Chapter eight hundred and twenty-fifth: seeing An Qigong in person, eating dates are as big as melons
In the afternoon of the next day, Ma Zhou appeared in Prince Qi's Mansion with pale cheeks and a bleak expression. He forcibly wore the fur on his body to create an effect of being invincible, which made all the servants in Prince Qi's Mansion feel... He was pointing behind his back in surprise, and Qi King Li Yuanji was even more shocked when they met.
"Prince Bin, what's wrong with you?"
"Well……"
King Ma Zhou and Ma Bin looked at Qi King Li Yuanji's face that showed concern but always gave people a sense of gloating over misfortunes, and struggled to squeeze out a slightly bitter smile.
"It's nothing. I just accidentally caught the cold last night..."
After saying that, Ma Zhou coughed twice, and then turned to care about Li Yuanji.
"It's very cold at night in Chang'an now. Your Highness must be careful, otherwise it's not a joke if the heater suddenly goes out at night. Your Highness, you'll know just by looking at me."
"Oh! So this is the reason for you, Prince Bin..."
After hearing Ma Zhou's words, Li Yuanji let out a disappointed sigh, and then continued.
"I thought you went to Pingkangfang to find those girls last night, and you found several of them at once... I was planning to give you a few words of advice to Prince Bin, telling you not to follow the example of Prince Gu if you are not feeling well, too. It’s not good for your health to force yourself!”
"..."
Ma Zhou held a piece of hard paper in his sleeve pocket with his hand and silently raised his head to glance at Li Yuanji.
What nonsense are you talking about!
Can a woman with average speech compare to a goddess? If you meet a goddess... By the way! I have forgotten that your experience of meeting a goddess is different from that of someone. You have successfully embraced a beautiful woman. You are I was almost beaten to death by the beauty.
"Your Highness is joking..."
After Ma Zhou dealt with it casually, he continued.
"By the way, did you meet the gods again last night?"
"certainly!"
Speaking of this matter, Li Yuanji's face suddenly became elated.
"Last night, Duke An Qi took Gu Gu to visit the scenery in Penglai. He also said that Gu Gu was very destined to be an immortal. He wanted to take Gu Gu as his disciple and teach him the way to immortality."
"Oh, is it so……"
After hearing Li Yuanji's words, Ma Zhou's face immediately showed a sincere smile from the bottom of his heart.
"Then I would like to congratulate Your Highness on being able to live forever!"
"Hi!"
Li Yuanji looked complacent and waved his hands as if to show off.
"Although An Qi Gong had this intention, can Gu leave friends like you and Yuwen Xiandi, Prince Bin, to become immortals by themselves? So Gu directly refused, and An Qi Gong was even angry with Gu because of this matter. , I told Immortal Lord Wang Gang on the spot that I would come to Chang'an and personally wake up Gu Gu, a scoundrel who, although he has immortal bones, is stubborn and does not know how to make progress!"
"Your Highness..."
As soon as Li Yuanji finished speaking, he saw tears of emotion already appearing in Ma Zhou's eyes. He clasped his hands into fists and immediately clasped his hands to the ground.
"You actually gave up the opportunity to become an immortal for me...how can I repay this kind of kindness and friendship!"
"Prince Bin, get up quickly!"
After seeing Ma Zhou's actions, Li Yuanji's eyes flashed with a look of pride. He stretched out his hand, helped Ma Zhou up, who was bowing, and then said it pretending to be unintentional.
"Although you and I are called monarchs and ministers, we are actually like brothers. How can I bear to leave you and go into the mountains with my hair hanging loose? Besides, you and I, monarchs and ministers, agreed to do something big together, but now the matter has not been done. How could you just let it go!"
"Your Highness!"
Ma Zhou looked at Li Yuanji with tears in his eyes, and his voice was a little slurred.
"I, King Ma Bin, must make His Highness devote himself to the utmost until he dies..."
"You are serious! You are serious..."
Li Yuanji was very satisfied and stretched out his hand to help Ma Zhou up.
"Prince Bin, don't worry. As long as I, Li Yuanji, am alive for one day, I will be as rich as you, Prince Ma Bin. If such a day comes, you, Prince Ma Bin, will be Gu's prime minister!"
After a brief exchange of sympathy between the monarch and his ministers, Li Yuanji said to Ma Zhou with a somewhat showy look.
"By the way! Tomorrow night, the thousand-year-old An Qisheng and Tianmenzi Wang Gang will come to Chang'an to persuade Gu to follow them into the mountains to practice Taoism. Although Gu has ambitions in the world of mortals, etiquette is indispensable. He must have a banquet to entertain them. Gu
I want to bring you, Prince Bin, to accompany you, which can be regarded as your immortal destiny. I don’t know what your wishes are, Prince Bin!"
"ah!"
After hearing these words, Ma Zhou immediately clasped his fists with both hands and lowered them to the ground again.
"Your Highness is so kind, how can I repay you..."
…
In the afternoon of the next day, after recuperating for a day and night, Ma Zhou's complexion had become much better. He once again arrived at the residence of Qi King Li Yuanji in a carriage. Before entering the hall, he looked casual.
He looked at a servant who was standing in the corridor with his hands hanging down. With a gentle smile on his face, he nodded towards him.
"How's it going? Is everything okay?"
After hearing his words, the servant immediately nodded and bowed his head and replied.
"Thank you sir for your concern, everything is fine!"
"Um!"
Ma Zhou nodded, then walked into the hall as usual, and bowed to Qi King Li Yuanji, who was sitting in the middle of the hall, feeling a little restless.
"Your Highness, someone is here!"
"Prince Bin..."
After seeing Ma Zhou appear, Qi King Li Yuanji, who had dressed up deliberately, immediately stood up from his seat and walked towards him quickly.
"You're here at the right time. Come and help me see if Gu's palace can welcome the true immortal now?"
Ma Zhou raised his head and looked towards the hall of the palace. He found that after just one day and one night, the hall of the palace had already become completely new. Not only had it been specially cleaned, but the carpets on the floor and the tapestries on the walls had also been replaced.
All the curtains and other things were replaced with brand new ones, and the lights and candles all around were also new. The best candles were lit, and they were shining brightly.
On the tables inside the hall, fine fruits such as Yumen tribute dates, wine from the Western Regions, and other kinds of food have been prepared. It looks really dazzling.
"I think that this arrangement by His Highness is enough even for entertaining the Emperor of Heaven!"
"Prince Bin, your vision is too low..."
As soon as Ma Zhou finished speaking, he saw Li Yuanji had already waved his hand and said with a sigh.
"Before, Gu Ye thought that the furnishings of his palace were pretty good, but these days when I visited Penglai Mountain and saw the courtyard palace where An Qi Gong and the others usually lived, I realized that this place was simply too shabby... But no
The solution is that the human world is just like this, so you can just do your best alone!"
"..."
Ma Zhou blinked silently.
Since Li Yuanji knows that you have tried your best, what do you mean by asking me how the decoration of this hall is? Are you just waiting for me to praise you and then ridicule that I have no experience in the world?
If I weren't really an undercover agent, I would have stopped serving a bad guy like you!
While Li Yuanji, who was a little restless, was waiting anxiously, it was the second watch in the evening. Li Yuanji and Ma Zhou, who were standing outside the hall door, saw bursts of white clouds billowing up in the southwest sky, rolling straight towards the palace.
Coming. As the white clouds got closer and closer, the two of them could vaguely hear the music of flutes and drums and the sound of people shouting and horses neighing in the clouds.
When the white clouds reached the sky above the palace, Li Yuanji and Ma Zhou looked up and saw countless immortals and fairies vaguely visible in the clouds, holding various utensils in their hands, clustered around a man wearing a crane cloak and leaning on a chair.
Next to an old man wearing a quinoa staff and a man with an Eguan Bo belt, who looked like an immortal from afar.
"Prince Bin, look quickly!"
Li Yuanji's face was filled with excitement, and he lowered his voice and said to Ma Zhou.
"The old man wearing a crane cloak is Duke An Qi, and the one next to him is Immortal Lord Wang Gang. They were the ones accompanying me when I visited Penglai during this time..."
Amidst Li Yuanji's words, An Qisheng and Wang Gang were seen riding on white clouds, floating down from the sky, and landed in front of the hall of Prince Qi's Mansion, slightly arching their hands towards Li Yuanji.
"King Qi..."
The first person to speak was the somewhat long-faced Immortal Lord Wang Gang.
"Thanks to your warm invitation, I and Mr. An Qi are also a little restless, so they came here specially to be your guests!"
Unlike the gentle and enthusiastic Immortal Lord Wang Gang, An Qisheng, who was standing on the other side, nodded to Li Yuanji arrogantly, with a slightly sullen look on his face.
"King Qi is polite!"
Although An Qisheng was not very polite, Li Yuanji, who had always had a bad temper, seemed to have changed his temper. Not only did he not show it, but he stepped forward and bowed respectfully, ushered the two of them into the hall, and sat down at the main seat.
Then he led Ma Zhou to kneel down and salute, and after saying hello, he sat down in his seat.
"I received a lot of hospitality from the two Immortal Lords in Penglai some time ago. I'm here to repay you a favor today!"
At this time, Li Yuanji showed a warm gesture that he didn't even have when facing his own father, and said respectfully to An Qisheng and Wang Gang.
"But Chang'an is a troubled world after all. It cannot be compared with Penglai Fairyland. Please don't dislike it..."
"Um!"
An Qisheng still had a sullen look on his face, and he lightly glanced at the melons, dates and other fruits that Li Yuanji had prepared for them, frowned slightly, and said in an old tone.
"How can such fruit serve guests..."
As he spoke, An Qisheng waved his hand, and several dates larger than a human fist appeared on the table, as well as several melons as big as vases.
"These are some dates from the Underworld and plums from Zhongshan. King Qi, cut them up and taste them separately!"
"King Qi..."
After seeing An Qisheng take out the fruits, Wang Gang on the side already explained with a smile.
"This is what you wanted to eat when you traveled to Penglai. This time An Qigong brought it to you specially. Don't look at his ugly expression now. It's just that he is still angry that you don't want to become an immortal.
That’s all.”
"..."
Seeing the interaction between them, Ma Zhou on the side blinked silently.
When he heard Qingwei say that An Qisheng and Wang Gang planned to secretly control Li Yuanji to take revenge on him, he still didn't quite believe it. After all, An Qisheng was a famous god. How could he deal with Qingwei, who was less than twenty years old?
Why do people need to use such despicable methods?
But now looking at Wang Gang's attitude, he somewhat believes it!
For a famous god to be so affectionate to a person like Li Yuanji, this is definitely a sign of being courteous for nothing, and is either an adulterer or a thief!
"Mr. An Qi, I'm here to introduce you!"
Just when Ma Zhou was thinking wildly, Li Yuanji on the side had already introduced An Qisheng and the others very affectionately.
"This is Gu's right-hand man, King Ma Zhou of Ma Bin. Master Pan Shizheng from the Shangqing sect showed him his face and said that he is worthy of a prime minister..."
After hearing what Li Yuanji said, Ma Zhou immediately left his seat and bowed down respectfully.