Chapter 152: Twin Trees and the Lovebirds
Ximen Qing was somehow unable to make any sense of the matter, without a better option he smiled and said, “My wife and I thanks Master Ye for your praise, but I think Master Ye and this fairy are actually more like the real amazing couple, the perfect match. Oh right…” He did not give Ye Wuchen and Meng Zhi a chance to deny it, facing Pan Jinlian he said, “ Lian-er, this is the young Master Ye of Tian Long City that I have always mentioned to you about.”
Pan Jinlian was startled at first, then she comprehended so she stepped forward and humbly bowed, “Nice to meet you, Master Ye.”
“By the way, Lian-er, Master Ye needs to travel very far, please have Xiao Si bring out my carriage and rush over here…”
“The carriage will not be necessary,” Ye Wuchen interrupted Ximen Qing, “On this journey there are a lot of the forest that we will pass through, the carriage not only attracts attention, but it will be more difficult to carry on, legs are more convenient. Just one horse for her to ride on instead of walking.”
“Hehe, alright, Master Ye you are really free and at ease. Lian-er, please have Xiao Si get our most excellent horse from the stable, Speck of Snow in a Thousand Miles (A name of a horse from a friendly guest in a random book).” Ximen Qing yelled efficiently.
[note: text in the parenthesis the author saying where he got the name :v]
Pan Jinlian responded as she headed out. Ye Wuchen immediately smiled and said, “Wuchen thanks brother Ximen in advance.”
“Don’t mention it, Master Ye. You and I are like old friends, as you are the kind of person that I want to make friends with all my life. It’s a pleasure to help you, I’m very delighted. I hope you can pay us another visit on your way home, for me to express my gratitude.”
The two of them never mentioned the matter concerning the Thousand Magic Camp. Very quickly, a snow white horse was pulled out, it was without any mixture of other colors. Ye Wuchen supported Meng Zhi up on the horse’s back. They bid farewell and left after verifying the road path with Ximen Qing.
Until the figures of the four of them disappeared into the distance, Ximen was still standing there looking at the direction where they left, the smile on his face had disappeared, replaced by a face of contemplation.
“Hubby, what kind of person is Master Ye? Why are you so courteous to him? Even your most favorite Speck of Snow in a Thousand Miles which you are even reluctant to ride on, you gave it to him as a present.” Pan Jinlian approached behind him, as she asked curiously. She had never seen Ximen Qing so modest to a person before.
Ximen Qing sighed and said, “Now, all the people know that he is the descendant of the God of Sword, Chu Cangming. With just this identity, we cannot dare to provoke him, we should just accept this lost. Besides, he is also the only son of the rich and powerful Ye Family. At that time I clearly witnessed his competition with the Lin guy, and I thought that his martial skills were so-so, but unexpectedly… He was able to destroy the Thousand Magic Camp. Behind this person, he must have hidden so many powerful things. If we could make friends with this kind of person, then we ought to be friends, even if we cannot be friends with him, we shouldn’t be his enemy. This is not because we are cowards afraid of getting involved, but because he has the grounds to become our Ximen Family’s worry.”
Pan Jinlian was utterly shocked, she curiously asked, “Then how about the elders…”
“The Thousand Magic Camp was linked to their vital organs, damaging the Thousand Magic Camp was similar to inflicting serious injuries on them. Approximately more than half a year, they will still be unable to recover their vital energy. For the coming months we must strengthen internal alert, the external will be as usual. We cannot let people see that the Thousand Magic Camp has become a dead camp.”
Sunset, along the ancient road were four people with a horse, their shadows separately piled up next to each other. Meng Zhi rode on horseback alone, listening to Ye Wuchen and Ning Xue as they chatted and laughed. When they first met, she prefered that everyone ignored her, but this time, she actually felt an indistinct feeling of loss, the feeling of being ignored, the feeling of sadness as nobody was paying any attention to her.
Because of the wound on her foot, she could only carry on riding a horse. This snowy white horse was particularly requested by Ye Wuchen from the Ximen Family for her, and riding on it, instead of making her feel at ease, it brought a feeling of emptiness to her. She could sense that it might be because some kind of feeling was suddenly lost. Where this feeling had come from… She did not know, so she also could not find it.
“I don’t know when will we ever finish our mission… Many days have already passed.” She was bewildered as she looked in front as her heart secretly mumbled.
“Fairy Meng, does your foot still hurt?” Ye Wuchen finally spoke to her.
Meng Zhi did not respond to him at first, but looking ahead, she retorted, “Didn’t expect that your fame could be this great. Even the young master of the Ximen Family admired you.”
Ye Wuchen chuckled, in a dull tone he said, “Fairy, do you really think he admired me like what he said? In Tian Long Nation, except for the royal families, magical martial skills could be considered extinct, yet the Southern area is all the rage for it. My martial skills performance that day at the Tian Long Imperial Institute competition at most merely attracted their attention. As for the others… Do you think the magical martial influential families would really be interested in those talents? The southern magical martial arts families honored martial skills, they look down on literary persons. Ximen Qing’s reaction was simply because he doesn’t want to have another enemy for the Thousand Magic Camp. Furthermore, he wanted to use this opportunity to have another friend, so he acted according to the current situation to draw closer to us.”
“……”
Ye Wuchen curved a corner of his mouth, “Fairy, you judged everything very simply. It’s because you are too inexperienced, I don’t know which brainless person permitted you to travel alone. Fortunately, you bumped into us, for if you met with some bad persons… Whew, I’m afraid that even if they sold you out, you might still be helping them count the money. That Ximen Qing, although his name isn’t anything special, but he was absolutely not just a simple person. He is a person who can show different faces as his response to different kinds of persons. Just like when he was facing me, more or less he knew something about my background, that’s why when talking about the matter regarding the Thousand Magic Camp, he was honest without concealing or pretending anything. The Ximen Family is truly not that simple.”
Meng Zhi softly snorted, seemly not caring. She did not feel anything complicated about the Ximen aristocratic family, and she also did not feel anything wrong with the name Ximen Qing. Talking about power, in the entire Heavenly Star Continent, which family was qualified to compare with her clan? She stole a glance at the Tong Xin, who was grabbing the corner of Ye Wuchen’s clothes, and finally asked the question that had made her feel bewildered, “Who… is she?”
“Who are you?” Ye Wuchen smiled as he asked a question back.
Meng Zhi went silent and moved her gaze away.
“Everyone has her own secrets, you refuse to talk about your history, I also have some things that I refused to talk about. Regarding this matter, it will be best if don’t ask about it again… No, it will be best if you completely forget it.” Ye Wuchen’s voice went flat, Meng Zhi could detect the slight implication that he was warning her.
“Brother, this horse is so white, so pretty.” Ning Xue said as she leaned on his chest. She had snow white hair, snow white dress, and snow white skin, so she had an instinct longing for pure white things.
“Xue-er wants to ride on it?”
“I don’t want, brother chest is the most comfortable place.” Ning Xue embraced his neck tightly, twisting her body, shifting to a more comfortable position, then gracefully closed her eyes.
Ye Wuchen smiled and said, “Precisely, for women, it will be best if they rarely ride horses.”
“Ah? Why?” Ning Xue lifted her small face and curiously asked.
Ye Wuchen twisted the corners of his mouth, acting as if he was taking things too seriously as he said, “Because if they ride the horse for quite a long time, the legs of the women will be spread out for a very long time, and as time passed, when they walk their feet will not be able to join together perfectly. This would not only cause an awful sight while walking, people would also feel like they were more like… En, married young women, and not young ladies.”
“Yi?” Too many question marks floated around on top of Ning Xue’s head. She completely didn’t understand his last statement. Immediately, Meng Zhi subconsciously tightened up her legs, gnashing her teeth as she turned her face away. Deep within her heart, she somehow believed Ye Wuchen’s words, and her heart felt a bit terrified, starting to pray that the wound on her foot would immediately heal.
Ye Wuchen had noticed Meng Zhi’s small actions, and he almost could not resist laughing it out loud. In the midst of a long dull journey, occasionally teasing the fairy would not be considered something bad.
“It doesn’t matter if Xue-er can’t understand now, when you grow older you will surely know about it. Up ahead must be the Jin Qing City, let’s take a rest here now. Before the night falls, we must arrive there.”
All throughout the journey, Ye Wuchen and Tong Xin travelled on foot, but their speed was not too slow. In fact, if Ye Wuchen was to travel alone speedily, at most he would reach Yan Long City in about a little more that ten days. He could reach his destination within ten days if he travelled day and night, but was not anxious to reach the destination. He might even ee deliberately delaying it.
Their current location now was a very wide road, surrounding them were high hillocks, but the roadside was full of evenly distributed trees. Ye Wuchen carried Ning Xue as they sat down leaning against a tree. Tong Xin was also sitting on him, noiselessly leaning on his shoulder. Meng Zhi gracefully dropped down from the horse, a single foot touching the ground. She sat down on the grass, but looking at her, one could not know what she was thinking about.
“Brother, I miss big sister already.” Ning Xue’s small hands gently caressed his chest, as she said in a tired voice.
“En, I also miss her.” The figure of Ye Shuiyao reflected on Ye Wuchen’s mind like a goddess of a river. His heart violently surged.
“Then when will we be able to return?” asked Ning Xue.
“......”
“Brother?” Ning Xue lifted her head, looking at his baffled face.
Ye Wuchen regained his consciousness, smiled and said, “Without much time we will be able to return home. I can see that sister is also fond of Xue-er.”
He gently closed his eyes, striving hard to search for the throbbing source that had flashed through his mind in that instant.
That feeling of confusion a while ago, what was it? The predictive power of his spiritual energy had never made any mistake. Big sister’s body… Could it mean that something bad was going to happen?
“En, I knew it all along… Yi? Brother, these two trees are so strange, looks like they were joined together!” Ning Xue discovered something that made her feel amazed and asked curiously as she blinked her eyes.
Following Ning Xue’s gaze, Ye Wuchen had actually seen it before in a not so far distance from his right-hand side. Two trees with the same thickness were tightly merged together. They were not just simply leaning next to each other, but their branches had been merged together as well, forming one big body, just like a pair of lovers leaning on to each other.
“This is what we call twin trees.” Ye Wuchen was startled for a moment, before he responded.
Twin trees rarely showed up. Ye Wuchen remembered seeing similar twin trees before when he was at the imperial garden of the former imperial palace in the Forbidden City. Speaking of twin trees, he could not help but think of the implications it contained.
Translated by:
Fatty_Uncle
Edited by:
seriouspotato patrick_father_of_dragons