Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 585: The Girl in the Deep Palace (Part )

Then two clear laughs were faintly heard in the forest, and that came from another voice, but no words were heard. After a pause, the melodious sound of a flute was heard in the forest.

The eunuch walked forward without saying a word. Almost all the time, the guide lowered his head slightly, just enough to see the road ahead. Pei Ye did not follow him step by step, but he also carefully controlled his sight.

They did not cover their footsteps, so the flute music had stopped when they reached the pavilion. Plum blossoms shaded the branches, and the green tiles were covered with snow, leaving a clear space in the pavilion. A noble and reserved girl was sitting by the pavilion, holding a collection of poems. She heard the footsteps and cast a look at them. She was very beautiful, with an elegant temperament, and the makeup under her left eye was as red as tears.

The eunuch stopped and bowed, "Good morning, Sixth Princess. I am ordered to bring Pei Yanjian into the palace to perform official duties."

Pei Ye also bowed and said, "Pei Ye greets the Sixth Prince."

The girl glanced at him. Even though it was covered with snow, Pei Ye still felt for a moment that he was in a mossy courtyard in the cold rain, which did not match the cheerful poetry he had just heard.

Then Pei Ye noticed the maid of similar age behind her. She was dressed in a light green brocade, holding a flute in her hand and looking over. Her expression and temperament matched her clear laughter, but her lips were pale and showed a hint of weakness, and her shoulders and neck were tilted strangely. Pei Ye's eyes moved downwards and then retracted immediately - she had almost lost her left leg and walked with a wooden crutch hidden behind her.

"Yes, it's Master Pei." The girl closed the book and nodded slightly, "I saw your heroic figure from afar on the Winter Sword Stage that day, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

Pei Ye didn't know who watched the sword bet that day, but he had learned before he came that the Sixth Princess Li Youlong was also a candidate for the throne with a strong unicorn bloodline, but he had not heard of any forces supporting her, so she was like a lonely person.

"My skills are limited, and I am ashamed of your attention."

"Young man, you are too modest." The girl's voice was also very quiet, as if she had no desire to talk. "Young man, are you going to pay a visit to Zhujing Palace? There is no need to delay, please go ahead."

"Zhujing Palace" was an unfamiliar word. Pei Ye guessed that it was the residence of His Majesty Jinyang Palace. He clasped his fists and bowed with the eunuch, then left the pavilion.

After walking a few steps, the melodious sound of the flute began to sound behind him, mixed with a few faint broken laughs.

Pei Ye didn't know how big the imperial garden was, but he went north all the way. After a while, he finally left the garden. Then he saw a vast expanse of ice reflected in front of him.

If you look down, the willow trees in Merlin look like tiny frost flowers on the edge of a mirror.

Taiye Lake, the first of the eight imperial lakes, is worthy of being called a lake. Boats are frozen on the ice at the edge of the lake. Pei Ye's eyes are fixed on the east bank. A large pavilion is built there. In the pavilion stands a person in a fluttering red dress, but there are no palace servants. She looks at the frozen lake. Pei Ye doesn't know how to describe this scene. The red dress is the only bright color. There are many eunuchs shaving ice by the lake, but no one approaches the pavilion.

The eunuch in front of him also stopped at this time, bowed and said: "His Highness Jinyang is already waiting, Yan Jian will go by himself."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, nodded, and walked towards the Huiying Pavilion. When he stood at the edge of the pavilion, he suddenly felt something and turned to look at the pool. Many palace servants had lowered their heads and retracted their gazes, but the gazes and whispers just now did not seem to be an illusion.

"No need to stand outside, come in." The man in red in the pavilion said indifferently.

Pei Ye felt a chill inexplicably. The emotion in the voice seemed to be the same temperature as the wind and snow. He climbed the steps and entered the pavilion. The long-famous Jinyang Highness turned her head to him. Her red dress was covered with an overly beautiful figure. Her long hair was also tied with a red rope and fluttered in the morning breeze. However, the "national beauty" mentioned by Xu Chuo was not seen by Pei Ye. She had a light gold mask on her face, revealing only a pair of deep and cold eyes. Pei Ye noticed that these eyes were obviously different from those of Li Youlong, whom he had just met. Li Youlong's pupils were small, light gray and light, and a little green, which made him look indifferent. The eyes of the person in front of him were also light and cold, but the pupils radiated, as clear as ice water, and if you look closely, you will see a magnificent variety of things, which can easily make people stunned at a glance.

"I am Pei Ye, your humble servant, greeting His Highness." Pei Ye bowed.

"No need to be polite." Li Xizhou turned his head, still looking at the frozen Taiye Lake, and said slowly, "The land under our feet was called Haojing in the Western Zhou Dynasty four thousand years ago."

"..."

"Two hundred years after the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty, fifty-four years after King Mu of Zhou ascended the throne, the envoy of the Queen Mother of the West came to the Zhou court to meet him. King Mu treated him as a guest and granted him residence in Zhao Palace. The name of this envoy is not recorded in the history books, and we can't find the remains of Zhao Palace now..." Li Xizhou was silent for a while as if talking to himself, and continued, "Fifty-five years later, the envoy from the West stabbed our king. On the winter solstice, the king died. Snow covered the capital of Hao, and soldiers all over the country wept."

"..."

Li Xizhou turned around and said, "This is a record in the Jizhong Chronicle. As far as I know, only Xianrentai has the only copy. In the past thirty years, Xianrentai has conducted countless searches and research, so it is probably credible."

Pei Ye listened quietly with a frown on his face.

"When King Zhou Mu was assassinated, he was already in his twilight years. He had already completed his tour of the four seas and held at least the complete [Jianglou] and another immortal power whose name he did not know. As the common ruler of the world, the famous craftsman Yanshi built the capital for him, which connected him with Haojing." Li Xizhou said, "It's probably like the Qilin today, whose lifeline is connected to the country. To assassinate him in his capital, in his palace, is still incredible thousands of years later."

"……Did you make it?"

"'殁' means dead." Li Xizhou said.

"Oh."

"But the outcome is unknown, because the Immortal Terrace only has these few words. The so-called 'Winter Solstice, King Dies', does it mean that the fight between the king and the envoy lasted for a whole year, and no one could intervene, and the king was defeated in winter, or that King Mu killed the assassin but exhausted his own life and died after surviving spring, summer and autumn? After all, there is no answer." Li Xizhou said, "But there is one thing recorded in the ballad, which has been passed down for thousands of years more reliably than the history books."

She recited: "The poem "Zhou Feng·Hao Lou" says: 'Hao Lou is heavy, fish and birds are lingering; there are wandering girls in the sky, beyond imagination'."

"……What's the meaning?"

"I think that in the fifty-fifth year of King Mu, the people of Western Zhou saw two Haojings."

"..."

(End of this chapter)