Chapter 54: Questioning Asher
I sent my dream to the Charm Palace first. I didn't let her tell her mother and sisters about what happened in the Pleiades Palace.
Then I went to Asher, and I remembered the look on his uncle's face at the succession ceremony yesterday, and what he had said to me.
Along the way, the servants bowed their heads to me and called me "Palace Master." "In the past, when I was called a young master, I would occasionally stop and tease them, but today, like the breeze and solemn passing, I have to get used to the change of identity.
Soon I came to Asher's temple, this courtyard has no name, it is not very large, I used to complete spiritual practice here, so I often call Asher by name, I don't know what the name of this small hall is.
When I walked into the temple, Asher was standing in front of the window, looking like he was contemplating something, he must have heard my footsteps, but he still had his back to me.
"Asher, I have a question for you." I stood very close to him and stopped. There are almost no bright colors in the room, and most of the dark decorative ornaments make the whole room look extraordinarily gray, just like his eyes, which contain many secrets deeply.
"Ask, as long as Asher knows, he will tell the palace master everything." A rough voice sounded in the room, and the body still stood in front of the window, not moving.
"How did the flowers of the Pleiades die?"
"The palace master is suspicious of me?"
I saw Asher's body tremble slightly, as if she was also stunned by the news.
"I'm just asking Asher if he can tell who killed those flowers."
"Can't!"
"Why?"
In the dim light, Asher's and I breathing suddenly became heavy. Suddenly, Asher turned his head, and I saw that his pupils were deeper than ever, and it seemed to be a deep sea, and I couldn't get to the bottom of it. However, what he had in his hand shocked me even more, my uncle's white twin flowers were actually ...... in Asher's hands.
"The palace master should want to know why not, right?"
"Because of this flower?" I stared at Asher, incredulous, and suddenly remembered that at the banquet yesterday, he snatched this flower from his uncle's hand, what is the meaning of this flower?
"He really didn't calm down, and the hundred-year-old burning pond made his ambition even more inflated, no wonder he ...... back then."
"Asher, what do you mean?" Looking at Asher muttering to himself, I was sure that the flowers in the Pleiades Palace were Asher's hands and feet.
"Xiu knows, what do these twins represent?"
"One plant and two flowers, competing for release."
"No, that's just a superficial phenomenon, one plant and two Yan, originally the same root, competing for release, the meaning of the word 'fight'. Ke was originally because of the burning pond of Bingjin, a full hundred years, from the time he came out, we all thought that he had completely calmed down and completely repented, but I didn't expect that now, the ambition in his bones has not changed at all. β
Asher's tone grew firmer, and when he looked at me, his face was as grim as his father's.
Could it be that Asher only cares about the past and forgets that Ke's right arm is missing? In the Liuli Palace, and even in the entire Ethereal Continent, if you don't have a right arm, how to practice spiritual arts, and how to arouse thousands of hatreds, can I think that because of this flower, Asher still can't let go of her prejudice against Ke, and still regards Dangke as her father's enemy? "I also looked at Asher with a stern attitude, just like when I confronted my father.
"Heh, Xiu is still young, I don't understand." Asher's tone suddenly softened, and I knew that he treated me like his own child, and that backing down was not a sign of cowardice.
"In the past, when I didn't want to be the palace master, you said I didn't understand, but now I became the palace master as my father wished, why did Asher still say that I didn't understand. Do you really want me to become like my father all the time, indifferent to my relatives, and regard the Liuli Palace as the supreme faith? β
"Later, Xiu will understand......." Asher turned his back to me again, and I saw the helplessness in his eyes, it must have been me.
"Is it Asher?" I made sure to Asher again, because I could make the flowers of the entire Pleiades Palace wither overnight, which is something that ordinary people of this spiritual skill level can't do.
"I've been to the Pleiades."
"Why do you do it to those flowers?" I clenched my right hand and stared coldly at Asher's back.
"I just took this twin." Asher's voice was extremely long.
It seems that Asher will not admit it, what I am disappointed is not his concealment, but his same prejudice as his father, a hundred years of punishment is cruel enough, why should I look at my uncle with my own inner thoughts. I don't understand. Before leaving, I left a message for Asher:
"It should be time for the young man of the Buyue clan to enter the Liuli Palace."
"Palace Master......, I'll arrange it as soon as possible."
As I walked out of the courtyard, I heard Asher sigh. But it still can't shake my decision.
After that, I went to the Pleiades again.
My uncle was still standing in front of the flowerbed, and I don't know how long he had been standing, so engrossed that I almost walked up to him before he noticed.
"I'm sorry, uncle."
"Hehe, it's Xiu, what's wrong, why did you suddenly apologize to me." My uncle looked at me in surprise, and his pale blue pupils still couldn't hide his sadness.
"It's Asher." I whispered Asher's name, unable to do anything about my uncle's grief.
"Hehehe, it seems that he still refuses to let me go. I've changed, and he still won't let me go....... β
My uncle left me and walked alone towards the temple, and when I reached the steps, I almost fell. At that moment, I had used my psychic skills to fly over and hold him.
"Uncle......."
"Hehehe, it's good to have spiritual skills! Unfortunately, I am a crippled body. β
"Uncle, I have already punished him, you pay attention to your body."
"Punishment? Xiu, don't punish Asher for these flowers, it is he who has been helping Ji to govern the Liuli Palace, and now he has supported you as the palace master. He is the most loyal to the Liuli Palace. β
"Uncle, can you tell me what happened back then?"
I sat with my uncle on the steps of the Pleiades Palace, watching his gaze spread all the way to the distant sky.
"Since the marriage of Bing, I have fewer and fewer opportunities to see Bing, occasionally passing by the White Jade Palace, I will always see him and your mother happily frolicking together, I remember clearly, in fact, I wanted to go to their side at that time, with them, Bing is my younger brother, his wife, I will naturally treat it like Bing. But because of my naughtiness, I ruined this opportunity with my own hands. β
"What did you do?"
"It's naΓ―ve to say, at least now that I think about it. On the night of my marriage, I specially picked a bouquet of beautiful flowers, that is my newly cultivated flower species, it tastes very fragrant, I thought about giving it to my wife as a wedding gift, but I didn't expect to accidentally let the wine spill on the petals, the flower is not able to touch the wine, I quickly got the white jade hall of the boil, thinking that I could let the wife of the burnt before the flower withered, but I didn't expect that when I arrived at the white jade hall, the original delicate flower has become a withered flower, just at this time, the stick also happened to rush over, he was very angry, Because the withered flower is in the Liuli Palace, it is regarded as a taboo like red. He thought I was going to do something to his bride, and on that day, in the eyes of everyone, I, the young master of the Liuli Palace, became the target of everyone. Looking at the disappointed eyes of Blaze, I thought it was useless for me to say anything, except to leave. So I returned to the Pleiades Palace alone. Since then, I have not seen me again, and even the servants have gradually distanced themselves from me, and they have not even come to my Pleiades, and everyone knows that Ke is misbehaving, but no one is willing to listen to my true thoughts. I don't bother to explain them all. They do whatever I want, and occasionally I will secretly go to the White Jade Palace, secretly take a look at the Yan, and when I see him happy, I will be happy. I thought that the days would go by like this. By chance, I walked to the cellar of the Liuli Palace, I remember that the entrance to the cellar was very secret, but I didn't know how I found it, driven by curiosity, I entered the cellar. There I discovered a terrible secret. β
"What's the secret?"
But my uncle didn't tell me, and he withdrew his gaze from afar, and his expression suddenly became grim, just as my father usually looked at me.
"And where is the burning pond?" I asked my uncle again. Uncle said that it is not good to be too curious, it will make people indulge in the feeling of wanting to find out everything, and they can't extricate themselves. He was punished by the palace master because of curiosity in the first place. Alone in the burning pond for a hundred years of repentance. My uncle finally told me that the "Burning Pond" was a cage built with the human heart, indestructible and terrifying.
When my uncle spoke of the burning pool, I saw the horror in his eyes and the trembling left hand. Again, I think it's all the palace's fault, that he let his father and his father's father. They all regard it as the supreme faith, but they forget that what they really should believe in is actually the sincere feelings, including between relatives and friends.
Uncle also told me that the glazed palace stands in the ethereal continent, and can become the bright pearl of the ethereal continent, relying on the wealth left by the ancestors from generation to generation, originally he thought it was obtained through painstaking efforts, but now he has changed that opinion, this gorgeous palace, bright doors and windows, bright pearls, exquisite ornaments, and even the hard and thick floor ...... on the ground, are all cast with ruthlessness and ignorance, accumulated.
After listening to my uncle's emotion, I can almost empathize, because since I was a child, I also have this thought, if there is no warmth, no matter how big it is, it is just a palace, even if it has gone through thousands of years ......, it can only be a palace.
By the time I left the Pleiades, night had fallen. I looked up at the twinkling stars and said to my uncle with a smile.
"From now on, the Liuli Palace will no longer be what it used to be, it will be a home that is carefully maintained."
A smile spread across my uncle's face.
"Buyue Clan!"
I've read these three words, and tomorrow should be a lively day!