"Li Jinglong, you and your subordinates will stay in the palace temporarily." Li Longji said, "The rest of you should leave, it's too late. Guozhong, tomorrow you and Chang Qing will go to the examination room together."
Everyone saluted one after another and stepped back. Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan turned and entered the apse of Xingqing Palace. Li Jinglong knew that today's events shocked him too much, and the emperor hadn't thought it through for a while, so he had to give him some time. Then he drew out his sword and looked at the body of the fox demon that had been burned to death.
"You should be better with your sword." Qiu Yongsi said, "It's not a fire stick."
Li Jinglong glared at Qiu Yongsi, but Mo Zhigen laughed and said, "We don't need to pay for Daming Palace, do we?"
Artest smiled and said, "Great!"
Hong Jun sighed, and Li Jinglong asked: "What? It's all according to your wish, and you've made an exception. Why are you still so unhappy?"
Thinking of what Li Jinglong said that night, Hong Jun didn't know whether what the little fox said was true or not, whether it had killed anyone, suddenly felt that Li Jinglong was right, and couldn't help feeling depressed.
"Thank you." Hong Jun said, "But I always feel that I have been cheated. You said Du Hanqing..."
"It's rare to be confused in life." Li Jinglong waved his hand and said, "Don't take everything too seriously, just turn the page, forget about it, give it some Lihun pollen another day, and then take it out and release it, and this matter will be over."
"Don't be too horny." Mo Zhigen said with a smile.
"Okay." Hong Jun also laughed.
At that time, a eunuch came over and asked Li Jinglong to wait in the side hall, and His Majesty would enjoy the meal. When the cleaners came, everyone followed the eunuch, walked through the imperial garden of Xingqing Palace, and waited for meals in the side hall.
Li Longji gave the meal, which is not the same. Yang Yuhuan also specially prepared "Min Zhi Min Gao" and sent it over. Hong Jun ate very happily. Li Jinglong seemed to have something else on his mind.
"Is the case closed?" Qiu Yongsi reminded.
"Yes." Li Jinglong laughed immediately after being reminded like this, "Brothers have worked hard."
When tea was served after dinner, Li Longji summoned again, and everyone washed their hands and wiped their faces, and came to an elegant hall called Jinhualuo.
"Tell Tigra to see him," said the eunuch.
Li Longji first summoned Artai, but it was beyond everyone's expectations. Li Jinglong nodded to Artai and smiled encouragingly. Artai took off his boots and walked into the hall with a long breath. Concubine Yang sent out another decree to let the rest of the people wait outside Jinhualuo to enjoy the flowers and drink tea.
The autumn night was bleak, and I didn't know what flowers to enjoy. Li Jinglong was fine anyway, so he simply leaned outside the hall and fell asleep. Crooked into Hong Jun's arms, Hong Jun had no choice but to hold him, and whispered to Mo Zhigen and Qiu Yongsi.
An hour later, Artest came out, and Li Longji summoned Qiu Yongsi and Mo Rigen again.
Li Jinglong woke up, wiped the saliva on his face, and asked with a blank face, "Did you pass it on to us?"
"No." Hong Jun also felt strange, why they summoned one by two, but this time Mo Zhigen and Qiu Yongsi went in and only said a few words before they came out.
"Let the three of us go back first, it's none of our business." Mo Zhigen said.
"Go." Li Jinglong said, "Zhao Zilong is still waiting in the Exorcism Division."
The rest of the three left right there. Li Jinglong fell into a drowsy sleep and kept rubbing his face. After a while, he communicated inside to let him go in with Hong Jun.
There is a clear pool in the middle of the golden flowers, and there is a couch beside the pool. Behind the couch is a screen of cranes surrounded by eight sides. The lights are flickering, and the sound of music can be heard from a distance, once or twice. There is a nearly hundred-year-old ginkgo tree in the pool. With the sound of the zither strings, the golden leaves slowly fall down, just like thousands of hectares of golden flowers, beautiful and magnificent.
Li Jinglong wiped his face, and saw Li Longji sitting on the couch, Yang Yuhuan was preparing pills, and when he was about to salute, Li Longji said, "No, please give me a seat."
Yu Cong moved to the low couch, Li Jinglong and Hong Jun sat down, and tea was served again, Li Longji said: "Jinglong has made great achievements this time, how do you want me to reward you, just tell me."
Li Jinglong hurriedly said: "It is the duty of the minister not to dare to accept rewards for doing things for the country. Your Majesty spared me the crime of causing a catastrophe in Daming Palace, and I am so grateful."
Although these words were humble, when they came out of Li Jinglong's mouth, there was a sense of being neither humble nor overbearing. Although Yang Yuhuan frowned deeply, she smiled slightly and said, "Look, the concubine guessed right."
Li Longji laughed, and the serious atmosphere relaxed a lot.
Li Jinglong continued: "But after getting rid of the evil, after a few days, I have to take them to Pingkang, so as not to have any monsters slipping through the net."
Li Longji made a "hmm" and said, "When performing official duties, go as soon as you need to."
Li Jinglong said again: "I'm afraid that the people of Chang'an will..."
"I issued an imperial decree to you?" Li Longji asked.
Everyone laughed again, and Li Jinglong replied: "I am terrified."
Hong Jun scratched his neck and said, "Your Majesty, we still owe 6,400 taels of silver to the seller of Lihun pollen, can you help us pay it?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
"What is that?" Yang Yuhuan asked, "Why so much money?"
Hong Jun began to explain to Yang Yuhuan, Yang Yuhuan was very surprised and said, "There are such things in the world?"
Li Longji said: "You can forget all kindness and hatred. This kind of magic medicine must be rare in the world. It can also relieve people's pain. It's really wonderful."
Yang Yuhuan smiled and said, "Happiness, anger, sorrow, joy, no matter how annoying you are, it's your own. Life is alive, isn't it because of these things that make it interesting? If I were asked to smell it, I wouldn't smell it."
Li Longji said happily: "It's true, if I want to hear it someday, I won't hear it either, because I'm afraid that if I hear something, I won't be able to forget it."
Yang Yuhuan said angrily, "Who knows?"
Both Hong Jun and Li Jinglong couldn't understand the tricks of the emperor and the imperial concubine, and it must have something to do with some petty temper. Hong Jun then said: "Then I'll buy it next time, and I'll get some for you too."
"You can go to Guozhong and get the note." Li Longji said without thinking, "If Aifei says so, I will avoid it."
Hong Jun nodded, and wanted to ask for something to eat, Li Jinglong immediately poked him with his elbow, which meant that he would take it when he was good, and stop asking for more food.
"Today really proved my fate since I was a child." Yang Yuhuan said softly, "You exorcists are used to dealing with these strange things, but I don't know if there is anything new, can you tell me about it?"
Although Li Jinglong has a glimpse of the way of exorcism, he is a mortal after all, not as good as other exorcists who have dealt with these since childhood, so he said to Hongjun: "Tell the imperial concubine?"
Hong Jun quite likes Yang Yuhuan, and feels that every time he meets her, he can be described as "like a spring breeze". She is a girl who makes people feel at ease and is considerate. No wonder the emperor likes her so much. Then I picked some monsters and told them to listen to them. Yang Yuhuan was aroused when he heard it, so he couldn't stop asking. Hong Jun began to talk about the sky and the earth, from the veins of the sky to the veins of the earth, and then he talked about Lao Tzu's "mysterious and mysterious, the gate of all wonders", the world is born from chaos.
Even Li Jinglong didn't know that Hongjun knew so much before. Among the people in the Exorcism Division, only Hongjun didn't show off, let alone rely on his identity. It's eloquent.
"Are you a Taoist?" Li Longji asked.
"Uh..." Hong Jun didn't know which family he belonged to. If he insisted on saying it, Qingxiong promoted Buddhism to him more than Taoism, "Is it Buddhist?" Hong Jun thought about it and said, "Qiu Yongsi looks like a Taoist."
"Where are your colleagues from Shiwei?" Yang Yuhuan asked.
"Is he a shaman?" Hong Jun hesitated.
"Tigera is the holy son of Zoroastrianism." Li Longji laughed, "If we fight on weekdays, wouldn't each invite their own gods? It would be strange."
Hong Jun replied: "Everything in the world leads to the same goal. My father said that there is no need to stick to it, but I want to shine with my heart."
Everyone nodded slowly.
Li Jinglong thought that the emperor was inquiring, but he felt that there was something wrong with the case, and wanted to ask about his next plan, but he didn't expect that he didn't ask about the case in the middle of the night, but he talked about ghosts and gods for a long time. ,pregnancy? !
What a waste of time, I might as well go home and sleep.
Yang Yuhuan asked again: "Then Mr. Hongjun, I have something to ask."
"You say." Hong Jun was informal and carefree, holding a tea bowl in one hand and resting his foot on Li Jinglong's lap, treating Xingqing Palace as his home.
"Between heaven and earth, what is immortal?" Yang Yuhuan asked.
Upon hearing this, Li Jinglong couldn't help becoming curious, took a picture of Hong Jun's kick, and glanced at him sideways.
Hong Jun realized that he was too unruly, so he sat upright, thought for a while, and replied: "No."
"No?" Yang Yuhuan asked.
"Yes, no." Hong Jun said seriously, "If you insist on saying yes, there is only this world above your heads."
Hong Jun gave way to the tea bowl, and motioned Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji to look up at the autumn night outside the hall, full of stars, and explained with a smile: "'The reason why heaven and earth can last forever is because they don't grow on their own, so they can live forever'. This sentence The meaning of the words is that only those who do not live for themselves can live forever. And if all things "seek longevity", they are already for themselves, so there is no immortality in the world."
At that moment, Li Jinglong seemed to have an illusion that Hongjun holding the bowl faced the emperor and the imperial concubine, even facing the gods of the world, without any fear, his expression was so clear that it made people's hearts flutter.
Hong Jun withdrew his gaze, looked directly at Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji, and said with a smile: "But I think that sometimes reincarnation is a kind of longevity; Nothing is eternal, that is, predestined dharma."
"Then what medicine is there that can prolong life?" Yang Yuhuan asked softly again.
Li Longji held Yang Yuhuan's hand. When Yang Yuhuan asked this question, he couldn't help but look up at Li Longji.
Hong Jun replied: "The simpler you live, the closer you are to the world, the longer you will live."
Li Longji laughed and said, "Forget it, don't think about it, Kong Hongjun, you are a spiritual child."
Yang Yuhuan sighed, and said: "If you can extend His Majesty's life to a thousand years, become a demon through cultivation, and save your life, my concubine will also be willing."
"Ordinary people are born as human beings, which are much better than monsters who are muddle-headed and spiritually undeveloped." Hong Jun replied, "Cranes live for thousands of years, turtles live for ten thousand years, and everything in the world has its own destiny, so you can't force it."
Li Jinglong said: "If you want to exchange people with turtles and spend your whole life crawling in the mud all day, mortals probably don't want to."
Both Yang Yuhuan and Li Longji laughed, and Li Longji said to himself, "That's true."
Hong Jun suddenly remembered something and said, "There seems to be a way to prolong life."
"What?" The three of them were stunned at the same time.
"Become a Buddha." Hong Jun said.
"Okay, okay." Li Jinglong said, "Don't get excited."
Li Longji and Concubine Yang supported their foreheads, and Hong Jun said: "All sentient beings have Buddha nature. To save sentient beings is to rescue oneself."
"You are a very spiritual child." Concubine Yang smiled, "The moment you said 'become a Buddha' just now, I suddenly thought of someone."
Hong Jun smiled and said, "Who is it?"
Concubine Yang looked at Hongjun with a smile, and suddenly her expression changed, her brows were slightly furrowed, as if she was trying to remember, and said, "I always feel like I've seen you before."
"Are we destined?" Hong Jun said.
"Well... the first time I saw you that day." Concubine Yang rubbed the center of her brows and said, "I think your smile, Mr. Xiaolang, is very familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it for a while."
"Okay." Li Longji said, "Let's do whatever we want, we've had enough trouble today, go back and rest early, Li Qing, when you have time, take your little brother to talk about the mysteries of the world."
Knowing that they were going to sleep, Li Jinglong hurriedly took Hongjun up to say goodbye, and Yang Yuhuan beckoned again: "Hongjun, come here."
"Do you still want to recognize another godson?" Li Longji laughed.
Yang Yuhuan smiled, and gave Hong Jun a piece of snack to eat, Hong Jun thanked him, but Yang Yuhuan said: "This child is so beautiful, my brother has several children, and he is not as spiritual as him." of."
At night, Li Jinglong and Hong Jun left the palace and walked on the street. Li Jinglong walked slowly with a small cage containing a fox.
Hong Jun picked a leaf beside the road, turned around and asked, "Did I say something wrong today?"
"No." Li Jinglong's mouth curled up slightly, and he said, "You are doing well, you are getting smarter."
He had a strong feeling that Hong Jun was a fast learner, compared to his uneasy appearance when he first joined the Exorcist Division, he was now roughly able to adapt to life in Chang'an.
"I'm just too stupid." Hong Jun said embarrassingly, "I don't know that there is something in your words."
As a matter of fact, Hong Jun followed this case almost in a daze, until finally he gradually understood the twists and turns. Li Jinglong, Qiu Yongsi, Mo Rigen, and Artest seemed to be tacitly aware of the twists and turns. Only myself foolishly followed them all the way.
"They are all human beings." Li Jinglong replied with a smile, "It's normal for you to be unable to figure it out."
Hong Jun looked at Li Jinglong, and Li Jinglong stopped laughing immediately.
"Keep laughing." Hong Jun said, "It's pretty good-looking, give me a smile, come on!"
Li Jinglong's forehead was full of blue veins: "Where did you learn it!"
Hong Jun really thinks that Li Jinglong looks pretty when he smiles. He is usually rigid and serious, unsmiling, like a calm general, but when he smiles, he makes people feel kind.
"I'm going to test you, guess where we are going now?" Li Jinglong said seriously.
Hong Jun turned his head and saw that this was not the way back to Exorcist, so he scratched his head and said, "It's so late, where do you want to go?"
The two arrived in a back alley, Li Jinglong handed the cage to Hong Jun, turned over from a back wall, and leaped in.
"Is there another case?" Hong Jun asked in surprise.
There was no response from inside, Li Jinglong pushed open the back door and pulled out a horse.
"You stole a man's horse..."
"Borrow it, let's go!"
That place was the back door of Longwu Army. Li Jinglong led a horse out, got on the horse, stretched out his hand to pull Hongjun up, let him sit behind him, rode the horse with a series of hoofbeats, crossed the long street, and headed out of the west gate. On the quiet long street, the sound of hooves was very clear. After getting out of the city gate, it stopped on the top of a hill.
"Come." Li Jinglong handed the cage to Hong Jun, and took off the talisman on the cage.
"Just put it here?" Hong Jun asked.
"Otherwise?" Li Jinglong said, "Take it back?"
Hong Jun thought that this was pretty good, so he took the little fox out of the cage, and Li Jinglong stretched out a few fingers, rubbing the little fox's chin back and forth.
Venus appeared in the sky, the sky turned white, and the land of China changed from night to day. Hong Jun raised his eyes and looked at the blue sky where morning and evening alternate. The stopped ship.
"Hey, wake up."
Li Jinglong's voice was much gentler at this moment, scratching the little fox's chin repeatedly.
Hong Jun gave a "poof" laugh and said, "I didn't use much medicine for the second time."
The little fox woke up with a sound of "Yo", and immediately looked at Li Jinglong vigilantly. Li Jinglong bent his fingers, tapped it on the head, and reprimanded: "You have not yet settled the blame for biting Hongjun."
Hong Jun hurriedly said, forget it, the little fox looked nervously at Hong Jun, then at Li Jinglong, and when he realized what happened, Li Jinglong snapped his fingers in front of its nose.
With the snap of his fingers, Li Jinglong's Lihun pollen exploded, and the little fox sneezed violently, his eyes full of confusion. Hong Jun let go of his hand, and the little fox fell to the ground immediately, and rushed into the jungle like an arrow.
"Don't go back to Chang'an again." Li Jinglong said, "If you are discovered again, I won't spare you."
The little fox hid in the bushes and looked out. Hong Jun said goodbye to it with a little sadness, and came down from the hill with Li Jinglong.
The sun rose, Qin Chuan woke up in the eight hundred miles, and all the birds in the mountains and forests sang together.
"Long History." Hong Jun said.
"Huh?" Li Jinglong led the horse and walked ahead, but was suddenly rushed up by Hong Jun and rode on his back.
"I like you so much!"
"Go down quickly... what does it look like?"
"There's no one here."
Li Jinglong took Hongjun off his body and said, "Why are you crazy?"
"You don't actually hate monsters." Hong Jun said proudly, "Do you?"
"I don't hate monsters who haven't done evil." Li Jinglong replied seriously.
"Then you really like little foxes."
"Cute, who doesn't like it?" Li Jinglong said, "But it's okay to be unscrupulous and lawless just because you are cute." Then he poked Hongjun's head with his finger, turned on the horse, and signaled Come up quickly.
Hong Jun always felt that he seemed to be insinuated, but he didn't want to understand. When he got on the horse, he asked: "Chang Shi, when will you take me to play in Pingkang?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
The sound of horseshoes gradually faded away, and the morning bell of Chang'an came from afar, and they rode away on the road full of morning sun.
The sun was shining brightly, and in the early morning of autumn, before the Exorcist Division got up, Hong Jun had fallen asleep on horseback on the road. Li Jinglong carried him in, walked all the way into the room, put him on the couch, sighed, and said, "Sleep!" !"
Then he went out to return the horse again. As soon as he returned to the Department of Exorcism, the reward came again. Li Jinglong bowed himself to receive the order without waking up his subordinates. And the note issued by the treasury, which can be handed over to the Lihun pollen merchant for silver exchange.
After everything was over, Li Jinglong finally fell asleep and fell asleep until dusk.
"Isai's descendant, Shi Wei, the eldest son of the Qiu family, plus a manaless mortal..."
"I think the identity of that young man is the most mysterious and strange."
"I don't care who he is! You just watched all this happen right under your nose!"
"So? What do you want me to do?"
The man in the green robe spread his hands slightly, and replied: "Your sons and grandsons have learned the truth, and are willing to admit defeat. Is that what you said?"
The lady couldn't stop panting, her eyes glowed red, blood was almost overflowing from her eyes, she gasped, "I want to avenge them..."
The man and the noble lady stood in the shadows deep in the Xingqing Palace, and as the sun set, their elongated figures looked like ferocious monsters with teeth and claws.
"It's easy to get rid of him." The man whispered in the lady's ear, "but the emperor of the world has already become vigilant. If you let the demon be exposed early..."
"It won't be a few years." The noble lady looked at the man's face intently, and whispered in his ear, "His strength, Datang's strength will soon be exhausted."
"But you still have no way to attack him." The man said coldly, "You'd better think it over for me, don't make any changes. The reincarnation of the demon, no matter how powerful these exorcists are, they can't resist it If you have to make a big mess out of a little intolerance, don't blame me for not reminding you."
The noble lady trembled suddenly, and her voice was stern: "Did you already know?"
The man smiled and said, "You are too suspicious."
The noble lady said tremblingly: "You already knew their plan, in order not to be involved, you actually...abandoned all my children and grandchildren!"
The man stopped talking and turned to leave. The lady said hoarsely behind him: "Otherwise, why don't you go to the test room?! You remember today!"