Coming out of the imperial superintendent, Li Ran was pestered by Xiao Wan'er and dragged to the back mountain of the Fourth Princess's Mansion.

I don't know if it was the little black who said hello, this time, these spirit beasts on the mountain welcomed him more, the two rode the blackbird, and the cute lion eagle beast followed behind to open the way, and it was interesting to have some fun.

Bird riding is fun!

When passing through the familiar mountain stream, Li Ran instinctively released his spiritual sense to check the surrounding situation, his current spiritual sense, compared with when he practiced qi at the first level, covered a larger area, and had a strong penetration.

This time, he once again felt the breath of the demon beast that destroyed the world and destroyed the earth!

What's even more terrifying is that, just like that day, it was still only for a moment, and then it disappeared.

It's completely gone.

Xiao Wan'er, this girl really hides a big secret.

And this secret is probably related to the pile of dead people's spirits I saw at the entrance of the cave that day!

Li Ran looked at the excited hand dancing next to her, a bright and delicate girl, and couldn't associate her with the word "black belly" at all.

After that, Li Ran was preoccupied, and talked to Xiao Wan'er without a match, and the latter saw his carelessness, pouted, and forcibly drove him back.

Li Ran was happy and relaxed, he deeply understood a truth, the more terrifying the secret he inquired about, the more ugly he would die after knowing the secret.

However, that demonic qi is really perverted, with his current cultivation in the middle of the second layer of qi training, he can only roughly feel that the other party is very strong, so strong that it is not the same level as him!

Yes, if Xiao Wan'er really treats him as her own, one day, she may take the initiative to tell herself, right?

Li Ran shook his head, and decided to go back to lie on the bed first, study the system carefully, and use the more than 2,200 points.

According to the system, after completing the main quest, he is now "temporarily" in a state of free exploration, and the channels for obtaining points and experience points have increased a lot, but he needs to explore by himself, hey, it's full of routines.

Not only that, but the scope of his activities is limited to the realm of the Great Xuan Kingdom.

Actually, it's nothing, and he doesn't plan to go out anyway.

However, the word "temporary" really made his heart furious.

There won't be any crazy main quests behind this dog system, right?

But after thinking about it, is there a more difficult task in this palace than becoming Xiao Wan'er's gentleman?

Strategy...... Empress?

Oops!

What the was I thinking?

Phew.

How can you have such disrespectful thoughts about your mother-in-law!

Li Ran hurriedly interrupted the commotion in his heart, and unconsciously, he arrived at the other courtyard.

At the gate of the courtyard, several of his "colleagues", Huang Qiusheng, Lu Haoxuan and others were kneeling on the ground, and an old eunuch was holding the holy decree in his hand and reading it.

It is the personal celebrity next to the empress, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch of the pen, Qiu Huaili.

If you don't think about it, you can guess what's going on, he has just been named an official monarch on the front foot, and the empress on the back foot will come to pick people up, it is really resolute, worthy of the Emperor Xuanyue.

Li Ran wanted to take a detour, after all, the kind of envy, jealousy and hatred that dick silk players have for krypton players makes it difficult for him to bear it!

Unexpectedly, after Qiu Huaili read the holy decree, he found him, and his dexterous and thin body walked over in three steps and two steps.

The attitude is compared to before, so it's a passion.

"Li Shilang, you're back!" Qiu Huaili blessed his body and asked him for peace.

"Well, come back and rest for a while, I have already greeted Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess, and I am concerned about Father-in-law Lao Qiu. ”

Li Ran also said with a smile on his face, when he came to this palace, he was sophisticated or something, he didn't relax at all, and it was not bad to be polite, that is, to open his mouth.

"Our family has been waiting for you for a long time, and Your Majesty has another message for you. Qiu Huaili said.

Li Ran was stunned for a second, and then said, "The minister listens to the holy oracle." ”

"It's not a big deal. ”

Gonggong Qiu smiled and got closer: "The people of Dongying, Goryeo and other countries have already gone to the post house of Honglu Temple to live at this moment, tonight the imperial court has prepared a welcome banquet, banquet for these foreign guests, Wen Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, Kong Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy, and all the officials of the Honglu Temple will be present, Your Majesty means that you want to attend the meeting as a representative of the royal family to help attract foreign guests." ”

Hey, that's a fucking surprise.

Li Ran felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

Because of his father's previous position, he still knows a lot about diplomatic etiquette.

The court practice, every year on the eve of the martial arts conference, when the envoys and foreign guests of various countries enter the palace, a grand welcome banquet will be held to highlight the magnificent appearance of the Central Plains Celestial Empire.

If Li Ran remembers correctly, every year in previous years, the eldest princess Xiao Lingqiu was sent as the chief representative of the royal family, but he didn't expect ....... to actually send him this year?

But then he thought about it.

I'm afraid it's not entirely that the empress favors him, but that Xiao Lingqiu secretly communicated with the sect clerk this time, and the empress noticed the seedlings, and the latter wanted to deliberately snub her for a while to show warning.

Anyway, this time it's a show of face, and if his dad knows about it, he probably has to jump up happily.

Actually, if you think about it...... I seem to be the most suitable person at the moment!

Who is he, Li Ran?

The emperor's canonized Jun Shilang, an authentic member of the royal family, a genius from heaven recognized by the Holy Stone, and a bachelor in the Hanlin Academy!

Not only is he completely suitable in terms of identity, but he is also quite related to the two organizers of this welcome banquet, Wen Zhirong of the Ministry of Rites and Kong Xiangyun, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy.

One of these two people is his father's ex-boss, his Wenbo, and the other is his nominal boss, the leader of the Hanlin Academy!

The most important thing is that these two people are both neutral civilian officials, not Zhang Ningfu's gang of "Xiang Party" people!

It seems that this empress's intentions are very deep, this is to make me so close to them!

Some of the arrangements are really deceptively simple, but if you analyze them carefully, the doorways inside are really surprising.

Li Ran sighed in his heart, and admired his mother-in-law with a hot body even more.

Moreover, this welcome meeting has one of the biggest conveniences for Li Ran.

He can spy on the reality of the masters of various countries this time in advance, in case, even the weakest princess of Goryeo, Li Xiuyan, is also a fierce force, what should he do when the time comes?

He really didn't have faith in his stupid brother.

......

"Li Shilang?"

Seeing that Li Ran was silent for a long time, Qiu Huaili stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the former's eyes.

Li Ran hurriedly came back to his senses, and couldn't hide his excitement and said: "Well, I know, I bothered Gonggong Qiu to return to the saint, and said that Li Ran would not let her down." ”

"Li Shilang is really a dragon and a phoenix, and the old slave will go back to tell him. Qiu Huaili smiled so hard that his eyes became a slit.

After Qiu Huaili left, Li Ran thought about it, and chatted with the few "colleagues" who packed up their things and prepared to leave the palace, and walked for a while.

Don't look at the fact that people are defeated now, maybe they will meet in the court in the future?

As he expected, these guys didn't blame him at all, but were grateful to him, and none of them had entered the palace voluntarily.

Now it's okay, the empress directly set the quota in advance, and they are happy to go back to deal with their families, the best of both worlds.

So, a group of young people revealed their true feelings again, called them brothers, and talked about wine for a while before saying goodbye.

What, you say the devil muscle man Wu Kun?

This "Erwuzai" is now a rat that everyone shouts and beats, and he is embarrassed to appear?

Sent Huang Qiusheng and the others away, almost, it was time for the welcome meeting, Li Ran was about to take a bath and moved to Honglu Temple, at this time, an unexpected person came outside the door.

"Applejack?"

Li Ran looked at the dead friend who had lost a whole circle of weight and haggard in front of him in a daze, and said in shock: "How did you become this ghost?"

"Brother Ran!"

Ma Wenjie burst into tears, pounced on him, and cried so much that if Li Ran hadn't dodged in time, his snot would have almost thrown him off.

"What's the matter? You're not in the second princess?"

Li Ran said tentatively: "Is it possible...... Have you been abused?"

Ma Wenjie cried: "Sister Qingxue doesn't like me, she trains in the martial arts field every day, and she asks me to put on the armor of a soldier and train with the army, and if I am a little lazy, it is all kinds of punishments, you know me, I ...... Where can I stand this!"

Speaking of sadness, crying.

Hearing this, Li Ran thought about it and instantly knew the reason.

This Xiao Qingxue must have known that Ma Wenjie's father, Ma Feng, was one of the main members of the "Xiang Party", so she deliberately used this method to provoke Ma Wenjie to get out of here.

For this second princess who is fierce by nature and has great achievements, she doesn't care what kind of soldier you are, I'm afraid that in the whole world, except for the empress, no one can suppress her.

"Wen Jie, you quit, she just wants you to quit, she thinks you are the eyeliner of another group of political enemies, I don't know if you say that, can you understand?"

Li Ran pondered for a while, and said very seriously, seeing this fat man being tortured like this, as a friend for many years, he still couldn't bear it.

Sure enough, as he expected, Ma Wenjie looked confused, completely unclear.

"Forget it, you just need to know that you take the initiative to apply to the Sect Affairs Institute to withdraw, and then inform your father, and you'll be fine. Li Ran said solemnly.

"No, no!" Ma Wenjie shook his head and looked at the void with an affectionate expression: "I can't leave Sister Qingxue, she is the white moonlight in my heart!"

"Fuck you! Isn't the white moonlight in your heart Liu Xiaoxiao?"

Li Ran said angrily: "With my understanding of the second princess, if you dangle around her like this, she will slowly torture you to death." ”

"Die and die. Ma Wenjie wiped his tears and looked tragic: "Sooner or later in this life, I will die, and if I want to die, I must die in her hands!"

, still singing?

Li Ran couldn't cry or laugh, and once again suspected that this dead fat man had crossed over from the earth.

"Forget it, whatever you want, what are you looking for me?"

Li Ran waved his hand and asked back to the subject.

"Oh, yes!"

When Ma Wenjie heard him say this, he also remembered something, took out an envelope from his arms, and said happily: "During today's exercise, I accidentally bragged to a soldier, saying that I knew Li Ran, a genius from the sky, but I didn't expect to be heard by Sister Qingxue, I thought I would have to be beaten and scolded again, but I didn't expect her attitude towards me to turn around——"

"You know what? It was the first time she smiled so gently at me, and my world was about to melt!

Ma Wenjie's eyes were distracted, he didn't know what he thought, and he couldn't help licking his tongue.

What the hell.

Li Ran was puzzled when he heard this, and snatched the envelope, with a line written on it: "Come to the western suburbs to find me tomorrow, remember, you owe me a favor." ”

Turtles and turtles are a blessing or a curse, and they can't be avoided.

Li Ran put away the envelope, pondered for a long time, and patted the little fat man in front of him who had entered Gensokyo: "You go back and tell the second princess, just say, counting the matter of her helping her brother to relieve the siege of the Great Dynasty, I already owe her two favors, as long as I Li Ran can do it, listen to her instructions." ”

"Okay! I'll go tell her!" Ma Wenjie nodded, and couldn't wait to go back, when he suddenly remembered something: "Brother Ran...... You won't be ...... this time."

Halfway through his words, he bit his lower lip and muttered aggrievedly, "Sister Qingxue is mine." ”

Of course, Li Ran knew what the fat man was thinking, and said with a wry smile: "Don't worry, I already have four princesses." ”

"Okay!" Ma Wenjie took a cheerful step and galloped away.

Second princess, Xiao Qingxue?

Li Ran was lying on the bed, and somehow, his mind was full of that hot and sexy body......

I don't know, will she wear that tight battle dress tomorrow?

Ay......

A long sigh.

Wen Jie, I'm sorry for you!!