Chapter 487 The Mastermind [Ask for monthly tickets! ]

Soon, a banquet was set up in Guo's mansion.

The Guo family was wealthy and had many servants and waiters in their mansion, so it didn't take much time to prepare a table of delicacies from land and sea.

"Sister, I'll toast you." Li Mo picked up the cup and was about to toast, but quickly put it down. "Before that, I'd like to ask, what's your real name, sister?"

"Why do you bring this up?" Mrs. Guo blushed.

"Everyone in Longyuan City calls you Madam Guo, but I know that you also have your own original name. Before you become a wife and mother, you are yourself first..." Li Mo said in a deep voice, "I hope that in front of me, you will use your own name and be yourself..."

Mrs. Guo was moved by what he said and said shyly, "My real name is... oh, I'm embarrassed to say it."

"It's okay, sister." Li Mo continued softly, "Your name must be the most beautiful."

Then Mrs. Guo answered, "Niu Dafen."

"Mrs.... Guo, I actually really admire you, sister. You are a woman, but you have been able to create today's industry by your own efforts." Li Mo tried, but found it difficult to call this name affectionately, so he simply drank the wine in the glass and immediately started the next topic.

"Yeah." Liang Yue was joining in the fun.

After a few drinks, Mrs. Guo's face flushed and she smiled bitterly, "It was all earned by my late husband."

But she only said this one sentence, and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Li Mo struck while the iron was hot and said, "This brother-in-law must be a modest gentleman and a great man of the country, to be able to marry a beauty like my sister."

"No." Mrs. Guo laughed sweetly at his praise and shook her head, saying, "When we first met, he was just a poor scholar who hadn't taken the imperial examination yet, but he seemed to have good knowledge and talent, and he should have a good future. My family was considered to be quite wealthy at that time, so marrying him was considered marrying down. As a result, he passed the imperial examination the following year, and later entered the court as an official, and was soon promoted to the third rank..."

Recalling the past, there was still some melancholy in Mrs. Guo's eyes, as if she missed those days quite a bit.

"A talented man and a beautiful woman, it's really enviable." Li Mo hit his thigh again, "It's such a pity. If my brother-in-law, who was a third-rank official many years ago, were alive today, he would have been a person in the first two rows of the court. How can my sister's wealth and status be compared to what it is today?"

"If I could choose, I would rather be a commoner with him, living a simple life, and at least we could stay together forever. What does it matter if he is a high-ranking official, but ends up like this..." Mrs. Guo's emotions gradually grew stronger, but her voice gradually became lower.

Liang Yue also whispered beside him: "I heard that my brother-in-law was killed by a monster when he was out providing disaster relief. It should have nothing to do with the dispute in the court, right?"

"Heh." Mrs. Guo sneered and seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it, she stopped talking.

Li Mo said immediately: "You are still too naive. Longyuan City is full of tricks. How could a high-ranking official from the imperial court go out to provide disaster relief without being accompanied by a strong man from the Worship Hall? What kind of powerful demon could kill him so easily? I think there must be something fishy going on here!"

"Is there such a thing?" Liang Yue said immediately after hearing this: "I hate to see these dark affairs of the court. If there is injustice, I will intervene no matter what!"

"How can you care?" Li Mo glanced at Mrs. Guo's face and said, "The man who was able to harm a third-rank official back then, who knows what position he has in now? We are just immortal officials of the Evil Slaying Department, how can we interfere?"

"If it's not possible at ordinary times, but I'm dying now, I'm not afraid of anything." Liang Yue looked at Mrs. Guo and said seriously, "Sister, if you have any grievances, tell me. Whoever killed our brother-in-law, I will take away the mastermind no matter what!" Mrs. Guo looked at the two of them singing the same tune and couldn't help but open her mouth, but after thinking about it, she shook her head, "Forget it, it's been so many years, don't let you get into trouble too."

Li Mo and Liang Yue looked at each other. Is there a way?
……

"You want to beat me? No way."

Song Zhili sat beside Lingxi River, facing the clear and transparent water. The fishing rod in his hand was extremely stable and motionless. He just smiled and said something.

Next to him, the other fisherman was Shen Guizang.

Shen Guizang also held a fishing rod and smiled, "Don't forget, this mountain belongs to me, and the fish in this stream listen to me."

"That was before I came." Song Zhili flicked his hand lightly, and the fishing rod flew high up. A silver-white fish was already hanging on it, and its scales reflected the sunlight.

He put the fish into a bamboo basket beside him. It can be seen that in just a short while, there were already many fish in his bamboo basket.

However, Shen Guizang's fish basket was still empty.

But he was not annoyed, and shook his head and said, "Junior brother, your fishing skills are indeed quite accomplished."

"I may have forgotten everything else the teacher taught me, but I still remember this." Song Zhili said, "I took away so many fish today, brother, you won't be angry, right?"

"How could you be so stingy, senior brother?" Shen Guizang seemed to feel the rod moving, and pulled it upwards with great force, but he failed to control the force well, causing the fish in mid-air to jump free and return to the water.

"Alas." He sighed, "Without any cultivation, I am not as good as you guys."

"There are many people who have cultivated themselves in this world, but how many of them can be as free as you, senior brother?" Song Zhili said.

"If you want too much, you will inevitably become obsessed. If there is no opportunity, you may let it go." Shen Guizang said leisurely, "When I first came here, it was His Majesty who brought me here. At that time, he was not yet the crown prince, and I only called him Aduo. We fished and hunted in the villa on this mountain, and we were very comfortable. Since then, for decades, I have never seen him smile like that again."

"Your Majesty is in charge of the country, so you can't help but worry about it." Song Zhili said, "Once Tang Wei conquers the northwest and there are no more powerful ministers in the court, Your Majesty can rest assured and let the prince succeed to the throne. By then, he may come to your Guihai Villa often and go fishing and hunting with you as usual."

"Haha." Shen Guizang put on the bait and cast out the hook again, then said: "How can it be that easy? Even if Tang Wei is going to come out of the mountain, it won't be so easy to send troops to dominate the mountain. Because of these things, it's hard to say how long the court will fight for."

"If we couldn't tell before, but Liangzhou... is about to be in chaos. Tang Wei must send troops at this time, and the pacification of Jiuzhou is just around the corner." Song Zhili said.

"What kind of trouble is going to happen in Liangzhou?" Shen Guizang asked casually. Suddenly, as if he thought of something, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.

Song Zhili said slowly: "His Majesty trusts you so much, Senior Brother. Didn't he tell you about Li Longchan?"

Shen Guizang said nothing, but his hand holding the fishing rod couldn't help but clench.

(End of this chapter)