"Thank you for your mercy!" the elegant middle-aged man said gratefully.
Guo Huai glanced at him and said, "You are from the Righteous Alliance!"
The elegant middle-aged man said humbly in front of Guo Huai: "That's none other than Dong Anmin, the head of the Zhengqi Alliance!"
"I also have some connections with your Zhengqi Alliance. I will give you face this time. I will spare the life of this old Taoist Chongxu!"
Guo Huai's martial arts are mainly from the Tiangang Chunyang Wuji Kung Fu of the Zhengqi Alliance. As the saying goes, he never forgets the well digger.
Although Guo Huai got the martial arts secrets by accident, he still wanted to give some face to his descendants for the sake of Master Chunyang today.
Besides, Guo Huai had calmed down now and felt that it was inappropriate to kill Master Chongxu. He had already injured three of his apprentices, and now that he had defeated Master Chongxu, the anger in his heart was gone.
In essence, there is no deep hatred. As long as it was just holding a breath back then, people will always look down upon some things as time goes by.
Since the leader of the Righteous Alliance is begging for mercy, we simply give him face.
Guo Huai liked to be free and happy and did not want to get involved with people in the court, so he turned around and left.
At this moment, the prince stood up, bowed respectfully and said, "Brother, please stay here!"
Guo Huai vaguely guessed what the prince was calling him. He stopped and looked back at the prince.
The prince sincerely invited him: "I admire Xiongtai's martial arts very much. I want to make friends with Xiongtai. I sincerely invite Xiongtai to come and sit in my house!"
Guo Huai smiled in his heart, he really wanted to win over him, but now that his martial arts was the top in the entire continent, he really didn't want to go into the troubled waters of the imperial court.
The head of the Righteous Alliance then answered: "Brother, I have a lot of martial arts experience that I would like to share with you, such as the Five Thunder and Lightning Palm. Are you interested?"
Dong Anmin's words scratched the itch of Guo Huai. After Guo Huai arrived at Xiantian, his offensive methods were somewhat single. The Five Thunder Lightning Palm was used as a unique skill to suppress the bottom of the box. Unfortunately, the training conditions were too harsh. He really didn't have the energy to specialize in this skill at the moment. Law.
As the head of the Righteous Alliance, Dong Anmin naturally knew how Chunyang Zhenren, the founder of the Righteous Alliance, had mastered this martial art.
So Guo Huai nodded and said: "In that case, I will bother you for a few days!"
The prince smiled bitterly in his heart. It seemed that his face was more important than his own interests, so he followed his advice and said, "My royal family has a collection of martial arts from all over the world. There are many kinds of them! This brother can browse through them as much as he wants when he comes to the house."
Guo Huai felt much better after hearing this. This is an effective bridge of communication!
If you just say silly things that don't save face, who will give you face? The strongest relationship between people is the attraction of interests.
A group of people were walking and chatting, and the prince asked, "Don't you know your surname?"
"If your surname is Guo, the single character is Huai!"
The prince's learned knowledge instantly thought of who this person was. Although he was surprised, he still said politely: "It turns out to be brother Guo Huai! You have a deep connection with our royal family!"
Guo Huai remained silent, thinking in his heart, this is not it!
The fate is too deep!
He almost became your ninth brother-in-law, and he also killed your rival brother Lao Qi. His fate with your royal family is indeed very deep.
Everyone came to the Governor's Mansion in Yunyang County, which is the capital of Ningzhou and is temporarily used as the prince's palace.
The entire mansion is also magnificent, with pavilions, pavilions, ponds, waterside pavilions, rockeries and rocks, and flower beds and bonsai dotted throughout.
A white stone road leads to the main hall, and the interior is so richly decorated that those who didn't know it thought they were in a palace.
The prince sat on the main seat, and Guo Huai was placed in the first position on the left side of the prince. Next to him was Dong Anmin, the leader of the Zhengqi Alliance.
Guo Huai saw that the faction on the left should be innate warriors, and the faction on the right should be the civil servants and generals in the prince's court.
The maids in gorgeous clothes brought all kinds of exquisite food and dishes, and the royal wine was served one after another.
The musicians on one side played silk and bamboo orchestral music, and the melodious sound filled the entire banquet hall. Dancers in pink tulle danced in light clothes. I don’t know, I thought this was the golden age of the Qian Dynasty!
Guo Huai remembered that the last time he was at the military camp of the Seventh Prince of Hongcheng County was the same, but it was not as exciting as the Prince's banquet.
Guo Huai ate delicious food, drank royal wine, and watched the wonderful dance, but what he was thinking about was the ghost town of Shaanzhou, which was deserted for thousands of miles, and Long'an County, which had become a dead city.
While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone!
Regardless of that world, this has not changed!
Guo Huai shook his head and stopped thinking about this problem. This was not something he could change.
The banquet lasted for two hours, and it was already late at night when it ended. The prince even specially arranged for a shrewd Xiaosi to serve Guo Huai.
This Xiaosi was fished out by the prince from the Weishui River last year. Because he is smart and considerate, the prince personally arranged for him to be given to Guo Huai as a Xiaosi tonight.
At Guo Huai's level, as long as he doesn't want to get drunk, he can't get drunk no matter how much he drinks. Guo Huai returned to his residence.
A simple-looking Xiaosi knocked on the door and said, "Sir, I am your Xiaosi. Now I will arrange for my slave to wash your feet!"
Guo Huai sounded familiar to Xiaosi's voice, so he said, "Come in!"
A Xiao Si, about ten years old, wears a green gauze hat with horns, and his blue-grey clothes are clean and decent.
Xiaosi was holding a basin of hot water, and a beautiful maid behind him was waiting with a towel. She wanted to come in and wash Guo Huai's feet.
As soon as the two of them entered the door, Guo Huai recognized Xiaosi. Isn't he the Xiaohu that he had been looking for the year before last?
Guo Huai looked slightly excited and shouted: "Little Tiger!"
Xiao Si suddenly looked up, a little unbelievable, and whispered timidly: "Brother Huai?"
Guo Huai walked over barefoot, put his hands on Xiao Si's shoulders and said, "I felt familiar when I heard the voice just now. I recognized you as soon as you walked in!"
"Why did you start acting like Xiao Si in the prince's palace! I found the Wei River and they said that you fell into the Wei River and drowned while fishing!"
Guo Huai took Xiaohu's hand, asked him to sit on the bed, and said in surprise.
Xiaohu saw that Brother Huai was still treating him well as always, so he felt relieved and said with some excitement: "Originally, my uncle, aunt and I lived in the county town. Later, I heard that the imperial army was passing through and wanted to fight here, so my uncle and the others came. Take me and hide in Niutoushan!"
"Later, more and more people gathered in Niutoushan, and the food everyone brought was not enough, so some people started to rob us, and our food was also robbed!"
"It was at this time that I was distracted. Someone suggested that by crossing Niutoushan, you could go to Ningzhou to make a living, so I followed them in a daze.
Xiaohu's tears were streaming down his face, and he couldn't stop them. "But after passing Niutoushan, a wide stretch of Wei River blocked us in front. We couldn't cross without a boat, and we couldn't go back! We could only go in A shack has been set up by the river, and we can barely make ends meet by fishing!”
"Then I accidentally fell into the water while fishing. I thought I was going to die too. But when I woke up again, I was already on the prince's boat!"
"Later I found out that the prince saw me floating in the water and sent someone to fish me out, so I survived. Later, the prince's men saw that I was quite clever, so they kept me as Xiao Si!"
Guo Huai touched Xiaohu's head and blamed himself: "It's all my fault for not taking good care of you. I'm sorry for your father's dying instructions!"
Perhaps thinking of his father and his own tragic experience, Xiaohu threw himself into Guo Huai's arms and cried loudly.
Xiaohu cried for a long time before he stopped crying, and suddenly said: "Brother Huai, I'll have someone wash your feet, and I'll bring you some hot water!"
Looking at Xiaohu who suddenly matured, Guo Huai's eyes were red. How much sin had he suffered to become so cautious.
Guo Huai looked at Xiaohu's still green and immature face and comforted him softly: "You won't have to live this kind of life of serving others in the future!"
Guo Huai pointed to the beautiful maid kneeling outside and said, "Bring the water over and wash my brother's feet!"
The beautiful maid lowered her eyebrows and came over with a basin in her hand. She knelt beside the bed and was about to take off Xiaohu's shoes and socks.
Xiaohu's face suddenly turned red, and his feet jumped up on the bed as if he was electrocuted. He said hurriedly: "I can't do it, I can't do it! How can Sister Xiaocui let you wash my feet!"
Guo Huai looked at Xiao Hu, whose face was flushed, and there were a few pimples on his green face, and he said thoughtfully: "Xiao Cui, right? You don't need to serve me here anymore. Go back and tell your managers. Xiao Hu will be here from now on." Not going back!”
He turned to Xiaohu again and said, "You can sleep here tonight and we will talk all night long!"
