At five o'clock in the morning, when it was still dark, the sound of drums opening the four gates of Bianjing woke up Kou Ji.
Kou Ji yawned, stretched, and slowly opened his eyes.
Then, he saw a candle burning in front of the bed, and ghost-like faces staring at him with glaring eyes.
"Fuck!"
Kou Ji was startled, turned over suddenly, and shrank to the corner of the bed.
When he saw those ghostly faces clearly, he was stunned.
He knew Kou Zhun and Wang Shu.
He didn't know any of the remaining people.
They were all over forty years old and had many wrinkles on their faces. Under the dim candlelight, they looked sometimes black and sometimes white, making them look like ghosts.
"Grandpa, uncle, you guys stay up in the middle of the night and come out pretending to be ghosts to scare people?"
Kou Zhun glared at Kou Ji and sighed: "You lit a fire and scared me and others so much that they couldn't sleep, but you slept soundly."
Kou Ji was stunned and said in confusion: "I didn't do anything."
Kou Zhun glanced at him and said angrily: "The reason for the elixir has already made me worried and sleepless. What else do you want to do?"
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and said blankly: "Don't you always believe it?"
Kou Zhun sighed: "I don't want to believe it either..."
Kou Jili was happy, "You still believe it..."
Kou Zhun frowned slightly and said calmly: "Are you making fun of me?"
Kou Ji hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, just believe it, just believe it. Don't take the elixir from now on. Later I will think of a way to recuperate your body, and maybe it can clear out the erysipelas."
However, don't tell anyone about this, or you'll get into big trouble.
You go back to sleep, and I will sleep a little longer."
While talking, Kou Ji went to bed, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
Kou Zhun's faint voice sounded in Kou Ji's ears.
"Isn't it a little late to say this now?"
Kou Ji slowly sat up and said dejectedly: "If I had known that I would get into trouble, I wouldn't have said anything."
Kou Ji was not stupid. From the moment he saw Kou Zhun, Wang Shu, and a few more unknown people, he knew he was in trouble.
Especially the unknown person at the head was actually on an equal footing with Kou Zhun.
It is not easy to know the identities of several other people without guessing.
Almost all of them are important ministers in the court.
Of course, he would not naively think that these important ministers stayed up at night and came to his room specially to admire his majestic appearance while sleeping.
Obviously, Kou Zhun revealed the poisonous elixir.
Trouble has also come to your door.
Just now he wanted to try it out to see if he could get away with it.
Now it seems that I can't get over it.
Kou Zhun heard Kou Ji's frustrated words and said angrily: "You still want to deceive me about such a big thing?"
Kou Ji glanced at him and said with a pout, "If I lie to you, I won't tell the truth."
Kou Zhun snorted coldly, "I guess you have some filial piety."
After saying that, Kou Zhun pointed at Li Di and others and said, "Would you like me to introduce you to them?"
Kou Ji shook his head.
He found his clothes on the corner of the bed, put them on tightly, and tied up his long hair.
Got out of bed.
He walked up to Li Di and bowed to salute.
"Kou Ji, I have met Grandpa Li..."
Li Di was stunned, and everyone present was also stunned.
Kou Zhun raised the corners of his mouth proudly, "Don't underestimate this kid, he is very smart. He must have guessed your identities."
Everyone was stunned and nodded.
Li Di waved his hand calmly and said: "No need to be polite, just get up."
Kou Ji did not stand up, but still stood with a bow.
Li Di raised his eyebrows with a puzzled look on his face.
Seeing this, Kou Zhun laughed loudly, "Li Di, Li Di, I finally got my revenge. Back then, you tricked me into going to your house and asked your grandson to come out to see me. I went out in a hurry and didn't bring any greeting gifts. Shame.
I have to be shameless in your Li Mansion..."
Kou Zhun froze mid-sentence.
Then his eyes widened.
He saw Li Di put his hand into his sleeve and took out a book.
Li Di glanced at Kou Zhun contemptuously and handed the book to Kou Ji, "Meeting gift..."
Kou Ji saw it was a book and was stunned.
Before he had time to think of contempt, he heard Kou Zhun lost his voice and said: "Brother Xian, isn't your gift a bit expensive?"
Li Di said calmly: "Some things always have to be passed on."
Kou Zhun shook his head and said: "Even if it has to be passed on, it should be passed on to your descendants of the Li family."
Kou Zhun and Li Di's confused words made Kou Ji confused.
It’s just a book. It doesn’t look like an ancient book. How can it be so valuable?
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Kou Ji's mind, and he thought of something.
Rumor has it that civil servants in ancient times had something similar to their natal object.
Or it could be a bald pen, or a book, or even an ordinary stone.
But they are very important to civil servants.
Civil servants will regard them as their lives and let them accompany them throughout their lives.
The book Li Di handed over is probably the legendary natal object, right?
That's really valuable.
Seeing that Li Di was still exchanging blame with Kou Zhun.
Kou Ji broke the deadlock by speaking.
I saw him smiling and saying: "I think the jade pendant on Grandpa Li's waist is good."
Everyone present was stunned when they heard this.
Most people shook their heads secretly, feeling that Kou Ji was short-sighted.
Only Kou Zhun and Li Di breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Di took off the jade pendant from his waist, threw it to Kou Ji, and sighed: "You kid, you have no eyesight, you only recognize these ordinary things."
Kou Ji took the jade pendant and said with a smile: "There's nothing bad about Aduwu...it's light enough..."
The three words "It's light enough" are full of profound meaning.
Li Di was stunned and looked at Kou Ji meaningfully.
He turned back to Kou Zhun and said: "He is a character..."
Kou Zhun was happy in his heart, but he said disdainfully: "This bullshit guy is just a little clever."
Kou Ji successively met Wang Zeng, Yang Yi and others.
Wang Zeng's identity is easy to guess, but the identities of Yang Yi and others are difficult to guess.
So when facing Yang Yi and others, Kou Ji hesitated.
Wang Shu seemed to notice Kou Ji's embarrassment and introduced him one by one.
They also gave Kou Ji a meeting gift respectively.
Most of them are gold, silver, jade and the like.
The most precious one among them is undoubtedly Li Di’s jade pendant.
Although Li Di's jade pendant is not valuable, it was carved by his own hands.
If Li Di had not chosen the scroll as his natal object, this jade pendant would probably have become his natal object.
Of course, friendship is priceless and should not be measured by value.
After paying a visit.
Li Di said in a deep voice: "Is it time to talk about business?"
Kou Zhun nodded.
Wang Shu couldn't hold back his curiosity for a long time, and he immediately asked: "Kou Ji, are you really good at refining elixirs?"
Kou Ji put away the greeting gift he had just received and said with a smile: "It will happen...but..."
"But what?"
"However, it's not that easy for you to ask me to refine the elixir. We have to make an agreement in three chapters!"