Chapter 430 – A Little Story of Floating Fragrance

Mei’er presented the small cloth bag with both hands, gave a salute, and softly said, “Mr. Xu, then, the slave girl will take her leave first.”

“Wait!”

Xu Qi’an took the cloth bag without opening it, looked at the clean-cut little maid, and asked, “Where does your family live?”

“The slave girl’s home is in Jiao Shi County.” Mei’er said in a thin voice.

Jiao Shi County is right on the border of the capital city, northeast, from the north, hire a carriage and you can arrive in two days.

Mei’er was not after committing an offense, she was sold by her family into the Department of Correctional Services.

Handmaidens like her who were sold into the capital city’s Department of Education were usually from poor families in the capital city, or around the capital city. It was unlikely that someone would come all the way to the capital to sell their daughter, and with that kind of inventory, there was no need to sell their daughter.

As for her parents, when she sold her into the Department of Education is completely out of necessity, that year’s catastrophe, the whole family can not afford to drink gruel, sold her out, at least there is a way to live.

Floating fragrance even if there is silver left to her, but the Church Department of this kind of eating people do not spit out bones of the place, certainly in the ransom took the opportunity to extort her, she is a weak woman, if you bring back too little silver, I’m afraid that the family will not be treated her how good ……….

Seeing her plain clothes, Xu Qi’an pondered a little, reached into his pocket, gently snapped the mirror, and took out a fifty-twenty denomination silver ticket and handed it over.

“Mr. Xu, I can’t have it.” Mei’er shook her head repeatedly.

“You and Floating Fragrance are masters and servants, it is only right for me to make a small contribution.” Xu Qi’an laughed.

Mei’er eyes full of tears, choked: “Floating fragrant lady son during the serious illness, slave girl heart hated you, hated you thin love and little justice. The slave girl was wrong, you are a real man with love and righteousness, the floating fragrance maiden’s life is thin, there is no blessing ………”

Xu Qi’an was a little embarrassed, he had long known that Fu Xiang was seriously ill, he just hadn’t figured out how to face her.

As for her identity, ever since Zhong Li pointed out the other party’s divine soul crippling, as a veteran criminal police officer, he had strung together many of his previous doubts at that time.

For example, why would the demon race know that his qi is entangled ……….

For example, why did the Demon Clan sneak Shinshu’s severed hand into his house ……….

Normally, a person with a crippled divine soul could not be well, either demented or a vegetable.

Sending Mei’er away, Xu Qi’an sat in the outer hall and opened the package.

Inside were two letters, a book, and a butter jade bracelet.

One letter was written via Qingzhou when he first went to Yunzhou. One letter was written on the way to Butter County in Jiangzhou when he went to Chuzhou to investigate the case.

Xu Qi’an was just about to put the bracelet and the two letters down when he suddenly felt that the touch was wrong, and opened the letter from Qingzhou, dumping out a dry and wrinkled lotus petal.

Xu Qi’an, who was originally only slightly saddened by Fu Xiang’s death, suddenly had a suffocating feeling.

It turns out that from the beginning to the end, I gave you, only this ………

He unfolded the letter and read it in silence, his heart sour for a long time, recalling his past with that flower girl.

When I used to lurk on forums, I heard someone say that true deep grief is not an outburst of crying, but rather the half carton of milk in the open fridge, the green wreaths swaying in the wind on the windowsill, the flannel comforter folded up on the bed, and the racket coming from the washing machine on a quiet afternoon.

Taking a deep breath, he carefully stowed the envelope and bracelet and turned his attention to the book.

Blue book cover, no title, unfolded and read, only to find that it was some essays written by Floating Fragrance, beautiful handwriting, recorded some strange little stories.

The book says that there was a towering cliff where a pale eagle lived, and the eagle had six children, and one day the eagle’s children were bullied and came back to the eagle to cry.

Eagle didn’t care, just stood silently on the cliff, watching the ground.

So the eagle’s child flew away and never came back.

At the bottom of the cliff is a dangerous jungle with a tiger in it. The tiger is too sick to catch prey, so he sends his henchman, the fox, to satisfy the tiger’s appetite by luring small animals into the cave.

The fox thought that the tiger could not be separated from it, so also line gradually expanded, it united with the wolves, and ate the noble identity of the white rabbit.

The tiger knows this and chooses to turn a blind eye and harbor the fox.

The wise monkey king of the forest realized that something was wrong and sent his monkeys under his hand to investigate the fox. The tiger told the python so that the fox would not be exposed for luring the little animals:

You go to the big black bear and tell him his cubs were eaten by a fox.

The big black bear was angry when he found out, broke into the fox’s house and killed the fox.

“What do you mean?”

Xu Qi’an frowned and pondered for a long time, not realizing what the story revealed.

There’s a strong sense of vestigial vision, but for a moment, it doesn’t come to mind.

He didn’t think much about it and returned to the inner courtyard, beating and sharpening his saber intent and practicing the Heaven and Earth One-Sword Slash.

After lunch, he mounted his little mare and ta-da’d to the hookah, where he changed his face and left on foot, before arriving at the private house where he had agreed to go and entering the carriage of the Linn.

Take another ride in the royal princess’s carriage, the wheels roll, and drive into the imperial city.

As they approached the area where the clans gathered, a luxurious carriage made of rosewood likewise traveled across the street.

“Stop the car!”

From the oncoming carriage came Huaiqing’s cool voice.

The two carriages stopped, Huaiqing opened the window and sat by the window, half peeking out her clear and beautiful face, saying, “Lin’an, didn’t you say that you’ve been unwell for the past few days, where have you been?”

Crap …….. Xu Qi’an sat in the carriage, his face stiffening.

Stealing a date with his sister and getting halfway through her.

Huaiqing frowned and said, “Why don’t you say something?”

What I want is Luo master time management science, not Luo master rollover science ………. Xu Qi an was full of grooves, he cupped his throat and coughed a few times with force, then, without answering Huaiqing, he faintly ordered the car driver:

“Go.”

After the fifth rank, he was able to control his body perfectly, including his voice, and it wasn’t difficult to temporarily produce a shrill female voice. As for the likeness, with the cough as a prelude, it was understandable that Lin An’s voice, whose body was not feeling well, had a slight change.

I hope Waiking didn’t notice ……..

The whole afternoon was spent fooling around with Lin An, talking to her, playing chess, drinking tea, and having occasional physical touches that became more and more cordial and natural.

At the beginning of Shen Hour, leaving Lin’an Mansion and taking the framed carriage to leave the Imperial City, just outside the city gates, Xu Qi’an heard the familiar, clear and cold voice coming again:

“Stop the car!”

Crap ……… Xu Qi’an nearly lost his expression management ability, not waiting for Huaiqing to speak, he cupped his throat and coughed hard, coughed hard …….

Then he coughed Wyking in.

Wearing a plain palace dress, clear as a picture, elegant as a flower, the royal eldest daughter pushed open the door of the car, drilled into the carriage, and looked at him coldly, the pair of eyes as clear as pools of water in the deep autumn, with teasing and huffing.

“Huai, His Highness Huaiqing ……..”

Xu Qi’an forced a smile, and despite the lack of a mirror, he knew that his current expression could be described in seven words-awkward and impolite.

“Mr. Xu is good at this, privately entering the Imperial City and having a rendezvous with the Princess, deeply afraid that Father Emperor doesn’t have any leverage to behead your dog’s head is it.” Huaiqing’s voice was cold, her pretty face like a shroud of frost.

“I’ve always been careful.”

He pointed to his face, which was the face of his little old brother, Erlang Xu.

He and Lin An agreed, if something goes wrong, it will be pushed that she is looking for the commoner to explain the scriptures and is learning. As for whether there was a 《Private Lecture.avi》 in the process, anyway, after holding back the palace maids, no one knows.

Huaiqing sneered, “When you met with Lin’an, did you screen off the palace maids and guards.”

“Naturally.”

“Every time?”

“Yes.”

Huaiqing’s bright autumn water eyes, calmly looked at him and faintly said:

“Lin’an is not like this palace, and of the guards and palace maids in her residence, who is Consort Chen’s person, she herself may not even know. There’s nothing wrong with a member of the royal family seeking out a concubine scholar to explain the scriptures, but the fact that the subordinates have been screened out time and time again, I’m sure that Consort Chen already knows about this, but she’s just still waiting to see.

“You have already offended Princess Chen to death in the case of Concubine Fu, allowing her to seize the handle and turn to Father. Is it you who wants to die, or is it you who pushed Xu Rui Lao out to take the blame?”

I just said today that I need to reduce the frequency of dates to come ……… Xu Qi’an nodded, “Many thanks for reminding Your Highness.”

Huaiqing nodded his head in satisfaction, “From now on, you are not allowed to see Lin An again.”

……… Xu Qi an gave her a shocked look.

Huaiqing explained in a serious manner, ”This palace has said that she is not compared to this palace, and she is not clear about how many eyes she has around her. It is too risky for you to meet with her in private.

“If there is anything in the future, you can have it relayed by this palace. Well, if you must meet, come to Huaiqing Mansion. This palace will ask Lin An out for you.”

In that case, everything is under your nose, how can I still hold framed small hand ………. Xu Qi An muttered in his heart and said:

“Are there no eyes of outsiders in His Highness’s house?”

Huaiqing glanced at him with a contemptuous smile.

“Your Highness is indeed intelligent and skillful, a hundred times and a thousand times better than Your Highness Lin An.” Xu Qi’an immediately flattered.

Unperturbed by his horse’s ass, Huaiqing continued, “Three days from now, the State Scholarship Academy is going to hold a literary meeting at the Imperial City’s Reed Lake, related to the war in the north, as well as the historical feud between the Great Fathers and the Witch God Sect, so you’ll accompany the Palace to attend, as Xu Ruixiang Lao.”

“Yes!”

Xu Qi’an could only nod.

Huaiqing nodded his head in satisfaction and said with a light smile, “In another two decades, summer will be over and the court may have to go to war, and it is customary for the country squires to donate silver and grain whenever there is a war. What does Mr. Xu have to say about that?”

Since the Yuan Jing Emperor’s monasticism, he has been laboring the people, and in order to fill the empty treasury, he has come up with ways to oppress the country squires.

What? What can I think, I am not a squire ………. Xu Qi An had just thought so, when he heard Huai Qing coldly say:

“Mr. Xu has a lot of money in his pocket, why don’t you donate a little as well.”

“Donate, how much?”

“How about eight thousand taels.”

Xu Qi’an’s face steeply froze.

………..

Donation is impossible to donate, it is impossible to donate in this lifetime …….. In the dusk, Xu Qi’an dragged his tired body back to the mansion.

After lunch, he was lying on his bed when he heard the door to his room push open with a squeak; it was Zhong Li, who had returned from her bath.

“How are you this afternoon? No injuries, right?” Xu Qi’an asked.

“No, not hurt, just almost dead.” Zhong Li whispered.

“?”

Xu Qi’an immediately sat up and asked, “What’s going on.”

Zhong Li instantly aggravated and said with a sobbing voice, “I was in the house practicing properly, your broken sword didn’t know what was going on, it suddenly went crazy and stabbed at me with a sword, it was just a centimeter short of my head moving.”

Xu Qi’an comforted, “It’s okay okay.”

“It didn’t end there, your broken sword kept chasing me, and if it wasn’t for Taoist Li rushing to my rescue, I would have died.”

“Okay okay.”

“It didn’t end there, in the process of subduing it, Taoist Li accidentally used the wrong spell and dispersed my soul, it took her all afternoon to recall me.”

“Okay okay.”

“It didn’t end there, after my soul was recalled, I realized that I had been forced to stuff a piece of sticky rice cake by your children and almost suffocated to death.”

“It’s not over?”

“It’s over.”

What should I take to save you, my fifth senior sister ………. Xu Qi’an was overcome with grief, beckoning for the Taiping Blade and reprimanding, “Why are you bullying her.”

The Pacific Blade buzzed and vibrated.

I don t know why I suddenly look at her with displeasure …….. Such an intention was transmitted to Xu Qi’an.

All of a sudden, I don’t know whether to blame Taiping or you! Xu Qi’an was once again overcome with grief, and softly said, “Senior Sister Zhong, my bed is for you to sleep in, I’ll sleep in the sitting cave today.”

Zhong Li shook her head back and forth, curling up in her little collapse and feeling secure.

At this moment, a familiar palpitating sensation came, and Xu Qi’an subconsciously fished out the fragment of the earth book from under his pillow, lighting the candle and checking the information of the earth book.

[VI: The Sanatorium is being watched. Someone is trying to deal with the poor monk.]

It’s the Everlasting Passage.

Someone wants to deal with Master Hengyuan? I don’t think he’s offended anyone, right?

Xu Qi’an froze for a few seconds and reacted violently, the person that Hengyuan had offended was not Emperor Yuan Jing. Whether it was the outburst to stop the forbidden army when they beheaded the two state princes, or the guarding of the lotus seed in Jianzhou, they were all working against Emperor Yuan Jing.

[II: You’re at the health center? Is there any danger? I’ll come at once.]

Flying Swallow is always in a hurry to help others, and she is never hesitant to help others in a righteous way.

[6: The poor monk is not in the health hall, today some people in the south side of the city to spy on my information, I used to help the people secretly reported to me.

[I then left the Sanatorium and hid in a nearby residential house, and after dusk, there was an ambush near the Sanatorium.]

[4: Don’t bother with them, hide somewhere else.]

Chu Yuanzheng gives advice.

[VI: The poor monk is worried that they are preying on the children and old people in the health center.]

[IV: Do you know who the other person is?]

[VI: I don’t know.]

Xu Qi’an used his hand in place of a pen and transmitted the letter, [It’s not hard to guess, it’s that His Majesty of ours].

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PS: The cover was changed due to copyright issues, and the backstage was kind enough to change the cover to one similar to the original.