The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

Xuan Ji and Xie Lili walked together to the outside of the council hall, and found a group of people dressed in armor, looking like generals, were gathered around a map, arguing heatedly.

Behind them, a man wearing a crimson gauze robe, a Tongtian crown, and a sword at his waist, looking dignified, was sitting upright on a tiger skin chair.

Seeing this, Xie Lili couldn't help but slow down her pace, and Xuan Ji beside her was also stunned, she felt that the person on the tiger skin chair looked somewhat familiar.

After thinking for a while, she remembered that the other party seemed to be Chef Song, who made fried pancakes for them during the New Year's Eve.

But now Chef Song no longer had the oil stains and flour on his body, and the amiable smile on his face was gone, replaced by an aura of kingly dominance.

Before the two women could say anything, the people in the council hall spoke first, a general-like person snorted coldly and said, "This is a military important place, irrelevant people should leave quickly!"

As a result, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the person on the tiger skin chair, "Let them in, they are not spies from the puppet dynasty."

After speaking, he also smiled at Xuan Ji.

However, Xuan Ji didn't enter after hearing this, but only said, "Is Lu Jing not here?"

"National Teacher Lu and his wife, and Military Advisor Luo have gone out to perform military duties together, they just left." Another round-faced general saw that the person on the tiger skin chair was gentle to the two women, so he also said politely.

"National Teacher Lu and his wife?" A hint of gossip appeared in Xie Lili's eyes, "Are you talking about Great Hero Lu and Heroine Yan, or Heroine Xia, or that Miss Wen?"

"None of them, it's Miss Tong."

"Miss Tong?"

Xie Lili wanted to ask more questions but was gently tugged at her sleeve by Xuan Ji, when she turned her head, she saw a figure in red clothes had already come to her side.

That person ignored Xie Lili, and just nodded to Xuan Ji, "Overseer Xuan."

"Inspector Xia." Xuan Ji also quickly returned the greeting.

"I wonder what Overseer Xuan is here for?"

Xie Lili knew that if she didn't reveal some shocking news at this time, based on the first impression she had left on this Heroine Xia, she probably wouldn't be able to see Lu Jing again in this lifetime.

"Amu?" Xia Huai was a little surprised when she heard this, then she glanced at Xie Lili again, and said, "Then you stay here, Lu Jing should be able to come back in a day or two at the earliest, and three or four days at the latest."

"Okay." Xie Lili didn't decline at all, and agreed in one breath, she was now full of curiosity about what was happening in this place.

Because it seemed that the tens of thousands of people outside were not here to besiege this earthen fort, on the contrary, they seemed to be gathering here, and considering their number, this was almost more than half of Yuzhou's troops.

So many people, once they moved, it would definitely be big news, Xie Lili couldn't wait to stay here and watch the excitement up close.

Xuan Ji was a little worried, she glanced left and right, pulled Xia Huai to a relatively quiet place, and then opened her mouth again, "She is the daughter of the Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, if she stays here…"

"It's okay, I believe she won't talk nonsense about what she sees here." Xia Huai said.

"Are you sure?" Xuan Ji glanced at Xie Lili, who was poking her head around not far away, it was hard to imagine that this guy could really keep any secrets.

Xia Huai looked like she wasn't worried at all, "Of course, because after she meets Lu Jing, I will continue to keep her here as a guest."

"Uh, what you mean by continuing to be a guest… is to put her under house arrest here?" Xuan Ji wiped the cold sweat on her forehead.

Xia Huai nodded, "Don't worry, it won't be too long, she can leave after Yuzhou is pacified, she can go wherever she wants at that time."

"… … … …"

Xuan Ji's eyes were strange, her lips moved, she wanted to say something more, but in the end, she swallowed the words back into her stomach, and instead said, "It's just right, she was originally going to live and study in the academy for three months, so there's no need to worry about her family coming to her during this time."

"Thank you, Overseer Xuan." Xia Huai thanked again, "We shouldn't need that long here, at the latest one month, Yuzhou should be recovered, and for the remaining time, I can teach her some knowledge related to strange objects."

Even with Xie Lili's intelligence, she probably wouldn't have thought that the two women not far away had already decided her next fate in a few words.

The main reason was that Xuan Ji's gentle appearance was too deceptive.

So in the next two days, she stayed in the earthen fort, relying on the fact that outsiders didn't know her true identity, and a glib tongue, Xie Lili didn't spend much effort, and had already figured out what was happening here, which also made her exclaim in amazement.

It turned out that the person sitting on the tiger skin chair on the day she first came to the earthen fort was Zhaozong Zhu Zhen, who was rumored to have been resurrected from the dead, needless to say, Xie Lili had seen a few portraits of Zhu Zhen before.

The person on the tiger skin chair was indeed very similar to Zhu Zhen in the portrait, but he was unbelievably young, but since the resurrection from the dead could happen, it didn't seem impossible to stay young forever.

Moreover, Xie Lili knew very well in her heart that whether this Zhaozong was real or fake was not important, now that Kyushu was in turmoil, and heroes were vying for supremacy, his existence was like a banner, attracting nearby ambitious people and grassroots heroes, competing to join him, the tens of thousands of soldiers outside were the best proof.

And on the third day, Xie Lili finally saw Lu Jing, who had rushed back from the outside, covered in dust.

However, different from what she had imagined, Lu Jing didn't have much excitement on his face when he looked at the soldiers outside the door, but instead, he faintly carried a kind of helplessness, and he himself didn't seem to care much about dominating the world.

Besides, the girl named Tong Tang beside him looked like she had done something wrong, and kept looking down at her toes, tears swirling in her eyes, which was really pitiful.

Lu Jing was too lazy to pay attention to her, just glanced at Tong Tang coldly and said, "I'll talk about your matter later."

After speaking, he looked at Xie Lili again, "You said you have news about Amu?"

Xie Lili was also a little confused about the relationship between the two, so she could only put aside the doubts in her heart for the time being, and nodded, "You told me before about the connection between Amu and 《Martial Arts》, after I went back, I told Cai Wuyang, and she asked someone to inquire about the powerful masters in the Jianghu in the last few hundred years.

"As a result, she really found something, about three hundred years ago, there was a senior whose martial arts were unparalleled, it is said that even the head of the Hanging Temple at that time could not take a sword from him.

"At that time, he was high-spirited and wanted to unify the martial arts world, but he didn't expect that when he was competing with someone, his only daughter was killed by his enemies, when he rushed back, he only saw his daughter lying in a pool of blood.

"Although he later found the enemies and destroyed their family, he was never the same again, and then he disappeared, some people said he lived in seclusion in the mountains, and some people said he entered the Buddhist gate… In short, there was no news.

"Cai Wuyang found the tomb of that senior and his daughter through a strange object, as a result, the former was buried with bones and stone slabs, while the latter was empty, and a small island was engraved on the stone slab."

Lu Jing also became interested when he heard this, "Where is that small island?"

"East overseas." Xie Lili said.

"East Sea?" Lu Jing raised his eyebrows, thoughtfully.

"If you can't spare the time now…"

"No, I don't want to deal with this mess anymore." Lu Jing said decisively, "Is the stone slab with you now?"

Xie Lili nodded.

"Then we'll set off today, hire a boat directly from Yingzhou to go to sea." Lu Jing said, "I'll bring Amu with me."

"So soon?" Xie Lili was a little dumbfounded.

"You yourself said it was urgent." Lu Jing glanced at the girl and said lightly.

"Hehe." Xie Lili scratched her head, she didn't want to inform the official in the capital, she just wanted to stay in Yuzhou to watch the excitement for a while longer.

But going to sea seemed quite interesting, especially sailing on a big ship, to see the magnificent scenery on the other side of the coast, not to mention the thrilling and exciting battle with the pirates.

Thinking like this, the girl's heart was already eager to move.