Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 642 Born as a unicorn, how can I wash away this blood (VI)

"I feel like something is wrong." Pei Ye didn't eat the newly served soup and looked at the bright and bright banquet hall. Li Xizhou didn't answer him.

There was a period of silence in Qiongju Garden. The newly served cold toad soup attracted the chopsticks of most people. Li Youlong lowered his head so that his face could not be seen, and Li Cannan did not pick up the chopsticks either.

After Li Huang finished speaking, no one continued, which seemed to mean the end of this topic. Indeed, everyone who should have spoken had already spoken, and the unexpected speaker had also spoken, so there should be no one else to continue.

So Pei Ye wondered, where did Yu Sicheng go?

After Li Xizhou's words, the marriage still broke through the control of the Queen, but she had no intention of giving in. The two words "Lin blood" were nakedly revealed. The so-called informing the five surnames was nothing more than letting the struggle return to the court, to the army, and to every inch of land of the Tang Dynasty. The five surnames had no intention of letting Prince Yan get the real blood.

The emperor's attitude on this matter was not revealed, or perhaps this was already an attitude. He and the Prince of Yan arranged a marriage between Yong and Li, confirming that this marriage must be completed. However, the position of empress was in the hands of the Five Clans, and it was almost impossible for others to interfere in the selection of the candidate.

If the emperor had some inclination, this matter would have been much simpler, but whether he had any ideas in his mind or not, at least there was no sign of it.

However, Li Yujin, Li Chen, even Li Xizhou, and the attitude of Prince Yan failed to make the Queen soften her stance. This was indeed somewhat beyond Pei Ye's expectations - but was it also beyond Yong Ji and Yu Sicheng's expectations?
Pei Ye didn't know what the relationship between Yu Sicheng and Yong Ji was, but the relationship between them must be very deep. If the details of the mirage were not explained clearly, it would be impossible to reach a cooperation. So is the marriage just Yong Ji's own business?

Whether in imagination or contact, Pei Ye placed the three words "Yanwang Mansion" in a very high position.

He believed his enemies.

If Yong Ji wanted to marry Zhenxue, it would be impossible for the Queen to take an unexpected stance.

And if they already knew that the attitudes of the three heirs were not enough to make the queen give in, then they should have taken the next step.

Yu Sicheng was the chief eunuch in the palace for twenty years. In many ways, his control over the Daming Palace was even deeper than that of the queen.

What is Yu Sicheng's role in such a matter?

Pei Ye thought about the man in the purple-gold robe. He had actually only come into contact with him twice and had spoken to him only a handful of times. However, that indifferent, fox-like face left a deep impression on him. At night, he often wondered in what kind of situation a person would have the mentality of "You come to die, so I'll kill you."

——Don’t worry about the consequences. Don’t get in the way.

"What's wrong?" Li Xizhou turned around at this time.

"I was thinking about Yu Sicheng."

"...Oh." When Pei Ye mentioned this name, Li Xizhou understood his thoughts and she frowned.

"You don't know either, I thought you had some tacit understanding with them." Pei Ye looked at her and said, "Because you just... um."

"No." Li Xizhou said softly, "I'm just being stupid."

"..." Pei Ye was stunned and looked at her, but the woman just turned her head to look at the field and didn't speak again.

The eighth dish had been served, but Li Yujin didn't even look at it and had already placed his chopsticks on the table.

He was silent for a long time. He tilted his head and looked at Yong Ji: "What's your plan? Don't you have a backup plan?"

Yong Ji didn't answer and poured himself a glass of wine.

Li Yujin turned his head and looked behind him. Li Chen was holding a glass of wine and moving towards Li Cannan's desk. Li Yujin thought of the two words that you said first and I said second, and he couldn't help but curl his lips in his heavy heart.

Brother Chen never asks for much. He always sees things clearly and carefully guards the boundaries he draws... It would be good if he grows up like this, Li Yujin thought.

"Brother Yujin." Yong Ji said.

Li Yujin turned his head, Yong Ji drank the glass of wine, and said calmly: "Most good things are not durable."

He didn't look at Li Yujin. Li Yujin followed his gaze and saw Li Zhi's case. The fourth prince broke off a pear branch and inserted it into the jade bottle in front of him, looking at the gate of Qiongju Garden with a calm expression.

Li Chen moved to the side of Li Cannan's desk at this time, and handed the sake in his hand to her in a low voice: "Sister Nan, I apologize to you, you, don't be angry."

Li Cannan lowered her head and said nothing. Li Chen clenched his wine glass nervously and whispered, "Really, Sister Nan, I didn't mean to embarrass you... It doesn't matter who gets married, but you are really not suitable to go to Northern Frontier... If you have to marry to Prince Yan's Mansion, I will do my best to let you stay in Shenjing..."

He probably had no experience in apologizing, and didn't know what to say: "Wait, wait until we leave the palace, I'll treat you to a play, okay?"

"…Okay, I don't blame you."

"..." Li Chen was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Well, that's good..."

But the girl did not look fine. She lowered her head, her eyes were unfocused, and her body was drooping a little.

Li Cannan glanced at him, her eyes red. She raised her sleeve to wipe them, her voice slightly hoarse: "I know you are doing this for my own good, you won't hurt me."

"Of course, I—"

"I just thought," Li Cannan said in a daze, "In fact, every one of you looks down on me."

"..."

Li Chen froze for a moment. The head of the group, Li Huang, raised his glass and said with a gentle smile, "This time we have a plan. Otherwise, I would be worried if I didn't discuss this important matter with you. We can discuss the details later."

Many people on the scene raised their glasses in agreement. The moon was at its brightest, covering up the light of the pearls and filling the garden with beautiful silver light.

"If the Prince of Yan's Mansion can suppress the Five Clans, then there is no need to move this matter to the palace." Pei Ye put down his wine glass and said to himself, "Since it has been moved here... why didn't Yu Sicheng come..."

At this moment, he was slightly startled and met Li Zhi's eyes.

He glanced at Pei Ye with those eyes that were as clear as fire and as calm as a lake, then moved his gaze back to the door.

Pei Ye looked back in the direction he was looking and saw Meng'er walking in.

Her hair and face were disheveled like a beggar, and her clothes were half wet and covered with mud. She walked very stiffly and staggered, as if she had already lost all her strength and was only moving her steps by willpower... When Pei Ye thought of this, he looked at her face. Even though her hair was covering it, he could still see the dry expression that made his heart clench.

A beautiful and clean banquet hall on a spring night, with pearls, flowers, and soft fragrances... there shouldn't be a disabled lunatic rolling around in the winter fields.

Almost the entire venue fell silent, and then Pei Ye saw an indescribable look of sorrow and pain suddenly emerge on the maid's originally dead face, from which burst out a heart-pounding determination and sharpness... His intuition tightened his brainstrings for a moment, and Meng'er raised his hand slightly towards the front.

The moonlight was still very gentle and the scene was very quiet. Li Huang cast her gaze downward and asked softly, "Which palace are you from?" Li Xizhou saw nothing, but her keen perception made her realize what had happened. She immediately turned her head to look at Pei Ye, and the young man's hand had already clasped the hilt of the sword.

He looked straight in that direction. Li Chen was talking with his head down. Li Cannan raised his hand and touched his neck in a daze.

Li Huang recognized her at this time and said softly: "Well, you are Meng'er, Youlong——"

Li Cannan suddenly convulsed and stood up, knocking over the table in front of her. She screamed and vomited a large pool of emerald green blood.

Dead silence.

The first person to react was Li Xizhou. She turned her head sharply and shouted at the frozen palace maid: "Go to Zhujing Palace and call Qu Xin!"

However, it was hard to say whether it was too late. Li Cannan looked at the strange green pool under the moonlight in a daze, like a piece of oil spilled on white silk.

The green lines spread up and down along her neck at the same time, outlining the shape of every tiny blood vessel, and soon became an ugly spider web-like stretch.

Li Chen opened his mouth, his words choked in his throat. He didn't know when his hands began to tremble, and it was not until this moment that he suddenly woke up and hugged the girl who was staggering and falling.

Unable to transfer his true energy, he helplessly grabbed Li Cannan's neck, but the green spider web still extended from under his fingers despairingly.

"Don't...don't..." Li Chen squeezed out a few vague words from his throat, and suddenly felt that he had lost the ability to breathe.

Li Cannan in his arms looked at him blankly, the red marks at the corners of his eyes still not gone: "Ninth brother...what's wrong with me..."

A black jade-like shadow passed over, and the gorgeous blue fire line penetrated into her skin, and then turned into red. The two colors of red and green entangled under her skin. However, unlike the time when Pei Ye was underwater, although the green color was somewhat eliminated by the obstruction of the fire line, it still slowly and firmly climbed towards the head and heart.

In front of the banquet hall, Meng'er collapsed to the ground with a thud, head down like a corpse. On the other side, Li Youlong had stood up, looking pale and trying to rush over, but Yong Ji grabbed his wrist tightly.

It was this "thump" that seemed to wake up most people. Li Chen suddenly raised his beast-like eyes, stared at the collapsed maid, drew his sword and rushed over: "Give me the antidote! Or I will kill you!"

But the next moment he seemed to react, turned around, and stared fiercely at Yong Ji and Li Youlong at the table, his voice like a roar and trembling: "How dare you..."

"Give me the antidote!" There seemed to be a golden fire burning in his pupils. Li Chen's sword roared throughout the banquet hall, and the sharp roar rushed straight towards Li Youlong, "I will kill her too!!!"

Yong Ji did not move, and looked at him politely and steadily: "Your Highness, calm down. We are not aware of this."

Li Youlong was as stiff as a wooden sculpture, as if he would be crushed by this sword, while Yong Ji sat respectfully, with no intention of fighting with Linzi... With a clang, the sword light burst into sparks and stopped in front of Li Youlong.

Li Yujin held his sword across his body and blocked the two men.

His expression and body were like a statue, but made of iron. He looked at Li Chen with bloodshot eyes in silence, and seemed to want to open his mouth, but in the end he said nothing, and his expression froze into a cold hardness.

"...You disgusting beasts!" Li Chen gritted his teeth and said with tears in his eyes, "I said - get out of here!!"

He roared and rushed forward, but Li Yujin blocked it with his sword and kicked him back three feet away.

The table was overturned, jade bottles and silver plates were broken into pieces on the ground, soup and food mixed into an ugly mess, Li Chen lay in despair among the broken porcelain pieces, the whole banquet hall fell silent again, the moonlight was evenly sprinkled, but it seemed to be divided into several different worlds.

Li Yujin had no expression, Li Youlong and Yong Ji were in the shadow he cast; Li Huang's face turned a cold pale blue, the eunuchs and palace maids behind him were all silent; Li Bijun bit her lower lip, not daring to cry out loud, and Concubine Yuan quietly held her in her arms.

Li Chen and Li Cannan fell in the mess. The girl looked at it all blankly and shed tears for some reason. Only then did she realize something. When she lowered her head, she felt distressed for the skirt that she had spent a lot of money to make, and the green color climbed up from the bottom of her sight.

Li Zhi watched all this calmly, like the projection of the moon from the sky descending to the earth.

Pei Ye got the response from the black cat and fell silent. He pursed his lips and looked at the woman in the red skirt beside him. The woman quieted down after the shout. At this time, she turned around and gently rested her head on his shoulder.

"You know what, Pei Ye." She closed her eyes tiredly, "I just don't want to see these, that's why I ignore everyone."

Pei Ye trembled slightly.

"It's okay." Pei Ye moved his dry lips and comforted him, "Qu Xin will be here soon, I'm trying to figure it out... Meng'er is..."

"That's dragon blood." Li Xizhou said.

"……what?"

"The carrier of the poison, as well as Meng'er's body, are all Jiao blood." Li Xizhou's voice was much lower, and he said tiredly on his shoulder, "Jiao is the top of the scales. I'm afraid it will be difficult to drive away the Chi fire... or before it burns out the poison, Li Cannan will die first, and Qu Xin can't do anything."

"Why is there dragon blood? I——"

He stood there in a daze.

His brain seemed to be hit hard by something when he saw Meng'er just now, but it was not until he heard the words "dragon blood" from the woman's mouth that it suddenly opened up.

Yu Sicheng.

Of course it was Yu Sicheng and the golden bones in his body.

Pei Ye seemed to see the shadow of what happened a few hours ago from the kneeling Meng'er... She was not making it up, nor was she dreaming, she really sensed the so-called "secret passage", because she had the blood of the scale clan buried in her body by Yu Sicheng.

Right after that broken leg.

This dragon blood can be used to murder a Kirin girl unexpectedly four years later, but the real key is that Meng'er can gain the recognition of Luoshen Palace with the dragon blood.

Then this qualification can be taken over by Yu Sicheng.

Pei Ye was somewhat stunned as he figured this out. He had not expected Yu Sicheng to be so decisive and so quick. The enemy's layout was right in front of him, yet far beyond his imagination.

"Yes, Pei Ye." Li Xizhou said quietly. She took a deep breath and said, "Yu Sicheng has already entered Luoshen Palace. It's not your problem."

"…Is this matter serious?"

"Yes, it's serious." Li Xizhou did not hide it and whispered, "But it doesn't matter. We... can start over and find other ways."

But she still didn't open her eyes when she said these words, and the fatigue in her voice did not disappear.

(End of this chapter)