Lunar New Year's eve.
It was as if countless great masters in the world used the method called tranquility and peace at the same time. Even if countless conspiracies stirred up, the Tang Dynasty Chang'an, which had a storm, came to a complete peace this day, and even the flow of time seemed to have slowed down.
Gu Liubai just woke up early in the morning and heard that Chen Tu was looking for him.
When I walked to the door of the yard, I saw Chen Tu and Yin Shiniang each with a bamboo chair with a backrest, sitting next to the door chatting.
Gu Liubai wanted to hold it back, but he couldn't help it. As soon as he opened his mouth, he laughed like Du Haha, "Uncle Chen, I heard that you killed pigs well."
Chen Tu smiled and said, "It's done."
Gu Liubai immediately felt that the taste was wrong.
Chen Tu was not angry at all.
"What happened to you when you came to me early this morning?" he asked curiously.
Chen Tu smiled and said, "I want to build a home in Chang'an."
Gu Liubai was stunned and then took a breath of air conditioning, "Uncle Chen, have you got a good friend so soon?"
Chen Tu, according to his usual temperament, had to argue with Gu Liubai for a few words, but today he did not have the interest in this regard. Although he was still smiling on his face, his tone was solemn, "He is a widow."
Gu Liubai was stunned and couldn't help laughing again, "Uncle Chen, there are so many troubles in front of the widow."
"The widow has not been a big deal." Chen Tu waved his hand and signaled Gu Liubai not to talk nonsense. He had nothing nonsense, so he completely told the story of the widow of the Feng family, and then said: "We have accumulated many unfair souls on the knife. Naturally, we are not afraid of such fate. But I think, I am not as good as I am, and I don't look like money. Apart from their seemingly some strength, they have no strengths, except for their laughter, so how can I be attracted to the streets and alleys?"
Gu Liubai listened to his words and became serious in an instant, "Are you afraid of fraud?"
"I don't have the intention to harm others, but I must be careful of others." Chen Tu sighed rarely, "The Gentleman is a hero's tomb. I'm afraid that real swords and guns will not do anything to me in life and death, but I fell on it, and was scraped by the invisible knife to the point of not having any flesh left."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "So you want me to help you check, are there any problems with your neighbors, especially the widow of Yuan Xiuxiu and Feng's wife?"
"Yes, we can kill people, and we can investigate practitioners, but delving into the background behind these ordinary people is up to you." Chen Tu grinned, but there was a hint of loneliness in his eyes. "I have seen so many sinister and vicious things. Even if I live in this fireworks, I dare not trust people easily."
Gu Liubai slowly raised his head.
He understood what Chen Tu meant.
In this world, except for the old friends who are rushing around in Yinshan, he is also a trustworthy person in this city.
"You are not afraid of facing the Turkic Black Knight in Mingbaipo. What are you afraid of when facing this ordinary widow? At worst, you will lose your life and make money." He smiled, but there was no joke in his tone. "Don't be anxious, I'll help you check it clearly. But Uncle Chen, although I am much younger than you, I always feel that this matter of men and women is about a real relationship. You have to figure it out. You really like to stay with others, rather than being overwhelmed with pure sympathy. You feel pitiful when you look at them and don't want others to have no support, so you take the initiative to deliver it to your door."
"Damn it, don't I know about this yet?"
Chen Tu immediately quenched his saliva, "What is this person like? I'll see it carefully."
Gu Liubai felt that Pei Yunqi would definitely be happy to listen to this matter, so he immediately asked with a smile, "Tell me?"
Chen Tu smiled on his face, but he was very serious in his heart. Maybe he had something to ask for Gu Liubai, and he was very honest in his mouth: "First of all, she was quite straight and looked pleasing to the eyes. This serious Chang'an lady is different from the women outside the pass. Those women either have broken flowers and willows, looking shiny, but if the waist loosens, her breasts will hang down to the belt. Or they are those Hu people, with piles of flesh all over their bodies, rigidly on their bodies. Yuan Xiuxiu is different. She looks soft, but she walks happily."
Gu Liubai almost died of laughter on New Year's Eve, "Uncle Chen, you are just a trick of picking flowers."
"You must look good first? Why don't you think it's not good?" Chen Tu said to Gu Liubai for a look, and then said, "Actually, I noticed her the next day when I went to Qunxianfang. There was a couple in the yard who sold their own bamboo tools. They probably were busy doing things that day. They didn't bring the yard door in the morning. The couple had a grandmother living with them. They were old and even more confused. As a result, they walked out of the yard door and walked around in the crotch. They didn't say anything, but they took the feces from the crotch to play with others. They didn't have time to hide, but I saw Yuan Xiuxiu quietly settled the old man, burned hot water and washed his body, and washed the clothes he had changed."
"I'm not asking for it." Chen Tu took a deep breath and said slowly, "I have also inquired about the situation of the Feng family during these days. Anyway, all the neighbors say that this Feng family's widow is really good, but his life is miserable."
Gu Liubai listened seriously and said, "So Uncle Chen is not thinking about sex, it is not that this person suddenly grows on your heart, but that this person not only looks like you, but mainly has a kind heart and good character."
"A kind-hearted person, good-looking, can take care of people. And the key is that she looks like she wants to help her, and she feels that she shouldn't be so miserable." Chen Tu didn't laugh, but just sighed, "I can't explain this thing clearly. Whether you like it or sympathize with it, I have encountered many people who have made corrections before, even if it's interesting to me, I don't feel that way in my heart."
"One carrot and one pit, Uncle Chen, you just happened to encounter this pit." Gu Liubai didn't tease Chen Tu anymore and said seriously, "Don't worry, I'll let Li Xi govern the others, the fifth prince and the students of these academy check carefully, and keep it and don't push you into the fire pit."
Chen Tu nodded, breathing a sigh of relief and saying nothing, but Yin Shiniang, who took out a handful of melon seeds and had not spoken much until now, couldn't help but say Yin Yang, "One radish is one pit, and some radish may occupy more than one pit."
Gu Liubai was helpless, "Ten Niang, you are doing the New Year's Eve, so you can pick up any pot without opening any pot, and there is no one who eats melon seeds before you eat a serious breakfast in the morning. Did you have a squirrel in your previous life?"
Yin Shiniang has never liked to talk to him. After hearing Chen Tu's worries, she also put away the melon seeds in her hand and looked at the streets and alleys in the distance with her hands behind her back.
The continuous streets and alleys were filled with smoke at this time.
She couldn't help but think in her heart that Chang'an is really a strange place. Chen Tuguan has been wandering inside and outside the pass for half a lifetime, but she actually has to have a home in Chang'an when she comes.
Is it true that even if the gods and Buddhas in the sky fall to Chang'an, they will become mortals who are completely stained by the seven emotions and six desires in a blink of an eye?
Just as she was thinking about this, she suddenly frowned slightly.
On the other end of the cleaned stone road, a girl in a black robe came over.
This girl seems to have not eaten enough for many years and looks thin, but she is actually not short.
Just after looking at the girl, Yin Shiniang took out the melon seeds again, and shouted to the yard, "Pei Yunqi, Shangguan Zhaoyi, something is coming."
“…!”
Gu Liubai also had a headache.
Isn’t the one who walked over slowly in a black robe the Uighur goddess Yelu Yueli?
Yelu Yueli waved when she saw Gu Liubai, "I'm here."
Gu Liubai glanced at Yin Shiniang who had begun to eat melon seeds silently, and then looked at the Uighur goddess and said helplessly, "If you don't stay in Zongsheng Palace, why are you doing running around in Chang'an City?"
Yelu Yueli said, "I live in Zongsheng Palace. I want to pay New Year's greetings to the second-level club of Zongsheng Palace during the Chinese New Year."
Gu Liubai really admires the person who even speaks this truth with a serious and upright attitude.
Before he could speak, Pei Yunqi and Shangguan Zhaoyi had already come out of the yard.
Neither of them is used to getting up early.
Pei Yunqi is purely because of laziness.
Shangguan Zhaoyi has many dreams to do.
When things happened suddenly, the two of them probably washed their faces with clean water when they came out, but even so, when the two came out together, the courtyard seemed to have suddenly added a lot of color.
Chen Tu glanced at Pei Yunqi, who is now wearing women's clothing, then looked at Shangguan Zhaoyi, and smiled, "This big radish has taken a pit, which is really good."
Yelu Yueli smiled at the two of them, looked at Gu Liubai who was blocking the door, and said, "I am a Gentile friend after all, and I am here to wish you a New Year. Don't you invite me in and sit there? And it's okay if you don't want me to be your wife, we won't be able to do business."
"My grass!" Chen Tu was shocked, "Is there another fucking pit? What the hell is this Chang'an?"
"What are you doing when you block people? We Tangren seem to be stingy!" Pei Yunqi pulled Gu Liubai aside.
After all, he is the daughter of a general and a top family in the Tang Dynasty. His momentum and ideas are different from ordinary people.
In her opinion, even if she married this Uighur goddess as her concubine, she would still be a fight for the Tang Dynasty.
"Hello Sister Pei, Hello Sister Shangguan." Yelu Yueli was also magical and didn't need anyone to introduce him. Everyone was calm and serious. When she saw Pei Yunqiu and Shangguan Zhaoyi shouting, she did not make any mistakes.
"Why are your hair and eyebrows black?"
After entering the yard, Yelu Yueli turned her hood back, and Gu Liubai realized that she was not yellow-headed, and her eyebrows and eyelashes turned black.
"I carefully read some of your Chang'an books and see what all the scholars here like. I made some flower juice and dyed my hair." Yelu Yueli said, "Why, are you happy with the eyes?"
Chen Tuyou was happy.
From a distance, the Uighur goddess looked like a small vegetable, but now she is getting closer. Once the hood is removed, her entire face and long hair that is like a waterfall flow down, which is not only pleasing to the eye.
This Hu girl has natural white skin, and her facial features look different from those of the Tang Dynasty. Her lines are particularly clear and carved. When her long black hair is outlined, her face shines like beautiful jade.
Her eyes are big, and the color of her eyes is really special. She looks like the kind of mountain god and fairy painted in the painting book, both spiritual and demonic.
Gu Liubai was speechless.
He is famous for being good at speaking, but he has nothing to say when facing this nagging goddess.
He was afraid that the other party would say another word, since he liked it, then do you want me to be a wife?
At this moment, Yelu Yueli patted her black robe and said, "Are you still afraid of being alive?"
"?" Chen Tu felt that the little Hu girl looked like a mountain god and demon before breathing. As a result, Yelu Yueli made a sound and a place in her black robe quickly bulged up.
Then a dark head came out from her left shoulder hole.
"Grass!"
Chen Tu was shocked.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it was a black cat's head, but when he saw the black cat's ears, his eyes suddenly widened again, and he couldn't help but scream at me.
...
A black cat with four ears.
In fact, even if Chen Tu didn't see four ears at the first time, he could see the difference between this cat and all the other cats at once.
The black cat was sneaky, with a human expression on his face and eyes.
Pei Yunqi and Shangguan Zhaoyi were shocked and speechless.
Yin Shiniang put away the melon seeds in her hand and looked closer.
The four-eared black cat bared its teeth.
To be honest, it hates being watched.
But Yin Shiniang approached, but she didn't even dare to show her annoying expression.
There are not many people who can kill it in Chang'an City, but it intuitively feels that this woman is one.
It narrowed its eyes slightly, as if it was afraid of light.
But in fact, he was constantly looking at Gu Liubai.
In Zongsheng Palace, it had secretly observed Gu Liubai for a long time. Even though the distance was very far, it had sensed the familiar aura.
Now only a few steps away, it is even more certain that this person is the master he is waiting for.
"How did it follow you?"
Gu Liubai was also shocked when he looked at the black cat.
Ordinary people in Chang'an City may not know the existence of this black cat, but in the world of cultivators in Chang'an, this black cat is extremely famous.
But almost all practitioners still do not know its true origin.
I only know that its owner is a great master who is so powerful that even Li is afraid of.
This black cat has a more special significance to Gu Liubai, because before that, he had always suspected that the owner of this black cat might be his mother.
Yelu Yueli pondered, "Maybe I have the chance to be a member of its family?"
The four-eared black cat couldn't help but want to laugh.
It understood what Yelu Yueli meant, but looking at Pei Yunqiu and Shangguan Zhaoyi, it felt that the little Hu girl had little chance.
Gu Liubai was a little sensitive and frowned, "Is it related to me?"
Yelu Yueli looked at Pei Yunqiu and Shangguan Zhaoyi seriously and said carelessly: "I don't know."
Before Gu Liubai got angry, she waved her hand and said, "I'm leaving, don't miss me."
"I miss you?" Gu Liubai was so angry that he laughed.
Yelu Yueli turned around and said, "In fact, sometimes it's good to not figure it out, but you can't figure it out. Once you figure it out, someone will see it out."
Gu Liubai was slightly stunned.
This tragic girl seemed to have something in her words.
Yelu Yueli walked to the door, turned around and waved his hands to Pei Yunqi and Shangguan Zhaoyi, saying hello and goodbye, and then said, "Sometimes it looks like a play, but the real play is outside the play."
"Brother Fifteen, this goddess is interesting."
A familiar voice rang out.
Pei Yun turned his head and saw Zhou Lu'er jumping over from the roof behind.
"Why did you come early in the morning?" Gu Liubai felt better as soon as he saw Zhou Lu'er jumping over.
"I know Chen Tu is here, so I'll come over to play." Zhou Lu'er twitched her nose, "Chen Tu, have you killed a pig recently? There's a smell of pig intestines on her body?"
Chen Tu's face turned red, "It's all your business."
Zhou Lu'er smiled, he jumped up and jumped high in place.
He glanced at Yelu Yueli's back as he left, and said, "Brother Fifteen, do you think she is a bit like Master Xuanqing, but it's completely wrong."
Before Gu Liubai could speak, Pei Yunqi couldn't help but say curiously: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Lu'er scratched her ears and heads, thinking about how to describe it appropriately. After holding it in for a while, she said, "I can't say it clearly. It feels like Master Xuanqing is not in this Chang'an. Anyway, nothing happening in Chang'an will affect him, but this goddess is in Chang'an. But she seems to be in Chang'an at all, no matter what happens in Chang'an, no matter what others think or say. She just cares about what I think and what I say. She is clearly in Chang'an, but she feels like living in her own world. But it seems that they both can see through what happened in Chang'an."
Gu Liubai nodded.
He really feels the same.
Every sentence of Master Xuanqing has a deep meaning, so what does the Uighur Goddess mean just now?
Once you figure it out and figure it out, someone will be willing to understand it too.
Sometimes it looks like a play, but the real play is outside the play.
Gu Liubai frowned unconsciously. No matter what kind of play or not, what she meant was that she didn't have to worry about understanding her life experience now?
"Zhou Lu'er, please help me call the fifth prince over for dinner." He pondered for a moment and called Zhou Lu'er. He knew that Zhou Lu'er was awesome to find someone now.
"Brother Fifteen, you write a small scroll, I'll give it a try." Zhou Lu'er smiled and winked at Gu Liubai.
Gu Liubai's heart moved and he immediately realized that Zhou Lu'er wanted to try to let his little mice deliver the letter.
"Can you communicate with these mice to this point?"
While Gu Liubai nodded, he felt that Xu Qi was going to be very hit again.
...
“…!”
The fifth prince was still looking at the secret note, and heard a strange squeak, and then he was shocked as he followed the sound.
Two rats looked at him casually.
One of the mice was responsible for holding a yellow bamboo tube in his mouth, while the other was responsible for whispering at him.
"Zhou Lu'er?"
The fifth prince was stunned for a moment and then reacted and shouted twice to the surroundings.
But the surroundings were quiet and there was no noise.
"Is this guy not here?"
Seeing the mouse lowering the yellow bamboo tube, the other mouse squeaked twice and ran away along the corner of the wall. His eyes were straightened, "This dog-good Zhou Lu'er has now become a big rat immortal. Can they send me something?"
He pinched the yellow bamboo tube in disbelief, used true qi to shatter the wax seal, and then took out the small roll inside. When he opened it, he saw four words, "Come here to have a meal."
Half an hour later, the fifth prince appeared at the door of Gu Liubai's yard in Yankangfang.
At first sight, when he saw Zhou Lu'er, who was basking in the sun and eating melon seeds, the fifth prince had no time to speak, Zhou Lu'er laughed proudly, "Fifteenth brother, come out quickly, the fifth prince is here."
The fifth prince couldn't help but step forward and whispered, "Zhou Lu'er, you are so powerful now. You can even let them deliver letters to you. Can you be so far away?"
Zhou Lu'er said proudly, "I guess I can be separated by three yards at the farthest, but my letter is not safe. Maybe I will die before I can get out of the army, and I may be caught by a cat on the way."
"You can send three floors at the farthest?" The fifth prince couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhou Lu'er's words funny, "If you practice more, can you send them farther?"
"It should be possible, but the farther you send it, the easier it is to get caught." When Zhou Lu'er replied this, she was thinking in her mind that it would be great if she could ask the Sierra Black Cat to help.
The cats in the city should not be the match for the four-eared black cats. If the four-eared black cats could make the cats in the city recognize his messenger, then his messenger would be safe to deliver the messenger.
Gu Liubai came out of Shangguan Zhaoyi's house.
The fifth prince smiled slightly and said, "I'm practicing dual cultivation again?"
Gu Liubai was too lazy to talk to the fifth prince, so he dragged two bamboo chairs over and sat down with the fifth prince to discuss the serious matters, "Master Xuanqing should not be the one who was the one who was in trouble with you, Li?"
"Why did you suddenly think of asking this?" The fifth prince was stunned and nodded immediately, "According to our Li family's view, Master Xuanqing belongs to that kind of pure neutral faction. No matter how powerful the powerful clans in this city fight, he is just a bystander and transcendent. But no matter how he is, he is a monk of our Tang Dynasty. If there is really anything that overthrows our Tang Dynasty, he will definitely take care of it. Therefore, for such people, we, Li, have always respected and let him go. If we say that we are sent to work, then we, Li, must not have the ability to do this. Sometimes my father wants to see him and ask him about things, but we may not be able to see him."
Gu Liubai listened carefully, but he did not answer the fifth prince's initial question, but then continued to say seriously, "Then how much do you know about the power you Li, or your father, are you hiding?"
"We can't touch it." The fifth prince shook his head and said softly: "Whether it is me, my third brother, sixth brother, or the prince, I can't touch it at all. It's like Ji Gaoge, which is already on the surface, but we can't touch it at all. The real things in our Li family, such as my father, besides his cultivation, whether there is a unique secret technique passed down by the Li family, or a special Xuan soldiers, and the dead soldiers of our Li family. We don't know how many practitioners around him who have obeyed his orders. What we know is definitely not as much as the big companion around him."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "What is his big companion's origin?"
The fifth prince whispered softly, "Gao Yuanyi, a palace servant who has been serving by his side since he was a child. When my father and his brothers competed for the throne, this person was already his confidant. He did not let us contact some of our Li family's core things, but they should have been handed over to this person. My father is naturally very suspicious, but he really treats this person as brothers. When he helped my father compete for the throne, he led his troops to fight, and his cultivation was very high. According to my sixth brother and I, this person must be an eighth-rank."
"By the way." Speaking of this, the fifth prince thought of the important thing he was going to say, and his voice lowered a little. "My sixth brother passed me a secret note this morning. He checked all the people of the right age in the palace, including this great companion. He concluded that although this great companion had a high level of cultivation, he should not practice the method of depravity. First, this person definitely did not practice the magic of poisonous gu, and second, it was found that he was from Bingzhou, and the method of practice seemed to be similar to the method of Xixi Sect in the previous dynasty."
Gu Liubai nodded slowly, but did not explore this issue in depth, but said, "After contact with the practitioners in Chang'an these days, those practitioners who practice the orthodox true qi method are always inseparable from their sects, but many of them practice the secret art of Qimen have opened my eyes. I just thought of the two officials from the Taishi Bureau that Heishawa met. Those two officials did not practice any killing methods at all, but could sense the fatal danger in advance through star observation. What I am even more curious about now is the real power of your Li family... are there many people who practice this secret art of Qimen that your father really has?"
"That must be quite a lot. But judging from your way, you shouldn't be the kind of Qimen secret technique practitioner who can easily deal with, but you should be a person with some particularly powerful magical powers." The fifth prince was so smart that he felt the smell all of a sudden, "What happened? Why did you suddenly distract yourself from this aspect?"
"Before I asked Zhou Lu'er to call you over, the Uighur goddess came to me and said a few inexplicable words to me." Gu Liubai seriously said the Uighur goddess' words to the fifth prince without saying a word, and then said, "I don't know what's going on. An idea came to my mind. Since you, Li, have won the world and have so many years of foundation, are there some people under your hands who have special magical powers, and can even capture some things in their minds?"
The fifth prince glanced at Zhou Lu'er on the side and couldn't help but smile bitterly, saying, "I didn't think this kind of secret technique is so magical, but looking at Zhou Lu'er's casual move, I think the things you said may not be missing. It's just that the paths these people practiced are different from those of our ordinary cultivators who practice the true qi method, so they often hide deeply. If you look up the Yin Daozi in the palace and the Seventh Master Uncle Xie Wan, you can't find it. If you want to find such a person, you can only look at fate."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "In the past, whether it was Liang Fengning or Guo Beixi, when they taught me, they didn't mention this kind of person with different ways of practicing. They didn't think much of this kind of thing in their bones. They felt that this method of disturbing perception or spirit was all strange magic. As long as the practitioner's own spiritual willpower is strong enough to be affected, these demons may not have time to act as a demon before they could be killed by a knife and stabbed to death with one sword. But when they arrived in Chang'an, they found him
Our thinking is to stand on the standpoint of a single practitioner. Even if this competition in Chang'an is stirred up, we don't know how many minor relationships it will lead. All kinds of practitioners are dependent on each other. Even if people who practice this supernatural power have no combat power when they are not successful, they will not be able to face the practitioners, but if they are attached to a big tree like Li, they will be very powerful when they cooperate with you Li or other clans."
The fifth prince nodded and said, "Next, I'll pay attention."
Gu Liubai smiled faintly.
With those words from Yelu Yueli, he felt that it seemed a bit too late to pay attention now.
...
Yelu Yueli was covered in a black robe and walked out of Yankangfang quietly.
During the two or three miles, she looked back and saw it five times.
But every time I look at it, I can't see anything unusual.
The Sierra Black Cat also felt that she was so silly and didn't know what to do.
When she walked out of Yankangfang and turned around, the four-eared black cat was a little impatient and made a strange purr.
She smiled, touched the black cat's back with her hand through the black robe, and then said quietly, "There are really many capable people in Chang'an. There may be one more person here who can't even see Sanjue."
After she walked a long way, Luang Po sat on a small sunbathing platform.
Chapter completed!