Although it was already like spring, it was suddenly warm and cold. Heavy snow was falling on the top of the towering Luofeng Mountain, and the chill spread in the palace.
On the Sheji Hall, those people were burning in several heaters placed under the pillars, and the silver charcoal was burning, turning the furnace red. The silver charcoal was mixed with honey, and white sandalwood was spread under the furnace. In this way, the main hall became
Not only is it warm, but it is also less smokey and pungent, and it smells pretty good.
The entire hall was filled with the sweet fragrance of honey.
Only Emperor Fengdu, who was deep in the hall, felt cold in his heart.
Gong Mingyi didn't rescue him, but even picked up Zhong Kui. This was simply a loss-making deal; he was so happy that he would go to hell.
"Your Majesty." King Lunzhuan, who pressed his forehead against the ground without raising his head, said, "The most urgent task is to select another ghost to replace Lord Zhong Kui to negotiate with the Nine Nether Country."
Emperor Fengdu stared at King Lunzhuan for a moment with a look that seemed angry but not angry, and then asked in a deep voice: "Why do we have to talk?".
The question seemed to be unconvinced and extremely angry, which made the king of Lunzhuan, who was kneeling on the ground, believe it. He quickly analyzed Emperor Fengdu's succinct analysis: "It's really impossible to talk about it; the situation in the court is unstable now, Feng Linzhou gave the ground
The rebellion is not over, Liutianzhou South
Many riots broke out in various parts of the country. The wars in Dongyingzhou and Shuoyue Island left the national treasury empty. Although the traitors’ property was confiscated, gold and silver cannot be used as food to launch another large-scale uprising.
The war was extremely unfavorable to the imperial court.”
Emperor Fengdu also knew that we had to talk, but he still listened patiently to what the King of Wheels had to say. He put away the livid and angry look on his face, and then slowly asked: "Who do you think is best to send to talk?".
The kings of hell in the ten palaces fled, died, and killed, and now only the wheel king is left. The ghost officials that can be sent out are also very limited. For a while, the emperor of Fengdu didn't know who to send to negotiate with Jiuyou Kingdom.
.
He had no choice but to look at the Chakravartin King who was still kneeling on the ground with questioning eyes: "Raise your head and answer."
"Yes." King Lun Zhuan responded, slowly raised his head, and said thoughtfully: "Judge Lu Zhidao of the Chacha Division can take on this important task. This person has a careful mind and is good at speaking. He is sent as a ghost envoy.
Jiuyou Country has completed the negotiations and is the best choice."
Emperor Fengdu was silent for a moment, thought carefully and then nodded slightly: "Well, he is indeed a good candidate."
After a pause, Emperor Fengdu said again: "But I want to add a deputy envoy to him. You go to hell to bring Wei Zheng out and hand it over to Lu Zhidao for negotiation. But you are not allowed to open the soul-binding ropes on his hands and feet and let him
Wearing handcuffs and shackles to serve as deputy envoy."
"Wei Zheng?" King Lun Zhuan was startled, but he did not dare to say no, and then said: "Yes."
"Inform Mengpo Zhuang to prepare to lead troops to quell the rebellion, and also mobilize 30,000 horse-faced troops to Mengpo Zhuang. Within half a year, the rebellion in Liutianzhou must be suppressed." Emperor Fengdu stood up and walked slowly towards the rear hall: "Let Mengpo Zhuang
The Shuang clan immediately rushed to Baodu Pass and began to rebuild the pass."
After finishing speaking, Emperor Fengdu had already gone to the back hall. Only King Lunzhuan was left in the front hall who responded...
Shuoyue Island is sunny and windy, and the light of the overcast sun is soft and not dazzling. The dragons raised by the sharks surfaced one after another. After digging holes on the secluded beach, they gave birth to dragons as big as a human head, sharp at the bottom and round at the top.
The green-white and slightly five-color eggs were then buried in sand pits and returned to the sea.
The production method is very similar to those of turtles in the sea.
It won't take long for these dragon eggs to hatch into dragons one after another.
Yingzhao has sent sergeants to guard these dragon eggs day and night to prevent them from being stolen. After the baby dragon is born, it will return to the sea to find its parents on its own. Then there will be no need to worry so much.
Xiao Shizhu, who is still on the island, also left Xiaoyushan City today accompanied by Yingzhao. After paying condolences to the surrendered ghost soldiers and the ghosts of Huangquan, he took Black Monkey and went to the mountains and forests outside the city with Yingzhao.
's racecourse.
It's said to be a horse farm, but it actually raises animal souls.
There are many houses in the mountain forest, and various stables are arranged neatly. The various animal souls raised in them emit hundreds of different chirping sounds. As soon as Xiao Dinzhu entered them, he had the idea of going to a zoo in the human world.
feeling.
There are all kinds of flying beast souls that can be ridden. From basic dragons to other beast souls, you can see them everywhere.
There were also guard ghost soldiers, breeders and many young green-haired macaques, such as three- and four-year-old children, walking back and forth in the racecourse, each performing their duties, but no one noticed Xiao Shizhu.
As for those monkeys, they are not the beast souls raised in them, but a kind of spirit called the stable monkey, which cannot speak human language but can understand human speech. It is also good at raising various kinds of beast souls that are easy to tame.
But every time he saw them, Xiao Shizhu always thought of Bima Wen in "Journey to the West".
Whether it is in the underworld or in the human world, there has long been a folk saying that macaques are often tied to horse stables to make the horses fearless, ward off evil, and eliminate all diseases. Even Li Shizhen recorded it in the Compendium of Materia Medica: The female monkey in the stable is kept away from the horse.
Horse plague.
The difference is that in the past, macaques may have been used in the human world, but in the underworld, these little monkeys called stable monkeys were used.
At first, there were only 300 such monkey spirits in Jiuyou Kingdom. Most of them were brought back from Wu Zhiqi by Xiao Shizhu during his expedition to Sanxing Island.
Later, it was discovered that this spirit was very useful, and it was a pity to use it to make monkey brains and eat them. So Xiao Shizhu ordered Ah San to buy this kind of spirit from all over the ten continents, specifically for raising beast souls.
When he became the Queen of Jiuyou, he simply set up the official position of Bi Mawen and gave it to the leaders of these monkeys. In the horse farms of armies everywhere, you can always see a stable monkey wearing a small official uniform.
It is the local Butimawen.
After Xiao Shizhu took a tour of the racecourse with trees and shadows here, he saw Zuo Fan and Long Nu, who were talking about something in front of an official residence in the east of the racecourse, so he walked over and asked with interest.
: "What are we talking about?".
Zuo Fan and Long Nu turned around and saw Xiao Shizhu and hurriedly saluted: "Lord."
"Lord, Lord Ji Kang sent me to find you. I happened to see Dragon Girl here, so I asked her if she had seen you." Zuo Fan chuckled and said, "I didn't expect that I would see you before I asked her.
Already.".
"Dragon Girl, come with me to Yuque City this time." Xiao Shizhu did not ask what he was doing for a while, but said to Dragon Girl first: "Xiao Hui is alone in Yuque City and cannot fulfill his filial piety to you.
, if you go there, he will be loyal and filial."
The dragon girl under the shade of the tree bowed respectfully to Xiao Shizhu and smiled slightly: "The civilian woman will not go; there are so many stable monkeys here who still want me to take care of them, and most of the monkey demon clan,
Living on the island, Xiao Hui is already loyal to his master by following him. It’s okay to discount this filial piety thing, lest he can’t concentrate.”
Every time Xiao Shizhu asked her to go to Yuque City and live with Wu Xiaohui, Long Nu would always refuse with such teasing words. Xiao Shizhu was used to it, and she smiled and said: "But I still hope you can come over.
This is what Xiao Hui hopes most.".
"Also, this time you paid a lot of attention in the defense of Shuoyue Island. I heard that at the critical moment, you mobilized the ghost people to go to the battlefield with you. I must give you some reward. Ask for anything you want.
As long as it is reasonable, I will never be stingy." Xiao Shizhu then added.
The mountain wind blows, and the fallen leaves are flying. It also ruffles the hair of the dragon girl's ears under the shade of the tree. The dragon girl thought about it, combed her hair and said: "My lord, if you are willing, help the peasant woman urge Xiao Hui, let's
He should start a family soon. There are three unfilial piety, the worst is not having children."
Xiao Shizhu was stunned and froze in place; he also made miscalculations sometimes. Xiao Shizhu had thought a lot before, thinking that Long Nu might ask for money and land, or to promote Xiao Hui, but he never thought of this request.
He was stunned for a moment before he regained consciousness.
"Okay, I'll look for him when I get back. As long as the girl he likes also likes him, I'll be responsible for telling her." Xiao Shizhu didn't shirk. After answering, he asked again: "Think about it again.
, what reward is needed besides this.”.
"No need, that's all." The dragon girl smiled, saw Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen walking towards this side, and saluted Xiao Shizhu: "My lord, if you don't have anything to say, the civilian woman will go first."
Busy.".
Xiao Shizhu nodded and motioned for her to go ahead and then faced Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen who were getting closer and closer. Taking a closer look, he saw the sweat on the faces of the two ghosts, glistening faintly under the mottled tree shadows.
The faint anxiety between the facial features can also be seen clearly.
Zuo Fan also bowed to Xiao Shizhu and left here on his own.
Ji Kang and Jiang Ziwen walked over by themselves, leaving the few accompanying guards in the open space three to five feet away.
"What are you so worried about?" Xiao Shizhu glanced at them and saw that the two ghosts were walking in a hurry, and their face and forehead were covered with fine beads of sweat.
"Gonggong and Imperial Master Yingying took the decision without authorization, captured Zhong Kui and destroyed Baodu Pass." Jiang Ziwen was the first to speak, and said urgently to Xiao Shizhu: "In this way, all the negotiators will be tied up, and we will be fooled.
Jiuyou Kingdom is just like the Mountain King, and the Northern Yin Dynasty may not continue to negotiate with us."
"Hahaha, I think Gonggong and Imperial Master Yingying are the better ones." After Xiao Shizhu thought for a moment, he laughed a few times.
Amid the hearty laughter, Xiao Shizhu looked proud and said triumphantly: "This must be the idea of the Imperial Master; it seems that I have managed to create a good student with such shameless and despicable methods.
It’s really a good way to deal with a scholar like Zhong Kui.”
Jiang Ziwen was stunned when he heard this, and there was some confusion in his eyes.
"The Northern Yin Dynasty has lost consecutive battles, and the country is unstable. There are many rebellions and riots. They are more eager to stabilize than we are. What's more, I have Gong Mingyi in my hands. The Northern Yin Dynasty is eager to get him back, so that we can know ourselves and the enemy without danger in a hundred battles.
." Xiao Shizhu did not care about the actions of Imperial Master Yingying and Gonggong, and analyzed in a logical manner: "Just wait, the Beiyin Dynasty will soon send a second envoy to Shuoyue Island to negotiate with us.
Then the treaty was signed.”
Jiang Ziwen calmed down a little, but after thinking about it carefully, he was still a little worried. This time, he was not worried about whether Beiyin Dynasty would be willing to continue negotiations, but because he had other things.
Xiao Shizhu took a closer look and saw that Jiang Ziwen's brows were still frowning. Although the confusion was gone, there was a bit more worry in his eyes, so he asked curiously: "Jiang Ziwen, what are you worried about?".
"I'm worried that if it's as your lord expected, the old ghost from Fengdu will definitely send out two ghosts, neither of which are human souls that are easy to deal with." Jiang Ziwen frowned even more deeply and said thoughtfully: "If these two ghosts do this,
If he is reused, our country will have two more powerful enemies."
"What kind of human soul? How can you get such high praise from Jiang Ziwen?" Xiao Shizhu's eyes lit up and he immediately asked curiously.
"Lu Zhidao." Jiang Ziwen on the opposite side raised his eyes, met Xiao Shizhu's eyes, and said word by word: "There is also Wei Zheng!".