Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 680 Invitation

Pei Ye didn't know that she had this idea after she merged with the [Mirage Knot], and she had already planned it when she woke up from the dream and looked at herself. It might even be earlier, or it could be said that all along, in her heart, this part of the matter was reserved for herself.

She inherited the title of Prince of Mirage Realm and planned to personally complete the mission that her mother had not yet accomplished.

But what kind of place is the Mirage Realm? Pei Ye has been there more times than she has. Even in the narrow waters of Shenjing, where people are bustling, there are already dangers everywhere. Water foxes, mermaids, sharp claws, agile bodies, and toxins from other worlds... Pei Ye simply cannot imagine how she can fight against these things. She does not have a natural gift in her body, and there is no Little Medicine Lord in the Mirage Realm.

The real world of mirage is in the vast waters in the wild, in the long rivers, big lakes, and secluded springs. In those seldom-traveled places, in the deep and secluded depths thousands of feet high, who knows what kind of creatures are bred there?
Pei Ye thought of the two water snakes that tried to attack and kill the kitten at Yangjiadu, and his heart clenched as he became more and more irritated.

Of course... because she knew very well that if she discussed it with her, she would definitely not agree.

Of course I would not agree to this! How could I possibly agree to this?!
Each of them had their own things to do. Jing Ke should have climbed the stairs to stab Qin, and Qin Wuyang should have followed behind with the box in her hand. In the past twenty-three years of her life, had she ever personally fought with anything that could breathe? When she was twelve years old, she killed a hungry wolf with her bare hands!
Pei Ye stood silently for a while, then sat down heavily. The Luoshen peach tree was swaying beside him, and the empty space seemed to still contain the position where the woman had just been.

Pei Ye angrily pulled down the bunch of peaches, held it in his hand for a while, but didn't want to waste them, so he simply stuffed them all into his mouth.

A sense of comfort rose in his dantian, and his restlessness was gradually suppressed. The young man sat silently beside the flowers, staring into the empty space and sorting out current matters. From time to time, he picked a roselle peach and put it in his mouth, his face becoming more and more expressionless.

Until a faint voice sounded: "You should eat less..."

Pei Ye raised his head and saw the faint shadow of Luo Weiyou sitting on the flower, looking at him sadly: "If you are angry with her, just be angry with her. Why do you always eat my flowers?"

"..." Pei Ye stopped what he was doing and drooped his face, "What's wrong with eating a little? Why are you so stingy?"

"Oh my God, before I met you, I didn't know how long it took for me to lose a flower, and I felt so distressed." Luo Wei said worriedly, stretching out his fingers to count, "Who knew that you used up several flowers the first time we met, and asked me for twelve more before leaving; that day you had a fight in front of Luoshen Palace, and half of the flowers in the field were gone; today it wouldn't matter if you sat here for a while, but you swallowed more than a dozen flowers. Can you come in after dinner next time?"

Pei Ye originally wanted to reply that he had eaten, but after thinking about it, he realized that he really hadn’t eaten, and he seemed to be a little hungry.

"...Okay, I won't eat anymore." Pei Ye put the last flower into his mouth and looked around. "You have so many flowers here, what's the use of giving me a hundred of them? I have advanced in realm, it's not easy to die, don't I come to talk to you often?"

"You never come to talk to me. If you don't have something to do, you won't come to the Mirage."

"..."

"And flowers are my home." Luo Weiyou changed her position and came next to him, tilting her head and saying, "If the flowers are gone, I might be gone too."

"Oh, I didn't know that." Pei Ye was slightly startled and a little worried, "Then, then we have to protect it well."

"It doesn't matter. Roselle itself is almost not afraid of anything and can live forever. Based on my observations within my limited life, 99% of the missing Roselle went into your mouth."

"..." Pei Ye didn't want to continue this topic. In fact, he was not interested in any topic at the moment. He tilted his head to glance at Wei Qingju on the swing, and tried to move that face to Luo Weiyou's face. He felt that it fit very well, and hesitated for a moment and said, "Luo Weiyou, do you recognize her?"

Pei Ye thought that Luo Weiyou was probably the old spiritual image of the queen, but for some reason she was different from others. She could retain her memories for a long time, come and go freely, understand things in the outside world, and was not trapped in a fixed period of time.

He had some doubts and concerns that she was the spirit of Jiao Pavilion and would disappear with the complete dissolution of Wei Qingju's corpse. Regardless, he still hoped that she could exist for a few more years.

"I think she's pretty... Are you saying that she has something to do with me?" Luo Weiyou tilted her head to look at the woman on the swing, as if she was trying to think, "But I really don't know her."

"If you don't know her, then you don't know her. This is the first time I meet her." Pei Ye looked at her and said, "Let me ask you something else. Do you know where Li Xizhou went just now?"

"You mean the place where she left? That passage seems to have always been there."

"What is 'always there'?"

"It's been since I could remember. In my opinion, Luoshen Palace has always been connected to somewhere."

"Can you still open it?"

"Of course not. If you hadn't come in, I wouldn't even be able to get in here." Luo Weiyou glanced at him, "Pei Ye, I'm just a flower grower. I can't help you with anything else except giving you two Roselle flowers when you want to eat them."

"Nothing." Pei Ye said, he looked at the empty space... the place that was connected to Luoshen Palace. He had actually heard such words before.

It still came from Meng'er. When they first met in Mingyue Palace, she said: "Some people secretly guess that the Queen's Mingyue Palace is directly connected to Shenhu City."

Pei Ye sighed inexplicably. He had never believed the maid's mumbling in her sleep, but in the end, all her words came true.

Shenhu City is 400 miles away from the capital, where there are numerous water systems, rivers, lakes, streams and pools interconnected, and water gangs abound.

He took another deep breath, trying his best to calm his restless and irritable mood. He had done this many times and was as skilled as an old monk. His mood quickly returned to normal, but there was indeed a place in his heart that was hanging up and he could never let it go.

He stood up and said, "See you next time. I can't stay here for much longer."

Luo Weiyou sat on the flower, looking around at this beautiful place that had just opened up to her, shaking her legs: "Goodbye."

……

……

Pei Ye walked in the palace in the early morning with a sword in hand. The rain was much lighter at this time. The palace servants began their work one after another, and many figures were intertwined in the light morning mist.

The door of the Zhujing Palace had been washed to look fresh. Pei Ye pushed the door open and walked in, startling Li Xianfang. The dancer holding a wooden basin froze in her place: "Young Master Pei...what are you doing so early? I thought you were in the bedroom."

"Giving it away."

"what?"

"Her Highness went out early this morning," Pei Ye walked in and threw the sword on the stone table, "There's no need to prepare her breakfast."

"...Ah?" Li Xianfang showed an even more confused expression, as if he didn't understand.

"I said, His Highness had something to do today, so he left early." Pei Ye said, "Maybe he will be back later."

"But...Your Highness just got up."

Pei Ye suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He stood in the courtyard and looked up. The door of the bedroom was pushed open. A woman in a chicken-blood-colored dress and a golden mask on her face walked out with her hair tied up. She glanced at the two people in the courtyard as usual: "What are you talking about?"

Pei Ye suddenly suspected that everything he had just experienced was just a dream. Nothing had changed, nothing had disappeared, and even the assassin was still hiding behind the rain.

Li Xianfang glanced at Pei Ye strangely: "Just now, Young Master Pei said that His Highness had gone out. I didn't understand."

Pei Ye was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I remembered it wrongly."

Seeing him sleepless these days, the dancer was worried and whispered, "Young Master Pei, please take a good rest... I'll add some tonic to your porridge." "Oh, thank you." Pei Ye rubbed his face. He watched Li Xianfang take the basin away, then turned around and stared at the woman on the steps. She stretched her hands behind her neck and was pinning up her cloud-like black hair. She didn't look at Pei Ye, but just looked up at the drizzling weather.

Pei Ye never doubted his own insight. In fact, every movement was so familiar and natural that it made him feel dazed and out of place.

He almost thought that "Li Xizhou" was a body that anyone could put on, and only Xu Chuo inside was the woman he met.

As usual, few people spoke in the lazy morning. Four people sat around a table eating porridge. Li Xizhou looked exactly the same as when Pei Ye first saw him, dignified, cold, and elegant, and he didn't say a word during the meal.

Pei Ye drank the porridge in a daze, and from time to time he looked at the sleepy girl beside him, but Qu Xin obviously didn't notice anything unusual. After being stared at for so long, she raised her eyebrows and looked at him, then lowered her head to look at the dates in the bowl, picked one up and gave it to him.

She is so gentle and considerate. He should be more fond of her.

She thought expressionlessly.

Pei Ye looked at the dates in his bowl in silence.

He picked it up and ate it without saying anything.

Pei Ye finished the entire breakfast without saying a word, and did not help Li Xianfang clean up. He went back to the side hall to change his clothes, packed his things, drove a carriage to the courtyard, and knocked on the door of Li Xizhou's bedroom.

"Your Highness, I, Pei Ye, request to see you."

"come in."

Pei Ye walked in holding a sword. There was only a woman in the hall. She looked up at everything in the hall, as if she was getting familiar with a strange environment.

Something that made Pei Ye feel inexplicably at ease appeared in his field of vision—Zhang Mengqiu's head and body were neatly placed in the hall.

Pei Ye wanted to ask "Who are you?", but he remembered the woman's instructions before she left, so he just looked at the woman in front of him in silence for a while, clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, I have come to take the assassin's body and report back to the Immortal Terrace."

Li Xizhou asked: "Are you going back to the palace today?"

"……Um?"

Li Xizhou glanced at him and said, "You look like you don't want to stay any longer, and it seems your heart is no longer in Shenjing City."

Pei Ye hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to answer: "Your humble servant...Your humble servant will go to the Immortal Terrace to receive orders."

Li Xizhou said: "You can make your own choice. Things in the capital are basically over. You can stay with me and wait for some time. There is Tongshilu in the capital, which is a place where you can thrive. You can also go to find Li Yan. There are many people in the vast world, and he will let you leave the capital. But once you leave the capital, you will not be facing an opponent who has abandoned his martial arts."

Pei Ye said without hesitation: "I'm leaving Beijing."

Li Xizhou nodded, and Pei Ye stepped forward to carry the body.

"Pei Ye." The woman suddenly called him.

Pei Ye turned his head and saw the woman finally use this body to make a movement that made him feel uncomfortable. She half leaned and half sat on the table, her voice was not light, but very steady: "Kill Yong Ji as soon as possible. I look forward to the day when we can really work together."

“……” Pei Ye clasped his fists and walked out with the corpse.

After lifting the curtain and loading onto the carriage, Li Xianfang looked at the young man blankly. Pei Ye said goodbye to her and said that he would not return to the palace in the short term, which caught the dancer off guard and made her eyes widen.

She had sincerely considered the happiness and well-being of Young Master Pei and His Highness these days and had done a lot of homework, but she was embarrassed and worried about being scolded by the young man again, so she didn't dare to speak.

At this moment, he looked back at the silent bedroom with some worry, wondering if the two of them had some unpleasantness.

Qu Xin observed silently through the window and thought for a while. Shortly after Pei Ye's carriage drove away, she picked up her medical box and ran to the palace to bid farewell to Li Xizhou.

……

……

Pei Ye drove the carriage out of the palace and first arrived at the gate of Xiuwen Hall.

Another forty days passed in the deep palace. The city of Shenjing seemed to be renewed by the greenery, but this time the young man had no intention of paying attention to the scenery. He parked his carriage outside the door and walked in with his sword in hand.

It has been a long time since I last stayed at this big garden, and it felt so strange and new. I saw that there were many more people here than when I came here last year, countless new faces, and far fewer people wearing old clothes and tattered fur coats. This must be the influence of Yuanzhao's appointment as prime minister.

There were even scholars waiting to greet guests at the gate. I don't know how they were arranged. The two men were talking over a book. When they saw Pei Ye coming in, they stood up and smiled and said, "Hello, brother. I don't know you. Are you here to visit a friend? Or... do you want to find a job in the library?"

As they talked, they noticed that the young man was dressed in plain clothes, holding a sword and tying it to his wrist. He really didn't look like someone who could find a job in Xiuwenguan, so he said the second half of his sentence with some hesitation.

Of course, maybe the guardhouse.

"Oh, I'm looking for someone." Pei Ye clasped his fists and asked, "Excuse me, is Mr. Qi Zhaohua here?"

"...Master Qi, Master Qi might be busy, I'm not sure." The scholar was confused for a moment, "Did Master Qi invite you here?"

"No, I'm her friend. It's good that she's here. You guys go ahead and do your work." Pei Ye clasped his fists again, picked up his sword and went inside.

"I think... this person looks familiar." A scholar frowned.

The other person was still at a loss: "How can this be put in? He's still holding the sword!"

The first person turned around and said, "You know he's holding a sword and still talking, then go and stop him."

"..."

Pei Ye walked all the way to the small building, found the right floor, and knocked on the door twice.

"Come in."

Pei Ye pushed open the door, stood in front of it with a sword in his arms, and met Qi Zhaohua's surprised eyes.

"Young Master Pei!"

"Long time no see." Pei Ye smiled, "How about the others? Are you all free? Let's get together tonight?"

(End of this chapter)