Crossing the Sword

Chapter 164 Meng Lei's entanglement

You may not meet someone you want to meet, but sometimes the person you don't want to meet always likes to show up suddenly. Just like Meng Lei now, Ye Shisan claimed his room and was about to go out to look for Xing Tian when he saw Meng Lei just coming back from going out. Ye Shisan and he were not going the same way, so he lowered his head slightly and pretended not to see him.

But Ye Shisan wanted to avoid him, but Meng Lei didn't seem to have that idea. When he saw Ye Shisan, he immediately stepped forward and greeted him enthusiastically, "Isn't this Brother Ye? How come you just arrived today?"

Ye Shisan couldn't continue to turn a blind eye, so he looked up and said in return: "It's Brother Ye. I indeed just arrived today. I'm planning to go find Xing Tian from Jiuli Country for something. You just came back from going out, right?" He said in the first sentence that he had something to do, obviously telling Meng Lei not to disturb him.

But today, Meng Lei seemed to be very ignorant. He still greeted him warmly and said kindly, "We haven't seen each other for such a long time. How about giving me some face today and letting me be the host? There is a special dining hall in this posthouse. The chefs there are all top chefs in Taihao Country. They can make special dishes of a great country. Their cooking skills are really good."

In his heart, Ye Shisan cursed this guy for being so tactless, but he pretended to smile bitterly and said, "But I have some personal matters to discuss with Xing Tian alone, so... Hehe, I'm really sorry, how about I treat you some other day to apologize to Brother Meng?" In fact, he himself didn't even know when this other day would be. The purpose of saying this was just to delay indefinitely.

Meng Lei stepped forward and put his hand on Ye Shisan's shoulder and said, "It's not too late to talk about personal matters after dinner. Anyway, you are not in a hurry, right? Let's get together first and introduce this young master from Jiuli Country to me. It's not bad to make more friends with each other."

Ye Shisan was already a little impatient, and asked him with a wry smile: "Brother Meng, how do you know I'm not in a hurry?"

Meng Lei laughed, looked at Ye Shisan and said, "From the moment I saw you until now, your expression has always been so calm, how can you look anxious at all? Come on, I am usually very stingy, but today is a rare occasion for me to treat you, so don't make excuses to refuse." He said so directly that Zhang Tianya was making excuses to prevaricate him, which made Ye Shisan feel a little embarrassed. He shook his head helplessly and followed him to the wing room of Jiuli Kingdom.

However, Ye Shisan really disliked this guy. Although he was embarrassed to refuse directly, he still said, "Brother Meng, you also know that I offended another master last time. Now you are so enthusiastic to greet me, aren't you afraid that your father will blame you?"

Meng Lei also smiled bitterly and said, "I knew that you were so unfamiliar with me this time because of this incident. Well, in fact, my father was also very dissatisfied with the actions of my uncle's family. He taught them a lesson several times, but to no avail. They were killed by you. To be honest, I don't hate you. As for my father, he just couldn't save face." He said it lightly, but he didn't know that Ye Shisan had listed him as a smiling tiger when he was in Shangdang.

He sneered in his heart, "I don't believe you", but he had no choice but to extend his hand and hit a smiling person, so Ye Shisan had always been polite to him. Now he had no choice but to eat this meal with him reluctantly. But in his heart he thought fiercely: If I don't eat it, it will be a waste. Humph, look at me if I don't eat it today, you little smiling tiger will go bankrupt!

Outside the Jiuli wing, Xing Tian was practicing martial arts with a young man who was about the same age as him. The young man had dark skin and looked very healthy. He held a yellowish-brown sword in his hand, which looked like a real sword. The sword and the axe clashed, and the young man and Xing Tian fought hard. Of course, Ye Shisan could still see that Xing Tian had left room for maneuver everywhere, otherwise the young man would have been defeated long ago.

Noticing the arrival of the two, Xing Tian and the young man exchanged a move and then stopped at the same time. Xing Tian said happily: "Shisan! I knew you would come to participate in the competition. I have been waiting for you for a long time. It seems that you have made great progress. Haha, I won unfairly last time. Let's compete again with this opportunity!" He punched Ye Shisan in the chest.

Ye Shisan smiled and punched back, saying, "Fight if you want. Am I afraid of you?" Then he remembered Meng Lei beside him, so he introduced him to Xing Tian, ​​"This is Meng Lei, the grandson of Meng Zhang, the Qinglong Marquis of Shennong State. He has also heard of your name for a long time and wants me to introduce him to him and treat him to a meal. Who is this brother?"

Xing Tian smiled brightly and said, "This is our king's beloved son, His Majesty Chi Tong, the Crown Prince of Jiuli. Since Brother Meng wants to treat us, let's go quickly. After competing for such a long time, my stomach is beginning to protest against me." Although he had joined Jiuli, Xing Tian's cheerful and unrestrained personality had not changed at all.

The four of them came to the dining hall, and Ye Shisan saw two long black wooden signs at the entrance of the dining hall. On the wooden sign on the right, there was an inscription of "Golden Mountain and Clear Water, Lord Huo De is building a great city". It was obviously the first couplet of a couplet, and the handwriting was sharp and angular, and it was carved with a sharp weapon. Ye Shisan could guess that the martial arts of the person who carved the words must be strong.

The wooden plaque that should have been the lower couplet was blank. Ye Shisan murmured the upper couplet and said to himself, "What does this upper couplet mean? And why is there only the upper couplet but no lower couplet?" The three characters "Lord of Fire" reminded him of the relationship with Emperor Yan, but he didn't know when the words "building a large-scale project" were from.

Xing Tian on the side shook his head and said, "This is a bad habit over the years. Participants, in addition to fighting in martial arts, also like to show off in other aspects. So they put up couplets here for competition. It should be a good martial arts competition, but they have to come up with such a thing. I don't know what those self-proclaimed guys are thinking." Xingtian has never had much self-cultivation. The main purpose of learning characters is just to be able to understand the secret books. Therefore, he has always disdained such martial arts and literary things.

Ye Shisan still felt a little strange and said, "But looking at the content of the couplet, it seems to be related to Shennong Country. Brother Meng, what is going on?" Of course, with his intelligence, he has guessed about 70% of it. But since Meng Lei is here, it is better to let him say it himself.

When Meng Lei heard Ye Shisan's question, he turned to Xing Tian and said with a helpless smile: "I'm sorry, Brother Xing Tian, ​​the self-proclaimed romantic guy you just mentioned is me." Then he explained to Ye Shisan: "It's no wonder that Brother Ye didn't know, after all, you haven't been back to China for a long time."

Ye Shisan nodded and said, "I'd like to hear more details."