Ji Jingyang was wiping the bronze sword he had just cut off the head of Jiao in the room, and Ji Cunyan knocked on his door.

"Third brother!" Ji Cunyan grinned and poked his head in.

Ji Jingyang nodded at her.

Ji Cunyan happily walked into the room and sat down at a table of eight immortals.

On the table, a bowl of tea, which was warmed by a small charcoal stove, was given to Ji Cunyan. Next to the small charcoal stove, there are also two plates of delicate desserts, a stack of rose rice cakes and a stack of sugar-pickled bayberry.

In front of his own brother, Ji Cunyan was quite obedient, and after deducting the medicine bowl, he poured out the warm medicine from the medicine jar and drank it cold. There is no willfulness in front of Lei Qi at all.

The medicine was still hot, and Ji Cunyan was not in a hurry to drink it, but just held his head and watched his third brother wipe the sword seriously. This is not the Longquan sword that Ji Jingyang killed the bird demon in the Covered Boat Mountain that day, but a bronze sword with an extremely heavy weight, the sword body is engraved with Taoist inscriptions, and the blade is slightly blunt, but Ji Cunyan has seen the power of this sword and knows that it can break the wind and break gold, and it is extremely sharp.

Ji Cunyan said curiously: "Third brother, is this sword a new magic weapon where did you go?" Look, that's amazing! ”

Ji Jingyang said: "This is Zhang Yunchu Zhang Zhenren's Demon Sword, but lend it to me." I have to pay it back when I run out. ”

"Not really. If Brother Ji likes it, the sword will be given to the hero, and I am willing to give you this magic weapon to subdue demons and eliminate demons. Zhang Yunchu's voice sounded at the door.

Ji Cunyan obediently stood up and greeted him: "Hello Zhang Zhenren!" ”

Zhang Yunchu said with a smile: "It's still a girl who is sensible and cute, and my junior brother will only complain that I'm late." ”

After speaking, the three of them sat down around the Eight Immortals table.

Ji Jingyang took the bronze sword back into its scabbard, put it in front of Zhang Yunchu and said, "This sword is your Zhang family's holy weapon, how can you give it away at will?" ”

Zhang Yunchu said: "Brother Ji has helped us a lot in Fengdu, just a sword, counting the favor of Brother Ji, I am the one who takes advantage." ”

"This is your sword, gave it to me, where did you find another one?"

"There is a sword in the heart, and the branches can be blades."

Ji Cunyan said with a smile: "Zhang Zhenren, you seem to be a monk who cultivates Buddhism, or a monk." ”

Zhang Yunchu laughed and said, "Miss Xiao Ji is really interesting to speak. But in fact, Buddhism and Taoism are one family, and many truths are bypassed. ”

Ji Jingyang sighed, and then stopped insisting.

Ji Cunyan said: "What happened to you in Fengdu? Sounds pretty thrilling! ”

Zhang Yunchu smiled at Ji Cunyan and said, "The Buddha said, don't say it." ”

Ji Cunyan Bingxue was smart, so he turned the topic around and said: "So third brother, you solved the matter of Fengdu, and rushed to Suzhou day and night?" ”

Ji Jingyang nodded.

Zhang Yunchu said: "Your third brother is afraid that you and Lei Qi will not be able to deal with that snake, day and night, or I finally used the Taoist immortal method, the sword flying, and flew over with your third brother." ”

Ji Cunyan was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and after being surprised for a long time, he said, "Is there really an imperial sword flying?" I thought it was the world's nonsense! That...... Is there really a Shushan faction? ”

Ji Jingyang sighed, frowned and said to Zhang Yunchu: "Don't lie to the child. He said to Ji Cunyan again: "Zhang Zhenren is teasing you." ”

Ji Cunyan grinned, and then lowered his head to blow his own shock tea.

Ji Jingyang said to Zhang Yunchu: "If a real person has anything to say, he will say it openly, and my own sister is not an outsider." ”

Zhang Yunchu got straight to the point, took out a glass vial from his arms, and the bottle contained the female python Neidan, only to see that although it was packed into the glass bottle, it could not hide its own evil spirit, and a black gas could rush out of the glass bottle and wrap it.

"This is the inner dan of the female python that has become a Jiao!" Ji Cun said.

"You're right, the female python has become a Jiao, its head has become antlers, and its body has grown to the length of more than ten zhang. Ordinary pythons can't grow to that length. It's just that this Neidan itself should not belong to the female python. It's a poisonous nadan. ”

"Poison bugs?"

"It is said in ancient times that a poisonous worm can become a Jiao in 500 years, and this poisonous worm, according to the practice, is about to become a Jiao. Therefore, after the Qinglin female python got this inner dan, her body changed dramatically because of the inner dan, and when she saw the wind, she could cross the catastrophe in a few days. It's just that the body of the female python can't withstand this speed of growth. In fact, even if you don't encircle it, it won't survive this thunderstorm."

"Oh! So it desperately wants to enter the Shizi Mansion to regain the inner pill in the body of the prince, also to replace this poisonous inner pill, right? ”

"Miss Xiao Ji is so smart."

"So, since it can't bear it, why is this Nedan in her body?" Ji Jingyang said.

Zhang Yunchu said: "This is the crux of the matter. Before I came, I heard my junior brother Zhang Ji talk about the snake disaster in Suzhou. The ins and outs of the situation, there are two snakes, one male and one female, one white and one black. Neither male nor female snakes can control this poisonous snake Neidan, so I think these two snakes must not be the source of this accident. ”

That is to say...... Dingkang's death, maybe there is something else going on? Ji Cun said.

Ji Jingyang frowned deeply, but he didn't have any surprised expression, it seemed that he had already guessed this result.

Zhang Yunchu said: "I don't know much about the court. On the same day, Dingkang Shizi was demoted to Suzhou, and he picked the mansion and picked Yishan County, and I had a headache. Don't say that the feng shui here is not good, it is simply a big evil, and ten stupas can't suppress it. In order to make his life longer, I even changed the feng shui pattern for him, and laid out 36 large and small feng shui arrays. It's a pity that they can't save him. In retrospect, the prince lived here for a painting. ”

"What painting?" Ji Cunyan asked.

Zhang Yunchu said: "The new emperor ascended the throne, the queen mother's birthday, Dingkang Shizi painted a picture and gave it to the queen mother, which is to overlook Yishan County. ”

"Well, there are many places with good scenery in Suzhou, why did you paint this picture? Yishan County is full of steam, but from a distance, it is dark and gloomy, not open at all, and I feel uncomfortable after looking at it for a long time. ”

"Miss Xiao Ji is right. You think so, and so does His Majesty today. The name of the mansion is Yishan County, and from a distance, it looks gloomy and bleak. Just like the situation of the son of the world today. At that time, the prince was friendly with His Majesty, but he was demoted because of the infighting between the heirs. His Majesty is the 'mountain' that the prince relies on, and now the son of the world is leaning on this mountain, but he is still depressed. A painting shows His Majesty his situation and his heart. This desire to return to the court. Don't be too strong, or it will make Your Majesty feel that he is in a hurry. But you can't scratch the itch through the boots, otherwise now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, there are so many people who want to cling to and rehabilitate like cow hair, and you have to rely on Your Majesty to come over one by one, a son who lives far away in Suzhou and only has an old mother at home, how can Your Majesty take care of it? Therefore, it is a wonderful move to send a painting for His Majesty to experience and think about it. ”

Ji Cunyan propped his head, and after listening to Zhang Yunchu's words, he sighed with emotion: "Zhang Zhenren, you still don't understand the affairs of the court?" ”

Zhang Yunchu smiled: "This is all my blind guess. However, your third brother has been listening attentively, but has not interrupted or corrected, and I think I guessed eight or nine points. ”

Ji Jingyang said: "Therefore, Your Majesty was moved by this painting of the prince and ordered him to return to Beijing and inherit his father's throne. At this juncture, he died mysteriously, and the snake demon who killed him, Nedan was manipulated......"

Zhang Yunchu said: "After thinking about it, there are problems. ”

Ji Cunyan's suppressed tea was cold, she frowned, pinched her nose, and drank it all. After drinking, she wrinkled her facial features, took another cup of milk tea on the side, drank half of it, and stuffed two bayberry into her mouth.

This is the end of the process of drinking medicine.

Zhang Yunchu saw that she was very cute when she drank medicine, and said, "It's so big, and you still drink pressure tea!" ”

Ji Cunyan said: "I was sick when I was a child, and I invited a real person to say that my soul was unstable, easy to scatter my soul, and I had heart leakage, so every time I finished the mission, I had to drink medicine." Zhang Zhenren, this shocking tea is really unpalatable, do you have anything in the inner dan? Just one pill, and there is no need to drink medicine. ”

Ji Jingyang sighed and said, "You think it's beautiful." ”

Zhang Yunchu laughed and said, "Alchemy is not my forte. It still has to be the Taoist elders in the palace, and what they are best at is alchemy. ”

Ji Cunyan said: "Am I not able to tell anyone about this?" Can Senior Brother Lei Qi speak? Can Zhang Ji speak? ”

Ji Jingyang said: "Lei Qi is very smart, you don't say that he can guess eight or nine points." As for Xiao Zhang, the chief ......"

He looked at Zhang Yunchu.

Zhang Yunchu said with a smile: "My junior brother is also half my own brother, and it doesn't hurt if you tell him." If you don't tell him, he'll ask me too. ”

Ji Jingyang thought for a while and added: "This matter is all our conjecture and speculation behind closed doors, and there is no empirical evidence, so don't talk nonsense outside." ”

"Got it! Who am I, Zhang Zhenren praised me for being smart. Ji Cunyan said, "Then I'll go find Zhang Ji." ”

With that, she stood up and put away the medicine bowl on the table.

Ji Jingyang suddenly frowned and looked at Ji Cunyan's pair of pomegranate earrings. He asked, "Your pair of earrings...... It's not the pair you brought back from the capital, is it? ”

Ji Cunyan touched his ears and said, "Yes, what's wrong?" It was given to me by the lady who sold jewelry in Suzhou. Say it's lining my skin! Is it good-looking? ”

Zhang Yunchu also followed Ji Jingyang's gaze and looked at Ji Cunyan.

Ji Cunyan was inexplicably looked at by the two of them.

Zhang Yunchu smiled: "It's very good-looking." Maybe your third brother wants to buy a pair for your sister-in-law as well. ”

Ji Cunyan grinned and said, "I don't have a third sister-in-law yet!" My mother said that according to my third brother's temperament, the third sister-in-law is still in her mother's belly. ”

Zhang Yunchu said: "Miss Xiaoji, you leave me this pair of earrings to open a light for you, and attach a heart protection spell to it!" ”

"Huh? Does it work? ”

"Just now you said that you have a heart leakage, and the heart protection spell is good for you."

"Alright then!" Ji Cunyan took off the earrings very happily and handed them to Zhang Yunchu.

Then she happily went to Zhang Ji to chat about gossip.

Zhang Yunchu and Ji Jingyang glanced at each other.

Zhang Yunchu asked, "What's on it?" ”

Ji Jingyang said: "Being attached to a spell can pass through my sister's five senses. ”

After speaking, he took the pair of earrings, and with only three fingers, he pinched the garnet-colored jade into powder.

"It seems that the other party has already been wary of your Xuanjing Hall this time." Zhang Yunchu said.

"Expected." Ji Jingyang said lightly.