vstars Chapter 522 Pine and Bamboo Garden
Chapter 522 Pine and Bamboo Garden
The street outside the house began to become noisy and it was already dawn.
Sisi asked Chu Xiaomu and the other two to wash up, have breakfast together, and then take them to find Xuanying.
However, Jinglan and Chu Xiaomu still need to change their appearance and makeup to avoid being discovered by Jin Lier's people.
While waiting, Jinglan couldn't help asking about Sisi's strange magic. Sisi just sighed and said that she had been like this since she was a child. During the day, she would appear as a normal girl, but from the second half of the evening to the morning of the next day, she would turn into Granny Ma.
Jinglan asked if there was no magic medicine that could cure it?
Sisi said that she only knew that this was a congenital condition and had never thought of treating it. In the past two years, she wanted to cure this strange disease and asked some people, but no one had a cure. It was even more difficult to find a miraculous medicine, so she no longer had any hope.
Jinglan revealed her identity as a disciple of Tianxiang Huang Jieshi, and said that when she returned to Bicheng, she would ask her master for him to see if there was any good way to cure this strange disease that made her appear half a girl and half an old woman.
When Sisi heard Jinglan say that her master was Huang Tianxiang, one of the three great masters, her eyes lit up immediately. She said that she had long planned to go to Bicheng to find him, but was delayed by some things and had never made the trip. When the three of you finish your business and return to Bicheng, she will also go with you. Master Huang is proficient in magic and may be able to cure this strange disease.
Chu Xiaomu was sitting nearby and heard their conversation, but he was secretly worried. He thought, you are a pure spiritual body in the world, this phenomenon may not be a disease at all, but a manifestation of some kind of magic that you are born with. If you want to change it with spiritual medicine, it may be useless.
The four of them finished their breakfast brought by the waiter and left the inn together.
There was already a carriage covered with blue cloth waiting outside the guesthouse, which was prepared by Sisi's order.
Sisi gave the driver a few instructions, and got into the car with the three of them. She said softly, "He doesn't like to be disturbed by others, so he lives in a very remote place. We can only sit farther outside, and we still have to walk a long way."
Chu Xiaomu thought that Xuanying was a loner, so it was normal for him to live in a remote place. No wonder even though he was a big shot in Jinyang City, people outside hardly knew where he lived.
Sisi chatted with Jinglan and Xiaoying along the way, while Chu Xiaomu lifted a corner of the car curtain and carefully memorized the route they had taken.
After traveling about eight or nine miles, the driver called out to the horses to stop. Sisi said, "The carriage can only go so far, we will walk the rest of the way."
She took the three people down from the carriage without paying the fare, and the driver drove away on his own. Perhaps the waiter had paid for her, or the driver did not dare to take the fare from her.
Sisi led the three people along the street for a while, then turned into a narrow alley. Not long after they walked, four bronze-armored soldiers holding spears and wearing golden bird-feather helmets appeared in front of them.
Chu Xiaomu and the other two thought that they were going to have another conversation, but they saw that after the four soldiers saw Sisi, they immediately stopped their lazy appearance and stood straight, not daring to move.
Sisi ignored them and walked straight past them, saying, "The soldiers in Jinyang City are so lazy in everything they do. They need to be disciplined."
Then they walked for a long time in twists and turns, and from time to time they saw three or five soldiers standing guard along the way, surely to prevent others from accidentally breaking in.
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but feel a little worried. He thought that although Xuanying was a loner, he was also a very straightforward man. How come after becoming a general of Jinyang City, he liked to do such a strange and complicated thing? It would be fine if he lived a little further away, but why bother sending so many soldiers to guard the road?
I don’t know whether what Miss Sisi said was true or not, and whether he really remembers the friendship between us during the months in Jiaoshan.
After walking for a while, they opened a secret door and came to a huge manor. There were rockeries, streams, pavilions, terraces, exotic flowers and plants, but there were more bamboo and pine forests beside the path.
The bamboo joints are tall and lush, and the pine trees are towering and dense, giving it a unique rural flavor.
Xiaoying couldn't help asking, "Sister Sisi, are we there yet? It's really strange. Jinyang City is so big, how come we suddenly feel like we're in the countryside?"
Sisi looked around and said, "We're already here. He lives in this pine and bamboo garden, but I don't know if he's here today."
After walking along the path for a while, we came to a large house with gray bricks and green tiles. The style of the house was quite different from the houses in Jinyang City, and it was more like the style of Baijun City.
Two soldiers from Jinyang City wearing armor were sitting under a big pine tree next to the house. One of them was wearing silver armor and was obviously a silver lieutenant.
When Sisi saw the silver officer, her face lit up with joy and she called out, "Brother Zhou!"
The silver officer named Zhou also saw Sisi, and immediately stood up with another person, and responded, "Miss Sisi." Seeing two men and one woman behind her, a look of slight surprise appeared on his face.
Sisi led the three people over and asked, "Where is General Xuan? Is he not here?"
The silver officer surnamed Zhou said, "We received a message telling us to wait here. We have been here for half an hour, but we still haven't seen the general come back."
"Then when will he come back?"
"We don't know about that. You know about the general's affairs. We dare not ask about them."
Sisi sighed and said, "You're right. It's easy for him to find us, but it's extremely difficult for us to find him."
The silver lieutenant Zhou said, "A few months ago, the Red Army approached Jieyun Pass, and the general needed to deploy troops. The military supplies and fodder were insufficient, so he was needed to negotiate and mediate. Now there is an additional matter of selecting the gold lieutenant to recruit soldiers and horses, which also requires him to worry about. Naturally, his time is more valuable than ours."
Sisi said: "I have advised him several times to worry less, but he never listens. When you see him, please help me persuade him..."
The silver officer surnamed Zhou said, "Miss Sisi, you know the general's temper better than any of us. How could we have the guts to tell you this?"
Sisi could only sigh.
The silver officer surnamed Zhou went on to say, "The general is responsible for a very important matter, and people like us can't just see him whenever we want. Some idle people from outside think they can get close to the general just by having some money, but I'm afraid he won't even bother to see him." As he spoke, he glanced at Chu Xiaomu and the other two.
The three of them had already changed into the luxurious clothes they bought at Baila Market. Chu Xiaomu and Jinglan, who was dressed as a man, were handsome and elegant, while Xiaoying was even more beautiful like a spring light. One could tell at a glance that they were the masters or young masters of a wealthy family.
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but get angry, thinking to himself, I'm not some idler who comes to Xuanying to make connections. I'm coming to him for something a hundred times more important than your selection of the Golden Officer!
However, under someone else's roof, this anger could not be vented.