelu refused, "It's related to the Quanzhen Dao, it's related to Donghua Zhenren, I still don't know." ”

This is the so-called sense of proportion, and even if Zhengyi and Quanzhen are allies, they should not cross the line. Husbands and wives still have to leave a little space for each other, let alone these two behemoths?