Chapter Twenty-Five: Worrying Xiaozhu Says Spirit

"Long time no see", as the boat landed, the woman on the boat said softly,

Taifeng actually smiled, Zheng Yan was already surprised, you must know that Taifeng has never been close to women, or hates women, of course, he doesn't like men, and now he actually smiles at a woman, it's just amazing. Zheng Yan couldn't help but start to look at the woman in front of him carefully, her appearance and figure were indeed first-class, not to mention her bearing, nine points is not an exaggeration, she can definitely be ranked in the forefront in Luoyang, but the praised woman in Luoyang, Taifeng, has never pretended, what attracted him to the woman in front of him?

The woman's eyes rolled to look at Zheng Yan, with some joy and kindness in her eyes. Zheng Yan hurriedly shouted Hello Auntie, the woman chuckled, and in an instant, a hundred flowers bloomed, stretched out her hand and pinched Zheng Yan's face and pulled it, Zheng Yan had long forgotten to dodge,

"The little ones have grown so big! I remember that when I see a young woman in the future, I will call my sister, come, call one, and my sister will introduce you to your daughter-in-law."

Zheng Yan shouted "Aunt Xiaoxi" with a bitter face, and then his face was torn longer, and he went straight to the boat, and the woman finally let Zheng Yan go and pulled him up.

Taixi, the younger sister of Taifeng, is said to have seen her twice when she was still an infant, so she naturally has no impression, but you can guess it by looking at this style and Taifeng's attitude, "Aunt Xiaoxi, why are you here? Didn't you say that you were married to a general? Uncle is also here?",

Shantaixi didn't have a good breath and said, "It must be said by Shantaijing, isn't it? That broken-mouthed woman, when will I get married! I know that the arranger, she hates to marry and has to pull someone else, remember to call my sister, and let me hear a 'aunt' want you to look good".

The originally demure and graceful woman suddenly had a sinister face, grabbed Zheng Yan's collar and her tone was full of threats, Zheng Yan turned her head aside, and nodded again against her will, Hongmu Ruhui in the house is this virtue, and if she can't marry at an age, she wants to give herself some comfort in her title.

"It's called Shuwu Xiaozhu, the rules of Guanqiusi, it's generally a two-person partner, and there is a woman named Ke Tingyue with my sister, I'm a little old, so I won't give you a detailed introduction, like us, you can bring some attendants who are resident in one place, my sister is Qingxi, and I hugged you when I was a child, she was seven or eight years old at that time, you definitely don't remember, Ke Tingyue took her sister, Ke Tingwei, you must take it, it's very positive,

Zheng Yan felt that this should be the woman of the Tantai family, she was flamboyant, and she never had anything to do with the demure and graceful, well, Sister Xuehong was an exception, it seemed that Concubine Xuetai was also a little.

The boat leaned on a small pier in front of the house, and the boat was tied with a rope in the nearest room, and three women came out of the nearest room, wearing a bright silver skirt must be Ke Tingyue, who is not very old at all, this is the real demure and elegant, the one wearing the azure skirt should be Qingxi, and the one wearing the pink and white skirt is only Ke Tingwei, and it is indeed the case after the introduction of the Taixi.

The three women were still looking at Taifeng, shh

Taixi led the guests into the living room and pulled Qingxi to cook, Zheng Yan couldn't help but ask some simple questions about the supplement to the supply here, and what to do usually, Ke Tingwei was more reserved than her sister, and only whispered something under the guidance of her sister's gaze, Zheng Yan walked out after understanding, and let Taifeng deal with the two sisters by himself, hahaha.

Outside the house is a wooden corridor, there is a string of brass wind chimes are emitting a crisp and pleasant sound, Ying Yue likes this kind of wind chimes very much, I remember when I was a child, the third aunt and grandmother came back from Tongling one year to bring a string, and this one, the copper pipe has runes, the sound is extremely beautiful, Ying Yue hung it on the study window, Zheng Yan was curious about those runes, and as a result, the copper pipe was removed, Ying Yue didn't speak for several days, he was guilty, and he always wanted to go to Tongling to pick a string in person, but he never had the opportunity.

Just thinking about some of the past, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, it turned out to be Ke Tingwei, Zheng Yan smiled and shouted Sister Tingwei, Ke Tingwei smiled softly, and motioned for Zheng Yan to sit.

The wooden floors in the hallway are smooth and clean, and they must be cleaned often, and the lake is below, so it's refreshing to stay here at this time. Zheng Yan sat cross-legged and looked at the lake, Ke Ting knelt in her skirt slightly, her movements were regular and elegant, this is not a style that can be exercised overnight, it should be from a family, Zheng Yan smiled and said, "How long has Sister Tingwei been here?

Ke Ting tidied up her dress slightly and said softly, "It's been ten years, and when I was eight years old, I was sent over by my uncle, saying that I should follow my sister to practice, and it would be good to get used to it, Your Highness doesn't seem to be the same as rumored."

Zheng Yan was curious, "What rumors did Sister Tingwei hear?" I remember that there are many versions,

Ke Ting covered her mouth slightly and chuckled, looked at Zheng Yan seriously, hesitated for a moment and said softly, "Your Highness is calm, my sister has analyzed several major versions of the rumors, and I think it was carefully designed, and the virtual and the real are divided into seven or three, each of which will generate many kinds of explanations, and the choice of words and sentences can be called accurate, well, we are really bored here, you know, there is nothing except cultivation in a daze, it is said to be supervision, in fact, there is nothing specific to do, it feels like the Guanqiu Division arranged for us to come here to practice."

Zheng Yan smiled and nodded, and then asked curiously, "Is Sister Tingwei from the Yutang Ke family?"

Ke Ting's expression changed for a moment, and she nodded and said, "This family,

Zheng Yan did not ask again on this topic, "Who is the target of your supervision? or what is it convenient to disclose?",

Ke Tingwei had already recovered, and said with a smile, "I'm not a person from Guanqiu Division, of course Your Highness can know more about what I know, there is a small town three miles to the west, which has been abandoned for an unknown number of years, and the houses in the town are all built with a kind of gloomy stone, which is very peculiar, and there are some living in it... Some spirits, our task is to look at those stones, and the other is to look at those spirits."

Zheng Yan understood that the spirits of Middle-earth were basically confined in a half-circle like this, and it was difficult to see them in towns inhabited by human races. The key is still a matter of thought, very few spirits can accept the etiquette and morality of the human race, and accept rather than abide by it, this is very important. The ones absorbed by the Zongren Mansion can already be transformed into human form, many of them have been cultivated since childhood, or they are mixed-blood, as for the desolate and feather people, they are actually similar to the human race, but the beliefs are different, and beliefs are always easier to reconcile than those thoughts, thoughts come from the soul and the body, and the thoughts of the spirits after turning into human forms can barely be shaped, but they are also limited, let alone before they transform into human forms,

Wisdom is one thing, mind is another.

To put it simply, for example, a person walks in the market and sees a stall with roast chicken, this person knows that if he wants to eat, he needs to spend money to buy it or exchange it for something, and if the spirit wants it, he will directly take it and eat it, and if there is a conflict, it depends on who has the strength, of course, most of the demon cultivators in the human race are the same.

"Are there any spirits in the town that have turned into human forms? How many are there? Usually there will be trouble?", Zheng Yan asked curiously,

Ke Ting smiled slightly, and called softly to the water surface, "Scarlet", just when Zheng Yan was curious, a crimson orange koi suddenly jumped out not far away, and in the blink of an eye, the koi turned into a five or six-year-old girl.

Ke Ting hugged the little girl slightly, pinched the little face that could be broken by blowing bullets, and said softly, "Shoes, shoes, why can't you remember it?"

The little girl blinked her big eyes, and kissed Ke Ting's face, and when the woman was embarrassed, she had already jumped into Zheng Yan's arms, Qiong sniffed and shouted happily, "This brother's smell is like it, Scarlet likes,

Before Ke Tingwei could react, a jade hand had already taken the little girl out of Zheng Yan's arms, Zheng Yan turned his head and saw that it was a cold and glamorous woman wearing a black veil, her figure was really romantic, not to mention her appearance. The woman didn't speak, and pressed the little girl down the corridor a little roughly, and the little girl reluctantly knelt down like Ke Tingwei and twisted her body, probably to show that this was very uncomfortable, and the woman in black also knelt down, put down the fruit plate in her hand, and looked at Zheng Yan indifferently.

Ke Ting smiled and said, "Xuanzhen, Scarlet Zhen, the two sisters, surnamed Li, let His Highness smile, Scarlet, that look was rude just now, do you know?",

Zheng Yan was a little embarrassed by the woman in black called Li Xuanzhen, and she couldn't intervene in someone to discipline her sister, the little girl's actions just now were indeed inappropriate, thinking about whether she would take the opportunity to kidnap her, Ying Yue must have liked it very much, and she usually didn't say that she was as cute as she was when she was a child.

Li Feizhen, or Scarlet, stuck out her tongue and turned her head to look at her sister Li Xuanzhen, "Yes? It smells good, it looks like the sky has just cleared after a thunderstorm, big brother, let Scarlet follow you, right?",

Zheng Yan was about to nod his head in agreement, but in fact, he was also thinking about making some jokes with the little girl, when suddenly Li Xuanzhen disappeared, and the next moment he appeared on the water outside the corridor, with his back to the three of them, as if he was on guard against something, not far from the kitchen, he walked out angrily with a kitchen knife, and said hatefully, "Is Lu Qingcao here again? I have to make soup with him today."

Ke Ting smiled and explained, "Lu Qingcao's body is an ice sturgeon, he has been pursuing Xuan Zhen, and he also wants to take advantage of the situation to take Scarlet Zhen away, and he is often entangled when he is in town, and Xuan Zhen and Scarlet Zhen moved to Xiaozhu and chased after him again, probably to heal the injury again",

Zheng Yan felt a trace of cold air attacking, just after noon, there were bursts of water vapor on the water surface that was still a little hot, it was actually a demon cultivator who was good at ice method, ice sturgeon, but it matched the name.

Li Xuanzhen raised his hand to stop the action of Shantaixi, and began to walk slowly outside, Zheng Yan saw a young man in a blue robe standing on the water not far away, with a strong and tall body, his face was not handsome but not bad, he was looking at this side affectionately at the moment, and said softly, "Xuan'er Fei'er, go back with me, let's practice together, the way of heaven can be expected",

Zheng Yan was about to praise a "tenderness like water", and the scarlet on the side jumped up and stepped on the railing, and shouted "Phew,... Sister Xi, what do you say next?", the little girl who was originally domineering was stunned for a moment, then turned her head and looked at Tantai Creek with a begging face, it turned out that she had forgotten the words.

Taixi hates iron and steel, "shameless people",

The little girl suddenly realized that she was about to continue, when her sister had already raised a wave of water more than a foot high, and quickly pressed down on Lu Qingcao on the opposite side, Lu Qingcao's face was full of sadness, and the lake under her feet began to freeze between the wave of her sleeves, and the ice cubes stabbed obliquely against the water wall that was pressed down, as soon as the ice cubes touched the water wall, the water wall began to freeze, and the speed of advancing the oppression became slower and slower.

"Don't worry, although the two of them are equivalent to the realm of the Authentic Realm, Xuan Zhen's cultivation is higher than Lu Qingcao's, even if he is restrained, Xuan Zhen has developed in subtle manipulation over the years, and there is already a way to resolve it", Ke Ting said with a smile,

Zheng Yan nodded, seeing that the frozen ice wall began to disintegrate, the ice is still water in the end, but some cold and warm changes in the yin and yang changes have been added, the essence has not changed, and such cold and warm changes are still far away, I remember seeing a person perform the ice method when I was a child, and a verdant little chrysanthemum turned into a pile of ice chips in the blink of an eye, and the water in the flowers and leaves was pumped out and frozen.

Whether there is an upper bound and a lower bound, just as there is a source and an end point for time, these are always questions.

The disintegrated ice cube was wrapped in water by Li Xuanzhen, turned into strips of water guns and shot at Lu Qingcao, when Lu Qingcao condensed an ice shield to resist, four spiral water columns rose on all sides, and the water column rotated rapidly and squeezed towards the middle, looking as if it could break people, Lu Qingcao saw that he couldn't break free, and suddenly shouted, and released a white gas all over his body, the white gas met the water, and the water instantly turned into ice, and after a while, four icicles appeared in front of several people, and Lu Qingcao was caught in the middle and gasped.

Taifeng and Ke Tingyue walked out early, standing at the door and watching quietly, Zheng Yan glanced at the floor where he was sitting, there was a shallow layer of frost, it turned out that the entire small lake had frozen, the tunnel realm could indeed do it, or the freezing range could be even larger, after all, this small lake was only a mile away, and Lu Qingcao shouldn't be so laborious, was it spent when snatching control of the water from Li Xuanzhen?

Li Xuanzhen, who was originally standing in the air, suddenly moved, and the next moment he appeared next to the icicle, the distance of fifteen or sixteen zhang was only a matter of blink of an eye, the body of the spirit was really strong, Zheng Yan noticed that there was a ripple in the qi under Li Xuanzhen's feet before he left, this is a manifestation of the use of pure power, coupled with speed, it is difficult for the Terran monks to do it, the speed is at least twice as slow as just now, the Zheng clan is good at refining the body, the body is inherently strong, and it is difficult for the same realm not to use the secret method to achieve this level.

Lu Qingcao saw the woman in front of him pick up an ice gun, and he couldn't move, his eyes were full of forgiveness, "Xuan Zhen, be merciful, lightly, don't prick your face, your heart won't work, wait, it's not good there... The face is absolutely not good, you better kill me, again...",

Tantaixi had already gone back to continue cooking, Qingxi simply didn't come out, Ke Ting smiled and said, "I'll just say, Scarlet!

In the end, Li Xuanzhen didn't really stab Lu Qingcao, but only supervised him to melt all the ice and clean up the fish that were frozen to death, which really hurt the pond fish.

Having said that, including Scarlet, there is nothing unusual about the three of them looking at so many dead fish, aren't they all fish? Zheng Yan felt strange in his heart, but he didn't show it, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was nothing, monks and even immortals were all cultivated from mortals, and when a big war broke out, it affected mortals, and I didn't see a few soft-handed and merciful monks, and even some monks who specialized in cultivating ghost path blood spells often did some murderous things, and other types of monks did this kind of thing, which was essentially no different from them.

Lu Qingcao was driven away, Li Xuanzhen returned to the corridor, glanced at Zheng Yan inexplicably and went straight to the kitchen, Zheng Yan felt a little strange, and wanted to ask Ke Tingwei on the side, Ke Tingwei hugged Scarlet and smiled, "What do you think about marrying a different person as a wife?"

Zheng Yan chuckled in his heart, and immediately felt that he had misunderstood, Ke Ting's expression was calm, and she didn't seem to mean anything else, "Ideas? Okay, I saw some couples when I was a child, and it's also very good, the key is not whether it is an outlier, but a thought",

Ke Ting smiled and said, "If only the world thought like you, mortals are always superficial, and it is difficult to do things on the ground, Daozu used a 'Dao' and a 'Xuan' word to say everything, isn't it too irresponsible? When we see the water freeze, we know that it is a change in cold and warm, and we know that it is actually a change in yin and yang by exploring the change of cold and warm, and can we get a more essential change by exploring the change of yin and yang?",

Zheng Yan thought for a while and said, "For example, the change of qi?"

Seeing that the woman in front of her was a little puzzled, she explained, "The ancients had a saying that the innate five taitai and qi form and quality, yin and yang belong to the category of shape, cold and warm belong to the category of quality, water and ice belong to the category of things, and more subtle than yin and yang is qi, or something else, we can't see it, it's really guessing, it's like ' Xuan's statement, well, you say that it is true, when we encounter obstacles in the exploration of something, we always find something vague to explain, and then we think that we have attained the truth, and you say that it is because we are too impetuous or because of vanity or something?

Ke Tingwei looked at Zheng Yan and smiled silently, Scarlet looked at this and that, her eyes were full of doubts, seeing her sister walking out of the kitchen with the dishes, she suddenly threw her doubts out of the clouds, jumping up and down and shouting to eat, Ke Tingwei said helplessly, "Usually people in the next life are very reserved, very polite, I don't know why I am a little special to you",

Zheng Yan smiled and said, "It's nothing, I've been a child since I was a child, and you see that Miss Xuanzhen always looks at me coldly."

Zheng Yan remembered that he had just eaten two blandly stewed fish with a total of more than ten catties, and he didn't remind him that he wanted to come here to eat.