"In other words, after your showdown, the reaction of the Western Desert Country Lord turned out to be indifference?" There was a little surprise in Iron Mask's tone.

"How so?" Wu Neng was also shocked, and a terrible thought rose in his heart, "Could it be that the hand of the Lu Clan has already reached out to a person of the status of the Western Desert Country Lord?" ”

"No, I don't think so." Shi Cheng directly denied Wu Neng's idea, "If the Western Desert Realm Lord has problems, the Lu Clan doesn't need to put so much effort into getting rid of us. ”

"Then why did he ......?"

"There must be other reasons, and now it seems that we don't really know about the Xieyang Dao case, and there may be something that we have overlooked." Shi Cheng said as he pondered.

After thinking for a while, Tie Mian shook his head: "My time in the Southern Wilderness is too short, I really can't think of anything else suspicious." ”

"Old Wu, you should have been in Ximo longer than both of us, have you found anything that seems suspicious now?" Shi Cheng looked at Wu Neng.

Wu Neng tugged at his hair and thought for a while, and finally shook his head in distress.

Just as the room fell silent, Iron Mask suddenly said, "I thought of someone, and he might be able to help us." ”

Wu Neng didn't react for a while, and asked, "Who?" ”

"You mean, Zhao Ping?" Shi Cheng said, the confusion on his face suddenly decreased a lot, "Good idea, think about it, the person who can help us the most in this matter is him." ”

"That's right, that Lord Zhao is a member of the Criminal Procuratorate, and the cases in the Western Desert Country are within their purview, if anything special happened in the Western Desert Country during this time, they will definitely be able to remember it." Wu Neng also reacted at this time.

"Then it's decided." Shi Cheng patted the board, "I will send someone to Huibao Pavilion to deliver a letter in a while, and entrust Xu Jincheng to send a letter to Zhao Ping and make an appointment, and then we can sit down and talk together." ”

"Okay." Tie Mian and Wu Neng both nodded in agreement.

"There is another matter, the Lord of the Western Desert invited me to watch a martial arts conference in four days."

"Martial arts conference?" Iron Mask asked suspiciously.

"We just came to the royal city, we may not know about this matter, this martial arts conference is a welcome party prepared by the Western Desert Kingdom to welcome the Yuanliu City Lord, and the martial arts masters of the Western Desert Kingdom and the Yuanliu Kingdom will come to the stage to compete together, I think this should also cater to the Yuanliu City Lord's hobby of meeting friends with martial arts."

The face under Iron Mask's mask couldn't help frowning, and asked, "On this occasion, why would he invite you to be such a Dan Master from the Alliance Khanate?" ”

"Anyway, it's better to go than not to go, and this is also a rare opportunity to meet the Abyss City Lord in person."

Tie Mian was still not at ease, and advised: "Be careful, I have also read the Di newspaper in the past few days, if a person of your status can make a fool of yourself in public at this moment, then many people in the Wei State and the Western Desert Congress will be excited." ”

"Anyway, it is also the master of a country, no matter how poor the Western Desert Country is, it is still the largest country in the Southern Wilderness, so it is not enough to use such a means to do this." Shi Cheng smiled and didn't take it to heart.

"It's not like you'd say it." Iron Mask said lightly.

"I'll be careful." Shi Cheng waved his hand, "But in my opinion, the King of the Western Desert may value the identity of the Silver Medal Danshi of the Pharmacist Chamber of Commerce more, after all, the Pharmacist Chamber of Commerce is also the object that Wei Guo has been secretly wooing. For the King of the Western Desert, if he could invite a Danshi to the stage to watch the ceremony four days later, he would also have more face in front of the envoys of the Wei State. ”

Tie Mian shook his head and said, "Anyway, you can do it yourself, but Wu Neng and I still know more about others who don't understand your skills, if the King of the Western Desert really wants to be bored with himself, you will definitely be able to deal with it." ”

Wu Neng echoed: "Yes, I also don't think there's anything to worry about. However, if Lao Shi hits people in the face too badly, I'm worried that we won't be expelled from the Western Desert Country immediately. ”

Shi Cheng said helplessly: "I will pay attention to proportion." ”

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then Li Doujin's voice sounded outside the door, "Master, someone just sent a letter over, and the person who sent the letter claimed to be a descendant of Huibao Pavilion. ”

"The subordinates of Huibao Pavilion, could it be that Xu Jincheng sent someone to send them?" Shi Cheng thought to himself. Then he commanded out the door, "Bring the letter in." ”

Li Doujin carefully pushed open the door, then walked up to the three of them and respectfully presented a letter, "Master, the letter is here, the messenger said that it would be delivered to you personally, and he also said that this letter was ordered by a deacon surnamed Xu to send it." ”

"Sure enough, it's Xu Jincheng." Shi Cheng thought to himself. He took the letter and opened it.

After reading the letter, a smile appeared on Shi Cheng's face, and he said to Tie Mian and Wu Neng: "I really want to come with something." ”

Shi Cheng handed the letter to Tie Mian, and then said to Li Doujin: "Doujin, you go and send a message to that messenger, and say that I agree, and I will not be separated when the time comes." ”

……

It was already late at night, and Qu Changqing was sitting alone on a small stone pile in the mountain behind the martial arts courtyard, looking at the sky in a daze, with an empty wine jug at his feet.

The sound of hurried footsteps came from not far away, and Qu Changqing turned his head, only to see a college deacon walking briskly towards him from the mountain road.

"Elder Qu, you are really here, but let me find it easily." The deacon of the academy wiped the beads of sweat from his head and complained, "The Lord of Yuanliu City will be here in three days, how can you still have the leisure to watch the moon here." ”

Qu Changqing staggered up from the stone, picked up the empty wine jug beside him, and said unhurriedly: "No matter how busy things are, you have to leave some time for people to drink within twelve hours." “

The deacon of the academy shook his head, sighed, and said, "You're drinking again?" ”

"Don't worry, I have already sorted out the list of students in the academy who want to participate in the martial arts conference, and the books are placed in my teaching room, you can go there and get them."

"I didn't come to you for this." The deacon explained: "Yes, there will be a new guest at the Martial Arts Conference in four days' time, and the king himself has invited him. ”

"Entertaining guests is a matter of the Ministry of Etiquette, why did you come to tell me?"

"There was something special about that guest. Belch...... You may not know that there is such a thing, a few days ago there was a Khitadan master in the royal city......"

"I still know about it." Speaking of this, Qu Changqing was stunned for a moment, his face was completely drunk for a moment, he looked at the deacon of the academy and asked, "But how is this possible!" Why would the king invite a Chita at this juncture? ”

"Elder Qu, how could a little person like me know this, if it weren't for someone from the palace who found me today, I wouldn't even know about the fact that there was a new Xilu Danshi in the city. However, as far as I can guess, it is most likely that the western barbarian said something disrespectful when he met the king. ”

"Audience?" Qu Changqing's face became more and more ugly.

"Yes, I heard that Danshi was summoned into the palace by the king today, and Cao Shumi seems to have been on fire for a long time because of this!"

"I've been busy watching the martial arts conference today, so how can I take care of other things. I ask you, if the Chita has offended the king, why does the king still plan to invite him to the martial arts meeting? ”

"This has something to do with what I want you to do, the king secretly sent a message to the dean today, and asked you to find a new participant in the academy."

"New attendees?" Qu Changqing asked suspiciously, "The list of participants has been prepared, and they are all top students in the academy who have been in the top three consecutive assessments, I really can't think of anyone who will be more suitable than them." ”

"No, it's not from the students, it's to choose a suitable one from among the teachers, who doesn't usually show up, and then let him pretend to be a student to participate in the martial arts conference." The college deacon replied.

"Pretending to be ......." Qu Changqing pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Could it be that the king wants that Khitadan master to make a big fool in public at the martial arts viewing conference?" ”

"That's what I thought, too."

"But as far as I know, that Khitadan Master may be a half-step Grandmaster, and in our academy, only the Dean and Vice Dean are equal to him in the realm."

"Half-step Grandmaster! Where did you hear that? The deacon was taken aback.

"I don't know a lot of friends." Qu Changqing replied very briefly, "If the king wants to make a stumbling block for that Dan master, it is better to directly pick someone from the forbidden army." ”

"Oh, Elder Qu, are you really confused or are you joking here, those people in the army who can cultivate to the half-step grandmaster realm, which one is not an elderly general, how can those old men dress up as students?"

"You know you shouldn't be joking at this time." Qu Changqing looked at the deacon in front of him contemptuously and said, "Crossing a great realm to challenge a half-step grandmaster, do you think we can really pick out this kind of person in our martial academy?" ”

"Hmph, what about a really half-step grandmaster? Dan masters are certainly experts in alchemy and medicine, but in martial arts, they are cripples with a congenital crippled leg, and you should know this better than I do. ”

Qu Changqing said expressionlessly: "As the saying goes, nothing is perfect, I can't take the face of the West Desert as a child's play." ”

"Elder Qu, why are you still so stubborn, don't you think about it, why did the king ask you to pick people instead of the dean?" Speaking of this, the deacon of the academy came up and whispered, "Obviously, in the eyes of the king, he trusts your vision better." ”

Seeing that Qu Changqing didn't speak, the deacon persuaded again: "Elder Qu, this is from the king's appreciation, we can't help but take this seriously." ”

After a long while, Qu Changqing spoke: "You go back first, I have to think about such an important candidate." I will give the king an answer by to-morrow evening. ”

"Just waiting for your words!" The deacon said happily.

After the deacon left, Qu Changqing looked at his departing back with disdain, and it was not until the back disappeared in the night that he turned his head again and cast his cold gaze in the direction where the palace wall was.