Chapter 326: Autumn Wind Rises, Perch is Worthy of Sashimi

The old servant was ultimately a person trained by the royal family. At this moment, he was shocked in his heart, but his expression management was still very good. Although it looked slightly stiff, he was not as restless as Princess Xinan.

If it weren't for his pupils still slightly contracting at this time, showing a very nervous state, Qian Chen would have thought he had returned to normal!

The old servant carefully picked up the hair bun, held the white jade hairpin, and retreated.

Shimei Si brought a coarse porcelain plate and cut the perch into sashimi with the Silver Flood Dragon Knife in her hand. Using a magic treasure to cut, the knife work was even more unusual. Each piece of fish sashimi was as thin as a cicada's wing, and against the light of the lamp at night, the texture of the fish meat was clearly visible.

In Qian Chen's Qiankun bag, there was golden ginger. Yellow ginger powder and garlic powder were embellished, and he picked up salted white plum and ground it on the coarse porcelain to dissolve it. The ginger powder presented a golden color.

The four-gill perch was the size of a foot, and the fish sashimi cut out was as crystal clear as jade, wrapped in golden ginger, which was very tempting.

Si Qingcheng picked up a piece with the tip of the knife, sent it into her mouth, and her whole eyes narrowed, revealing a happy smile.

Princess Xinan beside her looked like she didn't know the taste of the food. If it were normal, she would definitely open her mouth to teach Si Qingcheng a lesson when she saw her so rude, but at this time she just lowered her head and murmured, even using a fan to cover the lower half of her face, her eyes dodging, not wanting Qian Chen to see her eyes.

Only when her fingers touched that cup of green plum wine did they shrink back slightly, and then those fingers, like jade scallions, began to tremble slightly.

The green plum wine still retained the slight coldness in the cellar!

Princess Xinan then suddenly remembered that Qian Chen went out and came back, and sat for a while, and didn't even let the cold air of this wine dissipate.

Princess Xinan's heart was already in chaos, and she couldn't even remember whether there was half a cup of tea during this time...

She hurriedly picked a few pieces of perch sashimi into her mouth, mostly without even tasting the taste, and then stood up to say goodbye. Si Qingcheng pretended to persuade her to stay, watching Princess Xinan's face show a kind of embarrassment and affectation, and after enduring it bitterly and apologizing to Si Qingcheng several times, she let her leave.

Boarding the carriage, Princess Xinan said to the coachman: "Back to the Wang family!"

After saying that, she put down the curtain.

The curtain isolated the eyes of others. Inside the carriage, Princess Xinan pulled the handkerchief, and a trace of horror appeared on her face.

The guards on both sides raised the ceremonial equipment. Those who polished their bodies, and the worst had also practiced Gang Qi, could be called a master in the first Samsara world Qian Chen experienced, but they didn't give her a trace of security.

After the carriage went far away, the wheels turned on the blue stone slab.

She sobbed, wiped the corners of her eyes, and sighed: "How can there be such a domineering person in the world, because of a word from this palace, he picked the Wang family!"

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In White Deer Hall, hearing Princess Xinan's carriage go out, Si Qingcheng couldn't help but burst into laughter. She patted the table and said: "Haha... she has today too. Shixiong, you scared my little aunt not lightly."

"I have always been restless at the banquet, and she insisted on keeping me..."

Qian Chen looked at Si Qingcheng, who was laughing and patting the table without any etiquette, and suddenly worried about Tao Tianshi.

He picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of crystal clear fish meat, dipped it in golden ginger material, and put it into his mouth. His eyes lit up, and he suddenly slapped the table and said: "Loss!"

"Perch is worthy of sashimi, the west wind is exhausted... This Songjiang perch is so delicious as sashimi. If I had known, I would have ended the whole pool of fish in the Wang family. Carrying one foolishly, isn't it that there is no next meal after eating this one?"

Qian Chen beat his chest and stamped his feet, regretting: "I finally know why Zhang Jiying had the thought of water shield and perch."

Si Qingcheng smiled: "Shixiong went to the door to behead Wang Yan, and brought back a fish, which can still be considered to have the style of a famous scholar. What is it to fish a pool? Is it robbing fish into the room? If it is spread out in the future, saying that Shixiong beat Wang Yan for a pool of perch in the Wang family, Shixiong's style will be gone!"

"If there is perch to eat, what is style!" Qian Chen smiled: "Anyway, the most shameful one is not me."

Si Qingcheng thought slightly, and then said: "Oh! If Wang Yan was beaten for a pool of fish, it seems even more shameful!"

"Come, drink a cup!" Qian Chen poured the wine full, the green plum fragrance was soft, and the entrance was soft, which was the best Jiangnan wine taste.

Si Qingcheng opened the window, let the moonlight tonight sprinkle in, went down to the corridor, picked a few fragrant soft flower leaves, poured clear green plum wine, cut them carefully, and mixed them into the fish sashimi.

The two drank wine and talked and laughed, talking until midnight, before Qian Chen left Si Qingcheng and returned to Hidden Sword Pavilion, practicing in the quiet room for half the night.

For the next few days, Qian Chen only sat in meditation and practiced Qi in the manor, sometimes asking Si Qingcheng for advice, talking about mystery and Dao, and even taught her to refine a furnace of elixir, and learned several secret talisman methods of the Daoist academy from Ear Dao God to Si Qingcheng.

Since that night, Wang Yan had never gone out again. Among the noble families in the capital, what happened that night was also widely spread. Although Wang Yan had long enjoyed a great reputation in the world, among the people he commented on, others might not remember him if he said good things, but those who had been spoken ill of by him were mostly resentful.

It was just that he was a clan elder of the Wang family, and mutual flattery among noble families was also a trend.

Therefore, when his pure name was still there, the resentment could only be hidden in the stomach. Now that there was such a big stain on his body, naturally there would be people falling into the well.

In a private house in Jiankang, Yuan Hao pushed open the courtyard door, his face a bit strange. Du Xiuniang looked at his face and knew that this trip had no harvest, and sighed helplessly: "This matter is really strange. Who knows that the key figure in the main mission one, Zhang Huaien, is not the key to the second step of the main mission?"

Yuan Hao looked at the prompt of the Lord of Samsara in his consciousness, his brows locked.

After they entered the capital, the main mission two opened was very simple: "Find out the truth of the emperor's serious illness, successfully reward ten moralities! Open the optional hidden main mission three."

After Zhang Huaien entered the capital, the situation became more and more treacherous.

When Zhang Huaien wanted to present evidence to the emperor, he heard that the emperor was unwell and could not meet him.

He had no choice but to ask Zhixia to stay in his house temporarily in fear, and he went to ask to see the Censor-in-Chief several times, but was rejected. At this time, how could Zhang Huaien not know that the situation had changed because of the emperor's illness, but he could not deal with it, and could only borrow wine to relieve his sorrow at home.

Yuan Hao and the others wanted to investigate the truth of the emperor's serious illness, and they had to find an opportunity to approach the emperor.

But unfortunately, Zhang Huaien had no chance to approach the emperor at all.

Yuan Hao and the others considered carefully and risked investigating who was stopping Zhang Huaien from presenting evidence. Before, they mixed into the Wang family banquet, just for this matter.

Sure enough, they heard that it was a certain clan son who wanted to show favor to the noble families in the southeast, so he took action to hinder Zhang Huaien.

The emperor was seriously ill, and the eight clan sons of the Sima family all had different movements.

At this time, Yuan Hao knew that if he wanted to approach the emperor and find out the truth, he could only choose to rely on a certain clan son.

But the important plot character in the main mission one was marginalized in the main mission two, which was really unreasonable. Yuan Hao thought carefully, only to find that perhaps they had found the wrong person.

In the previous mission, that line of inconspicuous, as if plot preview-like prompt was the extremely important clue.

"A Daoist rides a deer north, a knight helps because of a promise, a scholar draws a river with one stroke, and a princess has the world's style..."

"After the battle of blocking the river, we thought the plot was over, so we let the Elder Yu Chen Daoist ride the deer and leave on his own, but we didn't expect him to be an important plot character in the main mission two."

"The night before, he broke into the Wang family and humiliated Wang Yan, and then I understood that the real clue should be on him. Besides the clan sons who can approach the emperor, princesses can obviously also... They are all royal clans, and at this time, the royal clan is easier to meet the emperor than the outer court."

"Besides the eight clan sons, Princess Qingcheng and Princess Xinan should also be able to approach the emperor... They are all royal clans."

Luo Tong hesitated: "But that Elder Yu Chen Daoist is at least a great cultivator at the Yin Spirit realm. We all saw it that day. He beat Wang Yan like a father beating a son. A dignified Yin Spirit cultivator actually had no power to fight back."

"So, if we can have him as an arm, the mission will be simpler." Yuan Hao said calmly.

"I found out the location of Princess Qingcheng's mansion today..." Yuan Hao's face twitched, and he whispered: "Princess Qingcheng is deeply favored by the emperor. Just in Jiankang, she has six residences, a manor beside Xuanwu Lake, a manor by the Qin Huai River, a princess mansion in the Imperial City, and a Daoist temple on Zhong Shan, and a mansion in the Inner City..."

Luo Tong smacked his tongue: "Then where does she live?"

Yuan Hao said in a deep voice: "It is said that Princess Qingcheng has always admired the Daoist gate and hated worldly affairs, so she lives the least in the princess mansion in the Imperial City, and often lives in the Daoist temple on Zhong Shan outside the city. But today I went to test... I almost couldn't come back!"

Du Xiuniang exclaimed: "What?"

"In the Daoist temple, there is a great Yin Spirit cultivator, and it is definitely the orthodox lineage of the Daoist gate. That Daoist temple is not a princess's residence at all, it is clearly a place for a group of Daoists to practice."

"When He Fan manipulated the puppet to go in, it was instantly smashed into pieces by several spells, and a seal was smashed from the temple. If I hadn't taken action... now He Fan has taken the Ganlin Elixir to recover a little!"

Du Xiuniang suddenly said: "That must be the true transmission of Mount Juqu!"

Yuan Hao and Luo Tong looked up in surprise: "How do you know?"

Du Xiuniang smiled bitterly: "Because Princess Qingcheng is a true disciple of the Daoist Academy, possibly Tao Tianshi's direct disciple! The Daoist temple she practices in should be for the disciples of Mount Juqu to stay when they enter the capital."

"Then shouldn't that Elder Yu Chen Daoist also be Tao Tianshi's disciple?" Luo Tong asked in surprise.

"Not necessarily, the true transmission of the Daoist gate has many friends. If he were a disciple of Mount Juqu, Xu Daofu should recognize him, but the two seem not to know each other. This person's background should also be a bit extraordinary..."

Yuan Hao remembered the scene when Qian Chen took action that day, and still had some faint palpitations: "This person is proficient in arrays, maybe he is a disciple of the overseas Daoist gate in the Earth Immortal Realm."

"We can't break in anymore!" Yuan Hao said: "Although Elder Yu Chen Daoist had a meeting with us, he might not remember much friendship. Breaking in randomly, if he is unhappy and takes action, I can't stop him. And it will definitely offend both of them, ruining our opportunity to borrow their residence to complete the mission."

"Tomorrow, we will visit and test in the name of asking for help. Start from the two mansions in the Inner City, directly use the identity of the Xie family's guest to visit and ask, ask Zhang Huaien to write a visiting card, use the meeting on the boat, and say that please ask the princess to introduce one or two to relieve the great disaster."

Luo Tong said: "Today I went out to inquire and heard a piece of news that should be useful."

Yuan Hao frowned: "What news?"

"Wang Yan was humiliated and became a laughingstock among the noble families. His grand-nephew, the famous Wang Longxiang, might come back to seek justice for his uncle."

Du Xiuniang inhaled: "Princess Qingcheng only contradicted Wang Yan before, and Wang Longxiang blocked the door for several days, sword-challenging the eight clan sons of the Sima family. Now Wang Yan has no face to see people! Then he won't..."

"This line of Princess Qingcheng also has trouble..."

Yuan Hao frowned: "And it might be more troublesome than those clan sons. But if we take this line, we have two major reinforcements: Elder Yu Chen Daoist and Princess Qingcheng. Let's try it first! Reconnecting with this plot character is quite important. Even if we don't take this line, it will be useful." ===== CHAPTER 327 =====