After celebrating Yan Zhilan's birthday that day, it seemed that something had quietly changed between the two of them.

I don't know if it's because of Qi Jing's presence, but the pill core in Yan Zhilan's body is very obedient and quiet, and even the puppet array on his body shows no sign of being activated.After a long time, Qi Jing almost forgot all about this, and Qi Wangshan suddenly left the government affairs to him again. It was the end of the year, and he was so busy that he was devastated and miserable.

"A palace banquet?"

Qi Jing rubbed the center of his brows wearily, he almost forgot that on New Year's Eve, there will be a big banquet in the palace to reward all the heads of the family.On the one hand, it is to win people's hearts, and on the other hand, it is also to show the majesty of Jun's kindness.

This year is the first new year of the new king's accession to the throne, and it is also the first palace banquet, so it must be more grand than before.

Qi Jing flipped through the long and dense list and felt a headache, so he asked Fuyou for help: "Uncle You..."

Fuyou added a cup of hot tea for him, put it in his hand, shook his head and said, "The palace banquets are always arranged by your majesty, so I can't help you with that."

Qi Jing glanced at Yan Zhilan again, Yan Zhilan was sitting on the soft bed reading a book, his expression was focused, and he didn't notice his gaze.

Qi Jing averted his eyes wearily, this one was even more hopeless.

It's called a palace banquet, and it's said to be a reward for all the hardworking patriarchs, but it's definitely not that simple.

It was the first time for Qi Jing to take charge of such a big event by himself, and it would be a lie to say that he was not excited.However, after he racked his brains for two or three days and couldn't come up with anything new, he gave up on himself and ordered everything to be done according to the old rules.

Fuyou agreed without any surprise, as if he had expected this result a long time ago.

Qi Jing looked at his faintly smiling eyes, feeling a little annoyed for some reason, and when he was about to go down to make arrangements, he stopped him again: "Uncle You, wait a minute."

Fuyou turned around and looked at him a little dotingly: "What else does your majesty want?"

He has always called Qi Jing by his first name, Ah Jing, and only occasionally calls him Jun Shang when he is talking about business or making jokes.

How could Qi Jing not know that the other party was deliberately teasing him, he snorted angrily: "Uncle You!"

Fuyou patted his head as before: "Okay, what A Jing wants to ask, just tell Uncle You directly."

Qi Jing frowned and said: "A few days ago, I looked through the palace banquets of the past few years, and found that the banquets were all high-ranking or elderly people, and there were no young children. Why?"

Fuyou pondered for a moment, then said: "I don't know much about this either. I have never paid much attention to the state affairs of the Great Moon Kingdom. If you want to know, I will check it out."

Qi Jing naturally knew that Fu You only had him in his eyes.If he wasn't the king of the Great Moon Kingdom, he would always have to guard against his diet being tampered with, Fuyou wouldn't even bother to intervene in palace affairs.

Qi Jing shook his head and said: "Uncle You, don't bother. I just suddenly had an idea, let me tell Uncle You first, I don't know if it will work."

Fuyou nodded, motioning for him to continue talking.

Qi Jing carefully considered his words and said slowly: "Since the palace banquets in the past were only invited to some old people, I want to make some changes in this year's palace banquet. Young talents and outstanding elites of the aristocratic family, come together. What do you think, Uncle You?"

After thinking for a while, Fuyou understood what he meant, that he wanted to start cultivating his own power.

He said noncommittally: "Whatever Ah Jing wants, you just need to do it according to your own heart."

Seeing that he had no objection, Qi Jing confessed another idea of ​​his own: "Beyond this, I also want to amnesty the world and recruit talents regardless of seniority or inferiority."

Fuyou frowned slightly: "No distinction between superiority and inferiority?"

Yan Zhilan, who had been reading a book next to him in silence, looked this way, met Fuyou's eyes, and nodded slightly.

Qi Jing didn't notice the eye contact between the two at all, and his eyes were bright: "Yes! Now the big aristocratic families stick to the rules and are stubborn. Select a group of insightful people from the monks to inject new blood into the decaying family, let them know that there is still a mountain, and it is not just that they can do whatever they want as long as they occupy the position of the family. At the same time, it can also give those who are full of complaints Let’s take a look at the ordinary monks, status does not mean everything, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, anything is possible..."

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and the more excited he was, he didn't see the increasingly complicated eyes of Fuyou and Yan Zhilan.

He finished speaking in one breath, looking at Fuyou expectantly, waiting for his affirmation.

Unexpectedly, Fuyou smiled bitterly: "Jing, you are too naive to think."

Qi Jing was slightly taken aback: "Why?"

Fuyou said: "Don't say that this huge whole country, even the Xia family with only a few hundred people, is strictly hierarchical, and the status of the lord is unshakable. What's more, it is the big moon that is entrenched by the aristocratic family? The hardships are not Anything you can imagine."

Qi Jing said unconvinced: "What if I can do it?"

Fuyou shook his head: "Don't say anything else, just one thing - to recruit talented people. Are you sure that there are common monks who dare to apply?"

"Why not?" Qi Jing tilted his head, eyes full of confusion, "If you can change your own destiny, why not?"

Fuyou sighed: "Ah Jing, not everyone has the courage to put all their eggs in one basket and be willing to make changes. Most people just shrink into their own shells and live their lives mediocrely."

Qi Jing was stunned, this was really something he didn't expect.He originally thought that everyone would be like him, as long as there was a chance, they would do everything possible to seize it, never admit defeat, never give up until the last moment.

However, he was still a little reconciled: "How will you know the result if you don't try?"

Fuyou patted him on the shoulder: "If Ah Jing wants to do it, then go ahead and do it. No matter what, Uncle You will be with you."

Qi Jing nodded heavily: "Uncle You, wait!"

He was expressing his determination boldly, when Yan Zhilan suddenly said, "How to select?"

Qi Jing paused, he scratched his head: "I haven't thought of this yet, think about it in the long run, think about it in the long run..."

There was a smile in Fuyou's eyes, he turned and walked out: "I'll go and ask how to prepare for the Jinzhu Palace banquet first."

Seeing his figure walking out of the palace gate, Qi Jing turned around and asked Yan Zhilan, "What do you think?"

Yan Zhilan quietly flipped through the book in his hand: "I don't know."

Qi Jing didn't expect to say anything good from him, but when he saw his indifferent appearance of not paying attention to anything, he was inexplicably depressed, and flew over to grab the book in his hand: " What are you looking at so engrossed? Show me!"

Yan Zhilan sideways dodges, Qi Jing has nothing to do, and then changes direction to grab.

During the fight back and forth, Qi Jing saw the timing, grabbed half of the book, and said triumphantly, "Mine is mine!"

Yan Zhilan said in a deep voice, "Let go."

Qi Jing winked and winked at him intentionally: "It's not loose." As he spoke, he tugged the book towards him arrogantly.

Caught off guard, Yan Zhilan let go of his hand suddenly, Qi Jing yelled "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

When he got up, Yan Zhilan sat there with a book again, as if nothing happened.

Qi Jing was furious, and rushed towards him with all his teeth and claws.

It's just that Yan Zhilan was on guard this time, when he was about to meet him, Qixing appeared out of thin air and stopped them between them.If Qi Jing hadn't stopped in time, he might have been blood splattered on the spot.

Qi Jing was angry from the heart, grabbed the book in his hand and slammed it on Yan Zhilan's head.

Yan Zhilan remained motionless, the book was bounced back by an invisible barrier before it touched him.

Qi Jing was so angry that he vomited blood, I have never seen someone who even reads a book and wants to cast an enchantment!Does this person really treat him as a scourge?So guard against him!

The book was bounced back by the barrier, drew a perfect arc in the air, and landed on Qi Jing's head with a whoosh, stunned him.

Fortunately, apart from Yan Zhilan and him, there were no other two people in the hall. Otherwise, if people saw that he failed to play tricks and instead suffered on his own, wouldn't it make people laugh out loud?

It took Qi Jing a while to react, his face was flushed with shame and anger, he grabbed the book and was about to tear it up to vent his anger, but when he took it down, he caught a glimpse of the content on the page that was being opened, and suddenly froze .

Qi Jing rubbed his eyes, couldn't care less about getting angry, and hurriedly turned to the front page of the book, only to see a few small characters "Notes on the Solitary Gate Formation" written on it, and he suddenly thought about it.Turn to the page just now, and read it carefully.

However, he was not very proficient in formations, so he didn't understand what it meant after reading it for a long time, so he raised the book in his hand and asked Yan Zhilan, "Hello!"

In order to avoid Qi Jing's interference, Yan Zhilan simply enveloped himself in the barrier, focused on flipping through the book in his hand, and could not hear Qi Jing's voice at all.

Qi Jing yelled for a long time and saw that the other party didn't respond, only to realize that Yan Zhilan really couldn't hear him, and was almost pissed off.

Looking left and right, he wanted to break the barrier, but he didn't know how to break it. When he was at a loss, he suddenly clapped his hands and thought of a brilliant idea. Since Yan Zhilan could hear him talking to Chi Zhu, he called Chi Zhu Just come out!

So, Qi Jing stared at the bracelet on his wrist, and called out with his thoughts: "Chi Zhu, Chi Zhu, come out quickly."

After waiting for a long time, the bracelet on his wrist moved, Chi Zhu lifted his small head, his two mung bean eyes seemed to be half-open, and he looked drowsy, and he spoke weakly: "Master, you call me?"

Qi Jing has been busy with affairs recently, so he didn't talk to Chi Zhu very much, and Chi Zhu didn't come out as frequently as before. He only thought that Chi Zhu was pretending to avoid the many eyes and ears in the palace. Found something unusual.

So he put aside his previous anger towards Yan Zhilan, and turned to worry about Chi Zhu, he poked Chi Zhu's limp body, and its radiant red scales were also dimmed at the moment , can't see the original brilliance at all.

Qi Jing asked it: "What's wrong with you?"

Chi Zhu spit out the letter listlessly: "I'm so sleepy, I want to sleep."

Qi Jing became nervous, and blurted out, "Did you eat something wrong?" After speaking, he realized that he was stupid. When had he seen Chi Zhu eating?What's more, in the form of red vermilion, there is no need to eat at all, right?

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Chi Zhu blinked blankly: "I don't need to eat."

Qi Jing secretly scolded himself for being stupid, seeing Chi Zhu's weak look, felt a little distressed: "How long have you been like this?"

Chi Zhu tilted his head and thought hard, and said uncertainly: "It probably started from the beginning of winter? Well, I can't remember."

Qi Jing was speechless, this little guy was even more confused than him.After thinking about it, he asked again: "What should I do?"

Chi Zhu shook his head slowly: "Master doesn't need to do anything, just let me sleep."

Qi Jing doubted: "Really?"

Judging by Chi Zhu's appearance, it doesn't look like a good night's sleep, does it?

He was full of doubts, when Yan Zhilan's voice suddenly rang in his ears.

Yan Zhilan seemed a little hesitant, and said in a tone that he was not sure about: "Is it going to hibernate?"

Qi Jing was dumbfounded, hibernating?

Yan Zhilan stood beside Qi Jing, his breath was full of the familiar faint incense from Qi Jing, he put his eyes on Chi Zhu, and said: "Snakes hibernate when they are cold. Isn't Chi Zhu the same?"

Qi Jing had a hunch that something was wrong, but couldn't explain it, so he said dryly: "But Chi Zhu is not an ordinary snake! And look——"

He carefully opened Chi Zhu's body, pointed to Chi Zhu's two three-toed claws and showed him: "How can a snake have claws?"

While they were talking, Chi Zhu had already fallen into a deep sleep again, and even forgot to disguise his appearance, curled up limply in Qi Jing's palm, and Qi Jing didn't even notice that his belly was opened.

Yan Zhilan fell silent, Qi Jing didn't know what to do, so he found a box first, covered it with a layer of soft cotton, and put Chi Zhu on it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chi Zhu left his hand, he jumped up vigilantly and shouted: "Master!"

Qi Jing was almost deafened by it, "I am here, here."

Chi Zhu twisted his wrist back "嘤嘤嘤", extremely aggrieved: "Master, I dreamed that you don't want me anymore."

Qi Jing stared at it wiping tears with its two little paws speechlessly, and it took a long time to find his own voice: "So you really fell asleep just now?"

After speaking, he wanted to bite himself, no, he clearly wanted to ask it, how can you, a spirit body, dream!

Chi Zhu nodded her head, her eyes almost narrowed again: "Master, I'm so sleepy... don't want me..." The last few words were barely audible.Maybe it was too frightened just now, but this time its body was tightly wrapped around Qi Jing's wrist, and it couldn't be broken no matter how hard it was.

Qi Jing faced Yan Zhilan face to face, and suddenly realized that the purpose of calling Chi Zhu was to attract Yan Zhilan's attention. Seeing that Chi Zhu was not in danger for the time being, he remembered the business, and hurriedly showed Yan Zhilan the book in his hand: "Look at this."

Yan Zhilan thought he was going to play some trick again, and didn't want to talk to him at first, but the moment he turned around, he caught a glimpse of the picture on the book out of the corner of his eye, and his pupils shrank suddenly. This is...

Seeing him suddenly stop, Qi Jing knew that he had seen it, and hurriedly handed him the book: "Look."

Yan Zhilan spread the book on the desk in front of him, Qi Jing leaned over and pointed to a place to show him: "Look here."

There was a simple circle drawn on that page, and there were some weird patterns inside the circle. There were countless simple human figures drawn around the circle, and countless black lines branched from the human figures and gathered in the center of the circle. Next to the picture are written three small characters used as a comment - "puppet array", and another line of small characters below it: "Originated from the devil world, with the blood sacrifice of living people, as a guide to gather resentment, the array is effective."

When Qi Jing accidentally saw this formation, he was so shocked that he couldn't say anything. He never imagined that the formation method of the puppet formation appeared in front of him without warning.

He also glanced at it hastily before, but didn't look carefully.Seeing that Yan Zhilan was looking seriously at this moment, he couldn't help urging: "Quickly look through and find out if there is a way to break the formation."

When Yan Zhilan heard the words, he turned a few pages back and forth to check carefully.

Qi Jing's eyes widened, and he even searched the corners of the book several times, disappointed: "It's just that little?"

"Yes." Yan Zhilan turned that side over, and pointed to a line of small characters on the back to show him, which read: "The way to break the formation is to get rid of the people who set it up."

Qi Jing said unhappily: "Isn't this nonsense? We also guessed that way before, the key is where is the formation man? How to find it?"

Yan Zhilan frowned and thought, then turned back to look at the page depicting the pattern of the formation.

Qi Jing sat down beside him, rested his palms on the table, and played with his fingers on the table, comforting himself: "But it's not nothing. 'From the devil world', at least we can conclude that the one used by the demon lord Chao Ye was not at all. What kind of demonic Gu, but a puppet formation. Disturbing Ye is now sealed inside the Demon Gate, so it is impossible for him to set it up. Who could it be?"

He sighed, lay down on the table, rested his head on his arms, looked sideways at Yan Zhilan, saw his serious face, and asked, "What did you find again?"

Yan Zhilan shook his head, and showed him another pattern that had nothing to do with the puppet array: "Look at this."

Qi Jing leaned over and saw the four words "tears of gods and demons" above, confused: "What is this?"

Yan Zhilan turned his eyes from the page to him, stared at him fixedly, and Qi Jing looked even more puzzled: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Yan Zhilan withdrew his gaze and landed on the picture again: "Don't you think it looks familiar?"

Qi Jing looked at the black ball on the top, looked left and right, it looked like a drop of ink accidentally dripped on it by a painter, looked at it for a long time but didn't see any tricks, "What is it?"

Yan Zhilan pointed at the circle of small characters that looked like ghostly symbols next to him: "Look here."

But Qi Jing was attracted by his hands. Yan Zhilan's fingers were long and slender, with well-defined joints and neatly manicured nails. One could tell at a glance that his master was a clean and tidy person.

Yan Zhilan didn't hear Qi Jing's response, so she turned her head slightly, ready to ask him if he saw it.

Unexpectedly, when he moved, Qi Jing also suddenly leaned back, and by accident, Yan Zhilan's warm lips brushed against the corner of Qi Jing's lips lightly.

The two were stunned at the same time.

A silence.

It was so quiet that Qi Jing could almost hear the beating of his own heart, which seemed to be magnified countless times in his ears, making his eardrums hurt.

It was Yan Zhilan who came to his senses first. He slightly opened the distance between the two of them, and said in a low voice, "Sorry."

Qi Jing reacted, and hurriedly said: "No, no, I was not careful, I shouldn't be so close to you, no, no, I mean..." It seems to be getting darker and darker, what's going on?

Yan Zhilan remained silent.

An emotion called embarrassment spread between the two, Qi Jing's eyes flickered, and his eyes fell on the page in Yan Zhilan's hand: "Well, what did you want to say to me just now?"

Yan Zhilan looked indifferent, as if everything that happened just now did not exist, and pointed out the previous discovery to Qi Jing.It's just that where Qi Jing couldn't see, the tips of his ears turned red quietly.

Seeing that he looked exactly the same as usual, Qi Jing quietly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he really thought too much, it was just an accident, could it really be a kiss?It must be because I heard too many gossips when I was out of the palace last time, and I was also stunned.

He couldn't help shouting in his heart: Yan Zhilan is really good-looking, and his appearance is also perfect on his aesthetic point, but no matter how good-looking he is, he is still a man!Sober up, Qi Jing!

Yan Zhilan didn't wait for Qi Jing's reply, and wanted to ask him what's wrong, but when he thought about what happened just now, he pursed his lips and endured it.

After a while, Qi Jing finally vented in his heart, relaxed physically and mentally, and leaned over to look at the place Yan Zhilan was pointing at again, but this time he carefully left enough distance between the two of them to avoid embarrassing things from happening again.

The faint scent of incense that belonged to Qi Jing came over, Yan Zhilan stabilized his mind, and showed him what he found: "Do you think this 'Tear of the God and Demon' looks like the magic sea orchid in your hand?"

Qi Jing looked at the round drop of ink, but couldn't connect this with the beautiful magic sea treasure orchid, so he pulled out the magic sea treasure orchid hanging around his neck and showed it to Yan Zhilan: "Where does it look like? "

Yan Zhilan's eyes skipped over his fair and slender neck, his eyes sank, and he looked away: "Look at this comment."

It was only then that Qi Jing discovered that there were a few lines of small characters next to the ink ball: "Tears of Gods and Demons" - an ancient artifact, like beads and jade, with blue light all over the body, can change size, and protect the Lord.He let out a "huh" and rubbed his fingers against Huan Haibaolan: "It looks a bit like this." After he finished speaking, he looked at the portrait and said in disgust, "Which ghost painted this? Except it's all round, there's nothing wrong with it." I can’t tell it’s the same thing. Isn’t this misleading my disciples?”

Yan Zhilan glanced at him strangely, put his right hand to his lips and coughed twice.

Qi Jing: "Is there something wrong with what I said? Say it yourself, am I right?"

Yan Zhilan said lightly: "You are right."

Qi Jing snorted: "Since I'm right, what was your expression just now?"

Yan Zhilan turned the book to the cover page, and said in a low voice, "You are right. But the person who compiled this book—"

Qi Jing squinted to see the editor on the cover clearly, and his head exploded with a buzzing sound.I saw three small characters written clearly and squarely below the editor - "Qi Wangshan".

The author has something to say: there is an easter egg, I don’t know if anyone will find it~

Once, Qi Jing and Yan Zhilan went back to Yan's house and entered the ancestral hall

And the last time Yan Zhilan and Qi Jing paid homage to Xia Yao

I have seen parents pay homage to their ancestors, rounding up is equal to ~~

It's really sweet, I'm not false! (chest up

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