Chapter 409: Parting with a Friend

". I'll go ask for another pot, Miss Ming!"

Seeing Pei Ye was quite embarrassed. This cold, sweet thing didn't fill him up at all, and he had finished it cup by cup.

"No need, they are all coming over."

Seeing Pei Ye turned his head and looked. The armored soldiers naturally felt embarrassed to let them wait for a long time, so they had indeed come over after drinking enough tea. This pear soup wasn't always available, and the pot had already been divided clean; it would take a long time for the next pot to come out.

". Alright."

Seeing Pei Ye hesitated for a while, but had to return the teapot and cups to the waiter who followed.

On the other side, Xiang Zongyuan and Nan Guannu seemed to have just noticed something and looked over with a frown, but the woman had already lowered the curtain and didn't show herself again.

Nan Guannu said: "In short, after the roster is posted on the Jade Sword Platform tomorrow, we will know what is going on."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't go to listen to what they were saying anymore, entered the carriage, and the brightest sunlight had already passed. The weather wasn't hot, and several carriages and horses swayed and drove out, returning to the main road.

Leaving this short intersection with the jianghu behind.

The sunlight moved west, the sky became softer, and the cool wind took the lead again. The full view of the magnificent city appeared in his field of vision.

Feng Huai didn't need to be mentioned, and Bowang was already magnificent, but when this city appeared, he knew what was called vast.

Both sides outside the city gate almost gathered into a small town. It wasn't like the martial arts competition in Bowang, rushing to do jianghu business in these two days. In ordinary days, the flow of people here was endless.

The carriage and horses stopped far away.

They didn't go toward the city, but drove toward a small hill to the west of the road. In the pavilion on the top of the distant mountain, several figures were already standing there.

Seeing Pei Ye felt the direction of the carriage and horses. The woman beside him was still teaching sword classics. He poked his head out and lifted the curtain: "This is. where to?"

That Commander Gao, who had not shown himself all the way, was riding on the side at this time, with his long spear lying in front of the horse. He turned his head and said: "Colleagues from the Immortal Platform are already waiting. We will send the Sword Master there first, and then enter the city together."

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

". So, the first stage 【Holding New Corpse】 is the perspective of a sparrow, the cicada assists the sparrow master, and the second stage 【Floating Returning Wind】 is the perspective of the cicada again." In the carriage, Ming Qitian was still speaking eloquently, "'Wind' is the essence of the Jade Pulse. You learned 'Wind Yao' first, so you understood the second style very quickly. What's wrong?"

The woman stopped and looked at him.

"Ah, nothing, Miss Ming." The youth who was looking at the scenery through the curtain slit turned his head back, his brows still furrowed, "It's just that I originally wanted to buy you a pot of autumn pear soup after entering the city. As a result, they didn't even enter the city."

"."

The youth's face indeed had a genuine annoyance, and the depression of his mood was almost written on his face: "I even asked Guan Qianyan, and there is a specialty shop not long after walking east in the city."

". I'm not that greedy."

"It's not about being greedy, it's—" Seeing Pei Ye frowned and retorted, but stopped halfway through his words.

What was it?

It was as if it was the first time the woman had expressed some desire for something, but he hadn't noticed it at all. As the carriage moved forward, that uncomfortable feeling rose more and more, making him really unable to hold back, so he went to ask Guan Qianyan for the seller.

But when he wanted to say it, he found that this was not a reason at all.

The woman would definitely forget about missing two cups of pear soup in a blink of an eye, and if he said "because it's the first time you wanted to drink something", the woman would only look at him strangely.

This was also too sentimental and sensitive. He had never been so entangled in his heart, and it was abnormal to be emotional because he forgot a few cups of pear soup.

It was just because. this was the eve of parting.

Seeing Pei Ye lowered his eyes: ". Nothing, Miss Ming, you continue."

But the woman didn't speak anymore. She looked at the window curtain. The carriage swayed and stopped.

It turned out they had arrived at the small pavilion. The people outside the carriage had already started to hand over with the people waiting there.

"Can we set off immediately?"

"We can set off immediately. We will go out of Shao Long along the Lu River, and we have already notified all the borders along the way, only walking on the main road."

The woman in front also closed the sword book and lifted the window curtain.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't expect that the parting, which he had known about for a long time, would also feel abrupt and sloppy, but it came just like that. Seeing Pei Ye thought of the parting words he had prepared in a daze, but for a moment, only the four words "take care of your health" were spinning in his brain.

Then he heard the woman's peaceful voice outside the window: "Sorry, I want to finish talking about the sword with Young Hero Pei before leaving."

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The voices outside the window went silent.

Soon someone walked over and said respectfully: "Sorry! Didn't ask your meaning, when do you hope to set off?"

"We still have one and a half volumes of sword classics that haven't been finished, and then we have some words to say. I hope to set off after we say goodbye, is that okay?"

"Follow your will! We are just guards, and the movement is naturally decided by you."

"Mm, thank you."

Ming Qitian put down the curtain, looked at Seeing Pei Ye, and said softly: "You go buy the autumn pear soup."

". Ah?"

"If you don't buy it this time, you'll have to owe it until next summer." Ming Qitian's clear eyes looked at him, "I don't necessarily hold a grudge for that long."

The sun sets behind the western mountains, and the tired birds return to the forest.

On a hillside further away from the small pavilion, without carriages or horses, in the quiet twilight, there were only the backs of the youth and the woman sitting side by side.

The atmosphere was very peaceful. The two sat on the ground, each with a pot of pear soup. The candlelight burned silently on the side, and they discussed the last sword book in the woman's hand in a low voice.

Seeing Pei Ye blushed and found that the woman knew very well when he started to be restless and not listening carefully. She reorganized the content of the previous two hours in the carriage, and then read the remaining Jade Jade sword principles with him page by page until the sky only had a little fire red in the west. Only then did she flip past the last page and solidly established the entire set of Jade Jade sword principles in the youth's heart.

"Do you have any more questions?"

The woman was not impatient at all before the separation. Seeing Pei Ye's mood had long since calmed down. At this time, he shook his head; he indeed had no more questions.

Ming Qitian nodded: "That's good. I was entrusted by Senior Yue to take you to the Divine Capital. Unfortunately, there were only accidents along the way, but not much time to talk about swords. Now that we are parting halfway, I can be considered to have fulfilled my duty slightly. I am ashamed."

"No, Miss Ming. You said you would take me into the 'Spirit' realm before entering the capital. Now I am in the Spirit Realm, so it's considered completed ahead of schedule."

Ming Qitian smiled slightly: "That is your own ability."

She added: "Originally, I should have protected you, but unfortunately I fell into danger first and even implicated you like this."

"You also said I have my own ability, so naturally I don't need your protection."

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

". Are you much older than me, Miss Ming?"

"I am twenty-one, you are seventeen, four years older than you."

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

He added: "I will be eighteen soon."

"Oh."

The woman began to organize the books on the ground, stacking them neatly in order.

After being quiet for a while, Seeing Pei Ye suddenly said in a low voice: "Actually, I like this, Miss Ming."

"Mm?"

"I mean. since I left the mountain, I have always been troubling you and relying on you. Whatever you do, you have to take care of me. Whatever danger there is, you have to think about whether I can bear it." Seeing Pei Ye said, "I know you don't treat me as a burden, but when I look at myself, I'm just a child who only knows how to cause trouble."

". Mm."

"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." Seeing Pei Ye said in a low voice, "I don't want you to see me as a burden that always needs protection."

"I have never thought of you that way," Ming Qitian said seriously, "You have only just begun to cultivate."

"I know, but I think. I hope you treat me as a friend." The youth was incoherent, ". You have to let me face these things alone."

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

". Hehe."

"Is the little jade sword I gave you still there?"

"It's there, it's there." Seeing Pei Ye patted his chest, "Is this a token of gratitude from your Yunlang Mountain? But it has already been used. Miss Ming, I saved you this time, shouldn't you give me another one?"

He reached out to ask for it.

Ming Qitian really took one and placed it in his palm.

Seeing Pei Ye retracted his hand in a daze: "Ah, I was joking, I don't really want any reward, Miss Ming!"

"This is for a friend."

"."

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

". Mm."

In the silence, Ming Qitian suddenly said: "How do you plan to learn the sword when you arrive at the Divine Capital?"

". I'm not sure yet. I'll see when I get there. Do you have any suggestions, Miss Ming?"

"In the short term, of course, entering the Dao-Enlightenment Society is the best." 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 criteria seem very complicated. I heard the Sword Cultivation Academy in the Divine Capital is especially strict." Seeing Pei Ye hugged his knees and said, "I think I'm okay with the sword, but many other standards. I don't know what they all are."

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

"Ah?"

"Didn't you ask me to write one for Piaoqing before?"

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

The woman took a pen and folded the paper right there: "I thought you must want to take the exam yourself."

"Haven't I already passed the exam by the Young Mountain Master of Yunlang Mountain?"

". Right."

"I was personally assessed by the Young Mountain Master of Yunlang Mountain! It's not going through the back door!"

"Good."

Seeing Pei Ye smiled and calmed down, supporting his arms behind him. The cool night wind blew gently on their collars.

The woman wrote the letter and handed it to him, then began to organize the sword classics.

Seeing Pei Ye gradually felt a genuine sadness: "Miss Ming, I don't know when we will meet again next time."

"It's hard to say when we will bump into each other." The woman lowered her head to smooth out the page the youth had folded, and clipped it, "If there is no such luck, I will also go to the Divine Capital to participate in the Feather Scale Trial around the turn of spring and summer next year."

"Mm."

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

But she didn't move either, and sat with the youth blowing the night wind, looking at the bright moon rising bit by bit in the east, neither of them speaking.

Until Seeing Pei Ye said in a low, hoarse, and somewhat embarrassed voice: "Miss Ming, I heard people say that when friends part, they should give poems. I don't know if there is such a saying. I definitely can't write, so I found one from the collection these past two days. It feels very comfortable to read. It's also very short, I think you might not have heard it."

Ming Qitian looked at him seriously and nodded.

Seeing Pei Ye recited: "The city walls support the three Qin, the wind and smoke look at the five fords. The meaning of parting with you, we are both officials traveling. If there are confidants within the seas, the ends of the earth are like neighbors. Do not be at the crossroads, and let children share their tears."

This poem is actually neither remote nor comfortable. The youth didn't know that the collection he flipped through was the most popular one, and every corner of it recorded things that scholars could recite backward. He also didn't know that "official traveling" refers to being an official and has little to do with cultivators. He only felt that when he read "If there are confidants within the seas, the ends of the earth are like neighbors", his chest expanded, so he happily shared it with the woman in front of him.

Ming Qitian smiled gently, tapped the book cover with her finger lightly: "Mm. I can't write poems either, so I'll give you four lines from someone else's."

"Alright, alright." Just like in the Mind-Spirit Realm, Ming Yun happily saw that he was willing to play the game of recognizing swords. Now the youth, who was reciting nervously, was also happy because he received the woman's approval. He was very satisfied that their parting could have such a formal and childish ceremony.

"It says: Seventeen years old, understanding books and swords, traveling west to Chang'an City. Looking up at the monarch's gate, counting with fingers to take the public officials."

The woman stood up under the rising bright moon: "Then let's part here, Young Hero Pei. I hope that when we meet again next time, we won't let each other down."

". Definitely, Miss Ming."

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