The carriage that rushed to the Sword Palace was directly transferred to the Yuguo Mansion.

Yun Que was a little strange, why did Zhou Shibo come to see Lan Yu again?

When the meeting between the first assistant of the dynasty and the prince of Yu Guogong was completely private, the carriage also went to the side door.

In Lan Yu's study, the two important ministers of the court sat opposite each other, only Yun Que was in the room, and Zhou Yuanliang and Luo Xiaoyu were waiting outside the door.

In fact, Yun Que is also a junior, he can see that Zhou Shibo may have something extremely important to discuss when he sees Lan Yu this time, and he originally planned to wait outside.

As a result, Zhou Shibo and Lan Yu both asked him to stay and listen, and neither of them treated him as an outsider.

Yun Que had no choice but to be a listener, using only his ears and not his mouth.

"Lord Zhou, it's not that he didn't eat well at the banquet during the day, so he came to the old man to ask for a supper." Lan Yu joked.

"The old man laughed, the official ate very well today, but since he is full, he should do something serious." Zhou Shibo said with a solemn expression: "Old Guogong, it's time for us to have a showdown with Your Majesty." ”

Lan Yu's eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam, and said, "What do you say about Lord Shoufu?" ”

Lan Yu represents the generals, and Zhou Shibo leads the ministers, in fact, the two of them have no friendship on weekdays, and almost never meet, of course, this does not mean that the two have a holiday, but the way of the ministers.

If the head of civil and military affairs gets too close, the emperor will definitely be suspicious, so he will intervene, or suppress one side or elevate the other, and will never allow the head of civil and military affairs to show signs of joining forces.

The way of weighing is the imperial technique.

This is something that even the current emperor who ignores state affairs knows, not to mention the head of the dynasty and the Duke of Yuguo, who is a very popular minister.

When Zhou Shibo revealed the news of the strange poison in his body, Lan Yu didn't speak for a long time, and the atmosphere was terrifyingly depressed.

"It seems that the barbarians are determined to cross the Hanshui River, if you and I are cleaned up, Yan Guo will break his spine, and in time, the building will fall, and no one will have the power to return to the sky." Blue Jade sighed faintly.

"So, we're going to strike first." There was a kind of murderous intent surging in Zhou Shibo's clear eyes.

"It's hard! Over the years, I have tried my best to persuade the emperor, and I have even used the means of relying on the old and selling the old and sprinkling on the Jinluan Palace, but people just shook their heads and disagreed! What can I do! Lan Yu snorted.

He dreamed of going out to fight a bloody battle with the barbarians, avenge his son who died in battle, and be ashamed of the Great Yan Kingdom.

However, the emperor had no fighting spirit, recognized the sword of the Son of Heaven, and ignored the large area of land north of the Hanshui River that was occupied by barbarians.

"There is a way, and there is only one." Zhou Shibodao.

"What's the solution, let's hear it." Lan Yu said.

"Sword of the Son of Heaven!" Zhou Shibo said in a condensed voice.

"The Sword of the Son of Heaven?" Lan Yu was puzzled for a moment.

Yun Que always sat quietly next to him, listening to the conversation between the two, his eyes moving slightly at this time.

He guessed the method that Shoufu Zhou Shibo said, and muttered in a low voice: "Broken cauldron and sinking boat......"

Zhou Shibo cast an appreciative look at Yun Que and nodded:

"Master Hou is right, it's a ruin! The old prince needs to promise His Majesty to assist in the construction of the Son of Heaven Sword. ”

"No! Don't even think about it! ”

Lan Yu slapped the table and said angrily, "Doesn't Lord Shoufu know how many people have been killed by the Sword of Heaven? The treasury was depleted because of this sword, the craftsman was killed because of this sword, His Majesty levied and extorted money for the sake of forging a sword, and how many people's wives were scattered! That's not the Son of Heaven Sword at all, it's the Devil's Sword! Demon Sword! ”

"Whether it's the Sword of Heaven or the Devil's Sword, this is our last hole card." Zhou Shibo narrowed his eyes and said, "Promising Your Majesty to cast a sword is just a premise, we have a necessary condition." ”

"On what terms?" Sapphire asked.

"Northern Expedition." Zhou Shibo's tone became cold and ruthless.

"Northern Expedition ......" Lan Yu's two big hands slammed to death, and the bone joints rattled.

The dying Duke of Yuguo, after five years, finally waited for the last hope.

"Good! Let's have a shipwreck! ”

Lan Yu smashed the table with one palm, his hair was all open, and he roared like an old lion: "I agree to help forge the sword, Lord Shoufu must persuade His Majesty to set a period for the Northern Expedition!" ”

"It's a deal." Zhou Shibo got up and gave up his hand and made an alliance with Yu Guogong.

A covenant of civil and military!

This is the first and only time that the two old men have joined forces since they took the throne.

Lan Yu nodded slowly, tears flashed in his old eyes, and he said desolately:

"My old bones don't have a few years to live, and my biggest wish in this life is to wave my army north and kill the cold water river! If you can't avenge my son and find out the cause of the death of Yun Changji and 100,000 border troops, the old man will not be blind to death! ”

Yun Que stood up solemnly, and he could clearly feel the anger and sadness of the old man.

Lan Yu's only son and Yun Que's father died on the battlefield in order to resist the barbarians, leaving a family of old and young, and the family was almost ruined.

The Northern Expedition is not only the long-cherished wish of Yu Guogong, but also the obsession of Yun Que!

Leaving from the Yuguo Mansion, the group returned to the Sword Palace.

Zhou Yuanliang took his father and hurried to the South Courtyard to ask for help from Elder Quan Yu, and Yun Que and Luo Xiaoyu returned to their residence.

"How can you tell that Shousuke has been poisoned?" Yun Que was curious about Luo Xiaoyu's ability.

It's no longer a matter of blood toxicity, but something like a gift.

If Luo Xiaoyu can see whether there is poison in the wine and food, Yun Que is not too surprised, but he can see that there is no poison among others from a distance, which is a bit unbelievable.

No matter how sensitive the poison detector is, it has to come into contact with poison.

I haven't heard of a drug test in the air.

Luo Xiaoyu said hesitantly: "I, I'm blind, guessing blindly, who knows that the old man was really poisoned." ”

Yun Que didn't even need to look at the other party's expression, and he knew that this girl was not telling the truth when he heard the voice.

Sighing, Yun Que said, "How about we exchange secrets, I can now control two flying swords at the third level of qi refining." ”

"Really!" Luo Xiaoyu's eyes immediately widened, as if he had heard some big secret, and he was excited.

Yun Nian nodded, signaling that it was your turn.

At this time, he felt a sense of self-blame, feeling as if he was cheating on the candy in the hands of a stupid child on the street.

However, self-blame is self-blame, the deception still has to be deceived, which child in Yanmen Town has not been deceived by Hanshuihou, Yun Que has always believed in one point, the children have been fooled more times, and they are used to it.

Moreover, he didn't lie to anyone this time, he just stated the fact that a third-level Qi refining layer could control the dual swords.

Luo Xiaoyu looked at no one around and whispered:

"Actually, I don't know very well, I have had an extraordinary sense of all kinds of poison since I was a child, how much poison is in centipedes under stones, how much poison is on the body of toads, how much poison is on the teeth of snakes, as long as they appear near me, I can clearly feel it, like, just like ......"

Luo Xiaoyu couldn't find a good adjective for a while, and scratched her head in a hurry.

"At a glance." Yun Que reminded.

"That's right! It's a sight! Luo Xiaoyu said seriously: "I have an innate perception of the poisons that appear around me, and I don't know exactly where this power came from." ”

"Could it be a special spiritual root?" Yun Que asked, "Have you cultivated the Qi Refining Heart Method?" ”

Luo Xiaoyu shook his head.

As a sword servant, she thought that the mental method of the Qi refining period was not prepared for herself at all, it was the method of the sword disciple, and even if the sword servant cultivated, it was useless.

"You go back and try it and see if you can cultivate the aura." Cloud lacks a way.

Luo Xiaoyu nodded and said okay, happily went to find the heart.

After returning to his room, Yun Que recalled the events that had happened today.

The crisis of the Yuguo Mansion made him aware of the existence of a black hand in the imperial city, and the subsequent poisoning of Shoufu confirmed this speculation.

"Does it have something to do with the zodiac?"

Yun Que frowned and said to himself: "Could it be that in addition to dealing with the Sword Palace, they also have to deal with the entire Yan Kingdom?" ”

To put it bluntly, the Sword Palace is a cultivation sect, while the Yan Kingdom is a realm of the mortal realm, and the two are not on the same level, and there is almost no intersection.

It is reasonable for the zodiac to have an enmity with the Sword Palace, and it should not be with the entire Yan Kingdom.

Especially when Yun Que learned of the existence of the Shangzong, he became more and more shocked by the existence of the twelve zodiac signs.

You must know that the Yan Kingdom Sword Palace is just an outer gate of the Spirit Sword Sect, and the twelve zodiac signs dare to deal with the Sword Palace with all their hearts, and their real target is likely to point to the Spirit Sword Sect!

As the top cultivation sect in Yunzhou, the Spirit Sword Sect may not have a few forces that dare to argue with it, and it must be extremely powerful.

It seems that behind the 12 zodiac signs, there is an even more terrifying existence.

Thinking of this, a sense of urgency arises.

Yun Que threw away distracting thoughts, stopped thinking about it, and began to meditate and cultivate.

The undercurrent of the imperial city is turbulent, and only by improving its own strength can it have the power to protect itself at the moment when the crisis breaks out.