Chapter 636

"The banquet is going to start in a while. Are you going?" Seeing Pei Ye held the big fishing rod; there was no bait on the line at all, he was just accompanying the princess to fish.

"I have to. The instructor said I have to go back and change clothes before the You hour." What the child was interested in and what she was just answering were all written on her face and in her tone.

"You look quite cute in this outfit." Seeing Pei Ye smiled.

Li Wuyan looked down and didn't find "cute." Actually, she didn't quite understand the word either, so she didn't speak.

"Brother Pei, I don't want to go. I want to fish here." She stared earnestly at the fishing line.

"You can eat delicious food at the banquet. Don't you like eating delicious food?"

"... I like fishing." Li Wuyan repeated, "I want to catch a beautiful red carp."

Suddenly she stopped and tilted her head to the side: "Brother Pei, are you going to, to eat too?"

"Yeah, I'm with Sister Chang."

"Then, then can you help me hold the little fishing rod?"

"Huh?"

"I want to fish in Taiye Pond after eating." Li Wuyan dangled her little legs, looking a bit happy, "I can fish for a long time."

The long, heavy banquet with many adults could be turned into something colorful by a little fishing rod.

"Isn't it fine for you to carry it yourself?" Seeing Pei Ye smiled.

"The instructor won't let me."

"Haha, alright." Seeing Pei Ye laughed, "Then I'll hold it for you."

"..."

"..."

"Brother Pei."

"..."

"Brother Pei!"

"Hmm?"

"If I come over tomorrow, will I still be able to find you?"

"... I don't know either. I have very busy things to do. Sometimes I'm here, sometimes I'm not." Seeing Pei Ye was very honest.

"You, what are you busy with? I can be busy with you." Li Wuyan said, "I can help you remember the names of the ponds."

Seeing Pei Ye smiled: "You'd be more of a hindrance than a help."

"No!"

"I'm busy with my adult business, and you're busy with your little business. That's fine."

"What is adult business?"

Seeing Pei Ye lowered his head to look at her. The little girl's two eyes took up almost half her face. For a moment, he was a bit dazed. This innocent, clean child and the darkness he was studying in his mind were actually in the same world... even in the same palace city.

After a while, he raised his hand and rubbed her head: "Adult business is beating away all the bad guys and making all the good people happy."

Li Wuyan frowned and nodded: "Where are the bad guys?"

"I'm fighting a bad guy right now." Seeing Pei Ye stretched his legs and smiled, "He's tall, strong, thick-skinned, and his bones are made of iron. I'm thinking about how to beat him."

"... Then, then can you win?"

"I don't know. I'll know after I fight him. I hope I don't lose."

"What if you lose?"

"If I lose... if I lose, it doesn't matter. If I lose, I'll leave the palace. If you want to fish in the future, just come and play with Sister Chang."

"..." Li Wuyan was silent for a long time, then looked up earnestly, "Brother Pei, the book says, know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated."

"Hmm... I know he plans to turn into a fish and sneak into the Dragon Palace." Seeing Pei Ye smiled, "I'm just pondering it."

"..." This was truly beyond Li Wuyan's ability to understand. She looked up blankly, "Turn into a fish... how, how do you turn into a fish?"

"It's this bad guy; he can change." Seeing Pei Ye thought to himself while dealing with the child.

"How does a person... how do they turn into a fish?"

"I don't know either, but he definitely will."

"Then, then if he turns into a fish, will his, his skin also turn into fish scales?"

"He'll have to grow some."

"Then he's such a big person, will he turn into a fish that small?"

"That's not necessarily true; maybe he'll turn into a big fish."

"Then, then will his bones also turn into fish bones?"

"Probably. His bones..."

"Hmm?" Li Wuyan looked up at the youth who had suddenly stopped speaking. That relaxed face slowly tightened, his lips pursed, and his eyes fell straight onto empty space.

"Brother Pei?"

"Li Wuyan."

"Hmm?"

"You aren't a hindrance. You're a little genius." Seeing Pei Ye lowered his head to look at her and said slowly.

"..."

"Brother Pei likes you the most. When you grow up, come and be the deputy for Inspector Pei." Seeing Pei Ye rubbed her blank head, stood up, and returned to the Zhu Jingdian.

"Huh? Brother Pei, aren't you fishing anymore?" Li Wuyan was anxious to chase after him.

"I am, I am. You sit and watch for a while; I'm going to get a piece of paper." Seeing Pei Ye waved his hand.

"You said before that this miraculous Dragon Gold was given to you by the Ming Ming Niangniang, right?"

"Yes, it was bestowed by the Ming Ming Niangniang." Facing the youth's inquiry, Guo You looked up in a daze and said hoarsely, "Why do you ask?"

"When I asked you that day, you said this material 'has a lively dragon nature and is difficult to control when melting and casting.'" Seeing Pei Ye clearly remembered every word he had said, "At that time, I thought you were just talking about the nature of the metal. Now you say, what do you mean by 'lively dragon nature'? Does this material from the scale clan not completely lose its activity?"

That day, after the puppet show ended, the old man ran out, and then at the former site of the Directorate for Imperial Manufactories, he muttered: "Dragon-shedding bones... Dragon-shedding bones were bestowed by the Ming Ming Niangniang; they cannot be moved lightly. The Ming Ming Niangniang's decree requires... requires extracting from it... extracting... Oh, right, it has already been used to cast the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】."

Yes, Dragon Gold was not originally meant to cast the 【Mercury Flower Gonghua Gonghua Gonghua Fucha】. Seeing Pei Ye still didn't know what followed the word "extracting," but it indeed had other uses besides being a material... or rather, that was the original proper path.

"Dragon Gold... is just like it's alive." Guo You said in a daze, "Once melted, it's very difficult to control. Precisely because of this, I've never dared to cast it into a human body... People would be pierced through by it."

That's it.

So, Yu Sicheng originally had a fish's bones.

Is this the target for him to rewrite himself?

In any case, he had advanced another step. Seeing Pei Ye sketched a few strokes on the paper with satisfaction, chin in hand, and walked out of the hall in deep thought.

By the South Pond.

It was past noon. Yu Sicheng laid his great spear across the carriage shaft and lowered the curtain.

He tugged on the reins. The fine scales at the corners of the great Qilin-blooded beast's eyes shone with golden light under the sun. It tilted its head to look at him, its noble and beautiful eyes filled with the laziness of being commanded. Yu Sicheng used some strength in his arms and led it onto the road.

The Great Eunuch's body still looked tall and large in front of this magnificent beast. He adjusted the harness with no expression on his face: "Yesterday he went to dig up the canal of the Yuxian Garden. I said it before: he might penetrate many things in an instant, relying on deductions or strange intuition, as if he had opened some divine eye... I've dealt with that group of people at the Immortal Platform many times; this annoying trait is especially obvious in him."

Xiang Yongji smoothed his elegant cuffs. His robe was a very comfortable black, and his head and face were groomed meticulously.

"Yes, if we wait another month, I'm afraid there will be more complications." He sighed lightly, his cold, stern brows looking at Yu Sicheng, "Does the Great Eunuch have any other instructions?"

"None." Yu Sicheng lowered his head to finish adjusting the harness and said coldly, "I'll be going. If the matter doesn't succeed, you can take over later."

Xiang Yongji nodded earnestly.

At this moment, the carriage curtain was pushed up from inside, and a head poked out with a somewhat weak voice. Those beautiful eyes looked at him and said: "Heir, who exactly do you fancy tonight? I'll send a message to the Third Prince and have him help you say a few words!"

Xiang Yongji looked up at him quietly but didn't answer. It wasn't until Yu Ziliang frowned in confusion that he withdrew his gaze and smiled faintly: "Whoever I get is fine. With a Qilin daughter marrying down, what do I have to pick and choose?"

"Tsk, just speaking officialese." Yu Ziliang was not very satisfied, his face turning gloomy, his low, cold, and breathless voice sounding quite like a snake's hiss, "I want to go too, but now I'm a broken body... When you get married, Heir, I'll go and cheer you on."

"What cheering on? It's enough that you can come... How are your injuries?"

"The other places have just been reconnected and I can't use strength yet." Yu Ziliang was silent for a while and said, "But I'll try my best to restore my right arm first. Dad said he'd take me to kill that Seeing Pei Ye; I have to do it myself, bit by bit."

"That's how it should be."

Xiang Yongji nodded, watching this pale, thin face withdraw into the curtain. Yu Sicheng in front of the carriage neither got on nor spoke, leading the horse to the west.

Xiang Yongji turned around at the same time, leaving this place in the opposite direction.

In the Penglai Hall, maids came and went in a hurry. The noble woman sat quietly in the hall, eyes closed, phoenix hairpin, flowing skirt, jade pendants, fragrant balls... hundreds of items of clothing and accessories were added to her body one by one with reverence.

Even though a long time had passed since the first time, she still wasn't impatient with this process. Small, intricate ornaments were meticulously placed in the correct positions, and strands of hair were smoothed out one by one. During this monotonous and long time, her mood would slowly calm down, and she would enter the state bit by bit along with the completion of her attire.

Perhaps this was one of the few processes that allowed her to confirm so clearly that she had already sat on this Great Tang phoenix throne, the position of Mother of All Nations.

Everyone in her field of vision had their heads slightly lowered. Li Huang looked down at her fingernails and glanced over; that young girl had already been standing there timidly for a while.

"I've already told you, don't do things that lose your status in the palace. Are you still being disciplined by Li Xizhou, losing face for the Penglai Hall?"

Li Cannan trembled, lowered her head, and said aggrievedly: "I, I didn't know I would run into her... I was just beating that maid in the Qingsi Hall; her master always, always goes..."

"I've already said, I will give this marriage to you. No matter what Li Youlong and Xiang Yongji do, I will not agree." Li Huang said, "Don't always act like a street shrew."

"But, but..." Li Cannan bit her lip and mumbled.

"Hmm?"

"But, Young Master Xiang Yongji already likes her that way; what's the point of marrying me..." Li Cannan's voice grew smaller as she spoke.

Li Huang looked at her as if looking at a fool.

"..."

"As you wish." Li Huang withdrew her gaze, "Don't get in the way here. Take that box of pastries I made to your brother."

"... Yes, Mother Ming Ming Niangniang."