Chapter 128

The next day, Lu Xingzhou moved out of the inn and hid in a secret residence arranged by Sheng Qingfeng.

The conditions were much better than the inn, with abundant spiritual energy and an elixir furnace and earth fire, creating a cultivation cave in a place like the capital.

Lu Xingzhou no longer involved himself in the disturbances of the capital, and devoted himself to studying alchemy books to prepare for the upcoming assessment.

Originally, the Alchemy Academy generally enrolled in early April, and the assessment was in March. This year, I don't know why it was brought forward, starting in late February, so there were only a few days left.

In fact, the reason for the advance was very much related to him... His answer in Meng Li's house was handed to Gu Zhanting by Meng Li, and Gu Zhanting read the paper and felt that this was truly an alchemy talent, so don't mess around in the capital all day, it's better to let him enroll early. Look at how many days he has been in the capital, he has done more work than others in a year, it's better to give him some serious work to do.

As a result, the entire Alchemy Academy assessment was brought forward, and some people were still on the road.

Of course, the main reason was that Gu Zhanting now attaches more importance to alchemy than other matters. Half of the final assessment of this academic year of the Alchemy Academy failed, which made him furious and deeply disappointed. At this moment, a Lu Xingzhou appeared, and Gu Zhanting was very interested.

So the Emperor's impression of Lu Xingzhou was very good before this first meeting, and the impression after this meeting was even better.

The premise is that he doesn't know that his daughter has used both hands and feet, otherwise what might come is not the Alchemy Academy assessment, but the vegetable market.

Lu Xingzhou devoted himself to reading, and Pei Chuyun didn't follow into the secret chamber again.

In mid-February, the head of the top family Pei, the Great Qian Prime Minister Pei Qingyan, announced that he had lost his daughter in his early years, and now he had found her back, and loved her extremely. He held a grand ceremony for recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan, invited celebrities in the capital to watch the ceremony, and introduced the found daughter to the upper echelons of the entire capital.

No one knows how this daughter popped out...

No matter how much it is a world of cultivation, not everyone has the aptitude for cultivation. For example, Pei Qingyan's official wife was a delicate family lady, her culture was very excellent, but unfortunately she had no cultivation, and as a result, she died of dystocia and massive hemorrhage when giving birth to Pei Yu, and could not be saved. Since then, Pei Qingyan didn't know if he wanted to set up a deep-love persona, or because his cultivation had reached the Upper Three Grades and he didn't have much desire for men and women, so he never remarried, and Pei Yu became the only seedling.

You didn't remarry, so where did you give birth to a daughter two or three years younger than Pei Yu out of thin air?

If you think kindly, it should be born by a maid, and then not valued, leading to loss and wandering. If you think maliciously, it was born from messing around outside, and maybe it was a brothel...

Fortunately, the most malicious didn't think that this was the female Bodhisattva of the Hehuan Sect.

But no matter which one it is, with the Emperor's grace as a foundation, and the gold body of the Imperial College plated, rumors and gossip have no meaning. That is to say, the Emperor also recognized that this daughter is upright, and her mother can be regarded as a remarriage, who are you?

However, if it were normal circumstances, for the sake of his own face, even if he found this daughter, he would only pick her up quietly and would not make it public for people to discuss. Unexpectedly, Pei Qingyan could actually sacrifice his old face and make the ceremony so grand, obviously just to not treat this daughter badly and announce her status to the world.

So everyone knew how much Pei Qingyan loved this daughter.

In order to clarify the "inglorious past" of Pei Chuyun having been Lu Xingzhou's maid, and even more afraid that others would question her innocence, Lu Xingzhou didn't go to participate in the ceremony at all, and what was left for others to discuss was just Pei Qingyan's "helping to find relatives" in public, reducing the ambiguity to the lowest.

The one who went to participate in the ceremony to eat melons was Sheng Yuanyao taking A-Nuo.

"You didn't see it, that scene, tsk tsk, those who know say it's a ceremony for recognizing relatives, those who don't know think it's Fengchan, it's so luxurious... really rich." In the secret chamber, Lu Xingzhou was refining elixirs, Sheng Yuanyao took off her boots and sat cross-legged beside him, talking about what she saw with interest: "And some of the manuscripts they read, I go, I don't understand half of the words in an article."

Lu Xingzhou was very helpless: "My Sheng Commander, if I remember correctly, you have a position, don't you have to go to work?"

"I'm recuperating."

"Your wound was healed a few days ago."

"I am also a manager, I have the final say in my affairs, saying that recuperating is recuperating, if you are not convinced, go to Deputy Commander Sheng."

"..." Lu Xingzhou was dumbfounded: "Hey, where did your previous serious and responsible attitude go?"

"I said I came back to the capital to lie flat; if it weren't for Ye Wufeng's matter, I wouldn't have anything to do, and I was hunting before." Sheng Yuanyao arched his shoulder: "Are you going hunting with me?"

"Sorry, I'm a cripple."

"Pfft." Sheng Yuanyao's topic unconsciously returned to Pei Chuyun: "Hey, your green tea used to disguise her beauty, right? Today I saw her true face at the ceremony, plus the grand dress, she is really beautiful! You don't know, how many young masters' eyes were straight, and there were even people who proposed marriage on the spot, and were thrown out by Prime Minister Pei."

Lu Xingzhou smiled slightly: "Very good."

"No, you still say very good?" Sheng Yuanyao reached out and touched his forehead: "Are you sick? This means someone is competing with you, not the little maid you can play with however you want."

"After she returned to the Pei family, she was no longer someone I could touch casually." Lu Xingzhou said calmly: "That doesn't matter... I said it's very good because she deserves to be treated well by her family, and she deserves to be sought after by ten thousand people and famous in the capital."

Sheng Yuanyao looked him up and down and didn't speak.

"Why, what's that expression?"

"Nothing." Sheng Yuanyao said leisurely: "It's no wonder she grabbed A-Nuo and asked where you were; you can be considered worthy of her thinking."

"It's you, aren't you very incompatible with her? You started saying good things."

"As you said... After she returned to the Pei family, you probably won't have a share. You have Shen Tang, playing with a maid is fine, but the Pei family daughter is impossible... uh..."

Speaking to the end, she suddenly felt that she had spoken wrongly, and Sheng Yuanyao flushed and didn't speak.

This meaning, the fundamental reason for being incompatible with Pei Chuyun is fighting for jealousy, right? Once she found that the other party had no threat, there was nothing to fight about...

Her heart turned, and she hurriedly found a supplement: "Anyway, I just don't like her; she is clearly so dissolute, but today she pretends to be dignified!"

Lu Xingzhou turned to look at her pretty face blushing, and whispered: "Speaking of good-looking, you are no worse than her."

Sheng Yuanyao stuttered: "Hey, you..."

A voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Is that so? I don't believe it."

The door was pushed open, and Pei Chuyun stood there clapping her hands, A-Nuo was beaten to the ground to one side, with two circles in her eyes.

"Little brat, you really thought you could stop me, creating opportunities for your Sister Yao? Pfft, forgot who lived and ate with you longer? You ungrateful thing." Pei Chuyun clapped her hands and walked in gracefully.

Lu Xingzhou turned to look, and couldn't help but flash a look of amazement in his eyes.

He knew how beautiful Pei Chuyun's true face was before, but after all, she didn't have such a grand dress and light makeup. So, in addition to the enchanting look seen daily, she added dignity and elegance, and that kind of noble and clear look that kept people thousands of miles away suddenly popped out, which was very contrasting.

In terms of beauty alone, the little demoness could really compete for the top three in the world, if there was such a list.

Look at Melon Sister, her eyes were straight; this kind of beauty is really killing both men and women.

"Why are you here?" Lu Xingzhou came back to his senses, a little strange: "This time should be after the banquet, don't you have anything to do as the protagonist?"

"You also know it's after the banquet; at this time, famous ladies should be resting in their boudoirs, but unfortunately I am a little demoness, can't I steal out?"

Lu Xingzhou laughed: "Why bother, acting dignified for a few days is fine. You ran out, and no one can stop you on the surface, but I think your father knows it in his heart; he is a Grade 1 fierce person."

"No, if I don't run out, let you hook up with people here?" Pei Chuyun gracefully lifted her skirt and squatted down, leaning in front of Sheng Yuanyao who was sitting cross-legged, smiling: "Miss Sheng said my little maid only knows how to hook up and is not decent, I thought Miss Sheng's family was upright and clean, but it turns out she is also a man and woman alone in a dark room, where is the decency?"

Sheng Yuanyao said angrily: "He and I are innocent, friends, some people have dirty hearts and see everything as dirty!"

Pei Chuyun sneered: "Don't you know that under the melon field and under the plum tree..."

Sheng Yuanyao: "Where is the melon?"

Pei Chuyun: "?"

The two women stared at each other for a long time, and Pei Chuyun finally piled up a smile again: "Miss Sheng, the little maid is going to accompany the bed, do you want to be together?"

Sheng Yuanyao really couldn't hold it: "You are now a Pei family noble girl, can you have some face?"

Pei Chuyun began to enlarge the move: "I know that we maids are not qualified to compete with the young lady, young lady don't be angry, I'll go..."

"You..." Sheng Yuanyao almost exploded. She could argue with Pei Chuyun for a whole day and night, but she couldn't hold on for a cup of tea.

Originally, she thought that since the dead maid was recognized back, Lu Xingzhou had no one around him and could occupy him, but she didn't expect that this shameless one would steal out at night to private meet her lover. What's annoying is that there is no way to make Lu Xingzhou say a word, because she is really not suitable to stay here, and she has no confidence at all. If she wanted Lu Xingzhou to speak, Lu Xingzhou would only tell her Sheng Yuanyao to go back, and if she stayed too late, Sheng Qingfeng would explode.

Sheng Yuanyao was full of anger, and ran away angrily: "I'll see when you two capsize, don't be blocked by Pei Qingyan at the door, the noble girl who just recognized her home is about to be expelled from the house!"

Watching Sheng Yuanyao run away angrily, Pei Chuyun curled her lips: "Unbearable."

Lu Xingzhou sighed: "Why bother..."

"I'm jealous, can't I?" Pei Chuyun turned behind him and reached out to pinch his shoulder: "Young Master... A-Yun misses you..."

"I see that the Pei Prime Minister is really good to you, wishing to pick the stars in the sky and give them to you, shouldn't you be happy and not think about the boat?"

Pei Chuyun bit her lower lip, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "But in the eyes of the ten thousand people chasing at the ceremony, what I thought was just... if the young master saw me like this, would it be more fun at night? Unfortunately, I waited and waited, and the young master never came... So my heart was empty."