"Squeak!"

The heavy gate on the eighth floor of the Stork Tower slowly closed again, and the place returned to its former tranquility.

After Nan Ruosu and Shen Lianchong left, the man's wolf-like sharp eyes stared at the door that had just been closed, and the two fists clenched "clucking".

By the way, even the chains on his body made a crisp sound, which was particularly harsh in the quiet space on the eighth floor of the stork building.

"Nan Xuanji, you deceived Lao Tzu ten years ago, but I didn't expect that ten years later, you were ready to join your own son to repeat the old trick."

"Do you really think Lao Tzu is so easy to be fooled? What kind of bullshit 'demon spear god 'is just a sinister and cunning despicable villain, thanks to Lao Tzu in the past ten years, he still has a trace of illusion about you. ”

For a long time, the man's sympathetic sneer spread in the space of the eighth floor of the Stork Que Tower, his voice was not loud, but it echoed in the empty eighth floor of the Stork Giant Tower, and it lasted for a long time.

If Nan Ruosu hadn't mentioned his father Nan Xuanji's broken leg before, and hadn't told the man that he could let him go, which was also the meaning of his father Nan Xuanji, it would have been impossible to arouse the man's thoughts ten years ago.

If the man hadn't reminded him of ten years ago, and hadn't thought of Nan Xuanji's promise to him ten years ago, then he might not think that Nan Ruosu had colluded with his father Nan Xuanji to deceive him.

After all, using his freedom as a bargaining chip, let alone exchanging a chance to cooperate, even if the price is a little bigger, he can fully bear it, and he has to bear it.

He didn't want to be stuck here for the rest of his life. Ten years, if it weren't for the fact that he could one day regain his freedom, he would have been unable to hold on.

Over the past ten years, he had tried countless ways to escape from here, but none of them had succeeded.

Not only because his body was bound by chains, after ten years of research, he had already studied the eighth floor of the stork tower clearly, and he also clearly perceived that in the space of the eighth floor of the stork tower, there was a dangerous formation hidden that he did not know.

With the existence of this array, even if he is in his heyday, he may not be able to walk out of here intact.

Fortunately, the emperor lived up to his wishes, and after ten years of lying on the salary and tasting courage, he finally made him wait for a turnaround.

Although it was only an opportunity to cooperate with Nan Ruosu, even if there was only a one in 10,000 chance, he had to fight for it.

Nan Ruosu didn't believe him in his heart, did he believe Nan Ruosu in his heart?

At the same time, in the purple bamboo forest in the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion, Nan Xuanji sat quietly in a wheelchair, playing with the bamboo branches in his hands, as if waiting for something.

Tonight, since Nan Ruosu left, he has been staying here and has not moved.

"The city lord is really elegant, forgive me for disturbing me!"

Suddenly, a chuckle came from behind him.

I didn't know when, the ragged Xie Jin had quietly appeared behind Nan Xuan's fuselage.

"Coming?"

Nan Xuanji didn't turn his head, casually broke off a bamboo branch in his hand, and said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

After that, he slowly turned the wheelchair, pointed to the bamboo chair that had been prepared on the side, and said with a smile: "Sit down!" ”

"I already knew that you were playing tricks on me again."

Xie Jin was also not polite, and sat opposite Nan Xuanji, looking like he had already understood everything, stared at him and asked, "Did you really let that kid go to him?" ”

"Nonsense, haven't you already seen it?"

Nan Xuanji scolded with a smile: "Otherwise, Brother Xie, why did you come to me in the middle of the night?" ”

"Isn't that a little uneasy!"

Xie Jin said with a bitter face: "After all, he has hatred for you in his heart, and he is not his own, so you are not afraid that he will be unfavorable to that kid?" ”

When he saw Nan Ruosu and the others enter the eighth floor in the Stork Tower, he had already thought of what they wanted to do.

"Afraid of what? And I will never break my promises, and the ten-year period has arrived, and it is time to fulfill my promises! ”

Nan Xuanji said leisurely: "I don't care what he thinks of me, I just have a clear conscience, what's more, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, don't you think?" ”

"The city lord is really good-minded, if it was Xie Mou, I'm afraid it would never be possible to have such a measure."

Xie Jin sighed, his voice slightly lonely.

"Brother Xie is humble, in the final analysis, I am just selfish."

Nan Xuanji said with some self-deprecation: "Everything I do has more or less a hint of purpose, but Brother Xie, you are different, no matter what you do, you will always put the people behind you first, which is really admirable." ”

"It's just a last resort, and the city lord knows it."

Xie Jin shook his head and said with a smile: "Probably this is also the reason why the city lord has always been reluctant to force Xie Mou, right?" ”

Nan Xuanji did not deny it, but nodded very seriously, and said: "People will always change, just like the purple bamboo in front of them, after the baptism of the years, it gradually grows slowly, slowly changes, from the delicate seedlings at the beginning, to the strong ones it is now, how can it be less wind and frost?" ”

"However, there is one thing that will not change, and that is responsibility, and it just so happens that both of us carry him on our backs, which can be regarded as sympathy!"

"What a masonry!"

Xie Jin laughed and said, "If you think about it carefully, it seems to be true!" ”

Nan Xuanji thought for a while and said, "Brother Xie, to be honest, what do you think of my kid?" ”

Xie Jin pondered for a while before he said solemnly: "When the sun can rise, Dapeng spreads his wings and hates the sky. ”

Hearing Xie Jin praise his son Nan Ruosu so much, even Nan Xuanji was surprised, he glanced at his old friend in astonishment, and said, "He deserves that stinky boy?" ”

He knows Xie Jin's personality very well, and he will not deliberately praise Nan Ruosu in front of him because he is his son, because he has always been a person who has one thing to say and two to say.

Nan Xuanji has known him for so many years, and he also knows that there are really few people who can make him treat him so differently, let alone the younger generation.

Therefore, after learning that his son Nan Ruosu actually had such a high evaluation in his heart, Nan Xuanji suddenly felt an inexplicable excitement.

"Brother Nan, you know, I, Xie Jin, am a scholar, and I have never had the habit of flattery."

Seeing Nan Xuanji's face full of questions, Xie Jin raised his head and smiled, and said, "There are really not many people who can make me Xie Jin into my eyes, Brother Nan, you are one, and Ruosu's kid is naturally counted as one." ”

In terms of mental strategy, Nan Ruosu naturally has no way to compare with his father Nan Xuanji, but in his opinion, among the younger generation, there are probably very few people who can stand out from him.

Nan Xuanji took out a roll of bamboo slips from his arms, stretched out his hand and handed it to Xie Jindao: "In that case, why didn't you promise Brother Xie when the kid went to look for him in the afternoon?" ”

Xie Jin took the bamboo slip, opened it and read it, and said casually: "Isn't this exactly what Brother Nan wants to see?" ”

Seeing this, Nan Xuanji had to shake his head, sighing and saying, "If you really can't hide anything from Brother Xie!" ”

He looked up, and a clear moon hung impartially in the night sky above him.

Perhaps because of the sunny weather after the rain, the moonlight tonight is exceptionally soft and bright, reflecting the entire purple bamboo forest under a bright net.

Moving in the wind, it is really a new moon like a beauty.

Soon, Xie Jin finished reading the bamboo slips in his hand, put them together and put them in his arms, and then raised his head and smiled: "Isn't that because Brother Nan didn't plan to hide it from Xie at all?" ”

"What's more, from a father's point of view, Xie can naturally understand Brother Nan's position, maybe that kid can't imagine his worries, but as a father, how can Brother Nan not imagine it?"

After finishing speaking, he stared at Nan Xuanji with a smile on his face, as if he wanted to see through it.

It's a pity that Nan Xuanji still looks like he has nothing to do, even now, he can only sit in a wheelchair, looking weak, but the calmness he shows is something that even Xie Jin has to admire.

Nan Xuanji looked at him for a moment, then laughed and said as if joking: "So, is Brother Xie willing to fulfill me?" ”

After some temptation, the proportions are just right, which can be described as leaky.

The smile on Xie Jin's face gradually froze, his face gradually became serious, and after he stared at Nan Xuanji for a while, he said bitterly, "I don't know, maybe it will, maybe not." ”

"In any case, I hope that Brother Nan won't blame Xie when the time comes!"

As he said to Nan Ruosu, if he is only one person, he must clear the dust in front of him, but there are too many fetters on his body, and even he himself does not know what will happen in the future.

"How so?"

Nan Xuanji hurriedly smiled and said: "I know, Brother Xie has always attached great importance to righteousness, and he will not make a promise if he is not completely sure, I have said too much." ”

"It's just that I can't rest assured after all, I just hope that if I'm not there in the future, Brother Xie can take care of that kid one or two, and by the way, take care of White Dragon City."

This time, Nan Xuanji's expression was much more serious, no longer joking, but like entrusting the future.

Xie Jin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled: "Brother Nan is serious, Brother Nan is in the middle of the year, why do you want to say such frustrating words?" ”

Nan Xuanji's face didn't see a trace of a smile, and he said in a sincere tone: "I think I've been fighting for half my life, and I've always been tired of living a life of deception, but I've always lived in it, but for Brother Xie, I've been treating each other with sincerity for many years, and I've never hidden any selfishness." ”

"If there is any case, I hope that Brother Xie will not refuse, Xuanji is deeply sobbed!"

Xie Jin stared at him for a long time before he said: "Brother Nan, don't worry, Xie owes you a life, if Brother Nan really has an accident, Xie Jin should take his life for it." ”

"Thank you!"

It wasn't until Xie Jin relented that Nan Xuanji showed a relieved smile.

Nan Ruosu naturally didn't know that just tonight, his father and Xie Jin were actually sitting opposite each other in the purple bamboo forest of the City Lord's Mansion, and it was even more impossible for him to know that Xie Jin, who had always been an outsider, actually compromised easily in front of his father.

When he and Shen Lianchong left the stork tower, it was already late at night.

Walking on the streets of White Dragon City, he had a lot of thoughts.

As his father Nan Xuanji expected, that person really didn't shirk, and agreed to his request in one bite, even without knowing the content of the cooperation.

But this is not a bad thing, at least for me at the moment, it is a good thing.

He didn't know what the man was really thinking, but it didn't matter, because he wasn't his true dependent.

"Young master, are we going back to the house now?"

Shen Lianchong followed behind him, looking at Nan Ruosu who was walking aimlessly along the street, he couldn't help frowning.

It stands to reason that Nan Ruosu should be happy after negotiating this cooperation, but after coming out of the stork tower, he felt that Nan Ruosu had been a little absent-minded.

"You go back first, I want to go alone!"

Nan Ruosu paused, thought for a moment, and then said abruptly: "Have a good night's rest, starting tomorrow, for a long time in the future, I'm afraid there will be no more such idle days." ”

"But you're ...... alone"

Shen Lianchong's brows furrowed even deeper, and he hesitated.

Nan Ruosu glanced back at him and said with a smile: "Don't worry, this is White Dragon City, it will be fine." ”

He naturally knew what Shen Lian Chong was worried about, but at this juncture, it was estimated that no one would dare to come forward to offend the majesty of the City Lord's Mansion, even if he Nan Ruosu was already famous, and Nan Xuanji's current anger, no one in White Dragon City could withstand it.

"Alright then!"

Shen Lianchong thought about it, so he didn't say anything more, and turned around and left directly.

Seeing Shen Lianchong away, Nan Ruosu wandered around the White Dragon City unhurriedly.

If it was placed in the past, this time was the most lively time for those restaurants and brothels in White Dragon City, but tonight's White Dragon City was surprisingly quiet.

The White Dragon City, illuminated by white candles all over the city, is like a dead city, silent.

Suddenly, Nan Ruosu stopped, turned around and plunged into a wine house called "Forget Worries".

There are no less than dozens of wine houses in White Dragon City, among which the most prestigious wine house is the one that forgets worries, and the wine in this wine house is rationed every day, so that the wine of the wine house has always been in short supply.

The owner of the Forget Worry Wine House is a lazy middle-aged man in gray, and when Nan Ruosu stepped into the door, he happened to hide by the counter and take a nap.

"The master, a pot of general tears!"

As soon as he entered the door, Nan Ruosu shouted at him at the top of his voice, and then found a place to sit down.

The middle-aged man raised his heavy eyelids, glanced at him, and the sleepiness in his cloudy eyes was not reduced, and he muttered, "What general tears?" Haven't heard of it. ”

After that, he closed his eyes and continued to nap, ignoring Nan Ruosu at all.

Nan Ruosu has long been surprised, he grew up in White Dragon City since he was a child, and he naturally knows very well that the head of this worry-forgetting wine house is a very strange person.

In White Dragon City, he never sold anyone's account except for giving his father Nan Xuanji a few thin noodles.

And a person with a weird temper like him, he is not the only one in White Dragon City.

"The general has no tears, there should always be other wine, right?"

Nan Ruosu looked around at the deserted wine house, only to see that on the storage shelves in front of the counter, there were several large vats containing wine.

The rich aroma of wine continues to overflow from the vat, wafting down to every corner of the winery, and you don't need to smell Nan Ruosu to know that it contains the best apricot blossom wine.

It's just that I don't know if the taste is as sweet as the apricot blossom brewed in Shijiao City.

"Nope!"

The middle-aged man closed his eyes and shook his head, and said lightly: "If the second son wants to find a drink, you can try your luck somewhere else!" ”

Obviously, the middle-aged man knows Nan Ruosu, but think about it, in the entire White Dragon City, there are probably not many people who don't know him Nan Ruosu!

"If I want to go somewhere else, why should I come to you?"

Nan Ruosu complained angrily, and said, "Hey, I said Old Man Su, young master, I can be regarded as having a head and a face, right?" Why can't you afford to eat a meal here? ”

Old man Su is a middle-aged man who forgets his worries and is in charge of the wine house, no one knows what his name is, but I heard that he seems to be surnamed Su, and over time, everyone calls him Old Man Su.

Old man Su didn't speak, got up with a yawn, walked outside and brought in a sign with the words "The shop is closed", shook his hand and threw it in front of Nan Ruosu.

Nan Ruosu picked it up and glanced at it, raised his hand and threw it aside, and said, "Old man Su, I am blind when you are a young master?" I can't still see such a big word, young master? ”

Old man Su immediately glared at him, and said angrily: "I saw you and came in?" Don't you know the rules of my shop? ”

"To know is to know!"

Nan Ruosu smiled awkwardly and said, "But don't I just like your wine here?" Old man Su, can't you be accommodating? ”

"Accommodating fart!"

Old man Su waved his hand like a fly, and said, "Hurry up and get out, don't hinder me from sleeping!" ”

"If everyone comes and yells at me for accommodation, will I be able to do this business in the future?"

didn't give Nan Ruosu a good face at all.

"Young Master, can I be like everyone else?"

Nan Ruosu blushed, and immediately shouted: "Old man Su, in this White Dragon City, how many people can compare their faces with the young master and me?" ”

instantly brought his shameless nature into full play.

"There are not many of them!"

Old man Su looked at him seriously and said, "Moreover, there are few people who are as shameless as you." ”

Nan Ruosu leaned in and said, "Then why don't you give the young master a random pot of other wine here?" ”

"Nope!"

Old man Su ran to the counter again and squinted, and said, "My wine here today has already been sold out." ”

"Old man Su, you're not kind!"

When Nan Ruosu heard this, she rolled her eyes, pointed to the big vat in front of the counter, and said, "Your vat is clearly the best apricot blossom stuffing, how can it not be?" How? Deliberately deceived the young master, am I not? ”

"I'm afraid that young master, I can't afford to pay you two taels of wine, or what's the matter? Look down on me, young master? ”

Directly messed around.

"Not really!"

Old man Su hugged his arms and said with a pun: "Who do you look down on, I can't look down on the second son, old man, right?" ”

"It's just that, old man, my wine here today has indeed been sold out, these are the best apricot blossom brews, but they are all the orders for the next week, if not, the second son is so knowledgeable about wine, how can the old man have to give the second son a tank?"

Although the words are good, Nan Ruosu finally heard it, this product is a master who does not eat soft and hard.

However, Nan Ruosu really didn't have anything to do with him, because this guy in front of him was notoriously tough in White Dragon City.