Chapter 17 Fruit-bodied Men
"All of you are Immortal Cultivators, remember to keep your poise in front of the earthly powers. Mortals, are like ants." Before going on stage, Le Piao Piao calmly said to the crowd, "Especially the three masters' immortal demeanor, is it not comparable to ordinary princes and ministers?"
The villagers have never seen the world, in the backstage preparation, I do not know how many legs wobble, so Le Pei Pei hastened to psychological counseling, otherwise the performance can be bad how to do?
Really bad performance, the reward money is no need to think about, a good day, beheading is not so bad, but let the emperor is not happy, is not when you want to repair you, when to repair you? And to eliminate tension, nothing works better than cultivating a sense of human superiority. Besides, what she said is not wrong, the three masters dress up, but also really top handsome, look at the whole palace, except for individual, who can not compare. Along the way, how many palace maidens blush shyly, hate can't come up to accost.
Before she also instructed the three masters, winks should be thrown, but need to master the fire and degree, hooking up with the noblewoman of the clan is a capital offense. But if the force is appropriate, caused all the consorts and princesses, nieces and nephews of the emperor and the emperor niece of a class of more reward, that is the ability. Her three masters were superbly beautiful, so how could they not make good use of it.
Le's theory: earn what you can, never mind.
Under her strong appeasement, the crowd immediately straightened their chests, and their mental situation was much better. Still, she was a little afraid that Second Master would fall ill at a critical moment, and he would be in trouble if he thought he was a woman again.
It had snowed again the night before, but the birthday banquet was held in a large hall, and it was said that there was a geothermal hot spring under the palace, and I don't know which skilled craftsman drew hot water under the floor, so the whole hall was warm as spring, blocking out the coldness after the snow.
The emperor naturally sat in the main seat, under which the left and right sides, filled with high-grade civil and military ministers. The custom of this time and space, and Chinese history before the Tang dynasty is similar, take kneeling or sitting on the ground on the mat way, the table is with a few or qin a few like a short few, very rough and free.
As for the lower-ranking officials, yet qualified enough to enter the palace, they were placed elsewhere by kowtowing at the lower steps of the great hall.
There were several sets of people engaged in recreational activities, all housed in the side halls, and there were not many guards, except for the inner eunuchs who arranged the order and the imperial guards who maintained order. In fact, if you think about it, you will understand that the Emperor is a great master of the Jindan stage, and in the Great Qin State that does not allow folk to cultivate immortality, how many mortal assassins can't hurt him.
And the fact proves, Feng Jiu's charm not only kills men and women, even half-male eunuchs are also by his charming eyes to the brake, bones crispy to allow Le PiaoPiao lying on the side of the door of the side of the hall to the hall to see. Le Peopeo as a non-skilled labor, can not be on the field, but it is not easy to come to the palace once, how also have to look at the emperor what kind of right?
Between the clothes and the sideburns, she saw the dragon face of the Emperor of Great Qin. There is no three heads and six arms, just a majestic tall old man, looks very handsome, but not as handsome as his son. But after all, is the emperor, that kind of superior majesty, or people naturally born to fear. Today is his fifty whole birthday, than this auspicious number, have to say he really is not a spread vanity emperor.
In his side, sitting a few concubines, of course, all the top beauty, one of the thirty-something years old, snow-white skin, sitting closest to Baili Songtao, eighty percent is the snow princess. Just in addition to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Qin even a princess is not, the Emperor's knee, really a little cold.
Huh, why is Prince Bo not there?
Le Peopeo's gaze scanned halfway across the room, unexpectedly not seeing Baili Bu and his personal guard Yan Beitian. Could it be that he left in the first half of the birthday banquet? It couldn't be, could it? He was the Emperor's favorite, the only heir, and I heard that the father-son relationship was quite close, so how could he have disappeared on such a formal occasion? While she was gossiping and creating countless imaginations, she was suddenly pulled aside by Koichiro.
"Don't pull me, I still want to see what Lord Sagittarius looks like." Le Piao Piao protested with great dissatisfaction.
Xiao Yilang cried and whispered, "You still have the heart to look at Lord Sagittarius, your master I'm about to be beheaded!"
"What's so serious?" Le Piao Piao was startled.
At times like this, Koichiro would never joke. But she had been watching by the door, the other programs in the village had performed well and received a lot of applause and praise, only Xiao Yilang's grand finale, the Great Changing Pigeon, was left.
"The pigeon is gone." Koichiro looked sad.
"What? You even lost the props, what's the point of performing." Le Pei Pei pressurized her voice and yelled.
This matter could be big or small if put normally, but this was Baili Songtao's fiftieth birthday, and suddenly there was a problem, and if someone unkindly said that this was a crime of deceiving the king, their entire village would be unable to eat it!
"I don't know what's going on, the pigeon cage is clearly fastened." Koichiro said seriously, "What day is today, how could I have been careless? I even double-checked before, but I just went to check and the cage was open and the pigeons were gone."
So weird? Le Piao Piao calmed down a bit. The props and stuff were placed in the corner of the side hall. With people coming and going, it was very difficult for someone to tamper with it. Moreover, their village was very low-profile, and they hadn't officially shown their faces before, so who would target a group of douchebags?
"You wait here, I'll go look for it." Le Piao Piao made an instant decision.
That pigeon had tried before, it couldn't fly and was so dumb that it could only jump with its feet. Moreover, in order to perform, the pigeon had bells hanging on its body, so at least it had a target to look for. However, the palace is so big, a pigeon to hide in the corner, looking up is really like looking for a needle in a haystack. If it ran away early, it would be even more difficult.
Le Piu Piu was not optimistic about the result, but she couldn't do nothing. If she had a chance, she should make a hundred percent effort, that was her life's credo.
Xiao Yilang pulled her back, "It's better for me to go! The palace can't be trespassed, you're weak, you can't even run away if you're caught."
Master was truly heartbroken for her, but this proposal was something that simply wouldn't work. She knew that she couldn't run around in the palace, but as long as she was careful, no one would notice her in the midst of all the festivities.
"Why do you always think about being caught, too little confidence." Le Piao Piao pulled Xiao Yi Lang, "You stay here, you can't move around. Although there is going to be a song and dance in the middle of the show before your magic trick, you have to keep an eye on it here. In case I can't come back soon, don't you have another magic show in front of you? Top it off for a while and buy some time."
"Then let Lao Er and Lao San ......," Koichiro stopped mid-sentence.
Because he also knew that Feng Jiu and No Signs were too eye-catching in that appearance to do a secret search. In the palace, it was again impossible to use spells.
"You have to be careful which." He instructed, particularly uneasy.
"You have to stall for time." Le Piao Piao also instructed.
Although she was wearing new clothes today, they were ordinary to the extreme gray. For the sake of convenience, she was also dressed as a man. The only thing was that the "boil" on her head was a bit bigger, so she had to wrap her head in the same color to cover it up. Unfortunately, because of the reflection of the snowy night, even though it was already night, the light of the sky outside was still bright, so it was not easy to hide.
She tried her best to sneak around the roots of the walls and bare bushes, and did not dare to step on the snow piled up on the side of the road for fear of making creaking noises, and under the tiredness and nervousness, it was only a little more than half an hour, and her kind of super afraid of the cold actually broke out into a layer of fine sweat in the snowy night.
Can't find ah! Can not find ah! How to do? She stared at her ears and listened for half a day, but in addition to the distant sound of silk and bamboo, even the sound of bells did not send often. If this continued, she would have to give up and go back to find a way to face it.
What to do?
Anxious to the extreme, suddenly a flower in front of the eyes, the purple hair and golden pupil man appeared in front. His half of the absolute beauty to Le PiaoPiao, gently waved his hand, as if to call her over.
She couldn't even think about it, Le Peopeo ran over to him. The strange thing is, she seems to never catch up with him, the distance between the two "people" is always the same, until she chased to a palace courtyard, he disappeared.
I don't know why, Le PiaoPiao a little heartache. Because ...... that man seems very tired and weak, every time out, even the shadow is fainter, seems to dissipate at any time. Again, it seemed that he was putting his life on the line to help her.
If that was the case, she would rather he didn t come out. But, he was helping her, right?
She looked up at the palace courtyard, the location was a bit remote, and the shape was not lofty, obviously it was not where the nobles lived. This made her feel slightly more at ease, but there were two lanterns hanging in front of the courtyard's door, and there were lights reflecting from within the courtyard, so there was about someone there.
How to find a way to get in? Inexplicably, Le Peopeo trusted the purple-haired man with golden pupils, even if he came and went without a trace, she was not afraid of him. And he lured her over, nine times out of ten, the pigeon ran into this courtyard.
"Catch! It's flying!" Suddenly, a shout came from the courtyard. Then came the sound of many people's footsteps and shouts.
Le Piao Piao didn't have time to observe, only vaguely feeling the cloudy clouds flying over her head, she hurriedly shrank deeply into the shadows of the corner to hide. Though curious, she did not dare to poke her head out to see, only waiting for the sudden outpouring of people's voices to fade away before she stood out.
The pigeon that flew away was by no means the one she was looking for, because the shadows were huge, and the pigeon she was looking for couldn't fly. Besides, a pigeon is just a pigeon, which uses so many people to chase after it? Perhaps, this palace courtyard is a place specialized in raising big birds, and just now it ran away from something particularly precious. In modern times, there are not stars specializing in raising beasts? Speaking of pigeons are also birds, it is about to find companions. And listening carefully to the commotion, it seemed that all the people in the courtyard had chased it out. In that case, she could just sneak in and search.
As her heart moved, Le Peopeo ran to the courtyard gate, cautiously looked in, and seeing that the courtyard was empty, without any flowers, trees or human traces, she immediately dashed in. After quickly looking around, but did not find any pigeon traces in the courtyard, so she had to harden her heart and tiptoe into the wide and unusual main house.
She didn't hear any sound outside, so there should be no one.
In the end is the palace, even if this cold courtyard, furnishings and other things are still very expensive. The main hall is elegantly and generously decorated, the side hall seems to be a lounge, although there is no bed, but there is a place where the veil is heavy, laying a thick animal skin mat.
"Quickly find, then quickly leave." Le Piao Piao said to herself.
Then, movement was heard.
Surprised, she followed the sound and looked presently at the side hall, thinking it was that murderous pigeon, but it turned out to be a person, turning out from behind the screen.
A man. Naked man.