Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 621: The Old Site
Pei Ye already knew what he wanted to ask. He had gone there for Yu Sicheng in the first place. The construction of Yuxian Garden and his current omnipotence in the palace could not possibly be unrelated to him.

But now Pei Ye can't beat him.

[Mercury Hua Fu Raft] is indeed a monster in the Daming Palace. It was born purely for this place. Even without mentioning the enormous fighting pressure brought by its strange joints, causing damage to it is an unsolvable problem in itself.

That's why he sat in front of the old designer at this time.

As time passed, Pei Ye understood more and more deeply the medical principles that Qu Xin talked about. It was indeed the behavior of a cultivator to directly and roughly enter the state of mind and continue to sort out the symptoms. The profoundness of medicine lies in treating a person as a person rather than a problem. In an almost gentle way, acupuncture and medicine are slowly applied to adjust the internal mechanism, communicate from the outside to the inside, and use the five senses as a bridge to allow the patient to let down his guard in comfort and tranquility and expose his trauma.

Only the patient himself understands the steps of destruction, and only when he stands up can he truly rebuild everything.

The disappearance of the barrier in Guo You's heart was so clearly reflected on his face: his half-open mouth closed, his tense facial muscles relaxed, and his eyes, whose focus was never aligned with the real scene, gradually closed. His pupils slowly shrank back in front of his eyes, as if they were being brought back from a distant, unreachable place.

No one made a sound, but he actually moved his head as if looking at the furnishings in the hall.

Pei Ye said softly: "Qu Xin, you are so amazing."

Qu Xin's expression did not change, and he was completely immune to this ordinary praise.

"Can you teach me this prescription?"

"Do you want to become Taishan's disciple?"

"Aren't you trying to benefit all the doctors in the world? Why are you still so biased?"

"Are you a healer?"

"You taught me, and I am one."

Qu Xin glanced at him and said, "When you are familiar with it, I can teach you some simple and clever medical methods. But "Lingshu Kouxinlu" is a very profound medical classic. Although it looks simple to use, it is actually a very high test of the medical practitioner's attainments. Acupuncture, pharmacology, meridians, Shenshu, experience... But if any of these is not good enough, unpredictable situations may occur. When using this technique, a new plan must be made for each patient. It is not enough to just give acupuncture and medicine."

Pei Ye didn't listen to the rest of the conversation, he just frowned slightly: "What do you mean by 'we'll be familiar with each other later'? Aren't we familiar with each other now?"

Qu Xin tilted his head and looked at him: "Can I take a muscle out of you?"

"No."

"Look." The girl turned her head away coldly, as if this was enough to prove that their friendship was still shallow.

Pei Ye held his chin up and stopped talking. Qu Xin suddenly said, "Guo You."

The old man looked up in surprise.

Pei Ye straightened up, and Li Xizhou also looked over.

"Okay, thanks to Xuanmen's good physique, this step is very successful." Qu Xin lowered his head and picked up the thin threads on the table. After straightening them one by one, he shook them gently. It was as if a thin silver light splashed above Guo You's head, and thirty-two soft needles flew out at the same time.

Qu Xin circled it with her slender fingers and held it neatly in her palm, but Pei Ye no longer looked at her. He stared at the old man in front of him, his waist and legs slightly straightened, and his body subconsciously tensed up.

Guo You seemed to come alive.

There was still a daze on his face, and his eyes hardly looked at people's faces, but Pei Ye clearly felt that he was in the sight of a Xuanmen. Even if there was no hostility revealed, when you are within two meters in front of him, the threat is actually lingering.

"...Guo You?" Pei Ye asked tentatively.

The old man's eyes fell on him.

"I want to ask you a few questions." Pei Ye looked into those eyes and said, "Do you still remember the [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] from twenty-four years ago... It is said that it was made of the bones of a dragon's shed. What is that?"

Guo You stared at him intently. Under Pei Ye's waiting gaze, the old man actually opened his mouth, stunned, as if talking to himself, but also as if giving a serious instruction: "The bones of the dragon's slough... The bones of the dragon's slough were given by the Empress, and cannot be moved lightly. The Empress ordered that we need to... need to extract from it... extract... Oh, by the way, it has been used to forge the [Mercury Hua Fu Raft]."

He murmured, like a person with amnesia picking up memories scattered on the ground.

"Yes, you used this kind of Jiao gold to design the body of [Mercury Hua Fu Raft]. Do you remember what its weaknesses are?" Pei Ye leaned forward and asked.

“Mercury floating raft…Mercury floating raft…Gold is the bones, mercury is the marrow, that is the immortal body of a mortal…Do you want it too…” Guo You’s lips slightly curved up, like a child’s smile, as if he remembered more and more things. He lowered his head and said in a daze, “Weakness…How can Jiaojin have any weakness? It’s just that I haven’t—”

He suddenly stopped talking and stopped there. There was silence in the hall. Pei Ye was slightly startled and raised his hand and said, "Guo——"

His pupils suddenly shrank, and he jumped up to avoid it. The first thing he did was to protect Qu Xin beside him. But a moment earlier, the girl's white hand had gently pushed on his waist, and a soft force had thrown him away. At the same time, the girl's fingertips flicked, and a thin needle cut a water curtain in the air, blocking Li Xizhou.

The crazy old man with a bare head and a cloak suddenly jumped up, and when he came into contact with the outside world, he seemed to have regained his strong body. His jumping posture was ugly, and he didn't control his balance well. He stumbled against the pillar and knocked over Li Xizhou's desk when he fell down.

But the next moment he was swept out of the palace gate like a gust of wind. Half a breath later, a loud bang was heard from outside. It was the sound of the main door being knocked open.

Li Xianfang came over with a basin of freshly boiled hot water and stood there blankly.

Pei Ye sat on the ground ten feet away and looked up at the girl standing quietly: "Is this 'unpredictable situation' due to some inadequacy of Doctor Qu's skills?"

Qu Xin glanced at him calmly and said, "Not an assistant."

Li Xizhou said, "Stop making a fuss. This shows that Qu Xiaoyaojun is hitting the core of the problem. We must catch up with him quickly."

She lowered her head to brush off the candle wax that had spilled on her skirt. When Pei Ye suddenly changed her mind, her eyes fell on this prince. Before the desk was knocked over, she stood up and jumped nimbly, as light as a deer.

"Your Highness has good eyesight." Qu Xin said calmly, "But don't panic. I left a magnetic needle on him just for this moment."

After saying that, he took out a small disk and handed it to the boy.

Pei Ye stood up and took it: "Your patient, aren't you going?"

"Today's medical work is done. There is nothing else I need to do." Qu Xin lowered his head and put the box away. "Ask whatever you need to ask. Just bring him back before this time tomorrow."

Pei Ye sighed softly and raised his sword: "I am also a wounded soldier who has just been stitched up. I have to run around again."

"Because of this situation, I used stitches that are not easy to break."

"..." At this time, the woman next to him wiped her hands with a silk handkerchief and said calmly, "I'll go with you."

Pei Ye was startled and turned his head. The exquisite golden face was looking at him.

"You and Yu Sicheng have fought a life-and-death battle, so don't act alone in the palace. If you want to leave Zhujing Palace, try to come with me."

"...Oh, as your Highness commands."

"Let's go." Li Xizhou gently stretched her arms downward, and the kitten on the chair climbed onto her shoulders. "Let's go and see where this Imperial Guards Chief has gone."

……

Although they were delayed in the hall for a while, it was actually only a moment. When the two walked out, Li Xizhou looked at the cracked wood grain on the door and sighed. When he looked up again, he could still see a small black dot in the remaining snow in the west.

Although Pei Ye could gather his energy to chase after him, the man in red in front of him had no cultivation, so the two of them just walked slowly along the road.

This was probably the first time Pei Ye followed this woman in red since entering the palace. The palace servants they met on the way cast their eyes on them, then avoided them from a distance.

The woman seemed used to it, looking down at the small disk: "It's walking so straight, does this person just bump into a tree or something... Why doesn't my mother's confidant seem to be very smart?"

Pei Ye didn't say much. It was true that Guo You's route was very wild, passing by the rockery, pond, dense forest and high slopes. Li Xizhou didn't have such ability, so the two of them chased him along the way.

Gradually, the palaces became less and less crowded, the old snow had not been swept, and no palace servants could be seen. This was the northwest direction of Daming Palace, separated by Mingyue Palace, and as deserted as ever.

The two followed the footprints, taking one deep step and one shallow step, and came to a dilapidated courtyard. With a wide gate and high eaves, one could see the dignity of the old days. However, the degree of decay was even worse than that of Mingyue Palace, and now it had become a sparrow's nest or a bat's lair.

Now the rotten door was knocked open by a huge force, and half of the door leaf fell to the ground, and from then on, a passage was waded straight in.

Pei Ye looked up and asked, "What is this place?"

"It used to be the General Directorate of Works," Li Xizhou said. "This government office was in charge of carving objects in the palace. It used to be located in the palace, but it moved out 20 years ago. I guess few people remember that it was still here."

The two men stepped over the threshold and went in. The room was also very quiet and Guo You's voice could not be heard. It was not until they reached the innermost part that they saw the figure again.

The old man knelt on the ground helplessly, looking around blankly, muttering: "Where are the people... Why are they all gone..."

Li Xizhou stepped into the door, Pei Ye took two steps forward to stand in front of her and approached the kneeling figure.

"...Someone has to come quickly...Someone has to come quickly...I have to finish the mercury floating raft quickly..." He muttered in a daze.

"Guo You, did you design the Mercury Hua Fu Raft here before?"

"Yes... yes..." Guo You raised his eyes and looked at him again, "You, who are you?"

Pei Ye was silent for a moment. Seeing that his cognitive state was still the same as 24 years ago, he said calmly, "I am the guard in front of the queen's palace. The queen sent me to inquire."

"Your Majesty...what does Your Majesty want to ask?"

"What is the weakness of this body of [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] that you designed, and how to defeat it?" Pei Ye went straight to the point.

"Weakness..." Guo You was stunned. "What weakness does [Mercury Floating Raft] have?"

“……” Pei Ye was stunned.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty. The golden dragon body that Yangyilou and I constructed is driven by Your Majesty alone. It will never...never have any weaknesses." Guo You whispered, and stood up, "You, you come and see..."

He staggered to a dirty, half-rotten table, and with a sweep of his arms, pushed all the debris down. "You... you see, first of all, Jiaojin is the bone. This divine material is both hard and tough, and it has no flaws. It can withstand ice and fire without losing its nature. And all metals are afraid of lightning and magnetism, but Jiaojin is not afraid of it either."

He held Pei Ye's arm with one hand and sketched on the table with the other hand, as if there was a real picture there: "Secondly, after the Jiao gold is connected into the body bones, it is different from the joints of humans. It does not need to rely solely on the traction of muscles, but has the internal mercury as the force, so the joints can also be extremely strong-"

He froze again, staring blankly at the empty table in front of him: "But...how come Ziliang still lost..."

Pei Ye immediately grabbed his wrist and asked, "Have you ever forged the [Mercury Hua Fu Raft] for Ziliang? Where is Ziliang now?"

"Ziliang... Ziliang is gone!" He suddenly held his head and roared, tears welling up in his eyes, "Ziliang! The floating raft is not ready yet, you will die!!"

Pei Ye and Li Xizhou looked at each other, and the woman whispered, "As Qu Xin said, we found out where his injury was."

Pei Ye was silent and thoughtful.

Li Xizhou took two steps forward and put his hand on the old man's head.

After a while, when he calmed down a little, he whispered, "Who do you think Ziliang lost to?"

"..."

"Ok?"

Guo You muttered in a daze: "Ziliang... Yu Sicheng... Ziliang is gone, and the mercury has floated onto Yu Sicheng..."

He suddenly became furious again: "Yu Sicheng! Let me go!!"

"His mind is already very unstable, so it's hard to ask any more questions." Pei Ye frowned slightly, "It's a pity that I still haven't gotten the answer."

"Really? I see it much more clearly now." Li Xizhou said.

"Hmm?" Pei Ye looked at her.

"[Mercury Hua Fu Cha] has lost before." Li Xizhou looked at him and said.

"..."

(End of this chapter)