Chapter Twenty-Seven: Five Phoenixes

After breakfast the next day, Zheng Yan was ready to leave, and Taifeng said that he would stay for a few days, Fei'er cried very sadly, grabbed Zheng Yan's clothes and refused to let go, and finally Ke Tingyue coaxed her. Li Xuanzhen suddenly said that she would send Zheng Yan to the post road, her expression was indifferent, and she didn't seem to need the consent or opposition of others, Zheng Yan wanted to politely refuse, but finally nodded under Ke Ting's slight eyes.

Out of the worries and Xiaozhu all the way, the two have never said anything, Li Xuanzhen usually rarely deals with people, and he doesn't seem to be good at it, Zheng Yan can actually be exquisite if he wants to, after all, he began to do some work to receive visitors in the house during the New Year's holidays when he was more than ten years old, but he felt a little weird more and more along the way, thinking that the enemy would not move, and I would simply not say anything.

During the period, I saw the young man named Guan Yunbo again, and he was still followed by Jiang Shan and Xiao Fei, but he left after a while, thinking that he was afraid of Li Xuanzhen, Lu Qingcao had been sneakily following behind, but the tracking skills were very clumsy, Zheng Yan wanted Li Xuanzhen to go back, afraid that she would be designed on the way back more than 100 miles from the post road, Li Xuanzhen said that it didn't matter, saying that Ke Tingyue could perceive all the wind and grass in this range, Zheng Yan didn't insist anymore, and the people of Guanqiu Division always had some unexpected means.

On the way, I also saw a white rhinoceros with a calf that had opened its wisdom, one zhang long and five feet high, it looked like it was full of strength, and it was close enough to make people feel palpitations, Li Xuanzhen asked the mother and son to go back to the depths of the water, and warned Zheng Yan not to hunt the rhinoceros when he saw it next time he came, most of the rhinos here are the descendants of a big demon in Liuhe Town, this big demon is very protective of calves, Zheng Yan will naturally not be bored to hunt this kind of big guy.

Later, he encountered a crocodile Jiao that was not completely deformed, and suddenly jumped out and bared his teeth at the two, but was glared away by Li Xuanzhen's eyes, which opened Zheng Yan's eyes.

When they saw the post road, they met two beautiful young women, and the two saw Zheng Yan's eyes light up unabashedly, first putting on a soft and charming appearance, and seeing that there was no effect, he showed a charming and sultry posture, and his words also changed from reserved to dissolute, Zheng Yan looked at the woman who had been indifferent to him embarrassedly, Li Xuanzhen took out the Xuantie Tiger bite gun, and the two women walked towards the water in a stupid manner.

It turns out that one is the jade snake in shape, the other is the purple fox in the shape, the two often go to the post road together to hook up with passing travelers, the jade snake is lustful by nature, this is purely like, the purple fox is also known as the heart fox, you need to cultivate with the help of human feelings, because it rarely harms people's lives, and several monitoring stations here go with them.

Zheng Yan was a little touched by the strange scenery along the way, the spirits like to stay in one place for a long time before they can transform into shapes, and the cultivation after turning into a human form requires the help of the human race to practice exercises, plus they have a human body, and their thoughts are also a little different from before, and in places like Liuhe Town, the imperial court and other forces also rely on these to win them over. The purpose of wooing is not actually to need their strength, but the real purpose is to explore the physique and source of strength of the spirits, which are very meaningful references to the cultivation of the human race.

"I asked Gongzi some questions yesterday, Tingwei said that it might cause misunderstanding, or ambiguity, let me explain", Li Xuanzhen, who had been silent, finally opened his mouth when he saw the post road in the distance,

Zheng Yan stopped and listened carefully, Li Xuanzhen thought about it and continued, "Scarlet Girl's body is a scarlet peach golden koi, my body is a big black martial arts koi, and we grew up with a sworn sister who has also cultivated and transformed, the body is a beauty brocade, she was abducted from here twenty years ago, and then Xiaoxi found out her whereabouts, in Luoyang, but she didn't want to come back, I asked those questions just to confirm whether she would be bullied over there, Tingwei was also helping me inquire",

Zheng Yan nodded seriously to express his understanding, but his heart was full of helplessness, Ke Tingwei was afraid that she was thinking too far before she asked Li Xuanzhen to explain this, okay, she did think a little wrong at that time, or thought too much, originally, she has never been the kind of handsome boy who makes women fall in love at first sight, not to mention that in their opinion, she may still be a little kid now, not to mention that it's okay, it's a little lost when she says this.

After saying goodbye to Li Xuanzhen and walking north along the post road, Zheng Yan quickly put aside the small loss in his heart, and walked on the post road alone to entertain himself, thinking about going to the post station first and losing the money of the post horse, alas, when will I be able to have a piece of my own flying treasure?

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After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wind is still sunny and the weather is warm, Luoyang Guozijian, a group of teenagers and girls in the martial arts arena wantonly show their youth, or learn from each other or find Mr. Supervisor for advice, there are also demure people, standing aside to watch, or two or three friends get together to chat about something. Ye Qingcheng withdrew his gaze from the two girls not far away, and stabbed Qi Wending with his elbow who was cheering Lu Cunyan on the side.

"Recently, Concubine Xue often leaves after half a day of class, what are you doing?",

Qi Wending was surprised and said, "Didn't you say yesterday that she went to the palace?"

Ye Qingcheng was also surprised, "Did I say it?Oh, it seems to have been said, I heard that every time Zheng Xiao or Zheng Ke will pick up and drop off on the other side of the road, sometimes Zheng Lun and Zheng Shi will also go, why am I so unhappy!",

Qi Wending said angrily, "You two are in a relationship that you can't fight, or don't worry about others, you guy is affectionate and naturally pities the jade, seeing such a good woman being coveted as a bargaining chip is very unwilling, I can understand, but there are more such things, you are not happy to be unhappy, what else can you do?",

Ye Qingcheng looked up to the sky and sighed, "I am a sentimental species, but why do I fall into the red dust, the calamity is heavy and heavy, when will I return to Taiqing?"

Qi Wending went to greet Lu Cunyan who was leaving the field in the morning, is he injured? Are you tired? Thirsty or not? Go to the shade of the tree to rest Ye Qingcheng shook his head helplessly, Xiao Yan is really, such a good girl can't look down on it, if he begged An Guogong to talk to the matchmaker, Concubine Xue would not be scrambled like now.

Not far away, Concubine Xue looked at Qi Wending's flattery Lu Cunyan's arrogance was a little distracted, and Wen Renhu next to her chuckled, "It's very interesting, right? Sometimes I really envy the two of them, they have been fighting and even frowning coldly since they were children, but they know that each other must be their own white-headed and old people, no matter how they quarrel and don't break up, don't think that Qi Wending's blind humility and tolerance can have Lu Cunyan's blind willfulness and arrogance, if you want me to see, the two of them are the bottom line of really cherishing each other",

Concubine Xue smiled calmly, nodded, Wen Renhu glanced at the girl who had become more and more exciting recently, hesitated for a moment and said with a smile, "Recently, grandpa is going to Jiangnan to inspect the affairs of Qiuqiu, two days ago, my brother wanted to invite grandpa to go to your house to propose", seeing that the woman next to him did not react, Wen Renhu was a little helpless, "You are not curious about my grandfather's attitude?",

Concubine Xue said calmly, "Li Guogong will not agree to it."

Wen Renhu smiled and said, "You are wrong, grandpa listened to my brother's request and praised my brother for his vision, and said that you are a good match that you can't find with a lantern, virtuous, intelligent, generous, and decent, with good talent and qualifications, and I want to marry you into the family even if you fight with an old face, what about the prince! I am very jealous, the old man has never praised us so much." ... You must know that if grandpa really goes to propose, this thing should be 100% sure that it can be done".

Concubine Xue smiled lightly, "I'll go first, see you tomorrow."

Looking at the girl who walked away, Wen Renhu's expression was very strange, and he didn't know whether he was thoughtful or interested, and several teenagers on the side fell into a daze, it turned out that the really beautiful woman was beautiful no matter how she looked.

Walking through the martial arts arena and turning a pine forest, in a blink of an eye is a quiet attic, the attic occupies a large area, but compared to the surrounding scenery is not very conspicuous, not to mention the name may not be known to the viewer to know its use, this is the famous Chengwen Pavilion.

There were four young people standing at the gate of the Chengwen Pavilion, two men and two women, the man was handsome and polite, and the woman was graceful and slim, one of them, the youngest girl, walked out and greeted Concubine Xue with a smile, it was the princess Zheng Xuandu.

"Sister Xuefei, this is Senior Brother Qi Ruxuan, this is Senior Brother Yun Huyun, this is Senior Sister Li Hatjiao, they don't believe that the people in the Tantai family are all handsome men and beautiful women, they have to come and take a look", Zheng Xuandu seemed to have a different kind of enthusiasm today, and introduced the three people around him with a smile,

Concubine Xuefei smiled and greeted the three of them, and Yun Hu lamented, "I thought that Hate Jiao was already Zhong Lingyuxiu, but it turned out to be nothing more than that, I am really ashamed of all these years",

The woman named Li Hatjiao looks like she should be seventeen or eighteen years old, and some of her temperament is obviously the type that can afford to joke, so she nodded seriously and said, "Indeed, I thought that with the appearance of this girl, I could marry a prince and a prince, but now it seems that marrying a poor scholar is hanging",

Zheng Xuandu took Concubine Xue's hand and walked back, and said with a smile, "Leave them alone, they don't have any talent and don't want to work hard, and the academic pressure is a little great, so they often say some nonsense to comfort themselves", and there was a dissatisfied protest from the two of them.

The two girls walked into a sandwich road, and the surroundings immediately quieted down, and Concubine Xue asked curiously, "The princess is a little different from usual today, is there something to say to Concubine Xue?"

Zheng Xuandu smiled and said, "Sister Xue is too outward, right? With the relationship between our two families, why shouldn't you call me a princess?

Concubine Xue smiled noncommittally, Zheng Xuandu was a little helpless, and said with a smile, "The concubine is just a rule on the face, if you really want to say that Xuandu is also a concubine, and you can't help your mother fight for something if you work hard, Sister Xue Fei must have heard of Princess You Lian in Dongou, right? At the age of fifteen, you can enter the top ten beauties, so what kind of beauty does it have to be! The key is talent and intelligence, even if the mother is beaten into the cold palace, she can thrive, I heard that there is no one to help at all, that is the real princess, right?",

Concubine Xue said softly, "If she chooses, I'm afraid she won't choose the life she has now."

Zheng Xuandu nodded, "It's for sure, my mother is still being humiliated in the cold palace, I sometimes blame myself for not being able to help my mother, and my mother will comfort me and say that this is good, at least I don't have to be cautious all day long."

Concubine Xue smiled, and suddenly a delicate woman wearing a fiery red suit jumped on the palace wall next to her, delicate and refined, heroic and elegant, with a very contradictory temperament, "Xuandu, are you persuading your sister Concubine Xue not to marry into our family?

Zheng Xuandu pulled Concubine Xue to the side, "I want to recognize Concubine Xue as my sister, sister-in-law doesn't matter, don't make trouble",

Zheng Zhu sneered and pounced, Concubine Xue stood aside and looked at it with a smile, Zheng Zhu wanted to match herself and Zheng Shi, she could see that Zheng Xuan couldn't see anything at all, such a girl with a lot of thoughts is difficult to relax, sometimes I feel like a bait, I was put into the pond of Luoyang, used to raise those carp that are expected to turn into dragons, this is the sadness of being a woman!

In a small courtyard of the palace, there were four extremely brilliant young women standing in front of an old man in white with a fairy wind and bones, as if they had concentrated all the spiritual beauty in the world into this world. The old man is Qin Tian Prison Supervisor Zheng Mo Dingfeng, and the four women are Zheng Zhu, Zheng Xuandu, Shentai Xuefei and Shen Ningzhao.

Zheng Zhu and Shen Ningzhao are the same year, both are seventeen years old, Concubine Xue of Tangtai is fifteen, and Zheng Xuandu is fourteen, in comparison, in fact, the appearance and temperament of Zheng Zhu and Concubine Xue of Shentai give people a more similar impression, both of them are delicate with lightness, noble with grace, but one is flamboyant and the other is demure, which makes these temperaments show a difference between shades and shades; Zheng Xuandu and Shen Ningzhao originally belonged to that kind of pure and ethereal woman, but there were some differences in the growth environment and identity in the end.

Shen Ningzhao is the adopted daughter of Ruan Guifei's brother, when she was twelve years old, she was sent to the harem to stay with Ruan Guifei as a female official, it is said that when she was very young, she was accepted as a registered disciple by the Qintian Prison Supervisor Zheng Mo Dingfeng, and somehow there was a prophecy that said that this woman had the queen's life, because the concubine selection system of the Great Zhou Dynasty also had a special prince selection system, which made Shen Ningzhao have been in a very delicate position in the harem.

At this time, the eunuch seemed to be a little helpless, turned his head to look at a red-clothed eunuch not far away, the red-clothed eunuch hesitated for a moment and whispered to a blue-clothed eunuch beside him to say something, the blue-clothed eunuch walked out quickly, and returned the next moment, and walked into a heroic tall woman at the door.

Mo Dingfeng saw the woman come in, and stepped forward to greet him warmly, but in exchange for a cold look, there seemed to be a warning in it, which made the old man embarrassed, "Miss Jingfeng, these four girls will be handed over to you, the old man has other things, if you need to, just ask Father-in-law Liang to find the old man",

Qiu Jingfeng looked at the old man with unkind eyes, and Mo Dingfeng said helplessly, "Alas, those old guys know how to bully honest people, and they don't make it clear in advance, it's like this, these four girls are all congenital phoenix physique, and they are all different, Zheng Zhu is Chifeng, Ning Zhao is a golden phoenix, Xue Fei is a purple phoenix, and Xuandu is a white phoenix, this is not to help them activate their physique, just let the old man come and guide, there is a step that needs the help of the girl Jingfeng, that is, refining the body, the girl is proficient in this, and they are all daughters, convenient",

"By the way, should I let Gonggong Liang go to the inner prison to pick a few female guards to assist or the girl bring her own people over?", Lord Jianzheng, who originally wanted to slip away, suddenly asked again,

Qiu Jingfeng had been thinking about something when she listened to the supervisor's explanation, and sneered when she heard the words, "Didn't there already be a few standing at the door when I came?

Mo Dingfeng smiled embarrassedly, and personally ran out to call four women wearing full-body black iron armor in, but he himself disappeared, the armor was indeed a woman's style, but the people inside couldn't be seen if they were women, only a pair of black holes on the armor were on the top and bottom of his body, his mouth and nose were made into a hidden shape, and he was wearing iron gloves on his hands.

Zheng Zhu bared his teeth, and couldn't help muttering, "Sister Jingfeng plus the staff armor guard, this is going to kill someone",

Shen Ningzhao on the side was already pitiful, this was not because he was familiar with him, he was really pitiful.

Qiu Jingfeng walked over with a sneer, first pulled Zheng Zhu's face, then pinched Shen Ningzhao's buttocks, glanced at Zheng Xuandu and Concubine Xue, who had already dared not come out, and gloated, "It's so tender, it's just too loose, it's okay, try to become tighter and more elastic in the past two days, don't thank me."

An hour later, Qiu Jingfeng finally shouted to stop, the four girls couldn't stand up, and the four women in iron armor began to comb their muscles, bones, tendons and veins, and the weight of two or three hundred catties could indeed make people solid, "Didn't you say that you need five people? Why are there only four of you, who did Qingluan's physique find?", Qiu Jingfeng pinched Zheng Zhu's delicate chin and asked slightly frivolously,

Zheng Zhu looked like he was resigned to the disposition, and he wanted to answer but he was breathing very hard, and he spoke intermittently, "Lord Jianzheng said that the candidate has not been determined yet, and I heard that five people will need to cooperate at that time, and it can't be determined over there, so don't we need to be too anxious here?"

Qiu Jingfeng smiled and said softly, "I thought that you would be very grateful for taking time out to accompany you to practice, and I would definitely redouble my efforts, but I didn't expect to be lazy,

On the side, Shen Ningzhao hurriedly said, "Thanksgiving, hard work, sure, Zheng Zhu's tongue is knotted",

Qiu Jingfeng smiled and said, "Then redouble your efforts", and the four women didn't even have the strength to lament.