Everyone just arrived and sat down.

Zhao Qian'er took a leisurely stroll in the room and cast a magic circle to prevent sound insulation and prying eyes.

She nodded to Zhao Rong, "Okay."

Then go to have tea.

Zhao Rong let out a breath, leaned back, waved his hand and smiled, signaling her to take a rest.

Tonight's dinner was already tiring enough. If I drink any more, my warrior's prostate won't be able to take it.

He leaned against the chair, leaning sideways, with his chin lazily supported by the back of his hand. Xiao Qian'er walked over silently and rubbed his shoulders, without any of the temper he had just shown outside.

Zhao Rong closed his eyes slightly, his posture relaxed and comfortable, and went straight to the point:

"It's finally quiet now. Let's follow the old rules along the way. If you have any questions, just ask directly. We'll talk about going to Hanjing later."

"Tzuyu, you are so unkind."

Gu Yiwu waved his sleeves and pretended to be unhappy and said sourly: "We agreed that you would not treat us for free, so my colleagues and I believed it and thought it was just official business, so we rejected all the gifts from the Dugu family. But it turns out that you were just for free, so we accepted them anyway."

The students nodded one after another.

Zhao Rong shook his head slightly and did not explain immediately.

He suddenly said, "Brother Yiwu, let me ask you, do you know why we came to Xingzi Town?"

Gu Yiwu pondered for a moment:

"Zi Yu, I have roughly guessed something. We came to Dali in a hurry, and the academy didn't seem to pay much attention to the situation in Dali, and didn't give us much information.

"And Meng Xuezheng, who was the one who initially agreed with the Dali royal family to set the Fengshan ceremony, didn't know if he was testing us or making things difficult for us. He didn't explain the situation in Dali to us, and didn't introduce some reliable people to us, so we came here without any clues...

"So, do you want to take advantage of the time you spend in Xingzi Town to make corrections and make the various forces in Dali anxious and proactively come out to contact us? Besides, the current location of Xingzi Town also provides an opportunity for all forces to contact us. In this way, we can observe from the sidelines and get a general idea of ​​the situation and see how many forces there are?"

Zhao Rong nodded slightly and added calmly: "Brother Yiwu's analysis is basically correct. The most important thing is that we need to see clearly the main relationships between these forces."

He glanced at the people who seemed to be thinking about something, paused, and said directly:

"Just like before today, we only knew that on this chessboard called Dali, there were three forces in the open: Empress Dowager Dugu, Regent Li Mingyi, and General Zhou Dufu. Whether there is a great immortal family behind them is not discussed for now, but what is the relationship between the three parties?

"Is it a three-way confrontation, or two powers plus a puppet? For example, the Dugu family and the new emperor, an orphan and a widow, are trying to get along with two high-ranking warriors. Or is it two powers joining forces to suppress the other. We have to figure out all these, so that we can intervene in the situation in Dali with the most appropriate identity."

Gu Yiwu nodded slowly and glanced at Zhao Rong, "Ziyu, what do you think about the fact that the Grand Master of Music and Regent Li Mingyi are coming to see us tonight?"

Zhao Rong chuckled, looked around, and said casually as if chatting with his family:

"Everyone, seeing them go downstairs together, what do you think? I feel that the situation in Dali has become clear, and the purpose of our stay in Xingzi Town has been half achieved.

"Dugu didn't come, but sent his Grand Master of Music and Regent Li Mingyi. Obviously, the two parties have reached a cooperation, and this connection is secretly led by the Queen Mother Dugu. So even though we only saw two groups of people tonight, and the remaining group in the west didn't come, it doesn't affect our judgment whether we saw them or not."

Gu Yiwu agreed:

"Zi Yu's analysis is very thorough. Haha, this great general Zhou Dufu is undoubtedly the one who is being suppressed by the Empress Dowager and the Regent. Well, it is similar to what I guessed in the box before. This Zhou Dufu has his own troops and relies on the millions of Western troops and the counties in the West to confront the Dali court that has joined forces with Empress Dowager Dugu and Li Mingyi."

Zhao Rong supported his chin with the back of his hand, feeling the increasing force on his shoulder, and now raised his eyes to glance at Gu Yiwu.

He didn't respond and continued his rational analysis:

"The fact that Empress Dowager Dugu is staying in Hanjing and not coming here actually sends a message. The current situation in Dali seems calm on the surface, but there are undercurrents in private. Well, at least in the eyes of Dugu, the most beautiful woman in Dali, the situation is actually unstable.

"So she stayed beside the young emperor, at the center of power, never leaving. Surrounded by civil officials and military officers, she stood where the people of Dali could see her. Confucian ethics, orthodox imperial power, and the people's will all depended on this pair of orphans and widows. She was in control of the overall situation at all times..."

Zhao Rong had a calm expression and spoke in a flat tone, and everyone's eyes were fixed on his face.

They thought about it and nodded slowly.

Zhao Rong chuckled:

"Brother Yiwu, we will set off tomorrow. We will not stop on the way. We will go directly to Hanjing to meet the Empress Dowager Dugu as soon as possible. Ha, she really doesn't look like a short-sighted woman who has lived in the deep palace for a long time. Everyone says that she is the virtuous queen of Dali, with Fengyi, and she has been praised as a fairy from the Ninth Heaven Moon Palace...

"Well, now I understand why Li Mingyi, a high-level martial artist and the Great Li Martial God, was suppressed by her. With such a sister-in-law, it is difficult for him to be a brother-in-law."

Gu Yiwu thought about it and laughed, "Now that you mention it, I also think that Dali is indeed interesting right now. She sent the Grand Master of Music along, probably because she doesn't trust Li Mingyi completely. She has to be on guard against this man who is both her ally and her brother-in-law."

He pronounced four words very heavily and made some faces with them, making it hard for everyone not to understand.

So everyone blinked and turned into fellow travelers. If you say this, I won’t be sleepy anymore... The originally dull atmosphere suddenly became lively.

Guard against it day and night? My goodness, Cao thief is actually beside me. Yes, Cao Zhi is also here... Zhao Rong smiled casually.

Xiao Qian'er couldn't help rolling her eyes at this kind of evil taste among men. Well, you guys read sage books every day and act more serious than anyone else in front of others. Ha, men... Then the little girl used a little more force in her hands and pinched a certain man.

Zhao Rong grinned slightly, coughed, stopped smiling, and pretended to have a confused expression as if he had no idea what you were talking about.

He has always been good at playing dumb.

"Be serious. What are you doing? We have something serious to discuss. Don't be so idle all day, especially you, Brother Yiwu."

Zhao Rong frowned, sighed at the burly scholar with a simple smile, and said with regret: "What I am most worried about now is you. You must always be vigilant against ideological slippage!"

“……”Gu Yiwu.

Soon, thanks to Zhao Rong's unremitting efforts, the topic in the room was finally brought back on track... Well, the specific operation was that under the nose of Fairy Zhao, everyone followed the upright Mr. Zhao and pulled out several bad elements with "serious ideological deterioration" headed by Gu Yiwu from the crowd and criticized them severely.

It makes the masses more pure.

The latter also deeply realized their serious decline in thinking and wrong cognition, and resolutely corrected them...

At this moment, Zhao Rong narrowed his eyes slightly and said something interesting:

"Brother Yiwu, the two largest immortal families in the northern mountains of Dali that you mentioned before, Ziwei Pavilion and Nanchen Pavilion, the former should have joined Li Mingyi, and the latter Nanchen Palace, well, I didn't see their figures tonight. If I'm not mistaken, they have turned to Zhou Dufu in the west, so they didn't show up at the same time."

Zhao Rong nodded. "It seems that the division and fighting between the forces on and off the Dali Mountain are more serious than we imagined. Li Mingyi and Zhou Dufu are not simple people."

The young scholar sat lazily on the chair, staring at the ceiling in the room, as if he could see through the wooden board those two extraordinary fairies on the third floor.

He muttered to himself in a daze, and said softly:

"Su Qingdai... the proud daughter of Ziwei Pavilion? Luo Xiu... the top prostitute of Zuixian Tower?

"Well, Fairy Su should be a small gift from Li Mingyi to me. As for Fairy Luo, Pure White Cold Palace? Is she really the top prostitute in a simple mountain brothel?

"It's most likely the Crescent Moon Girl from the Music Bureau. I saw that the yellow paint on her forehead was not applied carefully, and it can hardly cover up the eyebrow mark she just washed off. This is somewhat similar to the mark on the forehead of those Crescent Moon Girls who don't seem to be easy to get along with tonight."

Everyone thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Zhao Rong paused for a moment, looked around with a smile, and said:

"In addition, that Master Shenxu is also quite interesting. He acted like a playboy so hard that it made people feel sorry for him. I almost thought that I had really encountered a rare species tonight. By the way, how did he make such an arrogant and evil laugh? It's all natural and pollution-free. I don't know if I can encounter him again. I have to ask him next time..."

Gu Yiwu, who almost had a conflict with Master Shenxu, suddenly realized and couldn't help but said: "Ziyu, you mean..."

Zhao Rong said with a smile: "It was really enjoyable tonight. I was favored by two fairies, threw myself into their arms in public, and successfully taught a lesson to the dude and slapped the face of the 'jumping clown'. It was all done without any effort. The woman in my arms did it for me. All I had to do was sit and watch..."

He shook his head and said, "Everything is arranged clearly and comfortably. I don't know if it was arranged by King Li Xian. The person who designed it is good. It can be seen that he is an old reader of some vernacular novels."

Gu Yiwu looked thoughtful as he gazed at Zhao Rong's smile, not knowing whether his good friend was speaking in a serious or sarcastic way.

"Fancy and unorthodox." A little girl who was massaging her lover's shoulders and back muttered softly.

"Hmm." After thinking about it, Zhao Rong said something fair to Master Shenxu:

"But to be honest, he has a good sense of proportion. His ruthless steps are really tempting."

Zhao Qian'er focused on massaging his shoulders. When she heard this, she didn't even raise her head. She put a few strands of soft hair behind her ears and said softly:

"I could tell something was wrong at the time, but if it had been any more disgusting, I would have dropped my sword."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped rubbing his shoulders, but no one, including Zhao Rong, noticed it.

The little girl tilted her head, stretched out two fingers and picked up a strand of black hair on Zhao Rong's shoulder.

She liked the peach blossom eyes, looked at the black hair, nodded slightly, and drew a horizontal line on the small notebook for a fairy named Su who was bathing.

One, two, four, a lot of positive characters, um...