Chapter 593: Sleeping in Zhu Jingdian (Part 3)

After the palace maid sister stopped taking her to the Zichen Hall, she secretly went a few times herself, but was either blocked or ignored. The man never looked at her directly again, only telling people to take her back.

Sometimes she also wanted to take her toys to see those two younger brothers, but everyone she asked just acted as if they hadn't heard.

No one spoke to her anymore, so she stopped speaking to anyone.

Day after day in the dim and empty hall, the cold air, the memory of every day was always suppressed in the same mold: waking up from pain, sitting on the bed with a pale face, letting people dress her or not.

Until this day, she had finished breakfast and was sitting silently on the chair. The hall door was open, and the sunlight cast into the dim and cold hall, but she didn't want to go out. All "outsides" were equally cold, and there was nowhere she wanted to go.

A gentle and smiling voice beside her said, "It's spring now. Doesn't Xixi want to go out and play?"

She turned her head blankly. A warm woman stood beside her, bending over to look at her... She had never seen such a beautiful person, born like a fairy, much, much more beautiful than the woman beside Father.

She had also never heard such a warm voice, never seen such a gentle smiling face.

"Let me think... Is Xixi five years old this year? You can play on the swing now."

"... What, what is playing on the swing?"

"The swing in the backyard. It was made especially for you. Come, I'll take you to play."

She raised her arms, not knowing if she had held those extended fingers.

But since coming to this world, it was the first time someone wanted to take her to play.

Opposite the backyard was a huge high wall, almost the most insurmountable thing in her memory, blocking all sight toward that side, sometimes even covering half the sky.

In front of the high wall, a red board swing hung on that tough old tree. The leather rope was tied very firmly, the board was tied very levelly, and it was a bit high. She spent some effort to climb up. Then she looked at the woman blankly, and the woman looked at her with some distress.

"H-how do I play?" She kicked her little legs twice and said blankly.

"You wiggle your butt."

She wiggled her butt, which made the woman laugh: "No, no, I said it wrong. You have to use your waist... Do you have a little waist?"

"Ah?"

"You have to feel it swaying, and then, when it goes forward, you also swing forward; when it goes backward, you also swing backward... That way it will swing up very quickly."

But she swung on the swing for a whole morning, and sweat flowed down, but the swing could only swing very slightly. However, she was neither irritable nor crying. This was actually the happiest morning she had ever spent.

The woman also kept teaching her in a soft voice. She tried hard to learn, very worried that the woman would think she could never learn, but that never happened. The woman seemed to have endless patience.

When the sun passed noon, they left the swing. The woman took her out of the hall door, and for the first time, she had expectations for the unknown place she was going to. They were on the grass beside the pond, where many delicate flowers had bloomed. The woman taught her to pick the pretty ones and then arrange them one by one to weave a wreath.

This thing was novel and fun, but it was too difficult. She always felt that the flower stems were much bigger than her hands, and at the same time, they were too thin. Either they broke, or she couldn't stuff them into the gaps after poking for a long time.

The woman laughed beside her: "Xixi's fingers arching up are like little bugs." This made her refuse to weave anymore, and she hid her hands behind her back with a shy smile.

She struggled for a whole afternoon, and when the sky was about to dusk, a crooked wreath was finally woven. The flowers were rubbed off more than half, wrinkled and out of shape. She happily held the wreath up to the woman, and the sweat on her forehead shone with fine light in the sunset.

But when she turned her head, the woman looked at her somewhat quietly and whispered, "Sorry Xixi, I just watched you like this but didn't help you weave a very beautiful wreath. Will you be angry?"

"..."

She was somewhat blank and stunned. Someone teaching her to weave a wreath like this was already very happy.

She subconsciously raised her hand: "... You, will you come to play with me tomorrow?"

"Not tomorrow."

"..."

"Wait ten days. Ten days later, I will come to find you, okay?" The woman smiled and extended her hand, "Pinky swear."

Li Xizhou opened her eyes in confusion and dizziness. In the trance, the dim and gray hall was just like those "nine days" when the woman did not appear.

She subconsciously calculated the days, raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eye. The touch of the pillow was a large area of cold moisture.

It was no longer spring. The winter night was deep, cold, and quiet. She was silent for a while, wrapped herself in the quilt, sat up leaning against the pillow, and stared blankly at the window opposite.

Although it was called a side hall, the scale still exceeded Seeing Pei Ye's expectations. The various rooms and corridors were quite confusing. It was just that most of them were very empty, obviously unused for a long time. Seeing Pei Ye tidied up the lamp stand and the bed, placed his sword beside the pillow, and sat cross-legged on it.

The black cat didn't light the lamp because it would have to extinguish it after a while. It jumped up, curled into a circle, and nested beside the pillow, then didn't move.

Seeing Pei Ye ignored the little beast's laziness. He leaned against the wall, supporting his knees, and frowned, thinking about the entry point of the case. He didn't find anything unusual in the Mingyue Palace, and the case file of Grandpa Yue was also written very clearly—the sword appeared suddenly, with no origin.

He could almost infer that the assassin came from that legendary Spirit Realm, because he had kept one detail very clearly in mind—after coming out of the Illusion Tower, the place where he stood was several feet away from where he entered.

Now he knew that it was not a realm of mind and spirit confusion, but one that could truly allow a person's physical body to enter and walk within it. The space of the Illusion Tower corresponded to the space of this world.

But what he didn't know was how this Spirit Realm existed. Cold peaks gather clouds, moss grows in secluded places, so where are there Spirit Realms? What is special about the Mingyue Palace compared to other places?

How did He Wujian enter? Twenty years ago, a group of people grasped a path of entry and exit—regardless of whether it had a price, it was enough for them to complete such an assassination.

At that time, "Nan Jin Feng" had not yet started smuggling merfolk.

Seeing Pei Ye tapped the bed board and thought. At this time, he suddenly stunned for a moment, subconsciously touched the dragon ring under his neck, and stunned again.

What pulsed was something he hadn't expected.

He took out the cyan bird-shaped jade pendant blankly. After getting to know Xu Chuo, he had long forgotten it.

But at this time it floated up, with water-like light flowing on it, as if waiting for some response.

Seeing Pei Ye turned his head and looked at the little cat blankly. The little cat actually had a look of "not strange," and said without any surprise: "It's a magic tool. Just inject True Qi."

"How to inject True Qi here?"

"It's already lit."

"..."

Seeing Pei Ye tried to touch it with his finger, and a wisp of True Qi was actually absorbed. This little jade pendant seemed to receive some special permission in this Qilin Realm.

And then, like a dandelion blown away by a fine wind, the whole jade pendant melted and dissociated at his fingertips, turning into a substance like green wind and water, wrapping around his fingers.

Then, a curtain-like thing was pulled down in Seeing Pei Ye's mind-spirit realm.

Three characters were outlined on it.

—"Are you asleep?" ===== CHAPTER 594 =====