The rivers and lakes are full of vests

After exchanging greetings with Fu Peibai, King Yan walked to Lu Yanran's table beside him. With a smile on his face, he asked softly, "Miss Lu, I haven't seen you for a few months. It seems that I have lost a lot, but is your body in trouble?"

Lu Yanran got up slowly, and bowed to salute, "Your Majesty is concerned, Yanran is fine."

Then the two greeted and exchanged greetings again. Fu Peibai peeked out of the corner of his eye and caught a glimpse of the two talking and laughing at Yan Yan. Thinking of what Meng Yan said about King Yan's interest in the Peak Master, he felt a little uncomfortable and poured himself a glass. Wine, down one gulp.

When the banquet was at its climax, Lu Wencheng had already drunk a little too much, but he was in high spirits at the moment, and with a wave of his hand, someone called a dance performance.

Fu Peibai raised his eyes to look at the palace, and felt that the figure and appearance of the dancing girl were very familiar.

"The little girl Sang Yunshi has met the suzerain, and congratulates the suzerain on his birthday."

When Fu Peibai heard this, he remembered that this is not the woman who performed the sword dance that shocked heaven and man last time?

The woman soon danced in the hall as the music played, her figure swaying like flowing water.

Before Fu Peibai could take a second look, a dark blue figure appeared in front of his eyes.

Lu Qingwan stood in front of her desk, with her arms outstretched, and said angrily, "You are not allowed to look at her!"

Her voice was a little loud, which attracted everyone's attention. Fu Peibai was a little embarrassed, and said hastily: "I won't watch, I won't watch, Second Miss, please sit down."

Lu Qingwan snorted coldly, and sat back in front of the desk.

After a while, after dancing to a song, Sang Yunshi stepped back, Fu Peibai thought it must be over now, but Lu Wencheng, who was in charge, called her name loudly, "Fu Peibai."

Fu Peibai got up quickly, walked to the hall and saluted, "The disciple is here."

"Last time in the inner sect competition, you fainted due to illness and missed the opportunity for promotion. Are you unwilling?"

Fu Peibai hesitated for a moment, and chose to tell the truth, "It is natural to be unwilling to return to the suzerain, but since I have missed it, I can only continue to work hard and wait for the next opportunity."

"You are honest. Today is my birthday, so I will make an exception to give you a grace. Sifeng, you can choose one and enter the inner sect to continue your practice."

As soon as this remark came out, there were several voices of disapproval on the spot, from the master of Sanfeng, only Lu Yanran said nothing, and didn't even look into the hall, as if everything present had nothing to do with her.

"Suzerain, absolutely not, Fu Peibai did not follow the rules to participate in the inner sect competition, and made an exception for promotion, which is inconsistent with the sect's rules!"

"What Peak Master Wu Jufeng said is true. Such and such is not fair to other disciples. I hope the suzerain will think twice."

"I implore the suzerain to think twice!"

Lu Wencheng frowned and said: "I saw that he won all the battles that day with ease. If he hadn't retired due to illness, he would naturally be on the promotion list. Since he has this strength, why can't he make an exception and be promoted to the inner sect? Compliant, but not inflexible."

Seeing that the three people were still about to refute, Lu Wencheng's face darkened, and he said loudly: "Okay, I'll do it on my own for once, and the three peak masters don't want to stop it again. Fu Peibai has been brought under my seat, do you think so?"

"No! Sovereign, even though Fu Peibai is a talented person, but he has been in the sect for less than half a year, he must not be promoted to three levels in a row, and pass it out. How do other disciples think?"

"Then let him enter one of the four peaks, now you have no doubts?"

The master of Sanfeng could only reluctantly accept it.

Lu Wencheng asked Fu Peibai: "Which peak do you want to go to?"

Fu Peibai glanced at the gloomy face of the master of the three peaks, obviously he didn't like her, if she joined the three people's sect, her life would be difficult in the future, and there would be only one peak left.

Chaoquan.

She looked at Lu Yanran, who was drinking from a cup with a calm expression.

She withdrew her gaze and bowed to Lu Wencheng to express her gratitude, "My disciple is very grateful to the suzerain for promoting you, but if you miss this promotion opportunity, you have missed it. No matter what the reason is, you should not break the clan rules and make an exception for promotion. This disciple is willing to wait until next year to fight again." , Enter the inner sect to practice with your own strength."

Her neither humble nor overbearing voice echoed throughout the hall, and He Yangyao clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "Okay, what an upright son, I like it, if you are not a disciple of Tianji, I will definitely take you into my sect."

Lu Wencheng also laughed heartily. He stepped down from the chief seat, came to Fu Peibai, and put his hand on her shoulder, "Fu Peibai, has anyone ever said that you are too rigid and pedantic? Opportunities don't come all the time. When it is in front of your eyes, you have to hold it firmly. If you don't have this strength, how can I support you?

"Life is like a fleeting moment, fleeting. For us martial arts practitioners, time is even more precious. You have the strength to enter the inner sect to practice more advanced exercises, why waste a year in the outer sect?

"Fu Peibai, Fu Peibai, it's good to be upright and strict. It's good to obey the rules, but you also have to learn how to adapt to the world and adapt to changes. That's the way to deal with things. Do you understand?"

Fu Peibai looked up and met Lu Wencheng's deep pupils. After being stunned for a while, she cupped her hands in thanks and said, "Understood, disciple, thank you for your kindness."

Lu Wencheng smiled with satisfaction, "Then choose, the four peaks, you can choose."

"Disciples are allowed to be arranged by the suzerain."

"Oh? Let me think about it." Lu Wencheng looked around at the master of Sifeng, then raised his finger to Lu Yanran, "How about Chaoquan Peak?"

But as soon as these words came out, there were two more objections in the hall.

"no!"

"Uncle, no!"

The former is Lu Qingwan, and the latter is He Cong who has been silent throughout the banquet. Both of them have stood up at this moment, and shouted out of composure.

Lu Wencheng suppressed his smile and said in displeasure, "Wan'er, what are you doing? Sit down!" After finishing speaking, he turned to He Cong and asked, "Why did Nephew He protest?"

Before He Cong could speak in the future, Lu Qingwan had already run into the hall, tugged on Lu Wencheng's sleeve, and said shakingly, "No, Daddy, don't let Ah Pei go to Quanfeng!"

Lu Wencheng patted the back of Lu Qingwan's hand, with a helpless tone, "Why are you doing this?"

Lu Qingwan looked at Fu Peibai, then at Lu Yanran, but couldn't tell why, "Anyway, it can't be done!"

"Stop making trouble! Wan'er, you don't have a place to talk about this matter, go back to your seat!" Lu Wencheng withdrew his hand and said sharply.

Lu Qingwan was taken aback by the rebuke, and she let go of her anger, leaving a sentence, "I don't talk to Daddy anymore." Then she ran out of the hall crying.

"The little girl is so naughty, I made everyone laugh."

Seeing that Lu Wencheng's attitude was so firm, He Cong didn't dare to say anything. He gave Fu Peibai a hard look, and sat down with a gloomy expression.

"Yan Ran, then I will assign Fu Peibai to your sect, and you must teach and train him with all your heart in the future."

Lu Yanran responded softly, with no emotion on his face from the beginning to the end.

Lu Wencheng patted Fu Peibai's shoulder heavily, and said earnestly, "I'd like to practice martial arts in the future, don't disappoint my high expectations."

"Yes, I obey." After Fu Peibai finished speaking, he raised his eyes slightly to look at Lu Yanran, and met the cold gaze cast by him, her heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly looked away.

After returning to her seat, she frowned in a thoughtful manner.

In fact, just now when Lu Qingwan and He Cong objected loudly, she silently said no in her heart.

Although returning to Chaoquan and being able to see the Peak Master often, she was naturally overjoyed, but she didn't want to become the Peak Master's disciple, and she didn't want to have another master-student relationship with him.

She believed that she no longer had any other thoughts about the Peak Master, but the subconscious resistance just now clearly showed her unwillingness. She didn't want to be a master and apprentice, but what did she expect to be?

She smiled self-deprecatingly, picked up the wine glass and drank it down in one gulp. Everyone else said that she was proud of her youth today, and she had a bright road ahead. Only she knew how conflicted and uneasy she was in her heart.

The banquet lasted for three full hours before the guests of honor had a good time and the banquet ended.

After everyone left, only Fu Peibai and Lu Yanran were left in the hall. Fu Peibai stared at Lu Yanran's white side face like jade, and was slightly lost in thought until Lu Yanran Shi Shi suddenly got up and asked, "Aren't you leaving?"

Only now did Fu Peibai come back to her senses, she hurriedly got up and followed Lu Yanran out of the hall.

The two walked one after the other without saying a word. Fu Peibai hesitated in his heart, looking up from time to time at the thin figure in front of him.

As if Lu Yanran had sensed it, she stopped and looked back, "Do you have something to say?"

Fu Peibai slid his throat, and asked softly: "Will the peak master want me to go to Chaoquan to practice martial arts?"

Lu Yanran turned around, her voice was as cold as water, "I don't care if I want to or not. Father's arrangement has his own considerations, and I will obey."

Fu Peibai stopped in her tracks, her heart seemed to sink to the bottom of a cold lake, she looked at the person in front of her, she was so close that she could touch him with her hand.

However, at this moment, there seemed to be an abyss between the two of them, an endless gully, and she would never be able to cross it.

She whispered "I understand", and immediately passed Lu Yanran and headed towards the sky.

Lu Yanran stood where he was, watching the young man's figure disappear quickly, and the tightly clenched hands hidden under the long sleeves were slowly released.

......

In a quiet and elegant courtyard in Qingliao Peak, a handsome and frail man is sitting on a stone table in the courtyard, playing black and white pieces.Sometimes he was in deep thought, and sometimes his brows were loosened, as if he had understood something.

Not long after, a woman with a tulle face and a charming figure walked in. She knelt down on one knee in front of the table and saluted, "My subordinates will see the prince."

The man was King Yan. After the banquet, it was getting late, so Lu Wencheng invited him to stay for a day, and then went down the mountain tomorrow, and ordered someone to take care of such a clean courtyard for him.

King Yan didn't even raise his eyelids, he was holding on to a sunspot in his hand, thinking about where to put it, and after a while, he finally landed the sunspot on a corner of the chessboard, his face turned into a smile like a spring breeze. Looking at the void, he said, "Ying Yue, how do you think I'm doing this step?"

Soon, a man in black appeared at the table like a ghost, and he whispered: "My lord is very skilled at chess, this step of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will save the day and kill Bai Zi."

King Yan laughed and asked again, "Are there any mice around?"

"No, there is no one in the radius of one mile."

King Yan nodded in satisfaction, with a warm smile on his face, but the next moment he got up and waved, and slapped the woman kneeling on the ground.

The veil on the woman's face fell off in an instant, revealing the charming and beautiful face underneath, which was the dancing girl Sang Yunshi.

She was beaten to the side and fell to the ground, her cheeks were slightly red and swollen, but she didn't even frown, she just quickly got up and continued to kneel, "This subordinate is negligent, and I wish to be punished by the prince."

King Yan sat down again, the smile on his face had long since dissipated, and there was a gloomy look on his brows, "This king is not a person who doesn't care about feelings. You and I have been masters and servants for many years, and the relationship is still there. I will give you a chance. Explain the reason why you have been on the mountain for more than a year, except for Fei Shu's letter about Fu Peibai, there is no more information, if there is an excuse, I will forgive you once."

Sang Yunshi lowered her head and replied: "Lu Wencheng was very suspicious. While sending people to investigate the past of his subordinates, he also sent people to spy on me secretly. His subordinates did not dare to act rashly. It was not until recently that he became less suspicious of me. Withdraw the person who watched me, and the subordinates were able to escape to see the prince."

King Yan's face softened a lot, "It's understandable, but you still have to see if the information you have found is valuable. If you use some insignificant information to perfuse this king, you will be ashamed." You don't have to stay in Tianji, you know, this king never takes care of idlers."

"Yes, last year Lu Wencheng organized the Martial Governor's Hall scattered all over the rivers and lakes, which is actually his personal information network to find news about the fragments of the tomb for him. Recently, he has found the location of two of them. One is in Jiangdong and the other is in Hanyang.

"Furthermore, my subordinates discovered that the Tianji Sect seems to have people from the Luoying Sect, but for some reason, these people don't seem to want to take Lu Wencheng's life, but have other purposes, and there seems to be a person with a higher rank in the Luoying Sect Lurking inside, all the spies under him are under his command, the subordinates are incompetent, and we have not yet found out who this person is."

King Yan narrowed his eyes after hearing this, and his eyes turned dark, "Lu Wencheng, an old man, told me that he hadn't found the news of the climbing tomb fragments, so he really wanted to keep it for himself, and he made a good plan.

"As for the Luoying Sect, since they didn't come to kill Lu Wencheng, then it has the same purpose as ours."

He picked up a white jade chess piece in his hand and started to play with it, "The core of the Luoying Sect is not only the leader Shi Qinghan, but also its seventeen envoys. Regarding these seventeen people, this king has also sent someone to investigate secretly, but But no information has been found, not to mention appearance, even age and gender are unknown, if you say that Tianji sect really hides a person with a higher rank of Luoying, then it must be one of these 17 people Bit up.

"Interesting and interesting, there are so many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in such a small Jinyun Mountain."

"Next, what should my subordinates do? Ask the prince for instructions."

King Yan threw away the chess piece, stood up and stood with his hands behind his back, "Luoyingjiao and Lu Wencheng will be the mantis and cicada, and we will naturally be the oriole. Don't act rashly and lurk in secret. The king has one more thing to tell you."

"My lord, please speak."

King Yan's eyes flickered, and there was an inexplicable smile on his face, "Use your best means to approach Fu Peibai, he should have a three-foot-six-inch epee, and the scabbard is engraved with a hollow dragon pattern." , the word Xuanyuan is engraved on the handle of the sword, if you find it, steal it, if not, pull the sword out of his mouth, he must know."

Sang Yunshi responded, and couldn't help asking curiously: "My lord, I dare to ask, what is the origin of this sword?"

King Yan seemed to be in a good mood at the moment, and replied lightly: "You don't have to worry about it, just do as I say, this Xuanyuan sword will be very useful in the future."

"Subordinates obey."