Cultivate the ruthless way for him

The one who bought the scales was a jiao merchant who wandered between central Shu and Nanzhou and Dongzhou all the year round.Earn huge profits by buying treasures from the demon market at low prices, and then selling them to the fairy gates of Nanzhou Dongzhou, which is rich in fairy energy.

"It's just that, although the buyer has been found, the scale has already been bought by a masked black-robed man at a high price."

Regretful.Tomorrow is Long Jun's birthday, and it is impossible for them to stay in Sichuan and continue to search for the whereabouts of the black-robed man.

Huai Bi didn't show too much disappointment, but his eyebrows stretched a little, and said: "Bring the man here first, and ask him if I have anything to say."

A young man in a brocade robe was quickly brought in by the Azure Dragon Envoy.

After all, he has been doing business all the year round, dealing with various immortal sects. The man calmly bowed and said, "I don't know what your Highness called the little demon here?"

Huai Bi picked up the blueprint on the case and unfolded it: "The scale you bought from the demon market two months ago, what does it look like?"

The man only took a look, then nodded: "Yes, about the size of a palm, except for a slightly smaller size, the color and shape are almost exactly the same as those shown in His Highness's hand."

"you sure?"

"The villain is sure. The villain has been in business all year round, and the world's spiritual treasures can be memorized by heart. At that time, the villain thought it was too small in size and not bright enough in color, so it couldn't be sold for a good price. , I didn’t want to accept it at first, but later I saw that its texture was still hard, so I bought it together with a few other spirit treasures.”

Huai Bi felt a dull pain in his heart.

An ordinary small dragon's Ni scale should be about one foot long, only the size of a palm, which can only show that this Ni scale was peeled off when the little dragon was very young.

Huai Bi's hands hidden in his sleeves were slightly clenched into fists, and he asked: "When did that black robe find you?"

"On the first two days, it's strange to say that the villain has so many treasures in his hand, and he doesn't want them all. He just fell in love with the most inconspicuous scale, and he offered ten times the price. The villain is a businessman, and he doesn't want it all I didn’t know His Highness needed this item, so I sold it immediately.”

Huai Bi: "Besides the black robe, does this person have other characteristics?"

The man shook his head.

"No, he went directly to a restaurant in Dongzhou at night to find the villain. He was so tightly wrapped that he couldn't see his appearance clearly."

After the man retreated, Chong Yan said: "Should we send some people to Dongzhou to investigate?"

Huai Bi said, "No need."

"I already care about it in my heart."

"Can you find out the clues about the origin of the scales?"

The purpose of finding the buyer is to confirm that the scales are indeed what they are looking for, but more importantly than finding the buyer, it is actually the person who sold the scales to the demon market.

It's just that hundreds of years have passed, and this scale has been circulated in the demon market countless times. It is not easy to find out the source.

Chong Yan was about to report the latest situation, when a Qinglong envoy suddenly came in to report: "Your Highness, General, there is a snake demon outside, claiming that there are important clues about the scales to report to Your Highness."

As soon as Huaibi entered Shuzhong, he offered a huge reward to collect clues from the scales.

All the monsters are ready to move, and these days almost all of them have come out in full force to inquire about the scales, hoping to win the reward.But in the past two months, except for a few specious and wrong clues, no one has been able to provide real useful information.

Now this snake demon.

Huai Bi thought for a while and said, "Please come in."

This time the one who came in was a young man who was painted with dan and powder, describing it as an evildoer.

After entering the fairy office, the man first raised his eyebrows at Huaibi, and then he blessed the body in a pretentious way: "This slave has a reason."

Chong Yan frowned.

Huai Bi looked normal, and asked: "I wonder if you have any clues to report to Gu?"

The snake demon shook the handkerchief: "Naturally, it is an important clue. I have been practicing in retreat in the cave for the past six months, and I only saw the reward notice from His Highness when I left the seclusion yesterday."

Speaking of this, he paused, winking like silk: "Nu Ruo really provided a clue, what about the reward in the notice?"

"It's all yours."

"Your Highness is really refreshing!"

The snake demon was elated, but with a somewhat serious expression, he said, "That scale, I saw about 400 years ago, was on... a minibus snake."

"Basnake?"

Huai Bi was startled for a moment.

"That's right, it's Ba Snake. Your Highness doesn't know that although there are many kinds of snake monsters, their caves are almost all next to each other. The slave's cave is next to Na Ba Snake. That family is the most tricky and arrogant. Cold-blooded and ruthless, relying on the large number of people on weekdays, he often bullied the slaves. I was sleeping in the cave at night, and suddenly heard the sound of a little snake crying from next door. I thought, whose child is hiding in the middle of the night? I went to cry in the stinky ditch. The voice was whimpering, so pitiful, my heart softened for a moment, so I got up and went to check. My Highness guessed, what did I see?"

"I just saw a minibus snake that looked only a few hundred years old, with two horns growing on its head, stripped of its clothes, blocked in a stinky ditch, and snatched all valuable treasures from its body. I'm wiping my eyes and crying with my tail curled up. Alas, at such a young age, those with thin skin and tender flesh can't be raised in the poor mountains and rivers of Sichuan. The tails of the Ba snake clan are all ugly snake tails. , the tip of that little guy's tail is blue like a unicorn, and the strange thing is that there is a palm-sized snow-colored scale on the tip of the blue tail..."

Huai Bi suddenly stood up, her palms trembling, and her mind was pounding.

"Tell me, what does the snake's tail of the minibus... look like?"

"Kirin."

The snake demon didn't know why.

Immediately understanding what happened, he stomped his feet and waved his hands and said: "Look at my memory, Your Highness must not know, this snake clan can do a lot of evil things. Back then, in order to fulfill the dream of getting rid of the identity of the monster clan and ascending to immortality, unexpectedly With a vicious mind, he set up a plan to exchange his own blood with the Qilin young master. The Qilin Palace did not know the truth, but raised a minibus snake as the young master for a full 100 years. The minibus snake relied on the Qilin Palace's fairy spirit Nourishment, but also produced the immortal essence of the immortal clan. Fortunately, God has eyes, and at the centenary banquet, the real young unicorn master came back and exposed the conspiracy of the Basnake clan. Otherwise, that clan would not know what to do Arrogant. However, although Nu is also a snake demon, but Nu is kind and magnanimous, but he is different from the Ba Snake clan who have done all kinds of dirty things. Hey Your Highness, why are you looking at Nu like this..."

"Your Highness?"

Seeing Huai Bi's face with all the blood gone and veins swollen, Chong Yan was also secretly surprised.

His Highness is the heir of the Dragon Clan. He acts in front of others. He has always been gentle and warm, calm and calm, making people feel like a spring breeze.He has followed His Highness for so many years, and he has never seen His Highness lose his composure like this.

Huai Bi felt the blood all over his body rushing into his mind, which made his brain go blank.

After a long time, Fang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Go to Bashe immediately."

Chong Yan hesitated: "The Ba Snake clan has moved to a spiritual realm in the southwest of central Sichuan. Now that it has passed, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the East China Sea tomorrow."

"I can't care about that much anymore."

Huai Bi took the lead to leave the case and go out: "Right now, there is nothing more important than this matter."

**

Zhaozhao had good ears, and when he was outside the hall, he heard the news that Longjun Qingyao was coming at night.

That being the case, he had to find a way to stay in the main hall.

Seeing Xue Ji looking at Zhao Zhao, Xian'e didn't speak for a long time, and took the initiative to report back: "Princess, there are vacancies in the Spirit Beast Garden, Spirit Plant Garden, and Spirit Medicine Garden. You can arrange for this little disciple to go there at any time."

The servants of the Dragon Palace are also divided into ranks. In the past, when the children of the aristocratic families came, they were mostly assigned to clean and light places such as the piano room and the library pavilion. Zhaozhao came in under the name of the Jiao clan. Worse.Places like Spirit Beast Garden and Spirit Medicine Garden all have to do physical work.

Zhao Zhao didn't want to be a coolie, if it wasn't for the convenience of seeing Lord Long, he would have escaped long ago.

Zhao Zhao said: "I can make tea, and I can also make pastries, Wangfei, why don't you let me go to the dining room."

On the way here, he had already seen that there was a separate small dining room in Princess Dragon's palace.Going to the dining room, he can justifiably enter and leave the main hall in the name of serving tea and water.

But Xue Ji said: "No need, Yingying can just stay by Bengong's side."

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhaozhao was surprised, but even Mengli, Yueli and other higher-ranking Xian'e were stunned for a moment, widening their eyes in disbelief.

The concubine selects youths of appropriate age from the disciples of the aristocratic family to serve in the Dragon Palace every year, but usually after a glance, they are assigned to various palaces. This is the first time in hundreds of years that the concubine keeps people by her side to serve.And this young man is not a son of aristocratic family, but the Xihaijiao clan, which belongs to the monster clan.

Meng Li didn't dare to comment on Princess Beak Dragon's decision.

It can only be answered, and He Zhaozhao carefully instructed the rules in the palace.

Princess Long would go to the piano room to play the piano for an hour every day, and today is no exception.

It's just that Zhao Zhao is brought along.

The qin room was also burning with cool and cool plum fragrance. After sitting on the table, Princess Xue Ji of the Dragon King played the strings casually.

Zhao Zhao sat cross-legged on the side boredly, pretending to be listening obediently, but actually absent-minded, secretly paying attention to the interior layout.

After one song, Xue Ji asked, "Have you ever learned the piano?"

Zhao Zhao shook his head.

"Come here, I will teach you."

Xue Ji got up, stepped aside, and signaled Zhao Zhao to sit down.

Zhao Zhao is somewhat conflicted.

He cultivates the way of ruthlessness and doesn't like to get too close to people, but this Dragon Princess wants to teach him to play the piano on a whim.Does he look like that piece of material?

But right now, it's better to be obedient.

Zhao Zhao obediently agreed and sat behind the case.

"Press the strings with the left hand and stroke the strings with the right. Keep your shoulders straight. When you stroke the strings, your fingers move with your heart, and you don't have to be too restricted by skills..."

Xue Ji came slowly, and personally corrected Zhao Zhao's posture.

Zhao Zhao could only follow the instructions of the gourd painting, but the tune that popped up was like a group of demons dancing wildly, which was simply unbearable to the ear.

Zhao Zhao thought, now, Princess Long must be disappointed in him.

She raised her head, glanced secretly, but saw Xue Ji not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said, "Your naughty appearance reminds me of—" She didn't say anything, only sighed.

Zhao Zhao was naturally puzzled.

Zhao Zhao was just a little surprised, why he had been here for so long and hadn't seen Ye Heng.

Mengli Yueli stood outside, even more amazed.

The concubine has a lonely and arrogant personality, and since the loss of the little highness, she has not treated the Dragon Lord very well. Now, not only teaching a little demon to play the piano for the first time, but also laughed just now.

Fortunately, after all this trouble, Xue Ji also stopped thinking about teaching Zhao Zhao how to play the qin.

Back in the main hall, Xue Ji went to read by herself.

Zhaozhao took the initiative to take over the job of making tea, and stayed in the main hall in a legitimate way.

The young man skillfully fetched water, washed utensils, picked tea, roasted tea, and cooked tea. After a while, a strong bamboo fragrance emanated from the kettle.

Zhao Zhao scooped up a bowl of Bi-color tea soup with a spoon, held it in both hands and handed it to Xue Ji.

She said obediently: "My lord, please have some tea."

Xue Ji put down the book, took it, took a sip, and her eyes lit up slightly: "The entrance is fragrant, without the bitter taste of spirit bamboo, and she really has some skills. It's just that other people make tea directly with fresh tea leaves. , why did you roast the bamboo leaves until they were burnt yellow?"

Zhao Zhao corrected: "That's not called scorching, but roasting tea. The purpose is to draw out the moisture in the bamboo leaves. First, it can make the bamboo fragrance stronger, and second, it can filter out the bitterness of the spirit bamboo."

"Of course, Lingzhu can also be boiled directly, but it needs to be added with some condiments to make it taste better. If the princess wants to taste it, I can't do it."

The young man speaks like a string of pearls, clearly and logically, with a hint of arrogance.

Xue Ji listened with a smile, and suddenly said: "Extend your hand and show me."

Zhao Zhao didn't understand what he meant.

But thinking, this Dragon Princess would not murder him, so she obediently stretched out her right hand.

Xue Ji looked at the boy's fingers carefully, and she saw some traces of old age on them, and asked, "Did they burn when I learned how to make tea?"

Although the young man's fingers were white and tender, there were thick calluses between his palms and fingers.

These are a pair of hands that have worked hard since childhood, and they don't match the delicate and beautiful appearance of the young man.

"Nowadays, even the Jiao clan pays great attention to cultivating disciples in the clan. You should be among the outstanding ones to be sent here. Why don't your parents teach you the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but are willing to let you cook tea and rice instead."

Zhaozhao withdraws her hand almost impolitely, as if someone has discovered the secret in her heart.

But when he thought that he had to stay here to wait for Lord Long to ask for news about his master, Zhao Zhao said, "Both my parents died when I was young, so I lived with my relatives."

This statement is not wrong.

Xue Ji was startled.

Said: "Sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

"it does not matter."

Ever since his identity was exposed at the centenary banquet, Zhao Zhao has taken the words of relatives by blood very lightly.There is almost no concept of parents anymore, so naturally it won't hurt to mention it.

What's more, he has cultivated the way of ruthlessness, so he will not be easily touched.

"What about your master?"

Even the disciples of the Monster Race cannot have a teacher.

Zhao Zhao didn't want to say that Master was dead.

Then he said vaguely: "Master has gone to a very far place."

However, Xue Ji was not stupid, upon hearing such an answer from a young man, she had already guessed a rough idea.

"Yueli, bring a bowl of iced berries over here."

Xue Ji ordered.

The berries are made from a kind of spiritual fruit of Dragon Palace. In summer, sprinkled with ice and cheese, it is very delicious to relieve the heat and replenish spiritual power.

Yue Li quickly brought over a large bowl of berries.

Xue Ji said towards Zhaozhao: "After eating, let Mengli take you to sleep for a while, I have nothing else to do here, so you don't need to wait on me all the time."