Chapter 410 There is only one truth
"Longevity."
You live a long life, and your family live a long life.
Zhou Ji grinned at the innocent look of the little girl, squatted down halfway, held a piece of gold leaf between his fingertips, shook it and said, "In other words, I'll give this to you."
"Hmm." The little girl stared at the golden leaf for a while, not knowing what to say, and then burst out a sentence, "I wish you happiness as the East China Sea, and a longer life than Nanshan."
"Pfft~" Xu Fengnian and the others who followed behind couldn't help laughing, and Li Chungang, who was doing nothing at the end, laughed the loudest.
Zhou Ji glanced back sharply, and everyone suppressed their laughter. Only Li Chungang didn't care at all, and continued to laugh loudly:
"The way of heaven is born and there is failure. This is the norm in the world. A hundred years is not enough. You still want to live forever. Is it impossible to be that fairy?"
Regarding conceptual surprise, Zhou Ji was too lazy to argue with Li Chungang.
Turning around and performing a stunt to change his face, he showed an amiable and kind smile, coaxing the little girl and said, "Can't you say something like heaven and earth live together, live forever, live forever?"
"Ah?" The little girl blinked her eyes, quietly glanced at the laughing crowd behind Zhou Ji, and asked tentatively, "Then I wish you the same life, my lord, forever and ever?"
"Young Master Zhou, don't play tricks on the little girl." Xu Zhihu covered his mouth and chuckled, and walked slowly, "Eternal green is too ethereal. In comparison, I still like the phrase longevity."
"Extend your hand." Xu Zhihu looked at the little girl who was a bit embarrassed, showing a gentle and kind smile, and was about to get some reward money, when he remembered that he had put on new clothes today and left the money bag on the house, with a serious expression on his face. With a restrained smile on his face, he couldn't help but look at Xu Fengnian in embarrassment.
Xu Fengnian touched his sleeve subconsciously, and found that he happened to have no money with him.
The little girl saw the change in Xu Zhihu's expression, and immediately understood, a trace of disappointment flashed in her eyes. In the end, Jiang Ni took off her beloved small purse, stepped forward, took out three copper coins and handed them to her.
"Thank you~"
When the little girl saw the copper coins, she put on a sweet and bright smile again, and pointed to the mountain gate not far away, "There are melons in the pond in the backyard of the temple."
"Melon?" Jiang Ni asked curiously.
The little girl explained: "The temple is going to quench the thirst of young masters who enter the temple for free. It's very sweet. Go and try it."
"Okay, thank you~" Jiang Ni smiled.
"Go, go in and eat melons." Xu Fengnian greeted everyone, and walked towards the gate of the temple together. The little girl watched them go away, and carefully put the copper coins into the small cloth pocket full of patches. When she opened the cloth pocket, she couldn't help being stunned. After a while, he raised his head and looked in the direction of the temple gate, but he couldn't see the back of the pedestrian just now.
The little girl hesitated for a moment, then trotted after her.
Zhou Ji and the others entered the mountain gate, and they saw a small and exquisite square pond at the back gate of the temple, surrounded by green trees and a strange ancient pine.
There are stone dragon heads on each side of the pool, and the stream in the mouth of the dragon is gurgling, and the watermelon that the little girl said is next to it.
Li Chungang was not polite, he ran directly to hug the biggest one, leaned against the fence, and broke himself apart with his bare hands to eat alone.
Xu Fengnian took Xu Zhihu to the stone table next to him and sat down, took the watermelon handed over by Qingniao, pulled out Chunlei to rinse it in the stream, and cut the melon for everyone himself.
At this moment, the little girl ran over panting, and saw Zhou Ji and the others eating watermelon, showing hesitation, waiting far away, not daring to approach.
Seeing the little girl chasing after him, Xu Zhihu couldn't help being a little puzzled, picked up a piece of watermelon and waved: "Come here."
The little girl walked to the front hesitantly, shook her head, and didn't pick up the melon, but lowered her head and took out her little cloth pocket to get something.
"Here, you can put it away." Zhou Ji laughed dumbly, shook his head and stopped and said, "The wealth is not revealed, and there are many people here. If others see it, it may not be a good thing for you."
Jiang Ni picked up two pieces of watermelon and planned to come over and give one to the little girl, but accidentally caught a glimpse of a golden light flashing in the cloth bag, and immediately understood, squatted down and handed the watermelon to the little girl, and said quietly: "This Uncle’s money is all blown by the wind, a fool has a lot of money, have you heard that?”
The little girl put away the cloth bag suspiciously. When she saw the watermelon handed over by Jiang Ni, she swallowed her saliva, took half a step back and still didn't take it.
Jiang Ni didn't know why, so the poor scholar who was accosted by Xu Fengnian told the reason.
"Those melons are for literati. If she takes them, she will be kicked out of the temple."
"What about you? Why don't you eat?" Zhou Ji heard the conversation between Xu Fengnian and the scholar surnamed Chen, walked up to him, and said casually.
Chen Xiliang bowed to Zhou Ji, with a bit of inferiority and loss in his tone, and said bitterly: "Because I am not a literati either."
"Is it the literati who decide it?" Zhou Ji didn't care, looked at Xu Fengnian and said, "Anyway, you came here to make trouble today, and the debate later will let this literati who is not a literati go to fight with those who claim to be literati How about a literati debate?"
When Xu Fengnian had just chatted with Chen Xiliang, he heard that he was very talented in analyzing world affairs, so he immediately invited him to participate in today's debate.
At this moment, a little girl's exclamation came from the side. Turning her head to look, it turned out that several ladies from the Jiangnan family who were throwing pots in the pavilion were throwing arrows at the little girl.
The little girl fell into the pool and didn't know how to dodge. She had already explained to them that the abbot and the master in the temple had just agreed to her taking it, but she was still humiliated and bullied by these ladies.
Chen Xiliang didn't care about the answer, and rushed forward to protect the little girl. The ladies of those aristocratic families were still relentless, and even burst out laughing.
"It's really fun, it's much more interesting than throwing pots."
As an arrow pierced the little girl's face, Xu Fengnian's face sank like water, and he jumped to cut off the arrow. As soon as he stood still, he felt a powerful pressure of true energy coming from the side.
Xu Fengnian turned his head to look.
The sound of the wind and cranes, the sound of insects and birds, the originally gurgling spring water stagnated, and the water in the wishing pool seemed to be lifted up by some force, and the copper coins in the pool and the scattered arrows were suspended in the air.
"Since it's so fun, why don't you take me to play with you?" Zhou Ji looked indifferent, held his palms flat, and waved towards the gazebo lightly, only to see the water in a pool hit the gazebo with a bang~.
A group of women who were throwing pots in the pavilion screamed and ran away, but they were still knocked out by the strong water pressure and the impact of copper coins and arrows mixed in the water.
For a moment, the jade body was lying on the ground, all of them were drenched, and they were in a mess like a drowned chicken.
Seeing this, Xu Fengnian couldn't help but take another look. He didn't cough until he felt a gaze staring at him from behind, and then retracted his knife and said, "Okay~ You really made a big fuss this time."
"Anyway, it has nothing to do with me." Zhou Ji stretched out his hand, rolled Chen Xiliang and the little girl in front of him, separated a wisp of true energy to dry their clothes, and said with a smile: "Don't worry Well, if you can't stay in Jiangnan, you can go to Beiliang with this kid. Compared with the Jiangnan literary world monopolized by the aristocratic family, I think it is more suitable for you.
Chen Xiliang is not a stupid person, he is very clear that this is his chance, staying in the south of the Yangtze River will never make it, and taking refuge in Xu Fengnian will keep him and the little girl safe, so he agrees without hesitation.
After a long delay, the debate in the temple had already begun. Xu Fengnian stood with a knife in his hand, and led Chen Xiliang to the high platform to talk about the philosophy of Beiliang with the debate of king and bully.
On the other side of the attic, Lu Baijie opened a window and looked at Jiang Ni and Yu Youwei standing below the stage. After these days of hard thinking, he had already remembered the origin of the familiar feeling on Jiang Ni. He Yuyouwei and the others have already moved out of Lu's house, and they will wear veils when they go in and out, so they have not been able to confirm.
Now finally found a chance to see the real face again, Lu Baijie drew the face of Queen Xichu from his memory, and compared it with Jiang Ni, except for the glance in his memory, there was no resemblance at all.
"Could it be a misunderstanding?"
Just when Lu Baijie doubted himself.
A middle-aged literati in a Tsing Yi Confucian robe, walking slowly from outside the temple attracted his attention.
To be precise, it was not the literati in Tsing Yi who attracted his attention, but Li Chungang standing in front of the literati!
The sword will burst out, as if facing a big enemy.
It can make Li Jianshen feel like facing an enemy, the identity of this literati is naturally unusual.
One name and another flashed through Lu Baijie's mind, and finally fell on one person, holding the ancient sword Baxiu tightly in his palm, and said with a fighting spirit: "Guanzi is invincible. Cao Changqing!"
"It turned out to be him." Zhou Ji nodded slightly, remembering the three auras he felt when he was fighting Miss Hehe that day.
Seeing that he walked slowly to Xu Fengnian, he thought he was going to assassinate Prince Beiliang in public, but he completely ignored Li Chungang who stood in front of him, and when he was twenty steps away from Jiang Ni, he waved his sleeves, as if to Dust off the dust as a show of great respect, and then kneel down with a bang!
"Cao Changqing, the criminal minister of Western Chu, see Her Royal Highness!"
Cao Changqing's voice was not loud, but it exploded in Lu Baijie's ear.
Not only Zhou Ji and Xu Fengnian, but everyone including Li Chungang thought that Cao Changqing's sudden appearance here was to assassinate Xu Fengnian and disrupt Beiliang's break with Jiangnan, which naturally included Lu Baijie.
The fighting spirit in Lu Baijie's eyes instantly turned sharp, and he looked in the direction Cao Changqing was saluting, and what he saw was Jiang Ni, a maid who didn't look like Queen Xichu.
Lu Baijie didn't know how Cao Changqing recognized Jiang Ni's identity, but he believed that with Cao Changqing's experience and loyalty, he would never mistake Princess Xichu.
Even though, she doesn't look like the king or queen of Chu.
Zhou Ji glanced at Cao Changqing who was kneeling in front of Jiang Ni, feeling the same doubts in his heart.
As a beauty expert, Si Teng, after putting on Jiang Ni's disguise called makeup, even Yu Youwei couldn't recognize the resemblance between her and the queen, who has been staying in Yangcheng and never showed up How did Cao Changqing know that Jiang Ni is the princess of Chu?
there is only one truth.
That is: someone revealed Jiang Ni's identity to him, and even the matter of disguise.
Almost at the same time.
Zhou Ji turned to look at Xu Zhihu next to him, and Xu Fengnian also glanced back at her.
"You leaked Jiang Ni's affairs, right?" Zhou Ji sighed softly and said speechlessly, "Are you worried that Xu Xiao will use Jiang Ni as a bargaining chip and threaten Xu Fengnian?"
Xu Zhihu nodded slightly, then shook his head again, "Sir, you should be able to see that Fengnian and Jiang Ni actually like each other, but if Jiang Ni stays by Fengnian's side, there will be no possibility for the two of them. It is to find a glimmer of hope for the future of the two of them."
"The hope of being together" Zhou Ji understood Xu Zhihu's meaning, curled his lips and said, "No wonder your lifespan burns so fast, and you are exhausted every day, even if you die suddenly someday."
"As long as I can help Fengnian, even if I die suddenly, I am willing."
Xu Zhihu looked down at Cao Changqing who was confronting Li Chungang, and said firmly.
When Jiang Ni's identity was revealed to Cao Changqing, Xu Zhihu knew that with Cao Changqing's temperament, he would feel that Xu Fengnian was using and humiliating Jiang Ni as a maid.
In this battle, no matter whether it is fought or not, who wins and who loses is all within her expectations.
Following Cao Changqing, he clenched his palms into fists.
A dust storm arose.
Two cyclones burst out in front of him, rolling up fallen leaves all over the ground and turning them into giant tornadoes.
At this moment, a crane rang through the sky, and purple air rolled towards Baoguo Temple from west to east.
"Here we come." Zhou Ji raised a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, looking at the auspicious clouds gathering from the sky.
Xu Zhihu frowned and said, "What's coming?"
"A person you know." Zhou Ji pretended to be mysterious, and turned to look at Xu Zhihu.
Xu Zhihu seemed to feel something, propped his hands on the fence, leaned forward slightly, and whispered an absolutely impossible name with his lightly parted lips.
Immediately afterwards, another crane sounded, and the sound that was getting closer naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the temple, including the monks of Baoguo Temple. , fluttering down.
Xu Fengnian stared dumbfounded at the figure walking through the air like a banished fairy, and lost his voice: "Hong Xixiang?"
Fairy style, temperament out of dust.
Is this still the dull-looking Hong Xixiang in Wudang Mountain who dare not even go down the mountain to marry his sister?
The huge tornado quietly dispersed with the falling of the flood elephant. Although Cao Changqing was afraid of this young Taoist who appeared out of nowhere, he broke into the Liyang Palace many times, and he was less than fifty steps away from the emperor. The danger is only mediocre compared to before.
The so-called emperor humiliated his ministers to death.
The only princess left in the Western Chu royal family, Xu Fengnian was so humiliated, how could Cao Changqing give up because he was afraid of someone?
The fluff on Li Chungang's sheepskin fur suddenly curled up.
Cao Changqing just stood up lightly, without any other movements. Xu Fengnian, a second-rank martial artist, couldn't bear the pressure, but took a few steps back.
Li Chungang instantly climbed to the peak of sword intent.
Cao Changqing looked at Jiang Ni, and said softly: "Princess, do you want these to be life or death?"
As soon as this remark came out, Li Chungang was furious.
It's fine to be run over by that kid Zhou Ji, but now he's being ridiculed by an underachiever?
If he had only one arm left, he would have rolled up his sleeves and fought Cao Changqing.
(end of this chapter)