Inside and outside the main building of Juexiangyuan, hundreds of flowers bloom in the light of the cloudy day.

But these strange flowers and plants planted by the ghost mother and Xiao Caryophyllus are all plants with a low aroma, which are gaudy and vulgar. More of them are just interesting plants, such as dancing grass and Chitose pine, etc., all of which are a de-sizing and de-stressing interest.

Therefore, although this exquisite fragrance garden is full of flowers, it is also not good.

A few vines with thorny red at the top of the main building, lying on the walls on both sides of the gate, stretched out their long green leaves in the cloudy sunlight, revealing them, which is the rare human seed vine.

When the yin wind blows, the humanoid seed stretches its hands and feet, as if it is a person stretching his waist.

A few blood-rain cardinals with long feathers and red feathers in the cage on the side stretched out their sharp beaks and pecked at those humanoid seeds.

Lin Cong, who was not far away, exclaimed after listening to Xiao Shizhu's words: "Huh?"

This frightened the blood-rain cardinals and retracted their sharp beaks, which was only temporary.

Lin Cong didn't think of this layer, after all, he had just received the information, and before he could analyze it, he rushed to Juexiangyuan to report.

Second, no matter how smart and witty Lin Cong is, he is always a little inferior to Xiao Shizhu in these aspects.

Xiao Shizhu can be recognized by all ghosts, and then called human spirit, which is also worthy of its name.

"What do you want to observe the king?" Then Lin Cong frowned, and after saying this thoughtfully, a flash of inspiration immediately occurred in his mind, and he immediately had an epiphany.

What else can it be for, it's nothing more than whether to start a war with the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

Although Lin Cong realized it a little later, he also immediately thought of it.

"Alas, the Qingqiu Fox King, who doesn't know how to repent, will die a miserable death. Thinking of this, Lin Cong had already predicted the future of the Qingqiu Fox King in his heart.

Lin Cong is not a prophet, not a half-immortal, but he has seen too much, relying on his own little cleverness, he will end up fighting against Xiao Shizhu.

It was all terrible.

As long as Xiao Shizhu wanted to, sooner or later, his enemies would enjoy a torture that was a thousand times more painful than those punishments in hell.

"I, the king, want to bewitch the Qingqiu Fox King again, and now I have to bewitch one more fox ten buckets, doesn't this make it more difficult for me?" Xiao Shizhu pretended to smile bitterly, and asked Na Qinglan to sit down on the chairs on the left and right sides before the recital, and said, "Can't this world sell me a plug-in?"

At this time, Chen Ruo, who had been away for a long time, walked in again. Holding a tray in his hand, there is a hot tea that has been brewed.

After Chen Ruo served tea to Xiao Shizhu and them, he also changed Qinglan to go out to rest, and stood beside the ghost mother, standing quietly, not saying a word, and turning a deaf ear.

"It's good that Fox Shidou is coming, you also have a good taste of the demeanor of this great Confucian scholar. The ghost mother on the side didn't worry at all.

She believes that Xiao Shizhu will definitely be able to deal with the past easily, and will bewitch his opponent as always.

So, the ghost mother just said casually: "You can also see and see, this old ghost fox is really ten buckets." ”。

"Okay, if you don't have a backache when you stand and talk, you can speak, just listen to your wife. Xiao Shizhu also followed the ghost mother's words, and after making a joke, he looked at Lin Cong, who was drinking tea, and asked, "What other arrangements have they made?"

"The personal guards of the Qingqiu Fox King are the four Hu brothers. Lin Cong, who slowly put down the teacup, replied unhurriedly: "It's those four, the four Hu brothers who once fought fiercely with the Giant Country." ”。

"Well, I've seen their prestige in intelligence. Xiao Shizhu said, picked up the teacup, and gently scraped the tea powder in the cup with the quilt cover.

But he was in no hurry to take a sip.

He just took the medicine, and he avoided tea for two moments, otherwise the tea would dilute the medicinal properties, and the previous bitter medicine would be drunk in vain.

"Back then, when the Giant Kingdom attacked the northern land of the Qingqiu Fox Country, and won consecutive battles, when the Qingqiu Fox King was about to despair, it was these four brothers who led their troops to the north and stopped the unstoppable offensive of the Giant Country, and confronted each other until our army entered Dongyingzhou. Speaking of these, Xiao Shizhu is like a few treasures.

"Really?" In the end, he was also afraid that he was wrong, so he asked Lin Cong so.

"Yes, this senior brother is not a reckless man who is all brutes. Among them, there are also many who are good at calculating. Lin Cong nodded slowly and said, "And they are proficient in a lot of gods and ghosts, maybe it is the reason why the Qingqiu Fox King brought them." ”。

"It seems that the Qingqiu Fox King is scared. Xiao Shizhu put down the teacup that he hadn't drunk, but a trace of excitement flashed in his eyes.

He was like an old cat who had been hunting extremely experienced, and he was as excited as he saw his long-lost prey and entered his own territory.

"If he doesn't do bad things, what is he afraid of?" The next second later, Xiao Shizhu said, "He still knows what he has done, right?"

As he spoke, there was murder in his eyes, but it was fleeting.

No hunter will show the momentum of chasing after his prey before he can kill it with a single move.

Xiao Shizhu's playfulness came up again.

"Complaining is complaining, but I think this kind of game is very challenging, and I hope that when the time comes, the Qingqiu Fox King's defense will be stronger. When Xiao Shizhu said this, he picked up the teacup again, scraped the tea, and still didn't drink it.

He knew that as long as the Qingqiu Fox King was more defensive, he would really do a fake show here, and after bewitching the other party, the other party would believe everything he saw even more.

When the time comes, the Qingqiu Fox King should be turned around by the group he plays.

Xiao Shizhu likes to play games like this with his opponents, and enjoys it.

The ghost mother has nothing to say, after all, it is the Qingqiu Fox Country, and it is unkind and unrighteous first. It's okay to let Xiao Shizhu clean them up.

The ghost mother is a little looking forward to it, and the Qingqiu Fox King will come soon.

The arrival of the Qingqiu Fox King heralds the beginning of this game.

"My lord, Lord Changqin asks to see you. Qinglan walked in at this time and said after bowing slightly to Xiao Shizhu.

"Changqin, well, is his business done?" Xiao Shizhu said without hurrying when he heard this.

Changqin had been back in Yuque City for several days, and Xiao Shizhu knew about it. On the side of the Outer Court Supervisor (the Yin Division Department for official attendance and rewards and punishments), there is also a record of Changqin's report, and he has received the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom thank you gift brought back by Changqin, and it has been registered in the warehouse.

These Xiao Shizhu are all known.

It's just that Xiao Shizhu's question made Qinglan stunned when she heard it. He didn't know what the long qin was going to do, so he replied honestly, "I don't know." ”。

"Okay, you let him in. After Xiao Shizhu said this, he yawned.

And he took his leave. Lin Cong put down the teacup and stood up, just about to bow and say goodbye.

"Wait Lin Cong, most of Changqin's affairs have something to do with the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, so it's okay for you to listen to it. Xiao Shizhu said, and at the same time asked Lin Cong to sit down.

Even so, Lin Cong also nodded and sat down again.

Qinglan, who went and returned, walked in with a long qin. Behind Changqin, there is still an object on his back. Wrapped in blue silk cloth, it looks like a guqin.

"My lord, **. Changqin, who was standing in front of the recital, bowed to Xiao Shizhu and his wife, and then turned his head to Lin Cong, and also bowed, and said, "Lord Lin." ”。

"Changqin, sit. Xiao Shizhu smiled, and after inviting him to sit down, he gave Qinglan and Chen Ruo a look and asked them to retreat first.

"Your Majesty, please look at this first. Changqin did not sit down, but first took off what he was carrying on his back, and after taking the blue cloth, he held it with both hands.

It is a Fuxi-style guqin, which is cut from the jade and paulownia wood core in the underworld, the wood color is like jade, transparent and round and transparent, and it is equipped with a mussel emblem. The moist and delicate white jade piano and goose feet are exquisitely carved and give people a warm and moist beauty. Yueshan Jiaowei and so on are all made of red sandalwood, and the process is regular and does not appear abrupt. The body is painted vermilion and the antlers are gray. The whole body of the piano is dominated by small snake belly broken lines, and occasionally calf hair broken lines. The broken lines on the bottom of the piano are hidden like a sword, and the edge of the sword is raised, highlighting the antiquity of the piano surface.

This is exactly the condensation that Prince Fox Qingping gave to Changqin when he was in Qingqiu Fox Kingdom.

Xiao Shizhu has no vision in this regard, but he didn't see that this was when the ancient gods were alive, and they saw that the phoenix was gathered in Tong, which was like a piano, so he took 3,000 jade tung wood cores and soaked them in the ice water of the North Styx Sea for 3,300 years to prepare to cut the tung for the piano, and only 30 pieces of wood cores were left after being scooped up to be immortal. After carving and polishing, five guqins were finally made.

So Xiao Shizhu just said casually: "Guqin, what's the matter? Changqin entered the palace today, is it going to play a song for me?"

Surprise flashed in the ghost mother's eyes. After she saw at a glance what the guqin was, she was about to remind Xiao Shizhu that the long qin over there had already put the guqin on the prelude case of the couple.

While taking a step back, he said: "This is the lord's father personally created a sacred object, and the prince of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom used this to bewitch the ministers as internal responses. ”。

"My dad still makes this thing?" Xiao Shizhu was a little confused, glanced at the body of the piano, and still couldn't arouse any interest.

I don't even believe it, it's made by Fuxi.

"These are the five guqins made by my father-in-law back then, all of which are famous. All of them are about 3 feet 6 inches 5 in length, symbolizing 365 days in a year. All the instruments are about six inches wide, symbolizing the six seas and six directions. The piano is about two inches thick, which symbolizes the two poles of yin and yang. Seeing this, the ghost mother hurriedly explained to Xiao Shizhu: "Because it is made according to the shape of the phoenix, its whole body corresponds to the phoenix body, with a head, a neck, shoulders, a waist, a tail, and feet. He also took the ice silk and condensed it into strings, and it took a lot of 7749 years to make seven strings for the guqin. The exposed part of the piano body, passing through the Yue Mountain and the dragon gum part, turns to a pair of goose feet at the bottom of the piano, symbolizing the seven stars in the sky. There are thirteen emblems on the surface, symbolizing the twelve months of the year and a leap month. ”。

After taking a sip of tea and moistening her throat, the ghost mother said: "The front of the piano is wide and the back is narrow, symbolizing the difference between respect and inferiority." The five strings of palace, business, horn, sign and feather symbolize the five social levels of king, courtier, people, affairs and things. The remaining two strings symbolize literature and martial arts, and have the meaning of the grace of monarchs and ministers. The qin has three kinds of timbres: overtones, press tones and scattered tones, which symbolize the harmony of heaven, earth and man. Since then, the underworld has had a number of etiquette. Since then, these five guqins have been hidden deep in Luo Yu Mountain. ”。

Later, the war between gods and demons began, and the five condensations played a morale-boosting military music in the midst of the war, but the third was also destroyed because of the war. There are two left, one of which was taken to the world by the ancient gods, and its whereabouts are unknown since then. After the founding of the Beiyin Dynasty, the remaining one also disappeared from Luo Yu Mountain and disappeared without a trace. Changqin took over the words, slowly raised his head, looked at Mu Qingming and said, "I never thought that this only surviving guqin was actually in the hands of Qingqiu Fox Kingdom. ”。

After a pause, Changqin apologized again: "This is the thing of the great king's family, the minister did not disgrace his mission and brought it back, and now it can be returned to the original owner." ”。

"I see. After listening to their words, Xiao Shizhu said this.

But he still couldn't be interested in this kind of thing, so he also pushed the boat down the river and said to Changqin: "I don't know how to buy this thing." A good horse with Bole, your long piano is rhythmic, and this thing is more valuable in your hands. In a moment, you can take it home. ”。

A good move pushed the boat down the river, and immediately let Changqin go, and after being stunned suddenly, he was even more loyal.

"But ......" But Changqin didn't dare to agree easily, and he didn't dare to say anything.

The gift was too expensive for him to swallow.

"There's nothing to do, leave this thing with me, I'll just play the piano indiscriminately, don't want to cast the pearl secretly. You're a tonal lawyer, and this thing is still somewhat useful in your hands. Xiao Shizhu still insisted on asking Changqin to take the guqin, and asked again: "How many days have you been back from Qingqiu Fox Country?"

Changqin sat down according to Xiao Shizhu's request, and went up to the chair opposite Lin Cong, facing Mu Qingming, and said, "It's been five days." ”。

Chen Ruo served Changqin a cup of tea and retreated.

After Chen Ruo left, Changqin hurriedly said to Xiao Shizhu again: "The minister will come in a while, and he will rush to the Hulan Mansion first." ”。

This sounded as if Changqin did not respect Xiao Shizhu. It's just that Xiao Shizhu not only didn't get angry when he heard this, but asked in a calm tone: "Did you give that letter to Hu Lan?"

The letter he said was the letter that the Qingqiu Fox King brought to Changqin.

"Yes, according to your order, the minister not only gave the letter to Hu Lan, but also did not open it. On the second day, the people in Hulan's mansion sent a post to the minister, inviting the minister to eat in a restaurant in the city. ”。

"Hmm. Xiao Shizhu hummed casually, but out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Lin Cong who was not far away.

Xuanjiao naturally reported these things to him.

In the restaurant, Hu Lan once again served as a lobbyist, and the bewitcher served the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom. Changqin lowered his voice and continued to say to Xiao Shizhu: "According to your request, the lord pushed the boat down the river and agreed to Hu Lan. ”。

Xiao Shizhu, who had already known that this was the case, bowed his head slightly, and asked, "Then what do they want you to do this time?"