"You're not going to change your clothes this time?" Yu Manwen asked, looking at the imperial robe on Jiang Beiran.
Jiang Beiran nodded. "Yes, I have to talk to the sect leader as the emperor about something when I come back this time, so naturally I have to dress more formally."
After hearing this, Yu Manwen chuckled: "As an emperor, it seems that you are quite devoted to your role as emperor."
"Of course, I always do things seriously."
After hearing this, Yu Manwen was about to retort, but after careful recall, Jiang Beiran's words were indeed not false. Although his first reaction when encountering most things was to shirk, once he accepted the matter
, you will do better than anyone else.
The same goes for playing with the hall master, and the same goes for attending the Heroes Club.
"Xiao Beiran~"
Just when Yu Manwen was about to praise Jiang Beiran, a beautiful figure flew out from the main hall, and Jiang Beiran had no time to dodge before he was tackled.
In fact, it's not that Jiang Beiran can't dodge, it's just that this speed is definitely not something he, a Qi-training realm disciple, can dodge.
"We promised to come back in ten days! Why does it take so long this time!" Shi Fenglan hammered Jiang Beiran with her small fists and shouted.
"The court has been too busy recently. Didn't I write to you?" Jiang Beiran replied.
"I don't care! You promised to come back every ten days! There's no point in sending a letter!"
"Oh, then I won't send the letter next time."
"No, no, no, I want to send it, I want to send it." Shi Fenglan said and waved her hand.
After laughing, Jiang Beiran said: "This time I am boasting. I will make you a fish to compensate."
"Two, I want two!" Shi Fenglan immediately stretched out two fingers and said.
"Don't push yourself too far, just one. Eat it if you like." After speaking, Jiang Beiran looked at Yu Manwen and said, "Do you want to stay with Protector Yu to eat together?"
"I would like to try it, but my five disciples are still waiting for me." Speaking of his five disciples, Yu Manwen couldn't help but look at Jiang Beiran with his eyes for a while, but in the end there was nothing.
He said he was going out.
After going to the kitchen to cook a sumptuous meal, Jiang Beiran invited Xiaoduo and Shi Fenglan to sit around the table and start eating.
During the meal, Jiang Beiran told Shi Fenglan and the others about his life as emperor during the past two months.
"Ah? Is there anyone who still can't eat?"
When listening to Jiang Beiran talking about the lives of rural people, Shi Fenglan shouted in surprise.
"Yes, there are still people who have no clothes to wear, there are still people who don't have a house to live in, and there are still people who are sick and have to wait to die."
After swallowing the fish meat in his mouth, Shi Fenglan took out a Qiankun Ring and said: "There are a lot of treasures and silver in it, please share it with the people."
Xiaoduo on the side also took out the small purse on his waist and said: "I...although I don't have much, I can ask Brother Jiang to take it to buy some food for those people."
Looking at the Qiankun Ring and the purse in front of him, Jiang Beiran smiled and said: "I accept the offer, but if you really want to help people, you can't just use money."
"Why? Can't I buy food if I have money?" Shi Fenglan asked, tilting her head.
"The officials and gentry have many ways to defraud the money you give to the people into their own pockets. If you want to really let the people have enough to eat, there are many things that need to be changed. I came back to the clan this time for one of these things."
"What's going on? Do you want my help?" Shi Fenglan said very positively.
"No, I can handle this myself."
"Okay..." Shi Fenglan said, picking up another piece of fish and putting it in her mouth.
For her, although she knew that it was pitiful for the common people not to have food to eat, she could not imagine how pitiful they were because she had never experienced such suffering. The world she saw and the world seen by the common people were completely different.
world.
After a hearty meal, Shi Fenglan couldn't wait to take out Xia Ke Xing, ready to gamble a lot.
But Jiang Beiran waved his hand, took out a blue Qiankun Ring from his arms, and took out a brand new chessboard from it.
"You have performed well in the past two months. You have not come to the palace to make trouble, nor have you gone to the sect master to make a fuss, so I made a new betting plate for you as a reward." Jiang Beiran finished speaking and placed the "betting plate" on the table.
on the table.
"Wow!!" Shi Fenglan shouted excitedly, looking at the brand new gambling board in trance, "What is this called?"
"Huashan tournament."
After answering, Jiang Beiran took out two thick stacks of character cards and a large number of equipment and skill cards from the Qiankun Ring.
Shi Fenglan couldn't wait to grab a handful and said slowly: "Kill... flash... cake?"
"Well, now let me briefly explain to you how to gamble."
Picking up the cards one by one, Jiang Beiran began to explain the function and effect of each card in detail.
After a cup of tea passed, Shi Fenglan nodded and said: "I understand, I understand. If I take this character card of Little Dragon Girl, I will only have three drops of blood, right?"
"That's right." Jiang Beiran nodded.
"Okay! Come and bet, come and bet, I learned!"
"Where's Xiaoduo, have you learned it?"
Xiaoduo scratched his head and said, "I still don't understand something."
"It's okay, just take a gamble and you'll be able to do it."
After sending out the character cards and deciding on the rules for killing the lower ones and ensuring the upper ones, the three of them started to kill the knight for the first time.
"Kill!" "Dodge!" "Kill again!"
"Ah? Didn't it say that you can only kill one in one round?"
"If I equip the Blood Drop, I can kill without limit."
"Oh... Then I didn't dodge."
"Then the blood will be deducted."
Seeing that she had only one drop of blood left, Shi Fenglan looked at Xiaoduo and said, "Xiaoduo, do you have any cake? Help me quickly, otherwise if I lose, you will lose too."
"Oh." Xiaoduo looked at the cards in his hand, took out one of them and asked, "Is this a cake?"
"Yes, yes, that's it!" Shi Fenglan laughed and took the [cake], "I'm alive again~"
"Oh, then kill him again."
Seeing Jiang Beiran throw out another kill, Shi Fenglan's smile suddenly froze on her face, and she quickly asked Xiaoduo for help again.
But this time Xiaoduo has no more cakes, and Shi Fenglan can only be eliminated unfortunately.
"Come again, come again! This character is not great! I will pick yours next time."
…
"Thousand-jin drop! You can't use your armor to resist this killing."
"Dugu Nine Swords, guess the suit of one of my cards. If you fail to guess correctly, your blood will be forcibly deducted."
"The world has shifted! I want to transfer the damage to Xiaoduo!"
"Ah? I only have one drop of blood, miss. You will lose even if I die."
As a new moon rises, sword discussions are still taking place in the small Tinglan Waterside Pavilion on Mount Huashan.
At this time, Jiang Beiran's ears suddenly moved and he heard a knock on the door outside.
"I'll open the door." Xiaoduo said and jumped off the table.
Jiang Bei then took out a piece of cloth and covered the cards on the table.
With a "squeak" sound, the door was opened, and Yu Manwen led his five young apprentices into the courtyard.
The five people looked here and there, looking for any trace of their senior brother.
When they met their senior brother just now, their minds went blank because they were so unexpected. After they calmed down, they began to wonder why the senior brother came to Hall Master Shi. You must know that most disciples can't even enter Shuijing Hall.
It's hard to get in, let alone the Hall Master's Mansion.
During the practice, they wanted to ask Master several times, but they still didn't ask.
Because they all felt that Master would most likely not answer them.
'Senior brother is really mysterious...'
As Shuijing Hall disciples, they know how difficult it is to see their own hall master. Many hall masters in the sect are turned away when they come to see them, but senior brother is the exception.
Entering the hall respectfully, Liu Zijin and the other five saluted Shi Fenglan, who was sitting in the master's seat, and said, "Master."
"Yes." Shi Fenglan nodded, "There is no need to take a medicinal bath today. Just go to the side hall to meditate. We will be here shortly."
Liu Zijin and the other five were a little surprised to hear that there was no need for medicated baths today, because ever since their master brought them to seek advice from the hall master, taking medicated baths every day has been a compulsory course for them.
"Yes, Hall Master."
Without asking any further questions, the five of them bowed and walked toward the side hall in a familiar manner.
When Liu Zijin and the others walked away, Yu Manwen looked at Shi Fenglan and said, "Master, did you forget to prepare a medicinal bath?"
Shi Fenglan couldn't help but tremble after hearing this, and said with some embarrassment: "Hey, Xiao Beiran brought new gambling equipment back, it's fun! So..."
"Medicated baths must be taken every day. You should..."
"Oh~ I understand, I'm going to prepare now, Xiaoduo, let's go."
"Hey, wait, where are the others?" Yu Manwen asked, looking at the entire hall.
Shi Fenglan did not answer directly, but quietly pointed to the back hall with her finger.
Yu Manwen nodded in understanding and went to the side hall to look after her five apprentices.
When Shi Fenglan was preparing for her medicinal bath, Jiang Beiran suddenly appeared at the door and asked, "Are those five your apprentices too?"
Shi Fenglan, who was using Xuan Qi to stimulate the dispersion of medicinal spiritual energy in the bathtub, replied: "No, I'm just helping Man Wen."
After twitching his nose twice, Jiang Beiran smelled the smell in the bathtub.
'Good guy, Jinyangzhi, Tianyuan Fruit, Bodhi Flower... they are all the best medicinal materials. The eldest lady is the eldest lady... too luxurious.'
With a sigh in his heart, Jiang Beiran asked: "The bathtub is full of spiritual materials to repair the body, and they are injured every day?"
"No." Shi Fenglan nodded, "Others practice hard, but the five of them work hard. They use up their bodies to practice every day. When fighting against Manwen, she also told her not to hold back. Sometimes, her body
There were several internal injuries, and I was so moved by their efforts that I gave them such good medicinal materials."
"Huh~" Shi Fenglan exhaled and walked to the next tub and said, "I don't know why they are so desperate. It's really rare."
Jiang Beiran was silent for a moment after hearing this, then walked into the room and said, "You are wasting the spiritual power contained in these medicinal materials. You should crush them first...Give me the Tianyuan Fruit."
Shi Fenglan was stunned when she heard this, and looked at Jiang Beiran with some surprise. She was not surprised that Jiang Beiran knew about medicinal materials, but she was surprised that Jiang Beiran would take the initiative to help.
"Do you also know Manwen's five disciples?" Shi Fenglan asked curiously.
"Well, that's right." Jiang Beiran said, taking the Tianyuan Fruit from Shi Fenglan and starting to grind it.
Seeing Jiang Beiran carefully preparing the medicinal ingredients, Shi Fenglan was surprised at his proficiency and curious about their relationship.
"Xiao Beiran~ If I get injured while practicing Qigong one day, will you also help me prepare medicinal materials~"
"No." Jiang Beiran replied without hesitation.
"Hmm!!!" Shi Fenglan's cheeks suddenly bulged, "Why!"
"Because you ask boring questions."
"Ugh..." Shi Fenglan knew that she could not ask any more questions, so she could only squat and watch Jiang Beiran process all the medicinal materials in different ways and put them into a blue cloth bag.
"This is ready, put it in the bathtub." Jiang Beiran handed the bag to Shi Fenglan and said.
After working on a stick of incense for a while, Jiang Beiran left the room directly after processing all the medicinal materials.
He knew very well why Liu Zijin and the other five were so desperate. In fact, what he originally thought was that when the five of them saw Qing Ce's cultivation, they would regret it and retreat, but he never thought that they would rise to the challenge.
, fight to this point.
This still touched him a little.
'Tsk, it seems that I need to get more high-quality elixirs and exercises for Qingce later, but don't really let them catch up.'
Seeing that the time was almost up, Jiang Beiran did not stay any longer and left Shuijingtang and returned to Tianyun Peak again.
Arriving at the sect master's mansion, this time, Moman told Jiang Beiran that the sect master had come back and had learned about what he had come to see, so he could just go directly to the central hall after he came.
After thanking the two gentlemen, Jiang Beiran arrived at the middle hall with ease and saw Sect Leader Lu sitting in the master's seat drinking tea.
"Disciple Jiang Beiran pays homage to the sect leader." Jiang Beiran stood outside the hall and saluted the sect leader.
Putting down the tea cup, Lu Yinlong took a look at Jiang Beiran's imperial robe and said, "Come in."
"Thank you, Sect Master."
When Jiang Beiran came up to him, Lu Yinlong asked, "I heard that you had some minor friction with the Lei Ming Sect?"
‘It came here so quickly!?’
Jiang Beiran was a little surprised. What happened a few days ago has actually been spread to Guixin Sect. This was obviously intentional.
Putting aside his surprise, Jiang Beiran replied: "Yes, the disciple had some minor conflicts with the subordinate families of Lei Ming Sect."
"Hahaha, a little conflict?" Lu Yinlong laughed a few times after hearing this: "How is it? Isn't it hard to be the emperor?"
"Thanks to Sect Leader Hongfu, everything went smoothly."
"Smooth things are a matter of the people. Once it involves the sect, although Sect Leader Guan will take good care of you, if this happens again and again, you will inevitably run into some trouble."
"Disciple understands." Jiang Beiran cupped his hands, "To be honest with the sect master, this disciple came back this time to discuss this matter with you."
After hearing this, Lu Yinlong couldn't help but feel a hint of disappointment on his face. He had always felt that Jiang Beiran was a very clever disciple, but it was really stupid that he would come back to bring him as a reinforcement for such a trivial matter.
But before Lu Yinlong could think of how to reprimand Jiang Beiran, he heard Jiang Beiran say: "When the disciple comes back this time, he is sure to make Lulin County the most populous county in Fengzhou. He just needs the help of the sect leader.