Early the next morning, Shu Guan sat in the pavilion.
Fifth senior brother An Zichun and third senior sister Rui Jianqiao had left Shanji Guan earlier just now. Apart from saying "be careful" again, Shu Guan was not too worried.
After Rui Jianqiao and An Zichun walked out of the mountain gate, Shu Guan made himself a cup of tea, then lit a pot of cigarettes, preparing to start working as a substitute today.
While waiting for today's newspaper to be delivered, Shu Guan was smoking a cigarette and pondering one thing.
Last night, he heard something from his second senior brother Mu Yao.
That was the Yuelan Academy's operation to hunt down the girl, which failed.
After receiving the information he provided, Yuelan Academy successfully caught the young man next to the girl and found out where the girl was hiding.
But when Su Jie, the headmaster of Yuelan Academy, rushed to the hiding place with his disciples, what awaited them was only a fire, and the girl was nowhere to be found.
Shu Guan was indeed a little surprised when he heard the news.
The news that I told Yang Jianqing was stolen directly from the young man's mind through the Kirin ornaments. Logically speaking, it would not arouse the other person's alertness.
In fact, since the young man would be caught, it means that the girl had not noticed anything unusual at that time.
Then the news should have been leaked after the young man was caught. The girl realized something was wrong and escaped first.
Is it because the young man's hands and feet were manipulated by Taoism, and if an accident occurs, the girl will know about it?
Or is it that someone leaked the news and notified the girl in advance?
Both possibilities exist.
Especially the second possibility, maybe a certain Yuelan Academy member had been deceived by the girl at that time and reported the girl at the critical moment.
This is the possibility that Shu Guan can think of so far.
Finally he sighed, feeling a little regretful.
After this time, the girl's vigilance will naturally become even higher, and it will be even more difficult to find traces of her again.
At this time, little Taoist priest Xuancheng delivered today's newspapers.
Shu Guan chatted with him for a few words, and then started sorting newspapers.
And by the lake outside the pavilion, the senior brother and the four-legged snake were making a fuss.
The crown that was thrown into the lake by the senior brother yesterday was fished out by the four-legged snake at some point.
And it seems to want to give the crown to its elder brother. Every time the elder brother takes the crown, he always throws it away. Then the four-legged snake spreads its legs, runs over and picks it up again. I don’t know what it is. What are you insisting on?
This is the monkey and lizard version of throwing a Frisbee!
Looking at the scene by the lake, Shu Guandi muttered, and then he was attracted by a piece of news in today's "Jingcheng Daily".
At the lakeside, something quite interesting happened at this time.
That is, after trying countless times to hand over the crown to the senior brother, but always being thrown away by the senior brother, the four-legged snake seemed to finally be discouraged.
It was holding the dark crown in its mouth, lying on the grass by the lake, breathing heavily.
Seeing that the four-legged snake finally calmed down, the senior brother began to sit by the lake in a daze as usual, and soon entered a state of wandering and otherworldly.
At this time, the four-legged snake that originally seemed to have given up turned around a few times with a pair of golden vertical legs, then quietly stood up, as if going to play in the lake, and passed by the senior brother, Climb towards the lake.
But before half of its body had entered the lake, it suddenly stood up, threw its huge head back, and the crown in its mouth flew out and landed accurately on the top of the senior brother's head. above.
Who said this four-legged snake was stupid?
The senior brother who was put on the crown raised his head and glanced at the four-legged snake, his eyes were extremely confused, a little helpless and resigned.
Then he fell to the ground with a plop and began to tremble all over.
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Shu Guan read the news in the newspaper seriously and did not notice what was happening by the lake at this time.
This news is about the new consul of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun who has just arrived in Jingcheng.
The new consul named Takeo Nakata held a press conference the day before yesterday. At the meeting, he severely condemned the killing of protesters in Dahua due to patrols by the Jili Empire a few days ago, and then went on to preach. A blueprint for establishing an alliance of Eastern Continent countries proposed by the Kingdom of the Rising Sun a few years ago.
Then he proposed that the Rising Sun Kingdom was willing to provide a low-interest loan to Chuzhou Province to help Chuzhou build various industrial facilities. Of course, the premise was that they needed to be built by their Rising Sun Kingdom companies.
In addition, he also expressed his willingness to provide a batch of weapons to Xu Pingxi's army, and to have instructors from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun help Xu Pingxi train the army, and so on.
These remarks by Takeo Nakata caused a huge response in Jingcheng, especially in the industrial and commercial circles. It is said that yesterday many well-known people in the industrial and commercial circles in Jingcheng and even Chuzhou went together to see Xu Pingxi, the warlord of Chuxiang, and asked him Agree to Nakata Takeo's proposal to obtain the low-interest loan from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
But so far, Xu Pingxi has not responded to the proposal of a new consul from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
...As long as old man Xu doesn't have water in his head, he probably won't agree...
After reading this news, Shu Guan thought so.
The intention of these proposals of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun is actually very obvious, which is to control the entire Chuzhou Province economically and militarily. Even those who are not a time traveler like him, anyone with a little knowledge in this era can also see it.
Can people like those from the business community who petitioned Xu Pingxi really not see this?
Those people naturally knew it well, but they still went to Xu Pingxi to petition, with nothing more than two words, "interests."
That low-interest loan could bring them great benefits, so Chuzhou's interests were forgotten by them, like a group of vultures waiting around a dying person, just waiting for that person to die. Just go up and carve up the corpse.
In this era, too many people’s hearts have fallen.
Shu Guan sighed, thinking that Old Man Xu must be having a hard time these days.
Then at this moment, Shu Guan suddenly found that there was a figure beside him.
Shu Guan quickly raised his head in surprise.
Because for him now, even Li Zhixia couldn't let him get close without noticing.
Then Shu Guan found the senior brother standing next to him.
The eldest brother stood next to him, tilting his head and looking at the newspaper in his hand, and on his head was the crown.
Seeing Shu Guan raise his head, the senior brother grinned at him.
Shu Guan froze there.
Because of the look he exchanged with his senior brother, Shu Guan noticed that his senior brother's eyes were so clear at the moment. Not only was he no longer confused as he had been during this period, but he seemed to be clearer than before.
Shu Guan immediately understood what happened.
"Elder brother, are you awake?"
Then he called out in surprise.
Sure enough, what the second master said was right. Whether the senior brother is crazy or awake, it always comes suddenly.
But this might not be too sudden.
Shu looked at the crown on the top of Senior Brother's head. He didn't know when Senior Brother put it on, and he didn't know if Senior Brother's sobriety had anything to do with the crown.
But judging from Senior Brother's attitude towards the crown yesterday, it probably doesn't matter.
But what the senior brother said next moment made Shu Guan stunned again.
"Yes, I woke up, thanks to you for bringing this thing back."
The golden-haired ape stretched out his paw to flick the crown on his head, and smiled at Shu Guan again.
His smile suddenly made Shu Guan feel a little strange.
Then the eldest brother jumped on the stone table and squatted like a monkey... Oh, the eldest brother was actually a monkey.
But Shu Guan still felt that the senior brother at this moment was weird.
Because when the eldest brother was sober in the past, he always spoke in polite words and imitated them in every move he made.
But the senior brother who was squatting on the stone table didn't seem to care about this anymore. He seemed to be a real monkey.
The golden-haired ape scratched his cheek and continued talking.
"Actually, a few days ago, the state in which you thought I was going crazy was the closest I got to 'waking up'."
"And when you think I'm awake, I'm actually asleep."
He said this to Shu Guan.
Shu Guan looked at his senior brother blankly, somewhat confused.
But vaguely, but also as if he understood something clearly.
Because he was sleeping, there was nothing wrong with him... He was going crazy because he was about to wake up... Is that right?
"But in these thousands of years, I could never wake up on my own, until you brought it to me."
The golden-haired ape once again held up the crown on his head.
Shu Guan noticed that the senior brother still had six ears on the side of his head.
In the past, when senior brother was awake, the other four ears could not be seen.
"Logically speaking, I should be very grateful to you for getting my crown back, but to be honest, I don't want to thank you at all."
The golden-haired ape sighed and continued to Shuguan:
"You see, from yesterday to now, I don't know how many times I have thrown this thing away. Although I was still asleep at that time, it shows that deep down in my heart, I should be very resistant to this thing."
He smiled bitterly at Shu Guan, and then said a proverb from the Western Continent.
“Because if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight.”
Shu Guan still sat there blankly, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar senior brother.
He was now very sure that the eldest brother had really woken up, and he was also sure that the eldest brother was the one he had guessed.
It's just... when such an earth-shattering figure wakes up, shouldn't some earth-shattering things happen?
Is a mediocre scene like this really the right way for a big man to awaken?
Shu Guan always felt a little unreal.
