Chapter 50: Meeting in the Snow(1/2)
It was late at night, and Xiao Qianye was alone at home, looking at the punishment letter in his hand that he couldn't even believe - he was suspended from office for three months, but all matters in the cabinet were still decided by the cabinet master.
To put it bluntly, this was just to give an explanation to the Bipolar Association. The nominal verbal punishment was of no consequence at all. Even the jurisdiction of Yudu, which he was most worried about, was still assigned to the Military Pavilion.
What's important is that behind the punishment letter, there is a new mission - to pacify the rebellious Shengyue Clan in the Jialuobai Sect.
However, the punishment that was too light made him even more uneasy. It was not like the Crown Prince could reverse the decision by himself, but more like His Majesty didn't care about the decision at all.
The sigh of Emperor Tianquan on the top of the Star-Zhailing Tower to the prince rang loudly in his ears: "Sooner or later the world will be yours."
No... Xiao Qianye's eyes were like lightning. Since the Night King had promised him that as long as he found the Qiongqi, he would give him the right to return to his homeland, then what he would do next would undoubtedly be to use all his power to dig into the ground three times.
Chi also wanted to find the ferocious beast. The military pavilions were spread across the four realms, so he would definitely bear the brunt of the task. However, he did not do so. He actually did what the prince said, and just sent himself to quell a small disaster.
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The Ming Dynasty has ruled Feiyuan for thousands of years. Even if it is the first time that a foreigner dares to openly rebel, it will not cause too much trouble. After all, the powerful empire is at its peak, and the troublemakers can be eradicated without any effort.
There must be other purposes behind Emperor Tianquan's indifference, and by accommodating the prince like this, is he really doting on him...or does he have other motives?
He rubbed his face irritably. The father and son were suspicious of each other and testing each other, making them, the ministers caught in the middle, walking on thin ice.
At this moment, the family crest in his arms suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire room. Xiao Qianye came to his senses vigilantly and immediately locked the doors and windows. He took out the family crest and put it on the table.
Seeing Xiao Yibai's figure reflected in Qiongqi's ice-blue eyes above, she waved to him.
After saying goodbye to Bei'an City, Xiao Yibai put his family crest on him, saying that he had cast some spell on it so that he could be contacted as soon as possible.
However, it has been five days since he came back, and that person has not contacted me at all.
"Where are you?" Xiao Qianye's gaze passed through his elder brother and carefully looked at his surroundings. He seemed to be in an open-air yard, with white plum blossoms still in full bloom planted next to them. Snowflakes were mixed with plum petals.
It fell gently on his clothes.
"In Xixue Valley." Xiao Yibai smiled mysteriously, and he saw a flash of shock on his younger brother's face. He took a step back, turned around, and took him to observe the scenery in the courtyard, "Look, this is still...
It's snowing! I heard from the owner of the valley that it snows here all year round, but because of the geothermal technique in the valley, it's not cold at all. You can watch the snow and flowers in the courtyard at the same time. Do you want to come and play too?
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"No." Xiao Qianye rejected him coldly. Of course Xiao Yibai knew what he wanted to say, and deliberately made him anxious, "Mingxi told me that after the autumn election, you will go to Jialuo and take a short detour.
Come and sit here! You just need to come down from the Weeping Snow Plateau, then pass through the glacier forest, and then cross the glacier. You will be there in no time. Ah, by the way, my future good brothers and sisters are also here. Do you want to see it?
Look at her?"
"Where is she?" Xiao Qianye asked nervously. After she was taken away by Feng Ji that day, although she relied on the Frost Sky Phoenix to stabilize the breath of the rampaging spirit phoenix, she fell into a coma and became unconscious!
"Haha..." Xiao Yibai was not in a hurry, pretending to be angry, "In the end, my sweetheart is more important. I've been away for so long, but you haven't cared about me yet..."
"I, I can't contact you, how can I use this thing?" Xiao Qianye quibbled, and saw Xiao Yibai shaking his head and sighing, while walking around a corridor and knocking lightly on a door.
After a while, an angry complaint came from behind the door: "Didn't I tell you not to come over if she can't die? Knock, knock, knock again, knock every day, you have to knock her to death to be happy, right?
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Xiao Yibai smiled awkwardly and blinked at his younger brother in the distance: "Look, it's all your fault. I was scolded again, right?"
"..."
Xiao Qianye remained silent, saying that Xixue Valley is a fairyland on earth, and the women in the valley are like fairies, helping the world and saving people. How come this statement is not that at all?
The door creaked as it was kicked open with force. The woman inside rolled up her sleeves and trousers, looking capable and shrewd. She carried an empty medicine bowl and ran out in a hurry without even looking at Xiao Yibai.
He yelled: "Go in, she has just taken medicine. If you have anything to say, hurry up and leave immediately. In her current condition, if she can fall asleep, don't wake up. Please hurry up and don't disturb her rest."
"Okay, okay, I'll leave in a minute. I won't delay." Xiao Yibai had obviously been scolded several times before, so he nodded knowingly.
A dim candle was lit in the room, which reflected the face of the woman on the bed. The bright phoenix fire no longer appeared on her body, and her expression looked much calmer, which made Xiao Qianye breathe a sigh of relief.
"Brother and sister..." Xiao Yibai changed the title directly and said, "I see you are much better today than yesterday. Xixue Valley is really well-deserved, although... ahem, even though those female doctors are a bit irritable.
, don’t mind, they have to treat many patients every day, they are very busy, and it is human nature to be a little impatient."
"Brother is joking, these ladies are so nice." Yun Xiao blushed slightly and saw that he was holding a light mirror in his hand, and Xiao Qianye's figure appeared in the mirror.
"Qianye?" She quickly took it and sat up straight, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Your Majesty only gave me a three-month suspension." Xiao Qianye looked at her carefully. She was only wearing a thin inner lining, but the fire-colored phoenix feathers on her exposed neck had fallen off.
"Suspension?" Yun Xiao turned to Xiao Yibai, who quickly said, "It's okay, it's just a suspension. There is no salary penalty. It's just a show to shut up the elders and senior officials of the Bipolar Association. Don't worry about him.
Just worry about yourself."
"I'm fine now." Yun Xiao touched the golden ring on her hand and shook it, "This is what Lady Feng Ji gave me. Although I don't know what it is, it's warm and comfortable to wear."
Xiao Qianye nodded. Yun Xiao was already unconscious when Feng Ji put the sun wheel on her hand. She probably didn't hear the subsequent conversation and didn't know what happened.
"Where is senior brother? Has he found the younger brother?" Yun Xiao asked anxiously. Her last consciousness was still on the blue sea. When she woke up, she was already in the Snow Valley. The legendary Feng Ji, the head of the hundred spirits, was in her
After waking up, she left in a hurry. No matter what she asked, the doctors and medicine boys in the valley would tacitly ignore her.
The Green Charm Sword was also put away by the Valley Master and she was not allowed to touch it. The Valley Master said that the breath of the sword spirit would be captured by the Sacrificial Star Palace, which would cause trouble for Qianye.
She didn't meet Xiao Qianye's brother Xiao Yibai until two days ago, but the disciples in the valley still didn't let them talk more, and drove him away within a few minutes of each meeting.
She naturally knows her current physical condition, and she also knows that Xixuegu did this entirely to save her life, but these questions linger in her heart and are always a worry.
"Senior brother has taken his younger brother back to Kunlun..." Xiao Qianye hesitated for a moment. Do you want to tell her that Tian Che has turned into a dragon? Is it better to hide it for now?
Yun Xiao's eyes widened, a little disbelieving, Xiao Yibai added: "It's true, Qianye has already agreed to His Highness the Crown Prince's conditions, so naturally he will not embarrass the Lingyin clan again. After all, the person who wants to arrest them is Emperor Tianquan.
, he is not a prince, are you right?"
"Brother, where did Feng Ji go?" Xiao Qianye obviously didn't want to talk too much about Tian Che, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "Did she just throw A Xiao into Xixue Valley and leave it alone? Where is Frost Sky Phoenix?"
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"You said that magical bird that can make snow? It hasn't come to see me today yet. Why, you want to see it too?"
"No, I..." Xiao Qianye hesitated for a moment, remembering Feng Ji's words - the phoenix feeds on bones and blood and needs to be maintained in the body. It is true that the blazing phoenix was reborn from the fire in Feng Ji's body, but
How can such a magical bird be kept in the body? Is that woman Feng Ji just making up random stories to deceive herself?
Feeding on bones and blood... With Yun Xiao's current body, how can she afford this kind of feeding?
"Look..." Seeing that he looked dazed and didn't know what he was thinking, Yun Xiao put down the light mirror and turned her palms upward. Thin white snow suddenly floated in her palms, landed in the center of her palms and turned into water, "
You see, it left shuangtianxue on my hands, and the doctor here said my body temperature was too high, and shuangtianxue could help stabilize it."
Before he could ask any more questions, another roar came from the door: "Have you finished speaking? How long has it been since you came out?"
Xiao Yibai clicked his tongue, quickly grabbed the light mirror, and waved to Yun Xiao: "Listen to the doctor, I'll leave first."
He quickly left the room as if running away and returned to the backyard again. There was a person standing under the pear tree, seemingly waiting for him to come back.
"Hey, why did the Valley Master come in person?" Xiao Yibai was slightly surprised. The Valley Master of Xixue Valley was a middle-aged woman who looked to be only over forty years old. She was wearing a hemp white tight-fitting cloth dress with sleeves rolled up to her arms and hanging around her waist.
Holding two large cloth pockets, one containing several lancets and the other filled with bandaging ointment, she held up a pipe and puffed out the smoke leisurely.
Xiao Qianye looked at the person under the tree through the light mirror, but he couldn't connect this person with the legendary female fairy.
"What's the matter? Master Jun Pavilion doesn't think I will be a young fairy in fluttering white clothes, right?" She obviously saw the confusion on the other person's face, sighed and walked forward, nagging, "Waigu picks up the girl every day.
I see so many patients. If I wear a long skirt, I might trip and fall to death. I have to find two more attendants to carry the tools for me. In this little time, the patients will all die. Do you think so?
No, Master of the Military Pavilion?"
Xiao Qianye was a little embarrassed. He didn't know medical skills, but there were indeed a bunch of medicine boys carrying tools in the Danzhen Palace, following the doctors everywhere.
Xixue Valley is divided into inner and outer valleys. Although the outer valley accepts patients regardless of status, the inner valley has extremely strict and strict requirements. Although it is a well-known place for saving lives and healing the wounded, ordinary people cannot enter the inner valley even if they are critically ill.
Yun Xiao was brought there by Feng Ji herself, so Nei Gu made an exception. According to this calculation, Nei Gu must be related to some foreigners?
"This is a rare meeting, Master Jun Pavilion. Do you plan not to ask anything? If you don't care about that girl's life or death, I don't care even less." The Valley Master snorted coldly and blew out the smoke again. Xiao Qianye knew that she
There was something in her words, and there must be other purposes for her sudden appearance. I had no choice but to follow her words and ask, "What's going on with my junior sister now?"
"Junior sister?" The Valley Master glanced at Xiao Yibai, "Didn't you call her younger sister?"
"The future, the future!" Xiao Yibai quickly explained, and the Valley Master said angrily, "I only took her in for the sake of Master Jun Pavilion. If Xixue Valley offends the Imperial Capital one day, I will save her anyway.
Someone who is the wife of the Pavilion Master, no matter what, you have to take into account the old relationship and let me live, right? After a long time of doing it, is it just a junior sister?"
"Didn't the Valley Master save Feng Ji's face just for her sake?" Xiao Qianye reminded coldly. Sure enough, he saw the slight smile on the Valley Master's face and nodded, "Forget it, Xixue Valley belongs to Frost Sky Phoenix.
In my hometown, the rare herbs grown in the valley still need to be watered by the frosty snow of Frost Sky Phoenix before they can survive. Lady Feng Ji said, I will give you face no matter what, but... I am afraid this girl is a little abnormal."
The Valley Master calmly observed the expressions of the two people, and then said: "Ms. Fengji didn't say it clearly, but she is probably also from the Lingfeng tribe, right? The blood of the divine bird burned the human body and almost burned her to death.
, this can’t be considered a disease at all. Frankly speaking, I can’t cure her. I can only help her stabilize the spirit phoenix breath in her body for the time being. If I want to cure the root cause..."
The Valley Master frowned, as if she felt that what she was going to say next was very unreliable, but she still muttered and continued: "If you want to cure the root cause, you may have to start with the god who signed the contract with the Lingfeng Clan.
Let’s attack the bird, right? But tens of thousands of years have passed, and no one knows where that magical bird is now. Oh, it’s difficult.”
Xiao Qianye also knows very well that it is undoubtedly difficult to reach the sky. Divine birds are extremely rare, let alone the one that signed the contract!
Moreover, if the contract is terminated, the breath of the spiritual phoenix in Feng Ji and Yun Xiao's father will also disappear at the same time. Will the two of them be willing to give up eternal life?
The Master of Xixue Valley smiled and shook the ashes: "Come on, Master of the Military Pavilion, just think of it as my nonsense. I am a doctor. This will always happen when I encounter a patient who is helpless. You don't have to take it to heart."
However, I still have to collect the medical fees, after all, the whole family has to eat! When she leaves, I will find someone to send the bill to Tianzheng's house for you."
The owner of the valley waved his hand and strode out of the backyard. Xiao Yibai turned to his face and said, "Qianye, when will you come over? When is the autumn election? Have the personnel been decided?"
To be continued...