[February 22, 71st year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, noon, Chang'an City Road Zhengfang, Deyue Building]

At this time, although Chang'an City was pouring heavy rain everywhere, the Deyue Building located in Daozhengfang was still overcrowded, and the torrential rain did not stop the people of Chang'an from drinking and chatting Yaxing.

The rain flowed from the eaves, pouring happily on the road, and the streets and alleys of Chang'an City had accumulated a layer of shallow water everywhere, and the white rain jumped and splashed in all directions.

Only horse-drawn carriages were left on the road, and pedestrians were looking for shelter from the rain. However, at the time of lunch, there were still people who kept holding the rain gear and hurried into the restaurant, wiping the rain from their foreheads and necks, and shouting: "Shopkeeper, serve wine!"

Located in the middle of the lobby on the ground floor of the Deyue Building, there is a wooden platform more than two feet high, and a table and a chair are placed in the middle of the wooden platform. At this time, there was a white-haired old man sitting on the chair, he was dressed in a gray cloth torn cotton jacket, his figure was slightly rickety, his face was full of wrinkles, his hair was messy, and he didn't know how old he was. I saw that he hit the two small bamboo planks in his hand, and the sound of frustration spread out from the center of the wooden platform. A group of diners in the restaurant, in the midst of drinking and guessing boxing and talking, listened to the old man's subdued voice, which went straight into their ears, and they couldn't help but stop their cups and listen to the old man's storytelling:

"Rank guest officer, our Chang'an City has not rained for months, today's heavy rain can be said to be the right season! ”

The white-haired old man knocked on the bamboo board a few more times, and then said:

"It can be seen from the rank that the Shenwang Pavilion of our Daqian has stood in the capital of Chang'an since the founding of the country, and it has been more than 300 years. The old pavilion master's surname is Bai, his name is lifeless, no one knows his age, and it is said that he has been alive for more than a thousand years......"

On the left side of the wooden platform, a scholar looked like a diner and said disapprovingly: "The old man is not going to speak, how can anyone live to be more than a thousand years old!"

The white-haired old man said with a smile: "This guest officer doesn't know that the lifespan of a mortal is naturally sixty, and there are very few who can exceed a hundred. However, there are also people who practice alchemy and cultivate the Tao, gather clusters of primordial gods, refine the true nature, jump out of the reincarnation of the five elements, cultivate into the realm of flying immortals, and are no longer bound by the **mortal womb! This white old pavilion master, enlightened and cultivating immortals, from an extraordinary person, it is said that his true body is in the Nine Heavens Haoyu, a cross-sea divine dragon! The divine dragon soars above the nine heavens, chanting between the seas, and no one sees its true body......

Another bearded man in the audience laughed and said, "Old man, it's not right for you to say this! Since Bai Wuming is a divine dragon, and no one has ever seen his true face, how do you know that he is a dragon?

The white-haired old man sighed: "The old man is naturally hearsay, and coming here today is nothing more than chatting with everyone for fun! Everyone can listen to it, believe it or not, it is up to everyone! The old man heard that the Lord of the God King Pavilion has no life, and the martial arts and Taoism have been transcendent, and Wen Tao's martial arts strategy is even more invincible in the world, in addition, the medical divination astrology and Qimen Dunjia are also omniscient and omniscient! If anyone can enter the Divine King Pavilion and have the fate to worship under the master of the White Old Pavilion, even if he just learns the same ability, this life is also endless......

A young man in the audience couldn't help but ask, "Old man, how can I enter the Divine King Pavilion?"

The white-haired old man smiled: "This little brother is not in a hurry, and listen to the old man slowly." The location of the Shenwang Pavilion is in the west of Chang'an City, in the Qiushuiyuan in the south of the West City. This pavilion seems to be ordinary, but without the permission of the White Old Pavilion Lord, it will be extremely difficult for mortals to enter it! Just because once he enters the person of the God King Pavilion, it means that the White Old Pavilion Lord has promised to accept him as a disciple. ”

The young man asked again, "Grandpa, what ...... Has anyone been in for so many years?"

The white-haired old man said: "The God King Pavilion has been established for three hundred years, and it is rumored that the master of the White Old Pavilion has only accepted one disciple......"

The young man said: "I only accepted one! That is to say, there has only been a person in three hundred years, does the old man know who he is?"

The white-haired old man said with a smile: "He is the third prince today, and he is named Prince Zhao, surnamed Li!"

The prestige of King Zhao is known to everyone in the entire Chang'an City. After the white-haired old man mentioned it, the seat became lively again.

"Lord Zhao, has he entered the Divine King Pavilion?"

"It turns out that His Royal Highness King Zhao is a disciple of the White Old Pavilion Lord"

"What kind of person is Bai Wuming? Is it so powerful? It took three hundred years to accept an apprentice, and that apprentice is actually a prince!"

"Tut-tut! No wonder Zhao Wangye is full of martial arts, and it is said that he is invincible in the world! This God King Pavilion is so powerful, let's try it next time! Not to mention anything else, as long as you become a senior brother with Zhao Wangye, do you still have to worry about it in this life?"

......

There was a middle-aged man in a dark green official robe who was drinking with his head down, and he couldn't help but raise his head and ask, "This old man, what you said is so unreasonable." My Great Qianshen King Pavilion is specially designed to cultivate civil and military elites for the imperial court, since the founding ......of the country, how many talented warriors have been produced?! Aren't they all from the Divine King's Pavilion?"

The white-haired old man had long hair on his hands, and said with a smile: "This official doesn't know anything, under the throne of the God King Pavilion, there are three gates: the Tianzi Gate, the Earth Character Gate, and the Human Character Gate." Only by entering the Tianzi Gate can he be regarded as an introductory disciple of the White Old Pavilion Lord. The other two gates were only located on the periphery, and the disciples in the gate were afraid that they had never even entered the first floor of the Divine King Pavilion. The two adults you mentioned, if you remember correctly, one is a terrib door and the other is a herringbone door, right?"

The six-rank official himself was also hearsay, how could he know that there were so many exquisiteness in it? At this time, when he saw the old man asking, he hurriedly lowered his head and drank, avoiding answering.

The white-haired old man knocked on the bamboo board, and then sang:

"The creation of the Shenwang Pavilion has been three hundred years, the main dragon of the White Pavilion is difficult to find, Zhao Wangye is talented and talented, and there are three doors to protect the great cadres and Yuying, and he is listed as an official, among which there are poems as evidence!"

"The god king is high in Changjing, and the blue sky is next to each other

The mirror flowers and water and the moon are not real, and the void cloud shadow is another body

Thousands of miles of floating clouds are dreams, and the sea is dusty for a hundred years

The mountains covered his eyes, and he only sighed that the flying flowers were mistaken for life

......”

The white-haired old man was melodious, singing and sighing, and was enjoying himself. Suddenly, a middle-aged man with a long body, a thin face, and a long sword on his back came up to the stage, bowed to him, took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, about two taels, and put it on the table in front of the old man, and said warmly:

"Old gentleman, I would like to ask you below, what is the song you sang in the song, what is 'Mirror Flowers, Water and Moon, Void Cloud Shadow'?"

The old man saw that the middle-aged man looked forty years old, and his face was very clear, but his long hair was full of silver and white, and he was very surprised at the moment, but when he saw that he was generous, he hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile: "The poem of the old man is also halfway to hear, Hu."

It's just a random singing, thank you for the reward!"

The man with the long sword on his back asked again: "Old gentleman, I have also heard that if you want to enter the Divine King Pavilion, you need to have a Divine King Order, and the old gentleman knows what the Divine King Decree is, and ...... Where did you get it?"

The old man stroked his long hair with his hand and said with a smile: "This brother, don't you also want to go and see the Divine King Pavilion?" However, the old man has heard that it has always been the Divine King Order looking for people, and I have never heard that anyone can find the Divine King Order......

"Thank you, old man!" the man with the sword on his back bowed again, turned and strode away.

The old man stared at the slender back of the silver-haired man, as if thoughtful.

......

At the same time, in the back garden of Liquanfang, Xu Ke and Shu Hattian were enjoying the rain and drinking tea, chatting a lot, and suddenly saw Dong Laifu walking in with an umbrella, Xu Ke couldn't help but shake his head, thinking to himself, how could this person be so in love with the master?

"Master Xu, Master Shuxian, Lord Qiu is here!" Dong Laifu shouted.

He was followed by a person, although his hair was gray and wrinkled, but he was in good spirits, holding an umbrella in his hand, striding high, and treading water, it was Xu Ke's teacher Qiu Mingli.

"Teacher, you're coming! It's raining so hard, come quickly, come to the pavilion...... Laifu, you go and fetch a basin of hot water for Lord Qiu, and get a few dry towels. Xu Ke hurriedly got up to greet him and greeted him warmly.

Dong Laifu responded to the call and hurriedly prepared, at this time, all the servants in the palace had been dismissed by him, so he had to rush to get busy in person, but his face was even more happy.

"It's okay, the old man heard that you were out of prison, so he came to see you. How...... Are you leaving?" After Qiu Mingli entered the Xu Mansion, he didn't see a maid servant, and he felt strange in his heart, and after listening to Dong Laifu's reply, he knew that Xu Ke was leaving Chang'an. At this time, when he saw Xu Ke, he hurriedly asked.

"Don't hide it from the teacher, I was sent to prison by the emperor's decree this time, and I am really tired of officialdom! Now that I have been demoted to a commoner, what are I still doing in this Chang'an City? I am going to leave today and leave the feet of this son of heaven, and I am afraid that I will not come back in the future!" Xu Ke replied.

"Where are you going?" asked Qiu Mingli again.

Shu Haotian hurriedly replied: "Brother Qiu, we have all discussed, let's go to my old sister's Bibo Island to live for a few days first......"

Qiu Mingli asked Xu Ke: "No disease, are you really not going back to Chang'an from now on?" I know that you have a grudge against the emperor, but the emperor ...... He also has difficulties, and after some time, the emperor will be discouraged, and the old man expects that he will still use you!"

Xu Ke said: "Forget it! I'm afraid the student is really not an official, this time the emperor demoted me, I have no official and a light body, but it's also very good, it's better to go to the island with us to live in seclusion, from now on the mountains and seas, happy and happy, isn't it beautiful!"

Qiu Mingli sighed: "Although Bibo Island is good, but my old bones, I can only stay in Chang'an in this life......! Should I go to the Wei Palace?"

Shu hattian hurriedly said: "Brother who is not sick, Lao Qiu is right, if it weren't for Prince Wei to help you intercede this time, you would have been reimbursed for all ten small lives!"

"Okay, I'll go," Xu Ke agreed. He really couldn't find a reason not to go in his heart, after all, if there was no Prince Jiuzhu who entered the palace late at night to beg the emperor, at this time, God knew what kind of misery he would be tortured by Yang Wenyuan's wife.

At this time, Dong Laifu had already brought a basin of hot water and a few dry towels. Before the others entered the back garden, they saw Qiu Mingli holding an umbrella and striding out with Xu Ke.

"Lord Qiu, wipe your face," Dong Laifu said busily.

"No need" Qiu Mingli waved his hand, and the person had already passed the front hall.

......

Half an hour later, Qiu Mingli and Xu Ke braved the rain to come to the Wei Palace. Ma Huacheng took the master and apprentice to the study of the palace. Mr. Ma courteously beckoned the two to sit down, and brought them two cups of Longjing.

Li Jin, the king of Wei, was sitting in his study, baking a fire in front of a large brazier. He saw the heavy rain today, and his heart was also very happy. At this time, without waiting for Xu Ke to speak, he first smiled at Qiu Mingli:

"Mr. Qiu, this heavy rain is really good! Otherwise, Chang'an will be in drought! If there is such a heavy rain in my great Qian, Lianghuai and Shandong, how good it would be!"

Qiu Mingli also smiled and said: "Your Highness, perhaps, at this moment, that land of great drought is also pouring such heavy rain!"

Li Zhen smiled and said, "Oh, why does Mr. Qiu have such a conjecture? These Huaiyang, Huainan, Shandong, and Shannan four provinces and sixteen prefectures, but there has not been a drop of rain in a year. ”

Qiu Mingli smiled and said, "Your Highness, I won't tell you, this is what my little girl in the grass hall told me. She said that last night she dreamed that an old fairy was taking a large basin and scooping up a lot of seawater and pouring it down from the air. In her hometown, it was raining everywhere, and all the ponds and ditches were filled with rainwater, and the villagers there were so happy......"

Li Zhen couldn't help but be happy: "Isn't that just a dream, if it's really as she said in her dream, this king really has to reward her with a gift! Speaking of which, this Xiaoyu girl was caught by that Pei Caibao in Tsing Yiwei for no reason before, and she must have suffered a little, I wonder if she was injured?"

Qiu Mingli hurriedly stood up and said: "Your Highness, Miss Xiaoyu was arrested by Pei Bald in the early morning of that day, and tortured to extract a confession, but fortunately, she was rescued without illness. Disease-free ...... Thank you for not being able to thank His Royal Highness King Wei!"

Xu Ke hurriedly got up, bowed to Li Zhen and said, "No illness, thank you His Royal Highness King Wei for saving your life!"

Li Jin's face, which was still happy just now, became a little cold and deep at this time, and he replied lightly: "This king just told his father some truths. Moreover, my father would not blame you in the first place, but only hoped that you would be able to collect your temperament after this trench. In the future, if you do things for the government again, you should know that you should abide by the rules and understand the law, and you can do things but you can't do them......"

Qiu Mingli said: "Your Highness, I have come here without illness, and I have made a special trip to bid you farewell." ”

Li Zhen couldn't help but be a little surprised, and said to Xu Ke, "You want to leave?"

Xu Ke replied: "Yes, Your Highness, you have made up your mind to be sick, and since then you have left Chang'an and gone to the beach to live in seclusion." Thank you for your teachings today! However, I am afraid that I will not have the opportunity to use this knowledge in the officialdom in the future. ”

"If you want to go so much, just go! It's going to rain, the woman is going to get married, you want to live in seclusion, and this king can't stop you! However, if everyone is like you, and they suffer a little setback, they will walk away, and only care about their own seclusion and happiness, who will do such a big mess in the court?......

Li Jin's face showed a slight displeasure, he turned his back to face the brazier, took care of the fire himself, and didn't pay attention to Xu Ke, as if he had said a lot of words to the brazier.

Xu Ke faced Li Jin's back, no

Know what to do. Seeing that the words were not speculative, he thought about finding a sentence and politely said goodbye and went out. In his heart, he had made up his mind to go to the island with Sister Hu, Sister Zibei and Brother Shuxian to see the scenery. As for those heartwarming things in the court, in the future, he will really hide as far as he wants.

At this time, a majestic and handsome figure suddenly walked into the study. I saw him come in a hurry, strode into the study, and when he saw Xu Ke, he said, "Little brother, so you are here?"

Xu Ke turned his head and saw that the person who came was seven feet long, his body was down, his aura was lofty, his black eyes were as quiet as autumn water, and his two sword eyebrows were obliquely inserted into the sky, which was exactly the beautiful man Li Yi who he saw in the West Market that day.

Before Xu Ke could answer, he heard a voice behind him happily exclaiming, "Third brother!"

Li Zhen had already stood up from the brazier, walked to Li Yi's side, and took Li Yi's hand, looking unusually happy.

"Third brother?" Xu Ke looked at the two people in front of him, and couldn't help but raise his hand and scratch his forehead. If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he couldn't believe that these two people were brothers, and besides, Li Yi was still Li Jin's brother.

Li Jin's sideburns were covered with white hair, his thin face was slightly pale, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes could not be hidden.

Li Yi is obviously forty-five years old, but except for a few gray hairs on his forehead, he looks chic and heroic, with a face like a crown of jade, a nose like a hanging gall, lips like grease, and teeth like beads, at first glance, he is no more than 25 years old.

One is premature and decrepit, and the other is old and rejuvenated, these two brothers stand together, and the old man has to respectfully call out to the young man "Third brother!" This picture is really unimaginable.

But in Li Jin's heart, he didn't think it was strange at all, if it was his third brother, he would always be his third brother. At this moment, he took Li Yi's hand and said cordially:

"Third brother, why are you here on this rainy day! You didn't send anyone to inform me before you came, and I haven't made any preparations here...... Hurry up, go and make a pot of jasmine fragrant tea for my third brother, I want the best!"

Li Yi pointed at Xu Ke with his finger and said, "Uh...... Fourth brother, I'm not here to look for you, I'm looking for ...... Him!"

Li Zhen looked at Xu Ke and couldn't help but be surprised: "You came to find Wu Ke, and the third brother also knows him?"

"Yes, I'm an acquaintance of him! Last time he gave me a rat cage. Little brother, do you say?" Li Yi smiled at Xu Ke.

Xu Ke hurriedly bowed and saluted: "I don't know that it was His Royal Highness King Zhao on the day of the disease, and I begged His Highness for forgiveness!"

Qiu Mingli also hurriedly followed and saluted: "Mingli has seen His Royal Highness King Zhao!"

Li Zhen pulled Li Yi towards the brazier and said, "Third brother, your clothes are all wet, come and roast the fire......

Li Yi pushed away his fourth brother's hand and said, "What a little rain in this mere way! The more you get drenched, the happier it becomes! Fourth brother, you have to be careful, don't keep hiding by the brazier, I passed on your set of 'Four Elephant Gong' last time, go to the back garden to practice if you have nothing to do!"

Li Zhen couldn't help but bow his head slightly, Fang Cai's arrogant attitude is now of course gone, at this moment he seems to be a child who has neglected his homework and has been taught by his husband, and said: "Yes, yes, yes! Junior brother remember, that set of exercises is very complicated, and the third brother will teach me more in the future!"

"This is already the easiest!" Li Yi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and then said to Xu Ke: "Little brother, I'm here today to send you something!"

After that, Li Yi took out a black long iron plate from his arms, handed it to Xu Ke's hand, and said, "This piece of God King Order, you can take it!"

"God King Order!" Li Zhen and Qiu Mingli couldn't help but exclaim at the same time.

Both of them are ordinary minds, the world-famous God King Order, only one person has been fortunate enough to get it in the past three hundred years, and today, the only God King Order winner actually handed over this token to Xu Ke!

At this time, Li Jin's face was even more surprised.

He would never have thought that in the past three hundred years, the person who was chosen by the mysterious White Old Pavilion Lord, in addition to his third brother, actually had the young man in front of him!

Li Yi completely ignored the surprised faces of everyone in the room. He patted his shirt, dusted off the water marks on his body, and said with a smile: "Little brother, hurry up and go back to the house, someone is waiting for you, I have brought the token, this God King Pavilion has to go by yourself......"

After that, Li Yi turned around, strode out of the door, and walked into the rain, only to hear his hearty laughter come from afar:

"The mirror flowers and water and the moon are not real, and the void cloud shadow is another body. Little brother, it's easy to enter the cabinet and difficult to get out of the cabinet, whether you can get out of the cabinet or not, in the future, it's all up to you!"

"Lord Zhao, your tea ......" Ma Huacheng held an umbrella, held a teapot, and stood in the wind and rain, shouting at Li Yi's back.

After Li Yi left, Qiu Mingli hurriedly said: "No disease, according to King Zhao's instructions, you should go back to the house quickly, someone must have been waiting for you in the mansion for a long time, that person ...... He must also be a character in the Divine King's Pavilion!"

Xu Ke picked up the God King Order in his hand and looked at it carefully, only to see that the iron plate was very heavy, and it seemed to be made of dark iron. It is about six inches long and two inches wide, the whole body is dark, the head is pointed and the bottom is round, the upper end is slightly wider, and the lower part is narrowed in turn, and one side is engraved with the word "god", above which is a figure of the sun, and on the other side is engraved a word "king", above which is engraved a figure of the moon.

Xu Ke didn't know what to do, and then asked: "Teacher, do you know what this Divine King Order is? Why did King Zhao send me a piece? What is the place of the Divine King Pavilion? Why is there a character from the Divine King Pavilion coming to my house?......?"

"Oh! Are you such an ordinary iron card as a god king! How many people can't dream of it!" Qiu Mingli hurriedly interrupted Xu Ke's question, and ordered: "No disease, you can put down everything now, and go home quickly!"

Li Zhen also waved his hand and said, "Go quickly!"

Seeing this, Xu Ke knew that this matter was important, so he said goodbye to the two of them at the moment, and also followed Li Yi's example, without an umbrella, and strode out arrogantly. Bathed in the endless rain in the sky, Xu Ke suddenly felt a wave of pride rise in his chest......

I am a seven-foot man who is not sick, born between heaven and earth, regardless of the height of the temple or the mountains and rivers, I think of the common people in the world, since I should brave the wind and rain, forge ahead, a little wind and rain, how can I stop me!

......

Half an hour later, Xu Ke braved the rain to enter the door of his house, and as soon as he arrived in the front hall, he saw a person standing in front of the door, leisurely drinking tea and enjoying the rain.

The man was full of white hair, dancing like a fluffy in the wind, wearing a tattered shirt, swaying alone like a dead tree in front of the court, and it was the white-haired old man who was telling stories in the Deyue Tower at noon.