Zhao Ran returned to Baoyue Villa. The place he chose to stay permanently was a single-family two-story building by Mochou Lake. He stood by the railing and faced the quiet lake under the moonlight, carefully clarifying his thoughts.
There are a lot of things going on in the past two days, one is the marriage with Hongze Lake, the other is investigating the case of the two thieves Chunfeng Guanyun, and the other is the emperor's appointment as a heir apparent.
Especially the emperor's appointment of a prince. If what Feng Bao said is true, then the emperor immediately ordered Yang Yiqing to come forward and ask the ministers about their impressions of the two princes after King Jing's bones were set. The meaning is worth pondering.
It is obvious that the Taoist sect does not allow qualified princes to ascend the throne, but you still go to consult the ministers for their opinions. What exactly do you want to do? Are you deliberately provoking the authority of the Taoist sect? Or do you think that the Taoist sect has given up the concubine rights of the three provinces?
So you can get more?
A flying talisman was sent out, and soon after he received a reply from Dongfang Li: "We are doing well in dealing with Prince Yu's Mansion. If we keep it up, we may not need to be so cautious."
After receiving this flying talisman, Zhao Ran thought for a long time and shook his head.
It suddenly occurred to him that he had started to consider these important matters concerning the world. He then smiled to himself. If the sky fell, there would be a tall man to hold it up. Let him go!
So he put aside his thoughts for the time being and returned to his room to continue practicing. After entering the realm of the Archmage two days ago, he began the steps of warming up his spiritual consciousness. After nearly half a year, the rich merit power stored in the sea of qi began to be refined again.
A big difference between the practice of merit power and the practice of spiritual power is that it does not take a lot of time to breathe in and refine. Jingyuan transforms merit power very quickly. After getting up early every day, or before going to bed late,
With one or two sticks of incense, you can complete the entire day's practice, and you can even do it at the same time while eating.
The biggest limitation comes from the limited amount of Jing Yuan. Otherwise, Zhao Ran is convinced that if his merit power is sufficient, such as when fighting the drought last year, he could complete the practice of the Golden Core Realm in three days.
He had been busy all day today and hadn't had time to do his homework, so Zhao Ran took a basin of hot water and soaked his feet first - soaking your feet in hot water in the winter is really an indescribable enjoyment. He practiced while soaking his feet, waiting for them to soak
I feel comfortable and I have finished my homework for today.
After completing it, I looked inside and realized that the remaining merit power was probably enough for me to practice for half a year. After these merit powers were exhausted, the nourishment of the spiritual consciousness could be stabilized, and perhaps four points of the entire warming process could be completed.
one.
With a pinch of magic with two fingers, he caught the water basin in the air, opened the door and poured it downstairs...
There was a sudden roar downstairs: "Who is so wicked... Oh, it turns out to be the Taoist priest, haha, what, it's so quiet at night, it turns out that the Taoist priest can't sleep, haha..."
Zhao Ran leaned on the railing and asked doubtfully: "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
Yuyang smiled apologetically and said, "I'm practicing. I disturbed the Taoist Master's rest. It's Xiaoxiu's fault, so I should apologize to the Taoist Master..."
"How did you reach my downstairs in cultivation?"
"I'm sorry, Xiao Xiu has been walking around the lake for the third time. I didn't expect the Taoist priest to come back."
"Walking around? What kind of skill is this?"
"You need to eat the essence of the moon to make up for the lack of yang energy. This is Xiao Xiu's ancestral technique!"
"Who is your father?"
"Forehead……?"
"Save it, let's return it to our ancestors... Haha! What's the name of this technique?"
"The name of the exercise is Yang..."
"Okay, okay, stop making trouble and go back to rest. Okay, see you tomorrow."
The door closed with a "bang", and Yuyang downstairs rolled his tongue and licked the water drops on his nose: "A bit salty?"
After staying at Baoyue Villa for two days, Zhao Ran met Ehuang and Nvying who came from Hongze Lake.
Ehuang is Duck Xiaoqi, and Nvying is Fox Xiaojiu.
The matter involved the marriage between the Zongsheng Hall and Hongze Lake. Zhao Ran valued these two spirit demons who were willing to share the same husband, and decided to personally prepare a delicious meal to entertain the two goddaughters of the Lord of Hongze.
, this is his best skill. After a meal, no matter what the spirit monster is, he will basically be submissive.
But after the two men entered Baoyue Villa and paid their respects to Zhao Ran, they quickly followed Yuyang towards the woods near the lake.
Chasing after the three of them, he shouted: "You go to the lake and come back early, I'll cook a barbecue dinner for you!"
When it was almost time for lunch, Zhao Ran took out various ingredients and utensils, found a beautiful scenery by the lake, and set up a barbecue stall.
While grilling and eating, admiring the lake view, it felt quite pleasant. When it was almost done, Zhao Ran walked towards the dense forest and greeted these restless guys to eat. After entering, he pinched his nose and backed out...
…
Wait another hour, return to the dense forest, hold your nose again and exit, and so on.
When he entered for the third time, Zhao Ran saw Duck Xiaoqi and Fox Xiaojiu lying limply on the ground, as well as Yuyang sleeping soundly.
In the end, he had no choice but to sigh and taste the food at the barbecue stall by himself, admiring the red sunset in winter while eating.
Duck Xiaoqi and Fox Xiaojiu settled down at Baoyue Villa, and it was said that they planned to stay there until after the Lantern Festival, to spend the New Year's Eve with Yuyang, and to prevent him from feeling lonely in a foreign land.
In response, Yuyang said that he really missed home.
Zhao Ran's idea is that the southeast is a place of humanity after all, and even these demon cultivators know that they are celebrating the New Year. It's not like when he was in Songfan a few years ago, and he had to catch the demons himself to get rid of those rabbits and tigers.
Catch monkeys and other things together to celebrate the New Year with yourself.
Thinking about it again, before I know it, it will be six years again...
In the blink of an eye, another year has passed. Dongfang Li brought the Ma family casual cultivator back to the capital. Zhao Ran received the news that after inspection by the Ma family casual cultivator, the two thieves Chunfeng and Guanyun were not poisoned, so
There is no possibility of being controlled by others and doing things that you are not even aware of.
It is said that during the inspection process, the two thieves really suffered a lot, which also made Zhao Ran full of curiosity about Miao Dong's necromancy passed down from ancient times.
Since there is no poison, let's start the second step of the interrogation, which is Zhao Ran's suggestion: boil the eagle.
It takes time to survive the eagle, so Zhao Ran continued to wait for news at Baoyue Villa.
On the night of New Year's Eve, the housekeeper of Baoyue Villa prepared a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. Zhao Ran and three spirit demons gathered downstairs by the lake to start watching the New Year's Eve.
The three spirit monsters all looked cute and not vicious, so the stewards and servants were very willing to join in, so Zhao Ran simply invited them to have dinner together. The villa purchased a lot of firecrackers and fireworks, and everyone just set them off.
, while chatting, the New Year atmosphere was pretty good.
During the banquet, Zhao Ran introduced Sichuan, Songfan, and Dajun Mountain to Ya Xiaoqi and Hu Xiaojiu. On behalf of the Zongsheng Hall, he expressed a warm welcome to the two Ehuang women who were about to move in, and gave instructions to their family of three.
Live in harmony and create a civilized family together.
Hu Xiaojiu said: "Thank you very much, Taoist priest. I think it will be very interesting to come to Songfan. After all, there are so many comrades together. Speaking of which, I also went to Sichuan back then and stayed there for half a year. I have a deep understanding of Sichuan.
I still like it, so Taoist priest, don’t worry, I’ll be able to adapt after I go there.”
Ya Xiaoqi asked: "Xiaojiu, when did you go to Sichuan?"