Red lights are hung in front of the inn.
A wisp of smoke passed through the stove, filling my stomach with the aroma of food.
The food served at the inn is very fast.
As soon as Que Qingyue and Yuanying sat down in the front hall, a waiter brought the food.
There was an endless stream of passers-by outside the inn, and from time to time there was the sound of children chasing each other.
This kind of sound and this kind of scenery can make people who have experienced hardships on a long journey relax physically and mentally.
The four of them walked all afternoon and only drank a bowl of brown rice tea and ate two slices of fruits. They were already hungry.
An inn is not like a restaurant, so you can't order the meat, dishes and wine you want.
If you want to order food, you can only choose from the inn's home-cooked dishes that day.
When the waiter came over, he wiped the table with the cloth on his shoulder and placed a plate of beef, three or four vegetables, a plate of spicy tofu, and a red and white fish soup.
Since Zuilong City is close to the sea, seafood is in season, so today we have a delicious fried seafood dish.
This table of food is complete.
While the waiter was putting down the chopsticks, he secretly glanced at the person sitting on the left side of the table.
It’s so dazzling!
Which guest entering the inn now would not look at this table first? Just looking at it from a distance, I looked at it again and again as if I couldn't take my eyes away. It was so beautiful and vivid that even a guest just now was dumbfounded.
When I went out, I bumped into the door frame and fell down, making many people in the inn laugh.
"The dishes are ready, please use it, sir!"
Liu Sichen greeted: "Okay, let's eat too."
Yuan Ying handed the chopsticks to her ancestor first, then she took a bowl and took a quick bite of the rice: "Just now, there was a person who was walking without looking at the road. He bumped into the doorpost and fell to the ground. It was really funny... hmm , rice is still delicious." She was tired of chewing the dry and hard steamed buns, and roasting them over a fire could not save the choking taste.
Que Qingyue took the chopsticks and held it in her hand, looked at it, then took a piece of green vegetables from the plate in front of her and put it into Yuan Ying's bowl: "Is it delicious?"
Yuan Ying showed off the rice in her mouth: "It's delicious..."
"If it's delicious, just eat more." He held back his words.
While Liu Sichen was eating, he didn't forget to look at the reactions of the people at the table. He ordered the dishes, but he didn't know if they were to their liking.
Needless to say, Your Highness, Liu Sichen understands that a combination of meat and vegetables is enough, and every move he makes while eating follows some palace rules. Even if he is busy in the camp and wants to eat with the soldiers, he only speeds up and does not show any signs of gobbling. , there is a natural nobility in every gesture.
As for Miss Que, the ancestor of the Que family opposite, not to mention, she eats even more elegantly than His Highness. The rice never goes into her mouth in big gulps, she just picks up a handful of rice grains with the tip of her chopsticks and puts it in gently. When you put it in your mouth, your teeth will lightly touch the chopsticks, revealing a jade tooth like mutton-fat jade, which is really beautiful and delicious.
Perhaps he had been looking at it for a long time. Que Qingyue took a bite and noticed it. She raised her head and glanced at him.
He seemed to be asking him, what are you looking at?
Liu Sichen immediately lowered his head and pretended to hold something casually with his chopsticks.
I’m not embarrassed to watch it again, although I still want to watch it again.
As for Yuan Ying next to him.
He didn't know how the ancestors of the Que family brought Yuan Ying with them, it was so delicious.
Liu Sichen felt that she could eat a cow alone.
Although it's an exaggeration, if the empty bowls for eating could be stacked on top of each other, they would probably be stacked very high now.
The two masters and servants do not eat the fireworks of the world. Even if they eat, they only eat food that is born and raised on earth. But the maid next to them refuses everyone who comes and has already eaten eight bowls of rice.
A bowl as big as his face, eight bowls of rice, to put it bluntly, he can eat more than he can.
The ancestors of the Que family seemed to have long been accustomed to it, and didn't care if she was eating or drinking next to them, or how they looked when they ate, as long as it didn't splash on her.
After the meal, the waiter brought another plate of melon, which was as sweet as honey.
Que Qingyue took two more yuan.
The other three people saw that she loved to eat, so they didn't compete with her because she ate too little.
Even Yuan Ying could hold back her greed, as if she hadn't seen the plate of melon. She waited until her ancestor put down her chopsticks and stopped eating before she ate.
It's quite harmonious for the four of us to eat together.
After the meal, Liu Sichen took a sip of water and discussed: "General, I think Miss Que's body is not suitable for traveling now. It is better to listen to the doctor and recuperate in Zuilong City for half a month. After her body recovers, she can Set off?"
Dongfang Qingfeng looked at Que Qingyue, looked her up and said, "How many days do you want to rest?"
Yuan Ying rushed to the side and said: "Why does it need half a month? The doctor's tonics are calculated on a monthly basis."
"Half a month?" Dongfang Qingfeng tapped his hand on the table. If he stayed for half a month, then by the time he arrived in the capital, it would be frozen and snowy.
The colder it gets, the harder it is to walk.
But I thought of the way she looked when she lowered her head and vomited blood in Tonglu.
He nodded, "Just half a month."
When the four of them got up after discussing it.
A person hurriedly entered the inn.
"Xiao Baiyi! Stop."
The visitor was clothed in broad robes, with a purple plaque of Heavenly Master hanging around his waist, with the word "que" engraved on the other side.
He walked towards several people menacingly.
"Your Highness, he is..." Liu Sichen wanted to stop this person from approaching, but when he saw the Tianshi card on his waist, he hesitated.
Dongfang Qingfeng also saw it. He held his sword in his hand and looked at the other person up and down: "It's Elder Li from Quemen. I met him many years ago."
Que Qingyue was quite surprised when she turned around and saw the visitor.
She turned around.
When the other party approached, she folded her hands and bowed lightly, "I have met Master Uncle Li."
"Uncle Li?" Yuan Ying stared at the middle-aged man with a beard in his forties in front of him with wide eyes.
That's right, he is one of the Quemen elders, the sixth elder, Li Xunyi.
"You." Li Xunyi looked up and down, "You have grown so big."
He touched the beautiful beard and looked at it carefully for a long time, and said: "Well, that's right. The bones are really amazing, and the body has the appearance of heaven and man, good."
Que Qingyue put her hands in her sleeves. After listening, she couldn't help but turn her face to one side and look at the doorpost next to her.
These words made her ears feel calluses and she couldn't bear to look directly at them.
"When we met at the beginning of the year, you were only ten years old. I remember that you were still recuperating in my house for three months, and then you went to Luosha City. You haven't sent me a letter in so many years. I thought you had taken me away. This uncle has been forgotten."
Que Qingyue turned around and smiled: "Baiyi will never dare to forget the kindness of Uncle Li who escorted him all the way back then."
Li Xunyi was also one of the people who escorted her to Luosha City. He was only in his early thirties back then, but now he is forty and has already grown a beard.
When Li Xunyi saw Que Qingyue, he felt relieved for a moment and looked at Liu Sichen and others. Finally, he stopped at Dongfang Qingfeng for a moment, and was about to say something.
Que Qingyue said, "How did Uncle Li find this place?" She had only been in the city for half a day.
Li Xunyi, who was originally pleasant, finally remembered what he had done when he heard her ask this, and immediately said angrily.
"Are you still asking me? If my disciple hadn't discovered that someone was taking the Que's jade pendant to the pawn shop, and he pretended to be a clerk and intercepted the jade pendant on the way, would you...really want to pawn the jade pendant of your ancestor?"
…
In the room on the second floor of the inn, two people were sitting at the square table.
Dongfang Qingfeng leaned on the fence outside the door, while Liu Sichen stood at the door.
Yuan Ying stayed in the room, nervously making a pot of tea and putting it on the table.
Que Qingyue saw that this silly girl didn't pour tea for the two of them. She touched her sleeves and picked up the teapot, as if she wanted to pour a cup for the purple-branded elder opposite.
"Huh." Li Xunyi stretched out his hand to stop her and said angrily: "I don't dare. How dare I, a little elder, drink the tea poured by my ancestors? After all, my ancestors are so big-hearted that they even dare to give the identity of the ancestor of the Que family. Pawn it..."
If this spreads out, all the elders of Taiwu Que Sect will have their teeth laughed out of their mouths! The clan leader is not immune.
Que Qingyue hesitated, then took the teapot back and poured herself a cup.
The word "ancestor" really cannot be shaken off no matter where you go, that's all.
Holding the teapot in her hand, she looked up at Yuan Ying beside her and signaled.
Only then did Yuan Ying react, quickly took the teapot and poured tea for elder Li Xunyi.
The door of the inn is not closed.
Liu Sichen, who was standing outside the door, suddenly heard the elder inside suddenly slam the table.
Looking very angry.
Liu Sichen was a little worried and walked around the door: "Your Highness, Elder Li won't do anything to Miss Que, will he?"
Dongfang Qingfeng, who was leaning against the fence and crossing his arms with a knife in his hand, sneered: "Do it, look at the one opposite, are you afraid of him?"
"The Que family has always respected rules. It has been many years since such an ancestor appeared in the family. The elders and guardians thought it was too late to attack her?" Is it possible?
Dongfang Qingfeng reminded: "Think about it, those three thousand taels of gold..."
Liu Sichen suddenly said, "Yes." There are more than a dozen princes in the Holy Emperor today, but the Que family has only one ancestor who is willing to spend three thousand taels of gold to hire someone to escort him.
With that said, the two looked into the room again.
"Que Baiyi! You are so courageous! It's all the patriarch who has spoiled you! Don't think that I dare not teach you a lesson!" Sixth Elder Li Xunyi slapped the table and cursed anxiously. It seemed that he wanted to find something to teach you a lesson. .
However, the person sitting opposite him who was being scolded was still drinking tea with his head down, without even shaking the cup.
This was the first time Yuan Ying saw the Zipai elder of Quemen, who was standing huddled behind Que Qingyue. When she heard this, she quickly stretched out her hand: "Bye, bid farewell, our ancestor... is weak and cannot withstand the beating... …”
Not to mention the elder beating her, she was always careful about Jiji, fearing that she would crush her ancestor.
"Is this your new maid?" Li Xunyi finally noticed Yuan Ying after getting angry, looked at her intently, and asked while stroking her beautiful beard.
Que Qingyue also looked back strangely and glanced at Yuan Ying, who was a little timid today for some reason. She put down her teacup and introduced Li Xunyi.
"Her name is Yuan Ying, from Luosha City." Although the two are masters and servants, they are also friends.
Yuan Ying knew that she didn't look like an ordinary maid. Compared with the four maids that Que Qingyue brought to Rakshasa City, she was completely different.
She... was thick-handed and tall, so she hunched her neck and waited for Li Xunyi to scold her, saying, "Why would you accept a maid like this if you pick them one by one who can take care of them?"
Unexpectedly, after Li Xunyi looked at her, he remained silent for a long time, and finally said: "Not bad."
After Yuan Ying heard this, she immediately stretched her shoulders and stood up straighter.
Que Qingyue also turned to look at her up and down for a while and praised: "It's very good."
"Haha..." Yuan Ying giggled.
"But you can't pawn the ancestral token!" Li Xunyi continued to blow his beard and glare.
Que Qingyue knew that she couldn't get over it if she didn't admit it. She said: "The main reason was that I had no money at the time..."
This is indeed a fact. Without money, Yuan Ying will have trouble eating. If she doesn't do it, will she starve to death holding Meiyu?
"No money?" Li Xunyi didn't understand even more: "Every year, the Que family sends a batch of gold and silver supplies to Luosha City. These things are transferred by the disciples of the Que sect of the Tianshi Mansion in various places, and then passed through my hands and sent to At the governor's house in Luosha City, are you telling me now that you have no money?"
Do you know how much money Quemen sends over a year?
Que Qingyue looked around, but no one could help. In the end, she could only spread her sleeves and said, "It's just flowers."
Li Xunyi hated the fact that iron cannot become steel. If this was not the reincarnation of his ancestor, who had a delicate golden body, he would have held a ruler and a board, like a student's hand, and first gave her twenty boards to let her remember.
"No money, hum!" Li Xunyi took out the mutton-fat jade from his arms and put it on the table.
This is an ancient oval jade pendant with random shapes. It was polished in its entirety according to the original shape of the jade without much processing. It is white in color and has a gelatinous luster. The surface is oily and steady, as white as cut fat. There is a word engraved on it: a flying dragon and a phoenix. Que.
It is a personal belonging left by the ancestors of Quemen back then.
The whole jade has a first-class feel, has traces of the passage of time, and is simple and elegant. You can tell at the first sight that this is by no means an ordinary piece.
"Don't do it again this time. If you do it again, no one will redeem it for you, Bai Yi! This is something that has been passed down from the Que Sect for five hundred years!"
After another pat on the table and some earnest words, Li Xunyi finally gave up.
It was getting late, he got up, and when he thought of something, he told her: "I have a small house in Zuilong City. This inn is crowded and noisy. It is not a place of honor. Since you are not in good health, please move there." If you live there for a while, it will be empty anyway."
After saying that, he looked at the ancestor sitting there, even if he didn't speak, he was still elegant and noble. Although he was reincarnated, seeing her, one could imagine how elegant the ancestor was back then.
Li Xunyi felt a little comforted in his heart, it should be this kind of temperament and appearance.
"I am leaving."
Que Qingyue stood up: "Then thank you Sixth Elder..."
"Huh." Before he finished speaking, Li Xunyi waved his sleeves and left.
After going out, I saw two people outside the door.
Li Xunyi's eyes fell on Dongfang Qingfeng, who had been leaning on the fence with a knife in the corner.
He was dressed in black attire, with a black belt edged with gold threads tightly tied around his lean and powerful waist.
Originally, he was half a head taller than Li Xunyi, but his waist was tied up, which made him have broad shoulders and narrow waist, giving him an extraordinary aura.
Even if he leans there, even if he travels in the dust, even if he doesn't move at all, he can't hide the chilling air under that handsome face, which has been baptized by thousands of battlefields.
Li Xunyi looked at his face and sighed secretly, stepped forward and saluted him solemnly, "Li Xunyi of Taiwu Palace, thank you for escorting my ancestor all the way, and please take the trouble to bring her back to Taiwu Palace safely. Li Xunyi and the Que family are deeply grateful."
Dongfang Qingfeng didn't want to move at first, he was just an elder of the Que family, but when he saw him saluting, he stood up and lifted him up with one hand.
"That's natural."
…
After Li Xunyi left, Yuan Ying was so frightened that she sat down, poured a cup of tea and drank it in one gulp.
"Are you afraid of him?" Que Qingyue drank tea and looked at her.
"Haha, aren't I afraid that he won't let me follow you..." Otherwise, like Li Xunyi, Yuan Ying punches her every time, how could she be afraid of him?
"By the way, ancestor, why did he call you Que Baiyi? Isn't your real name Que Qingyue?"
Que Qingyue put down the tea cup and looked down at the cup handle, "I was in trouble when I was young, so I picked a cheap name to support myself."
"Oh?" People from Quemen also pay attention to this?
"Oh, by the way, when I saw Elder Li going out just now, he seemed to be bowing down to General Dongfang! This is a great gift, why?"
Even if Dongfang Qingfeng is a general, Elder Li is the Que Celestial Master, so there is no need to be so solemn and polite when meeting the general.
Que Qingyue played with the tea cup in her hand and said for a moment: "It's about status and it's also a request." If you ask for something from others, just be polite to them.
"Identity?" Yuan Ying was puzzled: "Besides general and guard history, what other identity does he have?"
Que Qingyue said: "You don't know this, right? His identity is actually in his name."
"Name?" Yuan Ying muttered in confusion: "Dongfang Qingfeng..."
She leaned closer: "What can you tell about this name?"
Que Qingyue raised her head and smiled, "Who can hide secrets in the eyes of Master Quemen?"
"Look." Que Qingyue dipped her fingers into the tea and wrote the words "Dongfang Qingfeng" on the table.
"Don't look at his appearance, just test these characters. What do you see from these four characters?"
"Dongfang Qingfeng... ancestor, I can't see..."
Que Qingyue clicked on the word "Dongfang" on the table and said: "East is the position of the dragon, and the color green is in charge of spring and the east. The first three characters are the position of Dongfang Qinglong. The position of Qinglong is the position of the true dragon, ranking in the east. Do you understand it?"
Yuan Ying lay on the table and watched.
"Well, what then?"
"The last word is maple."
"Feng? What's wrong with Feng?"
Que Qingyue retracted her hand, picked up the teapot and looked at her sideways. She really wanted to hit her on the head. She hated that iron could not become steel: "Don't you think of the four words "True Dragon's Position"?"
Smart people have already guessed it.
She poured tea and said: "I remember that among the princes of the Holy Emperor, there was a prince who left the palace at the age of twelve. He had not appeared in the court for many years. He neither died nor had any successors. He was very mysterious. His name was , there is a maple character."
"Which prince?"
"The ninth prince of the current dynasty, Nie Peifeng."
This time Yuan Ying understood. She sat up from the table and said in shock: "Ancestor, you mean." She pointed to the door in disbelief and said: "That Dongfang Qingfeng is the ninth prince? "
Que Qingyue looked at her with a tea cup: "Please keep your voice down, why are you so surprised?"
"How can I not be surprised! The Ninth Prince! He is the prince! God, I have offended him before..." When we met for the first time, we almost started a fight.
"Looking at your cowardice, what are you afraid of? What about the prince? Can you still kill us?" Que Qingyue glanced at her, looked at the tea soup, and shook it in his hand. It was really worthless.
"If he really blames us and wants to kill us..." He is a prince. If he kills someone, no one will dare to arrest him, right? Could it be possible to kill all nine of his clans?
Que Qingyue lowered her head and took a sip, and said confidently: "Don't worry, it won't happen, at least not all the way to the capital. Do you think, if I die, where will he find three thousand taels of gold to compensate the Que family? He will Even though he is not the emperor, he still needs a lot of money, right?"
These words.
Liu Sichen, who was practicing martial arts outside the door and had clear ears and eyes, heard clearly.
His Royal Highness's reputation has been completely exposed.
And it’s just one name.
The Que family's heavenly master is indeed terrifying!
Liu Sichen couldn't help but look at His Highness. He remembered that Dongfang Qingfeng was a name he randomly found for himself after His Highness left the palace.
It was really just a casual comment that Liu Sichen was by my side at the time.
Is there really a secret in this world?
Dongfang Qingfeng lowered his head and coughed, turned around and went downstairs with a dark face.
Liu Sichen looked at the charming profiles of the Que family ancestors under the candlelight.
not to be trifled.
Even His Highness was defeated.
I really can’t afford to offend him!
