"How...... Your Highness has something?" Cheng Wanli asked casually.

"Hmm...... I'll have to invite another person to have lunch with me! You two can find a random place to eat, but don't go to the Star Tower!" Li Yi said hurriedly. As soon as he finished speaking, the person had already left Cheng Wanli, turned around and headed southwest.

"Your Highness, who is so important, you just promised me Lao Cheng to treat you......" Cheng Wanli shouted at Li Yi from afar, and seemed to complain a little in his heart.

No, that Zhao Wang Li Yi had obviously walked dozens of steps away, and when he heard what Cheng Wanli said, he suddenly returned to Cheng Wanli's body like a gust of wind. Seeing this, the chief of the forbidden army felt that there was something wrong with his words, so he didn't dare to speak at the moment.

Li Yi took out a silver ticket from his arms, handed it to Xu Ke's hand, and said: "No illness, I suddenly have something to do today, you can take General Cheng to find a restaurant to have a drink!"

Xu Ke saw that the silver ticket in his hand said "one thousand taels of silver", and hurriedly arched his hand to Li Yi and said: "Your Highness, a lunch, you can't use so many ......."

Li Yi turned his face blank and said dissatisfiedly: "No disease, today, why do you still call me 'Your Highness'?"

Seeing that Xu Ke's face was a little dazed, Cheng Wanli on the side hurriedly glanced at him, and Xu Ke suddenly realized: "Oh...... Senior brother!"

Li Yi's face eased at this time, he stepped forward and patted Xu Ke's shoulder, and said with a smile: "No disease, the word 'Your Highness' can be called by anyone, but you can't call me that." Since the day you left the Divine King Pavilion, you and I have been brothers who live and die together! Remember, no matter what you want to do in the future, no matter what difficulties you encounter, Senior Brother will help you!"

Hearing Li Yi's words, Cheng Wanli's face next to him was full of envy, and Xu Ke also felt a sense of cordiality and warmth in his heart, and he said again: "Senior brother loves him so much, he is not ashamed to be sick!"

Li Yi said with a smile again: "Senior brother can't spare time today, I should have a good talk with you tomorrow, you go with General Cheng first! You two are so close, about this case, the two of you can also discuss it first, if you have any good opinions, let's talk together tomorrow!"

After speaking, Li Yi didn't stop any longer, he didn't wait for Xu Ke to reply, turned around and strode towards the southwest.

Xu Ke looked at Li Yiang's back, thoughtful. Cheng Wanli, who was next to him, saw that he was still holding the silver ticket of 1,000 taels in his hand, and he had a stunned expression on his face, thinking that he was still worried about how to dispose of the huge silver ticket. At that moment, Cheng Wanli stepped forward, snatched the silver ticket in Xu Ke's hand, and laughed: "Brother no disease, why are you still stunned! This one thousand taels is in your senior brother's place, it is nothing more than a pile of dung! It's okay if he leaves, our brothers just go to find a restaurant, there are no outsiders, let's just have a drink! With this silver ticket, we can drink as much as we want!"

More than a month ago, Xu Ke escorted Li Zhen, the king of Wei, on his way back to Beijing from Jiangnan, when he passed through the mouth of the West Gorge of Xichuan Prefecture, he was ambushed by Sun Xun and others. At that time, Xu Ke was poisoned by thistle, and he was already unconscious, but fortunately, the chief of the forbidden army arrived in time, otherwise he would have become a ghost under the knife of Sun Xun, the "ghost face". Speaking of which, Cheng Wanli can be described as a life-saving grace for him Xu Ke, but Xu Ke has been busy with trivial matters for more than a month, and he has never taken the time to thank this life-saving benefactor in person. Now, seeing that Cheng Wanli took the initiative to invite him to drink together, Xu Ke naturally agreed.

The two went to the Deyue Tower, which is located in the north of Tsing Yi Wei. When the shopkeeper saw that one of the people who came was "Xu Baihu" of Tsing Yiwei, and the other was General Cheng Da, who commanded the 100,000 forbidden army, he naturally did not dare to slack off, he personally received them, and welcomed the two into the private room "Xia Yun Pavilion" on the second floor.

Without Cheng Wanli's instructions, the shopkeeper gave four pots of 30-year-old "Fenyang drunk". The shopkeeper seemed to know the preferences of this General Cheng, and along with the wine jugs, there were still two extra-large wine bowls. That Cheng Wanli likes to drink by nature, and before the dishes are ready, he poured a large bowl of wine, and did not clink glasses with Xu Ke, and raised his neck to drink it all. He drank so much that he drank three bowls of wine in a row, and then he wiped the wine juice from his mouth and praised:

"Good wine, good wine!"

"General Cheng, good amount of wine!" Xu Ke also praised.

"Eh! Brother Disease-free, your 'general' can be called our life! In the future, if you can afford me, call me 'Brother Cheng'!" Cheng Wanli waved his hand and said with a smile.

Xu Ke raised the wine bowl and said earnestly: "Brother Cheng, I will give you a glass if you are not sick, thank you Brother Cheng for saving your life that day!"

"It's a trivial matter, it's a big deal!" Cheng Wanli also raised the wine bowl and touched it with Xu Ke, opened his mouth and drank it again, he poured it again after drinking, and said angrily: "My old Cheng is a rough person, he doesn't have any preferences, he just likes to drink." Disease-free brother, although you and I don't see each other much, but the elder brother and you are very close to each other, come and come! Today our brothers have a rare gathering, let's drink three cups first!"

After saying that, Cheng Wanli raised the wine bowl and drank three full bowls with Xu Ke in succession. Xu Ke looked at Cheng Wanli's six bowls of liquor in the blink of an eye, and when he saw that the other party was so bullish, his face remained unchanged, and his expression was as usual, Xu Ke also secretly admired it in his heart. He said in his heart that Brother Cheng's alcohol consumption is really extraordinary, but it is ridiculous that I often boast of being a wine fairy, compared with Brother Cheng, it is really too far away.

"Shopkeeper, serve the wine!" Cheng Wanli shouted loudly to the shopkeeper of the Deyue Tower. The dishes in the restaurant have not yet been served, and the four pots of fine wine have been drunk by them. The shopkeeper hurriedly ordered someone to move out a small jar of "Fenyang Drunk" from the warehouse and personally brought people into the private room. The shopkeeper looked at the four wine jugs that were already empty on the table, and secretly wondered in his heart: "According to this drinking method, if you were ordinary people, you would have been drunk to death a long time ago!"

As a matter of fact, where can ordinary people afford to drink the "Fenyang drunkenness" that has been old for 30 years? Even if the wealthy businessmen in Chang'an City drink these fine wines worth more than a dozen taels of silver and a pound, I am afraid that they have not drunk much wine, and their hearts will already be "painful." Like today's drinking methods like Cheng Wanli and Xu Ke, I searched all over Chang'an City, and I am afraid that I will not be able to find a second person.

......

The two drank and ate, Xu Ke remembered the case in his heart, and after a while, he couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Cheng, what do you think of today's case? Do you say that there is really such a cat demon in this world? Why did she incarnate as a bewitching woman and specially absorb the essence of the young man's body? Is it ...... Is she really just here to make up for her practice?"

"Drink and drink!Come on, come on, let's make another bowl of wine!" Cheng Wanli raised the wine bowl again.

After Xu Ke and Cheng Wanli drank a big bowl of wine, they asked:

"Brother Cheng, you said that this cat demon is a spy sent by Xiao Guo, I think there is some truth. When I was in Tsing Yi Wei, I also heard that the Xiao State had been fighting against our great cadres for a long time, and had repeatedly violated our frontier but was repeatedly defeated by our mighty troops at the border pass! It was not impossible for them to attempt to attack internally if they failed to attack outside, and to send traitors to infiltrate our capital city of Chang'an. However, how could Xiao Guo's spy be a goblin......? It seems that there is something unreasonable......"

"Brother without disease, come! Pour wine for my brother, let's continue drinking!"

No, that Cheng Wanli only cared about drinking and eating food with Xu Ke, but he didn't mention anything about the case.

Xu Ke saw that Cheng Wanli had no intention of discussing the case, so he didn't mention it, and at the moment, the two stopped talking and just kept drinking heavily......

Xu Ke saw that Cheng Wanli drank wine, often just after pouring it full and drank it all, and this attitude of drinking also made him can't help but feel proud in his chest. Whenever the other party poured his wine bowl full, he also raised the wine bowl and drank it all, and after drinking, the two of them were not far behind, and the speed of drinking was almost the same.

In less than half an hour, the shopkeeper of the Yuelou sent a full jar of 30-year-old Chen "Fenyang drunk", and the two of them had already drunk a fine drink.

......

"Shopkeeper, come again...... Wine!" Xu Ke forcibly endured the wine that rushed to the sky, and shouted downstairs.

At this time, Cheng Wanli waved his hand at Xu Ke and said with a smile: "Enough is enough! Brother, you still have to be on duty in the afternoon, let's stop here for today's meal of wine!"

The shopkeeper came upstairs, and saw that the two of them drank up a jar of wine in a moment, and this amount of wine made the well-informed shopkeeper can't help but be speechless.

Cheng Wanli said: "Today's meal is finally unsatisfactory......! Settle the score!"

This banquet, not counting the exquisite dishes on the table, just a jar of twenty catties of Fenyang is worth three hundred taels of silver. The shopkeeper thought for a while, gritted his teeth in his heart, and quoted a price of "two hundred taels". Cheng Wanli was not polite to him, took out the silver ticket of one thousand taels of Zhao Wang Li Yi and handed it to the shopkeeper, and instructed the shopkeeper to take eight silver tickets of one hundred taels back.

Cheng Wanli took the eight hundred taels of silver tickets recovered by the shopkeeper, and walked out of the door of Deyue Tower with Xu Ke. He took out the four hundred taels of silver tickets in his hand, handed them to Xu Ke, and said: "Brother, today we have stained your senior brother's light, not only did we eat a good wine in vain, but also got eight hundred taels of silver!

Xu Ke naturally said that he didn't want to take the four hundred taels of silver tickets, but when Cheng Wanli saw that he didn't want them, he calmly pocketed all these silver tickets, and said with a smile:

"Brother, you have a rich senior brother, naturally you don't need to worry about the silver two, I don't have much old Cheng Chenglu, I am addicted to daily alcohol, I can only drink some 'old knife burning' to relieve my addiction, with these silver tickets, I have this month's wine money, but I have a settlement!"

Xu Ke arched his hand towards Cheng Wanli and said, "Brother Cheng, in the future, whenever you want to drink, you can come to the younger brother!"

Cheng Wanli said happily: "Okay, good! In the future, when I don't have money to drink, I will rely on your disease-free brother!"

Xu Ke also smiled and said: "Being able to drink with Brother Cheng is really a great joy in life!"

......

As they spoke, the two of them had walked outside the Daozheng Fang, and at this time it was already the time of duty, Xu Ke and Cheng Wanli said goodbye to each other and returned to their official rooms.

Naturally, Xu Ke had just stepped into the door of Tsing Yi Wei with his front foot, and his back foot was invited into his thousand-household office by Nangong Buyu.

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Nangong listened to Xu Ke's narration silently, and while drinking tea, he pondered about the sky. He pondered for a moment, and then said:

"Brother Xian, if Brother Fool guesses correctly, the culprit in this case should be the 'He Alloy Immortal'!"

"And the alloy immortal?" Xu Ke said curiously: "What kind of immortal is this?"

Nangong smiled silently: "What kind of 'immortal'! This is a cat demon, the so-called 'and alloy immortal' is just a name she gave herself!"

Xu Ke was puzzled: "She is obviously a demon, why do she still give herself the nickname of 'Golden Immortal'?"

Nangong said silently: "Who knows what these demons think!" 'Golden Immortal' is already inappropriate, and the word 'Hehe' is even more indecent, but the name of 'Harmony Immortal' has spread, and the foolish brother has to call her so." ”

Xu Ke asked, "Brother Nangong has seen this 'and alloy immortal'?"

Nangong shook his head silently and said: "Brother Fool has never seen this demon, but I heard that the family teacher once said that there is a cat demon named Mao Jiaojiao in the rivers and lakes." What she practiced was about what kind of Yuanyang collection technique she practiced, and she was specially prey on young and strong men. Once a man is fascinated by her beauty and suffers from her 'art of harmony', Yuanyang will be damaged at the least, and the essence will be killed!"

Xu Ke said: "It seems ...... The woman who bewildered Wanqiu Mountain was most likely this 'and alloy fairy' Mao Jiaojiao. It's just that...... According to Wan Qiushan's words, the banshee still had a very strong Xiao Guo accent in the official words of the big cadres. ”

"That's right!" Nangong said silently: "When the family master was learning swords in the Tianshan Sword Gate in his early years, he once heard the head of the Tianshan Mountain talk about it, saying that the 'and alloy fairy' Mao Jiaojiao is used to confusing men with charm, and there are not many young men who have been harmed by her!

After a pause, Nangong was silent and said angrily: "I didn't expect that now this Mao Jiaojiao is not staying well in Xiao Country, and he dares to come to me to make trouble! Hehe! I am a big Qianjing Heavy Land, how can you be a place where a cat demon is wild!"

Xu Ke listened to Nangong silently say the words "Tianshan Sword Gate", and suddenly remembered that his third brother Qin Gufeng had said goodbye and left him a letter, according to the third brother's letter, that is, he was going to Tianshan to learn swords. At this time, he heard Nangong in front of him silently talk about the Tianshan Sword Gate, and immediately asked:

"It turns out that Brother Nangong came out of the Tianshan Sword Gate! Dare to ask who Master Ling is?"

Nangong said silently for a long time and the alloy immortal, he never thought that Xu Ke would suddenly be interested in his master's background, he thought about it, and had to answer:

"Foolish brother is ashamed! The family teacher is barely half of the Tianshan Sect, but the foolish brother is not a member of the Tianshan Sword Sect anyway. ”

"Why is that?" Xu Ke wondered. He thought to himself that since your master is a disciple of the Tianshan Sword Sect, you should naturally belong to his sect!

Nangong was silent but sighed to the air, and said with a wry smile: "Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that there are 'one tower, two mountains, three pavilions, and four gates' in the world, and the Tianshan Sword Gate is the first of the four gates, but anyone who is not surnamed Ye cannot be regarded as a disciple of his family, and the foolish brother's surname is Nangong, how can he be regarded as a disciple of the Tianshan Sword Gate?"

At this time, Nangong Bu's silent face suddenly flashed with a cloud of sadness, and he was asked by Xu Ke, as if he was reminded of the infinite past, and these past events seemed to have some painful memories......