Outside, the wind was blowing hard, and the ghost mist mixed with layers of dark clouds as thick as ink, filling the sky. The sky and the earth were darker than before, and it was eerie under the vague ghost mist.
In Hu Lan's yamen, if there are centipede beads, dragon beads, night pearls and other objects installed in the house, these beads all light up in the dim light.
After Hu Lan finished speaking, he sent the old housekeeper down and asked his son Hu Qingyun to stop and let him sit down and talk.
The old butler had just left for a while when a servant brought hot tea, freshly baked snacks, and fresh fruits.
The servants placed the things in their hands on the square table between Hu Lan and his son one by one, then retreated and closed the main hall door.
In just a short time, drizzle started flying in the sky outside the house, and the wind fell from the sky.
The temperature between heaven and earth also dropped sharply, and the Yin Qi became even more intense. This caused the Yin Qi to disperse inside and outside Yuque City, and the ghosts inside felt very comfortable.
It's a bit cold on such a rainy day, but with the rich nourishment of yin energy, the ghosts won't care whether it's yin or not.
Hu Lan, who was sitting in the main hall of his mansion, picked up the tea cup and began to sip the tea carefully.
The aroma of tea spread in front of his eyes with the heat, and Hu Lan gradually showed a comfortable expression.
His son Hu Qingyun, who was sitting across from him, was eating melon and fruit snacks while secretly thinking about why his father Hu Lan was so sure that Xiao Shizhu's sudden invitation was not a fatal Hongmen Banquet?
But after thinking for a long time, he just realized that the deep meaning of his father's words was just a glimpse of the leopard, but he could not see clearly. So Hu Qingyun opened his mouth and humbly asked his father. Hu Lan said: "Father, how can you be so sure that Xiao Shizhu will not do this?
How about asking your uncle to die? You must know that when Xiao Shizhu was alive, he was a liar in the world. After coming to the underworld, he bribed King Qin Guang to avoid the crime.
The pain of prison in hell and his past deeds are now known to everyone. As the saying goes, it is easy to change the country, but it is hard to change the nature. His human soul cannot become a gentleman. According to my child, Lu Wu led
The words of Xiao Shizhu who came here can be passed on to the uncle intact in order to show that you and I have no bad intentions towards Jiuyou Kingdom, but we must also remind the uncle that he must think twice about this matter."
This method of thinking about one's faults while facing a wall is really effective for Hu Qingyun. Others should be treated with admiration after seeing each other for three days, but he should be treated with admiration by facing a wall for three days.
Nowadays, I no longer have the recklessness and impulsiveness of the past. I am now much more calm and cautious when thinking about things.
But when his son's kind-hearted advice came out, Hu Lan put down the tea cup in his hand, smiled and slowly stroked his beard a few times, and said to his son calmly: "
This Xiao Shizhu is despicable and despicable, and there is no one in the world
I don’t know, this is true. But now he is very powerful, and his subordinates are even more elite soldiers and generals. The Jiuyou Kingdom is so powerful that it can evenly divide the world with the Beiyin Dynasty. Why do you need to act like this to deal with your uncle?
?So much effort?”.
This Hu Lan is calm and not worried that Xiao Shizhu will harm the Qingqiu Fox King.
But since his son humbly asked for advice, Hu Lan first solved the doubts in Hu Qingyun's mind, so that Hu Qingyun would not be worried.
"In addition, Xiao Shizhu has reached an agreement with the Northern Yin Dynasty. Now the two countries have ceased war and are living in peace. This has brought about at least ten years of peace for these two big countries in the underworld. Xiao Shizhu will not do this for this.
If you start a war again, killing your uncle is nothing more than provoking a war.
No matter how proud Xiao Shizhu is, how could he be so proud and stupid?" Hu Lan continued to stroke his long beard, listening to the increasingly urgent sound of wind and rain outside the house, and said: "Besides, what we did secretly has not yet been done.
Exposed. A few days ago, your uncle wrote a letter saying that those minerals sent another
batches, and the quantity is larger than usual. I also received a letter from Yu Langguan, including a letter from the second brother, saying that they are already preparing for this year's mineral theft, and everything is going well. From this point of view,
Xiao Shizhu is just asking for peace this time, considering peace as the most precious thing, and letting the Jiuyou Kingdom he wants
Recuperating and recuperating is even more safe. That's why he made a choice. Even if he was angry, he would not kill Tu Yaoqing. He also wanted to use this to show his kindness to your uncle. This is why Xiao Shizhu was afraid that there would be a fire in the backyard while he was recuperating. But that's all.
The ghost is so flexible and flexible, he is also a powerful character."
Hu Qingyun, who listened carefully, was so entranced that he took a few mouthfuls of the fruit in his hand and completely forgot to continue eating it. His soul was just listening and thinking, until his father Hu Lan finished his words.
After finishing speaking, after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized and said thoughtfully: "In this way, uncle is still
We really need to come to Jiuyou Kingdom. Firstly, if uncle doesn’t come for no reason, and Pluto is a subsidiary country of Jiuyou Kingdom, he seems to be guilty of treason, and our secret actions may be exposed. Secondly, this way
You can confuse Xiao Shizhu and make him think that there will be no fire in the backyard and we are still allies."
"You can teach me." Hu Lan, who squinted and smiled, turned around and cast an approving look at his son Hu Qingyun.
After receiving his father's approval, Hu Qingyun was filled with joy and excitement.
"What's more, as long as Tu Yaoqing is alive, there will be another chance to make a comeback. Jiuyou Kingdom has two masters in the same dynasty. As long as Tu Yaoqing doesn't die, he can one day occupy the magpie's nest and replace the ghost mother." Still squinting.
The fox lantern narrowed into a thin line
A cold light flashed through the two pairs of slitted fox eyes: "This male ghost is rare and not close to beauty. Do you think Xiao Shizhu is a stoic person who can control his belt? As long as Tu Yaoqing
If you are still alive, there will always be a day when you can make a comeback."
After Hu Lan said this, he couldn't help but chuckle; he had known that Xiao Shizhu only had a few princesses on the surface, but in fact, when he traveled in casual clothes in the past, he often hung out with brothel courtesans and female ghosts from various places.
In Hu Lan's view, this Xiao Shizhu was also a romantic Pluto, which is why Hu Lan made the remarks and assertions he just made.
"Well, what father said is true." Hu Qingyun thought it made sense and nodded repeatedly, adding a bit of admiration for his father.
"Recently and in the future, you and I, father and son, have to keep a low profile when doing ghost work." Immediately afterwards, Hu Lan warned his son Hu Qingyun again, saying: "Be kind to the ghost officials of Jiuyou Kingdom, and treat them
We must show indifference to national affairs. As long as it is not a matter of relations between the two countries, we will not show any concern at all.”
"Yeah." Hu Qingyun, who remembered that he still had the fruit in his hand, took a few more bites of the fruit in his hand, nodded a few times while chewing, and said to his father vaguely: "Now the child also knows that his father and
The uncle has good intentions and will never act impulsively to do bad things. Father, just keep your heart in mind, and your children will listen to you in all your actions."
"Yes." Hu Lan showed a satisfied look on his face, picked up the tea cup again, drank a few sips of tea leisurely, and said: "I will study the book tonight and hand a letter to your uncle in the capital. What Xiao Shizhu said is very different from what I am doing now.
The situation in You Country is also included in it, so that your uncle can come as soon as possible so that he can confuse Xiao Shizhu as soon as possible."...
In Fengdu City, a group of Fengdu Forbidden Army composed of thousands of evil ghosts escorted more than a dozen carts pulled by beast spirits, heading south.
Each of these forbidden soldiers is tall and burly, with green faces and fangs. They wear robes and armor, military uniforms and leather belts, and golden helmets and golden armor covering their bodies.
In the cart they were escorting, in addition to the luggage, there were also the Shangqing boy and the ghost officials who Emperor Fengdu had promised him to follow him to the southeast as long as he selected him.
One of the carts, in addition to tables, chairs and small cases, was piled with various books. There were bamboo scrolls, silk books, and paper thread-bound books. The contents summarized the astronomy in the underworld.
Geography, local history, customs, etc. are all included.
The delicate and handsome Shangqing boy was sitting in this car, sitting among hundreds of volumes of books.
The person riding in the same car with him was a human ghost female ghost dressed in black, with neat and delicate facial features. This ghost was also small and exquisite, not tall, but her skin was black and blue, which inevitably made her appearance unattractive.
This ghost's name is Gao Brown, and she is a female official in charge of secrets in the Northern Yin Dynasty. Because of her quick hands and ability to serve people attentively, she was selected by the boy from Shangqing, and was taken out of Fengdu, asking her to stay with him and become a person who can be used at any time.
Summoned scribe.
Gao Brown had no objection and left with the Shangqing boy. In addition to the Shangqing boy's handsome appearance, which was inevitably attracted by the single female ghost, Gao Brown was also very practical among the confidential documents of the Northern Yin Dynasty.
I got tired of staying there, so I decided to change places and take a look at the different scenery outside Fengdu.
"Gao Brown, I have been in the Northland for thousands of years, and I have heard a little bit about things outside the Northland. I once heard that the Jiuyou Kingdom is now a huge beast. If it doesn't move, it will be shaken.
The heaven and the earth are shaking." The Shangqing boy who put down the book in his hand looked at the car in the slightest.
Under a slight jolt, he picked up a fruit on the table at hand, leaned forward slightly and handed it to Gao Brown beside him: "Tell me, tell me, how did this ghost country, which used to be just a small island, become a giant?"
A giant beast? Is it really so powerful and terrifying?”
To this day, the Shangqing boy still has some doubts about the strength of the Jiuyou Kingdom. He believes that the many wars between the Northern Yin Dynasty and the Jiuyou Kingdom resulted in fewer victories and more defeats because the soldiers were comfortable for too long, and the officials and generals were not united because of this.
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As for the fact that Jiuyou Kingdom has developed from a small ghost country on a small island to a giant monster in the past ten years, no matter how much the boy from Shangqing heard about it, he thought it was just an exaggeration based on rumors.
Gao Brown took the fruit and lowered his head slightly, not daring to look directly into the eyes of the Shangqing boy. At the same time, his cheeks were hot, but he could not show the blush. Amidst the sound of the wheels rolling, he hummed and whispered softly.
Answer: "Yes, Jiuyou Kingdom is indeed a huge beast. Once it grins and stretches out its sharp claws and fangs, it will definitely tear the prey in front of it to pieces."
Just as he was talking, the wheel ran over a stone on the ground and bumped a bit. Some of the words that Gao Brown said later were trembling because of the bump.
At this time, the Shangqing boy next to him couldn't tell whether Gao Brown was a little afraid and frightened when he mentioned Jiuyou Country.
"As for how the Jiuyou Kingdom developed so fast in more than ten years, our ghost officials in the Northern Yin Dynasty have also discussed it privately. Most of the ghost officials believe that the first achievement should be attributed to the ghost mother." Gao Brown
He just held the fruit in his hand and played with it, without even taking a bite. He still bowed his head slightly.
Then, after thinking for a while, he said: "The ghost mother has been Pluto for many years. The money she has saved secretly is said to be as high as Xiaoyu Mountain. The ghost mother has saved as much money as she can. With all this money,
Only the Nine Nether King Xiao Shizhu could rapidly develop and expand the Nine Nether Kingdom into a behemoth."
Shangqing Boyzi, who had heard this rumor before, also felt that what Gao Brown said was reasonable, so he nodded. (To be continued)