For this feast, Zhao Ran purchased nearly 100 taels of silver ingredients, which was enough to make the demons feast.

Looking at the huge team of more than a dozen spirit demons and two or three hundred demon beasts on the lakeside, Zhao Ran secretly said Fortunately, these guys have all entered the cultivation, and they don't have to eat a meal for ten days and a half months, otherwise they will really be eaten poor.

Seeing that at the beginning of the year, he only brought more than ten wives and concubines to respond to Tianfu's report, and at this moment, the scale of forty or fifty around him was formed again, Zhao Ran couldn't help but be speechless for a while, and summoned him to his side: "Brother donkey, brother donkey, you really can't control yourself wherever you go, can you restrain yourself?"

The donkey breeder "raised" his voice: "They are all voluntary!"

Zhao Ran was stunned for a moment, and the two big waists roasted in his hands suddenly slipped down, and before they fell to the ground, they were quickly mouthed by Linglu Yuyang on the side, and they were all taken away.

"Oh, donkey brother, you can finally speak!"

"I was able to speak last year, okay?"

"Then why didn't you tell me?"

"After the old Taoist priest left, you became less and less concerned about me. ”

"Oh, poor Dao is guilty! Hey, I said a few of you, donkey breeder can speak, and you don't tell Poor Dao?"

All the spirit demons rolled their eyes together, and the three-eyed horse prince rolled his eyes the most, and they were all about to roll over his head: "The spirit demon can't speak, what kind of spirit demon is that?

Huang Shanjun jumped out and roared: "The surname is three! Talking to Daochang Zhao like this, is it because you haven't eaten enough barbecue, do you want to eat and fight?"

Shen Jiangzi also shook his head on the side: "Come on, come on, you and I will fight for three hundred rounds!"

Ma Wang Ye said angrily: "How many times have I said it, this king's surname is Ma, not San!

Zhao Ran ignored them, and chatted with Junhai, a donkey, the two of them have been together for seventeen years, and today they can finally talk, there are really endless topics to talk about.

After the feast, Zhao Ran threw this scrap of bones to Su Chuan Yao and began to think about the problem of buying a house.

So many spirit demons and demon beasts gather in people's homes, and after a long time, it is not a way to do it. Besides, Yuyang will soon marry Hong Zesuo's two goddaughters and have his own manor, which is also a proper meaning.

Just pondering, the Divine Ape leaned over and said, "Daoist Zhao, there are always people looking for you these days, and they have left a letter." ”

Zhao Ran read the post handed by Tongji, but it was King Yu who invited him to come over and continue to teach health exercises.

Zhao Ran thought about it and decided to go.

After a few months, he didn't go to Yuwang's Mansion, and when he came again, there were many fewer people who participated in the practice of health preservation, and there were only nine people left, Zhao Ran estimated that it might have something to do with the emperor's edict to let go of the emperor's practice last month.

Zhao Ran still followed the way in the past, and let Yuwang and the others continue to practice.

Half an hour later, after the practice was over, Zhao Ran went to the palace study and drank tea with the trio of Yuwang, Feng Bao, and Zhang Juzheng.

King Yu suddenly got off his seat and bowed to Zhao Ran: "Please also ask the abbot to save me!"

Zhao Ran was stunned, then rolled his eyes, and said in his heart You are afraid that you are a little unlucky, and you have met a poor road, if you are someone else, you may really be confused by your pretending to be amazing.

With a wave of the sleeves of his robe, Yuwang felt as if he had been hit by a ball of cotton, and involuntarily took two steps back and sat back in his chair. He was still in a daze, Feng Bao saw Zhao Ran's displeasure, and secretly said in his heart My lord, I have already reminded you that Daochang Zhao is the master of soft and hard, no matter what attitude you have, people are not coerced, people are only reasonable, why are you smart enough to do this kind of trick?

So Feng Bao hurriedly turned around: "Abbot, I don't know if you know, Your Majesty has a will, and the cabinet votes to build a reserve." Xia Ge Lao played King Liyu and was left in the middle by His Majesty, and Yan Ge Lao played King Jing again, and His Majesty Zhu approved it. ”

Zhao Ran didn't care much about the matter of the Son of Heaven establishing the prince, to put it bluntly, it really didn't matter much to him, a person who was fighting in the Daomen, and the only thing that was implicated was nothing more than the Xia Yan faction involved, there were his friends, such as Gan Shutong, such as Xia Ji, such as Zhang Luo, and so on.

It was precisely for this reason that he had the intention of helping King Yu that day, and he did not say it explicitly, which was a typical political speculation.

But now there has been a major change in the situation, the Daomen has to walk on two legs, Chen Shandao in order to keep the Son of Heaven and the Third Palace, even countless people coveted the true master of the hall, and at this time, it is definitely not in line with Chen Shandao's intentions, and the chance of success is very slim.

This is the trend of the times, Zhao Ran was helpless, was silent for a moment, and asked, "When will the edict be issued?"

Zhang Juzheng answered: "Old Xia Ge resigned, but was rejected by His Majesty......"

Although it is dismissed, it shows that the fall of Xia Ge Lao has entered the proceedings.

“...... Now that the edict has been issued to the six subjects, I heard that there is no ...... to be returned."

If this is the case, it means that the prince is likely to be King Jing, which is also consistent with the general view of the abolition of the edict that the Son of Heaven is not allowed to practice.

Zhao Ran also didn't have a good way, and asked again: "Is there a scholar in the Tingtui cabinet?"

Zhang Juzheng sighed: "Yang Yiqing has entered the cabinet." On April 23, after the Zhenshitang ruled to abolish the emperor's rule that the emperor was not allowed to practice, the Son of Heaven asked the cabinet to convene a court meeting, and many people changed their positions, and Gan Shangshu came in third, the first being Yang Yiqing. ”

This is the influence of the True Master Hall, a ruling that directly affects the candidates for the cabinet scholars and the candidates for the prince, from this point of view, Zhao Ran suddenly understood Wu Tianshi, Zhao Zhenren, and Xu Zhenren's choice that day.

Gan Shutong had already tried his best, Xia Yan had also tried his best, and a clever plan came out and won great fame and great prestige, but so what? When Tingtui was pushing, he could only rank third.

Zhao Ran said: "What are your Royal Highness's plans?"

King Yu was obedient this time, looked at Feng Bao, didn't dare to be clever anymore, and said directly: "Abbot, do you think Xiao Wang still has hope?"

The words were asked very directly, which was in line with Zhao Ran's requirements, for more than ten years before, Zhao Ran had asked for help, so he had to try his best to figure out what other people meant in their words, and now he is gradually qualified to listen to other people's requests, and he definitely doesn't like others to play tricks with him - I can go around the bend with you, you can figure it out by yourself, but don't go around the bend with me, I don't have time to think about you.

Zhao Ran's eyes were deep, and his face was unfathomable: "Is there hope, you can't just look at the present, everything is developing and changing." When you are desperate, it may be just the beginning of hope, and when you think it will come true, you may usher in all hopes. ”

King Yu, Feng Bao, and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other, and were surrounded by Zhao Ran's words.