Chapter 15: Royal Majesty
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Su Yu pressed the hat down. At that time, the girl in plain clothes and red dress and beaded flowers hurriedly walked past him and walked towards the gate of the grand Hou Mansion. She is beautiful, atmospheric, and proud, like a pair of stone lions in front of the Hou Mansion. She asked the two guards guarding the door: "Has the Fifth Young Master returned?" This question seemed a little abrupt, and the young guards probably didn't even know who the Fifth Young Master was, so they hesitated and replied, "No, no." She didn't say anything more, and stepped into the door, only to suddenly glance back into the street. Su Yu pressed the hat with one hand, faced the cool spring breeze and drizzle, and walked calmly in front of the Hou Mansion.
That's my sister, he knows it in his heart. The sixteen-year-old girl can still vaguely see the eyebrows and eyes of her childhood, and she also retains her usual pride. Her sudden question made him stunned for a moment, and he was a little suspicious of which fifth young master she was asking, could it be that the real Lin Duan had come back? Of course, he also considered how much the young masters and young ladies of the Hou Mansion knew the real inside story, they should know nothing, and the children who were open-mouthed could not participate in the conspiracy, even if they grew up now, there was no need to be told. Of course, the conspiracy is known to as few people as possible, and no one should know about it except for the planners and those who must participate in the cooperation. So she asked herself. She knew it was time for her to come back. Because the seven-year covenant has expired?
Su Yu had a general estimate in his heart. In the future, he will inevitably have to deal with these people, he has to know who knows who knows that he is fake and who thinks he is real, these people in the Hou Mansion are actually divided into two camps. And he is still Lin Dui, he has to think about what to do from Lin Dui's point of view, such as whether he should enter the Hou Mansion now that he is back, and say hello to a few ladies. Think about it or forget it, it's okay to say hello, it's reasonable not to say hello, a young master who was expelled from the mansion with his mother, a young master who faded out of the rich circle of the Hou Mansion, it is normal to have a diaphragm with the Hou Mansion or even pretend to be estranged. It's also good to come up with a cautious style and deal with as little as possible. In fact, no one cares about themselves.
Only this sister, with the presumptuous exception.
Whether it was really an exception or not, Su Yu still added a little warmth to his heart. Every bit of warmth was a luxury, but he decided not to show his face and floated away in the rain like a ghost.
He bought a new white horse at the East Side Horse Market. After killing people, in order not to leave traces of tracking, the clothes and horses had to be completely changed, and the black horse was let go by him before entering the city. In the more remote areas of the north, horses and carriages are still the main means of transportation, and it is said that there are permanent teleportation arrays that can be used in more prosperous places, but the fees are relatively expensive, and permanent teleportation arrays require a large number of rare materials to build and maintain, and it is difficult to popularize. Of course, if there is a contract star beast that can be ridden, it will be the best means of transportation, but there are very few star beasts in the north, and even fewer contract star beasts, as for those that can be ridden, Su Yu has never seen it anyway.
led the white horse out of the city to the east, and a red horse followed from behind, immediately a short man, with small and crowded facial features, but his eyes were bright and sharp. He asked heartily, "Brother, but go to Shashui?"
Su Yu raised his head, his face covered under the hat and glanced at the other party, a little wary of this sudden accosting, at that moment there was a seemingly nonexistent star power blowing with the wind, it was not an attack but a probe. He quietly let it enter his body. Before entering the city, he had already hidden his own cultivation, using a camouflage star technique taught by Zhang Yao. That astral technique is the secret inheritance of the Zhang clan in the Ghost Valley, and the effect is extremely good, it can make the cultivator look like a mortal, and Zhang Yao once used it to deceive Xu Qingluo's detection. It stands to reason that the people of the Hou Mansion are unlikely to doubt whether Su Yu will practice, after all, the conclusion back then was under Lin Fengshan, but outsiders may be able to scan it at some time. Just like now.
The short man was still asking, "How about walking with a companion?" and taking care of each other will save you boredom on the road. ”
As he spoke, another horse came up from behind, and immediately a black-faced man with a solemn face seemed to be worried, and he also echoed: "Let's go together!"
Su Yu smiled faintly and said, "Thank you two for the invitation, I have some other things on the way, and it is inevitable that I will delay my journey, so I won't follow you all the way." "The short man made him uncomfortable, and out of caution, he didn't want to mix with the cultivators at will.
"Hehe, let's go first. The short man didn't force it, and galloped forward. The black-faced man looked at Su Yu twice, as if he wanted to say something but stopped talking, until the short man shouted in front: "Tie Qi, aren't you leaving?" There was a hint of anger in that voice, not so much urging as scolding. At that moment, the black-faced man's face seemed to be darker, his eyes flashed with inexplicable resentment and resentment, and he agreed sullenly, and slapped his horse to catch up.
The two don't seem to get along, and the relationship is a bit strange, but it has nothing to do with them. Su Yu led the horse, watched the two of them gallop away along the drizzly wet road, and glanced back at Huaiqing City. The rain was incessant, silky, and the clouds rolled over the city, half lead gray, half turbid yellow. He smiled suddenly, turned on his horse, patted his horse, and the horse swept over the thousands of branches of the weeping willows by the roadside, and galloped away.
It is still two days away from Shashui. There are old people on the road ahead, but there is no confidant.
At the same time in the Hou Mansion, seven people dressed as family members were standing in a row in the spacious living room, tall, short, fat and thin, like soldiers to be inspected by the three princes. Ji Xingkong shook his fan and smiled and threw his fists to everyone, Sun Qiwu stood on his left, frowning vigorously, and the eldest lady Tian Lingshuang stood on his right, with a smile on her face, and said respectfully: "Your Highness, the people who can make flower essences in our mansion are here, please take a look, is the person you want to find among them?"
The relationship between the ruling families of the counties and the Great Zhou royal family was very delicate. The Great Wednesday millennium is a system of self-made feudalism, the earliest Zhou Tianzi called the king, and also held a part of the territory, and later reformed the system to call the emperor, simply even the only remaining territory was sealed, and only took a capital city on the spirit. Therefore, the royal family has no real power, the reason why it has not fallen for three thousand years is because the royal family has no territory for others to fight for, and the other is that they have a bloodline astrology that can make the world wind and rain go smoothly and everyone returns to the heart of the "Purple Qi Donglai", this astral technique is unique, and it is said that it can also increase the probability of the imperial cultivators breaking through the practice limit, and there is no substitute for protecting the territory and the people, so they have always been respected as the co-masters of the world and their status is supreme. Even if they don't have real power, they don't interfere much in the internal affairs of the county, but no one dares to disrespect them.
The Marquis of Huaiqing no longer has an actual territory, not even counting the faction in power, so he naturally has more respect for the royal family. Even if the third prince suddenly ran to the door to find the flower essence technician, Tian Lingshuang was embarrassed to say anything, and immediately called all the family members in the house who could make some flower essences. Sun Qiwu apologized to her on the side, Tian Lingshuang waved his hand and smiled: "This is nothing, we should feel honored to be able to help the Third Highness." ”
Ji Xingkong didn't care what they were muttering behind their backs, while shaking the folding fan in a chic manner, he asked the technicians in a tone of voice: "Everyone, which of you can be a flower essence for bartending?"
The seven technicians were all ignorant, and the next moment they began to bite their ears with the technicians around them, and after confirming that they had heard correctly, they shook their heads one by one. A technician with good conceited skills said: "Your Highness, the flower essence is used to assist in cultivation, and the high-grade ones can be mixed with water and drink, but as for bartending, it seems that there is no such usage." ”
The others were afraid that their performance would be left behind, so they echoed one after another: "Yes, yes, flower essence can't be bartendered." One of them added, "Wine can disturb the mind, and if you mix flower essence into wine, its calming effect may no longer exist." So everyone echoed again: "Yes, yes, you can't have both wine and flower essence." ”
In the midst of the discussion, Ji Xingkong's hopeful face turned into a disappointment, and he waved his fan a little impatiently: "Of course this prince knows these truths." But I don't want flower essences, I want fine wine, fine wine!"
Everyone is looking at me and I look at you, and they were silent for a while. But a fat technician stood up and said proudly: "Your Highness, I am not talented, in addition to preparing flower essence, I can also make wine!"
"Ahem, ahem, I don't have a shortage of brewers. Ji Xingkong was angry for a while, and he didn't know what to say, so he knocked on the door of his head with the folding fan in his hand, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he turned his head to Tian Lingshuang and asked, "The ...... of your family Where is Fifth Young Master Lin Dui?"
Tian Lingshuang was talking to Sun Qiwu while paying attention to the situation on the scene, she also understood the truth of the flower essence, she only felt that the third prince was very unreasonable, and was about to give the technicians a round, but she couldn't help but hear Ji Xingkong ask such a sentence. Why did Lin Dui mention Lin Dui again? Rao was also stunned when she was clever, and asked, "Does Your Highness know ...... My little five?"
"I don't know. Ji Xingkong shook his head, "I'll ask him for a flower essence that can be mixed with wine." These people can't do it, so naturally only he can do it. ”
Tian Lingshuang was still in ignorance. If it weren't for Ji Xingkong mentioning it, she would almost not be able to remember that there was Lin Dui. He has been missing for seven years, is that child really still alive? Presumably he is still alive, otherwise how would the third prince know about him, and what else do you need to mix with the flower essence? She waved her hand to let the technicians all retreat, and said with a smile: "Your Highness doesn't know, Xiao Dui's child has been missing for several years, and he has not been in the mansion, but he has recently heard that he has been found, but he has never returned, presumably on his mother's side." ”
Ji Xingkong was stunned for a moment, then knocked on the door of his head with a folding fan, and suddenly realized: "I see! I should have thought that he, a young master who can't practice, naturally has no status in the Lin family, and he should have been driven away a long time ago, what am I doing here?"
Tian Lingshuang's face changed as soon as he brushed the ground, and Sun Qiwu also shook his head secretly on the side. Tian Lingshuang still suppressed his anger and said with a smile: "Your Highness said with a smile. I have a small number of people in the Huaiqing lineage, so I have always been united, but I don't dare to let go of the struggle like those big clans, otherwise I have no territory and no power, and there are no more people, how can I still live? The third sister is just free by nature, and she doesn't want to be confined to this garden all the time, so we can only let her go. ”
She said these words again and again, explained the departure of the third lady, and satirized the royal rivalry. Ji Xingkong didn't care about these at all, so he just asked, "Then where is Lin Dui?"
"Uh...... , the third sister is now in Shashui, presumably the child is also in Shashui. Tian Lingshuang replied.
Ji Xingkong smiled: "This is a coincidence, I was about to go to Shashui, and I went to find him by the way! Mr. Sun, let's go." After saying that, he shook his fan and walked out, there was a little etiquette when he came before, but now he has no requirements for the master's family, and he doesn't even bother to give this little etiquette.
Sun Qiwu's face was red and white for a while, and he could only apologize to Tian Lingshuang again and again from behind: "His Royal Highness, he has been practicing in Lianyun Temple since he was a child, he has no worldly rules in his eyes, and his personality is also naïve, and he talks lightly, but he is actually unbiased......"
Tian Lingshuang naturally said that he didn't mind, and praised the third prince for having the atmosphere of a worldly master, but in his heart he felt that the royal family had such a strange thing, and it would be embarrassing in the future. She was despised for no reason, and she was extremely unhappy in her heart, and even more unhappy when she thought that the lost child was still alive and somehow climbed into the royal relationship. On the surface, he had a warm smile on his face, chatting with Sun Qiwu and walking outside the living room, only to hear a loud bang, the third prince who had just walked out of the door rolled back like a leather ball, his face was scorched, and at the same time, there was an angry shout outside, but it was the voice of his daughter Lin Peixuan: "Shameless scum!
Ji Xingkong got up in embarrassment, covered his face with a folding fan, and shouted to the outside: "Girl, I recognize the wrong person, I recognize the wrong person!" His whole person seemed to be pulled outward by an invisible whirlpool, his feet fell and stumbled and ran out of the door, after a few steps, he stood unsteadily and fell to the ground, lying on the ground and still being dragged forward quickly by the invisible pull, he slapped his limbs like a fish on the shore, struggled, and finally turned into nothingness. Lin Peixuan stood in the atrium, her whole body was entangled by a huge cyclone ring, her hair was braided and flying, her red dress was hunting, and the whole person was like an extremely beautiful and violently burning flame, her body swirled and chased outward.
Tian Lingshuang and Sun Qiwu stood there stunned for a long time, and finally had to look at each other awkwardly and smile. One suddenly felt a lot better, and the other was extremely depressed. There is only one common emotion in the hearts of the two: the so-called royal majesty is all bullshit!