Strange Records of Xijing

When the Huangsha girl left, Su Yan was about to get up when he suddenly heard Mr. Qu's voice from inside the room: "Maybe it's God's will that the old man is here. Your Highness, the old servant will help you again."

Su Yan had no choice but to squat down again, closely watching the movement of Mr. Qu in the mirror.But he waited for a long time, but Mr. Qu in the room has been leaning on the back of the chair, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

Su Yan realized that he had wasted a lot of time here, and perhaps Pei Jingxing was already in a hurry.He glanced at the mirror again, and Mr. Qu in the mirror still maintained his previous movements.

Su Yan brushed the mirror with his right hand, retracted the mirror, grabbed the tree trunk next to him with one hand, stooped, and left quietly.

When Su Yan arrived at the previous restaurant, Pei Jingxing was already waiting there.

When Pei Jingxing saw Su Yan, he raised his eyebrows and put down the tea bowl in his hand: "You're finally back."

Su Yan sat down opposite him, a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, after you left, Chen Gui left Jinxiuxuan soon, so I followed first."

"That's what I guessed." Pei Jingxing poured a cup of tea for him and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"Sure enough, Chen Gui went to his master to look for the pattern of birds chasing the phoenix." Su Yan told Pei Jingxing what he found, "Mr. Qu must know something, but he doesn't want to say it."

Pei Jingxing first paid attention to the area around his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Bainiao Chaofengyi is the property of the deposed prince. Even if he knew something, he would not say it so easily. You said that Hu Nu called Xiannu an aunt, if When it is really a last resort, we may be able to cooperate with that beard girl."

"That bearded girl seems to be planning for the private treasury of the royal family," Su Yan asked, "Is there anything wrong with Pei Huaiyu?"

"You don't have to worry about him." Pei Jingxing didn't take Hu Nu's words to heart, "The imperial private treasury is guarded by thousands of guards, and the door of the private treasury is made of pure iron, ten inches thick. Just to push it open requires the combined efforts of three people. And there is only one key to the private treasury, which is in the hands of the emperor. Even if that bearded girl has the ability to escape from the sky, it is difficult to enter the private treasury."

"Will the emperor let Pei Huaiyu in?"

"Huaiyu's fate is special, and the emperor values ​​it very much." Pei Jingxing did not explain to Su Yan in detail, but said, "For the sake of Huaiyu's fate, the emperor treats him better than the crown prince. If Huaiyu follows our teaching If you say what he says, the emperor will not refuse."

After Su Yan heard this, he turned his head to Jinxiuxuan again: "Tell me, can Chen Gui want the pattern of a hundred birds chasing a phoenix?"

Just as Pei Jingxing was about to answer, a voice suddenly came from the stairs.

"Hey, isn't this our Pei Huaiyi Peijie envoy!"

Su Yan turned his gaze to the stairs, and saw a young man dressed as a nobleman coming up from the stairs, waving a fan in his hand in the cold weather, forcibly creating an image of a handsome gentleman.

From the perspective of ordinary people, this young man is full of energy, especially his pair of eyes, which are piercing, and his steps are steady and light. He is obviously a practicing family.

But this person fell into Su Yan's left eye, but he looked like a dying person - his eye circles were deep black, and the skin on both sides of his cheeks, neck and back of his hands were full of black veins protruding. If you observe carefully, you will find that these black strips that you mistakenly think are tendons at first glance are actually a kind of worm that wriggles from time to time.

Su Yan has seen it before. It is a kind of parasite in the underworld. It likes to parasitize on the bodies of dying people, monsters, and even immortals. It greedily sucks the host's only vitality.

He remained calm, and pretended to wipe the tea powder from the corner of his mouth with his hand.The moment he blocked his right eye with his right hand, Su Yan saw that the life lamps on the young man's shoulders had gone out, leaving only the one above his head, like a candle in the wind, with only a few sparks left. off.

This man is going to die.

Now, this young man who was about to die was leading a few servants behind him, walked up to Pei Jingxing triumphantly, and said with a smile on his face, "Huaiyi, we haven't seen each other for more than three years, what do you mean?" How big is this Xijing?"

Pei Jingxing ignored him, but said to Su Yan: "Let's go."

"Hey, hey, don't go," the young man pressed Pei Jingxing's shoulders, and he sat between Pei Jingxing and Su Yan, "It just so happens that we two brothers haven't seen each other for so many years, so we left without a drink. I can't make sense. Hey, who is this, why do I look at Yansheng. Huaiyi, don't you introduce yourself?"

"I still have official duties, so I will not accompany you." Pei Jingxing said coldly, knocked off the hand on his shoulder, got up and was about to leave.

"Pei Huaiyi, don't be ignorant!" The young man's complexion suddenly grew long, and the servants behind him were quite winking, and they all stepped forward at this moment, blocking Pei Jingxing's way.

"I have nothing to talk to you." After speaking, Pei Jingxing grabbed Su Yan's wrist, looked at the wall of people in front of him, "Niu Chunhui, if you don't let go, don't blame me for being rude."

The young man named Niu Chunhui poured himself a cup of tea slowly, and looked at Pei Jingxing with a smile: "Pei Street Envoy might as well let me learn a lot, and tell me what it means to be rude."

Pei Jingxing stared at Niu Chunhui for a while, and just as he took a step, Niu Chunhui in front of him suddenly screamed and fell off the stool.

"Ghost, ghost, ghost!" Niu Chunhui didn't have time to get up, put his hands on the ground, screamed, kicked his feet on the ground, and kept backing away.

Pei Jingxing looked under the table, it was empty and there were no so-called "ghosts".

The human wall that had blocked Pei and Su disintegrated at once. Niu Chunhui's servants helped him up from the ground, and three or four servants stood in front of Niu Chunhui, between Niu Chunhui and the "ghost".

Niu Chunhui turned pale with fright: "Go, go, go! Go!"

Without saying a word, the servants surrounded Niu Chunhui and left the restaurant, and the farce ended.

"What's going on, is there really a ghost?" Pei Jingxing pulled Su Yan back.

Fortunately, there are no customers in the restaurant now, and they are the only table on the second floor, otherwise there will be a bigger farce.

"No," Su Yan shook his head, "I just used a trick to scare him."

"Blinding eyes?" Pei Jingxing asked, "Then why can't I see?"

"It's a blinding trick, but it's not entirely true," Su Yan explained, "I cast a small spell on him, and he will see what he is most afraid of."

As soon as these words came out, Pei Jingxing's face paled a lot: "Would you really see it?"

"Of course it's fake." Seeing that Pei Jingxing's expression was not right, Su Yan asked him worriedly, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Pei Jingxing didn't want to say more, "I'll check the origin of the Mr. Qu you mentioned later, and when Huaiyu comes out of the palace tomorrow, I'll go to Taixuan Temple to find you, and we'll go to the princess mansion together. "

"Okay." Speaking of Pei Huaiyu, Su Yan remembered that Niu Chunhui called Pei Jingxing "Pei Huaiyi" before, and was very curious: "Why did that Niu Chunhui call you 'Pei Huaiyi'?"

"It's the name from before." Pei Jingxing's face was a little impatient, "The emperor later gave the name Jingxing, which comes from 'the mountain looks up, and Jingxing walks'. Have you heard of it?"

Su Yan shook his head.

Pei Jingxing: "..."

"This sentence comes from Xiaoya in the Book of Songs, haven't you read it?"

"Master never taught me this."

Pei Jingxing had never heard that Su Yan mentioned his parents, they were always the master, and the fox girl was short.He also wanted to prevent Su Yan from asking Niu Chunhui's questions again, so he asked, "Where are your parents?"

"I'm an orphan." Su Yan's answer surprised Pei Jingxing, "Master said that he picked me up by the river at the foot of the mountain, so he asked me to have the same surname as him, named Yan."

Pei Jingxing didn't expect to say a word, so he reminded Su Yan of the past, and quickly changed the subject: "I'll check Mr. Qu's background. If you have nothing else to do today, why don't you go and ask about that Hu girl and the sideshow troupe?" It may be possible to discover something about its origin.”

When it came to business, Su Yan put the sorrow in his heart behind him: "Okay."

Besides, at Pei Huaiyu's place, there was a quick response to the post sent to the palace. Without further ado, the emperor allowed Pei Huaiyu to go to the private treasury to find bottles with lotus patterns, but there must be an inner eunuch following him, and the person Pei Huaiyu brought into the palace must Stay with Qianniuwei who guards the private treasury.

Pei Huaiyu was a little anxious, if someone followed, even if he found Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi, how would he sneak it out?

But if you don't go, it won't work.

Pei Huaiyu got up early in the morning, thinking of the important task ahead, sat on the bedside and sighed several times, and after dinner, she took the servant into the palace.

Escorted by Qianniuwei, an internal eunuch brought the key to the private treasury.As soon as the warehouse door was opened, the key was put back into the brocade box and escorted back by a team of Qianniu guards.

The eunuch who accompanied Pei Huaiyu today was surnamed Li, and Li Qunli said flatteringly to Pei Huaiyu, "Mr. Pei, please."

With an upright face, Pei Huaiyu walked into the private treasury with his head held high.

The royal private treasury is the private collection of the emperors of the Zhou Dynasty. The gold, silver and jewels in it are inferior. The real precious ones are the calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in the past dynasties, as well as those ancient books.

Although Pei Huaiyu doesn't like learning, he loves reciting poems and reciting lyrics very much, and he is quite self-aware, and he is not ashamed of his arty behavior.Seeing those lonely copies now, I really can't wait to read them immediately.

Fortunately, he still remembered the purpose of his trip. Under the leadership of the inner eunuch, Pei Huaiyu went to the special storage area in the private warehouse.

Li Qunli carefully picked up one of the bottles, handed it to Pei Huaiyu, and asked, "Young Master Pei, look, but this bottle?"

Pei Huaiyu pretended to look at it a few times, then shook his head: "No, this bottle is too small."

Li Qunli carefully put the bottle back again, walked to another box, opened the box, took out the jade saucers on top, and took out a huge bottle from the bottom: "Mr. Pei, but this one?"

This time Pei Huaiyu didn't even look at it: "This is too big."

Li Qunli struggled to put the bottle back again, covered it with silk and satin, put other things into the box, and finally closed the box.

Seeing his appearance, Pei Huaiyu couldn't help but said, "Okay, I'll look for it myself, don't move, it makes me flustered."

Li Qunli smiled mischievously, and stepped aside: "Okay. If Mr. Pei has anything that can be of use to this old slave, please feel free to speak up."

The emperor's private treasury was huge, and Pei Huaiyu was tired after looking at a dozen boxes. He was thinking of Bainiao Chaofengyi in his heart, and while sitting on the ground panting, he pretended to ask Li Qunli unintentionally: "Hey, let me ask you, Are all the bottles in the private storage here?"

Li Qunli said with a smile: "Young Master Pei, this is a big problem for this old slave. This old slave in the private treasury has come here three times in his life. The first two times were His Majesty's kindness, leading the old slave in. The old slave also knows the general situation." Areas, for example, here are cups, bowls and saucers, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings are placed there, famous weapons are placed at the other end, if there are bottles in other places, this old slave is really not sure."

"Then let's look elsewhere." Pei Huaiyu rolled his eyes and jumped up from the ground, "I'm tired of looking here, let's go and look around."

Li Qunli only thought that Pei Huaiyu was young and full of curiosity, and it was the first time he came to the private treasury to broaden his horizons.

He is the only son of Princess Minglang and General Pei Qiong, and he is also a celebrity in front of the emperor. Of course Li Qunli is not willing to offend Pei Huaiyu.Moreover, Pei Huaiyu was born in a family of Zhongming Dingshi, no matter how dazzling this royal private treasury is, according to Pei Huaiyu's tutor, he would not do anything sneaky, let alone he was still watching.

In this way, of course Li Qunli would not stop Pei Huaiyu.

As Pei Huaiyu walked forward, he looked left and right to see if there was anything similar to Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi.He walked for a while, and saw a lot of dresses hanging not far away, and Fanghui was covered with almost transparent tulle.

"Hey, look over there. There's a bottle over there. It looks quite similar. Go get it and show me." Luckily for Pei Huaiyu, there was a bottle on a shelf on his left.

He used this to push Li Qunli away, while he quietly went to the side where the dress was hanging, intending to see if there was any Bai Niao Chao Feng Yi among them.

But just when his hand was about to touch the tulle, he suddenly felt empty under his feet, and then he fell down uncontrollably.

Li Qunli turned around with the bottle, but there was no sign of Pei Huaiyu.

"Mr. Pei? Where are you, Mr. Pei? Mr. Pei, don't scare the old slave!"

Li Qunli called out a few times and searched around, but he didn't even see half of Pei Huaiyu.

He was sweating profusely, turned around and ran towards the gate of the private warehouse, shouting all the way: "It's not good, it's not good, Mr. Pei is gone!"