The rain of peach blossoms fell from the sky, stunning all the outsiders. Some even kneeled on the ground and pressed their heads against the ground to express their piety.
Lou Muge stood quietly on top of a tall building, and his eyes scanned downward, taking in the panoramic view of the scene below.
The hazy moonlight shone on his body, casting his white clothes with an immortal aura. The breeze blew by, and his banished-immortal-like face was calm and bland, without any expression.
“What did you hear?” A voice suddenly came from the tall tree next to him.
Lou Muge’s eyes became lighter, and without turning to look at the speaker, he pondered for a moment and said, “Good people seeking health, and evil people seeking wealth. That’s it.”
Tang Yixiao was standing among the dense branches and leaves. His black robe perfectly blended into the night, and he listened to him without making a sound.
“But it was that idiot Yanbei who made the most boring wish among these thousands of people.” Lou Muge added.
After hearing this, Tang Yixiao gave a light smile. But soon, he flattened the corners of his mouth again and said, “How can we draw conclusions based on this as to who is evil or good? Whether it’s health, wealth, or power, they are all just driven by human desires, and the same goes for you.”
“Indeed.” Lou Muge’s eyes suddenly caught a smile before he turned to look at Tang Yixiao, “If it had been like that, I would have killed that bird that chirps all day long and stays noisy with a shovel to calm her down. You also know that I don’t have a good temper.”
“She dared to be so presumptuous because she knew you wouldn’t touch her. I have already taught her a lesson today.” He said.
Lou Muge stopped answering, and after a moment of silence between the two, Tang Yixiao spoke again, “Your brother is here. Aren’t you going to go see him?”
“Why didn’t I know before that you were so nosy?” Lou Muge looked at him with a slightly disgusted look.
“Okay, okay, I won’t mention him.” Tang Yixiao thought in his heart: Why am I being disliked by everyone now?
“It’s almost time.” Lou Muge raised his head, looked at the crescent moon in the night sky, and murmured in a low voice.
“Soon, soon.” Tang Yixio said, sighing slightly, “I hope nothing goes wrong.”
“Those cultivators can’t accomplish anything. So just ignore them.” Lou Muge raised his right hand, and the white fan hidden under his sleeve was exposed. He touched the bell with his fingers, and there seemed to be infinite nostalgia in his eyes, “On that day, I will go and watch to make sure things go well1Wanna know what they are talking about? Wait till I post ‘Chapter 53’.”
“That’s best.” After hearing his words, Tang Yixiao seemed to be relieved.
By chance, a cool breeze passed by, bringing comfort and relaxation to the heat of June. The dense leaves rustled, bringing a shower of petals back to the sky.
The night sky was destitute, and the little pink seemed to have never appeared before.
Wen Chan looked up and then looked down at the petals held between his fingertips. He sighed and said, “Wuyue Island is indeed a magical place.”
After praying, people started singing and laughing again, and Liang Yanbei pulled Wen Chan out of the crowd. As he walked, he sized up the restaurants on both sides of the road and asked, “Where to eat?”
“Just find a random place, and let’s get back to business after dinner.” Wen Chan didn’t care about this.
“What should we eat? How about noodles?” Liang Yanbei mumbled to himself. They walked half a street before he found a slightly satisfying noodle shop.
After the two of them went in and took their seats, Liang Yanbei called out to the waiter. Before anyone could come, his gaze was suddenly attracted by a jade hairpin shop opposite the noodle shop.
“You order first. I’ll eat whatever you eat. I’ll go out for a while.” Liang Yanbei stood up again and told Wen Chan. He then quickly left the noodle shop.
Wen Chan was confused, watching him go straight to the jade hairpin shop. He wondered: Could it be that he had gone to buy jewellery?
“This little guest, what would you like to eat?” The voice of the waiter interrupted his thoughts, and with a glib talk, he reported the noodles from the shop.
“Two bowls of green pepper noodles2
.” Wen Chan said.
“Sir, if you both order the same type of noodles, you guys will be getting a loss. Every bowl in our store has an ample quantity. So I advise you to order different dishes.” The waiter in the shop somehow had to say more.
“If you want to eat green pepper noodles, you can order shredded pork noodles3
or cowpea noodles4
for your brother.”
“Brother?” Wen Chan was a little surprised, and said in a daze, “We are not brothers.”
“Could he be your esteemed father?5Lol, does he look that old?” The waiter slapped his thigh and exclaimed, “Read my lips. I’m really sorry. This humble one thought your father looked too young6Okay, my question answered.……”
Wen Chan interrupted him, “Why are you getting more and more outrageous with your words? He is just my friend.”
“This…… Didn’t you say that he is not your brother?” The waiter asked weakly.
“It’s true that we are not brothers.” Wen Chan was also confused by his question.
Actually, it was not the waiter’s fault. These days, Wuyue Island is full of people from Jianghu.
People from Jianghu didn’t have the water-like-insipid-friendship-between-gentlemen that was there among literati and aristocratic people, or the kind of camaraderie friendship in which one party does something for the other and then the other returns it to them. After a glass of wine and a piece of meat, they all become brothers who walk arm in arm.
Moreover, no one who was chosen by the sects visited this small noodle shop. So the waiter naturally classified Wen Chan and Liang Yanbei into the category of Jianghu people.
The waiter saw that the relationship between the two was not that of master and servant, so he made his own guess. After realising that Wen Chan did not understand the meaning, he laughed and said, “Please wait a moment, my dear guest. We will bring the noodles here soon.”
Wen Chan waited boredly, looking around at the people in the store, and found a strange little thing. While thinking about it, Liang Yanbei came back.
“Where did you go?” He asked.
“I found a strange person.” Liang Yanbei sat down and said, lowering his voice, “Maybe he is the one who kidnapped Young Lady Jiang.”
“You mean Jiang Yueying?” Only after he said this did Wen Chan remember that there was still this matter. Wasn’t the cause of this situation Jiang Yueying’s disappearance? It seemed that Liang Yanbei and Xie Zhaoxue came to Wuyue Island with the emperor’s order to find her.
The investigation of the Shengui Clan was a matter that must have been done incidentally.
“That’s right.” Liang Yanbei said in a low voice, “Previously in the capital, I interrogated all the people around the old woman Wu, and learned that her son Wu Qi is a lame man. Because he is disabled, he does not have a stable livelihood. He just sells some snacks on the roadside to earn money for his family.”
Lame man? When Wen Chan heard this, the man who bumped into Liang Yanbei in the restaurant during the day suddenly came to mind.
“I just saw him in the jade jewellery store opposite. All kinds of women’s jewellery are sold there.” Liang Yanbei gently tapped his fingers on the table and said slowly, “Besides, as soon as he saw me, he quickly lowered his head and left.”
Thirty-one years old, with a disabled leg, selling snacks from the capital, buying women’s jewellery, and being afraid of Liang Yanbei…… Putting these points together, Wen Chan had some thoughts, “Do you suspect that he is Wu Qi?”
Liang Yanbei nodded.
Wuyue Island was thousands of miles away from the capital. Few people here have seen Liang Yanbei before. Even if he announced his full name, no one would believe that he was from the Liang family.
And the news that he was from the Liang family had not disseminated from the City Lord’s mansion, and he had not done anything eye-catching. So where did the lame man’s fear come from?
Unless……
“Unless he is also from the capital and knows that you are an official of the imperial court, that’s why he was so scared.” Wen Chan thought for a while and said, “He knows that you came to Wuyue Island to catch him.”
Both Wu Qi’s son and his old mother stayed in the capital, and it was easy to find out where Wu Qi had gone by following the clues.
“He is not stupid. He is just confident that I have never seen him before.” Liang Yanbei sneered contemptuously, “He bumped into me once during the day and dared to come out at night. He is very brave.”
“Then why didn’t you catch him just now?” Wen Chan wondered.
Now that he has been convicted, why let the person go?
Liang Yanbei’s sneer froze when he heard this. He raised his eyes slightly to look at him, took a deep look, and said, “It doesn’t matter. I’ll fill my stomach first.”
“This Wuyue Island is not so big, but not so small either. There are so many people here. If you let him escape this time, how will you be able to find him then?” Wen Chan became a little anxious.
This was not the capital, and there was no capable manpower that you could mobilise, making it quite difficult to search.
If Wu Qi escaped like this, how could he find him anywhere in the world? If Liang Yanbei returned empty-handed, he would definitely develop a reputation for incompetence.
Liang Yanbei casually said, “I just noticed him wearing straw shoes on his feet. He should have gone out in a hurry. It is reasonable to suppose that he did not come out to walk about and buy jewellery. So I’m guessing he lives somewhere nearby.
Besides, he still has Jiang Yueying with him. If he wants to escape, he will have to avoid being discovered by others, so he won’t be able to leave for a while.
At the very least, he will not attempt to flee until there are fewer people.”
Now was a time when there were so many people there. So Liang Yanbei was really sure.
“Then let’s eat quickly.” Wen Chan was persuaded. But he was still a bit worried and urged the waiter again.
The speed of the latter was really fast. After the two of them chatted for a while, the noodles had already been served. As the waiter said, the portion of one bowl was quite sufficient.
The green peppers were mixed with black fungus and celery, plus a special sauce. It was very fragrant after mixing. When Wen Chan smelled it, he immediately felt hungry.
He didn’t expect that there would be celery in this dish. His eyes lit up with surprise, and he picked up the celery with his chopsticks to eat it at once.
Liang Yanbei noticed that Wen Chan had already eaten a few chopsticks of celery before even starting to mix the noodles. So he stretched out his chopsticks to push his chopsticks away and mixed the vegetables and sauce for him, “These noodles are supposed to be mixed first. How can you eat it without mixing?”
Wen Chan licked his chopsticks subconsciously, staring at the noodles being mixed, “It’s almost ready.”
“If you want to eat celery, you can ask for a plate of stir-fry on its own.” Liang Yanbei thought he looked quite cute and couldn’t help but curl up the corners of his lips.
Before he entered the capital, he had already gotten to know the princes and nobles thoroughly. And he had found that whenever His Highness the Ninth Highness was mentioned, people would hesitate to speak and then sigh.
Later, when he came into contact with him, he realised that he was very different from others.
His eyes were always full of calmness and composure, and there was a strange temperament in his body. Even when he stood quietly, he let people feel a sense of dignity for some reason.
But he loved to join in the fun, and the more crowded places were, the more he liked to go there.
Every time Liang Yanbei saw his subtle expressions, he felt that he was both cute and interesting.
“There is no need to go to such trouble.” Wen Chan didn’t know about Liang Yanbei’s rich mind world. He was still thinking about looking for Wu Qi, so he answered casually, picked some noodles, and started eating.
As soon as he stuffed it into his mouth, he saw Liang Yanbei putting celery in his bowl.
Wen Chan looked at him in surprise, swallowed the noodles in his mouth, and asked, “What are you doing?”
“I don’t like to eat celery, but you like to eat it. It was all bought with money, so don’t waste it.” He answered quickly.
Wen Chan thought: Don’t give me that s***t.
If we talk about Liang Yanbei’s favourite dish, celery ranks first. In his previous life, he personally cooked for Wen Chan. He cooked four dishes and one soup, and celery accounted for three of them.
In the end, Liang Yanbei himself finished all three dishes.
Now if he said that he didn’t like eating celery, wasn’t that just lying through his teeth?
Wen Chan held his bowl and pulled it back, “I think you are quite brave. You dare to throw things you don’t like into my bowl.”
Liang Yanbei winked at him.
He firmly refused to be enticed and pretended to be fierce, “Eat quickly. I won’t wait for you if I finish first!”
Liang Yanbei felt a little aggrieved and stuffed a large mouthful of noodles into his mouth, thinking to himself: I will finish before you.
What did he do after he finished eating first? After Liang Yanbei finished eating first, he patiently waited for Wen Chan to eat until he was full, then paid for the noodles, and they left together.
After he came to Wuyue Island, Wen Chan’s money was robbed by bandits, and he never recovered it. And he depended on Liang Yanbei for food, clothing, housing, and travel. He finally felt a little embarrassed and said to Liang Yanbei, “When I return to the capital, I will return all of these.”
Liang Yanbei responded nonchalantly, “Oh.”
Wen Chan added, “I’ll give you double the amount.”
After saying that, he remembered that he was no longer the emperor and did not have so much money. So he added, “Pretend I didn’t say what I just said.”
Liang Yanbei smiled and didn’t answer that, but said, “Do you find it a little strange?”
When he mentioned the word strange, Wen Chan suddenly remembered what he wanted to say to Liang Yanbei just then, “I just discovered a strange thing.”
“Today, in broad daylight, a monster appeared, and now there is no news about it at all. Don’t you think it’s weird?”
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