Pei Xiaolou's answer was unexpected, but also reasonable.
Qi Xuansu had long suspected that Qiniang was originally a high-level Taoist priest within the Taoist sect, but later betrayed the Taoist sect and became a second-class member of the Qingping Society. Otherwise, she would not have known so many secrets of the Taoist sect. And judging from Xie Qiuniang's identity,
The second-class members of the Qingping Society are already very powerful, and they will not be unknown people.
Or maybe Qiniang didn't betray the Taoist sect at all, but just resigned from her position and became an idle Taoist priest. Such people are common in Taoist sects, so it's not surprising.
Then it makes perfect sense that Pei Xiaolou and Qiniang are old friends.
But Qi Xuansu is still a little unsure about what Pei Xiaolou's motives are. Qiniang is not his real name, but the abbreviation of the brand name "Qi Niangzi". Pei Xiaolou said this name outright, which means that he is also a member of the Qingping Society?
Or is he deliberately deceiving himself? However, a dignified real person can kill himself with one slap, so why bother with such twists and turns? Unless he wants to use himself to deal with Qiniang.
Pei Xiaolou seemed to have understood what Qi Xuansu was thinking, and waved his hand: "Don't be nervous, you can ask Qiniang for verification later. In fact, I don't know Qiniang's true identity. When I met her, she called herself Qiniang.
Mom, but that was ten years ago, when I was still a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest."
Qi Xuansu relaxed a little and asked, "I wonder if the real person can tell me something about Qiniang?"
"Qiniang?" Pei Xiaolou said, "That's too much. She is greedy for money and stingy. She likes to do business. She can't afford to start early if there is no profit. You don't know where to hide and open a shop now, right? The two of us have even done it together.
After a period of business, we lost money and Qiniang said that I was losing money and it was unlucky, so we parted ways."
For some reason, Qi Xuansu suddenly wanted to laugh when he heard the word "compensate".
Eastern ink painting and Western oil painting are completely different. To put it simply, the painting styles are different. The same is true between people. Take Zhang Yuelu as an example. Her painting style is different from Qiniang’s, but Qiniang’s painting style is different.
But it is very consistent with Pei Xiaolou's painting style, which always gives people a feeling that it is not very serious and reliable.
Pei Xiaolou thought to himself: "Furthermore, Qiniang is not young yet, but she has never been married. In fact, I am good, but it is a pity that I am already married."
Qi Xuansu curled his lips and disagreed.
He felt that the second half of the sentence was completely a boast of Pei Xiaolou, and Qiniang might not like him.
Pei Xiaolou added: "When people get older, they inevitably like children. Qiniang said that she has a godson, and she often praises her godson in front of several friends, so I couldn't help but want to meet him.
one side."
Qi Xuansu had a strange expression: "This godson Qiniang is talking about, could it be me?"
"Is there anyone else?" Pei Xiaolou smiled.
Qi Xuansu was speechless. Although he did regard Qiniang as an elder rather than a friend in his heart, to be fair, Qiniang and Qi Xuansu's mother image was still far from each other. Qi Xuansu felt that his mother should be dignified, kind, kind and gentle.
, but Qiniang really has nothing to do with it.
Pei Xiaolou patted Qi Xuansu on the shoulder: "Qiniang likes you very much and hopes you can succeed, but she can't help you for some reasons."
Qi Xuansu said softly: "Actually, you don't need to help me with anything, I'm not without my hands and feet."
Pei Xiaolou smiled and said nothing more.
Qi Xuansu asked: "What is the real person's evaluation of me?"
Pei Xiaolou asked: "Do you want to hear the truth or lies?"
Qi Xuansu hesitated: "Truth."
"The truth is, maybe my eyesight is not good, maybe Qiniang is exaggerating a little, but in short, she is not as good as I imagined. But Miss Zhang is eye-catching. She is indeed a junior worthy of vigorous cultivation. No wonder she is...
The teacher made an exception and was promoted to deputy hall leader."
Qi Xuansu didn't show it on his face, but he was inevitably disappointed in his heart. He felt quite shameless about going to see Jiangdong's elders.
After being around for so long, he has not achieved much. When Xuansheng was his age, not only everyone in the world did not know you, but he was also very important. Zhang Yuelu was one year younger than him and was already a fourth-grade wine-sacrifice Taoist priest. He had achieved deputy status.
Hall master.
At the same age, people are very popular, but he is still hanging around here. Along the way, it is either because Pei Xiaolou looks at him, or because Zhang Yuelu looks at him, or because Pei
Xiaolou was like this because Qiniang looked up at him. Except for Zhang Yuelu and Qiniang, no one had ever looked up at him because of himself.
To say that Qi Xuansu's heart is still and unmoved is to deceive himself and others. He is not a monk who has seen through the mortal world, nor is he an old man who has experienced ups and downs, so how can he not care.
The key is to live up to your own expectations, so as not to live up to others' expectations. Neither Qiniang's expectations nor Zhang Yuelu's expectations.
Wan Xiuwu and Yue Liuli returned to the guest room of Dazhen Mansion together. It was said to be a guest room, but in fact it was a single-family courtyard. It was extremely open, simple and elegant, and fully demonstrated the heritage of a thousand-year-old family.
In fact, the Dazhen Mansion occupies an extremely vast area, far surpassing that of the Shangqing Palace. This is evident from the phenomenon when Xuan Sheng interrupted the earth's veins and caused the mountains to collapse and the earth to break apart, which only caused the collapse of a corner of the Dazhen Mansion.
The two entered the living room, and Wan Xiuwu sat on a chair near the door.
On the bed, said nothing.
Yue Liuli poured a glass of water and handed it to him: "It is said that there are only three families in the world: the descendants of the saints and Shangqing Zhang, and Longcheng Qin. From my point of view, our Taoist sect only has two families, Shangqing.
Zhang and Donghai Li are just the same, Zhang from Shangqing is Zhengyi, Donghai Li is from Taiping Dao, and Quanzhen Dao is the most loose. There are no such big families, only many first-class families. But for us, these families cannot be small.
Look, the Qi family, the Pei family, the Tang family, and the Ji family are all old families within Quanzhen Taoism. They don't have a great headmaster or a deputy headmaster like the Zhang family and the Li family.
There are not a few people who know the truth, and they have a strong foundation."
Wan Xiuwu took Baishui: "Xuansheng has been working hard all his life to eliminate the differences between factions and sects. In the end, it is still this family or that family. Those of us who are from the Wanxiang Dao Palace want to get ahead, or we have to keep our heads down and be like dogs.
Either..."
Yue Liuli interrupted softly: "Without Xuan Sheng, the Li family is still the Li family, and it is still the same high mountain. There will not be much change. This is the family's confidence. If it is a small family, without the ancestors
The shelter will be gone in an instant, and there is nothing we can do."
Wan Xiuwu sighed, his breath creating ripples on the white water in the cup: "That Qi Xuansu..."
Yue Liuli said in a deep voice: "Be careful."
"Does he still dare to take revenge on us?" Wan Xiuwu frowned.
Yue Liuli wrote lightly: "It is difficult to say this kind of thing. You dare to pull down the emperor even if you are willing to be cut off. This is of course a joke. We are not the emperor, and Qi Xuansu is not a barefoot person. But this sentence also explains exactly what he said.
When it comes to something, there is no question of whether you dare or not, only whether you think about it or not."
Wan Xiuwu disagreed. Although he felt that Qi Xuansu was indeed different from the past, he still despised him in his heart. Unless the two faced each other head-on, and then Qi Xuansu defeated him openly, his stereotype could be reversed.
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Yue Liuli naturally saw Wan Xiuwu's attitude, and emphasized his tone slightly: "He will never forget what happened to the Longhu Club back then. It was I who treated him as an abandoned son, and it was you who almost killed him with a knife.
If it were you, could you just laugh it off?"
Wan Xiuwu didn't say anything, he just drank all the water in the cup.
Yue Liuli also fell into silence.
What happened at the Longhu Society back then was not without reason.
Qi Xuansu felt that he was wronged. He had no enmity or enmity with Yue Liuli and had nothing in common, but he was sent to die for no reason.
But in Yue Liuli's view, Qi Xuansu had his own way of killing himself.
The Hundred Flowers Festival is a grand event in the Vientiane Taoist Palace, and the location is Stargazing
It is said that a magician used to observe the stars and calculate the general trend of the world here, hence the name.
Not far from the observatory is the forbidden Hoshino Lake. Between the mountains and lakes is a large open space planted with various flowers. In addition to peonies, there are also peach blossoms, daffodils, jasmine, primula, daphne, camellia, and magnolia.
, purple magnolia, clivia, viburnum, crabapple, peony, azalea, cyclamen, all flowers are in full bloom at this time, red like fire, pink like clouds, white like snow, it is a magnificent sight.
The Taoist boys gathered their friends and boarded the observatory one after another to enjoy the blooming flowers together.
At the Hundred Flowers Festival that year, she left the star observatory and came to the flowers below. Behind her was the Xingye Lake, which looked like a fairy.
He actually didn't even look at him.
Maybe Qi Xuansu himself had forgotten what he was doing at that time. He was probably worrying about his unfinished schoolwork, or he was lamenting about life, or he didn't even sleep well. In short, he didn't notice such a beautiful scenery, and Yue Liuli remembered it in his heart.
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Yue Liuli did not become curious about Qi Xuansu because of Qi Xuansu's unique behavior like the woman in the storybook did, nor did she want to explore Qi Xuansu's inner world. She just developed a great hatred for Qi Xuansu.
She enjoys the feeling of stars holding the moon, she is the moon hanging high in the night sky, but if any star does not open its eyes and join in the fun, it is a thorn in her side and a thorn in her flesh.
If Qi Xuansu was her subordinate and pursued her like a pug every day, she had all the means to play with Qi Xuansu and turn him into a complete joke. Unfortunately, Qi Xuansu at that time might have been too late to be sensible and not interested in women at all, which made Yue
Liu Li had no idea what to do, and it wasn't until the Longhu Society that Yue Liuli seized the opportunity and sent him out to die.
Although Qi Xuansu didn't know the inside story of this, and that someone would have such vicious thoughts because of such a trivial matter, he also knew that Yue Liuli was not as "clean" as he appeared on the surface, so he didn't like this kind of thing very much.
Women are even disgusted, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang Yuelu, who has a bright heart, makes his heart move.
In fact, not only Qi Xuansu was unaware of these dark thoughts, but even Wan Xiuwu was not aware of them at all. He only thought that Qi Xuansu was an unlucky guy who had no eyesight on the battlefield and his skills were inferior to others. It didn't matter, so he didn't take it seriously.
But how could Yue Liuli not feel guilty?
Today, she has no regrets at all. She only regrets that she failed to kill Qi Xuansu by one move, otherwise she would not have the troubles she has today.
Thinking of this, Yue Liuli's eyes darkened.
Now that the hatred has been forged, if there is a second chance, she will not show any mercy.