The Lord who use immortals as food

".I'll get you another pot of Ming girl!"

Pei Ye was quite embarrassed. This cold and sweet thing was not enough. He drank it one cup at a time.

"No need, they are all here."

Pei Ye turned around and saw that the soldiers were naturally embarrassed to keep them waiting. They had indeed drunk enough tea and came over. This pear soup was not always available. The pot had been divided just now, and it would take a long time for this pot to come out. .

".All right."

Pei Ye hesitated for a while, but had to hand the teapot and cup back to the waiter who came with him.

On the other side, Xiang Zongyuan and Nan Guannu looked over with frowns as if they had just noticed something, but the woman had already lowered the curtains and did not show her face again.

Nan Guannu said: "Anyway, we'll know what's going on when the name list is posted on the Jade Sword Stage tomorrow."

Pei Ye didn't listen to what they said anymore and just entered the carriage. The brightest time of the sun had passed and the weather was not hot. Several cars and horses drove out and drove onto the road again.

Putting this brief encounter with Jianghu behind him.

When the sun sets westward, the sky becomes softer, and the cool breeze becomes dominant again, the whole view of the majestic city ahead appears in the field of vision.

Needless to say, Fenghuai and Bowang are already majestic, but when this city appears, you will know what it means to be vast.

The two sides outside the city gate almost formed a small town. Instead of doing business in the two days like Bowang Wubi, there was a constant flow of people here on weekdays.

The carriage and horse stopped far away.

Instead of going further to the city, they drove to the hill on the west side of the road. In the small pavilion on the top of the mountain in the distance, several figures had already stood there.

Pei Ye sensed the movement of the carriage and horses, and the woman beside him was still talking about the Sword Sutra. He reached out and lifted the curtain and said, "Where are you going?"

Commander Gao, who had not been seen all the way, was actually riding a horse beside him, with his spear lying in front of the horse. He turned around and said, "My colleagues from Xianrentai are already waiting. Let's send the sword master there first, and then we can enter the city together."

"Oh." Pei Ye put down the curtain and sat back in the car.

"So, the first level [Holding the New Corpse] is from the bird's perspective, with the cicada assisting the bird master, and the second level [Floating Back to the Wind] is from the cicada's perspective again." In the car, Ming Qitian was still talking. , "'Wind' is the essence of Jade Vein. You have learned "Feng Yao" a long time ago, so you can understand the second form very quickly. What's wrong?"

The woman stopped and looked at him.

"Ah, there's nothing clever about it, girl." The young man who was looking at the scene between the curtains turned back, still frowning, "That's right, I originally wanted to buy you a pot of autumn pear soup after entering the city. But they didn't even enter the city."

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The young man's face was indeed full of boredom, and his depression was almost written on his face: "I asked Guan Qianyan about it, and there is a specialty store not long after walking to the east of the city."

".I'm not that greedy."

"It's not that I'm greedy, it's that-" Pei Ye frowned and retorted, but lost her voice midway through the words.

what is it then?

It seemed to him that this was the first time a woman had shown some desire for something, but he didn't notice it at all. As the carriage and horses moved forward, the discomfort surfaced more and more, and he couldn't help it, so he went to Guan Qianyan to ask the seller.

But when I was about to say it, I realized that this was no reason at all.

The woman must have forgotten about missing two cups of pear soup, and saying "because it's your first time to drink something" will only make the woman look at him strangely.

This was too pretentious and sensitive. He had never been in such a tangled state of mind before, and it was even more abnormal for his emotions to show up on his face just because he had forgotten a few cups of pear soup.

Just because this is the eve of separation.

Pei Ye lowered her eyes and said, "It's nothing, Miss. You can continue talking."

But the woman stopped talking and turned to look at the curtain. The carriage and horse swayed and stopped.

It turned out that they had arrived at the small pavilion. The high commander outside the car drove his horse forward and started to hand over to the waiting people.

"Can we leave immediately?"

"We can set off immediately. We will follow the Lu River out of Shaolong. We will know all the crossings along the way. We will only take the main road along the way."

The woman in front of him also closed the shuriken book and opened the curtains.

Pei Ye didn't expect that the separation that he had already known would feel abrupt and hasty, but it just came like this. Pei Ye was a little stunned as he thought about the other words he had thought of, but at the moment he only had the words "take care of yourself" in his mind. spinning around.

Then he heard the woman's calm voice outside the window: "Sorry, I have to finish talking about swords with Pei Shaoxia before leaving."

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There was silence outside the window.

Soon someone came over and said respectfully: "Sorry! I didn't ask you what you meant. When do you want to set off?"

"We still have one and a half volumes of Sword Scripture to finish, and we still have some things to say. I hope we can wait until we say goodbye before setting off, okay?"

"Please respect me! We are just guards, and it is up to you to decide what to do."

"Well, thank you."

Ming Qitian put down the curtain, looked back at Pei Ye, and said softly: "Go buy me Qiuli soup."

".ah?"

"If you don't buy it this time, you will owe it until next summer." Ming Qitian looked at him with clear eyes, "I may not bear your grudge for that long."

The sun is setting on the western mountains, and the tired birds return to the woods.

On a hillside farther away from Xiaoting Mountain, there were no carriages or horses. Under the quiet dusk, there were only the backs of a young man and a woman sitting side by side.

The atmosphere was very peaceful. The two of them sat on the floor, each with a pot of pear soup they bought. The candle burned silently beside them, and they softly discussed the last sword book in the woman's hand.

Pei Ye blushed a little and found that the woman knew very well when he started to be restless and not listen carefully. He reorganized the contents of the previous two hours in the car, and then shared the remaining Jade Fei Jianli with him. She read page after page, until the sky was only a little red in the west, and she turned the last page, solidly forming a system in the young man's heart.

"Do you have any more questions?"

The woman didn't have any of the impatience she had before the separation, and Pei Ye's mind had already calmed down. At this time, he shook his head, and there were indeed no more questions.

Ming Qitian nodded: "That's good. I was asked by Senior Yue to take you to Shenjing. Unfortunately, there were only changes along the way, but there was not much time to talk about swordsmanship. Now that we are parting halfway, I have fulfilled my duty a little bit. I feel ashamed. ”

"No, Miss Ming, you said you would take me into the 'spirit' realm before entering the capital. Now that I am in the spirit realm, it is best to complete it in advance."

Ming Qitian smiled slightly: "That's your own ability."

Then he said: "I was supposed to protect you, but it's a pity that I fell into danger first and made you suffer like this."

"You also said that I am capable, so naturally I don't need your protection."

Ming Qitian shook her head: "The first few flights of the chick should be under the protection of the big bird."

"Miss Ming, are you much older than me?"

"I'm twenty-one and you're seventeen. I'm four years older than you."

"That's not a lot." Pei Ye said in a muffled voice.

He added: "I will be eighteen soon."

"oh."

The woman began to sort out the books on the floor and stack them neatly in order.

After being quiet for a while, Pei Ye suddenly whispered: "Actually, I like this, Miss Ming."

"Um?"

"That's right. Ever since I came out of the mountain, I have always troubled you and relied on you. Whatever you do, you have to take me into consideration. If there is any danger, you have to think about whether I can bear it." Pei Ye said, "I know you Don’t think of me as a burden, but I see myself as a child who only makes trouble.”

".Um."

"So, when there is such a danger that we can face together, I am very happy, very happy that I didn't mess it up." Pei Ye whispered, "I don't want you to see me as a burden that always needs protection."

"I have never missed you that much," Ming Qitian said seriously, "You have just started practicing."

"I know, but I think... I hope you treat me as a friend." The boy was a little incoherent, "... I have to face this alone."

"Yes." Ming Qitian said softly, "I treat you as a friend."

".hey-hey."

"Do you still have the little jade sword I gave you?"

"Yes, yes." Pei Ye patted his chest, "Is this a token of gratitude from Yunlang Mountain? But it has already been used. Miss Ming, I saved you this time, should you give me another one? ”

He stretched out his hand to ask.

Mingqi innocently took one and put it in his palm.

Pei Ye was startled and shrank her hands: "Ah, I'm kidding, I don't really want any reward for Miss Ming!"

"This is for a friend."

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Ming Qitian said: "If anything happens, you can write to me at any time."

".Um."

In the silence, Ming Qitian suddenly said: "How do you plan to learn swordsmanship when you arrive in Shenjing?"

"It's not clear yet. Let's take a look when we get there. Miss Ming, do you have any suggestions?"

"In the short term, of course it is best to enter the Dao Qihui." Ming Qitian said, "As long as your talent is high enough, there will always be a higher ladder for you to climb."

"But the assessment standards seem to be very complicated. I heard that the Shenjing Sword Mastery Academy is particularly strict." Pei Ye hugged his knees and said, "I think my sword is pretty good, but there are many other standards. I don't know what they are yet."

"I'll write you a letter of introduction."

"ah?"

"Didn't you ask me to write to Qing Qing before?"

"Oh." Pei Ye was stunned, "That's great."

The woman was holding a pen and folding paper here: "I thought you had to take the test yourself."

"Isn't it considered that I have passed the examination?"

".right."

"I was personally tested by Young Master Yunlangshan! I didn't go through the back door!"

"good."

Pei Ye calmed down with a smile and put her arms behind her back. The cool night breeze slowly blew the clothes of the two of them.

The woman wrote the letter and handed it to him, and then started sorting out the sword book.

Pei Ye gradually felt some real sadness: "Miss Ming, let's see you next time. I don't know when it will be."

"There's no telling when we'll meet each other." The woman lowered her head and smoothed out the page that was wrinkled by the young man, then clipped it, "If I don't have this luck, I will also go to Shenjing to participate in Yulin at the turn of spring and summer next year. Tried.”

"Um."

Ming Qitian closed the last page and completely organized the set of annotated jade sword principles.

But she didn't move, and she and the boy were blowing the night wind together, looking at the bright moon rising little by little in the east, and no one said a word.

Until Pei Ye was slightly mute and a little embarrassed and said: "Miss Ming, I heard people say that when friends say goodbye, they always give poems to each other. I don't know if there is such a saying. I definitely don't know how to write. I have been reading from the collection in the past two days. I came across a song and it made me feel at home. It’s also very short and I think you may not have heard of it.”

Ming Qitian looked at her seriously and nodded.

Pei Ye recited: "The city gate assists the Three Qin Dynasties, and the wind and smoke look at the five rivers. I part with you, and we are both eunuchs. There are close friends in the sea, and we are neighbors in the end of the world. Inaction is on the wrong road, and our children share the same towel."

In fact, this poem is neither remote nor inappropriate. The young man did not know that he was reading the most popular collection. Every corner of it recorded things that literati had memorized by heart. He also did not know that "Huanyou" refers to being an official. It didn't have much to do with the cultivator. He just felt that he was broad-minded after reading "There are close friends in the sea, and we are as close as the end of the world", so he happily shared it with the woman in front of him.

Ming Qitian smiled gently, stretched out her fingers and tapped the writing: "Well, I can't write poetry, so I'll give you four poems from others."

"Okay, okay." In the state of mind, Mingyun was happy to see that he was willing to play the game of recognizing the sword. The boy who was now reciting the words nervously was also happy to get the woman's approval, and was very satisfied that the difference between the two could be like this. A formal yet childish ceremony.

"These are the first four lines of a farewell poem." Under his expectant eyes, Ming Qitian recited her lines carefully.

"This is what he said: Seventeenth Anniversary of the Book of Swords, traveling westward to Chang'an City. He raised his head to look at the king's gate, and bent his fingers to pick up the minister."

The woman stood up under the rising moon: "Then goodbye, Pei Shaoxia. I hope that when we meet again next time, we will not let each other down."

".Definitely, Miss Ming."