The third oath ended like this. After the inevitable loss to Hunan in the first oath, Christie swept the next two games in an unstoppable manner.
Ye Qing was sitting in front of the bed in the dormitory. Under his off-white pajamas were a pair of slender feet as white as lotus.
On the night of the first day, the anxious Ye Xiaojiu stayed in front of Xiang's door almost all night, but the master spent the whole night drinking tea and having fun with His Highness. This is my style and habit. Of course, the second Master Ertian indeed proved his confidence with an almost perfect performance.
However, the next day, out of various considerations, everyone gathered around the Third Highness to help the senior sister make suggestions and judge the pros and cons, and in the end, the Third Highness did come up with a powerful coca tea.
But unfortunately, starting from the second oath, Christie showed his true strength in blocking the killer and the Buddha. No matter how proud he is of chewing a cup of tea, he can't say anything wrong.
In the third oath, although the restless Ye Qing refused to have everyone at the Friends Club gather around her like last night, she still asked Ao Xuehua to accompany her to try the dishes all night. After hearing Christie's words again, While learning some secrets, he also adjusted his own dumplings to the best condition.
But this time, Christie won more simply and beautifully, causing Ye Qing to have the illusion that it would be unjust for her not to win.
But when it finally came time for the third and most important oath, the person involved, Ao Xuehua, was the calmest one.
She neither asked Friends Club to help evaluate and adjust, nor did she assume a confident attitude and spend the time leisurely like Xiang. On the contrary, she just ate on time, exercised, and went to bed as usual.
Ye Xiaojiu was opposite her.
Although Ye Qing wanted to ask, in the end, Ye Qing did not ask. He lay back quietly on the bed and covered his head with the quilt.
Ao Xuehua didn't ask any more questions. He also took off his shoes and lay flat on the bed, continuing his regular breathing routine.
This is the top floor of Aita. In addition to Ye Qing and Ao Xuehua, there are also the Third Highness and Lan Che here.
After Ao Xuehua quietly vomited for a week, he slowly turned his head, his black eyes shining like stars in the dim light of the dormitory: "Usually you're already asleep at this time, aren't you?"
Ye Qing covered his head and said calmly: "This is obviously not normal."
"I won't lose tomorrow." Ao Xuehua confirmed: "Although it won't be as beautiful as the win, I can ensure that I will never lose. Xiaojiu doesn't have to worry about being banned from Lanlan City. "
"Actually, I'm not thinking about this." Ye Qing said in a sullen voice: "So what if we really lose, brother, he is not the stupid kid he used to be. He can see me anytime if he wants to, but I just feel a little uncomfortable. .”
"What I'm wondering is, why did she do this."
Ao Xuehua raised his eyebrows: "Huh?"
"Why did she choose this time to come to the store and force me to confront her in the name of taking back Blue Gensokyo? In the end, she induced me to take the Emperor's Oath." Ye Qing bit his lip gently: "Now that I think about it, since she stepped into The threshold for entering Qing's Gensokyo, or rather earlier, when Xiang arrived, she started her own plan."
"I originally thought that the Alaya Consciousness you were talking about was just talk. Only when I actually faced it did I realize how terrifying it is."
"Everything is part of her plan."
"But why did she do this? I originally thought she was probably narrow-minded and deliberately wanted to get better from me and get revenge on me. But over the past few days, we have gradually gotten to know each other. Although we both admitted that we didn't like each other, I also slowly Please understand what she said - just because I don't like you doesn't mean that I will do unnecessary things, it just means that I won't do unnecessary things."
"The first unnecessary thing she said probably means that she will not actively cause trouble for me because she doesn't like me, and the second unnecessary thing means that she doesn't like me because she doesn't like me. So I won’t repay kindness with kindness or help me behind my back.”
"But so far, she has done both."
Ao Xuehua smiled silently: "How do you say this?"
"She took the initiative to provoke me and used Gensokyo to lure me into a battle of imperial oaths with her. There is no doubt that this is an initiative to make things difficult for me and cause trouble for me. For example, the ownership of Gensokyo's real estate must be It was Yi Lanshan who made concessions to her and took the initiative to return the property."
"If I can believe her, then there is more to this than meets the eye."
"At least, this is not a superfluous thing, but a necessary thing. It's just that for some reason, she will unfold the whole incident in this way and make it as unobtrusive as possible."
"And I am the key to making the whole incident not obtrusive."
"To put it simply, she was taking advantage of me from the beginning."
Ao Xuehua looked at Ye Xiaojiu and said nothing.
Ye Qing lowered his head and smiled self-deprecatingly: "I always thought I was still a child, but you always used the rules of adults to educate me. I should have thought of the rules that have been universal from the beginning."
"If you're going to do something, the most important thing is that people don't know what you're doing."
"This is something I was taught in the spring of the fourth year of Qingli, but I have never been able to learn it. When I learn it, I will probably be an adult like you."
"And another rule of the adult world is not to look at right or wrong, only to look at the results."
"Let me count what Christie can gain from this imperial oath, and I'll probably know."
Ye Qing said this and gently raised his fingers on the bed: "As you said, she chose to be born, so the first thing she did was to let the world know her name. Before that, she chose to burn Qianjia's account books in the streets of the West City for incense. This is true for bathing, and so is this imperial oath."
"After today, everyone in the world knows that she is the second best weapon training master in the world after Xiao, and she has equal attainments in refining medicine and magic patterns. As for her skills in tea ceremony and cooking, even you said She is not doing her job properly, but in my opinion, this is exactly the embodiment of her pursuing her own path while keeping a low profile."
"She chose Linglong Heart as the basis for improving her strength in the future, so that her regular strength is worthless to her. But because of this, she can openly invest her most precious three years in For everyone, it is a path of playthings and despair. On the one hand, it really paralyzes those who are wary and afraid of her, but on the other hand, this is the path she faces in the first place."
"It wasn't until she stood across from me and said that she was just a stupid genius that I realized that for her, she had already stood in a field that no one had touched before. Without any help or guidance, all Experiences like this are extremely valuable to her.”
Ao Xuehua just listened quietly, still not saying a word. His Highness the Third Prince was originally a child who was indifferent to the world, and Lan Che was one of the best listeners in the world, so only Ye Qing was covering his head in the entire dormitory. Face said his reasoning quietly.
"So for her, there is no wasted time at all, because even if she is like you said, she still puts all her energy on the improvement and enhancement of Linglong Heart, she will still hesitate to move forward if she loses her direction, so Even lingering between tea and rice is a different kind of practice for her."
"Go back to the beginning."
"An imperial oath can let everyone know the self she wants others to see, strong, smart, wise, and most importantly, harmless."
"That's the first benefit she can get."
"At the same time, he used this imperial oath to invite five absolutely heavyweight judges. Not to mention Senior Carrotes, I don't know why he can sit on it, but the other four, one Representing the academy, one represents Xicheng, the other represents the royal family, and the last one represents Lanye’s old people who have disappeared. I wouldn’t be surprised if she can invite any one of them, but these four are invited at the same time. , this in itself is an extremely strong signal, that is, she maintains good relations with Xicheng, the academy, and the Lanye Empire at the same time. You must know that these three aspects are originally the three problems faced by the rise of the Croft family. The biggest obstacle, and Christie’s ability to invite these four at the same time means that what was originally a problem is no longer a problem.”
"Here is the more important second benefit."
"At the same time, this imperial oath will also bring benefits to another beneficiary who is not Christie himself."
"That's Blue Gensokyo."
"Ao no Gensokyo, which originally had an excellent location but had not been visited for a long time, is destined to become famous in the future. Not to mention that Xiang has been revealed that she will not stay at the academy during her stay at Ye Ye, but has already stayed in Gensokyo. Speaking of His Highness and I, who have already appeared in the Emperor's Oath, although we have failed to win the game, no one will think that we did not do well, just because Christie himself is too strong."
"Since the difference between the two games was absolute, it improved the impression of us losers in the minds of others to a certain extent. In this way, the market for catering in Gensokyo has been opened up."
"The most important thing is that even if the store's popularity increased, there was nothing that could hold the store back, but she happened to take the Emperor's Oath at this time of night in Xianglai, so this only weakness was It no longer exists.”
Ao Xuehua smiled softly on the side: "Xiaojiu, you missed one more benefit."
Ye Qing looked at Ao Xuehua doubtfully.
The president suppressed a smile; "Of course, I can also drive my love rival out of Ye Ye City, leaving her with precious personal space."
Ye Qing blushed in anger and said, "Didn't you say you could win? If you win, I don't have to leave?"
Ao Xuehua said seriously: "It's just that we are sure of winning, okay? Who can dare to say that he will definitely win in front of Alaya Shi? If you lose Xiaojiu, you will go home crying."
Ye Qing begged loudly for mercy; "Hey, Sister Xuehua, please."
Ao Xuehua finally stopped talking with joy, and then said calmly: "Yes, in the last imperial oath with Christie, I still have a lot of confidence in winning as long as she doesn't give in, but I can't do anything to you for the time being. Discuss in detail.”
"As for what Xiaojiu said just now, although many of us were not aware of it at first, as the Emperor's Oath progressed, it gradually became no longer a secret. She borrowed you to initiate this Emperor's Oath, no matter whether it was in the unknown In front of the bystanders of the truth, or in the eyes of those discerning people who looked on coldly, it was a top-notch plan with perfect timing and motivation. He never thought about getting anything from this imperial oath, but it was precisely because she didn't need anything. Her attitude actually made her the biggest winner in this Imperial Oath, because even if you knew all this, it would be difficult, or in other words, you would have no motive to stop her."
Ao Xuehua said calmly, his eyes as quiet as autumn water in a cold pool: "For me, the reason why I allowed this Emperor's Oath to happen is because although I didn't know anything at the beginning, I knew something better. , that is, Christie is a very trustworthy person, just like when I knew that Ge Sheng was with her, I judged that both of them would be fine."
"When she tempted you to take the Imperial Oath, I didn't know everything but didn't stop her, because I knew that if she was still the same person I knew, there was no malice in what she did."
"As you will see later, throughout the entire Imperial Oath, she not only provided the best environment and place for everyone, but also coordinated every Imperial Oath that would have been tense in a very peaceful manner, even if there was a real conflict. There was still no accident between you and her during that imperial oath."
"To put it simply, from the moment she decided to initiate the Emperor's Oath, the outcome of every subsequent Emperor's Oath was roughly determined in her mind, and she was just walking according to this destiny."
Ye Qing suddenly spoke, interrupting Ao Xuehua's words.
"I just want to know what the relationship is between her and my brother."
"Otherwise, she would never do these unnecessary things, especially for me. But in fact, she did do these unnecessary things. Under the premise of excluding her self-contradiction, there is only one conclusion, she You do these unnecessary things for another person.”
"And that person should be my brother, Ge Sheng."
Ye Qing spoke faster and faster: "So I want to know what kind of relationship Christie has with my brother, which allows her to do so many things that are not only redundant but also very troublesome."
Ao Xuehua shook his head, with a hint of melancholy in his tone: "Xiaojiu, you don't want to know."
Ye Qing bit his lip: "I want to know now."
Ao Xuehua sighed, looked at Ye Xiaojiu's pure white face, and said something softly.
At that moment, it seemed that the whole room had become quiet, just like there was only one voice echoing in the silent forest. Lan Che, who had been listening, gently covered his mouth to prevent himself from screaming.
Ye Qing, who was still a little excited, suddenly cooled down as if he was washed by ice water.
The girl has never felt so tired, as if you were trying to get into the hotel and take a hot shower after a long journey, but were told that the hotel was fully booked.
She turned her head, covered her face, and said calmly: "Okay, I understand, I'm going to sleep first."
