Chapter 114: Night Talk West Lake

Zhou Cheng stepped into the mansion and stood in the atrium, but he didn't continue to walk inside, and Huan Wen and Yuntai disciples behind him also stopped, not knowing what Zhou Cheng was doing.

"This was my home. Only now.... Things are not people!" Suddenly, Zhou Cheng's voice sounded, and the words that should have been melancholy sounded very calm.

Beidou and Nandou Daoren glanced at each other, just now Zhou Cheng replaced the plaque of the mansion with the Zhou Mansion, and the two vaguely guessed in their hearts that this inconspicuous mansion may be the former residence of the real person in charge.

They didn't know Zhou Cheng's name until now, but they guessed Zhou Cheng's surname from Su Ruolan.

After decades, when Zhou Cheng stepped into Jianye's mansion again, he was already a Taiyi Xuanxian, and he had inexplicable mixed feelings in his heart.

"Zhenren, do we want to go to the palace for a banquet?" After a while, Huan Wen took two steps forward and asked in a low voice.

Zhou Cheng turned around when he heard this, and when he looked at Huan Wen, he still had a smile on his face, and then said, "Since the emperor and the queen mother have set up a banquet for you, a hero, then you can go." ”

"If the real person doesn't go, then Huan Wen won't go either. Huan Wen said naturally, for the sake of Zhou Cheng, he could not hesitate to tear his face with the court.

"You are a courtier of the Great Jin Dynasty, wouldn't it be a shame for the queen mother and the emperor if you don't go. Besides, they didn't invite me, it's not fun to go, I have more interesting things to do tonight, so you can go by yourself!" Zhou Cheng continued, not dissatisfied with Chu Lianzi and Sima Yu's neglect of him.

"What's interesting, can Uncle take me?" Just as Zhou Cheng's words fell, a beautiful voice sounded in the sky, and then a pretty and graceful figure fell from the sky.

"Meet the Young Master. ”

"I've seen fairies. ”

Su Ruolan appeared like a fairy in the clouds, and the children of Yuntai and Huan Wen hurriedly saluted.

"I've seen two senior brothers, I've seen the general, are you juniors and sisters having fun along the way?" Su Ruolan greeted everyone one by one, and when she completely integrated herself into the Yuntai view, she returned to her lively and cheerful personality in the past.

Su Ruolan behaves decently, and has always been commensurate with the nine sons of Yuntai, and she considers herself a senior sister to the other disciples. She is no stranger to Huan Wen, but Huan Wen is not a disciple of Yuntai after all, and can only be called a general.

"It's waiting for you. Zhou Cheng looked at Su Ruolan with a doting expression, and as he spoke, his body slowly levitated off the ground, and then a huge cyan sword shadow appeared under his feet.

"Come on, I'll take you somewhere. Zhou Cheng stood on the sword shadow and beckoned to Su Ruolan.

Su Ruolan lightly landed behind Zhou Cheng with a slight touch.

Then, under the gaze of everyone, the sword light slowly rose, and finally turned into a streamer and disappeared into the sky.

"Senior brother, this seems to be the first time I've seen the master use the sword technique, right?" After Zhou Cheng left, the Nandou Daoist looked at the Beidou Daoist with doubts,

As the earliest disciple of Yuntai Guan, today is still the Nandou Daoist, and it is the first time they have seen Zhou Cheng fly with an imperial sword.

The sword light rose above the clouds, and the speed was not too fast, and Zhou Cheng didn't even hold up the light, letting the wind in flight blow his robe and cheeks.

"Why did Uncle suddenly remember to use this sword flying technique?" In Su Ruolan's impression, Zhou Cheng had always used the rainbow transformation technique, and she was also curious when she suddenly used this sword to fly today.

Now Su Ruolan is also a strong Yuanshen, and she can walk on the ground on the flying sword, she is standing behind Zhou Cheng, and there is a foot distance between the two.

"Yes, I haven't used this sword technique for almost twenty years, when Lan'er was a child, my favorite thing was to let me take her to fly in the sky, do you want to know where I went on the night of the full moon?" Zhou Cheng mentioned Zhou Lan again, but after Zhou Lan's death, plus the loss of Qingping Sword Pill, Zhou Cheng really didn't fly with the sword again.

"Yes, yes. Su Ruolan hurriedly replied.

She has also been curious, what place did Zhou Cheng go to on the night of the full moon?

In the Jiankang Palace, Chu Lianzi was sitting in front of the bronze mirror, holding an eyebrow pencil in her hand, meticulously tracing her eyebrows.

Today, she is dressed in a full dress, with a diamond yarn hanging to the ground and a high cloud bun, showing a dignified and virtuous appearance.

Chu Lianzi has not been so carefully dressed up for a long time, and the last time it was like this should be three years ago, when his two-year-old son Sima Dan ascended the throne and became the queen mother to meet the courtiers.

As the empress dowager of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the real controller of the court, she feels that it is also necessary to dress like this tonight.

Because she lost half of the dynasty, she finally recovered the land of several states again, and tonight, as the queen mother, she will meet and give a banquet to this great hero, Huan Wen, the general of the expedition to the west.

And, of course, the mysterious Yuntai Daoist.

Compared with Huan Wen, in fact, Chu Lianzi was more curious about the Yuntai Dao people, because the woman's intuition told her that it was not the tens of thousands of elite troops who really allowed Huan Wen to obtain the land of Bashu, but this Yuntai Dao people.

"Queen Mother, it's not good!" Just when Chu Lianzi was drawing her eyebrows and thinking a lot, the hurried footsteps of the waiter and the panicked shouts made her frown slightly.

"What's the matter?" Chu Lianzi put down the eyebrow pencil in his hand and asked slightly sideways behind him.

An attendant knelt out of the curtain panting, lowered his head and hurriedly replied: "King Huiji and the princes of the court greeted the general of Zhengxi at the Suzaku Bridge, and everything went well. But after passing the Suzaku Gate, the Yuntai Daoist suddenly walked into the alley, stopped in front of a house, and said that he would buy the house immediately. The Yuntai Dao people are not leaving, and the general is not leaving, and now the king of Huiji and the princes of the court don't know what to do......."

The chamberlain briefly told Sima Yu how he greeted Huan Wen, and after he finished speaking, Chu Lianzi was also stunned, she didn't expect such a thing to happen.

The heroes of the Manchu Dynasty greeted the triumphant heroes, and even the palace had prepared a banquet, but now the heroes entered the city but did not come. This is still an unprecedented thing, and this time it is the face of the imperial court.

"Do you know who owned that mansion and what does it have to do with that person?" Chu Lianzi stood up and asked with some eagerness.

Snubbing Yuntai Daoren, this was proposed by Sima Yu and Yin Hao, but Chu Lianzi originally disapproved, but she didn't want to argue with the two of them over such a trivial matter, leaving the world with the impression of being arbitrary and the queen mother interfering in politics, so Sima Yu and Yin Hao went, but they didn't expect it to end up like this.

"That mansion was originally the mansion of the secretary Lang Li Alcohol, and it is not clear what the relationship is with the Yuntai Daoist, but when the Yuntai Daoist walked into the mansion, the word Li Mansion on the original plaque became the Zhou Mansion. The chamberlain who was in charge of spreading the word simply reported what happened to Zhou Cheng not long ago to the Empress Dowager Chu.

"Zhou Mansion, could it be that this Yuntai Daoist's original surname is Zhou Jiankang's old mansion, could it be that he was originally from Jiankang?" Chu Lianzi said to himself.

She is extremely intelligent, and with a few simple words from the waiter, Chu Lianzi has already thought of many clues related to Zhou Cheng.

"Immediately let people trace, when was Li Alcohol's mansion originally built, how many owners have passed, and list all the information of all the people surnamed Zhou. Immediately, Empress Dowager Chu ordered again.

"Report ......" Just as Empress Dowager Chu was thinking about it, another voice of the chamberlain came into the hall.

Chu Lianzi looked outside the hall and said helplessly: "What's the matter?"

"Report to the Queen Mother, General Zhengxi was on his way to the palace, and the Yuntai Daoist flew away with a sword light a quarter of an hour ago. Another chamberlain's voice rang out, bringing the latest information over.

Chu Garlic's expression changed greatly, and he hurriedly asked, "How many people did the general bring?"

"Uh..... There were only a few retinues, the king of Huiji and the princes of the court, who accompanied the general of Zhengxi. The chamberlain hurriedly bowed his head and replied, he knew that what he had just said had misunderstood the Queen Mother.

"Oh, I see, Hongu will arrive later. Chu Garlic breathed a sigh of relief, she was also worried that Huan Wen was forcing the palace, and now it seems that she is only here to attend the banquet.

However, when he thought that the Yuntai Daoist would not appear, Chu Lianzi was still slightly disappointed in his heart.

When the lights were first on, the Jiankang Palace was full of singing and dancing, but it was extremely embarrassing.

Huan Wen, the general of the expedition to the west, sat on top of the ministers, except for the first glass of wine that the queen mother toasted on behalf of the court, Huan Wen tasted it lightly, and then no matter who toasted, he unceremoniously postponed it.

Even Sima Yu personally stood up to respect him, but Huan Wen also excused himself that he was unwell and inconvenient to drink.

From beginning to end, Huan Wen sat upright on the table like that, looking immovable, looking out of place with the entire banquet.

"A few days ago, the general once wrote a book, saying that the merit of destroying the Han Dynasty, eight or nine times out of ten are in the Yuntai view, can the general talk about this Yuntai view for the palace?" Just when the atmosphere of the whole banquet was extremely embarrassing, the voice of the Empress Dowager Chu finally came out of the curtain.

Hearing Empress Dowager Chu speak, Huan Wen finally bowed slightly to the curtain behind the imperial case, but what he said afterwards made Empress Dowager Chu and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu even more stunned.

"Back to the Queen Mother's words, the merit of destroying the Han Dynasty is not nine times out of ten in Yuntai, but the real person in Yuntai in Quannai. When the real people were in retreat that day, the ministers and the 30,000 troops were all taken by the Ruolan Fairy in the "Xuanji Map", if it wasn't for the real people who went out of the customs on the third day and released us, I am afraid that the whole army would have been wiped out. ”

"What is this? Can tens of thousands of people fit into it?" Empress Dowager Chu's surprised voice came from behind the curtain, although she knew that there were capable people and strange people in the world, but she never thought that these myths and legends ordinary people and things really existed.

"Ridiculous, if there really is such a treasure in the world, wouldn't it be possible to win the world with the power of one person?" Some people believe that some people are puzzled, and naturally some people think that Huan Wen's words are extremely ridiculous.

It was Yin Hao who questioned Huan Wen, and in his opinion, this was just Huan Wen's deliberate rhetoric to elevate the Yuntai Daoist.

Huan Wen looked at Yin Hao, his originally expressionless face showed a hint of sarcasm, and then said lightly: "Xia Worm can't talk about ice. ”

After a sentence, Huan Wen no longer paid attention to Yin Hao, but looked at where the Empress Dowager Chu was, and continued: "There are tens of thousands of disciples of Yuntai Guan, the Queen Mother should have heard of that legend a few years ago, right? ”

"The General, please. Chu Garlic's voice seemed to be a little hurried, and anyone who heard about these miraculous things for the first time would be extremely curious.

Huan Wen slowly stood up, facing the curtain, and then said loudly: "There are tens of thousands of miscellaneous servants in Yuntai Temple, all of whom are far superior to the strong soldiers in the army, and there are thousands of disciples in the outer court, all of whom can fly to the sky and the earth, and can fly thousands of miles away, flying swords to take people's heads. There are also ninety-nine Taoist masters in the inner courtyard, each of whom has the ability to move mountains and mountains, rivers and seas, among which the nine sons of Yuntai are all immortals, and one person can kill millions of heroes!"

Huan Wen already knew Yuntai Guan very well, and he didn't hide anything from Empress Dowager Chu, and told what he knew in detail, but Huan Wen only didn't mention Su Ruolan and Zhou Cheng.

"Isn't the Yuntai Daoist even more unfathomable? He has such strength and such a huge foundation, what is he looking for?"

"I'm afraid this will have to be asked by the Queen Mother herself!" Huan Wen bowed slightly to the curtain, and a subtle smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

With Huan Wen's bow, Empress Dowager Chu was silent, and the entire hall became quiet.

After a while, Huan Wen's voice sounded again: "It's not too early, thank you for the queen mother's hospitality, and I will retire." ”

After Huan Wen finished speaking, he didn't wait for Empress Dowager Chu to react, he flicked his sleeves and walked directly to the outside of the hall surrounded by several henchmen.

At this moment, Huan Wen put aside the due courtesy of the monarch and minister, and vented the anger accumulated in his heart for the past half a month directly in this palace hall.

Huan Wen walked out of the main hall, and no one dared to make accusations, and no one stepped forward to stop him. It's just that his image of a powerful minister with flying and domineering power has been completely formed in the hearts of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces.

"It's all gone!" Huan Wen had already walked out of the main hall, and the helpless voice of the Empress Dowager Chu sounded behind the curtains.

A banquet broke up unhappily, but Zhou Cheng didn't know what happened to him in the Jiankang Palace.

At this moment, he and Su Ruolan were standing on a calm lake, with mountain peaks and islands in the distance, and there was a little fishing fire on the lake, but it was a quiet and peaceful scene.

"This is the West Lake, uncle, every full moon night, this is the place where you come?" Su Ruolan had already dispersed her thoughts, although it was the first time she had come here, she also knew that this was the West Lake next to Qiantang County.

Zhou Cheng stepped directly on the water, with faint ripples under his feet, and the place where he landed was the last place where he and Gai Liniang were separated.

"Yes, this is West Lake, which used to be called Qiantang Lake. Zhou Cheng stepped on the surface of the water and took two steps at random, as if he wanted to find his footprints in the water.

Su Ruolan stood behind Zhou Cheng, looking at his inexplicable actions, and asked more and more curiously: "It seems that my uncle has a lot of stories with this place, can I tell me?"

"During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a woman who was born in the third year of Yanxi, after the pre-Qin kendo master Gai Nie. Because of the way of the sword immortal she cultivated, she was especially good at assassination, so she got the name of the assassin sword immortal, her name was Gai Liniang. Zhou Cheng told the story, and it was really like telling a story.