In recent days, servants in the house have been reporting that food in the kitchen has been missing frequently, and the sound of footsteps and even the sound of water can sometimes be heard from the vacant rooms late at night.

I don't know which timid servant said that the house was haunted, which made the maids and servants panic for a while. It was also a disaster for the servants who watched the night, and they had all kinds of things to ward off disasters and evil spirits.

Although the two sisters Biyu and Birou were not as timid as the maids and servants, they were not much better. They clamored for the Taoist priest to draw talismans to catch ghosts. Zhao Zhengli understood the reason and did not make any expression. He only comforted and made fun of them.

The New Year has passed, and the snow in the north is showing signs of melting. Envoys from the Khitan state went south and brought some coarse hair and thick skins to Beijing. At best, it was a tribute, at worst, it was extortion of money.

Every spring, the Khitans go south to Beijing; the Qing Dynasty is a day when people's livelihood is sad.

This year, the Khitan team was led by Halasha, one of the three commanders. This man was fat and strong, half a body taller than the Qing people. It would not be an exaggeration to call him a humanoid monster.

On the first day when the Khitan envoys entered the city, they wounded several Qing people, including ordinary civilians who failed to give way in time and some who were deliberately looking for trouble.

For a time, the foreign envoys were lawless and arrogant and domineering, and their behavior spread throughout the capital.

The officials of Honglu Temple who received the envoys from foreign vassals were also resentful and deliberately made things difficult for the Khitan envoys by arranging simple accommodation and delaying their meeting with the Holy Emperor.

Of course, Honglu Temple does not cover the sky with one hand. The old emperor more or less tacitly agrees. After all, the Qing Kingdom has been dormant for five years and is ready to go north to regain the land of Yanyun.

The only thing waiting for you is an excuse.

In the next few days, there were people in the capital who challenged the Khitan envoys. The Khitan was already warlike, and coupled with the Qing Dynasty's negligent attitude, the challengers did not refuse to accept the orders.

The Khitan envoys set up an arena in the outer city to fight against the various warriors of the Qing Dynasty. The Khitan envoys had strong physiques and were not defeated for several days, which greatly increased the arrogance of the envoys.

Idiots who arrogantly say that there are only a few sage books left in the Qing Dynasty.

When these words reached the old emperor's ears, they were extremely provocative. After all, he was in his own territory.

The prince and the city king naturally noticed that Long Yan was unhappy, and the civil and military factions secretly asked the Jianghu people to save their face.

Sure enough; in the next few days, the Qing people were extremely ferocious, defeating the strong Khitan men one after another. In the end, the leader Halasha took action to calm the situation. If it had been later, the entire envoy might have been overthrown.

However, Halasa, one of the three Khitan commanders, had no intention of stopping and monopolized the arena for several days. Dozens of Qing people fell at his feet.

The old emperor's face became even more ugly. The huge capital city was actually overwhelmed by a few Khitan barbarians. This was a public disgrace to the Qing Kingdom.

The emperor was anxious, and the courtiers were naturally unsteady, so they asked the three saints of the temple to come up with ideas. Although the Halasa people were tall and strong as giants, and were only in their early thirties according to their age, it would naturally be beneath the status of the older generation to come forward. Only the younger generation could

, the top three temples in the past few days were perfect.

They were all waiting for the old emperor to issue an edict, but the old emperor was also waiting for them to realize themselves. He stopped a few arrogant envoys and asked him to make it clear that the three saints of the temple and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty did not understand the holy will.

On the fifth day when the Khitan delegation set up the arena, Zhang Ziya, the guest minister of the Prince's Mansion, took action. This was already the third group of people from the Prince's Mansion to take action.

On that day, Zhang Ziya, who was at the Grandmaster level, could not fight with a hundred moves, so he was thrown off the ring.

On the sixth day, a lieutenant colonel from the army of the City Prince's Mansion accepted the challenge. The deadly tricks he had practiced on the battlefield allowed him to defeat hundreds of moves, and was finally kicked off the ring.

A school captain was not considered very good in the army, but he was kicked off the stage in public. It was somewhat insulting, and the city king couldn't swallow it. He wanted to fight in the ring in person, but unfortunately the sixth prince Song Maoling came on stage early.

In this battle, the two sides fought for more than three hundred rounds, beating the arena to pieces and still unable to determine the winner.

The onlookers from the Qing Dynasty shouted enthusiastically for the first time. The anger they had been holding in for several days finally came out. They regretted that they could not beat the arrogant Khitan man to the ground.

Everyone in the capital was waiting for the arena to be re-established and for the top three of the temple's three saints to come out and beat up the Khitan barbarian, but there was no movement at all.

The Khitan mission fell silent.

The shattered arena was not erected in the end.

Suppressing the Khitan; the old emperor was in a happy mood.

He picked a day to summon these foreign envoys. The Khitan envoys in the palace were extremely honest, because everyone knew that there were four powerful masters in the Qingguo temple. In addition to the three religions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, there was also a secret

Even the ministers who go to court every day don’t know who the great master is, let alone outsiders.

It is reported that this year, Emperor Qing was different from previous years. He was extremely searching for Khitan. He discounted gold and silver, and did not give any tribute silkworms, silk or satin. The only thing he was generous about was sending several carts of vegetarian food, saying it was Khitan national beef and mutton.

If you get excessive internal heat, a vegetarian diet can reduce it.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know that the old emperor was indirectly expressing the arrogant actions of the Khitan envoys in the capital.

The Khitan envoy was at a loss, and repeatedly checked with Honglu Temple to no avail. Finally, he returned home full of anger.

Shortly after the Khitan envoys left Beijing, Emperor Qing issued an order to prepare for war in the northern territories.

At the end of January, envoys from Tubo, Dali, and Xixia also came to visit. These countries were far less arrogant than the Khitan, and their postures were polite and harmonious. Of course, it was not that these countries paid attention to etiquette, but they knew that their fists were not strong enough. I think back to the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan envoys were more polite than them.

Humble, but in recent decades, taking advantage of the civil strife in the late Tang Dynasty to rise, it is now possible to clamor for capital.

Therefore, friendship between countries is based on fists, and the same is true between people.

On February 2, the dragon raises its head.

On this day, strange phenomena appeared frequently in the northeast of Qing Dynasty, and the sky was full of clouds, as if a fairy had appeared in a secret realm, attracting attention from all parties. The old emperor asked Si Tianjian to divine signs overnight.

The three saints of the temple, the Celestial Master, the National Master, and the Confucius, were also ordered to assist. They worked together to calculate one night and concluded that the mysterious "Wulu Temple" was about to appear.

It is said that the Black Heron Temple came into being, its whereabouts are elusive and cannot be found, and it appears once every sixty years.

The temple gathers the destiny of the world and condenses the nineteen-way chess game. One game is the temple of the world, and the other is the rivers and lakes of the world. Those who are destined to enter can change the destiny of the country with a snap of their fingers, and even disrupt the destiny of the rivers and lakes with the wave of their sleeves.

Sixty years ago, the Black Lu Temple appeared in the northern part of Khitan. A nomadic young man accidentally entered the temple and struck a black stone, causing two black stones to connect and cut off seventeen white stones. The white stones were scattered in more than ten places in the chess game and could not be formed.

Less than ten years after the incident, the northern and southern Khitans were reunited, and the Later Tang Dynasty was divided into ten kingdoms. In the troubled times, the killings continued for decades, and the Khitans grew stronger. The nomadic young man who entered the temple appeared like a star and became famous in one fell swoop.

A national teacher.

Forty years ago, in the northern Jin Kingdom where the ten kingdoms were in conflict, Emperor Shi Tang sent the Sixteenth County of Yanyun as a life-saving talisman in order to establish a cone, allowing the Khitan to successfully go south to help him defend the country. Unfortunately, he led the wolf into the house, allowing the Khitan to take root in the land of China.

To this day, the land of Yanyun in the north is still a pain for the Qing Kingdom.

Now that the Wulu Temple has appeared in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, it is entirely possible that the Khitan could sense it at the same time. It would be a long night and many dreams. The old emperor sent several pairs of people northward that day to search for the possible location of the Wulu Temple, and asked the three saints of the temple to search for it with all their strength.

The Jianghu people in the capital immediately spread the news, and the Three Saints of the temple also summoned a group of powerful masters to come out of the capital and sent messages to their respective sects to support them.

The old Heavenly Master also postponed Zhao Zhengli's original mission and asked him to start looking for the Wulu Temple because he had to get ahead of the Khitan, Tubo, Dali, Xixia and other countries. Although they were within the territory of the Qing Kingdom, the countries did not

It hinders the exchanges between people from all over the world, so we are afraid of changes.

The wind in the capital seemed to be attracted by the Wulu Temple for a while. Zhao Zhengli's Bi family sisters were packing their things, because the three of them would leave the capital tomorrow and head northeast.

The old Heavenly Master arranged for the Sixth Prince Song Maoling and Qi Yunshan Yang Zhiming to explore the way forward first. The main reason was that he was worried about Zhao Zhengli’s reward on the secret list of Changle Hall. If the three masters were middle-level experts, most people would think twice before taking action.

What's more, the strength displayed by the three of them far exceeds the master level.

There were also people from the Confucian Academy and the Imperial Master's Office who came out of the capital, but the three religions did not go together.

Ji Yanyu did not show up that night, so she probably left the city early.

The next day, there were gradually signs of early spring.

Many people from both inside and outside the capital left the capital one after another to go north, traveling in carriages, horses, or on foot, each with their own style.

Zhao Zhengli hired a horse-drawn carriage for the Bi sisters to travel on their behalf, because they had been enjoying themselves in the capital for half a year, and now suddenly the back of the horse was bumpy and the legs and crotch could not bear the friction.

Although Daochang Zhao didn't mind the calluses on his big buttocks and crotch, he always felt that riding in a carriage was comfortable, and at least it was convenient for taking a nap.

The sixth prince, Song Maoling, is still wearing a white robe and a fan, looking elegant and carefree.

Qi Yunshan's Yang Zhiming is the oldest. He wears a green shirt. He wears a sword and talks little. He looks like a weak and hard-working scholar. He is extremely alert.

The two of them each rode a horse and walked to the front. Zhao Zhengli was wearing a fur robe purchased by Birou. He was driving a carriage with great dignity, looking at the white and green figures in front of him. In the carriage, the Bi family sisters were chattering constantly. Zhao Zhengli

Through the bamboo curtain, it is naturally clear to the ears. It is nothing more than talking about the three men, who is good-looking and who is powerful!

The carriage left the city and headed east, toward Qingzhou.

A day's journey along the Yellow River waterway; we settled in Yinshan Town. There is no Yinshan Mountain in Yinshan Town, but it is a small town with green mountains and rivers and rich crops. As the saying goes, green mountains and green waters are mountains of gold and silver. This metaphor is also 'Yinshan Mountain!

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The fertile land attaches great importance to enjoyment. In addition, this place is not far from the capital. You can eat, drink and have fun, fight insects and play birds, listen to music and dance, and learn in style. There are still discussions about the recent vision of the sky full of glow, and there is no trace of it.

I didn't realize that people from all walks of life from all over the world were coming.

Daochang Zhao and others found an inn to stay in the area near the lake. Now he is considered a semi-celebrity in the world. Half a year has passed; the storyteller in the tea house and tavern is still talking about the various deeds of this maniac and madman. Song Maoling and Yang Zhiming are beside him.

I also heard it with great interest.

Zhao Zhengli himself was a little embarrassed because he had exaggeratedly exaggerated, saying that he could kill a strong master with one punch and one palm, and cut out tens of thousands of meters of sword energy with one sword...it was completely deified and turned into an immortal method.

A few people didn't wander around after dinner, but after all, daredevils are inevitable. Several local prodigal young men couldn't help but take advantage of the Bi family sisters when they saw their fair and fair looks. They were severely punished by Bi Yu in public, and they were beaten again on the way back.

He was stopped and a group of thugs were brought with him.

The sisters of the Bi family looked at Daochang Zhao, and Zhao Zhengli looked at Song Maoling and Yang Zhiming. They spread their hands and said, "Never mind our business, let's go first!"

Zhao Zhengli also showed his hands to the two sisters: "...I too...take the first step!"

This answer left everyone speechless, and the thugs became even more excited, thinking that they were weak characters who were afraid of the hard, and the two beauties were destined to be doomed tonight.

In less than a cup of tea, a group of arrogant thugs fell to the ground and wailed. The Bi sisters were very disappointed and said to them: "No beating at all!"

At the same time, Zhao Zhengli was squatting in an alley waiting for the Bi sisters. He noticed several unfriendly glances in the crowd. He had a strong sense of surveillance. He looked back and disappeared.
Chapter completed!