By Jiulu Feixiang,
Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024
Chapter 06 About to die
White smoke rose from the incense burner in the house. The man sitting at the sandalwood desk put down his pen and raised his voice: "Is it true?"
The man kneeling below replied tremblingly: "Even if I had ten guts, I would not dare to deceive His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! My sister-in-law was crazy a few days ago, but she has recovered to be no different from ordinary people in the past two days. I saw the miracle that night with my own eyes. Although my wife was unconscious at the time, the neighbors also saw the light overflowing from my house! And this green clothes... The immortal turned his accompanying chicken into a beauty, and this is the clothes he took off for the beauty to wear. Later, the beauty turned into a chicken again, and the clothes fell to the ground, and he forgot to take them away."
"This is an interesting story." The phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, "Fu Sheng, bring that man to the mansion to show me what he is capable of."
"Yes."
The days in the courtyard were still as peaceful as ever. The leaves on the grape trellis slowly grew denser, blocking the sun that was getting hotter with the arrival of summer. Xingyun was resting in the yard when his rocking chair was bumped. He opened his eyes and glanced at the chicken rolling on the ground.
"Ah! Why can't I change back!" Shen Li rolled in the dirt and yelled angrily, "It was successful that night! My magic power has almost recovered in the past two days, why can't I change back!"
Xingyun's eyebrows curved slightly, and after a while he pretended to be calm and said, "Don't shout."
He glanced at the cloth that Shen Li had pulled on the ground, "Get inside the clothes and change. If you turn into a human body like this, it will be bad."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered Shen Li's upright back in the light of that day, and was a little absent-minded for a while.
Hearing what Xingyun said, Shen Li stood up and looked at him: "The other day I saw that the formation you set up looked very powerful, why don't you set up a formation that can condense the essence of the sun and the moon for me to try."
"The formation you mentioned already exists here." Xingyun laughed, "You have been here for so many days, and you don't feel anything at all?"
Shen Li was stunned, and looked around, and then she found that the placement of stones and the planting of grass and trees in the backyard were indeed arranged according to a certain pattern, but it had been so many years that grass had grown in many places, and the boundaries could not be seen clearly, which confused Shen Li's eyes. She suddenly realized that it was no wonder that her physical strength recovered so quickly here, it turned out to be thanks to the formation here.
"Xingyun, you are becoming more and more unpredictable to me." Shen Li looked around the courtyard carefully, squatted in front of Xingyun, and said, "A mortal who can calculate destiny and understand so many strange formations, but has no magic power and no spells, who are you?"
Xingyun smiled and replied, "A good person."
"I think you are a weirdo." Shen Li said, "You have a weird temper and weird behavior. Look at me, I look like this." Shen Li turned around on the ground,
"I have no hair, I can talk, and I can turn into a human. You are neither curious nor afraid, and you still support me at home... Could it be that you have figured out something?"
"Didn't I tell you that fortune-telling is not a good skill, and I don't like to do these things. I didn't ask you just because I didn't want to ask. Fate brings us together and fate brings us apart. There is no point in asking more questions. You and I just need to know that we are harmless to each other."
Shen Li was stunned by these words, and finally said seriously: "You must be the unlucky disciple of some bald donkey in the sky who came down to earth to experience disasters."
Xingyun was stunned, just looked at Shen Li, squinted his eyes and smiled, and didn't say anything.
Until noon, he silently ate all the bacon given by others. He let Shen Li pick at the table legs for a long time without giving her any look.
After finishing the meal, he carried Shen Li to the table, letting her look at the empty plate with only two drops of oil in astonishment. He burped at her with satisfaction and said with a smile: "I just want to prove that I am not some unlucky disciple of a bald donkey who came to earth to experience disaster. I have no other intentions." After that, he also took away the plate with two drops of oil, leaving Shen Li alone on the table flapping her wings and kicking her claws in anger.
"Spit it out! Spit it out! You bastard!"
Walking to the front yard, Xingyun suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. He answered and went to open the door with the plate. When the gate opened, three men in brocade clothes and carrying swords stood outside the door. They looked like the guards of the family of some high-ranking official. The leader's collar was red, and the two people beside him were blue. They looked at Xingyun solemnly. The red collar guard said, "Sir, my master invites you."
"You probably found the wrong person." Xingyun chuckled and replied. As soon as he stepped back, the people on both sides pulled Xingyun's arms without saying anything. Xingyun didn't pay attention and the plate in his hand fell to the ground and broke completely. The red collar guard didn't even look at him and just said, "We will judge whether we found the wrong person. Sir, please go in."
Xingyun narrowed his eyes and the curve of his lips dropped a little: "I don't like others forcing me..." Before he finished speaking, the red collar guard punched Xingyun in the stomach, bending his waist directly. It hurt so much that he couldn't stand up for a long time.
Before Xingyun could even cough twice, the man said, "I don't like people talking nonsense to me all the time." He looked contemptuous and said, "Take him away." The other two did as they were told, and dragged Xingyun away regardless of how injured he was.
Xingyun bent over, and the moment he was taken out of the courtyard, he kicked a stone on the ground lightly as if by accident, and the stone turned over. But a moment later, a golden light flashed in the house. The three men in brocade clothes paused, and a woman shouted, "Beat him until he vomits, then drag him away!" Xingyun heard this and laughed softly even though he was being carried by someone. "Who is it?"
The red-collared guard stepped into the courtyard and saw a woman in a dirty cloth dress. She tore a strip of cloth from somewhere and walked out while tying her hair up high.
The red-collared guard frowned, "Young lady, you are so arrogant." He looked Shen Li up and down, and saw that although she was dressed in shabby clothes, her eyes were very intimidating. There were too many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the capital. After a moment of hesitation, he took off the badge on his waist. The golden badge was very dazzling under the reflection of the sun. "We are ordered by the prince to invite you to the mansion for a chat. I hope young lady will understand..."
"Understand?"
Shen Li tied her hair up and walked to the red-collared guard like a ghost. Her magic power was not strong now, but she remembered her martial arts skills by heart, which was more than enough to deal with these mortals. Before the red collar guard could react, Shen Li snatched the badge in his hand. She broke it with both hands, and with a crisp sound, two pieces of scrap metal were thrown at the feet of the red collar sergeant.
"Teach me how to write these two words."
The red collar guard's pupils shrank, and before he could react, he felt dizzy and had a sharp pain in the back of his head. He didn't know how long it had been black in front of his eyes. When he reacted again, he had been thrown out of the door with the other two blue collar guards.
Shen Li squinted at the three people with a look of extreme contempt: "If you want to see my men, no matter if it's the prince's son, grandson, or any other king, let him roll over here."
Although Shen Li said that, when she saw that Xingyun had been beaten so hard that she couldn't straighten up, she frowned and stared at the red-collared guard: "Where did you come from to bully others, how dare you provoke me...
This girl is watching. Are you tired of living, or do you want to die? "Shen Li is famous in the demon world. She has her own way of dealing with the mistakes of her soldiers, and the punishment will be severe.
Quickly take away half your life. But her soldiers cannot be punished by others, and they can't even curse. To be pretty, it means loving soldiers like children, but to be honest, it means good face. The people and goods that belong to her as King Bi Cang, how can she be bullied by others? Go.
The gate was closed, and the three guards stood up with help. They looked at each other. When they were silent, two objects suddenly flew out from the courtyard wall and shot straight into the ground in front of the three people like arrows. They sank more than an inch. The three looked carefully and found that they were the waist badges of the red-collared guards.
After a moment of silence, the front of Xingyun's door returned to peace.
"When did I become your man?" Xingyun stood bent over, holding his stomach, staring at Shen Li with a smile.
Shen Li ignored him, stared at him coldly for a while, then pointed at the moved stone at the door and asked him: "What is that?"
"Stone."
"Do you still want to be beaten?"
"Well, that's actually the stone pressing on the eye of the formation."
"Why put a stone there?"
"To suppress the power of the formation."
"Why suppress it?"
Xingyun glanced at her, hesitated for a long time and finally said: "This was put there on the second night after I brought you back. Otherwise, it would be too inconvenient for you to move after you became a human, and it would be inconvenient to play with you... Naturally, the separation of men and women is the most important reason why I put this stone. It is not good for you and I to be alone in the same room."
"In other words, on the third day after you brought me back, I could already become a human..." At that time, at that time, oh yes, that morning, he was seeing off the girl in plain clothes, so according to him-"When I ran out that day, I could become a human, and I wouldn't have to be chased and stewed by those mortals all over the street like a plucked chicken."
She could have been much less embarrassed...
"Well, that's about it." Xingyun paused, and sighed as if helplessly: "Another secret has been seen through by you, so sad."
Sad... sad? He actually had the nerve to say sad! She is the one who should be sad, okay!
Does this guy know how much damage her dignity has suffered because of the stone he moved! No... This guy must know, he must still be laughing at her in the dark, to see how she can struggle!
Shen Li's murderous heart surged, and her whole body twitched with hatred: "If I don't kill you, it will not be enough to appease the blood hatred in my heart." She gritted her teeth and said this word by word. When she looked up, she saw Xingyun holding his stomach and kneeling on the ground. She glared at him, "What! It's too late to apologize!"
Xingyun smiled bitterly: "No, it's just... cough..." Before he finished speaking, he threw himself forward and fainted.
Shen Li was startled, and suddenly felt that Xingyun's breath in the air was much weaker. This man was weak to begin with, and the guard didn't seem to be sparing his strength when beating him. Could it be that... something bad had happened to him? Thinking of this, for some reason, Shen Li's anger, which had not yet been vented, seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, and died down. She hurriedly squatted beside Xingyun and reached out to feel his pulse. Then her face turned pale.
Weak, slow, and about to die...
Chapter 07 Walk away in style
Throw Xingyun in the yard, and then walk away in style... This is what Shen Li thought. But after hesitating for a long time, she still picked him up and threw him on the rocking chair in the backyard.
Shen Li felt that he should pay the price for the jokes he had seen these days, instead of dying so easily. Shen Li searched the house for a long time, and finally found the medicine that Xingyun usually took. After some effort to boil it, she took the medicine and walked to Xingyun.
Seeing that he was still unconscious, Shen Li thought about it, stretched out her hand to pinch his jaw, and rudely pried open his teeth. She pretended to pour the bowl of freshly boiled medicine into Xingyun's mouth without blowing it.
"Wait a minute!" At the critical moment of life and death, Xingyun suddenly spoke, his face was still pale, he coughed twice, gently pushed Shen Li's hand away, and sighed, "I'll do it myself."
Shen Li raised his eyebrows: "Are you playing a trick?"
"No, I really fainted for a moment, and just woke up, just wanting to enjoy the taste of being taken care of." Xingyun laughed, "But I seem to think too much."
"You think too much! You ate my bacon today, and teased me for so many days, and you still want me to take care of you!" Shen Li suppressed her anger, lifted her clothes, shook her butt, and subconsciously wanted to sit on the ground, but suddenly remembered that she was no longer a chicken, and her half-squatted body straightened stiffly again.
But Xingyun laughed in front of her without caring about his life: "Look, it's more comfortable to be a chicken, but?" The eyebrows and eyes covered by the morbidity were actually a different kind of soul-stirring.
At this time, no matter how miserable Xingyun was, Shen Li just clenched her fists, took a deep breath and said:"Can you find a reason why I won't kill you?"
Her words were extremely murderous, but Xingyun just smiled lightly after hearing it: "Stop it, give me the medicine, I left you half a piece of bacon in the kitchen, and I'll cook you some broth when you're hungry."
These words were a powerful blow to Shen Li.
The reason for not killing him... was said so easily...
Shen Li couldn't clench her fists anymore. She felt that Xingyun must have set up some strange formation in this room, which made her slowly become unlike the prince of the Immortal Realm world. She recovered her human body, but her internal breath was still unstable, and her magic power was only 10% or 20%. Shen Li spent the whole afternoon thinking about when she should leave this small courtyard. Xingyun's formation was well set up, so he could recover faster here. But if he stayed here, the people from the Immortal Realm world would come looking for him soon. Then this mortal...
"Help me take down the bacon." Xingyun's voice suddenly came from behind him. "The meat is hanging too high. I can't straighten my back and take it down."
Shen Li glanced at Xingyun. He was in so much pain after being punched. If he faced the pursuers from the Immortal Realm world, he would be dead. Shen Li sighed, "Where is it?"
She entered the kitchen and looked up. Half a piece of bacon was hanging on the beam. Xingyun handed her a pole. Shen Li didn't take it. She took an empty bowl from the side and threw it into the air like a flying disc.
The edge of the ceramic bowl was like a knife, quickly cutting the thin rope hanging the bacon. Before hitting the wall, it circled back and caught the bacon that fell, and flew back to Shen Li's hand steadily.
Shen Li was very proud of showing off such a skill. She glanced to the side, expecting to see the amazed and admiring eyes of mortals, but she only saw Xingyun sticking his butt out and taking out a very dirty rag from under the stove. He handed it to her and said, "Great, since you have this skill, just wipe the dust off the beam in my kitchen." Shen Li held the bowl, staring at the rag in his hand, whose color could no longer be seen, and asked in a subtle tone, "Do you know who you are ordering?"
Xingyun just smiled and said, "I haven't asked about your identity, how can I know who you are ordering." Shen Li's face became even uglier. Xingyun shook his head helplessly and threw away the rag, "Okay, okay, then don't wipe it. Then help me bring two buckets of water in."
Shen Li put down the bowl and glared. Seeing Xingyun holding his stomach, he said, "It hurts... I'll feed you the meat after it's cooked." Shen Li gritted her teeth and turned to go out. In the narrow kitchen, when she passed by Xingyun angrily, she inadvertently rubbed Xingyun's chest with her upright breasts. This was an unintentional touch. If Shen Li walked faster, perhaps neither of them would feel anything.
But she was wearing Xingyun's clothes, and the wide hem was inadvertently hooked by the fire tongs stuck in the corner. Shen Li paused, and she was frozen at such an embarrassing moment. Xingyun glanced down, then turned his eyes away, moved a few steps to the side, and cleared his throat twice, saying, "Look, I said it's not convenient, right..."
Shen Li just pulled out the corner of her clothes that was caught, and her expression was indifferent and arrogant: "What's inconvenient? Make a fuss."
She walked out of the kitchen, as if she didn't feel anything. Xingyun stood by the stove for a while, and when the slightly burning heat in his chest faded, he bent down slightly, looked through the door frame, and saw a corner of the courtyard. A stubborn woman was leaning over the water tank to scoop water, but she didn't scoop out a bucket of water for a long time. Xingyun turned his head and rubbed his chest unconsciously with his hands.
He felt that the water might not come, so he should stir-fry the bacon... There must be something wrong with this small courtyard! Shen Li looked at her own projection in the water tank, and reached out to poke it in disbelief. What's going on with the two blushes on her cheeks! Who painted them on her? Why did she feel so unreal? The Lord Bicang blushed because of a mortal. "Hehe, it's time to eat."
Shen Li didn't know how long she had been immersed in her thoughts. Suddenly, she heard such a call. Her cheeks, which had rarely been hot for thousands of years, immediately faded away. She raised her voice and said, "My name is Shen Li! If you call me like a beast again, try it!" She turned her head and saw Xingyun standing at the door of the hall with a plate of food.
The setting sun stretched his figure very long. He didn't know why he looked a little stunned. Shen Li looked at him strangely. Xingyun blinked and came back to his senses. He pulled out a smile again and said, "Shen Li, it's time to eat."
After these words came out, Shen Li was stunned again. She had heard "Your Majesty, it's time to eat."
She had heard such words as "Shen Li! Fight with me!" But no one had ever tried another combination.
Putting her name together with such ordinary three words made her... feel like she had found home.
Shen Li shook her head and walked towards Xingyun: "If the meat is ruined, you will have to compensate me with another piece."
Xingyun chuckled: "What if it is too delicious? You will compensate me with another piece?"
Shen Li thought for a moment and said: "If it is delicious, you can be my cook from now on."
Xingyun was stunned and smiled without saying anything.
How can a person who can make steamed buns delicious make meat unpalatable?
The result was that when Xingyun wanted to go to the wild mountains outside the city to collect ginseng the next day, Shen Li refused to let him go and stuffed two pieces of gold as big as stones into his clothes: "Buy meat!"
Shen Li asked, but he was afraid that he would be arrested and taken to the government immediately if he took two pieces of gold as big as this to buy meat. Xingyun refused, and when he was trying to refuse, there was a knock on the door.
Shen Li frowned and threw the two pieces of gold. As soon as they fell to the ground, the golden light faded and turned into two pieces of stone.
Xingyun was about to open the door, but Shen Li stopped him: "I'll go."
Without listening to what Xingyun said, she took two steps forward and opened the door.
Outside the door were two guards in dark blue clothes, equipped with broadswords and green jade pendants.
They glanced at Shen Li, clasped their fists and bowed: "Excuse me, my master would like to visit you tonight. Please wait at home for a day. We will also make some arrangements in your house..."
"Why should we receive him just because he comes?" Shen Li frowned. "I'm not free today. Let him go back and wait. Call him when he's free." After saying that, he was about to close the door.
The two blue-clothed guards had never been treated like this before. They were stunned and stretched out their hands to hold the door. However, the woman's movements seemed light, but when they were about to push it in, a strong force came from behind the door, which shocked the two men back.
They looked at each other and were about to take real action, but the door that was about to close suddenly opened again, and a man in blue and white skirt stood at the door with a smile. He blocked the woman behind him and asked the two blue-clothed guards, "Are you here to set up the place? Very good, come in." He stepped aside, and his cooperative attitude made the two men frown suspiciously, but they still stepped in.
Xingyun led them to the kitchen and pointed to the beam: "Ah, look, it's very dirty here, we need to clean it, the rag is under the stove." He patted one person on the shoulder, "I'll leave this to you." Then he led another person to the hall, "It's been a long time since it was cleaned here, just help me clean it up, so that I can entertain your master in the evening."
He arranged the work for the two people and carried the backpack on his back: "Shen Li, supervisor, I will be back after picking ginseng."
The courtyard door closed, hiding Xingyun's back, leaving Shen Li with a twitching mouth. This guy... is so weird that it is incomprehensible!
At night, in the front yard.
Xingyun boiled a pot of tea and placed it on the stone table in the courtyard. Looking at the clean courtyard, he was very satisfied. There were heavy footsteps approaching outside. Shen Li stood at the gate of the courtyard with his hands folded, looking unhappy. Xingyun smiled at her and said, "You are going to meet the crown prince anyway, why do you look so sad?"
"Who looks sad?" Shen Li said, "It's just that I have foreseen the character of the crown prince. Like master, like subordinates. Two groups of people came and were so arrogant and rude. Do you think the master will be any better?"
Xingyun smiled and took a sip of tea without saying anything.
A complicated sedan stopped in front of the door, and the wide sedan almost filled the alley. A figure dressed in red silk and yellow forging walked down from the sedan slowly. Shen Li squinted and looked at him. He had a pair of phoenix eyes and a pair of cherry red lips, but what happened to his body that was almost as fat as a ball?
Before entering the door, the crown prince looked up and down at Shen Li at the door, then moved to the courtyard. The followers behind him wanted to follow, but Shen Li stretched out her hand: "There is only one teacup on the table, please only one person." A blue-clothed guard immediately put his hand on the handle of the knife, but the plump crown prince waved his hand: "Wait outside."
Shen Li raised an eyebrow, looking generous.
Chapter 08 Let me do it
The door was closed, and it seemed that only Xingyun, Shen Li and the Crown Prince were in the courtyard, but the three people present knew that when the house was "decorated" today, there were too many places for people to hide.
The Crown Prince sat down on the stone chair: "It's really not easy to see you, sir."
Xingyun smiled: "It's easier than seeing the Crown Prince."
Shen Li grew up in the Immortal Realm Realm since she was a child. The Immortal Realm Realm values martial arts, and everyone, whether officials or civilians, is bold and straightforward, and so is she. She hates others talking in official language to her, and she doesn't like others being polite. Shen Li went into the kitchen and looked for food in the pots and pans.
"I heard that you can communicate with ghosts and gods and know the future. I am curious and came to see you. I want to ask for a fortune. I wonder if you will tell me or not?"
"No."
Hearing his decisiveness, the prince's face darkened. Xingyun just pretended not to see it. "It's not his intention. I just don't like divination, and I'm not a person who can communicate with ghosts and gods. If you have any doubts, please find another way."
"Heh." The prince sneered, "You just want to raise your own value. Okay, if you can predict what I have in mind, I will promise you wealth and honor, high position and high honors. After I ascend the throne, it is not impossible to make you the national teacher."
Xingyun shook his head: "No."
"Young master, please don't be ungrateful." The prince looked around and said, "It would be easy for me to raze your courtyard to the ground today."
Xingyun took a sip of tea, and laughed softly, not knowing what he was thinking about. "Your Highness has gone to such great lengths to come here, just because you want to know when he can ascend the throne. However, the life span of the Heavenly Lord is related to the destiny of the country. It's not that I am unwilling to calculate it, but I really can't calculate it. And I don't think it will be easy for Your Highness to raze this place to the ground today. However, if you want to sit on the ground here, it is still possible."
The crown prince's face changed, and he slammed the table and stood up, shouting, "What a bold dog!"
Shen Li glanced into the yard from the kitchen, and saw a blue-clothed guard jumping out from nowhere, holding a sharp sword to Xingyun's neck.
The prince was so angry that he threw the pot of hot tea in front of him at Xingyun. Xingyun wanted to dodge, but was restrained by the people behind him, and the hot water splashed all over him.
Shen Li heard Xingyun groan, thinking that he was burned badly. Her pupils shrank, and a fire of evil rose in her heart. Just as she was about to leave, the other two Qingyi guards landed in front of Shen Li, drawing their swords.
Shen Li sneered and kicked one of them away, sending him flying and crashing into the Qingyi guard behind Xingyun. The two fell into a pile. Seeing this, the person blocking Shen Li stabbed with a sword, but Shen Li stretched out her hand and grasped the blade directly.
Her palm tightened, and the fine steel sword was gently pinched by her, and it wrinkled like paper. The Qingyi guard gasped in horror. Shen Li threw away his sword and ignored him. She moved like a ghost to the water tank in the corner, scooped up a bucket of water, and threw it out with a flick of her arm.
The cold water was like an arrow, splashing on the crown prince. The force was so strong that his body was knocked off the chair and rolled in the mud in a mess: "Hey, ouch..."
The crown prince was soaked all over, and his hair was stuck to his face. Shen Li completed these actions in an instant. For a while, no one else in the courtyard jumped out to ask Shen Li to stop. It was as if they were all scared by her. Shen Li strode forward, grabbed the crown prince's collar and pulled him up from the ground, staring into his phoenix eyes and said: "Get out, or die?" She was full of murderous aura, and her eyes faintly glowed with a terrifying red light in the dark night. "Big...bold monster..."
The prince was so frightened that his whole body twitched. He said these four words calmly, but when he saw the red light in Shen Li's eyes became even more intense, he immediately said, "Go, go!" Shen Li dragged him to the door by his collar, opened the gate, and threw him out of the yard. The precious prince was immediately caught by everyone.
A guard drew his sword. Shen Li sneered and stared at the prince and said, "It seems that you want to die here." The prince rolled and crawled into the sedan chair, shouting, "Go! Hurry up! You bunch of trash!"After the chaos, the courtyard returned to silence.
Shen Li closed the door in a bad mood, but saw Xingyun covering his face with cold wet clothes, and then sighed at the wet ground in the yard. Shen Li was inexplicably angry: "Are you stupid? You look mysterious on weekdays, but why do you only get bullied in front of others!"
Xingyun looked at the angry Shen Li and smiled gently: "I'm not as good as you, nor as good as you think." He is just a mortal, unable to escape birth, old age, sickness and death, and unable to leave this world.
Looking at the red marks on his face and the slightly pale lips, Shen Li suddenly felt a lump in his heart and didn't know what to say. Yes, he was originally an ordinary person. Such a little water could burn him. Once someone who has learned martial arts restrained him, he couldn't move at all. Knowing his destiny made him look omnipotent, but without that ability, he was just a flesh and blood body, so he would die so easily.
Then... where on earth did he get the confidence to live so calmly! Shen Li sighed, sat down on the stone chair, was silent for a long time, turned her head, and asked vaguely: "Today, did I do this, did it make things worse... cause you trouble?"
Although she beat people up very happily... but Lord BiCang was able to wake up after causing trouble and realized that he had caused trouble. If this was reported back to the Immortal Realm Realm, I don't know how many people would be amazed again. "Yes and no, anyway, I dug this mess myself, you just made it bigger." Shen Li was curious: "What did you say to him?" Xingyun smiled at her and said,
"To sum it up, you can say this: he asked me to be his, but I refused. He threatened to flatten this place, and I laughed at him for having to sit on it. He was annoyed that I laughed at his figure, so he started to fight, and then you beat him back."
Xingyun shook his head helplessly, "It seems that talking about people's figures is really a taboo." You deserve it for being mean... Xingyun's smile suddenly faded: "This person is stubborn and arrogant, and he always hopes that his father and brothers will die soon.
If the country is handed over to such a person, I'm afraid the world will be in turmoil." He looked up at the stars in the sky, looked for a long time and said, "I'm afraid the world will change hands." Shen Li was surprised: "Don't you dislike divination and fortune-telling to predict the future?" "This is not divination.
It concerns the fate of the country. I can't figure out anything even if I want to." Xingyun stood up and went back to the house. His voice came from afar, "His character can be seen, and as for the future... we can let it develop in that direction slowly."
It was so profound and unfathomable again. Shen Li curled her lips. She couldn't figure out whether this man was strong or weak. "Shen Li, help me get some water. I need to make ointment. If I don't treat it well, my face will be disfigured."
Shen Li gritted her teeth and said, "You are an expert at commanding people." After a pause, she seemed to have realized what was happening and raised her voice, "Why should I help you?" Whether it was the prince or fetching water, it was his business, why did she get involved now? The only thing she should be considering now was 'when to leave here'!
Suddenly, two muffled coughs were heard in the kitchen. Shen Li's angry expression slightly subsided. He sighed, then obediently walked to the water tank, scooped a bucket of water and carried it to the kitchen: "Go back and lie down." Shen Li pushed Xingyun away from the stove, "I'll do it."
Xingyun was startled and stood by without moving. Seeing Shen Li fiddling with the medicine jar for a while, he turned around and asked him: "Ointment...how to make it?"
Xingyun smiled softly: "Let me do it."
Unable to help, Shen Li could only stand by and quietly watch Xingyun pounding the medicine. It was rare to be with him quietly. After watching for a long time, when Xingyun's medicine was almost ready, Shen Li suddenly said: "If I'm not here today, what will you do? You can't stand being beaten, but you still pretend to be able to do anything."
"If you weren't here, I wouldn't be so arrogant." Xingyun said as he stirred the medicine in the jar, "But you're here, aren't you?" He said it naturally, which made Shen Li slightly stunned. However, he didn't even look at Shen Li, and continued to smile, "You are much more arrogant than me, which makes me look so easy-going. Just that fierce aura is amazing. Very handsome."
Handsome... handsome...
Has ever a man praised Shen Li so directly? When she was angry, the fierce aura she exuded from her body sometimes even made the Immortal Realm Lord feel helpless. Who would come to praise her like that?
Shen Li stared blankly at Xingyun's smiling profile. Although there were still traces of burns on his face, it did not affect his appearance, nor did it affect the way he touched Shen Li's heartstrings. "...Hand me the cloth, the jar is too hot to pick up."
Xingyun seemed to say something, Shen Li only heard the last few words in a daze, her mind was still in a state of confusion due to the throbbing, and she noticed that Xingyun was going to turn his head to look at her, Shen Li immediately moved his eyes away and reached out to take the medicine jar. Before Xingyun could stop her, she held the handle of the hot medicine jar and poured all the medicine into the basin.
It was not until she put down the medicine jar that Shen Li realized that her palm was a little burning. She blinked twice and rubbed her palm on her body twice: "Here, the medicine is ready." Xingyun was stunned, and saw Shen Li hiding her hands behind her back like a child. Xingyun sighed: "After all, you are a girl, and you really treat yourself as a man..." He gently pulled out Shen Li's hand hidden behind her back, and looked at it carefully under the light.
The palm and fingertips were a little red and swollen, but if it were an ordinary person, this hand would probably have been burned. He said, "You don't treat men like this... I'll make this ointment for burns, and we can apply it together." Shen Li felt a little strange when Xingyun held her wrist. She pulled her hand away uncomfortably.
In a panic, she picked up a random topic and said, "Yesterday, I told you that you were a disciple of a bald donkey, and you were so bothered by using bacon to anger me. Now you have been injured twice by the crown prince, why don't you seem angry? Do you think I'm easier to bully?"
"How do you know I'm not angry?" Xingyun filtered out the medicine residue and crushed it, "It's just that getting rid of people is the most urgent thing."
Shen Li was stunned and looked at him: "You? Getting rid of the crown prince?"
Xingyun smiled lightly: "I probably can't do it, but I can try to kill someone with a borrowed knife. Shen Li, accompany me out tomorrow."
"Oh... um? Wait, why do I have to accompany you if you ask me to!"
Chapter 09 At the Crown Prince Palace
Why did he let Shen Li accompany him? It was because after such a scene, how could there be no assassins lurking around him in the days after that. The Crown Prince was angry, so there was no reason not to seek revenge. However, he would not let the Heavenly Lord know that he came to seek divination, so of course he would do it in secret to kill Shen Li and Xingyun.
And everyone saw with their own eyes yesterday that Xingyun was not good at fighting, and only Shen Li was the biggest threat. The assassins sent by the Crown Prince were not fools. They would attack Xingyun when he was alone. As for whether they could deal with Shen Li later, they would take one person's life first.
How could Xingyun not figure out the connection between them? Naturally, he had to pull Shen Li along all the way.
However, when Shen Li saw the words on the door lintel, he frowned: "Prince Rui's Mansion?"
Xingyun nodded: "The Heavenly Lord has seven sons, the prince is the eldest, and Prince Rui is the eldest son of a concubine, but his mother is now in great favor, and there are a lot of aristocratic families behind him. If you want to talk about who can resist the prince, it's only him."
Shen Li was stunned: "You usually seem indifferent, but you know these things clearly."
"Before last night, I really didn't know anything." Xingyun smiled lightly, "But if you want to deal with people, you have to make some preparations." Xingyun had just finished speaking when he heard the sound of whips coming from the corner of the street. This was the sound of clearing the road. The whips stopped at the corner of the mansion gate. After a while, a carriage slowly drove up under the escort of guards. Xingyun walked forward slowly and said loudly: "The Taoist Xingyun wants to see King Rui!"
There was silence in the carriage for a while: "Taoist?" The hoarse voice was not very pleasant. He seemed to sneer twice, "What a bold Taoist, you know that what the Heavenly Lord hates most is people like you who are swindling and misleading, and the same goes for me."
Xingyun smiled: "In that case, Your Highness can call me a counselor. I have a plan to offer Your Highness, which can help Your Highness realize his strategy. What do you think?"
"Why does the king believe you?"
"The prince wanted to find this plan last night but failed..." Xingyun said halfway through his sentence, and then smiled, "If your highness is interested, you may as well go into the palace to discuss it."
The carriage curtain was lifted, and a man dressed in purple brocade stepped out of the carriage. He had a handsome figure, but his face was scratched by something, and a scar extended from the left forehead to the corner of his mouth, which looked hideous and terrifying.
Shen Li thought to himself that the current Heavenly Lord must have done something that angered the heavens and the people, so it was all retribution to his son...
Prince Rui looked at Xingyun from top to bottom, and then glanced at Shen Li beside him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Take them to the backyard."
The palace was of course very large, with pavilions and towers. Shen Li grew up in the poor and bad place of the Immortal Realm Realm, adjacent to the Ruins of the Abyss. It is said that the Ruins of the Abyss are full of evil ghosts and monsters that have committed many evil deeds. The evil spirits are overflowing all year round, making the Immortal Realm Realm full of fog and miasma. There is no sunlight all year round. Even in the Immortal Realm Lord's Mansion, there is no grass, not to mention the flowers in the yard and the lake of shimmering water.
But this place is big, and the side hall alone is much larger than the small courtyard of Xingyun. It is also very beautiful, with carved beams and painted buildings that are dazzling. But Shen Li just doesn't like this place. There is a sense of death and depression everywhere. It's not that the scenery is bad, but the scenery that is too deliberately outlined covers up the hearts of people in the house. It is not as comfortable as the small courtyard of Xingyun, and it is not even as free as the wasteland of the Immortal Realm.
Following the servants in the palace, they walked to a garden. In the pavilion, Prince Rui had changed his clothes and sat there to enjoy the view. Xingyun greeted Prince Rui, exchanged a few official words, and then talked about the government affairs. Shen Li felt sleepy and ran away to urinate. By then, Prince Rui had already chatted with Xingyun and had no time to care about her.
Leaving the backyard, Shen Li easily got rid of the few servants who led the way and swaggered around the palace.
The lotus buds in the pond were just emerging. Shen Li was attracted by them. She leaned over the white jade railing and was about to pick the buds. Suddenly, she heard a woman screaming from behind: "What are you doing! Don't touch my lotus!"
Shen Li stopped and turned sideways to see who was behind her. Unexpectedly, a figure rushed forward when she turned sideways.
The railing of the corridor bridge was originally low, and the woman rushed out with most of her body. Shen Li was quick and grabbed her belt and pulled her back, but she couldn't control the force and tore her belt off with a "swish".
The woman's complicated dress spread out, and her underwear almost fell off. She screamed again and hurriedly grabbed her clothes, but she couldn't take care of the bottom because she was pulling the top. She was so anxious that she had to squat on the ground and hug her head.
The girl is so smart! This way, she won't be embarrassed if she loses anything! Shen Li sighed in her heart, but she was still a little embarrassed holding the torn piece of cloth in her hand: "Sorry... I didn't expect your clothes to be so... uh, so crisp."
Hearing this, the girl quietly raised her head from her arms, staring at Shen Li with her eyes: "Are you a woman?" Shen Li looked at her chest: "Isn't it obvious?"
Shen Li recovered a few percent of her magic power. She didn't care about staying in Xingyun's courtyard on weekdays. She always wore his dirty clothes.
Anyway, her clothes on the battlefield were more than ten times dirtier than that, so she was too lazy to change. But today she was going out, and Xingyun wanted to find a better dress for her. But after searching for a long time, she didn't find a suitable one.
Shen Li thought about it and simply clapped her hands and changed her usual outfit. She tied her hair and wore a long dress, which was handsome but not delicate. So from the back, she looked more like a man.
The pink-dressed girl blushed, shook her head, and said softly, "It's still quite obvious, but you can't see it from the back."
It would be strange if you saw it from the back...
The two looked at each other in silence for a while. Shen Li saw that the girl had skin as white as cream, eyebrows like distant mountains, and a pair of peach blossom eyes that were watery and seductive. She couldn't help but tease her for a moment.
She suddenly reached out and tugged at the pink-dressed girl's skirt. The girl's cheeks turned even redder, and she squatted and quietly moved two steps to the side.
Shen Li thought it was fun, so she tugged her twice more. She finally couldn't help but beg, "Girl... Girl, don't play... If you are kind, please help me find a belt. I can't get up and walk like this." "Belt, I have one here."
Shen Li stood up and untied her belt. The purple belt on the outside of her clothes was more decorative than practical. There was also a thin belt inside the clothes to tie her clothes.
She wanted to use the purple corset outside to help the girl, but the girl quickly covered her eyes with her hands and said, "No, no!" "It's okay, I still have some..." Before Shen Li finished speaking, she heard a cry of surprise: "How dare you, you thief! How dare you be so presumptuous in the Rui Wang Mansion!"
At that time, Shen Li was standing to untie his belt, and the girl was squatting and covering her eyes. From behind, it looked like Shen Li was going to rape her.
But Shen Li didn't know what was wrong with this scene. She looked back and saw two people dressed as servants rushing over here. The girl in pink squatted on the ground and waved at them anxiously: "Don't come over, don't come over!"
The two servants paused: "How dare the bold thief hold Miss Xiaohe hostage!"
Shen Li twitched her lips: "No..." Before she could speak, a servant ran away, apparently to call for help. Shen Li thought, this girl's underwear fell off, and when that person called a bunch of guards over, would a bunch of strong men be around to watch her... A mortal woman values Qingyu very much, and they are going to watch her to death...
Shen Li rubbed his forehead, turned to Xiao He and said, "Why don't I take you away first."
Xiao He was already sweating coldly: "Where, where to go?"
While Shen Li was thinking, the servant had led a team of guards to come over. She sighed, and Xiao He grabbed her clothes and said anxiously: "What should we do!"
"The only way now is to escape underground."
"What are you stewing?"
The two were talking when they suddenly heard a low and hoarse scolding: "What are you arguing about!"
Xiao He was happy, but thinking of the current situation, she bit her lip and didn't say anything. She grabbed Shen Li's clothes and moved a few steps behind her. Shen Li looked out of the crowd, and saw King Rui and Xingyun walking over one after the other.
Xingyun looked at her from a distance, sighed and shook his head, as if to say, I haven't seen you for a while, how come you're in trouble again.
King Rui approached, looked at Shen Li, and then his eyes fell on Xiaohe who was squatting on the ground. He frowned, but his tone suddenly softened: "What's wrong?" Xiaohe pulled Shen Li's clothes without saying anything. Shen Li sighed: "Let the guards in your mansion step back first." Xiaohe nodded in agreement.
King Rui waved his hand, and the crowd dispersed. Noticing that Xiaohe had let go of her hand, Shen Li immediately moved aside and cleared her cough twice. Before she could speak, she saw King Rui bend his head and put his ear to Xiaohe's lips. Xiaohe whispered a few words to him. King Rui was startled, and the corners of his lips actually rose, and his smile softened the scars on his face. He took off his coat, covered Xiao He with it, and carried her horizontally. When he was about to leave, he suddenly turned to Xingyun and said, "Young Master, why don't you stay in the little prince's mansion?" However, in such a short conversation, King Rui had been much more polite to Xingyun.
The meaning of this statement was to directly ask Xingyun for protection. Shen Li thought about it and decided to let Xingyun stay in the Prince Rui's mansion, so that she could leave with peace of mind.
But Xingyun shook her head and said, "Thank you, Prince Rui, for your kindness. But today I offer you a suggestion to live in your own courtyard with peace of mind. Moreover, if I move in, I'm afraid it will cause some inconvenience to Prince Rui. I'll take my leave today." Prince Rui didn't force him to stay, nodded, and let Xingyun leave on his own. "You really can't stop for a moment."
fter the people left, Xingyun stepped forward to scold Shen Li, but Shen Li rarely did not argue with him. Instead, she frowned and thought deeply as she looked in the direction where Prince Rui left.
Xingyun looked at her for a while, "Are you attracted to that girl?"
Shen Li raised her eyebrows, "No, I'm just wondering why a prince of a country would raise a Immortal Realm spirit."
Xingyun was slightly startled, Shen Li waved her hand, "Forget it, it's none of my business." She turned her head, stared at Xingyun and said, "Why don't you stay in the palace? You're like this..."
How can she leave? Before she could finish her words, Xingyun patted Shen Li's head, "Don't argue, King Rui is generous and gave me some money. Let's go buy some meat today."
Shen Li's mouth moved, but she didn't say anything in the end. Well, considering that they have been together for so many days, she will protect him for a few more days.
Chapter 10 I have to Leave
Incense was curling, the windows were tightly closed, and talismans to ward off evil were pasted around the walls. The crown prince sat behind the sandalwood table with a cold expression: "Prince Rui's Mansion, they know how to find a place." The jade Buddhist beads were slammed on the table, shaking the porcelain cup and the water ripples. The black-clothed assassin kneeling in front of the table was silent, "Now, I can't keep them. Fu Sheng! Where are the monks and those foreign sorcerers?" "
Replying to the crown prince, they are waiting outside the door."
The crown prince nodded with satisfaction: "Hmph, okay, I'll see what else that monster can do."
The grape leaves in the courtyard danced in the wind. Shen Li looked at the leaves and felt that she probably wouldn't be able to eat the fruit it produced. Xingyun's food was so delicious, and the fruit of the fruit trees he planted should be very sweet. She was determined to leave within three days. No matter what Xingyun's place looked like by then, she couldn't stay any longer. It would only make things worse. The threat of the crown prince can still be avoided in the Rui Palace, but the threat of the Immortal Realm world... no mortal can handle it.
With a "bang", Shen Li poked her head to look at the front yard and saw Xingyun struggling to move the stones in the yard. Sweat dripped down his face. He seemed to be calculating something, his lips moved slightly, and he muttered something. It was rare to see him with such a serious expression. Shen Li couldn't help but stare at him for a moment, and suddenly an idea popped up in her mind: if there was no marriage contract, it would be great.
If there was no marriage contract, she wouldn't have to run away from the marriage, and she wouldn't have to leave so anxiously. She could... could what?
Shen Li suddenly came back to her senses, and was so shocked by her sudden idea that she forgot to blink. What on earth was she looking forward to in her heart...
"Shen Li." A call came from the front yard, interrupting Shen Li's thoughts. She shook off the mixed emotions in her mind and walked towards the front yard.
The stones that were scattered around in the front yard have been rearranged. Xingyun stood in front of the large water tank and waved to Shen Li: "Let's lift this water tank together." Shen Li curled her lips, walked over, picked up the half-person-high water tank with one hand, and asked: "Where to put it?"
"The corner over there." Xingyun pointed, watching Shen Li carry the water tank over easily, he said, "I changed the formation in the house to an extremely fierce formation, especially at night, this formation is particularly powerful. Remember not to come to the front yard, and you have to go out with me if you want to go out."
Shen Li knew that Xingyun was a little capable in this regard, but she always felt that as a mortal, he could set up a good formation that condensed the essence of the sun and the moon, but he might not be able to set up a fierce formation. No matter how fierce the formation was, could it be more fierce than her, the overlord of the Immortal Realm world? So she just ignored Xingyun's words and didn't take them to heart. Instead, she changed the subject and asked, "Why did you suddenly change the formation?" Xingyun smiled and said, "It's for you and me, so that we can sleep well." As if deliberately contradicting Xingyun's words, at night, when the lights of all the houses were turned off, the sound of chanting suddenly rang out outside the courtyard.
Xingyun covered his ears with a quilt in the inner room and sighed, "I didn't expect it to be so clumsy. I really overestimated the crown prince." He didn't finish his words here. In the sound of chanting that was faintly entering his ears, there was a crisp sound. Xingyun immediately turned over, grabbed the clothes at the head of the bed, put them on, and walked into the hall.
After Shen Li became a human, she had been sleeping on a bed made of benches in the hall. Every night when he got up to drink water, he could see her lying steadily on the narrow bench, looking at him, and then continuing to sleep. She was alert by nature and also trusted him. But today Shen Li was no longer lying on the bench. Xingyun felt something was wrong, and hurried to the entrance of the hall to look into the courtyard. Five people had already fallen in the fierce formation. In addition to the three men in black, there were two people dressed as Taoist priests. They were all pale and gasping weakly on the ground. There was only one person in the courtyard, standing upright in the courtyard like a mountain.
This girl named Shen Li seemed to have never bent her knees and back. She was so strong that it was almost helpless. Just as Xingyun sighed, two blood marks suddenly appeared in Shen Li's tightly closed eyes, which was shocking.
However, her fists were still clenched tightly, and even the corners of her lips did not tremble at all. Xingyun knew that this formation would not kill people. It would only touch the fear deep in people's hearts, shatter their reason, and make people fall down.
But if he held on like Shen Li, the power in the formation would become stronger. Xingyun had never thought that someone would hold on for so long in such a fierce formation. If it continued like this, who knows what would happen...
As if he couldn't bear it any longer, Xingyun couldn't hold back the impulse in his heart, and stepped into the front yard, into the fierce formation he had set up with his own hands. At this moment, he saw Shen Li suddenly bleed from all seven orifices, his clenched palms suddenly loosened, and his figure slowly fell down. Xingyun closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing slightly, and continued to move forward. When he opened his eyes again, the scenes just now were like a dream, no longer existing.
Shen Li was still standing there with his fists clenched, and there were only two bloodstains on his face. Without Xingyun's determination, Shen Li's world was collapsing. The people of the Immortal Realm Realm all disappeared in the red lava.
Those brave soldiers reached out to her for help, but she was tied up and unable to move.
The majestic Immortal Realm Palace turned to dust. She was worried about the life and death of the Immortal Realm Lord. She turned around and saw the Immortal Realm Lord in a black robe tying her hands and said in a cold voice: "This is a place that shouldn't exist. You shouldn't..."
Shen Li's heart was empty. Before she could speak, the Immortal Realm Lord suddenly opened his mouth and bit her neck, tearing off her flesh and wanting to eat her alive! No... "Shen Li." A light call seemed to come from a very far distance, but it froze all the scenes, "Wake up." Who is calling her... Her eyes hurt, and an inexplicably familiar face came into her sight: "It's all fake, it's okay."
Those red and chaotic scenes gradually faded, and her hands were no longer bound. Shen Li watched the scene around that person slowly become real. It was still that small courtyard, and there was the sound of chanting outside the courtyard.
Xingyun was holding her eyelids open with his hands, and blew a breath into it, and said, "Wake up." Shen Li's eyes were dry from being blown, and she closed her eyes patiently.
Xingyun said she was not awake, and forced her eyelids open again, took a deep breath, and was about to blow, but Shen Li turned her head and dodged: "Don't blow."
She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, "I'm almost blind." Xingyun smiled and said, "Isn't this going to help you blow away the nightmare first?" He pulled Shen Li's other hand, "Anyway, let's leave this evil formation first."
Shen Li was led away by him, looking at the blood marks on the back of her hand, she was stunned for a while, this evil formation, is it really so powerful...
She looked up at Xingyun's back, and asked absentmindedly: "Because you are the one who set up the formation, the evil formation will not hurt you?"
"No? This is just a formation, how can it recognize people?"
Xingyun's voice was light, "It's just that the heart is fearless, so that this formation has no loopholes."
Fearless... Shen Li was silent, fearless is also a heart without thoughts. Xingyun is really too indifferent. But... Shen Li lowered her eyes and fixed her gaze on the clasped hands. This person also made people feel at ease for some reason.
Xingyun pulled Shen Li into the hall without saying a word. He did not mention the scene he saw when he stepped into the formation just now.
"What should we do with these people?" Shen Li pointed at the people lying on the ground.
"Just drag them out after dawn."
"Where are the monks chanting outside?"
Xingyun pondered, and suddenly the chanting stopped. "They are all a bunch of trash!" The voice of a young man outside was particularly prominent. He ordered in a cold voice: "Burn them directly." Then a burning arrow suddenly shot in from outside the house and pierced the eaves. The wooden roof caught fire soon, as if a mechanism was triggered. Countless arrows shot into the house from outside.
Shen Li frowned: "They haven't even left yet, and they want to set fire!"
Xingyun did not respond, but turned his head to look at the backyard, which was also a fire. The grape trellis was burned and tilted slightly, and the breath of the fierce formation in the house gradually weakened. Every object in this small courtyard is part of the formation, and they are closely related to each other. If one object is damaged, the entire formation will be implicated. Xingyun saw this situation, but there was no worry on his face. Instead, he smiled and said, "For so many years, I have thought too well of people's hearts."
His courtyard was connected to the neighbors on both sides. If it caught fire, it would definitely affect others. He thought that the crown prince would only deal with him, but he didn't expect that the princes and nobles would take the lives of the people so lightly.
"It's my inconsiderateness that harmed others."
Shen Li glanced at him: "You also feel guilty?"
Xingyun smiled lightly without saying anything, but the arc of his lips was a little far-fetched.
Shen Li looked away, wiped the blood on her face, took two steps forward, and said in a low voice: "I'll help you for the last time. Today, the courtyard is burned. Tomorrow, you can go to the Rui Palace. I have to leave."
She said the words of leaving for the first time. Xingyun was stunned.
She waved her hand, and the silver light gathered in her hand. In just a moment, a red tassel silver spear suddenly appeared in her hand.
The spear was cold and imprinted with fire. It turned in Shen Li's hand and exuded a sharp murderous aura. Shen Li exerted force on her feet and broke through the roof and jumped into the air.
The silver spear in her hand drew four traces in the air. She shouted, and four silver lights were printed like seals. The walls around Xingyun's courtyard collapsed, separating it from the surrounding houses by a distance of two feet.
There was no wind tonight, and the fire here could not burn other people's houses.
Shen Li's figure flashed and landed in the courtyard. Now there was no wall blocking her, and she could clearly see the people outside.
Dozens of guards, holding bows and arrows, retreated tremblingly. Only a young man stood outside the crowd, staring at her coldly. Shen Li kicked out the five people who fainted on the ground without any hesitation, and the guards rushed over: "I don't want to see blood today. Get out of here."
To be continued...