Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 588: New Friend on the Wall (Part )
Pei Ye stood up from the steps, pushed open the two doors, and drew aside the curtains. The palace was not as crooked as he had imagined, but dust and decay had indeed corroded it into patches.

After he lowered the curtain, he stopped and walked for a total of eight steps. Standing here and turning his head to the west, he saw the large window with the curtain. The brocade was very solid and had not been corroded or fallen off after all these years.

Pei Ye walked towards it, a total of nineteen steps, which was a full four feet away.

Looking back at the bed from here, it is more than two and a half meters long.

Only then can one truly feel the weight of the word "half a breath" in the volume. They suddenly appear, succeed in one strike of the sword, and fly out of the window... These are the characters in the storybooks when he has not yet recognized the true energy. They move like ghosts, coming and going without a trace, and you will find a crack on your companion's throat when you turn around while chatting.

Yes, in a place like this, you have to find such people.

Pei Ye thought about it, opened the curtains and looked out. There was nothing special about it. There was just a beautiful forest with snowy branches. This was the west side of Mingyue Palace. If the assassin had jumped into the forest from here, Ying Suyu should have had a high probability of fighting him.

People like Jiang Yiner and Yan Feiqing are not good enough, and Zhu Gaoyang might not be good enough either, because they are too talented and have achieved too high a level. They have made rapid progress in their cultivation since childhood and have easily grasped powerful strength. When ordinary practitioners are still in the meridian realm, they have already mastered things like sword of mind and mental techniques.

Deciding on victory with only a sword and a mortal body is an area they are not very familiar with. Only those who have only possessed these two things for a long time know the vast spaces and hidden corners involved, know how to maintain sharp five senses even when losing their true energy, and know how to fight with the weapon itself, with their own bones, and even with their teeth.

He Wujian, the Lord of the Eight Waters, and He Zijia Yiyue Muzhou are such people.

You have to believe in their strength, and believe in the character who was tempered by the underworld under the pressure of famous sects and families.

Pei Ye recreated the scene over and over again. He imagined himself as He Wujian, appearing, assassinating, and leaving in a hair's breadth of time. Then he sat on the steps with the sword in his arms again and again, imagining how he could rush into the hall as quickly as possible... Gradually, he felt like a child watching the fight between two adults.

These are two very simple and clear movements, but to be able to achieve the speed described in the volume with a body that has sealed its true qi is two miracles that have been smelted out.

"If they can suddenly appear anywhere at will, there is no need to choose such an extreme time." The black cat said while standing on the table. The thoughtful boy was quietly pacing around the roof of the palace.

"So the Fantasy Tower is not some collective spiritual realm... but a real spiritual realm. Those silver candle trees, dewy peaches and clear moon..." Pei Ye chose the sentence for a while, "Even if they are illusions, they are illusions in the real world, not illusions in the mind."

"The state I entered under the water of Yangjia Ferry is the same." said the black cat.

Pei Ye slowly raised his hand and touched the air, but it was empty. They had truly experienced the legendary world, but still could not find any trace of it.

"The bedroom should be the most difficult place to assassinate." Pei Ye thought, "This is the Queen's residence. Dangerous swordsmen sit in front of the steps at night, and there are more guards outside the palace... The Queen is away from here many other times, and the defense around her should be weaker... and it will attract more attention."

If Grandpa Yue's sword had been even a fraction faster, the assassin would not have been able to leave the palace, and no one would ever have seen the blood burning in the rain.

Black Cat was quiet for a while: "Perhaps the only place they are sure Wei Qingju will be is here."

Pei Ye was leaning against the pillar thinking, at this moment, his ears suddenly moved, and he pressed the hilt of the sword, and the kitten's eyes also moved slightly.

In the silence of the forest and snow, a strange sound of stepping on snow was heard outside the hall. It should be the footsteps of a person, but it was broken and mixed with the sound of wood hitting stone slabs. The weight seemed like stumbling, but there was a strange pattern and cycle. It came from a different direction from Peiye, not from the main road, but from the side and back.

Pei Ye and the black cat looked at each other, and the black cat jumped onto the beam of the palace. Pei Ye went out to meet the sound, and when he came to the courtyard outside the palace, he saw a small side door on the back wall. The sound was approaching this door, getting closer and closer, and the strange sound of rubbing the snow became clearer and clearer, accompanied by a slight gasp of someone.

After a while, the sound stopped outside the door. I tried to push the door gently, but only heard the sound of the chain.

The people outside didn't seem surprised. They just sighed softly. After two breaths, there were a few sounds of wood hitting stone. Then the panting sound became louder, just about the height of a stone of one and a half feet.

Then the sound seemed to pause for a few breaths, and then with a light and strenuous "Hey!", a slender hand climbed up the eaves of the wall, with its knuckles clenched until they turned white. Then the foot fluttered and kicked twice, hitting the wall with a thumping sound, and finally stepped on a bulge or depression, and a head with long hair pinned up and half of the shoulder rose up.

This time climbing seemed really difficult for her. Her face turned red. She lowered her head and looked for a suitable landing point on the ground. Then she found that it was a bit far from the bluestone under the wall of the courtyard. She couldn't help but frowned in distress.

But the next moment she pursed her lips again, and leaned upwards with all her strength, pressing the wall with her upper body and propping up her lower body. Then she stared at the stone half a meter away, slowly raised her body with her arms, and wanted to rub against the eaves of the wall like this.

Pei Ye couldn't help but ask at this time: "Do you need help?"

“Ahhhhhhh!!!” The girl on the wall shook violently. Her already unstable body lost balance and she fell headfirst, landing in the snow with a plop.

Pei Ye looked at her motionlessly. The black cat jumped down from the eaves and landed on his shoulder, also silent.

Only the falling girl's face was pale with fear. She looked up and saw the tall young man in front of her with a frown on his face, looking down at her with a sword. The chill brought by the iron on his waist seemed to be heavier than winter. A black-bodied, green-eyed raccoon slave squatted on his shoulder, looking equally cold, just like the legendary...

But the next moment she suddenly recognized this familiar face - the one she had just seen...

"Your legs are about to fall off," the young man said.

"Ah?...Oh!" She climbed up and sat up, lowered her head and worked hard to fix the wooden limb. When she raised her head again, she stared at Pei Ye blankly with her eyes wide open, biting her lower lip nervously.

Pei Ye did recognize this face.

He had not seen many faces since entering the palace, and this was one of them. It was the maid behind the Sixth Princess Li Youlong whom he had just seen in Meilin.

She was about the same age as Pei Ye or one or two years older. Her delicate appearance reminded Pei Ye of the sparrows in the mountains. She looked a little panicked. She was still wearing the same clothes she wore in the morning. Her hands were red from the snow and wind during the climb. Her cane was gone, replaced by a wooden limb that looked relatively suitable.

"What are you doing here?" Pei Ye asked.

"I, I... am lost." The girl stuttered.

Pei Ye stopped talking and just looked at her.

After a few breaths, the girl became a little panicked and said cautiously: "Um, um...are you the guard here? I, I didn't come in on purpose..."

"Didn't you step on the rocks and fall here on purpose?"

"..."

Pei Ye glanced at the wall covered in snow, then looked at her panting face, and said, "Does the Sixth Prince know that you are here?"

"No! I don't know!" the girl said hurriedly, "I did it without telling the Sixth Prince... Sir, you can do whatever you want to me, the Prince doesn't know about it!"

When she said the word "disposal", her voice was obviously trembling, and her hands were clenched on the corners of her clothes and turned pale.

Pei Ye was silent for a moment. He had thought that such a personal attendant of the emperor's son should be an important figure in the palace, just like a "seventh-rank official of the prime minister's doorman", but this huge and solemn Daming Palace did not seem to be what he imagined. He lowered his eyes and glanced at the girl, and said, "Why should I punish you? I am investigating a case here. You do yours and I do mine. Just don't disturb me." After that, he turned and walked into the hall.

The girl was stunned, as if she couldn't believe that she was just turning the page. Pei Ye walked back to the hall, and after two breaths, the strange and flustered "footsteps" followed her in, panting slightly, "You, you... let me go?"

Pei Ye was a little amused and turned around and said, "Since you are afraid of me, why don't you run away quickly and chase me to ask - what if I change my mind?"

When she saw him smile, the girl was no longer afraid and smiled brightly: "If you don't change, I don't think you are a bad person."

She walked over with a light and heavy step, and asked hesitantly: "What...what are you checking here?"

"Investigate the case of the late queen's assassination. Do you know anything about it?"

"..." The girl was stunned, "I was eighteen years old. I wasn't even born at that time."

"Oh."

"Besides, the palace doesn't allow anyone to mention it. No one knows about it. Isn't this a big unsolved case? It's been so long, how are you going to investigate? ... I see that you are not that old."

"The people who committed the crime know that they are still alive, and I can find out."

Pei Ye glanced at her breathless face and sat down on the ground first: "Sit down and take a rest - what's your name?"

The girl supported herself against the wall with her hands and slowly lowered her body to sit on the ground: "My name is Meng'er, and you, um... I heard from His Highness that your name is Pei Ye, and it seems that you defeated the Fourth Prince in front of the Suzaku Gate?"

She looked at the boy curiously and cautiously, with a somewhat novel look on her face.

Pei Ye nodded. It was almost noon. He took out a cold steamed bun from his bag and ate it. "Yes, it happened before the New Year."

"How did you fight?" Meng'er gestured curiously and inexplicably, "I heard you used a sword... Aren't you afraid of hurting people?"

"It wasn't a big fight. I just used one sword and cut his throat." Pei Ye said, "Of course it's inevitable to get injured when fighting in a ring. If the emperor hadn't rescued him in time, I would have accidentally killed him."

Meng'er's eyes widened for a moment, looking very shocked, and she didn't say anything for a long time.

But after a while, she stared at Pei's rolling Adam's apple again and tilted her head and said, "You... are from outside, right?"

"Outside the palace? Yes." Pei Ye chewed a bun.

"Then, aren't you a eunuch?" The girl looked at him curiously with a slight blush.

"..." Pei Ye looked at her and chewed a bun, "What do you mean?"

"It doesn't make any sense," the girl looked at him with a frown, "I don't think there's any difference - well, if you're not a eunuch, would your skin be darker?"

"There are also white ones." Pei Ye didn't want to discuss this topic. He swallowed the bun and asked, "You haven't told me yet, what exactly did you come here for?"

"..."

"Ok?"

"Then I'll tell you, but don't tell it in the palace." Meng'er frowned and said seriously.

"I won't tell anyone."

"Well, I came in to find...if there's a way out of the city."

Pei Ye was unable to react for a moment: "City? What city? The imperial palace?"

"Shenjing City."

"..."

"Because, I once heard an old palace maid tell a rumor. She said that when they were young, some people secretly guessed that the Queen's Mingyue Palace led directly to Shenhu City, because the Queen was not only as beautiful as the Goddess of Luo River, but also as ethereal as the Goddess of Luo River." Meng'er said in a low voice, "So, I wanted to find a way out of the city."

Deep Lake City is a huge auxiliary city in the north of the capital. It was built when the barbarians moved south to cushion the enemy's offensive into the capital. It was named after the bank of Long Lake. Although the horses of the barbarians did not step into the city in the end, the solemnity and grandeur of Deep Lake City is still the same as it was back then. It is an empty and desolate old city. Even though people have moved in for more than 20 years, it still has a desolate reputation.

It is more than four hundred miles away from the capital.

So Pei Ye couldn't help but be a little stunned and amused at this time, looking at her: "What do you mean by 'directly connected'? What kind of road are you looking for? Do you think there is a tunnel dug under this palace that connects to 400 miles away? - The spiritual mysteries are forbidden in the palace, and the formations such as the distance between heaven and earth cannot be used."

The girl was a little confused, and looked at him with a pair of lively brown eyes: "I... I don't know..."

"..."

So Pei Ye was also stunned. At this moment, he suddenly realized that the girl in front of him grew up in the palace, and all the common sense of the outside world was very unfamiliar to her.

Pei Ye always believed that he was born in a remote mountain area. Although this place is the center of the center of the Tang Dynasty, it is also another kind of remoteness isolated from the world.

Pei Ye didn't say anything more. This rumor was also a clue for him, so he tilted his head and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Meng'er was silent for a moment and shook her head.

She seemed a little depressed, and whispered after a while: "You are right, I don't know anything, so naturally I don't know what to look for... Sorry, I made you laugh."

"It's not that bad. It's not as funny as the way you fell just now."

"Ah?!" The girl easily broke through her silence and laughed, but she didn't have the usual coquettish look. She just said angrily, "Why do you talk like that?"

Pei Ye saw her smile, so he stood up with his sword in hand: "Since you mentioned it, I'll look for it."

(End of this chapter)