Chapter 1378 Breaking the Long Willow

Jiang Wang would not ride in anyone's carriage, as Li Youjiu's lesson was still fresh in his mind.

But for a figure like Xiu Yuan, the commander of the Prisoner Army, who was waiting for him outside the Changsheng Palace, nothing bad would happen, so he had nothing to worry about.

The carriage Xiu Yuan was riding at this time was not his imperial carriage that represented the ceremonial ceremony of the imperial court.

It should be convenient for daily travel, but it was still not comparable to the car rented by the housekeeper of the Jiang Mansion.

The spacious space, soft cushions, and grand decorations are needless to say... The patterns on the wall of the carriage were actually naturally grown wood grain! Like flowers, trees, dragons, tigers, mysterious and natural.

The wood itself is worth a fortune.

Jiang Wang stepped into the carriage as if he was stepping on the clouds, light and effortless.

The coachman was obviously also from the military, with a serious temperament and a spine as straight as iron. With a slight shake of his hand, the reins made a crisp sound in the air, and two tall black horses raised their hooves at the same time.

The hooves rose and fell at the same sound.

The carriage moved lightly, and there was no bump in the carriage.

Click!

The door closed.

A warm light lit up on the top of the carriage at the right time. It was not the halo of any object, but the condensation of the array pattern, clear but not dazzling.

Lord Jiang had seen the world, and calmly sat down opposite Xiuyuan: "I wonder why Xiu invited Jiang to ride with me?"

Xiuyuan did not answer, but only asked: "Do you usually drink?"

Between Xiuyuan and Jiang Wang, the baffle fell quietly, and a low table slowly rose. There was a silver pot and four inverted silver wine glasses on the low table.

There were two side dishes, one was pea-shaped, but red, with a faint burnt aroma.

One is a half-moon-shaped fruit, with a silver sand-like core faintly visible under the translucent skin. In short, Jiang Wang couldn't recognize the name.

But he didn't get on the carriage to see the life of the commander of the Nine Soldiers.

Sitting upright, he replied in a matter-of-fact way: "No drinking unless it's a banquet."

"I've heard a lot of people talk about you, but today is the first time I've seen you." Xiuyuan reached out and turned over the wine glass on the table, and said in a flat voice: "Have a drink with me."

While speaking, he had turned over three wine glasses and reached out for the wine pot.

Jiang Wang also reached out quickly: "Let me come."

Xiuyuan held the wine pot with one hand and gently let him go: "Good man, don't care about those vulgar etiquette."

Jiang Wang had to sit down again.

Xiuyuan poured the wine slowly and asked casually, "Just now in the palace, I saw you vaguely imitating the Eight Winds. Are you practicing the Dragon and Tiger?"

"Indeed." Jiang Wang was a little surprised by the other party's attention to him, and hurriedly explained, "I have no intention of disrespecting the eleventh prince. I just study Taoism out of habit."

Xiuyuan poured three glasses of wine and pushed one of the glasses in front of Jiang Wang with the back of his index finger. He said softly, "I have heard that you, Jiang Qingyang, are neither arrogant nor discouraged, and you are diligent and hardworking, which is different from ordinary people. I see today that you are really amazing."

Jiang Wang said modestly, "I am just a stupid bird that flies first, and I make up for my shortcomings with diligence."

Xiuyuan shook his head, "There are many people in this world who are a little smart. How many people have great wisdom? If you are a stupid bird, there will not be many people in the world who can fly."

Jiang Wang said, "My little cleverness is to work harder and pay more attention. All kinds of harvests come from hard work."

"This is great wisdom . "Xiuyuan said: "Among the academies in the world, the four are the best. Longmen Academy emphasizes talent, Qingya Academy emphasizes willfulness, and Mugu Academy emphasizes self-reflection. They are all top-notch knowledge in the world. But the best academy is hard work. There is nothing else in the Hard Work Academy, but the atmosphere of hard work is very strong, so it is the best in the world. "

Jiang Wang nodded seriously: "I will teach you."

This Jiang Wang, who is a little too humble, and the Jiang Wang who refuses to be insulted and dares to question the emperor in person, are not the same person.

Xiuyuan glanced at him lightly: "I didn't teach you either... Well, since you mentioned learning..."

His eyes were slightly determined.

Jiang Wang immediately felt a gentle stream of information like a drizzle, sprinkling his soul - it was the experience of practicing the Taoist art "Dragon and Tiger", and some ideas for practicing this art based on the outer building level.

"I happened to learn it in my early years." Xiu Yuan said casually: "It's useless now, but I haven't forgotten it completely... I'll give it to you."

The world of Taoism is as vast as the sea, and it changes with each passing day.

Even Yi Xingchen, a master of magic, can't say that any Taoist magic can happen to hit.

He Xiu Yuan is no exception.

So the Dragon Tiger Taoist magic was of course temporarily transferred when he was waiting outside the palace gate just now. After a quick study, he passed it to Jiang Wang.

The understanding of Taoism by a contemporary real person almost instantly opened up the barrier that Jiang Wang had been thinking about for many days and couldn't break, making him suddenly understand.

Jiang Wang was surprised and happy: "I don't know how to thank you for such a generous gift, General Xiu."

"No need to say more." Xiu Yuan raised his chin and said casually: "Just toast."

Jiang Wang simply raised his glass: "I'll drink first as a toast."

He drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and the warm and cool wine fell into his stomach, and suddenly turned into a line of fire, burning all the way and rushing straight to his throat. At that critical point, it was like sparks bursting and "exploding" all over the body, and there was no part of the body that was not comfortable.

The soul was unusually lively, and the Dao Yuan was also very agile.

This wine... can actually help with practice, it can be called a top-notch product!

Toasting itself is also a good thing. Jiang Wang didn't know what to say for a while after benefiting from it again and again.

Xiuyuan had already raised the cup and drank slowly: "Hurry up and digest it, don't miss the effect of the wine."

Jiang Wang then closed his eyes and moved the Dao Yuan. Under the slowly flowing power of the wine, the Tongtian Sea became clearer and clearer, and in the Wufu Sea, the isolated island of heaven and earth became more stable. In the Cangxing Sea, the Dao veins soared and swam...

I don't know how long it took, when Jiang Wang opened his eyes, he felt that his body and soul were in peace, and everything went smoothly. This wine is really a rare treasure, a glass of wine can be equivalent to a month's work!

Xiuyuan poured him another glass of wine: "This wine will not work if you drink too much, but its taste can only be revealed after it loses its effect. Try it again."

This kind of top-quality wine that can help practice is inestimable in value.

Perhaps only a real person like Xiuyuan can taste its taste luxuriously when he can no longer feel its extraordinary effect.

At least Jiang Wang took a sip himself. Although the fragrance lingered on his lips and teeth, he was still thinking about the pleasure of helping practice, trying to capture its effectiveness, and then felt sorry for its great value... He couldn't feel much taste at all.

He put down his glass and sighed, "Jiang Wang is really flattered."

"You deserve it." Xiu Yuan sipped the wine gently and said casually, "The older you get, the less you want to owe anything. Especially favors... It's hard to repay."

At the Master's Ceremony, Jiang Wang's "Ants should have no regrets" speech stopped the emperor's anger and won many favors.

For example, Yi Xingchen, the court doctor who finally selected Cui Zhu's name, has released goodwill many times.

And Xiu Yuan is the one who needs to be thanked the most.

It's just that he has been imprisoned at home before, and he has no time and opportunity to contact Jiang Wang. When he saw him in Changsheng Palace today, he immediately waited outside the palace to "repay the debt".

When Xiu Yuan said this, Jiang Wang immediately relaxed.

Take another sip of the wine in the glass, and now he can actually enjoy some beauty...After all, he, Jiang, is also afraid of owing favors.

After the wine went down his throat and turned his heart, Jiang Wang asked, "What's the name of this wine?"

"I brewed this wine myself... There's only one pot left." Xiuyuan shook the wine pot, listened to the sound of the fine wine, and said in a calm voice, "It's called 'Zhe Changliu'."

Zhe Changliu, I hope you'll stay forever.

There must be a story behind this. Although Jiang Wang didn't know the twists and turns, he tasted some of the complexity in the wine and couldn't help but praise, "What a good name."

The carriage slowly stopped at this time, and the wine in the cup was actually calm. Xiuyuan's driving skills are really superb, far from the driver that Xie Ping hired from nowhere.

Jiang Wang blinked lightly and cut off his thoughts of humiliating himself. Compared with the commander of the nine soldiers, he really couldn't think straight...

Xiuyuan held the wine pot and helped Jiang Wang fill the wine glass, and asked again, "Do you know where this is?"

Of course Jiang Wang knew where this was.

Even though he had not yet opened his voice-hearing immortal state, his sensitivity to sound had already allowed him to capture the surrounding environment.

The noisy voices, the boiling emotions of the crowd, the tension, excitement, shock, cheers... and screams.

It was undoubtedly a place of execution.

The place of execution where many prisoners were being tortured at the same time.

Among them was a contemporary immortal, named Yan Tu.

Xiuyuan's carriage was parked not far from the place of execution. Although the crowd was surging, the signboard of the Prisoner Electric Army squeezed out a space.

But the door and window were not opened.

Although Xiuyuan's car drove here, he did not seem to intend to watch the execution process.

Of course... As a contemporary immortal, if he wanted to watch, it would be difficult for anything to block his sight.

The closed doors and windows were just his closed eyes.

"This is the place where the spies of the Equal State are executed." Jiang Wang said carefully.

There was a reminder in his words to Xiuyuan.

Xiuyuan did not know if he understood, or rather, he did not know if he heard.

He only took a sip of wine, drank it slowly, and then said, "I heard that you like reading?"

Jiang Wang wanted to ask, who told you that?

After all, he lacked the nerve to brag in front of a contemporary real person, and said uncomfortably: "I feel more and more that my accumulation is too insufficient. Recently, I have indeed found time to read... but I haven't read much."

"Have you read "Records of Strange Beasts"? Xiu Yuan asked.

"No..." Jiang Wang said.

This is the first time he has heard of this book title!

"...A book that records various kinds of strange beasts, with relatively comprehensive information." Xiu Yuan said: "Although many of the strange beasts recorded in it have become extinct, it also represents a period of history to a certain extent, which will help deepen your understanding of this world. It should be no problem for you to be a god, but if you want to become a real person, you must understand this world better. If you have the chance... you should still read it."

Facing the first genius of the young generation of Da Qi, he didn't say it out loud after all. This is just one of the basic readings of Jixia Academy.

"I understand!" Jiang Wang nodded simply.

Know what you know, and don't know what you don't know. Lack of accumulation is a problem of innate conditions, not his fault, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. He is still young and has a good time. He can make up for it with more efforts.

"There is a bird called Fuyu..." Xiuyuan stroked the wine glass and sighed: "I have always wanted to see it, but I have never found it. I think it should no longer exist."

"This bird has strong magical powers? Is there any special way to kill it?" Jiang Wang asked curiously.

"..." Xiuyuan suddenly felt like he was playing the lute to a cow, and said: "Don't just drink, eat some food."

Jiang Wang obediently pinched a half-moon-shaped fruit wrapped in silver sand and put it in his mouth.

I originally wanted to ask what kind of treasures there were in the Lao Shi Zi Rain Bird, but after one bite, my mouth was filled with fragrance, and I immediately forgot about it.

"Hey, it tastes good." Lord Jiang tried to sound as natural as possible, without making a fuss: "Xiu Shuai, where can I buy this kind of fruit?"

I was thinking in my mind that with my current salary, I could buy a few kilograms for An An to try.

He missed An An's birthday again this year, so he had to find something delicious to make up for it, no matter how expensive it was, it was worth it.

"It's called 'Moon Cage Sand'." Xiu Yuan said casually: "The product behind the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons, the Fox Clan loves to eat it and regards it as a holy fruit. It doesn't exist in the world, and it can't be grown."

"Uh...oh."

"Eat more if you like it." Xiu Yuan held the wine glass and said casually: "It does taste good. Every time I go to the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons, I will go out to find some."

Having said that, he just took another sip of wine.

"A very rare taste." Jiang Wang grabbed a handful and put one in his mouth as if nothing had happened.

Learning the exercises, drinking a lot of wine, and packing up the fruit after finishing it in someone's car was something that he, a peerless talent, couldn't do, but he could hold a handful of fruit in his hand and finish it in a while. Bar?

Eating on the go shouldn’t be a problem either.

Then it is quite reasonable to accidentally take some leftover home.

Since everything is left in the end, it shouldn’t be gossiped about if it is left for my sister to eat later, right?

In his own logical world, Jiang Qingyang remains standing.

But Xiuyuan stopped talking.

When Xiu Yuan fell silent, Jiang Wang immediately felt embarrassed.

I was holding a handful of Yuelong Sha in my hand, but I couldn't bear to eat it, and it seemed strange not to eat it. Thinking about it, I might as well bite the bullet and eat it, it feels a bit like hiding something.

It’s really hard to think about everything, no matter what...

"It's raining." Xiuyuan said suddenly.

Only then did Jiang Wang realize that he didn't know when... the screams on the execution ground had stopped.

The carriage started to drive again and drove away from here in silence.

Xiu Yuan looked up and saw that a skylight automatically slid open on the top of the carriage.

All I could see was red drizzle in the sky, fluttering and falling towards the world.

When a real person dies, the world weeps and sheds blood... I feel the same sorrow.

The carriage was driving in Linzi City, the most prosperous city in the Eastern Region. Xiu Yuan was speechless, and Jiang Wang was silent as well. Far away, from nowhere, a vague singing voice came.

The song sang——

"Tonight again, the willow trees are broken. Yue'e throws away the wine in the cup..."

"The old notes are light and full of joy. The traces of tears are still thinner than the blue and white flowers..." (1)

Jiang Wang thought that he might have heard wrongly.

During these days, no entertainment is allowed in the city.

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ps:

1. "Tonight, I will break the willow tree again..." - Qing He Yi Shen, "The Hairpin Head Phoenix: Breaking the Willow Tree"

2. I should have saved my manuscripts and started adding more to pay off my debts. But there have been too many things going on these days, and nothing is left.

3. The physical book of "Surveying the Sky with a Heart" has sold well. Dangdang's new youth literature book is the best-selling one and sixth on the overall list. Thank you for your support. I have been taking time to sign autographs every day these days, hand-signing five hundred copies a day, trying to get the publisher to send out all the signed copies before the middle of the month.

When I finish my work, I will pay off the debt.