Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 589: New Friend on the Wall (Part )
Pei Ye once again walked through every corner of the palace carefully, but he knew that this would not produce any results.

If there really are such spiritual realms that have been passed down from ancient times, then those who have mistakenly entered them must have inadvertently met some of their requirements. For thousands of years, hundreds of millions of people have traveled and lived on this land. Xianrentai has searched for them with all its might, but only these few legends have been found.

So before knowing what this requirement is, perhaps no one can get a glimpse of its true face.

He turned around and came back, shaking his head at the little maid leaning against the wall. The girl looked a little discouraged, but not surprised.

"I think it's definitely not that easy. There must be some place we haven't found yet."

Pei Ye had originally only been here to take a look around to get an understanding of the situation today. He was still unfamiliar with the background of the entire case and the palace, and did not expect to grasp any key clues right away.

At this time, he leaned back against the wall and did not refute. He just said: "You said you want to find a passage to Deep Lake City? Why do you want to go there?"

"It's not going to Deep Lake City, it's leaving the city." Meng'er corrected.

"Why are you leaving town?"

Meng'er hesitated for a moment, then closed her mouth and stopped talking.

"What does it matter if you leave the city faster or slower? Why bother looking for a passage here?" Pei Ye said, leaning on his sword. "Although it sounds fun, it's dangerous after all, and your limbs are inconvenient - and isn't this a forbidden area?"

Meng'er was stunned and looked up at him: "What are you talking about?"

"Leave the city. It won't take you many hours to get there by car. Don't come here to look for rumors anymore." Pei Ye tilted his head and said, "Find something else interesting - or is it that your Sixth Prince refuses to take you out of the city?"

Meng'er looked at him in astonishment and wonder: "You...what are you talking about? How could your highness...how could the prince and princess leave Shenjing City?"

"...W-What?"

"Your Highness is the Emperor's daughter. The Emperor's son who is pregnant with Kirin blood... can never leave the capital," Meng'er said seriously in Pei Ye's astonishment, "Your Highness has holy blood in his body, so he cannot leave the watchful eye of the Holy Kirin God."

"..."

"It's me who can't take His Highness out of the city." Meng'er whispered, "The snow is clear and the horses are still herding... Lord Pei, have you ever seen such a scene?"

"...No." Pei Ye paused, "But I will go and have a look later."

"Yes!" The girl nodded vigorously and said with a smile, "Your Highness and I will definitely be able to see it! - I will come again when the snow melts, and I will find that road sooner or later."

He added: "Thank you for your concern, Master Pei. I know this is a forbidden area, but I will be careful not to be caught by the fish inspector."

Pei Ye frowned: "Yu Sicheng? What will happen if he is caught?"

"Why... did you call the fish inspector by his name?" Meng'er was stunned. "Being caught..."

She paused, looked down at the leg with the wooden limb, said nothing, her face slightly pale.

Pei Ye frowned: "How did you lose your leg?"

"..." Meng'er was silent for a while, then whispered, "It was four years ago when I first heard the rumor, and then I wanted to come to this palace at night to take a look... But I was young and clumsy at that time, so I was caught."

"Then the execution broke my leg. When I was treating it later, the doctor said that the bones and tendons were broken, so they had to amputate it."

"...Just," Pei Ye just stared at her for a while, "Just because of this, I broke your legs?...What about Li Youlong? Aren't you her personal servant?"

"It has nothing to do with Her Highness!" Meng'er frowned and said seriously, "I kept it a secret from her... At that time, Her Highness was two years younger than me, only twelve."

She paused, looked up at the sky and recalled, "When I was sent back that night, the lights were off in the palace. His Highness' hair was disheveled, her body was covered in dirt, her shoes were missing, and her eyes were swollen from crying. She hugged me and said that she ran to ask my father for mercy, but she couldn't find His Majesty. She asked the palace servants she saw on the road to take her to find him, but no one dared to respond... She ran around the palace alone until it was dark, and she didn't know what to do."

"Well, actually it's a good thing that we didn't find him. His Majesty usually doesn't come to the harem, and never comes to visit Your Highness. If we disturbed him because of such a trivial matter..." Meng'er sighed lightly and said nothing more.

"Isn't Li Youlong one of the candidates for the throne?"

"Yes, Your Highness has excellent bloodline and is qualified to compete for the throne, so he was granted the Qingsi Palace." She glanced at the young man, "Ah, I know what you mean. Yes, Your Highness has a high status, but... rules are rules, and... Your Majesty has many children, maybe one or two are not important... Well, I don't really understand."

"...So you were tortured like this the last time you were caught," Pei Ye frowned in a low voice, and he became much more serious, "How dare you climb over the palace wall again?"

"Oh, don't worry. I already know when someone is patrolling," the girl said. "And I found a place where I can go through the forest and around to Mingyue Palace. No one will notice me. I've been here several times..."

"It's not a question of whether anyone has discovered it." Pei Ye frowned and looked at her, "but you are doing this for a meaningless reason - you came here just because you heard a rumor, and you don't know what you are looking for, just to 'leave the city'? Don't you think it's ridiculous? This is not a joke, you will lose your life!"

"Everyone has only one life, are you going to waste it on something like this?" he emphasized.

"..."

"I don't know... why you think it's funny and a waste." The girl was silent for a moment, then raised her sparrow-like eyes and looked at him, "Your Highness and I have wanted to go out of the city to see the scenery since we were young. We want to see if the scenery described in the poems is really like that. We want to see... Of course, maybe you think it's no big deal... Then there's no need to laugh at us."

"..."

"..."

"Feel sorry."

"Hehehe, it's okay. We just met. I know you are a good person." The girl said with a smile.

Pei Ye also smiled and said, "If you want to come in next time, you can call me and I will bring you in."

Meng'er opened her eyes wide: "Really... can you?"

"Well, I said you were my temporary assistant." Pei Ye said, "It's not a lie. Since you are keeping an eye on this palace, you might as well tell me what you know."

"What's the matter?" The girl was delighted.

"Anything in the palace is fine, as long as you think it's relevant." Pei Ye said, "I know nothing." "Well... about this palace... I know that His Highness Jinyang would often run in when he was a child." Meng'er said.

"..."

"Because no one cares about her anyway. The other princes and princesses wouldn't dare to do that, not to mention the palace maids."

"...Will His Highness Jinyang come in on his own?"

"Yes, I found it when I first came here. There is an entrance the size of a dog hole under the wall at the back." Meng'er held the wooden limb and said, "I tried it, but it was too small. Only a child of six or seven years old could get in."

She paused for a moment and looked at Pei Ye hesitantly, "Um, Lord Pei, I wonder if I should ask... What is your relationship with His Highness Jinyang?"

"She sent me to the palace to investigate a case, and I helped her with her work, that's all."

"Oh...anyway...His Highness Jinyang is an outlier in the palace, and everyone in Zhujing Palace usually avoids talking about it in private...you should remember to be careful."

"Alien? Why?"

"It's hard to say why, but isn't His Highness Jinyang the only descendant of the late queen?" Meng'er hesitated, "Now the queen is in the mother palace, she is always alone, never attends any festivals, usually stays in the Red Mirror Palace, and wears a mask... There is no maid in the palace, it is deep and cold, and the palace people dare not have anything to do with her. And..."

"And what?"

"And... that, I said those disrespectful words to thank you for letting me go, not to deliberately make up stories about Your Highness. I don't usually say that." Meng'er explained with some concern, as if she didn't want to become a gossiping palace maid, and then she continued, "And, I heard that Your Highness Jinyang was a crazy kid when he was young... He was possessed by an evil spirit or had hysteria..."

Pei Ye frowned, thinking of the cold figure he had talked to this morning: "I'm afraid this is a bit nonsense."

"Oh, really." Meng'er frowned and said, "It was that old nanny who took care of me. She said that His Highness Jinyang couldn't dress properly no matter how old he was, and he couldn't learn etiquette. He was sloppy and would run around without saying a word. He would talk to the empty space next to him incoherently, and he would laugh and make noises with his head raised... Sometimes he would do this suddenly at night, which made her feel very cold and scared."

"..."

"Anyway, the late queen... died in such a way. People say that His Highness Jinyang also has the blood of the demon queen in his body... There are all kinds of rumors. Anyway, this is a big taboo in the palace, so you should remember it."

"…But His Highness Jinyang is also a candidate for the throne."

"Yes, of course, but her bloodline is mediocre, so I'm afraid she won't have much of a chance."

Pei Ye was stunned: "Mediocre?"

"Hmm." The girl said as if it was nothing out of the ordinary. "The one with the thickest unicorn blood is the Fourth Prince, followed by the Second Prince, then the Sixth Prince and the Third Prince, then the Ninth Prince, and finally the Prince Jinyang... When the unicorn blood was measured at the age of six, Prince Jinyang barely made it in, but he was definitely the last."

"But, in terms of power now, His Highness Jinyang is a very prominent figure." Pei Ye was slightly surprised. He himself was not sure, but of course he believed in Xu Chuo's judgment. "It can be said that she is competing with His Highness the Fourth Prince."

"I don't know what's going on outside." Meng'er was a little confused, "But it's true in the palace... Besides, no matter how powerful one is, what's the use? In the end, the successor will still be chosen according to the blood of the unicorn."

Pei Ye was silent for a moment. He didn't know the common sense of the palace, so naturally he had no idea what this prince was thinking. He could only keep it quiet for the time being.

Meng'er tilted her head and asked curiously, "What breed is this cat you have? It's so beautiful and looks so well behaved... Can I pet it?"

Pei Ye glanced over his shoulder and saw the black cat looking at him calmly.

"…You can look at it, but you can't touch it." Pei Ye said calmly, "This is the magic cat I use to investigate cases. It will stop working if someone touches it."

"...Oh." Meng'er looked as if she understood but not quite.

Pei Ye raised his head and saw that the sun was beginning to move to the west. He put away his sword and stood up, saying, "Let's go. Didn't you sneak out here? I'll get you out of here."

"Oh, yes! I almost forgot the time." Meng'er quickly stood up with the help of the wall and followed Pei Ye who was going out with a sword.

When they reached the locked door, Meng'er suddenly felt a little excited and said a little embarrassedly: "Um... you know martial arts, right? Do you want to take me over?"

Pei Ye pulled out the Jade Tiger and slashed it with a clang, breaking the door lock. He turned around to look at her, pulled off the chain and threw it aside.

"Go through the door yourself from now on."

"...Thank you, Lord Pei." Meng'er followed behind with a smile on his face, feeling a little touched and a little disappointed.

Then he added seriously: "Your sword is also very beautiful."

The two of them left the forest and continued along the Taiye Lake. After passing the gardens, they came to a series of palaces. According to Meng'er's pointing, the Zhujing Palace stood alone in the northeastern corner, behind a lonely garden.

The direction of Qingsi Palace was also similar. The two walked together under the vermilion palace wall, which extended to the end to a patch of snow-covered trees. At this moment, there was a noise from the alley next to them, accompanied by the crisp laughter of children. A small person in a red jacket stumbled out and bumped into Pei Ye's legs.

"ah!"

A clear and childish voice came out, and Pei Ye lifted his sword to support her leaning back body. She was a lovely little girl, holding a small net bag in her hand, with a small green pendant on her chest. She looked only six or seven years old, with a round face like a small Yuanxiao. At this time, she opened her eyes wide and raised her head, staring at him blankly.

Pei Ye used his sword to support her. A few busy maids came out from the alley behind. They were stunned when they saw Pei Ye wearing a sword. Meng'er beside her had already bowed and said, "Meng'er, a maid from Qingsi Palace, greets His Highness the Eleventh Prince."

Pei Ye realized it then, took a step back, and bowed: "Greetings, His Highness the Eleventh."

The little girl stood up straight, nodded, and said in a childish voice, "Well, no need to be polite."

He immediately ran forward again, shouting, "I want to catch red carp! You are lying, there is no water here, only at my sister's place!"

The faces of the palace maids behind her were visibly embarrassed and worried. One bent over and chased after her to persuade her, one coaxed her from behind, and one winked at the people behind her as if to call someone over... Pei Ye soon found out why, because the direction the girl was running was the Zhujing Palace that people avoided.

"This is the youngest prince in the palace, His Highness Wuyan." Meng'er also looked at him with a smile, "He is only six years old... the cutest."

(End of this chapter)