Chapter 344: The Honest Young Man (Part )
Chapter 344: The Honest Young Man (Part )
Last time, we talked about Li Yi sharing a secret with Xiang Ying and Jing Xin. He is really an honest young man, and he never tells the truth! So what kind of lies will our honest young man tell next? Let's read on.
Li Yi sang the song "I Want to Sing to You" to make Jing Xin fall into his arms. Don't get me wrong, she is a lady from a noble family, not what you think!
Jing Xin just gently leaned her head on Li Yi's shoulder, so that she could hear the inner voice of Master Wei more clearly and feel the charm he exuded. That charm was now visible, purple, swaying in front of her eyes like clouds, as if playing with her, as if interacting with her.
After the song was over, Li Yi gathered the mist in front of her eyes and condensed it into a bead emitting a purple-gold halo and handed it to Jing Xin. The latter took it in her hand and saw the words "Mu Qing" printed inside the bead. She excitedly held the bead in her hand, and her restless heart urged her to make a request: "Can you hug me?"
Li Yi pulled Jing Xin into his arms, rested his chin on her forehead and said, "You can't just hold me for nothing. You have to help me find someone."
Jing Xin raised her head and asked, "Who?"
Li Yi said, "Gu Zhou is the son of the chieftain of the Qiang tribe. The reason why the Chu army launched an attack on the Western Regions this time is to use his name. He should be imprisoned somewhere in Baidi City. Help me find out where he is."
Jing Xin lowered her head again and asked, "Why are you looking for him?"
Li Yi replied: "This time, the Chu army has disturbed the foundation of the country. Once the 100,000 Shenxi troops are buried in the Northern Wei, the Chu country will be in danger of extinction, so I want to persuade the king to withdraw the troops. Since he is the reason for sending troops, I have to think of a way to make this reason invalid, such as the son of the chieftain is fake."
Jing Xin shook her head and said, "But he is indeed the son of the chieftain, right?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "That's right, so we have to find him and make him fake. Then we can say that he is a liar, or a spy of Wei State, who tricked our Great Chu into sending troops. All this is a calculation of Wei State. But this alone is not enough, I have to use the Qu family to do something else."
Jing Xin raised her head again and asked, "Are you going to use the Qu family or Qu Xia?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Look at your little tricks, you have to take advantage of them, otherwise I can't do anything by myself, right?"
Jing Xin lowered her head and said, "You are not only going to use the Qu family, you are also going to use the Jing family and the Xiang family."
Li Yi nodded and said, "Of course, but the degree of utilization is different."
Jing Xin asked: "What should I do after you've used me? Are you going to throw me away?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "That depends on whether you still have value. If you still have value, I will naturally not throw it away."
Jing Xin said unhappily: "Why? Why can you say such things so bluntly, and I can't get angry?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Because you know that I am lying, you can hear my heart and know that my feelings for you are not fake, so you feel at ease, right?"
Jing Xin asked: "Will you marry three wives like Li Yi? One for each of Xiang Jing and Qu Xia? I tell you, you are not allowed to marry Qu Xia!"
Li Yi shook his head and smiled: "I don't think too much about whether to marry or not!"
Jing Xin raised her head and looked at Li Yi and said, "Look into my eyes and tell me if you are lying to me."
Li Yi looked into Jing Xin's eyes and said sincerely, "I promise that I will only marry you! What do you think? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
Jing Xin buried her head in Li Yi's chest again and said, "You got away with it."
At this time, a maid came from outside the house and reported: "Miss, Miss Xiang is back."
Jing Xin pushed Li Yi away, straightened her clothes, her face like a red apple.
Li Yi laughed and said, "Even a fool can see that there is something wrong with you!"
Jing Xin touched her burning face and said nervously, "Ah? Then, what should I do? It's over, Xiang Ying will definitely kill me! It's over, it's over, I'm dead now!"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Do as I say!"
When Xiang Ying entered the room, she saw Mo Bai pushing Jing Xin into a corner, her face flushed as if she was about to cry, while Li Yi was leisurely drinking tea beside her.
Jing Xin saw Xiang Ying coming and asked for help: "Xiang Ying, please save me, these two are bullying me!"
Xiang Ying asked: "What's going on?"
Li Yi said: "Ah, nothing, she insisted that my poems were not as good as Li Yi's, so I asked Mo Bai to scare her, you see she was not easily frightened!"
Xiang Ying said, "Okay, stop messing around and get down to business."
Li Yi whistled, and Mo Bai walked back to the room with a swagger.
Xiang Ying reached out and pulled Jing Xin over and said, "Why are you so scared of Mo Bai? Mo Bai is..."
Li Yi coughed and glared at Xiang Ying, who immediately reacted and said, "Mo Bai is so obedient, be nice to her, she will never be mean to you."
Jing Xin glanced at Li Yi and said, "Yes, I listen, but I only listen to him!"
Li Yi smiled and said, "How else can I listen to you?"
Xiang Ying said, "You are amazing. You knew Jing Xin was timid and a weak woman, but you still asked a big dog like Mobai to scare her. You really don't know how to cherish women! Just like you don't know how to cherish me!"
Jing Xin mocked, "Oh, that's not the case. Brother Wei is very kind to women, but not to us peonies and hibiscus. He is kind to the peonies."
When this was mentioned, Xiang Ying also remembered and asked, "Yes! What did your poem mean? I only understood it after Jing Xin explained it to me!"
Li Yi rolled his eyes at Jing Xin and said, "Today's poetry gathering may seem to be organized by you two, but in fact it has become a trap set by the Qu family. This trick of borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha is very clever by that old fox Mr. Qu. Everyone knows that you two are not on good terms with Qu Xia, but she still came. This shows how much the Qu family wants to win me over.
I just went with the flow and showed my lustful side, making Master Qu think that this was my weakness, and that he could charm me and control me just by using Qu Xia. And I wanted to use Qu Xia to take advantage of the Qu family, people are so sinister. "
Jing Xin added: "I don't know if she is really lustful or just pretending. I don't think the look in Qu Xia's eyes at the poetry meeting was fake!"
Xiang Ying nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes! How am I not as good as Qu Xia? I just don't like to dress up, otherwise I would definitely be prettier than her! Much prettier!"
Li Yi said to Jing Xin: "Can you explain to Xiang Ying the most basic criteria for judging a woman's beauty? I think she doesn't seem to understand this concept very well."
Xiang Ying said unhappily: "I'm telling you, I just don't dress up! Just wait! Tomorrow, tomorrow I'll let you see it!"
Li Yi waved his hand and said, "Sister Xiang, please let me go. Didn't you say you had something important to do?"
Xiang Ying said, "Three things. First, I just received the latest battle report from the front. Our army has conquered the two cities of Xiping and Wuwei. The Baiyu Army has divided its troops to guard the two cities and set up camps to strengthen the city defenses. The Shenxi Army has already marched towards Jiayu Pass. According to the time, they should have already attacked Jiayu Pass."
Li Yi asked: "How long do you think it will take to capture Jiayu Pass?"
Xiang Ying replied: "My elder brother's letter said that the prince's military order was for ten days, but Jiayu Pass is a strategic pass, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to capture."
Li Yi shook his head and said, "It won't take too long. If it takes a month to fight for Jiayuguan, then why bother to fight in the Western Regions? If the food and grass are exhausted, they won't be able to reach the Western Regions. Did the Wei army fortify the city and clear the fields?"
Xiang Ying replied: "Yes, this is my biggest doubt. The Wei army did not do this! Under normal circumstances, our army must fortify the city and clear the countryside when going on an expedition."
Li Yi looked at Jing Xin and sighed, "I was right, wasn't I? The Wei army is going to let the Shenxi army in, and then close the net and annihilate the 100,000 main forces of the Great Chu!" Li Yi asked, "Did Wei's Dugu Long show up?"
Xiang Ying shook her head and said, "I haven't seen him show up yet. I guess he should be waiting for the decisive battle in Guazhou!"
Li Yi naturally knew that Dugu Long would not show up, because he had already told him the secret of the immortal body after fighting Dugu Long in the North. It has been so long, and with Dugu Long's talent, he must have been promoted to the extraordinary realm. When you reach the extraordinary realm, you cannot kill mortals at will.
However, Li Yi would definitely not express his true thoughts. He just shook his head and said, "No, with his style of doing things, he will definitely rush to the front in a battle. There are only two possibilities for him not showing up now. First, he has not arrived at the battlefield yet, and second, he has not received the command and cannot act freely.
But this is an opportunity. It depends on whether Xiong Zhu can seize it. He must take Jiayu Pass and Yumen Pass before Dugu Long appears. Otherwise, if the Wei army surrounds them in advance, everything will be over. "
Xiang Ying looked at Li Yi and asked, "You've never been to a battlefield? But your analysis of the situation is pretty good."
Li Yi smiled and said, "I just know Dugu Long better than you do."
Jing Xin asked: "How do you know Dugu Long?"
Li Yi explained: "Looking at the outstanding young people in the world, there are only a few who can be named. They are all my competitors, so I naturally have to get to know them better. Not only Dugu Long, but also Liu Hong of Nanliang is familiar to me."
Xiang Ying asked: "Who is your opponent in Da Chu? Is it my brother?"
Li Yi smiled contemptuously. Xiang Ying remembered that her brother wanted to compete with Wei Le, but this young master Wei did not regard her brother as an opponent at all. The two were obviously not on the same level.
Thinking of this, Xiang Ying looked embarrassed and said, "When you were sparring with my brother, could you give him some face? Pretend that the fight was very strenuous?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "I feel sorry for your brother now, but do you think he wouldn't be able to tell if I held back when I reached his level? Would he be even more disappointed if I defeated him like that?"
Xiang Ying scratched her head and said, "You are right. Forget it, I don't care. Anyway, my brother wants to fight with you, and you also want to fight with my brother, so go ahead and fight! In any case, just be gentle and don't hurt my brother."
Jing Xin smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that your brother will hurt him?"
Xiang Ying looked at Li Yi with love and said with a smile: "My brother can't beat him, he really can't beat him, he doesn't stand a chance at all."
Jing Xin looked at the love in Xiang Ying's eyes and felt guilty. She thought: We had agreed on this before, but everything happened out of control. Oh! What should I do? He likes me, and I like him, but...
Oh, it's so annoying! How can we be good sisters who can talk about anything in the future? It's all his fault! If it weren't for him, there wouldn't be so many troubles!
Li Yi asked: "What is the second thing?"
Xiang Ying said: "The Qu family spread the news about today's poetry gathering. Now it is spreading in Baidi City, saying that a genius who can compete with Li Yi of the Northern Wei Dynasty has appeared in the Great Chu."
Li Yi smiled and said, "Okay, that's good. This will save me a lot of trouble. Sister Xiang, guess why I want to move out of the inn."
Xiang Ying shook her head to indicate that she didn't know. Li Yi looked at Jing Xin again, who also shook his head.
Li Yi replied: "That inn is owned by the Qu family. After arriving in Baidi City, my every move has been under the surveillance of the Qu family."
Xiang Ying slammed the table and said, "No wonder, no wonder that bitch Qu Xia came today! She came just to steal my man!"
Li Yi sighed and said, "First of all, I'm not your man. Secondly, don't call me a bitch! How can you call me a bitch when you open your mouth? We are all girls, how can you call me that!"
Xiang Ying said unhappily, "You don't know how bad Qu Xia is! How sinister! How immoral! Let me tell you, Jing Xin and I have been fighting with her since we were young, and we have never won against her many times!"
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