Chapter 292 [Conversation in the Thatched Cottage]
Here Cheng Yu was thinking, and the thatched cottage under his feet became quiet again, with only the chirping of cicadas echoing in the dense forest.
A few breaths later, Emperor Jiarui snorted with a bit of disdain. He must have been unhappy because Princess Anting mentioned the prophecy.
He immediately moved his body and changed his sitting position, then pointed at King Jin on the other side and said bluntly:
"You! Do you have anything else important to do?"
Cheng Yu heard that Emperor Jiarui really had a temper. As soon as he spoke to Prince Jin, his tone was no longer as peaceful as before, and there was still a hint of evil in his indifference.
As the prince who oversees the country, the King of Jin was keenly aware of the changes in his father. He immediately stopped talking about his subsequent assassinations, and instead paused and replied:
"For the record, Father, there is one more thing. I received an urgent military report from the Ministry of War eight hundred miles ago. The entire territory of Qingzhou has been poisoned by rogue bandits, and most of Suzhou has also been..."
Before King Jin finished speaking, the old emperor stopped him impatiently:
"I ordered you to supervise the country to deal with these small matters. You go and discuss with the Privy Council to come up with a result. This is the memorial! Oh yes, first submit the trip to Qianyuan Prefecture."
"My son, I obey your orders."
King Jin seemed not to be surprised by what the emperor said. He knelt on the ground and continued:
"Other than that, there is nothing else to do. When I return today, I will immediately write down this tour of Qianyuan Prefecture and what happened after returning to the capital in a memorial for my father to review and make a decision."
Emperor Jiarui nodded when he heard this, then raised his hand and waved it gently twice, without even bothering to say a word.
Upon seeing this, the King of Jin said that he was retiring, and he kept kneeling and pouted, and stepped back step by step. As soon as he took two steps back, he saw from the corner of his eye that Anting on the other side was motionless, and the King of Jin couldn't help but froze.
"Girl, come and tell Grandpa Huang, have you come up with anything new lately?"
From the corner of his eye, Emperor Jiarui saw the King of Jin standing there pouting and not leaving the thatched hut, but he ignored him and asked An Ting casually. He no longer called the title of princess, but called girl directly.
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After hearing the words, Princess Anting thought for a moment and then hurriedly replied, and the grandfather and grandson chatted about home affairs across the screen.
After a few words, Jiarui Emperor's mood obviously improved a lot, and even the corner of his mouth turned into a smile.
When King Jin saw his father and niece engaged in household chores, he felt a little uncomfortable for a moment. After hesitating for a moment, he finally continued to step back step by step without saying a word.
It wasn't until he exited the thatched cottage that he stood up and walked out in anger.
Through the translucent screen, Jiarui Emperor stared at the back of Prince Jin who was gradually going away, and the corners of his raised mouth dropped a little bit.
Cheng Yu watched from a high place as King Jin walked out of the cicada garden, walked to the driver who was waiting for him, and stepped on the stool without saying a word. The entire King Jin's motorcade left with a puff of smoke and dust.
Turning back to look inside the thatched cottage, I saw Emperor Jiarui had completely sat up from his couch, leaning forward to chat with Anting in a very speculative manner.
At this moment, a ray of sunlight shined through the layers of branches and leaves into the thatched cottage, passing through the translucent screen and shining on Emperor Jiarui's face. With the help of the cat demon's magical eyes, Cheng Yu was finally able to clearly see Jiarui Emperor.
Ruidi’s true appearance.
I saw this emperor who was dedicated to immortality, wearing a shawl and a rosy face.
It stands to reason that this Cicada Garden is located in a dense forest, which is much cooler than outside, and it is even cooler inside the thatched cottage. Therefore, Cheng Yu did not see the large brass ice mirror that he had seen in Prince Yu's Mansion and Xishan Villa before.
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And on the couch he was lying on, there was a jade mat woven from nearly a thousand pieces of thumb-sized white jade.
The old emperor lay on it, and the skin should be cool and gentle against it.
But this Emperor Jiarui seems to be sweating endlessly. He is only covered with a feather coat as thin as a cicada's wings, almost as if he is naked. Only a circle of golden silk is wrapped around the key parts to cover the vital parts so as not to be exposed.
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Jiarui Di's skin was fair and delicate, and he must have been pampered on weekdays, but Cheng Yu could see through his Dharma Eyes that there were some red rashes on his fair skin that were invisible to outsiders.
oh……
Cheng Yu suddenly realized something. He knew that the emperor was obsessed with mystical cultivation and the way to immortality, so it was normal for him to like to take some so-called elixirs and jade dew.
In addition, when the little princess arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the eunuch guarding the gate had said that the emperor had just taken nectar, and Cheng Yu's thoughts were confirmed.
Just because after mortals eat those things, the medicinal properties will be released and the whole body will become hot, causing the skin to be extremely sensitive. Therefore, it is necessary to wear a wide robe and single clothes. The priceless translucent cicada-wing feather coat worn by Jiarui Emperor is the most suitable.
I had heard before that in addition to talismans, the Jinwu Guards were also good at refining elixirs, and 80% of them were refining them for Emperor Jiarui.
However, this emperor did not have any trace of purple energy in his body. Could it be because he took the golden elixir to suppress the purple energy from evaporating?
Here Cheng Yu was thinking secretly. Over there in the thatched cottage, Emperor Jiarui chatted about household matters for a while, then paused and said slowly:
"An Ting, I heard that your family has found a new martial artist who loves opera, and he was recommended by you to your father in Xishan Bieyuan?"
"I see...I see..."
The cicadas were chirping loudly outside the Cicada Garden, but inside the thatched cottage it was extremely quiet.
Cheng Yu saw Princess Anting not moving after hearing Emperor Jiarui's question, but her hands could not help but clenched tightly, and her knuckles had turned white.
During the chat just now, the old emperor kept calling her "girl", and now he changed his title back to the title. Princess Anting couldn't help but hurriedly thinking about how to respond.
After pondering for a few breaths, she secretly adjusted her breathing and replied calmly:
"What Grandpa Huihuang said is indeed true. Anting heard that there was a theater troupe in Gyeonggi Province that had a newly arranged play, especially the great martial arts student in it. His singing, reading, acting and fighting were wonderful. Both his granddaughter and his father were delighted.
Grandpa Huang knew that he was a man who loved drama, so he recruited him to the mansion. When taking the exam, Anting discovered that the martial arts student was actually an immortal master who knew magic. At that time, Anting also thought that it would be better to send him to the mansion.
He was directly recommended to Grandpa Huang, but..."
At this point, the princess paused, prompting the old emperor to ask immediately:
"But what?"
"And that immortal master seems to...seem to be from that mountain."
"Hmm... Qianxia Mountain, hum!"
Emperor Jiarui chuckled twice, shook his head and said with a smile:
"It's not that I don't like Qianxia Mountain. It's just that I went to worship heaven and earth twice before, but I came back in vain after being thousands of miles away. Oh yes, especially the second time. I remember that you were still young at that time. That time
Ah, your grandpa’s royal chariot didn’t even reach the foot of the mountain and lost its way. Even the Jinwu Guards were at a loss... Humph!"
Jiarui Emperor chuckled twice at the end, then raised his hand and pointed at Anting gently, indicating for him to continue speaking.
"Yes, so Anting did not dare to rashly recommend him directly to the emperor's palace, so he sent him to my father's villa first. My father is much more stable and meticulous than Anting, so he will not disappoint the emperor."
After Anting finished speaking, Emperor Jiarui nodded slowly and stared at the imperial granddaughter for a few breaths. Then he hummed slightly, then leaned forward a little and said:
"But as far as I know, the birthday troupe you are looking for is a Caotai troupe in Gyeonggi Province. It only performed for one day in the suburbs and towns. It is still dozens of miles away from the outer city. How can you settle in Anting?
At such a young age, my nose is quite clear!"
Cheng Yu was shocked when he heard this. He never imagined that Emperor Jia Rui was in the cicada garden in the dense forest, but he even knew the name of the troupe that Jia Fei belonged to.
Princess Anting, who was kneeling on the ground in the thatched hut, also tensed up visibly, and then she paused and said:
"Grandpa Huang Mingjian, a mere girl from Anting, does not have that kind of ability. It was only while chatting with Patriarch Jin that I learned that there is a theater troupe in Gyeonggi Province."
"Lao Jin...it seems that he really values you."
As Jiaridi spoke, he leaned forward and withdrew a little, his whole body relaxed, and his eyes were staring at the gate of the thatched cottage in trance.
When Cheng Yuwen heard the conversation between the two, he roughly sorted out the whole story in his mind: I still remember the day when the birthday party returned to their hometown for a class meeting, when Jia Fei became an instant star on the stage, and he met him by chance on the way.
Zhang Baogu later provoked shopkeeper Song who wanted to take advantage of him because of the exquisite dice.
As a result, Cheng Yu and the Five Poisons called by Shopkeeper Song had a fight in the town. Later, Jia Fei and Huang Shan arrived one after another. The two banshees started fighting each other as soon as they met. Not to mention that their souls were banned, and they would also
Jin Wuwei came to provoke him.
Among them, Jin Shuyang and the senior brother, the thin dog demon, appeared one after another, and they both had an encounter with Jia Fei, which confirmed Jia Fei's identity as a swordsman.
Jin Shuyang also sent a young school captain named Lian Feng in white to inquire about the troupe. From this, Jin Shuyang obtained detailed information about the troupe and informed Princess Anting when he met her.
And Princess Anting must have heard the drama of the Shouxi class in the turmoil, especially the sentence: When my heart is at ease in my hometown, she mistakenly thought that Jia Fei was also a fellow traveler from time to time, so she called her.
He went to Yueyunzhai to take the exam.
However, when I inquired, I learned that the scene in Ding Fengbo was not written by Jia Fei, but by someone else. Judging from Jia Fei's tone, that person is even more powerful. But even so, Princess Anting, At that time, "Zhen Yue" was still worried and asked Jia Fei to write that sentence down.
But seeing that what Jia Fei wrote was very different from Slender Gold Body, he knew that this person was not traveling through time, but he did not want to break her thread easily, so he arranged for Jia Fei to go to Xishan Villa to meet King Yu. But keeping Jia Fei's route would also give her father a powerful helper.
Cheng Yu relayed the whole story he had figured out to the cat demon. Jia Fei also nodded repeatedly, then frowned and asked again:
"Then why did Jin Shuyang tell the princess about his meeting with us and the theater troupe? Is it just because the princess loves theater? And that exquisite dice, since it belongs to the princess, how can it be thrown away so easily? In front of his house, he was picked up by Zhang Baogu again? Finally he met us again by chance."
Cheng Yu pondered for a moment after hearing the words and then sent a message:
'Do you still remember that the night before you and I left Qianjiangfu City, I used my sword to leave a poem on a huge rock on that unknown hill?'
'Remember, how...'
After thinking for a while, the cat demon said slowly:
"Could it be that the repeated battles there and the presence of you and me left behind caused the Jinwu Guards to search there later and mistakenly think that the poem on the boulder was a sword manual.
At that time, Brother Cheng used the Quexian Body on the boulder, and it was quite similar to the so-called Jingkang Body created by the little princess. As a result, the boy holding the incense paid more attention to the little princess. He was promoted to a higher level, and he and I already have a good relationship. It is impossible to say that the boy also deliberately revealed the affairs about me and the troupe to the little princess, which later led to the matter of Prince Yu's palace urgently summoning the longevity troupe to Beijing."
'Um!'
Cheng Yu nodded slightly when he heard the words, and at the same time thought of the exquisite dice. I am afraid that it is not just a coincidence that it is in the Five Elements Blunt Spirit Pouch at this time.
Just now, before he got close to the thatched cottage, when Jia Fei took the dragon pattern jade pendant from his bag, he noticed that the purple light emitted by the exquisite dice was even stronger than before.
'Jiafei, please open the Five Elements Blunt Spirit Bag and take a look.'
After receiving the message from Cheng Yu, the cat demon pulled out the brocade bag as instructed. As soon as he opened the mouth of the bag, purple rays of light came out, three points brighter than before.
It seems that this is where the weirdness lies.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yu quietly let go of his spiritual consciousness and carefully looked around, while Jia Fei also quietly opened his Dafa eyesight and looked into the thatched cottage below.
'Brother Cheng, why do I always feel indescribably weird when I look at the old emperor below?'