Zhao Shu looked at a four-wheeled carriage in front of him. The carriage was shaped like a cabin and was made of precious nanmu. The curtains and curtains were all made of cloud brocade. There were cute and pocket-sized crystal palace lanterns hung from the four corners of the eaves, which could not only provide lighting at night, but also
A defensive weapon that protects the carriage and prevents assassinations.
"No matter how rich you are, you can't buy such a carriage." Zhao Shu sighed. He looked at the front of the carriage and found that even the horses pulling the carriage were not ordinary horses, but two horses with white hair and black tails, tiger claws and one horn.
Strange horse beasts are much stronger and taller than ordinary horses, so they can pull carriages shaped like houses.
"Could this be a barge horse from northern Xinjiang?" Zhao Shu asked.
"Li Zhao Fu is very knowledgeable." Jiang Ru returned to her charming demeanor, but she secretly laughed at Zhao Mi's appearance, which looked like he had never seen the world before.
"It is said that the barge horse is a mutant species born from the intercourse between a dragon and a mortal horse, but I don't think so." Zhao Shu shook his head and quoted scriptures: "According to the "Ghost Country Wu Ming Lu", horses and animals in northern Xinjiang once licked the blood of the sacred mountain.
Yan was so mad that the appearance of the cubs he gave birth to changed dramatically, making it difficult for the Rongdi herdsmen to control them and abandoning them in the wilderness.
Over time, a ferocious and untamed alien race formed in the wilderness of Northern Xinjiang, which is the origin of this barge horse. There is a custom in the Diela branch of the Northern Xinjiang Rong, in which the warriors in the tribe must tame a barge horse alone.
You can be given pasture and marry more women, otherwise you can only serve as other people's war slaves."
Jiang Ru was not interested in these things and said calmly: "The barge horses in Chongxuan Hall are all controlled by talismans. They are not fed ordinary fodder on weekdays, but millet and cheese to strengthen their strength. They also have slaves to wash them.
The hair is dyed all over the body with spices to eliminate strange smells. Although they may look ferocious, they are actually proud and will definitely not eat in the same trough as other lowly animals."
Zhao Shu didn't reply. He saw the other party showing a subtle smile, as if he was happy because his choice of words overwhelmed him.
"Is Zhao Fu unhappy?" Jiang Ru blinked her thick eyelashes and lightly covered her lips: "If you don't want to ride in the car, can I ask my servant to bring another horse?"
"No need to bother." Zhao Shu smiled and patted the carriage: "I have never enjoyed such a good thing in the past. If you don't take it, it will be for nothing."
After saying this, Zhao Shu opened the curtain and walked into the carriage. The interior was not spacious, but it was also exquisitely laid out. There were tables, incense burners, cups, utensils and utensils. Everything was prepared and exquisite. Look.
The style of the utensils is obviously designed for women.
Jiang Ru walked into the carriage with a gentle smile and signaled to her subordinates to drive off.
"According to the rules of Chongxuan Hall, you shouldn't have such a car, right?" Zhao Shu looked at Jiang Ru opposite him, playing with the cup.
"Do you really think I'm just Liang Shuo's maid?" Jiang Ru no longer tried to hide it, took off her embroidered shoes, put a pair of jade feet on them, leaned back and said, "Besides, even if you are a servant of a high-ranking family,
, even a child from a humble family can't compare. A minister of a higher country can be the master of a lower country, don't you understand this principle?"
Zhao Shu nodded: "I understand, it seems that the Yongjia Liang family really thinks of themselves as gods."
Jiang Ru sneered: "For those untouchables, Liang is no different from a god. I would also like to advise you that Liang is not something you can easily tease. Liang Shuo thinks you are a rare talent, so he asked me to come.
Please."
Although she had been greatly offended by Zhao Mi's ridicule before, Jiang Ru quickly recovered her composure. She saw that Zhao Mi was completely different from Luo Xixian. She could not persuade such a person with gentle words, so it was better to show her power and status directly.
"Me? Talents are rare?" Zhao Shu asked back: "Then you should go find Luo Xixian, he is much more capable than me."
Speaking of Luo Xixian, Jiang Ru became angry and said: "What are you talking about? Would someone like him go to see Liang Shuo? His father was the great Sima of the dynasty, and he stirred up the government and the public with his silence.
Does his future need to depend on others?"
Zhao Shu didn't speak, and the carriage fell into silence. Seeing him like this, Jiang Ru went one step further: "I won't hide it from you. With your ability, it would be a pity to be relegated to the position of Fu Li. If you are willing to come to Chongxuan Hall, don't
It is said that he has been promoted to a Dharma position, and many treasures of immortal scriptures can be read by you."
"Is there such a good thing?" Zhao Shu asked.
Jiang Ru took a sip of tea and glanced sideways at Zhao Mi: "Luo Xixian's father has arranged his future for a long time, but what about you? I see that you are busy these days, just to accumulate merit and be promoted.
Dharma status. But no matter how hard you work, you can only stand out in the three-acre field of Huaiying Hall.
Isn’t it that the monks of the Guanshi have accumulated merits and advanced to the rank to obtain cultivation techniques, elixirs and magic weapons? Think about it for yourself, which of these things can compare with Chongxuan Guan? Originally, according to the Guanshe system of Huaxu Kingdom, like
A newcomer like you can directly come to Chongxuan Hall with your first recommendation letter. If you think about it carefully, who is stopping you from coming to Chongxuan Hall?"
"Teacher, he has his own agenda, it's not your turn to comment." Zhao Shu said.
Jiang Ru shook her head and laughed: "Yes, whenever you suffer a loss, it is always said that the big shots above are out to care about the overall situation. Even Wang Juncheng and General Wei attach so much importance to you, but you have to shirk it for others? You should be rewarded for your merits, and you have your faults.
Being punished is not a big deal."
Zhao Mo was silent. He had always suspected Jiang Ru had ulterior motives for coming here, but after hearing these words, he couldn't help but have some doubts.
In the past, Zhao Shu's legal status has been delayed. The main reason is that Zhang Duanjing has always held the attitude that "the legal status is grand and should not be transferred lightly." Zhao Shu himself also sees it this way. If Zhang Duanjing does not want Zhao Shu to switch to Chongxuan Hall,
Just say it directly and you won't have any complaints.
However, during his time in Xingluo County, Zhao Shui more or less understood that his cultivation was not shallow, and there was nothing wrong with accumulating merit and becoming a Sanqing Dharma.
Jiang Ru's words really tempted Zhao Shu, not to mention that the True Essence Lock was in the Chongxuan Pavilion. If he wanted to retrieve it, Zhao Shu would have to enter the Chongxuan Pavilion.
"What do you think?" Zhao Shu secretly asked Lingxiao: "This may be a real opportunity to enter Chongxuan Pavilion."
"Maybe it's an opportunity, but have you ever thought about the price you will pay?" Lingxiao said: "What kind of character are Liang Shuo and Jiang Ru? They cannot show kindness to you for no reason. They must have their intentions."
"The price?" Zhao Shu tapped his knees with his fingers: "In the final analysis, it's just because I am the teacher's student. They hope to drag me to Chongxuan Hall and cut off the inheritance of Huaiying Hall in order to maintain the status of Chongxuan Hall?"
"Not impossible."
Zhao Shu was suspicious: "This method is not clever. I went to Chongxuan Hall just to get the True Essence Lock. If I had other plans, I would go through their collection of Immortal Scriptures and Techniques.
From the bottom of my heart, I don’t like this group of children from aristocratic families. I might want to spread the profound skills they have collected. The vision of Chongxuan Hall is not so bad, right? I am the first student of Huaiying Hall.
Are people trustworthy to them?”
"Is this how you see yourself?" Lingxiao asked.
"If I were Liang Shuo, I wouldn't try so hard to win over people like me." Zhao Shu said, "Don't they know how disgusting they are? Maybe after I go there, I will have to please Liang all day long.
Young Master, I can’t survive this day.”
"I said, you are not Liang Shuo." Lingxiao said: "You may not be able to understand the situation while you are in it. In Liang Shuo's view, the rift between you and Luo Xixian is difficult to bridge, and the legal status has been delayed for a long time.
This in itself is the best place to start. But you are not afraid of hardships and dangers, and go to the front line to fight against the monsters and evil spirits. He naturally believes that you have ambitions to make progress, so he asked Jiang Ru to throw out the bait."
"This is too nonsense." Zhao Shu said: "I saw a lot of bad things like this in Xingluo County when I was a child. How do you have to worry about danger and hardship when suppressing bandits and monsters?"
Lingxiao asked back: "Do children from aristocratic families have experiences like yours?"
Zhao Miao was stunned for a moment, and Lingxiao added: "If not, why should he think the same as you? People in the world are limited by their past experiences, and it is difficult to change their opinions."
"What is Mr. Zhao Fu thinking?" Jiang Ruyu held her chin in her hands and smiled sweetly.
"I was thinking about how to bargain with Mr. Liang of yours." Zhao Shu replied.
"Then think about it carefully. I want to rest first." Jiang Ru yawned and pulled an embroidered pillow to sleep on.
…
The endurance of the barge horses is amazing, and the carriage itself is also blessed with magic, so there is no obvious bumpy feeling on the way back to Yanze City.
Arriving at the outskirts of the city, Zhao Mo opened the curtain and saw faint greenery on both sides of the road. Many farmers were sowing and cultivating, creating a scene full of vitality.
"What's there to see? It smells like livestock." Jiang Ru kept complaining in her heart without saying anything, but she was also a little happy at the same time.
During the past few days on the road, Jiang Ru showed off her beauty to Zhao Shu. A man and a woman lived alone in a small room. However, Zhao Shu did not make any progress at all. He turned over and over the book "Metal and Water Formation Method" all day long, and occasionally took out a piece of rust.
The bronze mirror reads something.
"Should I say that this person is unreasonable or has a firm mind?" Jiang Ru felt helpless secretly.
The carriage came all the way to the Tiegong Temple. Zhao Shu followed Jiang Ru inside and still had to wait for a while outside Jiutianyuntai.
Taking advantage of this moment, Zhao Shu took out the Tiegong True Shape Talisman and slowly adjusted his spiritual energy. He noticed that the Talisman was vaguely connected with the surrounding Qi. The true shape recorded with cinnabar on the Talisman actually twisted on its own. The order of the strokes was confused and the aura was reconstructed.
, the talisman itself began to heat up and tremble, and Zhao Shu almost couldn't hold it.
Fortunately, the change ended in an instant and there was no violent commotion. Zhao Shu did not dare to use the spell rashly anymore and hurriedly put the talisman in his arms.
After a while, a maid led Zhao Shu into the Nine Heavens Cloud Terrace, passed through the many corridors of the palace, and came to Liang Shuo. Jiang Ru was also standing beside him.
"Liang Zhao Fu has worked hard on the front line." Liang Shuo said, this time he was sitting upright, which was rare.
"It's not hard work." Zhao Shu felt strange. Mr. Liang sounded like he was in a superior position, as if he had ordered Zhao Shu to fight with the monsters.
Liang Shuo smiled: "I wonder if Zhao Fulian encountered any difficult monsters on the front line? Can you tell me about it?"
After Zhao Shu obtained the elixir technique, even if the other party had bad intentions, at least he had done enough to save his face, and he even used exotic beasts to pick him up in a car.
A story about the monsters and monsters seen in Yang County.
When talking about the battle outside Burial Di Valley, even Liang Shuo looked surprised: "What kind of monster can actually drive away thousands of walking corpses?"
"Ashamed, I couldn't even see the true face of the monster this time." Zhao Shu said: "According to some soldiers, the monster has a thin and hairy body, thin fingers and long claws, like an ape and a wolf. Even the evil god worshiped by the monster
, it also has the appearance of a wolf head and a human body, which has never been seen before.”
"Wolf-headed people?" Liang Shuo pondered for a moment: "At the end of Tianxia, there were dog warriors that appeared in the quicksand land in the northwest. This tribe looks like a werewolf, and the gods they worship are also wolf-headed people."
"Quirong?" Zhao Shu was secretly surprised. The land of quicksand in the northwest was more than ten thousand miles away from Huaxu Kingdom. Back then, when the martial arts of the Tianxia Dynasty was at its peak, the army stopped here.
There is no other reason. It is because the quicksand land is extremely desolate, with no grass growing, making it difficult for the army's logistics to sustain itself. Moreover, the yellow sand in the desert is blown by strong winds and flows erratically. Even the positioning of monuments can be submerged by the yellow sand overnight, making it difficult for the reconnaissance team.
The mounted scouts lost their way. Giant insects appeared under the sand dunes from time to time, devouring people and animals at every turn, making the advance difficult and difficult, and eventually they had no choice but to retreat eastward.
Zhao Shu didn't like Liang Shuo, but he had to admit that he was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, so he smiled and said: "Master Liang, you invited me here, you must not be asking about the war on the front line, right?"
Liang Shuo said in a gentle tone: "Then I'll be honest. I wonder what Zhao Fuli's future plans are after the war in Xingluo County is over?"
At the beginning, Zhao Shui still thought that if Luo Xixian could become an official through military exploits, or even take charge of a political party, he could serve as his deputy, or deal with various local disasters, and maybe he could build a branch and teach skills. But now
In this situation, even if Luo Xixian succeeds, he may not be able to support him.
"Of course I will go back to the Huaiying Hall, continue to study the techniques, and concentrate on cultivation." Zhao Miao replied calmly.
"Zhao Fuli worked hard for the country. It is good not to expect anything in return, but it also shows that our country, Huaxu, despises its heroes. In the long run, it will only make people with lofty ideals feel disappointed." Liang Shuo said: "I would like to invite Zhao Fuli to come to me.
Chongxuan Pavilion, study Taoism and Immortal Dharma extensively. In this way, we can extend our Huaxu Kingdom to Zuo, and Zhao Fu officials can also embark on the path of enlightenment. Personal achievement is consistent with the peace and stability of the country, wouldn't it be happy?"
Zhao Shu almost praised Liang Shuo's eloquence, and he guessed that Liang Shuo's statement was probably the original intention of Huaxu State's establishment of the Guanshe system.
"Young Master Liang has good intentions, but it is not appropriate now." Zhao Shu did not rush to agree: "First of all, the banditry in Xingluo County has not been quelled after all, and we can't say we are sure of victory. Secondly... my professor
My mentor is the head of the Huaiying Hall. Even if I don’t get a letter of recommendation, I will have a stable future if I stay in the Huaiying Hall. I wonder if Mr. Liang has heard of it - I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail?"
Zhao Shu's words were a test to see how much higher Liang Shuo could offer in order to win over him. If he was just going to be a lackey for the Yongjia Liang family, then Zhao Shu would not be so blind.
"I understand that Zhao Fu is worried that if he comes to my Chongxuan Hall, he will fall under the control of others and not be free." Liang Shuo said: "I will not mention the rest for now. I can guarantee that after the war in Xingluo County, I will personally serve him.
"Nine Heavenly Feixuan Purple Qi Zhenwen Baolu" allows Zhao Fuli to be given the immortal family's magic urn."
Zhao Shu couldn't help but twitch when he heard this. Liang Shuo actually moved out the treasures of the Immortal Family that had never been passed down from Chongxuan Pavilion. Even if he said it, he was shocked enough.
"Young Master Liang's words really flatter me." Zhao Miao regained his joy and said, "Let me think more about this matter. I can't agree to it now."