The entrance in the middle is the theater building, which is three stories high, so that the performances on the stage can be seen from all three floors.
The outside entrance is a restaurant.
When Lu Bai entered Juxian Pavilion, without waiting for a reply, the waiter led him to the restaurant on the third floor.
King Luo is already waiting.
When he saw Lu Bai, he hurriedly greeted him, "Uncle, you are finally here. It's not easy to ask you to come out."
"I usually like to be alone." Lu Bai took off his coat, and a maid hung it beside him. Another maid brought up a copper basin. The water in it was warm and just right.
Lu Baijing sat down with both hands, "Then I got caught up in cases and was too busy to get away from it, so naturally I couldn't keep the appointment."
He wiped his hands with a towel, "Unlike you, a prince who idles around all day without doing anything serious, of course you can come out whenever you want."
The maid waiting next to her saw someone dare to speak to the prince like this for the first time, and she couldn't help but glance at Lu Bai.
What surprised her even more was that King Luo cupped his hand and said with a smile, "Uncle said, I will study hard in the future and try to do something serious."
He turned around and asked the waiter to hurry up and serve wine and food. What he also served were some delicious dishes, such as pan-fried lamb, braised lamb with milk, braised pork belly, braised lamb's trotters, mutton-fat leek pancakes, etc.
Lu Bai heard this and said in surprise: "Are you having sex with a sheep?"
King Luo laughed and said, "The most delicious thing in Juxian Pavilion is this sheep dish. Uncle, you can try it later. It's very delicious."
He poured two glasses of wine with his own hands as he spoke, "Uncle, have a try. This jar of apricot blossom wine is specially collected by me. It tastes better than the one I gave you last time."
"Let me try it." Lu Bai took a sip and nodded, "Yes, not bad. It's mellower than the last time."
"Right." King Luo became proud.
He filled it with Lu Bai again, "As long as it tastes good, I'll have someone send a few more jars to uncle when the time comes."
Lu Bai waved his hand, "That'll be a waste."
He doesn't care too much about this wine. Drinking this wine won't help you practice martial arts, and it's not as good as the medicinal wine he drinks at Jiugexing.
Just drink two or three cups occasionally to change the taste.
"Hey, it's not expensive. Speaking of which, the shopkeeper of this wine asked me to thank you. If it weren't for your uncle's shepherd boy pointing out Xinghua Village from a distance, his business wouldn't be so good." King Luo insisted on giving Lu Bai
He offered wine and told Lu Bai not to be polite.
In this case, Lu Bai was disrespectful.
"Uncle, what case are you busy with now?" After Lu Bai took over the wine jar, King Luo toasted again and asked Lu Bai casually, "I heard that you arrested Shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Clothing Store a few days ago.
In the end, I had to let him go."
"Hi."
Lu Bai took a sip of wine and looked helpless, "Not even the case of Jin Yiwei's disappearance some time ago. Almost all the clues pointed to Shopkeeper Shen of Meiji Cloth Shop. But there was no evidence, so in the end we had to let him go."
"No evidence? The body was not found." King Luo seemed to know a lot.
"What's the use of having bones? The bones can't speak. Tell me who the murderer is." Lu Bai sighed helplessly.
Snapped!
King Luo slapped the table, "Then it seems that the Shen family is really not a thing, and they arranged uncles randomly."
Lu Bai raised his eyebrows, "Why did he arrange it so randomly?"
"Then Shen Xi spread rumors that you were afraid of the Shen family and didn't dare to offend their Shen family, so they had to let out their shopkeeper Shen." King Luo said as he saw the food was being served, he stopped and asked the maid to
Put the dishes on the table.
He took a bite of the dish and gave it to Lu Bai, "Uncle, try this."
Then, he also took a bite, and then continued: "I definitely don't believe this. Who is my uncle? He dare not say that he is invincible in the world. He is also a person who can break the stone tablet of enlightenment in the blink of an eye. The Shen family is nothing. , not even a piece of mutton..."
He picked up a bean sprout in the dish, "It's just a bean sprout. Will my uncle be afraid of them? I heard my uncle tell me today, hey, there is indeed something inside."
Lu Bai took a bite of the food and said, "Did the Shen family really say that?"
King Luo nodded, "That's right. I met Shen Xi at the banquet and argued with him for a few words, but we ended up having a bad time."
He reassured Lu Bai, "Uncle, we must not swallow this bad breath. Just wait, I will ask my subordinates to help you find evidence together, and strive to get a solid proof, so that the Shen family will never be proud again."
Lu Bai glanced sideways at King Luo and saw the filial piety on his face, knowing that he was not holding anything back.
Lu Bai guessed that he knew that the Shen family was close to King Kang, so he borrowed a knife to kill someone here.
"It is difficult to find evidence in this case. After all, everyone died, and they all died in mysterious ways. Moreover, even if they are found, they are also investigating the collateral members of the Shen family." Lu Bai suggested that he dig elsewhere, "Let's If you want to teach someone a lesson, teach someone ruthless and go directly to the Shen family. If you can dig out the ruthless ones, Master Shi Qi will be their fate."
King Luo was very happy.
He knew very well what happened to Master Shi Qi. That was where Lu Bai's name of "executioner" came from.
He patted his chest to reassure Lu Bai, "Uncle, I will help you get rid of this bad breath."
Lu Bai nodded happily, "Well, yes, he is indeed my good nephew."
King Luo's face immediately blossomed into a smile.
When Lu Bai denied his nephew, he was beaten to death. Now that he admitted it in person, it wouldn't be worth his efforts if he didn't spread the word throughout the city. But if Lu Bai stood by him -
It is no exaggeration to say that King Luo is not supported by the eight major factions, but by the nine major factions.
Although Lu Bai is only one person now, he can indeed be regarded as a big sect. Those small sects are really inferior. After all, Lu Bai dares to challenge Yiqiu Villa and leaves Yiqiu Villa helpless. people.
There is really nothing we can do.
Now that the Sword Immortal's Enlightenment Monument has been released, Yiqiu Villa really doesn't have any trump cards. Although there may be a few practitioners in the Ascension Realm in the sect, these people are busy preparing for Ascension, so they probably have free time to cook. Lu Bai.
The only thing Yiqiu Villa can do now is Lu Bai's method. It is estimated that only Sword Immortal will take action.
"By the way, uncle, I have nothing to do. If you have any other cases on hand, I can help you check them out. This can be regarded as sharing your worries." King Luo showed his enthusiasm.
"It's true." Lu Bai took a sip of wine, "It would be great if you could help me."
King Luo hurriedly came over and said, "Uncle, please tell me."
"The case of demon books and the case of demon words." After Lu Bai said this, he looked back at King Luo.
King Luo's face was frozen like a flower for a moment, and he smiled awkwardly after a while: "Uncle, you are really amazing. When you hear about the case you are investigating, you will be moved to tears."
He lowered his voice, "Demon Book Case——"
Lu Bai glanced at him and said, "Don't worry, it's just on your head and has nothing to do with you."
King Luo breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, it has nothing to do with me in the first place."
He looked aggrieved and said, "Uncle, we are a family, so I won't talk about the two families. I have made some money for my father in the past year or two, and the relationship with my father has just eased a bit. Isn't that right?"
I am willing to raise this issue, so this demon book must not have been spread from my place. I suspect it is Kang——"
As King Luo was talking, he saw King Kang walking past the side room surrounded by maids and eunuchs.
King Luo booked a private room, and it was one of the private rooms with the best seats. Because he wanted to watch a play, the front of this private room was only separated by a screen, leaving some gaps. When the show started, the Juxian Pavilion
The little boy would also unfold the screen and occupy the seat on the verandah. In this way, all the private rooms were separated, and neither of them could see each other, only the stage.
Privacy is excellent.
When King Luo saw King Kang going to the side, he pointed to the next door and said, "I suspect it was him who leaked it."
He sighed lightly, "His idea is really good. He praised him openly, but secretly muddied the water, and made people think that there was a conspiracy that might not have been spread by him. Then he had to do both."
The more King Luo talked, the angrier he became.
He felt that the grandson did it on purpose, "I must have thought that I had done something for my father. I was deeply afraid that our relationship between father and son would deepen, so I quickly used this dirty trick to get all the officials in the court to speak for me. My father hated this the most."
One thing, plus his mother and concubine blowing the pillow, so my father will alienate me again."
King Luo was very familiar with this move.
"Okay, I probably won't be able to find any clues about this case, so I'll just treat it as a pastime." Lu Bai lied.
Compared to King Luo, he was closer to the Gu family. The demon book was the work of the queen, so he decided not to tell any outsiders.
"Then, what about the demon book case?" King Luo lowered his voice.
He was quite curious about this.
Before Lu Bai could speak, he hurriedly added, "Uncle, if you can't let me know, then don't say anything. Don't let Father blame you and I'll have to walk around without food."
But looking at his eager eyes and blinking constantly, it seemed that he really wanted to know.
King Luo really wanted to know.
In any case, he is definitely on the Gu family's boat now. If the emperor finds out that the Queen Mother is not the biological mother, and then has a quarrel with the Gu family, he, the King of Luo, will also be the one to be affected.
"I found out that someone is secretly trying to instigate a relationship between the Emperor and the Queen Mother, but I haven't found out who it is yet." Lu Bai said vaguely.
To be honest, he has no clue about this case now.
King Luo still wanted to ask, and Lu Bai had already guessed that he was going to ask the emperor whether he was the Queen Mother's biological child. But before King Luo could say anything, the servant of Juxian Pavilion unfolded the screen, blocking the verandah from the wing, leaving the stage
appear completely in front of you.
As soon as the erhu plays, the show begins.
Wang Changkang's play is called "Dream of a Butterfly". It has an opening poem, which is well written and has a lot of charm. After the opening poem, a scholar appeared lying under a tree, tired from reading, and fell asleep. Suddenly there was a
The caterpillar fell on the face.
He caught the caterpillar in his hand and looked at it for a long time, then carefully released the caterpillar.
At this moment, the scene became blurry, leaving only a long sentence: In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed of a butterfly.
Hu Die's Dream is Zhou Yu...
Then a butterfly quietly floated out of the blurred background, and then floated out of the stage, dissipating in the air like fireworks.
Lu Bai raised his eyebrows, he was using the words of Taoist Zhuangzi.
He just doesn't know whether the "Zhuangzi" in this world is complete, but if it is not complete, Lu Bai can't help it. He doesn't remember much of the content of "Zhuangzi", especially Zhuangzi pays attention to philosophy, and some of them are difficult to understand.
Perhaps the only thing that is not a mouthful is the joke "It's so big that it can't be stewed in one pot", which is like stewing salted fish.
"This can't work." King Luo next to him was still commenting, "Uncle, you've definitely won this bet. Wang Changkang's poem doesn't have your temperament as soon as it comes out."
"But I have to say that the stage layout is quite good." Lu Bai said with admiration.
The stage layout is really good.
Not to mention the lifelikeness of the trees, the splendor of the fallen leaves, or the moving scenery when the background is blurred, just mentioning the butterflies that turned into fireworks is so beautiful that people are mesmerized.
Compared with the modern stages designed using lights, dry ice, etc. that Lu Bai saw in his previous life, they were a little worse than this.
This play looks like watching a TV series.
"This is their specialty, uncle, you don't have to worry about it." King Luo comforted him. He looked at his neck and said, "I guess Wang Changkang played the show himself. If he wasn't a practitioner in their Liyuan, he wouldn't have come up with this background."
Lu Bai nodded and continued to listen to the play.
Although the name of this play has a dream, it actually has little to do with dreams, but has a lot to do with the caterpillar at the beginning. This became another reason for King Luo's criticism, "Look at this play, it's selling dog meat with a sheep's head.
I guess I saw your uncle's play "Meet in a Dream" and it was so good that I borrowed it to gain some popularity."
Lu Bai said nothing.
He always felt that the plot of this play was somewhat familiar.
This play probably tells the story of a caterpillar who was saved by a scholar. Later, after thousands of years of reincarnation, the scholar became a practitioner, and the caterpillar became a demon. In order to repay his kindness, the caterpillar traveled thousands of miles to worship the practitioner.
Sect. This cultivator has reached the realm of ascension, but because the caterpillar moved his mortal heart, he made an exception and accepted the caterpillar as his disciple, and then started a tangled relationship. After he tortured the scholar, he tortured the caterpillar, and after he tortured the caterpillar, he tortured the woman.
Matching story.
In this constant abuse and abuse, the caterpillar fell in love with the master, the scholar. However, at this critical moment, the master, who was moved by his mortal heart, was struck by the last thunder tribulation, and because his mortal heart was greatly moved, he became nostalgic for the world.
, so he did not succeed in overcoming the tribulation, and was knocked out of the mortal world, almost out of his mind.
The caterpillar takes action at the critical moment.
In order to save the life of his master, he tried every means, and finally used his own "cocoon into a butterfly", giving up his own life, so that the master could emerge from the cocoon and be reborn.
After learning that the caterpillar died, in order to resurrect the caterpillar, the master strengthened his Taoism and accepted another thunder tribulation. Then he successfully overcame the tribulation and became an immortal. He also used magic to resurrect the caterpillar. Finally, the caterpillar knocked on the immortal door.
Then he went out to meet him in person.
The two of them looked at each other and smiled in front of the Kuxian Gate, leaving the sky full of glow in front of Yun Shang's gate.