In recent months, the capriciousness of the weather in Wangcheng has begun to be accepted after the beginning of doubts.

In the face of such a heavy rain, people began to disagree with the initial surprise and continued to live their original lives.

However, for some places, even if the weather changes, it still maintains the original appearance, whether it is a blizzard or heavy rain, it is difficult to affect the half, this is a small pavilion erected on the edge of a clear lake, the pavilion is crawling with green vines, in the faint light, it is quiet and wild.

Outside the pavilion, in the middle of the lake, a few fat wild ducks were playing, and among them leaning back to take care of their feathers, a fox with fiery red fur was already eyeing them among the reeds by the lake.

"Haha, little fox, I found you!"

A little doll wearing open crotch pants stared at a pair of big black eyes, and was poking everywhere with a bamboo pole, and appeared behind the fox unexpectedly, so frightened that the fox's hair stood on end, and he turned around and ran.

"Quack"

The slightly louder movement alarmed the wild ducks in the lake, and in the instant chaos of the ripples in the lake, the wild ducks fluttered their wings and ran directly on the surface of the lake, and then hid in the weeds on the other side of the lake.

After a while, they didn't know that they had escaped their lives just now, and in the sound of "quack", they appeared from the aquatic plants with their butts twisted and walked to the other side.

There were a few people dressed as maids, who had already prepared the feed and waited for them.

The qiē here is obviously artificial, not wild.

But if it's not wild, it's wild.

Because if you look up, you will unexpectedly find that there is no roof on your head, and there is no feeling of being in a building around you, and even if you have good eyes, you can find that it is raining heavily around, but there seems to be an invisible air curtain that separates the rain curtain, and directly leaves such a huge place.

Just like the monk at the beginning of the arcane mirror, he is in the wilderness, but he does not get a little rain.

It's just that here, but no one has done anything to cultivate, because looking up, this quiet and undisturbed place is exactly a hundred acres in size, and it is obvious that another method has been used.

"City Lord Ling, I didn't expect you to have such a clever array mage here. ”

In the small pavilion sat an old man, dressed in a gray robe, with white hair tied into a bun, and only a hosta inserted, looking no different from an ordinary old man.

I saw that he glanced at the child who was looking for foxes everywhere in the reeds, so he looked around and said with a smile: "The third-level isolation array, the daily consumption of spirit stones must be a lot." ”

"No, just turn it on occasionally. ”

Opposite the old man, dressed in an ink robe, wearing a white jade, purple and gold crown, the breeze blowing, the five long beards moved lightly, and Ling Nantian, who was extremely elegant, sat upright, only to see him hold the fragrant tea in front of him, and after tasting it, he said with a smile: "I know that the grandson seniors are coming to my royal city in the next few days, and I feel that the heavy rain is coming, so I opened it in advance, so that the seniors can have a good place to taste the fragrant tea when they arrive, so that they will not be bothered by the heavy rain." ”

"As for the spirit stone...... Ling Nantian smiled and said, "It is nothing to let the seniors be able to enjoy a cup of tea quietly, just a few spirit stones." ”

For the extremely ordinary-looking old man in front of him, Ling Nantian's words carried seven points of respect, and the rest was three points of politeness and modesty.

Obviously, this old man's identity was not as ordinary as he appeared, and there was definitely something that could make Ling Nantian jealous.

"The lord of the city is polite. The old man steadied himself, and immediately a few satisfactions and pride appeared between his already gray eyebrows, but instead, he beckoned to the bare-bottomed child outside the hall and shouted, "Xiao Anzi, come to the ancestor." ”

"Uh-huh!"

Hearing the old man's call, the child directly dropped the bamboo pole to find the fox, ran over barefoot, and finally threw himself into his arms, and even kicked like a little monkey, climbed onto his lap, directly hugged the old man's neck, and shouted breathlessly: "Old ancestor, when I go back, can you help me bring the little fox back." ”

The old man touched the child's sweaty forehead and laughed heartily: "What's the matter, you have taken a fancy to that little fox?"

The child raised his head, grabbed the old man's long beard that hung down to his chest, blinked his big eyes, and said, "Well, I like it." ”

The old man smiled and said, "Then the old ancestor can't be the master this time." ”

Scratching the child's nose, which suddenly showed a look of disappointment, the old man rubbed the child's head, pointed to Ling Nantian, who was sipping fragrant tea, and said with a smile: "This is your Uncle Ling's house, if you want you, you can go and tell your Uncle Ling yourself." ”

When the child heard this, he turned his head to look at Ling Nantian, and then saw Ling Nantian looking at him with a warm smile, and immediately twisted his little buttocks and rubbed down from the old man's arms, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, he opened his arms and threw himself towards Ling Nantian, shouting happily: "Uncle Ling, Uncle Ling, Xiao Anzi likes that fox so much, can you give it to me!"

Ling Nantian bent down, picked him up with a smile, and said with a smile: "This is raised by your sister Xinyu, and Uncle Ling can't be the master." ”

This time the child did not show a disappointed expression, but stretched out his finger and took it in his mouth, and after a while, he grinned, revealing his mouth that lacked two teeth, and said with a smile: "Sister Xinyu, then I'll go with her and ask for it, if you don't give it, I'll eat all the delicious food in her room." ”

"Go, go, go. Ling Nantian hugged the child who was twisting his ass to the ground, then rubbed his messy head like a wild duck's nest, bent down and patted his smooth little buttocks, and said with a smile: "You bad boy, be careful of being spanked!"

"Hmph, who would be willing to slap Xiao Anzi's ass. The child stretched out his hand and pulled his eyelids, made a grimace at Ling Nantian, stuck out his tongue and said: "Uncle Ling is a bad person, he specializes in slapping Xiao Anzi's buttocks, and when Xiao Anzi grows up in the future, he will definitely beat Uncle Ling's ass to blossom." ”

Ling Nantian was stunned for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, the child had already run forward barefoot.

"Xiao Anzi, tell your sister, just say that the old ancestor's shoulder is sore again, let her come over and beat it in a while. ”

"Uh-huh! The bare-bottomed child twisted his butt and waved his hand in a crisp and immature response.

In the distance, through the dense reeds, there is a small maple forest, only to see that on the maple trees, the golden maple leaves are dense, as if they have not been affected by the strange weather in recent months.

In the maple forest, faintly, a small pavilion can be seen, and two graceful girls in the pavilion are strolling in the pavilion, not knowing what secret words are being said.

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly, looked back at Ling Nantian, who was still smiling gently, stroked his beard and smiled: "The city lord has also seen it, now I am just a bad old man who cares for a long time and enjoys the pleasures of his children and grandchildren......

Hearing this, Ling Nantian smiled dumbly, and said: "The reputation of the predecessors, when Ling Mou had not yet come to the Southern Regions, he had heard that even after many years, the many heroic postures of the predecessors were still praised in the Southern Regions. ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, his white eyebrows raised slightly, but he said with a smile: "When I was young, I committed many foolish things, and I don't know which ones have been spread to the Northern Regions, although I am proud to be heard by the Ling family in the Northern Regions, but if I think about it carefully, I am ashamed." ”

"How could it be. ”

Ling Nantian patted his thigh, stretched out his hand to the old man, and said freely: "Huacheng back then, if it wasn't for the seniors as the city lord, how could there be today's glorious situation, not to mention others, the current Huacheng, if it wasn't for your Gongsun family to govern." “

Ling Nantian paused, frowned lightly at the old man's white eyebrows, and said: "Without you, senior, there would be no Gongsun family, and without the Gongsun family, there would be no current Huacheng, I am afraid that it would have been invaded by the other three cities long ago." ”

"Oh!" The old man's brows relaxed, a smile appeared on his face instantly, and he said: "The city lord Ling is polite, the current old man has long since retreated into the background, and the dog has taken the position of the city lord, and the current credit should be all the dog's." ”

"Okay, let's not talk about this topic, people are getting old, and these words have long been tired of listening. ”

Seeing Ling Nantian's expression, the old man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "This time, I just came here to run an errand for the dog, and by the way, the little barbarian granddaughter in the family also wants to meet Ling Yatou." ”

When he talked about the unruly granddaughter, the old man's eyebrows suddenly exuded a sense of pride, and he said: "You also know that although I have a full house of children and grandchildren, there is only one one who is angry, so I was afraid that something would happen to her, so I came over in person." ”

"That senior worked really hard. Ling Nantian nodded and said with a smile.

"It's just running errands, so the old man said it directly. The old man suddenly retracted his smile and said.

"Seniors, but it doesn't hurt to say. Ling Nantian raised his hand and brushed his long beard, and was humble and polite between raising his hands.

The old man raised his eyebrows and said lightly: "What does the City Lord Ling think about this trial, don't you think it's strange? As for the meaning of the state lord, the old man feels as if he is tempting us to kill each other!"

When the old man said this, his white eyebrows were raised, just like a sharp sword out of the sheath, and there was a momentum of contempt, and then you would notice his extraordinaryness, and he seemed to be just an ordinary old man who teased his grandson.

Ling Nantian's heart froze, but his face pretended to be puzzled, and he frowned and asked, "Ling has only been in the Southern Regions for nearly twenty years, but how can you say that the state lords are all guardians of the human race, they must not do such a thing." ”

The old man looked at Ling Nantian, a trace of essence flashed in his eyes, and he seemed to smile and said, "Then what does City Lord Ling think about the Five Cities Trial, and how many people in your Wang City participated." ”

The old man's words are very simple, and the meaning is very clear, even if there is a cat in it, no one will refuse this trial, and the rest is how many people participate.

Whether it is a conspiracy or not, but for those who have ambitions in power, this is obviously a once-in-a-millennium, or even once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to start openly attacking other forces and increasing their own power.

As for killing? It's a joke, how can there be no human life above the hegemony?!

Seeing that Ling Nantian was silent, and pretended to think about it, the old man smiled faintly and said: "Ling City Lord is from the Northern Regions, although he has been a city lord for twenty years, but he must not be very clear about the affairs of my five cities, and now the meaning of the dog is very simple......"

Ling Nantian showed a hint of a smile, and finally spoke, "Senior, please speak." ”

The old man continued to smile faintly, then opened the teacup in front of him, stretched his fingers in, dipped the tea, and said three words on the table: "Cooperation! You and I cooperate, my Gongsun family gets what I want, and then you Ling City Lord gets what you want!"

"How?" A smile rose at the corner of the old man's mouth, and he was undoubtedly confident in Ling Nantian's answer.

Sure enough, Ling Nantian was only silent for a moment, and then said, "Deal!"

"Haha" The old man smiled, stroked his long beard, and said: "The city lord of Ling is worthy of his father's demeanor, and he is really refreshing. ”

"Thank you seniors, I remember that when Ling was at home, my father often thought about you, and often talked about your ...... three hundred years ago," Ling Nantian smiled and said.

However, before he finished his words, he looked directly into the distance, his face was shocked.

"This!" The old man's eyes narrowed slightly, and the gaze staring into the distance gradually became cold.

The next moment, he got up and walked out of the pavilion, and a powerful spiritual power completely exploded in his old body, and the ground under his feet, cracks, quickly spread.

Outside the isolation formation, the wind was fierce, the dark clouds in the sky gathered, and the aura of the entire heaven and earth seemed to riot at this time.

Within the formation, including the two figures in the distance, they suddenly stopped and looked at this place.

The old man's palm was slowly clenched, and his teeth were clenched in the windless raising of his beard, and there was a hoarse voice, and from between the teeth, with some vibration, he jumped out word by word.

"I, the people of Huacheng, never allow anyone to hurt me!

In that old body, an astonishing coercion that was so strong that Ling Nantian subconsciously retreated swept away like a storm.

Rumble!

When the magic circle finally couldn't stand the pressure and finally burst, and the majestic rain suddenly poured down, in a roar, the old man had disappeared on the cracked ground.

Ling Nantian's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth raised a thick arc.

And the next moment, with a slight step under his feet, the figure suddenly disappeared.

When the rain curtain in the air was broken by two figures, in the pavilion that was originally full of wild areas, the handwriting written with tea was faintly still there.

-- Five people.