Although it is already like spring, it is warm and cold, and the snow is falling on the top of the towering Luoyu Mountain, and the cold in the palace is scattered.

In the Sheji Palace, there were several stoves placed under the pillars, and the silver charcoal burned in an inch long, and the stoves were baked red. Silver charcoal and honey are mixed together, and white sandalwood is spread under the stove, so that the hall is not only warm, but also gray and smokeless, not pungent, and the taste is not bad.

The whole hall is filled with the sweetness of honey.

Only the Emperor of Xudu in the depths of the main hall was cold.

Gong Mingyi didn't rescue him, and he also took a Zhong Kui, which was simply a loss-making deal;

"Your Majesty. The Reincarnation King, who pressed his forehead against the ground, never raised his head: "The top priority is to choose another ghost envoy to replace Lord Zhong Kui to negotiate with the Nine Shadows Kingdom." ”。

Emperor Xudu stared at the Reincarnation King for a moment with a look that seemed to be angry, and then asked in a deep voice, "Why do you have to talk about it?"

The question seemed to be unconvinced, and he was extremely angry, so that the king who knelt on the ground believed it, and hurriedly analyzed the head of the Emperor Xudu: "It's really hard to talk about; And the war launched on Dongyingzhou and Shuoyue Island has left the treasury empty, although there is a confiscation of the traitor's property, but gold and silver cannot be used as food, and another large-scale war is extremely detrimental to the imperial court. ”。

Emperor Xudu also knew that he had to talk about it, but after patiently listening to the reincarnation king, he put away the iron blue and anger on his face, and then slowly asked, "Who do you think it is good to send to negotiate?"

The king of the ten halls of Yama fled, died, killed, and killed, and now only the king of reincarnation remains. The number of ghost officials that can be sent out is also very limited, and for a while, the Emperor of Xudu didn't know who to send to negotiate with the Nine Shadows.

I had no choice but to look at the reincarnation king who was still kneeling on the ground with an inquiring gaze: "Look up and talk back." ”。

"Yes. The Wheel King responded, slowly raised his head, and said thoughtfully: "Lu Zhidao, the judge of the Chacha Division, can take on this important task. This person is thoughtful and can speak well, and as a ghost envoy to complete the negotiations in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, he is the best candidate. ”。

Emperor Xudu was silent, and after thinking about it carefully, he bowed his head slightly: "Well, it is indeed a good candidate." ”。

After a pause, Emperor Xudu said again: "But I want to add a deputy envoy to him, you go to hell to bring Wei Zheng up, and hand it over to Lu Zhidao to take to negotiate together." But he is not allowed to open the soul binding on his hands and feet, and let him be this deputy envoy with handcuffs and shackles. ”。

"Wei Zheng?" The reincarnation king was stunned, but he didn't dare to say no, and then said, "Yes." ”。

"Inform Meng Pozhuang to prepare to lead troops to quell the rebellion, and also transfer 30,000 horse-faced soldiers to Meng Pozhuang. Within half a year, the rebellion of the Six Heavens Continent must be suppressed. Emperor Xudu stood up and walked slowly towards the apse: "Let the Mengshuang clan immediately rush to the calf pass and start rebuilding the pass." ”。

After saying that, Emperor Xudu had already gone to the apse. In the front hall, only the king of reincarnation who answered the call was left......

The wind and sun on Shuoyue Island are beautiful, the light of the cloudy sun is soft and not dazzling, the dragons raised by the mermaids have surfaced, and after digging a pit on the secluded beach, they have laid a large human head, and the eggs are round and blue and white, with five colors, and then fill in the sand pit and return to the sea.

The way of production is very much like those turtles in the sea.

It won't be long before these eggs hatch into dragons.

Ying Zhao has sent sergeants to guard these eggs day and night in case they are stolen. When the baby dragon is born, it will return to the sea to find its parents on its own. Then you don't have to worry about it.

And Xiao Shizhu, who was still on the island, also went to Xiaoyu Mountain City accompanied by Yingzhao today, and after condolences to the ghost soldiers and the ghosts of Huangquan, he took the black monkey and went to the horse farm in the mountains and forests outside the city with Yingzhao.

It is said to be a horse farm, but it is a beast soul.

There were many houses in the mountain forest, all kinds of stables were neatly arranged, and the various beast spirits that raised them made hundreds of different chirps. As soon as he entered it, Xiao Shizhu had the feeling of visiting a zoo in the world.

There are all kinds of flying beast souls that can be ridden. From the basic dragon to the beast soul such as the Sushu, you can see it everywhere.

There are also ghost guards, breeders and a lot of green-haired macaques such as three- and four-year-old children, walking through the horse farm, each doing their own thing, but no one noticed Xiao Shizhu.

As for those monkeys, they are not beast souls raised in them, but a kind of spirit called the stable monkey, which cannot speak to people but can understand human speech, and is also good at raising all kinds of beast souls that are easy to tame.

But every time I see them, Xiao Shizhu always thinks of Bi Ma Wen in "Journey to the West".

Whether it is the underworld or the world, there has long been a folk saying that macaques are often tied to the horse workshop, so that the horse is not afraid, repels evil, and eliminates all diseases. Even Li Shizhen also recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica: stables and female monkeys to dispel horse plague.

The difference is that the human past may have really used macaques. But what the Netherworld uses is this kind of small monkey called the Stable Monkey.

At first, there were only three hundred such monkey spirits in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, and most of them were brought back from Wu Zhiqi by Xiao Shizhu's expedition to Sanxing Island.

Later, I found that this spirit was very easy to use, and it was a pity to use it to make monkey brains and eat it. So Xiao Shizhu ordered Ah San to buy this kind of spirit from all over the ten continents, and specially used it to raise beast souls.

After becoming the king of the Nine Shadows, he simply set up an official position of Bi Ma Wen and gave the leaders of these monkeys. In the horse farms of the armies in various places, you can always see a stable monkey wearing a trumpet official uniform, and that is the local Bi Ma Wen.

After Xiao Shizhu inspected the shadowy horse farm here, he saw Zuo Fan and the Dragon Girl, who were talking about something in front of an official house on the east side of the racecourse, so he leaned over and asked with interest: "What are you talking about?"

Zuo Fan and the dragon girl turned their heads to look, and saw that it was Xiao Shizhu who hurriedly saluted: "Lord." ”。

"My lord, Lord Ji Kang sent me to look for you, and I happened to see the dragon girl here, so I asked her if she had seen you. Zuo Fan smiled and said, "I didn't expect to see you before I asked." ”。

"Dragon Girl, come with me to Jade Que City this time. Xiao Shizhu didn't ask him what to do first, but said to the dragon girl first: "Xiao Ash is alone in Yuque City, and he can't give you filial piety, if you pass, he will be loyal and filial." ”。

The dragon girl under the shade of the tree gave Xiao Shizhu a good fortune and smiled slightly: "The women will not go, there are so many monkeys here that I still need to take care of, and most of the people of the monkey demon clan live on the island." Xiao Ash follows the lord to do things, and he is already loyal. It's nothing to discount this filial piety, lest he can't concentrate. ”。

Every time Xiao Shizhu proposed to let her go to Yuque City and live with Wu Xiaoshen, the dragon girl always excused herself with such ridiculous words. Xiao Shizhu was also used to it, and smiled at the moment: "But I still hope that you will pass, this is what Xiao Ash hopes for the most." ”。

"Also, this time you have paid a lot in the defense of Shuoyue Island. I've heard that you mobilized the ghosts to go into battle with you at the last moment, and I have to give you some reward. You open your mouth what you want, as long as it is reasonable, I will not be stingy. Xiao Shizhu then added.

The mountain breeze blows, and the fallen leaves fly. It also blew the hair of the dragon girl's ears in the shade of the tree. The dragon girl thought about it, pulled her hair and said, "If the lord is willing, help the woman urge Xiao Ash and let him get married soon." There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great. ”。

Xiao Shizhu was stunned for a moment, staying where he was; Xiao Shizhu had thought a lot before, thinking that the dragon girl might ask for money and land, and to promote Xiao Ash, but he didn't expect this request.

He was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses.

"Yes, I'll look for him when I go back, as long as the girl he likes and the other party also likes him, then I'll be responsible for saying it. Xiao Shizhu didn't shirk either, and after answering, he asked again: "Think about it again, what reward do you need in addition?" ”。

"No, that's all. The dragon girl smiled, saw Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen hurrying towards this side, and saluted Xiao Shizhu again: "The lord, if you don't have any orders, the people will go and get busy first." ”。

Xiao Shizhu nodded, motioned for her to go first, and then faced Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen, who were getting closer and closer. When I looked closely, I saw beads of sweat on the faces of the two ghosts, faintly glistening under the mottled shadows of the trees.

The faint anxiety between the facial features is also in full view.

Zuo Fan also saluted Xiao Shizhu, and then left here on his own.

Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen walked over by themselves, leaving a few guards in the open space three or five feet away.

"What's the hurry?" Xiao Shizhu glanced at them, and saw that the two ghosts were in a hurry, and their faces and foreheads were covered with fine beads of sweat.

"Gonggong and the national teacher Yingying made decisions without authorization, caught Zhong Kui and ruined the calf pass. Jiang Ziwen was the first to speak, and said to Xiao Shizhu urgently: "In this way, the ghost envoys of the negotiation will be tied up, and our Nine Shadows Kingdom will be the same as the King of the Mountain, and the Beiyin Dynasty may not continue to negotiate with us." ”。

"Hahaha, I think that Gonggong and National Teacher Yingying are called chess masters. After thinking for a while, Xiao Shizhu laughed a few times.

In the hearty laughter, Xiao Shizhu showed a proud look on his face, and said triumphantly: "This must be the idea of the national teacher; it seems that I still have a good student, and it is really a good way to deal with a scholar like Zhong Kui with such a shameless method." ”。

Jiang Ziwen was stunned when he heard this, and there was some confusion in his eyes.

"The Northern Yin Dynasty has been defeated in successive battles, and the country is unstable, and there are many rebellions and riots, and they are more anxious to stabilize than us. What's more, a Gong Mingyi is in my hands, and the Beiyin Dynasty is eager to get him back, so that we can know ourselves and know each other without defeat. Xiao Shizhu didn't care about the move of the national teacher Yingying and Gonggong, and analyzed it in an orderly manner: "Wait, the Beiyin Dynasty will soon send a second envoy to Shuoyue Island to negotiate with us, and then sign a treaty." ”。

Jiang Ziwen calmed down a little, and after thinking about it carefully, he was still a little worried. This time it was not that I was worried about whether the Northern Yin Dynasty would be willing to continue negotiations, but that there was something else going on.

Xiao Shizhu fixed his eyes, Jiang Ziwen's brows were still wrinkled, and although the confusion and confusion in his eyes were gone, he was a little more worried, so he asked curiously: "Jiang Ziwen, what are you worried about?"

"I'm afraid that if it is really as the lord expected, then the old ghost of Xudu will inevitably send two ghosts, both of which are not easy to deal with. Jiang Ziwen's brows furrowed a lot tighter, and he said thoughtfully: "Once these two ghosts are reused because of this, our country will have two more strong enemies." ”。

"What kind of human soul? can you get such high praise from you Jiang Ziwen?" Xiao Shizhu's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked curiously.

"The way of the land. Jiang Ziwen, who was on the other side, raised his eyes, looked at Xiao Shizhu, and said word by word: "And Wei Zheng!"