After arranging Xiao Shizhu and the others to live in a quiet place in the south of Guangming Palace, and instructing the maids to entertain Xiao Shizhu and the others well, Wu Hui and Chang Qin stood up and left.
Afterwards, the uncle and nephew strolled in the Palace of Light, wandering around aimlessly.
"Uncle, what do you think of Xiao Shizhu?" Changqin asked after walking a few steps.
Since coming to the underworld, he and his uncle have assisted Zhu Rong in all matters big and small in Zhu Rongguo. They are also Zhu Rong's right-hand men. Gradually, Zhu Rong has formed a structure in Zhu Rong Middle School.
situation.
The uncle and nephew had more opportunities to cooperate, so they became more and more close to each other. Their relationship became both family members and good friends who talked about everything.
"It's better to be famous than to meet him. This Xiao Shizhu is really flexible and flexible. One moment he was fighting with the king, and the next second he was smiling at the king for the benefit of his country. He also answered the king's questions fluently. He is a powerful person."
Wu Hui answered a sentence without thinking, but little did he know that the so-called fluent reply was just Xiao Shizhu rushing to the shelves and asking King Kong to memorize the lines he had written, and then perform them according to the script he wrote for Zhu Rong and the others.
"In your opinion, uncle, he can be considered a hero?" Changqin smiled lightly and asked again.
"Hero?" After asking, Wu Hui put his hands behind his hands and laughed loudly, and then said with a smile: "I think the young man who followed him is more courageous. Not only was he calm and composed from beginning to end, but he also dared to approach the king without being surprised.
Fearless. The gaze in his eyes is deep and sharp, and seems to be able to penetrate everything. And I also saw a bit of cunning in his brows."
When Wu Hui spoke, doubts arose in his heart. Why was Xiao Shizhu surrounded by followers who were more capable than him?
"I also noticed that human soul. According to my observation, there is still a touch of unruliness between his eyebrows, as if he is not afraid of anything. Deep in his eyes, there is also a confidence that he can solve any difficulty.
"Chang Qin slightly nodded and said thoughtfully: "But Xiao Shizhu can take him under his command to serve him, which shows that he is also very capable. You saw his groom, right? That is the former Ghost King;
It was only a few days ago that I heard that the Ghost King had surrendered to the Ghost Mother Kingdom, and today I actually saw him willingly helping Xiao Shizhu lead his mount without any resentment at all. It can be seen that the rumors that Xiao Shizhu was a virtuous corporal and knew people well and used them well are true."
It was his words that completely dispelled all the doubts in Wu Hui's mind. So Wu Hui nodded and said with a smile: "That's right."
He slowly walked to the edge of the corridor and stood there, clasping his hands and looking up at the banyan tree in the courtyard in front, and sighed: "The Ghost Mother Country is indeed a place where dragons and tigers are hidden."
"Yes." Changqin took a step forward, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and said: "Although such a country is small in size, its strength is not weak, so it is more important to negotiate peace with them. Emperor Fengdu has always wanted to find trouble with us, and this year he did it again
The amount of tribute has been increased, and now many friends are better than enemies." After finishing speaking, he also raised his eyes to look up at the banyan tree in the courtyard and began to think.
Wu Hui, on the other hand, smiled and said nothing.
"Prince, General Wu Hui." At this moment, a ghost slave came towards them. After standing beside them, he saluted and said: "The king has invited you two to go to the Xuanhuo Palace to discuss matters."
"I know." Changqin replied casually, then called Wu Hui to follow the ghost slave forward.
Together with the ghost slaves, they returned to the building called Xuanhuo Hall where Zhu Rong met Xiao Shizhu and the others. After bowing to Zhu Rong, they saw Zhu Rong frowning and getting up, walked to them and handed them the peace agreement silk document, saying
:"Let's see.".
Wu Hui reached out and took it, unfolded it, and looked at it with Changqin. After a moment, they looked at each other, and then turned to look at Zhu Rong.
"Father, are there nothing excessive about these terms?" Seeing Zhu Rong's slightly sullen expression, Chang Qin asked a little unreasonably.
"There is indeed nothing excessive in the peace agreement brought by Xiao Shizhu." Zhu Rong said, sitting on the chair behind the desk, he snorted angrily: "What is so popular is that Gonggong actually dared to trick me.
". As he spoke, he clenched the five fingers of his right hand into a fist and hit the stone pillar next to him hard.
"The losses of dozens of warships and tens of thousands of soldiers should be attributed to Gonggong." Seeing that the two of them were silent, Zhu Rong glared and asked, "What do you think?" Xiao Shizhu asked King Kong to pay no attention.
The words he said during the meeting successfully aroused Zhu Rong's desire for revenge against Gonggong. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he decided to show Gonggong some color.
"Brother Wang, with all due respect, it is not easy to mobilize troops at this time." Changqin did not speak, but Wu Hui thought deeply: "In the last war, we lost not only warships and soldiers, but also a lot of supplies. At present,
The national strength is still in the recovery period, and everything should be taken advantage of to gain momentum."
His words were approved by Chang Qin. What's more, if you use weapons, you will waste your life and money. This is the last thing Chang Qin wants to see, so he immediately nodded to Zhu Rong and said: "Father, what uncle said is true.
Moreover, Xiao Shizhu has proposed peace talks, which can help us restore our national strength faster."
"In the last battle at Shuoyue Island, Gonggong also lost a lot of warships and soldiers. He also needs to restore his national strength, but he is still using troops against the country of Xiantou. You don't know this, right?" Zhu Rong's face
His anger became a little stronger, and he replied to Changqin and Wu in an almost hysterical tone: "I have made up my mind. While the Ghost Mother Country negotiates peace with us and the north settles down, Gonggong will send troops to the Huitou Country.
The country's military strength is weak and the communist workers are caught off guard."
After saying that, he walked to a bookshelf, pulled out a map from a grid with ease, walked to the desk, unfolded the map on the desk, and waved to them.
Both Changqin and Wu Hui knew that besides being easily impulsive, Zhu Rong also had a problem that he had to do things he determined to do. No matter who it was, they couldn't persuade him. So they had to quietly shake their heads helplessly and walked to Zhu Rong.
Stand next to him.
"Here, here, and here." Zhu Rong pointed to the three cities on the map, in the southeastern border of Zhu Rong State, in the mountainous area bordering the Communist State, and said angrily: "Wu Hui, today you will lead an army to attack.
, attack these places. Note that this time it is not occupation but plunder. Resources, property and prisoners will all be brought back to me. I can still organize a hundred thousand troops for you in a short period of time."
"Wu Hui accepts the order." Although the foolish and loyal Wu Hui felt that this could take advantage of Gong Gong, the top priority should be to restore the national strength as soon as possible. However, seeing that Zhu Rong had already made up his mind, he had no choice but to bow and accept.
"Then Father, have you agreed to the peace negotiation?" Changqin asked. Compared with Zhu Rong and Wu Hui, Changqin, who has been dealing with internal affairs for a long time, is more concerned about the interests of the people in the country; his father has already made the decision to send troops.
, there is no way to change it. And negotiating peace can bring stability to the people in the country, so what he values more at this time is negotiating peace.
"Well, this is also very beneficial to us, so of course we have to agree." Zhu Rong raised his right index finger again, and the fingertips made a "crackling" sound, and then a ball of flame appeared out of thin air, beating on his fingertips, like
It was like an elf dancing in the night, but it still circled around his fingertips, unable to hurt his fingers at all.
"Changqin, I'll leave the peace talks to you." After finishing his words, Zhu Rong waved his hand to signal Wu Hui and Changqin to leave. But from beginning to end, he squinted at the beating on his fingertips.
flame
"This Zhu Rong is so powerful, he can actually control fire." Xiao Shizhu, who was at his residence, looked curiously at the flames dancing in the simple round-belly four-legged stone brazier in the middle of the room, and asked slowly
: "How are his hands so long? How can they not be burned by fire?".
"This is the ability of the Zhurong clan." As soon as he finished speaking, Guilu had already slowly started to speak, and Youyou said: "When we were in the human world, in order to fight against the evil gods, the good gods granted some human souls to these people who called themselves old gods.
Divine magic. Therefore, these clans have their own characteristics."
Xiao Shizhu slowly turned his head and looked at Gui Lu blankly, opening his lips but saying nothing.
Since his surrender, Guilu didn't talk much. Most of the time, he just looked and didn't say anything. At most, he just smiled softly.
Even if he did say anything, it was just a few words, such as: "Yes.", "Okay.", "Okay! Okay!" and other phrases. I didn't expect that he would say so many words in one breath today, which made Xiao confused.
Both Dianthus and King Kong were a little shocked.
"Haha, it's really strange." Xiao Shizhu looked at Jingang and Hu Hui and smiled, walked to sit down next to Guilu, touched his shoulder with his shoulder, and said: "Brother, if you hadn't said this in one breath today
You talk a lot, I thought you were always that taciturn and dull person?" After saying that, he raised his hand and hugged the Ghost King like a brother.
At the same time, it also aroused Xiao Shizhu's interest; he remembered that Mo Zhai once mentioned the old gods to him, but he had always thought that these so-called old gods were just exaggerating, and naturally he did not study it.
Now it seems that I was wrong; these so-called old gods are really capable.
"You kid." Guilu cursed angrily and quickly shook off his hand on his shoulder. Then he sneered and said, "No, you don't even know this?" After the fall of the country, he spent every day.
Looking at Xiao Shizhu's words and deeds, I gradually became convinced of Xiao Shizhu, knowing that this kid did have some abilities that he could not match.
Just because I was unwilling to have my country destroyed by this brat. So even though I surrendered, I didn't know how to talk to Xiao Shizhu.
On the other hand, he was grateful to Xiao Shizhu for taking great care of their father and daughter; he did not do anything unkind to them at all, but treated them with great courtesy and gave them good food and clothing. Therefore, Guilu
For more than ten days, he has been entangled in his heart. He was only convinced by Xiao Shizhu, but he had not yet convinced him. Until today, he found a topic and finally plucked up the courage to communicate with Xiao Shizhu. Although his tone sounded like
It was ridicule, but in reality, there was no such intention.
"I really don't know. After I came to the underworld, I found that a lot of history is completely different from what is recorded in the human world." King Kong was furious when he heard this. He was about to teach Guilu a lesson, but was interrupted by Xiao Shizhu who raised his hand disapprovingly.
Then he turned to look at Guilu with curious eyes, smiled and begged: "Quick, quick, quick, tell me about this, what is this old god, or what are these old gods?".
"Please, brother, you are now the mighty Xuanyan Continent's general; can you stop being so groveling?" Being accustomed to being a stern prince, Guilu couldn't stand Xiao Shizhu's mean wink, so he couldn't stand it.
He lamented and said: "To put it simply, they are the earliest human beings, the ancestors of human souls. In order to deal with the evil gods, the ancient gods granted them some magical skills."
"Of course, there are also traitors among humans. In the later stages of the war, many of them also recruited a small number of traitors for the evil gods. The method is naturally to teach a small number of human souls to their side by teaching them magical skills." As Zeng
He is a member of the evil god's camp, and the Ghost King understands this very well. Now that the conversation has started, he can't stop.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his tea cup and took a sip of the tea, and then said to Xiao Shizhu: "The temptation of power is very terrifying. So under this temptation, the old gods were born one by one.".