August 13, two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the capital, the atmosphere before the Mid-Autumn Festival is already very strong, the moon cakes of various restaurants, restaurants and pastry shops have been sold out, and the air is full of the smell of osmanthus brewing.

But compared to the atmosphere before the Mid-Autumn Festival, what is even stronger is the atmosphere before the decisive battle.

The warriors who came to the capital from all over the country have filled the rooms of all the inns that can be found in the capital, and it is impossible to squeeze even a few people into one room, and many people are forced to live in teahouses and restaurants, and even worse, they can only go to grab land with the beggars in the capital.

From this, it can be seen how popular the Mid-Autumn Festival battle is this time.

In the streets and alleys, it seems that every place is discussing this decisive battle, everyone is guessing the final result of the decisive battle, who can win in the end, and there are people who are a little more powerful, so they simply list the historical records of Gu Yuean and Cui Longlou, and make a detailed comparison according to their martial arts in each period, so as to make predictions.

These predictions were eventually collected into a book by well-informed people, and they were printed and sold, which was a huge profit and a great deal of commercial speculation.

In addition, the most touching thing is the final confirmation list of the fifty places to enter the palace.

As for why it's fifty, not eighty, not a hundred.

Naturally, it was stipulated by Gu Yue'an.

Originally, this regulation didn't say that there was any big problem, after all, the forbidden land of the palace must not be allowed to let too many outsiders in, there are fifty, which is already a lot, and everyone has no opinion.

At the beginning, when some of the places were confirmed, everyone was not surprised.

Because there is no need to think about it, among the fifty places, the eight major families of martial arts and the nine major sects of the rivers and lakes will definitely have a piece of the pie, so when their names appear in the first batch of lists, it is expected.

Later, one after another, there were some sects and families that were second only to these seventeen families, and they divided up twenty places in twos and threes, which is also an acceptable thing, after all, although these families and sects are not as good as the seventeen at the top, they are all considered to be the most powerful forces in the rivers and lakes.

So everyone's eyes are focused on the last thirteen places, what everyone thinks is that the big head has been eaten up, and the remaining scum is always a small portal and retail investors, but before everyone came to visit, they tried everything to fight for a place, Gu Yuean had already waved his hand and divided the last thirteen places.

Everyone was stunned at the same time, and found that the people who got these thirteen places were not famous figures, and even many people were not from the rivers and lakes, and the reason why they could get these places was simply that they were all from Jiangnan, and they had more or less something to do with Chen Guogong and Chen Heng.

Then the answer is actually obvious, why, just because these are Chen Guogong's people, so Gu Yue'an did all the favors in order to please the future father-in-law.

Originally, this is understandable, but even if you do a favor again, you can't give it all away, what does this do for the rest of the people, this is completely not a way to live, and the appearance is too ugly.

Before, everyone thought that Gu Yuean was a man, for the country and the people, even if there were some small impostors on the rivers and lakes, it would not damage his prestige at all, after all, where is his character.

But now that this incident has come out, too many people's interests have been damaged, and no one can sit still, even if the ancient mansion has dominated one side in the rivers and lakes, it can't bear the excitement of the crowd, and in the case that everyone is almost one-sided to crusade against Gu Yue'an, the ancient mansion forces can't hold it anymore, and for a time the entire capital is condemning Gu Yue'an's voice, scolding him for using power for personal gain, and forgetting his original intention.

Some people even threatened to entangle the chivalrous people of the rivers and lakes to jointly write to the court to denounce Gu Yuean's evil deeds.

But after all, that's just it, in the end, everyone is scolding in the wine shop and teahouse, and they don't dare to scold too loudly, after all, this is the capital, it is the territory of the ancient mansion, it is really too much, and I don't know what will happen, unless there are really many people.

As for Gu Yue'an himself, he was completely peaceful, as if he didn't know that people outside were scolding him, if he hadn't been fasting these days, he would have eaten a few more braised lion's heads to celebrate.

Because this is the scene he wants to see, self-defilement is what he wants to do, and it just so happens that in the future, his father-in-law will let him get a few places, which just kills two birds with one stone.

There are still two days left before August 15, Gu Yue'an has not gone out, he has been fasting since three days ago, only drinking water every day, eating a small amount of vegetarian food, anyway, martial arts practice to the point where he has begun to sense heaven and earth, and it is not far from the food wind and dew, like some powerful grandmasters, it is possible to skip meals all year round and reach the legendary Bigu realm, such as Qin Mingyue Qin Gongzi, who is suspected of having the realm of heaven and man.

Fasting is a must, after all, Gu Yue'an actually really attaches importance to this duel, whether it is to fulfill Lou Yu's wish, or to fulfill his own wish, or to go further, to improve himself, and get rid of the current shackles, he must be attentive.

Besides, Cui Longlou is indeed an opponent who is completely worthy of respect with the greatest respect.

Gu Yue'an will never forget the feeling of the mountains standing up when she saw this senior for the first time, and Cui Longlou, who was standing in the heavy rain at that time, must have felt lonely.

A kind of master's loneliness.

So when he met Gu Yue'an again, he proposed to duel with Gu Yue'an, in addition to escaping from that Qin Gongzi, it was more of an expectation of meeting an opponent in chess.

Gu Yuean is also looking forward to it, so he has been preparing frantically for the past few days, in addition to polishing his body with Rihua every day, he is constantly replaying in his mind the details of the battle between Cui Longlou and Qin Gongzi that night, how every inch of Cui Longlou's move was made, how to crack it, Gu Yuean constantly entered the practice room and discussed with his martial spirits, studied solutions, and deduced.

After all, this battle is really impossible for him to lose.

Even if the other party is already a grandmaster, even from that night, it is very likely that the other party's martial spirit is from the pen of that master.

He is also constantly counting all his hole cards, in addition to the ability that he obtained before, which was obtained a few days ago and was permanently fixed on his knife after Zhou Duxing's death, it is also extremely useful.

"Burning Wrath: When the host is in absolute rage, it can erupt with terrifying power. ”

Gu Yue'an vaguely remembered that he was on the verge of death in the Sunset Desert at that time, but he relied on this ability to hack to death the sword wielding sword of Bai Yujing.

It's just that how to arouse absolute anger when facing Cui Longlou is a problem, after all, Gu Yuean and Cui Longlou have nothing to do.

So on the question of how to stimulate this ability, Gu Yuean studied it for another day.

August 14 is coming.