Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 638 Born as a unicorn, how can I wash away this blood (Part )

The Queen's carriage had not arrived yet. The sky gradually darkened, from cold white to dim yellow. The scent of flowers diffused. A line of palace maids walked into the room and placed cakes on the table. Each of them had flowing ribbons and light skirts, and even their figures looked as if they were cast from the same mold.

"Excuse me, sir... are you Young Master Pei Ye?" Li Chen folded his hands and bowed slightly, a very solemn cross-arm salute. After the salute, he pursed his lips slightly, a little reserved.

When Pei Ye saw the man in the black robe with dragon pattern, he was trying to recall the title in his mind. Suddenly, he saw the other party bow first. He couldn't help but exclaimed "Ah?" in his heart, and quickly clasped his fists to return the bow.

In terms of body shape, this man is similar to Zhang Dingyun, but he is taller, and therefore less cheerful and more taciturn.

Although Cui Zhaoye, at the request of Jiang Yin'er, did not tell Pei Ye the joke about her mistaking her brother for her own in Huanlou, Pei Ye had looked through the materials on the Immortal Terrace before entering the palace, and he was able to match the information up in his mind.

"Yan Jian Pei Ye, asks His Highness the Ninth Prince how he is."

"No, no, I, I have some personal matters that I would like to consult with Young Master Pei Ye. I wonder if it is convenient for you."

"Your Highness, please tell me."

Li Chen turned around and went back to the table to pour him a glass of wine and toasted him. Pei Ye, who was used to following Li Xizhou and listening to his tunes and announcements, felt really flattered at this time and quickly took it with both hands.

Li Chen's seat should probably be in the front row, but he just sat in front of Li Bijun. Pei Ye glanced back along this order and saw the Eighth Princess, whose wrist he had strangled last night, looking at him with a slightly changed expression.

"Because, when the Suzaku Gate sword fight took place that day, I was also on the stage watching the swordplay." Li Chen stumbled a little, but his tone was sincere, "I think Master Pei's swordplay is really amazing. I've never seen a sword like that before."

"..." The unexpected flattery made the boy blush inexplicably. He touched his head and smiled, "Yes, is that so?"

"Yes!" Li Chen smiled when he saw him smile. "Later, I asked Cui Zhaoye to introduce Young Master Pei Ye to me. She let me join the club first. Then I sponsored them to print some books and organize a few activities. Later, Cui Zhaoye said that I could come to meet Young Master Pei Ye, so I came to say hello to Young Master Pei Ye today."

"..." Pei Ye felt a little ashamed, "I'll ask Cui Zhaoye to disband this association when I leave the palace. She is just trying to cheat your highness out of your money..."

"No, no! I did it on my own initiative. It's fun to play with people in the club." Li Chen waved his hand immediately.

Li Cannan frowned beside him: "What meeting have you joined?"

He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Pei Ye warily.

"Ah, it's the club of Pei Ye Shao Xia, organized by Cui Zhaoye, it's very serious." Li Chen explained seriously, "Ah, yes, you haven't seen Pei Ye Shao Xia. He was the most outstanding swordsman in Shenjing City last autumn and winter. He won the sword bet in front of Suzaku Gate a year ago, and defeated the Fourth Prince who cultivated [Tian Lin Yi] with one sword - didn't I tell you last time how powerful Tian Lin Yi was after he cultivated it?"

"Stop talking nonsense! How can he be better than his brother?"

Li Cannan glared at him and glanced at Pei Ye angrily.

She was already annoyed when she saw Yong Ji and Li Youlong coming together, and she became even more embarrassed and angry when this straightforward brother opened his mouth.

How could she not have seen this man before? Last night, he was like an iron hoop, squeezing her wrist. It started to hurt when she went home at night, and now there is still a circle of deep purple. She remembered his cold eyes and the words he said after he came in red, "This is my man."

She had no choice but to leave.

It was clearly Qingsi Palace who deliberately sabotaged her marriage!

Now it's broad daylight, and she is going to be the protagonist of the banquet. Her mother and brother will be here soon. When she meets this man again, she can hold her head high with pride. But the first sentence of her stupid brother is "He defeated your brother with one sword". Can't she know whose show she is ruining?

"What do you know? My brother doesn't practice swordplay." Li Cannan said, "Then the competition is like him standing there motionless, betting on whether others can stab him with a sword. Can this be called a competition? If they really fight, how can he be my brother's opponent?"

After saying this, he raised his chin slightly and glanced at Pei Ye coldly.

"..." What she said was right. Betting is not the same as actual combat, but winning is winning... Li Chen thought to himself and looked at Pei Ye apologetically.

Pei Ye had not been angry about this since long ago, and reached out to pick up a piece of snow-white and soft pastry that had just been placed on Li Chen's table.

Li Chen tugged at Li Cannan's sleeve, but seeing no response, he turned to Pei Ye: "Young Master Pei Ye, this is my sister, let's just chat about our own things."

He looked a little annoyed.

"It's okay, I recognize them all."

Li Chen also left his seat, and the two of them moved to the side, standing under a pear tree full of pale white flowers, their nostrils filled with the lingering fragrance.

Pei Ye looked up and saw that Li Yujin had already gone back, but Yong Ji still hadn't sat down. He was standing by the railing in the pavilion, and had been looking at him quietly before he looked over.

Pei Ye raised his hand and took a bite of the dessert, then shifted his gaze to Li Zhi. The Fourth Prince was still as angelic as when Huan Lou first met him, and he seemed not to move after sitting down.

He retracted his gaze: "Your Highness, do you like swords too?"

"I practice swordsmanship." Li Chen stood in the shade of the tree, his body seemed to relax a little, "That day in Huanlou, I also tried He Jiu's 'Seven-Step Sword Control' and took four steps."

"Well, that's pretty impressive."

"There are still many areas that need improvement." Li Chen lowered his head and smiled, then said, "Young Master Pei, Cui Zhaoye said that you don't have a master, so do you usually find a sword to practice on your own?"

"Well, that's about right. I'm in the sword training academy now. There are a lot of sword techniques there. I'm practicing by myself following the sword ladder." Pei Ye swallowed the snack called "snow doll" in three or two bites and found it quite delicious. He took two steps forward and picked up another one.

"I feel the same way, but in this case, don't you think there is something wrong, Mr. Pei?"

"what is the problem?"

"I usually search for swords to practice on my own, but because I don't have a fixed master, the problems I encounter when practicing swords are all kinds of strange and scattered."

Li Chen said, "For example, if I hire a sword master, he can answer my questions about these swords, but if I change to another sword, he won't understand it deeply, so I have to change sword masters or find someone to ask... So I think this way does not mean that there is no need for teachers, but that there must be teachers everywhere in the world. Don't you think so, Young Master Pei Ye?"

"..."

"Ok?"

“I didn’t feel like I had a lot of problems.”

"..." Li Chen was silent for a moment, "So, I am not talented enough to take this path... But I can't join Jianmen either."

"Not really." Pei Ye thought about it carefully and said seriously, "I feel that practicing sword is actually like writing a story. It's always spread out first, and then collected at the end. And not worshipping the Sword Sect just means not following the existing systems of the world such as Dongting Sword and Yunlang Sword, but it does not mean that you don't have your own system."

"The first thing to do after embarking on the path of swordsmanship is to think about what kind of swordsmanship you want to master and how wide you can expand it. If you feel that practicing is too strenuous and you can't control the swordsmanship that is stretched too wide, you might as well tighten it up a bit and find the width that you can just control."

Li Chen was stunned for a moment: "So that's how it is."

"Hmm." Pei Ye swallowed the snack and clapped his hands.

Li Chen was silent for a while, then smiled unconsciously and looked at Pei Ye: "Young Master Pei, you are amazing. Not only can you use such amazing swordsmanship, but you also have such profound insights." "Ah, Your Highness is too flattering."

Li Chen put his hands behind his back. At this time, his small movements were more like a fifteen-year-old boy talking about something he was interested in. He smiled and said, "I'm not flattering you. Really, Mr. Pei, I've often watched people compete with swords in Shenjing in recent years, and sometimes I can see swords that amaze me for several days. But when you used the sword that day, all those memories were eclipsed."

He is really good at praising people, Pei Ye thought.

Compared to Cui Zhaoye, who always said weird things that made his heart stop and his body freeze, the boy's restrained and sincere words were obviously more useful.

Li Chen stood with his hands behind his back, shaking them for a while, hesitated, and tilted his head again, "Young Master Pei, I have one more thing I want to ask."

"Just ask anything you want." Pei Ye now has everything he wants.

"That's right. I heard from Cui Zhaoye," Li Chen paused, "that you and Sword Master Yun Langming know each other... Is that true?"

"..."

Pei Ye slowly turned his head and looked at him.

Li Chen opened his two bright black eyes.

Some distant memories flooded into my mind.

"It's fake." Pei Ye said.

"……what?"

"I don't have much of a relationship with the Glazed Sword Master... We've only met a few times." Pei Ye clasped her hands together and looked at him, "Do you have anything to do with her?"

"Oh, is that so." Li Chen was a little disappointed, "It's nothing."

He looked at Lihua for a while and said, "I just want to see her."

"Ok?"

"Because Master Ming Jian not only has the best swordsmanship in the world, which makes me yearn for her, but also..." He paused for a moment, "It is said that she has a clear and pure heart that is never troubled. In this world, what an incredible state that is."

He looked up, his eyes dazed. Pei Ye suddenly seemed to be back in the night at Bowang Martial Arts Hall. When he first met Li Piaoqing, he was also looking at the sky like this and said, "I really want to meet Master Ming Jian... She is so nice."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment: "I thought you wanted to ask her to take you to Yunlang to learn sword or something. After all, your problem is best solved in Yunlang of Tianxia Sword Sect."

"How is that possible?" Li Chen lowered his head and smiled. He clasped his hands in front of him and said, "I can't leave Shenjing, and I don't want to pursue that kind of life."

"So what kind of life do you want?"

"Want it?" Li Chen smiled and looked at him, as if he had said something very strange. "I don't want anything. I am fine as long as I live like this."

"I have fine clothes and delicious food, I have swords to ask for, and I can get most of the sword techniques and famous teachers I want." The shadow of the fifteen-year-old boy faded from him at this time, and his tone was calm and like an adult. He looked at the banquet where people were laughing and talking, "Young Master Pei Ye probably doesn't know, but my mother passed away early, so I don't have any worries. I only played with Sister Nan when I was young, and I met Cui Zhaoye when I was a little older. As long as the two of them are doing well, I will be satisfied."

"…Well, that's good."

"So, I'm sorry to bother you because I want to ask Master Pei some personal questions." Li Chen nodded apologetically and looked at the young man seriously.

Pei Ye was slightly startled: "You say."

"Young Master Pei, are you married or have a partner?"

"..."

"Excuse me."

"No, no, why?"

Li Chen lowered his eyes and said, "If you, Young Master Pei Ye, don't have someone you like, would you be willing to consider... becoming a consort of the Tang Dynasty?"

Pei Ye raised his hand, but the snow doll had already finished eating.

Li Chen looked at the banquet in silence for a while, his eyes fixed on the back of the girl with a straight back and a slightly raised posture: "The marriage between Yong and Li is not a good thing for both of us. Sister Nan can't see anything. It's not a good thing for her to marry to the north."

"..."

"Sister Nan was like this when she was little. She cared a lot about her mother and brother, and how others viewed her. She didn't like talking about Linxue, and it was all written on her face." Li Chen said, "I don't know why she got angry with you just now, but she gets over it quickly and never holds grudges."

Pei Ye almost understood by now, below them were children like Li Bijun and Li Wuyan; above them, Li Youlong was alone, Li Zhi was silent, and Li Yujin had already grown up... In this huge palace, the Eighth Prince and the Ninth Prince should be each other's only playmates.

"Sister Cui is very smart, she can see everything clearly, and she has her own ideas. I don't need to worry about anything. So the only thing I worry about is Sister Nan." Li Chen said softly, "Sister Cui said that you have a bright character, honesty, determination and courage, so I think..."

"Sorry, I don't have that idea."

"Yes." Li Chen nodded, as if he had expected it. "I am sorry for being so presumptuous. I just asked for the time being. Sister Nan's marriage is not urgent, but I don't want her to marry Yong Ji now."

Pei Ye thought that since he was Li Xizhou's man, he could probably figure out some of the ideas here. Where Li Cannan was born could not be changed, but to resist the pull of the five surnames, it would be best for him to be tied together with His Highness Jinyang.

If Li Xizhou also had the idea of ​​letting his people enter the core of the palace by virtue of the position of the son-in-law, then it would probably be the best of both worlds.

Pei Ye guessed so, but it was not necessarily what the Ninth Prince thought. He glanced at the plump young man beside him and smiled: "It's not presumptuous, but I will definitely not be favored by the Eighth Princess, and I will waste her kindness."

Li Chen shook his head, and after a while he said, "Young Master Pei, when the Feather Scale Test comes, the Sword Master will come to Shenjing. I will try my best to get a chance to meet with the Sword Master. If that happens, we will go together."

"..." Pei Ye was silent for a while. He hadn't felt guilty for a long time. He pursed his lips and said, "There's no need to be so troublesome. I'll help His Highness deliver a visiting card. It's up to the Sword Master whether he is willing or not."

Li Chen was slightly stunned: "Young Master Pei Ye, don't you know the Master of Ming Sword?"

“…Sometimes, I know him.”

Li Chen was silent for a moment, then looked away thoughtfully, thinking that Cui Zhaoye's introduction might not be objective, and he needed to consider whether the word "sincerity" should be used to describe this young hero Pei Ye.

Pei Ye smiled politely: "Then let's leave for now, I'll go over there to ask something else."

Li Chen responded, and Pei Ye walked towards Li Zhi.

(End of this chapter)