"What? It turns out that little brother, you are the Ren Zihua who was on the news a while ago." In front of the dinner table filled with various home-cooked dishes, the owner of the sword shop smiled sheepishly, "I didn't expect that my daughter would always be able to To make friends with such a celebrity, hahaha, you two are probably in love, right?"
"Here we go again, Dad, why do you always talk nonsense?" Lin Yuqin pouted and said with some dissatisfaction. The piece of meat she originally wanted to give to the man next to her was also stuffed into her bowl. "Why don't you go out if you don't want to eat? It's really upsetting."
"Sorry, sorry, I just shut up." The sword shop owner said and laughed to himself again.
"Don't be angry, Senior Qinqin, uncle just likes to joke." Ren Zihua, who was pulled in to have dinner together before he understood the situation, comforted him unnaturally, "A man with a sense of humor like uncle It’s hard for parents now, hahaha.”
"Don't you see that your boy is not only a rare talent, but also very good at talking. If you want to marry my daughter in the future, I can charge you less in dowry." After the man said this, he immediately looked around him guiltily as if he was about to get angry. The daughter said, "Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore, let's eat!"
"Uncle, you haven't changed at all." Xi Meng, who was sitting opposite Ren Zihua, obviously wasn't coming to her senior's home for the first time. She didn't look a little embarrassed like Ren Zihua at all, and she joked to Lin Yuqin's father very openly. , "You always like to make fun of your senior sister, but you are really mean-spirited."
Slowly, Ren Zihua was moved by the comfortable and warm atmosphere between father and daughter. He soon no longer felt awkward, picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
In the small room inside the sword shop where Lin Yuqin's father usually lives, the atmosphere of four people eating at the same table really feels like a family.
"Speaking of which, good daughter, it's been a long time since you invited Yin Bi and Zhao Kaifeng to come to our house for dinner. Are you three going to get into trouble?" The young father with a fashionable hairstyle said at this time. One sentence broke the original delicate atmosphere at the dinner table, "Although that girl Yinbi doesn't come out easily, she doesn't come out for so long -"
"Didn't you know, Dad, Bi Bi is getting married soon." Lin Yuqin interrupted with uncontrollable sadness. She seemed to have lost her soul, "With that Prince Wilson, it's this Saturday night."
"Really?" The man still had an innocent smile on his face, as if he was completely unaware of his daughter's emotional changes, "Then you and Zhao Kaifeng must also be invited to the wedding. You have to dress up well then, my dear daughter. , take your best-looking thing——"
"I'm full. Just put the bowl on the table after you finish. I'll wash it in a moment." After saying this in a depressed tone, Lin Yuqin stood up and left her seat.
"Oh my god, is Senior Sister actually friends with Princess Yinbi? She has never told me about it." Looking at Lin Yuqin leaving, Xi Meng, who was slow to react, said in shock.
The owner of the sword shop and Xi Meng didn't seem to notice anything when they saw Lin Yuqin suddenly getting up and leaving. Xi Meng, who was naturally dumbfounded, thought that the senior sister had suddenly come to visit her aunt and didn't take it to heart.
"Oh! Good daughter." The man still said loudly and playfully, but in an instant his expression became a little weird. He lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then said in a rare and serious tone, "So It’s really hard for that girl to lose her freedom in life at such a young age.”
"Uncle, thank you and my senior for the hospitality. The braised pork is really delicious." Ren Zihua stood up and said, and then left the table.
"Oh, are you leaving now, kid?" Looking at Ren Zihua leaving, the man blew out a smoke ring leisurely, "These two are really in love, I tell you."
Ren Zihua quickly found Lin Yuqin in front of the flower shop next to the sword shop. Looking at the sad senior who was squatting in front of a clump of lavender, he hesitated for a while but walked over.
"Senior, I have something to ask you."
"Huh? Why are you out too?" Lin Yuqin stood up immediately, with a stiff smile on his lips, "What's wrong? Is there anything you don't understand? But let's talk first, if it's related to the course. Senior sister, I may not be able to help you. If you want to ask me how to pursue Xi Meng——"
"Can you tell me about Zhao Kaifeng and Princess Yinbi?" Ren Zihua interrupted, looking at Lin Yuqin very seriously, "In the eyes of others, one of these two people is a princess of a country, and the other is just Mo Xi. Almost everyone in the college is now a poor student. According to common sense, these two people who are almost at two extremes will be talked about together, right? But senior sister, Feng Xiaolan and I both saw it in the dormitory that day. "
"Did you see me scolding him?" Lin Yuqin's surprised expression became depressed again, and her beautiful face seemed to be covered with a dark veil.
"No, I saw the two of them kissing. In the dormitory, Princess Yinbi forcibly kissed Zhao Kaifeng." Ren Zihua said this sentence in a very calm tone, which was enough to shock the world. He still carefully observed the subtle expression on Lin Yuqin's face. Change, "Princess Yinbi, she seems to really like Zhao Kaifeng."
"So what? She's getting married next week."
"Is there really no room for change?"
The sparsely populated streets of the ancient city seem to be unable to hide the passage of hundreds of years here. It is so quiet that it makes people feel uncomfortable. The proprietress of the flower shop quietly looked at the two young men and women in front of her lavender in the shop. She looked at them idle, just like every evening in the past.
Lin Yuqin's eyes that had been lowered finally raised. She looked at Ren Zihua in front of her and said in a contemptuous tone: "You are not the emperor, what can you do?"
Seeing that his senior sister didn't seem to want to discuss this topic with him anymore, Ren Zihua didn't want to ask any more questions.
"Since Senior doesn't want to talk, I won't ask anymore." He took out Xue Ye from the magic storage space and prepared to leave with his sword, "Let's go, Senior, thank you and uncle for hosting me tonight. "
"Wait a minute, I want to know why you want to know about them so much. You and Zhao Kaifeng have only known each other for a short time, right? You and Yin Bi are strangers to each other. Don't tell me that you want to know so much just because of gossip."
When asked by Lin Yuqin, Ren Zihua also hesitated. Yes, why do you care so much about this matter? Although he told the princess that Zhao Kaifeng was his friend just now in the principal's office, the relationship between the two was indeed just roommates who had only known each other for two days. Why on earth did he get so involved in this matter inexplicably? Prick it?
"I just think it would be a pity if two people who really love each other can't get together in the end." Soon, Ren Zihua said seriously again, and his extremely sincere tone made people think that he seemed to have remembered something sad again. matter.
"Strange, how did you see that they really love each other?" Lin Yuqin asked in surprise, "Why are you saying this without any basis? You don't understand either of them at all. Bar?"
A couple held hands and passed by the street. Ren Zihua saw them smiling happily, and his emotions became complicated for a while.
"I don't know either." He said with a bitter smile, "Although I don't know what Zhao Kaifeng is thinking in his heart, Princess Yinbi must really like him."
"She is so blind that she actually fell in love with such a bastard." Lin Yuqin said in a rather regretful tone.
"Speaking of which, senior, you are actually good friends with the princess. This is really surprising." Ren Zihua turned his probing eyes to senior again, "How did you become friends?"
Lin Yuqin looked at Ren Zihua, who was wearing a white Taoist robe. The darkening sky made her vision a little blurry: "She and I are classmates in the same class. I have never seen a girl as beautiful as her before I met her." But I have never seen a girl as lonely as she is, and she has almost no friends."
"She is a princess after all, so it's normal not to make friends."
"Do you really want to know about them?" Seeing Ren Zihua nodded, Lin Yuqin said as if he had made up his mind, "I can tell you, but I don't know why the whole thing has developed to this point. With this look, I only found out yesterday that Yinbi likes Zhao Kaifeng so much."
"How about we change places and sit down and talk slowly, senior, it's quite tiring to stand here all the time." Seeing that Lin Yuqin was finally willing to tell him about Zhao Kaifeng and Princess Yinbi, Ren Zihua couldn't help but laugh.
"Where do you want to date your senior sister?" Xi Meng, who was surprised to see the two of them not returning home, was already standing next to Ren Zihua. "I asked why you haven't come back for so long. It turns out you want to go on a secret date. ah."
"No...you misunderstood Xi Meng." Ren Zihua was frightened by Xi Meng's sudden sound. He turned around and said with a headache, "I have something serious to ask my senior, not a date... ....”
"Why don't you go to my room and talk." Before the two of them could react, Lin Yuqin had already taken out a space magic stone from her pocket. She held Ren Zihua's hand and said to Xi Meng, who was still confused, " Let's go, Xi Meng. I'll find you again tonight. By the way, please help me tell my dad that I won't be staying at home tonight. If there's still a bowl left, let him wash it himself."
After saying this hastily, she and Ren Zihua disappeared together with the purple light of the space magic stone.
"Are you kidding me? Didn't you agree not to rob men? Article 7 of the Sisters' Rules! Lin Yuqin, you stinky bitch!" Xi Meng, who was left alone in front of the flower shop, complained viciously in her heart. The gnashing of teeth frightened the flower shop owner and she finally turned her dull eyes away from the patch of lavender.
In the blink of an eye, Ren Zihua, who was dragged by his senior sister to an unfamiliar bedroom, stared at the powdery bed and blushed: "This is my first time in a girl's room."
"Why don't you bring Xi Meng, senior?" Seeing Lin Yuqin looking at him silently, he asked a little panicked.
Smiling mysteriously, Lin Yuqin sat on the chair in front of the computer desk and said, "There are some things here that the fewer people know about, the better."
"how do I say this?"
"Do you still remember the fruit of the sacred tree that Xi Meng mentioned when we were in the church earlier?"
"Of course I remember it. It was said that Emperor Yinyue risked his whole country to take it out of Zhangjiajie as a birthday gift for the princess..." Suddenly, Ren Zihua's face became solemn, as if he suddenly understood something.
"Do you know why Emperor Yinyue is so persistent in giving the fruit of the sacred tree to the princess as a birthday gift?"
"I don't know, but I felt strange when I heard it before."
"Emperor Yinyue claimed that it was to make the princess's appearance last forever, but no one knows whether the fruit actually has that effect." Lin Yuqin smiled while sitting at the computer desk, and her expression immediately became quite serious, "After that, So it must be the forbidden fruit, because if Princess Yinbi does not eat the fruit of the sacred tree before her eighteenth birthday, she will disappear and never be alive again."
"It seems that you really don't know anything, Ren Zihua, but it's not your fault. After all, the rumor that was once known to the world is no longer known to anyone." Seeing Ren Zihua's look of listening carefully, Lin Yuqin continued. , "Before hearing Yin Bi talk to me about these things, I was as ignorant as you."
"what is going on?"
"Thousands of years ago, Demon King Yong Ye imposed a curse that could never be broken. From then on, as long as a female member of the royal family was born, she would die on her eighteenth birthday."
This warmly decorated master bedroom can completely reveal the self-discipline and calm character of the owner of the room through its clean and tidy appearance. However, such a girl who has a plan for her life and is almost never confused, after receiving a call from Yin Bin yesterday, , the whole person entered a very chaotic state, and even broke into the boys' dormitory in an extremely angry state and slapped Zhao Kaifeng. At this moment, while she was telling Ren Zihua these little-known secrets, she was sorting out her messy thoughts and trying to return to a normal state.
"For thousands of years, the royal family has been trying to avoid giving birth to female concubines. They invited magicians with great magical powers to serve as royal magicians. They said it was to protect the safety of the royal family, but in fact it was just to let the magicians perform magic on concubines who were about to conceive. The forbidden magic that can only conceive a boy was an unethical practice that was not abolished until 500 years ago by Yun Moxi, who was qualified as the royal magician at the time. It is said that Yun Moxi went there as soon as he was appointed as the royal magician. At that time, the royal forbidden library destroyed the magic book that recorded forbidden magic."
"Isn't he seeking death by doing this?" Ren Zihua asked. The way he stood by the bed was quite strange, and he still seemed a little unable to let go.
"According to common sense, yes, but Yun Moxi was quite talented. The emperor who came to the throne at that time was reluctant to kill him, and it was rumored that he also told the emperor another way to avoid the death of the royal family members." Lin Yuqin turned to look at Ren Zihua curled his lips slightly, as if to say that I don’t need to say more about what happened next, right?
"The fruit of the sacred tree." Ren Zihua immediately understood and said.
"That's right, but it is also true that the fruits of the sacred tree are hard to come by. It is impossible for the royal family to go to Zhangjiajie with all its strength to take risks every time a daughter is born. But fortunately, in the past few hundred years, the royal family has only given birth to There were only a few princesses, so they did not make the devil's curse known to everyone. To this day, in order to prevent Princess Yinbi from being in trouble, Emperor Yinyue had no choice but to lead all the Twelve Swordsmen who protect the country into Zhangjiajie last year. I took out a fruit from a sacred tree that is rumored to be able to break the curse."
After Lin Yuqin finished speaking, she felt her throat was a little dry, so she got up and went to the living room to get a glass of water.
"In this way, Emperor Yinyue does love his sister very much." He said after Lin Yuqin came back with two glasses of water, "In other words, Princess Yinyue is the only one who has lived past the age of eighteen. Are you a 20-year-old princess?"
"Thank you. Did you hear this from Princess Yinbi?" Ren Zihua asked again after taking the water glass.
"Not entirely." Lin Yuqin took a sip of water to moisten her throat and continued, "The curse of the Demon King was actually passed down orally from my ancestors. Before my grandfather's generation, my grandfather and the others were the royal swordsmiths of the imperial palace. , so I have heard about some things about the royal family. When I was a child, I often heard my grandfather mention to me some trivial things in the palace."
"Then..." Ren Zihua, who learned about senior's extraordinary life experience, seemed to be speechless for a moment. He tried hard to digest the previous content and said with some confusion, "But senior, after talking for so long, you are still Zhao Kaifeng was not mentioned."
