With the deepening of the learning and handover process, Xin Cheng's doubts became bigger and bigger: "I don't know what the task that Sanqing Pavilion gave to the junior disciple last year?"

Zhao Ran was a little embarrassed and said, "Just let me build a business inn...... Well, it's a little bit bigger......"

"It's just a little bigger...... Nothing else?"

"It's gone. ”

"Okay...... If I knew this was the case, I would definitely not dare to take it, I really couldn't handle it, junior brother. Let's figure out another way and see what we do. ”

Zhao Ran was ashamed and said, "I'm sorry, senior brother." What, what is the task that Senior Brother Dongfang gave you?"

"Take over the business inn and maintain it for a year, waiting for the next Cheng'an to arrive. Senior Brother Dongfang means that he will be restrained and converged next year, after all, he is not here. ”

"Okay...... Wait, what does it mean to 'he's not there'? Where is he going?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell my junior brother, Senior Brother Dongfang is in retreat, and he wants to entrust his life to the Yuan Shen, after this time, he will be a great master, and he really envy my generation. ”

"That's right...... Does the retreat take that long? What about the rewards I have when I go back?"

"Who can say for sure about the retreat...... As for your merits, junior brother, wait a minute, it's not bad for half a year and a year, in short, everyone should stop first. ”

The handover can't be done smoothly overnight, and it takes a while to make the transition. Under Xin Chengan's strong request, the transition time of the handover was extended to one month, in addition to letting Xin Chengan learn and remember all the events of the past year, but also let him learn Zhao Ran's tone, demeanor, and way of moving.

The new Cheng'an selected by Senior Brother Dongfang is very different from Zhao Ran in terms of height, fat and thinness, and after wearing the magic mask, if he doesn't speak, he is almost exactly the same. The key is that this senior brother is good at a Sanqing Pavilion Xuangong, and he can change and imitate the intonation when he speaks, which is really vivid. That's a lot of effort.

The plan of the two is that this new Cheng'an will appear for a while every day, starting from an unimportant time period, gradually coming into the sight of outsiders, and then slowly increasing his chances of appearing, so that the people around him can gradually adapt to Xin Cheng'an, and finally complete the alternative plan. The rest of the time, he worked as a servant at the Jinbo Club, and the whole process lasted for a month.

A month later, Zhao Ran can get out and run away and return to Daming, who has been absent for a long time!

The day after Xin Cheng'an arrived, it was the day of Duanmu Chunming's public execution, and Xin Cheng'an felt the same as Zhao Ran after hearing about it, and felt quite incredible. He really wanted to go to the Nancheng Execution Platform to watch the execution, but after all, the time he came was too short, and for the sake of safety, he could only stay in the club, and Zhao Ran still went to the execution platform to watch.

Zhao Ran took the token given by the monk Xingzhen and rode to Nancheng in a carriage. The torture platform is located at the end of Xuanwu Street in Nancheng, which is the place where the Imperial City Division deals with serious offenders, and at this time it has been under martial law for the Yiwei Division.

Zhao Ran walked three miles south along Xuanwu Avenue and couldn't go over, I heard that at noon today, he was going to publicly behead a Daomen Zhenxiu, and the people of the entire Xingqing Mansion were rushing over here, crowding Xuanwu Street and several surrounding streets to the brim, if it weren't for the desperate maintenance of the Kaifeng Mansion officials and the Imperial City Division's guards, if it weren't for the rows of blade-wielding forbidden troops standing on both sides, it would have been stampeded a long time ago.

Zhao Ran didn't really want to watch the beheading and execution of a Taoist monk, even if the monk planned to use him to "preach", for him, he couldn't help but feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. Besides, you don't have to think about it to know that there must be a large number of monks with cultivation far beyond him near the torture platform, in case it is detected by a bored monk with magical powers, won't it cause some trouble?

Seeing that it was so crowded, he retreated, not because I didn't want to go, but because I couldn't get in the traffic jam!

I was about to order the handlebar to turn the head of the car and go home, but I saw a team of fast horse cavalry squeezed out of the alley on the left, and the leader was Gao Yanei, who served as the general of the left guard of the horse army in the forbidden army of Yiweisi. Gao Yanei saw the familiar car, and immediately greeted him, and said with a smile: "Brother Cheng is also here?"

Zhao Ran nodded: "Tianlong Academy asked me to come over to watch the punishment, but I couldn't squeeze in, it was really uncomfortable, and I was planning to return, so I didn't want to watch the punishment." ”

Gao Yanei said: "Of course Brother Cheng is going, watching the thief's head fall to the ground, it is good to have this evil breath." Today, brother, I am on an errand, guarding the torture platform, and you come with me. "I led more than a dozen cavalry forbidden troops to open the way, walked through the alleys, passed many checkpoints, and finally arrived at the destination.

An officer from the Imperial City Division checked the token in Zhao Ran's hand, and took him straight to a wine shop in the corner diagonally opposite the torture platform.

Zhao Ran went up to the second floor of the wine shop, and a table had been specially left for him here, just by the window, and it was easy to see the torture table in the middle of the field. The bartender served the wine and meat, poured it for Zhao Ran, and went to work with other guests. Zhao Ran looked around, found no acquaintances he knew, breathed a sigh of relief, drank slowly, and waited for noon to arrive while observing the execution ground.

Killing monks and killing ordinary people is definitely different, and with Zhao Ran's sensitivity to the qi of heaven and earth, he immediately discovered it. Just around the small torture platform with a radius of several zhang, there are two magic circles, one for the main kill, and the other for the main defense, and after carefully observing for a while, I found the location of the eye of the array—not on the torture platform, but under the opposite execution platform.

It was the first time he saw a formation with the eyes of the formation outside the magic circle, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and his heart said that this was a good idea of arranging the formation.

The advantage of this formation is that the enemy trapped in the formation cannot find the eyes of the formation, and it is difficult to break the formation. But there are pros and cons to everything, and the weaknesses are equally obvious, the eye of the formation is not in the circle, and it is not in the protection of the circle, and the enemy trapped in the formation can easily break the formation as long as someone is outside to help.

Soon, Zhao Ran noticed a large range of magic circles, and through the speculation of the flow of qi, Zhao Ran knew that this peripheral magic circle was actually a blocking array that isolated mana fluctuations, and the cultivation world generally used this to protect the surrounding people and buildings from spreading the fighting method.

After studying the formation with interest for a while, Zhao Ran couldn't help but be curious, and wanted to see what extravagant characters were in the execution platform directly opposite the execution platform.

But from his point of view, he could only see some side and back scenes: for example, there were about dozens of people sitting on the execution platform, including monks wearing robes, nobles and dignitaries in brocade and silk, military generals with helmets and armor, and so on. If you want to see more clearly, you have to poke your head out of the window, it is too obvious and too abrupt, and when Zhao Ran sees it clearly, others will also see Zhao Ran.

In addition, there are many people watching the execution in the wine shops, shops, and houses around the viewing platform, and the total number is no less than hundreds. These people, like Zhao Ran, are among the invitees, but they are "not allowed to be on the stage".

There are also two teams of Yiwei forbidden army foot soldiers on the left and right of the torture platform, Gao Yanei belongs to the Ma Jun series, he should be on duty on the periphery at the moment, and he is not among them.