I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

After dealing with Wuhua, Pei Xiang looked deep into the secret passage, and saw a white figure slowly emerging from the darkness, and after a while, a glowing halo illuminated Bai Feifei's beautiful face.

"Miss Pei, how are you doing recently?"

"Thank you, Miss Bai, for thinking about me. I'm fine," Pei Xiang said with a gentle smile, "You've come to Xinglong Mountain. Did your journey go smoothly?"

Bai Feifei walked up to Pei Xiang slowly, without even looking at the flowers on the ground, just concentrating on talking to Pei Xiang:

"The trip went smoothly. I arrived in Lanzhou City the day before yesterday, and I came with the envoy Situ. He has something to go out tonight and tomorrow morning, so I will come here for a while."

"Here..." Pei Xiang looked at the dark secret passage, doubts flashed in his eyes, pretending that he didn't know that this was actually the entrance to the secret passage of the Ghost Palace.

Bai Feifei smiled without saying a word. She skipped Pei Xiang's question, and only talked about some situations she and Situ Shi encountered along the way, as well as her future plans.

Pei Xiang smiled slightly, and continued to talk along Bai Feifei's topic:

"You're pretending to be caught by Happy King's envoy, um, you want to get close to Happy King through that Situ, so that he can put down his guard against you?"

"I can't hide from Miss Pei." Bai Feifei rolled his eyes and smiled sweetly, "Even though Happy King is always cautious and suspicious, he is still not very wary of the beautiful and weak women that the envoy recruits for him. This identity is easier to get close to him."

"This is your plan with Mrs. Wang?"

"It's my plan, with a little help from Mrs. Wang's strength. No matter what, I have a common enemy with her."

"Are you going to go into the desert in the future?" Pei Xiang asked curiously when he saw that Bai Feifei was quite interested in talking.

Bai Feifei shook his head and explained softly:

"Happy King loves tea, so he is naturally very particular about the water used to make tea. So every early spring, he will come to Xinglong Mountain to live for a while, for the Sanyuan Spring here.

"The envoy knows this habit of the Happy King, so he plans to stay in Lanzhou City for a while. While searching for more young and beautiful women for the Happy King, he waits for the Happy King's men to enter the pass quietly, and then offers me up. "

"I see." Thinking of Bai Feifei's true identity, Pei Xiang couldn't help but frowned, "Girl Bai, I'd take the liberty to ask a few more questions. After approaching Happy King, how do you plan to retaliate against him? Anyone who enters through the hands of Situ, the envoy, The woman dedicated to him... Do you want him to be charged with immorality and incest?"

Bai Feifei noticed Pei Xiang's disapproving attitude, his eyes flashed, and then he covered his lips and asked with a delicate smile:

"Is this plan bad? Madam Wang and I both think that if that man dies easily, it would be too cheap for him! We want him to be ruined, despised and ridiculed by everyone, full of ambitions but unable to display them. Chai A man like Yuguan is only worthy of bearing sins and spending the rest of his life doing nothing, and finally dies miserably in the midst of not getting what he wants."

Listening to Bai Feifei's soft and gentle voice describing how to take revenge on his biological father, Pei Xiang raised his eyebrows noncommittally and remained silent for a moment.

Seeing this, Bai Feifei's eyebrows became more gentle and pitiful, her eyelashes trembled slightly, and she asked softly:

"Miss Pei suddenly stopped talking. Do you think Feifei has a vicious heart? Do you think Feifei shouldn't have such deep hatred for his biological father? Miss Pei, do you think Feifei should learn to forgive?"

Pei Xiang sighed, and said softly:

"I just think that your way of hurting the enemy a thousand times and harming yourself eight hundred times may not achieve your goal. First, in my opinion, it's not worth it for you to set yourself up for a heartless and heartless man. Second, I think You overestimated Chai Yuguan's moral bottom line and sense of shame. To him, what you thought would embarrass him may be just an unpleasant episode, and he would forget it amidst the beauties and fine wine."

These words made Bai Feifei slightly startled, and after a long while, she opened her mouth to say:

"Even if Chai Yuguan is despicable and shameless to the core, he doesn't feel that marrying his own daughter in incest is a great sin, and he doesn't feel pain. But other people, most people, still have a sense of shame.

"Miss Pei, when I wandered around the rivers and lakes, I discovered that many strong people who can't be called good people are actually somewhat loyal and bloody. They don't bother to associate with people who are immoral and chaotic, let alone sincerely serve such people as their masters." .

"So, as long as my plan succeeds, Happy King will be a man without righteousness and help. He has no supporters and loyal subordinates, and he is alone. How can he be called a 'king'? How can he become the overlord of a party?"

"What about your own life?" Pei Xiang asked softly.

"Miss Bai, if everyone knows about the scandal of the Happy King and makes him cast aside by heroes from all walks of life, how can you stay out of it? If others despise the Happy King, will they be tolerant to you?

"The rules of this world are originally set by men, and they are more demanding on women. Even if they know that you are a victim, they will have many excuses to accuse and attack you. Perhaps, you will get more malice than the culprit , are you willing?"

There was a look of sadness in Bai Feifei's brows, but it was quickly replaced by her usual gentle and weak smile.

"There is no joy in life, so why bother in death... A person like me who was born with sins, with dirty blood belonging to Chai Yuguan flowing in my body, is an ominous person. Do I still care about the opinions of people who have nothing to do with me?"

Pei Xiang pursed his lips and asked meaningfully:

"Miss Bai doesn't care about the opinions of people who have nothing to do with her, don't she also care about people who are related to her?"

"Feifei is alone, how can there be a 'related person'?"

Pei Xiang suddenly changed the subject:

"I just met Ji Bingyan today, and I overheard the maid in his house chatting secretly, saying that before I had a business partner, I wanted to give Boss Ji two beauties with charming looks and excellent talents. It was already agreed, but Ji After the boss came back from Luoyang, he politely declined the matter. Miss Bai, do you know why Boss Ji suddenly changed his mind?"

Bai Feifei was in a daze, as if she didn't realize why she suddenly changed the content of the conversation. Her eyes were pulsed with joy and worry, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised and then quickly flattened. Finally, she turned her head to avoid Pei Xiang's bright eyes.

Seeing that Bai Feifei was silent, Pei Xiang didn't care too much. She waved her hand indifferently and said in a low voice:

"Forget it, let me ask casually, Miss Bai doesn't need to think about the affair of this 'unrelated person'. Boss Ji is having a drink with friends in the 'Happy Forest' today, and will not return to Lanzhou City for a while. When I meet him another day, I will ask him in person.”

Bai Feifei's eyes flashed, and he said with a light smile:

"Miss Pei's kindness, I appreciate it. But Feifei has planned for many years, and his heart is like a rock, so how can he give up so easily? Besides, how long can a man's feelings...be maintained? Feifei has more important things to do in his heart." Complete, this life is destined to pass by with happiness and joy.”

"Others can't change your will, can't you yourself? Miss Bai, you feel that life is so happy and death is so hard, but you are still so young, how many things in life have not been experienced, how can you judge early? Surely there will be no happiness in this life?"

"Because I am Bai Feifei," the girl in white said sadly, "Bai Feifei was born amidst expectations and grew up amidst hatred. Only death can be merciful to me."

Pei Xiang stared at the seemingly weak but stubborn Bai Feifei seriously for a while, then slowly looked away, and said nothing more.

After meeting Bai Feifei in the secret passage of Huaci Temple, Pei Xiang returned to his residence, washed and changed his clothes and slept peacefully overnight.

But Bai Feifei, who was left behind, watched Pei Xiang leave, but felt turbulent in his heart.

She walked out of the dark secret passage without a sound, and looked up at the sculptures in the Huaci Temple in the open place for a while.

A gust of night wind blew by, engulfed with the faint sound of silk, bamboo and zither and the faintly seductive aroma of wine.The liveliness in the distance and the coldness here are intertwined, turning into a silent temptation, urging Bai Feifei to strengthen a certain thought that came out of nowhere.

She moved a few steps towards the bright moonlight, lowered her head and carefully observed her hands—weak and boneless, fair and delicate, but what impressed her most in her mind was another pair of warm and powerful hands covered with thin calluses.

She always remembers the warmth of the hands brushing against the skin and the deep and firm eyes of the owner of the hands.

As the night grew darker, Bai Feifei hid his hands in his sleeves to keep warm, his figure swayed in the wind, and disappeared from the gate of Huaci Temple in an instant.

On the other side, Ji Bingyan, who was half-drunk and half-awake, helped her friend Chu Liuxiang into the guest room and threw her on the bed, then found a clean room by herself.He was about to undress and rest when he suddenly smelled a quiet fragrance that he never forgot.

"Feifei..." Ji Bingyan suddenly turned around, looking at the girl in white in front of the door with an incredulous expression.

"It's getting deeper and the dew is heavy, and the mountain night is cold, can you stay with me?"

"You, are you a white girl?"

"If it wasn't me, who would Big Brother Ji think I am?"

"You... came to Lanzhou?"

"Ah."

"It's getting late, Feifei you..."

"Before I get married, I want to simply enjoy a woman's pleasure, Ji Bingyan, do you like me?"

Ji Bingyan was suddenly speechless, at first it was because she was too surprised, and later, it was because she was too busy.

The next morning, Chu Liuxiang rubbed her temples and pushed the door out, and immediately saw Ji Bingyan sitting alone in the yard drinking tea to sober up.

He paused, then smiled again:

"Ji Bingyan, are you drinking tea to relieve your worries?"

Ji Bingyan poured Chu Liuxiang a cup of strong tea with gentle eyes.

"If Lao Hu was here, he should probably yell and ask you, how did you see that I was worried from my expressionless face?"

Chu Liuxiang chuckled lightly when he heard the words, he took a sip of tea with just the right temperature, and breathed out comfortably:

"It turns out that I was not mistaken. You really have something on your mind. What happened? Why did you and my brother become depressed overnight?"

Ji Bingyan thought of the graceful back of Bai Feifei leaving freely, and said lightly:

"It was just a beautiful dream. When I woke up, I found that the beauty in the dream was all fake. It was easier to fade away than the morning dew and colorful clouds. It is inevitable that I feel a little regretful."

Chu Liuxiang rolled her eyes, and immediately understood.He looked up and down at his friends drinking tea in surprise, and suddenly sighed:

"If it wasn't for my bad nose, I would definitely have to get close to you and take a good smell now."

"Smell what?"

"Anyway, it's not the smell of copper and wine, but the smell of rouge dew."

Ji Bingyan twitched the corners of her mouth and drank tea quietly.

The next day, Yuan Suiyun returned from a secret trip.Before Ji Bingyan could open his mouth, he sent his confidant to send an invitation to Chu Liuxiang who was temporarily staying in "Happy Forest", inviting him to a banquet and a small gathering.

After the two met, they exchanged polite greetings for a while before sitting down and drinking to get to the point.

After listening to Yuan Suiyun's investigation of Shi Guanyin and others, Chu Liuxiang was shocked by the statement that Wuhua might be Shi Guanyin's son, while worried about the safety of his friend Ji Bingyan.

Although it is said that Ji Bingyan's mission is only to investigate the whereabouts of the daughter of the Qu family, it is ultimately related to the moody Shi Guanyin. Who can guarantee that Ji Bingyan will not be hated and retaliated by the other party?

Therefore, Chu Liuxiang also stayed, planning to help Wuzheng Villa deal with Shi Guanyin.

At the same time, the bandit commander, who is famous for his lightness kung fu, began to fulfill his promise and personally taught Pei Xiang the lightness kung fu.All of a sudden, the entire Xinglong Mountain was full of Chu Liuxiang and Pei Xiang jumping around.

Pei Xiang was assisted by a memory attic, coupled with her high level of martial arts, strong internal strength of sword intent, and proficiency in the five elements and eight trigrams. By analogy, she quickly comprehended the essence of the thief handsome light kung fu, and had her own comprehension and experience.

During the No. 12 days of learning lightness kung fu, Pei Xiang's lightness of body and body made a qualitative leap. From that day on, she and Chu Liuxiang discussed and exchanged ideas no longer limited to lightness kung fu.Boxing kung fu, swords and sticks, hidden weapon fingering and some strange miscellaneous knowledge, both of them competed one by one to verify each other. Pei Xiang and Chu Liuxiang also learned a little unique skill of breathing in water, which really gained a lot.

In the last few days of the January period, even Yuan Suiyun couldn't restrain his curiosity and competitive spirit, so he went off to compete with Pei Xiang and Chu Liuxiang in person.

With the joining of the young master of Wuzheng Villa, who learned the best of all families, the atmosphere of martial arts training on Xinglong Mountain became more intense, and various exquisite moves emerged one after another.Even the bystanders can benefit a little bit, not to mention the three people who participated in the actual combat.

In addition, while Pei Xiang was concentrating on studying lightness exercises, Ren Ci and Qiu Lingsu also arrived at Xinglong Mountain.

In the name of recuperating and relaxing, and revisiting their hometowns, they generously lived in Ji Bingyan's villa.

Following Ren Ci's arrival, another seven or eight famous martial arts figures appeared in Xinglong Mountain. After that, Master Kumei also brought his apprentice Gao Yanan to visit.

On the surface, it seems that these people came to visit the head of the beggar gang who had just recovered from a serious illness, but in fact, they were invited by Wuzheng Villa to conspire to capture Shi Guanyin.

When most of the people had arrived, Yuan Suiyun, in order to give everyone a reassurance, also hinted that Wuzheng Villa had invited a top expert to help out.

It's just that the top expert will arrive later, and it's inconvenient to show up too early, lest he accidentally leak the news and scare Shi Guanyin from showing up.

While secretly guessing who the top expert is, Pei Xiang started to disguise Qiu Lingsu.

She first referred to Qiu Lingsu's Danqing portrait before her disfigurement, and then studied her skeleton outline, and then began to implement the disguise steps.

From early morning to late at night, pots of hot water and soup were brought into the house, stacks of clean white cloths, scissors, tweezers and other small tools were delivered to Pei Xiang...

Ren Ci was always by his wife Qiu Lingsu's side, steadying her trembling hands and fearful mood.

At dawn on the second day, Pei Xiang's work finally came to an end.

She picked up a small dish full of off-white powder, and blew lightly on Qiu Lingsu's face with closed eyes.The smoky gray powder immediately pounced on Qiu Lingsu's face, and then quickly melted into that layer of fake skin.

After a few breaths, the complexion that was a little stiff just now became radiant and soft, the faint blush on the white jade cheeks, the delicate and soft texture of the fragrant cheeks when touched, are no different from real people.

No, better than real people.

Ren Ci on the side couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Okay, Mrs. Ren, you can open your eyes now." Pei Xiang looked at his "new work" for a while, and finally nodded with satisfaction.

Qiu Lingsu grasped Ren Ci's hand nervously, and after taking a few deep breaths, she slowly opened Jianshui Qiutong, and looked at herself in the mirror apprehensively and full of nostalgia.

"This..." Qiu Lingsu never expected that after destroying her own face, she could still see this familiar face in the mirror. Good! Really, Miss Pei, this face is so good, it's even prettier than my original appearance."

Pei Xiang smiled and said: "It's not that I made Mrs. Ren more beautiful, but because your temperament is more elegant and calm. Mrs. Ren, time has given you peace of mind and transparency, gentle and meaningful Coupled with the charm of youth, the face is naturally radiant and more beautiful than before."

Qiu Lingsu looked up at Ren Ci, with anticipation and shyness in her eyes.

Ren Ci nodded slightly, hugged his wife's shoulders, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Very beautiful, whether it was before or now, Xiao Su has always been very beautiful."

The husband and wife looked at each other and smiled, full of tenderness.

Pei Xiang took a step back quietly, leaving space for the husband and wife who have gone through life and death and are now connected with each other.

After a cup of tea, the door opened.

When everyone saw Qiu Lingsu who had regained his appearance, they all exclaimed in surprise.Some people lamented that the reputation of "beautiful Jianghu" in the past was well-deserved, some people were angry at Shi Guanyin's cruelty, and some people repeatedly praised Pei Xiang's achievements in disguise.

After listening for a while, Pei Xiang suddenly felt a little lonely.

She has just completed an excellent job of disguise, and she has a lot of ideas, experiences and inspirations, and she especially wants to share her experience with others.

Of course, she also wanted to listen to some professional comments and compliments to satisfy her little vanity.

——Even if it's not all praise, talk about how to improve or fix it.

It's a pity that the compliments from friends around him couldn't speak to Pei Xiang's heart.

Sighing silently, Pei Xiang once again pulled Qiu Lingsu in front of the mirror of equal height to help her make the final adjustments.

Speaking of this mirror, it was Pei Xiang's request to Yuan Suiyun on the grounds that he needed to change his appearance.Then, the rich Wuzheng Villa met Pei Xiang's conditions, and the hired bodyguards transported this crystal clear and huge mirror all the way.

"Mrs. Ren, the disguise on your face is complicated and cannot be easily removed. In order to successfully hide it from Shi Guanyin's eyes, I referred to Jiangzuo Situ's technique and used a lot of special materials. Well, wait here After the next incident is over, I will help you recover."

Qiu Lingsu looked at herself in the mirror with nostalgia, and after a long while, she sighed softly, smiling a little relieved.

"I listen to Miss Pei."

Ren Ci on the side frowned and asked:

"If you don't take it off, can Xiaosu still wash? Also, is the fake skin tightly covering her face all the time, will it be harmful to her body? The skin that was damaged by the poison before is very fragile, and it will be damaged after a long time of disguise. Won't it break and deteriorate?"

Pei Xiang explained with a smile: "Please rest assured, Mrs. Ren, within a month, Mrs. Ren can live a normal life like ordinary people, without any special scruples. After a month, I will help Mrs. Ren take off the disguise on her face."

After receiving Pei Xiang's accurate answer, Ren Ci breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Pei Xiang again.

So, from this day on, a piece of news spread around Xinglong Mountain: Qiu Lingsu came out of the rivers and lakes again, with the same style as before.

It turns out that Ci's wife, the director of the Beggar Gang, is Qiu Lingsu who was "beautiful in the world".Time flies, not only did not take away Qiu Lingsu's beauty, but made her more glamorous and unparalleled.It is said that all the Jiang Hu people who have seen Qiu Lingsu think that she is truly the number one beauty in the Jiang Hu.

While this news was spreading in Jianghu, Yuan Suiyun also let Shi Guanyin know about it immediately through his internal response.